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BELLMORE, Robert Charles, 80, of Rogers Twp. died Thursday June 20, 2013, at home.
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Kosso Eloul was born in Russia in 1920, but relocated often during his lifetime. His artistic training began at the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem and continued in Chicago where he studied at both the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago School of Design, from 1938 to 1943. After being drafted to the United States navy in 1944–45, Eloul returned to Palestine where he fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli war before relocating to Israel and becoming a founding member of the Israeli 'New Horizons' artist movement.
He represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1958, and was commissioned to create a sculpture for the Jewish National Memorial Mountain at Yad Vashem before moving to Canada in 1964. Eloul created the lithographic series Subtleforce at Gemini Ltd in 1966.
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Despite every assurance made during Saturday night's UFC 96 pay-per-view broadcast, UFC light heavyweight champ Rashad Evans doesn't believe Quinton "Rampage" Jackson will be standing across the Octagon to face him at UFC 98 on May 23.
"As I learned, 'Rampage' might need time off," Evans told the Sherdog Radio Network's "Beatdown" show on Monday. "It'll probably be Lyoto Machida, but I haven't gotten a confirmation on that."
Jackson, who earned a hard-fought decision over Evans' teammate Keith Jardine in the main event on Saturday, told reporters afterward that he needed time to evaluate the May title bout offered to him that night before he'd give his answer.
The 30-year old Memphis, Tenn., native lost the belt to Forrest Griffin at UFC 86 last July. Evans then took it from Griffin at UFC 92 in December.
Tensions rose on Saturday night when Evans (13-0-1) entered the cage to trade barbs with Jackson seconds after his victory. Evans said he knew then that Jackson (30-7) might not be up to snuff for a May encounter.
"I don't know. I've just got that feeling," said Evans. "Just listening to him when we were in the ring talking he was kind of like, 'Yeah man you're lucky I wasn't 100 percent' and he started making excuses and I was thinking like it sounds like an excuse-fest is about to happen, so I know he ain't going to take no fight with me. He's making excuses now."
Evans was actually surprised the standoff became as heated as fast as it did.
"I didn't expect any of that, man," said Evans. "I was just going to do the face-off and what not but then he started talking trash. I wasn't even in the mood to play or joke around, I just saw one of my best friends lose a fight which I had him winning until the last 10 seconds. I see the hurt in [Jardine's] eyes and he's so upset and he's disappointed and I feel, like, bad for him. Then this dude is bumpin' his gums at me, and honestly, I really wanted to punch him in his face, but I knew that wasn't the right time to do that so I just tried to stay as composed as possible because I don't like to talk trash. Whenever I got into a street fight I never talked -- I just hit. I never liked to be in someone's face that close just talking."
There is a certain double standard in the war of words leading up to the Evans-Jackson showdown that hasn't escaped the 29-year-old champion. Evans consistently catches heat for his antics in and out of the cage, while Jackson seems to be applauded for it.
"You know what, I can't understand it either," said Evans. "I can't understand it either man. I try not to. There was a time where it really bothered me and ate at me and I was like, 'I don't understand.' I'm in the arena and everyone is booing me. And that's so funny because everyone is in here booing at me, but I just spent about two hours signing autographs. So who the hell is booing at me, you know what I'm saying? Who's booing at me? It's just so contradictory to everyone that comes to speak to me. I always treat everyone with respect. Yet everyone still boos. They don't like me. But that's OK. Everybody has a cross to bear in life and maybe that's my cross to bear. I don't have to be popular in life, as long as I know who I am then that's OK."
Evans will probably have other things to ponder in short turn, most likely the conundrum that is Machida (14-0), a fighter whose style perplexes opponents more often than not.
"The kid's been phenomenal," said Evans. "He's been better than phenomenal. He's been looking better every fight. But that's the fight business. That's the fun part about a fight is the fact that you go in there with an opponent that sometimes seems insurmountable. But then you figure it out and that makes the victory that much sweeter. With that said, there may be some kinks in his armor that I have yet to see that I can exploit when I look at the tapes more closely. Nobody's unbeatable. Machida's been looking slicker than I don't know what, but everybody has a weakness even if you do look slick as oil. Everyone has a weakness."
Evans said he's a lock to expose weaknesses on May 23, though if it will be Jackson or Machida's shortcomings remains to be seen.
Thanks for the info. Can't say I blame Rampage if he doesn't feel ready for the shot. Rest is good, and he'll be more prepared for whichever fighter he faces.
I was expecting this as I said in the other thread. Rashas said he didnt expect it to get so heated, but he was the one who escalated the whole thing. I mean WTF do you expect when you get in someones face? I think Page should take his time off and come back and destroy Evans. Im still bitter about him knocking out Liddell though. Liddell shouldnt have lost
How can you not root for one because he destroyed chuck when they both destroyed chuck. And page did it more than once. No sense.
Haha ... rashad is the one that needed a rest after he beat forrest, so rampage took the fight ... now the fight gets moved from whatever, june to may and rashad says rampage he knew page was gonna bail ...
Page is chucks unicorn. Much like elenor from gone in 60 seconds
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Two years ago I was elected to serve on the Alumnni/ae Association Executive Council. In the course of being one of three candidates standing for election, I made a few promises to those whose vote I was seeking. One of those pledges was a commitment to strengthen the connection between the Seminary and its graduates. In reflecting on my experience thus far on the council, it occurs to me that this task is one that still dominates my sense of call to service on this council.
It is a source of tremendous encouragement to come to this campus on a regular basis and see all the things the Seminary is accomplishing with excellence. The student body is strong, the facilities are experiencing critically important renovation, and new faculty additions are ensuring the future academic leadership of the Seminary. A living symbol of this vitality is the ongoing restoration of Miller Chapel, the spiritual center of the community, which declares the service of this institution to the church of Jesus Christ. The manner in which we can best communicate a sense of this vibrancy to our alumni/ae, as well as provide important resources for their benefit, is a top priority for the council.
