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March 30, 2013
MORAGA, Calif. - The Utah women's basketball team is one of four teams remaining in the WNIT, as the Utes defeated Saint Mary's, 58-55, on Saturday afternoon.
The Utes will play at Kansas State on Wednesday, April 3 at 7:00 p.m. CT.
Utah was led by Michelle Plouffe, who scored 20 points with eight rebounds. Iwalani Rodrigues tallied 14 points with seven rebounds.
The Utes shot 47 percent on the night, including 50 percent in the second half. Utah was buoyed by the three, going 11-of-22 from behind the arc. Saint Mary's was strong on the glass, keeping it in the game, outrebounding Utah 39-28. The Gaels went 15-of-17 from the free throw line.
"We played an incredibly gritty game today, completely different than the last game we played," Utah head coach Anthony Levrets said. "We shot the basketball incredibly well early in the game and then defended unbelievably well down the stretch to finish it out. I couldn't be prouder and happier for our kids."
The Utes led by as many as 10 points after hitting eight three's in the first half, and led 31-39 at halftime paced by 10 first-half points from Rodrigues.
Utah was paced in the second half by Plouffe, who had 15 second-half points. Although Saint Mary's tied the game right off the bat with a pair of free throws coming out of the locker room, Utah continued where it left off by scoring 10 of the next 12 points to take an eight-point lead, 41-33 with 16 minutes remaining.
Saint Mary's continued to answer Utah baskets, preventing the Utes from pulling away. Utah led by three points after a layup from Plouffe, 50-47, and a Gaels free throw and three-pointer pushed Saint Mary's into the lead, 51-50 with eight minutes remaining.
However, the three-pointer was the final field goal that Saint Mary's would make in the game, as it would go the final eight minutes without a field goal. Plouffe answered with six-straight points for Utah, giving the Utes a five-point lead with five minutes left, 56-51. Although the Gaels kept the lead close with free throws down the stretch, the Utes held on to the lead with tough defense.
Utah is 4-0 in the WNIT, defeating Long Beach State, San Diego, Pacific and Saint Mary's. Three of the four games have been on the road. The Utes played three games this week, beginning with San Diego on Monday, Pacific on Thursday and Saint Mary's on Saturday.
"We are tough," Levrets said. "We have managed to win three road games in this tournament. We have also won three games in one week - two of three on the road. To do that you have to have kids that are tough. You're not going to always feel good, physically, when you are playing like this, but they have a fortitude about them that showed up today, especially down the stretch when we needed to make some defensive plays."


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I am looking for a safe cycling route for a minitour from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins. If you have any suggestions or can point me towards a guide book that might show a route, please respond.
I am looking for a safe cycling route for a minitour from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins. If you have any suggestions or can point me towards a guide book that might show a route, please respond.
I bought this book a few months ago... come spring time I plan to be cycling a lot of the routes.
It shows routes from Colorado springs to Denver, and Denver to Ft. Collins. I'd check to see how easy it would be to link the two routes, but my book seems to have disappeared in the clutter. Hrmm... I know it's around here somewhere.
Probably buried under my computer stuff.
I read that book last summer at my library. There were a few others in print. I would recommend checking out your library.
You might also check out the roads that Elephant Rock uses, those would get you a good deal of the way from the Springs to Denver. From Castle Rock, there are good roads that will get you the rest of the way, on either the East or the West side of I-25. Once in Denver, get on the Cherry Creek trail to get through town, use the Platte River Trail north into Thornton. Then, I'd use Washington to get up to highway 7, take that to 287 and head North (you could also use less traveled roads that parallel 287)
Hot's good. Cold is good. Up, down. Those are good, too.
Hello Gadeux,
I rode this exact route, round trip, last summer. I took some different routes coming and going.
This CDOT map is a must. It's pretty accurate.
Here's what I'd recommend.
I took Hwy 83 North from Colorado Springs to Franktown. This was the least pleasant part of my trip, as the road has a rather small shoulder. The CDOT map wasn't real helpful on this count, as it showed a "less than 4 foot" shoulder. This is true, it was more like 1 foot. The road was surprisingly heavy with truck traffic. There was also a lot of road construction, small shoulders, and heavy traffic in North Colorado Springs. If I had it to do over again, I might pursue a longer route through the mountains. But this is by far the most direct route, and I must admit, I've been on worse roads. I would recommend pulling over if you see a Semi bearing down from both directions. If you go this route, bring a lot of water. From North Colorado Springs to Franktown (50 mi), there are no services and no water. However, you can stop at Castle Rock State Park and get water there, but at this point you're fairly close to Franktown. If you enter the State Parks (Cherry Creek and Castle Rock) by bicycle, it's free admission.
The Cherry Creek Trail can be picked up a little North of Franktown, South of Parker. Go North on Parker Road (83), from Franktown, until you see a sign for the Cherry Creek trail, directing you to the left. It runs parallel on the East side of Parker Road. I wasn't able to stay on the trail the entire time, because of construction, but if you're lucky, it will take you all the way to Cherry Creek Reservoir.
Here's a bicycling map of Denver for $3.95.
If you're like me, you'd probably rather get a free map. I found this Bike Trail map. It was accurate, but it did show some sections that weren't completed yet.
I rode all the way through Denver on Bike Trails. The Cherry Creek Trail (get off at Colorado Blvd and go a few blocks south for a nice breakfast or lunch at Wild Oats or other restaurants) goes from the Reservoir all the way downtown, where you can connect with the North Platte River Trail. Throughout my rides on these trails, I saw a lot of wildlife.
Take the North Platte River trail to 104th Street (it's supposed to be extended to 120th Street in 2007). Go East to Highway 85, and head North. This is a loud road, but there is a nice wide shoulder. Once I got as far North as the Highway 60 turnoff, I exited Highway 85, and took a quieter route. Hwy 60 West to Milliken, Hwy 257 North to Windsor. There are a couple of nice routes to Fort Collins from here. The main Windsor road turns into Carpenter road at I-25. Take Carpenter West to Timberline Road, North all the way into South Fort Collins. Or you can take County Road 5 (far West side of Windsor) along the scenic Poudre River to Harmony road, and head West into Fort Collins. Enjoy the bike trails and nice bike lanes throughout Fort Collins. You can hardly go wrong anywhere you ride.
Overall, this is a nice bike trip, especially from Cherry Creek Reservoir to Fort Collins. And if you can plan I-85 on a Sunday (I did this on my way to Colorado Springs), the truck traffic isn't near as bad, and the ride is much more pleasant.
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How long did it take to get from Denver to FortCollins? I live near the exit of the Platte trail at 104th ave. This could be an interesting trip for me this spring or summer.
Just a rough estimate like how many days.
Going through the Black Forest is an alternative to riding on Hwy 83. I've lived in Colorado Springs for 30 years. Haven't ridden Hwy 83 in the last 20. Going through the Black forest will about 10 miles.
Can't you ride through the Air Force Academy anymore? That's the way I'd go, from AFA South gate to North gate, on the bike path to Monument, Palmer Lake, Larkspur, Castle Rock then to Littleton, Golden Boulder and Ft Collins.
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
According to the RMCC newsletter I got earlier in the week, AFA is just now back open to ride through....
Yes its now open to ride through. We have friends that live in the springs and they have been riding roadbikes through there.
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I actually rode from Fort Collins to Cherry Creek State Park in one day, and I went through Ault, which added about 20 miles to the trip. You can easily make your trip in a day, and be at the Fort in time for dinner.Originally Posted by DataJunkie
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The bike way through the Air Academy is very sandy so plan accordingly. It's mostly hardpack but has bad patches. If you are doing it with a road bike, it'd be better to go through the AFA to the north gate and then go out the north gate to a bike way that parallels I-25. This will take you to the frontage road, eventually. Go up to Monument (you could cut to the west on Baptist Road to get away from the I-25 buzz) and then follow CO105 all the way to Sedalia. You'll have to take US 85 along here...not the most pleasant of rides but doable. Once you get to C-470, go west about a half a mile and pick up the Platte River Trail which you take all the way through town to 104th. It gets more involve from there. I plot it out on RouteSlip later and post it.Originally Posted by Shifty
Stuart Black
New! Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
New! Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
Days of Wineless Roads. Bed and Breakfasting along the KATY
Twisting Down the Alley. Misadventures in tornado alley.
An Good Ol' Fashion Appalachian Butt Whoopin'.
