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WAILUKU - Bowlers are on "pins and needles" because the landowner of the 6-decade-old Maui Bowling Center - the only bowling alley on Maui - has put the property up for sale.
The bowling community has been concerned since seeing a "for sale" sign up on the outside wall of the center a few months ago.
Bowling center General Manager Alvin Kushiyama made clear that the alley was not for sale.
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Maui Bowling Center General Manager Alvin Kushiyama (sitting) is one of the dozen shareholders at the center and is concerned about the future of the the alley. When he was younger, Kushiyama worked as a pin boy at the alley and manually reset pins for bowlers. He appears in this photo with Fred Calhau Jr., another former pin boy.
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The 10-lane Maui Bowling Center hosts 13 adult leagues, two junior leagues and the Maui Interscholastic League bowling season.
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The Maui Bowling Center was built in 1946 and occupies 7,664 square feet.
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Maui Bowling Center General Manager Alvin Kushiyama restocks bowling shoes at the center last week.
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"People are confused and think the bowling alley is for sale, but it's not the bowling alley, it's the property," he said last week.
The Robinson Family Trust, which owns the property, according to county property tax records, could not be reached for comment about the reason the property is for sale. An official with Trust Real Estate Services at First Hawaiian Bank, which is handling the sale, said that he could not comment due to customer confidentiality.
The asking price for the property, which has been on the market for about three years, is $399,000, according to a representative from Malu Realty, the realty company involved in the sale. The representative did not want to be named.
The county's 2012 property tax assessment of the 14,331-square-foot property and 7,664-square-foot building along Vineyard Street was $742,700.
Kushiyama said that he does not know what will happen to the center if the property is sold and is unaware of any contractual agreements between the bowling center and the current owners.
"Will they buy it and still lease the property to us? I don't know, I really don't know," he said. "I'm just here to provide a place for the bowlers."
There are 15 bowling leagues that use the 10-lane Maui Bowling Center, two of them are youth leagues. The Maui Interscholastic League also uses the lanes for its high school bowling season.
"It would be the end of bowling on Maui" if something were to happen to the alley, said Joe Balangitao, executive director of the Maui Interscholastic League, on Wednesday.
He was unaware that the property was on the market but added that if the bowling alley was closed about 60 to 80 high school bowlers would be without a sport.
Rodney Carillo, head coach for Central Maui Junior Bowlers, expressed a similar sentiment.
"It would be real disappointing and hurtful for all of the kids participating," he said Wednesday. "It doesn't take anyone big or special to play the sport. I've got little, skinny, small kids that have done well against all these athletes in Oahu."
Carillo said he was on "pins and needles" and wants to do something about the possible sale and loss of the bowling alley but does not know what to do. He said that the bowling community is taking it day by day.
"Alvin has always kept the prices low for the kids, but (the loss of the bowling center) is a reality and it can happen . . . and that's the scary part of it," he said. "I'm afraid to have my program shut down, and we won't be able to bowl. It would be a shame if it did."
There has been talk for years that former Mayor Charmaine Tavares, a longtime league bowler, was leading an effort to build a bowling center with other activities such as pool tables, bumper cars, laser tag and video games in Maui Lani. Attempts to contact Tavares to ask her about the progress of the project were unsuccessful.
The Maui Bowling Center, which has survived for more than 60 years, has seen generations of bowlers, including its current 75-year-old manager. Although Kushiyama has worked on and off at the bowling center his entire life, he started his career as a pin boy.
Before the advent of automatic pin holders and equipment at the lanes in 1961, typically young boys would manually set pins and return bowling balls to players. Kushiyama said he would jump down from a ledge above the pit to reset the pins.
"It was hard work," he said. "The ball and the pins would hit your leg, and we'd get pissed off. So I used to spit in the ball and send it back. . . . We were young kids."
Fred Calhau Jr., who also worked as a pin boy and was paid less than a dollar an hour, said that the most important thing was to be awake.
"I had a lot of close calls," said the 66-year-old retired police officer Wednesday. "Sometimes, the bowlers have heavy balls and throw the ball hard. The pins fly upward, and I've seen a couple guys get hit."
Calhau and Kushiyama said that the popularity of bowling is not what it used to be. Calhau said there are 15 bowling leagues and about 400 bowlers currently, but a decade ago there was double the number of bowlers. He said bowling was really big on Maui and that the center was always full from day to night.
Besides Maui Bowling Center, there was another popular, newer bowling alley, Aloha Lanes on Kaahumanu Avenue below Stillwell's Bakery & Cafe. It closed about 10 years ago and is currently Central Maui Self Storage.
"I was raised in this bowling alley," Calhau said of the Maui Bowling Center. "My family was bowling every night."
Kushiyama, who is one of the dozen shareholders that own the bowling center, said if someone buys the property they hope to communicate with the new owners before any plans are made.
"I think it's only fair if the owners talk to the bowling alley before they make any decisions," he said.
Calhau, who was a bowling coach for Maui High School for more than 20 years, said that adult bowlers are not the only bowlers at a loss.
"If we lose the bowling center. . . . it affects the kids, the high school bowlers and the old-timers," he said.
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While we in the Northern Hemisphere may be in the midst of the sultry days of summer, the lazy, hazy days of dog days, there is nothing lazy or hazy about the next month's activities ready for the public on the 22 acres of Adaland Mansion at Philippi, Philippi's lovingly-restored 1870 hill top home on Rt. 76 four miles north of downtown Philippi.
The summer's favorite "who dunit?" returns to the pavilion on Friday and Saturday, August 9-10, when West Virginia playwright Karen Vuranch pulls into town with one of her hilarious, audience-participating mystery plays, part of Adaland's Summer Murder Mystery Dinner Theater.
A loyal following has been built up over the years for this summertime favorite. Vuranch uses local thespians to cast her shows, and the actors and actresses frolic through the broad framework of a plot that always involves a murder early in the play. During the progression of the storyline, the audience begins to realize that any of the characters could be the murderer. That's when the fun begins with the audience spending the last half of the evening questioning the characters whose answers sometimes bring broad guffaws from the audience.
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Karen Vuranch, West Virginia playwright, will once again lead area thespians in a frolic through a mystery theater production with Vuranch's signature audience participation. Audience members will learn early in the play of a murder and then will be asked to assume the role of an attorney for questioning the suspected murderers in the cast. The play will be part of Adaland's Murder Mystery Dinner Theater on Friday and Saturday, August 9-10. The dinner buffet begins at 6 p.m. and will be followed by the murder mystery. For more information, call 304-457-2415.
Audience members vote on "who dunit?" and then learn the identify of the true murderer.
The August 9-10 dinner that leads up to the mystery performance will be one of Adaland's traditional buffet dinners full of ham with raisin sauce and baked chicken, a variety of side vegetables, and a dessert table array of sweet delicacies that Adaland's own Lucy Williamson will create especially for our guests.
Because this event always fills up quickly, Adaland encourages making reservations early by calling 304-457-2415. Tickets are $40 for adults and $20 for children and include the buffet and the mystery theater.
