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Dunst is featured in the spring issue of Bullet magazine, and talked about starring in "Interview with the Vampire" when she was just 10 years old.
"It was just a peck," the actress said of the kiss she shared with Pitt in the 1994 film, which also starred Tom Cruise. "I remember Brad would watch lots of 'Real World' episodes. He had this long hair. He was just a hippie-ish cool dude. Everyone at the time was like, 'You're so lucky you kissed Brad Pitt,' but I thought it was disgusting. I didn't kiss anyone else until I was 16, I think. I was a late bloomer."
This isn't the first time she's talked about how she didn't want Brad Pitt anywhere near her.
"Kissing Brad was so uncomfortable for me. I remember saying in interviews that I thought it was gross, that Brad had cooties. I mean, I was 10," she told Interview magazine in 1998.
According to the Huffington Post, Dunst said in another interview, "It was horrible, and I hated it. Brad and Tom were like my big brothers on the set, so it was like kissing your big brother -- totally gross! He said, 'How do you think I feel? I have to kiss a little girl.' It was awful!"
I have a feeling she might not hate it so much now.
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The case of fired Parkersburg Police Officer Floyd Holliday has been batted back and forth between Wood County Circuit Court and the city like a volleyball for two years.
The latest volley occurred Monday when Circuit Judge Jeff Reed once again ordered the Parkersburg Police Civil Service Commission to again answer why it overturned the city's decision to fire Holliday in 2010. He also ordered the members report their findings to his court by Jan. 18, 2013.
There is reason to believe this case may be coming to an end at last. In the past, Reed's orders for the board to show reason why it overturned the city's original decision to fire Holliday went unheeded because the board has changed members since the original decision was handed down. The judge did not believe he could compel the two members who are no longer on the board to appear before him.
Monday, however, Reed, citing case law, said the commission is an institution, regardless of a change in membership. He then ordered the board's current members "as it is constituted" to provide the court with its findings and conclusions.
This game has certainly gone on long enough. Holliday was fired for allegedly stealing items confiscated from search warrants and for downloading pornography on city computers. However, his firing was overturned by the police commission that December by a 2-1 vote. The panel's majority while not disputing the findings that led to the city's action, said that action "did not rise to the level to warrant termination."
During the two years the city has been appealing this, Holliday has collected his annual salary of $36,000 plus benefits - paid for by the city's taxpayers.
The current members should rehear the case and uphold the city's decision to fire Holliday. Holliday will still be able to appeal this decision, but he will not be living off the city's taxpayers as he has been for the last two years.

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OAKLAND -- Though they sit nine games over .500, the consensus is that the Warriors have underachieved.
Based on the talent, this was projected to be a 50- to 55-win team. It's still possible, if they go 20-11 or better the rest of the way. But they are on pace for about 48 wins, not much improvement over last season despite a mostly healthy Andrew Bogut and the addition of Andre Iguodala.
Obviously, injuries can change projections. Iguodala, Bogut, David Lee, Stephen Curry and Harrison Barnes all missed time to injury. But watching the Warriors lose to inferior opponents, seeing them fighting for a bottom seed, leaves you concluding this team is suspect.
The question is, why? Many fingers are pointing at coach Mark Jackson.
Blaming Jackson, in his third season as Golden State coach, is the easy way out. It's the kind of mindset that led to the Warriors' changing coaches during their 12-year playoff drought like women do purses.
Jackson is not the reason Golden State is not as dominant as people thought. He is worthy of criticism, but writing him off as the cause, talk of firing him, is misplaced frustration and way too premature.
Jackson's biggest crime is not yet figuring out how to patch the holes on the roster he was given.
He is singled out for Golden State's offensive struggles. Many believe the Warriors are suffering from the loss of assistant coach Michael Malone. But the Warriors' struggles are inherently figured into the roster. The offense's propensity to go into a funk is a function of the players' strengths and weaknesses.
The bench lost its two most productive players from last season -- Jarrett Jack and Carl Landry. Three of the Warriors' top six players -- Bogut, Barnes and Klay Thompson -- are talented but with noted offensive limitations. And Iguodala is not looking like the star many expected.
Of the seven wing players on the rosters, two are reliable ballhandlers. The Warriors have no player who lives on getting to the rim and no dominant low-post presence, vital for when shots go cold. Nor do they have a power forward who can shoot from range, which would improve their spacing drastically. And they struggle from the free-throw line.
None of that is Jackson's fault, just his burden to bear.
Jackson very well could figure this out, and the Warriors could end up in the Western Conference finals. Such would be a feat worthy of status as an offensive genius. But if he can't, he should get more credit for getting this team to become legit defensively than for guiding an explosive but inconsistent offense. He should get some leniency and patience for what he's already pulled off.
What you can blame Jackson for is his team not being ready to play. Slow starts, bad endings to quarters, poor efforts against losing teams, that's on him. But is that typical during an 82-game season? Is that the function of a team struggling to adjust to new expectations? Or is it a sign of Jackson's ineptitude?
Jackson's philosophy is to emphasize defense and ride his stars for production on offense.
He sticks to his game plan and trusts in his players. It's not a strange philosophy. Many NBA coaches believe in their systems enough to not abandon them during rough times.
But a main motivating ploy of Jackson's is to believe in his players more than anybody else, especially when they are struggling.
He doesn't cut minutes for guys who work hard. He doesn't demote players he will need later. He doesn't give up on guys when they are going through ruts. It worked last regular season to the tune of a 24-win improvement. It worked in the playoffs as Golden State beat Denver and challenged San Antonio.
It's not working as well right now. But if the Warriors turn it around, Jackson's philosophy will have worked again.
Bottom line: There are few great coaches out there. There are several good ones, and they all come with weaknesses and exploitable holes in their systems. Jackson is a good one.
Are there coaches who could better maximize the offensive talent on this roster? Sure, but can the Warriors get them?
Co-owner Joe Lacob, who has declined to give Jackson a contact extension, might want to take the risk and give up on a good coach in pursuit of a great one. However, he'd better have someone better in mind. Otherwise, he would be repeating the Warriors' history of juggling coaches and undervaluing the benefits of consistency and stability on the bench.
