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4.28 Billion Year Old Rock Vestige - Remnant of Earth's Crust - Discovered in CanadaResearchers in Canada have found 4.28 billion year old rocks, probably the world's oldest, and which may be remnants of a portion of the first crust that formed at the surface of our planet, known as the primordial crust.The ancient rocks were found in Northern Quebec, along the Hudson's Bay coast, 40 km south of Inukjuak in an area known as the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt.The researchers who made the discovery estimated the age of the terrestrial rocks using isotopic dating, which analyzes the decay of the radioactive element, neodymium-142, contained within them, a technique that can only be used to date rocks roughly 4.1 billion years old or older.The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and remnants of its early crust are extremely rare - most of it has been mashed and recycled into Earth's interior several times over by plate tectonics since the Earth formed.
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From yoga to story writing, library offers volumes more than books
What do writing workshops, book talks, roundtable discussions, concerts and yoga dance classes have in common? They are all being offered for free at the Warwick Public Library.
While some meet only once, others gather more often.
"A little over a year ago we made a serious effort to try and have some ongoing programs that meet bi-weekly throughout the year," said Wil Gregersen, the Library's community services librarian who arranges programs for adults. "My goal is to have as many different kinds of events as we can and to serve the community. There are more than 80,000 people here and certainly more than 80,000 interests, so I try to keep it diverse."
The events are mostly directed by volunteer community members, including Barbara McKerracher, RN, who leads Writing from Memory: A Self-Discovery Roundtable. The group meets every other Tuesday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. through Oct. 29.
Each session begins with a writing exercise that asks participants to remember a part of their life. Then, they are invited to read their story to the group but are not obligated to. The next roundtable is Sept. 17. Arrive ready to write with paper and pen.
"Barbara loves what she's doing," Gregersen said. "She's thrilled to have a place host her."
McKerracher, who has been published in Nursing Magazine and other publications, started the group out of her Warwick home about 15 years ago. As the group grew, they began meeting in local eateries. She is pleased to hold the roundtable at the Library, which she has been doing since last spring.
"We have so much fun," she said.
McKerracher has worked at Army hospitals throughout the world and various nursing homes, providing her with an array of ideas for stories. After earning a diploma from Children's Hospital in Boston, she received a degree in U.S. History from Rhode Island College, as well as a certificate in Thanatology, the study of death and dying, from the University of Rhode Island.
In 2002, she won a scholarship through the Cremation Society of Rhode Island to study with Dr. Alan Wolfelt, the world's leading thanatologist.
"Part of the reason I won was because I said I wanted to start writing groups in funeral homes," she said. "My thought was that everyone who comes to the wake write a quick story about the person that's in the casket. Then, I would take the stories home, type them up, put them in a book and give it to the family."
While she is yet to formally set this idea in motion at funeral homes, it's been successful in other areas. For her 60th birthday party, everyone who attended wrote a brief story about their relationship with her. She realized the stories highlighted each segment of her life.
"Every person has a story to tell, and everybody's story is important," she said. "We need to write about the common person."
Aside from McKerracher's group, the Library will host a Poetry Writing Roundtable by the Ocean State Poets, scheduled to meet bi-weekly from Sept. 11 to Dec. 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The group also holds roundtables at schools and prisons throughout Rhode Island.
"We're just a very small part of what they do," Gregersen said, noting that the group aims to provide poets with inspiration, suggestions and artistic rapport.
Another event is Writing Teen Fiction: A Workshop for Adults, to be led by Rebecca Maizel, best-selling author of teen novels "Infinite Days" and "Stolen Nights." This six-week workshop gathers on Thursdays, including Sept. 12, 19 and 26 and Oct. 3, 10 and 17 beginning at 6:30 p.m.
It invites participants to work on and develop a short story or a chapter from an anticipated teen novel. Each member is to bring six copies of a 10-page chapter or story, double-spaced in a 12-point font, to the first class on Sept. 12. It is limited to 10 writers, so register online at warwicklibrary.org or call 739-5440, extension 4, as soon as possible.
Maizel, a graduate of Boston University, Rhode Island College, and Vermont College of Fine Arts, teaches literature at the Community College of Rhode Island.
"Last year, Rebecca did a program for four weeks where she got people started on writing teen fiction," said Gregersen. "She went through the basics – what you want to think about, how to structure things, character building and that sort of stuff. This time around, she's coming back with a more intensive program where they are going to sit down and workshop it. They can really dig into the writing and get going as writers."
On Sept. 24 at 7 p.m., Paul Lonardo, who co-wrote "From the Ashes: Surviving the Station Nightclub Fire," with Gina Russo, will visit the Library for a talk on the fire, which claimed 100 lives.
Lonardo, also the co-author of "Life, with Cancer: The Lauren Terrazzano Story" and "Caught in the Act: A Family's Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer" and the author of "Strike IX," will not only discuss the fire, but his participation in "The Station," a documentary film series by local filmmaker David Bettencourt. Participants must register in advance.
Other events include Café Socrates, a current issues discussion group taking place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 9 and 23 and Oct. 7 and 21, as well as Good Knitting, A Get Together for knitters that meets bi-weekly through Dec. 16, with the next session on Monday at 6:30 p.m.
Music and dance events are also available, such as a concert of original acoustic folk jazz with singer-songwriter Megan Gilbert and saxophonist Mitch Kaplan on Sunday, Sept. 29 at 2 p.m. Gilbert is the lead vocalist and songwriter for Providence pop-jazz trio Megan and the Dream Casters, while Kaplan studied with Greg Abate and Mark Earle and has played at the Newport and Kool Jazz Festivals.
