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That's the philosophy that drives two Wenatchee Valley cheap earrings who have been gathering good used clothing and just opened a shop where foster kids and their foster parents can pick out wardrobes for free.

Karen Arnold and Diane Owen met in January and the two hatched a plan to start a clothing closet for foster children. They call it The Kids Connection. Their shop, called The Oasis, opened this week in a building shared by Junkyard Gypsy's, a trendy secondhand store at 217 Mission Ave. in Cashmere.

Arnold, 54, of East Wen-atchee, is a veteran foster parent and foster parent recruiter. She works for Lutheran Children's Services under contract with the state to recruit new foster parents, situate foster kids and keep foster families healthy. Her office is in the state Department of Social and Health Services building in Wenatchee.

"Foster parents are wonderful people who cheap jewelry their lives to help children who really need help," she said. "It's really kind of a thankless job, but it is very satisfying. They really make a difference."

It's something she and her husband, Patrick, truly believe. They've been foster parents for 32 years. During that time, they've taken in at least 85 foster children, five of whom they've legally adopted in addition to their own two children, now adults.

"I stopped counting at 85, there may have been more," Arnold said. "I have a huge passion for foster children." She has three living at home now and said she would have more if she hadn't recently undergone kidney replacement surgery.

Owen, 39, of Wenatchee, tried being a foster parent to two boys, but she and husband Gary found it too disruptive for their own two sons.

"I didn't realize that these kids need so much parenting, love, reassurance and cheap key rings, and our boys could not adjust to all the time and effort needed for our foster kids," said Owen, a currently unemployed environmental engineer. Her husband works as an engineer.

Robin Bannister faces a maximum of 15 cheap bangles in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 11.

The body of Bannister's boyfriend Clifford Webber, 38, was found June 16 in an abandoned house near 14th and Rencher streets.

Investigators said Bannister stabbed Webber in the chest during an argument over alcohol several days before the discovery. She then recruited an acquaintance to help her move his body from her house to the abandoned house next door, police said.

The acquaintance led police to the cheap bracelets.

"The success of this case rests solely on the shoulders of our police officers and Major Crimes Unit," said District Attorney Matt Chandler. "Despite uncooperative witnesses and tampered crime scenes, the officers were able to solve this murder in a timely fashion and in a manner that the one responsible could be brought to justice swiftly."

Bannister will remain in jail until sentencing is completed, Chandler said.

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A working mother and teacher earning her online doctorate degree in education is the winner of a $1,000 GetEducated.com/Core4Women distance learning scholarship.

Danielle E. Williams, 32, is the first winner in the new <a title="cufflinks/Core4Women Online Education Scholarship Program">GetEducated/Core4Women scholarship program. GetEducated.com is a consumer website that ranks and reviews online degrees. Core4Women is a new social networking site aimed at helping women improve their lives through online education.

GetEducated has teamed with Core4Women to fund scholarships for eligible members.

Core4Women was founded in 2009 by Gail Weatherly, distance education coordinator at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. The group has about 130 members, including both mentors and students.

Williams is a mentor for Core4Women, helping women with questions about online learning. She also is a community college liaison at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA; an adjunct professor at Tidewater Community College's Norfolk campus, teaching college success skills to nontraditional students; and a mother of two children under age two.

She is studying for her online PhD in education, with a specialty in organizational and community college leadership, through a distance degree program offered by Nova Southeastern University, based in Florida. She hopes to become a community college dean, while still continuing her true passion--teaching.

Online education, says Williams, "has allowed me to be a earrings and mom in Virginia and a student in Florida."

GetEducated is continuing to offer scholarships to Core4Women members; visit <a title="Core4Women, social networking group for women in distance learning">Core4Women.org for more information.

GetEducated also offers <a title="GetEducated Excellence in Online Education Scholarshp Program">Excellence in necklaces Education Scholarships to U.S. citizens enrolled in distance learning. Deadline to apply is Oct. 15, 2010.

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Women 16 to 20 years of age are just as likely to have bangles cervical disease as women 21 and older, according to results of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pivotal clinical trial of the Guided Therapeutics, Inc. (GT) (Pink Sheets: GTHP) LightTouch(TM) Cervical Scanner, being presented at the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology biennial meeting.

The study, which is the basis for seeking FDA approval, indicated that 18 percent of the 290 adolescent subjects in the trial presented with significant disease, the same as the group of 1,317 women aged 21 and older. Five of the adolescent subjects that were missed by the current standard of care of Pap test, HPV test and biopsy during the trial were correctly identified as having significant cervical disease by the LightTouch at the time, according to results of follow up examinations.

"These results indicate that cervical disease is a significant problem across a large section of the population," said Mark L. Faupel, Ph.D., President and CEO of GT. "We believe that our scanning technology offers a means for early detection of disease in younger rings and may create an opportunity to preserve reproductive health."

The pivotal study examined 1,607 women who received the LightTouch test and other tests routinely used to refer women to biopsy. Included in study were 290 women between the ages of 16 and 20, 52 of whom were found to have precancer and cancer missed by the current diagnostic standard of care consisting of Pap test, HPV test, colposcopy and biopsy. The current diagnostic procedures missed 9.6% (5 of 52) of precancers and cancers in adolescent women with follow up.

