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Familiar interface
If you own a Sony PSP, you'll immediately notice the similarities between the PS3's interface and the PSP's cross media bar-style (XMB) graphical user interface. You navigate horizontally through top-level selection categories such as users, system settings, and media options such as photos, music, videos, games, network, and friends. When you select a top-level category, a vertical list of suboptions appears, and you can navigate down that list until you find the option you want. The interface is polished and generally easy to use, but you do have to drill down a few levels to reach certain features, and getting to some functions isn't quite as intuitive as it should be. Still, the overall design is slick enough to be called Mac-like, and--at least from an aesthetic standpoint--is more appealing than the Xbox 360's Dashboard and Nintendo Wii's Channels interfaces.
Since the release of the PlayStation 3, Sony has continued to release newer versions of the embedded firmware. These updates usually address bugs and other glitches and even add features such as DVD upscaling, Blu-ray improvements, and an improved interface for the PlayStation Store. These updates are always free, but unlike the Xbox 360 and Wii, they take quite some time to download and then install. Just recently, force vibration capability was added with the release of the DualShock 3 controller on previous titles.
Digital media hub
Before we delve into the PS3's HD movie prowess (see Movie Watching, below), let's take a holistic look at the console's multimedia functionality.
With the new 80GB and 160GB versions, the PS3 drops the flash card reader--a major blow for shutterbugs out there. It also skimps out on available USB slots, limiting them to two, but it does support importing images from a full array of USB-attached devices, including most digital cameras, the PSP, USB flash drives, and home-burned CD-Rs. (One caveat: the images may need to be placed in a special directory, such as DCIM or Picture, if they're not already there.) A few slide-show styles are available, including a unique "photo album" view that displays the images across a white work surface as if you'd dumped them there and spread them out. When stored internally on the hard drive (copying back and forth is easy), photos appear rapidly, and in the basic slide-show mode, you can advance your slides forward by simply pressing on the top-right shoulder button (the left shoulder takes you back a slide). Most JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, and PNG images should work just fine. By contrast, the Xbox 360 lacks the impressive photo album viewer, and the Wii--while including some cool and fun photo-viewing and manipulation functionality--includes only a built-in SD card reader.
As for music, the PS3 supports most of the major music-file types, including MP3, ATRAC, AAC, and WAV, and like the Xbox 360, has a built-in music visualizer. As with the photos, you can import songs from the flash card reader, a USB thumbdrive--again, you'll have to create a special Music folder--or rip songs directly to the hard drive from a CD. (Yes, unlike some Blu-ray players on the market, the PS3 can actually recognize and play CDs). It cannot play back music from attached iPods, nor can it stream from other music players that incorporate copy-protected music formats. Here, the 360 has a leg up: it offers some iPod compatibility, and it can play back WMA music files, as well. In addition, the Xbox 360 allows you to customize your in-game music, while the experience with this on the PS3 is somewhat of a mixed bag.
On the video front, the PS3 plays Profile 2.0 Blu-ray Discs in full high-definition as well as DVD movies. It also supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4/h.264 video files from USB or disc-based media (reading from the "video" directory). If you transfer the videos to the PS3's hard drive, thumbnails on the video menu are shown as 15-second video clips, rather than just as still images of the first frame of the video. Like the Xbox 360, the PS3 can act as a digital media hub, with the ability to stream content from any DLNA-compatible network device, including PCs and network attached hard drives.
PSP owners will find increasingly close integration between Sony's portable and the PS3. Users now have the ability to control their PS3 anywhere in the world using a Wi-Fi connection, thanks to the Remote Play feature. Digital media, including photos, music, and video can be streamed to the PSP, as well.
Sony's version of Web TV
Taking a page out of the PSP's book, the PS3 also has a built-in Web browser, but the nice thing about the PS3 is that if you connect a USB keyboard, you don't have to type in URL addresses using the system's tedious virtual keyboard. Likewise, a USB mouse lets you point and click your way through a Web page, just as if you were on a PC. Not all Bluetooth keyboards will pair with the PS3--the Logitech Cordless MediaBoard requires a USB dongle, for instance. But our favorite keyboard for light text entry is the Logitech diNovo Mini, which interfaces directly via the console without monopolizing one of the precious USB ports. (Likewise, most Bluetooth phone headsets should work fine, allowing you to chat with fellow players during online gaming sessions.)
The browser is fairly robust, and even offers limited Flash support. For instance, YouTube videos work fine, but those on ABC.com and Hulu do not. Overall, the browser is a nice convenience for those who want to browse from their living room couch. That said, the sharpness of Web pages' appearance--and how readable they are--will depend on the quality of your TV and its size. For example, viewing Web pages on a 60-inch DLP set is going to be more of a challenge than, say, looking at those same pages over a 20-inch computer monitor. And viewing Web pages on anything less than an HDTV at full resolution (720p, 1080i, or 1080p) will be decidedly eye-straining.
The PlayStation Network
While the PlayStation Network did not launch simultaneously with the PlayStation 3, it has since opened up to the public and with it, many games and services are now available. Connecting to the PlayStation Network is free, as is multiplayer gaming, although downloadable games and other content come at a cost. You can, however, get free demos to most games so that you can try-before-you-buy.
In fall 2008, the PlayStation Network will launch PlayStation Home. Home is an online virtual world, somewhat in the vein of , where gamers can have their avatars interact with one another in addition to the ability to virtually create your own "home." From Home's interface, you can set up game matches and communicate with friends as well as other gamers. The service also promises to integrate the recently-debuted Trophy System, the PS3 equivalent of Xbox Achievements.
The PSN allows all gamers to play online in multiplayer matches for free. By contrast, Xbox Live Silver, Microsoft's free entry-level service, gives you access to some community options but to play online multiplayer games, you have to upgrade to Xbox Live Gold service, which runs $50 per year.
Free online play is obviously a big plus in Sony's favor. That said, Xbox Live has been around for years and has had time to mature, plus the majority of Xbox 360 games offer some form of online play. Microsoft also has its Xbox Live Marketplace, where you can download games, demos, video content, full-length movies, and TV shows in high-definition, as well as game themes and additional game content. As the PSN matures, Sony has been moving more in that direction, as well: there are now plenty of free demos for download, as well as dozens of original mini-games and classic PlayStation One games available for purchase. Sony also recently debuted an entire video section to the PlayStation Store, allowing PS3 owners the same content-on-demand experience Xbox Live users have had for some time now.
