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Our dedicated team of doctors and staff are committed to ensuring the highest quality care for patients. Our doctors are attending physicians and full time faculty members at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. All are Board Certified in Rheumatology. Other members of our Scleroderma Center include a clinical nurse, and several research and patient care coordinators and medical assistants who assist in the care of our patients.
Physicians and Faculty
Regina M. Greco, R.N., M.S.N.
Regina Greco is the clinical nurse/program manager at the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. Ms. Greco is responsible for all daily clinical operations, including management of clinical staff and assisting physicians with patient care. Her involvement with patients, families, and physicians is critical to the clinical operations of the Center.
Consuelo Laws
Consuelo Laws is a medical office coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. Ms. Laws manages new patient referrals, patient scheduling, prescriptions, medical disability forms, patient clinic activities, and clinical office operations.
Sheila Friend
Sheila Friend is a medical office coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. Ms. Friend manages new patient referrals, patient scheduling, prescriptions, medical disability forms, patient clinic activities, and clinical office operations.
Zahira Lopez
Zahira Lopez is a medical office coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. Ms. Lopez manages new patient referrals, patient scheduling, prescriptions, medical disability forms, patient clinic activities, and clinical office operations.
Estelle Williams
Estelle Williams is a Patient Service Coordinator and often the first person who greets you as you enter the Rheumatology Clinical area. She sees that all patients are properly registered and entered in the Johns Hopkins system.
Pam Hill
Pam Hill is administrative coordinator for Dr. Fredrick M. Wigley and the other physicians at the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. She oversees physician scheduling and administrative functions such as grant proposals, coordination of meetings, ordering supplies, and other administrative matters.
Research Coordinators
Gwen Leatherman
Gwen Leatherman is a Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator at the Scleroderma Center. She is responsible for all clinical trials and investigator-initiated clinical research.
Margaret Sampedro
Margaret Sampedro is a Research Program Coordinator at the Center. She is responsible for assisting with clinical research projects and data entry.
Adrianne Woods
Adrianne Wood is research data manager at the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. Ms. Wood manages the research database used for clinical and epidemiological research. She also organizes clinical research projects.
Madeline Myers
Madeline Myers is a Research Program Coordinator at the Center. She is responsible for assisting with clinical research projects and data entry.
Tanya Moore
Tanya Moore is a research assistant who is responsible for obtaining blood samples and other patient materials, processing, storing and transporting clinical samples for research purposes. She also assists the research coordinator.
Tara Guhr
Tara Guhr is a full time research technician assisting Dr. Boin in the organization and conduction of many research translational projects on scleroderma. She will begin her training in basic research techniques and in particular into flow cytometry, including sample processing, data acquisition and data analysis. Her contribution will be essential to maintain a steady patient recruitment rate and to organize proper handling and storage of patient's samples for the IRIS (Immune Response In Scleroderma) cohort study.
Affiliated Trainees
The Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center is proud of its association with excellent physicians and scientist who are experts in treating the various conditions that occur in patients with scleroderma. In the earliest days of the Center, Dr. Wigley turned to colleagues from throughout Johns Hopkins, asking them to lend their expertise. As a result, patients at The Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center have the comfort of knowing they are in the hands of this group of extraordinary physicians.
Robert Wise M.D.
- Pulmonologist
- Professor of Medicine
Dr. Robert Wise is an expert in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He and Dr. Wigley have worked together since the 1970s to advance the understanding of lung diseases in patients with scleroderma and in developing new treatments of scleroderma lung disease.
Paul M. Hassoun, M.D.
- Pulmonologist
- Professor of Medicine
- Director of the Johns Hopkins Pulmonary Hypertension Center
Dr. Hassoun uses state-of-the-art approaches to treating scleroderma patients who develop pulmonary hypertension and, is directing a research program investigating the cause and treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension in scleroderma.
Stephen Mathai, M.D., M.H.S.
- Pulmonologist
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Stephen Mathai is a board-certified pulmonologist. His special clinical and research interests are various forms of pulmonary arterial hypertension including scleroderma-associated pulmonary hypertension.
Ryan Tedford, M.D.
- Cardiologist
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Ryan Tedford is board-certified in Internal Medicine. He is a leading expert in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, cardiac transplant, cardiology, cardiomyopathy, cardiovascular disease, clinical cardiology, congenital heart disease – Adult, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, endomyocardial biopsy, general cardiology, heart disease, heart failure, heart transplant, and right heart disease in scleroderma.
Ilan S. Wittstein, M.D.
- Cardiologist
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Ilan Wittstein is a board-certified cardiologist. His expertise is in acute coronary care, acute coronary syndrome, acute myocardial infarction, cardiac sarcoidosis, cardiac transplant, cardiology, cardiomyopathy, cardiovascular disease, congestive heart failure, critical care cardiology, heart transplant, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ischemic heart disease, peripartum cardiomyopathy, stress-induced cardiomyopathy, and scleroderma heart disease.
Scott Lifchez, M.D.
- Plastic Surgery
- Assistant Professor
Dr. Lifchez has a special interest in hand reconstruction and microsurgery involving the hand.
James J. Sciubba, DMD, Ph.D.
- Dental and Oral Medicine
- Professor of Medicine
Dr. Sciubba, past director of the Johns Hopkins Division of Dental and Oral Medicine has a special interest in Sjögren's syndrome and the oral complications of scleroderma.
John O. Clarke, M.D.
- Gastroenterologist
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Clarke has a special interest in swallowing disorders, esophageal disorders, gastrointestinal reflux disease, and motility disorders.
Pankaj Jay Pasricha, M.D.
- Gastroenterologist
- Professor of Medicine and Neuroscience
Dr. Pasricha is an expert in neurogastroenterology and deals with disorders affecting the nerves and muscles of the stomach causing problems with gastrointestinal motility and pain.
Derek M. Fine, M.D.
- Nephrologist
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Fine is an experienced kidney specialist who understands scleroderma and how the kidneys can be involved. He helps diagnose and manage complex kidney disease in scleroderma patients.
Andrew Mammen, M.D., Ph.D.
- Neurology/Neuromuscular
- Assistant Professor of Neurology and Medicine
Dr. Andrew Mammen is an expert in autoimmune myopathies. He works with the rheumatologists at the Scleroderma Center to diagnose and manage the nerve and muscle complications of patients with rheumatologic diseases.
Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite, Ph.D.
- Behavioral Psychologist
- Professor
- Director of the Behavior Medicine Clinic
Dr. Haythornthwaite is among the first to study the effects of scleroderma-related changes in physical appearance on patients' social interactions. She also studies pain and depression associated with chronic illness.
