"When I was trying to work I used to think, they're noisy," said Ed Moran, a recent addition to the group.
In addition to the groups mentioned above, the Altman Foundation is giving $250,000, the United Way of New York City $75,000, and Trinity Church $25,000.
California alone has approximately twelve per cent of the U.S population, and its addition to the group would then bring the total to about a third of the population.
As the Victorian premier, Napthine has been a curious addition to the group, especially given one of his staffers was accused last week of bullying two "shaken" ABC staffers to withhold unflattering footage.
A new addition to the group, Nate Smith, shifted the sound a little: whereas the previous drummer, Billy Kilson, leaned toward a clenched, excitingly aggressive version of funk, Mr. Smith shows a little more range.
Clinton was a late addition to the group, and his appearance was a sign of the growth of Torre's foundation, which is less than two years old and promotes awareness of the perils of domestic abuse.
In addition to the group's facilitators — Jo Kutchinsky, an occupational therapist, and Liana Kaiser, a social-work student — five men and women assembled in a circle of bulky wool-knit chairs around a worn coffee table.
Anthony Coleman, a recent addition to the group, played an electric organ with a tootling vibrato out of mid-1960's rock, dispensing cagey melody lines or whooshes and dissonant clusters.
He was a late addition to the group: he had originally come over with four men, all double amputees, sponsored by a shopping-mall developer who'd read another Times article about amputation.