On Sunday, Aug. 18, Adaland, in partnership with the Barbour County Community Garden Market and the Appalachian Farm and Research Center, will host its third dinner in the Celebrate Local! dinner series. The series, one of Adaland's new events for the 2013 season, is a celebration of local/regional produce and meats with five gourmet dinners prepared by five local/regional chefs extraordinaire!
W.Va. American Culinary Federation's Chef of the Year for 2012 and 2012, Jay Mahoney, is the featured chef for the Aug. 18 dinner. Chef Mahoney will be serving a luscious summertime buffet featuring chilled seafood gazpacho, crimson lentil and grain salad, tomato and farm bread salad, a grilled vegetable platter, peppercorn seared pork tenderloin, spinach pasta lasagna, pancetta and Swiss quiche, focaccia, fresh fruit tart, cinnamon almond flan and milk chocolate caramel creme brulee.
This buffet extravaganza will seat guests at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Reservations are $25 and may be made by calling 304-457-2415.
August's final Adaland event is a Sunday afternoon tea at 2 p.m Sunday, Aug. 25. A lovely afternoon tea of scones, tea sandwiches, fruit and desserts may be reserved for $18 by calling 304-457-2415.
As always, the summer months at Adaland Mansion at Philippi are filled with fun, education, history and delicious activities for the entire family. For a complete calendar of events and for directions to the restored mansion, visit www.adaland.org or 'like' us on Facebook.

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Governor's education bill a strong beginning
March 8, 2013
For decades West Virginians have followed national trends and, in effect, thrown money and fads at public education in an attempt to improve it....
Reverend Cracker:
You state, "Bullhead - The homes of today are simply a growing reflection of the failed ignorance and close-mindedness of the expanded conservative social agenda of the last 40-50 years."
That obviously can't be the case. Because this nation was much more "close-minded" and "conservative socially" at its Founding through the early 20th century. And, education (public and private) weren't NEARLY as much of a failure then as they are now.
The homes have increasingly failed as society (pushed by public education) has gotten more "Progressive" over the last 40-60 years.
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Crispie/HolyToast/RevCracker: If I were to turn my life around, my life would be similar to yours and I would have to end it. So, thanks, but I'll keep my life just the way it is.
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Reverend Cracker:
Are the homes of today not simply a growing reflection of the failed social experiment called "progressive" public education of the last 40-50 years?
And, the problems with public education ARE NOT all stemming from the home. Even a good parent is virtually powerless in a corrupt and inefficient behemoth system.
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Hey Crispie/HolyToast/RevCracker: Will you write anything that reflects any thought or originality? You truly are both a bore and a boar.
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Privatize all education!
And, then start separating educational institutions by gender and concentrating on the core curriculum. Then, you would see almost every problem with our current educational system disappear...
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Well, irreverent one, that's altogether inapplicable, unless you want to compare Manny Arvon's salary with that of the school cafeteria worker.
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You hire a plumber. It snows so he doesn't show--but you pay him anyway. When he does show up, he botches the job--but you pay him anyway. He tells you it's your fault because, after all, HE didn't make the pipes or stop them up. Makes sense if you are a Teachers' Union and a legislator. It's their system, not yours.
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There are two teachers, Ms. Bachelors and Ms. Doctorate. The latter acquired her doctorate in a field unrelated to that which she teaches. She makes everyone call her "Doctor" and spends most of each class talking about things that have little or nothing to do with the subject she teaches. Ms. Bachelors is an excellent teacher, well respected for her ability by peers and students alike. Guess who gets more pay" Right. Ms. Doctorate. Makes sense if you are a Teachers' Union and a legislator. It's their system, not yours.
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You have two employees, one of which is marginal, at best, and one of which is a stellar performer. Ms. Marginal has 11 years with the company and Ms. Stellar has three. If one has to be canned, which one would you choose? Well, if they are teachers, under the current system, the stellar performer gets the boot. Makes sense if you are a Teachers' Union and a legislator. It's their system, not yours.
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A 179-page bill cannot be good.
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The unions are paid to do the dirty work for the teachers: whine for them, demand more money, benefits, and less work for them, and to do it all "for the children." Bunk. If the education system is a bust--and it is--then we can thank the legislature (past and present)for laying commonsense and the best interest of the children aside in favor of placating the unions for their money and votes. Stop the madness and get back to basics. It worked for many generations and it will work today.
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A federal judge made a ruling this week that has a decidedly Orwellian touch to it.
US District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled on Tuesday that the San Antonio Northside School District can require that its students wear devices with RFID locator chips embedded in them while on school premises. The decision has raised privacy concerns among conservative and liberal privacy-rights groups.
The saga began when 15-year-old magnet school student Andrea Hernandez refused to wear the device while attending Jay High School. School officials expelled the sophomore for not complying with the rule that is required of all students on campus. The case ended up before Garcia who also refused to block the student's expulsion pending review by the courts.
The Rutherford Institute of Virginia represented the student in federal court. The institute said that the ruling was clearly in violation of the student's privacy rights and it would appeal the decision.
"We don't want to see this kind of intrusive surveillance infrastructure gain inroads into our culture," ACLU senior policy analyst Jay Stanley said. "We should not be teaching our children to accept such an intrusive surveillance technology," said Stanley, according to Reuters.
The technology at the center of the controversy is known as RFID which stands for R-adio F-requency ID-entification. RFID can identify a product or individual by assigning a unique electronic identification that can be read by certain devices. The technology can then log information and is also capable of tracking an item or person by virtue of its ability to be detected by other devices that are designed to read their particular ID information. The chips can be as small as grain of rice and are implantable underneath the skin.
Many privacy advocate groups have expressed deep concerns that this technology could be easily used for more intrusive means. The Northside School District devices reportedly will not work away from school property, and the system is supposed to be invulnerable to outside monitoring.
According to district spokesman Pascual Gonzalez, it is not the district's intention to monitor the activities of students or spy on them.
"Northside is using the technology to locate students who are in the school building but not in the classroom when the morning bell rings," Gonzalez told Reuters.
Garcia gave Hernandez and her father Steven Hernandez until the start of the spring semester beginning this month to either comply with the school district policy or return to her home campus where RFID chips are not required.
This is a topic that is as hotly debated as gun control. Should school officials be allowed to force a student to submit to electronic tracking in order to remain at a school? The school Hernandez attends allows her to participate in a specialized curriculum and a transfer would likely deprive her of that specific type of instruction.
Is it fair to place those requirements on students to participate in these programs that are funded with taxpayer dollars if taxpayers are against it? I must point out that there was no mention on this, but several parents are opposed to it.
Many privacy advocates believe that Americans are slowly losing their right to privacy. Our information goes into all sorts of databases that build profiles on us and track our activities. We are photographed hundreds of times a day and recorded in various places as well. Could all that information one day end up being used against us?
Will these technologies prove to be beneficial or will they somehow end up being used for purposes that they were not intended. Will they end up like the Social Security card which was not supposed to be a form of identification but is now routinely used as such?
What these students have is not much different from the type of monitoring that some parolees and probationers have. Why is it necessary to actually track their whereabouts when the teachers take attendance? Also, how long will it be before all schools require this, and what will it all eventually lead to as far as our privacy is concerned?