Ginette Hinds, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Dermatology
- Director, Department of Dermatology
Dr. Ginette Hinds is a board-certified dermatologist. She focuses on skin, hair and nail conditions of people with darker skin tones, such as people of african-american, asian, hispanic, middle eastern and native american descent. As director of the Ethnic Skin Program, she is committed to outstanding clinical care and research in the field of ethnic skin and to community outreach and enrichment. The Ethnic Skin Program focuses on diseases that disproportionately affect people with ethnic skin such as razor bumps, keloids, hair thinning, sarcoidosis, lupus and mycosis fungoides.
Sangeeta Sule, M.D.
- Pediatric Rheumatologist
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Sule is fully trained in both pediatrics and adult medicine. She is a full time pediatric rheumatologist with a special interest in childhood onset systemic sclerosis and localized scleroderma.


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Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality: A Postmodern Exploration
SUNY Press, 1997 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 339 pages
In this book, David Ray Griffin, best known for his work on the problem of evil, turns his attention to the even more controversial topic of parapsychology. Griffin examines why scientists, philosophers, and theologians have held parapsychology in disdain and argues that neither a priori philosophical attacks nor wholesale rejection of the evidence can withstand scrutiny.
After articulating a constructive postmodern philosophy that allows the parapsychological evidence to be taken seriously, Griffin examines this evidence extensively. He identifies four types of repeatable phenomena that suggest the reality of extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. Then, on the basis of a nondualistic distinction between mind and brain, which makes the idea of life after death conceivable, he examines five types of evidence for the reality of life after death: messages from mediums; apparitions; cases of the possession type; cases of the reincarnation type; and out-of-body experiences. His philosophical and empirical examinations of these phenomena suggest that they provide support for a postmodern spirituality that overcomes the thinness of modern religion without returning to supernaturalism.
"This is a very thorough integration of the data from parapsychology, both experimental and anecdotal, into the philosophical discussions concerning the nature and role of consciousness. The scholarship is sound, and the issues raised in this book are very hot topics in the academic community, especially among philosophers and cognitive scientists". -- Richard S. Broughton, Director, Institute of Parapsychology
"This elegantly written book shows a greater command of the empirical data than any otherwork on the subject by a philosopher, and no other philosophical work on the survival of death deals with the conceptual issues with greater subtlety or thoroughness". -- Stephen E. Braude, author of ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination and The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science
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John Kerry has put Israel in an "impossible situation," Knesset member Ayelet Shaked wrote in a letter to the U.S. secretary of state.
"You have forced us into peace talks during a period of time that the entire Middle-East is in chaos, without realizing that by doing so, you have foolishly put us in an impossible situation, in which we cannot and will not make any concessions," Shaked, chairwoman of the Jewish Home party's faction in the Israeli parliament, wrote in the letter sent Thursday.
Shaked also made reference to Israel's release of Palestinian prisoners who have killed Israelis as a way of pushing the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. The two sides resumed talks Wednesday following a three-year freeze.
"By forcing Israel to capitulate to terrorism by releasing murdering terrorists with so much blood on their hands that the U.S. would never dream of releasing if it was their own citizens murdered – you are not only being extremely hypocritical, but are actually dabbling in experimentation and gambling, by putting me and my children's lives at risk," Shaked, 37, a mother of two from Tel Aviv, also wrote.
She also brought up jailed American spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard, calling the release of Palestinian prisoners "more absurd" because the U.S. has refused to release him after 26 years in prison.
Shaked suggested that Kerry turn his attention to Syria and Egypt, "where people are actually being slaughtered."
The letter also was sent to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren.
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Katie Holmes kept a low profile yesterday in the audience of the MTV Movie Awards. She was along to watch her husband Tom Cruise take the stage as his alter ego Les Grossman in a hilarious dance performance with Jennifer Lopez and present the Best Movie award alongside his Knight and Day costar Cameron Diaz. Tom and Katie recently performed a duet of their own, and now he's apparently all about showing off his moves. Tom revealed last night that Katie was a big fan of his spin with J Lo, saying, "She loved it! She was there while we were working on it. . . I can dance a bit. My wife's a dancer, so I like dancing." Katie popped backstage to congratulate Tom and stopped to pose for a photo with two female fans.
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bridget0621 4 years
actually, Shannolyn MAJORLY misread my statement now that I look at it.... Let me break it down real simple for ya: The people who work for Pop are respectful, they should want their readers to follow suit. Quite the opposite of what you just reamed me for...
bridget0621 4 years
RIiight. I need a life and therapy, yet you guys are the one's who sling relentless hate that is SO THINLY VEILING YOUR INSECURITIES!!! You people make me laugh. Sure, First Amendment, say what you will. You do have the right. I was just expressing that this site used to not be so hateful before the Anon thing. btw, I am no fan of Katie Holmes. I just think you guys are hateful losers. Shannolyn- apparently you've misread my statement.
los-angeles-1 4 years
Have Katies eyes gotten further apart? And it's true: her legs are ugly. Tree trunkish. ..and Bridget..uh, I'd say it's you that needs a life...or therapy
Shannolyn 4 years
bridget0621 wrote: "What contribution are you making? Be responsible. Promote self-esteem and respect among women." By restricting their right to free speech? Pop Sugar is somehow in the wrong because they choose not to "rip" on Lindsay Lohan, yet any negativity directed towards someone like Katie Holmes must come from "disgusting trolls" who are "unleashing the hate". Of course, as always, the hypocrisy is both astounding and totally amusing. It's okay--encouraged even!--to make negative comments about celebrities, just so long as they are the celebrities *you* deem deserving, right? The only one I see here who has actually exhibited a lack of respect--when it comes to others and their right to their own personal opinions--is *you*.
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wow so now I can't make fun of celebrities because bridget is so damn defensive. I'm sorry, you probably have oddly shaped legs just like katie's biggaass boulder legs. She had those before her "dancing" days. next time I'll think twice about making fun of Katie Holmes because Bridget might get upset. I'll stick to the celebs Bridget doesn't like. ROLLING MY EYES
4 years
You can almost smell Tom Cruise's desperation. He needs to calm down. His MTV performance was laughable.
Yesi-Jukebox 4 years
NOT a good dress for katie
bridget0621 4 years
By the by, POPSUGAR, PLEASE READ: i am dead serious when I say that I WILL stop coming to your site (regular reader for at least 5 years) if you don't do away with this ANON bull****. It only gives these disgusting trolls a place to unleash their hate. You won't even slightly rip on the trainwreck that is LL ( a whole other complaint: Ignore her. She needs help; y'all act like she's just dandy. Irresponsible.), yet you allow these fools to muck up a previously respectful and respectable website. Your business is an over-saturated market. If you become as tackless as the average site, what's you relevance at that point? What contribution are you making? Be responsible. Promote self-esteem and respect among women. I hope someone is listening. You should seriously take heed.
Lilybs 4 years
I am sorry but I think she looks dead inside. What ever happened to that spark in her eyes ...
bridget0621 4 years
"boulder legs". oy f***ing vey! some of you commenters are beyond despicable. That's what it looks like when one ( a DANCER, say) has very TONED legs. She's obviously very fit (DANCER). Are bony, shapeless (unfit) chicken legs what you'd prefer? please get a life (or some self esteem, at least).