Instead of the points-based payment system found on Microsoft and Nintendo's networks, the PlayStation Store sticks to dollars and cents--users can simply transfer cash to their PlayStation 3 Wallet via credit card or with prepaid gift cards. (International locations will likewise be denominated in their home currency--yen, euros, pounds, sterling, Canadian dollars, and so forth.)
Overall, there's a strong and growing list of titles with solid online play primarily composed of first-person-shooters, action games (Resistance: Fall of Man, Warhawk, Call of Duty 4, Unreal Tournament 3, and Grand Theft Auto IV) and sports titles. Pairing a Bluetooth headset will give you chat support in most games as well. While the online multiplayer support isn't quite as robust and widespread on the PS3 as it is on Xbox Live, it's a big notch up from the Nintendo Wii--the few online games the console offers are burdened with Nintendo's friend 16-digit code system, which must be activated on a title-by-title basis.
Cell inside
When final specifications were released for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, not surprisingly, there was a big debate over which system was technically more powerful. The 360 uses more off-the-shelf PC components, while the PlayStation 3's 3.2GHz Cell processor was built from the ground up just for the console. It consists of a single PowerPC-based core with seven synergistic processing units and is the result of a joint effort between IBM, Sony, and Toshiba, which was ironic, considering that Sony and Toshiba were in a deathmatch over Blu-ray and HD DVD.
From the get-go, we were told that the Cell has the juice to run a new class of gameplay physics that will allow developers to create spectacular effects and eventually provide a whole new depth of realism to games. Paired with PlayStation 3's RSX Reality Synthesizer graphics-processing unit, a gargantuan 550MHz, 300-million-transistor graphics chip based on Nvidia's GeForce 7800 GTX graphics technology, and you're looking at a very high-end PC. The only problem, of course, is that it has taken developers years to learn how to take full advantage of all that processing power and truly deliver on the graphical promise of the system. Titles such as Heavenly Sword and Metal Gear Solid 4 (as well as previews of 2009's Killzone 2) have shown that developers are finally beginning to tap the full potential of the PS3's power. That said, the hope that the PS3's graphics would run circles around those of the Xbox 360 has yet to be realized. To date, the vast majority of games that appear on both systems look roughly indistinguishable.
As with the graphics chip, the PS3's Blu-ray drive--which allows for games of 25GB to 50GB in size--has yet to show a big advantage over the 8.5GB limit of the Xbox 360's DVD media. Presumably, as games become larger and more complex (Xbox titles could eventually spread to two or three discs, all of which should have no problem fitting on a single Blu-ray), the PS3 still has one annoyance: its Blu-ray drive has a comparatively slow transfer time, which requires most games to utilize a PC-style hard-disk installation. Installs can take up to 20 minutes but only usually need to be done once, but it doesn't exactly scream "next-generation" from a convenience standpoint.
Those minor gripes notwithstanding, the PS3 delivers an overall level of excellence when it comes to engineering and performance. What's impressive about the PS3, in fact, is that with all this power under the hood, the system runs as quietly as it does. (Some have complained about fan noise, but those problems seem to be few and far between--contact Sony's customer support if your PS3's fan is excessively loud.) After running for several hours straight, we found that we could still place a hand over the back of the unit and not get scorched--the system runs pretty warm, but not blazingly hot. Meanwhile, the Xbox 360 cooling fan and DVD drive are comparatively far noisier, often to the point of distraction. Also, the PS3 hasn't had any widespread reliability problems, unlike the "red ring of death" problem that continues to plague the 360. The console's high failure rate--at least on models produced early on in its life cycle--has made for customer service headaches and a billion-dollar liability for Microsoft as frustrated Xbox gamers exchange dead consoles.
Play time
As mentioned above, despite all of the vaunted "power" of the PS3's unique Cell processor, games appearing on both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 tend to look all but identical on both consoles. The PS3 clearly measures up to the Xbox 360 in terms of its graphics prowess, but there are few games available that are unique enough to declare them as a "system-seller," while the argument can be made that is that game. However, other exclusive titles such as Heavenly Sword, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune have finally given PlayStation 3 owners something to cheer about. Simply put: Sony needs to deliver still more compelling exclusives, as well as multiplatform titles that look and play better on the PS3. That said, 2008 has certainly seen things looking much better for the console than ever before as sales have gone up, most likely because of the decision to cut the price of the console and the end of the high-def format war.
At first, the PS3 came with backward support for a wide range of PS2 games (with the 20GB and 60GB models), utilizing the "Emotion Engine" chip to provide hardware support. When the updated versions shipped in March and August 2007, the company stripped the console of this chip to reduce costs and in its place added a software emulation solution for PS2 playback. This became a precarious situation for long-time PlayStation fans as backward compatibility with PS2 games was slightly deteriorated. However, this has gradually improved with periodic software updates. All along Sony has stated that it wanted to eventually shift to developing content exclusively for the PS3, and with the total omission of PS2 support in the new 2008 PS3 models, this is the first indication of that focus.
Movie watching
Since the PS3's debut, we've seen several Blu-ray players from Samsung, Panasonic, LG, and Sony itself. None of them generally perform any better than the PS3, even though they cost more (twice as much or more in some cases). HD movies look superb on the PS3, which can output video at full 1080p resolution via its


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Goodguys Hershey, Take Two
Even though the Goodguys had staged the first Great American Nationals at Hershey Park the year prior, this was my first trip to the sprawling woodlands of Hershey, Pennsylvania. And what a great place it was–the entire area reminded me of upstate New York, where I spent many a summer growing up years and years ago. Small-town communities surrounded by huge trees, winding two-lane roads, and quaint little Mom 'n' Pop corner stores. Oh, and of course, Giant Center. Yeah, we didn't have anything quite like that in good old Cincinnatus, but then, we never had a couple thousand hot rods, customs, and classic trucks flooding the town. Nor did we have the world-renowned Hershey Chocolate Factory–along with its museum, theme park, etc.–for tourists to flock to, either.
