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EBENSBURG - The gym was packed. The fans were loud. The intensity on the floor was high. Long-distance shots were falling left and right.
And it was only the quarterfinals.
In a classic "anything you can do, I can do better" setting, the Northern Cambria boys basketball team won the last round and knocked off Tyrone, 64-54, in the District 6 Class AA playoffs Saturday night at Central Cambria High School.
"It was definitely great intensity from both sides," Northern Cambria senior Josh Bonatesta said. "The shots we falling. Everyone was chucking up 3s. We knew this was a big game."
"Tyrone likes to shoot the 3-ball, so we knew if we were gong to have any chance, we had to match them," Northern Cambria's Adam Polites said. "These whole playoffs have been a 3-point contest for us. In the playoffs, you've got to make the big shot when you need it. Tonight we made a lot of them."
Bonatesta and Polites combined for seven 3-pointers and each scored 17 points for the Colts (20-4), who are guaranteed to make their fourth straight state playoff appearance after advancing to the district semifinals.
But their goal is much higher, despite their move up from Class A.
"Moving up to double-A, we knew we wanted to make a statement," Bonatesta said. "Our goal is to get back to the District 6 championship game."
It wasn't a traditional back-and-forth game by any standards.
The Golden Eagles (18-5) led, 17-10, after one quarter and increased the lead to nine to open the second, but Northern Cambria responded.
The Colts ended the half on a 10-3 run to take a two-point advantage into the locker room.
Northern Cambria maintained its momentum and built a seven-point lead with 5:11 remaining in the third quarter, but Tyrone battled all the way back, leaving the score tied at 46 heading to the fourth.
And even though the ball was flying from everywhere on the floor, the Colts ultimately won the game in the fourth quarter from the free-throw line, hitting 9-of-10 attempts in the final 3:02.
"We knew we had to win the fourth quarter," Weber said. "I thought our ability to execute on both ends of the floor in the fourth quarter when it mattered - we rose up. We were there when it counted and it's just a testament to these kids.
"I think what was most important tonight is that you saw five guys that have been here and done this. The senior leadership tonight - the last two games - has been like no other. Especially tonight."
Northern Cambria worked its inside-out game fairly well, too.
Jeff Hogan muscled around in the paint for his 14 points, while Nick Lee managed to tally 10.
And when they couldn't get to the rim, they found Polites or Bonatesta hanging out in a corner.
"We kept pounding the ball inside, which opened up our outside shooting," Bonatesta said. "Jeff Hogan and Nick Lee were beasts for us underneath. The inside-outside game definitely worked out for us tonight."
"We lost some of their shooters at key times," Tyrone coach George Gripp said. "We'd make a run, we'd lose a guy in the corner, they'd make a 3 - just momentum killers. We had some defensive lapses tonight at bad times and they capitalized on them."
Tyrone tallied eight 3-pointers - four each in the first and third quarters - but the team shot a combined 3-for-29 (10 percent) from the floor in the second and fourth quarters.
"I believe in our shooters," Gripp said. "We've got lots of nice sets to get these guys open. It was just a matter of time, setting some screens and getting the floor spaced the right way. These guys stepped up and made some key 3s for us. That said, we missed some 3s that we normally knock down."
Gripp's son Brandon scored a game-high 24 points for the Golden Eagles. He had three 3-pointers. Each of Jordan Miller's 12 points came from long range.
"We knew coming in that Tyrone had dynamic guards and Gripp is as good as anyone we've seen all season," Weber said. "He's a heck of a ball player. He plays the right way, he plays under control."
The Colts have been successful thus far in their move to Class AA, but Weber knows it's a long way to the finish line.
Northern Cambria will continue its run on Tuesday with its biggest test to date - top-seeded Bald Eagle Area, which eliminated Marion Center on Saturday.
"[Being successful has] been the case to this point, but it hasn't been easy," Weber said. "I try to tell these kids that playoff basketball is playoff basketball. Playing Tyrone and Richland, yes they are double-A schools, but if we're going to pride ourselves in being a good basketball program, we've got to beat these teams.
"We're taking one game at a time. Bald Eagle is the No. 1 seed and [21-2] for a reason."
NORTHERN CAMBRIA (64): Bearer 1-2 4-4 6, Lee 4-9 2-2 10, Polites 5-14 3-4 17, Bonatesta 5-9 4-4 17, Hogan 6-12 2-6 14, Atkins 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-46 15-20 64.
TYRONE (54): Ingle 0-5 1-2 1, Wagner 4-9 2-4 10, Gripp 6-18 9-9 24, Politza 1-4 0-0 2, Miller 4-15 0-0 12, McKeehan 0-1 0-0 0, Mitchell 0-1 0-0 0, Lingafelt 0-1 0-0 0, Belinda 2-2 0-0 5. Totals 17-56 12-15 54.
Northern Cambria10 17 19 18 - 64
Tyrone17 8 21 8 - 54
3-point goals: Northern Cambria 7-22 (Polites 4, Bonatesta 3), Tyrone 8-24 (Miller 4, Gripp 3, Belinda).
Records: Northern Cambria (20-4), Tyrone (18-5).


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A program for visiting academics (research academics) for periods of up to 12 months.
The Faculty of Education and Social Work receives many inquiries about the visiting academic (research academic) program. Regrettably, we are able to accept only a limited number of visiting academic researchers per year.
One of the honorary titles at the University of Sydney is 'Visiting Scholar'. University policy states that: "The title of Visiting scholar may be conferred on an academic visitor with whom it is desirable that a department or school has a formal association on a short-term basis, without that person necessarily making a major contribution to the teaching, research, scholarship or creative work programs". The faculty interprets this to mean that (as a general rule) a visiting academic will have a background and / or current research directions compatible with members of the faculty's teaching and research staff.
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If your visit to the University of Sydney is for six weeks or less, a Visitor visa (business stream) is generally appropriate.
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It will be to the advantage of applicants if they can show that as a result of their term as a visiting academic / research academic they will publish or jointly publish with a faculty member original research that acknowledges their affiliation with the Faculty of Education and Social Work. Hence the applicant must show that they are collaborating (participating or observing) with Faculty / University of Sydney staff on an Australian / University of Sydney research project.
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The Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) at Westminster College offers an education to prepare nursing professionals for the advanced practice role of family nurse practitioner (FNP) or Nurse Educator. Both MSN programs are grounded in a philosophy that identifies an excellent practitioner as one who thinks critically, communicates effectively, understands personal values and respects the values of others, and incorporates ethical principles into practice. The program enhances students' understanding of theoretical, empirical, and practical knowledge related to advanced practice nursing and nursing education.
The Master of Science in Nursing builds on baccalaureate nursing preparation to prepare advanced practice nurses in the areas of primary health care or nursing education. Students in the FNP track will be prepared to provide a holistic, caring, health-promoting focus and to address concerns in today's health care systems. Students in the Nurse Educator track will be prepared to teach nurses in health care, community, and educational organizations.
After graduation, MSN students in the FNP track are eligible to take the American Nurse Credential Center (ANCC) or the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) certification exam and apply for Utah licensure as Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) with prescriptive authority. Students in the Nurse Educator track will qualify to take the Nurse Educator Certification Examination offered by the National League for Nursing.
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Admission to the program is based on an evaluation of demonstrated academic ability and professional experience. Successful completion of undergraduate courses in pathophysiology, pharmacology, health assessment, statistics, and research will be evaluated during the review of applications. Students enter the program at the beginning of fall semester and may complete the 42 credit requirements within five semesters, including one summer.
