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In the Chamber Music Series at the Legion of Honor, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present free concerts in collaboration with the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music (SFFCM). Now in its fourth season, this popular series is held one Sunday each month from January to June. Concerts are from noon to 2:00 p.m. in the Rodin Gallery (Gallery 10) and are free of charge after museum admission. The performing ensembles are either affiliates of SFFCM or recipients of grants from the Musical Grant Program, and together they represent the tremendous diversity of musical talent here in the Bay Area.
April 21: Hausmann Quartet
The Hausmann Quartet's vision is to make chamber music a vital, relevant, and widely appreciated art form, one community at a time. By creating a platform for chamber music to thrive, the quartet intends to spark a new movement of engaged listening in our society. Through a strong commitment to creative musical programs and collaborative partnerships, its mission is to infuse the community with chamber music by providing the intimacy and accessibility of a garage band–style organization with the artistic integrity of world-class concert artists.
May 12 | Town Quartet
June 16 | Friction Quartet
Ensembles presented in previous seasons include: Hausmann Quartet, Duo Revirado, Classical Revolution, Bridge Chamber Virtuosi, Del Sol String Quartet , and Les Grâces, all in 2010; New Esterházy Quartet, Musical Arts Quintet, Revolution Quartet, the Rhythm Sisters, Voices of Music, San Francisco Guitar Quarte, and sfSound in 2011; and Eos Ensemble, Ariel Ensemble, Vocallective, Revolution Quartet, Musical Arts Quintet, Assisi Quartet, Gold Coast Chamber Players, and Left Coast Ensemble in 2012.


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Warren Dining Set - 7 pc.
About this itemOriginal Price $1,199.00
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The Warren 7 pc. dining collection includes 6 heavy duty aluminum chairs generously sized and a full size tile top dining table with umbrella hole. This enduring collection will escort your family and guests to a place of comfort and happiness.
The sturdy aluminum frame is powder coated in a very elegant mocha color. The sling is a heavy duty outdoor mesh allowing the fabric to breathe and dry very quickly.
The tile top adds a touch of class to any setting. The table top tiles may be replaced at any time and with any color which may be purchased at any tile outlet. This replacement feature allows for greater durability and fashion.
The set is all-weather and can be easily cleaned with just a damp cloth.
- Set Includes: 6 dining chairs and a 38" x 74" rectangular tile top dining table with umbrella hole
- Fade and mildew resistant mesh sling fabric
- Chair color: Mocha
- Powder coated rust resistant aluminum frame
- Some assembly required
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Dining Chair: 24" W x 27.5" D x 38.25" H
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This is a page about postal code of Goranec, Klenovnik, Varaždinska, with more professional information like latitude, longitude and online map etc.
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Form Konnect White Internal Cube Divider (W)328mm
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Restaurant-Style Salsa
- Two 10-ounce cans diced tomatoes and green chiles, such as Rotel
- One 28-ounce can whole tomatoes with juice
- 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves (or more to taste!)
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 whole jalapeno, quartered and sliced thin, with seeds and membrane
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 whole lime, juiced
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Combine the diced tomatoes, whole tomatoes, cilantro, onions, garlic, jalapeno, cumin, salt, sugar and lime juice in a blender or food processor. (This is a very large batch. I recommend using a 12-cup food processor, or you can process the ingredients in batches and then mix everything together in a large mixing bowl.)
Pulse until you get the salsa to the consistency you'd like. I do about 10 to 15 pulses. Test seasonings with a tortilla chip and adjust as needed.
Refrigerate the salsa for at least an hour before serving.
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I haven't had an orgasm in 20 years. What can I do?
I'm 45 and I haven't been able to have an orgasm for more than 20 years…either by masturbation or intercourse. I was able to have them as a teenager and young woman, but they stopped after I had a serious anxiety disorder and left my husband. I do go to a therapist, but not specifically for this. I'm single and this interferes in my relationships with men because they seem to think it's a reflection on them…which only causes me more anxiety. What should I do?


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A tiring, but fun skill enhancement exercise which stresses change of speed and direction, as well as some conditioning. (Ages 6-18)
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|-Ball for half of the players
-40 x 35 yard rectangle
(about 5-8 yards per player depending on fitness and level)
|-Split players in half. (1/2 inside the square without a ball, 1/2 split along the perimeter evenly each with a ball at their feet)
-On go, players on inside sprint to a server on the outside, yell "feet" as they ask for the ball to their feet, and then 1-touch the ball back to the server.
-They imediately turn and sprint AWAY from that player, look up to find another player on the outside waiting to give a pass.
-This continues for 1 minute.
-Players count their touches and do push-ups depending on the difference in touches.( ie. most touches was 30, least was 20, so player with 20 does 10 push-ups) Winner never does push-ups.
-Each time switch player outside and inside.
|-Make sure players focus completely on their touch. Don't let them get lazy.
-Direct servers not to pass the ball if inside player is closer than 5 yards or does not yell for the ball.
-Make sure passes are on the ground.
-Make sure players count their touches. If they don't, give them 0 touches.
-Players need to play at full speed.
-Players will tend to go in a big circle. Don't let this happen. Continue to stress the turn, sprint away, and looking for waiting player.
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2-touch (inside player has to touch ball once and then pass back) Make sure player pushed the 1st touch to the side away from and imaginary pressure.
Heading (inside player either gets high and heads the ball low back to the server, or does a diving header back to server)
Thigh or chest (inside player traps on thigh or chest and passes back). Try to have the player "push" the ball to one side before passing back..on ground.
Juggling (inside player heads it or juggles it 2-3 times before passing back..on ground)
Dribbling ( Have inside players have a ball each and outside players don't. On go, have dribblers look for an server without a ball, pass the ball more than 5 yards and get the ball right back 1-touch. Count only if successful pass back.)
Coach: Stress changing direction, speed and looking up.
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Try any of the above but have each player on the inside have a partner which tries to defend the 1st player from getting a touch. After one minute, switch attacker and defender.
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Stocks to Watch: BlackBerry, Red Hat
NEW YORK -- BlackBerry
The focus for the quarter will be on global sales of BlackBerry's new Z10 touchscreen smartphone. The device went on sale in the U.S. just last week so sales there won't be part of the results.
TheStreet will be live-blogging BlackBerry's results beginning at 7 a.m.
Ignore BlackBerry Earnings; They Mean Nothing
Red Hat
The open source software company posted adjusted earnings of 36 cents a share in the quarter on revenue of $348 million, an increase of 17% year over year. Analysts were looking for earnings of 30 cents a share on revenue of $349.4 million.
The company noted that subscription revenue, the majority of its business, was $303 million for the quarter, up 19% year over year.
Red Hat Slammed as Revenue Falls Short
PVH forecast adjusted earnings in 2013 of $7 a share, below estimates of $7.40 a share, as the acquisition of Warnaco cuts into profits.
4 Reasons Not to Buy Stocks in 2013
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New England Patriots - Greatest Sports Franchises
Founded in 1959 as the Boston Patriots, the New England Patriots struggled through their first years in the league. Despite playoff showings during the 1970s, and even a Super Bowl appearance 1986, the team was fruitless until the 1990s, and even then they didn't win a Super Bowl until after the new millennium. What turned things around were the additions of Bill Belichick as coach and Tom Brady as quarterback – the team won their first championship after the 2001 season, and then won two more during that decade. WatchMojo.com continues our series on the Greatest Sports Franchises of All Time with a look at the New England Patriots.


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For many parents, it is not a matter of if your teenager gets a smartphone but when. According to a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly 25 percent of children between the ages of 14 and 17 already have one. And ownership levels across all demographics are only going up.
Of course, there are many reasons to be skittish about giving your teenager a smartphone. Concerns can range from having strangers know where your kids are "checking-in" at any given time, to driving distractions, to voice, text and data fees from your cellular provider that are off the hook.
But if your kid just has to have a smartphone (and you're willing to oblige), it will help to establish a few key ground rules first. Here are the five things to do before handing over a smartphone to your teenager.
