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Exciting morning in the next door neighbors backyard. It took the Fish & Game guy 2 tranquilizer darts to knock him out. They just left to transport him out to one of the wilderness areas. Because of the drought, bear encounters here are almost a daily occurrence.
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I bet that bear will be feeling a bit grizzly when it starts to wake up after the tranquilizer.
Makes you glad you live in a town.
I bet that bear will be feeling a bit grizzly when it starts to wake up after the tranquilizer.
I'll bear that in mind.
Wow—gonna need a r-e-a-l-l-y big glass and envelope to trap that critter
Don't Panda to DD
Guys,you need to Paws and re-think some of those puns
Is that in Scotland?
You guys have stolen all my yolks
Oh wait... wrong thread.
Samuri--Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Almost no food in the mountains this year, so they are coming into the city looking for something to eat. Last count they have caught and relocated about 25 and, unfortunately, had to put several repeat offenders down, including one that bit a guy on the hand after breaking into his house.
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Is that in Scotland?
I assumed it was Surrey
This makes me sad.
Almost no food in the mountains this year, so they are coming into the city looking for something to eat.
Could the residents not arrange to dump their leftovers somewhere in the mountains nearby, to prevent them coming into the city?
Mogrips--there is a push for to get the state Fish & Game people to do supplemental feeding (usually dogfood) up in the remote areas of the wilderness, but that has only met with some success in other states and there is quite an ongoing debate about it. One of the problems is people leaving their garbage receptacles outside of their garages and leaving dog/cat food outside. Also lot's of fruit trees with ripe fruit now and that is a bear-magnet (and coyotes as well).
Biggest baby robin EVER.
Perhaps he was desperate and looking for the woods.
The problem is they are vegetarians with restricted deitary needs only goes after cucumbear...
bit a guy on the hand after breaking into his house
If I came away from that close a bear encounter and only had to complain about being bitten on the hand I'd go buy a lottery ticket.
That about sums it up.
Lifer + 1
Lifer--you are right on target
A lot of people here want to live adjacent to the mountains/wilderness, but don't want the inconvenience of bears and all the rest of the wildlife that goes with it.
Was this in the garden of the Big Blue House?
Ahh poor guy.
I love bears and wouldn't like to meet one but always feel sorry when I see/hear about stories like this.
I remember a similar tinge of sadness in Nairobi National Park which is now literally surrounded by the city.
Perhaps he was desperate and looking for the woods.
Nah, he would've been carrying his roll of Charmin if that was the case
The bear sure looks wursa for wear.
How the **** does a bear break into a house, is it like "climbed through an open window" or jimmied it open. What if they are caught going equipped?
In all seriousness it would be good if there was a way to at least partition the are, I know it would be a bloody big fence but hey as depicted above we are encroaching more into their environment than they are into ours. It saddens me to see such animals getting destroyed when more could be done.
Lifer--you are right on target
A lot of people here want to live adjacent to the mountains/wilderness, but don't want the inconvenience of bears and all the rest of the wildlife that goes with it.
Apart from the difference in the size of the wildlife, it's exactly the same problem here in the UK. They want the picturesque qualities of living in the countryside, but will not accept the inconveniences that go with it, which locals think nothing of, like noisy animals, smells, mud, inconvenient rights of way, narrow roads, no local supermarket...
Maybe if they had to watch out for bears raiding the house, and having to lock the waste bin to keep thieving 'coons out, plus having the sneaky little bandits gnawing holes in the roof to make a nest, they'd be less worried about the occasional fox.
From what I heard, the guy who got bitten had a sliding glass door open, with only a screen door closed--the bear just pushed through it. the man was from Oklahoma and staying at the house for someone while they were out of town, so probably not very bear-savvy.
The guy next door where this morning's bear was caught, has 5 foot cinder block and wrought iron fencing in the front where the bear entered--it appeared he just jumped/pulled himself over it as there was bear fur clinging to the cinder blocks---it was apparently attracted by bird seed feeders and hummingbird feeders in the yard.
It would be hard to erect any kind of barrier between the mountains and the city, due to the terrain, and it stretches for over 20 miles and parts of it would run through wilderness (no fencing, roads, etc.) and part through a major air force base.
Fur folks sake!! Lifer has it spot on, you don't have to be Kodiak to work that out... you would've thought there'd be a claws in the local byelaws for the community to bear responsibility. At least no-one came to a grizzly end, though there may have been some brown trousers from pooh. When I was a cuddly teddy boy who all the honeys drooled over, though I looked like a wild animal, everyone knew me as gentle Ben until I ate their faces off
Wow 20 miles of rough terrain and they can't do it? Wonder whether the moon landings are real if you can't build a 20 mile barrier.
The Australians managed 3500 miles in 1880, however I assume the advantage they must have had was it was mice and level.
I live in Pennsylvania, and the Game Commission usually uses a live trap to catch bears that are somewhere they are not supposed to be. They often use donuts as bait!
Sometimes, the bears leave their usual territory because food is scarce or something like that. Very often, it is the yearling bears that wind up in someone's yard and have to be caught. Mom has told the year old cub to take a hike and that she will no longer tolerate it in her territory, so it is looking for a home of its own. Normally, they just catch the bear and release it in an rural wooded area. Bears that repeatedly return to populated areas (often attracted by garbage and/or people feeding them) have to be destroyed as they can't be retrained.
The Australians managed 3500 miles in 1880, however I assume the advantage they must have had was it was mice and level.
At one end, yes
I see those bears insist on having a full size spare wheel, does that make BMW designers not as smart as the average bear?
PA game warden letting one go
What will happen when he gets home.
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By now, it would seem, there is no story about Fleetwood Mac left to tell. No snort has gone undocumented, no betrayal unchecked, no argument unheard. They sold millions of albums to people who knew the soap opera and wanted the soundtrack; they sold tons of concert tickets to those who needed to witness the live spectacle of the touring production, starring the players in this long-running tale of woe, wounds and wondrous music. They were behind, beneath, around, above, inside and outside the music long before VH1 began its video rehab and talking-head therapy sessions. Even your mama knew the ballad of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks and John McVie and Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood, even if she never heard the songs.