NutmegNice 4 years
Yeah, stop picking on poor Katie Holmes...if she wants to be a dancer, she's a dancer. After all, there's nothing that Tom Cruise's money can't buy (her).
ilanac13 4 years
you guys are all such haters. she didn't say that she was a professional dancer. she takes classes all the time and really enjoys it...so people just need to chill. she's done well for herself! it was great seeing her there really enjoying his performance - it looked like she really found it to be funny and that's the best !
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Did Tom Cruise make Katie get yet ANOTHER nose job? It's looking almost Michael Jackson-ish in recent photos. She was so cute when she started on Dawson's Creek. She should have left it alone.
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Yeah, exactly my question. I never even seen her "dance"--and I'm including her over-hyped appearance on SYTYCD in that. Such shameless self-promotion from these two. It never ends. I see Tom's sister is close by Katie's side. (She was incorrectly identified as a "friend" in a photo of Katie walking down the street in NYC not too long ago.) I'm sure they are close since she lives with Katie and Tom in their home but I'd call her more of a "minder". Katie is never to be left alone. Ever.


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Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert is confident he can buy in January.
Lambert insists Villa will not be spending "an absolute arm and a leg" on new recruits during the January transfer window.
Asked about his plans for next month, Lambert replied: "It's the same old story. I speak to chairman Randy Lerner every single week, after every game.
"We won't go out and spend an absolute arm and a leg on somebody but I have great dialogue with Randy and I understand where he's coming from.
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Pharma major Sun Pharmaceutical Industries on Thursday said it has settled a litigation issue with the Basel-based Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation over the launch of generic version of the laters patented leukemia drug, Gleevec, in the United States.
Under the settlement, Sun Pharma's US subsidiary may launch a generic version of Gleevec in the US on February 1, 2016, though the agreement is subject to customary regulatory approval.
According to analysts, the agreement will help Sun Pharma generate sales of $160 million and a profit of $95 million during the first six months of the launch.
In a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange, Sun Pharma said that one of its subsidiaries has executed a settlement with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation stipulating a dismissal of the lawsuits filed in the US against the company regarding submission of an Abbreviated new Drug Application (ANDA) for a generic version of Gleevec, imatinib mesylate tablets.
Gleevec is a blockbuster product of Novartis with annual sales in the US estimated at $2 billion in 2013. Sun Pharma has a tentative approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for its ANDA for generic version of Gleevec. The tablets are indicated for treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia.
In a separate press statement, Novartis said, the company has settled its litigation with the US subsidiary of Sun Pharma relating to Novartis patents covering the use of certain polymorphic forms of Gleevec which expire in 2019 (including pediatric exclusivity). The basic compound patent for Gleevec expires in the US on July 4, 2015. Sun Pharma's subsidiary has received tentative approval from the USFDA for its generic version of imatinib mesylate. Under this settlement, Novartis will get seven more months without competition from Sun Pharma.
However, none of the companies disclosed any further information saying that terms of the settlement agreement are otherwise confidential. The other terms of the agreement are confidential. The agreement is subject to customary regulatory approvals.
According to Reuters, Novartis is looking to plug the hole left by the upcoming expiration of its patent for Gleevec with other treatments, as well as stave off generic competition to the lucrative drug for as long as possible. Sun Pharma, in this case, is the most tangible threat to the Novartis' drug.
"Sun Pharma had a first-to-file with Para IV certification filing in this particular drug, challenging the patent of Novartis in the US. However, it seems like both companies have gone for an out-of-court settlement.
This drug also seems to be a limited competition drug," said a city-based pharma analyst.
If a generic company is the first-to-file its ANDA with a Paragraph IV certification and prevails in the subsequent lawsuit, that generic company is granted a period of market exclusivity of 180 days.
"Sun Pharma has the sole first-to-file advantage with 180-days marketing exclusivity. This mean the company will be have almost 40% market share," said another pharma analyst.


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It has made its stand clear: Shankaramurthy
No difference of opinion between BJP and JD(S): Minister `We always respect Mr. Deve Gowda as a senior leader'
SHIMOGA: Minister for Higher Education D.H. Shankaramurthy said on Tuesday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was not averse to internal reservation for Other Backward Classes as it had made its stand on the issue clear.
Addressing presspersons here, he said when the question of internal reservation being extended to the Madigara Dandur community was raised in the Legislative Council, he as the Leader of Opposition had spoken in support of it making his party's stand clear.
Referring to the remarks by president of the Janata Dal (S) H.D. Deve Gowda that it was the Bharatiya Janata Party which opposed internal reservation for Other Backward Classes, he said it was not true. He clarified that there was no difference of opinion between the partners of the coalition Government on the issue.
He hoped that the issue was likely to figure at the meeting of the coordination committee of the coalition Government of which he was a member.
When his attention was drawn to Mr. Deve Gowda's warning against the BJP that the coalition arrangement with it would end the moment it chose to cross the "Lakshman Rekha", Mr. Shankaramurthy said that his remarks should be taken in a right spirit. "It is very nice of Mr. Deve Gowda as an elderly person for having warned against the crossing of the Lakshman Rekha. He had never said that the BJP had crossed the Lakshman Rekha," he said.
He replied in the negative when asked whether his party would discus with Mr. Deve Gowda on this issue.
He said that the question did not arise at all as the coalition Government was formed after discussing with H.D. Kumaraswamy without bringing Mr. Deve Gowda into picture at all. "In fact, Mr. Deve Gowda could not reconcile himself with the formation of the coalition Government by his party with the BJP. It is only after five months of the formation of the Government that he started reconciling himself. We always respect Mr. Deve Gowda as a senior leader," he said.
Asked whether transfer of power to the Bharatiya Janata Party by the Janata Dal (Secular) would be a smooth affair, Mr. Shankaramurthy said that there was no need for any apprehension over it when the Chief Minister himself had promised that he would hand it over when his term ended.


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Jeffersonville's deal could double rates
It took the city of Jeffersonville, Ind., nearly two years to negotiate a settlement with the federal government over the dumping of raw sewage into the Ohio River in a case similar to the lawsuit filed Monday against Evansville.
That settlement, announced last week, will likely result in a 100 percent increase in sewer rates and a bevy of costly projects designed to alleviate the problem.
An estimated 15 percent of Jeffersonville sewers are combined sewers — those that carry both waste water and storm water — compared with about 55 percent of Evansville sewers.
In addition to those projects, which will cost an estimated $100 million to $150 million, the city agreed to pay $168,000 in federal and state penalties and take on an additional $248,000 in environmental projects aimed at improving water quality.
That was reduced to about $58,000 after taking into account work the city already had done.
But Larry Thomas, Jeffersonville's communications director, said the settlement's price tag was a drop in the bucket compared with what a federal judge might have imposed if the city had fought the government in court.