My initial descent into the seemingly small town of Hershey did indeed bring back great memories–until I finally came upon a huge new shopping center, complete with a Chili's and a sushi restaurant (yep, sushi!). And once at Hershey Park, where modern times settled back in, childhood nostalgia was all but gone from the memory banks…which was fine, as there was more than enough to mentally take in with all the pre-'72 American iron displayed before my eyes. Despite impending Northeast storms, folks from far and wide came out for the Great American Nats to show off their four-wheeled pride and joy and see all the fine rides on display. Even the manufacturer's midway was crammed full of big-name companies, from GM Performance Parts to Ford Racing & Performance, Billet Specialties to Vintage Air, Coker Tire to BFGoodrich Tires. In short, you could have left the show with pretty much everything but the kitchen sink if your wallet permitted. Come to think of it, I believe there was an old cast-iron sink for sale in the swap meet area!
The three-day event (held May 19-21) was sure an enjoyable trip. It was also the second stop for the CLASSIC TRUCKS Top Ten, which as you will see turned up a great variety of good-old pick'em-ups, from wild to mild and a little bit of in between. If you're thinking of making this a stop on your itinerary for 2007, visit www.good-guys.com for more info (specific event listings for next year won't be posted till late summer). In the meantime, enjoy CT's offerings from the second Great American Nats.
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Ho'oponopono is a traditional Hawaiian way to make peace in families when there's the kind of conflict that starts with something small and just gets bigger and bigger.
Ho'o is to make. Pono is a word that has three layers. The first layer is to behave righteously, with good spirit and good intention. If you do that, the second layer is that you create justice. If you operate with those two layers, you create the innermost layer: hope. So what you do by Ho'oponopono is you restore all of those layers, and you restore balance within the ohana—the family.
When I was a kid, I went to a Ho'oponopono session. My cousin stole a dollar from my aunt's purse and used it to buy candy, and everybody got into a huge flurry about it. My Aunt gave him what we call "dirty lickins"—basically a beating. And then her part of the family starts calling the kid names, and that leads to, "Naturally—he comes from that family over there, you know. They no good, too."
So it was just getting bigger and bigger. Finally somebody said, "I think we need to do Ho'oponopono and resolve this."
They asked the pastor of the church that most of us went to, to be the Kahu—to be the shepherd through this process. He talked to all the parties of interest to find out what happened from everybody's perspective. He asked everyone, "Are you ready to do Ho'oponopono? We're not going to do it until people are ready to be engaged."
So the Kahu decides who needs to be there, and people have to agree to come and stay, no matter how long it takes to finish.
Ho'oponopono always includes prayers and exultations. People stay together and rest, and eat, and come back again, and pray, and fast. So it's a whole big deal.
All in the Ohana:
How Hawaiians embrace the land,
its abundance, and their responsibility to each other.
They call it unpeeling the onion, layer by layer. It starts at the surface: This is what happened. Then the Kahu will unpeel the layer and begin to explore the different perspectives until we get down to the innermost.
It turns out my cousin was walking home with friends, and they had money for candy. He didn't, and they wouldn't share. He lost face, and he felt shamed. So when he saw my aunt's bag there, he took the dollar, and he bought candy for himself as a way of restoring his pride.
He was sorry, and he understood that what he did was wrong, so he mihi'd—he confessed to it. Then my auntie, who gave him "dirty lickins," also confessed and asked for forgiveness for hitting him so hard. And then other people who said bad things about him started to let go.
Basically, it's a process of forgiveness. You ask forgiveness for the things that you did to make that situation bad.
You feel very relieved when it's over, and once you say the closing prayer, it is done. You're not supposed to talk about that stuff anymore; you're not supposed to hold grudges. It's done, and it's sort of like taking communion: You eat to show that there are no hard feelings anymore. If I can eat with you, then we're back into a relationship again.
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Since 1947, when the first Ferrari road car rolled out the gates of Maranello filled with Shell fuels and lubricants, every vehicle produced in the famed factory has been powered and protected by Shell.
This year, Shell joins Ferrari in celebrating its 70th anniversary as a manufacturer of the world's most charismatic and desirable road cars. The Shell Innovation Partnership with Ferrari is today, one of the most respected and recognised in the world of motoring, and one of the most decorated and celebrated in the world of motorsport.


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Another great TEDTalk from Hans Rosling called Religions and Babies about the growth of the world population.
Hans Rosling had a question: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others — and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, he graphs data over time and across religions. With his trademark humor and sharp insight, Hans reaches a surprising conclusion on world fertility rates.
In Hans Rosling's hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life. And the big picture of global development—with some surprisingly good news—snaps into sharp focus.
Wielding the datavis tool Gapminder, Professor Rosling is a master at using data visualization to tell his story.
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My Evening Prayer
1. Each night before my prayers are said
My dad will sit upon my bed
And as we talk about the day
My hurts and fears just slip away
Because my dad is here with me.
2. My heart feels then that all is well,
and so I kneel and softly tell
Another Father of my day
And thank Him for His loving way
Of always being near to me.
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Music: Darwin Wolford
Artist: Lloyd/Wolford
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Friend
Composition Date: 1979-06-01
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The main advantage of this flat tape is that you don't need to rock the blade to get the measurement right on the surface, eliminating parallax error.
Well suited to layout work on sheet stock, it is also useful for measuring curved surfaces, since it has little resistance to bending, making it easy to wrap the tape around an object. It retracts automatically, with a manual lock and a brake button to let you stop or slow down the tape's return.
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One person was injured in an early-morning shooting Sunday at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino, Milwaukee police said.
Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer said the 23-year-old Milwaukee woman was shot in the leg at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday during a fight inside the casino. Her injuries were not life-threatening. Police told WISN Channel 2 that the woman and her boyfriend got into an argument and he shot her.
A 27-year-old Wauwatosa man from arrested at the scene, Stanmeyer said. He was not immediately charged.
Police did not disclose either person's name.
The casino said in a statement that it closed temporarily after the shooting, but reopened at 9 a.m. Sunday. The statement called the shooting an "extremely isolated event."
Cheryl Anderson of Milwaukee told The Associated Press she was at the slot machines when she heard a shot, which she said was fired at the nearby table games, followed by more shots.