Okay. Here's 'a' route. You'd use pretty much the same route from Colorado Springs to Erie but when you get past Erie, the route is boooooooooringly straight. I mean the last 50 miles or so is absolutely due north...Yuck! If you want more variety, you could go further west into Boulder. It would be more interesting. Look at a map and try to head over to Hygeine and then north. By the way, I'm not positive that the road I mapped is paved all the way. If it isn't go a mile east or west and then head north.Originally Posted by cyccommute
Finding someplace to stay might be difficult. There is a campground on I-25 on Tomah Rd near Larkspur (about 40 miles) and there is a campground at Chatfield (about 75 miles). There is also a state park near Longmont at I-25 (east of the route on CO119) called Barbour Ponds that should have camping. I would not suggest doing stealth camping anywhere along this route since you'd be on private land and that's frowned on...highly! And stealth camping within Denver would just be asking for trouble
Hope this helps. If you want tips on how to go west into Boulder, just ask.
Stuart Black
New! Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
New! Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
Days of Wineless Roads. Bed and Breakfasting along the KATY
Twisting Down the Alley. Misadventures in tornado alley.
An Good Ol' Fashion Appalachian Butt Whoopin'.
Stealth camping is one of my favorite pastimes... too bad the campfire and sing-a-longs always give me away.Originally Posted by cyccommute
Seriously though I'm greatly enjoying this thread. When I get my road bike I am looking for rides between the Fort and the Springs and anywhere inbetween.
I'm glad RouteSlip was mentioned. I logged my ride there last summer, but forgot the name of the website. Anyhow, I logged in, and found my route:
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Full disclosure: The New York Times is reporting that Roger Federer has been dealing with the effects of mononucleosis, an energy-sapping virus. He was diagnosed in February and was told he may have had the virus since December 2007.
According to the report Federer only disclosed the illness now "because he did not want to detract from victories by Djokovic or Murray."
To read the full article, click here.
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Friday, March 7, 2008
THE LOW DOWN: Federer suffering from mononucleosis
Labels: media, Roger Federer, tennis, The New York Times
Maria Sharapova becomes Ocean Drive magazine's latest cover girl
Model impression: Maria "Shriek"apova, who was spotted looking stylish on the red carpet at the 10,000 BC premiere this week, is the cover story for the latest issue of Ocean Drive. The Aussie Open champ does her best supermodel impression, though we all know her best work is done on the tennis court.
Unfortunately, the interview is choppy and leaves much to be desired (no, she hasn't won the French Open yet.) But Maria does reveal she plans to play for the next 5 years, which only makes her 25-years old. Isn't that prime playing time for a tennis baller?
Here are the highlights:
Which players do you admire?
It's hard to admire other players because you have to go out there and play against them. You hope that you beat them. I've never been a person who had heroes or people to look up to. I've never thought that anyone was perfect, including myself. Everybody has flaws. I appreciate people's talent and ability. I try to pick up on the good things they do. But I never wanted to play the same way someone played or be like someone else.
What is your biggest indulgence?
I'm really into modern art. I hope I can buy an Ed Moses this year. That is my latest obsession.
Who are your favorite designers?
Chanel, Vera Wang and Tom Ford. I love fashion. I would love to incorporate my ideas into fashion—after tennis, of course.
Is it hard for you to date with your schedule?
It's more difficult versus living in one place. Any relationship that I have is long-distance because of the amount of travel. That makes it tough.
Are you dating anyone?
I don't talk about that.
What type of music do you listen to? Who are your favorite artists?
Dave Matthews, David Gray and Amy Winehouse. I can listen to hip-hop and then I can easily go into something slower like Counting Crows.
How long will you play tennis?
Until the day I have no interest in going to the practice court. Or when I don't feel like getting better. I will be playing for the next five years.
And what about life after tennis?
I don't see myself coaching. One of my goals is to open a small tennis academy back in Russia for young kids. They need a good indoor center. One of the reasons I left Russia is that they don't have too many good indoor centers, and the ones they had were pretty expensive. They were more for the rich than young kids growing up.
(images via OceanDrive.com)
Labels: magazines, Maria Sharapova, media, Ocean Drive, publishing, tennis
FASHION FIX: Venus is pretty in pink at Bangalore Open
Venus Williams (finally) sported some new tennis duds in Bangalore. The Wimbledon champion, who reached the semifinals at the tourney with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Russian headcase Vera Zvonareva, had been working some gear from last season's EleVen line recently (see photo here.) But the 27-year old looked pretty in a pink tank top and white flirty-skirt + visor.
Though it's not my fave look from the former World No. 1 (her afro-puff moment comes to mind) it's a refreshing change.
(images via STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)
Labels: Bangalore Open, EleVen, fashion, style, tennis, Venus Williams
Thursday, March 6, 2008
+ THURSDAY NETCORDS: A-Rod, Maria, Mary goes home...chairs + balls, Men's Vogue hearts tennis and more
- Fed-esque: Andy Roddick gets dumped by coach Jimmy Connors because he was "keeping him away from the golf course a little bit too much" then goes out and impressively defeats World No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals of Dubai 7-6, 6-2. Geez - these top tennis ballers are making the concept of full-time, traveling coaches seem so over. What else is over? A-Rod's recent "boorish" behavior, according to SI's Jon Wertheim.
- Tennis ball chair: I don't know about you, but I don't want that many balls against my ass...furniture or not.
- Anna K. news: Our favorite tennis non-baller is returning to the courts for World Team Tennis. The original Russian glamourpuss was booted by the Sacramento Capitals but landed firmly with the St. Louis Aces.
- Dork is as dork does: Maria "Shriek"apova spoke to Play Tennis Florida for their March issue and revealed that she's a different person off the court than the ultra-confident baller the world watches on the court. "I'm a goofball," said Maria. "I'm the dork [in my group of friends]. I give you Exhibit A (because she's given up Exhibit B already):
- Iconic moment: Frenchie sportswear label Lacoste - who sponsors most of the French ballers, Andy Roddick, and others - celebrates its 75th anniversary this year with its Spring/Summer 2008 collection.
- A long way from home: Tennis commentator and former baller Mary Carillo made a trip home to Naples, Florida to discuss her career and the state of tennis.
- Best Cross-Platform Sport Marketing: Conde Nast mag Men's Vogue is sponsoring the NetJets showdown between Roger Federer and Pete Sampras and has partnered with NBC Sports/MSNBC.com to provide editorial content on the historic match - including the display of the Men's Vogue logo on the web page. Now that's what I call intelligent and innovate cross-marketing - though I think this could have something to do with Anna Wintour's stalkerati moment...creepster!
(images via AP)
SIGHTING: Sharapova walks red carpet for 10,000 BC premiere
Maria Sharapova was spotted on the red carpet last night for the world premiere of 10,000 BC, which stars her good friend actress Camilla Belle. In fact, the Russian fashionista blogged about the upcoming premiere on her site saying,
I am really excited about this week.... it's finally Camilla's movie premier (sic) (10,000BC) and I can't wait to go and support her. Highly recommend to go see it on opening weekend!!(image via daylife.com)
Labels: celebrity, Maria Sharapova, media, movie premiere, photo op, tennis
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
THE LOW DOWN: Worldly Venus + Serena talk politics at Bangalore Open
Speaking up: Andy Roddick isn't the only tennis baller feeling all political these days. The 'Sisters Sledge' - Venus + Serena Williams - threw their racquets in the ring and spoke out on the emergence of minorities, more specifically African-Americans, in tennis and in the US at this week's Bangalore Open where they're playing singles and teaming up for doubles.
Eight-time Grand Slam champion Serena said, "Each year when I go on tour and at the US Open I see another black face. It just makes my heart smile." However, she emphasized the limited access to the sport for some saying, "Maybe sometime if you want to talk economics, then maybe it (tennis) might not be affordable for some black people. Traditionally you look at tennis, you see in the past, 50 years, maybe one black player there. Tennis is an expensive sport."
Older sister Venus, who is widely recognized as a catalyst for getting women equal prize money at Wimbledon, commented on the current U.S. presidential race saying, "It is good that minorities are coming to the fore, (Barack) Obama is an example." She was quick, though, to point out she's "equally happy" for Hillary Clinton though "it is tough for Afro-Americans in US."
Good for them. If only more athletes were as brave, worldly, and aware...
(image via AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Labels: Bangalore Open, media, politics, Serena Williams, tennis, Venus Williams
Quote of the Day: Jankovic on hygiene
I have been washing my teeth and face with Evian water only.So much for shattering the image of the spoiled professional athlete. Some PR please?
- Jelena Jankovic on her first visit to India for the Bangalore Open
(women's tennis blog, image via jj-jelenajankovic.com)
FASHION FIX: Nike goes 'new blue' for spring, leaves winter in the dust
Don't be blue: With another winter slowly creeping towards oblivion (I hope), the coming spring season's best hues are finally making their mark. The ladies were hit with yellow fever in Dubai, and now the blues are hitting hard around the globe.