"(The results call) ...into question recent guidelines for reducing surveillance of cervical disease in women below the age of 21. (LightTouch) ...is a cost effective point of care test that provides immediate results and demonstrated an ability to identify 91% of adolescent women with CIN2+ (significant cervical disease). (LightTouch) ...bracelets showed potential to reduce by a third the number of adolescent women without dysplasia that were referred to biopsy and colposcopy," according to a poster presentation of the pivotal trial results.

With The Hunger Project, based in New York City, Bread for the World calls on our nation's leaders to focus greater attention on the links between gender equality and hunger in the developing world if we are to reverse the recent worldwide increase in hunger and poverty, tiffany silver pendants to Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World.

"Around the world, 70 percent of those who suffer from hunger and poverty are women. In addition to serving as the primary caregivers for their children's health and well-being, women also comprise the majority of small-holder farmers who struggle each long day to grow enough food to feed them," he said. "Despite the vital roles women play, inequalities in education, economic empowerment, political participation, and access to basic health services have a strong impact on hunger and malnutrition. Gender inequality must end in order for us to reach the Millennium Development Goals to cut world hunger in half by 2015."

Rev. Beckmann added that the tiffanys correlations exist between hunger and lack of education. "Educated women in the developing world have higher self-esteem and are more likely to avoid early pregnancies, HIV infection, domestic violence, and exploitation," he said. "Also, an educated mother is far more likely to send her children to school, so that they can one day find a good job and break the cycle of poverty."

The United States has identified fighting hunger and improving nutrition as key priorities of its foreign assistance agenda. Sustained improvements in the lives of hungry and poor people around the world will only be possible if investments are made to improve the health and well-being of women and small children. Supporting women as food tiffany and caregivers is critical if we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and achieve a brighter future for all people.

Breast cancer is the most common type of malignancy tiffany silver earrings in the cancer registries of almost all countries within the Eastern Mediterranean Region. In Iraq, the continuous rise in the incidence rate is associated with an obvious trend to affect premenopausal women," said Nada A.S. Alwan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Breast Cancer Research Unit at Baghdad University Medical College and the executive director of the newly established Iraqi National Cancer Research Program.

Alwan presented early data at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, held March 7-10, 2010.

The Iraqi National Cancer Research Program was organized by the Iraqi minister of higher education and scientific research in 2009 in collaboration with the common secretariat for the Council of Ministers and the Iraqi Parliament.

"This project includes within its tiffany silver keyrings comprehensive epidemiologic studies on risk factors of the main encountered cancers in Iraq, with a focus on the characteristics and behaviors of cancer in patients inhabiting different geographic areas," said Alwan.

The current study focused on 721 of 5,044 women who complained of breast lumps later diagnosed as cancer. Approximately one-third of the diagnosed patients were between 40 and 49 years old; 71.9 percent came from urban areas and 75 percent were married.

History of lactation was reported in 63.1 percent of the women and 29 percent had taken hormone therapy. A family history of breast cancer was reported in 16.2 percent of cases.

Although 90.6 percent of women detected a lump on self-examination, only 32 percent sought medical tiffany silver notes within the first month. Because of this, 47 percent of them presented with advanced stage breast cancer, either stage III or IV cancer. The main histological type was invasive ductal carcinoma of grade 2 in 56.6 percent and grade 3 in 39.9 percent. Estrogen-receptor positive tumors were noted in 65.1 percent of the cases and progesterone-receptor positive tumors were noted in 45.1 percent of the cases.

Institutions like the United Nations and World Bank are tiffany silver accessories their attention on girls education, but in countries like the West African nation of Mali only about half of all girls are enrolled in school. There are efforts by local people in rural Mali to make sure girls get an education.

Bintou Kassambara is 26 years old and lives in a town called Dioro, 150 kilometers from Mali's capital, Bamako. She started primary school much later than other children. She was 20 years old when she was in seventh grade and her family pulled her out of school.

Kassambara says her father engaged her to a cousin, an uneducated young man she did not love. She says even if she did love him, she was not ready to get married, so she ran away.

Kassambara says she did not tiffany silver bangles to stop studying in order to get married. She says she had passed a group of farmers looking at a notice. Out of all 12 people there Kassambara was the only one who could read, so she told them what the notice said.

After that, Kassambara says she realized how practical and important it is to get an education. She is not the only one in Dioro to learn that lesson.

The Benkadi Women's Association is working to get girls to attend school. According to the United Nations, 56 percent of Malian girls are enrolled in primary school, but for boys in Mali the number is 70 percent.

Assan Diakite says the association often has to give the mothers money to send their daughters to school, because tiffany silver bracelets they don't even have enough to buy a notebook. Plus, they leave their daughters at home to help with house work.

Professor of psychology Rebecca Craft was named the 2010 WSU tiffany ring of the Year at the annual Women's Recognition Luncheon today in the CUB ballroom.

