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A very pleasant and relaxed atmosphere in very tasteful surroundings.A Lovely old house with attractive gardens (Still being worked on one side). The room with kingsize bed was very comfortable and the breakfast(My choice of scrambled egg and Sausage) was freshly cooked and delicious. I was sorry we could not have dined there the previous evening .I also appreciated the Fridge in the room which was well stocked. None
Lovely building. My colleague arrived at 20.10 hrs after being held up in traffic. I advised that he would there around that time. The hotel information stated dinner finished at 20.30hrs but because the hotel was quiet, the kitchen staff decided to go home early so we had to find somewhere to eat outside of the hotel. Call me naive, but I thought hotels were supposed to provide a service.
Breakfast Very nerow "double bed"
Character filled building and large rooms. The bathroom and general room decor needs updating. Downstairs areas are very clean and fresh, our room wasn't in comparison. Also, a cooked breakfast would have been nice for no additional charge instead of continental.
Wonderful listed Georgian building. Large rooms. Bags of atmosphere. Very good dinner. Lovely location on edge of small town..
Great food and friendly staff Hotel still being renovated
The hotel had decor which fitted with the style of the building. It was very comfortable and the staff were friendly and pleasant. The only thing I would say was that I missed having a bath but the shower was more than adequate.
Beautiful Georgian House with lovely squashy sofas in lounge. Lovely room and bathroom. Good food and friendly staff.
The Beds were so comfortable and the breakfast perfect nothing
Breakfast didn't like the bucket catching rainwater in my bedroom, didn;t like the windows that wouldn't close nor the central heating that couldn't be turned down and old sponge pillows.
Food was particularly good - rooms newly decorated - shower excellent small rooms
Very friendly and courteous staff. Decor needs a major facelift, food cools very quickly, Wi-Fi poor; Glastonbury closes very early, and runs on Central London prices.Limited food menu
I liked the old character and the food was fantastic. I thought the decor was great and the beds were really comfortable we stayed in a room at the front and the room was very bright from the street and hotel outside lights they need black out fabric backing the blind. The staff were polite but when we left we were not asked if we enjoyed our stay.
The building was built in the 15th century - and you can feel that when you first glance it, when you walk in, when you walk around, and even the room we were staying in was all crooked and ancient - but with all the modern facilities you would need, a perfect bathroom, convenient bed, lots of rooms to put your places in (tons of drawers). Staff was very friendly! The view from the room was not too good - through a tiny window I could see only the back of the rest of the buildings. Also, de food was quite delicious - but quite dear according to other places I've dined in the UK.
Olde World charm. Good selection of ale Poorly lit bathroom mirror and none whatsoever in bedroom
Hotel location - perfect! Dining room closed on Sunday night!!! No TV remote in room. TV not tuned up properly.
The historical settings The restaurant staff are not aware of good customer skills. We had a meal and when we decided to end it with a dessert, we were told the kitchens had already been closed. Nobody had informed us
Friendly service, great location. no complaints
I was given an upgrade to a wonderful suite of rooms! really very good! The room was up a curved staircase and whilst I was having a good day with my condition I could manage to get up . However on a bad day and using my crutches I wouldnt be able to. There was a huge airconditioning unit on the roof of extension one floor below. It kept switching on and off every few minutes all night making sleep nearly impossible! I raised this in the morning and was given a £15 reduction in the fee. They said they usually turn it off at night - it ruined my stay
Lovely staff, very friendly. Stayed for Glastonbury Carnival, so the rate was a bargain. Would definitely recommend for a budget stay. Sunday breakfast served way too early, last sitting was 8.45 am.
Convenient for the carnival procession jn the town. Nothing to complain about,
Good restaurant / bar ease of access I changed my booking (brought my daughter unexpectedly) - hotel happy to accommodate the change - very helpful
Staff very pleasant and helpful Very good and plentiful full English breakfast. Food was hot .Room clean and warm and bed was comfortable.Would book again.Good value
room was lovely, nicely decorated, very clean and quiet. Breakfast was delicious.Manager/owner was very helpful. one member of staff on at breakfast time was not really on the ball which left guests confused as to what the system was for ordering and left us no time to eat a cooked breakfast. However, the man on duty was very efficient.
Clean tidy rooms with modern decor The room could have been a little larger
Convenient, provided what was necessary, breakfast good and environment very clean. Room rather small although adequate. Problems with the heating which were not told to us at time of booking although manager apologised profusely when we informed him and arranged for a fire for the room.
staffs are excellent no public transportation reach there
Ease of entry to rooms, no need to go though bars once you have checked in! Room 11 great for single stay, toilet paper the worst ever encountered!! Take your own for an otherwise pleasant stay!!
The lovely big fire which we sat beside when soaked through from watching the Carnival at Glastonbury in the heavy rain. the breakfast, especially the bacon. The fact that I could not have a shower as the shower door was not closing properly.


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Attorney General Hardy Myers today announced the settlement of the December 2001 federal antitrust lawsuit brought against Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS), Watson Pharma, Inc. and Danbury Pharmacal, Inc. This suit involved the widely-prescribed, anti-anxiety drug buspirone (BuSpar). Oregon, which prosecuted the suit along with 34 other states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, alleged that Bristol and the other defendants took steps in violation of the antitrust laws which prevented generic BuSpar from coming to market. The group is filing papers today with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking final approval of the settlement.
"Oregonians, especially our elderly residents, are tremendously vulnerable to the unlawful actions of pharmaceutical companies," Myers said. "As a result of the unconscionable behavior in the marketing of the widely prescribed anti-anxiety drug BuSpar, consumers paid higher prices at a time when every penny was counted twice."
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Waste disposal has been a relatively basic process: take it to an approved landfill disposal site, drop it off and arrange for the site to be maintained in ways that are, at least, presentable or, at best, create space that could be developed as an amenity area.
No longer: landfill is now subject to limits. For environmental reasons, landfill is being increasingly restricted. Non-selective landfill poses risks and is becoming more expensive. Also, the potential to usefully recycle materials previously regarded as scrap is recognised.
The UK Government and the devolved administration at Stormont must meet targets to increase the amount of waste diverted from landfill. The targets are supported by the deterrent effect of charges for landfill: a landfill tax which is currently £56 p.ton and is increasing annually by a further £8 p.ton.
Northern Ireland has a timetable to reduce the proportion of biodegradable waste going to landfill from a 1995 baseline, by 25% by 2010 (now achieved), by 50% by 2013 (still slightly uncertain) and 65% by 2020. The 2020 target is assessed as tough.
Waste disposal methods are being made 'greener', backed by these fiscal penalties.
From that starting point, official policy is that specialist waste disposal firms should be invited to bid commercially for the business. That process has become protracted and is now proving to be contentious.
To put the options in a simplified form, they are either:
(a) To ask each of the three local government consortia, which were established some years ago, to offer a multi-year contract (setting agreed prices for the service and conditions for types of disposal) to a selected provider to deliver the service for that group of local authorities, or
(b) To allow individual local councils (or groups which choose to come together) to contract with diverse private sector suppliers to meet the needs and targets set for that area, within a co-ordinated framework.
In Northern Ireland, considerable work has been done by each of the three consortia and invitations to tender for long-term contracts have been issued. 'Preferred bidders' are being sought. If these bids are accepted, this will be in a form of PPP contract for about 25 years. In the final stages, each of the consortia must approve the bid as good value for money in terms of the price per ton paid by the local authority to the provider. In addition, the long-term contract would be submitted for approval by Government (DFP).