Following Rafael Nadal's lead this season, Nike tennis ballers Roger Federer in Dubai, Serena Williams in Bangalore, and John Isner in Las Vegas were spotted working 'new blue' for the sportswear giant.
I'm loving the light, airy feel of the new blue + white moment from Nike. It's still clean + classic but with a smart, modern feel.
(images via AP + Getty)
Labels: fashion, John Isner, Nike, Roger Federer, Serena Williams, style, trends
THE LOW DOWN: A-Rod leans left, steps out of political closet
Sporting political muscle: Though most athletes tend to either shy away from political speak to focus "on their games", some do actually embrace the moment. The most recent example was, of course, the out-spoken Novak Djokovic and his video support for Serbian unity.
Now, Andy Roddick has cracked open his political closet door - well, almost. In his latest blog entry the former US Open champ, who reached the second round at the Dubai Tennis Championships this week, teases us with left-leaning talk by saying,
The Democratic election has been a lot of fun to follow…. regardless of who one votes for it has been a blast to read about and follow… I am hoping the actual presidential election will be just as much fun!Frankly, I'm loving the political speak...and the gratuitous belly shot!
(image via HASSAN AMMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Labels: Andy Roddick, media, player blogs, politics, tennis
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
SIGHTING: Nole drops tennis racquet for skis, hits the slopes at Ski Dubai
Novak Djokovic was spotted hitting the slopes at Ski Dubai, the world's largest snow park to match the soon-to-be world's tallest building Burj Dubai, before his first match against Marin Cilic at the Dubai Tennis Championships this week. The Aussie Open champ won his match against the rising Croat 6-4, 6-3 without facing a break point and will face the French magician Fabrice Santoro in the next round.
Nole's no stranger to the ski slopes of course - his father Grdjan was a champion skiier back in Serbia. "I took up skiing before I learnt to play tennis at the age of four," said Nole. "Skiing is a great sport, it's a lot of fun and it's my biggest passion."
(images via dubaitennischampionships.com)
THE LOW DOWN: Hingis to make another return to tennis play (well...sort of)
Hard habit to break: It seems she just can't stay away. Former top-ranked tennis baller Martina Hingis, who famously re-retired after testing positive for cocaine and receiving a 2-year ban, is returning to the courts. The Swiss Miss has accepted an invitation to play at the Liverpool International in June, though she could only enter the non-competitive Legends section of the draw. Martina told the press,
I have heard a lot about Liverpool over the years and all the fine work they have done up there to develop tennis in a region that is mostly famous for football. l am very much looking forward to playing the event and to seeing what's on offer in the European Capital of Culture.The 27-year old will be joined in the Legends group by fellow retirees Goran Ivanisevic and Pat Cash.
(image via vyhledavace.net)
SIGHTING: Pat Rafter works Bonds' runway for Melbourne Fashion Week
Like a fine wine: Tennis Hall of Famer Pat Rafter was spotted looking casual-cool on the runway during Bonds' Pop UP Show at the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. The Aussie star is an ambassador for the underwear label (though he sometimes doesn't wear any) and took part in the show for Melbourne Fashion Week.
Some things just get better with age...
(image via Getty)
Labels: fashion, Melbourne Fashion Week, Pat Rafter, style, tennis, underwear
Monday, March 3, 2008
THE LOW DOWN: Will Federer skip the Olympics? "I still have not made up my mind...," says Roger
In the hot seat: Is the pressure of possibly being the greatest tennis player of all time finally getting to the usually unflappable Roger Federer?
The Swiss Stylist, who has expressed his desire to participate in the Olympics and win the gold medal, sung a different tune this week when he revealed that the decision to travel to Beijing for the Summer Games has not been finalized yet.
Federer, who was defeated by Britain's Andy Murray in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships today (his first opening-round loss since 2004), was disillusioned by his experience at the 2004 Athens Games and told the press in Dubai,
It was quite difficult in Athens. Taking the bus and not being in control of my own schedule, and many people recognising me in the village. It was not as enjoyable as Sydney, which I loved. I still have not made up my mind (whether to play in Beijing).
The 12-time Grand Slam champion is two Slams away from matching Pete Sampras' record of 14 major titles. However, he lost the Australian Open title to Novak Djokovic (sour grapes?), the French Open - played on Fed's least favorite clay surface - has been owned by Rafael Nadal for the last three years, and now the opening-round loss to Murray in Dubai.
With the Olympics falling in between Wimbledon and the US Open, is Fed leaving the door open for him to focus on the last two majors of the year?
(image via AP)
Labels: 2008 Olympics, media, Roger Federer, tennis
Quote of the Day: Fed on Aussie Open loss to Nole
"It must have taken me a maximum of two hours to get over the loss."Hmmm - could this be another sour grapes moment on the tennis tour?
- A prickly Roger Federer on his Aussie Open loss to eventual champ and growing nemesis Novak Djokovic
(image via TIMOTHY A. CLARY/GETTY IMAGES)
Labels: Australian Open, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, tennis
FASHION FIX: Rafa visits Burj Dubai, works graphic Nike design
Building confidence: Rafael Nadal is looking to get his tennis game in gear this week after disappointing losses at the Aussie Open and in Rotterdam. The Spaniard is the No. 2 seed at this week's Dubai Tennis Championships, which will also feature World No. 1 Roger Federer and Aussie Open champ Novak Djokovic.
Rafa was spotted doing a photo op at the construction site for the Burj Dubai, which will become the world's tallest building when completed. He's also working a new + interesting black and white Nike-designed graphic pocket-tee.
Does anyone out there have more info on his shirt?
(images via AP Photo/Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, HO + e-architect.co.uk)
Labels: Dubai Tennis Championships, fashion, Nike, Rafael Nadal, style, tennis
FASHION FIX: The ladies trade out tennis gear for saris at Bangalore Open
So sari: The ladies of the WTA Tour are setting their sites on an Indian summer as they gather for this week's Bangalore Open...all except homegirl Sania Mirza, who controversially pulled out of the tournament due to the treatment she's been receiving from her country. The players worked the runway donning traditional saris for the occasion.
Serb Jelena Jankovic, a Sania supporter, is top seed in the tourney, which also includes a rare non-Grand Slam appearance by both Venus and a "recovered" Serena Williams.
(images via STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)
Labels: Bangalore Open, fashion, tennis, WTA Tour
Sunday, March 2, 2008
INSTANT REPLAY: a look back at the week's top tennis plays
One hairy situation solved, another one to go
The state of A-Rod's game
Yellow fever hits Dubai
The falconer and his muse
My non-dom is bettah than yours
Maria gives good quote
Pennetta does periwinkle
Same dress, different color
Alona does Anna
Bringing home baby
Separated at Birth: Dani vs. American Idol
MONDAY: Serena, the Grafassi's, see Maria ride it...Matt vs. A-Rod, Wii goes Oscar and more


text: 21 January 2002 archive See all show photos ONE of the couture's most famous supporters, millionairess Mouna Ayoub is backing Jean Paul Gaultier as the natural heir to the couture crown, following Yves Saint Laurent's impending retirement. "One must never say that couture will die with the departure of Saint Laurent, or the departure of anyone else," Ayoub, who is possible the world's most prolific collector of haute couture, told Reuters yesterday, "because there will always be a Gaultier who will replace him and who will work wonders." And she's not alone. With Naomi Campbell and Carla Bruni on the catwalk and the likes of Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chelsea Clinton in his front row, anti-fur protestors were but a brief distraction at Gaultier's show in Paris yesterday. The designer's breathtaking collection featured flippy flesh-coloured tutus and elegant black jersey dresses, which were scooped below breasts to uncover wisps of red chiffon that tied behind the neck. Others came piped in white, falling to kick pleats at the knees that rose to reveal white silk lining, while Gaultier's trademark wit was apparent in dresses made of multi-coloured kipper ties, sewn together to form stiff bustiers over shredded knee-length skirts, and a fairytale gown hung with a bold array of large-leaf foliage; and Naomi made a splash in a high-waisted black pencil skirt, accessorised only with a red beaded beret. (21 January 2002, AM) Continue reading Back to top


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Lets face it. Being a hospitalized kid sucks. Apart from the obvious physical issues, the mental issues such as boredom can keep sick children feeling very low indeed. Design team, Jetske Verdonk, have come up with this simple and fun solution to trailing a drip frame around all day.
The Zieken+Huis is a drip-cum-tricycle which allows the pint-size patient to zip around the ward whilst remaining attached to their vital fluids and intravenous medication. In addition to this three wheeling wonder, the release of a curtain frame which drapes around the patient's bed has also been launched.
The frame allows 'get well' cards to be hung around it, acting as a decoration for the otherwise sterile looking beds. by Bill T
Cool designs does not have to be limited to spaces used by adults as we see with these unique areas designed to enhance places of learning.
