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EYEWITNESS SPORTSNational Signing Day
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Schools Around The Area Announce Their Recruits
Reported by: Bethany Simmons
Videographer: Mark Martin
February 7, 2013
Schools around the area announced what prize football recruits they landed on National Signing Day.
Following is a list of recruits for West Virginia University, Marshall University, Ohio University, West Virginia State University, University of Charleston and the University of Kentucky:
West Virginia University
Mario Alford WR 5-9 175 Greenville, Ga./Georgia Military College
Al-Rasheed Benton LB 6-2 220 Newark, N.J./Shabazz
Ronald Carswell WR 6-0 180 Macon, Ga./Itawamba CC
*Hodari Christian LB 6-1 195 McKeesport, Pa./McKeesport
Shelton Gibson WR 6-1 175 Cleveland Heights, Ohio/Cleveland Heights
Brandon Golson LB 6-3 220 St. Mathews, S.C./Georgia Military College
*Malik Greaves S 6-3 200 Jacksonville, Fla./Sandalwood
Marvin Gross DE 6-4 225 Baltimore, Md./Dunbar
d'Vante Henry LB 6-5 205 Moore, Okla./Arizona Western
Darrien Howard LB 6-2 250 Dayton, Ohio/Chaminade-Julienne
Dontrill Hyman DE 6-4 265 Warsaw, N.C./Hinds CC
Marcell Lazard OL 6-6 293 Bloomfi eld, N.J./Bloomfi eld
Grant Lingafelter OL 6-5 265 Chagrin Falls, Ohio/Chagrin Falls
Isaac McDonald S 6-5 205 Hialeah, Fla./Champagnat Catholic
Nick O'Toole P 6-3 220 Corona, Calif./Fullerton College
*Chavas Rawlins QB 6-3 190 Monessen, Pa./Monessen
*Daikiel Shorts WR 6-1 200 Clayton, N.J./Eastern Christian
*Wendell Smallwood RB 5-11 194 Wilmington, Del./Eastern Christian
*Dreamius Smith RB 5-10 215 Wichita, Kan./Butler CC
Tyler Tezeno OL 6-3 280 Houston, Texas/Klein Collins
Jeremy Tyler S 6-0 195 Lithonia, Ga./Martin Luther King
Stone Underwood OL 6-4 285 Brookhaven, Miss./Copiah-Lincoln CC
Elijah Wellman FB 6-2 235 Huntington, W.Va./Spring Valley
*Kevin White WR 6-4 210 Macungie, Pa./Lackawanna College
Daryl Worley S 6-2 190 Philadelphia, Pa./William Penn Charter
Marshall University
Kevin Anderson QB, 6-2, 204 Boca Raton HS Boca Raton, Fla.
Jeremiah Benjamin LB, 6-2, 215 McArthur HS Hollywood, Fla.
Arnold Blackmon DL, 6-2, 245 Navarro (Junior) College Bellaire, Texas
Josh Brown DL, 6-5, 300 South Aiken HS Aiken, S.C.
Brandon Byrd RB, 6-0, 198 East Bay HS Gibsonton, Fla.
Cody Collins OL, 6-2, 280 Trotwood-Madison HS Trotwood, Ohio
Tyler Combs OL 6-5, 275 Lawrence County HS Louisa, Ky.
Neville Hewitt LB, 6-2, 220 Georgia Military College Conyers, Ga.
Stefan Houston LB, 6-3, 200 Fork Union (Va.) Military Academy Clarksburg, Md.
Chris Huhn OL, 6-6, 290 Pickerington North HS Pickerington, Ohio
Justin Hunt WR, 6-2, 180 Whitehaven HS Memphis, Tenn.
Sandley Jean-Felix OL, 6-5, 292 Boyd Anderson HS Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.
Angelo Jean-Louis WR, 6-0, 185 Fork Union (Va.) Military Academy Wellington, Fla.
Michael Johnson DB, 5-10, 165 Booker T. Washington HS Miami, Fla.
Shawney Kersey WR, 6-1, 197 Penn State transfer Woodbury, N.J.
Josh Knight WR, 6-1, 180 Fort Pierce HS Fort Pierce, Fla.
Tiquan Lang DB, 5-9, 174 Lowndes HS (Valdosta, Ga.) Port St. Joe, Fla.
Taj Letman DB, 6-3, 195 Holmes (Miss.) CC Elberton, Ga.
Deontay McManus WR, 6-2, 220 Atlanta Sports Academy Baltimore, Md.
Tony Pittman RB, 5-11, 200 Phoebus HS Hampton, Va.
Shykeem Pitts DB, 5-11, 175 Ridge HS Davenport, Fla.
Aaron Plantt LB, 6-1, 202 Hallandale HS Hallandale, Fla.
Michael Selby OL, 6-3, 280 Washington County HS Sandersville, Ga.
Devon Smith WR, 5-7, 150 Penn State transfer White Plains, Md.
Gary Thompson DE/LB, 6-3, 206 Helix HS La Mesa, Calif.