"We all of a sudden heard a bang," Anderson said. "... It was a shooting, you could tell. It was so loud like a cannonball. We hit the floor, everybody was panicking. We just stayed there because we didn't know what the heck to do. We saw a guard running, everybody running."
Stanmeyer said the case will be referred to the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office in the coming days for possible charges.
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NEW INFORMATION: The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a pilot who lost consciousness and crashed a small airplane into the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia shore.
Petty Officer Nate Littlejohn says the search was halted Sunday morning after a civilian boater recovered a wheel and engine cowling from the single-engine Cirrus. Littlejohn says the chances of finding anything else were slim.
The pilot of a small airplane apparently lost consciousness while flying Saturday afternoon and flew into restricted airspace over Washington, D.C., before crashing into the Atlantic Ocean, federal officials said.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Nate Littlejohn says crews are searching for the plane. It crashed Saturday at 3:17 p.m. about 50 miles southeast of Wallops Island, Virginia, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Littlejohn says the Coast Guard in Portsmouth was notified about 2:40 p.m. that the plane had failed to land in Manassas, Virginia, and continued into restricted air space in Washington, D.C.
The pilot had failed to answer radio calls since 1 p.m., according to the FAA.
Two Air Force F-16 jets were scrambled to intercept the plane, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command. The jet pilots confirmed the pilot of the small plane was unconscious; the F-16s stayed with the plane until it eventually ran out of fuel and crashed.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson says the plane was heading from Waukesha, Wisconsin, to Manassas. It was a Cirrus SR20, the FAA said.
Littlejohn says no one else was aboard the plane.


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Chris Samba
With Ryan Nelsen departed, this imposing centre-half will be crucial to QPR as a dominant figure who takes responsibility. There is nothing complicated to his game. He will head it, block it and kick it, as well as proving very useful up the other end at corners and free-kicks. He knows the Premier League well and will not settle quickly. He was expensive, but Harry Redknapp has bought a ready-made warrior - just the sort he needs in this relegation scrap.
Luciano Becchio
Having proven himself several times over for Leeds in League One and the Championship, the 29 year-old striker has earned his crack at the big time. He strikes me as a good fit for Norwich, a club that appreciates hard-working players. Becchio is certainly one of those, but he is also very sharp when it comes to taking chances. Chris Hughton could do with a bit of that. And Grant Holt could do with some support, whether it is as a partner or an alternative.
Philippe Coutinho
It will be interesting to see how quickly Brendan Rodgers tries to integrate the Brazilian into his starting XI given Coutinho's lack of action at Inter Milan. More often than not used as a substitute in Serie A, Liverpool's new signing will surely need time in his new environment. You look at his slight frame and wonder if this skillful ball player can cope with the Premier League. If he can, though, Rodgers has a dangerous runner on the left flank.
Nacho Monreal
Not what Arsenal fans were hoping for, I am sure, but this talented left-back arrives just in time following Kieran Gibbs's injury on Wednesday night. Arsene Wenger certainly could not depend on Andre Santos. Monreal, however, is a different proposition altogether. A good crosser of the ball and strong in the air, the Spain international should fit in quite nicely. In terms of positioning, he may find things much different from Malaga.
Danny Graham
Just like Norwich, Sunderland were desperate for more firepower, having depended on Steven Fletcher for far too long. Graham should give them that as an intelligent front man who learnt to play the Swansea way. That makes him a good footballer but, even more importantly, this new signing allows Martin O'Neill to go a little bolder by playing 4-4-2. That should give everyone a lift, including the crowd if they can forget his Newcastle links.


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All private firms are in business to maximize profit. If they don't, they will soon be out of business. A firm can achieve this by increasing their revenue, cutting their cost, or a combination of the two. Since consumers strongly influence a firm's revenue, the primary factor that a firm can control is their cost.
Under pressure to change their headquarters from the high cost and stifling regulatory structure in California, Toyota-the world's largest auto manufacturer-searched for a place that would allow them to cut costs and compete better long-term in the U.S. market. According to the Tax Foundation, California's business tax climate ranks 48th, income tax ranking is last, sales tax ranks 41st, and state-local tax burden is the 4th worst nationwide.
Clearly, these high taxes make it difficult to run a business even in beautiful Torrance, California. Given Toyota's desire to maximize profits, they made the decision to leave, it was just a matter of to where.
After considering different places to move, they chose the place with the 11th best business tax climate, no income tax, and the 3rd lowest state-local tax burden: Texas.
The benefits don't stop there. Texas' cost of living is 40 percent less than California's. Property tax rates are higher in Texas, but California's real estate costs are so much more that any gains made by paying a lower rate are marginal at best.
Overall, it was in Toyota's best interest to leave California.
The Texas model of low taxes, modest government spending, and sensible regulation provides an economic environment that leads people and companies to move here. We can see this by the large migration to Texas from other states and the fact that Texas took over the number one stop in tech exports from California in 2012.
As a secondary incentive, $40 million of taxpayer funds through the Texas Enterprise Fund was used to lure Toyota here. Since Toyota already decided to leave California, short-term incentives were ancillary to their marginal analysis.
Until California takes steps to keep taxes low and provide a stable regulatory and lawsuit environment that benefits businesses and consumers alike, the Toyotas of the world will continue to flock to Texas.


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NEW YORK — Here on W. 47th Street, in a fascinating play about early-onset dementia, or maybe it's brain cancer, or maybe it's just some non-specific traumatic disorder that flowed from the loss of a daughter, the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Laurie Metcalf is doing perhaps the most terrifyingly intense acting work of her formidable career, playing about the most unreliable narrator you could expect to meet in a theater.
"The Other Place" was written by a lesser-known writer named Sharr White and is directed with unstinting force for the Manhattan Theatre Club by Joe Mantello. Metcalf leads you though the 80-minute proceedings with such astonishing force of will that one emerges from the dark interior of the theater greatly discomforted by the realization that everything her character, whose name is Juliana, has just revealed is, in all likelihood, some variation or another on the completely bogus. This experience is greatly intensified — if that's the right word — by the fact that all three of the characters questioning Juliana's version of events (including Juliana's daughter, who may or may not be alive) are played by the actress Zoe Perry, who happens to be Metcalf's real-life daughter. (Steppenwolf co-founder Jeff Perry is Zoe's father.)