No explicit statement on the methodology to be used has been made. There is an expectation that a combination of MBT and EfW (microbiological treatment followed by acceptable techniques to get Energy from Waste) would emerge.
This decision-making process, even if there were no further complications by other forms of private sector bids - as in (b) above - means that the successful bidders would be committed to a significant investment in a modern processing plant, each of the councils in a consortium would commit to a multi-year contract, and Government (DFP) approval, through the Waste Infrastructure Prog-ramme Board, would be needed. A group of local private sector providers, which have come together as the NI Association of Independent Recyclers, believe the consortia proposals should be delayed and an updated audit of the technologies should be independently conducted.
The group questions whether the consortia proposals will give good value for money against a more flexible approach allowing the independent operators to bid for more flexible services to meet the EU-agreed targets. It suggests a change would make it easier for new techniques to emerge with a cheaper cost per ton charge on the councils.
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The Windsor Fire Department has extended a counter offer to West Hants in hopes of preventing the looming fire services termination deadline at the end of the month.
On Monday night, June 23, the WFD membership voted in favour of having their executive try again to find a solution that would allow for mediation to occur and prevent the long-standing service between the volunteer firefighting force and the county from coming to an end.
In the most recent correspondence to West Hants, the WFD modified their initial request for the payment of all outstanding arrears owing for their services. They are now requesting a smaller portion be paid up front in order to secure mediation. They have once again offered to sit down with the county's director of finance and another staff member to go over the WFD's financial records. They have also indicated they hope to secure mediation to allow negotiation for future service and the payment of remaining arrears. Failing a mediation on the arrears, they are proposing council accept binding arbitration to settle the payment of arrears.
Windsor Fire Chief Scott Burgess indicated the members had a "clear desire to move on this quickly" to try to prevent service disruption.
"At the end of the day our members have given one more large gesture of good faith in hopes to avert any interruption of fire service and continue to work with West Hants for the long term best interests of our friends, neighbours and community," he said in an email.
The WFD's lawyer, John Shanks, sent a letter June 24 to council's solicitor, Peter Rogers, outlining the WFD's latest offer.
West Hants council already had a special meeting on the books for today, June 25, to discuss a landfill contract. In light of the new correspondence from the WFD and the pending June 30 deadline for the termination of fire coverage, council added fire services to the agenda. They spent an hour behind closed doors discussing the latest offer with the municipality's lawyer.
When the council session reopened to the public, the following motion was made: "That council empowers the warden, acting CAO and municipal solicitor to attempt to negotiate an interim fire services and mediation arbitration agreement with the WFD as discussed with council in camera with such modifications as the above mentioned negotiators may consider appropriate."
The motion passed unanimously, with Coun. Victor Swinamer not voting as he had declared a conflict of interest. Councillors Shirley Pineo and Gary Cochrane were both absent from the morning meeting.
Warden Richard Dauphinee spoke briefly to the motion that was passed, assuring the public that neither himself, nor the acting CAO, will be at the negotiating table. They will, however, have the authority to approve, decline, or suggest changes to an agreement with the WFD in hopes of securing a truce prior to June 30 at noon.
"If there is something that needs to be tweaked, rather than have to call a special council meeting to drag this out, it can be done quickly. That's all that is about," said Dauphinee. "We're not going to be in there hammering it out with anybody."
After the meeting adjourned, one of the handful of people in the public gallery asked Dauphinee to provide more details on what the motion means for the county residents.
Dauphinee noted that their lawyer will be preparing another letter and sending it to the WFD's lawyer to try to work out an interim agreement that would allow the two entities to enter mediation and thus allow service to continue.
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Note: The information presented below is general in nature and is not intended to be, or a substitute for, professional legal advice. We recommend you consult with your own professional advisor prior to committing any financial resources.
Bequests are made through your will and may take various forms:
Sample wording for a bequest of a specific amount:
I hereby give and bequeath to the Animal Humane Society, a nonprofit Minnesota corporation, located at 845 Meadow Lane N, Golden Valley, MN 55422, Tax ID # 41-0693842, the sum of $_______ to be used for its general purposes.
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I hereby give and bequeath to the Animal Humane Society, a nonprofit Minnesota corporation, located at 845 Meadow Lane N, Golden Valley, MN 55422, Tax ID # 41-0693842, all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, after providing for the specific provisions of this will, to be used for its general purposes.
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An Animal Humane Society charitable gift annuity for one-life (or two) may be established with a minimum of $10,000 and provides lifetime income for the annuitant(s) as well as an immediate tax deduction. A gift annuity can be a good option for donors age 55 and older. If you are interested I would be happy to provide you a proposal with details and current payout rates.
A charitable remainder trust is one of the more complex estate planning options but its many variations offer the donor greater flexibility. CRT's can be a very good option for persons who own significantly appreciated assets (such as rental property) and desire to receive income for life. The donor transfers the asset to the trust, where it is sold, avoiding capital gains tax. The proceeds are invested with the donor or other beneficiary receiving payments for life or a set term. At the end of the trust's life, the remaining principal is gifted to Animal Humane Society.
If you have a life insurance policy that is no longer needed to provide for dependants consider making Animal Humane Society the beneficiary. This may enable you to make a significant gift to Animal Humane Society without using any of your estate's capital. A further option is to make Animal Humane Society both the beneficiary and owner of a paid-up policy. Doing so will earn you an immediate tax deduction equal to the policy's cash value. Contact the policy's issuing agent for instructions.
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Animal shelter's euthanization rate comes under fire
Only reason county euthanizes a pet involves public safety, Dooley tells Call
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The county's animal shelter and its euthanization rates are under fire from animal advocates, who have joined forces with county executive candidate and 6th District County Councilman Steve Stenger, D-Affton, to say the county is unnecessarily killing dogs.
With his wife, Allison — who volunteers for the Dent County Animal Welfare Society on weekends — and their rescue dog Lucy by his side at a press conference last week, Stenger said that more than 50,000 dogs and cats have been euthanized by the county since Charlie Dooley became county executive in 2003.
He contrasted the county's 57-percent euthanasia rate to the 7-percent rate at the city's animal shelter, which is a public-private partnership with nonprofit rescue organization Stray Rescue.
"These numbers were as shocking to me as they are to you," Stenger said. "I think that it is simply easier for them to put the dogs down than it is to seek adoption for these animals. And I think well within the resources that we currently have available, we could achieve a much, much better euthanasia rate, and it's really shocking."
Fighting back at Stenger's allegations, Dooley said that the only reason the county euthanizes an animal is for public safety.
"I don't know where he's getting his information. I think it's a flaw there," he told the Call. "There is no county in this state that's got a better state-of-the-art pet facility, adoption facility, than St. Louis County. It is second to none.
"We euthanize individual pets if they're sick or (if there are) some human issues or public safety issues, that's what we do. Other than that, we do not euthanize pets. We have an adoption agency for cats and for dogs. We have a state-of-the-art facility. It is simply outstanding, the care and the food that we give our pets, the space, everything is there ... It is second to none."
The four goals of a 2007 strategic plan that Dooley presented to the Council included expanding the county shelter, increasing adoptions, decreasing euthanizations and improving the quality of care of shelter animals, goals which Dooley said that he met on all four fronts.
