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Discover Ireland’s South East

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:44:00 +0000

Join TV personality Kathryn Thomas as she explores Ireland’s Sunny South East, accompanied by a range of holiday makers. From short city breaks to family-friendly getaways, from adventure holidays to relaxing retreats, the South East has something for everyone

Duration : 0:10:0

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Where in Iowa is Jeff?…The Sequel

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:12:44 +0000

Here is the 2008 version of Where in Iowa is Jeff? From February to November, I logged 9,850 miles and collected 300 dancing clips. Between the 2007 and 2008 videos, I visited all 99 Iowa counties and drove somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 miles.

Since last year focused on the top-tier Iowa spots, this years video visits more obscure Iowa places and enabled me to interact more with Iowans along the way. If you think you’ve seen all of Iowa, you are wrong. Keep looking; you’ll be amazed at what you find.

1. The 2008 Iowa Tractorcade (RAGBRAI for farmers)
2. Balsley family farm near Orchard
3. Straw Goat in Swedesburg
4. Bob Feller Museum in Van Meter
5. Lovers Leap Bridge in Columbus Junction
6. Danish Windmill in Elk Horn
7. Decorah Trout Hatchery
8. Loess Hills in Harrison County
9. Sundown Mountain in Asbury
10. Iowa Speedway in Newton
11. National Balloon Classic in Indianola
12. “World’s Largest” I-80 Truck Stop in Walcott
13. National Advanced Driving Simulator in Oakdale
14. Gitchie Manitou State Preserve
15. World’s Largest Bullhead in Crystal Lake
16. Connell Corner Lighthouse in Storm Lake
17. The Corn Parade mural in Mount Ayr
18. Anderson-Erickson Dairy in Des Moines
19. National Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque
20. Lake Rathbun Fish Hatchery
21. Paramount Theater in Cedar Rapids
22. Volkswagen Spider yard art in Avoca
23. Waukon Junction!!!
24. World’s Largest Popcorn Ball in Sac City
25. Lansing’s Black Hawk Bridge
26. ISU’s Jack Trice Stadium in Ames
27. Maharishi University in Fairfield
28. Prairie Pedlar near Odebolt
29. Elkader Opera House
30. Iowa Stars (now Chops) Hockey in Des Moines
31. Hawkeye Buffalo Ranch near Fredericksburg
32. Cardiff Giant replica in Fort Dodge
33. Villa’s Patio in Marion
34. Lidtke Mill in Lime Springs
35. Beebeetown!!! Population: not many
36. Oskaloosa town square
37. Osage HS wrestling
38. Channel Cat Water Taxi in Davenport
39. Music Man Square in Mason City
40. National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum in Knoxville
41. Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison
42. US’s Widest Main Street in Onawa
43. Coffee Pot water tower in Stanton (home of Folgers icon Mrs. Olsen)
44. Gladbrook’s Matchstick Marvels
45. Waubonsie State Park
46. Clark Tower in Winterset City Park
47. New Albin town hall
48. Queen II in Arnolds Park
49. What Cheer Opera House
50. Gravity!!! Population: slightly more than Beebeetown
51. Wadena: home of the 1970 rock festival Galena in Wadena
52. Iowa’s only highway tunnel in Pammel State Park
53. Rabbit sculptures in Council Bluffs
54. Manning’s Hausbarn
55. Shellsburg’s Adventure Paintball Park
56. World’s Biggest Strawberry in Strawberry Point
57. Trinity Heights in Sioux City
58. Galleria de Paco restaurant in Waterloo
59. Ida Grove, Iowas City of Castles
60. Sunken steamboat Bertrand at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge near Missouri Valley
61. Lock and Dam No. 10 in Guttenberg
62. Perry’s Reconfiguration Arches
63. Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Dyersville
64. Maquoketa Caves State Park
65. Duffy Lyon (the Butter Cow Lady) Cow/Calf statue in Toledo
66. Wapsipinicon Mill in Independence
67. Shimek State Forest
68. The Old Home Fill er Up and Keep on Truckin Café in Pisgah
69. The Big Treehouse near Marshalltown
70. Iowa’s first planetarium at the Sanford Museum in Cherokee
71. Town square in Mount Pleasant
72. Lone Tree!!! Population: more than Beebeetown and Gravity combined
73. Red Haw State Park
74. Story City 1913 Carousel
75. Promise of America Monument in Lake Mills
76. Airpower Museum near Ottumwa
77. Lincoln Highway Bridge in Tama
78. Bonapartes Historic Main Street
79. World’s Biggest Cheeto at Sister Sarah’s in Algona
80. Lost Island Lake in Ruthven
81. Brooklyn: Community of Flags
82. Dubuques Fenelon Place Elevator
83. Hawkeye Point near Sibley, 1,670 feet above sea level
84. Hotel Manning in Keosauqua
85. Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington
86. Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City
87. Wildcat Den State Park
88. Louis Sullivan’s Jewel Box Bank in Grinnell
89. Eagle City Winery near Iowa Falls
90. Lacey Keosauqua State Park
91. Little Turkey River valley in Dubuque County
92. THE Butter Cow at our Iowa State Fair
93. Green Valley State Park
94. Donna Reed Center for the Performing Arts in Denison
95. Upper Iowa River in Bluffton
96. Glenn Miller Birthplace Home in Clarinda
97. Chief Keokuk statue in Keokuk
98. Rathbun Country Music Theater
99. Patriotic Rock near Greenfield
100. Pella’s Vermeer Windmill
101. Volga City!!! Population: somewhere between Gravity and Lone Tree
102. Union County Visitor Center in Creston
103. Loess Hills State Forest
104. Home near Anamosa

Duration : 0:8:17

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Mirror’s Edge Trailer

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:22:26 +0000

In a city where information is heavily monitored, agile couriers called Runners transport sensitive data away from prying eyes. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed and now you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith – and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.

