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Maine's Western Mountains | Winter's Soul
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More than anywhere I know, the soul of a New England winter exists amid the frozen waterways, snow-drifted woods, and frosted peaks of western Maine. Raw, remote, and wild, this slice of the state, cornered by New Hampshire and Quebec, draws skiers, snowboarders, snowshoers, and snowmobilers, who revel in the deep cover and rarely crowded trails, surrounded by miles of natural beauty. Looking out from the summit of Sugarloaf or Saddleback Mountain on a brittle blue-sky day, with the snow all around blindingly white, I feel that the frozen confection below will crack and crumble if I expel a warm breath.
My city friends find this winter land too remote, too dark, illuminated only by the moon and stars, not streetlights and signs. And they're apprehensive about driving the sinuous byways that meander through mountains and valleys, binding small towns with smaller ones, blinks-along-the-road with outposts. I understand, but the mountains and the heritage woven everywhere throughout this land are worth it, I reassure them.
Sugarloaf and Saddleback are the marquee attractions, islands of bright lights and human voices, hearty food and comfortable beds. But it's the towns and villages slumbering in their shadows–Kingfield, Carrabassett, and Stratton, Rangeley and Oquossoc–that make the best partners for the winter ball, especially when dressed in white.
Sugarloaf: Feel the Love
Pop into Kingfield Woodsman for breakfast, and you'll be rubbing elbows with skiers en route to Sugarloaf, loggers heading into the woods, and Canadian truckers hauling their first loads of the day. Although it's the gateway to Sugarloaf, Kingfield is a real town with a distinct Maine vibe, and just enough shops, galleries, and museums, along with restaurants and inns, to invite plunking down for a couple of days. Once a month from October to April, this usually quiet town buzzes with First Friday Art Walk, when local businesses open their doors and offer refreshments and sometimes live music and poetry readings. Most skiers zip right through the downtown with hardly a glance at the distinctive Victorian architecture or pause to hear the Carrabassett River as it drops over a dam behind Main Street, but Kingfield is Sugarloaf's birth mother, and the relationship between town and mountain has never been cut.
In the early 1950s, local businessman Amos Winter and his "Bigelow Boys" cut the first ski trail on nearby Sugarloaf Mountain. Within a couple of years, the prophetically named Winter and some foresighted investors had established the Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Club, carving trails and naming them with logging and lumberjack terms. Their winter playground went on to become one of the largest alpine resorts in New England. That story, as well as others from Maine's skiing heritage, is shared at the Ski Museum of Maine, which occupies a couple of rooms above Sugarloaf Ski Outlet downtown, documenting Maine's role in the growth of the sport, from immigrant Swedes to Olympians, manufacturing to resorts.
Truth is, Kingfield was notable long before Sugarloaf, thanks to twin brothers Francis Edgar and Freelan Oscar Stanley, born here in 1849. Although best known for inventing and manufacturing the Stanley Steamer automobile at their Massachusetts plant, the brothers' twin legacy of innovation ranged from the first airbrush to the dry-plate coating for photo negatives. They also designed and funded the Georgian-style schoolhouse that now houses the Stanley Museum in Kingfield.
Two Victorian showplaces now stand on the Stanley family's land: One Stanley Avenue, perhaps the region's best restaurant, and its sister B&B, Three Stanley Avenue, originally a home built by the twins' younger brother, Bayard. Chef/owner Dan Davis has been creating memorable meals here for 40 years; entrees are described on the menu along with the year they first appeared. No fusion, no molecular gastronomy, no architectural food: just excellent continental fare with a Maine accent, combined with attentive service in an elegant setting.
Kingfield's industrial heritage is tied primarily to the logging, milling, and lumbering trades, but increasingly, artists and crafters are settling here, transforming once-vacant buildings and storefronts into studios and galleries. Lured by the rolling woods and water landscape, those who take their cues from nature find inspiration wherever they turn.
Just south of town is Nowetah's American Indian Museum & Gift Store. That's a big name for a small shop in the woods of New Portland, but Nowetah Cyr has amassed artifacts that many a museum would envy. The back section of her nonwinterized structure (dress warmly) is chock-full of Native American goods, including more than 600 baskets crafted by members of Maine's Wabanaki peoples as well as treasures from the Cherokee, Inuit, Iroquois, and Pueblo peoples, and more. Although Cyr doesn't sell items from her museum, she does stock a shop up front.
From Kingfield, Route 27 noses through the Carrabassett Valley, twisting and turning with the tumbling of the ice-choked river. Then suddenly around a curve, you see it: Sugarloaf's white-capped triangle. You'll understand immediately why locals have long called this "Oh-My-Gosh Corner." On a blue-sky day, all it takes is one run from that above-treeline summit to the funky, oh-so-1970s angular base village to feel the love–and on a powder day, that love can become a lifelong affair.
Facing Sugarloaf from the north is another of the state's 4,000-footers, Bigelow Mountain, hiding sprawling Flagstaff Lake from view. Before he betrayed the colonists, Benedict Arnold led his troops through this swath of Maine wilderness on his ill-fated 1775 march to Quebec. Hoping to spy Quebec City, one of his men, Major Timothy Bigelow, climbed the mountain that now bears his name. Once slated for development, Bigelow is now part of a wilderness preserve. Winter hikers brave the Appalachian Trail, which crosses its summit ridgeline, but there's a far less challenging way to explore this swath of wilderness, and that's on snowshoes or cross-country skis along the Maine Hut Trail, an easygoing route that snakes through the woods south of the ridge. The side trail to Poplar Stream Falls, two horsetails measuring 51 feet and 24 feet, respectively, is worth the effort–and a hot, homemade meal at the nearby Poplar Stream Falls Hut makes a great reward.
Route 27 veers north to the town border in Stratton, a frontier village in the town of Eustis. It nips Flagstaff Lake, slices through Cathedral Pines–a majestic stand of old-growth red pines–and then parallels the North Branch of the Dead River, finally wriggling through Chain of Ponds, a spectacular chunk of water-laced wilderness, and the Boundary Mountains.