Although the county has a brand-new 25,000-square-foot $4.5 million shelter in Olivette staffed with 16 animal-control officers, Stenger said the shelter's space is not used properly and is mismanaged by Dooley and Department of Health Director Dr. Dolores Gunn, who was appointed by Dooley and oversees the shelter. Stenger said he does not believe the shelter is understaffed — just mismanaged.
He presented a plan to expand spay-and-neuter programs and use more online and offline methods to promote adoptions, noting that only 12 dogs currently appear on the county's website for adoption. At the time the Call went to press, that had increased to 14.
Animal advocates appearing at the press conference in support of Stenger backed his claims, including Helena Servis of west county. She said she stayed outside the facility for a week to count how many times the dogs were taken outside for walks — and they never were.
"The facility is a state-of-the-art facility, so much could happen there. Good things could happen there for the animals," Servis said. "But it's not — not from what I see ... When I spoke with Dr. Gunn two years ago, she gave my husband and I and two friends a tour of the facility. I asked her about walking the dogs, and she said to me that not walking the dogs is not an option. And I have found that to be totally untrue. These dogs are not being walked ...Why are these animals not being walked? We have people who want to walk them.
"It is just unconscionable to use the kind of taxpayers' money that we have used to provide so little comfort and enjoyment for the animals who are ultimately put to death," she added.
Animal advocates appearing alongside Stenger said that they know of people who have tried to volunteer at the county shelter and have been turned away or never contacted.
"They're pretty much doing everything they can to not have volunteers," said Leanne Fritsch of University City, who runs a 1,000-person listserv for local animal advocates.
Another concern shared by advocates is that the same management team that was in charge of the city of St. Louis's Gasconade pound, which was ordered shut down by Mayor Francis Slay for its poor conditions, is now in charge of the county shelter.
"I don't know how that happened," Fritsch said.
Although Dooley issued a statement saying the county works with 90 different rescue groups to adopt dogs, local animal volunteers told the Call the county shelter has a reputation for not allowing rescue groups to pull dogs out to save them from being euthanized.
"I do a lot of rescue work," said Jackie Schneiderman of Chesterfield, who volunteers at the city shelter. "My perception of the shelter here is that they're just not very rescue friendly. It's kind of definite — once an animal goes there, there's not a chance of getting them out. The city euthanizes less than 10 percent. We'd have the same thing in the county — I know we'd have people come from all over to help these animals if they'd let us."
The Humane Society of Missouri and the Animal Protective Association of Missouri regularly pull dogs from the county shelter to place for adoption at their own facilities, along with 90 additional rescue organizations, Dooley said in a statement.
Crestwood still using its own shelter
Crestwood eliminated its animal control position at the end of last year, turning to the county to provide those services as a cost-saving measure.
The city ran a 200-square-foot shelter in Whitecliff Park, which the Board of Aldermen voted in January to turn over to volunteer group Friends of Animal Control and Rescue, or FOACAR, which has continued to run the shelter on donations.
"We still care for animals here at our shelter, and we attempt to adopt them out here," Crestwood Mayor Gregg Roby said. "I don't know of any issues where FOACAR has actually taken any animals to St. Louis County — I believe they try to take care of all the animals here."
Right now, the Crestwood shelter mostly houses cats.
Some stray animals from Crestwood might have gone to the county shelter if a resident directly contacted the county about a stray, although Roby said he has not heard of any specific instances where that has happened.
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Nov. 11, 2013
Head Coach Mark Stoops
COACH STOOPS: I'd like to start by recognizing and thank all of our veterans for all the work that they do today on Veterans Day. Going back and watching the film of this past week, again, there are some very frustrating things in there in that we can't be that inconsistent and play with great football teams. Missouri's a very good football team and really outplayed us in all three areas. But with that being said, I thought there was a good percentage of the game on both sides of the ball, offensively and defensively, we did some good things. We all know you're not going to beat a top 10 team without playing a complete game. So we need to learn how to some way, somehow, play a complete football game in all areas and we'll have an opportunity to win one of those games. Until then, we won't. So, just like it has been, it's been frustrating, but there has been some good and there was some bad in that game. Special teams is an area where we've been extremely strong this whole year. Really, there have been some ups and downs through the first eight games, but there was only one critical play in special teams and in this past game we had at least four that were big difference maker plays. So that hurt us, and we can't afford to do that. So that's a summary of that game. Looking forward to Vanderbilt, going to Nashville, playing Vandy. It will be a heck of an opportunity for us. Vandy is coming off a very big win for them in beating Florida and playing very well right now. They're good in all areas. They're a team that just plays very hard, plays very smart. They capitalize on your mistakes, so it will be another good opportunity for us, a big challenge for us to go down there and win. So we're excited to get back to work. It was a tough day to get through that film this past Sunday, but we're on to Vandy and looking forward to our preparation here this week for Vandy.
Q. (No microphone)
COACH STOOPS: Yeah, it is. It's focus and it's just little things. We're not good enough to not play at our very best. There were a number of things in that game that we didn't respond to very well, and we need to learn how to do that and we need to play our very best to play with a team that's as explosive as Missouri. It was a little bit deflating. I thought that was a critical moment after we got the turnover (in the first quarter) and didn't get anything out of that. So it was tough. There were just a lot of mistakes. Lot of things we can look at. I could bounce around. There are a lot of things that changed the way the game is being played. Early on, I thought we were hanging tough. We talked about starting stronger, starting faster. I thought we did that. But then again, few mistakes here and there really hurt us. Even after that when we were moving the ball, had the ball out to the 40 and we got the holding call on Jordan, I believe, and brought us back and then we shanked the punt, gave them field position, and it went downhill. We lost it very quickly there in the second quarter.
Q. The offense has been sort of desperate for somebody to take the reins and show some leadership. Talking about positives, maybe Jalen has started to do that?
COACH STOOPS: I think so. I think most people recognize that. That he made a conscious effort to be tough and to lead that offense. I thought he did that at times. I really did. He's not perfect, but he's tried awfully hard and he showed a lot of toughness in that game and had some good runs and was doing some better things.
Q. Did you have the same conversation or discussion with Jalen early on about him coming out you seemed to walk away from him a couple of times to allow him to make his own decisions?
COACH STOOPS: About what?
Q. He seemed to look to the sidelines a couple times but he didn't come out.
COACH STOOPS: No, I didn't.
Q. Was he communicating was at the sidelines?
COACH STOOPS: No, I was not communicating with him at all. I was talking with Neal to get to the next play. I told him let's get on with it. But, no, there was no communication between he and I about coming out or anything like that, no.
Q. When you watch him on film, what are some of the things that you guys are telling him?
COACH STOOPS: Well, to continue to make good decisions is a big thing. Our offense, as a lot of offenses in this day and age, you have options, and the quarterback has to make that decision very quickly. He's got to make the right decisions with the football with what plays to get into. I think that is a big part of it. I think we're improving in that area, and then to hit some open receivers at times we're just a little bit inconsistent in our execution of the pass game.
Q. What about Ryan Timmons? Do you think you can get him back this week?
COACH STOOPS: I hope so. We're going to see. That's what we're shooting for. He's going to be out there working with our trainers today and running around a little bit. The idea is to try to get him out there tomorrow.
Q. You had to play a lot of young guys all season, but with three games left, do you play those guys more times to prepare for next year?