Corey Tindal CB, 5-10, 175 Atlanta Sports Academy Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.
Kent Turene LB, 6-3, 230 Atlanta Sports Academy Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
De'Andre "Chocolate" Wilson DB, 5-10, 170 Myrtle Beach HS Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Gerald Wright OL, 6-3 320 Northwestern HS Miami, Fla.
Ohio University
Leon Alexander Freshman S | 6-2 | 190 Detroit, Mich. | Martin Luther King High School
Cleon Aloese Freshman DL | 6-1 | 290 Pago Pago, A.S. | Tafuna High School
Tarell Basham Freshman DE | 6-4 | 240 Rocky Mount, Va. | Franklin County High School | Hargrave Military Academy
Dorian Brown Freshman RB | 5-11 | 195 Pittsburgh, Pa. | Baldwin High School
Jarid Brown Freshman CB | 6-0 | 185 Huntingtown, Md. | Archbishop Carroll High School | Fork Union Military Academy
Cedric Brown Freshman WR | 6-1 | 185 Martinsburg, W. Va. | Martinsburg High School
Brendan Cope Freshman WR | 6-3 | 185 Warren, Ohio | Howland High School
Tyree Graves Freshman DL | 6-3 | 230 Clearwater, Fla. | Pinellas Park High School
Tate Leavitt Freshman OL | 6-6 | 300 Thornville, Ohio | Sheridan High School
Troy Mangen Freshman TE | 6-5 | 237 Union, Ohio | Northmont High School
Cameron McLeod Junior DL | 6-3 | 285 McLain, Miss. | Greene County High School | Jones County Junior College
Mason Morgan Freshman TE | 6-5 | 230 Cincinnati, Ohio | Sycamore
Zach Murdock Freshman OL | 6-4 | 285 Dublin, Ohio | Dublin Coffman High School
Quentin Poling Freshman LB | 6-0 | 215 Spencerville, Ohio | Elida High School
Tony Porter Freshman DL | 6-0 | 280 Lawrenceville, Ga. | Peachtree Ridge High School
Corey Quallen Freshman S | 6-2 | 205 Mason, Ohio | Mason High School
Casey Sayles Freshman DE | 6-3 | 260 Omaha, Neb. | Omaha North High School
Trent Smart Freshman DE | 6-3 | 240 Wilmington, Ohio | Clinton Massie High School
Dyquan Stewart Freshman CB | 5-9 | 175 Stafford, Va. | Mountain View High School | Fork Union Military Academy
Watson Tautuiaki Sophomore DL | 6-2 | 290 Sacramento, Ca. | Elk Grove High School | LA Harbor College
Durrell Wood Freshman OL | 6-3 | 325 Columbus, Ohio | Groveport Madison High School
Justin Wyatt Freshman WR | 6-1 | 185 Lawrenceville, Ga. | Collins Hill High School
West Virginia State University
Luke Barnes, 5'11'' 160, safety. Chillicothe High School (Ohio)
Sherman Bernett, 5'11'' 210, linebacker. St. John's High School (Washington, D.C.)
Dwight Blankenship, 6'0'' 225, linebacker. Wayne High School (W.Va.)
Trevon Bolin-Hitchens, 6'4'' 210, tight end. Waverly High School (Ohio)
Devon Bollinger, 6'1'' 260, defensive tackle. Reynoldsburg High School (Ohio)
Noah Brown, 6'4'' 290, defensive tackle. Lafayette High School (Ky.)
Justin Carr, 6'3'' 225, linebacker. Lafayette High School (Ky.)
Zevin Clark, 5'10'' 190, running back. Crystal Lake South High School (Ill.)
Kevin Coffie, 5'9'' 160, defensive back. Springbrook High School (Md.)
Darrod Doleman, 5'10'' 160, defensive back. Jefferson High School (W.Va.)
Nicholas Dreixler, 6'2'' 250, guard. Mount Carmel High School (Ill.)
Jared Fehrens, 6'4'' 240, defensive end. Courtland High School (Va.)
Jules Ferguson, 6'3'' 235, linebacker. Princeton High School (Ohio)
Dennis Gardeck, 6'2'' 190, linebacker. Crystal Lake South High School (Ill.)
Geoff Gardner, 6'2'' 275, guard. Grayslake North High School (Ill.)
Garrett Grafton, 6'3'' 300, tackle. Winfield High School (W.Va.)
Paul Hammer, 6'1'' 200, linebacker. Hebron High School (Texas)
Kurt Jones, 6'2'' 250, guard. Cabell-Midland High School (W.Va.)
T.C. Kester, 5'10'' 160, safety. Winfield High School (W.Va.)
Matt Kinnick, 6'2'' 190, quarterback. St. Clairsville High School (Ohio)
Drew Kirby, 5'9'' 210, running back. St. Albans High School (W.Va.)
Jarod Martin, 6'3'' 225, tight end. Huntington High School (W.Va.)
Raleigh Mason, 5'8'' 205. running back. Brooke High School (W.Va.)