Under the gifted leadership of advisor Dean Foose and chair Joanne Martindale, the council will be exploring ways in which the Seminary can be more closely related to its graduates this coming year. One item we have been discussing is the use of the Internet and web-based technology. The Seminary web site (www.ptsem.edu) is a natural tool for us to use in providing resources and information for our alumni/ae, and we are exploring options for its development and augmentation.
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Burglary. Warren-based state police investigated a burglary which occurred between 5 p.m. on Jan. 23 and 1 p.m. on Jan. 24, in the area of Cherry Grove Road. According to police, someone broke the padlock on the door of a workshop belonging to Robert Goldthwaite, 28, and stole a Hobart mig welder, a gas tank, a self-darkening welding helmet, a Husqvarna 450 Rancher chainsaw, one can of gasoline and a jug of oil, with a total estimated value of $1,625. Anyone with information is asked to call the state police or Crime Stoppers.
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Harassment. Warren-based state police investigated an incident of harassment which occurred at 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 23 at Warren State Hospital's Center Building. According to police, a known female patient assaulted two known female employees, causing injury. Charges of harassment were filed through District Justice Laura Bauer's office.
Harassment. Warren-based state police investigated an incident of harassment which occurred at 2:05 p.m. on Jan 23 at Warren State Hospital's Center Building. According to police, a known female patient assaulted a known female employee, causing injury. Charges of harassment were filed through District Justice Laura Bauer's office.
Accident. Warren-based state police responded to a one-vehicle accident at 2:18 p.m. Jan. 26 on Route 6, 1,329 feet east of Scientific Road in Starbrick. According to police, Michael Knapp, 41, Irvine, was westbound on Route 6 and was in the left lane, attempting to pass another vehicle when he lost control of his 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt when negotiating a left-hand curve. Police said Knapp's vehicle spun clockwise and traveled off the north side of the road, striking an embankment with the rear of the vehicle. Knapp's vehicle then overturned and came to rest on its roof. Police said Knapp was charged with safe speed. Starbrick volunteer firefighters assisted at the scene.
Hit and run. Conewango Township police said an unidentified vehicle was northbound on Market Street at approximately 9 a.m. Jan. 24 when it crossed over the median striking several medial markers and a road sign, then turned into the southbound lanes and fled south toward the City of Warren. Police said the vehicle is dark green and missing parts of the fender. Anyone with information is asked to contact the township police at 726-072.
Harassment. Warren-based state police said Danielle Coudriet, a patient at Warren State Hospital, was charged with two counts of harassment following an incident at 8:20 a.m. Jan. 24 at WSH's Center Building. According to police, Coudriet assaulted two female staff members, scratching both victims. Police said charges were filed through District Justice Laura Bauer's office.
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DUI. Warren-based state police reported that at 8:41 p.m. on Jan 23 in the area of Wilson Road and its intersection with Lanning Hill Road Scott Simmons, 36, Warren, failed to stop at a stop sign and drove off the roadway, and his vehicle became stuck in the snow. Police said Simmons was found to be under the influence of alcohol and was subsequently arrested for DUI. Charges are pending.
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Accident. Warren-based state police responded to a one-vehicle accident at 12:30 a.m. Jan. 25 on Fifth Avenue Ext., approximately one-tenth of a mile west of Allen Lane. According to police, Theresa Moore, 46, Warren, was eastbound on Fifth Avenue Ext. when she lost control of her 2001 Dodge Intrepid while rounding a right-hand curve, crossed the westbound lane and went off the westbound berm. Police said her vehicle continued down an embankment and struck a tree. Police said Moore was cited for safe speed.
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Hit and run. Nancy Schwanke, Greenbriar Circle, Russell, reported to Warren-based state police that between 4:30 and 6:45 p.m. Jan. 24 an unknown vehicle left the roadway and struck her mailbox, then left the scene. Anyone with information is asked to contact the state police or Warren County Crimestoppers.
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Crash. Warren-based state police investigated a crash which occurred at 7:40 a.m. on Jan. 24, on Miles Run Road, 394 feet west of Route 6. According to police, a crash occurred when a 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan, operated by Austin Peters, 18, Spring Creek, was traveling east and attempted to negotiate a left curve on the snow-covered roadway causing his car to travel 120 feet off the southern berm before striking a tree. Police said after impact, the car spun 33 feet in a clockwise direction, coming to rest facing south along the berm. Police said Peters was charged with driving vehicle at safe speed.
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Endangering welfare of children. Warren-based state police reported that between 10:45 a.m. and 12:03 p.m. on Jan. 4, Barbara L. Sullivan, 48, Warren, was providing care for a two-year-old female child, who sustained a serious injury. Police said Sullivan failed to take the child for immediate medical treatment after the injury. Charges of endangering the welfare of children were filed with District Justice Glenn Carlson's office.
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JEDEC, an organization developing standards for the microelectronics industry, on Thursday published its next-generation storage system standard, Universal Flash Storage (UFS). UFS is designed to be an advanced specification for both embedded and removable flash memory-based storage in mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computers. The UFS has been specifically tailored for high performance and low power consumption.
The initial data throughput for UFS will be 300MB/s, and the standard also supports command queuing features to raise random read/write speeds. To achieve the highest performance and most power efficient data transport, UFS uses the leading industry interface standards to form its Interconnect Layer: MIPI Alliance's M-PHY and UniProSM specifications. UniPro is a comprehensive specification meant to act as a universal chip-to-chip protocol, providing a common tunnel for other protocols. The M-PHY interface is designed as the primary physical interface (PHY layer) for the UniPro specification, and is a high speed serial interface targeting up to 2.9Gb/s per lane with up-scalability to 5.8Gb/s per lane.
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Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe courtesy of Terri Wahl, Auntie Em's Kitchen
- Sugar High
- 2 cups packed light brown sugar
- 1 3/4 cups (3 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 whole eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups white flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons table salt
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 pound dark chocolate or chocolate chips
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
In a stand mixer, cream the brown sugar, butter and granulated sugar until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time until well incorporated. Mix in 1/3 cup of water and the vanilla.