COACH STOOPS: Well, yes, I think we have to. We have to continue to build our program and develop our young guys. Yes, we will do that. Jaleel (Hytchye) got a bunch of snaps last week. It looks like he may have to play a little bit more again this week. So we'll see how he does. Even the guys that are redshirting, we'll work with them and bring them along and get them up to speed, I think, for two reasons: We need to know exactly where they're at and where they're going to be in the spring and just to continue to work with those guys. We're going to prepare to win. I'm talking about depth and how we go about our practice and just continue to work with those guys.
Q. You were able to play Jason Hatcher a little bit more?
COACH STOOPS: Yeah.
Q. Did he look like he lost much?
COACH STOOPS: That was the best he's played in a while because he's playing with that (broken) hand. In the previous weeks we've been saying we need to play him more and bring him along, and we want to. It's hard for him to play in our four down stuff when he's on the ground because we have to use our hand so much at D line, and he's had that big club on him. With the 3 4 stuff where he's up moving around, he's been able to do some of that. So we need to continue to bring him along and work with him. He got good snaps last week, and he is getting better. He is. We're able to trim that cast down a little bit more and have a little more function with his hand.
Q. Re: mentality of the seniors with no hope for a bowl game?
COACH STOOPS: I think you do. I think I really like the mentality of our senior class. I don't think there's not a guy in that group that's going to lay down. I think they'll work extremely hard and help turn the page in this program. I think they take pride in that and wanting to help being a part of turning it around and building for the future.
Q. Is it clear for the quarterback specifically what he does over the next three weeks could impact the depth chart next spring?
COACH STOOPS: No, I mean, we always go about our business. It's no different than any other day. He (Whitlow) knows he's got to perform. We're just looking to get him better. Every guy on our program knows we need to improve at every position, and he's no different. He knows he needs to continue to work.
Q. You seem to be at a crossroads in this particular season ?
COACH STOOPS: I don't feel like we're at a crossroads. I just feel like I understand. It's tough. It's frustrating. I get up on Sunday and I'm frustrated. I admitted it after the game that I was frustrated during the game. There are plays in there you know, I'll go back and I look at everything we're doing and we all do. We're very critical of ourselves and we know we can do things better, that's for sure. You look at some plays and you see a lot of good plays out there. I saw some plays that we didn't have very good match ups on, and we aren't going to win those battles right now all the time. But I saw a good percentage of plays that were good football plays. And that we have to build on, that we have to learn to play a hundred percent of those plays as best we can. Then we have an opportunity to beat a top 10 team. Until then, we have no chance to beat a top 10 team. If we play 80% of our snaps on one side of the ball or the other that's pretty effective, that 20% is going to get you beat.
Q. Was Missouri a particular case of bad match ups for you considering what their strengths are?
COACH STOOPS: Yeah, I think they're a difficult match up also for a lot of people. I really do. Offensively and defensively, they're a complete team right now. They're very explosive. You feel very good when you get some stops against them. Then you have to put it together, move the ball, score some points and keep it a very manageable game. You turn it over, a shank punt here, block punt there, and you get out of here real quick. You know, there are a lot of good plays in there. I thought our run defense, we played them as good as anybody. I know they hit the long run that skewed the statistics. But if you look at how we fundamentally played them, I was proud of that. We gave up the long run. That is something that's very easily corrected. But the rest of it is fundamentally toughness, responsibility, our hands and our feet. I thought we did some very good things as good as anybody played in the run game.
Q. With special teams, is there one thing you can kind of pinpoint on how things fell apart?
COACH STOOPS: How it fell apart? No, I think we've done a nice job. It's no mystery. We don't have the depth that we need to have. That's not an excuse, this is a fact. We're running out of bodies to play defensive back in that last game. We were just running out of guys. You start taking those guys off special teams and you have other guys in there. Coach (Bradley Dale) Peveto has done a great job with what he's had to work with. I thought those guys have really worked hard. Our players have bought in, worked hard and been effective in special teams. We weren't so effective this past week. They just didn't play good enough. We had assignment mistakes on the blocked punt and that cost us. You can't ever have those. Those win or lose games for you. I'm not saying that one play changed this game, but it certainly can. You know, we just didn't play as well. The kickoff coverage unit was not nearly as good as we've been. We got blocked and they made somebody miss. You make one guy miss, and it's an extra 60, 70 yards and that doesn't help either. Again, one of our DBs was out of that spot where he makes it in the first kickoff for basically three or four extra yards early in the game. We have somebody, a freshman in there later, and it's an extra 70.
Q. What do you say to the fan who, just like you, is frustrated?
COACH STOOPS: Yeah, I understand. I understand their frustration is what I say. I appreciate your support. I appreciate them being there. I think they've been very fair. I know they're frustrated because they haven't been here nine, ten months. They've been here nine, ten years or 20 years or 30 years and they want to see things changed. I recognize that and I understand that. The only thing I ask them is to continue to stay with this team because, again, I'm not ever one to make excuses. It's just a fact that we have some work to do. I've never said since day one that I was going to come in here and change it overnight. I promised to work extremely hard, and the players will work extremely hard to build this program the right way to get better. That's what we're going to continue to do. I appreciate the people that have stuck with us, and I know it's tough. It takes a lot of people to be successful, and I think there are a lot of people pulling in the same direction, and we need to continue to have that.
Q. Re: officials calls. Did you talk to the SEC and get any answers?
COACH STOOPS: No, I did not. Just staying away from that. Just moving on to Vanderbilt. It's just on to Vandy. It's just tough, you know, but it is what it is. We have a tough time overcoming things. We've got to coach better, we've got to play better. There's no excuse there.
Q. Re: good start running the ball in the second half. Can you talk about getting off to that start? Going forward, how do you change that?
COACH STOOPS: I made that point very clear at halftime. I was tired of going the wrong way. We were going to go forward, and that was a way to go forward and not take sacks and negative yardage plays and moving the wrong direction.
Q. What kind of challenges do you think you'll face against Vandy?
COACH STOOPS: I think they've been just a good football team across the board. Not flashy in any area. Just good, sound, fundamental football team. They play very smart. They're a good team. I think they've been very efficient at quarterback. They have the wideout that's lighting it up, Jordan Matthews is one heck of a player, and defensively they play very hard. Just like last week they made some great plays in certain situations that set them up to win the game. They've just been a good, solid football team.
Q. Do you ever look at Vandy as a team you can draw comparisons to as far as in the SEC?
COACH STOOPS: Yeah, I certainly can compare it to back when we were back in Arizona and everything, and you're just doing the very best you can with what you've got. Just trying to play good football. Like I've told you guys, and that's what's frustrating, you talk about that whether it's fans or other people or anything else, we've resembled a good football team at times. We've got to put it together and play a complete game.
I think we're making strides. That's frustrating to everybody. Like I said you can't play 80% and beat a good football team or beat anybody.
Q. (No microphone)?
COACH STOOPS: It was very similar. It was very hard to go through this. But, again, I've said it before, I know what I was getting into. Sure, we come in here to prepare to win every game. You know, I don't care who we're playing. That is where the frustration sets in because you're competitive and you want to win. But it is similar. You've got to get to the point where you play good football across the board. Just good, sound football in all phases. Coach them to play the right way. What I take some (indecipherable) in is when I turn on that film and see good, sound football, and I see that from 80%, and I know that's not good enough to the common fan. But I see us coaching and putting into position and see the players executing and playing hard. I see some good plays, and I know there is progress being made, even though that's difficult to see on the scoreboard and all that. But I know when we're moving forward and we're getting better and when we're not. We have our limitations. We all have to overcome them and do a better job, but I think you just get to the point where you play good football across the board.
