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HomeOwnership Center Inc. is a nonprofit organization that helps many households each year with the prospects of owning or repairing homes.
"We average seeing about 200 to 250 families for counseling and education, and we work with about 40 to 50 families a year that are actually able to move on to purchasing a home," said John Elza, executive director.
Originally a program of the Randolph County Housing Authority, HomeOwnership Center was chartered as a nonprofit homeownership center in 1998.
"We spun off of the Randolph County Housing Authority. That was done in part because the Housing Authority is a public entity and has limitations as a public entity. So as private nonprofit, we can do some things that the Housing Authority can't do," Elza said.
According to the organization's website, www.hocwv.org, the services of HomeOwnership Center include assisting with the training, counseling and financing of low- to moderate-income families and first-time home buyers and also provides continuing support for existing homeowners.
"We can serve anybody. Any income level, any family size, but certain mortgage products may have income guidelines," Elza said.
The center has access to affordable loan options that support a variety of assistance to qualified borrowers, such as for home repairs, home improvements, accessibility improvements, energy-efficiency upgrades and acquisitions with rehabilitation of foreclosed properties, according to a fact sheet on home repair funds provided by HomeOwnership Center.
"It's a little tougher to get folks into programs. The lenders are looking closer at those credit histories and whether the folks can come to the table with any funds of their own," Elza said.
One of the greatest concerns that people have when they come in is about their credit score, he added. Downpayment requirements also have increased slightly.
"A lot of things have changed since the big housing bubble and mortgage meltdown of the last couple of years," he said. "The housing industry is still trying to climb back."
Counseling with HomeOwnership Center helps to answer questions that interested homebuyers have and also helps them to come up with a plan before they buy their new home.
"We try not to discourage anybody that wants to try to apply to get home financing," Elza said.
Also, low- to moderate-income households may qualify for lower interest rates and downpayment assistance.
"Our association with NeighborWorks America has brought an a lot of resources to the counties we serve," he said.
HomeOwnership Center became a chartered member of NeighborWorks America, a national entity funded directly through Congress, in 2001, and became a NeighborWorks homeownership center in 2002. It has also been been licensed with the Division of Banking since 2001.
"The good partnership between us and NeighborWorks provides a conduit for federal funding that we can bring into the communities we serve," Elza said.
In addition, the organization also is a Housing and Urban Development-approved housing counseling agency and a licensed nonprofit mortgage broker.
"We're now a broker through Chase Bank for Rural Development Guaranteed loans," Elza said.
He said HomeOwnership Center is trying to extend its opportunities. Rural Development Guaranteed loans differ from Rural Development Direct loans because they go through an intermediary bank. Both the Rural Development Direct and Rural Development Guaranteed loans assist low- to moderate-income families with low downpayment requirements and affordable mortgage products that might not otherwise be available through other sources.
Those type of programs assist families with low downpayment requirements and affordable mortgage products that might not otherwise be available through other sources.
"We're not a bank, we're not an investment entity, we're simply a mortgage provider," he said.
The center will counsel households through the entire process of purchasing a home. HomeOwnership Center is located at 1404 N. Randolph Ave., Elkins, and can be reached at 304-636-6495.


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LOCKPORT – Five years' probation was the sentence Thursday for a man who slammed his grandmother's dog to the floor, fracturing its pelvis, after the dog killed a kitten belonging to the man's house cat.
Jason E. Evrard, 28, of Nash Road, Wheatfield, had pleaded guilty to a felony count of aggravated cruelty to animals.
State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. said he changed his mind on a sentence for Evrard. When he pleaded guilty Sept. 18, Kloch had promised him a one-year stint in Niagara County Jail.
Evrard, who already has been in jail for 176 days, or just shy of six months, was let out because on probation he will have to stay out of trouble for five years. If he doesn't, Kloch can send him to state prison for as long as four years.
"People think probation is a slap on the wrist. It's worse than if I sentenced you to straight time," Kloch said, and Evrard agreed.
Assistant District Attorney Claudette S. Caldwell said Evrard's grandmother had told her that she thought Evrard had been in jail long enough.
Kloch told the defendant, "You served 176 days and you deserved every one of them, and you deserve more."
The incident occurred May 10, after the 8-year-old Lhasa Apso had gotten into a room where Evrard's cat and its kittens were living, and the dog killed one of the 2-week-old kittens. The door had been inadvertently left open.
Kloch asked Evrard, "You think the dog said in his little dog brain, 'I'm going to commit murder, caticide?' It was just doing what a dog does."
Kloch then regaled the court with a story of how his own cat recently killed "a little baby bunny rabbit."
"Animals are animals, and we're supposed to have higher brain power," Kloch told Evrard. "So why did you act like an animal?"
"I wasn't thinking," the defendant answered.
"What is to assure me you're not going to do that to one of your children?" Kloch asked the father of two.
Evrard, whose criminal record includes an assault arrest stemming from alleged attacks on two women in a brawl Sept. 5, 2011, said he had taken an anger management course in jail.
Kloch made further anger management treatment a condition of Evrard's probation.
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Julia from Finland is posting these again, as you probably know, but has now put out a schedule. Today (March 29) Sasha's gala and 2 of Evgeni's 3 gala performances are up. One is the Evgeni transvestite performance.
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The Stetson men's basketball team returns to the court after a nine-day layoff to host Florida Atlantic Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. in the first of four straight games at the Edmunds Center.
Having played only two of their first 11 games in the comforts of their home venue, the Hatters (1-10) have had relative success in DeLand this season. Stetson put forth its best offensive output of 2013-14 in a home-opening 86-80 loss to Davidson on Nov. 30, and then picked up its first win with a 56-52 victory over Bethune-Cookman on Dec. 3.
Senior Willie Green, the Hatters' leading scorer with 12.7 points per game, is atop the Atlantic Sun Conference in scoring average at home this season. With a 30-point outing against Davidson and a team high 18 against B-CU, Green leads the league with a 24.0 points per game average at home in 2013-14.
Florida Atlantic comes into Tuesday night's contest with an overall record of 3-8 after dropping close games at DePaul and Maryland last week. The Owls won their opener over Ave Maria before losing six straight. FAU rebounded with back-to-back home victories over UCF and Jacksonville early in December.
Senior Pablo Bertone leads the Owls with 20.1 points per game, while Jackson Trapp has added 10.4 points per contest. Justin Raffington and Dragan Sekelja are chipping in with 7.9 points and over seven rebounds per game each.
Stetson holds a slight 17-15 advantage in the all-time series against FAU, and the two teams split last season's series. The Owls won 88-78 in DeLand, while the Hatters earned a 69-68 victory in Boca Raton on a buzzer-beater.
Tuesday night's game can be watched live on HatterVision, or listened to on WSBB AM 1230, AM 1490, and online at MyAM1230.com with Robbie Aaron on the call. Live Stats, the @StetsonMBB Twitter feed and Hat-Alerts are also available for in-game updates.


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Which one of theses movies do you think is scarier?A. The RingB. Dawn of the DeadC. Sleepy hollowD. Other
Of them above, I guess thats the scariest. I never really get scared of them, so I dont know. I might get suprised, but never scared... >.>
I'm just like I'm might get suprised or shock for a moment, but I don't get scarded either.
A. is a good movie japanese horror is the best BUG THEM ALL############
I will prefer Dawn Of the dead.
There is no such camparrsion and I think Dawn of Dead was most dreadful movie that I ever seen.
Dawn of the dead was the stupidest thing I ever seen ~ its been 2 years and I'm the last God still here such a shame knowing that I'm the last of the Breed that still has 14,900 points and already past the Otaku God 4 times now
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Glee star Becca Tobin's boyfriend, nightlife entrepreneur Matt Bendik, was found dead Thursday afternoon at a hotel in Philadelphia. His cause of death is unknown at this time, PEOPLE has confirmed.
