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OCP provides students and alumni with 24-hour access to www.usflawlink.com. This site is a portal for job listings, recruiting information, and employer information. It also contains a document library which houses many of the handouts the OCP produces and program information. We encourage you to check the site often as job opportunities, program and event details, and employer information are updated on an on-going basis.
Each OCP director provides individualized career counseling. As experienced counselors, the Directors are prepared to provide guidance in career choices, resume and cover letter review, selection of references and writing samples, job search strategy, interviewing skills development, and networking/informational interviewing preparation. These law career professionals will also assist you during critical job search decisions such as helping you determine which offer to accept or decline, how to negotiate a higher salary or other benefits, and other issues which may arise during your search. We can also assist you with selecting courses and law school clinics, as well as civil, criminal, and judicial externships.
Current students can schedule an appointment by making an appointment at our front desk or calling (415) 422-6757.
Before major recruiting events begin in both the Fall and Spring semesters, the Office of Career Planning holds a Mock Interview program to prepare students for the interview season. OCP enlists volunteer attorneys and alums, representative of the type of employers that recruit USF students, to interview students on campus and provide helpful feedback and advice. Sign-ups are required and slots fill quickly so students should keep an eye out for event announcements.
Representatives from registered student organizations may contact OCP to seek co-sponsorship for events related to career planning. Typical events would include those that focus on job search skills, and information sessions on practice areas.
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Limited funding is available for students and student organizations for registration fees for conferences and events that provide organized job fairs, interviewing opportunities, and other networking events that are clearly organized with the intent to provide law students with meaningful opportunities to interact with potential employers. Funding for registration fees for other types of events with demonstrable potential for networking or career development will be considered on a case by case basis. Funding requests for other costs associated with attending the conference or event may be requested from the Deans' Office. Please refer to the section in this guide titled "Funding from the Deans' Office" for more information.
Students and student organizations should consult with the Director of Career Planning about the request. After consultation, the student or student organization must submit a written request with the following information:
Requests for funding must be approved by the Director of the Office of Career Planning. Most, if not all, funds awarded by OCP are paid through reimbursement. If funding is awarded, details on obtaining the funding will be provided by the Director of OCP. Students are encouraged to request funding early in the registration timeline to minimize costs. Students that can demonstrate an early commitment to attend (e.g., airline and/or hotel reservation confirmation) may be able to avoid the reimbursement process by having OCP pay the registration costs directly. This will only be available for those conferences and events that accept VISA for payment of registration fees.
Please note that funds are limited. Budget constraints may limit OCP's ability to fund the registration fees for these types of events. Please note that prior approvals do not guarantee subsequent approvals for similar events.
The following list is a sample of conferences and career fairs:
Indianapolis Bar Association Diversity Job FairVAULT/MCCA Legal Diversity Career FairBay Area San Francisco (BASF) Diversity Career Fair San Francisco Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (SFIPLA) Bay Area Job FairNational Black Prosecutors Association's 29th Annual Conference & Job FairThe Boston Lawyers Group 2012 Boston Job Fairfor Law Students of ColorAmerican Bar Association (ABA) Annual MeetingPatent Law Interview ProgramHeartland Diversity Legal Job FairIMPACT Career Fair for Law Students and Lawyers with DisabilitiesMinnesota Minority Recruitment ConferenceHispanic National Bar 37th Annual ConventionLavender Law Conference & Career Fair Northwest Minority Job FairRocky Mountain Diversity Legal Career FairCA State Bar IP Section "IP and the Internet"ConferenceFederal Bar Association 2012 Annual Meeting and ConventionABA Forum Committee on Entertainment and Sports Industries Annual MeetingThe 85th Annual Meeting of the State Bar of CaliforniaEqual Justice Works Annual Career Fair and ConferenceAnnual Meeting of the CA State Tax Bar & CATax Policy ConferenceCA State Bar 30th Labor and Employment LawSection Annual MeetingNational Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Annual ConferenceNational Black Law Student Association (NBLSA) ConventionAmerican Society of International Law (ASIL) 107th Annual MeetingInternational Trademark Association (INTA) 135th Annual MeetingSports Lawyer Association Annual Conference
The Office of Career Planning Advisory Board is comprised of students, faculty, and adjunct professors, who support OCP in developing and implementing effective policies and procedures along with providing input on issues that affect OCP services and programs. Student representatives from each class level are appointed by the Student Bar Association.
The Deans' Office of the University of San Francisco School of Law has worked with the University's Purchasing Department to allow currently enrolled law students the option of purchasing business cards with the University logo through the Student Bar Association. The SBA in conjunction with the Office of Career Planning will be administrating this program.
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Kevin Meek enters his second season at the helm in 2014. He is the seventh coach in the history of Assumption College's Women's Soccer program. He was named to the position on July 8, 2013. Meek comes from Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. In his first year, Meek guided the Greyhounds to their most successful season since 2005, with a record of 7-5-5 and led the team to its first appearance in the Northeast-10 Conference playoffs in nine years. Meek's overall record as a head coach is 43-40-12.
In just one season under Meek's direction, four Greyhound players earned Northeast-10 All-Conference honors (Andrea Bates, Kelsey Imondi, Lindsey Miller, Rachel Edgin), with one player was named to the Northeast-10 All-Rookie Team (Emily Hill). One player earned Academic All-Conference honors (Justine DiDonato) and the program returned to the NSCAA regional rankings for the first time since 2006 and the team won the inaugural Catholic Cup with a dramatic overtime victory.
Prior to coming to Assumption, Meek coached the Elm's College Women's Soccer Team to four of its most successful seasons in the history of the program. He guided the Blazers to four straight NECC Tournament appearances, including a league title and the program's first-ever Division III NCAA Tournament berth in 2011. His teams posted an overall mark of 36-35-7, including an impressive 24-5-4 record in conference play. While at Elms, Meek coached 18 All-NECC players, one NECC Goalkeeper of the Year (Kelly Callahan), and one NSCAA All-Region player (Gianna Gorneault).
Meek's coaching experience prior to his time with the Blazers came as a successful coach and recruiter for the women's soccer team at Westfield State College. From 2006-2009, Meek helped lead his squad to 31 wins, three MASCAC playoff appearances, a MASCAC Conference Championship and the programs first appearance in the NCAA tournament. He has also been heavily involved with youth and club soccer at all levels since 1999. Most recently, he served as assistant coach for the Western Massachusetts Lady Pioneers USL team in 2008, the Director of Coaching for the Massachusetts Junior Pioneer Soccer Club from 2009-2010, the Director of Player Development for the Pioneer Valley Storm from 2010-2012, and the coach for the Massachusetts ODP U17 Boys from 2011-2012 and the Massachusetts ODP U16 Girls from 2012-2013.
Before moving to the sidelines, Meek distinguished himself on the field as a former standout, All-State soccer player from Indiana and a member of the Division I Butler University men's soccer team. He has his NSCAA Premier and USSF B Coaching Licenses and completed his master's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2008.