Dustyn Murphy, 6'3'' 205, tight end. Nicholas County High School (W.Va.)
Garrett Peavler, 5'10'' 170, safety/quarterback. Lafayette High School (Ky.)
Mitchell Rowell, 6'0'' 235, linebacker. Gahanna Lincoln High School (Ohio)
Dalton Shannon, 6'2'' 285, center/guard. Belleview High School (Fla.)
Gavin Smith, 5'9'' 160, kicker/punter. St. Albans High School (W.Va.)
Geoffrey Walker, 6'3'' 190, wide receiver. Jefferson High School (W.Va.)
Akil Washington, 6'2'' 185, wide receiver. Suitland High School (Washington, D.C.)
Trent Williamson, 5'11'' 205, quarterback. Westfall High School (Ohio)
Jamir Wilson, 6'0'' 180, safety. Seneca Valley High School (Md.)
University of Charleston
Mason Olszewski, QB, Pickerington North HS - Pickerington, Ohio
Justin Clinton, WR, Martinsburg HS - Martinsburg, WV
Cody Rounds, WR, Coral Springs HS - Coral Springs, FL
Justin Babos, FB, Youngstown Boardman - Youngstown, OH
John Babos, FB, Youngstown Boardman - Youngstown, OH
Luke Sears, LB, Lakewood Ranch HS - Bradenton, FL
Kim Olige, LB, Mallard Creek HS - Charlotte, NC
Seth Adams, OL, Halifax HS - South Boston, VA
Trevor Gilliam, DL, Dobyns-Bennett HS - Kingsport, TN
Ryan Gamber, DE, Sycamore HS - Cincinnati, OH
Sammy Hall, OL, Ritchie County HS - Smithville, WV
Eric Marion, DL, Spotsylvania, PA
Jonathan Moore, DB, Archery Kell HS - Pineville, NC
Cedric Amadi, DB, Franklin HS - Reistertown, MD
Singleton Grant, Jr., S, Glenville HS - Euclid, OH
Tyron Thompson, S, East Region HS - Voorhees, NJ
Marvin Elam, RB, Mt. View HS - Lawrenceville, GA
Michael Farhat, OL Lakewood Ranch HS - Brandenton, FL
Logan Cox, S, Parkersburg South HS - Mineralwells, WV
Vincent Rambo, RB, Independence HS - Columbus, OH
Skylar Wotrig, LB, John Handley HS, VA. - Capon Bridge, WV
Quincy Watford, WR, Chamblee, Ellenwood, GA
University of Kentucky
Za'Darius Smith DE (JC) Greenville, AL East Mississippi Community College
Jason Hatcher DE Trinity High School
Javess Blue WR (JC)Babson Park, FL Butler Community College
Ryan Timmons ATH Frankfort, KY Franklin County High School
Jojo Kemp RB DeLand, FL DeLand High School
Jaleel Hytchye CB Cincinnati, OH La Salle High School
Alvonte Bell DE Miramar, FL Everglades High School
Kyle Meadows OT West Chester, OH Lakota West High School
Khalid Thomas ATH Tallahassee, FL Godby High School
Nate Willis CB (JC) Yuma, AZ Arizona Western College
Alexander Montgomery TE-H Weston, FL Cypress Bay High School
Jacob Hyde #55 DT Manchester, KY Clay County High School
Marcus McWilson S Youngstown, OH Cardinal Mooney High School
Steve Borden TE-Y (JC) Waxahachie, TX Kilgore College
Jeff Badet WR Orlando, FL Freedom High School
Austin MacGinni K Prattville, AL Prattville High School
Regie Meant DT Cape Coral, FL Ida Baker High School
Blake McClain S Winter Park, FL Winter Park High School
Ramsey Meyers OG Orange Park, FL Ridgeview High School
Nicholas Haynes OGNiceville, FL Niceville Senior High School
Reese Phillips QB-PPSignal Mountain, TN Signal Mountain High SchooL
Justin Day OT Aiken, SC South Aiken High School
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L. D. "Joe" Hollingsworth, 72, of Sigourney, died Dec. 13, 2012, at the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City.
A Celebration of Life service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Sigourney United Methodist Church; with Rev. Rich Pippert officiating.
Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Monday at Powell Funeral Home in Sigourney.
A general memorial fund has been established.
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UFC 96 "Jackson vs. Jardine" goes back to Ohio for a UFC light heavyweight contendership bout between Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and "The Dean of Mean" Keith Jardine. With a win at UFC 96, Rampage would be primed to get a chance at Rashad Evans and his lost UFC light heavyweight belt.
- Keith Jardine vs. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson
Result: Quinton Jackson defeats Keith Jardine via Unanimous Decision. (29-28 x2, 30-27)
- Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Shane Carwin
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SANTO – Tina Lynnette Simmons Billue, 34, of Santo, Texas, died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012.