They were improbable partners to begin with, people "unlikely to be in the same group together," says Buckingham, who joined in '75, when Fleetwood hit his head on Buckingham and Nicks' soft rock and thought it dreamy. "There was a bass player [McVie] who would probably describe himself somewhere between McCartney and Mingus, a drummer [Fleetwood] who's a total garage guy and a sublime primitive and a band that had been around in several incarnations and evolved from being a 12-bar blues band into many, many other things." In other words, they had no business playing together, much less staying together, yet for a while, in the mid-'70s to mid-'80s, theirs was a lucrative partnership: They made great music, which in turn made much money. Fleetwood Mac was the Clear Channel of the 1970s: They owned all of radio.
Then, for a while, in the early '90s and a little afterward, the band disappeared and seemed no longer to matter, and the stories seemed of a different, long-ago era--The Age of Excess, before the dinosaurs had turned to fossils. They had gone their own way, more or less. Buckingham, who loved studios the way Robert Plant loved women, moved into the basement to make music for which he answered to no one. The band soldiered on without him; it had survived numerous lineup changes since the late 1960s, when Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer played psychedelic till snapping psychotic, so surely the body could be sustained with two men replacing one. There would be the one momentary reunion of the platinum band, at the inauguration of a president who conducted himself like a rock star feasting on the tour-circuit buffet of cold cuts and hot chicks, but the body only crumbled further. By 1994, with Nicks and Christine McVie spirited away, the band released an album called Time--something Fleetwood Mac had, at last, run out of.
Fleetwood Mac performs July 3 at American Airlines Center.
"Evolution, I suppose, gets harder the longer you go," Buckingham says now. "You know, my own road has been so convoluted with the band. I really did have to leave and sort of take stock of what all of that had meant and try to hold onto my own idea of wanting to be creative in a long-term sense. It had gotten to the point where there had to be a pulling apart in order to do that. We probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing now if we hadn't had such a kind of a spotted history in the late '80s and '90s."
Amazing but true: For a band broken up as lovers then busted up as collaborators, the heart still beats. The band is minus one--Christine, who joined again then jumped again, unable to recommit herself to a relationship that had made loving fun and rather horrible--but in relatively good shape, all things considered. Fleetwood Mac tours in support of an album that didn't even belong to it, till Buckingham decided it wasn't quite right to keep it to himself.
Say You Will, released earlier this year, does not belong in the ranks of the immortal works the band recorded when it was first together and breaking apart together. It doesn't delight like Fleetwood Mac, which, with such songs as "Monday Morning" and "Landslide" and "Say You Love Me," sounds like the first warm afternoon after a frigid winter. It doesn't resonate like Rumours; few albums in rock's history do, if only because few albums dared make public the private discord of men and women falling so viciously out of love. Nor does it dazzle like Tusk, the weirdest, most expensive pop album ever made by a band running from its own success.
Say You Will is more reminiscent of Buckingham's 1992 Out of the Cradle than its Fleetwood Mac predecessors--in other words, some tricky guitar shit, too noisy to be called ambient but too into itself to be considered easy listening. (And that's what the Mac was even at its best: adult-contemporary pop, with the emphasis on adult; you might have dug it as a kid, but realize only as a grown-up there's substance to what might have been deemed twee and slight way back when.) Buckingham, on such songs as "Red Rover" and "Peacekeeper," no longer sounds like the child of the Byrds and Beach Boys, heavy-felt presences on Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, but a man who's spent a good chunk of time listening to the sounds in his own head and trying to find room in there for the voices of others, chief among them the woman he used to call partner and then some.
"My leaving and doing one album that allowed me to put a band together, that was more conceptual and allowed me to get my confidence back and all that led to what's going on today," Buckingham says. "A song like 'Red Rover' was sort of an outgrowth of a presentation of a song like 'Big Love' [off 1987's Tango in the Night, Buckingham's last studio album with Fleetwood Mac] onstage, where you're thinking, 'Oh, geez, one guitar and one voice played with a vengeance and with a certain complexity can really work.' It became a question of how do you expand that concept into sort of still making it a record but not losing the idea of a one-guitar performance behind drums and bass and all the other stuff, you know? That kind of song is actually what I'm the most interested in pursuing. And there are more of those, I hope, that will be on subsequent albums, whether they're..." He pauses. "I would like to think there will be more Fleetwood Mac albums, but being what we are, you never know."
And what they are remains the same: a traveling melodrama, makers of timeless melodies and keepers of a story no one ever seems to tire of hearing or telling. In March, Rumours was again awarded another platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America--19 million albums sold, and still counting. Buckingham even acknowledges that Rumours was, and remains, hot product not solely because of the music, but also because "we were bringing out the voyeur in everybody." Time has done much to heal old wounds but little to mask them. He still speaks of the period when he broke up with Nicks, of the craziness and heartbreak surrounding the making of Rumours, of having to come together as a band when he and Nicks and the McVies were falling apart as couples. To this day he can't listen to or speak of Rumours without recalling that period; it's not a distant memory at all, but something that remains a constant in the rearview mirror.
The question is put to him whether there was a moment when he realized that the songs on Rumours, chief among them "Go Your Own Way," "Dreams," "Don't Stop" and "You Make Loving Fun," transcended their status as commercial and radio hits, their brushes with chart infamy. He pauses, as if trying to jar loose the memory. One is not forthcoming.
"I think it's very difficult to be objective about that sort of thing," he explains. He says he is unable to "perceive a whole album and appreciate the way other people hear it, because you think in terms of the process and you think of what you went through to get certain things done. Rumours will never be..." He pauses. "The associations of what we had to do to get that album done, and for me, personally, having broken up with Stevie and then having to produce her and make hits and go through this massive exercise in denial, which actually lasted for years beyond Rumours, I always think of that as the very beginning. It was so stark. We were sitting up there in Sausalito, and it was just wild. It's hard to sort of separate that.