Will this ultimately extend to the workplace as well? It is certainly not a big stretch of the imagination to see this popping up one day if it already isn't going on somewhere.
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Lawsuit against Northside ISD tracking system rejected
Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID ...
Texas Students Rebelling Against Electronic Tracking Cards Now ...


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Plano, TX - Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), a leading motion picture exhibitor, is pleased to announce that the animated filmYellow Submarinestarring The Beatles will return to screens for one day only on Thursday, May 10, 2012. Cinemark, EMI and Apple Corps Ltd. have teamed with D&E Entertainment to give Beatles fans of all ages the opportunity to come together and share in this visually stunning movie which has been digitally restored.
"Everyone has some connection to The Beatles, whether their music, concerts or their films," states James Meredith, Vice President of Marketing for Cinemark Theatres. "This movie,Yellow Submarine, set a standard for filmmakers and fans for generations. Cinemark is excited to have this masterpiece return to screens."
Currently out of print, the film has been restored in 4K digital resolution for the first time by Paul Rutan Jr. and his team of specialists at Triage Motion Picture Services and Eque Inc. Due to the delicate nature of the hand-drawn original artwork, no automated software was used in the digital clean-up of the film's restored photochemical elements. This was all done by hand, frame by frame. The film has been rated G by the MPAA.
Yellow Submarine, directed by George Dunning, is based upon a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, is a fantastic tale brimming with peace, love, and hope, propelled by Beatles songs, including "Eleanor Rigby," "When I'm Sixty-Four," "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "All You Need Is Love," and "It's All Too Much." When the film debuted in 1968, it was instantly recognized as a landmark achievement, revolutionizing a genre by integrating the freestyle approach of the era with innovative animation techniques.
Inspired by the generation's new trends in art, the film resides with the dazzling Pop Art styles of Andy Warhol, Martin Sharp, Alan Aldridge and Peter Blake. With art direction and production design by Heinz Edelmann, Yellow Submarine is a classic of animated cinema, featuring the creative work of animation directors Robert Balser and Jack Stokes with a team of animators and technical artists.
Cinemark will present Yellow Submarineon Thursday, May 10 exclusively at various locations across the country. Showtimes at all theatres will be at 2PM and 7PM each day. A full list of participating Cinemark locations, advance ticket purchases and show time information can be found at www.cinemark.com.
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Cinemark is a leading domestic and international motion picture exhibitor, operating 459 theatres with 5,181 screens in 39 U.S. states, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and 10 other Latin American countries as of March 31, 2012. For more information go to investors.cinemark.com.
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Somebodys nickname.
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Damn Fat Albert! I't looks like you ate the whole restraunt!
Theres "fat albert" again!
Whats up "fat albert?"
Theres "fat albert" again!
Whats up "fat albert?"
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a 70's cartoon about a big fat guy who says "HEY HEY HEY!"
Fat Albert was the funniest cartoon in the 70's and 80's and I wish they would bring it back on tv.
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A particularly large turd that stretches out your sphincter and causes you to scream "Hey! Hey! Hey!" as you pass it.
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Just four months after the scholarship program was introduced, the school district estimates some 90 percent of eligible seniors have applied to at least one college or vocational school, a big increase over the estimated 55 percent of a year ago.
In addition, 92 percent of the seniors have filled out Say Yes applications, with two weeks still to go before the April 1 deadline.
Adding to the momentum is news that New York University, Columbia University and Fordham University have joined Say Yes Buffalo's private college compact. That means, for instance, that NYU's four-year undergraduate tuition would be free for families with incomes of less than $75,000, and families making more than that would receive $20,000 toward the four-year cost.
"We're working closely with Say Yes Buffalo and the entire community to create a college-going culture, and we're very pleased with the progress being made," Superintendent Pamela C. Brown said.
"We set a pretty lofty goal at the beginning of our school year of having 100 percent of our graduating seniors complete at least one college application, and that their families complete a financial aid application. Based on the latest numbers, we're absolutely thrilled."
That sense of excitement was echoed by Samuel Radford III, president of the District Parent Coordinating Council.
"We're in a culture where the vast majority of us don't go to college. It's a long journey, and I don't want to give any illusions about how long a journey it is, but we've got a great first step, and that first step matters," Radford said.
"Say Yes has been an awesome partner. We have the possibility of a whole new future that we didn't see."
Say Yes covers the tuition costs that remain after federal and institutional grants and scholarships are considered. The tuition costs are covered regardless of family income for graduates accepted to one of the more than 100 participating SUNY/CUNY schools and private institutions, and for vocational certificates for careers in the culinary arts, building trades and health fields, among others.
To be eligible, students must be residents of Buffalo and have been continuously enrolled in a public or charter high school from at least ninth grade, with exceptions for students with refugee status. They also must have applied for all available federal and state financial aid programs.
The program was announced Dec. 20 with the backing of a broad array of public and private entities, and a scholarship fund that, with a $50,000 donation announced Thursday by the Nyamekye Foundation, now stands at $18.4 million.
Outreach started in January. Eight of 10 planned community meetings have been held, with attendance between 30 to 85 people. Those meetings have helped reveal gaps in community awareness.
For instance, Ralph Hernandez, a member of the Buffalo School Board, hosted a meeting at Lafayette High School, and he said that out of an audience of about 60 people, no Hispanics were in attendance. The crowd included many immigrant families, who spoke with several translators present.
That led Say Yes to involve more community institutions, such as the Belle Center on the West Side, the faith-based community, and minority media to help get out the word, said David Rust, Say Yes Buffalo's executive director.
Things are only beginning, he said.
"By fall of 2015, we will have Say Yes staff members in each public school," he said. "Their primary job will be to help with nonacademic barriers to success, such as social services and mental health."
Clotilde Dedecker, president of the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo and one of the program's key supporters and funders, said she was heartened by a story an elementary school teacher told her.
A seventh-grader, the teacher said, scolded his younger brother for poor behavior, warning him he wouldn't get the Say Yes scholarship if he didn't shape up.
"We want the Say Yes Buffalo information to get to every child, understanding not every senior is going to want a Say Yes scholarship. If you're an A student from a low-income family in the United States of America, you can get a full ride anywhere. There are going to be seniors that get full rides to any number of private colleges. But this isn't about the superstars; it's about every kid," Dedecker said.
The school district has played an essential role, according to Rust.
"The superintendent has prioritized college for graduating seniors. She doesn't toot her horn, but we've never had more access. She gives us key decision makers for everything we need. She's opened every single door for us that we've needed," Rust said.
Every other Thursday, Superintendent Brown, representatives from SUNY/CUNY schools, private colleges, Radford, Phil Rumore of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, foundation leaders, and city and county representatives hold Say Yes strategy meetings at McKinley High School.
Much of the credit goes to guidance counselors working one-on-one with students, said Will Keresztes, associate superintendent for educational services, who has been involved in the process.
The Say Yes program, he said, has been everything he could have hoped for.
"For me, the partnership is exactly what we wanted to experience. It's exactly what public education should look like and how it should work," Keresztes said.