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Academic probationary students whose semester GPA is 3.0 or higher but whose cumulative GPA still remains below 3.0 will be continued on academic probation. Academic probationary students whose cumulative GPA reaches 3.0 or higher will be returned to good academic standing. To qualify for graduation, students must earn a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
A student may receive a practicum/classroom warning of program probationary status at any time during a field or classroom experience if the instructor determines that the student's performance is unsatisfactory. The written warning will outline what the student must do to meet the course requirements. Students who have been placed on program probation will be formally evaluated at the end of that course. Program probation will be removed if the student is able to successfully meet the objectives by the end of the course. Students must be removed from program probation to progress to the next course. However, any program probationary status will be documented in the student record.
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To be eligible for a master's degree, students must satisfy the following conditions:
Note: Only graduate-level coursework may be applied toward degree or certificate requirements.
The final responsibility for being informed about, and adhering to, graduation requirements rests with the student.
A minimum of 42 semester hours is required for graduation. The acceptance of transfer credit, up to 9 hours, is individually evaluated. The total clinical practice hours for the program are 504 hours.
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MSN 500 Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic
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MSN 582 Health Care and Health Promotion of Infants through Adolescents/Clinical Seminar
MSN 584 Ambulatory Care Procedures
MSN 601 Role and Leadership in Advanced
Practice Nursing
MSN 610 Master Project/Thesis
MSN 639 Advanced Nursing Practicum/Clinical Seminar
MSN 670 Synthesis: Practice in Context
A full-time student may complete the program within 5 semesters, including one summer. Many courses are taught in the evening and as weekend seminars. A part-time plan of study may be available on request, with the exception of the first semester.
MSN 500 Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning (3/1)
MSN 532 Pharmacology for Advanced Practice (3/0)
MSN 584 Ambulatory Care Procedures (1/0)
MSN 501 Advanced Pathophysiology (3/0)
MSN 550 Health Care and Health Promotion of Adults and Older Adults/Clinical
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MSN 581 Health Care and Health Promotion of Young Adults/Clinical Seminar
MSN 540 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing (3/0)
MSN 570 Research in the Practice Setting (2/0)
MSN 582 Health Care and Health Promotion of Infants through Adolescents/Clinical
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MSN 670 Synthesis: Practice in Context (2/0)
MSN 650 Advanced Nursing Practicum Continuing Registration (0) [if needed]
MSN 601 Role and Leadership in Advanced Practice Nursing (2/0)
MSN 639 Advanced Nursing Practicum/Clinical Seminar (0/5)
MSN 699 Masters Project/Thesis Continuing Registration (0) [if needed]
MSN 610 Masters Project/Thesis (3/0)
MSN 699 Masters Project/Thesis Continuing Registration (0) [if needed]
An FNP certificate option is available to individuals with a Master of Science degree and certification as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. The focus in the certificate program is in the pediatric and adolescent areas.
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Jacqueline Bontzolakes says an abusive relationship forced her to gather up her two kids, flee her Town of Tonawanda home and escape to faraway Barbados.
A federal court jury didn't buy her story, however, and instead found her guilty in one of Buffalo's first cases of international parental kidnapping.
On Friday, a judge sentenced Bontzolakes to 18 months in prison, well below what he could have given her.
"I ended up doing something I regret in order to protect my daughter," she told U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson in a tearful plea for leniency.
Bontzolakes never denied taking her kids away from their fathers and leaving the country, but insisted there were sound reasons for what she did – the fear that her oldest daughter also was being abused.
Federal prosecutors tell a far different story; they claim Bontzolakes kidnapped her children because she had lost custody of the older girl.
"I would ask the court not to forget who the real victims are here, the two children she kidnapped," Assistant U.S. Attorney Fauzia K. Mattingly told Wilson, a visiting judge from Arkansas.
With nearly two dozen of Bontzolakes' family, friends and supporters looking on, Wilson stopped well short of the 10-year sentence he could have given her.
Prosecutors claim Bontzolakes took her daughters, ages 7 and 10, and fled to Canada and eventually to Barbados without their fathers' knowledge.
Mattingly and Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric M. Opanga argued that her claims of abuse were nothing more than a smokescreen and that her real goal was to avoid the fathers' court-approved custody of the girls.
During the trial, they pointed out to the jury that Bontzolakes applied for passports the day after a Family Court judge gave sole custody of her older daughter to her father.
"She didn't flee because of domestic violence," said Mattingly.
Bontzolakes' lawyers argued that her case was not about kidnapping but rather the motivation behind what she did.
In her trial testimony, Bontzolakes said her troubles started when she was only 6 or 7 and was sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend, and continued years later when she was abused by her own boyfriend, the father of one of her daughters.
Bontzolakes said she became even more desperate when she began to suspect her daughter also was being abused.
Tracy Hayes, a federal public defender, asked Wilson to consider a nonjail sentence and reminded him that Bontzolakes has been separated from her daughters since her arrest in early 2010.
"She hasn't seen her daughters in three years. Three years," said Hayes. "When we talk about punishment, isn't that punishment enough?"
Hayes also pleaded with the court to consider his client's involvement in the community and pointed to the more than 50 letters of support from people such as Erie County Legislature Chairwoman Betty Jean Grant and Masten Council Member Demone A. Smith.
Grant, who was in the courtroom, said she has known Bontzolakes for five years and described her as a community activist who has a hand in a wide range of nonprofit groups dedicated to helping families.
"I know what she did was wrong, but a mother's instinct is to protect," Grant said of the sentencing. "Was justice served? I think it could have been better served."
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Mexico was my first voyage as traveller in September 2001.
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9 Bad Drivers Nobody Complains About
Complaining about bad drivers is probably the third most common talking point of every hack comic, right after airline food and how weird the opposite sex is. But while some types of bad drivers are just done to death as complaint subjects -- people who drive too slow, people who talk on their cell phones, tailgaters, people who forget to turn off their blinkers, Asian women -- there's a whole bunch of other types no one ever seems to complain about.
#9. People Who Are Scared To Death Of Concrete Barriers
Sometimes when freeway planners don't have a lot of faith in the driving skills of ordinary citizens, which is completely reasonable, they put up concrete barriers to keep drunk and stupid people from driving into oncoming traffic or off a cliff. These can sometimes be a little close to the lane for comfort, especially when they put up temporary barriers for construction, and can terrify drivers who don't know how to drive straight.
And that's fine. Knowing your limitations is a good thing, as anyone who has watched American Idol can tell you. But the sensible thing to do would be to get out of the scary lane, instead of constantly hitting your brakes in terror and veering so far to the right that your car has half changed lanes anyway.
Why do these people do this? Apparently it's really important for them to stay in the "fast lane" even though their pants-shitting fear of the barrier is causing them to slow down so much they would probably be going faster in the next lane down anyway. Or maybe they're just too scared to think of what to do.
Listen, barrier-phobic people, it's OK to move over. The concrete barrier can't smell fear. It's not going to chase you.
#8. People Who Think Bikes Are a Mile Wide
The literal mirror image of those people are people who are terrified of bicyclists. Whenever they come across a single bicyclist riding on the right side of the road, they give the bike the berth that most people would normally give a bus, or in some cases, two buses.
And let me just say that bicyclists do really appreciate the fact that you care about not running them over, and that's very sweet, but bikes are as wide as people. When there's a bike lane, in particular, the bike lane is plenty big enough to contain the bike, and the car lane is just fine to fit your car, so all you have to do is stay in that car lane, as opposed to veering into oncoming traffic or slowing down and driving behind the bike the whole way home.
I know sometimes there's no bike lane and the road is narrow, and sometimes there's inconsiderate bicyclists that don't stay to the right, but throwing out those cases, there's plenty of times the bike is safely contained in a big fat shoulder or bike lane, and all this driver can see is apparently some kind of whale rolling sideways down the side of the road.