And discover how to live in the present moment with a yoga dance workshop held Oct. 1, 8, 15 and 22 at 7 p.m. with Mary Scannell, a certified Kripalu Institute yoga dance instructor who will teach participants how yoga dance can encourage mindfulness and how gratitude, journaling and a focus on the inner child can help increase awareness.
Yoga dance uses a blend of guided and spontaneous movements to boost concentration, promote fitness and relieve stress. The class starts with planned steps and eventually sets dancers free to create their own patterns of movement. Dress comfortably and bring a yoga mat, journal and water.
Other events include Boston singer-songwriter Thea Hopkins, who plans to visit the Library in late October. In November the Library will host a screening of second season of "Downton Abbey," as the Library showed the first season earlier this summer.
The same month, Dr. Stanley Carpenter, a professor from the U.S. Naval War College, will visit to talk about the war for American independence, while another professor and Indian classical musician, Srinivas Reddy, will be visiting for a performance in December.
For more information on these events, call 739-5440, extension 221, and register via extension 4. The Library is located at 600 Sandy Lane.


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Show Airs Saturday Night at 7 p.m. ET Prior to Game 2 of Stanley Cup Final from Chicago
NEW YORK - June 13, 2013 - NBC Sports Network will present an NHL Awards show Saturday night at 7 p.m. ET prior to Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks. The NHL Awards will be co-produced this year by NBC Sports Network and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) live from the United Center in Chicago, Ill.
Due to the unique format of the 2013 NHL season, the NHL is dividing the awards into two television specials over two days with NBC Sports Network covering the Hart Trophy (Most Valuable Player), Vezina Trophy (Outstanding Goaltender), Norris Trophy (Outstanding Defenseman), Calder Trophy (Outstanding Rookie) and Ted Lindsay Award (Outstanding Player) on Saturday night; and the NHL Network covering the remaining 11 awards (listed below) on Friday night.
NBC Sports Network's coverage will be hosted by Liam McHugh, who will alternate interviewing award-winners with CBC's Ron Maclean.
Tomorrow (Friday, June 14) at 5 p.m. ET, NHL Network will televise the announcement of the winners of the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, Frank J. Selke Trophy, Jack Adams Award, King Clancy Memorial Trophy, Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award, NHL Foundation Player Award and the NHL General Manager of the Year Award.
Among the most popular events on the NHL calendar, the NHL Awards will return to Las Vegas in 2014. Since 2008, the NHL's biggest names have joined with celebrities from music, stage and screen in Las Vegas to celebrate the best hockey players in the world in a star-studded spectacular.
Following are the 2013 NHL Awards finalists, in alphabetical order:
BILL MASTERTON MEMORIAL TROPHY (Perseverance and dedication to hockey)
Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins
Josh Harding, Minnesota Wild
Adam McQuaid, Boston Bruins
CALDER MEMORIAL TROPHY (Top rookie)
Brendan Gallagher, Montreal Canadiens
Jonathan Huberdeau, Florida Panthers
Brandon Saad, Chicago Blackhawks
FRANK J. SELKE TROPHY (Top defensive forward)
Patrice Bergeron, Boston Bruins
Pavel Datsyuk, Detroit Red Wings
Jonathan Toews, Chicago Blackhawks
HART MEMORIAL TROPHY (Most valuable player to his team)
Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins
Alex Ovechkin, Washington Capitals
John Tavares, New York Islanders
JACK ADAMS AWARD (Top head coach)
Bruce Boudreau, Anaheim Ducks
Paul MacLean, Ottawa Senators
Joel Quenneville, Chicago Blackhawks
JAMES NORRIS MEMORIAL TROPHY (Top defenseman)
Kris Letang, Pittsburgh Penguins
P.K. Subban, Montreal Canadiens
Ryan Suter, Minnesota Wild
LADY BYNG MEMORIAL TROPHY (Best sportsmanship, gentlemanly conduct and ability)
Patrick Kane, Chicago Blackhawks
Matt Moulson, New York Islanders
Martin St. Louis, Tampa Bay Lightning
Daniel Alfredsson, Ottawa Senators
Dustin Brown, Los Angeles Kings
Jonathan Toews, Chicago Blackhawks
Marc Bergevin, Montreal Canadiens
Bob Murray, Anaheim Ducks
Ray Shero, Pittsburgh Penguins
TED LINDSAY AWARD (Most outstanding player as voted by members of the NHLPA)
Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins
Alex Ovechkin, Washington Capitals
Martin St. Louis, Tampa Bay Lightning
VEZINA TROPHY (Top goaltender)
Sergei Bobrovsky, Columbus Blue Jackets
Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers
Antti Niemi, San Jose Sharks


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Chart Book and Financial Market Update (9/30/13)
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Obama victorious, but not yet the master politician
Barack Obama has been re-elected president of the United States, defeating his Republican rival Mitt Romney. But the last four years have been a rocky ride for him, and a test of his leadership qualities.
It was the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico where I first really questioned Obama's political skills.
Heading out in a speed-boat to see the oil spill, I felt exhilarated in the hot sun - the wind blowing spray in my face.
I felt as excited as a little boy as I waded ashore a tiny island looking for tell-tale signs of rusty-red liquid among the puddles and reeds.