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definition should be narrowly tailored to the evidence of the case. See
State v. Ruscoe, 212 Conn. 223, 252-54, (1989), cert. denied, 493
U.S. 1084, 110 S.Ct. 1124, 107 L.Ed.2d 1049 (1990) (the court's
definition was "very broad," but had not harmed the defendant because
the court narrowed it by relating it to the specific evidence in the
paraphernalia" refers to equipment, products and materials of any kind
which are used, intended for use or designed for use in planting,
propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing,
compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing,
analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing or concealing, or
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including, but not limited to:
(i) Kits intended
for use or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating,
growing or harvesting of any species of plant which is a controlled
substance or from which a controlled substance can be derived;
(ii) kits used,
intended for use or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding,
converting, producing, processing or preparing controlled substances;
isomerization devices used, intended for use in increasing the potency
of any species of plant which is a controlled substance;
(iv) testing
equipment used, intended for use or designed for use in identifying or
analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity of controlled
(v) dilutents and
adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, dextrose
and lactose used, intended for use or designed for use in cutting
controlled substances;
(vi) separation
gins and sifters used, intended for use or designed for use in removing
twigs and seeds from, or in otherwise cleaning or refining, marijuana;
(vii) capsules and
other containers used, intended for use or designed for use in packaging
small quantities of controlled substances;
(viii) containers
and other objects used, intended for use or designed for use in storing
or concealing controlled substances;
(ix) objects used,
intended for use or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or
otherwise introducing marijuana, cocaine, hashish, or hashish oil into
the human body, such as: Metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic
or ceramic pipes with screens, permanent screens, hashish heads or
punctured metal bowls; water pipes; carburetion tubes and devices;
smoking and carburetion masks; roach clips: Meaning objects used to hold
burning material, such as a marijuana cigarette, that has become too
small or too short to be held in the hand; miniature cocaine spoons, and
cocaine vials; chamber pipes; carburetor pipes; electric pipes;
air-driven pipes; chillums; bongs or ice pipes or chillers;
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In addition to all other logically relevant factors, you may consider
the following in determining whether the item[s] (is / are) drug
(1) statements by
an owner or by anyone in control of the object concerning its use;
(2) the proximity
of the object to any controlled substances;
(3) the existence
of any residue of controlled substances on the object;
(4) evidence of
the intent of an owner, or of anyone in control of the object, to
deliver it to persons whom he knows, or should reasonably know, intend
to use the object to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest,
manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test,
analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, or conceal any controlled
substance or inject, ingest, inhale, or introduce into the human body
any controlled substance;
(5) instructions,
oral or written, provided with the object concerning its use with a
controlled substance;
(6) descriptive
materials accompanying the object that explain or depict its use with a
controlled substance;
(7) national and
local advertising concerning its use;
(8) the manner in
which the object is displayed for sale;
(9) whether the
owner, or anyone in control of the object, is a legitimate supplier of
like or related items to the community, such as a licensed distributor
or dealer of tobacco products;
(10) evidence of
the ratio of sales of the object to the total sales of the business
(11) the existence
and scope of legitimate uses for the object in the community;
(12) expert
testimony concerning its use.
General Statutes § 21a-270.
General Statutes § 21a-240 (20) (A) (applies to Chapter 420b:
Dependency Producing Drugs, §§ 21a-240 -- 21a-283a).
"This statute uses expansive words of inclusion. . . . These phrases
convey a clear intention that the items listed in the definition do not
constitute an exhaustive or exclusive list." State v. Jones, 51
Conn. App. 126, 137 (1998), cert. denied, 247 Conn. 958 (1999).
Although it is
unclear whether the language "intended for use or designed for use" in
General Statutes § 21a-240 (20) (a), defining drug paraphernalia, refers
to the defendant's mental state or the physical aspects of the object at
issue, it is worth noting that similar language was construed in
Village of Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc., 455
U.S. 489, 501, 102 S.Ct. 1186, 71 L.Ed.2d 362 (1982), as referring to
the physical aspects of the paraphernalia.
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I first came to hipmunk.com through a paper presented by Oracle Fusion User Experience Advocate (or FXA) Sten Vesterli (@stenvesterli) at an Oracle Usability Advisory Board meeting in Geneva earlier in 2012. Nice! And there are lots of other powerful and edgy UX features in the solution too (Gmail calendar integration, contextual actions dialog box, and so on). I'll be using Hipmunk as an example of great UX too, shortly.
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DENVER, Colo. – After dropping a 3-1 match to Denver earlier today, the Texas A&M - Corpus Christi volleyball team bounced back in the second match to win 3-1 over Air Force to seal their first match of the season. Ivy Baresh, Shaquinn parker and Brianna Brink all finished in double figures in kills while Logen Bourque tallied 43 assists and Shayla Maldonado recorded 10 digs in the final match of the Pioneer Classic in Hamilton Gymnasium.
Bourque was named to the Pioneer Classic All-Tournament Team.
The Islanders (1-2) will travel to Houston, Texas next weekend to compete in the Rice Invitational I on Friday, Sept. 6 and Saturday, Sept. 7, against Rice, LSU and UALR.
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Senior Logen Bourque recorded her first double-double of the season with 31 assists and 10 digs and freshman Shaquinn Parker added nine kills but it wasn't enough as Denver controlled the net to win 3-1 (25-21, 22-25, 25-10, 25-11) victory. The Pioneers won the net with 15 block assists and one block solo.
The Islanders received solid play from the newcomers, with Parker's team-high nine kills, and Abby Whitehead hit .400 and recorded seven kills and two aces. Veterans Ivy Baresh and Brianna Brink combined for 13 kills.
The Pioneers were led by Colleen King and Corrujedo Moni who each chipped in 15 kills apiece.