Forget the "concrete jungle" archetypal school, complete with bars on windows. This school's hallways (pictured above) have been inspired by the imaginary landscape of the Silver Dragon. This environment is created to read like a story book; the further you progress through the hallways, the higher your senses are delighted. With shimmering walls, glowing ceilings and a fantasy feel resonating throughout the architecture, the children engage on a higher social level within the school environment.
Traditionally, libraries also suffer from an image problem. Hordes of books coupled with the 'sshhhh' factor doesn't make for a very cool environment. By installing colorful interiors such as oversized book sleeves, a learning space such as the library is transformed into an area which kids see as cool, and therefore are inspired to read and learn.
A tree-inspired day care center is a far cry from fake grass enhanced playgrounds. The tree trunk is the very foundation of the center, and as such creates the security blanket for the entire structure. This center evokes a warmth which the youngsters respond to. Dream Blossoms grow out of the trunk and create sleeping areas for the habitants to snuggle and nap in. Above the blossoms sprawls the canopy of the
In Lego-bright contrast to the gloomy fate H.C. Andersen prescribed to his original Little Mermaid (that would be death, no less), today's blond little school-going Danes are encouraged to do the sort of things for which some of us got spanked.
Visual artists have created a school with fascinating interiors that feature high window seating for watching the world outside; green platforms with round, red holes where discussions can buzz and bubble, and large upholstered tubes where kids can hide with a good book or spend some time alone. You can do that at school? Unfortunately, only in Denmark.
Children's bookstores, on the other hand, have not suffered by the traditional libraries image problem. Generally, these stores are designed and merchandised to inspire children to enter and purchase.
The Kids Republic bookstore in Beijing (pic below) has taken that concept and run with it. Incorporating the core design elements of a kid's playground, these slipperyslide-inspired-shelves house books in an incredibly fun way. Breaking from the traditional table and chair reading areas, padded L shaped reading stools are used and enjoyed by tiny readers. Dull lighting is replaced by snakelike fittings that radiate a variety of colors whilst providing adequate light to read with.
The choices for kid friendly restaurants, where both parents and kids can enjoy a meal and an environment which caters to both are rare finds. McDonalds have probably lost count of how many times they have dialed 911 to have a parent rescued from inside a playground slippery tube where they have been stuck whilst attempting to get their child to come home.
In a beautiful Dutch village, 10 minutes out from Amsterdam's centre, a parents dream like, kid friendly restaurant exists.
Praq is a restaurant where parents, outerwear and even business people can enjoy a meal and co exist without complaint. Children feel the sense of independence by being seated in a kids area within moms view. There, they can play with giant puzzles, draw, and order from their very own menu whilst seated at their specially designed kids table. The secret to the restaurants success is the use of space.
Praq has been careful in separating these eating spaces whilst still allowing a parent to keep an eye on their child. The light spacious room creates the impression of separation, whilst keeping safety in mind. The children's food is so good, they don't need to promote it by adding in a free toy.
Traditional cooking schools have always looked like a giant classrooms full of mini kitchens. A kids cooking school in Japan has broken that mould by having design guru Moureaux create a studio space and new corporate identity for them.
The cooking school, which is set in the heart of a shopping area in the city of Kyoto, has created a space which eliminates the intimidation factor which students encounter when entering cooking schools. By seating the class amongst brightly colored decor and sleek table and chairs, the environment feels less like a class room. Here the kids can not only cook in the casual teaching environment, they can socialize and eat their homework too.
With U.K parents said to be lashing out a cool GBP 1 billion a year on kids birthday parties, its easy to see that the kids party industry is a gold mine. As children's taste develop, so too does their demand for the latest and greatest (think Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka). For some parents, the age old sleep over is being replaced by a girls night out at Alton Towers Hotel in th U.K.
The hotel has it's own children's Sleep over Suite, a theme room which caters for up to six sleeping princesses who can indulge in the ultimate girls slumber party. The sound proof room is perfect for 3am giggling fits and Justin Timberlake blearing throughout the night.
The suite is divided into two areas. The party area features an over the top entertainment system, karaoke machine ('I will Survive' - Chipmunk version) mini dance floor and a pink fridge filled with ice cream. The sleeping area boasts chill out beds which connect into one big bed for six occupants, a wall to wall mirrored bathroom which is flowing with pampering products from U.K's leading top brand superdrug (limitless branding opportunities here).
At £300 pounds per night (US $560), mom and dad have outsourced the kids birthday party and only have to worry about the drop off and pick up.
Offering a kid a lollypop to welcome them into hospital is so 1950's. Today, that sort of a deal just doesn't cut it.
Instead of bribery through confectionary, this children's hospital in London has reinvented the concept of infirmary and transformed it into inFUNery. Adorned with cheerful, gently winding hospital corridors which lead to wards which look more like kids bedrooms, the hospital has mapped out themes for each of the wards. From the Seashell Ward located on Beach level one, through to the Sky level, each kids ward uses decor and medical equipment that is colorful, creative looking and non threatening.
With a glass atrium dividing the hospital, patients from either side of the wards can look across to see an inviting garden filled with plants, trees and yes, Juggling clowns.
From cool schools to hip learning environments, kids design is forging ahead, meaning the next generation of adults will have been exposed to the elements of cool since childhood, creating adults with a hightened sense of good design. If you know of other interesting kids spaces, let us know. by Bill T
It's the ultimate experience for kids, a night in an alternative universe at the Kids Sphere Hotel in Belgium. Known as the Atomium, a replica of an iron molecule with nine aluminum spheres (built for the World Fair of 1958), the complex has been renovated and updated to include overnight accommodation for childrens dubbed the Kid Sphere hotel - set amongst the fascinating sci-fi exhibitions and original spheres. Kids are entertained by a packed calendar of events including films and there's a restaurant at the top of the structure boasting panoramic view of the city of Brussels. by Bill T
No longer just the world's "workroom", China is rapidly becoming an international hot spot with a growing middle class hungry for western luxuries and comforts. Beijing kids are the latest to be treated to some western style indulgence with Kids Republic, a children's bookstore that transports it' pint sized customers into a delightful fairytale world full of color and fantasy complete with massive story telling screens and play areas. It's haven for little imaginations in the heart of one of the biggest cities in the world. by Bill T
There's nothing like a picture of an earless dog drawn in crayon on your 85 dollar a meter wallpaper. Well this little gem of an idea will keep those little artists off your walls and on to paper, where they belong.
It is not only a clever idea, the children's paper chair also makes a statement about the amount of paper we use. As the paper is used, the front end roll becomes larger and grows with the child. The paper size is roughly 500 meters. That's a lot of earless dogs. by Bill T


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I had a great time at last night's Transition Ottawa Meet Up.
We did an impromptu social since our speaker couldn't make it out. About a dozen people showed up who missed the cancellation message or came anyway.
We went around and had folks introduce themselves and tell others about transition/permaculture related projects they were working on or were interested in.…
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Thanks Ron, nice to find a group like this.
Thanks for adding me Ron - looking forward to trying to keep up... cheers,K
Hello Ron, I am bringing someone with me. Where do I indicate this on the attending feature, if this it is necessary to notify. Please confirm. Thanks. Lynne
Thank you Ron-good to be here...
Hello Ron:
Just found this part of the site. Three of us showed up for the meet-up event Mar 27 1900 Montgomery Legion.
Not sure if you are aware but the Legion appears to be doing renovations and have moved the bar to the downstairs area TO uses. The adjacent space appears to be vacant and unused but it appears that the bar patrons have to pass through this area to access the basement washroom. Didn't ask the Legion members how long the renovations will take but thought it would be good to give you a heads-up just in case. Not sure how this comment operates and/or if you get a notification so will also send an email.
Hi Ron,
I'm looking forward to your beer making course on the 27th. There are three of us, counting my friend. Could you please send details?
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On top of the players the Nets already have on board, you also remember that they will most likely have a very, very high draft pick. And if they score the top pick, you can add Kentucky freshman sensation John Wall to that up-and-coming young core. Unfortunately, the Knicks can't say the same, as they owe their almost guaranteed lottery pick to the Utah Jazz from a previous trade. Plus, the Nets are a couple of million dollars under the cap than the Knicks, giving them a little bit more flexibility. Yeah, Vandeweghe doesn't have any head coaching experience, but even if he doesn't pan out, as GM, he can easily return to the front office and hire someone else. Kiki is a brilliant GM, who helped turn around the Nuggets earlier this decade.
via Summer of 2010 Watch: Nets A Much Better Option Than The Knicks | Dime Magazine (www.dimemag.com) : Daily NBA News, NBA Trades, NBA Rumors, Basketball Videos, Sneakers.