I was pleased to find a restaurant owner, standing over a steaming vat of crawfish, explaining how the catastrophe threatened her business.
There it is. It's not pretty, but I love my job - and sometimes it means covering situations that are dreadful for other people.
Of course I wish they hadn't happened, but for me, they are an opportunity and - frankly - a thrill.
Some politicians feel the same. Those who get called "great", are the ones who seize whatever moment comes their way, make it their own, impose their will on it - indeed shape it - to make it better for their people.
In the Gulf, Obama seemed curiously detached from the people. A president making a speech from the Oval Office is a big moment, and I watched it from a house on the shore, with the concerned owner, who was in the tourism business.
It wasn't a bad speech - the president had said sensible things. But he hadn't wrought the phrases that make a nation lean forward on the sofa, or bring strong Americans to the point of tears. It was a bit ordinary.
Until then, I had resisted the conclusion that he wasn't all that he was cracked up to be. The criticism seemed premature, and missing the point - he was elected to be different.
So many of the attacks, then and now, are the puerile work of fantasists - that he was born in Kenya, is a communist revolutionary, or secretly a convert to Islam.
They are attacks on an icon for daring to exist, and they make it easier to be over-generous in overlooking the flaws of the real man.
He was accused of dithering before deciding what to do over Afghanistan. Much of the world might be relieved that he thought before acting.
Some expressed surprise that he tackled healthcare at the same time as the economic crisis - but if he was going to do something big, he had to start it in that first year.
But it was clumsy in execution. The deal-making was grubby, Obama didn't impose his will with that false bonhomie, back-slapping and elbow-grabbing that is the heart of the dark art of handling Congress.
It is curiously easy for someone with real power to awe these wily vain old men. Obama couldn't stoop. He barely conquered, and what emerged was an obscure compromise, hard to sell in a 10-second sound bite.
On the anniversary of his victory, I sat around the kitchen table in student digs to hear the complaints of young people who had celebrated that night in Grant Park.
They were worried that he was too keen to use the troops, hadn't moved ahead on gay rights, or immigration. Fair enough. A leader of the left will often disappoint the left.
During the mid-term elections, I travelled across the country, clutching that famous poster of hope, asking people if they still had any. Despite the state of the economy, many did.
But it did not stop Obama getting what he called a "shellacking". Rarely have I seen a politicians so exposed, so bewildered, so raw.
In a news conference he seemed, like Prince Hamlet, to rove the stage soliloquising on his failure. Hamlet surely was Shakespeare musing on what happened when a modern renaissance man ended up in an old-fashioned revenge tragedy.
Thinking too precisely on the event, Obama concluded he had lost hold of the narrative. For a man who first intended to be a novelist - the only politician to create his own narrative even before he sought office - it was a sobering analysis, but accurate.
Take the stimulus money. He wanted a "moonshot" - a symbolic high profile project, that would make America proud of the whole policy. Their step to the stars?
Green energy. Immersed in detail, he forgot the big picture.
Obama now dismissively calls Romney "a salesman". But a politician needs to be able to go door-to-door with their wares.
This is why the first debate was such a defining moment. Rarely does a single event loom so large in an election. If Obama had lost, those 90 minutes would have been blamed.
It mattered, not because Obama lost and Romney won - as if it was some arm-wrestling contest - but because of what it seemed to show.
But more than that - even supporters saw in Obama a lack they had long feared. He was hardly present, let alone presidential. He was dully dutiful, devoid of zest, zeal or zing.
His book, subtitled "reclaiming the American dream", was called The Audacity of Hope. And "audacity" means - according to my dictionary - intrepid, daring, adventurous, recklessly bold, marked by originality and verve.
Were the president of that debate to a write a book, it might be entitled The Aloofness of Lowered Expectations.
But there has been another vital moment in this election campaign - the moment Obama came off the trails to deal with the ravages of the great storm.
It could be seen as the moment he won the election. A president in a raincoat, rather alone, coming down the steps of Air Force One, walking tall through the lashing rain.
By stopping campaigning, he killed Romney's momentum and looked like a chief in command. Perhaps he has found his groove. Perhaps I've just got used to his style.
For somebody who can be an amazing orator, Obama can also be a really dull one.
For the last few days of campaigning, he really pulled out all the stops and his victory rally was a classic.
When he takes on the cadences of a black preacher you know he is fired up and ready to go. But at other times he can be as unpersuasive and uninspired as a long-winded professor in love with the sound of his own voice.
I'm tempted to say he can be lazy, but I doubt that it is that simple. Perhaps he just gets tired of the rather forced passion play that is the lot of a democratic leader, and believes too much in the force of rational argument.
Here's the problem. Whether it's Sandy, or the Gulf, or the economy, in a complex modern world acting as a co-ordinator, allowing experts to do their job, may be the most grown-up and effective way of dealing with problems.
I often feel that Obama is in office out of a burdensome sense of duty, not a selfish zest for the job. He is self-confident, which is not unusual in a senior politician.
But he's also self-contained and balanced. He's the polar opposite of Bill Clinton.
He lacks the driving need to be loved, the craving to excel, the desperation for the warmth of human contact that compels Clinton to be a far better practitioner of the art of politics.
Many Americans like to see the guy in the saddle, riding herd on a crisis, corralling it into some sort of shape and sense.
People learn. Sometimes they learn just in time.