In a separate bowl, whisk the flour, salt and baking soda and add to the butter mixture. Mix on low until the flour mixture is incorporated, and then mix in the chocolate pieces.
Scoop out the dough onto the prepared cookie sheet and freeze for an hour. The cookies will spread, so limit 4 cookies for each cookie sheet to give ample room.
Bake until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes, rotating the trays halfway through. Remove from the oven and cool. Remove the cookies with a flat spatula to prevent breaking.
Cook's Note: The recipe does yield a lot of dough, but it's a great freeze and bake cookie. Once you have scooped all the dough and placed them into the freezer, you can pop them into a zip top bag and just bake off as many as you want when you need to!
This recipe was provided by professional chefs and has been scaled down from a bulk recipe provided by a restaurant. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore, we cannot make any representation as to the results.
Recipe courtesy of Terri Wahl, Auntie Em's Kitchen
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (593 votes).
In short: Hard but funDate of review: November 10, 2008
In short: A Carnival of a Fun Run !In full: :-)This is one of the best events you can enter. A hoot from the moment you get stuck in the mud to the final gasp as you exit a freezing river. With a festival atmosphere, and more mud than Glastonbury, this is one run not to take too seriously. Just relax and enjoy the carnage !:-)Date of review: November 10, 2008
In short: Very wet and muddy, bui good fun !Date of review: November 9, 2008
In short: Harder than I was expecting but fantastic atmosphere In full: Great organisation and marshalling - the atmosphere was great throughout the race which was just as well as it was flipping hard ;-) My first Sodbury Slog and am chuffed to have taken part :-DDate of review: November 9, 2008
In short: MUD MUD AND MORE MUD AND A BIT OF WATER.In full: very hard and wet and muddy it waz great. everthing a multi terrain should have and more.Date of review: November 9, 2008
In short: 10/10 againIn full: My 4th time for this race and i think the hardest due to the mud etc. Very well organised, great marshalls and excellent support. Really missed the muddy bit after the steep ascent/descent from prevoius years. Will be back every year, thanks.Date of review: November 9, 2008
In short: Great race, enjoyed the water, mud and even the sticky field. In full: First time, Very memorable race, the crowd, was great, lots of water, mud, goo, sticky fields, Hay bales and stile to overcome. Great race, will definitly do it again, well done to the organisers.Date of review: November 9, 2008
In short: Excellent race but even after a shower and a bath i still stink of cow s**t.Date of review: November 9, 2008
In short: Not quite fun run muddy afficinados would have you believe, but poignant reminders that it is Remenmbrance Sunday and brilliant marshalling. Date of review: November 9, 2008
In short: plenty of water, mud, clay and slurry In full: The Sudbury Slog just gets better each year. Excellent Marshalls and plenty of supporters. This is one of my Favorite races and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys getting wet and muddy. See you all next year.Date of review: November 9, 2008
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In a bid to increase pressure on arch-rival ATI, a division of Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia Corp. reportedly prepares a more affordable version of its GeForce 8800 graphics card. The novelty, on the other hand, will attack not only ATI Radeon offerings, but also Nvidia's GeForce 7900-series graphics cards.
The cheaper GeForce 8800 GTS will come with 320MB of memory, half of the fully-fledged GeForce 8800 GTS, which comes with 640MB of GDDR3. Nonetheless, all the other distinctive features of the product, such as 320-bit memory bus, 500MHz clock-speed, 96 stream processors at 1200MHz , 24 texture mapping units and 20 raster operation units will remain in the place, thus, only an insignificant drop in performance should be expected. The boards are projected to be unveiled in mid-February, 2007.
Pricing of the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB is expected to be in $299 - $349 price-range, according to a report from VR-Zone web-site, here Nvidia currently sells its GeForce 7900 GTX and GeForce 7950 GT graphics boards, while ATI/AMD is offering Radeon X1950 XT 256MB and similar products. Introduction of a relatively affordable DirectX 10-compatible graphics product will indisputably mean lower sales for ATI, nevertheless, it will lower demand towards Nvidia's DirectX 9-compliant offerings too, which may leave the company and its partners with a bunch of outdated graphics, which will have to be sold at lower price-points.
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Watershed Actions Determine Lake Plant Growth, Part II
In last week's column, I talked about how some species of aquatic plants grow excessively and seriously impair the use of Chautauqua Lake for recreation and affect the use and value of adjacent properties. So what actions can be taken by Chautauqua County, its municipalities, businesses, organizations and the public to control Chautauqua Lake's submerged aquatic vegetation?
First, the public and community wastewater treatment plants disposing wastewater into the lake must be upgraded. The recent Total Maximum Daily Load regulation put into place by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for Chautauqua Lake will require the major treatment plants on Chautauqua Lake to be upgraded to remove 85-95 percent of the phosphorus in their discharges within five years, helping to address both the lake's algae and plant problems.
The second is working with landowners to repair eroding stream and lakeshore banks and to plant or enhance natural waterfront vegetation to act as natural pollution filters. The Chautauqua Lake Management Commission's Goose and Dutch Hollow Creek erosion control feasibility studies are quantifying estimates of erosion from various sites along these creeks.
County staff, CWC conservationists and County Soil & Water District staff are working together to engage landowners who will participate in addressing the worst erosion sites along these streams in the watershed. Conservation practices will be designed for eroding sites on both creeks. CWC staff is already working with more than two dozen lakeshore property owners to plant lakeshore buffers.
Third, the staffs of the Soil & Water Conservation District and the Natural Resources Conservation Service are engaging farmers to adopt soil erosion, fertilization and manure management practices on their farms in the region and have recently obtained more than $800,000 in grants for these conservation practices.