Insist that you (rather than complete strangers) can keep tabs on their location
It is easy for teenagers to share where they are at any given time via Facebook or "check-in" services like foursquare. While it is reasonable for friends and family to know if your kid is at a concert or local hangout, do you really want this information shared with strangers? While Facebook (in theory) lets users restrict who sees a status or location update, apps like foursquare and others are often co-mingled with Twitter, where virtually everyone can follow any other user's feed or whereabouts. The safest thing to do is put the kabosh on them checking-in to any place publicly. Short of that, insist that no location is shared beyond a tight network of friends and family that you can monitor at any time.
There is good news about location-sharing services, however. You can use them to track where your kids are regardless of whether they check-in to a place or not. All four major carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile) have services that let you track where kids and family members are at all times (assuming they are with their devices). Monthly subscriptions for these services range between $5 and $10, and users can try them out for at least a couple weeks at no charge. There are also a wide variety of third-party apps available to perform similar services. The best one is called Glympse, and can be downloaded at no cost to iPhones, Androids, BlackBerrys and Microsoft Windows-based smartphones.
Eliminate the ability to text while driving
Even though it is against the law in many places around the country, teenagers (as is the case with many of the rest of us) regularly text and speak on their phones while behind the wheel. The dangers here are indisputable and car crashes are the number one cause of death among teens. As it is difficult to legislate or explain away the inherent risks of texting while driving, parents should make it technologically difficult or impossible to do so.
Here again, most major carriers have subscription-based services that use the GPS technology found within smartphones to eliminate the ability to text once they are in motion at certain speeds. Consumer Reports recommends two different independent services that either prohibit texting or curb the desire to do so behind the wheel. For $6.99 per month, tXtBlocker reliably eliminates texting capabilities for most smartphones while in motion. Another creative option is DriveSafe.ly, a free service that reads text messages and emails aloud as they are received.
Go with a second line over a prepaid phone
While many parents choose prepaid phones with cheaper plans for their children, it is more prudent to pay more for a second line which offers considerably more parental controls. Not only do second lines provide the location-tracking and text-curbing services described above, but they also set limits on how often they can talk and text in a given month. The Pew study indicates that the median teen user sends out 60 text message per day! So having a plan with limits (or free unlimited options) could help some parents avoid whopper bills. As well, most plans that limit voice minutes let users make exceptions for 911 emergency calls as well as specific numbers where calls are authorized by the owner of the plan.
Have them use Wi-Fi whenever possible for video, games and apps
Most cell phone carriers no longer provide unlimited data, and the top plans for 5GB of data run about $50 per month. You can go with a cheaper plan or avoid expensive over-usage fees by insisting that your teenage kids use wireless Internet whenever possible for data-intensive activities. This is a no-brainer when they're at home as you are likely already paying for an Internet connection to tap into. So, before they download apps and video clips or begin a marathon session of a multiplayer game, have them make sure the settings are adjusted on their smartphones and confirm they are connected to the home network. Finding Wi-Fi networks is also possible when they are out and about. There are also useful apps available for iPhones and Android devices that will point you to businesses and locations in your area that offer free Wi-Fi.
Stay positive
While there are dangers and costs to confront if and when your teen starts using a smartphone, don't forget that these state-of-the-art devices also offer a myriad of educational benefits. There are apps that will help them prepare for the SATs and other standardized tests and view three-dimensional renderings of molecules. These are just a few examples. Of course, if you are helping them pay the bill on their shiny new device, the least they can do in return is increase their household chore obligations. Have them download Chore Pad or Laundry Pal and see why smartphone ownership for your teen may actually be worth it.


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Reviewed By Travis W (Marbury, MD) Reviewed for a 2002 Chevy S10 Pickup —9/14/2009 9:58 AM
Put them on my wifes car with Green pads. Easy instalation. They do stop better and remove heat to prevent warping of the rotors. The green pads produce less dust too. She is hard on brakes ( drives like shes in Nascar ) and warps rotors fast, these keep that from happining. With new, quality pads they last a long time.


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Litchfield County resident Hugh Hill, who has attended the free concerts for years, had this to say: "The Litchfield Jazz Camp is one of the very few efforts to keep jazz, one of America's truly original art forms, alive. Like a lot of jazz aficionados, I will always remember those magical jazz moments-- Miles Davis at Saratoga, Stanley Clarke at the Blue Note. So when it happens at a local high school, it is more than special.
Litchfield Jazz Camp Faculty Concerts will be held Mondays through Thursdays. While there is no admission charge, free will donation will support Litchfield Jazz Camp need-based scholarships. Artists include the best players on the jazz scene today – guitarist Dave Stryker, saxophonists Claire Daly, Gary Smulyan, and Don Braden, drummers Charli Persip, Steve Jonhs and Matt Wilson and many more. A weekly performer roster will be posted at www.litchfieldjazzfest.com/calendar.
Litchfield Jazz After Work leads seamlessly into the Litchfield Jazz Festival's 19th Anniversary on August 8-10 at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Goshen, CT. The Festival line-up features The Gospel According to Jazz with Kirk Whalum, Grammy nominated vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, pianist Cyrus Chestnut, UK vocalist/pianist Anthony Strong, saxophonist Jimmy Greene, guitar legend Mike Stern, Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, bassist Mario Pavone's Accordion Project, the new Litchfield Jazz Festival Orchestra's Django Reinhardt Project, the legendary trombonist and member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Curtis Fuller and more. Full line-up and schedule HERE. Ticket holders will also enjoy crafts, fine art, the popular Kids Zone, a variety of flavorful foods, performances by Camp students, artist talks, after parties and jams. Festival tickets start at $40 and children 12 and under are free on the lawn. Parking is free. For tickets and festival information visit www.litchfieldjazzfest.com, call (860) 361-6285 or visit the Palace Theater box office in Waterbury.
Support for the festival comes from: BeFoundation, Classical Tents & Party Goods, Connecticut Community Foundation, Connecticut State Department of Education, CTVisit.com, Crowne Plaza Southbury, Crystal Rock, Department of Economic and Community Development, DownBeat, Harney & Sons, Infinity Music Hall & Bistro, JC ATM Services, Kelley Transit, Kent Greenhouse & Gardens, Litchfield Magazine, Master Brands, New England Foundation for the Arts, Olde Burnside Brewing Company, Republican-American, RS Berkeley, TELEFUNKEN, Vandoren, WBGO, WSHU, WNPR, WHDD and more...
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The charitable organization, Litchfield Performing Arts, is dedicated to inspiring full and happy lives through music. We urge everyone, young and old, to "Listen, Learn, and Love Jazz."
For details visit www.litchfieldjazzfest.com/calendar, call 860-361-6285, email@example.com or join the conversation atwww.facebook.com/litchfieldjazzcamp, www.twitter.com/litchfieldjazz andwww.youtube.com/litchfieldarts.
Photo of Gary Smulyan live at the Litchfield Jazz Festival by Steven Sussman.


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Serves: 8
Test Kitchen Tip: To prepare the baking pan, grease the inside of the pan with a light coating of butter or margarine. Add about one tablespoon of flour and tilt the pan until all greased surfaces are coated with flour. Holding the pan over the sink, tap the pan so that any excess flour is discarded.
Substitution: 6-oz. squares of semi-sweet baking chocolate can be used instead of a 6-oz. bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (89 votes).