Bendik, 35, was on a business trip with the actress, 28, and had a celebratory night out with friends on Wednesday, according to TMZ.
The Philadelphia Medical Examiner confirmed to the site that Bendik's body was discovered at the couple's hotel. "The cause of death is pending further studies. The autopsy did not immediately establish a clear cause of death," the Medical Examiner tells PEOPLE.
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But first, to business! This week's photo challenge spot (we'll include the shot again a little lower in this article) was located inside Disneyland Park, in Mickey's Toon Town, right near the entrance (and next to Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin) at the Toon Town Firehouse.
We don't spend a lot of time in Mickey's Toon Town, but we really appreciate its place in Disneyland and all that it has to offer. Roger Rabbit is one of our favorite characters, and it's worth a trip inside simply for the fact that he resides there. We had a lot of great guesses yesterday, and judging by the fact that they were almost all right, you guys handled this one pretty easily!
As always, we like to give a shout-out to everyone who came by and guessed, so here they in order of guess and name (those who knew the exact spot are asterisked):
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But now, on to why we chose our little friend Patches to begin with. We've mentioned before on our blog how Chad and Mark have been avid Hidden Mickey hunters since well before they started blogging. Which, of course, also as we've mentioned before, made us very familiar with Steven M. Barrett's Disneyland's Hidden Mickeys: A Field Guide To Disneyland Resort's Best Kept Secrets very early in the game. We've always been the kind to find first and confirm later, so we never owned a copy of the book ourselves, but rather, we'd find something inside the Disneyland Resort that we thought might be a Hidden Mickey, and then we'd grab a copy of the book and flip through it looking to see if it was mentioned or not, to confirm it for ourselves.
One of the things we noticed very early on was that Mr. Barrett isn't only listing those he found, but it really was a team effort, and there was a huge acknowledgement section in the front of the book, thanking everyone who had submitted a Hidden Mickey to him, that he was able to confirm. He's certainly under no obligation to give anyone else credit for their finds (though we do think it's the right thing to do), so we were pretty impressed by that. Consequently, it became one of our "Disney dreams", if you will, to find a Hidden Mickey, submit it to Mr. Barrett, and one day see our own name in an actual, published book that was sold inside Disneyland. It might not seem like a big deal to some, but we're pretty goofy like that.
It wasn't long before Chad found Patches; the very same that we used in yesterday's post (and there's the connection!). Who knew that pushing that little button on the Fire House would make a little dalmatian appear, and who knew that once he did, we'd notice a big fat Hidden Mickey on his head? But he did! And that became the first submission either of us made to Steven M. Barrett on his web site trying to get into the book. It's not to say that no-one ever noticed it before Chad did. In fact, we would be astounded if no-one has, but being the first to submit it, that's what's important to the Hidden Mickey hunter!
Mark was relatively quick to follow suit, and after a fairly lengthy refurb on Toy Story Midway Mania in Disney California Adventure Park, where they added in many of the "Toy Story 3" characters in with some new games on the attraction, noticed some very "Mickey-ish" looking marking on Trixie's cheek. So we submitted that as well!
Several months passed by and we didn't really think much else of our submissions to be honest. Mr. Barrett is a great communicator, and had emailed us back almost immediately letting us know he would research them and see for himself whether he would accept them the next time he was at Disneyland, but they were never added to his website, and to be quite frank, we had almost forgotten about them. We didn't even realize the book had been updated until...
We were in Disneyland during Halloween Time one evening and, while Chad was otherwise indisposed, Mark grabbed a copy at a newsstand and started flipping through. And there we were! Chad was on his way back and Mark grabbed him, yelling out "Dude, I'm about to make your day!" We're pretty sure the Cast Member working the area thought we were crazy the way we were high-fiving each other and carrying on, but there we were! Right there, in plain sight, Chad Elliott and Mark Treiger! We're still not sure what made Mark pick that book up and look through there, and if he hadn't, we might still not know we're there; maybe that star we wished upon way back when finally came home. But at any rate, there we were, in a book (our names anyways) that is sold at the Disneyland Resort, and another Disney dream has come true for us!
Next up, seeing our names in the book in the 4th Edition in bold, signifying that we've found and submitted at least 10 different Hidden Mickeys. And we do have some that aren't in the book, or on his website, to submit. We may just make another Disney dream come true!
And now, it's time to try and make one of your Disney dreams come true (we hope!). The fine folks at The Intrepid Traveler have kindly sent along two copies of Steven M. Barrett's Disneyland's Hidden Mickeys for us to pass on to you, our Days in the Park readers.
So here's what you need to do to enter, and we've made it super easy for you:
1) Leave us a comment letting us know that you want a copy of the book. That's it! Couldn't be simpler, right? Just leave us a comment saying "We wants it", or "I need my Hidden Mickey fix", or "I love the mouse", or pretty much anything you want to say and just let us know you want to win a copy, and we'll do the rest! If you do have a Twitter name, leave that for us as well so we'll have an extra way to contact you should we need to for any reason.
BONUS ENTRY! 2) Check out The Intrepid Traveler website and sneak a peek at all of the other wonderful Disney-oriented books that they have there. Then, come back here and leave us a comment telling us what other Disney publication they put out that might interest you! Again simple, right? But you must leave us the name of another book that interests you, so we know you checked out their site. Makes sense, right?
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Hopefully one of the things that will come of all of this is that we'll create some new Hidden Mickey hunters! If you're already hunting them, great! Keep the hunt alive! But if not, maybe this will be just the thing to push you over the edge and get you doing it. They're so much fun!
Let the entering (and hunting) begin!
The Intrepid Traveler provided Days in the Park with four copies total of Steven M. Barrett's Disneyland's Hidden Mickeys: A Field Guide to Disneyland Resort's Best Kept Secrets - 3rd Edition. Two copies were sent for review purposes to Chad and Mark, and were kept for their own personal use (at the behest of The Intrepid Traveler), and two copies were to be given to you, our readers, which we're doing here.


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With hockey likely to begin next week, I wanted to gauge the potential participation level doing the contest in a shortened year. I am willing to set up a group again through the website we used last season or I can just create a thread each week on LGW to track the scoring.
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Hector Rodriguez, 24, a member of the West Side's notorious 10th Street Gang, pleaded guilty Friday to a federal racketeering charge. He faces a prison term of up to 20 years and a find of up to $250,000 or both when U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara sentences him May 9 at 12:30 p.m.
U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. said Rodriguez, the 18th member of the gang to have pleaded guilty, admitted to drug dealing and firearms possession as a part of his participation in the gang. Thirty-five members of the gang have been indicted.
Hochul said that on May 22, 2006 Rodriguez learned that rival drug dealers were making what he believed to be a substantial amount of money selling crack cocaine in the turf controlled by the 10th Street Gang. He then dressed in old and dirty clothes and pretended to be a crack cocaine user and purchased crack cocaine from one of the rival dealers.
He later returned to a 10th Street Gang drug house where he told fellow gang members that he did not see any guns in the possession of the rival drug dealer with whom he had just dealt.
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On 11 November 2011, Ha Long Bay was declared one of the Official New7Wonders of Nature. Since then, it has become one of Asia's most high-profile attractions. The seascape of the bay, dotted with jagged limestone spires, combines the scenic beauty of Vietnam with an evergreen biosystem and a human heritage that dates back to […] Read More →


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Thankfully, in his first news conference after he was introduced as the Bills' general manager, Doug Whaley spared everyone the bogus sales pitch. OK, so he might have mentioned aspirations of building a winner, but he didn't make false promises or brace people for years of suffering.
Whaley kept his answers short, vague and, dare I say, boring. He cautiously made sure he didn't say anything he would later regret or could be used against him. A few times, he stopped himself from expanding on answers, checking his swing on softball questions that a polished speaker would have hit a mile.
I'm not sure how many times he said, "The sky is the limit," but he surpassed his limit. His reply after being asked what made the Steelers so successful: "They don't accept losing. They set the standards of winning and competing for championships. If we instill that here, we'll be in the right direction."