"What we're starting here will have an impact for generations to come. It's fairly predictable that children who go to college will have that same expectation for their own children."
Keresztes said the response by inner-city parents counters the view that many don't value education.
"I tend to disagree with that the more I look at it. I'm finding parents, regardless of their circumstances, ultimately want the same thing all parents want. For this particular campaign, they share the same dream that their children will go to college, and our job is to help facilitate that any way we can."
Maxine Murphy, an East Side parent, said Say Yes is a game-changer because it lightens the load on her and her grandson, a senior at East High School, of whom she has legal custody.
"My grandson won't have to come out of college in debt, and it helps me out knowing there is more money I can help him with in other areas that scholarships don't pay for," Murphy said.
Radford said he's never seen such marshaling of resources and single-minded focus for improving Buffalo's schools.
"If someone had told me that was possible, I wouldn't have believed it. But here it is, and it's happening."
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On their 200th anniversary, author Philip Pullman retells the world's best-loved fairy tales
Author Philip Pullman is beloved among children (and many adults) for his wonderful His Dark Materials fantasy series. That trilogy, which begins with The Golden Compass, combines many of the elements of fantasy, horror, courage, romance and faith that permeate the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.
So Pullman's the perfect person to retell 50 of those stories, in a beautiful new edition of Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm, issued by Viking ($27.95). In his beguiling introduction, Pullman gives a brief history of fairy tales and notes the appealingly straightforward nature of the genre: "There is no psychology in a fairy tale. The characters have little interior life; their motives are clear and obvious. If people are good, they are good, and if bad, they're bad. … The tremors and mysteries of human awareness, the whispers of memory, the promptings of half-understood regret or doubt or desire that are so much part of the subject matter of the modern novel are absent entirely. One might almost say that the characters in a fairy tale are not actually conscious."
He also makes the case for these tales as high literature: "We may do our best by these tales, and find that it's still not enough. I suspect that the finest of them have the quality that the great pianist Artur Schnabel attributed to the sonatas of Mozart: They are too easy for children and too difficult for adults." Think on that one for a while. But if you just want to get this as a perfect last-minute gift for your child, that's OK, too!


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News that a 16-foot, 3,500-pound great white shark named Mary Lee swam near or into Charleston Harbor this week electrified the local maritime community.
Depending on who you ask and which satellite track you believe, the tagged great white either swam along our coast a few miles from shore or cruised into Charleston Harbor and all the way to — and even up onto — Daniel Island. (After seeing the track one colleague joked that it must have picked up strand-feeding tips from local dolphins.)
I was sitting in a tree stand hunting deer Sunday afternoon when texts and e-mails started to fly about a great white hanging around off Bulls Bay. By Monday morning, the story, based on the OCEARCH website (sharks-ocearch.verite.com), had gone viral. Social media buzzed as track updates showed the great white venturing far into Charleston Harbor.
The Post and Courier published a story saying OCEARCH researchers doubted that Daniel Island "ping" was correct, and by late last week, the satellite track had been smoothed out, with the jog into Charleston Harbor removed. The new track shows Mary Lee swimming past the tips of the jetties before heading down to nearshore water off Savannah and then Jacksonville.
It remains unclear whether Mary Lee actually took a Holy City harbor cruise. But the incident proved one thing: People remain fascinated by the mysterious journeys of such a large, wild predator.
Our inshore, nearshore and offshore waters are filled with awe-inspiring creatures, some dwarfing ole Mary Lee. Right whales, pilot whales, sunfish, marlin and swordfish all inhabit or visit the waters off our coast. But sharks gain the most attention here on land, with great whites (image 1) grabbing the biggest headlines.
Anglers sometimes return from a winter fishing trip off Charleston telling wild tales of a great white encounter. Usually the sharks aren't hooked or caught — which is good because they're a federally protected species. Often the great whites simply swim up to check out a boat.
A few years ago, a 13-footer washed up on the beach at Morris Island (image 2). A necropsy shows the big shark had very little in its stomach. Biologists did find a few scales from big red drum, a discovery that fired my imagination. Who wouldn't want to witness and record a mature white shark tearing into a school of bull red drum?
Stories involving other, less well known shark species are much more common in the Lowcountry. Large tiger (image 3) and hammerhead sharks (image 4) regularly patrol the nearshore wrecks and reefs off Charleston. Both species will not only take baits intended for game fish but also attack hooked fish. We once had a 8-foot hammerhead make a run at a wahoo we were gaffing at the side of the boat. The shark shot out from under the boat, missed the wahoo by inches and gave our whole crew a cardiac stress-test.
I've seen enormous hammerheads, one easily topping 800 pounds, cruising the surface at offshore trolling grounds, and fought one about 10 feet long to the boat a few summers ago in just 50 feet of water.
The biggest tiger shark I've ever tangled with measured about 8 feet long, though some Lowcountry anglers have caught much-larger tigers in the 1,000-pound range.
It's probably good that researchers don't plant satellite tags in more huge sharks — none of us would ever go in the ocean again. We might even steer clear of Charleston Harbor.
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The Department of Natural Resources' Law Enforcement division is teaming up with the Marines again this year for the Toys for Tots campaign.
You can drop off new, unwrapped toys at DNR's license office and Marine Resources Lab at the end of Ft. Johnson Road on James Island.
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State Sen. Chip Campsen and his brother, Richard Campsen, are leading an effort to help a veteran DNR officer.
Sgt. J.B. Kinsey's house in St. George burned Nov. 1, leaving little for Kinsey, his wife and their two sons.
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All right, you're President Obama.
You've just been re-elected by a fairly impressive margin, the first president in half a century to get more than 50 percent of the vote in both your election and your re-election.
Your party has expanded its Senate majority, and your candidates for the House of Representatives received a million more votes nationwide than their opponents.
The country is badly divided, but you have the majority.
So what do you do?
It's a valid question, but probably one without a satisfactory answer. There was no significant work done on filibuster reform in the Senate, leaving the Democrats still five votes short of the threshold of 60 required to get anything done.
In the House, gerrymandering of districts done after the 2010 census enabled the Republicans to hold their majority, and Speaker John Boehner says he won't bring anything to the floor for a vote unless a majority of his own party supports it.
Depending on how obstreperous they want to be, the GOP majority in the House can pretty well prevent Obama from governing in the standard way. He can use executive orders and he can use recess appointments, but if they want to do nothing but obstruct, he cannot achieve anything lasting that cannot be undone by the next president.
Obama is left with one longshot strategy if he wants lasting achievements for his second term. He needs to push back against Republican obstructionism as much as possible this year and next, with the goal of showing voters exactly what is going on in Washington and whose fault it is.
Democrats have little chance of adding to their effective 55-45 Senate majority, and they may actually have to struggle to maintain what they have. But if they can educate voters to what the government is supposed to do, and beat back the Tea Party gains of 2010, it's possible they could gain the 18-20 seats needed to gain control of the House.
There's one problem with that. Historically, a party in control of the White House for two terms usually loses seats in Congress in the midterm elections of its second term.
That's how the Democrats won the House in 2006 after 12 years of GOP control.