In the opening set, the Islanders and Pioneers played close until the home team pushed ahead 15-12 on a back-to-back aces. After an Islanders' timeout, Denver built an 18-13 lead with three straight kills. The Islanders pulled within two after Bourque and Baresh put away consecutive kills. The teams traded points to 22-19 until Haley Satterwhite Day and Whitehead added back-to-back kills to trim the Pioneers' lead to 22-21 and force a timeout. Out of the break, Denver closed the frame with three straight points to win 25-21.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi rallied back in the second set to win 25-22 on .324 hitting. Baresh recorded four of her seven kills in the frame while Parker added three. The two teams battled back-and-forth with 15 ties in the set. The Islanders pushed ahead at 20-18 with a kill by Bourque but Denver knotted the score at 20 on a pair of Islanders' hitting errors. After back-and-forth play, the Islanders finished the match with straight kills by Brink and Satterwhite Day and an ace by Bourque to win 25-22.
The Pioneers jumped out early in the third and fourths sets to secure the match. Denver's offense hit .500 in the third set and controlled the net with four blocks to win 25-10. The home team took an early 8-1 lead and stayed in front the rest of the way. In the fourth set, the Islanders stayed even with the Pioneers early on until three straight kills pushed Denver ahead 12-7. Brink then added an ace and Parker put away a kill at 18-10 but the Pioneers' recorded four of their 14 kills to win the set 25-11.
After dropping the first set against Air Force, the Islanders rallied back to win three straight sets and clinch their first victory of the season 3-1 (21-25, 25-18, 25-23, 25-22). Ivy Baresh led the Islanders with her second double-double of the classic with 12 kills and a career-high 22 digs. Brianna Brink tied a match-high 13 kills and Shaquinn Parker recorded a season-high 12 kills. Logen Bourque tallied a season-high 43 assists and Shayla Maldonado collected 10 digs.
The Islanders jumped out early with a 10-0 lead over the Falcons. Parker (3) and Baresh (4) added kills during the run and Maldonado added three aces. Air Force answered with a 9-0 run of their own to knot the score at 11. Both teams then went back-and-forth until the Falcons went ahead 21-19 with a kill by Raquel Rosas and an Islanders' attacking error. After trading points, Air Force wrapped the first set 25-21 with a kill by Akokwe Clement.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi rallied back to win the next three sets. The second set looked to be starting out like the first with the Islanders racing ahead 6-0 but once again the Falcons came back to even the score at 6-6. The Islanders pushed ahead at 17-14 with kills by Brink and Parker. After trading points, Sarah Sanchez put one away a kill and Bourque added an ace to build the Islanders lead to 22-16. Both teams traded points before the Islanders secured the set on back-to-back Falcon errors.
In the third set, the Islanders fell behind 7-3, before rallying back with eight straight points to push ahead 11-7. During the run Haley Satterwhite Day (4) and Brink (1) each recorded kills. The Islanders stayed in front until Air Force evened the score at 20. After an Islanders' timeout, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi scored three straight points to go ahead 23-20. Back-to-back hitting errors by the Islanders pulled the Falcons within one but a kill by Satterwhite Day made it match point for the Islanders. Back-to-back service errors by both teams gave the Islanders' a 25-23 third-set victory.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi rallied back in the fourth set after falling behind 10-7, to push ahead at 21-20. The Islanders scored three straight points after an attacking error by the Falcons and back-to-back kills by Brink to stay ahead 23-20. The Islanders concluded the match with a kill by Brink. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi hit .214 in the fourth set with six of the kills coming from Brink.


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Topic: Live Life to the Fullest
I found this some time ago and just love it so thought I would share:
Life is crazy, and totally unpredictable...Listen to your heart, follow your
dreams, push the limits, bend the rules, and enjoy every minute of it.
Laugh at everything, believe in yourself, and never lose faith in others.
Settle for nothing but the best, and give 110% in everything you do.
Life is a gift, appreciate all the rewards, jump on every opportunity.
And fight for what you believe. Hate nothing, Never forget where you
came from, and always remember where you are going.
Live Life to its fullest, have a reason for everything, even if it's totally insane.
Find Your purpose in life, and LIVE it!
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Same here.
Overhead press
Push press
Jerk variations
I haven't bench pressed in two years.
Also, fuck burpees.
I find that whole sentiment strange... Want to lift heavy? Use big muscles...
I almost never train my chest, because push press, and burpes are all that you need. 450+ deads? another huge number, putting me to shame
Same here.
Overhead press
Push press
Jerk variations
I haven't bench pressed in two years.
Also, fuck burpees.
Kipping chins I can eat alive. I've done 40 unbroken. Burpees make me want to puke after about 15 or so. I also don't like how I feel fatigue quickly and end up in weird, sloppy body positions when I do burpees. If I'm doing very many or doing them as part of a WOD I end up flopping around and, I feel, reenforcing some poor movement patterns. I also have not done burpees in a long, long time now.
I treat it like a sprawl, and use that imagery to get a smooth rhythm.
I am currently enjoying the phase of fitness where pacing and tempo are controllable, and measurable, which helps me keep things optimal.
I suck so bad at chins and pull ups, I think i have weak arms, and I still have about 10-15lbs of gut that doesn't help with anything
I really like the concept of burpees. Huge transitional movement with lots of moving parts and body control. The application, such as I've come to know it, is more than lacking. It's like the film Prometheus: phenomenal in theory; hideous in execution.
Messing around tonight. Here's the early portion of the workout. Some of the clean and front squat + jerk drive technique might be helpful.
videos are helpful baph, nice stuff. is that your home set up? i wanna do something like that. are those rubber mats on just a garage floor?
i have been busy drilling and squatting; squats are going great. i've got more drive and pop at the top of my front squat, it feels good, but my clean still needs a ton of work. i do think, however, that i've made good progress on my jerk.
I gotta work on my cleans and overhead squats first and foremost now.
I read greg everett's olympic lifting for sports this week and i watched his dvd yesterday. there is definitely a lot of stuff i was missing, so i am really gonna work from the ground up to try and put this stuff together correctly
will aRmbAr 4 cHeEseSteAk
And yes, my set-up is rubber, 3/4" horse stall matting covering my garage floor with one sheet of birch as my platform in the middle there. You can drop dumbbells and kettle bells and bumper plates and it's easy to keep clean. Pretty convenient.
First lifting session in a while. Shoulder is crashing hard. I hit some bench press for the first time in . . . I don't know, maybe 2 years last weekend and I already feel tight and uncomfortable in the chest and arms. The left shoulder just caves under the slightest bit of pressure. I end up with a packed shoulder in the left and an active shoulder in the right on nearly every overhead catch.