Artist Marguerite Robichaux has lived and painted here since the 1980s. "I paint everywhere I go, but much of my work is right out of these woods and mountains–I never tire of it," she says. Her paintings capture not only the majesty of this landscape, but also the vastness of the wilderness. I know that if I ski or snowshoe down a snow-covered forest road, the only sounds I'll hear, other than the occasional drone of a snowmobile, are the snap of an icy branch breaking, the hollow thump of snow falling from a tree limb, the creak of an ice-covered pond, and the flutter of recalcitrant leaves still clinging to branches.
Saddleback: Wilderness and Community
Heading southwest along Route 16, a lonely 17-mile stretch of road–where you're far more likely to see moose, deer, or snowmobiles than other cars–tethers Stratton to Rangeley, an outpost of civilization surrounded by woods, overlorded by mountains, and edged by water most of the way.
"It's a wilderness experience–that's what's up here," says Steve Philbrick, owner of Bald Mountain Camps Resort, open year-round on Mooselookmeguntic Lake, in the village of Oquossoc. "I've been all over the state of Maine, I've been on every big lake, but because of the mountains, lakes, and wilderness, there's nothing else like this anywhere else in the state. There are places I can send you to where you'll never hear a snowmobile, where if another human has visited in the last week or so, it's because I've sent him there. I can tell you where to go to look for moose antlers, or where, if you tiptoe through, you'll see deer."
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When you are involved in aircraft manufacturing, it is vital to have a basic understanding of fasteners, appropriate applications, and the standards used to manufacture, test, and identify these parts. NAS bolts are one of the most commonly utilized fasteners in airframe and component construction, and are crucial in building a safe, strong, efficient aircraft.
In order to insure uniform standards of suitability for the intended purpose, strength, and reliability, the United States military and the Aerospace Industries Association, along with global cooperation, have developed and published standards for all components of aircraft assembly, including NAS bolts.
To understand these specifications, and their use in all manufacturing environments, you should know some history of the evolution of the standards utilized, have some basic knowledge of the testing and verification process, and understand how these fasteners are identified, along with their suitable applications.
History Before the Second World War, there were some attempts at setting uniform standards for the manufacture, testing, and strength of fasteners and metals, but the big step came during the war. The United States Air Force and the Navy, wanting to insure the reliability and uniformity of materials and components, developed their own standards. These were consolidated to become the AN, for Air Force-Navy, eventually coming to be known as MS, which stands for military standards, or military specifications.
The AIA, Aerospace Industries Association, introduced standards known as NAS, or National Aerospace Standard. You need to be familiar with these abbreviations, AN, MS, and NAS, as they are the benchmarks for the proper selection and usage of bolts in the aerospace industry.
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In addition, the nature of flight requires a high level of reliability. The aircraft and its systems must continue to function properly until the craft has landed.
Testing and Verification Fasteners sold without these ratings are manufactured using a low carbon steel, bending and corroding easily, and may have a tensile strength of only 50,000-60,000 pounds per square inch (psi). Alternately, NAS bolts feature up to 160,000+ psi tensile strength, and are manufactured from corrosive resistant, heat-hardened steel.
Testing procedures ensure uniformity, and compliance to NAS standards. Bolts are inspected by magnetic, fluorescent, or other methods, and are often designated verified by markings on the bolt head, or colored lacquer.
Identification and Application Bolts are divided into three major parts, the head, the grip, and the threads. Bolt heads are marked, or stamped, with various letters, numbers, and symbols to identify its type, size, material, etc.
NAS bolts have a cupped out head, and if designed for close tolerances, a raised or recessed triangle marking. Close tolerance bolts are used in close fit situations, and are machined according to much tighter specifications.
NAS bolts are utilized where high strength and durability is required. The National Standards Association in Washington, D. C. can provide you with more information on the identification system for fasteners, including NAS bolts. The Airframe Mechanics General Handbook is also a great reference for decoding the various markings used in identifying fastener hardware.
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A pet goat is discovered strangled in Kings Park, with someone's belt still strapped tightly around its lifeless body. Another is found decapitated in Islip. A cat is lynched in Patchogue. An Islip Terrace man films women crushing small animals. Somebody tortures then sets afire a dog in Brentwood.
These gruesome scenes are just a few of the 2,000 animal abuse and neglect cases handled annually by the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), a nonprofit providing humane needs and enforcement of cruelty to animal laws throughout the county. Most recently, the organization broke up what has been described as "a concentration camp" for animals at a house in Selden.
But the downturned economy has been taking its toll on Suffolk's animal protectors. According to Suffolk SPCA Chief Roy Gross, the recession has bitten a hefty chunk out of supporters' wallets, and consequently, donations are down about 50 percent since the downswing began. The Suffolk SPCA, he stresses, is funded completely by donations and not assoiated with the American SPCA. And in addition to its regular yearly caseload, Gross explains, his officers are weathering a roughly 20 percent spike in instances of foreclosed homeowners leaving their pets behind to die. That's on top of a national and countywide increase in dogfighting and cockfighting cases, he adds.
Gross describes the SPCA's situation as "critical": "We're running out of money," he tells the Press. "If it keeps on going like it is, the SPCA can down the road go bankrupt."
The Suffolk SPCA investigates all reports of animal abuse, explains Gross. The organization provides everything from law enforcement to vaccination and spay-neuter clinics to pet-friendly shelters and education classes at schools. It has a staff of about 60—mostly volunteers—including about 25 sworn peace officers who work closely with the Suffolk County Police Department and District Attorney's Office and possess police powers to investigate and make arrests.
And its these unique powers that separate the SPCA from other animal rescue groups and make its existence so crucial, says Michelle Curtin, co-founder and director of Farmingville-based nonprofit Second Chance Wildlife Rescue.
"It's extremely important because they're the legal entity that can pursue a neglect or an abuse case," explains Curtin. "All of the other rescue groups…none of us are legal entities, we don't have legal powers."