Q. Re: the Nick Saban interview on 60 Minutes.
COACH STOOPS: I saw the first part. I think there were two parts. I didn't see the second part. Yeah, I didn't see that.
Q. (continued)
COACH STOOPS: What I really admire about Coach Saban and it's so true, there are some simple there are many things he does. He does things right now in our profession better than anybody, point blank. But the things that I like about it, there are some simple things in there, do your job. You know, there are things that show up in that game Saturday that you want to pull your hair out because you're very frustrated because those are things we can control. Those are things that get very frustrating. Those are things that are a reflection of coaching that I have to change. If you're responsible for doing something, do it. Then we can move on to other things. Does that make sense? That's a simple thing, but it's so true. There are so many issues that it's hard for me to get into with all of that. But I think when he talks about this business and controlling the things you can control, I really try to take a lot to that and have our guys do the same thing. That's where you talk about getting here and our record and all that; I can't worry about that today. I was frustrated yesterday. It's hard. Sundays are hard. But today it's not because it's on to the next game. It's on to the preparation. It's on to preparing for Vandy, and I want our team to be the same way. That's where for a coach you could hold on to those snaps that are good, the thing that's we're doing good. Some things we can't change. A 6'6" receiver jumping over our heads plucking the ball out of the air, we can't change it. One of those throws we had two guys on him. The other ones are bad match ups. So that's just where it's at. Those are some things that I think he believes in along with many other great qualities that he has. But some simple things that we can do right now.
Q. Re: matchup problems vs. Missouri
COACH STOOPS: Absolutely. I think even Coach (Gary) Pinkel I think said that after the game too. In the scheme of things there were a thousand different ways. Throw it up to the big guy who makes a great play, that's good recruiting. And that's taking nothing away (from Missouri), you know that, because they do a lot of good things and he has for a long time. Coach (Pinkel) has done a great job for a long time. But they are tough to match up with.
Q. How is your secondary? How banged up are you?
COACH STOOPS: We're a little banged up. We'll see how it goes this week.
Q. We asked you the other week, but do you know James Franklin?
COACH STOOPS: I'm not exactly sure. I haven't followed him that well. I knew him a bit. We played each other a little when I was at Florida State and he was at Maryland, and he came here and they've done a great job. He's got everybody buying in. He's got a bunch of players that are playing very fundamentally sound and playing hard, and that's a compliment to coaching.
Q. Re: Vanderbilt finding a way to win with 189 yards total offense
COACH STOOPS: Obviously, you've got a lot of toughness within your team if you can do that. And, obviously, the turnovers helped them a great deal, and that's very good plays by them. And they set up two inside the 5, and one inside the 22.
Q. How are they doing that? Are they doing anything particular to create turnovers?
COACH STOOPS: Yeah, they just play hard and they play good. They really do. They do. If you watch the game, you could see the plays. One was a deflection off a wide receiver. The other ones were good plays.
Q. re: fan comments
COACH STOOPS: I catch my fair share, but I understand (laughter).
Q. When you hear things like, well, they're throwing it in, when you're not playing the way you want to play and you're losing, what do you say to those fans?
COACH STOOPS: I don't know. I can't listen to that. I know our team's not throwing in the towel. Just like I said, the long run afterwards most people say they ran up the middle. No, we just had a person out of the gap and a guy came down too aggressive to make a good play. Two guys are outside, nobody's in the middle, you have an issue. Our backside safety got cut off by the official, and it's gone. That looks bad. I understand that. But that's not it. Do I think we can play harder? Yes. Do I think we can play smarter? Yes. Do I think we can coach better? Yes. I understand all of that. But definitely this team is not cashing it in. We're not perfect. We're playing the best guys we can to help us win. Believe me, we understand the seriousness of having a successful football program, and we'll play anybody we can that can help us win.
Q. Vandy could become bowl eligible Saturday. You guys could stop that.
COACH STOOPS: That means nothing to me. Whatever motivates our kids, fine, but that won't be something I talk about. That means nothing to me. If that's good for us to stop them from going to a bowl game, I mean, we need the win for us, for our fans, for all the things we're talking about. For our people and our kids and our program. That's motivation enough for me.


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Terror plotters discussed sending a remote-controlled toy car carrying a homemade bomb under the gates of a Territorial Army centre, a court was told.
Zahid Iqbal, 31, and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, 25, spoke about making an improvised explosive device (IED) based upon instructions in an al-Qaida manual entitled "make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom", Woolwich crown court was told.
The court in south-east London was played covert recordings of the pair in which Iqbal suggests attaching the bomb to a remote-controlled toy car and sending it under the gate of a Territorial Army (TA) centre in Luton.
Iqbal is recorded telling Ahmed: "I was looking and drove past like the TA centre, Marsh Road. At the bottom of their gate there's quite a big gap. If you had a little toy car it drives underneath one of their vehicles or something."
Iqbal, Ahmed, Umar Arshad, 24, and Syed Farhan Hussain, 21, all from Luton, admitted one count of engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism between 1 January 2011 and 25 April 2012 at a hearing on 1 March.
Iqbal, of Bishopscote Road; Arshad, of Crawley Road; Hussain, of Cornel Close; and Ahmed, of Maidenhall Road, considered methods, materials and targets for attacks.
Opening the prosecution against the men, Max Hill QC said: "The defendants were subjects of an intelligence led joint operation by the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command (SO15) and the British Security Service [MI5] into the facilitation of individuals from the UK to Pakistan for extremist purposes connected to al-Qaida."
Hill said the evidence showed that Iqbal had been acting as a facilitator for people who wanted to travel for "extremist purposes" and he had direct contact with a Pakistani operative who was given the pseudonym "Modern Sleeve".
He said Ahmed was observed by surveillance on numerous occasions attending a gym for training and going on trips to mountainous regions with others.
Hill added that conversations picked up from covert surveillance revealed that he was carrying out the training with a view to being physically fit for "purposes connected with terrorism".
"He stated that Snowdon was a particular favourite location to train because within the UK it bears the most resemblance to the mountainous regions of Pakistan," he said.
"The surveillance in Snowdon shows on occasions Ahmed and others carrying out regimental walking, press-ups, running in formation and using logs and branches perhaps as mock firearms."
By spring 2011 Iqbal lost contact with Modern Sleeve in Pakistan, he said. As a result of this, and also inspired by information from a series of the banned al-Qaida online magazine Inspire, Iqbal and Ahmed began to focus on attack planning in the UK, Hill said.
"They discussed making an IED following instructions from an Inspire magazine which they planned to adapt," he said.
"They also identified a target for such an attack, namely a Territorial Army base in their locality, although they discussed targeting multiple sites at one time," he said.


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I disturb their efforts to get their children and the few clothes they have with them clean using hoses and battered buckets.
Wednesday for the first time since February, battered by bad news from abroad that the markets would normally shrug off.
Chris Brown wants to know who leaked photos of Rihanna's battered face after his alleged attack.
"It was like heaven here," one man shouted to bystanders from the stoop of a battered pastry shop near one of the blast sites.
When the speech ended, with "I am proud to present . . . " Furry, carrying his battered Epiphone guitar, limped onto the stage.
The boys affectionate heart is plainly discernible in the man, tried and battered as he was by the world.
Liewen Konar smiled wryly as he put a battered object on the bench.
Their skulls were battered in as if by some heavy iron instrument; their faces were beaten into a pulp.
Where were the splendid fleets which were to have battered the English defence into impotence?