#7. People Who Time Things Just Right To Make You Miss The Light
Anyone who causes you to miss a traffic light is frustrating, but they usually do it in ways that make sense, like someone in front of you is just straight out slow, and doesn't make it, or some selfish bastard in cross traffic tries to squeeze across when there's no room, gets stuck in the intersection, and is still there blocking it when you get your green.
What's just completely bewildering is people that fit the slow driver profile all the way right up to the light, and just as yellow is about to turn to red, they bolt through, leaving you stuck at a solid red. It's almost like they were deliberately trying to lose you, which doesn't make any sense if you're not a cop or private detective or terminator, and most of us aren't.
I know that's crazy talk, and thinking that other drivers are out to get you is an irrational paranoia born from spending too much time in traffic, but I have no idea why else this would happen so often.
#6. People Who Pass You For No Actual Advantage
There's a lot of people out there who will be very rude or dangerous about passing you, we all know about that, but in most cases they're gaining something, at least according to their priorities. They're passing you to get into an open lane where they can go ahead and keep driving 120 mph, so that they can die faster.
But what if there's clearly already a red light 200 yards in front of you? Why would someone pass you just to get to the red light faster? Do they enjoy waiting at red lights? Apparently so, because this happens way more than it should.
Or if there's a slow car, of course people want to pass. But say you're going slowly only because the car in front of you is going slowly. You would pass that sleepy old man but there's no room to pass in the other lane. Then Mr. Speed Demon comes up behind you and starts tailgating you like it's your fault you're going so slow.
Apparently convinced it would be smooth sailing if he could just get around you, he zips around you and settles in neatly right behind the actual slow car. What the fuck, buddy? What did that gain you except spending some extra gas and giving someone who now hates you a good chance to memorize your license plate?
That's right, pal. You better watch it because if I see you again on the road, I am going to quietly not think very highly of you.
#5. People Who Let EVERYBODY In
A lot of times we bemoan the lack of civility on our roads, but sometimes an overdose of civility can be an equally annoying pain in the ass. When you merge onto a freeway or something, you are supposed to merge like a zipper, one car from either side, alternating.
Sometimes one soft-hearted driver will let one car in, and then, oh no! There's another car there. Well how did you get there, little fella? You can come in too! Oh, wait, there's another car behind him! Imagine that! Well, you get yourself in there too. After a while, you can actually see it dawn on them after a while that the stream of cars merging in is actually infinite, and after a couple moments pussyfooting forward hesitantly as they fit these new observations into their worldview, they will drift shamefully forward and free up traffic.
A similar problem can be seen at stop signs, where some people completely ignore the actual, universal laws about who gets to go first and treat it like some kind of exercise in "after you" chivalry. Instead of making things faster, this actually confuses the other person and often sends them into a stop sign standoff, as shown below.
This repeats until both cars run into each other.


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The West Virginia State Auditor's Office highlighted seven problems that need to be remedied in its audit of Randolph County's finances for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
Cara Maxson, a state auditor's office employee, recently conducted an exit interview with the Randolph County Commission during which she reviewed each issue with commission members, who responded by detailing the measures they planned to take to fix each glitch.
- First, the auditor's office found an insufficient segregation of duties, meaning that various jobs - such as preparing checks and reconciling bank accounts - aren't spread out among enough different employees.
County Commissioner Mike Taylor said the problem results from budget limitations, which only allow the county to hire a certain number of employees.
"It's something that happens every year," he said. "Over the past few years, we have made improvements in that, but we can only hire as many people as the budget will allow."
- The auditor's report points to a problem with interfund receivable/payable balances, noting "the county has a significant amount of interfund receivable/payable balances, totaling $186,888." This means that not all money coming into the county's budget and going out of the county's budget was assigned to a specific line item.
"It's a bookkeeping problem of getting those accounts due and those accounts receivable in the proper line item," Taylor said.
- Two of the seven problems can be attributed to the county contracting with a person who failed to fulfill the duties specified in his or her contract, Taylor said. Maxson said Randolph County's annual financial statement didn't contain a schedule of expenditures of federal awards, such as grant money.
The county also didn't prepare and publish its annual financial statement for the 2011-2012 fiscal year within the prescribed time period.
"The individual we had contracted with failed to do that correctly," Taylor said.
- The county commission was additionally corrected for its failure to submit a budget revision to appropriate the unexpended fund balance as of June 30, 2011 into the following year's general fund budget.
Taylor said the rollover wasn't appropriated into the current budget year (2012-2013) according to guidelines set out by the state auditor's office.
- The state auditor's office discovered that the county's general fund contained some expenditures in excess of what had been allocated, which is a violation of state code. However, those errors didn't cause the county to come up short.
"These overexpenditures did not cause the total levy estimate (budget) of the general county fund to be overexpended," the auditor's report notes.
"The money's all there," Maxson told the commission. "It's just a matter of bookkeeping and getting it all in the right place."
- Finally, the state auditor's report said the Randolph County Sheriff's office hadn't maintained updated records of all conservator accounts or filed an annual account for each conservator with the Randolph County Circuit Clerk, as is mandated by state code.
In each county, the sheriff is appointed the conservator - or guardian - of the estates, property or money of deceased individuals as well as people no longer capable of managing their affairs.
Taylor noted that the errors hadn't occurred on Randolph County Sheriff Mark Brady's watch and said that Brady was working to correct them.
Brady said, "What I have done is I have assigned a different employee to manage those accounts, and we will manage the accounts in compliance with West Virginia State Code."
"The person who (previously) managed those conservator accounts is not an employee of the Randolph County Sheriff's Office any longer," the sheriff added.
Taylor said the commission will work to right the wrongs auditors uncovered.
"Given the amount of funds the county handles, (it) requires some precise bookkeeping," Taylor said. "We need to work with the elected officials and the state auditor's office to ensure that we are putting the money in the right accounts and doing it as prescribed by the state auditor's office."
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Financial pressures, including the decline of cruise ships visits to Maui, have led The Hawai'i Nature Center in Iao Valley to close its interactive museum and gift shop.
Although the museum and shop closed more than a year ago, the center continues to offer educational programs to schoolchildren, hikes and other activities, including sleepovers and birthday parties on the site, just above Kepaniwai Park, officials said Wednesday.
"We just weren't able to keep it open," said Pauline Kawamata, the center's volunteer program manager in a phone call from Oahu, where the center's main offices are located.
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The Hawai'i Nature Center parking lot in Iao Valley was locked up last month. The interactive museum and gift shop have been closed for more than a year, though the center still offers educational programs to schoolchildren, hikes and other activities.
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The museum and gift shop closed in January 2012 because "the visitors weren't coming," Kawamata said.
As a small nonprofit, she said that it "just had to downsize." The center in Iao Valley had been operating seven days a week, but today it only has part-time workers, another effect of the tight financial times, she added.
According to its website, the Hawai'i Nature Center, which has locations on Oahu and Maui, depends on program fees and contributions from the public, corporations, foundations and occasionally the state. The center has a membership program where funds received support children's programs; members receive a newsletter and advance notices and discounts on activities such as hikes, classes and nature adventures, the website said.
Nature center officials estimated that the museum and gift shop on Maui had been open since at least the mid-'90s.
Asked if the facilities could reopen if money were found, Kawamata said probably not in the near future because the organization would rather put its funds into its education programs, which are thriving. Education Program Manager Jamie Nakama said sometimes schoolchildren are at the center participating in programs five days a week.
"We are really going strong with our education programs," she added.
The programs are geared toward preschool to 6th-grade students, although the center has some speciality programs for middle- and high-schoolers, she said. There also are service learning activities where students go out and maintain Native Hawaiian plants.
The center runs a wetland program for students at Kealia Pond in Kihei, she added.
For the general public, hikes led by the center officials may be arranged.
