Program Director

On July 10, 1976, as the smoke was still clearing from America's big bicentennial celebration, a new song slid into the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, riding a chorus that referenced "skyrockets in flight. " But Starland Vocal Band wasn't singing about bombs bursting in air on the suddenly ubiquitous folk-pop ditty "Afternoon Delight . " The harmonic hit was actually about post meridiem lovemaking. The sexually suggestive soft-rock song was written by Starland's Bill Danoff after...

Walter Barrera fills a bottle with tap water and electrolyte powder, shaking the solution as he walks down the stairs of his porch. Cold raindrops are falling, and he looks at the gray sky. "Not good," the 32-year-old Northeast Washington resident says, shaking his head because rain threatening a long run is more than just bad luck. It could disrupt the rhythm of his day and his week, and if that happens, what comes next? A few years ago, Barrera was addicted to drugs. He used crystal methamphetamine, and then he...

Walter Barrera fills a bottle with tap water and electrolyte powder, shaking the solution as he walks down the stairs of his porch. Cold raindrops are falling, and he looks at the gray sky. "Not good," the 32-year-old Northeast Washington resident says, shaking his head because rain threatening a long run is more than just bad luck. It could disrupt the rhythm of his day and his week, and if that happens, what comes next? A few years ago, Barrera was addicted to drugs. He used crystal methamphetamine, and then he...

President, Food Research and Action Center Jim Weill has been President of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) since February 1998. Jim has devoted his entire professional career to reducing hunger and poverty, protecting the legal rights of children and poor people, and expanding economic security, income and nutrition support programs and health insurance coverage. Prior to joining FRAC, he was at the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) as Program Director and General Counsel.

Three former employees of a troubled nonprofit agency that was awarded more than $1 million in District AIDS funding say their boss routinely doctored pay stubs and other records to draw money from city government. They said they discovered the inconsistencies during a turbulent stint last year at Hill's Community Residential Support Services, which had been collecting city money to house women with HIV since 2004. The former employees also said the program lacked staff, food, therapy and support services, forcing ailing...

Position : Chief operating officer, Apptis Inc., a provider of information technology based in Chantilly. Career Highlights : Vice president, SETA Corp.; corporate vice president and division manager, SAIC; program director, Booz Allen Hamilton. Age: 62 Education : BS, Business Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha; MS, Public Administration, Shippensburg University; Master of Strategic Studies, U.S. Army War College. Personal : Lives in Fairfax with wife of 42 years,...

The chief of the Peace Corps appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to express regret for the agency's failure to respond with compassion to a series of rapes of young volunteers and the recent slaying of another while they served overseas. Director Aaron S. Williams told angry lawmakers on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs he was "amazed and shocked" when he learned of the crimes, which he said gave him "great anguish. " He acknowledged that the Peace Corps has not been "sufficiently...

Bernard J. Krask, 88, a research scientist at Fort Detrick who later became a program director at the National Institutes of Health, died Oct. 1 at his home in Frederick. His daughter Karen Krask said he had cardiovascular disease. Dr. Krask came to Fort Detrick near Frederick as a scientist in 1957. He later served as assistant director of biological laboratories. In 1971, Dr. Krask joined the NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, where he was a program director coordinating research on arteriosclerosis at medical...

Your June 16 Metro article "Gaithersburg School Tailors Teaching to Help Students Cope With Disorder" was great, but staff writer Daniel De Vise, while mentioning programs in Montgomery and Anne Arundel counties for children with Asperger syndrome, didn't list any in Virginia. I live in Prince William County, where the public schools have had an Asperger's program for many years. My son has been involved for the past four years, starting in middle school, and he has blossomed. The special education teacher tells every teacher whose class includes an...

The Maryland Occupational Safety and Health agency has awarded Coakley and Williams, the construction company in charge of renovating the historic Duvall Wing of the Prince George's County courthouse in Upper Marlboro, the Cooperative Compliance Partnership Award. The award, which has been presented to 40 construction sites in its 10-year history, acknowledges employers whose safety and health programs and work methods are above industry standards. The companies sign an agreement with the state to meet rigorous safety requirements.

President Obama on Thursday re-nominated Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, all but assuring a fight with Senate Republicans who oppose the agency's sweeping powers to regulate the financial services industry. Cordray, 53, took the helm of the consumer agency in late 2011 through a recess appointment . His term expires at the end of the year unless he wins approval. But Senate staffers say Obama's end run has poisoned the waters for Cordray.

Josh Stoltzfus, an expert in American music and veteran of the local arts community who helped run the annual Columbia Festival of the Arts for the past five years, has been chosen as the new director of programming for the Artisphere urban arts and cultural center in Arlington County. Stoltzfus, who was part of the team who selected artists for the annual 16-day, multi-disciplinary Columbia Festival , also helped budget and manage its partnerships, and he worked with the Wolf Trap...

Melinda Henneberger's assertion [" Republicans can't shake birth-control issue ," She the People, Feb. 22] that Republican presidential candidates don't want to talk about contraception this year is true enough. But her claim that contraception is becoming an issue in this election because Democrats and reproductive-health advocates are making it one flies in the face of reality. It's not what the candidates are saying that is stirring voter outrage,...

Millicent D. West, the District's homeland security director, resigned Tuesday, citing the ongoing federal investigation that led to a guilty plea by former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. West said she stepped down, effective immediately, "to ensure the work of the agency can carry on without any distractions. . . . It's in the best interest of the city and in the best interest of the agency. " In a brief interview with The Washington Post, West said: "There's an ongoing investigation.

A visit to the D.C. nonprofit group Brainfood on a weekday evening shows that its program of cooking lessons for teenagers is a recipe for success. There, teens slice, dice and stir as if they've been doing it for years, not months. "If you feel like making something you can, because you know how to do it," says Oni Crawford, 17. Brainfood teaches 125 D.C. area high-school students such as Crawford the ins and outs of cooking and, along the way, a bit about growing up. The kids brainstorm...

Companies Abt Associates of Bethesda appointed Anne-Marie Slaughter to the board of directors. Colonial Parking of the District appointed James D. Villa vice president and general counsel. DuPont Fabros Technology of the District appointed Lammot J. du Pont , former executive chairman, nonexecutive chairman. EBrains of McLean appointed Christian Hornbaker , former Nebraska tourism director, senior executive. Girard Engineering of Falls...

R. Dale Hylton, 77, a program director and educator with the Humane Society of the United States whose early work as an investigator helped lead to passage of a federal animal welfare law, died Feb. 1 at his home in Decatur, Ill., after a stroke. Mr. Hylton, a former Vienna resident, spent most of his career in the Washington area with the Humane Society. He was hired in 1964 as an investigator and was part of a long-running Humane Society effort to bring federal regulations to the laboratory animal trade.

Seventh-grader Michael Abraha's glasses flew off as classmate Brady Welch pushed him against the door of a girls' bathroom at Rosa Parks Middle School in Olney. "Too hard," Michael said as he rubbed his shoulder. Brady quickly apologized. The students were acting out a scene for a video being produced by high school and middle school students in an anti-bullying program. The program, "You Have the Power!," is sponsored by the nonprofit Project Change in Olney, a teen-adult partnership founded in 1998 by...

Bernard J. Krask, 88, a research scientist at Fort Detrick who later became a program director at the National Institutes of Health, died Oct. 1 at his home in Frederick. His daughter Karen Krask said he had cardiovascular disease. Dr. Krask came to Fort Detrick near Frederick as a scientist in 1957. He later served as assistant director of biological laboratories. In 1971, Dr. Krask joined the NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, where he was a program director coordinating research on arteriosclerosis at medical schools.