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May 4, 2013
Cam Evans of Red Line Oil & Top Fuel Hydro Boat Owner Eddie Knox
This Sunday Sunday Sunday, CarCast steps onto the liquid quarter mile to profile the "Problem Child" top fuel Hydro Boat! Our guests are the very knowledgeable Cam Evans of Red Line Oil, sponsors of "Problem Child" as well as team owner Eddie Knox. We stick Adam in the driver's seat and fire this 9,000 hp blown nitro engine! If our neighbors don't hate us already, they do now!
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Donal Patrick and Carol Sue Blankenship were married Nov. 29, 1963, in Kingman. Their children and grandchildren are hosting a come and go celebration from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 at the Pratt Community Center, 619 N. Main.
They are the parents of Barb and husband Daryl Bishop and Steve and wife Kirsten (Tillquist) Blankenship, all of Pratt. They have five grandchildren.
Don graduated from Pratt High School and attended Pratt Community College. He worked many years as a driller in the oilfield, and later worked for USD 382 as a maintenance/transportation supervisor, where he retired after 17 years.
Carol graduated from Sun City High School and was a stay at home mom for many years. She worked as a clerk in the Pratt city office for many years before working as a secretary at Liberty Middle School for 29 years before her retirement.


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Just before I rose to leave, idly like a two year old, I reached to pick up an attractive ornament on the shelf beside me. It was one of those shiny polished stone balls that are not even much use as paperweights because they roll around so easily. I held it for a moment and admired the beauty of the stone and then, making to replace it, it slipped. I tried to catch it with my other hand but dropped it as it hit my little finger. After a short pang of pain I noticed that my finger was in an interesting new shape.
Seeing one's own body differently even in a small part like this re-orientates everything in one's perception of the world. Imagine what Resurrection must be like. I was tempted to force it back into its usual position but was wisely advised against it. No one knew which way to push or pull it. The finger throbbed a little but was rigid However inconvenient, I was helpless and needed help.
I went in search of it at the Accident and Emergency unit of St Mary's Paddington, reassured by the blue plaque on the wall informing us that here Alexander Fleming had discovered penicillin in the year of my birth, a karmic connection perhaps. Like most London hospitals it was homey, a bit tatty not the plate glass and metal hygienic efficiency of television healthcare, but it was friendly. I had to give my name and a few routine proofs of my social existence to an understandably bored form-filler behind a screen papered with so many notices that she was scarcely visible. But I was not asked if I had health insurance or even if I was a British citizen. I was not pampered, rejected or treated as a customer but just accepted as someone in need and put in line with others like me.
Sitting with my kind companion we looked around at the other shades in need. Some were alone, others with many family members. Occasionally eyes met as we looked at each other and wondered what their problem was. Sometimes it was obvious. How vulnerable and transparent we are when our real needs are known to others. The man next to me had his finger in a big bandage. Feeling we were in the same category I asked him if he had broken it. No he had almost sliced it off cutting paper at the office. He was scared and muttered something about being so stupid. Like me, like all of us in need, he felt 'stupid' at the mistakes that land us up like this.
Expecting a long wait we decided to meditate but it was a short prayer – St Benedict says that prayer should be short - as my name was called out. The system had remembered me by name! I was triaged and x-rayed in quick order and told to wait again. I was soon lying down in a treatment bay joking with a large bouncy nurse who must have been captain of her school hockey team. She was a pediatric nurse doing extra training. We chatted while she assessed my damage. She could straighten the dislocated finger she said but she was not allowed to yet. A gentle Indian doctor soon arrived, dressed in jeans, no clinical whites, trained for more important things than relocating a bone. I breathed deeply on nitrous oxide and waited for the pain of the wrench but it was hardly noticeable. 'Is that it?' Yes that's it, no don't try to move it yet.'
The whole earth is our hospital endowed by the ruined millionaire.
The care was not finished yet. I needed another x-ray to ensure it had worked. My smiling nurse came out to bandage me when a real emergency arrived. A cardiac arrest. The A&E team dropped everything and rushed to their stations like a football team following a secret game plan. They enjoyed using their skills. With the other walking wounded I pressed against the wall while the patient was wheeled in, bare-chested, having CPR, surrounded by those whose absolute sole concern was to save his life, the life of a stranger as we all were until our needs had introduced us. When my nurse eventually returned I asked her how he was. Her face lit up with a benediction. 'We pulled him through'.
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel the sharp compassion of the healer's art, resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
The nurses and doctors were not pretending to be perfect. The hospital was not a perfect society. If they made mistakes they were accountable. They were healers of their fellow human beings. If only we could see the church simply in the same way.
Laurence Freeman OSB
Laurence Freeman is a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Monte Oliveto and also Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation (www.wccm.org)


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Before & After: Tammy's Redesigned Living Room & Foyer
Tammy is a recent design school graduate who is launching her own business. She sent in photos of her redesigned entrance foyer and living room to share with the Apartment Therapy readers...
The Afters!
Tammy has lived in her home in New Jersey for ten years and shares it her family, including three kids. Nice design details from the makeover include the strong black and white graphic touches and how the new furniture size and arrangement really opens up the space.
Thanks, Tammy!
Images: Tammy Bolden


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Crossing Cane Creek to its south bank you know you�re in God�s country. The creek stretches across the breadth of southern Alamance County and flows into the Haw River, which joins the Deep and feeds the Cape Fear, which rides shotgun with N.C. 87 on its way to the sea.