Second Chance is just one group Gross' team has utilized throughout the years to house and rehabilitate rescued animals, since the SPCA currently doesn't have its own permanent facility to do so—another opportunity the recession has jeopardized.
Suffolk County is donating its South Haven Stables in Yaphank to the SPCA for use as a rehabilitation center for abused animals, offices and to serve as a shelter and education venue. But the 20-acre facility—which could feature a collaboration with the Suffolk Sheriff's Department whereby inmates assist in its construction and operation—will cost about $2 million to renovate, says Gross.
The SPCA's grim recent findings in Selden also highlight the group's significance. According to Gross, there was nothing overtly out-of-the-ordinary when his officers initially entered the home of 43-year-old Sharon McDonough to investigate a complaint made by her oldest son, Douglas, earlier this month. Nothing irregular, that is—until he led them to a small upstairs bedroom. There, Gross says, officers discovered five dogs in various states of malnutrition and abuse.
"They were jammed into small cages," he explains. "They were in their own feces and urine. They were all matted, just bones for the most part, no food, no water."
The rescued animals—which include one cat—are currently undergoing rehabilitation at Second Chance and will eventually be available for adoption.
As gruesome as the findings were, however, it's what his team, members of the Selden Fire Department and Suffolk County police Emergency Services Section discovered in the mother of seven's backyard that will forever ingrain the case into Gross' mind and solidify the experience as "like being in a horror movie."
Digging late into the night, the team unearthed the mutilated remains of 20 dogs. Necropsies will confirm whether the animals were tortured prior to being dumped into their graves—as McDonough's son alleges. She's currently charged with six counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty. The postmortem examinations will also determine whether more charges—such as felony larceny if the slain animals turn out to be neighbors' missing pets—are coming her way, a possibility Gross describes as "most likely."
McDonough's son told investigators he could remember as many as 100 animals that met similar fates at the house throughout the years, says Gross, stressing the added importance his job has in society:
"Most people that hurt animals hurt people," he explains. "Almost every serial killer in American history has began by torturing animals."
To learn more about the Suffolk SPCA, make a donation or report animal cruelty, go to http://www.suffolkspca.org/ or call 631-382-SPCA (7722).


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The painting was found.
Facebook is all a buzz today about a piece of art stolen from Will's Pub last night. Not cool at all! Here are stills of the incident. If you know who this person is please contact Will Walker or Heidi Kneisl (the artist) at Will's Pub at 407-898-5070 or send them a message on Facebook.


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Finally broke in my new M1A with a couple hundred rounds of Chilean 7.62NATO surplus. Brought along the Mosin too. :)
My friend Steve, firing the Mosin.
Yours truly, firing the M1A. :)
Ed, firing the M1A. I managed to catch the brass in the air. You can see it right above and slightly to the right of the muzzle in the picture.
Another of yours truly, with the M1A.
Three sharp-dressed, well-armed men. :cool:
As an aside: Yes I realize I'm not wearing eye protection. My glasses are polarized and I was having a difficult time discerning the rather small objects we were using as targets at the 50 yard range with them on. I lived, though. :smilez:


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Bay Area Window Trends
From Margaret Everton on May 02, 2007 in Window Replacement
Our contractors report that replacement windows are one of the most popular home improvement projects in the Bay Area - no surprise, since it's one of the best investments in the home's ultimate resale value. In most cases, homeowners are taking the retrofit approach of leaving the frame intact and installing just the new window, although in some cases (from major remodel to fixing dry rot), they sometimes replace the frame or even change the size and shape of the window opening.
Probably the biggest issue is energy conservation, as a combination of skyrocketing energy bills and green concerns drives people to replace their old, leaky, single-pane windows with double-paned models that offer better insulation. (They're also often tired of sitting next to drafty windows and want to be a bit more cozy.) More and more homeowners are also citing noise reduction as an issue, particularly in high-traffic areas.
Also driving the trend: remedying the bad decisions of the past, both functional and aesthetic. "More and more," says Dennis Lafayette of INCOTEC in Palo Alto, "We're running into the issue of replacing dual-pane windows, either vinyl or aluminum, that are maybe five or 10 years old, where the owner has chosen very poorly and gone with a very low-budget company. We're being called out on stuff where there's been failure, and a number of real serious problems with the windows - and we have to look at them and say, 'There's nothing we can repair; the only thing to do is do it right.'"
And then there's the fact that those ubiquitous aluminum windows of decades past are not, at this point, a midcentury classic. Says Lance Schepps of HomeWorks in San Rafael, "Some of the very inexpensive aluminum frames from the 1960s are failing at a high rate and make the entire house look old and tired. New windows can dramatically upgrade the curb appeal and therefore the resale value of the home."
By far the most popular frame material is vinyl, for its price point, insulation properties and low maintenance. Traditional wood windows can cost up to triple the price of their vinyl counterparts, says Lafayette.
Nonetheless, in some situations they're the best, if not the only choice, particularly in historic buildings or when the CC&Rs of homeowner associations are an issue. Says Schepps, "Many cities, such as San Francisco and Oakland, are paying strict attention to the permits being issued for historical properties. For too many years people were putting temporary window products into these lovely and stately historic homes. Building departments in some communities, for instance, will not allow aluminum or vinyl as acceptable replacement windows, as they do not architecturally look like original 'millwork' wood windows. Wood composite, such as Renewal by Andersen, has many of the features of a traditional wood 'millwork' window and is accepted in many communities as a 'green' alternative to wood as it shares similar aesthetics."
One hot new trend that's popular across all styles: self-cleaning glass. This breakthrough comes thanks to a nano-thin coating of titanium dioxide, applied to the glass during the manufacturing process, that causes dirt and dust not to stick to the surface. Rain or a squirt from the garden hose is all it takes to make the windows clean and spot-free. Just about everybody seems to think it's worth the investment, which, says Lafayette, amounts to between $50 and $100 more per window. "I haven't heard anybody say it wasn't worth it," he says. "It's like, 'Golly, I never have to wash my windows again and it's going to cost me 50 or 100 bucks? Where do I sign?'"