Service is 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, in the chapel of White's Funeral Home, 101 N.E. 4th Ave., Mineral Wells. Pastor Johnny Casey will officiate. Interment will be in Memory Gardens of the Valley Memorial Park, Weatherford. Visitation is 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Tina was born April 24, 1978, to Charles and Joyce Simmons. Tina married Tom Billue on July 26, 1995. They became parents to two beautiful daughters, Megan Deann Billue and K'leigh Leann Billue.
Tina was a very courageous woman who loved life and her family. She was always there to put a smile on someone's face and to make them laugh. With her fun-loving spirit, Tina will always be remembered by her angelic voice, and she's now in Heaven singing with the Angels. Although her time on Earth was short she made the most of it. Her family is very proud and honored to have been blessed with the time they had with their Angel and her angelic voice. She has now gained her angel wings.
Tina was preceded in death by her grandparents, Louie and Edna Simmons; along with many other loved ones.
Tina is survived by her parents, Charles and Joyce Simmons, of Santo; husband, Tom Billue, of Poolville; daughters, Megan and K'leigh Billue, of Santo; brother, Butch Simmons and wife, Tammy, of Santo; sisters, Donna Varnell and husband, Richard, of Woodward, Okla., Sherry Billue and James, of Santo, and Lisa Cotton and husband, Mark, of Mineral Wells; nieces, Stacie Hamscher, Holly Newcomb, Angel Brown, Lola Varnell and Arionna Cotton; nephews, Brandon Simmons, Chris Logan, Richard Varnell, Ryan Varnell, Charles Lee Simmons, Edward Billue, Mark Cotton II and Kason Cotton. Tina is also survived by numerous great-nieces and nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends; and longtime beloved friend, Micheal Wayne McKelvey.
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NORMAN — Editor's note: The following story was submitted to the Transcript's annual Christmas story contest.
My Christmas memory was when I was 8 years old and my mom was sick with cancer.
I wasn't really excited for gifts as much as I was worried how long we had with her. When I woke up that morning, it was barely snowing and my mom and dad were sitting in the living room. My dad had a little voice recorder in his hand. He told me we were going to record my mom singing baby lullabies.
After she was done, my sisters and I were given a locket with her and our pictures in it. Sometimes it doesn't matter what toys you get. Sometimes it's just nice to be with the ones you love. I will never forget her.
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'Justified' Recap: 'Truth or Consequences'
January 23rd, 2013 6:30am EST
Picking up almost right from where last week's episode left off, this week's Justified starts on an eerily calm note. Pastor Billy's sister has a late-night conversation with Boyd Crowder, who suggests that she might be "the brains" of Last Chance Holiness Church. He says he'd like to see her brother "shift focus away from me and mine," which she's willing to do for a price. "You want us gone, you're going to have to build us a place to go," she tells Boyd, adding that "We're not afraid of you."
After that, Colt (guest star Ron Eldard) returns to the church with another of Boyd's henchmen, and they're immediately set upon by some snakes. No, there's definitely not going to be a peaceful resolution to this situation.
Meanwhile, things are not going swimmingly for Raylan and Lindsey (guest star Jenn Lyon) now that he knows she's got a husband. She claims he's her ex-husband, but that doesn't make Raylan feel any better. Nor does her revealing that she was an accomplice in some of her former spouse's criminal behavior. He still doesn't resist her advances, however. For a smart guy, Raylan's pretty dense when it comes to his personal life.
Case in point: he decides to pay a visit to Lindsey's ex Randall (guest star Robert Baker), who's working out at the local gym. Raylan questions him about his past and then makes a point of mentioning that he slept with Lindsey the night before. He tells the ex that he's going to give him until that evening to get on the road or he's going to send him back where he belongs, possibly dead. The ex is not intimidated.
To add to Raylan's headache, he arrives at work and walks right into a chat between Art and Rachel, with Art taking Rachel to task for not calling for backup. Rachel points out that Raylan does the same thing all the time, to which Art responds that our hero is "a lost cause." Once Rachel leaves, Art hands Raylan a file on Drew Thompson's widow, whom he has tracked down. He adds that at the time of his not-death, Drew was wanted on a sealed federal witness warrant. So what did Drew witness?
After the fallout from the snake attack, Johnny Crowder (guest star David Meunier) has another chat with Wynn Duffy (guest star Jere Burns), offering to serve Boyd up to Duffy. "What if I were to help you kill him?" he asks, which is probably a very ill-advised question to pose. After all, as Duffy points out, people who have betrayed Boyd in the past have not lived very long afterward.
Raylan and Tim meet Drew Thompson's former wife, who claims to be a psychic but can't correctly predict the reason they're at her house. They explain that they have reason to believe Drew is alive and that if he is, there are some unpleasant people that will be looking for him. "He does something stupid every day," Tim quips when the psychic deters the conversation by talking about what Raylan is going to do later.
That doesn't stop our favorite sharpshooter from noticing a suspicious car outside the house. He and Raylan go outside to confront their visitor, who claims to be an FBI agent. While they're doing that, the psychic slips out her bathroom window and tries to run away, only to be kidnapped by a waiting thug. That'll teach her ever to do that again. "Way to go, assholes," quips Art when he finds out.