It was difficult to determine whether he was shy, extremely cool or trying to blanket his nerves, but there somewhere was elegance to his guarded answers and direct message. Whaley has a quiet, unassuming way about him. You can only hope he has enough intelligence and confidence to make the right decisions.
Whaley isn't going to become a motivational speaker any time soon, but that's not what the Bills needed in their new general manager. They needed a young, motivated executive who can evaluate players and restore credibility. He has been atop their list for years, which made Thursday's announcement little more than a formality.
"Our main goal is to give the fans of the Buffalo Bills a team that consistently competes for championships," he said.
Whaley showed a different side to his personality once the cameras were turned off and the assembled media began heading for the door. Reserved throughout his news conference, his voice began cracking with emotion later when he talked about telling his father he was named an NFL general manager.
It's an accomplishment for anyone, a greater one for an African-American kid from Pittsburgh who never played in the NFL.
Whaley, who started as an assistant in the Steelers' personnel department 17 years ago, becomes the sixth African-American general manager in the league.
Bob Whaley told his son it was one of the proudest moments of his life. Coming from him, that's saying something.
Bob Whaley earned a football scholarship to Michigan State. He transferred to West Point and was among the first black football players. He graduated in 1967 and was an Army Ranger in Vietnam.
"I have the utmost respect for him," Whaley said. "The things he's gone through makes me being a general manager seem like nothing. For him to say he was proud of me in his lifetime, for lack of a better term, it's a crushing blow to my ego. It was emotional for him to say that. Everybody is looking for acknowledgement of their parents."
You get a better sense of Whaley when you hear him talk about his parents. You understand how he built a reputation as a bright young scout who was destined to manage his own team someday. You can see that he's a selfless, team-first guy who knows the meaning of hard work and sacrifice. He knows the importance of intangibles.
His mother, Gaynell, was a school administrator who offered a soft touch. A few days ago, she was still telling him to remain humble and stay true to their family values. Bob Whaley spent 30 years in management, overseeing a highway-construction company. Doug grew up tarring roads in the Pittsburgh area.
"Hard work. That's where I got it from, every summer, working with him," Whaley said. "We did road construction, heavy highway draining and sewage, laying asphalt. Did you know that asphalt comes off the truck at 220 degrees and you can only stay on it for six minutes before your feet blister in the summer?"
Um, no.
"It was hard manual labor, and I wouldn't trade it for the world," he said. "It taught me what work was all about. In the construction business, there's a tangible asset that you see that you accomplished. You feel like you accomplished something. You look at the long road, absolutely. And when the alarm rings, you answer the bell."
Whaley has a long road ahead of him with the Bills, who haven't made the playoffs in 13 consecutive seasons. That, alone, is alarming when you consider how many teams have gone through the cycle of success. The Bills have been stuck in the same ditch with five coaches, counting Perry Fewell, and four general managers.
It's time for Whaley to answer the bell.
He has remained mostly behind the scenes over his 17 seasons in the NFL after playing for the University of Pittsburgh. He spent a dozen years with the Steelers and showed an eye for personnel before climbing the ladder. The Steelers hoped he would continue growing with them, but he jumped to become an assistant GM under Buddy Nix.
Whaley was Nix's top aide, which is enough to make any Bills fan leery. Nix made his share of mistakes with Whaley at his side. It was enough to make you wonder whether Whaley played a role in a few blunders along the way. Russ Brandon made it clear that the general manager ultimately makes the final call.
Now, that responsibility falls on Whaley.
Nobody knows for sure how well he will perform when faced with the same pressure, and it will be interesting to see how he handles the responsibility. Five months ago, I suggested that Whaley be given a chance to run the show. I'm certainly not backing off now.
Whaley, 40, brings a new perspective and closes the gap between the old ways of building teams and the new ways of today's game. Bill Polian was an unproven 44-year-old when he climbed aboard in 1986. I'm not suggesting Whaley is the next Polian, the best general manager of his time, but there's only one way to find out.
At least the Bills are trying something new, unlike the other major professional sports team in town. Brandon has been given full control of the organization. They hired a new head coach in Doug Marrone. They hired Whaley, who immediately hired Jim Monos as director of player personnel and Kelvin Fisher as director of college scouting.
And they have a rookie quarterback in EJ Manuel.
Bills fans are hoping they can grow together and get this thing turned around. The answers will eventually be revealed in the results.
Let's face it, there is no better time for a new regime to talk about the sky being the limit than when it's sitting near the bottom. They might as well start with someone who knows how to build a road.
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The real NFL Draft is less than two weeks away and players are rising and falling on the draft boards.
The proliferation of Twitter and draft Web sites has made examination of the prospects the most intense it ever has been. This probably just is the tip of the iceberg in the coming years. Any bad report coming from the scouts or the front offices spreads like lightning and everyone's mock draft adapts to compensate for the new order of things.
Robert Quinn was in the Top 5, then he started to drop, but now the feeling is there is little chance he lasts past the Cleveland Browns.
Jake Locker once was a candidate for the first overall pick. Then his senior season was not as spectacular as the scouts wanted it to be and he became second round consideration until the last few weeks when he now may be a first-round prospect again, possibly going in the Top 10.
Things will continue to change, as will my mock draft.
|1. Carolina Panthers: Cam Newton
2. Denver Broncos: Marcell Dareus
3. Buffalo Bills: Patrick Peterson
4. Cincinnati Bengals: A.J. Green
|17. New England Patriots: Ryan Kerrigan
18. San Diego Chargers: Cameron Heyward
19. New York Giants: Mark Ingram
20. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Adrian Clayborn
|5. Arizona Cardinals: Von Miller
6. Cleveland Browns: Robert Quinn
7. San Francisco 49ers: J.J. Watt
8. Tennessee Titans: Blaine Gabbert
|21. Kansas City Chiefs: Akeem Ayers
22. Indianapolis Colts: Anthony Castonzo
23. Philadelphia Eagles: Gabe Carimi
24. New Orleans Saints: Da'Quan Bowers
|9. Dallas Cowboys: Tyron Smith
10. Washington Redskins: Julio Jones
11. Houston Texans: Nick Fairley
12. Minnesota Vikings: Jake Locker
|25. Seattle Seahawks: Justin Houston
26. Baltimore Ravens: Muhammad Wilkerson
27. Atlanta Falcons: Cameron Jordan
28. New England Patriots: Andy Dalton
|13. Detroit Lions: Prince Amukamara
14. St. Louis Rams: Corey Liuget
15. Miami Dolphins: Nate Solder
16. Jacksonville Jaguars: Aldon Smith
|29. Chicago Bears: Derek Sherrod
30. New York Jets: Stephen Paea
31. Pittsburgh Steelers: Mike Pouncey
32. Green Bay Packers: Brooks Reed
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A Molokai man was arrested in the fatal shooting Wednesday night of his 24-year-old girlfriend at a Kawela apartment complex, police said.
The 33-year-old Honouliwai man was arrested shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday after he surrendered to police, who had located the compact Honda sedan he was driving near his residence.
He had fled in the car after the shooting reported at 8:59 p.m. Wednesday at Kawela Barns Apartments at 2626 Kamehameha V Highway, police said.
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Molokai patrol officers arriving at the location found 24-year-old Malia Kahalewai with injuries from a single gunshot wound to her chest, police said. She was transported in critical condition to Molokai General Hospital, where she died, police said.
An autopsy is pending.
Police said Kahalewai and the suspect lived together, had been in a relationship for nine years and had children together.
The suspect remained in police custody but had not been charged late Thursday afternoon. Police reported recovering the rifle believed to have been used in the shooting.
According to court records, the suspect had been convicted of abusing his girlfriend in a 2008 case. That year, she had sought a restraining order against him, which was dissolved when a judge ruled that allegations hadn't been proved at a hearing, according to court records.