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"Yes, there were moments of great clarity and moments of elation and the sense of triumph when certain things turned out, but it was all fraught with all this other stuff, you know? So I don't think any of those albums, really, are able to be seen by me or any other band member particularly objectively. I think at this point in our careers, we can sort of understand it a little more now."
But surely the voyeuristic appeal has faded with time; the songs that made up last year's The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac collection no longer exist within the context of hurt feelings revealed through bitter and biting lyrics. You tell Buckingham there must be at least one generation of Mac fans who know nothing about its history, who don't know what Rumours is about. Doubtful, he will say.
"Still they're picking up on it, whether it's through their parents or whatever," he says. "You see them in the audience, and they're responding right along with everyone else out there. It does start to sink in that something you're doing is, in a way, timeless. I think since we've been on the road, it's been the most in-my-face that there is this long-term sense of accomplishment. I've had my own maybe slightly skewed and, at times, bad attitude about the band or what aspects of it represented and what its limitations were, especially after Tusk, when the whole thing came down that we seemed to confound the expectations of those who were looking for Rumours II.
"At that point, I was starting to make solo albums when I could and seeing the band, in some ways, as more of a corruption than anything else for a while. But, you know, we've come around from all of that, and I think one of the things I was able to do during all the time that I took off was not only get a lot of healing done of myself and my perceptions of other people, but was to appreciate how much ground we're covering as a band. It's nice to be back doing this and wanting to be here."


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Last week, we told you that Keanu Reeves is attached to star in Universal Pictures' "Jekyll."
This week, another film is being planned based on Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." This one's going to be directed by Abel Ferrara and Forest Whitaker and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson are attached to play the lead roles in the classic tale about a doctor who invents a potion that unleashes his violent alter ego.
Gothic meets hip hop in Ferrara's retelling of the classic story!
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This is the perfect creative meet-up in a while! The great Martin Scorsese is going to direct and produce a biopic about the legendary Ol' Blue Eyes Mister Frank Sinatra!
Universal Pictures and Mandalay Pictures are teaming up to bring this dream project into fruition.
Phil Alden Robinson is attached to write the script.
There's no actor attached to the project yet, but since Leonardo DiCaprio has been Scorsese's perennial partner as of late, he may get the role.
The actor hired does not have to have a great singing voice because all the music/songs will be coming from Sinatra's recordings.
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"Up," the wonderful film from Disney/Pixar kicked off the Cannes Film Festival!
I love this film, and I'll post my review and interviews with the cast and crew soon.
And it's a fitting opening film for the Cannes Film Fest. I just wished I was there in France, but I have to stay put in the US because it's the super-important May sweeps in TV right now.
But here's a full Cannes report from Variety:
CANNES -- Despite fretful rumors about attendance, market biz and la grippe porcine (swine flu), the 62nd Cannes Film Festival got off to a high-flying start with "Up," the Disney-Pixar toon that brought fun -- a word not often associated with film fests -- to the Croisette.
The usual red-carpet pomp, including umpteen gendarmes and paparazzi, was augmented by an army of little ballerinas in white tutus lining the steps.
The evening opened with a half-hour presentation, followed by the ceremonial distribution of 3-D glasses.
The elegant black-tie crowd added a sense of goofy playfulness as they took photos of themselves and each other in their bulky red-and-black plastic Xpand 3-D glasses.
Some looked silly, and others somehow managed to make the goggles look like a daring fashion statement. And when fest honcho Thierry Fremaux announced that the "lunettes" had to be returned, the audience let out a collective groan.
"Up" proved a perfect scene-setter for a fest that, despite global worries, boasted an aura of shy hope. (That mood was boosted by the fact that there were high-profile acquisitions announced Wednesday even before the official start of the fest.) The enthused reaction to the pic, both from critics and the Palais audience, was sustained into the wee hours with the official fest buffet dinner after the screening, followed by the Disney-Pixar hot-ticket latenight party at Carlton Beach.
The opener also set the tone for a different style of star power. Since the most familiar name of the film's voice talent are Ed Asner and Christopher Plummer (who aren't here), the star treatment was reserved for Pixar-Disney chief creative officer John Lasseter and the pic's director, Pete Docter.
The opening ceremony included a song from Bryan Ferry and comments by French thesp Edouard Baer, jury prexy Isabelle Huppert and Charles Aznavour, who lends his voice to the French version of "Up."
Guests at the fest's dinner at the Salon des Ambassadeurs and at the Disney-Pixar beach bash enthused about the film, which was a sharp change from the Cannes openers of recent years, including "My Blueberry Nights" and the 2008 launcher, "Blindness" (which might have been more fun with 3-D glasses).
In general, Hollywood will have a more muted presence than in years past, when the "Indiana Jones" sequel, "The Da Vinci Code" and "Ocean's Thirteen" brought out the stars, causing the paparazzi to go nuts. After "Up," the big American films are Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," with Brad Pitt, and Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock."
As with the attention to Lasseter and Docter, the fest is putting its emphasis on auteur power: Pedro Almodovar, Marco Bellocchio, Jane Campion, Michael Haneke, Ken Loach, Park Chan-wook, Alain Resnais, Elia Suleiman, Johnnie To and Lars von Trier. It's a lineup that won't exactly have the folks at Us Weekly swooning, but Cahiers du Cinema should be in hog (or porcine) heaven.
As the fest launched Wednesday, there were the usual litany of festgoer grumblings, including sleep deprivation, scratchy throats, tetchy cell-phone connections, the split focus between fest and home office wheeling-dealings and, crucially, worries about business at the market.
Attendance is clearly down -- the fest says the drop is minimal, but most of the major hotels still have rooms available, seating is immediate in even the hot restaurants, and the gridlock on the Croisette is gone. The lobby of the Majestic hotel, which is usually filled with festgoers standing around schmoozing, now boasts a lot of plush couches -- a tacit acknowledgement that schmoozing will continue, but there will be much less need for standing room.