One recent exception was 1998, six years into the Clinton administration. One possible anomaly there was voter anger toward the Newt Gingrich-run House of Representatives.
If there is one thing Obama can accomplish the next two years, it may be pressuring the Senate to fulfill its advise-and-consent function on presidential nominees. Allowing a minority to prevent up-down votes on nominees is just wrong.
Aside from that, he needs to make Republicans own every unpopular stand they take. We may or may not be witnessing a generational shift in politics, but there's certainly nothing wrong with Democrats making sure voters aren't fooled by platitudes.
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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have tied the knot.
"Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were married tonight in an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles," their spokesperson tells PEOPLE exclusively.
DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, both wore Zac Posen and exchanged rings by Neil Lane during the Saturday ceremony. Their big day also featured arrangements by L.A. florist Mark's Garden.
The intimate ceremony was attended by 19 guests, including DeGeneres's mom Betty and de Rossi's mother Margaret Rogers (who flew in from Australia for the occasion), who witnessed the couple exchange handwritten vows.
The couple have been dating since December 2004. DeGeneres announced her plans to wed de Rossi during a taping of her talk show in May after California's Supreme Court ruled a previous ban on gay marriage to be unconstitutional.
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Only one side of story was told To the editor: The recent front page article about the union picketing outside of Ventra hit a nerve with me....
This country was not founded on a majority rule, and in fact, we have a Constitutional Republic designed specifically to protect the minority from being taken advantage of by the majority. What you're talking about is democracy, an unsustainable form of government.
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I would really love for the person who disagreed to challenge what I said. Please...
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Let me see I voted for candidates for position of Senator and representative, on the state and federal level. Whether that guy or gal actually got the position, was determined by a majority vote of the electorate. What am I missing? All citizens are protected by the Bill of Rights. So the majority down at the plant voted against the union last time out, it gives them no licence treat the minority as any less of an employee. By the same token those folks in the minority have every right to continue push for a union as long it effects no one else's rights or the Company's operations. If you find your self in the minority you have every right to find another job. If a union had one and I was working there I would be doing the latter.
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So, again...you disagree that our country is a Constitutional Republic and not a democracy? Just yes or no, for the record.
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I agree with what the letter writer said, the majority won.
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And we are a Constitutional Republic!
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Way to dance around that one.
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What makes us different than a democracy is that in our form of government the majority elects the leaders, who represent their electorate. Unlike a democracy all citizens stand on the bill of rights which does not allow the majority to ride ruff shod over the minority. They have the same rights and can hold the same beliefs as always, the majority simply holds the power for the time being. How's that dancing around it. It's the truth.
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I'm sure you know what I'm trying to say, the fact is in this country the majority does rule, within the limits of the law.
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That is true, but the "within the limits of the law" part is the most important part. Doesn't really work when either side either ignores the law or just passes unconstitutional laws and can control the legal system that is supposed to stop them from doing it. Special thanks to the Supreme Court for granting THEMSELVES the privilege of "judicial review" which is not granted to them by the Constitution. They aren't supposed to interpret the Constitution, they're supposed to interpret the laws as they pertain to the Constitution. THEY gave themselves the power to interpret the actual document in 1803, Marbury v. Madison.
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And we have a nation of SHEEPLE who can't even agree that we have a spending problem...I mean really, how blind do you have to be to not see that, and to think, most of them thought we did under Bush. But not Obama, and if you think differently half of them will tell you you're racist.
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Has anyone seen this anime? its about a rock band call "Beck" of course, and its awesome. If your not into music i guess this one wouldnt be all that great but i loved it (im a musician) It also has some romance and a little bit of other stuff. If your into music and like an anime abou how a band makes it, definitely see this one. Its on Netflix if your interested =)
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For reality star Kimora Lee Simmons, it's Life in the Fab Lane, indeed.
The divorce between Lee Simmons, 33, and Russell Simmons, 51, has been finalized, with
huge payouts for the model/fashion designer.
Simmons has agreed to pay child support for daughters, Ming, 9, and Aoki, 6, of $20,000 each per month until the girls turn 19, according to court papers filed Thursday in Los Angeles.
Lee Simmons also won sole legal and physical custody of the girls, with monitored visitation for Simmons.
"When the children are in [Simmons's] custody, they shall be accompanied at all times by a nanny and security person," the filing reads.
Simmons also agreed to provide a new car, worth at least $60,000, for the children's use, until they turn 16. The car will be replaced every three years, documents show.
The papers also outline a meticulous, seven-page agreement on Simmons's visitation rights, giving him access to the girls every eighth week during their school year and on various holidays.
The couple split in March 2006. Two years later, Lee Simmons said she's "kind of" engaged to boyfriend Djimon Hounsou.
"Both sides reached this settlement amicably, and are looking forward to moving on with their lives," Lee Simmons's attorney Daniel Jaffe told PEOPLE.
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5 Things We All Want (But Don't Deserve)
#2. Extra McNuggets
I once had the audacity to bitch about never receiving an extra Chicken McNugget. I mean, I don't want to make any of you too sad, but you should know it's true that I've never received more McNuggets than I paid for. And each time I order McNuggets (which is currently a rare occasion because I'm in training to get back into the Calvin Klein underwear modeling game), I check to see if there's an extra.
At this point (as I learned from the comments last time), some of you are saying, "Dude, I get extra nuggets all the time at Chick-Fil-A!" First off, I SAID McNUGGETS! That means McDonald's. We don't have Chick-Fil-A in New York, and second of all ... actually, that's my only point, Chik-Fil-A/gay jokes have already been played out.
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But the point is, who was I to be complaining? I pay for six McNuggets; I get six McNuggets. What kind of a sick, twisted freak is jonesing to stick it to the man by scarfing down one extra heart-attack-inducing McNugget because he didn't pay for it?
#1. To Be Discovered
Have I ever told you how I feel about actors? For the most part, I don't like them. You want to believe they're deep, sensitive artists, but nine times out of 10 they're vapid, narcissistic, intellectually challenged whores. (Sorry to any actors who do not fit that description, especially if like you follow me on Twitter or whatnot.) As an undergrad, I considered pursuing playwriting until I started hanging out with theater people, and that cured me of that vocation pretty quickly.
Also they kept throwing "Everyone gets laid tonight except Gladstone" parties.
But here's the thing, and I'm not sure all little kids are like this, but I used to walk around at 9 years old waiting to be discovered. "Discovered." What is that? Not only was I not a trained actor or taking any acting classes of any kind, but I wasn't even acting informally or anything. I had one line in my first-grade play. How was I waiting to be discovered? And as what? I had absolutely no right to expect to be discovered, and yet I'd walk around like some omnipotent higher power would snatch me up and put me on Diff'rent Strokes or something (presumably as Arnold's more talented friend).
Well, I got older, and as I mentioned, I soon discovered that not getting discovered was probably a good thing. But it's always made me wonder about how many of us pine away for a success we don't even particularly want. I don't mean earnest actors, dancers, singers, writers or even people like designers or inventors, working toward that big break that never seems to come. I mean complete dilettante hacks who don't even have a craft, but keep one eye open for that big break they might not even really want, but desperately have to have.