Take any road off the highway and you�re immediately lost to the beauty and security of nature. You can breathe easier, take your eyes off the rearview mirror. Travel back far enough and you�ll find that seam in the road that tells you where the washboard gravel road used to judder your truck�s suspension. Hold your breath and be peaceful and you may see the ghosts of boys and girls walking barefoot on their way to a one-room school or church, or playing in the yards of homeplaces that refuse to surrender to the certainties of time, held up by rusted nails and memories.
Soon you�re within a scattered quail covey of Center UMC, where Miz Nancy and I found ourselves last weekend, ready for some mouth-watering fall festival chicken pie or barbecue and all sorts of pies, cakes, cookies and puddings.
Cane Creek rises up not so far from my boyhood home. There is nothing better for a young boy or girl than to be raised near a creek or river. Wildlife and vegetation teems around creeks, homes to sunfish and crawdaddies and snakes. What adventures a child can have along a creek, playing Davy Crockett, making rafts and bridges and swinging like Tarzan on accommodating vines.
Having read of the adventures of explorers searching for headwaters of the Nile, Amazon and mighty Mississippi, I wanted to find the source of the Cane as a boy. I envisioned standing by a little spring leaking out of the ground and knowing those waters would run to the sea. But there were many fences between me and the headwaters, not to mention pastures with surly bulls and property owners that may or may not have appreciated me portaging across their empires no matter how lofty or noble my quest.
South of Cane Creek is where you�ll find plump persimmons after the frost, if you can win in a battle against the possums or wild turkeys that feed on the tasty fruit. It�s where you�ll find blackberries on the Fourth of July and trophy deer crossing your path at any time, so you drive slowly and carefully and enjoy your journey, realizing you really don�t have to be somewhere else immediately. It�s where honesty, character and honor go to recover and recharge from bruisings they get from humanity. It�s the place where the sun is warmer, the moon brighter, the air crisper, colors deeper and the molasses sweeter.
Molasses? You can�t have mo-lasses until you�ve had �lasses? That�s what passes for humor at the kid�s table as fingers poke holes in biscuits, and fill them with the sweet, sticky, thick syrup, cutting it with a knife or letting it drip down the lip of the jar to make thing difficult for the next user.
It�s called Cane Creek for a reason.
Pints and quarts of molasses were among the riches of the festival. The lids were marked with numbers and letters. What did these glyphs mean? What secret code was this?
To the rescue comes Larry Johnson. He is to sorghum and molasses as New York Times critic Eric Asimov is to grapes and wine. Johnson comes from stock that knows its cane and its molasses making. He explains the numbers represent the boil of the juice. The first boil is �1,� the second boil �2.� There are no third boils here. That would be the blackstrap molasses, less sweet, dark and strong. It�s high in iron and the health crowd likes that. It�s also used in livestock sweet feed. The horse crowd likes that.
Miz Nancy and I implore Johnson to pick us out a winner. He brings generations of know-how to bear. He�s been around cane and molasses cooking since he was a boy. He hefts the Mason jar and holds it to the light. He rolls it in his hands, watching the viscosity as it paints the inside of the jar. He compares it to molasses he has made before or seen made before and speculates on its worthiness. With his accumulated knowledge, he could certainly be a molasses snob. But you are south of the Cane Creek now, where snobs don�t thrive.
Johnson suggests a pint jar of Kentucky cane molasses along with a quart of the Sugar Drip, cooked by neighbors.
�Do you do any cooking any more?� I ask.
�I watch,� he replies. He pledges to invite me to next year�s cooking. I haven�t been to one since James Wilson held court at the Snow Camp Drama site years ago, when Junior Teague was politicking for state House.
As we leave, Miz Nancy points out the oak beside the church parking lot is loaded with mistletoe. And it�s low to the ground, like one of us should run over with a stick and start whacking a clump down.
There�s a glint in my eye.
No smooching on church grounds, her eyes respond.
I swan, if I didn�t keep up with her as close as I do, there�s no telling what kinds of stories she�d spread about me.
Jay Ashley is managing editor of the Times-News. He does his exploring from email@example.com


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Usually I'm writing about NetBeans RCP applications but this time it will be about NetBeans as an IDE. I'm going to share some tricks I use daily to work faster when writing code.
This is the ultimate shortcut that everyone should know about and use. It triggers different behaviors depending on where it's executed. Normally it's used to bring up the "light bulb-menu" that shows errors, warnings and hints that is shown on the left part of the editor. So there is no need to find your mouse and move it over there and click on it. Just hit alt+enter and the menu is shown.
Assign to a variable
If you, for example, has called a getter-method you can assign the returned object to a variable quickly by hitting alt+enter and NetBeans IDE will automatically lookup the type and create a variable for you.
Adding fields quickly.
If you have a constructor that takes a parameter you can hit alt+enter when the cursor is placed over the parameter and NetBeans will both add a this.variable = variable to the constructor body and also create the field needed in the class (as a private final).
Another time saver and a great way to explore the APIs. I guess most people knows about this one but maybe not all the features.
The basic usage is to quickly lookup what Object you can create and what methods that are available on an object. So after you have type new just hit ctrl+space and it will show a list of all aviable classes that you can create an instance of and it will filter the list while you type. And to show the methods available on an object just hit ctrl+space after the dot and those will be shown with the javadoc. So this is something most people knows about and use ctrl+space for.. but there is more!