FBI Guy wants to take over the case, to which Raylan is resistant. Turns out, he has a reason not to trust the newcomer. Once FBI Guy is in the elevator, he calls the henchguy who abducted the psychic. Henchguy takes her to yet another generic hotel room somewhere and asks her where Drew Thompson is. He doesn't believe her when she says she just found out that her former husband was still alive. Threats ensue.
Johnny returns to the bar to find Boyd, Ava and Cole waiting for him, wanting to know where he's been. From that, the episode cuts abruptly to Raylan waiting for Randall so that they can have their planned throwdown, but Randall isn't anywhere to be found. When Raylan steps outside the gym, he finds the FBI Guy, and plays connect the dots, figuring out that FBI Guy is cooperating with the enemy. He tells FBI Guy that the only way to help himself now is to give up the whereabouts of his partners, After a tense few moments, FBI Guy gives up the location of the psychic, and then shoots himself in the head right in front of an uncomfortable Raylan.
At absolutely the last possible second, Raylan, Tim and a bunch of their friends burst into the hotel room and rescue the psychic. The most surprising thing about this is that it's Tim who gets to threaten the henchguy instead of Raylan. After the bad guy's hauled off, Art tells the psychic that the guy holding her worked for a familiar face: Theo Tonin (Adam Arkin). He wants to know how Theo knows who she is. She tells him, Raylan and Tim a story about catching Drew burning all their photos and him telling her that the next day, he would be assumed dead. What did Drew see? According to the psychic, it was Theo murdering a government informant. With that, she's on her way into protective custody, and Raylan has something new to chew on.
Boyd has another public confrontation with Pastor Billy and his sister, daring him to play with another snake that Boyd's brought to the party. Just as Billy is about to take the dare, his sister tells him not to, which reveals her involvement in the snake attack the night before. This upsets Billy enough for him to try to take on the snake a second time, and Boyd watches impassively as the snake bites Billy in the wrist. He collapses as Boyd walks away.
At episode's end, Raylan returns to the bar to find it packed, and Rachel waiting for him. She asks if he found Randall, and he admits that he's surprised that Randall didn't show up. This makes him curious as to where Lindsey is, and Raylan heads upstairs to find his place trashed and his girlfriend gone. "Guess she got tired of waiting," Rachel remarks, while Raylan processes being left again.
"Truth or Consequences" is an interesting middle chapter in the story of season four - it's not a whiz-bang episode but it does move the various plots along. Johnny being willing to betray Boyd is the juiciest development, as we know the odds are against him and Duffy, who took plenty of abuse last season being allied with Robert Quarles. And lastly but not least, the whole impromptu post-snake attack surgery scene was downright stomach-turning, but that's Justified for you. Last season someone lost an arm, and now we've got snake parts being removed from people's faces.
With the Lindsey subplot winding down (hopefully on its way to being concluded next week), and Theo Tonin back in play, things are sure to heat up - and that's when this show is at its best. Look for the series to pick up some momentum quickly, especially since we're already about a quarter of the way through the 13-episode season.
One more tidbit for Justified fans: Raylan Givens himself, Timothy Olyphant, will be guest-voicing on this week's episode of Archer, also on FX. He plays ex-spy Lucas Troy, one-time BFF of main character Sterling Archer, who makes a sudden reappearance. Archer airs this Thursday, January 24, at 10 PM, and here's a glance at what Olyphant looks like animated.
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Listeriosis is a foodborne illness that is most likely to affect pregnant women and unborn babies. Caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes, Listeriosis can take weeks to show up. Symptoms may include fever, chills, muscle aches, diarrhea, and upset stomach. When listeriosis progresses, it can lead to stiff neck, headache, convulsions, or loss of balance. One out of five Americans who become sick with listeriosis die from the disease. Although anyone can get the illness, pregnant women appear to be more susceptible.
When a woman becomes pregnant, her body undergoes hormonal and immunological changes allowing her body to accept the fetus. Without those changes, the body's tendency would be to reject the baby and cause a miscarriage. That's because the fetus contains genetic material from the father as well as the mother, and the mother's immune system could mistake the fetus for a foreign object and try fight it off.
The adjustment in the mother's immune system involves suppressing a type of response called "cell-mediated immunity," while allowing another type of immune function (the type that involves antibodies) to remain functioning. Cell-mediated immunity is the kind involved in the rejection of organ transplants, but it is essential to control pathogens that move from cell to cell. One of those pathogens is Listeria monocytogenes.
Most food-borne pathogens attack the gastrointestinal system, but Listeria can move from the digestive tract into the bloodstream. With cell-mediated immunity restrained, Listeria infection can more easily take hold.
More than one out of four of all listeriosis diagnoses occur in pregnant women, most during the third trimester when cell-mediated immunity is at its lowest ebb. Usually, listeriosis causes only mild symptoms in the adult, but early labor and delivery is common. Miscarriage and stillbirth are serious risks.