Here you'll see me progress from 60 kgs (132 lbs) up to 110 kgs (242 lbs) with what looks and feels like pretty good movements and speed other than the nagging inactivity in the left shoulder gurdle.
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Prior to the release of The Royal Ballet's Frederick Ashton Celebration on DVD and Blu-Ray, Curator for Dance at the V&A Jane Pritchard recently examined the choreographer's early career as part of an ROH Insights event.
The Insight event examined Ashton's early career including his admiration for Anna Pavlova and being taught by Marie Rambert. It also examined some of the choreographer's works that were performed during the 2012/13 Season including La Valse (the first production of which by Bronislava Nijinska featured Ashton performing on stage), Monotones and Marguerite and Armand. Ashton's use of dancers, the stage and symbols were also discussed.
Of the choreographer's appeal, Jane said:
'Ashton is like a sponge. He picks up all these influences around him - he uses them but he makes them his own.'
Listen to highlights from the event:
During the 2013/14 Season The Royal Ballet will perform Frederick Ashton's Rhapsody from 7 - 15 February 2014 and The Dream from 31 May - 13 June 2014.
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I throw mostly righthand sidearm shots & I've been telling myself for years that I need to rediscover my rhbh drives (which I threw exclusively the first 4 or 5 years I played -- the "creek hole" at Seneca Creek is where my transformation to sidearm began). Undoubtedly, it's important to be able to throw both backhand & sidearm shots when situations call for one or the other.
However, the poll reveals a bias that I have felt for years. Although the majority believe, like I, that it's best to be balanced, 17 voted for backhand vs. 2 for sidearm. Why such a big difference? I believe sidearm players, like myself, are often viewed to be lacking something in our game more often that those who exclusively throw backhand shots. Although I don't put in enough practice to be anything other than a lifetime jayvee player, I believe there will be more & more players with ratings over 1000 who throw sidearm almost exclusively.
Again, I'm not arguing that more people should always throw sidearm off the tee. I'm simply suggesting that it's no better or worse than those who always throw a backhand shot off the tee. So don't pity us -- learn from us!


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EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - The local snowpack is getting thicker, but it's still running about two-thirds of average, scientists say.
Snowpack in the Colorado River Basin, where we live, is sitting at 68 percent of average for the water year, said Maggie Hulstrand, assistant snow survey supervisor with the Natural Resource Conservation Service.
"That means we have a way to go to reach the average snowpack," Hulstrand said.
December's snowfall was 120 percent of average, pushing the region's average from 28 percent on Dec. 1 to 68 percent by Jan. 1, Hulstrand said.
"October and November were very dry. We had one significant storm in mid-November," Hulstrand said.
Across Colorado, the statewide snowpack was 36 percent of average on Dec. 1. It's now 71 percent of average, almost exactly the same as last year, Hulstrand said.
"We're where we were on Jan. 1 last year," Hulstrand said. "We still have a way to go. It's hard to recover when you have such a slow start of the season. Everyone is enjoying the weather, but it's not what we need for water in the spring and summer."
The snow is in pretty good shape for skiing and snowboarding, but the snowpack won't get any thicker this week. The National Weather Service office in Grand Junction is forecasting no snow through late next week.
The NRCS measures Colorado's snow year from October to October, Hulstrand said.
Weather watchers around the state are searching the skies as they hope to avoid a repeat of last year's dry conditions.
The spring runoff was the lowest in a decade with snowpack in April plunging from 52 percent of average to just 19 percent, according to the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
We caught a break last year in the Upper Colorado River basin where reservoir storage was 127 percent of average and 119 percent of the 2011 record snow year.
Snowpack traditionally peaks on April 12, the Natural Resource Conservation Service said.
How they measure this
Most of the water in the western United States begins as snow during the winter and early spring. As the snowpack accumulates, hydrologists estimate the runoff that will occur when it melts.
They measure that snow water equivalent at several sites, including one on Vail Mountain.
Nearly half of last year's NRCS monitoring sites had completely melted out by May 1, four to six weeks earlier than normal.
The record low snowpack was the drought year 2002.
Nationwide, the plains states are in a drought and are expected to stay in one, according to AccuWeather.
Rainfall has been sufficient over the Ohio and lower Mississippi basins, but unless they moisture pattern changes in a big way this winter and spring, the Mississippi River above the Ohio River junction could be bone dry next summer.
An area of high pressure is likely to set up over the central Rockies and central High Plains, but the spring shouldn't be as dry as last year's, said Paul Pastelok, who heads AccuWeather.com's long range team of meteorologists.
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{Matthew Arnold}
{William Butler Yeats}
Loved Martin Luther King Jr.'s!!
Loved all of them (as usual) but oh my how Stephen can cut straight to my heart. ;)
Thanks for the Monday morning inspiration! :)
Stating your thoughts clearly is so important in writing. Kind of funny we need a quote to remind us of that, but it does help. Thanks for the awesome quotes!
MLK's quote is so true. We just have to keep moving.
Love the comment about the little girl conquering her fears!
Oh Yeah, love the Martin Luther King quote. I will meditate on that one today.
Love the Firefly star's quote. He's a book lover, that guy!
I like the MLK and Yeats quotes.
last one is my fave, thats how i teach math
its like write for dummies! like me!
I liked the Nathan Fillion. It gave me a great mental image.
Great quotes. The Martin Luther King quote is brill though.
Ha! These are brilliant. I'm digging the one from Stephen King.
That Matthew Arnold one is awesome! :)
I'm a Nathan Fillion fan and I love that quote.
I am a quote fanatic, thank you!! I love all of these. I'm so glad I found your blog :)
Ah, great quotes as always. Love the Michael Morpurgo one.
Hi Laura .. I love the Michael Morpurgo mind .. daring to ask questions was something I came to late in life .. now I spend my life constantly learning new things.
Great quotes .. and the Yeats one .. cheers Hilary
So great. I love the Matthew Arnold quote. After all, if people can't understand what you're getting at then what's the point? :-)
King gets it spot on, once again! Great quotes as always. :)
Keep moving forward! I needed that today... :)
I love how the Arnold and Yeats quotes kinda go together!
Hello, everyone!