Auto generate variable names
If you for example adds a new variable in a constructor just enter the type and ctrl+space and NetBeans will show a few example of the variable name that you can use. This also work in the body of a method.
Override methods.
If you place the cursor outside a method body and hit ctrl+space it will show a list of available methods that can be overridden if you class is extending another class for example. And it's clever enough and just shows the ones you haven't override already.
Create getter and setters.
Just like the example above. Place the cursor outside a method and hit ctrl+space and start type get or set and it will show a list of getters and setters it can create for fields in your class that doesn't have ones yet.
Hit ctrl+space and type the name of your class and it can autogenerate the constructor. And if you have fields in the class that can be populated from the constructor the different alternates of constructors is shown too.
Camel casing.
All the filter-while-your-type can be camel cased. So if you are looking for ArrayList you don't have to type Arra.. to see it in the drop down menu. Just type AL and NetBeans will automatically try to match that to ArrayList. (or HMap for HashMap.. and so on)
Code Templates
NetBeans IDE has many predefined code templates that not only will generate a small block of code for you,it will also generate the code based on the current context and tries to autofill types and variables for you. There is lots of them available and to see a list of all just open up the Options window and look in Editor and the tab Code templates. Here you can also add your own ones.
This is my favourite. It saves lot of time while creating for each loops. Type fore and tab once. Now you can see the basic structure of a for each loop. NetBeans tries to lookup and Collections in the class you are editing and sometimes it gets it right and sometimes now. But instead of correcting the type, variable name and the collection by hand just hit tab twice and you will be placed in the collection field. Here you can now start typing the name of the collection (use ctrl+space to quickly see and filter ones that are available) and when you have selected the collection you want it will automatically change the type and variable name. And you aren't limited to Collections in the current class. You can call for an static method somewhere else in your application that returns a Collection and NetBeans will automatically generate the loop your you.
Like above but quickly create for (int i=0….)-loops.
(Thanks to my collegaue Eric Aili that showed me this one yesterday). Just type lkp + tab and start to enter the Type you want to query the Global lookup for and NetBeans will auto generate the Lookup call, the Type and variable name.
Like the one above but for creating new objects of a class. Type newo + tab and enter the Type and the rest is autogenerated.
This one is shown if you hit alt+insert (ctrl+i on Mac) and shows a list of things that NetBeans can automatically create and insert for you in the current class.
Getter and Setters
Quickly populate the class with all the getters and setters. When it's selected it will show a window with all fields in the class that currently doesn't have a getter or setter. With the checkboxes you can selected which fields you want to generate for and after hitting Ok those will be created with the correct types and everything needed. If you just want to create one it might be quicker to use the ctrl+space shortcut shown earlier.
Same as above but you can choose which fields in the current class that can be populated from the Constructor method.
Add property
This one can save lot of time if you are creating a new property. It allows you to select the type and the name. The access and if NetBeans should create Getters and Setters for you. And this property mini wizard is especially useful if you are editing a class with propertychange support since it will take care of adding the code to fire the property change in the setter.
Override method
I usually use the ctrl+space way to do this but if I'm not sure excactly what I'm looking for this one is handy since it shows a browsable list of all avalable methods that can be overridden and I can select multiple ones. The drawback from the ctrl+space way is that you can't see the JavaDoc of the method.
So this is some of the shortcuts and tricks I use daily to speed up writing code and once again.. alt+enter alt+enter alt+enter! Stop finding your mouse when you see the lightbulb and keep the hands on the keyboard.


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Sorry, I didn't like this movie.
Harshing on Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate Films), the awkwardly titled Lee Daniels adaptation of an "urban fiction" best-seller, makes a critic feel almost as mean-spirited as Mary, the monstrously abusive mother of the film's eponymous heroine. Parked in front of the TV in the grim Harlem walk-up they share, Mary (played with a fearsome lack of vanity by stand-up comedian Mo'Nique) pelts her 16-year-old daughter, Claireece Precious Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), with cruel insults, imperious commands, and, whenever possible, heavy airborne objects. "I ain't done nothin'!" Precious protests, and the movie is at pains to prove her right: For the first hour at least, Precious is less a person who does things than an object to which things are done. Her absentee father, seen only once in a nauseating flashback sequence, rapes her on a regular basis; at 16, she's pregnant with his second child. Her daughter, who has Down syndrome, lives with a coldly disapproving grandmother; their visits last just long enough to fool the welfare inspector into issuing Mary's next check. In addition to being obese, unloved, and dirt-poor, Precious is also illiterate, though the public school she attends is so bad that she's managed to camouflage that fact through the eighth grade. In short, this girl's life is so abysmal that you feel the least you can do is like the movie she's in.
It's not that there isn't anything to like about Precious, which at its best resembles its heroine: observant, large-spirited, and brave. The director, Lee Daniels ( Shadowboxer), puts on his hip boots and wades into grimmer territory than any recent film I can think of, and his fearless leading ladies, Mo'Nique and Sidibe, wade right in with him. But Daniels' methodical commitment to abjection, his need to shove the reality of Precious' life in our faces and wave it around till we acknowledge its awfulness, winds up robbing the audience (and, to some extent, the actors) of all agency. Daniels is not above cutting from an image of incestuous rape to a shot of greasy pork sizzling on the stove: Her father treats her like meat, get it? In its eagerness to drag us through the lower depths of human experience, Precious leaves no space for the audience to breathe or to draw our own conclusions. For a film about empowerment and self-actualization, it wields an awfully large cudgel.