Mr. Dale had produced a battered caddy, and soon the fumes of gin and tea mingled amicably together.
"strike repeatedly, beat violently and rapidly," early 14c., from Old French batre "to beat, strike" (11c., Modern French battre "to beat, to strike"), from Latin battuere "to beat, strike," an old word in Latin, but almost certainly borrowed from Gaulish, from PIE root *bhau- "to strike" (cf. Welsh bathu "beat;" Old English beadu "battle," beatan "to beat," bytl "hammer, mallet"). Began to be widely used 1962 in reference to domestic abuse. Related: Battered; battering. Battering-ram is an ancient weapon (Latin aries), but the word attested only from 1610s.
"flour, eggs, and milk beaten together," late 14c., from Old French batteure "a beating," from Latin battuere "to beat, knock" (see batter (v.)).
"flour, eggs, and milk beaten together," late 14c., from Old French batteure "a beating," from Latin battuere "to beat, knock" (see batter (v.)).


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Lots of celebrities in town this weekend for the 500. Was downtown in front of a hotel from 8:45ish AM to 5:30 PM today. All are on 8x10 blanks except the Kardashian due to my adorama order being screwed up. here's the haul:
Ron Pearlman 1/1, 1/1 - scary looking fellow
Nathan Fillion 1/1 - actor on the TV show "Castle"
Tim Daly 1/1 - actor on the show "Wings"
Bobby Rahall 1/1
Roger Penske 1/1
Eric Close 1/1 w/ personalization and "Indiana Rocks!" - actor on the show "Without a Trace" and obviously not from Indiana
Amaury Nolasco 1/ - actor on "Prison Break"
Mario Lopez 0/1 - signed on the strip of folder below my blank that holds it. me: "would you mind signing on the paper" him: "oh, sorry i screwed up". then he proceeded to run inside. sucks that the only graph he signed at the time was that
Robin Roberts 1/1 w/ personalization to my mom
Now for the better stuff:
Ozzie Newsome 1/1 w/ "HOF 99" - didn't acknowledge you unless it was a football-related question
Dan Hampton 1/1 w/ "HOF 2002"
Anthony Munoz 1/1 w/ "HOF 98"
Kim Kardashian 1/2 - one-per because she was being mobbed. on a side note, I didn't realize how short she is. still hot tho.
Lynn Swann 1/1 w/ "Victory!" - absolutely shocked he signed. blank items only (not Steelers 8x10s, but signed 8x10 blanks. that makes sense.)
David Letterman 1/1 - probably my favorite all-time graph. awesome guy.
Mark Wahlberg 1/1 - one per because he was in a hurry. used his own black sharpie.
Kourtney Kardashian - "im with the baby".
Bruce Jenner - no blanks
Kourtney's husband, Scott - totally ignored me. really?
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While most U.S. brokerages appear to have most of their year 2000 work completed, only 22% of foreign investment banks, clearinghouses and stock exchanges have fixed, tested and implemented their systems, according to a recent study.
The study, conducted by the Securities Industry Association and the International Operations Association, was cited in the latest report on the year 2000 readiness of the securities industry and public companies by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Only 78 out of 650 foreign brokerages and stock exchanges targeted for the survey actually participated in the study. Still, the "majority" of those firms polled had completed less than half of their year 2000 projects. The survey was conducted between February and May this year.
The SEC, meanwhile, still seems to have a lot of year 2000 work of its own to complete. Of the agency's 52 mission-critical systems, only 18 were deemed year 2000-compliant as of June 1. Of the 34 systems in question, 15 were pending replacement, seven were awaiting fixes and another dozen were scheduled to be retired.Among those not yet Y2K ready: the EDGAR database, which contains financial information filed by public companies in 10-Q, 10-K and other earnings reports. The latest EDGAR system, which went live in May, is scheduled to be tested by July 31.


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New York sports fans can be harsh and many have short memories. But when they love you they love you.
And Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin is getting some early valentines after scoring 25 and 28 points in back-to-back wins.
Then last night he had 23 points and 10 assists in a win against Washington.
JEREMY LIN: Asian-Americans have found a hero in Knicks guard
The Harvard-educated Lin has been a bit of a hoop gypsy in the past few seasons but he may have found a home in Mike D'Antoni's up-tempo offense.
The Knicks play the Lakers and the backcourt of Derek Fisher and Kobe Bryant Friday night and then play at Minnesota where Lin will face point guard Ricky Rubio.
The great ones get a song ("Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?").
Here is the one on Lin courtesy of rapper Mega Ran.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.


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He has been a fighter pilot, a restaurateur, a ski bum and a contractor. But above all things, Benjamin Wood has made a name for himself as a "Shanghai powerbroker".
Wood's designs have not only made headlines, they have also rung in billions of dollars in development.
Originally from Boston, Wood has indeed carved out a niche in China and transformed the way people there view preservation.
His first and most notable project in China was Xintiandi. Xintiandi is a popular car-free shopping, cultural and entertainment district in Shanghai. The entire block is a clever weave of the old and the new; modern restaurants, clubs, cafes and boutiques, adorned with old bricks, stone gates and carved wooden balconies from the old courtyard houses that previously filled those blocks. The project received an Award of Excellence from the Urban Land Institute in 2003.
But preservation is not his main aim in his designs. For him, it's "the new life a place attracts" that is important. And that philosophy is not confined to Wood's preservation projects alone. Creating places that are alluring for people to come together is evident in his other projects as well.
His design of CapitaLand China's residential development, Westwood Green Shanghai, is one good example. Westwood Green's enclave of townhouses and apartments has attracted a vibrant multinational community who has found this unique development a place they can truly feel at home in a foreign land.
Outside of China, he is well known as the Chief Architect of New Soldier Field in Chicago, home of the Chicago Bears. Co-designed with his former partner Carlos Zapata, New Soldier Field was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best buildings of 2003.
Although Wood only earned his architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of 37, his journey from a pilot, Boston architect to Shanghai Powerbroker has been, according to him, one great adventure.
INSIDE: You have had quite an interesting and varied career. How did you end up being an architect and an internationally acclaimed one?
WOOD: For five years, I flew a Mach II Phantom RF-4 jet aircraft for the US Air Force. My assignment was to fly at an extremely low level but extremely high speed on photographic reconnaissance missions along the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. It was a great adventure, as were my subsequent years as a Colorado based ski and mountaineering guide, builder, and owner of a small hotel and restaurant.
After building a mountain home from a "stock" plan, I decided I could design something a bit more exciting. The first house I designed was built into the crest of the terminal moraine of a glacier.
The house looked out from this strategic promontory over one of the greatest river valleys of the North American Rocky Mountains. Except for a 200-foot long window facing the view, much of the house was underground. A large slit and operable panel system in the roof let the sun shine on a giant "radiator" made from suspended oil well pipes. The "radiator" heated the water in a very large hot tub that also served as the thermal storage for a radiant heating system. After building this house I was hooked on architecture and decided to go back to college and learn a new trade. This was in 1980 and I was 33 years old.
Great adventure is great adventure whether it is flying at over twice the speed of sound, ice-climbing on the North Face of the Eiger, designing your first house, or living and working in Shanghai China.
INSIDE: In China, you are best known for introducing to the country this whole idea that it is better to restore historical buildings than to tear them down. With that, you have successfully brought the Xintiandi district to life. Could you bring us through how do you take on history and strike a balance between the old and the new?