For more information on programs, contact Nakama on Oahu at (808) 955-0100, ext. 123. Hawai'i Nature Center is on Facebook, and its website is www.hawaiinaturecenter.org.
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A truck hauling a trailer lost one of its tires early Tuesday, causing a traffic headache for many traveling on Interstate 78.
The accident happened around 8:15 a.m. in the eastbound lanes just past Route 33 in Williams Twp., Northampton County.
According to state police, the truck was towing a trailer in the right eastbound lane when the rear driver's side tire fell off.
The driver, 49-year-old Patrick Davis of Chambersburg, Franklin County, lost control of the truck and trailer, and the truck began to swerve, police said.
The truck and trailer became unconnected and the trailer jacknifed across the bed of the truck, police said.
The truck stopped, partially blocking the right hand lane.
Davis was not hurt.
Traffic was backed up on both I-78 eastbound and Route 33.


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After having two children in not even two years, Jessica Simpson says she is back to her pre-pregnancy weight thanks to Weight Watchers and chasing children.
"With both kids I'm running up and down my stairs a million times," Simpson, 33, told USA Today. "Kids can keep your metabolism going."
Simpson has two children with former NFL tight end and fiancé Eric Johnson: a daughter, Maxwell, born May 1, 2012, and a son, Ace, born June 30, 2013.
"Eric and I go on walks together," she said. "I try and walk about four miles a day consistently. It makes me feel better."
As does Weight Watchers. Simpson said she has lost more than 50 pounds after Maxwell was born, and she "jumped back on Weight Watchers" with their Simple Start program after her doctor gave her the okay following Ace's birth.
The actress and fashion mogul, who admits she is not "good at chopping" vegetables, has someone help prepare family meals, and she also works out with personal trainer and PEOPLE.com blogger Harley Pasternak four days a week for nearly an hour.
But perhaps Simpson's favorite exercise? Doing somersaults in the backyard with Maxwell.
"Every day we don't know what's going to happen," Simpson said about her young family. "They definitely keep our lives busy but full of smiles. We laugh a lot."
Which isn't always easy, considering the constant media attention on her weight.
"It does get old having people harping on how much you weigh or your body after pregnancy," said Simpson. "People are going to pick me apart no matter what I do. I'm always going to have critics."
Simpson told USA Today that she was on a mission "to be the best version of myself. I want to be a great mom and a great example to my kids."
Simpson said that she and Johnson are currently planning their wedding and that she has been "pulling all kinds of sketches for dresses and colors."
As for the possibility of expanding the family after the wedding: "I can't even think about being pregnant again," Simpson said, before quickly adding, "I would never say never."
Jessica Simpson Loses Weight from Baby No. 2
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ATTICA - Ashton Daniel led everyone with 20 points and Seneca East's defense allowed only one Danbury player to score more than eight Thursday as the Tigers claimed a 50-36 win.
Daniel added seven rebounds for the Tigers, Hannah Hahler tossed in 10 points and Emily Depinet hauled in eight boards.
Erin Lavelle's 11 points topped Danbury and Meghan Stephens backed her with eight.
Graboski unloads on River Valley
UPPER SANDUSKY - Taylor Graboski owned the first half and nearly matched River Valley's final scoring output Thursday, fueling Upper Sandusky's 57-34 domination.
Graboski poured in 29 points in the first half, scoring all put five of her team's 18 points in the first quarter and adding 16 more in the second as the Rams eased out to a 38-14 lead at the break.
She also hauled in 12 rebounds and blocked three shots.
Jorden Born backed her with eight points and eight rebounds, and Allison Snyder dished seven assists.
Katy Keene's 11 points led the way for the Vikings, and Abby Guinther netted nine.
Jackets snap back from sluggish first quarter
NEW RIEGEL - New Riegel stormed back in the second quarter, then left no doubt in the third Thursday in a 54-32 thrashing of Riverdale.
The Blue Jackets (9-1) used a 19-5 scoring run in the second period to forge a come-from-behind 28-19 halftime lead before shutting out Riverdale 16-0 in the third.
Kara Scherger scored half of her game-high 16 points in the third quarter for New Riegel, Taylor Kirian netted 14 overall and Abby Cassidy ended with 11.
Taylor Arbogast backed them with seven rebounds and five steals, Lauren Ladd had six boards and five steals, Kirian grabbed six rebounds and Scherger dished three assists.
Kristen Evans tossed in 11 points for the Falcons (5-4) and Jordyn Wright had 10. Ashlyn Walter and Tiffany Wright grabbed six rebounds each.
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MILLER CITY - Miller City steamrolled St. Wendelin, 73-41 Thursday, forcing 33 turnovers in the process.
Gabe Walters led the Mohawks in the loss with eight points, while Matt Decker had seven points and 10 rebounds.
Nick Root also scored seven points against the Wildcats.


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A hard-core fan himself, Rapaport sets out on tour with A Tribe Called Quest in 2008, when they reunited to perform sold-out concerts across the country, almost ten years after the release of their last album, The Love Movement. As he travels with the band members (Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White), Rapaport captures the story of how tenuous their relationship has become; how their personal differences and unresolved conflicts continue to be a threat to their creative cohesion. When mounting tensions erupt backstage during a show in San Francisco, we get a behind-the-scenes look at their journey and contributions as a band and what currently is at stake for these long-time friends and collaborators.


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The morning that Brian Seifried opened his first Wing Shack location in Garden City, he remembers wondering if anyone was going to come in.
The 20-year-old and his brother had borrowed thousands of dollars from their parents and a friend's mother to turn their love of food into a restaurant, but Seifried said he remembers worrying about their venture taking off.
Minutes after the "Open" sign lit up, Seifried heard the screeching of truck tires on 8th Avenue in front of the store, he said, and his first customers walked in.
"We opened up, and it kind of hit the ground running, and I think it was a combination of right time, right place, right product," he said.
Ten years and three new restaurants later, Seifried is being honored as Entrepreneur of the Year at tonight's Greeley Chamber of Commerce's annual awards dinner, and he hopes his own success will help others take steps to pursue their own endeavors.
"It feels good that people see what we're doing, and I hope that people are inspired to take the leap and to chase that dream," Seifried said.
At Thursday's event, the chamber will honor Seifried; Jean Schober Morrell, Dean of Students Emerita of UNC; Susan Arbini of Banner Occupational Health; along with United Way of Weld County and the Community Foundation.
Sarah MacQuiddy, chamber of commerce president, said she's expecting a record-setting attendance of more than 600 people.
MacQuiddy said Seifried has been actively involved in the organization's Greeley Young Professionals group, and his peers nominated him for this year's award. She said Seifried is providing food for people to enjoy while also giving back to his community in the form of jobs and philanthropy.
"I think it's absolutely critical for us to recognize the young entrepreneurs for staying in our community, investing in our community and believing in our community," she said.
Seifried, who grew up in Westminster, said he attended the Greeley Stampede the summer before opening his first Wing Shack, and he immediately thought of Greeley when he and his brother talked seriously about opening the business.
"I think (Greeley) didn't have that cookie-cutter, urban feel that a lot of communities have," he said. "I felt like the community had lots of character."
Seifried, who's currently serving as the mayor of Garden City, opened his next Wing Shack in Loveland and later continued to expand with two new locations, one in west Greeley and the other in Windsor, both in 2012. He said he's also worked to give back to his community, participating in events like the Greeley Stampede, the Greeley Blues Jam, Evansfest, and the Weld Food Bank's Dine Out for Hunger and annual turkey drive.
"I kind of came to the conclusion that Greeley had become my home, and I wanted to invest further," he said.
Seifried said he's excited about the award, and he's grateful to his employees for helping him build his business. Looking to the future, he said he's planning to put a food truck into operation that will serve northern Colorado.