"The EPA sent us a letter saying it could justify $8.1 million in fines because of past violations," Thomas said.
However, by choosing to cooperate on a settlement, Thomas said, the city avoided paying millions in fines and the possibility of having a federal judge impose an even heftier sewer rate increase.
Thomas estimated not settling could have resulted in much higher monthly sewer bills for residents.
As it is, the impending rate increase will boost the average sewer bill to about $45 a month, Thomas said.
Jeffersonville, a city with a population of about 30,000, is located across the Ohio River from Louisville, Ky.
The settlement was initiated by Mayor Tom Galligan, who took office in 2008. Galligan previously had served as mayor from 1996 to 2003
"When he came back, he realized the enforcement was going to be inevitable. He said, 'We know we are going to have to address the CSOs (combined sewer overflows), so we want to work with you in good faith to get what you need from us without unnecessarily harming our ratepayers further,'" Thomas said.
At issue is the discharge of raw sewage into waterways because of the aging systems of combined sanitary and storm sewers still used in many communities. During storms, such sewer lines can be overwhelmed, causing the untreated water to spill directly into waterways.
Jeffersonville is in the final stages of a long-term storm water control plan that is due to the EPA in December, Thomas said.
That plan will call for numerous improvements, including expansion of its wastewater treatment plant, building another "green" treatment plant on the city's northeast side and creating a canal that would divert storm water from the combined sewers.
In addition, the city will build a demonstration rain garden in a Downtown park that will filter storm water runoff from nearby parking lots.
The new treatment plant would burn the sludge in an oxygen-starved environment to generate electricity and create a byproduct called biochar that farmers can use as a soil additive, both of which could be sold to help pay for the project, Thomas said.
The canal would provide the basis for new development along its banks while also keeping storm water out of the old sewers, easing the overflow problem.
Similar projects have been a success in Indianapolis and San Antonio, he said.
"Most of our combined sewers are downtown in the older part of the city," Thomas said.
"We get half inch to an inch of rain, and we have some streets downtown that flood."
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The Rockville Pregnancy Clinic serves those facing pregnancy related and sexual health issues as a faith based, nonprofit organization by offering physical, emotional and spiritual support, empowering the client to make healthy and life affirming decisions.
Programs: The Rockville Pregnancy Center provides all services free of charge and include: pregnancy testing and counseling, sonograms to determine pregnancy viability, STD testing and treatment, life skills classes, prenatal classes, information on options,adoption, and single parenting. Post abortion counseling is available for women who are suffering emotionally from a past abortion; the Baby Boutique is available for anyone needing baby and maternity clothing,formula diapers, etc. Teen Empowered abstinence program encourages singles to wait until marriage before becoming sexually intimate.
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It is with great enthusiasm that I write this commendation and praise of the Rockville Pregnancy Center. I have been a financial supporter of the center for many years and personally know the executive director, members of the board of directors, and some of the volunteer counselors. The center serves the community with compassion and commitment. Over 2,000 families received their services in 2010. The monthly newsletters are riveting with the precious stories of babies saved from abortion, families strengthened through counsel, the Gospel message shared, and on going support offered for babies in need of food and clothing. They serve the community with excellence.
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I have seen the results in the life of a personal friend who did not abort her baby. This baby is now a beautiful young lady, 15 years old. Her mother and father are happily married and are profoundly grateful to the Center.
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I've used this clinic to help educate our children in the youth group of our church several times. I'm always impressed with their program to help encourage kids to stay sexual pure. I've donated to this pregnancy clinic because of their constant commitment in helping teen and adult women with their pregancy options. In a polarized generation of women who are usually only encouraged with the option of abortions, it is a breath of fresh air to hear and learn an alternate answer for pregnant women seeking help.
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the abstinence program for teens with our youth group at church, and I will use their help again for our youth in our church.
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give them more financial donations and the baby items that they use to help new mothers with their precious newborn babies.
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How likely are you to recommend this organization to a friend?
How do you feel you were treated by this organization?
Very Well
How did you find this group?
mailouts, word-of-mouth & personal recommendations.
What, if any, change in your life has this group encouraged?
You don't have to think in a box about solutions for any percieved problem that you may be facing in life.
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Rockville Pregnancy Center (RPC)is truly a non-judgmental environment filled with a wealth of information for individuals who may be challenged with a crisis. They not only provide free pregnancy testing, sonograms and pap smears, but atmosphere of hope and solutions. As a volunteer I am blessed to be able to showcase the love of God and sharing the spiritual insight of God's love for each woman who walks through the RPC's door. RPC trained staff and volunteers are always ready to give a listening ear and a ray of hope, empowering women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy with tools and services, therefore, allowing them to make decisions for their future and the future of their unborn child. In fact, we have made provision (The Baby Boutique),to assist in items needed after the birth of their babies, providing complimentary (free) diapers, clothing, toys,etc... Yes, It is a blessing to see many faces change from fear to hopeful possibilities. They come through the doors seeming confused and aimless, but leave knowing that God loves them enough to see them through whatever they're facing and RPC is one of His gifts to help them, free of charge. ~Dolli
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My life having more purpose encouraging individuals of God's Love for them and that there is nothing too big that God can not help them handle. I love seeing individuals lives change and come back with pictures of their babies.
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Well, this organization is always coming up more ways to better serve the clients. So I think they are doing well. They could use all the monetary help they can get, because everything is given away freely and during these times many people are in need.
I am a former volunteer counselor at Rockville Pregnancy Center. (have moved out of the area ) Two examples stick out in my mind from my time at Rockville.
First was a married Korean couple who came in at the recommendation of a friend. They had two children already and the husband had just lost his job. They said they did not agree with abortion, but they were scared and really saw no other option. When they learned of the the ways that Rockville Pregnancy Center could help and of the community resources we could refer them to, they were grateful and gave birth to their daughter six months later.
Second, was a married Chinese couple, not considering abortion, but just came in for the free pregnancy test. When I gave them a Christian tract along with other materials I was sharing, they showed interest. It turns out they had been invited to a church by friends, had attended three times, and had lots of questions. All they really needed was a clear presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They both prayed to receive Jesus as their savior and left rejoicing in both their pregnancy and their new life in Christ.
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I was well trained at Rockville Pregnancy Center and took this knowledge, skill, and experience with me when I moved to a new area and began to volunteer for a similar organization.
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Wouln't make any. They can always expand and improve as funds allow.
Would you volunteer for this group again?
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Did your volunteer experience have an effect on you? (teaching you a new skill, or introducing new friends, etc.)
new skill, confidence, dependance on the Holy Spirit, found my calling
How did this volunteer experience make you feel?
sometimes emotionally exhausted, but definitely that i was doing what God wanted me to do
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
I volunteered with RPC as a lay counselor and loved it so much I went back to school to become a professional.