The suspect was arrested Saturday in another abuse investigation, police said. At 4:48 p.m., Kahalewai was in the driver's seat and a female friend was in the passenger seat of a car in a church parking lot at Kalamaula when the suspect suddenly showed up, police said. He opened the driver's door and struck Kahalewai in the left cheek with his right elbow, police said, and an altercation followed as he tried to remove the key from the ignition.
After getting the key, the suspect got into another vehicle and left, police said. He was arrested and charged with abuse at 6:25 that night at the Molokai Police Station. The suspect was released after posting $1,000 bail, police records show.
As part of the arrest, he was issued a warning citation to stay away from Kahalewai. The citation expired at 4:30 p.m. Monday, police said.
In addition to the abuse conviction, the suspect's record includes convictions for first-degree burglary, second-degree robbery and third-degree assault of a woman who was beaten until she was unconscious in her East Molokai home in April 1998. The suspect was sentenced to a one-year jail term as part of five years' probation in that case.
After a jury trial in August 2002, he was acquitted of charges alleging that he pointed a rifle at his then-girlfriend and her father and fired a shot in the valley where his family lives in August 2001. He also was acquitted of charges that he wielded a knife and threatened two police officers who went to question him about what happened.
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For as long as I can remember, I have always been a night person - happiest to stay up into the wee hours puttering away with my many projects, and then sleep in, then lose the day again until I suddenly realise by 4 pm or so that I'm still in my pyjamas. My partner Charles is like me too, and in many ways Adelaide seems to have inherited our love of the night as well.
In the night routine department we are lousy parents: Adelaide has never really had a bedtime and often it will suddenly become very late and I'll realise that we're all still up - Addie included. But I figure as long as she's happy, content, and there is no real pressure to wake up early then it's ok.. For now!
But then several months ago I began to notice that Adelaide and I have the best days together when we get out of the house. I realised because I am mostly happy inside all day without even getting dressed, that I needed to come up with a way to give me a small push to get up and out.
And so several months ago I became inspired to try and start a community parent and tot playgroup. To gauge interest, I first talked with as many neigbourhood moms and dads as I could, and seemed to get a positive response to the idea. I went ahead and booked the community room for two days a week. I am grateful for that - our community room is a perfect spot - bright and cheerful and basic kitchen facilities, tables and chairs, and lots of toys and books. I kept it simple, bringing some tea and snacks such as crackers and grapes, and also a few craft items like playdoh, crayons and paper. I also made up some mixed cd's of (grown-ups) music to play as well. And I asked other parents to consider bringing some snacks, dish towels, hand soap or the like as well.
The hardest part of this all, besides getting motivated, was putting myself out there and the fear that no one would ever show up! The day of the first group I arrived early, made a pot of tea, put on some music, and waited. I decided that worst off, Adelaide and I would have some nice one on one time together. But then, people began to arrive one by one and soon it was a full house.
And then something I never even expected happened - organising this group has became one of the most fulfilling things I have ever experienced. I have met so many amazing and wonderful children, mamas, papas, and grandparents. I have gone from having just a few mama friends to having dozens. I have met neighbours who live on our block, but I had never seen before in my life! People seem to (I hope!) enjoy coming to the group. It is amazing to me, how doing little things such as this can seem to spread happiness. And now when Adelaide and I walk around our neighbourhood, we know almost everyone by name.
It has now been four months, and about 50 little ones and their parents have attended our playgroup - On any given day anywhere between 5 and 15 children and their parents might come by. Some people are regulars, others have only come by a couple of times. In spreading the word, I have found that word of mouth and inviting people face to face has worked great, rather than relying on more anonymous methods. But I have now decided it is time to finally make up some posters and little flyers to put out around the neighbourhood, too.
For the longest time I couldn't come up with an idea, but one morning I was inspired by some of Addie's little wooden people toys that I bought at Daiso ages ago. Sarah Neuburger also makes the most wonderful little wooden people too, which I couldn't help but think of while making this. I began drawing little people, one by one, in Illustrator, but soon I ran out of ideas and so Charles drew up dozens and dozens for me - he's great like that! Once I had made up a big group of characters I arranged them all and added the text information (The typeface I used is Clarendon). Once everything was arranged, I printed them out onto cardstock, some full page 8.5 x 11", and then reduced by 50% and doubled up per page to make flyers as well. Once all printed, I trimmed them down and corner rounded them all. Done!


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Top Definition
Verb: To hamstring an organization through short-sighted management, often involving no-trade-clauses
Did you see that trade? Is he trying to JFJ his team?
by e-Macer March 03, 2008
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Jerk Face Jeff
JFJ in the house! - meaning Jeff's being a prick again!
by JFJ's Wife June 01, 2011
Jumping for joy. An acronym similar to lol used to express happiness or great joy over instant messaging or text.
Person 1: Dude I'm so happy the Giants won!
Person 2: I know, I'm literally jfj!
Person 2: I know, I'm literally jfj!
by steelyhard July 10, 2010
A noun meaning junior fat jesus, or entailing a smallish fat ass that has a similar appearance to jesus. Often used towards an obese kid that looks way older than their actual age. Characteristics include negligence of shaving facial hair, large consistent appetite, and the carrying of a satchel (man purse).
"Man Delilah looks like a JFJ these days."
" I know, someone should tell her about the invention of the razor."
"I think she carries one in her satchel."
" I know, someone should tell her about the invention of the razor."
"I think she carries one in her satchel."
by pinata slayer January 26, 2010
junk food junky. a person who eats a load of junk food and nothing but it.
dude your such a fatass jfj! stop eatting
by babye January 17, 2010
JFJ stands for jews for jesus. but i dont thhink that makes ne sense. well first of all jews dont believe jesus is our savior. well that is all. if u would like to talk to a JFJ. I.M. Xugotthebestofme. that is his sn
yo JFJ is so anti pwnster.
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Matt Duchene�s offense helped put the Columbus Blue Jackets in a hole. Semyon Varlamov�s goaltending kept them from climbing out.
Duchene scored two goals and set up another, Varlamov made 33 saves, and the Colorado Avalanche beat Columbus 4-0 on Thursday night.
�He was at his best (Thursday night),� Duchene said of Varlamov. �He was our best player. He�s just solid. He gives us confidence. That was an outstanding effort by him.�
Varlamov preserved his ninth career shutout and first of the season when he made a sprawling save on Nick Foligno�s shot late in the second period. He followed that early in the third with a stop of Ryan Johansen�s shot from in close by using his chest.
�You�ve got to give him credit,� Johansen said. �He was sturdy and strong back there. It�s frustrating for our guys to not be able get one past him.�
Varlamov got an assist from the Avalanche�s penalty-killing unit, which shut down all six power plays by the Blue Jackets.
Since allowing two power-play goals in a season-opening loss at Minnesota last Saturday, the Avalanche have killed 16 consecutive power-play opportunities by the opposition.
�The guys did a great job for me,� Varlamov said. �They blocked a lot of shots, so I can say thanks.�
The shutout was his first at home for the Avalanche after compiling four in his first season with Colorado last year.
�It�s huge for me, and it�s huge for the team,� Varlamov said.
Playing their first game since learning they had lost Steve Downie to a season-ending knee injury in Tuesday�s win over the Los Angeles Kings, the Avalanche got another scare when John Mitchell took a puck off his face in the first period and left the ice holding a towel to his bleeding nose.
Mitchell was tended to by medical staff, returned to the game in the second period with a gauze wrap stuffed up a nostril and scored his second goal of the season off a feed from Milan Hejduk at 4 minutes, 38 seconds of the third.
Duchene scored on a breakaway at 18:42 of the third. He also set up the Avalanche�s opening score 51 seconds into the game with a cross-ice pass to P.A. Parenteau, who wristed a shot from the left circle past goalie Sergei Bobrovsky.