If your energy bills have been giving you fits, if you're tired of sitting in a draft, if you're just plain tired of looking at your old windows, or if you're more than ready to give up window-washing, we can help you find just the right specialist to deliver the perfect windows - and the perfect installation - for your home. Give us a call we're here to help.
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Human eotaxin is a specific chemoattractant for eosinophil cells and provides a new mechanism to explain tissue eosinophilia.
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Eotaxin is an eosinophil-specific chemoattractant that has been recently identified in rodent models of asthma and host response against tumors. To determine whether a similar molecule might play a role in human inflammatory diseases characterized by eosinophilia, we isolated the human eotaxin gene. We demonstrate that human eotaxin is an early response gene of cytokine-stimulated epithelial and endothelial cells, and is induced in peripheral blood eosinophils by interleukin-3. Eotaxin is directly chemotactic for eosinophils, but not mononuclear cells or neutrophils. Eotaxin messenger RNA accumulates markedly in the lesions of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease), but not in the lesions of patients with diverticulitis. These results now provide a mechanism involving eotaxin to explain the eosinophil infiltration seen in a variety of human disease; as such, an eotaxin antagonist may be a novel therapy for certain human diseases characterized by tissue eosinophilia.
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Rothiemurchus is a privately owned Highland Estate within Strathspey, northeast of the River Spey. It is one of the most treasured areas of the Cairngorms National Park because of its truly special relationship between nature and people. It has been under the stewardship of the Grant family since the 16th Century but has a wealth of history before this.
There is evidence that Rothiemurchus is a very old human settlement, as the name dates to the 8th Century. The first inhabitants were most likely Picts and Rothiemurchus would have been the centre of the great Caledonian Pine Forest of Scotland. The Parish of Rothiemurchus belonged to the crown until 1226 when Alexander II gave it to Andrew Bishop of Moray as a hereditary thanage. In 1370 Alexander Stuart (the Wolf of Badenoch) became protector of the Bishop of Moray, his men and his lands, including Rothiemurchus. However, relations between the two became strained and in 1389 the Bishop dismissed Stuart and took on Thomas Dunbar as protector. In June 1390 Stuart descended on Forres and Elgin and he sacked and burned two royal burghs, destroying the parish kirk and hospital. The Wolf of Badenoch was never punished.
In 1574 John's son, Patrick Grant, was designated "of Rothiemurchus" by King James VI and he then moved to The Doune of Rothiemurchus from Muckrach near Dulnain Bridge in 1597.


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I love how certain videos resurface from time to time on Facebook.
This fun video caught my eye this morning. The dog in the video is my Golden, Quiz! We shot this clip with the amazingly talented Jane Selle Morgan. Since it's original creation five or six years ago, it's randomly popped up on my news feed at least as many times. People seem to really enjoy the clever presentation of the message about adoption.
Click on the video (to the left) to watch.
If the start of a new year has left you longing for a furry friend, the San Fernando Valley offers myriad options for adopting. Consider the following:
Pet Orphans of Southern California
Los Angeles Animal Services - Two locations in the Valley.
If you're specifically looking for a purebred dog, try a Google search for a rescue dedicated to your breed of choice. Here's a list to help get you started.
If you opt not to work with a rescue group, be sure to look for a reputable breeder rather than a "backyard breeder" or pet store. I'll post more on this topic next week.
Go hug your dogs. They really do think you're super cool!


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Interview with Bruce Davison
Interview: Bruce Davison
Motion picture, television, and Broadway actor Bruce Davison was born in Philadelphia in 1948. He began his theatrical experience at Pennsylvania State University and later attended the School of the Arts of New York University. His first professional roles included parts in, King Lear, and A Cry of Players at Lincoln Center. With New York theater experience behind him. he headed west where he debuted in Los Angeles in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial under the direction of Henry Fonda.
Mr. Davison's film break came in 1969 in Last Summer. However, the film
which brought him to the attention of horror-film lovers everywhere was Willard (1971). As the shy, fumbling, under achiever Willard Stiles with an army of rats at his command, his order "Tear him up" to the rodents swarming over Ernest Borgnine has become a classic line of cinematic dialogue.
Other film roles followed: Been Down So Long It Looks like Up to Me (1971), Ulzana's Raid and The Jerusalem File in 1972, Mame(1974), and
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976). In between films he worked in television in
varied roles such as a psychopathic killer in an episode of Lou Grant and a drenched lifeboat occupant in the T\r movie The Last Survivors..
In 1977, Bruce Davison played the choice part of the Waspish child-molester Clark Davis, incarcerated in New York's infamous Tombs. This film, Short Eyes, was perhaps the most disturbing and horrifying movie of his career since it realistically depicted unspeakable prison conditions.
On January 9.19HO, the two-hour film adaptation of Ursula K. Le Gain's futuristic novel The Lathe of Heaven was aired on PBS stations nationally with Bruce starring as George Orr, a young man whose dreams literally come true. In addition to being a science fiction enthusiast and a fan of Ms. Le Guin 's, Bruce especially enjoyed the part because of the unusual concepts the story presented.
He is best known for portraying John Merrick in the Broadway play The Elephant Man. It is an emotionally exhausting experience both for Mr. Davison and the audience
INTERVIEWER: I'm going to start this interview with questions about
Willard. Did you have any objections to working with die 500 rats in the
DAVISON: Just the normal ones. (Laughter) It was quite an interesting experience in that I went and auditioned and I met Ben right off the bat. He already had the job and I had to make certain the co-star liked me, so they put him on my shoulder and he sniffed in my ear and started to wash his hands. Everybody seemed to think we'd get along.
INTERVIEWER: Were there any casualties on the set?
DAVISON: No, none at all, which was surprising, considering all the stunts that had to be done. Not a lost rat. Of course, there was a rat wrangler from the SPCA to check that the animals were treated humanely.
INTERVIEWER: The basis for Willard, the book Ratman's Notebooks by
INTERVIEWER: Was the original script for Willard different than the filmed version?