Pessimists see this winnowing of the crowds as a glum omen, but optimists see it as a necessary rebalancing of the film biz. The fringe people who were attempting to enter the industry in the past few years have disappeared, but the important global companies, the key indies and studios' specialty divisions are more in evidence than ever because they are still spending money.
Thanks to them, the first Cannes fest since the global credit crunch offers a surprising note of hopefulness. This year's sellers are cautiously upbeat. While most have smaller contingents than usual, and their stays will be shorter than in the past, they're bullish about the quality of the films they have to offer.
The consensus is that the coming weekend will be jam-packed as buyers and sellers fly in for three or four days. The screenings are plentiful, and Cannes' oversaturation of parties and meet-and-greets has been reduced to a navigable fraction of past years.
But the source of concern is that many buyers have a full inventory (and limited budgets), so it remains to be seen how active the market will be.
It's an annual Cannes tradition to predict that it will be a terrible market, followed by a later proclamation that the fest and mart turned out to be surprisingly productive. It's no longer a reliable yardstick to measure success by the number of deals sealed during the event. Many firms laid the groundwork for their pacts in Berlin and will finalize them here; similarly, Cannes will lay the foundation for deals to be firmed many months from now.
As for swine flu, the media in France, like everywhere else, seems obsessed by it, but several days in Cannes offered a grand total of one sighting of a person wearing a protective mask.
(John Hopewell contributed to this report.)
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Angels & Demons is much better in scope and style than its predecessor, the unholy but super-successful The Da Vinci Code. Yet, for all its action-filled suspense, the sequel failed to reach cinematic heaven.
Based upon the bestselling novel by Dan Brown, Tom Hanks returns to the role of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. Once again, he finds that forces with ancient roots are willing to stop at nothing to advance their goals. Read More...
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My super-reliable source, someone very, very close to Walt Disney Pictures, revealed to me that Brad Bird, the fantastic writer/director ("The Iron Giant," "The Incredibles," "Ratatouille") is planning to make a live-action adventure based on Disney's worst, most vicious villain yet, Maleficent from "Sleeping Beauty."
And Bird wants Angelina Jolie to play the sorceress, the self-proclaimed "mistress of all evil."
This got me excited in so many levels! First, it's Bird! He's a writing and directing god who puts characters first above all else! Second, I think Jolie is a perfect casting choice! And third, it's interesting to see "Sleeping Beauty" told from the perspective of the villain.
Much like "Wicked" where "The Wizard of Oz" is retold from the point of view of the Wicked witch, Bird's project will add layers and textures to a story we all know, loved, and grew up with.
Right now, this is still in its planning stages, but I'm just sharing this with y'all, 'cause I can't quite contain my excitement!
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St. Augustine Sons of Italy Foundation's new chapter recently held its first social at the Fairway Grill, Ponce de Leon Hotel.
More than 60 attended, including Joe Andreano and his wife, New Smyrna Chapter, and Ida Ancona, Florida state representative and her husband.
Lou Cassese, entertainment chairman, was in charge.
Further information on the chapter is available by Tony Dorazio, president, 810-5577; or Mary Grace Garoy, vice president, 461-1384.
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Justin Pogge is not intimidated by his competition for Canadian Hockey League player-of-the-year honours.
That's because he doesn't even know who the other finalists are.
"I couldn't tell you," the Maple Leafs' prized goaltending prospect said during a phone interview from Grand Prairie, Alta., yesterday. "I didn't even know I was nominated for it up until a couple of days ago.
"I don't really pay attention to those things."
Forgive Pogge for being naive about such a prestigious award.
He only arrived home this week from Latvia, where he served as Canada's third-string goalie behind Marc Denis and Alex Auld at the world hockey championship.
While he didn't see any game action, the experience of being around the likes of Sidney Crosby, Brendan Shanahan, Patrice Bergeron and Mike Comrie every day was a wonderful opportunity he feels will make him a better player in the long run.
"I'd seen Crosby on TV, sure, but you don't really appreciate how hard he works every day. He earns everything he gets,"Pogge said.
"When guys like Crosby, Bergeron and Comrie are pumping goals by you in practice, it pushes you to work that much harder. It was great just meeting and dealing with guys like that."
Pogge had no idea Hockey Canada planned to invite him. Having completed his memorable season with the Western Hockey League's Calgary Hitmen, Pogge, 20, came to Toronto last month to observe the playoff run of the Marlies, the Leafs top farm club.
"Suddenly, I got a call from (Marlies general manager) Mike Penny telling me Team Canada wanted me," he said. "It was so cool."
It was just another high in a season full of them for Pogge, selected 90th overall by the Leafs in the 2004 entry draft. He was spectacular in Canada's gold-medal performance at the world junior championship.
He was named the most outstanding player and goalie in the WHL after going 38-10-6 with a 1.72 goals-against average and 11 shutouts.
Now, he's vying for both those titles in the CHL.
Pogge is scheduled to fly to Moncton today, site of the 2006 Memorial Cup. Once there he will attend the CHL's award banquet tomorrow.
Pogge will be going up against Brampton Battalion forward Wojtek Wolski, a Colorado Avalanche prospect, and Quebec Remparts sniper Alexander Radulov, a Nashville Predators draft pick.


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EDMONTON - Its not to be compared to Team Penske.
But Team Oh Canada came into existence Monday, at least in a promotional sort of way, at a press conference for the July 23-25 Honda Indy Edmonton.
Paul Tracy and Alex Tagliani were here, presented as the two Team Oh Canada drivers for the race.
And while the idea was to unveil a new ticket promotion between now and July 4 where everybody purchasing three-day passes to the event will be entered in a draw to send two pairs of people to the Honda Indy Toronto to pit for both Tracy and Tagliani, it opened a discussion about how much longer there would be Canadian talent in IndyCar racing and IndyCar racing here.
Will Edmonton be Tracys last IndyCar event?
