Sunday, March 4, 2012

ST. ROSE SENDS STONEHILL ROLLING.(SPORTS)

ALBANY -- Ngalela Lukengu and Nicole LaRocque each had a double-double Sunday afternoon as the College of St. Rose's women's basketball team handed Stonehill a 77-63 defeat.

The win gives the Lady Golden Knights a perfect 5-0 mark, despite missing 15-of-24 free throws.

Stonehill led at the half, 36-35, but St. Rose outscored the visitors 42-27 in the second half.

Lukengu led all scorers with 21 points. She also pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds. LaRocque had 13 points, 10 rebounds and five assists and Colleen Sheridan added 18 points for St. Rose. Susie Tully led Stonehill (0-2) with 16 points and eight rebounds.

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Between the Lines; The employee rest room redefined.(wellness, environment at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc.)(rating and ranking of Chubb Corp. )

Byline: Compiled by Joanne Wojcik

It's hard to imagine a group of insurance industry employees sitting cross-legged on the floor of a dimly lit room listening to George Winston music while sharing a collective "Ohhhhmmm.''

But the employees of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida in Miami, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando are free to take time out from their hectic schedules to spend a few minutes becoming "centered'' in any one of the insurer's four "serenity rooms.''

While meditation may not be everyone's thing, employees are free to bring anything "serenitylike''-magazines, books, CDs-into the converted meeting room in which the …

Road Cycling World Championships Results

Results Friday from the road cycling world championships:

Men

Road Race

173 kilometers (107.5 miles)

1. Fabio Andres Duarte, Colombia, 4 hours, 17.02 minutes.

2. Simone Ponzi, Italy, same time.

3. John Degenkolb, Germany, same time.

4. …

Response vehicle purchased: Sheriff uses gun permit funds for truck, trailer

In an effort to step up its preparedness in the event of a bombscare or crisis situation involving explosives or weapons of massdestruction, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department has purchased acustom-made response vehicle.

The modified truck and trailer were unveiled Thursday during apress conference at Shawnee Park in Dunbar.

The truck is a double cab, GMC 3500 with a modified bed. It's beenconverted into a compartmentalized unit with a covered storage areaand exterior storage spaces.

The trailer, which is pulled by the truck, has been outfitted witha hanging storage area for hazardous materials suits and breathingapparatuses in the rear section. In the …

EDP no Brasil energy sales rise 11.2% Y/Y in Q1 2011.(Financial report)

(ADPnews) - Apr 19, 2011 - The volume of electricity Brazil's utility EDP no Brasil (SAO:ENBR3) sold in the first quarter of 2011 reached 1,991.6 GWh, up 11.2% year-on-year, the company said yesterday.

EDP attributed the favourable results to the seasonal character of its energy sales contracts, with a greater allocation in the first half of the year.

In these first three months of 2011, the total amount of energy distributed by EDP's subsidiaries came in at 6,185 GWh, up 3.8% versus the same period in 2010.

In the distribution segment, the energy sold to final consumers grew by 3.1% to 3,718 GWh. …

SUMMERFARE TO END AFTER NEXT SEASON.(Show)

Byline: Chicago Tribune

After nearly a decade of presenting unique arts events, the PepsiCo Summerfare has announced it will be shutting down at the end of the next summer.

"We've shown that arts programming doesn't have to be safe to be successful, said festival director Christopher Hunt. "Perhaps the primary reason we've now all agreed to end the festival at its peak is that the same success threatens to turn us into an institution - to make us predictable. And in the arts, …

Saturday, March 3, 2012

EXPERTS DON'T THINK SHIFT MAKES WAR MORE LIKELY.(Main)

Byline: Reed Karaim Knight-Ridder

The Soviet Union is estimated to have 11,000 nuclear warheads pointed at the United States, but for six years the trigger has been in the friendly hands of Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

Now, control of the Soviet nuclear arsenal has suddenly become an unsettling, open question. But U.S. military experts say the threat from that arsenal has not necessarily increased.

"The last thing that the central government in Moscow would ever lose control of would be their nuclear weapons," said Jay Kosminsky, a Soviet defense analyst with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank.

Defense analysts say …