Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

The Willow Road and University Avenue junctions with Bayfront Expressway are at-grade intersections controlled by traffic lights ; there are two additional controlled intersections at Chilco Road and Marsh Road, and the Marsh Road interchange on U. S. 101 is a parclo.

In 2007, prominent author David Halberstam was killed in one such crash at the Willow Road intersection.

Also, in keeping with the show's themes of redemption and moral ambiguity, Willow, Angel, Spike, Faith, Giles, Anya, and Andrew have at some point in their lives descended into darkness.

Willow was included in AfterEllen. com's Top 50 Lesbian and Bisexual Characters, ranking at No. 7.

In " Gingerbread ", her home life is made clearer: Sunnydale falls under the spell of a demon who throws the town's adults into a moral panic, and Willow's mother is portrayed as a career-obsessed academic who is unable to communicate with her daughter, eventually trying to burn Willow at the stake for being involved in witchcraft ; her father is never featured.

Fearing that Buffy is in hell, Willow suggests at the beginning of the sixth season that she be raised from the dead.

As Willow gives a book report in front of her high school class, she discovers herself wearing the same mousy outfit she wore in the first episode of the show (" Welcome to the Hellmouth ") as her friends and classmates shout derisively at her, and Oz and Tara whisper intimately to each other in the audience.

The scene was, upon completion, noticeably sensual to Whedon, the producers, and network executives, who encouraged Whedon to develop a romantic storyline between Willow and Tara, but at the same time placed barriers on how far it could go and what could be shown.

Some fans loyal to Willow reacted angrily as she chose to be with Tara when Oz made himself available, and they lashed out at Tara and Amber Benson on the fansite message boards.

When she realizes her powers have gone at the end of Season Eight, however, Willow ends her relationship with Kennedy, saying that there is someone else Willow is in love with, who she will never see again.

Jane magazine hailed Willow and Tara as a bold representation of a somewhat normal homosexual relationship, remarking that " they hold hands, slow-dance and lay in bed at night.

Particularly because Tara's death came at a point where Willow and Tara had reconciled and were shown following an apparent sexual encounter, the writers were criticized for representing the consequences of lesbian sex as punishable by death.

The first planting of Syrah in Washington State was done at Red Willow Vineyards in 1986.

Rooming at an inn, where he is introduced to the daughter of the landlord, Willow, Howie notices a series of photographs celebrating the island's annual harvests, with each photograph featuring a young girl, the May Queen.

Howie spends another night at the inn, where Willow openly attempts to seduce him.

The UNCF is headquartered at 8260 Willow Oaks Corporate Drive in an unincorporated area in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, east of the city of Fairfax.

It went about through Thousand Springs Valley, West Brush Creek, and Willow Creek, before arriving at the Humboldt River in northeastern Nevada near present-day Wells.

The construction of the dam and the filling of the Allegheny Reservoir also necessitated the elimination of the small village of Corydon, which was located at the confluence of Willow Creek with the Allegheny River ; and the small village of Kinzua, which was located at the confluence of Kinzua Creek with the Allegheny River.

* Wikaskokiseyin ( Wee-kas-kookee-sey-yin, better known as Chief Sweet Grass, Chief of the Plains Cree, his mother was a captured Absaroke, as he grew up he was also called Apistchi-okimas-' Little Chief ', signed the Treaty 6 on 9 September 1876 at Fort Pitt, along with bands of Woodland Cree, Chipewyan, some Saulteaux, only a quarter of the participating groups were Plains Cree, while his successor as chief Wah-wee-oo-kah-tah-mah-hote (' Strike him on the back ') signed the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton on the 28th August 1876 together with the Willow Cree, died 11 January 1877 in a shootout accident on the Plains, probably at Saint-Paul-des-Cris, Alberta )

Willow is skilled with computers and her mother is emotionally distant from her ; Willow expresses several times that her parents are mostly disinterested in her.

At different times, Willow, Xander, and Giles caution Buffy that she does not know the Initiative's true motives and there are questions about their mission that are unanswered.

* This episode marks the first of several times Oz will spot Willow, before finally meeting her in What's My Line, Part 1.

Willow will take command of the Scoobies again many times, most notable during the time between seasons 5 & 6, when Buffy is dead.

Willow mentions her parents several times throughout the series, but her father is never seen.

Exploration of the region intensified as news of the discoveries got out, and because of the distances and times involved in communications and travel in those times, moreover because of the remoteness of the country, the Cariboo Rush did not begin in earnest until 1862 after the discovery of Williams Creek in 1861 and the relocation of the focus of the rush to the creek valleys in the northern Cariboo Plateau forming the headwaters of the Willow River and the north slope of the basin of the Quesnel.