But all of you deserve and desperately have to have a new episode of HATE BY NUMBERS. Also, be sure to follow Gladstone on Twitter and stay up-to-date on the latest regarding Notes from the Internet Apocalypse. And then there's his website and Tumblr, too.
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TV's favorite girl next door, Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel, is now a wife, her rep confirms to PEOPLE. The 32-year-old actress married Tim Belusko, 25, in a "short and sweet" ceremony in Los Angeles.
"The most important thing is that the day feels authentic to us," the bride recently told PEOPLE. "We're traditional, but also a bit wacky!"
Fishel, donning a lace Enzoani strapless gown, was escorted down the aisle by her father, Rick Fishel, to the tune of "Forever" by Brian Culbertson.
Over 200 guests, including six bridesmaids and six groomsmen, looked on as the couple of nearly five years said their I-dos in the altar area of Vibiana, a former cathedral.
"Tim is the one," Fishel had previously said. "He accepts me for exactly who I am!"
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I have to do a project for my english class on The Crucible and I was thinking I can make a quick simple board game that focuses on the plot, elements, and vocabulary. What language do you recommned me doing it in? Or does anybody have the source code for a like a monopoly style board game that I could just edit to fit my project? Any help is greatly appreciated as this project is due tomorrow!!
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"Everything was held at one of Kerry's friend's houses," the source tells PEOPLE. "They flew a few people out on this little private plane. The house was beautiful."
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And though Washington, 36, has rocked some bold red carpet looks, on her big day she opted for minimalist chic. "The dress was plain white, slim-fitting, like it could have been off a rack," says the source. "It was really regular."
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - The Sierra Sun will launch a new online news presence beginning next week.
The digital version of the Sun, along with those of its sister papers at Lake Tahoe and in Truckee - the Tahoe Daily Tribune and North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - are combining into one lakewide news website at www.tahoedailytribune.com. The enhanced website goes live Wednesday, March 13.
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A multi-university research team reports that mice severely disabled by a condition similar to multiple sclerosis (MS) were able to walk less than two weeks following treatment with human neural stem cells. Their study ("Human Neural Precursor Cells Promote Neurologic Recovery in a Viral Model of Multiple Sclerosis"), which the scientists say uncovers potential new avenues for treating MS, is published in Stem Cell Reports.
When the researchers transplanted human neural stem cells into the MS mice, they expected no benefit from the treatment. They thought the mice would reject the cells, much like rejection of an organ transplant. What was to be a routine experiment instead yielded spectacular results on the first try, according to Tom Lane, Ph.D., professor of pathology at the University of Utah. He began the study with co-first author Lu Chen, Ph.D., at the University of California, Irvine.
"My postdoctoral fellow Dr. Chen came to me and said, 'The mice are walking.' I didn't believe her," said Dr. Lane. Within 10 to 14 days, the mice had regained motor skills. Six months later, they showed no signs of slowing down.
"This result opens up a whole new area of research for us to figure out why it worked," added Jeanne Loring, Ph.D., co-senior author and director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. "We've long forgotten our original plan."
Results from the study demonstrate the mice experience at least a partial reversal of symptoms. Immune attacks are blunted, and the damaged myelin is repaired, explaining their dramatic recovery.
"We show that intraspinal transplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived neural precursor cells (hNPCs) results in sustained clinical recovery, although hNPCs were not detectable beyond day 8 post-transplantation. Improved motor skills were associated with a reduction in neuroinflammation, decreased demyelination, and enhanced remyelination," wrote the investigators.
They continued: "Evidence indicates that the reduced neuroinflammation is correlated with an increased number of CD4+CD25+FOXP3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) within the spinal cords. Coculture of hNPCs with activated T cells resulted in reduced T-cell proliferation and increased Treg numbers. The hNPCs acted, in part, through secretion of TGF-β1 and TGF-β2. These findings indicate that the transient presence of hNPCs transplanted in an animal model of MS has powerful immunomodulatory effects and mediates recovery. Further investigation of the restorative effects of hNPC transplantation may aid in the development of clinically relevant MS treatments."
"The way we made the neural stem cells turns out to be important," explained Dr. Loring, describing the reason behind the novel outcome. Prior to transplantation, Dr. Loring's graduate student and co-first author on the publication, Ronald Coleman, followed his intuition and grew the cells so they were less crowded on the Petri dish than usual. The change in protocol yielded a human neural stem cell type that turned out to be extremely potent. The experiments have since been successfully repeated with cells produced under the same conditions, but by different laboratories.
Counterintuitively, Drs. Lane and Loring's original prediction that the stem cells would be rejected from the mice came true. As early as one week post-treatment, there were no signs of the transplanted stem cells in the mice. In this case, what would ordinarily be considered a handicap, turns out to be a significant advantage.
The human neural stem cells send chemical signals that instruct the mouse's own cells to repair the damage caused by MS. Experiments by Dr. Lane's team suggest that TGF-beta proteins comprise one type of signal, but there are likely others. This realization has important implications for translating the work to clinical trials in the future.
"Rather than having to engraft stem cells into a patient, which can be challenging from a medical standpoint, we might be able to develop a drug that can be used to deliver the therapy much more easily," said Dr. Lane.
With clinical trials as the long-term goal, the next steps are to assess the durability and safety of the stem cell therapy in mice.
"We want to try to move as quickly and carefully as possible," continued Dr. Lane. "I would love to see something that could promote repair and ease the burden that patients with MS have."
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Special levy is blatant abuse of taxpayers
April 24, 2013
Who am I? First, I am a supporter of education. I was a high school science teacher early in my career at an inner city East Coast school....
I agree, but you'll get slammed on here for stating that fact.
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Wow. This info is an eye-opener. Good job, Mr. Collins. The taxpayers need to be told about this issue, and they need to speak up and make the leaders aware of their opinions. It's bad enough that citizens who don't have any kids in the school system are forced to pay into the education dept. through taxes. If the additional levy is being wasted, and this secret slush fund really exists, then I, as the parent of 4 kids who ARE in public schools, feel like an apology is owed to those childless taxpayers.
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be quiet and pay the tax. I am. And no matter what you say you are a hypocrite when you address that you are an educator but don't think the society should fund the education of the young.
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Thanks Nat. we need more people like you.
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Not much in the way of facts here.
I have no children attending WV schools. Never did. Yet I am happy and proud to contribute to the education of children in Berkeley County.
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yet i'm happy and proud to con. to the ed. of children of Berkeley Co
Funny thing about that statement the writer told everyone he didn't pay tax's for a couple years on his cars because the plates weren't dead and yet he lived here those years till they did run out in md. not paying the tax's, claimed he did however pay them later .
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"From Martinsburg:
There's someone using the name "Majoritarian" who comments incessantly on every Journal news story, to excess, and in doing so uses The Journal's online site to bully and belittle other commenters. I can't believe The Journal's editors haven't noticed this abuse; why it hasn't been corrected remains a mystery. There should be a general set of standards for comments, moderation in the number of posts a commenter is allowed to write, and some required civility toward others."