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Endowments continue steady growth, especially at wealthy universities that have the means to invest in hedge funds.
January 22, 2007
The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary forced out a professor who taught Hebrew because she is a woman, The Dallas Morning News reported. The seminary, affiliated with the conservative wing of Baptist thought, goes beyond other Baptist institutions that bar women from serving as clergy to say that they may not instruct men.
January 22, 2007
University makes unusual move -- and couples it with large room and board hikes. What will impact be?
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New analysis questions legitimacy of slew of reports finding that professors' liberal inclinations create classroom unfairness.
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Statement lays out common responsibilities for college governing board members, to prod them and reassure higher education's critics.
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Portsmouth Mayor David Malone says he did use city equipment on a project on his property. After reports into the Daily Times newsroom that Malone was seen using city equipment in a project on a garage on his property, the Daily Times asked him about it and he said he did not use the equipment on his garage.
"I did use city equipment to level some dirt that I had dropped off in my yard," Malone told the Daily Times. "We allow employees to use equipment and stuff all the time, and I guess it's just a matter of me being the mayor. Maybe I'm above using city equipment, I guess."
The Daily Times asked City Service Director Bill Beaumont if it has been the practice of the city to allow employees to use city equipment on their private property.
"It has been, yes," Beaumont said. "Let's put it this way, it has been done in the past and that's all I can say. I have my opinions, but I don't think there's anything written in stone."
The Daily Times received no accusation that any employee was used to work on private property — but asked as a hypothetical question. Beaumont said no city employees are used to do work for anyone on private property.
"These people in the past have borrowed pieces of equipment for work around their house after hours," Beaumont said. "It's usually, from what I've seen in the past, it has been just maybe a weedwacker, a chainsaw, things like that."
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The William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine hosted the 2015 Research Symposium on April 17 with Dr. Stefanie Jeffrey of Stanford University as the keynote speaker.
Dr. Jeffrey, Stanford's chief of surgical oncology research and the John and Marva Warnock professor, joined three Carey faculty members in presenting lectures throughout the symposium. Her lecture topic was "Liquid Biopsy in Cancer." Following Dr. Jeffrey's lecture, Dr. Italo Subbarao, associate dean of pre-clinical sciences at the Carey College of Osteopathic Medicine, presented "Using Twitter Effectively to Prevent Injury and Deaths from Disasters."
Dr. Tyler Hodges, assistant professor of biological sciences, presented "Bioactive Surfaces and Their Applications," followed by Dr. Maude McGill, instructor of nursing, presenting "Increasing Dietary Phosphorous Knowledge and Adherence Among Adult Hemodialysis Patients through Peer Mentoring."
The lectures were presented free of charge and open to the public. Prior to the lectures, Carey students and faculty members from the medical college, the School of Nursing and the Master of Biomedical Science program competed in a research poster contest. The contest featured four categories, including graduate, medical, nursing and undergraduate.
First place winners in the graduate category were Danielle Hagler and Justina Boles, students in the biomedical science program, for their poster, "Antimicrobial Peptides for Pathogen Reduction." Winners in the medical category were David Buford, Nabil Baddour, Allina Espinosa, Iben McCormick-Ricket and Dr. Subbarao for "An Evidence-Based Review of Resilience in Communities in the Face of Oil Spill Disasters."
Winning the nursing category was Denise Hancock, assistant professor of nursing, for "Leaving Academia: Work Experiences and Career Decisions of Former Nurse Faculty." Winning the undergraduate category was Pearl Ugwu-Dike, a senior biology major, for "Cross-Regulation Between the Notch Signaling Pathway and the Activin Signaling Pathway in the Ovary."


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Gossip Girl Series Finale: Where Does Everyone End Up?
Gossip Girl Season 6, Episode 10 "New York, I Love You XOXO" is over, guys. And so is the whole series. Over. It's all over. IT'S ALL OVER. (Okay, but secretly? Can they just start over with another cast. And Ed Westwick?)
So, while we think about the years of our time we spent watching the show (Okay, it was like 5,324 minutes... or so...), it's nice to have something more tangible to measure the show's progress and endpoints.
Blair (Leighton Meester) finally got her happy ending with Chuck (Ed Westwick), and the two were last seen with their darling son, Henry, Blair still bossing around the plebes as she plotted her way to the top.
Serena (Blake Lively) and Dan (Penn Badgley) had a lovely wedding in the finale, getting over that whole "Dan is Gossip Girl" and "sorry I called you a dumb blonde in print" issues that could have kept them apart. Serena wore a beautiful gold and white wedding dress, and Dan refused to cut his hair.
Although we're not sure who Nate (Chace Crawford) keeps at his side on the Spectator jet he's flying around in these days, we have no doubt the candidate list is as endless as it was during his six years on GG.
Lily (Kelly Rutherford) seems to have gotten back with Serena's dad, William van der Woodsen, who only had to sleep with and manipulate Ivy (Kaylee DeFer) in order to get to their happy-again-ever-after.
Rufus (Matthew Settle) attended his son's wedding with Lisa Loeb. Win.
Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg) appears to have had some major sparks with Jack (Desmond Harrington). So, we just want to check in on this real fast. Husband and kid kaput? Okay, same page. They are hot together...
As for the rest of the gang? Jenny (Taylor Momsen) is tall and gangly (and apparently a Waldorf designer — way to bury your hatchet, ladies) and could really use some time in the sun so she stops looking like a Twilight extra, Eric (Connor Paolo) should wear less black because he looks like a tiny-shouldered Johnny Cash (don't they have gyms in the Hamptons?), and we're gratified to see that Dorota (Zuzanna Szadkowski) is taking care of another generation of Waldorfs.


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Welcome back to The Diagnosis. This week I'll be taking a look at the fallout from this past Sunday's Extreme Rules PPV. This won't be a review of the show but a look forward for the Superstars involved in matches at the PPV. I'll go down the card until we reach the main event. Sound good? Let's get started.
Chris Jericho defeated Fandango in a standard one-on-one match. Jericho got his win back from WrestleMania, which I think a lot of people expected. The trouble with predicting Jericho's future is I don't know what his schedule is going forward. I'd expect one more match with Fandango at Payback then I'm not sure what else. I'd love to see him feud with Dean Ambrose over the United States Championship. That would be a lot of fun and that's what Jericho does now. He works with and helps get over the younger talent.
From what happened on RAW and based on the SmackDown spoilers it would seem as if he's going to be feuding with Wade Barrett over the Intercontinental Championship. I don't know if they'll skip the rubber match with Jericho or incorporate Y2J into it. If they go ahead with the feud with Barrett I could see Fandango turning babyface. The fans seem to like him despite WWE's best efforts and Summer Rae is freakin' hot! That alone makes him a fan favorite because when Fandango wrestles we know it is Summer Time!