In short: Brilliant atmosphere & very well organised. Plenty of parking & toilets. Date of review: June 15, 2013
In short: Thanks to Grass Roots for another excellent eventIn full: Really enjoyed this event even though I didn't much feel like running on the day. Probably helped by nice sunny weather on the day.Very well organised, with a friendly pre-race briefing from Steve Goulding. Thanks also Steve for encouragement at the end even though I ran a painfully slow time compared to my pre-injury days; even though it was a very flat course - definite PB potential in good conditions.Good mix of runners, and nice to see team Ryan taking part. Nice for me personally to bump into an old friend at the end (sweaty hug time!)Nice medal and jelly babies at the end. A t-shirt would be a nice addition but I understand this incurs extra expense and would be an organisational nightmare with so many entries on the day.See you at the Rough n Tumble everyone.Date of review: November 23, 2012
In short: Very flat excellent PB potentialIn full: Situated just outside of Swindon in nearby Wroughton this is a great PB potential course due to its relative flatness and the knowledge you gain from the first lap going into the second. The atmosphere was perhaps a little lacking and their wasn't much scenery but the competition was great and I would recommend it. A goodie bag at the end may have been nice as wellDate of review: November 22, 2012
In short: Flat and fast rural roads two lap course. Well organised with some nice touches eg last runner marshall and trainers raffle. Also got a monster PB!Date of review: November 20, 2012
In short: Great race in the countrysideIn full: I signed up on the day, but did not have to face any long queues at all. Very smooth operation throughout. Pleasant route through the countryside and a nice medal at the end. The sun even shined. It was pretty much as good as it gets!Date of review: November 20, 2012
In short: Very enjoyable race.Date of review: November 19, 2012
In short: Excellent race from getting my number in the post to crossing the finish line.In full: No complaints at all. This was well marshalled and well organised. It's mostly flat but don't be fooled, there is a long incline that was cheeky.PB potential.....I did!Date of review: November 18, 2012
In short: great organisationIn full: well organised race with excellent marshalls !Date of review: November 18, 2012
In short: First time ive done a timed 10km - Im already looking for a half amarthon as a result !In full: and a rather large day at Twickenham to see the rugby yesterday I cant say I was feeling my best - but I got round, happy with my time and something to beat next week in the cotswold 10km!! Strongly recommend and of course I will attend next year !Date of review: November 18, 2012
In short: Best Birthday run, love these people!In full: Very well organised with jolly marshalls and a sweetheart full of tips last runner marshall (great idea) called Clare, who ran me in and gave me loads of hints. Excellent atmosphere, all the fit people encouraged me (as they overtook me LOL) and the beautiful weather made for a quality run. Very happy, thanks guys, this was great, see you next year :-DDate of review: November 18, 2012
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Both GE Capital and Wells Fargo Capital Finance have identified flooring as an investment opportunity and are providing unique lending programs to support growth for the entire supply chain.
"We are bullish on building products, broadly speaking, but on flooring in particular. For the first time in a long time, this sector is experiencing growth," said Rob Griffin, managing director originations, southeast, Wells Fargo Capital Finance.
GE Capital's Inventory Finance Program
Under GE Capital's Inventory Finance Program, retailers can fill their stockrooms with new product today but put off payment for 30 days to 180 days without interest, according to Julius Strahorn, GE Capital's vice president of commercial distribution finance.
The credit system is triangular in nature, he explained, with retailers placing an inventory order with a supplier and then the participating distributor and/or manufacturer directly billing GE Capital. GE Capital will immediately pay the purchase order but collect a 2 percent transaction fee from the supplier — retailers will later payback GE Capital at no interest.
"Our program is free to the dealer. We sign up a supplier and then target their entire dealer base. There are no interest charges. The only time they pay a fee is if they default or went beyond terms," said Strahorn.
The program gets product into dealers' hands immediately without suppliers having to reduce prices to move inventory, he added.
"Our program pulls product through the channel instead of offering deep discounts to push product into market," Strahorn said. "If everyone reduces prices it only compounds the problem of keeping cash out of the dealer's hand." For more information visit www.GEcdf.com/home.
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Wells Fargo's Capital Finance program
Whether you're looking to expand a location, make an acquisition or restructure, Wells Fargo's Capital Finance can provide the working capital to grow your business based on your assets, receivables and inventory, said Griffin.
"We're always looking for companies that are growing," he said. "We exist as a separate unit inside Wells Fargo to help companies with significant working capital assets grow or go through some form of transition. Liquidity can make the difference between winning and losing."
Wells Fargo's Capital Finance makes loans to storeowners based on the value of their inventory, said Irene Marks, managing director of Wells Fargo's retail finance division.
"We'll evaluate their inventory and will usually lend up to 85 percent to 90 percent of the appraised value," she said. "Retail is often seasonal with people undertaking home improvement projects during certain times of the year and store owners want to stock up and make their stores ready for the season."
Marks said most stores qualify. "As long as a store owner is doing what most good retailers normally do and has good systems, they don't have to do anything special to prepare for us to provide them working capital." For more information visit www.WellsFargoCapitalFinance.com


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West Ellicott Man Dies In Farming Accident
BUSTI – A West Ellicott man lost his life Thursday night when he was pinned underneath his tractor.
Lakewood-Busti Police say the wife of 60-year-old James D. Hall became concerned when she couldn't reach him by phone and a family friend went looking for Hall. The friend found the accident site on Orr Street Extension and called for assistance.
Police say it appears Hall was operating a tractor towing a brush hog on a narrow dirt road in the area of a small ravine. The tractor left the side of the dirt road for an unknown reason ejecting Hall as it rolled down the ravine. Both the tractor and the brush hog landed on Hall, pinning him underneath.
Hall was pronounced dead at the scene by Chautauqua County Coroner John Sixbey.
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Bulls settle ownership issue
Bradford on Thursday night said an agreement regarding their ownership had been reached in principle.
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The Bulls have been parked in a state of confusion for the last month after the transition from owner Omar Khan to a new three-man group of Andrew Calvert, Mark Moore and Ian Watt failed to happen.
The trio stepped down from their positions on Christmas Eve citing issues with Khan, claiming the man who rescued Bradford from the mire in 2012 had not kept his side of the bargain.
The three men returned to lead the club on December 30 but on Thursday Bradford said that just Calvert and Watt would direct the Odsal outfit, with Moore there only for the benefit of the club and its fans.
A statement said: "A meeting between all parties concerned, including current and former directors, along with representatives of the Rugby Football League, was staged at Bulls' Provident Stadium home earlier today.
"And details of its outcome are to be finalised in due course, allowing the Bulls to continue to be directed by Ian Watt and Andrew Calvert.
"Former chairman Mark Moore is to continue to work as part of the club for the benefit of supporters, staff and partners."
Calvert, Moore and Watt moved in at Bradford in September, with Ryan Whitcut initially part of their group before stepping down.
They claimed at the end of 2013 to have found holes in the club's finances to the tune of £400,000, and since then a restructuring of staff has taken place.
Just this week Frank Winterstein opted out of his one-year deal with the club, with coach Francis Cummins admitting that financial uncertainty had been a factor.
The four-time Super League champions first hit financial trouble in 2012 when they were placed into administration. The old company was eventually liquidated with Khan's group, 'OK Bulls', born out of the ashes.
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Our day to cherish
"I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."
This was, according to St. Matthew, the final message Jesus of Nazareth gave his disciples before he ascended into heaven.
His disciples had heard Jesus make wonderful promises earlier as he ministered in the hills of Galilee. Some of what He did was miraculous – restoring life to Lazarus, giving sight to another and cleansing yet another of leprosy. They also listened closely as he talked of peace, of having love for one another and of putting to rest the nature within us, which is ugly and undesirable, and giving life to a self that is loving and good.
Holy Week had started wonderfully with Galileans welcoming Him to Jerusalem with shouts of "Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that comes in the name of the Lord." It ended with Jesus crucified, nailed to a cross at Calvary, and even the most faithful of his followers could not ignore the doubt they felt in their hearts. They had expected to witness the arrival of the kingdom of God, and instead, this.
But on the third day, on that joyous first Easter, when He overcame death and opened the way to eternal life, a remarkable transformation came over His followers. Their faith was galvanized and they began spreading word of the Messiah, of his teachings.
"I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."
This statement of fact is what keeps bringing the faithful to hear the jubilant message in Christian churches across the area today that is "He is risen!" Whatever liturgy is followed, Easter is the most significant holy day of the Christian calendar, for it marks the advent of salvation for mankind through the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
Today Christians reaffirm the hope and reassurance found in the words of Easter's central figure: "I am the Resurrection and the Life."


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Watch out for those Millennials!
Last night I sat around the table for my first Corn Hill Navigation Board Meeting. I have been involved with the company for over six years and was honored to be inducted to board this past January.
I am accustomed to being the only person in her twenties in the room at these types of meetings, but last night I was pleasantly surprised that just to my right was another woman close to my age. I am so proud to be part of an organization that embraces the intelligence, generosity and capability of Generation Y. I am even more proud to say that I am Millennial.
Millennials have had a rough road to overcome the past few years. Some people say we are lazy, unfocused, entitled and rightfully unemployed. These people must not know the Millennials I know. My group of friends and contacts are hardworking, philanthropic, successful and extremely bright. They are problem solvers, high powered employees, board members, and the best movers and shakers in town.