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Sounds if one has been called out as a "blantant abuse of Taxpayers" is upset , yet facts are facts and let's not be contrary about it, some people commented there were " Not much in the way of facts " and somebody supplied some facts, so whats there to be contrary about ? You asked and you received, God works in many ways, careful what you ask for , Amen, Praise the Lord .
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Hey Major notice how nobody even brought it up , till you know who, guess thats who did it, it ENVY baby .
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I agree with you that someone is trying to "silence " the Major, I think it's the same person who had MrBoBo killed off and the orginial Journal Junction and then when on to kill off all the other forums an ENVIOUS contrary jack of the office who thinks his views are the only views and the wording in the comment about Major in JJ on the 24th is the same wording a contrary person used time and time again toward MrBobo and others since it's arrival in "almost heaven WV ". This is my opinion and I'm allowed it under my rights as an AMERICAN .
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It's abusive, blah blah blah...
If you are going to oppose something, show us some facts. A sufficiently funded school system perhaps. Or no teachers leaving to make much more money across the state line. Or homowners fleeing "confiscatory".
Sadly this letter is really content free. The students of Morgan probably deserved a better teacher.
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MARTINSBURG - With a membership of more than 7,500 homeowners, keeping apprised of the top concerns of area homeowner associations can be a daunting task.
In May, members of the Eastern Panhandle Organization of Homeowner Associations drafted a membership survey to determine homeowners' greatest concerns, common problems and topics of interest.
"Everyone wants to do the best thing and meet the needs of the homeowners, but no one really knew what was going on in each HOA. We have people who are in a farming environment, people who are in a city environment and a suburban environment just within Jefferson and Berkeley County," said Susanne Malesic, one of the drafters of the survey.
A 20-question survey was distributed to all EPOHOA members, structured around the four principles designated in the EPOHOA's by-law preamble: common problems, solutions, communication and cohesive force.
From the survey, seven topics emerged as the greatest concerns, including annual dues and fees, homeowner participation, HOA boards, roads, by-law and covenants, law enforcement and water/stormwater management.
"It's all local issues, how to collect a levy and special funds, how to increase their residence participation, how to manage the HOA in a professional, legal manner and how to maintain their legal responsibilities," Malesic said.
Although the survey encompassed a wide participant pool, none of the top topics chosen came as a surprise to the EPOHOA board members or the members who wrote the questionnaire.
"These are all topics that have been brought before the (EPOHOA) board during the monthly meetings," Malesic said. "This survey helped focus the issues into an order of concerns."
The survey was not only intended to be a tool for homeowners, but also a resource to help direct the EPOHOA's efforts to assist members, conduct meaningful workshops and feature relevant guest speakers at the organization's monthly meeting.
"The goal is to have workshops and to have them open to members and non-EPOHOA members," said Jennifer Syron, a co-drafter of the survey. "Some of the things that we also want is for committees to form within the EPOHOA that would address these issues and would be able to meet separately."
Survey results can be found on the EPOHOA's website at www.epohoa.org.
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Fourteen students attended Fuzzy-Feather Camp at the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve July 9 to 13. Emily Peck, right, of the Wild World of Animals in Eighty-Four, introduces Quin Sumner, left, and Kylie Smith, both of Greensburg, to a giant frog at the Friday morning session where they also met monkeys, raccoons, porcupines and more. Campers enjoyed a week of nature adventure as they explored the world of mammals and birds and learned about song birds and birds of prey native to Pennsylvania. They also discovered mammals native to the region. Each day campers explored "feathered and furry friends" which occupy the Reserve. Each camper received a mini nature explorer kit to take home.
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(a) A person may not hunt, capture, or kill any bear, or have in his or her possession any bear or bear parts, except during the hunting season for bear in the manner designated by rule or law, and as provided in this section. For the purposes of this section, bear parts include, but are not limited to, the pelt, gallbladder, skull and claws of bear.
(b) A person who kills a bear shall, within twenty-four hours after the killing, electronically register the bear. A game tag number shall be issued to the person and recorded in writing with the person's name and address, or on a field tag and shall remain on the skin until it is tanned or mounted. Any bear or bear parts not properly tagged shall be forfeited to the state for disposal to a charitable institution, school or as otherwise designated by the director.
(c) It is unlawful:
(1) To hunt bear without a bear damage stamp, as prescribed in section forty-four-b of this article, in addition to a hunting license as prescribed in this article;
(2) To hunt a bear with:
(A) A shotgun using ammunition loaded with more than one solid ball; or
(B) A rifle of less than twenty-five caliber using rimfire ammunition;
(3) To kill or attempt to kill any bear through the use of poison, explosives, snares, steel traps or deadfalls;
(4) To shoot at or kill:
(A) A bear weighing less than seventy-five pounds live weight or fifty pounds field dressed weight, after removal of all internal organs;
(B) Any bear accompanied by a cub; or
(C) Any bear cub so accompanied, regardless of its weight;
(5) To possess any part of a bear not tagged in accordance with the provisions of this section;
(6) To enter a state game refuge with firearms for the purpose of pursuing or killing a bear except under the direct supervision of division personnel;
(7) To hunt bear with dogs or to cause dogs to chase bear during seasons other than those designated by the division for the hunting of bear;
(8) To pursue a bear with a pack of dogs other than the pack used at the beginning of the hunt once the bear is spotted and the chase has begun;
(9) To possess, harvest, sell or purchase bear parts obtained from bear killed in violation of this section;
(10) To organize for commercial purposes or to professionally outfit a bear hunt, or to give or receive any consideration whatsoever or any donation in money, goods or services in connection with a bear hunt, notwithstanding the provisions of sections twenty-three and twenty-four of this article; or
(11) For any person who is not a resident of this state to hunt bear with dogs or to use dogs in any fashion for the purpose of hunting bear in this state except in legally authorized hunts.
(d) The following provisions apply to bear destroying property:
(1) (A) Any property owner or lessee who has suffered damage to real or personal property, including loss occasioned by the death or injury of livestock or the unborn issue of livestock, caused by an act of a bear may complain to any natural resources police officer of the division for protection against the bear.
(B) Upon receipt of the complaint, the officer shall immediately investigate the circumstances of the complaint. If the officer is unable to personally investigate the complaint, he or she shall designate a wildlife biologist to investigate on his or her behalf.
(C) If the complaint is found to be justified, the officer or designated person may, together with the owner and other residents, proceed to hunt, destroy or capture the bear that caused the property damage: Provided, That only the natural resources police officer or the wildlife biologist may determine whether to destroy or capture the bear and whether to use dogs to capture or destroy the bear: Provided, however, That, if out-of-state dogs are used in the hunt, the owners of the dogs are the only nonresidents permitted to participate in hunting the bear.
(2) (A) When a property owner has suffered damage to real or personal property as the result of an act by a bear, the owner shall file a report with the director of the division. The report shall state whether or not the bear was hunted and destroyed and, if so, the sex, weight and estimated age of the bear. The report shall also include an appraisal of the property damage occasioned by the bear duly signed by three competent appraisers fixing the value of the property lost.
(B) The report shall be ruled upon and the alleged damages examined by a commission comprised of the complaining property owner, an officer of the division and a person to be jointly selected by the officer and the complaining property owner.