Fourth, watershed municipalities are cooperating as the Inter-Municipal Committee to develop model site plan zoning provisions and erosion control law to enforce the reduction of erosion from construction sites.
Fifth, the county Health Department is strengthening its regulations to ensure that onsite septic systems are more frequently tested and monitored to make sure that they are working effectively.
Sixth, the CWC is working to conserve the landscape features in the watershed, such as waterfront wetlands, stream corridors and forests that collect, store, filter and deliver clean waters to our lake. Scientists Robert Johnson and Paul Lord have noted the importance of conserving and restoring natural vegetation to the lakeshore to control erosion and provide habitat for beneficial insects that consume nuisance species of lake plants. The Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy's Tributary Preserve System now includes 382 acres of lands conserved in this effort.
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HRM students bring home first place honors
UMES bested powerhouses Morrisville State and Johnson & Wales to bring home first place in the International Food Service Executives Association annual culinary challenge.
"We didn't place last year, so it was redemption for me, especially," said captain David Cox, a senior from Suitland, Md.–the only returning team member.
Cox, five fellow Hotel and Restaurant Management students and a chaperone boarded a plane headed for Dallas April 10 for the IFSEA event as part of its 2013 conference. The thought on their minds….what would be this year's mystery ingredient.
"There's only 90 minutes for the whole competition," Cox said. "The first 10 minutes is dedicated to planning the menu." Competitors face-off in individual equipped kitchens and a shared pantry of over 132 items.
"We don't know what will be there," Cox said. Teams have to evaluate the items quickly to prepare three samples of three courses; an appetizer, entrée and dessert. They don't go with recipes in hand, either, Cox said, so they have to use the skills and experience they've acquired at their respective schools to be successful.
The UMES student team from the school's IFSEA chapter "worked" because of the many hours they spent over a four-week period meeting to practice. "Chef (Ralston Whittingham) would give us a mystery box of items (ingredients) and we would practice the scenario of the competition," Cox said.
The mystery ingredient required to be used in one dish this year—Nutella, a hazelnut spread which the team incorporated in the dessert.
"We were all nervous, but I was able to calm us down and get to work," Cox said. "The team did great and executed all of the dishes to a tee and communicated effectively. I was proud of them."
Cox said they showed the competition, which also included the University of Missouri, that UMES was a "serious competitor" despite the fact the program here is management based and not just culinary. "We can also cook."
Other benefits from the conference, Cox said, that students took home was information gained from classes, workshops and networking with veteran food service professionals they were paired with as mentors. His favorite class—one on fruit and vegetable carving.
Angie Price, an administrative assistant in the department who accompanied the team, was proud of their accomplishment. "Mama Price went with them and we brought it home," she said.
Gail Stephens, assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-651-7580.
Photo caption: UMES' team that took first place in the IFSEA's culinary challenge, from left, are: Marlon Bouie, Kadijatu Kargbo, David Cox, Jade Overton and Jamel Smith.


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- The U.S. beach volleyball team of Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal has advanced to Saturday's semifinals of the Adelaide Australia Open, the first event on the 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour. In Friday's third round, Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.), seeded 18th, defeated China's Penggen Wu and Linyin Xu (21-15, 21-14), who are seeded seventh. In the fourth round, the U.S. duo won a hard-fought match (21-18, 19-21, 17-15) against Germany's 14th-ranked Julius Brink and Christoph Dieckmann in 1 hour, 4 minutes. Gibb and Rosenthal were facing the German team for the first-time since Brink and Dieckmann had defeated them in the final of the 2006 SWATCH FIVB World Tour stop in Vitoria, Brazil.
"We were not thinking of any revenge for our last meeting," Rosenthal told the FIVB. "We just play one match at a time and we were fortunate to rally to defeat the Germans. We fell behind twice by a big margin in the final set and were able to come back to tie the Germans. We had a great rally to save a match point and had enough left to out-last our opponents. It was a great match between two quality teams. The Germans play hard and never quit. Thank goodness we won that one."
Gibb and Rosenthal are second among the U.S. men's team in the race for Olympic qualifying points. Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.), the 2007 world champions, are in front. The United States will send two men's beach teams to the 2008 Olympic Games. Gibb and Rosenthal must wait for Friday's consolation matches to be played to find out who they will face in the semifinals. The U.S. men's team of Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Casey Jennings (Las Vegas, Nev.), ranked 27th, continues to stun the field after advancing from the country quota tournament, through qualifying and all the way to the third round of the main draw. Although Fuerbringer/Jennings lost in the third round on Friday to Brink and Dieckmann (16-21, 19-21), the duo came back in consolation to defeat the No. 1-seeded Russian team of Igor Kolodinsky and Dmitri Barsouk (21-18, 21-16), knocking them from the tournament.
Fuerbringer/Jennings will face China's Xu and Wu in their first match on Saturday. Dalhausser and Rogers, ranked second in Adelaide, remained alive in the consolation bracket by winning three matches Friday after falling to Gibb and Rosenthal on Thursday. They will face 17th-seeded Bram Ronnes and Emiel Boersma of Netherlands in their first match on Friday. The U.S. men's team of Stein Metzger (Honolulu, Hawai'i) and Mark Williams (Los Angeles, Calif.), seeded 28th, were eliminated after a loss to Xu and Wu in the consolation bracket on Friday.
In the women's tournament, fourth-seeded Nicole Branagh (Orinda, Calif.) and Elaine Youngs (El Toro, Calif.) are the only U.S. team still playing, although they are now in the consolation bracket. Branagh/Youngs lost to fifth-seeded Talita Antunes and Renata Ribeiro of Brazil in Friday's third round. They came back to defeat Germany's 15th-seeded Rieke Brink-Abeler and Hella Jurich in consolation and will play Germany's Stephanie Pohl and Okka Rau, ranked eighth, in their first match on Saturday. The U.S. women's teams of seventh-ranked Jen Boss (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and 14th-seeded Tyra Turner (Fort Meyers Beach, Fla.) and Rachel Wacholder (Laguna Beach, Calif.) both lost in consolation and were eliminated from the tournament.