He said he's also ecstatic about the upcoming birth of his first child, a boy, and he's thankful to his fiancée, Jill Terlaak, for her encouragement.
"She inspires me to push harder and gives me the drive to do all that I do," he said. "We are so excited to start our family in such a wonderful community."
Receiving the Leann Anderson Community Care Award at Thursday's awards dinner is particularly special to Jean Schober Morrell because her contributions are being recognized in the memory of a dear friend. Schober Morrell said she met Anderson 40 years ago at the University of Northern Colorado, where Anderson was completing an assistantship in the dean's office.
"She was a very creative leader and had a wonderful sense of humor," Schober Morrell said of Anderson, who passed away suddenly in 1998. "I used to think she must have somehow been related to Lucille Ball. People loved being around her."
Matt Anderson described his mother as a "powerful" woman who contributed to her community in many ways. Anderson was a teacher and worked at UNC before starting her Anderson Business Resources. She was named the first female president of the Greeley Rotary Club and volunteered with United Way of Weld County and the Greeley Stampede. She was also named co-chairwoman to organize the Olympic Torch's trip through Greeley.
"She was one of those people who could think circles around you," Matt Anderson said. "She could tell you everything you were doing wrong and still make you feel like you were an OK person while she was doing it."
He said 15 years after his mother's death, he still misses her guidance. Anderson said he's happy to see his close family friend honored with the award this year, and he plans to hand the award to Schober Morrell.
"It'll be bittersweet," he said.
Shober Morell said Matt Anderson's own contributions to the community, which include board positions with the Downtown Development Authority and the Community Foundation, reflect those of his mother's.
"It's so amazing," she said. "He's like her legacy. She was very personable, as he is, and very caring and concerned for others. She would just be so proud of him."
Morrell, who has been an integral part of organizations like United Way of Weld County, the Community Foundation and Friends of a Woman's Place, was named the first female president of the Centennial Rotary. She now works with her husband Pete Morrell, also a recipient of the Leann Anderson Community Care Award, at Morrell and Associates.
She said she's humbled to be honored in Anderson's name.
"I'm just very touched," she said. "I just feel like I'm one of many in the community who love this place and who do anything we can to help."


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8 Filthy Foreign Phrases the English Language Needs
And now we go back to the land of idioms that can sort of be worked out literally. Because this one's actually quite visceral, isn't it? Due to the nature of running (up and down movement, wind) and the very design of pee-pees and va-jay-jays, pissing while running is unlikely to be a very tidy endeavor. And that's what the Finnish phrase "juosten kustu" means; although translated literally as "pissing while running," it is used to describe an activity that is poorly thought out.
And is now another hot candidate for Cracked's new slogan.
How This May Have Come to Pass:
This one doesn't need a complicated backstory; it perfectly captures a poorly thought out act and is instantly recognizable as such. One clever person thought of it and it caught on.
Or, and this is probably less true but much more fun, there was a really poorly thought out marathon/pub crawl once, and after everyone sobered up and the sidewalks were hosed off, Finland got together and, in an effort to never forget this tragedy, came up with one of the world's raddest idioms.
#3. Germany: "Don't Make a Murderer's Hiding Place Out of Your Heart"
Because there's nothing that the Germans can't make a little unsettling, they were a shoe-in to make this list for developing a terrifying phrase that describes a totally mundane activity. "Aus seinem Herzen keine Mordergrube machen," which literally means "Don't make a murderer's hiding place out of your heart," is generally taken to mean "speaking frankly."
Terrifying though it may be, it is at least cooler than the comparably unimaginative solution we've adopted on the Internet.
How This May Have Come to Pass:
Once your heart rate comes back down, you can recognize this as a fairly clever sentiment, especially if we swap out "murderer's hiding place" for "vault" or "hideout" or something similar. Obviously the Germans, with their fetish for compound words, can't have something as simple as "vault," which is I guess how "Mordergrube" came to take its place. Though admittedly, if English had a word called "Mordergrube," I'd look for any excuse to use it, too.
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"Jack, I think it's time we finally got a staff Mordergrube. Not just for murder, no. A variety of deeds, really."
#2. Finland (again): "Throw It at a Duck"
Let's go back to the Finns again, and their delightful phrase "heittaa vesilintua," which when translated literally means "throw it at a waterfowl." Well, that seems straightforward enough. Who hasn't wanted to attack a duck?
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"Because fuck that duck, that's why! Officer."
It turns out that the Finns use it to mean "throwing something away." As in, this object is so worthless that it can be thrown at a duck without consequence.
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What Finnish ducks did to deserve this kind of abuse is, as yet, unknown, although we have our suspicions.
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Because Finns are jealous that they can pee while flying, I guess.
#1. Russia: "Knocking Pears from the Tree With His Dick"
Heh heh heh heh heh.
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Heh heh heh.
Ok. Let's get serious here ...
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Heh heh heh heh heh.
Done now? Great. The Russians ...
OK. Seriously, that's all of them.
OK then. The Russians have a real fantastic sense of metaphor, which they've used to create the beautiful phrase "khuem grushi okolachivat," which translated literally means "knocking pears from the tree with one's dick."
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"Because fuck that pear, that's why! Officer."
Do you even care what it actually means? Are you willing to walk away now, knowing that phrase totally exists, and enjoy the somehow brighter and sunnier world you live in? Go on; it's a beautiful day outside.
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For those completionists out there who absolutely must know what this means, here you go: It's used to refer to someone (a man, I'd hope) who's being lazy, or messing around unproductively.
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Now, at various times in my life, I've been pretty lazy, and at other times I've sexually harassed trees and other bits of woody foliage.
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"Officer. You know why I'm here, I'm sure."
But, and I cannot stress this enough, these two eras of my life did not overlap. Knocking fruit from trees with your dick is really hard work. Also turgid work. It's the exact opposite of laziness, not least because so many trees don't make the slightest effort to be sexy.
The only conclusion I can reach is that either Russian penises are substantially more impressive than mine own -- which, given how much we respectively drink, doesn't seem likely -- or that Russian pear trees are absolutely terrible at their jobs.
Chris Bucholz is a Cracked columnist and has littered the Internet with pictures of himself fucking pear trees. Find some on his Facebook page or Twitter feed.


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LISBON - By CATHY BROWNFIELD
Family Recovery Center
We want to believe that everyone goes to sleep in a comfortable bed under a secure roof with enough to eat everyday. We want to believe that because we have those things everyone else does, too. This isn't an article about homelessness, though that is a concern worthy of an article. This article is about human bondage: Human trafficking. If you think that is something that doesn't happen close to home, you are about to receive some enlightenment.
This year, in June, Ohio took two significant steps to end human trafficking in our state. 1.) The Ohio Human Trafficking Act of 2012 became law. 2.) The Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force created by executive order of the governor in March released it's recommendations.
First, what is human trafficking? Here are a few facts from The Ohio Council of Behavioral Health and Family Services Providers.
In Ohio, 88 percent of human trafficking involves sex slaver.
84 percent of victims in our state are American born.
Children who have been sexually abused, often by a family member, a family friend or other acquaintances are at higher risk for running away from home.
Past sexual abuse makes children especially vulnerable to traffickers who make them feel safe in exchange for sex but go on to abuse and traffic them.
Teens involved in illegal activities are blackmailed by traffickers in an escalating spiral they don't know how to get out of.
90 percent of runaway children become involved with the commercial sex industry.
In central Ohio, 88 percent of human trafficking involves sex slavery, 75 percent are female and 84 percent are American-born citizens.
Dr. Celia Williamson of University of Toledo, a national authority on this topic, found that 91 percent of girls who were trafficked experienced some form of abuse at home. Seventy-seven percent who were trafficked as young girls continued into adult prostitution unless they were rescued and the same number had been involved with county children's services. Also, 64 percent were previously living in a home where one or both parents abused drugs.