Today I had the joy of meeting another great, local group that not only embraces Millennials, but was founded by and is comprised of all young professionals: NextGen Rochester. The members are the next generation of citizens who make giving back part of their lives through leadership, friendship and philanthropy. Each member of the group contributes a minimum annual fee of $100. This money is then granted to non profits in Rochester. The grant process not only elicits philanthropic support from its Millennial members, but it also makes them more aware of the many different organizations in Rochester [Did you know we have over 4,000 non profits in Rochester!?].
The group spends their time throughout the year meeting with and touring several local agencies and culminate their efforts with a grant application process for all area non profits. The finalists from these applications then come together and present their cause at the end of the year meeting. The presentations are made public so anyone in the Rochester Community can come and learn about the great causes!
The moral of the story, folks, is that Millennials are making a difference everywhere you look – especially right here in our local community. If you are a non-believer that wants to see Millennials in action or a Millennial looking to become more involved in our community, shoot me an email: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Directed by Shane Acker
Introduction to 9
A foreword to the movie 9 from Ray Kurzweil.
D-Box: Making Movies Really Move
The new cinema technology that is causing a motion commotion.
Talking with Timur
A chat with the Russian hotshot helmer.
Computer Kills Man
A Slideshow Tour through the long simmering battle between machines and humanity.
Images from 9
Screenshots from the animated feature film 9.
Steampunk: An Overview
Jeff VanderMeer presents a cultural primer.
Apocalyptic Visions: From Medieval Fear to the Movie 9
Artists' take on the end of days.
9 Premieres in Russia
The skinny from the Moscow movie bash.
Short Films that Grew Up
A slide show of little films that could.
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Many of my interviews are conducted over long distances, by way of a clear channel communications miracle called an ISDN line. People are often surprised to hear this, because these weekly conversations about "religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas" are singularly intimate. But I have come to enjoy the discipline of a long-distance circuit. I can close my eyes and listen deeply. I encounter my guests — as my listeners do — solely by way of the human voice. Wangari Maathai has a wonderful voice and an infectious whole-body laugh. You will even hear her sing if you listen to the end of this hour. But I am glad I met her in person, because her physical presence is remarkable. She is a 66-year-old force of nature, with a beautiful face and flashing black eyes. She is palpably gracious but rather subdued until she starts speaking about her work. Then, sitting across from her, it is not hard to imagine that this woman has stood up to a dictator and won, and that she has fought off encroaching desert by leading thousands of people to plant 30 million trees. Wangari Maathai was born in colonial Africa in 1940. She excelled in science and trained as a biologist. She became the first woman in Central Africa to earn a Ph.D. and the first woman to chair a department at the University of Nairobi. In the mid-1970s, she started planting trees with rural Kenyan women who were feeling the consequences of soil erosion and deforestation in their daily lives. They walked far distances for water, had too little firewood and fodder for animals, and lacked nutritious food and sources of income. Planting trees was both a simple response to their crisis and a dramatically effective one. It restored a simple link that had been broken between human beings and the land on which they live — the kind of link that we often take for granted until, as Maathai says, we move away from the world we know — spatially, economically, or spiritually. For several years before her environmental work began, Wangari Maathai had been away from Kenya. When she returned, she saw with fresh eyes that "the earth was naked. For me, the mission was to try to cover it with green." For a quarter century Wangari Maathai and the women of her Green Belt Movement improbably faced off powerful economic forces and Kenya's tyrannical ruler, Daniel arap Moi. She was beaten and imprisoned. Nevertheless, the movement spread to 600 communities across Kenya and into 20 countries. After Moi's fall from power in 2002, Wangari Maathai was elected to her country's parliament with 98 percent of the vote. My curiosity, of course, always drives towards the spiritual and ethical questions and convictions that drive human action. In the course of this conversation, Wangari Maathai describes the faith behind her ecological passion — a lively fusion of Christianity, real world encounters with good and evil, and the ancestral Kikuyu traditions of Kenya's central highlands. She grew up there, schooled by Catholic missionaries, and she remains a practicing Catholic to this day. But life has taught her to value anew the Kikuyu culture of her family's ancestry. The Kikuyu traditionally worshipped under trees and honored Mount Kenya — Africa's second highest mountain — as the place where God resides. That mountain, as Wangari Maathai only later understood scientifically, is the source of most of Kenya's rivers. And the fig trees considered most sacred by the Kikuyu — those it was impermissible to cut down — had the deepest roots, bringing water from deep below the earth to the surface. Climate change has created a volatile ecology across the Horn of Africa, and this is compounded by the fact that those trees have been cut away systematically for decades, along with millions of others, by colonial Christians as well as African industrialists. We in the West are in the process of relearning something that Wangari Maathai, from the vantage point of Africa, has known all along: ecology is a matter of life and death, peace and war. In awarding her the Nobel Peace prize, the Norwegian Nobel committee noted that "when we analyze local conflicts, we tend to focus on their ethnic and religious aspects. But it is often the underlying ecological circumstances that bring the more readily visible factors to the flashpoint." In places as far flung as the Sudan, the Philippines, Mexico, Haiti and the Himalayas, deforestation, encroaching desert, and soil erosion are among the present root causes of civil unrest and war. Wangari Maathai has become a riveting presence and key global voice on these issues. As our conversation drew to a close, I asked Wangari Maathai a religious question I rarely pose directly, because it is so intimate and so difficult to answer directly. I asked her, rather baldly, to tell me about her image of God. Wangari Maathai did not flinch. She has fielded many hard questions and situations in the course of her life, but I suspect that she has rarely flinched. She told me that she has often revisited two concepts of God that stood in some tension, side by side, in her upbringing — the Christian God who was painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome and the God of Kikuyu culture who lived on Mount Kenya. "Now where is God?," Wangari Maathai asked me in response. She continued:
"I tell myself that of course now we're in a completely new era when we are learning to find God not in a place, but rather in ourselves, in each other, in nature. In many ways it's a contradiction, because the church teaches you that God is omnipresent. Now if He is omnipresent, He's in Rome, but He could also be in Kenya. His shape, His size, His color … I have no idea. You are influenced by what you hear, what you see. But when I look at Mount Kenya — it is so magnificent, it is so overpowering, it is so important in sustaining life in my area — that sometimes I say yes, God is on this mountain."


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Traditional black and white media: ink and graphite pencil
Ink is a high contrast medium that produces shading through stippling (carefully spaced dots individual dots), or lines. Every mark made by the illustrator is in a pen and ink drawing is either black or white - never gray.
Graphite pencil is a continuous tone medium that employs the full range of very subtle gray tones.
Scientific illustrators are beginning to create images directly on the computer rather than using traditional media, however, most artists still use traditional media to prepare detailed illustrations requiring a great deal of subtle detail.
|The illustration of ostracodes on the left, prepared by Smithsonian artist Lawrence B. Isham under the direction of Richard H. Benson, is an example of the pen and ink stipple technique. The illustration on the right of a fossil mammal, prepared by L. Isham under the direction of Lewis Gazin, is an example of the graphite pencil technique.


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Scheibling, Fast Start Lift No. 9 Stevens
from press release
HOBOKEN, N.J. – Junior attacker Jenna
Scheibling recorded a team-high six points thanks to a goal and
five assists to help lead the No. 9 Stevens Institute of Technology
women's lacrosse team to a hard-fought 13-11 win over St.
John Fisher College on a rainy and windy Saturday afternoon at the
De Baun Athletic Complex. The win is the sixth straight for the
Ducks who are now 6-0 in the Empire 8 and 11-2 overall. Fisher
drops to 7-5 overall and 2-3 in the conference with the loss.
Scheibling and the Ducks got off to a remarkable start tallying three goals in less then one minute and four goals over the first 2:36 of action. Scheibling assisted on all four tallies, the first from junior Michelle Buonacuore 34 seconds into the game. Senior Christine Smith, senior Pamela Loria, and sophomore Joey Galligan recorded the other Stevens markers in the fast start.
In total the Ducks scored the first six goals of the game with Loria finding Smith 10:09 into the action for a 5-0 lead and freshman Kara Rafferty feeding Scheibling 2:35 later.