DAVISON: It was not too much different, but it was originally titled Ratman. The name was changed after the film was made.
INTERVIEWER: Did you have a good relationship with Elsa Lanchester
and Ernest Borgnine on the set of Willard?
DAVISON: Yes, I liked them both very much. I haven't seen either of them for quite a while now, which is the case lots of times when you work with people; you get very close and then you don't see them for a long period of time. I saw Mr. Borgnine in the bank a while back and he seemed to be quite happy. He's always busy. Elsa has a house out in Pacific Palisades.
INTERVIEWER: What was your opinion of Ben, the sequel to Willard?
DAVISON: Well, I didn't think too much of it.
INTERVIEWER: It was rumored that you appeared as one of the World War II pilots returning to earth at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
DAVISON: That's correct. I'm the one with the cap.
INTERVIEWER: Why did you accept a walk-on role when you were
used to much larger pans?
DAVISON: Well, Spielberg is a friend of mine, and lie said, "How would you like to come down for a day and gel off a flying saucer?" So I did. I was on my way to New York to do Short Eyes.
INTERVIEWER: In Short Eyes, what kind of preparation as an actor did
you do for the role of a .solitary Wasp in the house of detention?
DAVISON: I spent an awful lot of time working on the monologue by
myself. I don't know if you know the section the monologue appears in,
but it lasts about fifteen minutes. I mostly just worked on it on my own,
and I went home to Philadelphia. I worked on it in an empty field for a
while. The atmosphere of the Tombs does more work than one wants it to
have done on one's character. I think if the walls could scream, they
INTERVIEWER: I believe you play ed a psychopathic killer in an
episode of Lou Grant.
DAVISON: Yeah, I did.
INTERVIEWER: Have you ever appeared in a horror/science fiction/
fantasy TV series?
DAVISON: No, I haven't, that I can remember.
INTERVIEWER: Were you intrigued by the concept of The Lathe of Heaven, which is the idea of dreams changing reality?
DAVISON: Very much so. I loved Ursula's novel, and I thought it was a wonderful story to be put on TV. I was really glad to be a part of it.
INTERVIEWER: What did you think of Kevin Conway, who portrayed Dr.
Haber in Lathe?
DAVISON: Well, I know Kevin from a number of years back. We did plays
that ran into each other in the Westwood Playhouse; he was doing Red
Hider and I was doing Little Foxes. I've always admired his work, and I
looked forward to working with him. I was delighted he was Dr. Haber. It
was a lot of fun working with him down in Dallas, especially during the
"gray" scenes. (Note: At one point in The Lathe of Heaven, Dr. Haber
commands George Orr, whose dreams change reality, to dream of a world where there is no prejudice. When George wakes up, he finds that everyone's skin tone is now gray. This is what Mr. Davison means
when he speaks of the "gray" scenes.)
INTERVIEWER: How long was the shooting schedule for The Lathe of
Heaven, and where was it filmed?
DAVISON: I can't remember the shooting schedule exactly, I think it was live weeks. It was shot in Dallas, in Fort Worth, and just a bit up in San Francisco.
INTERVIEWER: What do you think of intelligent science fiction movies
such as The Lathe of Heaven as opposed to the currently popular space operas such as Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica?
DAVISON: That was my one real intrigue to do The Lathe of Heaven
because it wasn't a space opera. It dealt with human behavior rather
than special mechanics. It was what they now call "speculative fiction."
INTERVIEWER: Were you pleased with the finished production of The
Lithe of Heaven?
DAVISON: I thought it was good. I've always been a stickler for different sorts of detail that tend to wash out during the project. I've never been totally happy with anything, per se.
INTERVIEWER: How would you describe your role in The Elephant
DAVISON: John Merrick is a person who emerges from within a horrendously deformed shell into a very pure and heroic soul. It's about a
man who is deformed hut is also quite a human being.
INTERVIEWER: Would you consider your role in The Elephant Man to
be physically demanding?
DAVISON: Oh, yes. Yes, and I have the backache to prove it. (Laughter)
INTERVIEWER: What hits given yon the strength to play so many
disturbed characters when there is the possibility of being typecast?
DAVISON: Well, it's better to be typecast than not cast. Seeing that
I've gotten a lot of that from Willard, my career has son of gone that way.
People who have a certain reputation can eventually find themselves being
led down other paths. Lots of times people who have been typecast, such
as Lee Marvin who has been typecast as a "heavy," can eventually break
out and become a star through a good role in which they've been typecast. It's just the way the cards fall. It's always whether or not the part is good that makes the difference to me.
INTERVIEWER: Which role would you consider to be your favorite:'
DAVISON: The Elephant Man. It's the best written pan I've ever done. It's
just a wonderful part.
INTERVIEWER: Do you have any particular interest in the horror/ science fiction genre and do you collect memorabilia from any of these films?
DAVISON: I used to. When I was younger I was really into monster magazines. When I was younger, I lived in Philadelphia, and there was
this guy named "Roland" who later went on the become "Zacherley." Me was always a big hero of mine, and we all used to dress up like him in
the neighborhood. We would part our hair in the middle and chase each other around with chains. (Laughter)


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Giving by the Rich to Remain Strong in 2008
Despite the weak economy, charitable giving by the rich could increase this year compared to 2007.
That is the rather optimistic prediction of Crown Philanthropic Advisors, a New York firm that sells technology platforms for donor-advised funds. The firm's survey of donors and advisers showed that the wealthy–those with $2 million or more in investable assets–are unlikely to cut back on charitable giving this year.
William Hewitt, the firm's national marketing chief, said that giving by the mass affluent–those with $100,000 or more invested–is likely to be cut back. He said giving by this group declined in the first quarter, according to the survey.
Yet the affluent, he says, are more affected by weak housing prices, falling stocks and rising prices. Companies also are planning to keep their giving flat this year. A recent survey of 77 businesses by the Chronicle of Philanthropy found that 50 would keep their giving the same as last year, while 21 expected an increase, and six said their donations would drop.