On a personal note, RPC was instrumental in supporting my young daughter's unexpected pregnancy. She was considering an abortion, but once she had the free sonogram (it was twins!) she told me she would carry them top term. The counselors are all wonderful women truly angels of mercy. My daughter and I will always be grateful to RPC for the hard work they do on behalf of the unborn.
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My own family's life.
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Desire that they are able to serve more women and families.


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LOS ANGELES Robert Woods lined up in the slot to run a pass route with all of the subtlety of a stranglehold.
Sprinting down the field without so much as a feint in his footwork, USC's prolific pass receiver created such a convincing diversion on a play-action pass that both of Arizona's safeties were drawn to him like magnets to a refrigerator.
This left Marqise Lee isolated against single coverage deep down the left flank in the final minute of Saturday's first quarter.
Touchdown Trojans.
Woods and Lee are the arsenic and hemlock of USC's offense; the twin poisons on the receiving end of Matt Barkley's passes. To concentrate on one is to neglect the other and, in turn, to invite imminent destruction.
USC's 48-41 conquest of Arizona Saturday at the Coliseum was a shootout conspicuously short on blanks. Barkley bettered the school record of Heisman Trophy winner Carson Palmer with 468 passing yards against the Wildcats and needed nearly all of them to outlast Arizona's estimable Nick Foles (41 of 53, 425 yards). And though the final score was disturbing to those accustomed to equating championships with defense, the playmaking prowess of Woods and Lee was double barrels of breathtaking.
Woods caught 14 passes for 255 yards. Lee had eight catches for 144 yards despite missing a series for X-rays on his fingers. Woods is a sophomore; Lee a freshman. Both of them are products of Gardena Serra High School and either one is enough to cause a cornerback insomnia.
If USC coach Lane Kiffin can keep these guys on campus, the Trojans could be terrifying when they regain the right to play in a bowl game next season. In the meantime, USC's probation is a little less painful and a lot more entertaining than NCAA punishment should permit.
"They have players that can be as balanced as good as they want," Arizona coach Mike Stoops said Saturday of the Trojans. "They have good skill guys and a great quarterback. They can throw it …
"We tried to play a lot of two-deep coverage and they caught us vertically."
Translated: Arizona deployed its defense to take away the deep ball, and was nonetheless scorched for touchdown passes of 82 and 28 yards by Woods, a 38-yarder to Woods and a fourth touchdown pass spanning seven yards from Barkley to freshman tight end Xavier Grimble.
It won't always be this easy – Arizona's defense is a disaster that was unable to force a single punt Saturday – but neither is the Trojans' passing game standing idle. If anything, its progress is accelerating.
According to Kiffin, Lee is ahead of where Woods was as a freshman. According to Woods, Lee is the better, the faster and the stronger of the two of them. The technical term for this much talent is "an embarrassment of riches;" and it has been so common at USC that Pete Carroll often talked of "winning forever" before he skipped town ahead of the Reggie Bush sanctions.
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North America can still be saved.
This article was written for an American audience but applies equally to English Canada. It has been edited and shortened. The original text may be found at www.frregisscanlon.com/2009/08/america-can-still-be-saved.html. It was originally published in the March 2009 issue of Homiletic & Pastoral Review, p.30.
In order to grasp what happened in the Catholic Church and in America and Canada following the 1950s one must keep in mind certain truths about the mystery of God and the mystery of human sexuality. First of all, Jesus referred to Himself in St. John's Gospel as The Bread of Life and St. John says in his epistle that "God is Love" (In. 6:48; 1 Jn. 4:16). Jesus is the Bread of Life and Love which we receive in Holy Communion. This is He who is the source of all Life and Love.
Secondly, God created human sexuality to help people become holy and come to God. The Bible says that God created the first man and woman in the "image" of God and told them to: "be fertile and multiply" (Gen. 1:27-28). John Paul II maintains in Evangelium vitae that "The meaning of life is found in giving and receiving love, and in this light human sexuality and procreation reach their true and full significance." (1) The purpose of human sexuality, therefore, is "life" and "love" So, every time the Catholic Church teaches her doctrine on human sexuality, she proclaims Jesus Christ's Gospel of Life and Love.
Because the Bread of Life and Love is inseparable from the Gospel of Life and Love, a complete proclamation of the Gospel of Life and Love will necessarily involve devotion to the Bread of Life and Love or the Blessed Sacrament. One should expect that the more devotion to the Blessed Sacrament increases in the Church, the more life and love will flourish among members of the Church and society. Similarly, an attack upon the Blessed Sacrament will be an attack upon life and love as it exists among the people in the Church and society.
The Gospel of Life and Love had been growing steadily in America up to and through the 1950s. Purity, chastity, charity and peace were being promoted at all levels in society. The days of innocence, however, ended in America following the 1950s with the arrival of the sexual revolution.... Today, most young people in America have in some way encountered pornography, contraception, divorce and remarriage, adultery, fornication, premarital sex, homosexual acts, and abortion.
This attack on human life and love following the mid 1960s and during the early 1970s was world-wide. Paul VI tried to check it in 1968 by issuing his encyclical, Humanae vitae. The Pope taught that contraception, or any act "intended to prevent procreation" for any reason whatsoever, is "intrinsically dishonest" and must be "absolutely excluded" by every Catholic. (2) He warned that there would be grave consequences for humanity if contraception was socially accepted. The acceptance of contraception could "lead to the way being opened to marital infidelity, a general lowering of moral standards," (3) and "man, may come to the point of considering a woman as a mere instrument of selfish enjoyment, and no longer as his respected and beloved companion." (4) Finally, he warned that, if people do not oppose contraception, civil governments "may even impose their use on everyone." (5)
Paul VI's teachings and warnings were not embraced by Catholics in America who continued to practise contraception and at the same time to receive Holy Communion. The American bishops discussed this matter with John Paul II when he met with them in California on Sept. 16, 1987. Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, speaking on behalf of the bishops, stated to the Holy Father: "We as pastors are greatly concerned that some particular areas of the Church's teaching in both sexual and social morality are at times subjected to negative criticism in our country and sometimes even by Catholics of good will." (6) John Paul II replied:
It is sometimes reported that a large number of Catholics today do not adhere to the teaching of the Church on a number of questions, notably sexual and conjugal morality, divorce and remarriage. Some are reported as not accepting the Church's clear position on abortion. It has also been noted that there is a tendency on the part of some Catholics to be selective in their adherence to the Church's moral teachings. It is sometimes claimed that dissent from the Magisterium is totally compatible with being a "good Catholic" and poses no obstacle to the reception of the sacraments. This is a grave error that challenges the teaching office of the bishops of the United States and elsewhere. (7)
So, the question, which had occupied the minds and hearts of married Catholics in North America since the end of Vatican II in 1965, had finally been answered by the highest authority in the Church in 1987. Can a Catholic use contraceptives and continue to receive Holy Communion? The Pope's answer was clear and succinct. No. And, those who go to Communion while dissenting from the Pope in the area of "conjugal morality" (e.g., contraception) are making a "grave error." Grave indeed! The Catechism of the Catholic Church says in no. 2120: "Sacrilege consists in profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments ... " (and that) "Sacrilege is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist." The bishops remained silent. Why?