* This episode once again establishes Xander as the " heart " of the group, the one that can always grant emotional support to the others in the hard times, a role that was previously established in the Season 1 finale " Prophecy Girl " when Xander, who at the time had a crush on Buffy, revives her through CPR and in the Season 4 episode " Primeval " when Buffy, Willow, Giles and Xander all merge their psyches together in a spell with Xander representing " Animus ", the heart.

* Before turning romantic, the start Willow and Tara's relationship is foreshadowed a couple of times in this episode.

The gang assists with packing boxes, and Willow reminds everyone about Tara's upcoming 20th birthday.

* Cassie, supposedly speaking for Tara, reminds Willow that she is " strong like an Amazon ", referencing a conversation that Willow and Tara have in " The Body ", when they discuss being strong for Dawn.

She also reminds Willow of the time when Tara sang to her on the bridge (" Under Your Spell ") in " Once More, with Feeling ".

Some band into loose voluntary associations with other congregations that share similar beliefs ( e. g., the Willow Creek Association ).

From there, she would travel northeast to Sandtown and Willow Grove, Delaware, and onto the Camden area where free black agents, William and Nat Brinkley and Abraham Gibbs, guided her north past Dover, Smyrna, and Blackbird, where other agents would take her across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to New Castle and Wilmington.

Willow plays an integral role within the inner circle of friends — called the Scooby Gang — who support Buffy Summers, a teenager gifted with superhuman powers to defeat vampires, demons, and other evil in the fictional town of Sunnydale.

Willow is malleable, in continuous transition more so than any other Buffy character.

When Willow and Oz decide to commit to each other, Willow is enthusiastic that she has a boyfriend, and, as a guitarist in a band, one so cool.

Contrasting with some of the more sexual relationships of the other characters, Willow and Tara demonstrate a sentimental, soft, and consistent affection for each other.

Programs in other provinces include The Red Cedar and Stellar Awards in B. C., the Willow Awards in Saskatchewan, and the Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards.

Willow species are hosts to more than a hundred aphid species, belonging to Chaitophorus and other genera, forming large colonies to feed on plant juices, on the underside of leaves in particular.

Willow wood is also used in the manufacture of boxes, brooms, cricket bats ( grown from certain strains of white willow ), cradle boards, chairs and other furniture, dolls, flutes, poles, sweat lodges, toys, turnery, tool handles, veneer, wands and whistles.

Large-scale projects to support willow as an energy crop are already at commercial scale in Sweden, and in other countries, others are being developed through initiatives such as the Willow Biomass Project in the US and the Energy Coppice Project in the UK.

The racial makeup of Willow Creek was 1, 375 ( 80. 4 %) White, 6 ( 0. 4 %) African American, 167 ( 9. 8 %) Native American, 14 ( 0. 8 %) Asian, 6 ( 0. 4 %) Pacific Islander, 29 ( 1. 7 %) from other races, and 113 ( 6. 6 %) from two or more races.

Her lack of experience with people causes her to make straightforward, often tactless remarks, which soon put her at odds with other Scooby Gang members, especially Willow, who has little trust for the ex-demon.

In " Wolves at the Gate, Part I " Willow flies Andrew to the Scottish castle where Buffy, Xander, Dawn and the other slayers operate.

Ladd advanced half the $ 35 million budget for Willow in return for theatrical and television rights, leaving Lucasfilm with home video and pay television rights to offer in exchange for the other half.

Although Tara is presented with a timidity enough to silence her in the fourth season, Amber Benson was given a prominent song in the episode, singing strongly and fervently to Willow, again in a duet with Giles, and backup in two other songs.

After tentatively courting each other in " Entropy ", Tara returns to Willow, and they reconcile through the next episode, " Seeing Red ".

Manda Scott in The Herald wrote in 2002 that the lack of realistic displays of touching or kissing between Willow and Tara made their relationship implausible, but because no other portrayals of lesbian relationships were on television, its importance is undeniable.

The Chiffchaff's closest relatives, other than former subspecies, are a group of leaf warblers which similarly lack crown stripes, a yellow rump or obvious wing bars ; they include the Willow, Bonelli's, Wood and Plain Leaf Warblers.

When not singing, the Common Chiffchaff can be difficult to distinguish from other leaf warblers with greenish upperparts and whitish underparts, particularly the Willow Warbler.

Interbreeding with other species, other than those formerly considered as subspecies of P. collybita, is rare, but a few examples are known of hybridisation with the Willow Warbler.