Dime Lays out the case for Brooklyn over the Garden, echoing my thoughts on the matter. Something else to consider is the sole ownership aspect of the Nets. While the Nets have certainly been around a long time, their history isn't nearly as storied as the Knicks. The Knicks have Frazier and Ewing and all sorts of history. Veteran sometimes prefer those places with a winning tradition because, obviously, in the NBA, it's easier to get back to the championship than it is to break through. But this crop of free agents is looking to make their own name, to become Global Icons, and that will be easier for franchises they're essentially building from the ground up. With a new home, a new arena, a new logo, a new owner, a new brand, the Nets will give them the best opportunity to wholly own their franchise's legend if they succeed. I think that's a lot more alluring than dealing with Knick fans.
I won't go into it now, but I do want to plop this in your radar. If the Nets do secure the number one pick, they would then have cap space, Lopez-Roberts-Lee-Williams, and the option of either selecting John Wall and trading Devin Harris, a top flight point guard, or trading the top pick, who will be a premium player at the highest premium position in the league. That's a ridiculous amount of flexibility.


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Boys' Basketball: Donahue Runs Away With Victory Against Paden City
January 25, 2012 MCMECHEN — If you are going to be able to play with Bishop Donahue's boys' basketball team, you had better be able to run the floor on both ends, and you might want to score points early in the gam. more »»
Girls' Basketball: Bishop Donahue 51, Paden City 44
January 25, 2012 McMECHEN — Kelsey Schau dropped in 16 points and Bishop Donahue rallied to outscore the Wildcats by a 21-11 margin in the fourth quarter to post a victory. more »»
GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Shorthanded Bellaire St. John Topples Paden City
January 15, 2012 PADEN CITY — You will probably never hear Bellaire St. more »»
BOYS' BASKETBALL: Paden City 66, St. John 29
January 15, 2012 PADEN CITY — Geoffrey Bidwell scored 18 points as Paden City beat St. John. Kennedy Cain added 14 for the Wildcats (3-8) while Drew Bidwell put up 13. St. more »»
Boys Basketball: Bishop Donahue 93 Paden City 56
January 11, 2012 PADEN CITY — D. T. Meeker scored 16 points as Bishop Donahue defeated Paden City. Garrett Yurisko and Wylie Koontz had 12 points apiece for the Bishops (9-1) while Austin Ghaphery put up 10. more »»
Girls Basketball: Bishop Donahue 47 Paden City 38
January 11, 2012 PADEN CITY — Renae Kudla scored 13 points as Bishop Donahue got its first victory of the season. Morgan Carroll and Kelsey Schau had nine points apiece for the Bishops (1-10). more »»
Boys Basketball: St. John 53, Paden City 52, OT
January 8, 2012 BELLAIRE — Garret Holubeck scored 14 points including the game-winning 3-pointer right before the buzzer in overtime to give St. John its first victory of the seaso. more »»
Girls Basketball: St. John 61, Paden City 35
January 8, 2012 BELLAIRE — Kristen Russell scored 19 points as St. John beat Paden City. Rosa Young and Haley DeCoy added 14 and 10 points, respectively, for the Irish. more »»
Girls' Basketball: Tyler Consolidated 51, Paden City 35
January 3, 2012 MIDDLEBOURN — Sydney Reed scored 16 points and pulled down eight rebounds as she led Tyler Consolidated past Paden City. more »»
BOYS BASKETBALL: Clay-Battelle 63, Paden City 42
December 23, 2011 PADEN CITY — Behind 22 points from Logan Opyoke and another 12 by Jarrett Roush, Clay-Battelle (5-1) broke open a tie game after one quarter and went on to knock off Paden City (2-5). more »»
Paden City Boys Drop Hundred
December 21, 2011 Paden City 77, Hundred 40 PADEN CITY — Kennedy Cain and Zach Heasley each scored 17 points as Paden City beat Hundred. more »»
Hundred Girls Stymie Paden City
December 21, 2011 Hundred 46, Paden City 31 PADEN CITY — Katie Tennant earned a double-double scoring 13 points and grabbing 15 rebounds as Hundred beat Paden City. more »»
Girls Basketball: Paden City 40 Wood County Christian 29
December 20, 2011 PADEN CITY — Dominque Craft scored a game-high 14 points, including one 3-pointer as Paden City got its first victory of the season. more »»
Girls Basketball: Beallsville 61, Paden City 19
December 18, 2011 PADEN CITY — Julie Bilyeu scored a game-high 18 points and had seven rebounds as Beallsville beat Paden City. Allison Campbell also had 16 points for the Blue Devils (4-2). more »»
Boys Basketball: Beallsville 69 Paden City 39
December 18, 2011 PADEN CITY — Sam Jackson scored a game-high 20 points as Beallsville beat Paden City. Josh Baldridge and Tyler Spence both had 11 points for the Blue Devils (5-0). more »»
Cameron Girls Top Paden City
December 14, 2011 Cameron 51, Paden City 33 CAMERON — Dominque Craft scored a game-high 20 points for Paden City, but it was not enough to overcome Cameron (3-1). more »»
Cameron Boys Explode Past Paden City
December 14, 2011 Cameron 66 Paden City 37 PADEN CITY — Ryan Hughes finished with a double-doublewith 10 points and 10 rebounds as Cameron downed Paden City. more »»
Boys Basketball: Bob and Sharon Burton Holiday Classic (at Paden City)Consolation Paden City 59 Hundred 49
December 11, 2011 Geoffrey Bidwell scored a game-high 22 points to lead Paden City. Zach Heasley added 14 points for the Wildcats (1-2), while Drew Bidwell had 12. more »»
Boys' Basketball: Valley Tops Paden City, Hundred Falls in Burton Classic
December 10, 2011 PADEN CITY — Valley did it from the inside and the outside Friday night while Paden City's youthful boys' basketball team struggled with turnovers and foul trouble all night long. more »»
Girls Basketball: Hundred 40, Paden City 26
December 7, 2011 HUNDRED — Katie Tennant led the way with 12 points as Hundred (2-1) started quickly then outscored Paden City (0-3) 17-6 in the second half en route to victory. more »»


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Hull take thriller
Paul Cooke?s late drop goal from 45 metres ensured Hull?s recent renaissance hit new heights on Thursday night as they claimed their first win, by 27-26, at St Helens for 18 years.
The 6ft 5in stand-off scored one try and claimed six goals to help Hull edge a thrilling encounter which saw Saints field 14 men early in the second half.
But even with the extra man they could still not beat Hull, whose eighth successive win enhanced their reputation as serious contenders for the engage Super League title.
Last season?s Challenge Cup winners made an inauspicious start to the season and a 46-0 home defeat to Saints in March ultimately cost previous coach John Kear his job.
But Australian coach Peter Sharp is proving an astute coach as his replacement and this victory was every bit as deserved as it was enthralling.
Hull opened the scoring after seven minutes with a try created by Richard Swain, whose searing pace and clever footwork left Saints skipper Paul Sculthorpe for dead.
Swain?s diagonal run took him towards the left-hand corner and he showed outstanding awareness to provide a neat offload to the onrushing Kirk Yeaman, who crossed for his 21st try of the season.
Cooke landed the goal from a difficult angle but the response from St Helens was immediate and emphatic as they ran in three tries during a blistering nine-minute spell.
Great Britain full-back Paul Wellens collected Jason Cayless? pass to cross in the left-hand corner for a try awarded after being reviewed by video referee.
Three minutes later Ade Gardner narrowly failed to maintain control of the ball after good work from Jamie Lyon, but on the quarter-hour mark Saints claimed their second try.
The Merseysiders opted to run a penalty 20 metres out and intelligent handling from hooker Keiron Cunningham sent giant prop Nick Fozzard crashing over.
And four minutes later, Jon Wilkin and Wellens combined to send the in-form Sean Long bursting clear from 20 metres to cross between the posts.
With Lyon converting two of his side?s three tries, Saints established 16-6 advantage but Hull, who lost Yeaman to a serious ankle ligament injury after 24 minutes - almost certainly ruling him out of Great Britain?s forthcoming Test against New Zealand at Knowsley Road - hit back in style.
After 26 minutes, an exquisite offload from Cooke found Gareth Raynor unmarked on the left flank and he raced into the corner.
Cooke failed to convert but after Richard Horne?s superb dummy took him over the line after 37 minutes, Cooke added the extras and a penalty to send Hull in at the break 20-16 ahead.
Cooke was leading by example and got on the scoresheet after 50 minutes when he displayed outstanding dexterity to follow up his own kick and ground in the left-hand corner.