It was the second goal in two games for Parenteau, who joined the Avalanche in the offseason as a free agent after playing for the New York Islanders last season.
Later in the first, Duchene scored his first goal of the season to put the Avalanche up 2-0. He put in a rebound after Bobrovsky blocked a shot by Hejduk but could not control the loose puck.
�Getting a couple of goals, you put them in a hole right away,� Duchene said.
That wasn�t how the Blue Jackets wanted to open the game.
�We have to have better starts,� Johansen said. �It�s tough to come back from deficits in this league. We�ve got to be more sharp to start games. We have to have our focus a little stronger, and everybody has to be on the same page. If we do that, we�ll be successful. I�m not concerned, but we�ve got to keep working.�


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I am from Sony Pictures and saw your piece this morning on the attacks Sony has been under. I wanted to point out that the 1 million number you refer to in relation to an attack was announced June 2 by LulzSec, however, the actual number is less than 38,000. There is a notice on our web site:sonypictures.com (click on the red banner)
We recently broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over 1,000,000 users' personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts. Among other things, we also compromised all admin details of Sony Pictures (including passwords) along with 75,000 "music codes" and 3.5 million "music coupons".
In celebration of little girls getting bigger bones, we're now emailing NHS and informing them of those admin passwords we took months ago.Because if we fucked over those that give health, people would literally die laughing at our antics. Poor lungs = poor lulz, people.
"Sony Says LulzSec Lied About Number of Records Lost" - we didn't say we stole 1 million, we said we compromised 1 million. Silly @Sony :3SonyPictures.com = ~1,000,000 total users split into various tables of ~200,000 (x2) ~300,000 (x1) ~75,000 (x2) and ~125,000 (x1) @Sony tell everyone about how many users are in that SonyPictures database; users we accessed does not equal users YOU didn't protect. :D
quote: Due to a lack of resource on our part (The Lulz Boat needs additional funding!) we were unable to fully copy all of this information, however we have samples for you in our files to prove its authenticity. In theory we could have taken every last bit of information, but it would have taken several more weeks.


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Evil bedbugs will devour your blood, wallet
It starts small: waking up with a few itchy red bites on your skin, and maybe finding some of their empty shells in your bedroom. But a bedbug infestation can eventually get really, really bad, costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars to resolve and potentially torpedoing your home's value in the process.
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Man your bufugly. You might want to do something about that.
bluntman and chronic cam tarafından 19 Haziran 2006, Pazartesi
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(adj) butt fucking ugly
Damn that swank is bufugly! Damn right..... word.
pseudonai tarafından 9 Mart 2003, Pazar
ridiculous level of ugly.. just simply butt fucking ugly.
check out that girl with the penis on her head.. how bufugly is that?
megi tarafından 20 Şubat 2005, Pazar
Stands for butt fucking ugly. When someone is hideous enough, that it takes words combined to describe.
person 1: woah look at that obese girl, with warts all over, bad breath, bad body odor, hairy armpits, yellow messed up teeth, boogers hanging out of her nose, tons of ear wax, and a man voice
person 2: yeah she's definately bufugly
person 2: yeah she's definately bufugly
yesiamthebest tarafından 25 Temmuz 2008, Cuma
Someone who is Butt Fucking Ugly. Really, Really ugly!!!
When the alcohol wore off I realized she was Bufugly!!!
Collinizer tarafından 24 Kasım 2007, Cumartesi
Butt fuckin' ugly
That bitch is bufugly!
RedFrog65 tarafından 26 Ekim 2009, Pazartesi
Just look at that Bufugly broad.
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The IMF Hotline 800-452-CURE (2873) is staffed by Nancy Baxter, Debbie Birns, and Paul Hewitt. The phone lines are open Monday through Friday, 8am to 4pm (Pacific Time). To submit your question online, please email email@example.com.
Question: I have been diagnosed with a solitary plasmacytoma of the bone. What is it? And what is the likelihood that I will develop multiple myeloma?
Answer: A solitary plasmacytoma of the bone (SPB) is defined as a collection of malignant plasma cells found in a single location in the bone without evidence of disease elsewhere. If, in fact, you have a true SPB, your chances of cure with radiation (3500 cGy) therapy are quite good. When a patient is treated with attempted curative radiotherapy for a SPB and then goes on within a few years to develop multiple myeloma (MM), the major reason for this failure is that the patient had underlying MM all along and did not have a true SPB. Thus the failure was not that of the radiation therapy, but that the patient was not accurately diagnosed.
Diagnosis of SPB In the past, it has been difficult to assess whether a patient who presents with what appears to be a SPB actually has some small or hidden amount of systemic myeloma. Blood work can determine the amount, if any, of the myeloma protein. A high amount of such protein would point towards the presence of MM. The term MM is used if there is, in addition to a plasmacytomata, an increase in plasma cells in the routine bone marrow. The patient should be checked for other relevant indicators of MM, such as low hemoglobin, elevated serum calcium, and elevated serum creatinine. Another important diagnostic factor is the presence or absence of other bone lesions. In the past, a skeletal survey was used to make this determination. However, negative skeletal surveys alone cannot rule out other bone lesions because such surveys are not sufficiently accurate. With MRI and/or FDG PET scanning, doctors can better determine if the patient has more wide-spread marrow involvement. The absence of such involvement after these more sensitive tests would give the doctor (and patient!) more confidence that there is no occult MM.
Adjuvant Therapy Adjuvant therapy is a term used to describe additional therapy such as chemotherapy, steroids, thalidomide, or alpha-interferon after radiation. Studies done in the 1980s and 1990s evaluating the benefit of post-radiation therapy with various chemotherapies in an effort to reduce the chance of, or time to, new disease were inconclusive. The prevailing view at this time is that adjuvant chemotherapy should not be given for patients with SPB. However, bisphosphonate therapy can be considered to help heal the bone that was damaged by the plasmacytoma.
Follow-up Even in the absence of adjuvant therapy for SPB, patients should be monitored regularly. It may take up to a year (or occasionally even longer) for the effects of the radiation therapy to be fully demonstrated in dropping monoclonal protein levels. During that time, you and your doctor should determine a schedule of visits every 2 or 3 months to evaluate your status. As time goes on, if you remain disease-free, this schedule can be lengthened to, for example, 4-6 month intervals. Such close monitoring will allow the doctor to find any sign of a recurrence or development of MM at an earlier point when treatment options are greater.
Likelihood of Curing SPB As stated above, the important issue is accurate diagnosis. Local control of an SPB has been achieved in about 90% of cases. Disease-free survival of 10 years has been reported to be from 16% to 46%, depending on the study. This discrepancy is most likely a result of the fact that not all of the patients in each study had true SPBs, but rather had underlying MM. There have also been studies looking at what prognostic factors can be identified that will predict which patients will be cured and which patients will ultimately relapse and develop MM. The following factors have been identified in at least one study as increasing the likelihood of relapse: osteopenia (reduced bone density, perhaps indicating early evidence of MM), low levels of uninvolved immunoglobulins (again, this probably means the patient actually had occult MM at diagnosis), age over 60, and/or SPB on axial (head and trunk) skeleton region. In patients whose monoclonal protein persists after radiation therapy, the likelihood of relapse is greater; conversely, those whose monoclonal protein disappears after local radiotherapy are less likely to relapse.
Overall Outlook As our understanding of how plasma cell cancers develop increases, and as our ability to accurately diagnosis and stage plasmacytomas and MM improves, doctors are better able to guide patients in making treatment decisions.


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All suites are luxuriously furnished, each equipped with a wet bar and private restroom. Sliding glass doors separate the climate controlled interior from the two-tiered porch adjacent to your suite. And high-definition TVs both inside and out enable you and your guests to enjoy the MASN broadcast in stunning clarity. Several redesigned suites have been added to the mix including:


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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The Wando Warriors knocked off the No. 7 Summerville Green Wave 60-55 in overtime Tuesday in the home opener at the Chop House in Mount Pleasant.