Or will Tracy be racing in Edmontons last IndyCar race?
Tracy spoke with some passion on the subject.
The history of Canadian motorsport is very long and very deep and almost every one of us has won an IndyCar race, said the driver of the Canadian stars of open wheel racing.
Actually, Tracy is one of the most successful of them all with a record 31 in ChampCar wins and a second in an Indy 500 which involved a controversial finish that many believed he was hosed out of winning.
Tracy wonders where the next Canadian drivers will be coming from.
Im not getting any younger. Im in my 40s and Alex is getting there, said the 42-year-old of the 37-year-old Tagliani.
Other than Honda Canada theres really nobody big in the corporate world for Canadian races and drivers like Players used to be. The Players driver development program made a big difference. I came through that program. Alex came up through that support system.
Tagliani said Canadian drivers have a special status in Canada.
I feel very fortunate to be from Canada where weve had CART then ChampCar and now IRL IndyCar races, said last years Indy 500 Rookie of the Year who qualified on the second row for this years race and finished 10th.
We have a lot of drivers from a lot of places where they dont have the opportunity to race in an event like this in their own country. Weve had that opportunity. Thats why you see Paul and I working really hard to promote races in Canada. I think it will be a big loss for your city if you lose the race.
Tracy will be racing his third IRL race here after three ChampCar events.
And while the Thrill From West Hill is from Toronto, hes been an promoter for this place whether theres been a sponsorship package to provide a ride or not.
This is the hardest race on the circuit, bar none, he told the media Monday.
I came to Edmonton last year on relatively short notice and did OK, finishing sixth. But it took a lot out of me. I left the race pretty tired. You can think youre in pretty good shape, but until you race here you dont know if youre really in pretty good shape.
Tracy said IndyCar lost Vancouver because the venue went away with the construction of the Olympic Village.
Its now found a home here in Edmonton and everybody loves the race, loves the venue and loves the atmosphere.
Edmonton is a huge sports town and this is a big-time event. It would be a shame for this to go away. Im excited I have the chance to drive two more races in Canada. To me the Canadian races have always been the biggest events of the year.


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A brand new non-profit is trying to change the American prison system by helping to ensure that children of prisoners and paroles follow a different path; one that leads to a good education.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 1.7 million children under the age of 18 have a parent in prison in the United States. And often that cycle of imprisonment is not broken from generation to generation. the creative corrections education foundation has a plan to change that.
It doesn't take much change to make a change. That is the belief of a new non-profit that will give scholarships to help the children of prisoners or those on parole get an education. Percy Pitzer has more than 30 years experience working within the correctional system both as a warden and as a consultant. He and his wife decided it was time to give back, donating $100,000 to start a nonprofit. Pitzer tells 12 News HD, "This was approved last year and I think we got notification in August."
The Creative Corrections Education Foundation will give scholarships from $1,000 to $5,000. Pitzer says to apply is simple, "First of all they have to have a parent incarcerated or on parole. They have to be accepted by a vocational training school or a university. They have to apply for a Pell Grant. They have to have a recommendation from their school."
To ensure no student is turned away, the foundation is working with prisons around the country asking every inmate to donate just 50 cents a month. That's roughly one candy bar for them and it adds up to six dollars a year.
Pitzer says they are also asking the community to help, "You know just in Beaumont itself, the prison industry is a $120 million annually and there's a lot of vendors that service the prison. So we're hoping that they will help us. We're hoping that companies will help us."
And also hoping to stop second generation crime by helping young people realize just because their parent is in prison the situation does not have to lock up their dreams.
Pitzer says, "A lot of these kids do not know what they are capable of doing and they cannot imagine themselves in a successful position." That realization will set the children of prisoners free to potentially lead a better life. The foundation hopes to give 40 scholarships this year. For more information on how you can donate or get a scholarship, click on the "Links We Like" tab and you will find a link to their web site.


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When I was growing up St. Patrick's Day was never a very big deal for me. Being neither Catholic nor overwhelmingly Irish the day carried no traditional meaning for my family. (I'm a statistically typical American mix of German-Irish-English.) I do remember the seemingly random spring day would come along on which I had to wear green else risk a pinching at school. It wasn't until early adulthood that the now all important drinking aspect of the day crept into my consciousness and it dawned on me that perhaps this day demanded a bit more of my attention.
I'll get to the green in a bit but let's talk about that drinking. While I'm a "days that end in 'Y'†type of drinker it's impossible to ignore the cultural requirement to drink on this day. I'd always thought that this was all about mixing the idea of embracing one's inner Irishness – even if one possesses no Irishness whatsoever – and the stereotype of the drunken Irishman. Beyond that I hadn't really given this aspect of the day too much consideration although it now certainly receives my honor and strict observance. But according to Bridget Nancy Margaret O'Flaherty of Irish Culture and Customs, who is the source for most of the facts presented in this post, this day was one of pleasurable indulgence long before any American salivated over a pint of green-dyed beer. For the devote Catholic Irish, the day was not only one on which they celebrated their favorite saint, but it also served as a Church sanctioned break to Lenten frugality. Feasting and drinking are as much of a time honored way of marking the day as is the wearing of the shamrock.
Wearing these green leaves was one of only two very small bits of green traditionally worn on this holiday in Ireland. The other was in handcrafted badges worn by children that were colored with red, blue and yellow as well as green. It was believed that if children wore any more green than this the faeries, who had apparently claimed the color as their own, would steal the young ones away. Kind of puts that whole pinching thing on its head, doesn't it.
So why are we draping ourselves in head to toe green every March 17? I think that it is along the same lines as eating corned beef and cabbage – it is a way to feel Irish or, for those who had left a home in Eire, a way to remember it. This most Irish of dishes was not the traditional meal of the day. But on a day when Irish expats were trying to reconnect with days remembered what better way than with a common comfort food from home? In the same way, although blue is actually the official color of Ireland green is the sentimental unofficial color of the "Emerald Isle.â€Â
I also think that the green comes from the American tendency to overdo. A number of St. Patrick's Day traditions that are observed today actually seem to have originated in the US where more is always better. If Irish immigrants wore simple green shamrocks then how could it not please them if we join in the fun by wearing even more green, right?