Thank you so much for visiting and commenting! I really enjoy putting these quote posts together and I'm glad you all like them a lot, too.
I hope you're having an awesome week and getting down lots of dazzling sentences on the page!!


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LAFAYETTE -- Plans for a residential development near the Veterans Memorial Building are moving ahead after officials this week accepted a scaled-down project for 56 condominiums on a stretch of land near Mt. Diablo Boulevard, and bring a separate group of affordable housing units downtown.
Planning commissioners OK'd the zoning request from Branagh Development to amend an initial application that called for 80 residential units in four three-story buildings, and a parking garage, near the intersection of Mt. Diablo Boulevard and Risa Road.
Plans for The Woodbury now include six buildings with six units each, and a seventh building with 20 units, a community room and gym. The developers will also landscape a swath of East Bay Municipal Utility District-owned land in front of the condos and create bike and pedestrian pathways.
They also will build 18 affordable housing units, including 10 units for low to very-low income households, in an off-site location downtown.
First pitched in 2007, the development was placed on hold when the housing market tanked, said architect Scott Thomsen. It has since been redesigned, with attention given to vehicle circulation and pedestrian pathways.
"We're really trying to create single-family living in this condo project," Thomsen told commissioners.
However, two planning leaders questioned certain design aspects. Commissioner Tom Chastain pointed out perceived crowding between two of the buildings, and asked if their alignment could be tweaked. Commission chair Jeanne Ateljevich commented on the width of a pathway, which she felt barely allowed for adequate wheelchair access.
Planning director Niroop Srivatsa told commissioners changes could be difficult. "There is only a finite width for this property and it's going to be challenging," she said. But she added that the architect could do something to make the buildings look less alike.
Commissioners voted 4-0 to approve the final planned unit development for the revised project and adopt its environmental review, with conditions including additional analysis by the Design Review Commission before grading or building permits are issued.
Later this month, the commission will take another look at an additional Branagh development on the corner of Mt. Diablo Boulevard and Risa Road. That project consists of a two-story office complex and parking lot. Another office complex is planned nearby.


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EAGLE COUNTY - The National Ski Areas Association reports that skiing and snowboarding are less dangerous than many other participation sports but do involve some inherent risks, which is one of the reasons ski resorts across the United States are promoting safety this week.
Ski resorts belonging to the association are educating guests this week about various safety measures and rules on the slopes during National Safety Awareness Week. Resorts will remind guests of the Responsibility Code, the terrain park safety program known as Smart Style, avalanche safety and other tips for staying safe while on the slopes.
Vail and Beaver Creek, which won the association's awards last season for Best Avalanche Safety Program and Best Overall Safety Program respectively, have extensive daily programs and activities planned through next Sunday.
At Vail, Ski Patrol will demonstrate a high-angle avalanche rescue off the Chair 4 cliffs. An avalanche rescue dog demonstration will occur outside of Henry's Hut near the top of Chairs 4 and 5, and physical therapists will also be available to provide tips on knee and body health at Mid-Vail.
Vail and Beaver Creek kicked off Safety Week on Saturday. A Flight for Life helicopter was scheduled to land at the top of Chair 6, but the helicopter was out on a medical call and couldn't make it. Another Flight for Life helicopter is scheduled to land at the top of Chair 2 in Vail on Tuesday at 11 a.m. If the helicopter does land at Vail, the medics will be available to discuss how the Flight for Life operations work and how they care for patients.
Vail Resorts introduced new safety signs all over its mountains this season that resemble traditional road signs in areas including slow zones, terrain park exits and areas where trails merge. There's a new "rest area" initiative, too, intended to help guests understand the safest places to stop on runs. The new strategies stem from the company's enhanced safety campaign launched last season called "Play it Safe."
"Our goal this season with the enhanced 'Play it Safe. Play All Season' campaign is to grab the attention of guests and employees with a simple, visually recognizable, safety message on the snow," said Steve Clark, assistant director of Vail Mountain Safety. "In addition to what's new, guests and employees are also encouraged to interact with daily activities and events throughout National Safety Awareness Week that tie back to the season-long 'Play It Safe. Play All Season' safety message."
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The Arts and Health Advisory Board consists of artists, therapists, doctors, and administrators who are pioneers and activists in the field of arts and health.
Director:Vivien Marcow Speiser, PhD, BC-DMT, LMHC, NCC Division Director of National, International and Collaborative Programs, Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Lesley UniversityVivien Marcow Speiser is a Professor and the Director of National, International and Collaborative Programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences at Lesley University. Her work has allowed her unparalleled access to working with groups across the United States, Israel and internationally. She has used the arts as a way of communicating across borders and across cultures and believes in the power of the arts to create the conditions for personal and social change and transformation. As former founder and director of the Arts Institute Project in Israel, she has been influential in the development of Expressive Arts Therapy in that country. Her current interests are in cross-cultural conflict resolution through the arts and in the discipline of authentic movement. She is a co-editor of The Arts, Education and Social Change: Little Signs of Hope, published by Peter Lang.Board Members:Pat Allen, PhD, ATRArt therapist and authorPat B. Allen is an author, artist, art therapist, and teacher who connects to the Creative Source through art, writing, and working in her garden. Her two books, Art Is a Way of Knowing (Shambhala 1995) and Art Is a Spiritual Path (Shambhala 2005), explore the borders between art, psychology, spirituality, and social action. Pat divides her time between Chicago and Ojai, California where she has become an ardent student of the landscape, a volunteer on a local organic farm and a Master Gardener. She is experimenting with art and nature as a water activist and a home scale permaculturist. She blogs about her art and nature experiences at: studiopardes.blogspot.com and earthbound-ojai.blogspot.com.