Matthew Pegram scored five of Wando's eight points in overtime and pulled down a big rebound late to secure the Warriors' fourth straight win. Pegram sat in foul trouble toward the end of regulation but returned in the final minutes to reclaim control of the post and play a key role in forcing overtime. He finished with a team-high 12 points, scoring nine after halftime, to go with three blocks and 10 rebounds.
"He just took it upon himself to grab everything," Wando head coach David Eaton said. "He was talking on the bench about grabbing every rebound when he went back in and he really tried to do that. He's matured as a player and I'm just really proud of the way he played tonight."
Wando (4-0) looked ready to blow the game open early, raining in six threes through the first quarter. Andrew Glover and Taylor Majewski both dropped in two while Raekwon McFadden and Alex Terrell added one each. Playing a stingy full-court press, Wando closed the quarter on a 12-3 run to take an 11-point lead into the break.
Christian Kalacanic and John Jenkins combined to score 23 points through the second and third quarter to help the Green Wave outscore the Warriors 31-24 through the span and climb back into the game. The third quarter saw six lead changes in the final three minutes before Amp Moore came off the bench to give the Warriors a four-point lead with a three at the buzzer.
"Relentless," Eaton said. "These guys are relentless. Things just weren't clicking on offense for us the last three quarters but we kept going at it instead of hanging our heads. We kept shooting and kept attacking. That was really great to see."
With Wando trailing by two with less than two minutes to play, Jamez Rogers knocked down two free throws to tie the game. Out of a timeout, Summerville looked to end the game with the last shot but Majewski came up with a block on the baseline to force the extra quarter.
Seven different Warriors scored at least six points Tuesday. Majewski turned in 11 points, six rebounds and three blocks; Rogers added seven points , six rebounds and two steals; McFadden and Terrell both scored seven and Glover added six.
Jenkins finished with 19 points for Summerville, while Kalacanic added 17.
"Instead of coming out shy and scared against a top-10 ranked team, it says a lot about our guys that they took it as a challenge to beat these guys because they believed they could do it," Eaton said. "I'm proud of what these guys have done so far this season. Somehow we need to keep the focus that they have right now and ride this out and keep going."
Friday, Wando travels to James Island Charter to face the Trojans at 8:30 p.m.
Wando girls fall
The Wando Lady Warriors dropped their home opener 61-37 to Summerville Tuesday.
Wando (0-3) fell behind early in the first quarter as Summerville opened the game on a 13-4 run. The Warriors trimmed Summerville's lead down to five halfway through the second quarter but wouldn't come any closer the rest of the night as turnovers and missed shots plagued their offense.
With the first basket of the fourth quarter, Summerville took a 20-point lead it'd maintain throughout the final eight minutes.
Courtney Wood led the Warriors with 11 points; Clare McTighe turned in eight and Kimberly Small scored seven. Heather Chapman paced Summerville with 18 while Zuri Green added 14.
The Lady Warriors tips off at James Island Charter Friday at 7:30 p.m.
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The top 12 performed songs by divas the night before – and then faced a night of diva-worthy drama on Thursday's show. And it was a particularly tough night for the young adults' coach, Demi Lovato, after the outcome of the viewers' votes were revealed.
Keep reading for all the results ...
Early in the hour, hosts Mario Lopez and Khloé Kardashian announced the act with the lowest number of votes was Simon Cowell's hip-hop group Lyric 145, who performed a mash-up of Queen's "We Will Rock You" and Katy Perry's "E.T." on Wednesday.
"We didn't get the opportunity to show what we really had," frontwoman Lyric Da Queen said. "We had original lyrics ... But we're just taking the good with the bad right now."
Nine acts were then declared safe, leaving two to sing for survival – and they were both from Demi's team: Jennel Garcia and Paige Thomas.
Jennel performed an emotional rendition of Hoobastank's "The Reason," and Paige sang Coldplay's "Paradise."
Then the judges had to vote for the act they wanted to send home.
"I'm shocked that either of them are at the bottom," L.A. Reid said. He voted to send home Jennel. Britney followed his lead. Simon refused to say his choice and forced Demi to go first. "The act that I'm going to send home is Paige," she said. It was up to Simon to avoid a tie – and he picked Jennel.
Not an Easy Night for DemiSo, Demi was the only one to reject Paige – and she'll have to work with her again next week. Awkward!
"You're so unbelievably talented and you have a future ahead of you so I'm not worried," Demi told Jennel on the show. "I love you and I really, really believe in you."
After the show, a "bummed" Lovato told PEOPLE, that it "wasn't an easy night" for her. "I genuinely think that Jennel is just more talented," she explained. "I think that Paige has a more star quality to her which is going to help her as an advantage. I think that Jennel definitely didn't deserve to go home, and I couldn't let her go home tonight."
"As we get closer and closer to the end of this I've invested so much time," she continued, "so it is not like I am losing a contestant; I am also losing a friend that I worked so hard with over the last couple of weeks. It is kind of a blessing and a curse that I get so close to my contestants."
The Top 10Before the show wrapped, the co-hosts announced the ranking of the top 10 based on who got the most votes. They are:
10. Paige Thomas
9. Arin Ray
8. Beatrice Miller
7. Diamond White
6. Fifth Harmony
5. CeCe Frey
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3. Vino Alan
2. Carly Rose Sonenclar
1. Tate Stevens
The show's only country singer does it again!
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quote: I see why you make these points but they seem pretty obvious to anyone who hasn't been kidnapped by dogma.
quote: My objection to this kind of thinking is from the self centered and egotistical undertones that seem to support it.
quote: Thanks but I would rather stay where the good odds are to be found.
quote: During history they have repeatedly changed their stance when proven wrong.
quote: Intelligent Design is just a politically correct term for Creationism.
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Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel was sworn in Wednesday morning as the nation's 24th defense secretary following a thorny confirmation process wrought with charges and accusations leveled primarily by members of his own party.
Fifty-eight senators voted to confirm Hagel, with 41 voting to reject his nomination. Four Republican senators joined 53 Democrats and two indepedendents in voting to confirm Hagel, who served two terms in the US Senate as a member of the GOP.
During his confirmation hearings, Hagel was roundly criticized for a variety of reasons by several Republican senators, including former colleague John McCain (R-Ariz.), who voted against his fellow Vietnam veteran. McCain attacked Hagel during Senate hearings in January for his opposition to the so-called "surge" in the Iraq War. Others, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), also questioned Hagel's committment to Israel.
Hagel, 66, is the first Vietnam veteran to head the Pentagon, as well as the first former enlisted man to rise to that position, as reported by Roll Call. He was a sergeant and squad leader in US Army's 9th Infantry Division, earning two Purple Hearts during his Army service in 1967-68.
Hagel is the right man for the job at this time in American military history. Unlike McCain, who said during the 2008 presidential campaign that he could foresee American troops in Iraq for "100 years," Hagel understands that perpetual war is not the best means for winning a lasting peace.
In November 2006, after American voters rejected Republicans in Congress largely because of President George W. Bush's misguided invasion and occupation of Iraq, Hagel wrote in the Washington Post that there "will be no victory or defeat for the United States in Iraq."
Hagel advised Bush to use the then-forthcoming report from a panel led by former Secretary of State James Baker as a means of implementing a "phased withdrawal" of US troops from Iraq. Bush ignored the recommendations from Baker and committed to the troop surge, the effectiveness of which has been debated in the years since.
The fact that McCain opposed Hagel on this point is precisely the reason why Hagel is the best choice to lead the Pentagon. If President Barack Obama is true to his word, US troops will be out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Hagel, who has been supportive of Obama's Afghanistan policy, will do his best to help the president meet that goal and see the troops return safely after what is now the longest war in American history.