Speaking of the shamrock there is one tradition O'Flaherty describes on her site that I particularly like. The Drowning of the Shamrock involved taking the sprig that one had worn all day and dropping it in the last drink of the night. The drink was then drained and the shamrock thrown over the left shoulder. What a great way to end a day of feasting and drinking!green irish st. patricks day traditions


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Thursday, December 26, 2013
A Christmas to Remember
After we opened presents at home, we went to my in-law's for our annual breakfast prepared and served by my father-in-law and brother-in-law. It was delicious! And then there were a few presents and we headed home.
My sister, brother-in-law, and nephew came over. My mom was supposed to, but she is sick. That is the only sad part about my day. I can't remember a Christmas where I didn't get to see my mom... ever... until today. Thankfully, everyone else was well.
After we opened presents, we had a big lunch. The menu that I posted yesterday was a little different than what we actually had. The grocery store had no asparagus! And my husband decided we didn't need both rice and potato salad. We had buttercream pecans and ripe olives as appetizers. Our main meal consisted of Caesar salad, marinated pork tenderloin, garlic mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, cauliflower in a butter and thyme sauce, green bean casserole, rolls, and butter. My sister brought some spinach-artichoke dip, chicken and rice casserole, and baked mashed potatoes. For dessert, we had a chocolate Bundt cake (from my sister), chocolate chip cookies, and Oreo-cream cheese cake balls that my daughter and I made. Oh, it was so good! And we have lots of left-overs
After dinner, we visited for a while, then we played a game of Cards Against Humanity. I laughed so hard I almost cried! To top it all off, I set up my new phone and watched the Rockets beat the Spurs! What a fabulous day! I hope you and your loved ones had a very merry Christmas!
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- Latree said...
Merry Christmas, and happy new year, D :)
- December 29, 2013 8:59 PM
- Jolene said...
Awh!!! So glad you had a great Christmas. What a special gift she gave you. I hope your Mom is feeling better.
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Aerosmith will be touring this summer.
So for those of you who tune in 8 times a week to American Idol, you can catch your favorite "talent" judge on the "Global Warming Tour"
The tour will hit 20+ cities, including stops at Summerfest and Ottawa BluesFest . Unlike the Beach Boys where we all figure one of the band members by tours end, the prediction for this one is just another Steven Tyler trip to rehab cira August/September. Cheap Trick is currently scheduled to open all shows. The dates are down below
Aerosmith 2012 North American Tour Dates
-June 16: Minneapolis, Minn., Target Center
-June 19: Cleveland, Ohio, Quicken Loans Arena
-June 22: Chicago, Ill., United Center
-June 27: Toronto, Ont., Air Canada Centre
-July 1: Uniondale, N.Y., Nassau Coliseum
-July 3: Bristow, Virg., Jiffy Lube Live Tue.
-July 5: Detroit, Mich., The Palace of Auburn Hills
-July 7: Milwaukee, Wisc., Marcus Amphitheater, Summerfest
-July 17: Boston, Mass., TD Garden Tue.
-July 21: Philadelphia, Pa., Wells Fargo Center Tue.
-July 24: East Rutherford, N.J., IZOD Center Tue.
-July 26: Atlanta, Ga., Philips Arena
-July 28: Dallas, Texas, American Airlines Center
-July 30: Houston, Texas, Toyota Center
-August: 1 Denver, Co., Pepsi Center
-August: 4 Oakland, Calif., Oracle Arena
-August: 6 Los Angeles, Calif., Hollywood Bowl
-August: 8 Tacoma, Wash., Tacoma Dome
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The city Department of Education released a list of possible teacher layoffs late Sunday night in response to federal and state budget cuts and two schools at the Metropolitan Campus in Forest Hills could lose more than a third of their teachers.
According to the list based on seniority, six of the 17 teachers at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School, at 91-30 Metropolitan Ave., would be cut, along with nine of the 26 teachers at Metropolitan High School, also at 91-30 Metropolitan Ave. — a 35 percent reduction for both. But PS 233, which focuses on special education, would not be affected by the proposed cuts.
City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (R-Forest Hills), the teachers union and parents blasted the layoffs, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended as a necessity to balance the budget.
"I am firmly opposed to teacher layoffs and will work with my colleagues in the Council and state government to do everything we can to see that this absurd proposal never comes to fruition," Koslowitz said. "I will fight tooth and nail against teacher layoffs to ensure that our students can achieve their highest potential."
The proposed cuts would affect 70 percent of District 28 schools, where 5 percent of all teachers would be laid off. District 28 covers stretches from Rego Park and Forest Hills down to South Jamaica.
PS 55 Maure, at 131-10 97th Ave., would lose 4 percent of its 50 teachers, PS 144, at 93-02 69th Ave., would lose 8 percent of its 53 teachers and Forest Hills High School, at 67-01 110th St., would lose 3 percent of its 187 teachers.
The schools at the Metropolitan Campus are in their first year of operation and will phase in grades one year at a time.
"Frankly, it's disgusting and it makes me very upset," said Kathryn Thome a parent of a Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School student. "I don't even know how they can do it. They have to hire teachers because they have an incoming class. The math doesn't work and [Metropolitan HS] has 34 kids per class already. If they lose teachers, what is that going to make their class size?"
Marc Lavorgna, a spokesman for the mayor, said the cuts are necessary to rein in the budget deficit and education has suffered less cuts than other city agencies.
"We don't have any money," he said. "We have a massive drop in state and federal aid to the city."
But a representative from the United Federation of Teachers said none of the layoffs are necessary and that the mayor issued the numbers as a scare tactic.
"This is more fear-mongering from Mayor Bloomberg and it is clearly the mayor's strategy to create a panic among parents, teachers and communities," UFT President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement. "Not only is this fear-mongering irresponsible, with a $3 billion budget surplus he doesn't need to do layoffs at all."