Bernadette Buchanan Mencke, a doctoral student in WSU's higher education program, and Alice Smethurst, from Payroll Services, were honored with Woman of Distinction awards.

To be considered for the awards, candidates had to distinguish themselves in academic work, career, leadership and public service. Also, each had to contribute to the personal growth and success of others, especially women, through education, research and public or outstanding volunteer service.

Craft, who is also director of the graduate program in experimental psychology, has demonstrated her commitment to the people and community around her in a multitude of ways. She is honored for excellence in her career, leadership, public service and commitment to the personal growth and success of others.

She has demonstrated her commitment to women's issues through her research on sex differences in therapeutic effects of drugs, her teaching and her mentoring.

Craft has authored more than 50 tiffany rings reviewed publications, made dozens of invited presentations and nearly 60 conference presentations and posters, and earned 19 academic awards for her teaching and mentoring. She has served as president of the Association for Faculty Women. She also developed and offered a workshop illuminating gender differences in workplace communication styles that affect professional development and unit effectiveness.

"Rebecca is a distinguished scholar, an award winning teacher and mentor, a role model par excellence, and a truly delightful person," said one nominator. "(She) has worked hard to distinguish herself through individual accomplishment, but she worked equally hard to elevate the women around her."

Graduate student Buchanan Mencke was selected for her demonstrated excellence in academic work, public service and leadership. She shows great command of the intellectual material in her classes, and is also an active volunteer in her local community and a role model for other graduate students. As a wife and mother, she is an actively engaged member of the greater WSU community.

She thinks on a large scale, according to her nominator: "She is passionate to gain knowledge that can be applied toward improving the campus climate here at WSU and the social environment throughout the world."

A WSU employee for 25 years, Smethurst, in the words of her nominators, "provides world class customer service both within and outside the tiffany silver." She is honored for excellence in mentoring others and contributing to their success, as well as her leadership and public service.

Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of tiffany note, announced that two Kansas City, Mo., residents were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that involved dozens of mortgage transactions.

Mark Kiel, 42, and Codi McArdle, 26, who are common law husband and wife, of Kansas City, were sentenced in separate appearances before U.S. District Judge Ortrie D. Smith this morning. Kiel was sentenced to two years and nine months in federal prison tiffany pendant parole; McArdle was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Kiel and McArdle to pay restitution to the victim financial institutions.

On Oct. 22, 2009, both Kiel and McArdle pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They admitted that the conspiracy involved 37 different mortgage transactions with more than 10 different lenders.

Kiel, who was a loan broker at First National Mortgage Solutions, and McArdle would have two separate HUD-1 documents prepared during real estate purchases. One document reflected the true sale price of the property, but the second, fraudulent document reflected an inflated sales price that was disclosed to the lender. At the time of the closing, the difference between the true sales price and the inflated sales price would be cut in a check, which would be provided to either Kiel or McArdle.

The difference between the actual sale price and what was reported to the mortgage company was referred to as the "tiffany pendants." Kiel and McArdle admitted that the total "spread" from 37 transactions was $438,048.

Governor David A. Paterson today accepted the final report from the tiffany key and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) Task Force, the capstone of the State's evaluation of its use of MWBEs. The Task Force began its work at the direction of the Governor in June 2008 to review how authorities issuing State-supported debt selected underwriters and other professional services. Following a thorough examination of State procurement processes, the Task Force delivered a series of recommendations designed to provide MWBEs with an opportunity to compete for contracts. The final report outlines how the adoption of these recommendations have led to significant improvement in the utilization of MWBEs, setting a foundation for future progress and making New York a national leader in MWBE economic development.

"In 2006, the Department of Economic Development reported some very alarming numbers. Only 3 percent of all State procurement contracts were awarded to businesses owned by women or minorities: 2 percent of those were minority-owned, including African-American, Hispanic and Asian; and a mere 1 percent belonged to women. It was with these figures in mind that one of my first acts as Governor was to create a task force to address this inequity," Governor Paterson said. "Today, we see the results. tiffany necklace recommendations have developed a uniform procurement process, removed barriers to entry and improved the diversity of debt underwriters and other professional service firms working with New York State."

"There is more progress to be made, but this Task Force has laid a strong foundation. To help ensure that the work of this Task Force is not diminished with the passage of time, I will soon submit legislation to ensure that the progress that began with the Task Force continues," the Governor added. "I congratulate the MWBE Task Force and Chairman Paul Williams. Their impressive results will continue to be used as a guide for diverse economic development in New York and across the country."

Task Force Chairman Paul T. Williams Jr., the Executive Director of the Dormitory Authority, said: "MWBE firms have new opportunities to do business with and in New York State - progress we would not have made without Governor Paterson's commitment to this issue. As more MWBE financial and professional service firms earn senior roles as underwriters, attorneys, bankers, brokers, agents and advisors, these firms will be able to expand their capital and customer base. That will create new jobs here in New York tiffany necklaces help develop the next generation of minorities and women in the financial services profession. I look forward to working with the Governor and the MWBE team to ensure that a new and vibrant MWBE financial sector continues to grow in New York."