Hagel's experience in Vietnam will serve him well at the Pentagon. In the previously cited Washington Post column, Hagel wrote that the U.S. "misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam." In Hagel, the US has a realist with combat experience heading the Department of Defense. We're lucky to have him there, no matter what McCain says.
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The M.S. Practitioner Track program prepares students to begin employment in psychology under the supervision of a doctoral trained and licensed psychologist. However, M.S. Practitioner Track students more typically apply to Psy.D. programs of study, since these programs attract students who have a background in practica and internship experiences, as opposed to research and thesis requirements.
The master's practitioner track in clinical psychology provides intensive training in psychological assessment. Students study under the supervision of a doctoral-trained and licensed psychologist, enrolling in coursework that is typically required in the first year of the doctoral clinical psychology program.
The master's practitioner track in counseling psychology places great importance on personal and interpersonal functioning across a person's life span and prepares graduate students for counseling positions in private settings or licensure as mental health counselors.
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At each of the City Council's stated meetings, council members introduce bills, most of which will never become laws (for the process by which bills become laws, click here). As a regular feature, Gotham Gazette discusses some of the legislation proposed at each meeting.
At its most recent stated meeting on October 11, the City Council introduced several bills and proposed resolutions dealing with affordable housing, nightlife safety, civil service, and Con Edison.
With sales of large apartment complexes threatening to change the character of those developments, Councilmember Rosie Mendez introduced a bill that addresses the diminishing stock of low- and middle-income homes in the city. Intro 454 calls for a 120-day review period once a sale of any large-scale development is proposed. After conducting the review, the city's housing preservation and development department would submit recommendations to the council and the mayor's office on how to minimize the effects of any major sales, according to Mendez's office.
The bill had been prompted by MetLifes decision to sell Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village on Manhattan's East Side. But the announcement on October 17 that Tishman Speyer was buying the developments for $5.4 billion presumably limits any impact the measure could have on that. Mendez's office said she is still moving forward with the bill in order to prevent future large-scale real estate deals from moving ahead without the city's input.
In its continuing focus on New York's nightlife, the council got its first piece of public safety legislation coming out of the nightlife summit held last month by Speaker Christine Quinn. Intro 455, by Councilmember Peter Vallone, would require clubs to hire one bouncer per every 75 patrons. There currently is no law on the number of bouncers required. The legislation is one of several pieces already introduced regarding club security personnel, including the "Bouncer Control Act" that was passed in August.
Many city employees who started working after September 1986 are required by city law to live in the five boroughs. At the request of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Councilmember Joseph Addabbo introduced legislation to alter this residency requirement and allow more public workers to live in counties surrounding the city. Intro 452 would allow certain unionized employees to live in Nassau, Westchester, Suffolk, Orange, Rockland or Putnam county. The move to relax residency requirements comes as many city employees find it increasingly difficult to find affordable homes within the five boroughs.
Just one day before Con Edison released a report that deflected blame for the blackout in Queens in July, the council urged the federal government to investigate the utility. Vallone, who criticized the report, proposed Resolution 551, which calls for the federal government to look into Con Ed's past and present failures, including its questionable response after nearly 100,000 residents lost power for almost two weeks. The resolution also calls for the possibility of a federally appointed monitor for the company.


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The North Tahoe boys led by Peter Holmes swept the top four places in the North Tahoe Pursuit this past Friday, while Hannah Halvorsen edged Katrin Larusson in the varsity girls race.Hosted by Tahoe Cross Country, the high school racers skied one lap of classic before switching to skate skis and poles in a transition zone and then skiing one more lap. The Lakers dominated the boys race, with Holmes taking the win ahead of teammates Patrick McElravey, Shane Christian and Dylan Syben. Holmes posted a time of 15:32.19 to McElravey's 15:34.72. Christian finished in 16:14.97 and Syben in 16:39.75. "The boys had another great day," said North Tahoe coach Kara LaPoint, adding that the Lakers, as well as much of the varsity boys field, are aiming to peak at Junior Nationals in about a month. "So we should continue to see the level of skiing rise if all goes according to plan. My hope is that the boys will continue to push each other to get stronger and faster so they will be a real force when they get to Junior Nationals and are racing at the national level."Sam Zabell and Peter Carroll, both of the Sugar Bowl Academy (SBA), finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in 16:54.32 and 17:03.47. Incline's Evan Vomund was seventh in 17:12.81, SBA's Skyler Mullings was eighth in 17:15.16, Truckee's Alex Kopytko was ninth in 17:40.44 and Truckee's Eli Yale rounded out the top 10 in 17:53.03.Halvorsen and Larusson swapped positions atop the girls leaderboard, as Larusson, of SBA, had won every CNISSF race prior. This time Halvorsen, racing for Truckee, claimed the win in 17:57.27 to Larusson's 17:57.87. Amanda Kirkeby of Mammoth was third a couple minutes behind, in 19:32.52.Truckee's Skyler Flora and Lizzie Larkins finished fourth and fifth in 19:41.08 and 19:46.52, respectively, while SBA's Camille Hartley was sixth in 19:53.24 and was followed by Truckee's Gabrielle Rinne (19:57.24), SBA's Danielle Nivinski (20:13.43), Truckee's Kyla Burrill (20:18.65) and Raylene Chew (20:42.49).The middle school skiers completed one skate lap only.Alder Creek's Mia Winans captured the win in the middle school girls race, finishing in a time of 9:11.37, while North Tahoe's Lindsey Twomey was second in 9:13.81 and Alder Creek's Claire Lang-Ree third in 9:16.74. On the boys side, Ryland Belisle of Alder Creek claimed the win in a time of 8:29.23. He was followed by Cameron Small in 8:41.48 and Connor Kusumoto in 8:42.76.Find complete results at www.farwestnordic.org and a photo gallery at http://macbethgraphics.smugmug.com/NORDIC-RACING/CNISSF-School-Races-2013/CNISSF-NT-PURSUIT-2013/27958169_BgGwvs#!i=2360014324&k=k9ppXCq.
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Nonsexist language is written, verbal or nonverbal communication that is inclusive and does not reflect a bias based on sex. Language is sexist if it discriminates because of one's sex; reinforces the idea of one sex's superiority; or perpetuates sex and gender role stereotypes. Language that ignores, limits, or trivializes women and girls, and language that excludes or belittles women's values, perspectives, and experiences is sexist, as would be comparable language related to men and boys. Often language can unintentionally communicate sexism. University of Maine's Nonsexist Language Policy:
"The University of Maine, as an equal opportunity educational institution, is committed to both academic freedom and the fair treatment of all individuals. It therefore discourages the use of sexist language. Language that reinforces sexism can arise from imprecise word choices that may be interpreted as biased, discriminatory, or demeaning, even if they are not intended to be. Accordingly, all university communications whether delivered orally or in writing, shall be free of sexist language. Each member of the university community is urged to be sensitive to the impact of language and to make a personal commitment to eliminate sexist language. Supervisory personnel have a particular responsibility to discuss this policy with faculty and staff and to make available to them the guidelines on nonsexist language."
Sexist language often omits one sex by assuming that the other is the norm.
-A nurse cares for her patient
-A college athlete needs to budget his time carefully
-A nurse cares for a patient
-Budgeting time is essential for college athletes
Stereotypes are sexist because they arbitrarily assign characteristics to people or thing based on sex.
-The office relies heavily on its girls
-We will hire four new men to keep the grounds
-The office relies heavily on its secretaries or administrative assistants
-We will hire four new groundskeepers
Sexist language also refers to people in general with sex-specific nouns and pronouns.
-We will be studying early man
-A freshman has many courses of study from which he may choose
-We will be studying the first humans
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NEGLEY - Middleton Township trustees are blocking Chesapeake Energy from accessing a planned oil and gas well on the Benner property near Justison Road.
Trustees Eldena Gearhart and Nancy Michaels this week approved canceling a road use maintenance agreement (RUMA) the board had previously approved for Justison Road. Canceling the agreement will bar Chesapeake access to the planned well as Justison is the only road available to that site.