(C) The division shall establish the procedures to be followed in presenting and deciding claims under this section in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.
(D) All claims shall be paid in the first instance from the Bear Damage Fund provided in section forty-four-b of this article. In the event the fund is insufficient to pay all claims determined by the commission to be just and proper, the remainder due to owners of lost or destroyed property shall be paid from the special revenue account of the division.
(3) In all cases where the act of the bear complained of by the property owner is the killing of livestock, the value to be established is the fair market value of the livestock at the date of death. In cases where the livestock killed is pregnant, the total value is the sum of the values of the mother and the unborn issue, with the value of the unborn issue to be determined on the basis of the fair market value of the issue had it been born.
(e) Criminal penalties. - (1) Any person who commits a violation of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, which is not subject to suspension by the court, confined in jail not less than thirty nor more than one hundred days, or both fined and confined. Further, the person's hunting and fishing licenses shall be suspended for two years.
(2) Any person who commits a second violation of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $2,000 nor more than $7,500, which is not subject to suspension by the court, confined in jail not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or both fined and confined. The person's hunting and fishing licenses shall be suspended for life.
(3) Any person who commits a third or subsequent violation of the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $5,000 nor more than $10,000, which is not subject to suspension by the court, imprisoned in a correctional facility not less than one year nor more than five years, or both fined and imprisoned.


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The illness passed, but at the urging of his wife he went for a follow-up examination that turned up something else: an elevated PSA, a sign of potential trouble in his prostate. He was treated for prostatitis, an inflammation of the prostate, but not getting better, he reluctantly had a biopsy.
"Lo and behold, I have cancer," Pinsky, 55, tells PEOPLE exclusively. "I was doing Lifechangers" – a daytime show on The CW – "and my HLN show was going. My wife and I had this great relationship, very active sexually. This could screw everything up. It was a terrible feeling."
Last July, Pinsky quietly underwent surgery to remove the prostate. He told only a small circle of friends and colleagues, returned to work in 10 days, and has made a complete recovery – and he means complete. As someone who gives out advice on sex, Pinsky speaks frankly about own bedroom prognosis.
"I'm cancer-free," the host of HLN's Dr. Drew on Call (9 p.m. ET) says. "The erectile function is normal, sex drive is normal, bladder works normally. And I don't have to worry about prostate cancer."
The experience placed the doctor in the uncharacteristic role of patient. Pinsky credits his wife Susan Sailer Pinsky with providing sound counsel, accompanied by firm prodding along the way, for him to not ignore symptoms and to continue to seek care.
"We're all bad as males. I convinced myself I could do my own primary care," he said. "These are very complicated issues. The message I want to give out is that this is still an art. So much of the good outcome for me was the result of people following their intuition, including my wife."
After the initial biopsy, Pinsky opted for what is known as active surveillance, bypassing immediate surgery and its potential side effects, including incontinence and impotence, for careful and structured monitoring, with additional PSA tests and a pair of biopsies.
"It's a safe way to follow patients," says Pinsky's physician, Dr. Stuart Holden of the Urology Oncologist at Cedar Senai Medical Center and Medical Director of the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
Pinsky ended up waiting about year from the time he first saw Holden until the surgery, the TV host meeting the age and other criteria for the approach (which the foundation calls "Proactive Surveillance").
"It does defer treatment," Holden said. "Dr. Drew is in his mid-50s. He's physically active, he has a very attractive wife, he wants to maintain his functionality. This bought him a period of time."
Not that the waiting was always easy after his initial diagnosis.
"The floor goes out from under you. It's like: Oh, crap, I don't want to deal with it," Pinsky says. "It took me about a year to get used to the diagnosis. But by the time I went to surgery after my third biopsy, I said, 'It's time. Let's get it going.' "
Ironically, the thing that sent him to the doctor initially – the illness after his vacation – "was probably a red herring," he said. "I just happened to be extra sick and it just happened to send me to the hospital and my wife happened to have the right instincts."
For more on Dr. Drew's cancer diagnosis and how he dealt with it, watch The Dr. Oz Show on Wednesday.


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UNIVERSITY PARK - On a gorgeous day at Beaver Stadium featuring one program responsible for our nation's defense, Penn State was not to be outdone.
The Nittany Lions' defense put together its most complete game of the young season - a wall-to-wall performance that had eluded them so far - and sunk Navy in a 34-7 victory Saturday.
"We've gotten more and more physical as the year has gone on," defensive coordinator Ted Roof said.
Penn State forced four turnovers for the second straight week.
The biggest one came from linebacker Mike Hull, who, like many of the Nittany Lions following the harsh sanctions handed down by the NCAA, debated a transfer prior to the season.
Hull visited Pitt but stayed put. The junior's reward came Saturday when he scooped up a fumble and raced 74 yards for a touchdown that gave the Lions a 34-0 lead in the fourth quarter.
"I just was in the right place at the right time," he said. "I looked up, and there was just green grass in front of me."
He couldn't help but pinch himself afterward.
"At the beginning of the season, I wasn't sure what was going to happen, but ultimately I decided to stay," he said. "Today was an awesome opportunity to score a touchdown."
Safety Stephen Obeng-Agyapong's patience was also rewarded. Obeng-Agyapong found irony in Matt McGloin's fourth touchdown, a deflection that wound up in the hands of emerging star receiver Allen Robinson for a 27-0 lead.
It was Obeng-Agyapong's deflection that became an Ohio touchdown two weeks ago, turning around an opener that the Lions' defense had controlled before the play sucked some air out of them.
"It [Saturday vs. Navy] was time for us to get a tipped ball," he said.
Of the Lions' three games, the defense has shown up large for all but three quarters - the second half vs. Ohio and the last five minutes against Virginia.
"I feel ever since that [opening] game, we've had a mentality to go after the ball," Obeng-Agyapong said.
"After the Ohio game," Hull said, "we rallied."
No one will confuse Navy, which can't come from behind because of a limited passing game, or Virginia, which was blown out Saturday at Georgia Tech, as offensive juggernauts.
At the same time, Navy over the years has hung in some games because its running game is diverse and punishing. Bill O'Brien credited Roof "for calling a great game," and said he and Roof benefited from their considerable experience defending the option attack.
Penn State's defense accomplished some goals in that it played better in the second half Saturday than it has all year as it allowed Navy to convert on just four of 15 third-down opportunities (the fourth downs were another matter as the Middies, who punted just once, cashed in on five of eight of those.)
"We got off the field a lot [better]," cornerback Stephon Morris said. "We preached that all week, and this was a confidence boost for the defense and the secondary."
That confidence also translated to some big hits as the Lions have forced six fumbles in the last two weeks to go with seven sacks.
"Our front seven is playing great," Morris said.
Given the sanctions, offensive defections and graduation losses, most expected the defense to be the strength of the team. Through three games, even at 1-2, both units have shown encouraging signs.
In particular, though, defense has always been a hallmark at Penn State and, with an unsteady kicking game, Saturday's domination of Navy was more than O'Brien's first career win.
It was a sign the Lions should be competitive with most of the teams on their schedule.
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