Yet the rich aren't as affected by shorter-term economic changes, Mr. Hewitt said. They tend to make charitable donations based on estate planning and family changes–things that have been planned or in the works for years. (And, of course, the rich are always happy for the tax breaks.)
"The folks with larger portfolios are more insulated from the volatility," Mr. Hewitt says. "They have a different perspective."
Total giving by the wealthy, he says, may even increase this year.
"There are a lot of people saying it will be down," he says. "But I'm not so sure. I actually see things picking up."


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While looking through my timeline in Tweetbot, occasionally a tweet will be marked as a favorite even though I'm sure I'm seeing it for the first time. (I can't resist taking the time to unfavorite it.) I don't see any mention of this in http://tapbots.com/support/tweetbot/. Is this a bug, or a "feature" (where perhaps Twitter's API is doing this)?
Tweets in my Tweetbot timeline are occasionally marked as a favorite when I see them for the first time. Is that a bug or a feature?
It's a bug with Twitter, not Tweetbot.
I've seen people ask @tweetbot about it several times now. The answer and response generally look like this exchange:
That particular exchange happened just yesterday.
Twitter's REST API bug list has this bug still open where the API may erroneously report a tweet as favorited when in fact it is not.
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It's well understood by now that comparing a political opponent to the Nazis is risky business. There's even a label for it, Reductio ad Hitlerum.
California Democratic Chairman John Burton became the latest political veteran to make this misstep on Monday morning. At a breakfast for members of the California delegation to the Democratic convention in Charlotte, Mr. Burton reportedly compared GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, because of some untruths that Mr. Burton claims Mr. Ryan told in his acceptance speech.
"They lie and they don't care if people think they lie… Joseph Goebbels – it's the big lie, you keep repeating it," Mr. Burton said Monday before the Blake Hotel breakfast, according to the SFGate blog. Mr. Burton said Mr. Ryan told "a bold-faced lie and he doesn't care that it was a lie. That was Goebbels, the big lie."
Former senator and National Co-Chairman of the Romney Jewish Coalition Norm Coleman was quick to respond to the comments, saying: "President Obama promised to lift up American politics. Unfortunately, some of his supporters, by employing rhetoric that has no place in our political system… All people of good will should repudiate such disgraceful words."
Republican Jewish Coalition Executive Director Matthew Brooks said Mr. Burton "ought to know better than to bring the Nazis and their victims into our current political debates, but apparently the offense such remarks cause to Holocaust survivors and their families are of less concern to him than the prospect of partisan gain."
In recent memory, Rep. Steve Cohen (D., Tenn.) and California Gov. Jerry Brown have been among the Democrats committing this political malpractice. Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck also has been dinged for his frequent use of Nazi references.


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Nationwide Home Solar Power Contractors and Information
At first glance, it looks like Ohio has one of the toughest renewables portfolio standard (RPS) in the United States: 25% alternative energy by 2025. But "alternative" is the tricky word, as the RPS counts nuclear energy and clean coal as alternative energy sources. Fortunately for solar enthusiasts there are renewable minimums, what some would consider Ohio's real RPS, requiring investor-owned utilities (IOU) and retail electricity suppliers to have 12.5% renewable energy by 2024. That includes a solar electric minimum of 0.5% by 2024.
That may not be the strongest RPS in the country, but it is already helping Ohio's solar industry by spawning a number of incentives for home solar power, led by a state-funded solar grant program.
The Ohio Department of Development is offering first-come, first-served grants for photovoltaic systems installed on residential buildings. The incentive rate is $3.00-per-watt installed DC capacity with a maximum of $25,000. Systems must be on the property owner's primary residence, grid-connected and metered. Work must be performed by an eligible installer.
Systems must be evaluated using a Solar Pathfinder or substitute approved by the Ohio Energy Office, and grant applications must include a Solar Site Analysis Report. Grant awards are reduced by the percent the site varies from the ideal site found by the Solar Site Analysis Report. If selected to receive a grant, work cannot proceed until a grant agreement with ODOD has been executed, and once that is complete, the project must be completed within 12 months of signing, at which point funds will be disbursed. For more information, see ODOD.
Non-profit Green Energy Ohio, with funding from the Sierra Club, offers a rebate to Ohio homeowners installing solar water heaters. They offer $30 per expected kBtu produced per day up to $2,400. Systems must be installed by a GEO-approved solar contractor. Upon completion of PART I of the application process, which includes applicant and installer information, solar site analysis report, proposed equipment and site sketch, the GEO issues a rebate reservation number, after which the applicant has six months to install the water heater.
PART II comes after the system is installed. At that point, an inspection certification checklist, itemized invoices, copies of passed code inspections and a photo of the system must be submitted. If all is in order, GEO will then issue the rebate. For even more info, see Green Energy Ohio.
Ohio also offers a loan program for homeowners. It is primarily intended for energy efficiency upgrades (new appliances, furnaces, insulation, etc.) but solar water heat and PV are listed among eligible technologies. The program offers a 3% interest rate reduction on a 5-year bank loan and only applies to the first $25,000 and 5 years of the loan (Hamilton County has a similar program). See Ecolink.ohio.gov for details.
Ohio has net metering rules stipulating that utilities must allow homeowners to connect their solar power systems to the energy grid and be reimbursed for excess energy produced. There is no set capacity limit (although it is implied that systems should not exceed a customer's on-site power needs), and no reference to renewable energy credits in the current law. Excess solar electricity produced is credited to the customer's next bill at the unbundled generation rate. A customer may request a refund of excess power at the end of a 12-month billing cycle.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Lewis Hamilton won his first grand prix since joining the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team during the offseason.
Hamilton started on the pole and dominated Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring. It was the fourth Hungarian GP triumph for the British driver, who registered his 22nd career Formula One triumph.
"This is one of the most important Formula One wins of my career," Hamilton said.
It was the third win of the season for Mercedes, which picked up a pair of victories with Nico Rosberg earlier in the season.