Next on the card, Dean Ambrose beat Kofi Kingston for the United States Championship. I think even Stevie Wonder saw that coming. I said in the PPV preview that this show told you who WWE was highest on in The Shield, it is Ambrose. He got the singles title match while the others were in a tag team match. Ambrose is a unique guy based on his facial expressions and verbal skills. This is only the tip of the iceberg for him. I predicted he'd be a World Champion by the end of 2013. I think it's still a possibility.
Kofi is what Kofi is. He's a midcard babyface that'll stick around a secondary title. To expect anything more of him would be a pointless expectation.
Sheamus beat Mark Henry in a Strap Match. I was surprised by the outcome. I thought Henry was going to win since he's been unstoppable upon his return. I thought maybe he would be Cena's next contender after Ryback. He could still be but that would make the loss even more head scratching.
Sheamus has just kind of been there since The Big Show defeated him for the World Heavyweight Championship at Hell in a Cell. The fans like him but I like him more as a bully heel. I think that suits his wrestling style better. Plus, if you ever noticed he's kind of a jerk.
Alberto Del Rio beat Jack Swagger in an I Quit Match. I really hope this is the last time I have to see these two wrestle. Their matches on free TV have been far superior then their matches on PPV. This feud just hasn't clicked. Of course, this match came about after Dolph Ziggler suffered a concussion and couldn't defend his World Heavyweight Championship. Alberto Del Rio is obviously going to be facing Ziggler for the World Heavyweight Championship in the future. I think they'll save the match for Payback just to play it safe with Ziggler. I don't think Del Rio will win the title back so it will be interesting to see where he winds up after that. He wouldn't be the worst guy they could have Curtis Axel work with. If they want Axel to get over and be taken seriously he'll need more than Paul Heyman and a feud where he's defeats a former World Champion would be good for him.
As for Jack Swagger, he's done. He's going to go back to what he was doing before Elimination Chamber, losing and losing all the time. The fans just didn't care for his new gimmick and that arrest for marijuana possession didn't help him either. They're going to have to repackage him again. He needs a face turn. He needs to get rid of Zeb Colter and be a real American. A new Kurt Angle with a touch of Hulk Hogan. I think that would be much better for him than screaming "We the people" all the time. A face turn is looked at as a character reset and he needs one. It would get the fans looking at him in a different light and we know how thin WWE is on the babyface side. If that doesn't happen, he'll just be the heel that loses to the bigger name babyfaces each week.
Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins took the Tag Team Championships from Team Hell No in a Tornado Match. I think the easy part here is talking about The Shield. They'll be the Tag Champs for the foreseeable future kicking the crap out of whatever ham and eggers stuck in front of them. This can almost be seen as a demotion for them. I know it's not but think about it. They went from having matches with Kane, Daniel Bryan, Sheamus, Randy Orton, John Cena and The Big Show to facing The Usos. It doesn't add up. That's why I wish WWE's Tag Team Division was stronger. If this was 2001 facing teams like the Dudleys, Hardys and Edge & Christian wouldn't been seen as a demotion.
The interesting thing is what is going to happen to Team Hell No. Based on what I saw on RAW it would seem as if Daniel Bryan is going to turn heel. I hope that is not the case. He would work so much better as the underdog, fighting babyface. I could see Kane snapping on Bryan after he gets pinned again in their title rematch with Rollins and Reigns. That could be Bryan's first feud as a babyface and then he can begin to climb the ladder and be an eventual contender for Dolph Ziggler. How awesome would that be? As for Kane, heel or babyface I think his role will be working with and helping to establish the younger guys. Kane is a reliable veteran and that's what guys in their 40s should be doing.
Randy Orton pinned The Big Show in an Extreme Rules Match. Orton got his revenge on Big Show, so what is next for The Viper? I said in the preview that if he won that means they were going to push him as a challenger for Ziggler. We got teased with one PPV match between the two at Night of Champions but I'd love to see a PPV series between the two going at least Money in the Bank and SummerSlam. The rumor I read this week is that Sheamus vs. Orton is going to be one of the feature matches at SummerSlam. That would mean one is turning and as I said earlier I hope it's Sheamus. Orton has never been a good wrestler as a heel but he can put on some classics as a babyface.
I think The Big Show is going to be in Kane's category where he is the reliable veteran working with the younger guys. He was an important role in the company going forward because of his size and resume any young guy that beats him gets an instant boost.
The Last Man Standing Match for the WWE Championship between John Cena and Ryback ended in a draw. I know a lot of people that were annoyed at the non-finish in this match. It didn't bother me. WWE has done draw finishes in Last Man Standing Matches before. They did it in 2004 at the Royal Rumble in a match between Shawn Michaels and Triple H and then again on RAW in 2009 when Randy Orton faced Triple H. The alternative was John Cena running through Ryback. I like the finish they went with better. At some point Ryback can't keep losing PPV matches. It was announced on RAW that these two will face again in an Ambulance Match at Payback. I hate that stipulation but it should be better that a regular wrestling match with these two. I can't see Cena losing the title at Payback. This is what WWE does, they make you think Cena is beatable only to win and look like the conquering hero which causes the fans to not give a crap. If/when Cena retains he's really out of fresh opponents. What top name guy hasn't he feuded with? What midcard heel is ready to step up and face Cena? I'd love to say Antonio Cesaro but he's been booked so poorly I doubt he'll be getting a PPV title match in July.
As for Ryback, it looks like WWE will stick with the heel turn but who is he going to face? Orton and Sheamus would be likely guys but it seems as if they'll be tied up with each other. Ryback was better as a babyface. I think there was more potential for him there but Cena is the golden boy and Cena needed a new monster to beat so hence the turn.
In the Main Event, Brock Lesnar defeated Triple H in a Steel Cage Match. With the win, Lesnar won the feud, which he should have. He needed Heyman and a sledgehammer to do it but you knew Hunter was going to go out looking strong. On RAW, Paul Heyman said that Lesnar met all of his contractual obligations to WWE which means we won't be seeing him for a while. I fully expect him to be on the SummerSlam card but against whom? I don't know. If he only has three matches a year one of them will end of being The Rock at WrestleMania if The Great One is healthy and wants to do it. I think we'll see a match with CM Punk but I think that'll probably happen at next year's Extreme Rules. I don't think WWE should or will turn Punk upon his return. So who does that leave? I'd have it be Daniel Bryan. I think their styles would mesh perfectly together and the match would tell the story of David vs. Goliath. It sells itself. A win over Lesnar would do wonders for Bryan and make him a great challenger for Ziggler in the fall. You have to be smart about how you use Lesnar. When he loses to guys like Cena and Triple H it means nothing. These guys are multiple time World Champions and future Hall of Famers. Lesnar should be beating these guys this way when it comes time for him to put someone like Bryan over, it really means something.
Let's move onto Triple H. He had his first match on RAW in three years this week when he faced Curtis Axel. The match abruptly ended when Hunter had trouble standing in what is rumored to be effects of a concussion from the match with Lesnar. Triple H doesn't actually have a concussion, it's the story they're going with. I read that this is going to be the big story dominating WWE in the coming months with a thousand and one McMahons coming to TV to try and convince Hunter he can't go anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if he winds up with a brief title run because what else would the payoff be? I don't mind Triple H and I like him wrestling once or twice a year at the big events but at this point in his career he doesn't need to be the focal point of the main story in WWE especially at a time when they are struggling so hard to get new talent over. They've seemingly botched everyone they have tried to build expect The Shield.