Matthew Budd, MDDeveloper of "Personal Health Improvement Program," Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medicine (ret.) at Harvard Medical SchoolMatthew Budd trained at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. For thirty years he practiced Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the Harvard Community Health Plan. In the course of his practice he focused on the emotional factors that were related to disturbances of bodily function and developed the Plan"s Behavioral Medicine Program. He developed the Personal Health Improvement Program, a behavioral program now offered nationally for the ill and suffering and wrote a book, now in five languages, You Are What You Say. For the past six years, he has worked with cancer patients in retreat and group therapy form helping them to find meaning and peace in their cancer voyage. The program is taught in partnership with an expressive therapist and art is used as a window into the deeper psyche. Dr. Budd is also in training as a Jungian Analyst, which he practices and incorporates into his group and individual therapy work.Debra Kalmanowitz, MA, RAThArt therapist and authorDebra Kalmanowitz is a Registered Art Therapist (UK), a Research Postgraduate in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, and an Honorary Clinical Associate at the Centre on Behavioral Health University of Hong Kong. She has worked extensively in the context of trauma, political violence, and social change. Debra is the co-author of The Portable Studio: Art Therapy and Political Conflict, Initiatives in Former Yugoslavia and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and the editor of Art Therapy and Political Violence: With Art, Without Illusion and Art Therapy in Asia: To the Bone or Wrapped in Silk.Ross Prior, PhDTeacher, Academic, Performer, Producer, DirectorRoss Prior is the founding Principal Editor of the international Journal of Applied Arts and Health. He is a Reader and Principal Lecturer at The University of Northampton, United Kingdom. He has held a range of posts both within the profession and education, having taught at all levels of education for many years. In 2007, he was awarded the distinguished "Teaching Fellow of The University" for excellence in teaching. Dr. Prior was a key figure in the establishment of the first Arts and Health conference at The University of Northampton in 2007, "Inspiring Transformations: Applied Arts and Health Conference" in 2009 and "Colour My Well-being: Applied Arts and Health Conference 2012". He has been closely involved with professional actor training (his 2012 book Teaching Actors: Knowledge Transfer in Actor Training) and also the Drama in Education and Applied Theatre movements for much of his life, as a teacher, researcher and practitioner. In addition to Advisory Board membership of IAH (Lesley University), Dr Prior is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and is an International Advisory Board member for the AHRC funded International Health Humanities Network.Naj WikoffFounder and President of the Creative Healing Connections, President Emeritus of the Society for Arts in HealthcareNaj Wikoff is the Founder and President of the Creative Healing Connections, which organizes arts and healing retreats for women living with cancer and other chronic diseases, veterans of war, and other special populations, and the Arts Coordinator for Connecting Youth and Community, a community coalition that's mission is to reduce the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs by teens. Wikoff is the former Director of the Healing and the Arts Project, C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College, and a past President of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare. Recently, Wikoff served as a Fulbright Scholar at the East Siberian Academy of Culture, Ulan Ude, Russia. Wikoff has served as Director of Programming of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth, Director of Arts & Productions at the Cathedral St. John the Divine, Coordinator of the Arts for the Global Forum of Parliamentary and Spiritual Leaders, Vice-Chairman of the National Fine Arts Committee for the XIII Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY, and Executive Director of the Dutchess County Arts Council. Wikoff is the author of the Americans for the Arts monographs Cultures of Care, The Arts in Times of Trauma and Arts in Medicine: Linking Culture to Care; Taking Care Starts in Medical School for Medscape; Art in Hospitals for State magazine; and Bringing the Arts Back into Healthcare for Russia Today, amongst others.Lisa M. Wong, MDPresident of Longwood Symphony OrchestraLisa Wong is a pediatrician, musician, and author dedicated to the healing arts of music and medicine. She has been a pediatrician at Milton Pediatric Associates for the past 25 years and is also a clinical instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. In April 2012, she published her first book, Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine. Dr. Wong is President of Longwood Symphony Orchestra, a Boston-based orchestra devoted to Healing the Community through Music. In the spirit of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, LSO launched its "Healing Art of Music" program in 1991, which incorporates service into every one of its performances. Each concert raises awareness and funds around important public health and medical issues and supports medical nonprofits in the community. In addition to her work with music and medicine, Dr. Wong is deeply devoted to music education, and was a former board member of Young Audiences of Massachusetts. She also has a deep interest in Venezuela's El Sistema program. In 2009, Dr. Wong was appointed to the Board of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state-agency, in 2009. She is married to violinist Lynn Chang, and has two grown children who are also musicians.Fellows:Mira Atzil, PhDMira Atzil is a clinical psychologist with a background in Theater. She is a licensed hypnotherapist and a couples and family therapist. She is a trainer in Medical Humanities and has developed her own system of Health Intelligence for Health Promotion. Dr. Atzil is an expert in developing strategies for coping with crisis and burnout. Her book, Health Intelligence, is published by Modan, 2012, Tel Aviv. Dr. Atzil presents on "Kol Israel" radio station, where she is a Specialist on couples relationships and dream work.Mitchell Kossak, PhD, LMHC, REATDivision Director of Expressive Therapies, Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Lesley UniversityMitchell Kossak is the division director for Expressive Therapies. He has also been the international coordinator for the Expressive Therapies program in Israel since 1999. He has worked as an expressive arts therapist since 1983 and has been a licensed clinical counselor since 1994. His clinical work combines expressive arts therapies with body centered approaches with a variety of populations. In addition, he has worked extensively with autistic children and adults. He has written about and presented his research on rhythmic attunement, improvisation, psychospiritual and community based approaches to working with trauma and embodied states of consciousness at conferences nationally and internationally. He is the Executive Co-Chair for the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA) and the Associate Editor of The Journal of Applied Arts and Health. He is also a professional jazz musician, performing for the past 30 years in the Boston area. Shaun McNiff, Lesley UniversityShaun McNiff teaches and lectures on the arts and healing, creativity practice, leadership, and art-based research. An exhibiting painter whose art assimilates different elements of his lifework, McNiff is also the author of many books including Trust the Process, Art as Medicine, Art Heals, Art-Based Research, Depth Psychology of Art, and Integrating the Arts in Therapy. His writings have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, and other languages. In 1974, McNiff established Lesley's Integrated Art in Education and Expressive Therapies graduate programs, both emphasizing relationships amongst the arts and other areas of professional practice. Honors and awards include the Honorary Life Member Award of the American Art Therapy Association and citations from the Massachusetts House of Representative and Senate for founding the Expressive Arts Therapy profession. McNiff left Lesley in 1995 to serve as Provost and Dean of Endicott College and returned in 2002 as the first University Professor.