On stage, the gentle, patient, logical Perry reads as the direct opposite of her mother, which is one of this drama's fundamental themes.
To say that Metcalf dominates these proceedings does not do it justice. She arrives at the theater before you do, seated center stage as the house is opening, her lean frame contained by a business suit, looking angrily uncomfortable. For longtime students of Metcalf's work, this opening image suggests one of the actress's most familiar tropes: playing a character convinced she is an interloper and who can't entirely decide whether to be consumed by insecurity or furiously denounce the mercurial qualities of the world in which she does not belong. In other words, Metcalf specializes in characters who can both stand outside of themselves and see what few see, and yet who are totally unable to control their own anger, their own story, in the moment.
For much of her career, that has meant playing tough, lower-middle-class women — her work on television's "Roseanne" is the best-known example — but her performance in Chicago in Lisa D'Amour's "Detroit" was among the most impressive manifestations of how Metcalf can play out the feelings of those of us who cling furiously to some notion of respectability, however bankrupt it seems. Few actors in America can summon up quite like Metcalf the fear that one can feel every single day: a sense that everything one has worked for, or loved for, or gambled for, can slip away in a heartbeat. She is an actress who knows how to play women who can never allow themselves to feel comfortable. Resilience and uncertainty are generally opposites: whether on camera or stage, Metcalf knows how to link them.
This time, Metcalf is playing a biophysicist—a researcher turned drug-company pitchwoman — but that motif is still there. In the play's opening monologue, she is sitting in the Virgin Islands pitching her product to loathsome golfing doctors, even while fixating on a beautiful young woman in a bikini, seated in the front row for her talk. On one hand, this arouses some righteous feminist anger (Who is this girl? Some drug-company funded model or hooker supposed to provide doctor relief?). But on the other, she is surprised by her own cruelty.
"Why do I see something beautiful and scratch it and scratch it until there's nothing left?" she asks of herself.
But then what she knows about reality starts to deteriorate as some kind of debilitating condition takes hold. As her husband (played by Daniel Stern) and doctors quickly discover, she becomes very, very difficult. And nasty. "Are you flirting with suicidal thoughts?" a doctor asks (a doctor played by Metcalf's daughter). "I'm dating them, actually," Juliana replies, dripping with sarcasm. "But they won't put out."
In Metcalf's hands, that fusion of force and bewilderment takes on a rather terrifying intensity — her character's world spins out of control and Metcalf is quite willing to take that ride. From the seats, you find yourself trusting this empathetic character at one moment, especially when she talks about the consequences of a fight with her daughter, and then at other times she seems like some combination of malevolent, egomaniacal and bloody annoying. For one thing, she makes you sit through a lot of scenes about events that probably never even happened, maybe containing non-existent characters, leading you down lots of dead-end paths. Who can like a character who does that to you, especially when the seats you cost good money?
"The Other Place" has a sentimental ending that does not entirely fit its otherwise unstinting sense of honesty about mental distress. It is less than a great play. Nonetheless, this piece allows Metcalf, working with a director who clearly understands her, to rage in a way that people who are suffering some kind of mental degeneration so often rage, slowly killing off the sympathy in others that they are, of course, going to need all the more.
Metcalf builds a woman who can't avoid that, and who also knows that so well that it makes her yet more furious, yet more unreliable, yet more sad, yet more amazing to watch.
"The Other Place" plays on Broadway at the Samuel Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th St., New York; manhattantheatreclub.com or call 212-239-6200.


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Signed 10 x 8 Photograph of Sophie Aldred, This is an orginal autograph and not a copy.
In 1987, she was cast as Ace in Doctor Who. Her tenure on the show spanned the last nine stories of the programme's original run, from 1987 to 1989.
Both before and since Doctor Who, Aldred has had a varied and busy television career, particularly in children's programming, where she has presented educational programmes such as Corners, Melvin and Maureen's Music-a-grams, long-running BBC series Words and Pictures and also CITV paranormal show It's a Mystery in 1996. She also played the character Minnie The Mini Magician from Series 8 onwards on CITV's ZZZap! between 1999 and 2001. Aldred has presented and sung in several BBC Schools Radio series, including Singing Together, Music Workshop, Time and Tune and Music Box. She has also performed on radio and in the theatre. She has also reprised her role as Ace in the charity special Dimensions in Time and the Doctor Who audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions. Throughout the 2000s she has worked extensively as a voice-over artist for television advertisements.
She co-wrote the hardback reference book, Ace, The Inside Story of the End of An Era with Mike Tucker, published by Virgin Publishing in 1996. (ISBN 1-85227-574-X).
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hoi.polloi » November 12th, 2016, 9:03 pm wrote:SacredCowSlayer wrote:I would have a difficult time arguing against that statement.
I think our crowd tends to suffer confirmation bias. We are quite few as evidenced by our own discussions with everyone we know who shows interest.
They can't avoid their program accidentally awakening people. They have to contend with it.
By adding some deliberate, perhaps calculated stupidity, they can steer it back to control more easily. Alex Jones is evidence enough of exactly such a scheme.
So, unfortunately, I don't see the sloppiness as some kind of benevolent information. More of a contingency they can't avoid. In my opinion, it is a mistake to assume such deceitful people are inherently our allies because they do little about goofs that are mostly successful at fooling the majority anyway. [bold added by SCS]
Call it "recruiting from the crowd" or whatever you'd like to believe, if you want. At best, I suppose, it could be a bon-bon and wink offered to the knowing in the crowd, but it's still a very creepy stranger with very suspicious candy who wants to hush us up and prevent all healthy heckling.
Farcevalue » November 14th, 2016, 7:43 am wrote:Aside from the real consequences of resources being continually diverted toward the enterprise of destruction as opposed to creation and the sheer physical toll that takes on the quality and sustainability of life, there is a metaphysical toll, as well, that I find deeply saddening. Many people will live from cradle to grave following the prescribed paths of those that have created an artificial reality for them and by failing to recognize it will forego any opportunity for authenticity in their experience. Equally saddening is the connective divide that exists between who live outside the artificial reality and those (especially the ones we know and love) who remain within it.
brianv » November 14th, 2016, 11:16 pm wrote:Who knocked down the towers?