St. John Fisher's Taylor Hughes (Watertown, N.Y.) tallied both Cardinal goals with the second coming with just four seconds to go in the first half. Stevens ended the first with a 13-7 shot advantage and a 9-7 ground ball advantage. The Ducks also won 7-of-9 draws.
The Cardinals scored the first two goals of the second half to trim the lead to two with 28:03 left before Buonacuore broke some of the momentum with her second goal of the game. Sophomore Melissa Leonhard (Penfield, N.Y.) answered for Fisher with a free-position goal but again Buonacuore tallied to put the Ducks back up three (8-5) with less than 25 minutes to play.
The teams continued to trade goals pretty much the entire half but Fisher could never get closer than two as the Ducks held on for the key victory. Freshman Melanie Welcome (Winsted, Conn.) made six saves in goal for Stevens to earn the win. The rookie made several key stops in the second half to keep the Ducks on top by two goals and seemed to take away from some of the Fisher momentum.
Stevens ended the game with a 25-24 edge in shots, an 18-15 ground ball advantage, and a 14-12 margin on draw controls.
Fisher was led by four goals from Leonhard and three from Merriam. Leonhard also grabbed five draw controls and scooped up two ground balls. Freshman defender Marykate Edmunds (New Hartford, N.Y.) had a team-high three caused turnovers for the Cardinals, while Hughes finished with two goals, an assist, and two ground balls. Freshman Caroline Trpcevski (Manlius, N.Y.) made five saves for Fisher in the loss.
Scheling added a draw control to her line of a goal and five assists, while Smith scored a team-high four goals and had four draw controls. Buonacuore had a ground ball and caused turnover to go along with her four points (three goals, one assist), while Rafferty scored once, handed out a pair of assists and had two draw controls. Loria finished with two goals, an assist, and two draw controls.
Defensively, Stevens was paced by five ground balls, three draw controls, and two caused turnovers by junior Ashley Carey. Senior Kate Cox had a team-high three caused turnovers, two ground balls, and two draw controls, while junior Lindsay Daly had two ground balls. Sophomore Teegan Kelly had three ground balls and a caused turnover, and Galligan finished with a goal, two ground balls, and one caused turnover.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — TPC Sawgrass does have a softer side.
Normally the track designed by architect Pete Dye is a rigid, nightmarish slog for the best players in the world during The Players Championship, the PGA Tour's flagship event. But in Thursday's first round, under sparkling skies and amidst little wind, scores of players took advantage of yielding conditions and posted an impressive collection of red numbers.
Chances are, a deluge of sub-par rounds will continue.
Former world No. 1 and 2010 PGA Championship winner Martin Kaymer closed with four birdies and grabbed the lead with a course record-tying, bogey-free, 9-under-par 63 that included a course-record 29 on the front nine.
LEADERBOARD: The Players Championship
Two shots back was Russell Henley, who won his second Tour title earlier this year in the Honda Classic. Another shot back was Sang-Moon Bae. And four shots back are eight players, including 2014 Masters runner-up Jordan Spieth, reigning U.S. Open champion Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood.
In all, 67 of the 144 in the field broke par, the most since 86 broke par in the opening round of 2010. And the field averaged 71.99, the lowest since 2010.
"You can be a little bit more aggressive because the greens are softer than the last few years, but it's not an easy golf course," said Kaymer, who became the fourth player to shoot 63. "You have to hit a lot of fairways. If you hit the fairways then you can go for some flags, but once you're in the rough, it's very difficult to judge the distances. Then it's a very tricky golf course.
"But I hit a lot of fairways today, and therefore I could go for some flags. But at the end of the day, you need to finish it off with some good putts, and it was nice today to putt well."
SERGIO GARCIA: Happy and in the hunt again
One of the reasons the course is soft — especially the greens — was the combination of poor winter weather and a misapplication of a lawn product that resulted in a collection of damaged greens, including those at Nos. 4, 11 and 12, which were closed for play during the first two days of practice.
The greens are fine now, with plenty of pin placements available so play is not disrupted, but they are not healthy enough for the maintenance crew to get them fast and firm as in past years.
"Walking off, if you're not posting something in the 60s ... it's a little disappointing," said Rory McIlroy, who shot 70. "I'll come out (Friday) and try and attack again, because I feel like you can go low on this golf course this week. It's soft and the greens are receptive.
"The course is apparently extremely different than it normally is. It's normally a lot firmer and you could hit 7‑, 8‑iron in and land them next to the hole and they will stay there."
The greens will get a tick or two faster as the week continues but despite temperatures in the mid- to high-80s, many players don't expect the greens to get much firmer. However, the forecast calls for increasing winds starting Friday afternoon.
"Usually the scoring goes up as the week goes on, on average. But obviously, if the greens stay fairly soft like they are, because I'm not sure they can get them much firmer because of the problems that they've had with them, it obviously gives you a lot more opportunities to score," Garcia said. "Some of the pins are easy to get to. Even if you hit it in the rough, you're allowed or you're able to stop it a little bit quicker than you were in the past."
Not all the scoring was on the good side of par. Adam Scott shot 77, last week's winner, J.B. Holmes, a 76. Jimmy Walker, the only three-time winner this season, Brandt Snedeker and Phil Mickelson each shot 75.
"I don't feel like any parts of the game are bad. I just have a hard time seeing the ball go in the hole and getting it to go in the hole," Mickelson said. "I don't know if it's just the greens or what, but I'm not really sure what it is yet. I have to come out and try to play as hard as I can and see how low I can shoot."
He might have to go really low.
Follow national golf reporter Steve DiMeglio on Twitter at @Steve_DiMeglio.


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Prendergast Gallery to feature photographer
JAMESTOWN – Chad Ecklof of Jamestown will show his photographs at the James Prendergast Library Art Gallery Feb. 15 through March 15 in a show called "My Jamestown in HDR."
High Dynamic Range Photography requires shooting three or more exposures of the same shot and then combining the digital information from all of them into one in order to create a more realistic, or sometimes surrealistic, photo.
According to Ecklof, HDR is the most recent and most exciting technique he has experimented with since taking up photography as a hobby a few years ago.
"When I'm out and about with my camera and I come across an interesting subject, I'm able to see it in a surreal way which translates best using the High Dynamic Range photo style," he said.
Ecklof earned a degree in computer programming from Coleman College in San Diego, CA, and is currently attending Jamestown Business College. He is self taught in photography and post production software.
He took a greater interest in photography when he was host of the radio show Blue Screen Radio and was invited to speak to the Jamestown Audubon Society Nature Photography Club about computer related topics and photo editing software.
"The club offered me the opportunity to connect with some really great people in the community who would later become some of my closest friends and inspiration for my growing interest in this hobby," he said.
The featured artist started out with an old Sony "point-n-shoot" and has recently upgraded to a Sony DSC-HX100V.
"I haven't taken the leap into a full DSLR camera yet because this higher-end point-n-shoot model has been doing a great job, so I think I'll stick with it for a while as my photography matures," he said.
Ecklof is most often found at Ecklof Bakery making pink striped cookies in the mornings, but his interest in photography has inspired him to start a new photo club in town, the Chautauqua County Camera Club. Known as "C4" for short, the club meets the first Wednesday of every month in the Fireplace Room at Prendergast Library.
Commenting on the rapidly growing membership in the club, he said, "Anyone who owns a camera would benefit from the wealth of talent that can be found among the members of C4. HDR is one of the many styles of photography that we cover, and the library gives us the perfect atmosphere for meeting and sharing with each other."
More information about the club can found at its website, chautauquacountycameraclub.com.
Library hours to view "My Jamestown in HDR" are 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
The next Prendergast Library exhibit will feature the Chautauqua County Art Teachers.
The library is located at 509 Cherry St., Jamestown. For information, call 484-7135.


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2011 Award for Exemplary Student Writing in the Disciplines
The Writing Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 Award for Exemplary Student Writing in the Disciplines. Each of the recipients represents a division of the College, demonstrating the College's commitment to writing instruction across programs and disciplines. Please contact the Writing Center to view the winning submissions and for information on the selection process.
Jennifer Avery, Division I ( Division of the Humanities and Education), "Read to Own"
Micah Conti, Division II (Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences), "To Punish or Reform: A Philosophical Dilemma, A Psychological Solution?"