But Saints continued to probe and two tries in six minutes from Lyon and Gardner drew them level at 26-26 with 13 minutes remaining.
The match looked certain to end deadlocked, but Cooke had other ideas and his first drop goal for six years handed Hull a deserved victory.
St Helens: Wellens, Gardner, Lyon, Talau, Meli, Pryce, Long, Fozzard, Cunningham, Cayless, Gilmour, Wilkin, Sculthorpe. Replacements: Roby, V. Anderson, Graham, Fa?asavalu.
Hull: Tony, Blacklock, Domic, Yeaman, Raynor, Cooke, R. Horne, Dowes, Swain, Carvell, Radford, McMenemy, Washbrook. Replacements: Lee, Wheeldon, King, G.Horne.
St Helens (16) 26. Tries: Wellens, Fozzard, Long, Lyon, Gardner. Goals: Lyon 3.
Hull (20) 27. Tries: Yeaman, Raynor, R. Horne, Cooke. Goals: Cooke 5. Drop Goals: Cooke.
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Written in an accessible way for the general reader and the undergraduate student, this book provides a fresh perspective on American politics and political history. It has often been said that the idea of a left originated in the French Revolution and is distinctively European; Zaretsky argues, by contrast, that America has always had a vibrant and powerful left. And he shows that in those critical moments when the country returns to itself, it is on its left/liberal bases that it comes to feel most at home.
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"An exciting and necessary book for anyone interested in the
history and future of US politics. Eli Zaretsky has written a
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Introduction: America's Three Great Crises and Three Lefts 1
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I showed my girlfriend the "We Are Mizzou" video and wanted to show her the Kansas response video but I can't find it. It's not the video with the three guys sitting on the bench. Anyone know what it is called? For fun, here is the Mizzou video:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vMfqosdDbY]"We Are Mizzou" Music Video - YouTube[/ame]
Congrats to Mizzou for confirming every known sterotype of white people trying to rap.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShX_bs-KUBk]"We Are KU" Music Video - YouTube[/ame]
The KU response is hilarious! LOL!
I love the Wayne's World reference in the beginning when he explains Kalamazoo.
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"We Are KU" Music Video - YouTube
That's not the one I was looking for. It's some huge white guy.
Bahaha! My respect for KU just went up a few notches with that video. "Hey, aren't they going to the SEC?" "Yeah, that makes sense, because they're a state in the south. *awkward silence as they break the fourth wall*"
Go Sssssssssyclones!
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That's not the one I was looking for. It's some huge white guy.
Oh my bad haha. I like this one though
I had to turn the missouri one off. that is horrible
Probably why they stood at the sec bus stop so long. Sec guys wondered if they wanted a bunch of jumping around d bags. They fit well with Tammy too, I can totally see these guys circle jerking in the mason.
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Oh my bad haha. I like this one though
Yeah I enjoyed that one as well. I just wanted the KU response because it is probably worse than the Mizzou song.
They might have removed it to avoid the embarassment. Mizzou is proud of that song though. My friend that lives in Missouri said they play it on TV all the time.
Didn't some students from Iowa city community college do one too?
Not this guy. More boy bandish.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-11uB9mXZw&feature=youtube_gdata_player]Iowa Gurls Official Music Video - YouTube[/ame]
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Selectmen have thrown their support behind an effort to get a traffic signal installed near the intersection of Route 3 and Route 3A.
Town Planner Thomas Broadrick met with the board Monday night to update selectmen on a plan by the state to revamp the intersection's off and on ramps, widely considered to be a traffic hazard. The project has been on MassHighway's radar for a number of years, but the proposed expansion of the Island Creek housing development just down the road may push the project up the state's list of priorities, according to Broadrick and representatives from Island Creek's developer.
The process is long and filled with paper work. Duxbury (and neighboring Kingston) would eventually want the intersection to appear on the state's TIP, or Transportation Improvement Project, list.
Before that, Broadrick said, the Board of Selectmen needs to sign off on a proponents project letter information form, which will then be brought to the attention of state transportation agencies.
"You can always yank things off the list but it takes a lot to put them on,†he said.
Broadrick said the goal would be to get the project in line for a round of transportation funding in 2013-15.
"It would make sense to at least get this on the list,†he said. He said that in his time as a planner he has seen projects take up to 10 years to move from being placed on the TIP list to groundbreaking.
Jeff Dirk, a traffic engineers with the Island Creek team, told selectmen the installation of traffic signals is separate from his project, saying that the additional traffic from the development won't significantly add to the already messy interchange.
"The crash rate at those intersections is already twice the state average,†he said.
At prior Zoning Board of Appeals hearings Dirk and others have suggested the Island Creek project may help speed up the process of getting the state to install signals.
"It really does give you juice,†said Island Creek consultant Ed Marchant.
Board of Selectmen Chairwoman Betsy Sullivan said signals at at the Exit 10 off ramps are "long overdue.â€
"We've had people die there,†she said. "A month doesn't go by that we don't have an accident there.â€
In other business:
• The board tabled discussion of a recent opinion, issued by Town Counsel Robert Troy, stating that the board's vote not to ratify Town Manager Richard MacDonald's decision not to renew the contract of Police Chief Mark DeLuca had no legal standing. Selectmen Christopher Donato and Sullivan decided to wait until the Aug. 17 meeting so that Jon Witten, who was not in attendance Monday night, could participate in the discussion.
• MacDonald informed the board that he has appointed a crematory building committee, consisting of cemetery trustees, a citizen at large, the cemetery commissioner, the DPW director and the building inspector, to study how to best use $80,000 appropriated at Town Meeting for a new crematory facility.
• The board learned that a grant would be used to study the possibility of building a wind turbine on several town-owned sites, including the high school, the Alden and Chandler schools, the middle school, town hall, transfer station, DPW facility and the North Hill Golf Course.
• The board learned, from MacDonald, that the US Postal Service is facing a financial crisis and is studying the possibility of closing the Snug Harbor post office. MacDonald stressed that the facility had not been officially reccomended for closing, merely that the Postal Service is studying 3,200 offices across the country.
"I know the postal service is having some severe financial problems,†he said. "I will be following this up, I will be keeping everybody informed.â€


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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Iowa State's Nate McCoy earned his Canadian Tour card last week, but his professional career will have to be put on hold. The senior from West Des Moines fired a final-round 71 this afternoon at the NCAA Bowling Green Regional, finishing seventh at 212 (73-68-71) and earning an individual spot at the 2012 NCAA Championships, May 29-June 3 at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
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Mr b wrote:It's 305 now !
Mr b wrote:instead of preaching it behind a keyboard
I ask God daily to take out all homosexuals in the manner of HIS choosing, along with all those who advocate this form of behavior!
God was in charge yesterday, is in charge today, and will be in charge tomorrow!


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The EU is a much prettier version of tyranny than rough Russia.
One might say it is the feminine version. It dresses nicely. It has its hair styled. It paints its nails. It smiles. It thinks it is alluring. It spends more than it has.
It is easy to understand why half the Ukrainians want to live with it. With her. Rather than with unshaven, violent, shabby, ill-mannered Daddy Russia.
Her corruption is prettily packaged. Her despotism has a gentle touch. It really is more pleasant to live with her than with him.
But it would be better for the Ukrainians if they just took off on their own.
Bruce Bawer offers that very advice. He writes at Front Page:
It's in Europe, and it's huge – after Russia and the top five EU members, it has Europe's largest population, and twice as many inhabitants as all the Scandiavian countries put together – but Ukraine isn't a nation we often think of in the West, except when, as in recent days, it's in the midst of a crisis. It has spent most of its history being conquered and brutalized by its more powerful neighbors, and in the last century underwent one savage chapter after another: 1.5 million people died in the civil war that ended with its absorption into the USSR; millions more died in Stalin's deliberately engineered famine in 1932-33; during World War II, Hitler slaughtered an additional three million in what was intended to be the first stage of a program of exterminating two-thirds of the country's population and enslaving the rest.
And, it should be added, its own historical record of brutal persecution and oppression is fully equal to any of its neighbors'. (See here and here and here.)
Today, unsurprisingly, Ukraine is a basket case of a country, riddled with corruption and living in the shadows of its historic horrors. It's also a linguistically and philosophically divided land, torn between a western chunk whose people speak Ukrainian and identify with Europe and an eastern chunk whose people speak Russian and still feel an attachment to their massive neighbor to the east.
Viktor Yahukovych, the corrupt, autocratic president who disappeared last weekend in the face of mounting public unrest, is a Russiophile whose fatal error was his decision to strengthen bonds with Moscow (which coveted Ukraine as a key ally in a new Eurasian Union) and to turn down a free-trade agreement with the EU; most of the rioters who sent him packing are Europe-oriented types, the majority of whom are eager to see Ukraine become a Western-style democracy free of Putin's influence, but some of whom, it should be noted, are neo-Nazis who look westward to Germany for the least attractive of reasons.