Keltbray, Mc Gee, CDI, American Demolition Corporation, Fred Dibnah!! Take your pick.
Anders » November 21st, 2016, 6:17 pm wrote:The biggest problem for the Trump administration to expose 9/11 is the legal system. Dealing with a bombardment of lawsuits from the public, companies and organizations will have catastrophic consequences for the whole society.
Flabbergasted » November 22nd, 2016, 12:02 am wrote:Anders » November 21st, 2016, 6:17 pm wrote:The biggest problem for the Trump administration to expose 9/11 is the legal system. Dealing with a bombardment of lawsuits from the public, companies and organizations will have catastrophic consequences for the whole society.
What public? What companies? What organizations? Are you aware of how many lawsuits have been filed so far?
bostonterrierowner » November 19th, 2016, 5:13 pm wrote:They are mocking the fuck out of us. "Elections" my ass
Anders wrote:The government can just keep covering up 9/11. If they officially admit that they have been making false statements then all citizens and greedy companies (including the whole media industry) can sue the government.
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The former royal palace is one of the oldest sections of the Prague Castle. Originally the palace was built in wood, but in 1142 this construction was replaced by a stone structure. The Vladislavsky sal, the Gothic room, is the most interesting part of the palace. It was completed in 1502 and for many centuries it served as the stage for the coronation of kings and queens. Measuring 62 metres by 16 metres, this is the largest Knights' Hall in Europe. It is not hard to imagine kings descending the stairs on horseback and riding into the hall; not an unusual sight centuries ago. The election of the president of the Czech Republic still takes place here. The Gothic dungeons underneath the palace host an exhibit on the history of this beautiful building. Detailed scale models illustrate the various stages of the development of the palace.
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The Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. The provision of health services to members of federally-recognized tribes grew out of the special government-to-government relationship between the federal government and Indian tribes. This relationship, established in 1787, is based on Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, and has been given form and substance by numerous treaties, laws, Supreme Court decisions, and Executive Orders. The IHS is the principal federal health care provider and health advocate for Indian people, and its goal is to raise their health status to the highest possible level. The IHS provides a comprehensive health service delivery system for approximately 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who belong to 566 federally recognized tribes in 35 states. Health services provided include medical, dental, and environmental health programs. Special program concentrations are in disease prevention and health promotion, alcoholism, substance abuse, suicide, accidents, maternal and child health, nutrition, and public health services.
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The Maternal and Child Health Information Resource Center (MCHIRC) is dedicated to the goal of helping MCH practitioners on the Federal, State, and local levels to improve their capacity to gather, analyze, and use data for planning and policymaking.
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The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide and its premier event, March for Babies®, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.
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Since 1975 Mothers' Centers have been providing community-based discussion groups that provide a chance to meet, connect to, support and learn from other mothers. The National Association of Mothers' Centers (NAMC), a national non-profit, has vast experience working with mothers and families in identifying and addressing the issues that most affect their lives. Mothers' Centers are self sustaining, non-profit groups and help keep the program going through cooperative responsibility. The NAMC advocates in the areas of work/life and the economic impact of care giving.
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Vols Begin Preparing For Georgia
Knoxville, Tenn. – Tennessee is about to embark on a five-week gauntlet in which it will face four ranked teams, including three currently ranked among the top six teams in the nation. First up is No. 5 Georgia in Athens this Saturday (2:30 P.M. WHNT News 19).
With the Bulldogs leading the SEC in both scoring offense and total offense and a defense full of talented playmakers, the Vols know they have quite the challenge in front of them.
"We all know about Georgia," UT head coach Derek Dooley said. "There is no sense in me talking about how good they are. They are probably playing as good as I've seen them in a long time. The quarterback is averaging 10.5 an attempt, the runner is averaging 9.2 an attempt, [they are scoring] 48 points and only giving up 16. They are probably one of the most talented defenses in the country, so we've got our work cut out for us. Hopefully we can take a lot of the lessons we have learned in the first four games and try to go play as good as we can play in Athens and see how it turns out."
Saturday's game will be the first true road contest for the Big Orange this season. While the hostile atmosphere at Sanford Stadium is tough for any team to play in, the Vols feel prepared and excited about the opportunity.
"It is [a concern]," Dooley said. "The good news is that a lot of our guys have been in these environments, so it shouldn't be as overwhelming as it has been in the past, at least I hope it isn't. You look on offense and I think everybody except CP [Cordarrelle Patterson] and Tiny [Richardson] played at Georgia two years ago. Defense probably not as many but we had a lot of hostile games last year, so hopefully you learn from it. You have to learn to enjoy playing in that kind of environment."
Much of Georgia's success this season has been due to their ability to run the ball with true freshman Todd Gurley leading the way as the SEC's leading rusher (101.5 ypg) and scorer (42 points). To stop him will require a total team effort from the Orange and White.
"We have to win at the line of scrimmage first, play good scheme discipline and then have a lot of hats to the football because one guy isn't going to bring him down. It's very hard when he breaks through the first seven to bring him down with those little guys in the back. Scheme discipline, winning at the line of scrimmage on your man and then a lot of hats to the ball. Then you have to do it every play. That's what happens."
Gurley isn't the only weapon the Bulldogs have on offense though as junior Aaron Murray has established himself as one of the top quarterbacks in the nation.
"He is playing with a lot of confidence right now," Dooley said. "He has a very strong arm and a lot of snaps under his belt. They don't change a lot offensively in what they do, so it is that deliberate practice where he's had a lot of work at getting good at what they do. You can just see him triggering the ball a lot quicker than he ever has, he's a lot more accurate than he has been and that just comes with experience."
The list of playmakers carries over to the UGA defense as well, where the Big Orange will have to find a way to slow down SEC sacks leader Jarvis Jones.
"If you are not aware of where he is he can just wreck your game plan because of his athleticism and ability to win on pass rush and be disruptive in the backfield," Dooley said. "He just has one of those playmaking personalities. He wants to make a game-changing play and they move him around a little bit. You just have to be very aware of where he is and you have to be very disciplined on how you block him, so we'll try to do both of those."