WOOD: I do not think all old buildings are historical. Some buildings simply exist. Here today, gone tomorrow, and so be it. To be historical, a building must have at least some intrinsic characteristics, however minimal. It is a great deal easier to breathe new life into a place that has been loved by many than one that has gone unnoticed only to survive by virtue of anonymity. I place the shikumen of Xintiandi in the first category. In the second category is the ubiquitous glass box that litters China's new urban skyline.
The first is the product of a cross-cultural exchange of socially and environmentally responsible urban typologies: the multi-family urban townhouse of late 19th Century Europe and the extended family traditional Chinese courtyard house. The second is a box-on-life-support afforded by the miracle of modern technology. Which one would you want to see survive beyond a couple of generations?
Balance should not be between old and new, but between the freedom of expression given to each successive generation of responsible architects and urban form givers.
I have a small bar in Xintiandi. Except for some wine and spirits, everything else in it comes from China: the used bricks and roof tiles to make walls come from the debris of demolition sites around Shanghai; grey granite and jet-black ink stones for the floor and back bar were from local quarries; a bar top made of Tibetan silver were done by two local villagers in Yunnan; and from Guangdong came shoe leather for the ceiling.
My philosophy is to create if you can and find inspiration in what you choose to preserve.
INSIDE: Your design of Xintiandi is so successful that Shanghai had begun to preserve much more architecture than it ever did before. In fact, Xintiandi, as a model for urban redevelopment, has spawned at least dozens of duplicates across the country. You have also applied your formula to projects all over China, from Chongqing to Wuhan to Hangzhou. How do you make each "tiandi" different?
WOOD: A very good question and the answer can be found in the creative struggle behind every project our studio undertakes. We begin each project with experiencing the nature of the place. In each new place we spend days that turn into months walking the streets, eating the food, exploring the back alleys and talking to taxi cab drivers. We collect old photographs and make new ones. We look for colour and we look for the sounds of a place. We visit the surrounding villages. We explore. We embark on another adventure.
On the human scale, all the cities we work in are almost the same. Yet they are all very different when we begin to look closer. So goes our design.
INSIDE: You said in an interview on Martha's Vineyard in 2006, "I'm trying to change China, and China has definitely changed me." How has China changed you personally and your design philosophy?
WOOD: I have been both humbled and emblazoned by the meaning of ordinary life translated 1.3 billion times. When you are outnumbered, everything suddenly seems possible. 85,000 people visited Xintiandi in just one day last month.
INSIDE: You also once said that, "Good urban design is knowing what people want. People ask me what I knew about China (to do a job there). I didn't need to understand China; I need to understand people." How well do you think you have understood the people in China and how have your designs and town planning reflected that understanding?
WOOD: I still have a long way to go. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in an afternoon after practicing for almost 40 years.
INSIDE: How has your understanding of people helped you to design the successful and popular CapitaLand China residential project Westwood Green Shanghai? What was your design inspiration?
WOOD: Westwood Green Shanghai was inspired by the small New England town that our family lived in when my children were growing up. Of course, it's not in terms of the style of the buildings. It would be silly to see a white clapboard house in China.
In the middle of our small town there was a large lawn surrounded by big oak trees. This was the place where we held all our local community events. It was the heart of the town. In New England, this place in the middle of a town is called the "commons". I would have suggested to CapitaLand China the name Westwood Commons but realized that no one would know what I meant. We designed Westwood Green like a small community; a village with a middle, a green, a common, a heart.
INSIDE: Building sustainable buildings is a buzzword these days. What's your idea of a sustainable building? How would you go about designing a sustainable community or neighbourhood?
WOOD: Whenever someone asks me what sustainable means I wonder why. Is it so difficult to understand? Simply leave behind more than you take. I have never forgotten the words of my Boy Scout Leader: "Leave your campsite cleaner than you found it."
In the book, The Architecture of Beauty, author Alain de Botton writes: "We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the buildings that cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent forms of happiness.
INSIDE: You have successfully designed towns, schools and luxurious housing in China as well as stadiums in the US. You are now onto designing eco-resorts in Yunnan Province. Could you please tell us about the project? How is your philosophy of a sustainable community reflected in this project?
WOOD: A few years ago I leased a house in the old town of Zhongdian (now called Shangrila). Together with some friends we renovated the house and now go there whenever we can. This love affair with Shangrila eventually led to a collaboration with a friend from Beijing to create a new village a few miles away at the base of the foothills of the great Southern Himalayas. We managed to buy some land from a local Tibetan village and some nearby abandoned farmhouses. We then put most of the villagers to work to rebuild the houses at our new site. The five houses are almost complete. Except for the plumbing and wiring, all the other materials of the houses are from recycled materials. The walls are made of rammed earth taken from the site. Working on this project has been another of my life's great adventures. By the end of the summer we should be able to offer travellers, wiling to endure the thin air at an altitude of 3300 metres, thousands of square kilometres of wilderness, wild rivers, wildflower meadows, and cups of Yak tea.
INSIDE: We are always curious what a renowned architect's own house looks like. Could you describe it? Which is the favourite part of your home?
WOOD: Our family owns a large farm on Martha's Vineyard. The Vineyard is an island just off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean between New York City and Boston. We have an old house there but I prefer to stay in a large canvas tent that we put up on a hill overlooking the ocean. The tent has indoor plumbing and electricity. There is also a kitchen with a roof but no walls next to the tent. All the equipment in the kitchen is stainless steel and was bought used from a large restaurant supply company.
The kitchen is my favorite place. Creating food is almost as much fun as creating architecture. My other favorite place is the table where the food we create is shared with family and friends.
There is also a large deck made from the timbers I salvaged from an old pier. In the summer there is no place I would rather be than on this deck at sunset with a glass of whiskey and a good cigar.
Last year my son and I decided to build something a little more substantial than a tent. We are now near to completing what I call the "red studio" or the "space shot". Among the more interesting features of the studio are a hybrid steel and wood frame, a large hydraulic door-wall that is 4 metres high and 9 metres long and opens like the hatch door at the back of a SUV.
A hydraulic lift goes from the ground floor kitchen to a roof top green house and deck. If you are in the kitchen and need fresh herbs they are not far away. Part of the north wall is "inflatable" and can be opened and closed with a small centrifugal fan. There are three wind turbines on the roof along with solar electric and hot water panels. All the lighting is low voltage LED that changes to a red color when the flames of the fire in the indoor stone pit begins to flicker. The back-up source for solar electrical power is the batteries of a golf cart used for transporting supplies from the main car barn near the local highway. A 20-metre long bridge connects the second floor of the studio to the tent and outdoor kitchen.
A few months ago we started a second building. This time it is a guesthouse built around a very large tree. My plan now is to build a small building every year until we have our own small village on the Vineyard. None of the buildings will be big or expensive and all will make our life better.