Human trafficking is not, however, limited to sex slavery. Forced marriages, bonded labor markets (sweat shops, agricultural plantations, domestic service, et al) are also involved, says Humantrafficking.org. "Poverty and lack of economic opportunity make women and children victims of t raffickers."
In 2007 the U.S. Department of State reported that 14,500 to 17,500 people, mostly women and children, are imported to the U.S. annually. The State Department began monitoring human trafficking in 1994 when the agency began to report on human rights practices.
The U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under the Department of Homeland Security, advises that "Victims often find themselves in a foreign country and cannot speak the language. Traffickers frequently take away the victims travel and identity documents, telling them that if they attempt to escape, the victims or their families back home will be harmed, or the victim's families will assume the debt.
"We recognize that men, women and children that are encountered in brothels, sweat shops, massage parlors, agricultural fields and other labor markets may be forced or coerced into those situations and potentially are traffic victims."
Ohio's human trafficking problem is growing. Public awareness is important. It isn't "just" the victim's problem. It is a community issue. It's everyone's business.
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One is that they will be greeted with Willson's jolting overture, which is the theatrical equivalent of five shots of espresso and helps to rivet audiences to the production for the rest of the evening. Another is that the first thing the audience will see when the lights come up - by official decree of the musical theater gods - is some version of a train car.
In his production of the musical that opened Wednesday night in MusicalFare Theatre, director Chris Kelly dispenses with all that. There is no rousing overture. There is no train car. All we hear are the rhythmic inhalations and exhalations of the show's cast members. All we see, by Chris Cavanagh's stark and beautiful lighting, is the mechanical movement of their limbs. Together, the sounds and movements merge perfectly to simulate the labored acceleration of a locomotive en route to some distant town. And before that train grinds to a halt, Kelly has us in his grip.
And his hold only tightens as the production's comically gifted cast launch into a pitch-perfect performance of "Rock Island," by far the best and most inventive song in the show. The piece, in which a group of traveling salesman chatter in rhythmic language tuned to the chugging and bouncing of the slowing train, features Eric Rawski, Brandon Barry, Matthew Crane, Matthew Iwanski, Ben Puglisi and Joe Donohue III - all in top form.
Kelly has recently delivered refreshing interpretations of two canonical musicals on the MusicalFare stage, last year's reorchestrated and sepia-toned "Oliver!" and a nerve-fraying production of "Hair" earlier this summer. To "The Music Man," beloved of hard-core musical devotees and casual theatergoers alike, Kelly has brought his gift for perfectly calibrated theatrical moments and an almost molecular understanding of how to hit audiences in the funny bone.
The show stars the gifted John Kaczorowski as the charming con man Harold Hill, who has been scamming small-town residents out of their money by selling instruments to their children on the promise of teaching them to play in a band, and then hightailing it out of town. His next target is the wholesome community of River City, Iowa, where he encounters an extraordinarily daft collection of locals willing to buy into his scheme. While he's there, Hill encounters a lovely librarian with the lyrically convenient name of Marian (Amy Jakiel), and things get complicated.
Kaczorowski plays Hill in an understated way, eschewing the blustery style we sometimes associate with the traveling salesman and going in a more subtle, if not Willy Lomanesque, direction. It works for him up to a point, but because some of his best dialogue gets lost in the shuffle and his restraint sometimes inadvertently verges on the creepy, it seems in need of a boost. Jakiel is a perfectly lovely Marian and does her level best with a character that Willson wrote as two-dimensional.
The real joy of this show comes from watching the ensemble work together, from Rawski's sardonic, tongue-tied Mayor Shinn and Kerrykate Abel's self-obsessed Eulalie to strong work from three members of Buffalo band The Albrights (think of them as a hipster version of the barbershop quartet known as the Buffalo Bills): Donohue, Barry and, especially, Matthew Crane. Young Adam Kluge was excellent. Maria Graham, the side-splitting Diane Curley, Wendy Hall and Christina Golab rounded things out beautifully as River City's cheeping gossip-spreaders and other characters.
And though on opening night the pistons were not all firing precisely on time, the production is more than well-oiled enough to allow audiences to suspend their disbelief to swallow Willson's questionable and even somewhat cynical premise about the wages of deception. Even if that premise rings slightly false in 2012 for those of us who've seen our share of Bernie Madoffs and Bashar Issas, there's no doubt that the music still rings true.
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A plenary debate, entitled "Current and Emerging Sequencing Technologies: Changing the Practice of Medical Genetics," provoked strong and divergent opinions at the combined American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) and International Congress of Human Genetics (ICHG) conference held recently in Montreal.
Han Brunner, M.D., Ph.D., a clinical geneticist and professor of human genetics at University Hospital and Radboud University, moderated the debate, which in the end generated more questions than answers, highlighting the strong opinions and emotions surrounding the role of genome sequencing in medicine today and into the future.
The panelists represented a range of viewpoints, expressing the perspectives of industry, researchers, clinicians, and patient advocates. They included Joris Veltman, Ph.D., associate professor, department of human genetics, Radboud University; Radoje Drmanac, Ph.D., co-founder and CSO at Complete Genomics, Ségolène Aymé, a medical geneticist and epidemiologist, director of research at INSERM and coordinator of the Orphanet platform for rare disease registries; Louanne Hudgins, M.D., professor and chief, division of medical genetics in the department of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine; Michael Hayden, Ph.D., director and senior scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, and University Killam professor, department of medical genetics, University of British Columbia; and Ming Qi, Ph.D., director and professor, Zhejiang University Center for Genetic and Genomic Medicine, China.
The panelists each had an opportunity to respond to four statements, and then to discuss and debate each others' responses: 1) Targeted sequencing will remain the norm for diagnostic medical genetics because whole exome and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) will yield an excess of information that is useless, counterproductive, and possibly damaging to the patient. 2) Personal genome sequencing creates an unacceptable risk to the privacy of people. 3) Cytogenetics will cease to be. Sequencing is the only future technology in diagnostic labs. 4) Personal genomes will be incorporated in the standard of care for all medicine. Therefore, medical genetics will disappear as a separate medical specialty.
Han Brunner summed up the main challenge implicit in all of these statements, asking the panelists, "How do we take this beast of a new technology and use it for the advantage of our patients?" And that, above all else—how to use WGS to improve human health—was the facet on which the panelists could all agree, that ultimately, the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology in clinical medicine had to benefit patients and their families.
Notwithstanding that the ability to do targeted DNA sequencing, exome sequencing, or whole-genome sequencing accurately and cost effectively is a remarkable scientific achievement and is here today, or that the data generated has incalculable value from a scientific and research perspective, are we ready to share this information with clinicians and patients, do we really know what it means in terms of predicting inherited disease risk, diagnosing disease predisposition, providing reproductive counseling, or managing disease, and do we know how to interpret and apply sequence information to impact prognosis, treatment, or quality of life?
The areas of consensus were quite clear, the points of disagreement less so, as the panelists debated: whether genome sequencing technology should be implemented simply because it is available; whether it is immoral not to gather the most information you possibly can about a patient's disease; who "owns" and has a responsibility to store, protect, and reanalyze individuals' genomic data; what do patients want to know; and where is the line (and how do you keep it from blurring) between clinical research and clinical medicine and when is it appropriate to cross the line from applying NGS information for scientific discovery to using it to guide clinical decision making; and how do we maintain a clear distinction between disease-related sequencing and screening, and should clinicians handle incidental findings.