Precious is expelled from school when the news of her second pregnancy comes out, but the principal refers her to an alternative learning center, Each One Teach One, where an impossibly beautiful and patient teacher named Blu Rain (Paula Patton) leads a reading and writing workshop for dropout girls. Ms. Rain is an emissary from another world, where slender, caring, soft-spoken women (Ms. Rain, as it turns out, is a lesbian) sip wine and play Scrabble and, in Precious' words, "talk like TV channels I don't watch." Precious' ability to read and write keeps pace with her growing belly as she slowly learns to trust Ms. Rain and her raucous, foulmouthed, but closeknit classmates. (All the Each One Teach One girls are deftly sketched and well-cast, as is an exasperated social worker played with surprising finesse by Mariah Carey.) But when Precious' baby finally arrives, she's forced to depend once more on her toxic disaster of a mother. As Precious carries the fragile newborn into that awful apartment, you want to rush the screen and lock her out to keep them safe, and the scene that follows shamelessly exploits that protective impulse. I don't like when children are used as decoys to lure a movie audience into a trap.
Seeded throughout Precious are brief dream sequences in which the stolidly joyless heroine imagines herself as a performer in a music video, a movie star on the red carpet, etc. Whether these are meant to be critiques of a mass culture that trades in escapist fantasy or simply pathos-ridden glimpses into Precious' impoverished mental life is never clear. But like the outlandish badness of the mother character, the overdetermined tawdriness of these scenes does the movie and its heroine a disservice. Daniels and his screenwriter, Geoffrey Fletcher, are so eager to wring uplift from Precious' story that they're willing to manipulate us to get it. Daniels and Fletcher no doubt intended for their film to lend a voice to the kind of protagonist too often excluded from American movie screens: a poor, black, overweight single mother from the inner city. But in offering up their heroine's misery for the audience's delectation, they've created something uncomfortably close to poverty porn.
Slate V: The critics on Precious and other new releases


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Imagine if I started this post by saying:
"OMG. SO hungry"
"Ugh can't find one pair of my socks, dont you hate when that happens?"
"Cooking FESSENJOON with @FARRAH, loving life!"
—guess what you joons would think–"well, i really kinda dont care". Maybe some of you guys wouldn't be as polite, and just navigate to a different webpage or send us some email saying "wtf are you writing about" to email@example.com
Well, thats how I feel about certain people when I login to facebook, twitter, tumblr, take YOUR PICK!
What is this world coming to? Updating social media with constant statuses on your life, your emotional health, or even physical health (ex: "Feeling so sick today! BOO!") — you're inflating your ego.
Do you really think we care?
NO. Even if we pretend we do– we really don't give a fuck. I personally don't care how you're feeling at some random moment, unless it is relevant to MY existence. Does that sound selfish? Its not, its NORMAL.
*by we i mean the rest of the victims of your overshare: your fbook friends, twitter followers, etc.
People already are very self-centered: they think they are the center of the universe– that is natural– but all that social media does is inflate this notion.
All of a sudden, emotions and moments aren't passing or fleeting, they are documented phenomenas.
"PREGAMING @Tinas house! My girls are my life"
Guess how many fucks I give?
"Feeling low, I hate my job– need a vacation"
…………………….REALLY? do you want me to 'LIKE' this and tell you what a great job you're doing? Because at the end of the day, if you eat a fucking cookie or run 10 miles–I dont give a shit. Since when were personal accomplishments valued against the applause they got?
Anyway, I've gotten it down to 4 categories (some overlap):
1. The Emotional Oversharers: Yeah, they're the ones updating you every second on how they're feeling, often its depressing statuses that seem more like vague Emma Bronte poems. Or about how ambitious they are "Feeling ambitious today, time to kick ass!"…uh..OK? is that supposed to inspire me to not procrastinate my responsibilities? Who made you fckin Lance Armstrong.
2. The Lyricists: We all love music, sometimes we love certain lyrics TOO much we'll say it at inopportune times ("BALL SO HARD") but song lyrics were not meant to be photo captions or statuses. I dont care if you look like Megan Fox, I will be LOLing very heard when I see a "behind these hazel eyes" as your profile caption. Or even better– "my chick bad, my chick hood, my chick do stuff dat yo chick wish she could"…..I've seen that as a caption to a very random self portrait, and I have almost died laughing.
3. The Life-Flaunters: These are the people that tell you where they are, what they're doing, all the time– and I really believe they think they're mini-celebrities. Do they realize they just facilitate stalking? Oh, but they like the attention? Oh, so they're attention whores. Got it. But really, these people tell you things as if to make their lives a billboard, here's a FBOOK UPDATE: FRIENDS ARE NOT FANS.
Having 2000 friends, and 2000 stalkers doesn't make you a Kardashian, it makes you a joke.
and please please please-I've seen this a lot–don't endorse brands, if they're NOT paying you or you work for them. "Just had HONEST TEA, the.best.tea.ever"– if I ask you for a tea recommendation, sure, tell me about it. If no one has asked, don't do free marketing. Go do something real with your life and make some real $$$$.
4. The RandomDetail-ers: "Didn't know I could make cake with applesauce!", "Benching 400 at the gym, time for a protein shake", "Sunday mornings are the best with a cup of coffee and a good book"— I have nothing to say about them, because the ridiculousness is pretty apparent.