Nisha Sajnani,Lesley University Dr. Nisha Sajnani is an Associate Professor at Lesley University and a Registered Drama Therapies (RDT) and Board Certified Trainer (BCT). She is a core faculty member of the Expressive Therapies Division, and Coordinator of the Drama Therapy program. Dr. Sajnani's research interests include the use of improvisation and performance in qualitative research, drama therapy and applied theater with displaced and exploited persons, the politics of therapy, education, and performance, audience reception, and the relationship between feminist psychology and embodied practices in the treatment of internalized and systemic trauma and oppression.Nisha Sajnani is a past- president of the North American Drama Therapy Association (www.nadta.org) and founder of the Theater Beyond Borders initiative at Lesley University. Dr. Sajnani is on the editorial board for the Arts in Psychotherapy and the editor-in-chief for Drama Therapy Review, the journal of the North American Drama Therapy Association.Raquel Stephenson, Lesley UniversityDr. Raquel Stephenson is a board certified, registered art therapist (ATR-BC) and a licensed creative arts therapist (LCAT). She joined Lesley in 2013 as a core faculty member of the Expressive Therapies Division, in the Art Therapy Program. Prior to joining Lesley, Dr. Stephenson was a 2010/2011 Fulbright Scholar to Estonia, where she taught at in the Department of Applied Creativity at Tallinn University and continues to teach periodically as a visiting guest lecturer. Dr. Stephenson teaches in New York University's graduate art therapy program and has taught at School of Visual Arts in the graduate art therapy program. Committed to improving the lives of older adults through the arts, Dr. Stephenson's clinical work and research has focused on a wide spectrum of older populations. She was the founder, clinical supervisor and program director of New York University's Creative Aging Therapeutic Services - a community-based program that provided art therapy to well older adults and those with dementia. She also worked on the geriatric psychiatry unit at St. Luke's hospital in New York City, and with programs for individuals with HIV/AIDS. She presents her work on the intersection of arts and aging and consults with emerging clinical art therapy programs nationally and internationally, and recently designed and implemented the first creative arts therapy program for older adults with dementia in Estonia. Dr. Stephenson serves on the advisory councils of Arts for the Aging in Rockville, MD, and the Art Therapy Outreach Center in New York City. She also serves on the review panel of the International Journal of Creativity and Human Development, located in Scotland. Dr. Stephenson is involved with the American Art Therapy Association, and is currently serving on the Educational Program Review Board.
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More than 140 employees, their families and the community at large will soon be adversely impacted if a strike by the International Chemical Workers Union Council (ICWUC) of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 343C against RJF International Corporation's Marietta plant continues.
The union declared a strike on Dec. 23, as the plant prepared to begin its annual shutdown the week of Dec. 24 to 28.
"Language in the contract (under negotiation) that has to do with taking seniority rights away and with management rights" are the key reasons for a decision to strike, according to Ted DeLoach, international representative for Akron-based ICWUC.
No matter the stated reasons, cost reductions are the bottom line for RJF's management, said Terry Tamburini, executive director of the Southeastern Ohio Port Authority.
"I've heard those same things, too, about seniority," Tamburini said. "You can call it whatever you want, but basically the deal is to reduce costs to try to be competitive."
An attorney for RJF International declined to comment Friday.
RJF's plant, just outside Marietta in Oak Grove, makes wall covering and various grades of rubber matting.
The nation's economic downturn of 2007 to the present "has greatly impacted the wall covering industry in a negative way," said Tamburini.
Reacting to changing market demand, RJF shifted some production toward rubber matting, a product in demand by the Defense Department and in school buses, Tamburini noted.
"They've reacted well," he added.
Another reaction companies typically make to remain competitive in a tough market is cost cutting.
"That's when you run into conflict with the labor force," Tamburini said.
The current five-year contract between RJF and ICWUC Local 343C will expire Sunday, DeLoach reported.
Present negotiations are for another five-year contract, he added.
At least one vote was made by local members of ICWUC Local 343C in the past five days, according to Tamburini.
"What I hear is that they're voting again on Sunday," said Tamburini.
DeLoach confirmed the Sunday vote, but denied any conflicts between the two negotiating parties.
"Sure, we have disagreements but we're trying to get this worked out," he said.
"We've worked a lot of hours-Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and we're still working," he added.
Washington County Commissioner Steve Weber said he hopes to see a resolution to the strike between RJF and ICWUC.
"I think it'd be better for everybody if they'd come to some kind of agreement," he said.
What's more, the county's economy will suffer as RJF employees receive no company paychecks during a strike.
"It always hurts, as far as the money people spend. It's just a vicious cycle when (a strike) takes place," Weber said.
RJF, the former fabricated polymers division of B.F. Goodrich, is a manufacturer of decorative, industrial, interior, transit and office products. The firm is headquartered in Fairlawn, Oh.


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John Layman discusses the fate of several fan favorite "Chew" characters as he readies Tony for his biggest battle yet.
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The new "Cyclops" creative team debuts with issue #6 as writer John Layman and artist Javier Garron kick things into high gear in the Marvel cosmos.
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"Chew" co-creator John Layman has written a short story for October's "Archer & Armstrong" #25, one of many creators contributing to the issue.
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John Layman & Rob Guillory's "Chew: Warrior Chicken Poyo" one-shot is a "bold, ridiculous and refreshing" issue in the "Chew"-niverse.
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The Image Comics creators got inside creators' heads as Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, John Layman, Fiona Staples & more discussed creator-owned.
No animals were hurt making of this comic, but Tony Chu will continue to struggle in John Layman & Rob Guillor's "Chew #42 from Image Comics.
John Layman and Guillem March take the wheel for "Batman Eternal" #9, an issue filled with story developments and legitimately huge surprises.
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"Batman Eternal" #7 is an "explosion-packed, game-changing issue" by Tim Seeley, Scott Snyder, James Tynion, Ray Fawkes, John Layman & Emanuel Simeoni.
The team of writers on the "Batman Eternal" weekly series deliver another strong issue, with Andy Clarke contributing great interiors for James Tynion's script.
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John Layman & Rob Guillory's "Chew" #41, puts Tony Chu and Co. at the FDA convention in Las Vegas -- and this might not end well.