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As the new U.S. Ambassador-at-Large (AAL) for International Religious Freedom, I want to introduce myself through this blog to the online community. First and foremost, I am honored and humbled by my appointment and by the confidence President Obama and Secretary Clinton have shown in me. I will do my utmost to use all the resources at my disposal, including social media, to advance freedom of religion around the world.
The AAL position was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, to advance religious freedom around the globe. Our annual International Religious Freedom Report to Congress is the primary resource we use to identify priorities, engage governments, and communicate with nongovernmental organizations about the importance of respecting and protecting religious communities and safeguarding the right of individuals to exercise their faith, hold or change their beliefs, or not to believe. Two additional tools to advance the cause of religious freedom are the designation of Countries of Particular Concern (CPCs) and Presidential Actions to motivate progress in those countries. We also advance religious freedom globally by expanding the awareness and training of our diplomats who serve around the world. We will use these and all other program resources to implement projects that address systemic issues challenging religious freedom -- including blasphemy, apostasy, and the right to change one's religion.
A critical part of promoting religious freedom around the globe is proactively engaging government and religious leaders, as well as grass-roots faith-based and nongovernmental communities, all of which can exert significant influence to cultivate a climate more receptive to religious freedom globally. The dramatic events unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa remind us that the desire for freedom lies deep within the human spirit. No greater freedom exists than the inherent desire of all people to enjoy the freedom to live according to their beliefs with governmental protection, not governmental interference.
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America has learned much from its experience with religious diversity. We must share our lessons, stand with the persecuted, and encourage all governments to respect and protect the universal rights of all people. As President Obama so eloquently stated in his historic speech in Cairo in 2009, "People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind and the heart and the soul."
Religious freedom is the birthright of all people everywhere; it is a foundation of civil society, it is a key to international security, and it must always be a pillar of United States foreign policy. I believe this in my mind, heart, and soul. Religious freedom is a universal principle, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and protected in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). As the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, I promise to do my best to fight for these values around the globe.
For updates on the work of the Ambassador-at-Large and to learn more about the Office of International Religious Freedom, follow @IRFAmbassador on Twitter and join RFAmbassador on Facebook.
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Bringing to your attention. "Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam." People belonging to this community internationally are being killed and massacred in countries like Indonesia and Pakistan. Do they have any prayer of being protected?
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Dear Ambassador Cook, Congratulation to you as the newly appointed Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom for the United States of America. We thank God for committed, dedicated bold and humble servants of the most high God who would allow the Lord to use you as a vessel and voice in high places to speak out and advocate for those around the world who seemingly have no voice or seem hopeless when it comes to their religious freedom, values and human rights for all people. We will continually, keep you in our prayers and all people like you, who are on the battlefield for human rights, freedom and justice for all.
God Bless Always,
The Rt. Rev. William S. in California writes:
Dear Dr. Cook,
As Founder and President of the United Religions Initiative I want to add my voice of congratulations and welcome to you as the newly confirmed United States Ambassador-at-Large of International Religious Freedom. "Religious freedom" is in my mind, another way of stating the purpose of the United Religions Initiative. I want to offer our support and encouragement in all of your efforts.
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Yamamoto (DeSoto), Hisaye
Hisaye Yamamoto (DeSoto) 1921-
American short story writer, non-fiction writer, and poet.
One of the first Japanese-American writers to gain national attention in the United States after World War II, Yamamoto is concerned with issues ranging from the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War to family tensions arising from a daughter's coming of age. A governing theme in her writing is the struggle of Japanese-American women, who often are isolated from society, caught between the traditional Japanese worlds of their husbands and the Western values and identities of their children. Frequently drawing upon places and events from her own life, Yamamoto creates complex characters; blends poignancy, compassion, and humor; employs irony and understatement; and constructs layered plots through the use of limited and shifting perspectives. Her best-known works are collected in the volume Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (1988), and include the title story, "Yoneko's Earthquake," and "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara."
Biographical Information
Born in Redondo Beach, California, to first-generation immigrant parents, Yamamoto experienced the deeply divided realities of her Japanese heritage and life in the United States in the mid-twentieth century. The gulf between her Japanese ancestry and the dominant white American culture was made dramatically clear when she was forced to spend three years in the Poston Relocation Center in Arizona while she was in her early twenties. Poston was one of about ten Japanese internment camps in the Western United States that confined more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans—two-thirds of whom were American-born citizens—in the years immediately following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. During that time, people of Japanese descent were considered potential enemies of the United States. They were removed from their homes, farms, and businesses and detained in relocation centers. Yamamoto's experiences in the camp significantly influenced her life and gave rise to several of her most highly acclaimed stories, notably "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara."
While at Poston, Yamamoto served as a reporter and columnist for the camp newspaper, the Poston Chronicle. After her release, she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Tribune, a small weekly newspaper intended for an African-American audience. Her experiences there inspired the 1985 story "A Fire in Fontana." In 1948, Yamamoto's first story, "High-heeled Shoes," appeared in the Partisan Review.
In 1953, Yamamoto declined an opportunity to study at Stanford University with poet Ivor Winters, and instead headed East with her adopted son to volunteer at the Catholic Worker community farm on Staten Island. The community and its charismatic founder, Dorothy Day, impressed Yamamoto with their promotion of pacifist values and selfless ideals, as taught by Jesus Christ. Commentators have observed that Yamamoto's decision stands in interesting relation to her involuntary communal experience at Poston. Yamamoto wrote for the Catholic Worker newspaper, which she continued to do for years after leaving the community. Her story "Epithalamium" draws upon her experiences during this time. In 1955 Yamamoto married and returned to Los Angeles, where she became mother to four more children.