Several main areas of consensus emerged from the discussions, including: the directive to proceed carefully and, as in all aspects of medicine, first do no harm; to continue to emphasize hope for what NGS can provide, but without all the hype; and to acknowledge that whole-genome sequencing is here now and is here to stay. Overall, the panelists agreed that, with the exception of diagnosing and providing genetic counseling on Mendelian diseases, sequence data is "not ready for prime time" and it is far too early to share the information with patients, and perhaps even with clinicians.
Exome Sequencing Finds Sweet Spot: At least in terms of sharing information, the panel said, the gold standard remained targeted sequencing for identification of specific genetic diseases. But somewhere between targeted sequencing and likely uninformative whole sequence data lies exome sequencing, a technique that selectively targets the most functionally relevant DNA sequences that encode proteins. You can get the scoop on how scientists are leveraging exome sequencing here.
Three overarching and urgent needs emerged from the debate: unified strategies for storing and interpreting genomic sequence data; mechanisms to protect patient privacy and prevent misuse of genetic data to stigmatize or discriminate against individuals; and the need for education—for physicians, medical geneticists, genetic counselors, and patients—on how to present and share sequence data and what it may or may not mean.
There was general support for the creation of an international, curated genotype/phenotype database to help accelerate and standardize data interpretation and understand differences based on ethnicity, and for an international, multidisciplinary body of experts that would establish underlying principles, monitor the field as it advances and evolves, help determine what filters are needed between sequence information and clinicians/patients, and devise strategies to protect individual privacy.
There was no consensus or definitive answers to several issues raised, such as how to pay for testing and what it will take to convince payers that whole-genome sequencing is cost-effective; what constitutes true informed consent; and who should have access to a patient's sequence information.
The panelists challenged each other to delineate the point at which DNA sequence data has clinical utility—when it is "actionable" and how to define what actionable even means. Does it have to guide treatment decisions for a patient with a diagnosed disorder or is it actionable if it can simply improve quality of life and perhaps impact a person's risk of developing a disease?
For example, would it be valuable to be able to tell patients they have a genetic trait associated with an increased risk of high cholesterol if it might encourage them to change their lifestyle and behavior to modulate that risk?
Another complex question arose: for WGS data collected now and stored for future use, who is responsible for maintaining, updating, and re-analyzing the data as new knowledge becomes available? And is there, in fact, a moral obligation to reanalyze the information and report the results to patients?
Where clear differences of opinion emerged was in discussions comparing the short-term and long-term value of targeted genomic sequencing, whole-genome sequencing, and exome sequencing. Should the focus be on collecting WGS data because there is more of it and because we can or is it more appropriate and cost-effective to redo targeted sequencing as needed?
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Kaui Hart Hemmings, the author of "The Descendants," will be one of the writers featured Jan. 18 to 21 during the Aloha Writers Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua, the conference announced Wednesday.
Hemmings' novel about a kamaaina family struggling to cope with a mother in a coma after a boating accident was turned in to a major motion picture starring George Clooney and directed by Alexander Payne. The movie was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one.
Other Hawaii writers scheduled to be featured at the conference include Rebecca Walker, Hokulani Holt and slam poet Kealoha, named Hawaii's first poet laureate by Gov. Neil Abercrombie. Visiting writers in the lineup are Jacquelyn Mitchard, whose novel, "The Deep End of the Ocean," was the first book in the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, along with courtroom drama author William Bernhardt, popular thriller writer John Lescroart and screenwriter Diane Lake, a screenwriter for "Frida," which won two Academy Awards.
The Aloha Writers Conference attracts agents, editors and publishers from some of the country's top literary agencies and publishing houses, according to the announcement. Aspiring writers will have the opportunity to sit in one-on-one "pitch sessions" and present their manuscript ideas.
The Aloha Writers Retreat will follow the conference from Jan. 22 to 27 at the Pioneer Inn in Lahaina. There, aspiring authors can work under established writers.
Workshops will be divided into private groups of seven or less. Attendees will focus on how to shape and present marketable manuscripts in fiction, creative nonfiction, screenplays and children's literature. Attendance at the conference is not a prerequisite for attending the retreat.
The conference and retreat are hosted by Keiki O Ka Aina Family Learning Centers, a Native Hawaiian nonprofit with a focus on literacy. All conference proceeds will support the centers' free programs.
The conference is offering a limited number of partial scholarships for both the conference and the retreat. There also are day passes for Maui residents.
On Jan. 20, the conference includes a venue for public schoolteachers to gain two professional development credits at no cost through a partnership between the conference and the University of Hawaii Maui College.
The conference is sponsoring a writers' contest with a $500 prize. The conference will run a silent auction on eBay beginning Dec. 9.
For those signing up before Jan. 1, the cost of the conference only is $720; for the retreat only, $1,020; and for both, $1,740.
For more information, contact Vicki Draeger at (808) 218-5396, send email to email@example.com or go online to www.alohawritersconference.com.


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WHEATFIELD – At least six vehicle owners on Schultz Road and Stevenson Court reported break-ins to Niagara County sheriff's deputies over the weekend.
Deputies were called to three homes in the 7100 and 7200 blocks of Schultz Road on Saturday morning. In one case, a man told deputies that four power drills and a camera for a vehicle were stolen, a total loss estimated at $650. Another man said a $200 global positioning system and $50 starter pistol were stolen. Another victim said he had an unknown amount of change stolen, but found white latex gloves which the thief may have left behind. The gloves were turned over to deputies to be checked for fingerprints.
Deputies also responded to three break-ins reported in the 3400 block of Stevenson Court.
A couple told deputies that their unlocked garage was entered and a suspect took a GPS, four pairs of sunglasses, prescription glasses, and two cellphone charges from an unlocked car and then entered another unlocked vehicle and took $150 in cash from a wallet left in the center console, and a GPS. Total loss was pegged at $860. Another Stevenson Court resident said his unlocked car parked on the west side of his garage was entered and a GPS was stolen.


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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Sold out four years in a row, Truckee's Historical Haunted Tour has raised more than $31,000 total for Trails & Vistas and the Truckee Donner Historical Society since 2009. The 2012 tour, launched from host sponsor Moody's Bistro, Bar & Beats on Oct. 18 and 19, raised $16,000 through cash sponsors, admission and raffle ticket sales."We captivate a crowd with engaging stories about Truckee," said event producer Christina Stoever-Young of Sunshine Tahoe, who attributes the tour's success to the volunteer's talent and dedication, including support from Trails & Vistas and the Truckee Donner Historical Society. In addition, she notes the Tour's sponsors - The Richardson House, Squeeze In, Mountain Home Center, Chamber of Commerce, KidZone Children's Museum, Scraps Dog Bakery, Tahoe TV and Moody's - volunteer performers and trail leaders.Nancy Tieken Lopez, founder of Trails & Vistas, explains the value of the fundraiser, "Proceeds from the Historical Haunted Tour support our mission to create the region's only art hike, an exquisite experience that takes place in nature every September and it also makes our field trips with art, music, poetry and environmental studies possible for local third grade students.""The Haunted Historical Tour provides our organization with needed funds to continue the preservation of historical documents and pictures and provides a working environment for any and all who want to research Truckee's colorful history," said Truckee Donner Historical Society representatives.The Historical Haunted Tour began as an experiment to support the two nonprofit organizations and provide an economic boost to historic Truckee in October. It has proven to be a successful fundraising initiative and favorite annual activity. In 2009, 70 tickets were available. The tour sold out three weeks in advance. In 2010, 140 tickets were offered. Once again the tour sold out weeks in advance. In 2011, every resource was stretched and more than 290 tickets were sold. This year more than 400 people from near and far attended the guided walking tour. Visitors from Connecticut, Florida, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Arizona, Oregon, Nevada and California attended this year's Tour. An attendee from Coos Bay, Ore. said, "I can't choose a favorite! It was all a hoot."Each year new stories and haunts are featured. The 2012 tour included stops at the downtown Mountain Home Center, CoffeeBar, MOBO Law, Scraps Dog Bakery, Old Jail Museum and The Pour House.Event media coverage contributed to another sold out event thanks to the Historical Haunted Tour's media partners - The Weekly, Moonshine Ink, Sierra Sun and Tahoe Truckee Radio. Donated raffle items included lodging at The Richardson House, Riverside Inn, Truckee Hotel and Hampton Inn plus goodies from Squeeze In, KidZone Museum, The Pour House, Mark McLaughlin, Scraps Dog Bakery, Dorinda's Chocolate Cafe and Johnstone Studios.Volunteers, donors and attendees are encouraged to save the dates for Trails & Vistas 10th year anniversary on Sept. 7 and 8, 2013 as well as the 2013 Historical Haunted Tour, Oct. 17 and 18, 2013. Tickets for Trails & Vistas will go on sale on July 1, 2013 and Historical Haunted Tour tickets will be available on Sept. 6, 2013. About the Historical Haunted TourThe Historical Haunted Tour, produced by Sunshine Tahoe, is an annual fundraiser in Truckee. The tour celebrates local history with a fun and spooky twist. During the tour, residents and visitors are guided to interesting sites, called haunts, where they hear tales performed by singers and performers. Sponsorship, ticket sales and raffle revenue offer the nonprofit beneficiaries operating revenue. For information visit truckeehistorytour.com or call 775-527-4485.