But Bloomberg's office said that the $3.1 billion the UFT is referring to has already been set aside to help soften the blow of next year's deficit. And it is a practice the administration has used for the past several years.
"We are reducing expenses in the current year to build up dollars and then roll it into the expenses next year," Lavorgna said. "The money is already accounted for. If we didn't have those dollars, we would have to lay off more people."
Lavorgna said that if Albany decides to send more money, to the tune of $1 billion, some of the layoffs might be avoided. But the mayor would also have to consider other city agencies if any additional state money is allocated to the city.
Reach reporter Joe Anuta by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 718-260-4566.
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A fan of Age of Decadence that goes by the name of Brandon AoD has made two videos
explaining how to play "hybrid" characters.
From the message sent to me it seems many people claim it's impossible. Here is the first video and the second one can be found here.
Thank you VDweller for the links.
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HICKMAN, Ky. (AP) - People along the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries packed their belongings and emergency workers feverishly filled sandbags as high water pushed its way downstream Wednesday in a slow-motion disaster that could break flood records dating to the 1920s.
From Illinois to Mississippi, thousands of people have already been forced from their homes, and anxiety is rising along with the mighty river, even though it could be a week or two before some of the most severe flooding hits.
"I've never seen it this bad," said 78-year-old Joe Harrison, who has lived in the same house in Hickman since he was 11 months old. Floodwaters from the Mississippi turned his house into an island - dry but surrounded by water. He has been using a boat to get to his car, parked on dry ground along a highway that runs by his house.
Up and down the Big Muddy, farmers braced for a repeat of the desperate strategy employed earlier this week in Missouri, where Army engineers blew up a levee and sacrificed vast stretches of farmland to protect populated areas upstream.
Forecasters and emergency officials said some of the high-water records set during the great floods of 1927 and 1937 could fall. On Wednesday, for example, the Mississippi eclipsed the 46-foot mark set in 1937 in Caruthersville, Mo., and the water was still rising, with a crest of 49.5 feet forecast for Sunday.
But because of the system of levees and locks built since those disasters more than 70 years ago, the flooding this time is unlikely to be anywhere near as devastating as it was back then.
Tom Salem, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Memphis, Tenn., said flooding is extreme this year in part because of drenching rain over the past two weeks. In some areas, Wednesday was the first day without rain since April 25.
"It's been a massive amount of rain for a long period of time. And we're still getting snowmelt from Montana," Salem said.
Tributaries that flow into the Mississippi are, in turn, backing up because the river itself is so high. And they account for some of the worst of the flooding so far.
The great flood of the lower Mississippi River Valley in 1927 was one of the biggest natural disasters in U.S. history. More than 23,000 square miles were inundated, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and about 250 died.
In the aftermath, authorities were criticized for helping rescue whites while leaving thousands of black plantation workers stranded for days without food or drinking water. The flood found its place in folklore, literature and films, and popular songs including "When the Levee Breaks" were written about the disaster.
Another flood in 1937 was also devastating, submerging 31,000 square miles from West Virginia to Louisiana.
Lifelong Hickman resident H.L. Williamson, 77, was a boy when he and his family fled to the highest point in town. He recalled little of the experience except that his brother wouldn't eat black-eyed peas or grapefruit for years because that was all they had during the flood.
This time, Williamson packed up and left his home, which was still dry thanks to a hill just inches higher than the floodwaters. He took only a few belongings, including the Navy uniform he hopes to be buried in.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' demolition of a Missouri levee on Monday eased flood worries for some communities. In Cairo, Ill., a town of about 2,800 people at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, the Ohio dropped a foot and a half.
But the relief downstream in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana is probably only temporary because the water will eventually find its way back into the Mississippi River.
About 3,800 Kentuckians have left their homes because of flooding.
Hickman, a town of about 2,500, has floodwalls and the river isn't expected to top them. But officials are worried about water bubbling up through the earthen levee that adjoins the wall. It has been reinforced with about 100,000 sandbags.
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Achtung Baby Price Tracker
U2's Achtung Baby will be re-released around Halloween in a handful of different formats. This 20th anniversary edition ranges from a single CD release all the way up to an "Uber Deluxe" box set with six CDs, four DVDs, multiple vinyl records, a hardback book and a variety of other extras (including a pair of replica Fly Shades).
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4-LP Vinyl Set: a limited release containing 4 LPs, two of which are pressed on translucent blue vinyl containing remixes and B-sides. The box includes a 16 page booklet.
Super Deluxe Box: will contain the 6CDs and 4 DVDs, in addition to a 92 page hardback book and 16 art prints in a wallet.
Uber Deluxe Box: a magnetic puzzle tiled box which will contain: 6 CDs including the original Achtung Baby album, the follow-up album, Zooropa, B-sides, remixes and re-workings of previously unheard material recorded during the Achtung Baby sessions. 4 DVDs including From The Sky Down, Zoo TV:Live From Sydney, all the videos from Achtung Baby plus bonus material. There will also be the Achtung Baby double vinyl album plus 5 clear 7" vinyl singles in their original sleeves, 16 art prints taken from the original album sleeve, an 84-page hardback book, a copy of Propaganda magazine, 4 badges, a sticker sheet, and a pair of Bono's trademark 'The Fly' sunglasses.
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Power Amp
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Cooling: Passive fanless system
Binding Posts: Full size speaker
Transformers: Twin toroidal
Power Amp Supply; Oversized
Torroid: microprocessor /standby
PS: 9 independently regulated
Pre Amp
Line Level In: 5 + record out
Pre Out: External power amps
Optical Digital Out: CD/DAB
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iPod interface: via rDock or rLead
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Controls: Full bass and treble
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Rear: RS232
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Infrared out: for other sources
12v trigger: External amps
Discrete IR: Toggle commands
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Casework: All metal with Al lid
Display: Full dot matrix, easy-to-read text
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DAB/FM or FM/AM Tuner: integrated
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Arcam Solo Music system combines hi-fi separates performance in a single box. A fusion of Arcam's award-winning technology with clean, contemporary style, Solo Music gives you Arcam's renowned hi-fi sound quality in one sleek, easy-to-use single box music system.