Major Works of Short Fiction
Most of Yamamoto's stories were published initially in small magazines and regional Japanese-American newspapers. Her first story, "High-heeled Shoes," delineates both the subtle and overt sexual abuse faced by women in American society. In "Seventeen Syllables," a nisei (second-generation Japanese-American) girl on the verge of womanhood witnesses conflict between her father, a farmer, and her mother, a poet. "The Wilshire Bus" tells the story of a Japanese-American woman, who, while taking a bus to visit her hospitalized husband, sees a drunken Caucasian man harass a Chinese couple. "The Brown House" describes the conflicts between an issei (first-generation Japanese immigrant) woman and her gambling husband. "Yoneko's Earthquake" is a tragic story about domestic turmoil in a Japanese-American family.
Several of Yamamoto's stories, such as "Seventeen Syllables," "Yoneko's Earthquake," and "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara," have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories of 1952. Yamamoto's first collection of stories was published in Japan in 1985 as Seventeen Syllables: 5 Stories of Japanese American Life. A collection of fifteen stories, Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories, appeared in the United States in 1988.
Critical Reception
Commentary has focused on Yamamoto's treatment of the Japanese experience in the United States. Critics have commented on the strength, courage, and honesty of her writing at a time when Japanese-Americans were openly disdained by much of American society. They have noted that Yamamoto draws on both Anglo-American and Japanese-American literary traditions to examine her themes and explore the complexity of human relationships. Her stories feature unreliable narrators, literary and historic references, imaginary dialogues, symbolism, and multiple plots. Several critics have noted compassion, understanding, wisdom, insight, and humor in Yamamoto's sympathetic portrayals of those on the periphery of American society.
Principal Works
Seventeen Syllables: 5 Stories of Japanese American Life 1985
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories 1988
Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald and Katharine Newman (essay date 1980)
SOURCE: "Relocation and Dislocation: The Writings of Hisaye Yamamoto and Wakako Yamauchi," in MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Vol. 7, No. 3, Fall, 1980, pp. 21-38.
[In the following excerpt, McDonald and Newman discuss several of Yamamoto's best-known stories in the context of what they identify as the "hallmarks " of Yamamoto's style and technique.]
Yamamoto received her first rejection slip at the age of fourteen and persisted in her aspiration to be a writer until she received her first acceptance from a major periodical when she was twenty-six. In the years between, she completed the program at Compton Junior College, contributed to school, college, and small magazines, and wrote even while she was at Poston. After her release from camp she went to Los Angeles and obtained a reporter's job on the only newspaper that would hire a Japanese: the Negro Los Angeles Tribune. She worked there from 1945 to 1948. Her first story, "High-heeled Shoes" appeared in 1948.6 The following year she was accorded a John Hay Whitney Opportunity Fellowship which enabled her to write without a worry for a year. During this time, in addition to more short stories, she translated the whole of Rene Boylesve's "L'Enfant à la Balustrade" from French into English.
While she was working at the Tribune, she had begun to collect copies of the Catholic Worker, and so, intrigued that there was a place where "non-violence, voluntary poverty, love for the land, and attempt to put into practice the precepts of the Sermon on the Mount" were the rules, she finally went East and spent the years 1953-1955 on the Catholic Worker farm on Staten Island. For years after she returned to California, she continued to write for the paper, the Catholic Worker, among her most important pieces being on Seabrook Farms, Iva Toguri ("God Sees the Truth but Waits"), and the United Farm Workers.
After the Catholic Worker experience she settled into a career as wife and housewife, then as mother of five kids, and now, also, the grandmother of two, all of whom live in or near the DeSoto home. In short, as she phrases it, she keeps busy "tending her own garden," which means family, flowers, friends, and writing.7
During all these years, there has never been a published collection of her work, but her reputation has been kept steadily alive by anthologists. Four of her short stories made Martha Foley's list of "distinctive" short stories for their particular years, with "Yoneko's Earthquake" reprinted as one of the Best American Short Stories of 1952. She has been represented in at least twenty anthologies, with favorites being "Seventeen Syllables" and "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara." Runners-up are "Las Vegas Charley," "The Brown House," and "Yoneko's Earthquake."8 It is noteworthy that between 1949 and 1952, when there was still some hostility and a great deal of apathy about the Japanese, Hisaye Yamamoto published five short stories that won national acclaim.
"High-heeled Shoes" is more essay than story, unlike those that followed, but it has the Yamamoto hallmarks:
- References to literary materials outside the Japanese-American tradition. This shows her wide reading. In this story, Freud, Ellis, Stekel, Krafft-Ebbing, and Robert Browning are mentioned. In "Epithalamium," she quotes extensively from Gerard Manley Hopkins as well as echoing the Miltonic poem. This strategy lifts her stories into the wider world of European-American culture and adds surprise and new angles of perspective.
- References to actual events, place, or people. In this story she names Wakako Yamauchi as the friend who has given her the plants from which the narrator is picking pansies in the story.
- Lists, particularly of foods, flowers, and oddments that give sensory appeal as well as substantiating the reality of the story. In "High-heeled Shoes," she is irritated when the phone rings because she fantasizes that it is a salesman and she does not have money to buy from him. She lists what she would have bought by week's end if she only had money.
- Soliloquies and imaginary dialogues. Here she has a talk with Gandhi about non-violent responses versus the suffering of women attacked by rapists. Gandhi does not come off well.
The keynote in all of Yamamoto's work is her use of her own mind: she is analytic, meditative, honest, compassionate, and ironic. Whether she uses the first person or a narrator, the final word is usually hers—and it is frequently so open-ended that the reader feels there are stories and meanings as yet unguessed implicit in each tale.
Yamamoto's pervasive love for humanity is found in "The High-heeled Shoes." The protagonist ("I") is confronted with sexual perversions: she receives an obscene telephone call at the story's beginning and this propels her mind into "unlovely, furtive things" about other encounters with men that she and her friends have had. The most startling was the time she caught sight of a pair of legs in black high-heeled shoes sticking out from the open door of a "dusty-blue, middle-aged sedan." As she approached and glanced in, she discovered that the shoes were worn by a naked man reclining on the front seat . . . and she was, "with frantic gestures, being enjoined to linger awhile."