Pregnant women can take steps to reduce their risk by avoiding foods usually associated with listeriosis. Those include:
The following web sites offer additional information about listeriosis:
Food Safety for Moms to Be: While You're Pregnant - Listeria (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
Listeria and Pregnancy (American Pregnancy Association)
Listeria Infections (Medline Plus)
Listeriosis (CDC)
Protect Your Baby and Yourself From Listeriosis (U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service) En Espanol
This article originally appeared in Chow Line (12/07/07), a service of Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, and was adapted for use on NetWellness with permission, 2007.
Last Reviewed: Jan 07, 2010
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Events for the 2013-14 academic year
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Ft. Howard Theater, Bemis International Center
"Changing Seasons in the Middle East: The Impact on Human Rights"Micheline Ishay is
Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Human Rights at the Josef
Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She is a
leading political philosopher and historian whose most recent work has focused
on challenges to democratic transition in the Middle East.
Founder of the University
of Denver's Human Rights Masters Degree Program, which she directed from 1995
to 2010, Professor Ishay is especially known for her expertise in the study of
human rights. Her book, The History of Human Rights: From Ancient
Times to the Globalization Era (2004, 2008) was ranked by the Philadelphia
Inquirer as among one of the ten best non-fiction books of 2004; it has been
translated into multiple languages and is widely regarded as a classic in the
field. Likewise, her Human Rights Reader
(1997, 2007) established a working canon for the study of human rights in
universities around the world. She has held visiting
professorships at the University of Maryland's Center for Democracy
Collaborative (2004), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2006), and most
recently Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (2010-13).
Ishay's topic for this lecture, "Changing Seasons in the MIddle East: The Impact
on Human Rights," draws on her current book project: The Levant Express: Revolutionary Transformations in the Middle East.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
7:30 p.m.
Walter Theatre,Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Arts
Eboo PatelFounder and President, Interfaith Youth Core
"Interfaith Leadership on America's Sacred Ground"
Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a Chicago-based institution building the global interfaith youth movement. Eboo's core belief is that religion is a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. He is inspired to build this bridge by his faith as a Muslim, his Indian heritage, and his American citizenship. He has spoken about this vision at places like the TED conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, as well as college and university campuses across the country. He has written two books about interfaith cooperation, Acts of Faith and Sacred Ground, and is also a regular contributor to the Washington Post, National Public Radio and CNN. He is a member of President Obama's Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.
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2013 State of the University Address
Tuesday, September 24, 3:00 p.m., H-E-B University Center Ballroom, UC 1.104
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to the State of the University Address to be delivered by President Ricardo Romo.
Introductory remarks by SGA President Zachary Dunn.
For those unable to attend, a live videostream will be available at http://utsa.edu/state.
Reception immediately following address.
We Are UTSA
A Top-Tier Campaign
Early success prompts UTSA to increase capital campaign goal to $175 million. The additional $55 million will provide additional funding for scholarships, research, athletics facilities. Find out more.
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A memorial photo collection of San Antonio Armed Forces service members killed or missing in action during the Vietnam War.


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Connecticut's budget deficit is And at Monday night's Patch debate, State Representative candidates Themis Klarides and Aldon Hynes addressed the matter directly after a question from moderator Jean Rabinow.
Klarides pointed to increases in taxes and spending over the past few years.
"We always talk about Republicans, Democrats, who wants to raise taxes, who wants to cut," Nobody wants to cut ... I certainly don't want to, but it's about being responsible. And the question is, when Moody's and Fitch and every single place says we're the worst or one of the few worst business-friendly places, when our bond rating gets downgraded because we can't sustain, there's a problem."
Klarides pointed to Medicaid fraud prevention as a method of saving money.
"We could save hundreds of millions of dollars," she said. "That's not cutting anybody."
Hynes agreed with Klarides on Medicaid fraud prevention as an option, but suggested other improvements to Medicaid.
"The most obvious place to cut is in the unefficiencies," said Hynes. "I work for a community health center. And our center sees many medicaid patients every day. And by getting Medicaid patients primary care instead of waiting for them to go to the emergency room, there's considerable savings to be made."
Hynes brought up programs like First Five, a business incentive program launched in 2011.
"Every program needs a good critical eye in the places we're just not getting the return on what they're trying to do -- that's where we need to be doing our cuts."
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Jennifer Aniston's marriage plans are on indefinite hiatus. Assume what you will about the unlucky in love star, but it doesn't seem as if she is having romantic problems with fiancé Justin Theroux. The holdup is more about timing, apparently.
The last thing Aniston wants is to get married when ex Brad Pitt does the same with Angelina Jolie. Those two plan to wed in France this summer, reports UsWeekly. The tabloids won't be able to handle all the copy, either.
A source told the magazine that Jen tried to rush down the aisle upon hearing the news about the glamorous couple but Theroux "got weirded out."
Now there is nada happening on the planning front. But if the relationship between the Wanderlust costars is strong there should be no problem, right? Right?!!!