The son of former Georgia head coach Vince Dooley, Derek Dooley will be making his second trip back to Athens as the head coach of the Vols. Although Georgia emerged with a 41-14 victory back in 2010, Dooley feels that his team is much more prepared for the challenge this time around.
"We are a lot more prepared and we are certainly a lot better than we were two years ago," Dooley said. "We didn't play very good down there and obviously need a lot better effort than what we put on two years ago."
Growing up 30 minutes from Athens, Ga., A.J. Johnson was a fan of the Bulldogs as a youngster.
His high school uniform was even modeled after UGA, red and black with the famous Georgia G on the helmet.
Being a fan, Johnson thought it would be great to play his college ball in Athens, but the Georgia staff didn't feel the same way and the Freshman All-American wasn't highly recruited.
"Growing up I was always a Georgia fan," said Johnson. "They didn't really recruit me in high school but I am ready to go out this week and play and get a win. I guess I am thinking [this is for not recruiting me] in the back of my head, but I am just going to go out and play it like any other game and try and get this good win."
"Everybody in my family was a Georgia fan," said Johnson, "people around you were Georgia fans; it was just 30 minutes away from my high school and town."
Johnson, who started playing football as soon as he could run, officially started in the parks and rec leagues of Gainesville at the age of nine imitating the likes of NFL running backs and later modeling his game after a Tennessee legend.
"When I was growing up I was a running back type of guy like Marshall Faulk," said Johnson. "I used to run the ball a lot. As I have gotten older, Leonard Little and Ray Lewis are who [I model my game after]."
Johnson will have a lot of support this weekend as he steps between the hedges and likely plays on both sides of the ball in Athens. So much support that he isn't able to provide all his family and friends with tickets to the game.
But Johnson, who is laid back by nature, isn't putting too much pressure on himself for his `homecoming'.
"I would say no pressure on myself," said Johnson, "you are just going out and playing another football game."
Saturday night was a breakout game for tailback Rajion Neal. The junior went over the 100-yard mark for the first time in his career with a personal best 151 yards on 22 carries. It has been a long path for Neal to get to the point where he is the number one back for the Vols.
Last season Neal was bounced back and forth between tailback and receiver. He has made major strides on the field with his skills and off the field with his mindset in being the team's top back
"I have confidence in myself and I just get more and more confident in the guys around me that are helping me," said Neal, who has rushed for 356 yards this season. "It is big, because you know in the perimeter; those guys are going to do what they have to do. So, if we get the running game started, it's going to be a long game." The line in front of Neal can tell the difference for the man they are blocking for.
"I have really seem him progress, going all the way back into camp," said center James Stone. "He is getting more downhill. He is breaking arm tackles more and more and I hope he continues to build on that."
Neal dishes the credit right back at his linemen and other members of the program.
"Coaching, offensive line, fullbacks, my guys on the perimeter and just staying under these coaches," said Neal. "They've given me a good opportunity and given me great coaching and my guys up front are steady believing in me, and I've got guys around me that want to see the run game and myself and others see the run game."
CARTER's ROLE GROWS
Former walk-on Jacob Carter has been a valued member of the Vols' receiving corps early in 2012. Carter, who was a scrimmage sensation last spring and during this season's training camp, has been given a chance to contribute during the regular-season and he has taken full advantage of this opportunity.
Carter earned a scholarship prior to the opener vs. NC State then proceeded to make his first college catch — on his 21st birthday. This past weekend in the Akron game, Carter scored his first college touchdown on a 24-yard grab.
"[Bray] just threw it up and I couldn't stop smiling the whole time," said Carter, a native of Nashville. "I definitely had a few texts after the game and everybody was happy for me. It was a good time."
Dooley gives Carter a lot of credit as he came in unrecruited coming out of Ensworth High School.
Carter's role has continued to expand to where he is backing up starter Justin Hunter. All of the increased action isn't something he expected.
"I didn't really expect all this. I was just told when Justin Hunter gets a little tired, just sub in whenever you can," said Carter. "So, Justin called me over to go in for him. Luckily, we were in the red zone so I was able to score. But I wasn't expecting this much. My role kind of right now is like the fourth or fifth guy."
This Saturday marks the first true road game of the season for the Vols.
Tennessee will return to the state of Georgia, where the football team played its first game of the year on a neutral site at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
After three home weekends, and three homer crowds, the Vols have a tough test ahead of them between the hedges in Athens.
But they aren't too worried, they are just prepared.
"I know it is going to be a good environment," said sophomore linebacker A.J. Johnson. "I have never played there before but I have been to games there and they are going to be really rowdy. We are going to go down there and be ready to play. Going in you have to be prepared. Wednesday or Thursday we will have a sound system we will do to simulate the crowd and we work at that each week in practice."
Beginning the season with a tough contest against NC State at a neutral site and playing under the national spotlight against Florida has helped the Vols build confidence heading into this game.
"First game of the year we came out," said senior tight end Mychal Rivera. "We were in a dog fight and we came out on top. That just shows us that we can do that every time and going into Georgia we know that we need to come out and execute and play like we did against NC State."
Rivera noted that playing on the road will be different than anything the team has experienced this year.
"It'll be a change," continued Rivera. "We experienced a lot of adversity in the Florida game. We just have to get ready for that in this Georgia game and just to prepare and fight through."
One of the senior leaders on defense, Prentiss Waggner believes this 2012 Vols are confident in this matchup.
"I think our confidence is real good," said Waggner. "We have a veteran group of guys with a lot of senior leadership on the team, and I know we're going to be pumped about the game this week."
"We love it," said RS junior defensive back Byron Moore. "That's why you come to SEC to play these big games. If you can't get up for it, something is wrong. We are just worrying about ourselves, trying to get our minds right, and when Saturday comes just let it all hang out."
(On Georgia's running game)
"They are a good strong team that is very sound and they will run at you. That is the biggest problem people have with them. I love playing pro style teams that want to run it at you and pound it. It is all on the defense and people keeping their rush lanes and containing. That will stop that. They are a little bit different than Florida. Florida was trying to break it out to the outside a little bit more, but Georgia will try and run inside and we will be ready for them."
(On preparing for Georgia in practice)
You are going to get reads in practice and work on the play-action plays. I will be ready for them in the game. Our scout team will give us good reads and play-action. We have been watching a lot of film to know when they will run the play-action. Last week it was really good, all of the checks and stuff were right. We are just ready for this week and we will have the checks right for this week too."