That's it from me. What do you guys think? Do you think I'm on the ball or do you think there's something else in these Superstars' future? Let me know in the comments below.
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About the Implementation Research Platform (IRP)
Research in maternal, newborn and child health, and neglected infectious diseases has advanced significantly in recent years. Most research, however, has focused on the development of new interventions rather than optimizing the delivery of existing interventions. Implementation research addresses these delivery issues, exploring the challenges of generalizing research findings in the real world and contextualizing for specific settings.
Our vision
The Implementation Research Platform (IRP), launched in 2010 at the first Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Montreux, Switzerland, is an initiative of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR) that strives to be the leading global entity for implementation research by:
- supporting new and on-going research to enhance the implementation and scale-up of proven-effective life-saving interventions and programmes;
- acting as the convening entity for global and regional initiatives;
- engaging researchers and research-users (e.g. policy/decision-makers, implementers, programme managers) in the generation and uptake of research evidence/knowledge in scaling-up proven-effective life-saving interventions;
- engaging stakeholders involved in policy/decision-making processes including: government, civil society, public sector entities, NGOs, the private sector, and advocates; and
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By investing in implementation research, the IRP aims to improve the access to, and increase the uptake of knowledge on effective, life-saving interventions essential to achieving health-related Millennium Development Goals.
Our goals and objectives
The goal of the Implementation Research Platform (IRP) is to increase the generation and use of relevant implementation research evidence in decision-making processes to improve the scale-up of effective, life-saving interventions.
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The IRP does this by focusing on three thematic areas:
- Supporting the generation of knowledge to facilitate implementation scale-up of effective interventions
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Since 2010, the Implementation Research Platform has led a variety of activities including the initiation of several calls for proposals to stimulate the generation of new knowledge in this field, the development of an Implementation Research Guide, and the coordination of a series of meetings with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank Group to create a common platform for advancing Implementation Research and Delivery Science (IRDS) to improve health in low and middle income countries (LMICs).
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The Bowie Farmer's Market is moving up this year as residents will be able to purchase local beef and goat meats along with vegetables and fruits when the market opens May 18.
This is the first year the market will be offering local meats, which will be available all year, said Matt Corley, Bowie special events coordinator. The market is open from 8 a.m. to noon May 18 and will open each Sunday until Oct. 26, Corley said.
"Everybody should come out so they come back next year," Corley said.
The market also will offer a limited selection of vegetables and fruits as the growing season ramps up, Corley said. There also will be local breads, pastries, jams, jellies and other goods available, he said. Plants will be on sale as well so residents can go home and grow their own tomatoes and other vegetables, he said.


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Roy has never been "anti regular folks", your a typical dem spouting off with no evidence to support your claims. What is wrong with being pro-business anyway? Successful businesses and people are who pay many of the bills for the less fortunate. Please change your screen name to CitizenofGreeceresident, you will fit right in there.
Well said bhcxzy!!!
The comments quoted in this article are despicable. Roy is a good man and has always put his community first. Shame on you Dems.
Unions... hmmmmm?
Rockford owns many buildings in downtown GR. Monroe Center, Ionia St. etc... I think what Kurt means is by locating his Headquarters downtown, he/Rockford will be further supporting development of downtown, specifically the West Side. Rockford is "practicing what they preach" in a sense....
Walt Gutowski should resign from the City Commission immediately. He is a business owner (Swift Printing) and owner of numerous properties on the near West Side. A First Ward Commissioner that chooses to ignore the vast problems facing the West Side such as drugs, prostitution, theft, and high crime has no business being a City Commissioner. None. Wake up Walt.
I like the smoking ban for inside bars and restaurants relative to indoors but what makes no sense is banning smoking on decks, patios and outdoor space. If a customer wants to smoke outdoors and enjoy a tasty adult beverage he/she should be permitted to do so.
Please, tell me more about Hopcat featuring a Vanilla Porter on Tap... this is good stuff!
slow news day Garret?
The West Side has one problem. Activism! Until the City of Grand Rapids stops listening to the anti-growth minority that has lived on the West Side for years, the West Side will not change. Uptown, East Hills, East Town, S. Division, East Fulton and many other areas of Grand Rapids have developed at 10 times the rate of the West Side. Grow some you know what City Planning and Commission! Allow the talent pool in GR to develop their vision for the West Side. Stop saying no to everything!!! Additionally, the neighorhoods, specifically near American Seating and Union Square need to be wiped out! Most of the houses in this area are filled with crack heads, crack whores, drug dealers and welfare recipients. People living off the government don't respect the value of a dollar, thus they bring no value to our neighborhoods. Obviously, drugs and prostitution need to be eliminated as well. Level the houses and replace them with high density apartments/condos. This will attract good responsible people. The very people that will support the West Side businesses and potentially open their own business in the area.
Possibly the dumbest list I have ever seen assembled...
The majority of the people who have commented on this subject has over simplified it.
I can break it down for you quite simply. Food Truck operational expenses are a tiny fraction of Brick and Mortar operational expenses. The initial investment to retrofit a truck for food service is approximately $20-25,000. Food Trucks are not required to pay real property taxes, DDA assessment fees, plow services, trash removal, general liability insurance, etc. you get the idea. Brick and Mortar restaurants located downtown have an initial investment requirement of between $500,000 - 3,000,000, just to get started. They are responsible for paying real and personal property taxes, plow services, high insurance costs, DDA assessment fees, large payrolls and utilities, etc... What does this all mean? Food Trucks can offer products/food and services for a much cheaper price than the Brick and Mortar restaurant can. Although, this is great for GR residents, it is very bar for Downtown restaurants, thus undermining them. Let's fill our storefronts first, create large demand for the West Michigan folks to enjoy our City and then talk about Food Trucks.
Based on your hate for pretty much everything, I think the designation 'd-bag' belongs to you!
Inspired ideas and ripping off ideas are entirely different. Hopefully you understand the distinction.
Tom J, you are a wise man!
Nice... Thomas, what do you know about it... Jerk
Red Lion is a fabulous idea!!!
Ok Mr Kwood. Unlike the business of Government who is completely satisfied with spending 14T more than it turns in revenue; Companies/Corporations are in business to make a profit. If it takes laying people off to ensure the health of the business than so be it. Some job are far better than no jobs.
Another thug off the streets.... Thank you GRPD. Keep up the great work!
Go Romney!!!!
Why is Glen Beck always mentioned in these debates? I personally believe I could manage the GRPS far more effectively than it's being managed currently. Incentivize the teachers, pay for performance and terminate non performers. There are hundreds of good teachers sitting on the sidelines that are praying every night for an opportunity to teach our great children. I don't see a problem with competition, charters and other available learning institutions provide options to families... what's wrong with that? I recognize that there are politics to everything but we need to stay solution based... we already know the problems!