John Layman and Rob Guillory's Image Comics series "Chew" is in motion as an animated feature, with Steven Yeun and Felicia Day voicing lead roles.
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"Chew" #40 goes on sale Feb. 26 from Image Comics, and creators John Layman and Rob Guillory wrap up the latest arc, "Family Recipes."
John Layman & Rob Guillory's "Chew" will cross paths with Tim Seeley & Mike Norton's "Revival" the May for a smorgasbord of classic crossover madness.
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The Scarecrow makes his move in "Detective Comics" #28, the latest chapter in writer John Layman's "Gothtopia" storyline.
Amelia has been writing again as "Family Recipes" enters its fourth chapter. Read a preview of "Chew" #39 by John Layman and Rob Guillory, on sale Jan. 22!
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Idaho's Hillfolk Noir plays an edgy brand of acoustic, hillbilly blues and roots music that it calls "junkerdash" and that music critics call "indie folk."
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SAN JOSE -- Entering the fifth inning Friday at Archbishop Mitty, the St. Francis baseball team found itself in an unusual position.
It trailed.
The Lancers trailed because pitcher Davis Messer, a starter on Mitty's Northern California Open Division champion basketball team, had held them to one run.
They trailed because center fielder Wyatt Hansen, the starting quarterback on Mitty's football team, made a spectacular catch above the fence to rob Mark Cardinalli of a home run.
They trailed because Mitty scored three runs against ace Michael Strem.
But then the fifth inning started, and St. Francis did to Mitty what it has done to so many opponents this season. When the avalanche of runs ended, St. Francis had won 14-3.
The victory stretched St. Francis' winning streak to nine and improved its record to 21-1 overall and 8-1 in the West Catholic Athletic League.
Strem got one of the game's biggest hits, a two-run double in the fifth that gave St. Francis the lead, and pitched six innings. Though he allowed as many earned runs as he had all season (three), he shut out the Monarchs in his final two innings after St. Francis went ahead.
"I definitely didn't have my best stuff," Strem said. "I had to rely on a couple of other pitches, mainly my slider today. They were hitting my fastball and I couldn't get my curveball over. Worked hard, battled, got outs when I needed them."
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"We knew we were hitting the ball hard; it was just finding guys," catcher Tim Susnara said. "So Brodie Nakama, really the leader of our team, came in and said, 'Hey, stick to our approach. This kid's not going to blow it by you. Stay inside of it, work the opposite field like we've been working on at practice.'"
Susnara followed Strem's big double with a two-run home run to make it 6-3. The Lancers added two runs in the sixth and six in the seventh to spoil Mitty's upset bid.
"They did a great job early on," St. Francis coach Mike Oakland said of Mitty. "They found some holes, they put the ball in play, they were having good at-bats. Michael didn't have his best stuff, and they scratched across a few runs. And to be honest with you, I thought we were having some great at-bats and getting some unfortunate breaks.
"The catch the guy made in center was one of the best I've ever seen live. We just weren't getting any results. But our guys did a good job of sticking with the process and not changing the plan and not panicking. They were able to scratch a few runs across and get some momentum back."
Before long, the score looked like many St. Francis results.
In their past four WCAL games -- against Bellarmine College Prep, Valley Christian, Archbishop Riordan and Mitty -- the Lancers have won by an astonishing combined score of 44-3.
"We're just playing well right now," Strem said. "It is a tough league. We can't take any team lightly. We don't. We play to our full potential every game."


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Amateurs party on weekends…Pros throw down Mondays with Michel Rolland
Post by Chris Caughman | Monday, March 29th
After completing our third full day of speeding recklessly down the medieval cobblestone streets of St. Emilion and chasing down every Right Bank chateau that would take us, we finally made our way up the D2 to the sprawling expanse of Bordeaux's Left Bank. Regal chateaux rise from the rocky-soil vineyards, dot the horizon and refuse to let us forget we are anywhere other than where we are.
An incredible string of appointments with legendary Left Bank producers, including four First Growths (don't worry, Latour. . .we'll get to you
later), finally came to an end with dinner at Chateau Palmer for part of the team, while the rest of us made our way to Chateau Lascombes in the heart of the Margaux commune. And oh yeah, rock star consulting winemaker Michel Rolland happened to be there.
A tour of the Chateau with our host, Karen, revealed the details of all-things-Lascombes. Chateau Lascombes has been producing wine apparently since before anybody can remember, but took its magnificent current form when purchased by an American company, Colony Capital, in 2001. Under the direction of General Manager and the maybe nicest guy you'll ever meet, Dominique Befve, Lascombes boldly ripped up 12 hectares of cabernet sauvignon. With the guiding philosophy that terroir will dictate varieties, the vineyards were replanted with merlot, which now accounts for 50% of the vineyards, alongside 45% cabernet sauvignon and petit verdot (unique to Lascombes in Margaux). Our tour led us through the cellar, where we ogled the Chateau's library collection with vintages dating back to 1892, and concluded in the tasting room for a true highlight of the trip.
We were presented not only the 2009 Chateau Lascombes to taste, but first the single-variety bottlings of merlot, cabernet sauvignon and petit verdot that combine to make for the final cepage. This is truly a rare and special experience from a Bordeaux producer, showing Lascombes' commitment to education and openness about winemaking . . .and obviously it's
amazing to play Bordeaux winemaker and note what each variety brings to the table. Merlot for rich fruit and softness; cabernet for power and tannin; petit verdot for color, density and earthy complexity. The finished product displays deep, layered aromas of rich, but not overly ripe black fruits, mocha and earth. The palate boasts gorgeous, round velvety structure that shows balance, power, length and definite indications of a long life to come.
When we finished raving to one another about our experience ("dude. . .THAT was awesome"), we were invited to the dining room for Champagne, appetizers, and a chat with M. Rolland about the 2009 vintage. Although the term "vintage of the century" gets thrown around a lot, Michel says this time it might actually be true. He prefers 2009 to 2005, pointing towards the harmony and definition of tannin as the determining factor. The tannins are "so integrated, so silky that they're good to drink today, three years from now, and 20 years from now!" The last time Michel Rolland felt this strongly about a vintage? Yup, you guessed it: 1982.


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