Mirror’s Edge™ delivers you straight into the shoes of this unique heroine as she traverses the vertigo-inducing cityscape, engaging in intense combat and fast paced chases. With a never before seen sense of movement and perspective, you will be drawn into Faith’s world. A world that is visceral, immediate, and very dangerous. Live or die? Soar or plummet? One thing is certain, in this city, you will learn how to run.

Duration : 0:1:56

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Where in Iowa is Jeff?

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:12:21 +0000

Finally, after 5,000 miles on the road and 157 dance clips, the video of my tour of Iowa is complete. Filmed between May and November of 2007, it is my spoof of Matt Harding of www.wherethehellismatt.com. This video was shot entirely on my Canon PowerShot A540 and started as a goofy way to highlight the places I finally took the opportunity to see in my home state, places I have wanted to see since I was a kid. Trust me, there’s a lot to see in the Hawkeye State besides corn and pigs and beans and cows and tractors and barns and silos. Don’t believe it? Watch the video. Better yet, visit Iowa and see for yourself.

Here’s the scoop on the clips in the video:
1. Adair’s infamous smiley face water tower
2. Young cornfield near New Vienna (there really is corn in Iowa!)
3. The Bridges of Madison County
4. Iowa’s largest frying pan in Brandon
5. The amusement park at Arnolds Park
6. Old Fort Madison in Fort Madison
7. Ledges State Park near Luther
8. Burlington’s Snake Alley (Ripley’s “Crookedest Street in the World”)
9. The Squirrel Cage Jail in Council Bluffs (awesome – big surprise #1)
10. The pink elephant outside the Isle of Capri Casino in Marquette
11. Maquoketa Caves State Park near Maquoketa (best state park in Iowa)
12. The highest point in Iowa, Ocheyedan Mound near Ocheyedan (oops, SECOND highest, I guess)
13. Our state capitol in Des Moines
14. Fertile, Iowa, population 353 (and growing, I would presume)
15. Spook Cave near McGregor
16. The Wells Blue Bunny visitor’s center in LeMars
17. One of the limestone quarries at Stone City
18. The Underground Railroad’s Hitchcock House near Lewis
19. The Mahaney Bell Tower in Jefferson
20. Gull Point State Park near Wahpeton
21. John Wayne’s birthplace in Winterset
22. The University of Northern Iowa’s UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls
23. The Indian maiden statue in Pocahontas
24. The Little Brown Church in Nashua
25. Jester State Park near Granger
26. The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake
27. The Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI
28. The American Gothic house in Eldon
29. The banks of the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids
30. Dayton’s Rodeo Grounds (my Grandpa Vern Danielson’s legacy)
31. Ackley’s town bandshell
32. Zwingle, Iowa, population 99
33. Heery Woods State Park near Clarksville (yes, “Heery”, not “Henry”)
34. Shenandoah’s Iowa Walk of Fame (I’m dancing on the Everly Brothers)
35. The Mont Rest bed and breakfast in Bellevue
36. Camp Dodge near Johnston
37. The USS Riverside in Riverside – the future birthplace of James T. Kirk!
38. Boone County’s Kate Shelley Bridge
39. Waterloo Creek near Dorchester (my favorite trout stream)
40. Dutch windmill in Orange City
41. The Buffalo Ridge Wind Farm near Alta
42. The 1912 Ax Murder House in Villisca
43. The state penitentiary in Anamosa
44. A cool round barn near Milo
45. Mallard’s “Welcome” sign
46. The Sergeant Floyd Memorial in Sioux City
47. The mighty Woodward-Granger Hawks in my hometown of Woodward
48. The Lewis and Clark Monument in Pottawattamie County
49. The Field of Dreams in Dyersville
50. The Saylorville Lake spillway
51. The world’s smallest church in Festina
52. Albert the Bull in Audubon
53. Iowa State University in Ames – my alma mater!
54. Pikes Peak State Park, looking at Wisconsin
55. The Millstream Brewing Company in Amana
56. The Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend
57. Eagle Point City Park in Dubuque
58. The Kate Shelley Railroad Museum and Park in Boone
59. Dunning’s Spring Falls in Decorah (big surprise #2)
60. The tree in the middle of the road, near Brayton
61. The Iowa State Fair in Des Moines
62. Bellevue State Park near Bellevue, of course
63. Waubonsie State Park, in the SW corner of Iowa, looking at Nebraska
64. Prairie Meadows in Altoona
65. Lighthouse Point in West Okoboji
66. The historic Sutliff Bridge in Sutliff
67. The Port of Burlington in Burlington (yep, I liked Burlington)
68. Home in Anamosa

Yes, that really is Matt Harding dancing with me in the “Inspiration by…” clip. This summer, I was fortunate enough to dance with Matt with a group in Chicago for Matt’s next around-the-world video. It’s due out in June 2008. In the meantime: http://www.wherethehellismatt.com.

Lastly, my apologies to Iowa City, Pella, Davenport, Marion, Waterloo, Mason City, Fairfield, Brooklyn, Forest City, Van Wert, and the other hundreds of cities, towns, parks, golf courses, and cool places that I did not have time to visit or shot crappy clips that didn’t make the final cut. There is WAY too much in Iowa to see in one summer, but I made a good run at it.

Iowans, get away from your TV’s and computers and go see your state!!! You really don’t know what you’re missing.

Duration : 0:7:9

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