Now I don't want to go into an analysis of why our society is ridiculous like this, but ill give you a few reasons– and maybe we can all agree to go on a DIET.
FACT ONE: If you rely on feedback from your facebook or other web outlets, you don't have friends. Seriously, if you think having more than 1000 friends makes you popular— you probably still think Santa Claus exists. By creating the 'FACADE' of having many friends, you're losing out on making real ones. Instead of calling someone up or texting them something personally relevant to them– you post a status to gain exposure by many people.
Do you see where I'm going with this? Its a cycle, people stop connecting personally with each other, and instead begin just creating a glass cage for themselves. People watch you from the outside but you can't hear them from the inside–cause you're too busy thinking about how you feel today and what song lyric you can caption your picture with.
FACT TWO: Along the same lines as glass cages, you're losing your privacy. I know we've all seen and heard of the lawsuits and advertising strategies that surround Facebook– but its more than that: The lines between our public and private lives have blurred. This is not just thanks to social media, its thanks to Reality TV and its rising popularity. Reality TV stars like Kim Kardashian make us believe that our lives are like neat TV episodes, and millions of viewers watch. We've forgotten that there are really limits and walls that need to stay up. Telling the world about your constant depressive nature isn't going to get you help and isn't raising awareness, sorryboutit– all it does is create this fake feeling that some fake friends (who you probably haven't seen in person in a long time) CARE.
Here are examples of what needs to be private: your hate for your boyfriend (your love life basically), that slut you effed last night, your EMOTIONS, your friday night activities, Your Professional life (thank god employers regulate that shit), and your diseases.
I'm sure we'd all be apalled if we saw a status: "AH, just got back from the doctor–Looks like I have Leukemia!"
By the way: Don't tell the world if you're having digestive problems, please. That's just cruel and unusual punishment.
FACT THREE: Less is More. LESS. Less. Less. Do you know why an Hermes Bag is worth more than a Louis Vuitton bag? Because they make less of it a year. Its basic economics and basic business. The less there is available, the more people value it– think: caviar, guys/girls who play hard to get, and money. if you're flooding everyone's newsfeed, at some point people stop listening to you– so when you really have something of value to say, or you're really doing something that needs a large social network (i.e, raising money, marathons, news etc) you won't be getting enough feedback. People are so used to hearing worthless things, they tune it out. Don't get to that point.
Make your page a destination of information that is valuable.
Now if you consider yourself an overshare queen or king, there is help. you can email email@example.com, or you can follow the following diet– i am available as a sponsor (just sayin!)
A Saaghi Diet:
– Gather your dignity and self-respect, and walk away from the laptop,smartphone, or iPad.
– Count how many friends call/text you a day– if its a depressing number, time to get out there and be a real social person. I know you can't do it from the comfort of your livingroom/toilet/class and in your sweats, but it sure as hell feels better.
– if you really can't help yourself from updating 840302480324 times a day, time for some serious rehab: everytime you have an urge, mark a tally mark on your forehead. Finally, you will be getting the attention you want- and you will have a very good time explaining to people what a few hundred tally lines are doing on your forehead. You might even make a friend. (that you'll add on fbook two minutes later)
Think I missed a category? Or do you enjoy oversharing and think I should care?
Hugs and Kisses,


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Though a date has not been confirmed, the annual Alumni Game is held one day each year. For many former Pointer baseball players, it is a chance to take the field to relive their days of glory on the diamond, a chance to swing the lumber, field some grounders — and likely pay a painful price later.
These veteran Pointers will play against what will likely remind them of their former selves in the person of the 2014 varsity team and new head coach Joe Radovich.
The game signals the start of the season for the current varsity and, ironically, may signal the final appearance for some alumni.
The game first came about decades ago as a contest between the Pointers' 1973 CIF championship team and the newest Pointers. Now, 41 years later, many members of the 1973 team are pushing 60 years of age.


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Paula Mae Symons, 61, of White City, Ore. passed away at home August 9, 2013 from long-standing complications from pulmonary hypertension.
Paula married Duane Roy Symons October 2, 1971 - which coincidentally was the first day of hunting season that year! She had been a school bus monitor for special needs children, and enjoyed making candy and cross stitch embroidery and reading. She grew up in Medford and lived and raised her family in White City.
Paula is survived by her husband, Duane; son, Thomas Roy Symons; daughter, Jennifer Mae Allen; sister, Caryn Steward; and brother, Randy Hirschy. She was preceded in death by her mother, Vida Mae Hirschy.
A family memorial service has already been held.


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Featured News - Current News - Archived News - News Categories
Kelsey Jeffs of Youngstown, pictured, was recently selected to participate in the 2014 Miss Teen Buffalo/Rochester pageant competition.
Jeffs learned of her acceptance into this year's competition when the pageant announced its selections following interviewing in the local Buffalo area.
She submitted an application and took part in an interview session that was conducted by this year's Buffalo pageant coordinator.
Jeffs competed in the Miss Teen division, one of the four divisions that showcased young ladies ages 7-19. Personality was the No. 1 aspect each contestant was judged on during all phases of competition, which included interviewing skills and modeling routines for casual wear and formal wear.
Community businesses and organizations were enlisted to sponsor the contestants. Assisting Jeffs was Victoria's Family Hair Care, Bandana's Bar and Grill, J. A. Stevens Jr. Construction Co., Tim Adamson, regional manager SIHI Pumps Inc., and H. W. Bryk & Sons.