Eugene Kennedy wrote in 1989: "The American bishops repeatedly pledged their loyalty to the Pope but dealt with birth control, as they do to this very day, as a pastoral rather than a disciplinary matter. The issue gradually moved away from being a test of public authority in the Church to being the proper concern of the theologically informed private conscience." (8)
This silence made a correct formation of conscience even more difficult for the laity by leaving them ignorant of the Pope's answer to a pressing moral question on contraception and Holy Communion. This decision seemed more like a political decision by churchmen than a "pastoral" decision by shepherds of the Church. Catholics in the United States simply did not hear about the Archbishop's question and the Pope's response to adequately form their conscience. Many Catholics probably continued to use contraceptives and receive Communion because they did not know any better. And the laity probably still do not know any better today in 2009!
... Paul VI'S prophecies, that contraception could lead to a "lowering of moral standards" and that "man ... may finally loose respect for women," have come to pass.
But more than this has occurred, lust as there is a link between love and life when sex is used according to God's plan, so there is a link between lust and death when sex is used contrary to God's plan. Murder has always been used to conceal the rape of a woman. Today abortion is used to conceal fornication and adultery. What is more, this complete disregard for life and love has invited perverted adults to prey on boys and girls. Divorce and remarriage has led to alternate marriage life styles in which substitute moms and dads are molesting, raping and murdering children. New born babies and toddlers are found dead in dumpsters and in rest rooms. What used to be an exceptional horrific tragedy is now often part of the daily news. Just as there is a clear connection between pornography and the degradation of women, so there is a connection between unbridled sex and violence. America says that it loves women and children, yet it permits a multibillion dollar industry of pornography to thrive.
Now some cities and states in America have ruled that the Church must cover the cost of contraceptive pills (which are also abortifacients) in the health insurance plans of its employees. (9) And, some states are requiring Catholic hospitals to dispense the contraceptive/abortifacient morning-after pill to victims of rape, or direct the victims to where they can obtain such a pill. (10) While these contraceptive pills might prevent some pregnancies following a rape, many times they are used as an abortifacient by women who have had promiscuous sex. So, Paul VI's final prophecy about the danger of accepting contraception, that rulers would "impose their use" upon their peoples, is also coming true.
The fact, that the North American hierarchy (with some exceptions) did not emphatically and publicly teach Catholics that contraception is evil, coarsened and debased society, ... so the attempt by the Church to teach the Gospel of Life and Love has failed from the very beginning. Let us explain this further.
Paul VI taught that there is an "inseparable connection" between the "unitive significance and the procreative significance which are both inherent to the marriage act." (11) In other words, the purpose of the act of sexual intercourse in marriage is "life" and "love,' and these are inseparable. (12) Consequently, when one disregards this unity of life and love in marriage by trying to separate life from love through contraception in order to have sex with one's partner in married life, one loses both life and love and makes the act of having sex an absolute value. It absolutely identifies consensual sex with love (only forced sex, like rape, is not love). Once a person adopts this notion that having sex is an absolute value, then the person needs no other justification to have sex with whomever he or she wishes. The act of sex is absolutely justified. It is its own justification.
All acts of sex are then automatically justified--adultery' fornication, pornography, masturbation, homosexual unions, even incest. Thus the bishops' silence on the evil of contraception has made it difficult, if not impossible, to successfully convince North Americans that other more vile sexual acts are evil. So we are left with a sex-saturated society.
Nor did the North American bishops teach the people emphatically that practising contraception is "an obstacle to the reception of the sacraments," especially Holy Communion. If receiving Holy Communion while using contraceptives is a "grave error," as the Pope says, then the silence by the bishops on this matter was a catastrophe. Let's take a closer look at this. The bishops' silence about John Paul II's teaching, which forbids people who use contraceptives from receiving Holy Communion, jeopardized both the Bread of Life and Love and the Gospel of Life and Love. The bishops' silence about John Paul II's teaching left the door wide open for non believers and non practising Catholics to commit sacrilege by receiving Communion unworthily. These sacrilegious Communions in turn damaged the proclamation of the Gospel of Life and Love. It was no mere coincidence that, as the number of pro-contraception, pro-abortion, and pro-gay rights people coming to Holy Communion increased in the Church following the 1960s, so did the number of acts of sex and violence against women and children increase in society.
Canon 915 of the Church's present Code of Canon Law states "those who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion." And Canon 916 states that "A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or to receive the Body of the Lord without prior sacramental confession."
It is obvious that the Church's devotion and reverence to the Bread of Life and Love will seriously affect the proclamation of the Gospel of Life and Love among Catholics. No one can authentically proclaim the Gospel of Life and Love without stopping abuses to the Bread of Life and Love. Someone may ask: to what extent must we defend the Bread of Life and Love from abuse? Must we embarrass ourselves and others by refusing publicly known pro-abortion and pro-gay rights politicians from Holy Communion? ... We must defend the Bread of Life with our own life.
Today, churchmen often ridicule prophets of gloom and doom who warn that God is about to punish people for their many sins. These churchmen think that God does not visit the world punishing people. They consider this an idea from the Middle Ages. Rather, they say, the problems of our times are really due to mismanagement and when we get the right people using the right formulas everything will be brought to good order again. But these churchmen must answer a very serious question: do they believe the Sacred Scriptures and particularly St. Paul when he says about "fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desires, and that lust which is idolatry" that "these are the sins which provoke God's wrath"? If they do, then the sex-saturated society of America ought to be in for a real inundation of "God's wrath:' Or has it already begun? ...
One has to consider that the "lowering of moral standards" during our time is in danger of leading to one of the greatest moral collapses of any nation in history. The abandonment of moral values in North America due to the social acceptance of contraception has even led to the social acceptance of homosexual marriage. As of May 15, 2008, California had become the second state in the United States after Massachusetts to legalize same-sex "marriage," (although, subsequently, through Proposition 8, the people of California rejected same-sex marriage. The battle in California continues. (Canada made same-sex "marriage" legal in June 2005, following three European countries which had preceded it in doing so).
The growing number of people practising homosexuality is strange in itself. Why now? What is causing this plague of radical deviancy in matters of human sexuality and this plague of abnormal sexual practices? This explosion of same- sex activity today resembles the moral collapse of the Roman Empire which was already occurring at the time of St. Paul. Every depraved act mentioned by St. Paul in his Letter to the Romans is occurring in North America today. St. Paul says:
In consequence, God delivered them up in their lusts to unclean practices; they engaged in the mutual degradation of their bodies, ... God therefore delivered them up to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and the men gave up natural intercourse with women and burned with lust for one another. Men did shameful things with men, and thus received in their own persons the penalty ['or their perversity. They did not see fit to acknowledge God, so God delivered them up to their own depraved sense to do what is unseemly. They are filled with every kind of wickedness: maliciousness, greed, ill will, envy, murder, bickering, deceit, craftiness. They are gossips and slanderers, they hate God, are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wrongdoing and rebellious toward their parents. One sees in them men without conscience, without loyalty, without affection, without pity. They know God's just decree that all who do such things deserve death: yet they not only do them but approve them in others (Rom. 1:24-32).