The agreements require companies involved in the preparing and operation of drill sites to upgrade and maintain the roads being used to get to the sites and to resurface them when drilling is completed.
Gearhart told Brett Bankert, Chesapeake field representative for the county, the RUMA is being canceled because they were not pleased with the condition of Vale Road.
Earlier in the year the board approved a RUMA for the company to use roughly seven-tenths of a mile of Vale Road to get to a well and water impoundment site in that area.
Bankert said the stone road was recently chipped and sealed by the company as planned.
Trustees said they are pleased with the road, although they were not happy with how long the company was taking to address the issue.
Fiscal Officer Robert Chapman also said they don't like all the dust kicked up by the trucks using the road.
Gearhart explained the board doesn't want to go through with the agreement for Justison Road because "we are no longer willing to go through what we went through on Vale Road We don't want to have the potholes, the neighbors complaining, the dust."
She also said the board wants all roads used by the company to be blacktopped as opposed to chipped and sealed.
"Our problem is, doing the chip and seal; (it) won't take the truck traffic. Unless there's an awfully good base on it, it's not going to hold up," she said.
Bankert said he believed it would hold up but that he would talk to his supervisors about having the roads blacktopped. He noted the agreements call for the roads to be repaired using their original material, however.
Gearhart and Michaels said the board may rescind the RUMA cancellation later if the company agrees to provide a plan for the maintenance and repair of Justison Road prior to any drilling activity in that area and that the road be blacktopped.
Michaels said if blacktop is not permitted, the company should include an addendum in the agreement that it will be responsible for any additional repairs should the chip and seal not hold up.
"We're not trying to hold you up, we're just trying to make sure things are right," she said.
The board, with the exception of Trustee Timothy Pancake who was absent, then approved a RUMA for Scotts Mill Road. The company had wanted the agreement signed last month, but the board refused since it called for the township department to be on call for maintenance in the event that Chesapeake is unable. They had told Bankert that with only two full-time men the department did not have the manpower and ability do that and requested it be amended to read the crew would be responsible "at their discretion."
Bankert presented the amended agreement to them on Monday. The company will use the road to access the planned well on property owned by James and Joyce Bailey.
He said progress on the well has been "postponed for now" and was unable to provide a reason for the delay.


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Clinical trials are very important to patients. Without clinical trials, there could be no new drugs approved for the treatment of myeloma. When a promising new drug comes out of the laboratory, it must be tested in people via clinical trials. Clinical trials are conducted under very strict ethical standards, with many layers of scientific and regulatory review. As a result, they are very expensive and time-consuming to conduct. In recent years, patients have been brought more and more into the design process, which is very good news.
IMFer Mike Katz is co-chair of the Patient Representative Committee at the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) and the liaison to ECOG's Myeloma Committee. This committee is co-chaired by Dr. Phillip Greipp (Mayo Clinic) and Dr. David Vesole (St. Vincent's Comprehensive Cancer Center).
ECOG has conducted many important cancer clinical trials. It is a cooperative group, funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and its trials are available to patients via hundreds of participating treatment centers. ECOG's Myeloma Committee recently concluded a trial proving the safety and superiority of thalidomide and dexamethasone versus dexamethasone alone. This trial was cited in the "Approvable Letter" issued by the FDA in response to Celegene's submission of thalidomide. The FDA said that it expected to approve thalidomide after the results of this trial are submitted. The trial has already had a profound impact on patient care, with the thalidomide/dexamethasone combination all but replacing VAD (vincristine, Adriamycin, dexamethasone) as the standard front-line treatment for patients planning a stem cell transplant.
ECOG is currently conducting a trial testing the new agent Revlimid®. However, the Myeloma Committee designed this trial to go beyond the question of whether Revlimid is a safe and effective front-line treatment for myeloma. (Further information about this trial can be found at http://e4a03.myeloma.org.)The trial is asking two questions that are very important to patients:
This trial design received rave reviews at the 2004 IMF Support Group Leader Retreat. It was approved by the NCI in record time and is enrolling patients faster than original projections. It is an example of a "patient-friendly" trial in that it asks questions important to patients and is actually testing the efficacy of potentially less toxic treatments (Revlimid versus thalidomide, lower-dose versus standard-dose dexamethasone.) Traditionally, trials used "maximum tolerated doses" to maximize the possibility of a positive result for the treatment being tested, often in support of drug approval applications.
Having Mike Katz on the Myeloma Committee and having the Myeloma Committee participate in a focus group with the IMF Support Group Leaders clearly played a part in making this trial design more "patient-friendly." ECOG has been a pioneer in this area. Mike and his co-chair, Mary Lou Smith, sit on the ECOG Executive Committee, which reviews and approves all trial concepts.
At this year's IMF Support Group Leader Retreat, the Myeloma Committee once again participated in a focus group discussion with the attendees. The discussion first covered general issues that the support group leaders had with myeloma treatment and clinical trials, including:
The next part of the discussion focused on clinical trials designs being considered by ECOG for the future. While confidentiality issues prevent discussion of the details of those designs, there were some general conclusions worth sharing:
The attendees felt empowered to be able to engage directly in the design process and the Myeloma Committee was grateful for their input. It does no one any good to go through the time and expense of opening clinical trials that are not attractive to patients.
The success of the Myeloma Committee Focus Group paved the way for a recommendation that annual patient focus groups be incorporated into the NCI's Blueprint for a Redesigned National Clinical Trials system. This recommendation was presented to the National Cancer Advisory Board and accepted for implementation. So, the myeloma community has once again led the way, setting an example for how to get things right in cancer treatment and research.


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KHARTOUM, 30 April 2012 — The Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Kandeh K. Yumkella, concluded his visit to Sudan today. Yumkella confirmed UNIDO's willingness to help Sudan make development projects attractive to investors and finance institutions.
Over the last three days, he held meetings with high-ranking government ministers, including the federal President, six federal and state ministers, chairmen and CEOs of private companies, members of the soybean group and the executive leadership of the Sudanese Chamber of Industries Association.
During his official visit, Yumkella met the ministers of industry, international cooperation, oil, and science and technology. He also met with the UN Country Team, and the Director-General of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA).
The talks with government ministers focused on the need to strengthen industrial, agro-industrial and other related businesses, with the aim of generating jobs and filling the vacuum left by the loss of 75 per cent of national revenue as a consequence of the separation of the Republic of South Sudan.
UNIDO's assistance was requested in the realization of a number of new projects concerning, amongst others, leather products, food processing, the prevention and elimination of aflatoxins from the food supply, and the establishment of renewable energy sources. All government and non-government bodies expressed their high appreciation of the past and continuing partnership with UNIDO in Sudan.
In response to the requests brought to his attention, the Director-General stressed that the solution is to attract investment. He confirmed UNIDO's willingness to carry out feasibility studies and related-packaging of the proposed projects to make them attractive to investors, as well as to promote the opportunities to investors and finance institutions.
During a meeting at the Higher Council on Investment, Yumkella was briefed on the fruitful cooperation programme jointly implemented with UNIDO and the Islamic Development Bank. This cooperation has lead to a number of achievements, namely the editing and enhancing of the Investment Law; analysis of the marble, stone and leather sectors; the capacity-building programmes for 30 members of staff from seven ministries on project preparation and appraisal, and finally the establishment of the Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion Centre (EDIP Centre).
A meeting was also held with Abdulaziz Al Khalaf, CEO of the Arab Bank for Economic Development of Africa (BADEA), which has its headquarters in Khartoum. Yumkella expressed his appreciation to BADEA for its continuing support for UNIDO and the Arab Regional Centre for Entrepreneurship and Investment Training, particularly the Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion Programme in nine African countries. Yumkella expressed UNIDO's firm commitment to cooperate with BADEA to develop more programmes to enhance and promote industry and investments in Africa.
For more information, please contact:
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