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Marilyn Monroe Sculpture Dismantled in Chicago
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Forever Marilyn headed from Chiacgo to Palm Springs
Forever Marilyn, a sculpture that stood in the heart of Chicago, was taken apart in the cold spring weather and packed up for a trip to the Southern California desert.
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STRUTHERS - The Struthers girls' basketball team is known as an outstanding program in the All-American Conference, and on Thursday night at the Struthers Fieldhouse the Wildcats proved that point with a resounding, 76-24, victory over Beaver Local.
The win pushed the Wildcats record to 9-0, while the Beavers drop to 1-7.
"I have very good players," Wildcats' head coach John Grady admitted. "They are very unselfish. I like the way they pass the ball to one another, and they generally like one another. It's a good group and we have some experience."
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Beaver Local head coach J.R. Wlaker talks to his team Thursday night at Struthers. (Photo by Lowell Spencer)
The Wildcats ambushed the Beavers in the first quarter when they jumped out to a 16-0 lead less than three minutes into the contest.
The Beavers first basket came at the 4:37 mark when sophomore Courtney Ricciardi scored her first of a team-high eight points.
"I love watching Struthers play," Beavers' head coach J.R. Walker said.
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Struthers 76, Beaver Local 24
BL (24): Tannar Dolhun 1 2-2 4, Danna Talbott 1 2-2 4, Courtney Ricciardi 4 0-3 8, Maranda Kiddey 0 0-2 0, Jade Favre 1 0-0 2, Ravenna Cianni 1 1-2 3, Sierra Wright 1 0-2 2, Bobbie Ann Theiss 0 1-2 1. Totals: 9 6-15 24.
ST (76): Ryan 5 0-1 12, Hefferon 6 0-0 13, Kain 1 0-0 2, Shives 6 1-1 14, Penz 2 0-0 4, H. Kain 2 0-0 4, Nored 2 0-0 4, Zupko 3 0-0 6, Thomas 1 0-0 2, A. Kain 2 2-2 7, Smrek 3 0-4 6, Leonard 0 1-2 1. Totals: 28 5 4-10 76.
3-Pointers: Struhers 5 (Ryan 2, Hefferon, A. Kain, Shives)
"They are nice aggressive, physical basketball team. They shoot, they put the time in during the summer, and John Grandy is a friend of mine. I feel lucky to say that. I love the way he teaches and the way he coaches."
As far as the play of his sophomore point guard, Walker admitted that she has been thrown into the fire this year.
"Courtney's a work in progress because she is a sophomore, and I have put her into a tough situation, 'Your my point guard,'" he said. "And I think Courtney has handled it great. But I think she is going to be a very good point guard through this year, and until she graduates."
Following the tough first quarter in which the Beavers trailed 23-10, the Wildcats continued to pour it on in the second stanza by outscoring the Beavers 22-6.
The Wildcats Halle Smrek would add insult to injury at the buzzer by draining a three pointer, giving the Cats a commanding 45-16 halftime lead.
To the Beavers credit they settled things down in the third quarter, but still trailed by 36-points with the Cats leading 58-22. The Wildcats would close the contest by going on a 18-2 run to close out the 52-point margin.
The Cats were led by juniors McKenna Shives with 14 points, Ashleigh Ryan with 12, and senior Ashley Hefferon with 13 points on the night.
Other than Ricciardi's eight points, Tannar Dolhun and Danna Talbott each chipped in four points for the Beavers.
"Everything kind of snowballed today," Grady said. "I think J.R. is doing a good job with Beaver Local. They're young, they're working hard, they never quit during the game. So I give a lot of praise to them."
The loss was another tough one for the Beavers.
"I don't like get beat like that, and it's my job and my team's job to stop that," Walker said.
"We're just not getting it done right now. We went out behind the bard and got a whopping. Now the positives starts tomorrow. Now if we can get something positive starting tomorrow, then there still a lot of season left, so that's the positive (about this game)."
The Wildcats won the JV game, 51-22. Dolhun netted four points for the Beavers.
Beaver Local will play Thursday at home against Poland.


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What exactly is Latin Dance Fitness? Latin Dance Fitness is a fitness trend that is growing in popularity and a great way to get in shape for the summer. Find out the history behind this trend, as well as some basic Latin Dance Fitness moves to get you started!


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MTA Chairman Heads to D.C. to Talk LIRR Strike
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast said he will travel to Washington, D.C., Wednesday to ask members of Congress to help prevent a possible Long Island Rail Road strike.
Mr. Prendergast, in a letter to the Senate and House leadership, asked whether Congress would intervene in negotiations between the MTA and the unions representing 4,500 LIRR workers, warning that a walk-off of the workers would "paralyze the nation's largest regional economy."
"Tomorrow I will be traveling to Washington D.C. to meet with members of Congress on the MTA's position and request a clear answer on whether the United States Congress is prepared to take action if LIRR's unions decide to stage a strike," Mr. Prendergast wrote.
"For the hundreds of thousands of people who drive this region's $1.4 trillion economy, it is critical to know which of these options Congress intends to take."
The letter comes ahead of July 20 strike deadline, and a day after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would not step in to help negotiate an agreement between the MTA and the unions, saying Congress holds the authority to do so, not the governor.
The union coalition representing the LIRR, which serves an average of about 300,000 commuters each day, is asking for 17% raises over the course of a six-year contract. The MTA has offered 17% raises over a seven-year period, and wants to increase contributions to pensions by future employees.
Anthony Simon, a spokesman for SMART, a leader of a coalition of LIRR unions, said Mr. Prendergast was asking Congress to clean up the MTA's problem. "They are forcing a strike not preventing one," Mr. Simon said.
Mr. Prendergast said members of the union leadership "feel comfortable" threatening to strike "because they assume Congress will stop their strike after a few days."
"Once LIRR employees walk off the job, absent a settlement, it will require an act of Congress to bring these employees back to work," Mr. Prendergast wrote. "The MTA will continue to push for a resolution that does not overly burden our passengers; however, we believe that the union's leadership has made a tactical decision that Congress will intervene on their behalf in the event of a strike."
Calls to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner for comment were not immediately returned Tuesday afternoon.
Corrections & Amplifications: The LIRR serves an average of about 300,000 riders each day. An earlier version of this article said it serves 30,000 riders each day.