The narrator calls on her reading for some understanding of this frightening experience but concludes: "Reading is reading, talking is talking, thinking is thinking, and living is different." However, she regards both incidents as caused by society and does not blame the men, believing that they were part of "a great dark sickness on the earth that no amount of pansies, pinks, or amaryllis, thriving joyously in what garden, however well-ordered and pointed to with pride, could even begin to assuage."
There is a final paragraph: her aunt calls, thus purifying the telephone from the contamination of the obscene caller, and she offers to come over for dinner, bringing food with her. This is the only "Japanese" touch in a story all too universal: "ricecakes with Indian bean frosting, as well as pickled fish on vinegared rice. She has also been able to get some yellowtail, to slice and eat raw." Yamamoto, as narrator, comments, "It is possible she wonders at my enthusiastic appreciation, which is all right, but all out of proportion."
What remains with the narrator is: "Whatever, whatever—I knew I had discovered yet another circle to put away with my collection of circles." A similar personal revelation of the sickness of humankind was revealed in "The Wilshire Bus," a 1950 story, which deals with a Japanese-American woman's fear of being identified as Chinese by a drunken bigot. Shocked at finding this weakness in herself, she lost "her saving detachment . . . and she was filled once again in her life with the infuriatingly helpless, insidiously sickening sensation of there being in the world nothing solid she could put her finger on, nothing solid she could come to grips with, nothing solid she could sink her teeth into, nothing solid."9
She has written two stories about gamblers: "The Brown House" (1951), and "Las Vegas Charley" (1961). The former has a jocose tone: Mr. Hattori, weary of trying to make a living growing strawberries, seeks out a Chinese house where he can try his luck at gambling. The appearance of the house is whimsical: "recently painted brown and relieved with white window frames. . . . To the rear of the house was a ranshackle barn whose spacious blue roof advertised in great yellow letters a ubiquitous brand of physic."
During the travail, as the Hattoris come to argue and their marriage nearly expires, there are humorous incidents, such as a police raid and the semi-friendship between Mrs. Wu, wife of the manager of the brown house and Mrs. Hattori, who must wait, hour upon hour, in the car with the three little children. The children come to acquire a taste for the Chinese cookies that Mrs. Wu brings to the car and Mrs. Hattori becomes quite attached to the Chinese woman. But Mrs. Wu, looking at them, concludes "she had never before encountered a woman with such bleak eyes."10 As the story ends, the reader goes back over it and sees that it never was humorous, that human interaction is "a collection of circles."
Las Vegas Charley began life as Kazuyuki Matsumoto, a prosperous young immigrant farmer until the death of his beloved wife in childbirth broke his spirit. Ultimately he has become a dishwasher in a restaurant in Las Vegas, spending his free time gambling. As he grows old, he becomes closer to his son and daughter-in-law in Los Angeles. Finally Charley dies, and the doctor who has attended him, complaining of his...
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Charles L. Crow (interview date 1987)
SOURCE: "A MELUS Interview: Hisaye Yamamoto," in MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring, 1987, pp. 73-84.
[In the following interview, Yamamoto and Crow discuss the author's life and work, and in particular how Yamamoto 's personal circumstances have influenced her writing.]
Hisaye Yamamoto's reputation as a writer of fiction grows, despite the relatively small body of her work and its original publication in little magazines and in regional Japanese-American newspapers. By 1980, as Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald and Katharine Newman noted in MELUS, she had been reprinted in at least...
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King-Kok Cheung (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: Introduction to Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1988, pp. xi-xxv.
[In the following introduction to Yamamoto's collection of stories, Cheung provides an overview of Yamamoto's life and work, touching on the author's themes, styles, and techniques.]
I first met Hisaye Yamamoto at a conference in Irvine, California in 1987. Long an admirer of her short stories, I asked which was her favorite. "None of them is any good," said the recipient of the Before Columbus Foundation's 1986 American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, with a seemingly straight face. But her words, like her stories—often told by unreliable...
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Valerie Matsumoto (review date 1989)
SOURCE: "Windows on a World," in The Women's Review of Books, Vol. VI, Nos. 10-11, July, 1989, p. 5.
[In the following excerpt from a book review of Seventeen Syllables, Matsumoto discusses the scope and complexity of Yamamoto's stories, concluding that the stories "act on us, transforming our sense of ourselves and the world. "]
Hisaye Yamamoto's collection of short stories represents the work of 40 years, bringing together her most acclaimed pieces with several lesser known, all gleaned from an array of literary magazines, journals and newspapers ranging from the Poston Chronicle (the newspaper of the Poston concentration camp in Arizona where Yamamoto...
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Stan Yogi (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: "Legacies Revealed: Uncovering Buried Plots in the Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto," in Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 17, No. 2, Autumn, 1989, pp. 169-81.
[In the following essay, Yogi focuses on the stories "Seventeen Syllables" and "Yoneko's Earthquake," asserting that Yamamoto uses hidden plots and subtexts to explore the experiences of Japanese-American women caught within complex social environments hostile to their desires.]
Between 1949 and 1961 the Nisei woman Hisaye Yamamoto gained national attention as a short story writer.1 Awarded a John Hay Whitney Foundation Opportunity Fellowship in 1949, Yamamoto's stories depicting the lives of...
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Zenobia Baxter Mistri (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: '"Seventeen Syllables': A Symbolic Haiku," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 27, No. 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 197-202.
[In the following essay, Mistri examines Yamamoto's use of haiku as a metaphor for the themes explored in her story "Seventeen Syllables. "]
In 1942, the Japanese Relocation Act incarcerated 110,000 Japanese in Poston, Arizona. Born in 1921 of Japanese immigrant parents, Hisaye Yamamoto is a Nisei1 and one of those who watched closely the effects of that tragic internment. Although there are books, taped reminiscences bound into collections, and a slender handful of films, there is little criticism available that examines the experience...