It's over
If Jen ever does clear her schedule, she should probably steer clear of celebrity wedding planner David Tutera. His personal life is a bit of a mess right now. The My Fair Wedding host has split from his partner of 10 years, Ryan Jurica. The problem is that the men were expecting twins via surrogate and they'll likely have to fight over custody. Tutera wed Jurica in 2003 in Vermont, where same-sex marriage is legal. Their ceremony included a 1920s pavilion, horse-drawn carriages, a spa brunch and a candle-lit 17th-century church ceremony, according to Out.com.
Jurica is probably out of a job, being the VP of David Tutera Inc. event planning business and all.
No tears
Andy Dick can't believe he made it as far as he did on Dancing with the Stars. The ex News Radio star and partner Sharna Burgess were shown the exit Tuesday night. But still, parting was emotional, and Dick did his best not to cry: "If it starts going it won't stop, so I was fighting it!" he said.
Music man
He's rock royalty and likes to keep it old-school: Keith Richards says he doesn't own an iPod. The guitarist for The Rolling Stones — who kick off their "50 & Counting Tour" Friday in L.A. — isn't a fan. "I still use CDs or records actually. Sometimes cassettes. It has much better sound; a much better sound than digital," he told the AP. The 69-year-old believes we're "being shortchanged" with the sound that comes out of an iPod.
All grown up
With Hannah Montana a distant memory, Miley Cyrus just loves to shock these days. The singer, 20, poses on the cover of NYC based fashion magazine V tugging on her underwear, which appear to men's jockey shorts. Up top is a low cut white blazer, nothing underneath. In the issue, in which she promotes her upcoming hip-hop inspired album, Cyrus contends that she is still together with fiance Liam Hemsworth.
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As many Eagle Rockers have noticed amid not a little head scratching, a major construction project is underway on the sprawling property where the Vons supermarket is located on the neighborhood's eastern edge bordering Highland Park and Pasadena.
The construction is part of a Vons shopping center—on property acquired by Vons a few years ago—on the intersection of North Figueroa Street and La Loma Drive, a stone's throw from East Colorado Boulevard.
Groundwork for the shopping center, replete with heavy machinery tearing up the ground, began this past week on Jan. 28, according to Carlos Illingworth, director of public affairs and government relations for Vons.
The project was initially scheduled to start in 2011, as many Eagle Rockers might remember, but was put on hold, Illingworth confirmed. The construction is being handled by Property Development Centers, a shopping center developer that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Von's parent company Safeway, Illingworth said.
The proposed shopping center has two components. The first includes approximately 14,500 square feet of shops stretching downward from the southwestern corner of Figueroa and La Loma, along a section of the property where a wall currently marks the periphery of the Vons parking lot. (See photos.)
The second part of the Vons shopping center includes a 3,200-square-foot "multi-tenant pad building" that will be located on the southeastern corner of La Loma, directly to the right of the supermarket. The building will be designed to accommodate multiple business tenants separately from the anchor tenant, Illingworth explained.
The entire parking lot facing Vons on 7311 N. Figueroa St. will be leveled, remade and merged with the planned buildings, Illingworth said. An alley that currently leads from the parking lot to La Loma, as the photos above show, will disappear.
"Our freestanding store will be transformed into a neighborhood shopping center," Illingworth said, adding that while he cannot disclose the project's cost, "it's a significant investment and one that we are very happy to make."
Vons is negotiating with potential tenants whose names the company cannot disclose at this time, Illingworth said. "Potential types of tenants include a bank, coffee shop and restaurants," he said.
"We have strong interest from a variety of retail and service-type [businesses] that we believe will serve the community well, Dave Zylstra, chief operating officer of Property Development Centers, told Patch.
Major construction is expected to be completed in August and "we look forward to a grand opening by Thanksgiving of this year," Zylstra said.
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JOPLIN, Mo. —
Billye Sue Masterson, from Joplin, Mo., went to be with the Lord on April 22, 2013. She was a loving daughter, mother and grandmother.
She was preceded in death by her father, sister and son.
Survivors include her mother, Maxine Hutchins; a daughter, Jodi Martinez; a granddaughter, Christina Stripling; and a grandson, Keith Jarrett.
The family wish to thank all of their friends and family for all of their prayers and the wonderful staff at St. John's Mercy, Joplin.
Billye will be cremated with no formal services planned.
Arrangements are under the direction of Mason-Woodard Mortuary & Crematory.
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— The Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a ribbon cutting for the Mineral Wells Young Farmers at the Mineral Wells High School Ag Department that included a presentation by the Mineral Wells FFA Ag Issues Team. Led by Jenna Fields this group of four students did an incredible job educating the group of about 50 people on the topic of Immunocontraception. The audience consisted of chamber directors, staff and ambassadors, Mineral Wells ISD administrators, members of the community, students and Mineral Wells High School faculty.


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The Gambrell Awards were established in 1991 and are named for E. Smythe Gambrell, ABA and American Bar Foundation president from 1955 to 1956. Gambrell founded the Legal Aid Society in Atlanta, where he practiced law from 1922 until his death in 1986.