(On Todd Gurley)
They have some good running backs, one of them is rushing nine yards a carry and we are going to stop that. There won't be nine yards a carry for him. He is a good running back with good speed and good power. We have to contain him though. Everyone has to get their gap and shut it down.
(On playing five ranked teams in a row)
It is a good opportunity to be in a position to get good wins. I don't really look at the rankings, I just look at beating the team you have up next. I don't keep up with the teams being ranked. I go to practice, have a good practice and get ready for the next game.
(On avoiding personal pressure)
"Stay within the game plan. Stay under the coaches, just really take coaching. I think that's the big thing, because once the coaches just stay on us and just keep it in our mind to just play the game, and don't try to do too much and get away from what we've been coached to do, we'll be fine."
(On importance of ground game)
"We just have to continue to do what we do. We have to stay on top of the O-linemen, stay under these coaches, watch film to see what they do, see what we can do to try and exploit things. We just have to stay downhill, stay with the O-linemen and believe in them."
(On addressing short yardage)
"You just have to understand getting down there and understand that we need that yardage. You have to understand where you are on the field and that comes back to watching film and knowing what they do and where guys are going to be. There's definitely a mindset. You have to tell yourself that you're getting those yards, those one or two, because those are the kind of plays that change games."
(On today's practice)
"Today's was a lot better. It was a lot more polished and everything. We went over the correction and then worked on some stuff for Georgia. It went really well."
(On how the scoring play developed)
"It was a little out route by Zach Rogers. We had been running it the whole time. The corner kind of bit on that and the safety was close to the middle of the field. So, no one was around me. Bray was able to get it to me and I was able to come down with it."
(On his play giving Bray more confidence in him)
"I think so a little bit, but we've been doing stuff like that in practice. Everybody is making plays in practice, so I guess it wasn't too big of a surprise."
(On Georgia)
"They have some game wreckers, they have some explosive guys. No. 29, he's really good. They have a lot of guys on the inside that can Rambo back. We have to play a really solid game."
(On no huddle)
"It definitely helps. As much less communication you can have on the road, it's better."
(On the "us against the world" mentality)
"For me it is. I know the team goes out there and we have a chip on our shoulder. We want to prove to people that we're better team than what's written out there."
(On playing a traditional team like Georgia)
" Georgia has pretty much been with the same offense they had the past few years. They're pretty much like a traditional offense, like a pro offense. They just run downhill. It's nothing complicated that we have to study. We just have to put the best personal in that is going to execute."
(On personal pressure)
"Georgia is a great team. They're one of the top teams in the nation. For us to win this, it would be great. A lot of guys have the right mindset. I'm pretty sure there's going to be a great practice; very physical preparation. I think we're going to go in and do what we have been coached to do."
(On being an underdog against Georgia)
"It's different. We had a bunch of external factors during Florida week. This week, we don't mind being the underdog. It just motivates us. Too much worrying about anything and how it's going to affect us, we're just all going to stick together and focus."
(On preparing for dual-threat QB Aaron Murray)
"I wouldn't necessarily say it's different. The one thing is it puts a lot of stress on the D-line in containing the pocket, collapsing the pocket and keeping that guy contained and just breaking away from blocks and making plays."
(On Georgia's wide receivers)
"They have a good core group of guys, guys that can beat you deep. Their quarterback likes to push the ball vertically. Their whole offense is a timing offense, sort of like Akron. If you let them run free, they can make big plays on you."
(On Tennessee's next four ranked opponents and keeping focused on Georgia)
"We know this this is Tennessee-Georgia, it's a rivalry in our eyes. It's going to be a big game. Guys on the team who have played in Athens already know it's a hostile environment. You go down, and it seems like you see red everywhere. It's going to be a challenge for us."
(On Georgia's run game)
"One thing we've got to do on the back end is if that guy breaks free, we've got to bring him to the ground. Last week, we let a big one get away from us. The main thing is getting off blocks on the back end and bringing him down."
(On the improvement in the run game)
"I feel like the difference is they were more seen and the running backs were hitting them down here and they were breaking a lot of arm tackles on the first level themselves to get into the secondary."
(On Rajion Neal's improvement)
"Yeah I have seen him progress going all the way back into camp. I feel like he is getting more downhill and he is breaking arm tackles more and more each week. I hope he continues to build on that."
(On no issues with snapping the ball)
"I feel like it is really good. It is something you can't take for granted but it is really good that we haven't had any mishaps with it."
(On protecting Tyler Bray)
"I think we have been protecting him but we haven't given up too many sacks. I feel like there has been too many hits on the quarterback, where they are hitting him after the play, after he releases the ball. That is something we are really trying to eliminate so we can keep him clean."
(On improving from last year's game)
"Last year we ended up with negative yards and I think this year it is something we have really harped on all offseason. It is something we are really focusing on, to have a running game against these guys."
(On competing with Georgia)
"I feel like we are a different team and they are a different team. But knowing we will be able to stick in there with them is going to be something. We feel like we can go head to head with anybody in the league. I know it is going to be a whole new game so we really aren't thinking about last year. We just want to remember the mistakes we made and not repeat them."
(On Georgia)
"We're facing a really good team, that's just one of the plusses that you get when you come to Tennessee. You get to play in these type of games and we just have to come out this week, prepare like we've been preparing each day and work on our craft and technique and we should be fine when we get there."
(On stopping the run)
"It effects the whole defense out there. We have to get all 11 hats to the ball this week, no matter who has the ball. We just have to gang tackle and make sure we get these guys down. It's going to be a good challenge for us and we're looking forward to it."
(On Georgia's receivers)
"We definitely feel like we can match up with these guys. We know that they have a big guy in Malcolm Brown. He is a big, possession receiver. They have a few quick, speedy guys, too. So we just have to get our hands on them, interrupt the timing with their quarterback, and just make sure we play tight coverage the whole game.
(On the confidence boost from the two interceptions last game)
"It's gives you a lot of confidence. Anytime you get that many turnovers, it's always going to give you confidence. But that's something we are expected to do this year is to get turnovers. It's nothing we are surprised about."
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