Krystal Tremblay, Division IV (Division of Health Sciences), "Tobacco Use and Periodontal Disease"
Kathleen Wood, Division VI (Center for Developmental Education), "My Savior"


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Miss Denise wants her son's killer found and an end to violence.
By ABHI RAGHUNATHAN
Published June 4, 2007
ST. PETERSBURG - For days after her son's death, Denise Swisher couldn't eat or sleep. She spent hours by his grave, sinking into a private hell like so many other mothers of slain teenagers.
Then she fought back. She began walking the streets, handing out fliers and talking to the city's most troubled youths: students afraid of being beaten or shot, girls who had gone too far with their boyfriends, teens whose street personas melted as they awaited a prison sentence.
She begged them to stop the killing.
Don Quixote had better odds tilting at windmills. But when Miss Denise spoke, the city's toughest kids actually listened. They wept with her and called her at night. She shooed away bullies and settled their disputes.
"P-Nut" Swisher's mom became a mother to the city's youth, a warrior against murder.
By all accounts, she succeeded. For seven months after she began her crusade, not a single person was killed by gunfire south of St. Petersburg's Central Avenue.
"Not having a shooting death in that area in that length of time is pretty much unheard of," said Sgt. Mike Kovacsev, the head of the Police Department's homicide unit. He calls Swisher's impact "profound."
Miss Denise isn't surprised. She believes in the kids everyone else dismisses at first glance.
Even if they still haven't come forward with the one thing she wants more than anything.
She went to high school near Tallahassee, worked as a nursing assistant and had five kids.
Forbes "P-Nut" Swisher was born on the way to the hospital. His chubby cheeks looked like they were full of peanuts, earning him the nickname. He grew up playing football and flirting with girls. He was 18, a prom court member who won acceptance to Bethune-Cookman College.
He had his mother's large, dark eyes and smooth, rounded cheeks. And a smile so bright that it was voted the prettiest at St. Petersburg High School.
He was close to his father and stepfather. But everyone knew he was a mama's boy.
"He was the only one of my boys who would slow-dance with me," said Swisher, now 36.
On May 31, 2006, he visited her in the hospital, where she was having tests for asthma complications. He crawled on her bed and goofed around before asking for $20 for McDonald's.
A couple of hours later, Swisher got some visitors: police officers and a chaplain.
Did she have a son who went by the nickname P-Nut?
Grief, then anger
A friend had called P-Nut, asking for his help. Dozens of kids were fighting. At some point, a couple started firing guns. P-Nut was hit in the head.
For city police, 2006 was unfolding as a bloody year. Tensions were flaring between kids from Childs Park and Bethel Heights. P-Nut's death marked the department's 11th homicide investigation of the year, part of a string of killings of young black men. And a hot summer lay just ahead.
A little over 20 homicides a year had been the norm in St. Petersburg. In 2005, the death toll shot up to 30. Police were concerned, said Maj. Michael Puetz.
As the feud escalated, Miss Denise turned half of her living room into a memorial to her son. A huge poster of him hangs on the wall, next to dozens of photos. Stacks of thick binders hold mementos from P-Nut's life.
Her grief turned to anger as she spent her days in her apartment and at his grave at Woodlawn Cemetery: "I couldn't let this happen to any other child."
So she made photocopies of a flier and recruited other mothers of slain children to walk the streets, like her cousin Alicia Roberts.
"Hi sweetie, how are you doing? I'm P-nut's mom. You know how he was killed," she would say. "Don't let another mother bury her child."
She kept at it for months, until her asthma forced her into the hospital. But kids kept calling.
"Miss Denise, can you help?"
"Miss Denise, can I come over and sit?"
"Miss Denise, Miss Denise ..."
The killings slowed. The city recorded 21 homicides in 2006, but no shooting deaths south of Central Avenue after August.
"She somehow found a way to take this egregious loss of her own and turn it into something positive," Puetz said. "At the end of the day, seeing the grief of a mother helped abate these issues."
Witnesses needed
Diontae "Smoke" Lovett, 20, has been arrested on cocaine possession; his brother was killed. Miss Denise understands.
"She knows how to talk to me," he said. "Anybody else, I can't talk to."
Shellie Long, 25, is another one with a reputation. He comes over to her apartment, visits her in the hospital.
When he and his buddies listen to her, they think: "That could have been me that got killed."
So why won't the kids who know about P-Nut's killing come forward?
"I don't know," Lovett said.
"I can't tell you why," Long said.
Miss Denise knows teenagers who go to the police can be branded as snitches and turned into outcasts. But she wants her son's killer to be prosecuted.
"I hear of other mothers who are going to court to receive justice for their sons," she said. "Why isn't there any justice for my son?"
Kovacsev, the head of the homicide unit, said police think they know who killed P-Nut, but can't make an arrest because witnesses won't testify.
The lack of cooperation is frustrating, said Detective Ron Noodwang, the lead investigator into P-Nut's death.
"It's sad to know that nobody's taking responsibility for the death of your child," he said. "It's sad to know that your own kid's best friends were out there. They'll tell her and their parents stuff. But when they come to speak to us, it's completely different."
'This is my job'
It's Saturday night. About 500 teenagers are in Campbell Park for a Rest in Peace party for P-Nut and Antonio "Pac-Man" Roberts, Swisher's cousin. Pac-Man was killed in 2005.
Miss Denise can't walk more than a few feet at a time. One teenager begs her to talk to a young woman who's drinking even though she's pregnant.
"Can you promise me you're not pregnant?" Miss Denise asks.
The girl silently stares at the ground. Miss Denise snatches the drink, dumps it on the grass and throws the cup away.
"This is my job," she says.
More kids come up to her with hugs, like 17-year-old A.D. Harris. "Miss Denise, I love you, I got you," he tells her.
As she walks through the party, she reaches out to kids with hugs and smiles. She rubs their cheeks.
She used to touch P-Nut's cheeks every day.
"I've touched so many boys' faces since the time my son has died and I still haven't found that touch, that feel," she said. "I need to feel that feel, and I know it's not possible."
Times researcher Carolyn Edds contributed to this report. Abhi Raghunathan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (727) 893-8472.
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This is a presentation from the 2010 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Europe Conference. The presentation addresses smart grid priorities and focuses on areas such as smart metering and appliance to grid applications. Highlights include:
- Geographic Coverage of SGIG Projects
- Overview and capability of a future smart grid
- Smart Grid Framework and Roadmap 1.0
- Priority Action Plans (PAPs)
- PAP 00: Smart Meter Upgradeability Standard
- PAP10: Energy Usage Information
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About the Author: Todd D. Calongne serves as Public Affairs Officer for the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS).
Men and women in surprising numbers have been walking hours or even days to register to vote in Southern Sudan's upcoming referendum on self-determination. Despite potential hurdles, voter registration proceeded mostly peacefully. The presence of Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Civilian Response Corps personnel at the U.S. Consulate General in Juba helped to make it happen.
"Our stabilization teams comprised of Civilian Response Corps members are truly the eyes and ears of the U.S. across Southern Sudan, travelling to all state capitals and many smaller localities on a regular basis to be in contact with local officials, members of civil society and a wide variety of private citizens, U.N. officials and third-country officials," said Roger Moran, the Deputy Principal Officer and a member of the Civilian Response Corps from State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.
The referendum in Southern Sudan stems from a peace agreement between North and South signed in 2005 after decades of civil war. It gave the South autonomy for six years leading up to the January 2011 vote on self-determination. During the momentous referendum process, the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) and the Corps are carving out a new role on the ground, supporting the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, U.S. Embassy Chief of Mission, and U.S. Consul General in extending the U.S. reach in the country and providing invaluable insights from the field.
The team includes Civilian Response Corps members from S/CRS and the Departments of Commerce and Justice, as well as USAID. These experts in rule of law, security sector reform, and conflict mitigation, working in a truly interagency effort, have increased U.S. engagement with the government of Southern Sudan. This mission is an example of how a conflict prevention team drawn from across the government can work together on the ground to augment existing U.S. civilian capacity.
"One of the real, direct benefits that we're providing to the Consulate in Juba and the U.S. government is expanding their understanding of Southern Sudan, which is a place where we just haven't had much of a presence for a long time," said Paul Turner, head of the Corps' analysis team in Juba.