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It took 20 years of dreaming, planning and ingenuity to create Toy Story, the worlds first computer animated full-length feature film, in 1995. It represented a significant departure from the long-established methods of animation, where artists would hand draw characters frame by frame, and painstakingly incorporate movement and color to complete a feature film. Today, thanks to advances in computing power and ingenious software, there is little separation between the refining of an idea and its execution on screen (save for thousands of hours of rendering!).
On May 16, four self-described geekseach with a passion to make animated moviesshare how they discovered computer animation, and what obstacles they had to overcome in the process. They will present the entertaining and inspiring tale of how they went from an idea, to a script to the drawing board, to mathematics, to the computer lab
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Leader Community Newspapers
The Leader Community Newspaper group publishes 33 titles covering metropolitan Melbourne.
It has a circulation of 1.94 million readers per week. It is the largest single market network of community newspapers in Australia.[1]
In the early 1850s George Mott arrived in Australia and began work as a journalist with the Melbourne Argus.
In 1854 he started publishing newspapers in the Victorian goldfields near Beechworth and Chiltern. George Mott's two sons commenced publishing newspapers in Albury and one brother's branch of the family until recently (2005) published The Border Mail in that town.
The other brother, Decimus Mott, left the Murray area in 1924 and, with his sons, took over the established Northcote and Preston Leader (first published in 1888). From this paper, the Leader Community Newspaper group grew into its present stable of 33 separate mastheads.
In 1986 the group was sold to The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd. With the acquisition of The Herald and Weekly Times by News Corporation later that same year, the Leader Newspaper group became a part of News Limited Community Newspapers with a total of 95 publications throughout Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Tasmania.
Inner Melbourne[edit]
- Caulfield Glen Eira Leader
- Melbourne Leader
- Moreland Leader
- Northcote Leader
- Port Phillip Leader
- Progress Leader
- Stonnington Leader
- Moonee Valley Leader (formerly the Essendon Gazette[2])
Northern Melbourne[edit]
- Diamond Valley Leader
- Heidelberg Leader
- Hume Leader
- Preston Leader
- Whittlesea Leader
Southern Melbourne[edit]
- Bayside Leader
- Cranbourne Leader
- Frankston Standard
- Hastings Leader
- Moorabbin Leader
- Mordialloc Chelsea Leader
- Mornington Peninsula Leader
- Springvale Dandenong Leader
Eastern Melbourne[edit]
- Berwick Leader
- Free Press Leader Dandenongs
- Knox Leader
- Lilydale & Yarra Valley Leader
- Manningham Leader
- Maroondah Leader
- Pakenham Leader
- Waverley Leader
- Whitehorse Leader
Western Melbourne[edit]
- Brimbank Leader
- Hobsons Bay Leader
- Maribyrnong Leader
- Melton Moorabool Leader
- Sunbury Macedon Ranges Leader
- Wyndham Leader
See also[edit]
- ^ http://www.community.newsmedianet.com.au/home/groups/group/demographics.jsp?groupid=2
- ^ "Melbourne's Leader re-brands" (PDF). Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter (University of Queensland) (13): 6. July 2001. ISSN 1443-4962. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
External links[edit]
- Leader Community Newspapers website
- Digitised Victorian Newspapers from the National Library of Australia
- Digitised World War I Victorian newspapers from the State Library of Victoria


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Currently, hands are being wrung in the Metsphere about a Yahoo report which says "Jose Reyes...has told friends he would love to sign with the Angels when he becomes a free agent after the season."
Now, aside from the fact that this is totally unsubstantiated rumor attributed to unnamed "friends," but yea, I'll bet Jose Reyes would play in LA if they offered him the amount of money he's seeking. I bet he'd also play for the Yankees, Red Sox and a whole bunch of other teams for that money. It doesn't mean he wouldn't also play for the Mets for that same price, or wouldn't prefer to play for the Mets for that same price.
In fact, it doesn't mean anything.
Look, I would hope that Reyes takes some sort of hometown discount to stay with the Mets, but at the end of the day, the major factor with where most players sign is usually how much money they are offered, end of story.
And honestly, who could blame Jose Reyes -- at equal or more money -- for wanting to play in warm, sunny, Southern California.


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Papers published over the past two decades describing how changes in elastin are associated with skin photoaging are both puzzling and varying. Some point toward the activation of proteolytic enzymes that cleave elastin in a randomized manner, leading to decreasing structural integrity and inelasticity; others point to an accumulation of the secreted soluble precursor protein tropoelastin, in a condition termed solar elastosis. Though there is consensus on the importance of elastin in skin health and appearance, no systematic method has elucidated how the clinical manifestations of elastin in the dermal layer are correlated to its structure-function attributes.
In this paper, the authors review key findings in the published research and highlight measurable gaps, which potentially could marry these two divergent analyses for a complete picture. This prospective knowledge may contribute to understanding changes in elastin structure and, hence, function and implications for aged skin, elasticity and disease, with potential for future skin care targets. Elastin plays an important biological role in skin's structural and mechanical integrity, thus the development of unbiased targeted and quantitative studies to investigate the production and integrity of elastin, its soluble precursor tropoelastin and its variants (such as through structural and functional proteomics) is warranted.
Elastin Isoforms and Skin Metabolism
Elastin is a cross-linked network of monomeric polypeptides rich in insoluble amino acids, including glycine and proline. This network depends on hydrated milieus, which form unstructured hydrophobic regions bound by cross-links between lysine residues.1 In the dermal skin layer, elastin forms, together with collagen, the extracellular matrix (ECM), which is the skin's physical and mechanical foundation. Similar networks are present in other connective tissues (notably in the lungs and arteries), allowing tissues to return to their original rest-state shape after extending or tightening. The ECM, therefore, plays a key role in skin's structural integrity and biomechanics, permitting for persistent flexibility and repeated stretch and relaxation cycles. Elastin integrity is greatly reduced with aging, injury and sun exposure. Presumably, this can be associated with persistent catabolism by proteolytic enzymes, which break down its three-dimensional structure; consequently, skin gradually loses elasticity.
The elastin precursor tropoelastin is soluble, and exists in multiple transcript variants to encode for different isoforms. Due to the many possible isoforms, the same elastin gene translates to diversity within the elastin proteome, generating a family of structurally related proteins that vary in their mechanics, orientation, responsiveness to stimuli and, hence, their functionality. In fact, the elastin gene, when translated to mRNA, can be expressed in a variety of patterns that differ in their arrangement, interaction with ligands, stability to proteolytic degradation and functionality at the protein level. Stated another way, functions in the body are not carried out only by nucleus entities (i.e., DNA or mRNA) but by proteins. Nucleic acids are just codes. In fact, 50% of the nucleus material is protein, which controls functionality at the nucleus level. Therefore, measurements of levels of elastin and/or tropoelastin gene expression at the mRNA level can provide only partial information about biological activities
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I might be moving to Ireland (Cork, specifically) for four years and I need some information. Literally ANYTHING you can tell me about owning horses in Ireland will be helpful, but here are some of my main questions/concerns:
- Boarding stables. Are they mostly big show barns, backyard trail riding barns, training barns, or is there a good mixture? Are there any near big cities, or are they all out in the country? If you have any websites for boarding stables in Cork, I'd love to see them.