Note the sentence, "They did not see fit to acknowledge God, so God delivered them up to their own depraved sense to do what is unseemly." God permitted their own senses to draw them into homosexual activity because they did not acknowledge Him. In light of this revelation from St. Paul one cannot help wondering about the eruption and rapid spread of same-sex activity in North America today. Has God "delivered up" Americans and Canadians to the practice of homosexuality since "they did not see fit to acknowledge God?" We call these differences over sexual practices cultural battles. But the Fathers of the Church called these differences spiritual battles between good and evil. Catholics in North America must realize that we are in the midst of a battle between good and evil over life and love.
Some Catholics think that it is too late to win this battle. Thus, we must also consider the biblical story of Jonah and Nineveh. Nineveh too had become evil but God knew that Nineveh would repent if a prophet spoke the truth fearlessly to them. So God chose Jonah to travel through Nineveh and warn the people that, if they did not repent of their sins, Nineveh would be destroyed in 40 days. When Jonah finally did obey God and preached, the people of Nineveh from greatest to smallest repented and God forgave their sins. God did not destroy Nineveh (Jonah 1-3).
The situation of the Catholic Church in North America is similar to that of Jonah and Nineveh. Like Jonah, the Church hesitated to preach the Gospel of Life and Love within its own sex-saturated society, particularly after John Paul II'S visit in 1987. The Church still seems to be hiding in the boat of "private conscience" or in the whale of "pastoral" solutions. This silence has caused a violent storm to arise. Only a complete proclamation of the Church's teachings on human sexuality will calm this storm.
The Church must begin her proclamation of the Gospel of Life and Love with the Church's teaching on the purpose of human sexuality and the evil of contraception. The Church can then consistently point out that the more vile acts against life and love are evil, including abortion, homosexual acts, adultery, divorce and remarriage, fornication, premarital sex, pornography, masturbation, and incest. When the purpose of human sexuality and the evil of contraception are explained, Catholics will see why these other more vile acts are evil.
This battle for life and love however, cannot be won by any craft that we possess. This battle can only be won by Jesus Christ who wants from us "Holy" Communions. Consequently, people must be told from the pulpit repeatedly and regularly not to come to Communion if they are performing acts condemned by the Church, particularly contraception. The Church must point these sins out specifically. And if people are publicly-known sinners, they must be turned away from Holy Communion. If the Church proclaims her teachings on human sexuality regularly and completely, we can hope that very few if any, of these public sinners will dare to receive the Eucharist. "Holy" Communions will replace sacrilegious communions.
Once the Gospel of Life and Love is proclaimed completely, or is at least well under way, we will see whether or not Catholics accept these teachings and whether North America, like Nineveh, will be spared. If Americans and Canadians reject the Gospel of Life and Love, then you can "shake its dust from your feet," "flee to the mountains," or launch an Ark (Mt 10:14, 24:16). But (hopefully), this will not happen. Most people surely want life and love, not lust and death. If the Catholic Church proclaims the Gospel of Life and Love completely to the people, North America will be saved.
(1.) John Paul II, Evangelium vitae, no. 81.
(2.) Paul VI, Humane vitae, no. 14.
(3.) Paul VI, no. 17.
(4.) ibid.
(5.) ibid.
(6.) Archbishop I.R, Quinn, Unity In The Work of Service, (Washington, D.C.: USCC, 1987), p.142.
(7.) ibid. p. 144.
(8.) Eugene Kennedy, Cardinal Bernardin, (Chicago: Bonus Books, 1989), p. 69.
(9.) Steven A. Holmes, "Congress and District Clash Over a New City Ordinance" New York Times, July 14 2000; Editorial, "A Win for Contraception" New York Times, June 16 2001.
(10.) Bills, statutes and legislation of different states: Arkansas Code # 20-13-1401, et. seq. (2007); Colorado Rev. Stat. 25-3-110(2007); Connecticut Public Act. No. 24(2007).
(11.) Paul VI, no. 12.
(12.) Paul VI, no. 9.
Fr. Regis Scanlon O.F.M. CAP is a member of the Capuchin Province of Mid-America and is director of prison ministry for the Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado. Permission has been granted to reproduce this article.
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The new Hyundai Santa Fe plays in a populated league of midsize crossovers but in a new strategy they've dropped the Veracruz name for their three-row ute and replaced it with the Santa Fe. The five-seat Santa Fe is now the Santa Fe Sport. Confused yet?
Sports come with a 190-horsepower 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine or a turbocharged 2-liter with about 70-hp and 90 lb-ft of torque more than the base engine, potentially useful if you see lots of mountaineering or traffic light Grand Prixs in your future. The turbo model adds, minimally, $3,250; if you want all-wheel drive on any Santa Fe that's $1,750 and the loss of 2 EPA mpg.
With four inches more wheelbase and 8.5 inches overall the Santa Fe's third row is kid-size but it's there, and the extra length gives a sleeker appearance than the Sport's muscle-bound look. Since the three-row model comes only with a 290-hp V6 it is, minimally, $3,900 more.
A front-wheel drive Sport has plenty of power for daily chores or chirping tires, but it'll be working with four on board and the rated 2,000-pound trailer; shift manually for maximum urge because there is no sport mode. Just a light tough of the throttle brings quick response, conversely, the last few millimeters of pedal push don't add much at all.
Handling is decent, aided by relatively good tires and roll control, and the ride is good and quiet over most surfaces. Only moving quickly over a winding, undulating road does it feel bouncy, like affirm setup that's used up all its suspension travel. It goes where you point it, is reasonably maneuverable and the brakes are up to task.
Bodywork is carved as we expect of Hyundai, with LED eyebrows above the headlights, plenty of character lines and a crisp hatch spoiler. The lower perimeter is paint-saving plastic, but this is not for serious trail use.
The dash rises from a pinched center above the console and drapes to either side with the arc of a shade tree, one with the trunk hollowed out to stow all your acorns ahead of the shifter. Wheel controls are well-integrated, the boomerang vents work better than you think and it's packed with features like perforated leather, heated rear seats and steering wheel, rear-door sunshades and big console storage with aux and USB inputs. Electroluminescent instruments include the usual data but with so much info packed between tach and speedo it's easy to lose track of things like fuel level.
There are no issues with room front or back. Even in the two-row model the rear seat slides fore-n-aft, for maximum cargo space or a closer reach to confiscate the kids' toys. Partial recline, power ports and reading lights shorten the ride, and AC vents in the pillars help counter the massive glass roof panel's solar-heating qualities.