In 2011, the Office of the Coordinator plans to set up stabilization teams in five states in Southern Sudan, plus two mobile teams based in Juba. The teams may be in place for at least a year, during which they will watch for signs of new violence and try to prevent its outbreak. "As we build up our stabilization teams, I think they will find more than an occasional anecdote during their interactions with local populations," Turner said. "These one-on-one conversations can shed light on factors impacting instability and help to identify sources of resiliency within Sudanese society. This type of information will help to inform conflict prevention and mitigation efforts."
The U.S. government is also working with other countries and international organizations on the ground, including the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and a forum of more than 100 local non-governmental organizations. The Corps' team -- 24 people, including 19 Corps members, as of Dec. 7 -- has started sharing information with others in this international community.
Ambassador Loftis, the Acting Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, notes the unique, expeditionary aspect of the Civilian Response Corps's work in Sudan: "Not only have we put a fairly substantial diplomatic presence in Juba, where we haven't had one before, more importantly we are putting [stabilization] teams out in the state capitals to monitor the progress toward the referendum and to assist in identifying conflict areas -- and hopefully to resolve them. This also requires that we put people into places where we normally don't operate as diplomats -- places where we have to provide our own transportation, our own housing, far away from normal support structures. It's quite a challenge but it's also quite a fascinating and interesting time to be doing this."


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A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.
There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers -among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears - out of their prison and through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing.
A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the 20th century, by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago, Blindness has swept the masses with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses - and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit.
English translation by Juan Sager.
©1995 Jose Saramago and Editorial Caminho; ©1997 Juan Sager (English translation); (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks America
This is a very different kind of doomsday fiction. The writing and reading of "Blindness" are vivid enough that I'm still a bit haunted by it several weeks after finishing.
The storytelling is very like Gabriel Garcia Marquez; disparate events are woven into a well told tale. While a Latino ken for life-metaphors is apparent, "Blindness" could be any time or place.
I heartily recommend it, but be prepared to "see" things differently.
Saramago is a Nobel laureate, so I think we have to credit him with having insight worthy of our attention. Blindness is a powerful parable, but I think it has to be read as a surrealistic allegory rather than any attempt to portray the situation as it might actually occur in the real world. I agree with the reviewer that pointed out that this parable is much more accessible in the oral than in the visual format. The endless run-on sentences and lack of proper names makes the reading hard to follow, but as a narrative, it isnt so bad. Maybe this was the intention of Saramago. In the story he has the blind listening to readings from the only sighted individual as their only source of entertainment, and he may have intended this as a more powerful verbal parable that a written one. I am an ophthalmologist myself, I found this story to be an intriguing thought experiment, but I was waylaid by the fact that the author made no attempt, or possibly consciously avoided the attempt, to make the story scientifically plausible. There are so many incongruous elements in time and space, its like a Dali painting. For instance he talks about the doctors wife being distraught about not winding her watch. The last time I had to wind my watch was probably in the 1960s, and then he talks later about computers functioning the water system. The ophthalmologist talks about ordering an encephalogram , which we havent used since the 1970s, instead of a CT scan or MRI. He also talks about how the blind stop gesticulation when they talk. But people with acquired blindness have their gesticulations programmed into their extrapyramidal system and never loose that habit. Did he intentionally ignore present day science so as to make the story more surrealistic, or is he a lazy Nobel laureate researcher?
I thought it was a provocative read, intriguing and thought provoking. But dont expect Crichton. Think Lord of the Flies by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
"One of the best books I've ever "read""
This book is being made into a movie and the trailer intrigued me. The book was not available on Audible yet, so I went to the book store and purchased the text version.
I could not read it. The author is known for his long sentences and paragraphs. Wikipedia warned me that the author does not give any of the characters names. It was too difficult to read the text. I wondered how in the world did this author ever win the Pulitzer Prize for literature.
Then, I saw the Audible version was available. I listened to a sample. The narrator made up for the author's idiosyncrasies. I purchased the book and could not stop listening. What a story! Rarely has a book taken me so deeply into the psychology of human nature ... why they do what they do ... how the mind works. I felt I knew some of these characters better than I knew members of my family. I recommended this book to a teacher/friend for her Advanced Placement English class.
Read this book. It's worth it. I hope Audible makes the sequel available.
One master-passion in the br east, like Aaron's serpent, swallows all the rest. A. Pope
"Stark Portrait of Blindness as Contagious Disease"
The famous Portuguese author Jose Saramago paints a cold and halting portrait of what it would be like were Blindness suddenly contagious.
To prevent a pandemic, the government quarantines the first stricken, including the Doctor (an optometrist) and the Doctor's wife, the latter of whom is obviously immune to the disease. As the story progresses, the gov't puts more and more blind people into the abandoned building, with little food and zero supervision, forcing them all to fend for themselves. To add to the icy subtext, Saramago gives all the characters only descriptors, like the Doc, the Doctor's Wife, the Girl with Dark Glasses, the Cab Driver, etc.
This is a tale of both the goodness and baseness of humans in a world of darkness and squalor. Evil and the treachery of men initially wins, but goodness eventually prevails, so that this novel is ultimately hopeful.
The potential reader should be forewarned that this book contains graphic scenes of the rapes of several women.
As usual, the narrator Jonathan Davis is excellent.
"Multiple characters an issue"
Great story, very well written
Yes, the multiple characters with a single voice becomes an issue sometimes. The reader does a great job in interpreting different characters but it becomes a bit confusing at times.
"Very well read, audio is nice and clear."
Great audiobook. The story is for you to judge, but the audio was great. The quality was good, the audio was very clear. And the reader was able to change his voice in order to adapt to the characters. One of the best audiobooks I've heard!
"The Narrator may have ruined this one for me..."
I chose this book because of a stellar review I heard on NPR. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I was so disappointed when I listened to it. I thought the story just didn't have much description. My imagination didn't "run wild" painting pictures of the scenarios and the characters. I know that if I found myself in the same predicament, my emotions would have been intense. As I listened, I found my thoughts drifting because the reactions of the characters didn't seem genuine or even logical for that matter. I may have felt differently if the narration hadn't been so distracting. In general, I don't mind the "voice" or gender of the narrator being different than the main character, but I had a very difficult time picturing the main character actually speaking. It also felt like every sentence read by the narrator was an unfinished thought. It drove me crazy! I thought that if I just survived to the end, there would be a huge payoff and I would look back and everything would make sense. It didn't, not for me at least.
Middle School teacher with a 100 miles round-trip daily commute; which I could never maintain all these long years without audible books.
"Can't Put My Finger On It"
I simply cannot figure why I listened to this book. I kept listening despite several impulses to turn the damn thing off! The author's idea of a world gone blind was so different, so intriguing....that I plugged on past the stiff, formal and just weirdly inappropriate narrative voice to finally be rewarded by an inevitable world of blind humans being treated and treating others badly. Inevitable also were allusions to various and sundry meanings of "blind". Oh yes and in this world gone blind nobody listens to music and folks defecate everywhere. I might go see the movie just out of curiosity.
My interests run to psychology, popular science, history, world literature, and occasionally something fun like Jasper Fforde. It seems like the only free time I have for reading these days is when I'm in the car so I am extremely grateful for audio books. I started off reading just the contemporary stuff that I was determined not to clutter up my already stuffed bookcases with. And now audio is probably 90% of my "reading" matter.
"Existentialists have odd notions of reality"
I have no issue with the premise. In fact, that and the reputation of the author were what drew me to this book in the first place. And I wouldn't be doing the book justice if I didn't acknowledge that there are a number of observations about people that ring true. Certain ways people continue to behave despite circumstances, or perhaps indulge in because of circumstances. But overall, the flatness of the characters, the lack of individual reactions, the paucity of human interactions, ended up leaving me cold. Perhaps I need to be more familiar with the rest of Saramago's work. Perhaps I need to be more well read in this particular literary genre. Whatever it was I was supposed to appreciate about this particular thought experiment, I didn't. I like thought experiments in general, but if you're going to spin them out to book length, you'd better have a pretty good story to tell. I will say this in its defense: it's not a book I'm ever going to forget.