Most of the Ukrainians who favor European ties also want to see their country join the EU – which, in their eyes, as one Swedish newspaper put it the other day, is "above all…a symbol of a society free of corruption". Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister who was sprung from prison on Saturday after Yahukovych took it on the lam – and whose own years in office (ending in 2010) were far from corruption-free – told the Kiev crowds shortly after her release that she's "sure that Ukraine will be a member of the European Union in the near future and this will change everything".
Change everything! What is it that makes presumably liberty-loving Eastern European politicians talk about the EU as if it were a magic freedom elixir, a miracle cure for former victims of tyranny?
I suppose part of the explanation is that these politicians travel to the great cities of Western Europe and take in the relative freedom, the relative prosperity, and the relative lack of corruption and thuggery, and assume that all this has something to do with the EU. And part of it, naturally, is the ceaseless stream of pro-EU propaganda poured out by the Western European media and, not least, by the Western European politicians whom the likes of Tymoshenko consort with when they visit the West.
Yet how odd that the superstate's economic woes haven't put a dent in the magic for people like Tymoshenko. How odd that even the merest glimpse of the way things work in Brussels – where corruption is, needless to say, very much alive and well, even though it doubtless falls far short of Ukrainian levels – doesn't give them pause. And how odd that when they witness the arrogance that's characteristic of virtually all Brussels bigwigs – their habit of responding to any reasonable criticism of the EU not with cogent arguments but with vicious ad hominem attacks – they don't immediately recognize that they're observing tyrants in the making, the sort of folks that you'd think they'd had more than enough of over the centuries, thank you very much.
Take European Council president Herman van Rompuy, that colorless, Politburo-style mediocrity, who in a 2011 speech blithely ignored the essentially undemocratic nature of the EU, describing it – outrageously – as "the fatherland, or the motherland of democracy".
Or take European Commission president José Manuel Durrão Barroso, who started his political career as a Maoist, and who in 2012 argued that the EU's democracy deficit isn't a bug but a feature: "Governments are not always right. If governments were always right we would not have the situation that we have today. Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong."
What he says is not untrue (even democratically-elected governments are almost always wrong), but he is making an argument for despotism.
Or take halfwit EU Foreign Affairs honcho Catherine Ashton, whose 2011 Guardian article lecturing Hosni Mubarak on the need for democracy in Egypt was widely (and rightly) ridiculed as the work of someone who, as Brendan O'Neill neatly put it in the Telegraph,
… has never once bothered the ballot box, never once ventured into the rowdy arena of public opinion to win the masses' backing, and who was elevated to her current position as the European Union's high representative for foreign affairs through backroom wheeling and dealing.
Noting Ashton's enthusiasm, in her Guardian piece, for what she called "deep democracy", O'Neill explained that "she doesn't mean deep as in profound – she means bureaucracy, the grey and unaccountable sphere that she haunts, the removed realm of experts and unelected high representatives" – a phenomenon Ashton contrasted (favorably, of course) with mere "surface democracy", the undesirable, old-fashioned sort of system in which elected officials actually seek (horrors!) to honor their constituents' wishes.
Even a cursory look at the careers and pronouncements of these unelected demigods, these self-regarding technocratic hacks, is to recognize them as people who itch to rule an empire and who are, quite simply, outraged at anyone who dares to stand in their way for a moment. Given the transparency of their lust for monolithic power – a power, moreover, utterly liberated from any notion whatsoever of responsibility to an electorate – it's baffling that so many observers can actually take the EU seriously as a formula for European peace rather than for European autocracy.
What Europe has in Barroso, Ashton, & co., after all, is a pack of men and women who have done their level best to impoverish real political debate, to blunt its impact, and to make it seem obsolescent, counterproductive, and in every way undesirable.
Former Czech president and staunch EU critic Václav Klaus asked in his 2011 book Europe: The Shattering of Illusions:
Do we have real politics in Europe today – the political conflict of opinions – or have real politics been in fact eliminated by reducing the weight and importance of the nation states and by the self-confessed apolitical ways of Brussels?
Which is another way of saying that Brussels isn't a city of politicians who have different political philosophies and who come together to debate ideas and hammer out compromises; it's a city of technocrats who share an ideology and who work together as a team to translate that ideology into policy – never mind what the rabble think. (Or, as Klaus put it even more bluntly: "the European Union is no longer the symbol of democracy it pretends to be.")
Klaus has coined the term "Europeism". It's a useful word, because it places the unreflecting, reality-defying enthusiasm for Europe in the category it belongs to, along with other, earlier European-isms. Among much else, Europeism views the free market as uncivilized and anarchic, places collective rights above individual rights, and strives, as Klaus excellently puts it, "for a homogenized, 'decaffeinated' world (with no flavour, aroma, and smell)".
Europeists, he writes,
… do not believe in spontaneous, unregulated and uncontrolled human activity. They trust the chosen ones (not the elected ones), they trust themselves or those who are chosen by themselves. They believe in a vertically structured and hierarchized human society … They want to mastermind, plan, regulate, administer the others, because some (they themselves) do know and others do not. They do not want to rely on spontaneity of human behavior and on the outcomes resulting from this spontaneity because they think that rationalistic human design is always better than an unplanned result of interactions between free citizens, constructed and commanded by nobody. Even though we thought that after the collapse of communism all this was a matter of the past, it is not so. It is around us again. Europeism is a new utopism and, I add, it is an extremely naive and romantic utopism.
Above all, writes Klaus, Europeism "is based on the idea that states, more precisely the nation states, represent the Evil – because they were once the cause of wars among other things – while the supranational, continental and global entities represent the Good, because they – according to eurocrats – eliminate all forms of nationalist bickering once and for all". This understanding of things, he adds, "is obviously childish, yet it is generally accepted in Europe". Yes, it's accepted because millions of today's Europeans have been brainwashed into thinking that national feeling – patriotism – was the root of all of the worst things that happened to the continent in the twentieth century. No, ideology was the root – ideology in the form of Nazism, fascism, and Communism. And Europeism – which, by the way, has multiculturalism and fanatical environmentalism built into it – is the twenty-first-century heir of those wretched systems of thought.
Which brings us back to the latest developments in Ukraine. Tymoshenko's speech on Saturday night was followed on Sunday by the news that the EU – notwithstanding its own massive financial difficulties – is now ready to hand over bushels of cash to the newly Europe-friendly government in Kiev. …
Note to Ukrainians: accepting the EU's money is one thing. Go for it. But why this longing, on the part of Tymoshenko or anyone else in your country, to board the Superstate Express? Set aside, if you wish, the economic downside of the whole project, the looming disaster that is the eurozone, and just ask yourselves this: after spending most of your history taking orders from far-off imperial capitals, most of the twentieth century living under the nightmare of Communism, and most of the greater part of the generation that followed under the gravitational pull of post-Soviet Kremlin despotism, why be so desperate to subordinate yourselves to yet another set of haughty, high-handed foreign rulers? Why slip away from being under one thumb only to voluntarily place yourself under another?
Ukraine, here's one simple piece of unsolicited advice: vote for sovereignty. Vote for freedom. Take the money and run.
Stay out of the EU.
How terrorism works 9
The method of terrorism will continue to be used by Muslim jihadis (and others) because it works.
The West, out of cowardice, stupidity, sentimentality, and apathy, has allowed it to work.
How? The BBC provides an example :
The MailOnline reports that the director-general of the BBC, Mark Thompson, defends the notorious pro-Islam bias of his publicly-funded institution on the grounds that if it wasn't obedient to Muslim demands it would be subjected to terrorist violence.
Mr Thompson said: 'Without question, "I complain in the strongest possible terms", is different from, "I complain in the strongest possible terms and I am loading my AK47 as I write". This definitely raises the stakes.'
He said the BBC would never air a satirical show about Muhammad because for Muslims it could have the same impact as a piece of 'grotesque child pornography'.
Mr Thompson said the fatwa against Salman Rushdie over his novel The Satanic Verses, the September 11 terror attacks, and the murder in Holland in 2004 of film-maker Theo van Gogh, who had criticised Islam, had made broadcasters realise that religious controversies could lead to murder or serious criminal acts.
That is, if the "religious controversies" concern Islam. Only Islam, the terrorist religion.
Commenting on this, Bruce Bawer writes:
When the most powerful media organization in the U.K. is run by someone whose readiness to admit his utter lack of courage would seem, from all the evidence, to reflect the fact that the concept of courage isn't even on his radar, it doesn't bode well for the future of British freedom.