If front seats are forward enough or the rear headrests removed the split rear seat folds almost flat with one tug. Minimal wheelwell intrusion improves cargo space (35 cubic feet behind the seat, 71 folded), you can remove floor segments easily and the bins under-floor are large enough to keep a couple of camera cases out of sight. A cargo cover is optional, with dual mounting points to accommodate the seat recline.
Like many of its ilk the Santa Fe Sport starts in the mid-$20,000 range. But if you want one with the bells and whistles including navigation, figure on adding close to 50 percent. The Tech package that brings nav, panoramic sunroof (so no roof rack), Dimension audio system, heated steering wheel and rear window shades is $2,700. And you need other things like the leather and premium equipment package ($29,50) to get it. So this $24,000 ute really costs $32,000-plus.
With a third row, V6, all-wheel drive and the fancy bits, you're knocking on $39,000. That's more than the very-nice-driving Mazda CX-9 but $4,500 less than an Explorer Limited with nav and $6,000 less than a Chevy Traverse with leather, nav and the big moonroof.
Clearly Hyundai aren't the only ones that can add options up.
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The ability to be truly happy is a kind of intelligence.
Ignorance is bliss, but I'd rather be intelligent.
intelligent to make happiness
Hello Ms. yulico

I was about to refuse to answer your question, until I read your age group. Okay, NOW I understand. I suspect that "happy" (to you in a school- or social situation) means "popular"; whereas "intelligent" (in the same school- or social situation) means "nerdy .. or at least unpopular, therefore, not happy).

In this scenario, I would answer "intelligent", because popularity is only temporary, whereas intelligence is "forever"!!! And being a relatively intelligent person, already, I know my intelligence has brought me years of keen insight and pleasure that I don't think that only "popular" persons would have the capacity to enjoy.

Cheers,

Hey, no problem. based on your reply about patronizing, I shall restate what I had originally written: Happiness and intelligence are as meaningless to compares as apples and oranges ... no, rather ... apples and mice. .... On the basis of this I shall not even consider answering your question, which has zero meaning whatsoever. ... Cheers, AnonymousButCandid
I refuse to talk to you any more on this subject. It sounds as though you are looking for a fight, of which I will not indulge you. As a person who has over 50 best answers during his very first month in EP, I am neither patronizing, nor a bully. You may have the last word in this thread, because I shall never respond to any of your questions again. Cheers, AnonymousButCandid
I would rather be intelligent, because I aspire to be of service to the future of humanity. What purpose would I serve in that regard if I could not adequately fathom, assess, and address the difficulties we face in life? I think this is what would lead to ultimate fulfillment for me. Looking back on my life, I think that intelligence has better served my progression and fulfillment than happiness has.
Happy. Intelligent people are more likely to suffer mental illness, and there are plenty of people who are neither intelligent nor happy; intelligence is not widely prized in this world of worlds anyway (sure doesn't pay like famous actors or successful sports figures). But happiness is generally a fleeting thing and wildly dependent on circumstances which fluctuate regularly in a life that is being truly lived, so if I really had to choose, I would choose a sense of well-being and contentment.
Happy, u can always learn things through ur life but if u arent happy what have u got
Happy! If you're not happy then nothing matters :)
I'd rather be content .. and that would mean I'm happy about my level of intelligence.
Sure it is ... it's called "poetic license"
To be happy or not to be ... that is the question. lol
Slap happy ... lol
Who says I'm not both?
I did read it, and choosing not to be confined by those parameters, answered differently!
Just because someone does not answer the question in a way you expect does not make the person (or answer) arrogant (and I make no claims on it being intelligent, either).
It is a matter of expectation, when you quite obtusely seem to think that every answer is going to garner a response that is directly relevant to the question provided (you clearly have never seen a political debate; they never answer the question given). Since you seem deadset on pushing this issue, you obviously have missed the implied humor and have taken this forum far too seriously.
I am one missing joke? Is our grammar failing us now?
Bully? Someone's a bit sensitive, especially for someone who attacks a non-serious answer in a serious manner.
Everyone knows the best generals attack from multiple fronts. You think you've defeated my, but actually my attack was flanked, and now you are surrounded!
Heh, kind of!
Ah, but that is not actually me, just a mannequin! I'm actually behind you!
to be frank i would rather be happy than to be intelligent.... whats the essence of being intelligent when you not at peace with your self it will lead to frustration...
Happy. Already have the intelligent.
I'd choose Intelligent. Already have happy.
Choosing one doesn't necessarily exclude the idea that the other is already possessed. You should've been more specific: 'If you could only have one, would you rather be happy or have intelligence?'
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KSL took over ownership of La Costa in March of 2010 from Goldman Sachs affiliate Whitehall Street Global Real Estate Limited Partnership. The partnership had purchased the resort in 2007.
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"You would have done anything to sell two, three years ago, but today you would not be as keen to sell unless you can get a really good price," said Reay, who heads Orange County-based Atlas Hospitality Group. "And these weren't even advertised for sale. Omni is a very well-capitalized company, and you'll see that money will be put back into all of these hotels.
"Not a lot of people are familiar with the Omni brand, so this is a major step toward growing their brand."
Tramer noted that La Costa's affiliation with Omni will allow it to take advantage of the chain's much wider marketing and sales operation.
"All of the properties, although owned by KSL, were managed independently by their property teams, so what we feel Omni has to offer is a much larger support network," she said. "And with 56 hotels, we can generate a larger network of leads and travelers coming through these resorts and the communities they're in."


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Saying his heart is not there, Alex Ovechkin announced Monday that he will not be participating in NHL-Star Weekend Jan. 27-29 in Ottawa.
I got suspended, Ovechkin said. I love the game, its a great event. Id love to be there. But Im suspended and I dont want to be a target. I feel I dont deserve to be there right now. If I have to be suspended, I have to be suspended, thats why I give up my All-Star Game.
Ovechkin will serve the first game of his three-game suspension tonight against the Boston Bruins. He and Capitals general manager George McPhee said they were disappointed in the suspension, but when Ovechkin was asked if he was protesting the All-Star Game because of the suspension he said thats not the case.
Its not about that, he said. Its all about the suspension I got. I dont think I deserved to get the three-game suspension for the hit I did. Id love to go there. I already planned my tickets and my friends would love to go there, too. But its not about what I want. I not deserve it right now. I got suspended until Feb. 4 so Im not going to play for that time.
McPhee said he supports Ovechkin's decision, adding that he thought questions about his suspension would become a distraction to the event.
"I just don't think it's in his heart to play and don't think that's the right way to play the game. I don't think there's going to be a backlash. ... He really doesn't want to be a distraction up there (in Ottawa). You know what the questions are all going to be. It's a great event and he doesn't want that distraction and we don't want it, either."
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