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Producing a grade/group I winner is a feather in any broodmare's bridle. How rare is it, then, for a broodmare to produce two runners who win a grade/group I in the same year? In the 30 years that stakes races have been graded, the trick has been turned by 38 broodmares when considering only North American and European contests. In predicting what broodmares might turn this trick, it is notable that 20 of the 38 were stakes winners themselves. Another four were stakes-placed; a dozen were winners; and only two were non-winners. As far as the breeders of these terrific producers are concerned, form holds very well. The Phipps family bred five of the 38 broodmares, with Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms breeding four and E.P. Taylor of Windfields Farm three. A couple of accomplishments stand out even from this notable pack. The Phipps-bred Grecian Banner saw two of her runners win grade I contests in two different years. The 1988 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year, a daughter of Hoist the Flag, produced Personal Flag (by Private Account) in 1983. Personal Flag won the Widener Handicap (gr. I) in 1987 and the Suburban Handicap (gr. I) in 1988 on the way to becoming a millionaire. His full sister, Personal Ensign, came along in 1984. In 1987 she took the Beldame Stakes (gr. I), and in 1988 set the world on fire, conquering the Maskette Stakes, Shuvee Handicap, Hempstead Handicap, Whitney Handicap, Beldame Stakes, and Breeders' Cup Distaff (all gr. I) on the way to champion older female honors that year and a perfect 13-for-13 lifetime mark. She joined her dam as a Kentucky Broodmare of the Year, in 1996. The Irish-bred Alidiva took things one step further. In 1997, she became the only mare to have three offspring win grade/ group I races in one season. This accomplishment landed her Broodmare of the Year honors that year in both Ireland and Italy. Her first foal, Taipan (by Last Tycoon), won the 35 EMS Kurierpost-Europa-Preis (Ger-I) in 1997. Her second foal, Ali-Royal (by Royal Academy), brought home the Sussex Stakes (Eng-I) that same season, while her third baby, Sleepytime, a full sister to Ali-Royal, took the Pertemps One Thousand Guineas (Eng-I). Several runners whose names are etched in Thoroughbred history were produced from, and contributed grade I wins, to our 38 notable producers. Tularia, bred in England by Taylor, foaled a What a Pleasure colt in 1973 who was named Honest Pleasure. After being named champion 2-year-old colt, Honest Pleasure at three won the Florida Derby, and Flamingo, Blue Grass, and Travers Stakes (all gr. I) in 1976, when he was also second to Bold Forbes in the Kentucky Derby (gr. I). One year after Honest Pleasure, Tularia produced a full brother, For The Moment, who captured the Futurity Stakes (gr. I) at Belmont in 1976. War Path III earned less than $6,000 as a runner, but in her second career she produced Waya (by Faraway Son) in 1974. Waya was named champion older female in 1979 after winning the Beldame, Top Flight Handicap (gr. I), and Santa Barbara Handicap (gr. IT). One year after Waya, War Path III foaled Warfever (by Luthier), who also took to the green, winning the Matchmaker Stakes (gr. IT), her only added-money victory. Sweet Tooth, 1977 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year, won 10 times but raced in a stakes contest just once, finishing second in the Alcibiades at Keeneland. In 1974 she produced a Herbager filly, Our Mims, who would be named champion 3-year-old filly in 1977 following triumphs in the Coaching Club American Oaks, Alabama Stakes, and Delaware Handicap (all gr. I). Sweet Tooth's next foal was Alydar, by Raise a Native, who joined his half-sister in the winner's circle after grade I triumphs when he took honors in the Champagne and Sapling Stakes in 1977. Alydar would win 11 stakes in his career and go on to be North America's leading sire in 1990 as well as a leading broodmare sire for several years after his death in 1990. Alysheba, Easy Goer, Turkoman, and Criminal Type were just some of his top runners. Alydar is best remembered for his Triple Crown wars with Affirmed in 1978. Ogden Phipps bred Con Game, a daughter of Buckpasser, but the filly didn't do much at the races, winning twice from 12 starts. Her fifth foal, a colt by Mr. Prospector, put her on the map, though. Seeking the Gold earned better than $2 million in just 15 trips to the post, including 1988 victories in the $1-million Super Derby and the Dwyer Stakes (both gr. I). Seeking the Gold continues to have a distinguished stud career at Claiborne Farm, and he is the sire of outstanding runners Dubai Millennium, Seeking the Pearl, Heavenly Prize, and Flanders. Con Game's next foal after Seeking the Gold was a Seattle Slew colt named Fast Play. As a 2-year-old in 1988 Fast Play captured the Remsen Stakes (gr. I) at Aqueduct, one of two graded stakes wins that helped him amass nearly $600,000 in earnings. Fast Play in turn sired Lucayan Prince, a champion in England and Ireland. Fast Play stands at Wafare Farm near Midway, Ky. Dona Ysidra made $103,275 from six wins as a runner, but was eclipsed by her second foal, a colt by Lyphard named Manila. Manila was champion grass horse in 1986, and continued his winning ways one year later when he annexed the Budweiser-Arlington Million and United Nations Handicap (both gr. IT). Manila, who now stands in Turkey, earned nearly $2.7 million. Dona Ysidra's next foal, the colt Stately Don (by Nureyev), won stakes in Ireland and North America in 1987, including the Secretariat Stakes and Hollywood Derby, both grassy grade Is. Stately Don stands in Japan. Continued...
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Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO)
As it leaves Earth orbit, JIMO will unfurl a series of heat-radiating panels designed to prevent the spacecraft from overheating. Then it will begin its six-year-long haul to Jupiter. Shortly after entering Jovian orbit in 2018, JIMO's trajectory will take it close to Callisto. Five months later, a prolonged burn of JIMO's ion engine will liberate it from Callisto's gravitational grip. As it loses orbital energy, the spacecraft will fall towards Jupiter, to encounter its next target, Ganymede. Its final port of call will be Europa – the highlight of the mission and its most perilous aspect. Europa is in a more intense part of Jupiter's magnetosheath and the radiation is extreme. Despite precautions, such as the radiation hardening of its electronics, JIMO cannot be expected to operate for very long around Europa. It will carry a radar for mapping and determining the thickness of the enigmatic moon's ice crust, a laser altimeter to produce surface profiles, cameras and devices to measure magnetic fields as well as gas and dust. But all too soon Jimo is expected to be crippled beyond repair by the radiation. It, like the Galileo spacecraft, will be disposed of in Jupiter's atmosphere. Hopefully, however, the next mission should be well advanced by then and ready to take its place. This would have the capability to land on Europa's icy plains and melt a small sample of ice to look for signs of life.
One of the unusual requirements of the probe is that it will have to jump from moon to moon. This will require far more energy than for any previous craft, and the only feasible power source is an on-board nuclear fission reactor to drive an electric propulsion system. The extra power will allow the use of instruments which normally can't be deployed in space because they need too much energy. As a comparison, the Cassini probe has a small plutonium unit, with a total power output of 900 watts for the craft's entire suite of instruments. JIMO will have a kilowatt of power available for each individual instrument.
In May 2004, NASA issued its mission design requirements for JIMO to three industry teams. These requirements were the first product formulated by NASA's new Office of Exploration Systems in Washington. The Request for Proposal was released to the three previously qualified industry teams led by Boeing, Huntington Beach, Calif.; Lockheed Martin, Denver; and Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, Calif. These three companies were already working under study contracts investigating conceptual designs for the mission. The proposals are due July 16, 2004.
The scope of the initial contract is to codesign the spacecraft through the preliminary design with the government team. A contract modification will be issued after preliminary design to implement the design, to integrate and test the spacecraft and to integrate the spacecraft with the reactor module and mission module. JPL would be responsible for delivering the mission module, which would include instruments procured competitively via a NASA announcement of opportunity. The launch vehicle will be supplied by NASA. The Department of Energy's Office of Naval Reactors would be responsible for the reactor module. To ensure the technologies demonstrated are consistent and coordinated with the Vision for Space Exploration, Project Constellation is managed within the Office of Exploration Systems.
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