British freedom? Ah yes, we remember it well.
Another point that was important to Thompson was that, as he put it, "for a Muslim, a depiction…of the Prophet Mohammed might have the emotional force of a piece of grotesque child pornography." He added that "secularists" fail "to understand…what blasphemy feels like to someone who is a realist in their religious belief." I would humbly submit that Thompson himself fails to understand something rather important – namely, that when the head of an outfit like the BBC starts thinking and talking in such terms, he has become nothing more or less than a sharia puppet.
Another thing Thompson apparently fails to understand is this: when it becomes the duty of citizens in a secular democracy to edit what they say or write in order to avoid committing what the adherents of some religion or other might consider blasphemy, then secular democracy, individual liberty, and freedom of expression are, in practice, no more. I wonder if it has occurred to Thompson at all that for more than a few freedom-loving people in his own country and elsewhere, the fact that a man in his position could follow such an outrageously pusillanimous policy might well, to coin a phrase, "have the emotional force of a piece of grotesque child pornography"?
He cites an instance of how the BBC pr0-Islam bias routinely manifests itself:
The Beeb's Stacey Dooley is visiting her hometown, Luton, to discover if the situation with extreme Islam is really as bad there as some people say. Upon arriving in town, she stumbles upon a Muslim march whose participants are chanting "To hell with the U.K." and carrying signs calling for sharia law. There are plenty of women in niqab, one of whom tells Dooley to put on some clothes. For a while you think that Dooley is actually going to wake up and smell the coffee. But in the end, ignoring everything she's witnessed, the little ditz closes with the standard, canned, de rigueur, mainstream-media conclusion – namely, that both sides need to listen to each other with respect, for the only reason for all this intercultural friction is "ignorance."
Given the deliberate, depressing refusal of so many members of the British media to face up to the advent of sharia in the land of Magna Carta and Winston Churchill, it was at least a bit cheering the other day to see Brendan O'Neill, in the Telegraph, spelling out the dramatic, and telling, difference between the way in which the framers of the U.S. Constitution understood the concept of rights and the way today's European leaders think about the same subject.
While the makers of the American revolution "emphasized individuals' capacity to make judgments…free from state interference," explained O'Neill, Europe today is plagued by a "paternalistic" notion of human rights "in which the individual is treated as an at-risk creature who must be protected from harm and bullying by…human-rights lawyers." While the U.S. Bill of Rights concisely sets limits on state power, the European Convention on Human Rights "spends thousands of words telling the state what it should be doing…and how it must go about protecting individuals from abuse and mental distress." And while the U.S. Bill of Rights makes it clear that free speech is sacrosanct, the European document is awash in weasel words, saying that "freedom of expression" is "subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety," and on and on.
Which is, of course, simply a very long and legalistic way of saying that in Europe today, even (alas) in Britain, freedom of speech is severely endangered – just as Mark Thompson (whether he realizes it or not) has essentially admitted, and … as the BBC's own Stacey Dooley, despite having seen reality close-up in her hometown of Luton, still refuses to grasp.
But in Obama's America freedom of speech is severely endangered in the same way for the same reason. It's good that a Telegraph journalist has pointed out the difference in theory between the way the American revolutionaries and the US Bill of Rights "emphasized individuals' capacity to make judgments free from state interference," and the European "paternalistic notion of human rights in which the individual is treated as an at-risk creature who must be protected from harm and bullying by human-rights lawyers … in the interests of public safety"; but the Obama administration does not feel bound by the US Bill of Rights, and is trying pertinaciously to follow the European model.
The more chilling difference between the European cringe in the face of the Islamic threat and the Obama submission to it, is that Obama and his henchmen are not motivated by fear. Despite the Islamic act of destruction on 9/11, and the exposure of many a jihadi plot in the US since then, it is not Muslim violence that has them eager to submit to Islam, but their own sympathy with it.


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"I simply take what is given to me." [Darleen Click]
Ah, Britain's own Life of #Julia
Natalija Belova, 33, told The Sun how she spurns full-time work — yet can afford foreign holidays and buys designer clothes.
The Lithuanian said: "British benefits give me and my daughter a good life."
She has milked soft-touch Britain for £50,000 in benefits and yesterday said: "I simply take what is given to me."
Overjoyed Natalija told how she lives a life of luxury thanks to our "strange" system, declaring: "It's important to have nice things and good holidays."
The graduate, who became a single mum after she arrived here, rakes in more than £1,000 a month in handouts — £14,508 a year — to fund her love of designer clothes, jaunts to the Spanish sun and nightclubbing.
She bragged: "I have a lovely, fully-furnished flat and money to live properly on.
"There's no chance we're leaving. British benefits give me and my daughter a good life."
No, she's not leaving, but a lot of Brits are.
Two million people of working age have left Britain over the last decade in a "drain of talent" that is damaging the economy and forcing employers to rely on immigrant workers, a senior Conservative has warned. […]
Contrary to the perception of the typical emigrants being older people retiring to a life in the sun, the figures show that 1,963,000 of those who left were aged between 25 and 44.
By contrast, only 125,000 people of retirement age emigrated.
"Our most economically active are leaving to apply their talents elsewhere," the MP said, warning that talented Britons are being lured away to "growth economies" elsewhere in the world.
Coincidence? I think not.
America's Julia is better off with $29K plus welfare rather than working for $69K a year.


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HI-SEN: As political campaigns become become more and more flush with cash, the more you will see outside the box spending like this: Linda Lingle is launching her own cable news channel. I find the whole thing a little bizarre, but if Lingle wins in Hawaii expect to see more of this kind of thing in the future.
Nevertheless, a propaganda channel is unsettling to me. Too Orwellian.
AZ-2, AZ-8 Special: Democrats have been turning out in greater numbers than Republicans for this special election, but the GOP still holds a registration advantage. Neither Ron Barber (D) nor Jesse Kelly (R) have run especially strong campaigns. Election day turnout will be critical in determining the winner of this swing district.
CO-6: Rep. Mike Coffee is getting a boost from divided opposition. Former Democrat Kathy Polhemus, who founded the non-profit Dress for Success, is running because she feels the party's preferred candidate is a tool of the liberal left.
It's a sign of the times. Even in theoretically competitive districts, infighting threatens their chances of success.
WA-GOV: Attorney General Rob McKenna has locked up the conservative wing of the Democratic Party in Washington State. For the uninitiated, while Washington is a very blue state, Scoop Jackson's legacy has left a state populated with conservadems. These voters could easily cross over for the more moderate McKenna, rather than voting for the liberal Inslee.


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The Tribeca Film Festival will launch "Tribeca Interactive & Interlude: A Music Film Challenge in collaboration with The Lincoln Motor Company," a new contest for digital storytellers to create interactive music films, the festival announced today.
The contest is part of TFF's broader efforts to new initiatives that bridge filmmaking and technology. "Technology is just technology, but when you put interesting technology with imaginations and storytellers, then it unlocks whole other worlds. We watched our business change, having new platforms to watch stories on -- whether you're going to a theater and having that experience or watching it on your computer or your device of choice. It's exciting to not have to limit yourself in terms of the ways you can tell a story -- even in terms of the length. It's exciting to be able to play around in shortform and longform and to be able to tell good stories in new ways," Jane Rosenthal, co-founder, Tribeca Film Festival told Indiewire.
In collaboration with The Lincoln Motor Company via Genero.tv's global creative community, Tribeca and its partners invite storytellers and content creators to work with Interlude's interactive video platform to create an interactive music film for major music artists Damon Albarn, Aloe Blacc and Ellie Goulding, with the winning project for each screening at TFF.
Challenge will begin on January 28 when digital storytellers can create
interactive music films for the music tracks "Heavy Seas of Love" by
Damon Albarn from his forthcoming solo album, "Ticking Bomb" by Aloe
Blacc and "Dead in the Water" by Ellie Goulding. A jury will select
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Andrew Lane, co-founder of Genero, said, "Working beyond linear videos and into a new format of interactivity, this is a fresh opportunity for our community, and we are confident their unparalleled creativity will result in engaging and memorable work for Damon Albarn, Aloe Blacc and Ellie Goulding."
To participate, filmmakers will use Treehouse, Interlude's self-service authoring suite, to create an interactive music film set to one of the three songs. Participants will use Treehouse' interface to design their interactive music films. In the past few years, Interlude has collaborated with a number of music artists to create interactive videos, including, most recently Bob Dylan for the first official music video for "Like a Rolling Stone."
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So for example, Node A has a title "Car drives into field, thousands don't care". Node A has a taxonomy term "Pointless".
I'd like to group all the node titles by their taxonomy term. So..
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You get the idea. Is it doable and how do I do it? I can't find the group by option in views.
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