- Are there any western barns? Any reining barns?
- How much land is available for trail riding? How much of it is rural and how much of it is urban?
- Average (or a range) for board per month? I'd like to know the cost of full board and partial board.
- What's the turnout situation like? Do most barns have huge grass pastures for turnout, or is it more like the southern California 24x24 pipe corrals?
- Any price estimates you can give me on feed, hay, vet services, farriers, etc.
- I don't want to sound snobby, but I was extremely unimpressed with the horse care and safety I saw while I was there in the spring. I saw a LOT of horses standing in mud, turned out in wet and freezing weather with no shelter and no blankets, skinny horses, wormy horses, horses who needed their feet trimmed months ago, horses turned out in nylon halters, horses turned out in barbed wire, etc. Is that the norm, or did I just happen to see the few bad places?
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KENOSHA, Wis. — Skillet has long been much more than a pan to Christian music fans, but a new set of mainstream music lovers are starting to get to know the rock band that has been around since the mid-1990s.
Skillet released its eighth album, "Rise," this June, coming off its best-selling album, "Awake," which went platinum after three years.
But singer John Cooper hardly feels famous.
"I like to tell people that Skillet is the biggest-selling band that you've never heard of," said Cooper at his home in Kenosha, Wis.
"People think I'm famous all the time, but they don't know who Skillet is," he said. "They always think I'm somebody else. They always think I'm Johnny Knoxville or Ryan Seacrest or somebody like that."
Off stage, Cooper and his wife, Korey, who also plays guitar and keyboards, live far from the spotlight in Kenosha, a southern Wisconsin city of about 100,000 people where Korey grew up. She has family nearby and her father started a church in the area in the 1970s.
Drummer Jen Ledger, a native of England, also lives in Kenosha and attends the same church.
John Cooper helped start the band in Memphis 1996, but they've had lineup changes over the years.
Currently, it's the Coopers, Ledger and lead guitarist Seth Morrison, who lives in Memphis. He joined in 2011, and "Rise" was his first album with the band.
They've won over Christian rock fans, even being nominated in 2005 and 2007 for Grammy Awards in the best rock gospel album category. The song that helped cross them over to the rock charts was "Whispers in the Dark," from the 2006 album "Comatose." They've since had several songs on Billboard's rock chart.
When the Coopers sat down to write "Rise," they reflected on the success of "Awake" but didn't find many answers.
"No one really knows why our last album went platinum," Korey Cooper said. "... So there's even added pressure of how do you follow up something nobody can really put a handle on why it was successful."
It could be of the energy they've put into relentlessly touring, concentrating on both mainstream and Christian crowds. They are in South America and will join Nickelback in Europe on Oct. 26.
"Rise" made its debut at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart and No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts. And this comes after the group's last album in 2009, "Awake," reached No. 2.
Despite their success, they've not had that one giant crossover hit, said Anthony Delia, senior vice president of marketing for their label, Atlantic.
Their songs are not overtly religious and are open to interpretation — the intention of John Cooper, who writes most of the lyrics.
"We write them through our world view, through my faith in Jesus, but I write it in a way that can interpreted into lots of different things," he said. "And I think Skillet's music brings people together. I don't think it alienates people of certain beliefs."
Even in the Christian crowd, they can't seem to win everyone over.
"There is a certain sect of Christian people who believe that Christian music should be extremely overt," Cooper said.
Cooper said he once had a promoter tell him they would be far more popular if they stopped talking about Jesus.
He disagrees.
"I think (fans) just appreciate that we stand for something," he said, "that we are real about it and not embarrassed about it."
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The IWLCA has named 41 student-athletes to play in the North-South Senior All-Star Game, which will take place at the Champions' Cup on Sat., June 12. The Division III game will begin at 2 pm at the United Sports Training Center in Downingtown, Pa.
Jayme Alfano, Drew, D
Melissa Brashear, Catholic, GK
Quinn Sanborn Brueggemann, Williams, D
Amy Campbell, Colby, A
Anne Cook, Trinity (CT), D
Jessica Copeland, Ohio Wesleyan, M
Caroline Duke, Colby, D
Tracey Ferriter, Williams, M
Jessilyn Fritz, Cortland, M
Lauren Glavin, Saint John Fisher, M
Katie Henderson, Buffalo State, A
Elizabeth Law, Drew, M
Nicole Mahoney, Cortland, A
Liz Pacheco, Vassar, M
Sarah Remes, Trinity (CT), M
Kathleen Scheld, Amherst, M
Ann Sessler, Nazareth, GK
Whitney Thayer, Williams, A
Peggy Wefald, Mount Holyoke, M,
Loretta White, Wellesley, M
Coach: Kate Livesay, Trinity (CT)
Amanda Alexandrowicz, Cabrini, M
Alexandra Bertrand, St. Mary's, D
Kara Borzillo, Stevens, D
Elizabeth Cannon, Ursinus, M
Katie Capinolo, Elizabethtown, M
Jessica Crane, Gettysburg, M
Alysa Crellin, Dickinson, M
Kim Cudmore, Salisbury, A
Paulette Cutruzzula, Franklin & Marshall, D
Nina Emala, Gettysburg, A
Jess Glazer, Salisbury, D
Blake Hargest, Franklin & Marshall, A
Stephanie Kreis, Elizabethtown, A
Kaitlyn Molzon, Rowan, D
Alyssa Pigott, Stevens, A
Steffi Renninger, Sewanee, M
Beth Rhodey, Salisbury, M
Lidia Sanza, Franklin & Marshall, GK
Kate Schmid, Cabrini, GK
Hollis Stahl, Gettysburg, M
Bryanna Vohs, Guilford, D
Coach: Mike Faith, Elizabethtown
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What Is Welfare & How Can It Help You?
Are you having a difficult time paying your medical bills, housing, and most importantly food for yourself and you family? Well, you are definitely not alone. With the economic situation of the past several years, many Americans are having difficult financial times and are turning to welfare and social services programs for some much needed assistance.
Welfare provides financial aid and benefits to people that need help. Most welfare assistance is provided by federal, state, and county government programs. Welfare programs are designed to help you if you are are unemployed, have a low income, or are in need of food, housing, medical care, or financial assistance.
There are many different welfare, social services, public assistance, and government benefits programs in the United States. These social services programs were created to assist you in meeting your basic needs and improving your life. To be eligible for many of the welfare benefits you need to be either a low-income or very low-income individual or family.
Low-income families are families whose incomes do not exceed 80 percent of the median family income for the area.
Very low-income families are families whose incomes do not exceed 50 percent of the median family income for the area.