I like Jack Reacher style characters regardless of setting. Put them in outer space, in modern America, in a military setting, on an alien planet... no worries. Book has non moralistic vigilante-justice? Sign me up! (oh, I read urban fantasy, soft and hard sci-fi, trashy vampire and zombie novels too)
"Lost me with the bed-pooping bit"
I read the reviews but they said nothing about the content, narration or story resolution, so I bought it thinking it would be better than the reviews said - assuming others were offended because it showed blind people in a bad light. That was not the case.
The reader, while not bad, takes a bit of getting used to - he seems a bit too "breathy".
There is excessive/rapid/unbelievable character personality development - i.e. the "car thief" went from car thief (and we are told specifically that he only stole cars) to wannabe rapist in about 3 scenes. Is this supposed to be thief = rapist or blind = rapist? Either way, it is ridiculous.
There are several tangents - i.e. each person tells what they saw before they went blind - one guy goes on and on about art pieces he saw - who cares? What does this artistic tangent have to do with progressing the story? Nothing. But I suspect it makes the author look intelligent.
There is a scene around winding a watch - not only do we not wind watches, how could anyone who has had nothing to do for 3 days forget to wind her watch? What else was she doing that distracted her from this? - oh, right, the blind spent their days pooping in their beds. Yes, we are expected to believe that the blind defecate in their own beds because, well... I am not sure the author's point. I read scifi a lot and am very used to suspending disbelief - I can accept that a post-apocalyptic world would be "strongest survive", or martial rule where infractions mean death. But human kind, sighted or not, will not defecate in their own beds. Period.
I do understand that this is not meant to be a book about real people and real blindness anymore than Stephen King's books are about real happenings but - even keeping in mind that I really wanted to like this story - ultimately it tries WAY too hard to be "artsy"/moralistic. I don't need to be thumped on the head to "get it".
"We need more audiobooks from Saramago"
Saramago left this world last week, leaving for us one of the most incredible work written by a human being. He won the Nobel prize as the only Portuguese writer to conquer that title, revealing to other languages an unique way to express through words. This way, is like somehow he collected all those poems throughout his entire life and connected with a prosaic line through his stories. His books are never about that or some other story, it is more than mere stories, it is about to touch our soul and move us, to be connected with human history again and be willing to do something better to this world. I think a better thing would be to record his entire work as audiobook. He deserves this homage. Looking forward, OK, audible? :) Thanks!
"Gripping and chilling"
Feeling completely steamrollered by this amazing novel! I listened to a BBC America audio, via Audible, and, although it was an English translation of the original Portuguese, the text retained its poetic quality, horrific and beautiful. Perhaps Margaret Atwood crossed with Cormac McCarthy! I appreciated the 'no names' device - the woman with dark glasses, the first blind man, the woman nobody knows - as it aided understanding their world. The philosophising throughout is very moving and I thought that the calm narration by Jonathan Davies was the perfect way to immerse myself in this dystopian city.
Jose Saramago isn't well appreciated in this country, it seems to me. OK, so some of his books are very specific to his native Portugal so it's not that surprising but I find it a bit sad that this one seems to be the only full-length title available, and that only because it was made into a film. It's an eerily believable magical-realist tale about a world turned blind and the way society changes. when nobody can see. It's definitely worth a listen and when you've finished get hold of the paper copies of some of his other stuff too.
"Maybe it's me?"
I suppose this is what one would call a good book, but I gave up half way. Both my husband and daughter really liked it (in French translation), but the unrelenting miserableness of it all really got to me. And I was bored, bored, bored. Maybe he writes wonderfully in Portuguese, and maybe it translates well into French, but I found the English stilted and clunky, not poetic at all. It really irritated me that the characters had no names (probably to dehumanise them even more) but I just felt this was a pretentious attempt to be "literary". And it just made it repetitious, having to constantly have people referred to as "the girl with dark glasses" or "the first man". I thought I would love this (I love post-apocalyptic fiction, and its themes of how normal people survive in a disastrous situation) - I never thought such a dramatic story could be so tedious.
"Superb book and flawless narration"
A harrowing book but well worth the ride.
The ending. I stopped what I was doing and put everything on hold until the final words had been spoken.
Jonathan Davis' narration was phenomenal. This is a man who was born to read books aloud. The way he takes on every single character - with such care and consideration - is amazing.
When the doctor's wife gets bloody revenge on the brute who has abused her, on behalf of all the women, was particularly satisfying.
Some people have found this book hard to read due to the lack of punctuation. This being an audiobook removes that obstacle. The narrator makes it accessible and engaging. Great book, great narration.
Great book to provoke a discussion. I really wanted to keep discussing this with friends and family.
"Amazing book"
I have not listened to the book, but read it in paper form, long before I was an Audible member and also a long time before the film was released. It's not a pretty book, it'll make you angry and sad, but it will also make you think, it's very psychological.
It's also worth noting that the film is a very good and accurate reflection of the book (as apposed to most films), so read the book first, if you can, as it's much more vivid.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (32 votes).
In short: A very wet and hilly run.In full: I ran the 10km race, which was an enjoyable run. There were a few hills along the way but all worth it when you get back to receive free soup and a goodie bag!! Date of review: November 5, 2012
In short: Challenging hills and road camber, mixed with picturesque Suffolk Countryside. In full: Having already done my first half marathon last month, this was my first proper 20k event, which I used for Norwich Half Marathon training in a couple of weeks. My Garmin packed up at the start due to the torrential rain which made conditions even more challenging. The hills at the beginning and end of this event are not to be taken lightly. The views are excellent, whilst the organisation by BBDRC and an abundance of marshalls make this a joy to run with their encouragement. Plus at the end there was hot soup, hot drinks, and Adnams Ales in goodie bag. Definitely be returning next year!!!Date of review: November 5, 2012
In short: Despite the very bad weather the organisers marshals helpers were superbDate of review: November 5, 2012
In short: Great mornings runningIn full: Lovely course through great countryside with a couple of nasty hills at the end to finish you off.A great race to be part of.Date of review: November 5, 2012
In short: As my first ever race and in preperation for the Norwich Half Marathon I was slightly apprehensive. But I need not have worried as the organisers were so supportive, the runners were all friendly and the marshalls (who incidentally stood out in lashIn full: ing rain totally soaked, for hours) were absolutely tremendous - giving us all cheers and encouragement.On return, after the last gruesome hill, we were cheered home and given beer, hot soup, goody bags and BIG pats on the backThank you for making my first run so fab, I can safely say I am hooked !!!Date of review: November 5, 2012
In short: Smiles within a storm…In full: …one minute before the race the start line was empty as everyone was taking shelter from the torrential rain, as the start was signalled several hundred runners emerged with beaming smiles ready to race in conditions that ducks were afraid of. A race to remember with fantastic support from all those that stood out in the rain whilst we ran as fast as we could to keep warm! Will certainly return next year - but will pack my swim goggles just in case!Date of review: November 5, 2012
In short: Excellent race and brilliantly organised.In full: As a beginner I was aprehensive having only ever done one race previous at this distance. The weather tried its absolute hardest to put a spanner in the works, but despite this the race ran like clockwork, the course was excellently marshalled and free hot drinks at the finish.I'll certainly be doing it again and now looking forward to the Norwich Half at the end of Nov!!Well done BBDRC :-)Date of review: November 5, 2012
In short: Fantastic race with goody bag beer and free soup -what more do you need.In full: Very well organised, super friendly marshalls, well laid out course with a sneaky hill at the end. Nice medal and a bottle of Adnams in the goody bag, and free soup for all runners - The weather tried its hardest but BBDRC win agin!!Date of review: November 5, 2012
In short: Definitely worth doing, extremely well organised, excellent friendly marshalls (despite the rain), good changing facilities and nice hot soup, tea and cake, a medal and a beer at the end!Date of review: November 5, 2012
In short: Brilliant organisation. Such friendly marshals despite atrocious conditions.In full: So well organised. Excellent Sports Hall facilities. Marshals were stupendious. This race usually has bad weather, so nothing new.Such a friendly race. Well done yet again BBDRC. See you at your marathon & ½ marathon in April.Date of review: November 5, 2012
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Ever since I got a Fibrament stone my pizzas get soggy in the center a little while after they come out of the oven. I cook my pies at 550 degrees; I've never had this problem till I got the new stone. HELP!!
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