"It is an incredible feeling," Hamilton said. "It was great to see the support of the fans. My team did an incredible job. They studied a lot last night and we had no idea that this race would go this well for us…I was hungry today and I was just going all out. A lot of times I get stuck in traffic, and today I wasn't having any of that."
Speed and strategy were both on point for the Mercedes team as Hamilton easily outdistanced Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen by 10.9 seconds for the victory with three-time world champion and point leader Sebastian Vettel taking third for Red Bull.
"I've been making my life difficult on Saturdays and we've been paying the price for that, but I had a good car today and I made my way up there," Raikkonen said.
Vettel's teammate Mark Webber and Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso completed the top five on a day with temperatures in the mid-90s.
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The Corpulent Traitor is back to his tough guy act. After reports that he called to congratulate Obama but just email Romney, Chris Christie gets deranged. He attacks the media for inaccuracy and claims Obama called him. You read that correct, Obama called Christie after he was re-elected! I could believe this since he owes Christie for saving his political career with the photo-op. Conjuring up his wannabe Jersey Shore Guido act, Christie gets angry at the media!
Christie then referenced an article that was posted by a business news institution earlier in the week claiming the governor called the President to congratulate him and only emailed Romney.
"Bloomberg had some incredibly careless reporting yesterday, saying that I called the president yesterday to congratulate him on his victory — absolutely careless, awful reporting," said Christie. "Listen guys, people take the stuff you write seriously and I try to speak with real precision behind this microphone. So don't report that I called the president when I didn't; the president called me."
Christie set the record straight saying President Obama calls him every day and at the start of the call in question he did congratulated him and moved on to discuss the situation at hand.
No matter how many excuses this gluttonous low life makes, his treachery is evident to all.
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Clear Tune Monitors CT-500 Elite
"First review on head-fi ever. I don't have much to say less the ratings that i've came up with below. Don't take my review seriously though. Different ears, different sound impression. But what i do like about the CT-500E is how the lows/mids/highs work together cohesively. They don't bleed into each other. It makes the CT-500E analytical in a sense but more to the musical kind. For it's kind..." --5h4d0w
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Clear Tune Monitors (CTM) has developed a line of extremely affordable in-ear monitors ranging from $200 to $600. Clear Tune Monitors (CTM) offers a wide array of products that a provide high-end listening experience, whether you are a professional musician or an average music lover wanting to take your aural experience to the next level: CTM-200: The CTM- 200 is the most popular type of...
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We recently announced our new user interface and today we released an updated cloud experience, which was designed as part of the refresh process. The new cloud experience has a different focus than what we had before. We want to satisfy two types of users:
- Cloud operators are users that manage a cloud. They control an account on Amazon Web Services or an account on an Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, and want to provide access to their users to make use of resources in the cloud(s) they control.
- Cloud users are people that want to make use of cloud resources to run their workloads. This user would traditionally go to the IS department and make a hardware request to satisfy their needs.
The first step to try the new functionality is to register your cloud with Landscape.
The new user interface lets a cloud operator create resource groups, which are groups of related users, and to limit the number of instances a user can run at once. The system keeps track of how many instance hours each user uses and shows current capacity uses along with a graph to show usage history over time.
The user interface is split into two sections:
- The cloud section, shown at the top, provides a high-level view of activity in a cloud, including the capacity being used and a graph showing the usage over time. The 'Settings' tab provides tools to configure the registered cloud.
- The resource group section, shown below the cloud section, provides a view of activity in a resource group. Tabs provide access to tools to manage EC2 artefacts such as key pairs, security groups, elastic IPs, etc., and of course, to start and stop instances.
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Willie Nelson Sings 'Crazy' and More on 'Fresh Air'
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Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. Its the art of anticipating your opponents next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it can only be mastered by developing a new way of seeing the world.
Using a diverse array of rich case studiesfrom pop culture, TV, movies, sports, politics, and historythe authors show how nearly every business and personal interaction has a game-theory component to it. Mastering game theory will make you more successful in business and life, and this lively book is the key to that mastery.
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|p. ix
|Introduction: How Should People Behave in Society?
|p. xv
|Ten Tales of Strategy
|p. 3
|Games Solvable by Backward Reasoning
|p. 32
|Prisoners' Dilemmas and How to Resolve Them
|p. 64
|A Beautiful Equilibrium
|p. 102
|Epilogue to Part I
|p. 137
|Choice and Chance
|p. 141
|Strategic Moves
|p. 173
|Making Strategies Credible
|p. 201
|Epilogue to Part II: A Nobel History
|p. 229
|Interpreting and Manipulating Information
|p. 235
|Cooperation and Coordination
|p. 270
|Auctions, Bidding, and Contests
|p. 301
|p. 335
|p. 359
|p. 386
|Case Studies
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|Further Reading
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|p. 447
|p. 457
|p. 473
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Danielle Panabaker is an American actress. She's best known for her roles on TV's Shark and films like Sky High, Mr. Brooks and the remake of Friday the 13th.
Looks aside, Danielle Panabaker is also one of the smartest women you'll ever meet. She finished high school at 14 and completed a B.A. at 19. One would expect Danielle Panabaker to have a number of prospective suitors in her life. After initially hooking up with production assistant Charlie Ebersol in 2005, she later found a more compatible mate in… James Woods? Yes, her 60+ Shark co-star (a very intelligent guy on his own terms) was dating 20-something Danielle Panabaker. This odd coupling was short-lived, and she has since moved on to singer Jesse McCartney.
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When filing your Federal tax return there are quite a few forms that you have available to use to file. One of the forms happens to be the 1040A form. Today, we will be explaining in detail what this form is used for and which taxpayers should utilize it when filing their Federal tax returns.
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FedEx founder Fred Smith wrote an economics paper while at Yale. The paper was about his idea to make an overnight delivery service more efficient by using the "hub and spokes" concept. His professor told him that it would never work and gave poor Fred a C.
Fred was and is known for his persistence (and eventual strategic positioning of FedEx). He used the concept as the foundation for operations at his fledgling startup, but over the first several years, the company lost millions.
During these early years, the headline of his ads read,
"We have planes, trains and automobiles."