During 2010, the median family income for the United States was $64,400. Median family income in the rural areas was $51,600 and $67,400 in the cities. The median family income for your area is calculated for each state, within the metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas.
These social welfare or social services programs were designed to meet the needs of people that truly need the help. Unfortunately, some people do take advantage of the welfare programs and do abuse the welfare system. There are measures in place to detect welfare fraud. If you truly meet the requirements and need the assistance, be sure to take advantage of the different welfare programs that can help you.
Traditional Welfare Program Now Known As TANF
In 1996, Temporary Assistance for Need Families (TANF) replaced the traditional welfare programs known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Jobs Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) program, and the Emergency Assistance (EA) program.
TANF was designed to help familes in need become self sufficient. States receive federal block grants to operate their programs and meet the goals of TANF which include;
1. Assisting families in need so that children can be cared for in their own homes
2. Reducing the dependency of needy parents by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage.
3. Preventing pregnancies out-of-wedlock
4. Encouraging the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.
Learn more about the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
The federal and state welfare programs also provide the following assistance:
If you are in need of the traditional social welfare programs or are looking for other government benefit programs, the following list provides you with links to government benefit categories that represent over 1,000 programs involving 17 different Federal partners.
In most cases, the Federal government provides money to the States in the form of grants. The States then manage and distribute the grant money as they see fit, within Federal guidelines. In some cases, the States need to provide additional "matching" funds to fully implement the benefits and assistance programs.
There are two basic types of Federal government benefit programs, Cash Grant Programs and Non-Cash Grant Programs.
The Cash Grant Programs provide money directly to you in the form of a check. These cash programs typically include Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Foster Care, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
The Non-Cash Grant Programs place the money into accounts and allow you to use Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and housing vouchers to pay for services, or the grant money is sent to an approved agency, like a long-term care facility, which provide you with services. These non-cash programs include the Food Stamp or SNAP programs, Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) program, and In-Home Supportive Services.
Government Benefits and Assistance Programs
1. Career Development Assistance - These programs include grants for student financial aid, loan repayment programs, job training for unemployed workers including Job Opportunites for Low-Income Individuals (JOLI) and the One Stop Career Center Initiative, job training assistance for minorities, Native Americans, and veterans. For more information on improving your career development click to continue...
2. Child Care & Child Support - Programs include adoption assistance, the Head Start program, child care, child support enforcement, family planning, foster care, immunizations, social services, and special education for children. Learn more about services you can get for child care and child support click to continue...
3. Counseling - These programs provide information and access to counseling for crisis assistance, disasters, employment, family services, housing, careers, mental health, substance abuse, youth assistance, and veteran's assistance. If you are in need of counseling assistance click to continue...
4. Disability Assistance - A wide variety of programs to help people with disabilities. It includes improving access to assistive technology, agriculture and coal miners with disabilities, disabled veterans, federal retirees, Social Security disability benefits, special education, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and veterans assistance programs. If you or a family member have a disability and need help, get additional information about the different government disability assistance programs click to continue...
5. Disaster Relief - Assistance programs to help with recovery from declared disasters such as a flood, hurricane, tornado, wildfire, earthquake, or volcanic eruption. Benefits include help with businesses, crops, food, legal services, unemployment, housing assistance, loans, crimes, and terrorist attacks. Learn more about disaster relief programs click to continue...
6. Education & Training - Programs that are designed to assist with providing educational opportunities and financing for students, health workers, Native Americans, minorities, and veterans. Well known programs include the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), Federal Student Aid, and Emergency Management Institute grants. Read more information about education and training assistance programs click to continue...
7. Energy Assistance - Provides home energy and weatherization assistance for low-income families. There are two energy assistance programs that involve the federal government providing funding to the states for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and the Weatherization Assistance Program for Low-Income (Wx) Persons. Get additional information about the Energy Assistance programs click to continue...
8. Food & Nutrition - This is by far the category that contains the largest number of assistance programs, primarily due to all the separate state programs. The main programs are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as the Food Stamp Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). It also includes school breakfast and lunch programs, special milk program, and summer food service. Learn more about the food and nutrition programs click to continue...
9. Grants & Scholarships - Various block grants to communities and agencies, research grants, Federal Pell Grants, educational grants, work-study, tribal grants, minority grants, and national scholarships. For more information about educational grants, fellowships, and scholarships click to continue...
10. Healthcare - There are many different healthcare assistance programs that are available to low-income individuals and people in need of health care services. The main programs are the State Children's Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP or CHIP) and the Veteran Affairs (VA) healthcare services. Learn more about the healthcare assistance programs click to continue...
11. Housing - Provides assistance for buying homes or renting. Includes FHA and HUD mortgage assistance, equal opportunity in housing, FEMA housing after disasters, fair housing initiatives, HUD homes for sale, rural housing, veterans home loans, and the Housing Choice Voucher program (Section 8). Get more information about government housing assistance programs click to continue...
12. Insurance - These programs provide a wide variety of insurance protection for children through the State Children's Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP or CHIP), FHA mortgage insurance, unemployment insurance, crop insurance, disaster insurance, Social Security insurance benefits, and Veterans Affairs life insurance. Find out more about the federal and state insurance programs click to continue...
13. Living Assistance - This category contains the traditional welfare programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and financial assistance to tribes. It also includes retirement programs such as Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and Public Safety Officers Benefits Program (PSOB).
14. Loan & Loan Repayment - Includes small business loans, FHA insured home mortgage, disater loans, education consolidation loans, farm loans, Federal Perkins Loan, PLUS Parent loans, rural housing loans, disaster loans, Stafford Loans for Students, and veterans loans.
15. Medicaid & Medicare - Includes the state Medicaid program and the federal Medicare programs.
16. Social Security - Covers all the Social Security programs including retirement, disability, and survivors benefits.
17. Tax Assistance - Programs include captial construction funds and business assistance. It also includes tax credit programs like the child tax credit, earned income tax credit, farmers tax credit, and medical tax credits.
18. Veterans - Active Duty - These programs include assistant to both veterans and active members of the U.S. Armed Services. Programs include tax benefits, housing assistance, counseling, medical assistance, loans, healthcare and disability benefits.
19. Volunteers - Programs that provide grants to encourage senior citizens to get involved with local community volunteer projects.
Welfare Office
Many of the social welfare programs are managed by the state or local government. You can usually find a listing of your local welfare office on the Internet or your local phone book. In most states, the welfare offices are located in each of the counties.
The state Department of Social Services, Human Resources Department, or Public Welfare agencies usually manage the local welfare services.
If you need to visit your local welfare office, be sure to phone ahead to make an appointment to visit with a caseworker or welfare employee that can help you.
There is a lot of demand for social welfare services and government assistance to help individuals and families through these difficult economic times. Before you contact your local welfare office, take a look at the different government benefits and assistance programs that you might need.
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SAN ANTONIO - As of Wednesday at noon, the Powerball jackpot had reached $550 million dollars, giving people buying tickets in San Antonio lots to dream about.