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Ming L. Cheng (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "The Unrepentant Fire: Tragic Limitations in Hisaye Yamamoto's 'Seventeen Syllables'," in MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter, 1994, pp. 91-107.
[In the following essay, Cheng emphasizes the social, cultural, economic, and gender conditions that influence the actions of the issei father in "Seventeen Syllables. "]
"Seventeen Syllables," perhaps the most anthologized, acclaimed and analyzed short story by Hisaye Yamamoto, epitomizes the complex rendering of characters within an intricately drawn plot characteristic of her larger body of works. Yamamoto masks a...
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King-Kok Cheung (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "The Dream in Flames: Hisaye Yamamoto, Multiculturalism, and the Los Angeles Uprising," in Bucknell Review: A Scholarly Journal of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Special Issue—Having Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America, edited by Harriet Pollack, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1, 1995, pp. 118-30.
[In the following essay, Cheung relates the subject matter and themes of Yamamoto's 1985 story "A Fire in Fontana" to the 1992 Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of four police officers accused of using excessive force in the arrest and beating of African-American motorist Rodney King.]
The 1992 Los Angeles riot broke out three months before I...
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Naoko Sugiyama (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: "Issei Mothers' Silence, Nisei Daughters' Stories: The Short Fiction of Yamamoto," in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1996, pp. 1-14.
[In the following essay, Sugiyama describes the use of silence in Yamamoto's stories both as a stylistic technique and as a key element in the lives of her characters.]
Silence is often seen as evidence of women's oppressed position in society. Tillie Olsen, in her book Silences, describes how the creative talents of women have been forced into "unnatural" silences by the constant demands of daily life, which allow them no existence other than that of mothers, wives, daughters, and nurturers....
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Further Reading
Cheung, King-Kok. "Rhetorical Silence: 'Seventeen Syllables,' 'Yoneko's Earthquake,' and 'The Legend of Miss Sasagawara.'" In Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, pp. 27-73. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Explores the multiple levels and forms of silence employed in Yamamoto's stories, focusing on "Seventeen Syllables," "Yoneko's Earthquake," and "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara."
——. "Reading between the Syllables: Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories " In Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays, edited by John R. Maitino and David R. Peck,...
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City Man Convicted For Attempted Arson
A 48-year-old Jamestown man will spend four years in state prison after being convicted of second-degree attempted arson stemming from an April 10, 2012, incident at 21 Sturges St.
According to police, Ronald D. Smith, a male occupant of the address, was involved in a dispute and became angry, which led him to set fire in the basement of the home. The Jamestown Fire Department responded to the scene and quickly extinguished the fire before it reached the main floors of the home. The majority of the damage was to the walls, ceiling and main water line in the basement.
According to David Foley, Chautauqua County district attorney, Smith was also sentenced to five years of post-release supervision for the conviction.
Foley also announced other pleas and sentences before the Hon. John T. Ward in county court. They are as follows:
Jenna L. Philips, 23, of 722 Roosevelt Ave., Dunkirk was sentenced to 2 years determinate in state prison with 2 years post-release supervision for fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, concurrent with 6 months in jail for a second count of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and fourth-degree grand larceny.
Thomas M. Kiley, 37, of 12706 Allegheny Road, Irving was sentenced to 5 years probation for second-degree assault.
Mary Butts, 21, of 125 King St., Dunkirk was sentenced to 60 days in jail and 5 years probation for third-degree robbery.


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Intel Corp. on Monday said it would delay the release of highly-anticipated dual-core Itanium processor intended for high-end servers. The delay was caused by necessity to do some additional testing of the processor in order to meet production quality. Additionally, Intel is expected to remove a high-end flavour of the chip from the roadmap.
Montecito Needs Additional Testing - Intel
"We have seed units [dual-core Itanium] out, and the performance looks pretty good, but we decided we needed time to do more testing to hit significantly high quality for this mission critical product," William Giles, an Intel Corp.'s representative said.
Intel's dual-core Itanium product code-named Montecito will deliver twice the performance of the current Itanium products, which is pretty natural as the next-generation flavour of the Itanium sports two processing engines instead of one as well as larger caches. The dual-core IA64 processors are expected to reach volume production in mid-2006, instead of the first quarter of 2006. The delay means that it will have taken Intel a bit less than two years to ramp up production of the processor, as the first working silicon of the Montecito was demonstrated back in August, 2004.
"We're not going into details on the specifics of the processor other than to say we're not satisfied with the quality right now," Intel spokesman Scott McLaughlin is reported to have said.
While there are no official details out, additional testing of the new Itanium could have been expected, as Intel currently supplies only one E8870 core-logic for the Itanium 2 chips, whereas many of its customers rely on their own chipsets for the IA64 products, which requires additional qualification runs. Additionally, given huge power consumption and thermals of the new chip, particular applications that will utilize the microprocessors also need to be tested with the new processors to ensure stability and reliability.
Intel Cuts Specifications of the Future Itanium
Intel also said that the dual-core Itanium chips known as Montecito will also not use high-speed 667MHz processor system bus along with the dual-core Itanium processors and will also not enable Foxton technology that could dynamically overclock the Montecito microprocessor by 200MHz when conditions allow.
The first three Itanium 2 processors based on the Montecito core were projected to be single-core 1.60GHz (model 9010), dual-core 1.40GHz (model 9020) as well as dual-core 1.60GHz (model 9040). Dual-core Itanium 2 processors were expected to have 18MB of L2 cache as well as 533MHz processor system bus (PSB), whereas the single-core flavour was claimed to sport 6MB of cache and will use 400MHz PSB. In the second quarter of 2006, Intel was expected to release its Itanium processor with two processing engined and 24MB of cache at 1.80GHz clock-speed. In the same quarter the manufacturer planned to refresh the 9010, 9020 and 9040 lineup with a faster 667MHz Quad Pumped Bus.


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