Where was the strategic positioning in that? CEOs so often yearn to be all things to all people, and the headline was meant to indicate FedEx could ship anything large or small, fast or slow. It wasn't working. The brand was not strategically positioned. After a brainstorming session, FedEx decided to focus on delivering small packages overnight. The headline of Fred's next ad read,
"When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight."
The strategic positioning cord was struck and the rest is history.
FedEx became the largest overnight shipper in the world. What's more, with the help of its strategic positioning, FedEx became the generic word for overnight delivery. (
''I'll FedEx it to you.''
) Even though the lawyers hate it, making the brand name a generic is the ultimate weapon in the marketing wars and the end result of strategic positioning. With more than 300,000 employees, 663 airplanes and $43 billion in revenue, Fred wasn't so poor anymore.
Things were swell -- for a long time. Then something happened. The need for business to ship a hard copy of an important document overnight became unnecessary. FedEx was falling victim to something called disruptive technology.
Businesses began sending their important documents, for free, by email. Who could have predicted? Talk about a disruption.
Interestingly, at the same time, the shipping of packages by ground began to grow. Why? We started to shop online. So, over the course of a decade, overnight air shipping of letters nearly evaporated while ground shipping of packages swelled. Who could have predicted?
Poor Fred?
Not exactly. FedEx purchased Kinko's (and UPS purchased Mail Boxes Etc.). The business of shipping packages by ground grew while the overnight letter business shrank. FedEx needed a place for people to take boxes because the packages wouldn't fit in the drop boxes designed for letters only.
So, what does this do to FedEx and its strategic positioning concept,
overnight delivery
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positioning strategy
-- ever. Now what? Their strategic positioning idea was disrupted by technology. Ouch!
FedEx abandoned its tagline for a new one,
"The world on time."
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DeKALB, Ill. - The Mid-American Conference announced Friday that two Northern Illinois volleyball matches will be televised on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel as part of the league's new regional partnership. The first appearance by the Huskies will be Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. when they travel to Bowling Green in a rematch of last year's MAC Championship match. A month later, NIU returns to the airwaves when they host Western Michigan Oct. 31 at a special start time of 6 p.m. inside Victor E. Court. "I'm excited that we will have two of our conference matches shown on the Time Warner Cable SportsChannel," said NIU Head Coach Ray Gooden. "We're honored to have a home match broadcast that can showcase Victor E. Court. We look forward to expanding our audience on a national scale. Both matches are against two very competitive MAC programs. Having a TV audience will only add to the excitement for both matches." Outside of the Time Warner Cable footprint, MAC live programming will also be available for cable providers within the Conference regional territory. Check your local listings or go to TWCSportsChannel.com to see the availability of the matches in your area. Select programming will also be available on ESPN3 - ESPN's live multi-screen sports network available to more than 85 million households on computers, smartphones, tablets, Xbox and Apple TV via WatchESPN through an affiliated Internet or video provider - and MAC-Sports.com. The Huskies continue their non-conference schedule Saturday at home when they face #3 USC at 1 p.m., followed by Belmont at 7 p.m. TWC SportsChannel Channel ListingsOhioTime Warner Cable SportsChannel: 1311 (HD) and 311.IndianaComcast Indiana: Channel 81MichiganComcast: Channel 900New YorkAlbany, Time Warner Cable SportsChannel: 1803Buffalo, Time Warner Cable SportsChannel: 713Central New York, Time Warner Cable SportsChannel: 323 (HD)Hudson Valley, Time Warner Cable SportsChannel: 461New York City, Time Warner Cable: 197Rochester, Time Warner Cable SportsChannel: 1026Syracuse, Time Warner Cable SportsChannel: 323WisconsinMilwaukee, Time Warner Cable: 1332 (HD) and 32 analog


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"We had a number of chances to win the game. I was very disappointed with our intensity in the first half, and we just didn't play hard enough. We had our chance down the stretch at the end of regulation, but the ball just didn't fall. We had way too many turnovers, and they just killed us in this game. We didn't take care of the ball well enough to win."
"We were lackadaisical with the ball at times in the first half, and they took advantage of our turnovers. I thought we played better in the second half. We picked up the tempo, we pressed more, and we were much more aggressive. In the overtime period, we had some quick turnovers at the beginning, and we were not as intense as we should have been in overtime."
"We managed to get the ball inside a lot, but we didn't get to the free
throw line as much as I thought that we should have. But, they played us
very well, and they outrebounded us 38 to 31, which really hurt us."
"We have to put this behind us and go up to the Oregon schools and show that we can win on the road. With four games left in the regular season, there is no doubt that we have to win and be able to win on the road. We have to learn from this and get better, and we have to take care of business next weekend."
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"Arizona is a very good team, and we didn't expect to come into their place and run away with the game. We didn't execute as well as we should have, and they did a really a good job of making a run at us in the second half. We were not quite in the flow with our defense at that point, but we weathered it okay. It was a wild finish, and both teams just left it out on the floor."
"I am very proud of our team because of their toughness and the team's chemistry. Everybody played really well, and all of our players know their role on this team. We just need to keep doing what we're doing, and we will be on our way to achieving our goal of winning a Pac-10 Championship."
"Our zone defense has been very effective for us, and it has been a huge boost for the team. We are just trying to make teams take a quick perimeter shot or one shot and out. Even though they got their inside game going, it would have been very problematic for us if they had gotten going from the perimeter."
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The proposed gypsy and traveller site is off Shaw Lane, Carlton, and nearly 100 residents turned up to a public meeting with council officers, local councillors and cabinet member Coun Linda Burgess.
The meeting, organised by Coun Ken Richardson in Carlton Village Hall on Monday, descended into arguments when people complained if the privately-owned site was developed, their houses would be devalued and there would be an increase in petty theft.
They were told by Coun Burgess, who is the cabinet spokesman for development, environment and culture, said: "I have to tell you that some of the things you are concerned about might verge on racist. I'm only saying what I believe."
Her comments were met with laughter and jeers.
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