But most people who were buying tickets in the Alamo City said they'd help others with the money rather than buying any big-ticket items.
"I would help people that helped me," Ronald Batiste said.
Rodney Valdez said he wouldn't even be able to spend all the money if he tried.
"I'm not going to live long enough to spend it all, so my kids will be taken care of. Their kids will be taken care of," he said.
"I would give some to my church and donate and then retire early," Mandie Ramalho said.
She is really hoping to strike it rich by buying tickets in bulk.
"We did 10 Quick Picks and 40 of our own numbers," Ramalho said.
Her pool of eight family members bought a total of 100 tickets.
Khamp Chantadara is also setting up a pool, but his is for 20 people at work.
"Everybody thinks I'm lucky, so that's why I buy them," he said.
He's been running a pool for a while now, so he has rules, like everyone who wants in has to pay cash up-front.
"There's no credit," he said.
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Michael Oren isn't the only Israeli official giving stirring speeches. Bibi, in a speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, made clear that Israel has plenty of reasons to walk from the peace talks but has shown restraint:
Believe me, every day the Palestinians do things I don't like: whether it's incitement in the schools or media, or an international campaign that they back to delegitimize Israel.
Just yesterday, a Palestinian Authority court ruled that the sale of Palestinian land to Israelis is punishable by death. You know, all these things do not square well with me, and my colleagues often question why is it that we're staying in the talks. Some have even questioned why I'm having peace talks with President Abbas when half of the Palestinian people are controlled by Hamas, which is a terror organization that openly calls for our destruction. I'm mentioning all of these things – and there are many others that I could raise here – because these could afford me many reasons to walk away from the table. But I haven't walked away from the table. I want to give these talks a chance to succeed. And I very much hope that President Abbas will have the same attitude. I expect him to sit down with me even when we disagree, and to work with me through those disagreements in a sincere effort to forge an historic compromise, which I believe is possible.
We got rid of the preconditions before the talks. We can't reintroduce them five minutes after the talks begin.
Israel gets little if any credit for this, and the chattering class doesn't demand that Abbas extend (or even come up with, for there has never been one) a moratorium on killing Jews or teaching anti-Semitism to Palestinian children.
But Bibi has a larger point to make, which, despite his complimentary words for the president and secretary of state (on whom the words are lost), gets to the heart of the matter and the pointlessness of peace talks:
It's time for the Palestinians to do something they have refused to do for 62 years. It's time for them to say yes to a Jewish state. Now what does it mean to recognize the Jewish state, or the nation-state of the Jewish people? It means that the Palestinians recognize the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in our historic homeland. I recognized the Palestinians' right to self-determination and sovereignty. They must finally recognize the Jewish people's right to self determination and sovereignty. … It's important because the Palestinian leadership must begin to make clear to its own people that they are making a permanent peace with the Jewish people, a people that has a right to be here, a right to live in its own state and in its own homeland.
Which is why Abbas will never do it. So what is the point, then? The Obami shouldn't lose face, our sympathetic ally has determined. Unlike the Obama administration, the Netanyahu government sees no benefit in embarrassing its ally, nor in emphasizing the gaps in perception between the U.S. and Israel. There is another reason for Bibi to put the spotlight on Abbas's refusal to recognize the Jewish state as the Jewish state. In case the Obami were contemplating an imposed peace deal, Bibi has raised a red flag: what's the point if Abbas won't give up finally and completely the fight for a one-state solution?


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Home Purchasing Club, the place where "smiles, products and you intersect each and every day," returns to sell more hilarious wares of questionable taste. First up in season two of the weekly online show: A series of collector plates commemorating life's precious moments — from "Billy's First Grunt" (i.e., toilet poopy) to "Daddy's First Hooker" to "procreating" dogs.
Last season, HPC products included "The Fanny Cleaner" (watch for a demonstration on how to use the product) and made-to-order, grass-fed human livers that "have never had to process red meat or alcohol." If the clip below is any indication, expect this season to be even more raucous than the first.
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You would never imagine Ryoko releasing this kind of video. She squats wearing only stocking and a brassiere. She also plays a wrestler training her body and pussy with perverted coaches.
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Directed by Jules Dassin, this film is one of the best examples of film noir. Set in London, Richard Widmark plays a small-time hustler who is always too late for the big time grift. When he finally finds something that he feels might make his some serious cash, the plan backfires. Widmark is at his best here…he excels at playing lowlife losers and this is one of his best. Add Gene Tierney to the mix as Widmark's love interest and it makes one exceptional film.
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I order the DVDs, Blu-rays, and Audiobooks at the Niles Library. I love movies almost as much as I love being a librarian. Also, I am an Anglophile, Hitchcock-phile, destined to move to London/England one day, loves to travel (Europe), loves to read, wishes for some more time to write.


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Chapel Hill Fire Department remembers fallen firefighters
Chapel Hill Fire Chief Dan Jones remembers the grief, anger and frustration that he and other firefighters felt after terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York City 12 years ago.
After the Twin Towers crashed to the ground - killing thousands, including firefighters, paramedics and police officers - emergency personnel from all over the country wanted to go to New York to help.
"It was hard to keep from going there and keeping our people from going," Jones said Wednesday morning following a memorial observance at the Chapel Hill Fire Department. "A lot of our folks wanted to get on planes at their own expense in the days that followed."
Jones knew that a disorganized response might make things more difficult for those working in New York City, so he discouraged his people from going there.
At the same time, Jones said he felt a great sense of pride in the work of the New York firefighters who saved lives when they rushed to the towers and helped people get out of the buildings before they collapsed.
He can't help but remember the families who lost loved ones.
"It still really touches me today," Jones said.
"They'll always have that hole in their families," he said. "The rest of the world moves on, but they never do."
Jones led a memorial observance in front of the Chapel Hill Fire Department that began at 8:40 a.m. Wednesday. The Honor Guard marched from inside the department across the driveway to the flag pole and raised the American flag. At 8:46 a.m. the fire department tone went off, and the department's intercom system crackled as a 911 dispatcher announced the first strike.
After a moment of silence and an invocation, the Honor Guard, carrying silver axes returned to the flag pole, this time to lower the flag to half-staff.
Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue read off some statistics about the "unimaginable" attack.
The towers burned for 56 and 102 minutes before they collapsed, killing 343 firefighters and paramedics. Twenty-three New York police officers and 37 Port Authority officers were killed.
"Certainly life for public safety professionals was changed forever," Blue said. "New training, tools for improved communication and information sharing, response protocols, command and control procedures, all improved and enhanced by the lessons we learned and from the experiences of those responding to those historic sites."
Many lessons were learned from 911, and throughout the country emergency personnel worked together to prepare for a future attack.
"What brings me comfort and hope is that we, you, the brotherhood and sisterhood of public safety remain ready to respond to the next call, the next tragedy, the next significant event," Blue said. "Horrible though they were, the events of Sept. 11, 2001 have made us more ready to respond with a resolve and a sense of duty that is stronger than ever."