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Launched to worldwide acclaim, Arcam's Solo Music system has brought high-fidelity separates performance to a new audience of style-conscious music lovers. Flexible enough to use with other entertainment devices, Solo's integrated technology ensures exceptional performance delivered with power and finesse.
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Over the last 30 years, Arcam has earned a reputation as one of the world's finest manufacturers of hi-fi components. Music has always been the driving force behind all we do, and we wanted to distil our audiophile expertise into a product that would widen the reach of what we do as a specialist manufacturer. We set out to deliver a level of performance that would meet the exacting standards of our design team in a single component, making true high fidelity more accessible than ever before.
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Arcam solo represents the best of Arcam music technology housed in one sleek, easy-to-operate system. SOLO consists of an audiophile CD player and a 50 watts per channel amplifier combined with a DAB digital radio and a high quality FM tuner. The result is a product that is much more than the sum of its parts - a music system that's a delight to use and will captivate all who listen.
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Solo has been assembled using audiophile standard components and design methods. CD playback is exceptional as you might imagine from a company that has won more awards than any other UK manufacturer. Radio performance is first class from the built-in DAB digital radio and FM tuner.
The amplifier delivers real power with finesse, loud enough for parties or Beethoven's 9th symphony, but pure enough to delight every day of the week.
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'A solid-sounding just-add-speakers system that can stand at the heart of both your hi-fi and home cinema set-up' (What Hi-Fi Magazine June 2016)
'...The Solo Music is how we imagine a modern-day VCR would look, largely in part to its chunky casework and retro styling. But that's no criticism; it's handsome and looks classy, which is as much down to the sleek finish as is it is flushed playback buttons on the fascia and wheel volume dial up top.' (What Hi-Fi Magazine June 2016)
'Like many Arcam products before it, the Solo Music delivers an instantly likeable sound that you can settle in to for the evening: powerful, punchy and smooth, with sonic must-haves like clarity, balance and detail also in check... the Arcam has the space and precision to communicate the tempestuous production, splitting even the most saturated instrumental parts into distinct layers.' (What Hi-Fi Magazine June 2016)
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By Danny Picard
FOXBORO -- Steve Nicol walked into his postgame press conference, and grabbed a seat in the front row, right leg crossed, and left arm resting on the back of the chair next to him.
It was as if to say, "You guys will probably have more answers than me."
The New England Revolution coach eventually made his way up to the podium, and gave his analysis of Saturday night's 1-1 draw with the expansion Portland Timbers at Gillette Stadium.
From the outside, it would seem that the Revs would be happy with their fifth point in three games to begin the regular season with a big fat zero in the loss column.
But take a stroll through the New England locker room after Saturday's draw, and you'll find nothing but disappointment, even from rookie Stephen McCarthy, who scored his first career goal in the 22nd minute, putting the Revolution up 1-0.
"It feels good, but it's bittersweet, since we kind of didn't play too great," said McCarthy after the draw.
The Revs were flat, even before McCarthy's low blast from the top of the box beat Timbers goalkeeper Jake Gleeson after hitting him in the hands. And as Nicol pointed out several times after the game, their passing was the biggest issue on Saturday night.
"The bottom line is, we didn't pass the ball well," said Nicol. "It didn't matter who we played tonight. We didn't pass the ball well at all, all night. And when that happens, you'll really struggle. And we did.
"It certainly had nothing to do with how we prepared," added Nicol. "We had a good week . . . But yet, tonight we can't do it. So it probably is about mental stuff, which happens. But at the same time, the bottom line is, we're disappointed. We wanted three points at home, not one. But considering how things went, we did pick something up, so we should be grateful for that."
Grateful, yes. But pleased, absolutely not. And nobody in the Revolution locker room will tell you, but the fact that this draw came against a winless expansion team, is unacceptable.
The disappointment didn't stem from a draw "at home" or a "lack of three points." It came from a draw against a winless, expansion Timbers club that just so happened to be at home, resulting in only one point.
How else would you describe the team's joy after a draw in Los Angeles to open the season. Sure, getting that point on the road had something to do with their happiness. But because it was a draw against one of the league's top teams, it was a solid point.
A point against one of the league's worst teams, is anything but.
Portland forced a point out of the match by tying things up at 1-1 in the 38th minute, when Jack Jewsbury put a low shot to the far, right side of the net, from just outside the box.
Timbers midfielder Jeremy Hall picked up a loose ball at the top of the box, and tapped it over to a wide open Jewsbury, who seemingly caught Revs defenders flat-footed.
"If you go right back to the source, where the goal came from, we gave the ball away too easily," said Nicol on Portland's game-tying score. "You encourage people like Revolution captain Shalrie Joseph to get into the penalty box when he can. And when he does, when you give the ball away so cheaply, then it means people are out of position, because guys are making runs for the guy on the ball. And if he gives the ball away, then you're in trouble.
"It was a rotten goal. It wasn't like we got cut up. It was just half a leg short here, and half a leg short there. It was just a horrible goal. I can't sum it up again."
Revolution midfielder Pat Phelan said after the game that he hopes those two points lost don't come back to "bite them in the butt" come playoff time. And considering those two points lost came at the hands of a team that only played two previous MLS games together before Saturday night, that would be a devastating way to miss out on the postseason for the second straight year.
"We're just disappointed all around," said Nicol. "I mean, we did very few good things tonight. I guess, if you're not on your game and you pick up points, then you should be happy. But obviously, we want all three points. We don't want one point."
And they don't want just one point while playing the lowly Timbers.
Danny Picard is on Twitter at http:twitter.comDannyPicard. You can listen to Danny on his streaming radio show I'm Just Sayin' Monday-Friday from 9-10 a.m. on CSNNE.com.


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