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Arizona Baseball on Road at Utah This Weekend
Jace Fry took a no-hitter into the eighth inning, and Michael Conforto went 3-for-5 with three runs batted in to lead No. 7 Oregon State to an 11-0 series-clinching victory.
Sunday Funday at the Ballpark Features UA-OSU Rubber Game
Trent Gilbert and Kevin Newman combined for six of Arizona's 17 hits, and Cody Hamlin pitched 8.2 innings for the Wildcats, who upset No. 7 Oregon State, 11-2, on Saturday.
Wildcats Look to Snap Out of Slump on Saturday
Ben Wetzler improved to 5-0 on the season and Dylan Davis drove in five runs to lead seventh-ranked Oregon State to a 11-2 series-opening victory Friday evening.
Baseball Returns Home to Host No. 7 Oregon State
Arizona State scored 13 unanswered runs, including 10 in the sixth inning, to erase a five-run deficit and defeat visiting Arizona, 14-6, at Packard Stadium.
Cats, Devils Set For Duel on the Diamond
The Huskies shut out the Wildcats, 8-0, to sweep the three-game series.
Cats, Huskies Conclude Series Sunday in Seattle
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Every Wednesday before Thanksgiving when I was in college, I would flop into the house with a duffle full of laundry. After hugs, kisses and a little criticism about my hairstyle, I was lead into the kitchen to help with Thanksgiving preparations. Always, I would walk into the kitchen and see the same thing I had seen since I was born.
On the dining room table was the finest display of imaginary food I had ever seen. Stove Top stuffing boxes sitting in an empty casserole dish, a green china bowl with a post-it note saying "cranberry sauce" like a reserved parking space, and cans of string beans and cream of mushroom soup in a pyramid where the string bean casserole would go.
It was an organization process passed down for generations of obsessive moms and grandmas. That display was the same as the one in my grandmother's house, and before that, my great-grandmother's. After additions and subtractions to the family and guest list, playing tetris with the tables to make sure everyone could fit, and moving to a new house, that table was always a constant I can count on seeing every single year.
I am thankful for these funny little traditions that make me smile.
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Journal Sentinel TV and film critic Duane Dudek looks at life on the small and big screen, and some of the cool stuff on both.
First live interview with Paul Ryan since election on 'Meet the Press'
Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), former Republican vice presidential nominee from Janesville, will sit down for his first live interview since the November election Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
According to NBC, Ryan will "weigh in on the upcoming spending battles, where he'll be an influential voice as chairman of the House Budget Committee."
Plus, Ryan will discuss the future of the Republican party as President Barack Obama begins his second term.
"Meet the Press," hosted by David Gregory, airs at 9 a.m. on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).
In a related note: "As Goes Janesville," Brad Lichtenstein's documentary will be rebroadcast on PBS Feb. 4.
The film, set against the backdrop of budget battles in Madison, looks at the repercussions of the GM plant closing in Ryan's home district on business government leaders and workers.
The uncut version of the film will be available on video on demand and DVD Jan. 29.
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Can pretty much tell you what Paul will claim he can do will be a long list of things that he really cant do.
Oh, the irony...Paul's big announcement is made in the "entertainment" pages.
Thanks MJS.
Best laugh I've had all week.
They need to pepper him on his philosophical perspective of why he's going to support the Republican strategy of "If you can't win a Presidential election, then steal one" as his party prepares to redesign the 165 year state history of adhering to the electoral college process of electing presidential candidates - the same way every other state in the nation does it.


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Wendy Egloff, owner of Firefly Cupcakes (700 Main St., East Aurora, 655-4949) plans to open her second "couture cupcake" store in the former Zillycakes space, 1008 Elmwood Ave.
Egloff became interested after baked goods artist Zilly Rosen announced her shop was for sale. "Firefly Cupcakes' second location will mirror the first with a showcase full of over the top cupcakes based on fun weekly themes, accompanied by Stumptown Coffee," according to a press release.
A new cake menu will round out the current all-cupcake menu. "Renovation plans include two in-house dining areas and a cake studio for Zillycakes' Rosen, who will be in residence at Firefly."
Via email, Rosen said she was "reducing her footprint."
"I will be available as a cake designer, a flavor developer, and a teacher. I will continue to design, bake, and decorate wedding and special event cakes, but with more limited availability and only one at a time. I'll be available for creative, original projects for individuals or businesses beginning in the fall of 2013."
Rosen said she was looking forward to spending more time with her family. That doesn't mean she'll be bored.
She's working on a new book contract for a volume titled "Petite Treats," and participating in the Buffalo Public Schools' visiting artist program through this spring and next fall. "I will be creating an installation at Canada's Baking and Sweets Show in Toronto in September, and I'll create a different one at a similar cake show in Chicago in November," she said.
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A System Monitoring Dashboard
For about a year, my company had been struggling to roll out a monitoring solution. False positives and inaccurate after-hours pages were affecting morale and wasting system administrators' time. After speaking to some colleagues about what we really need to monitor, it came down to a few things:
Web servers—by way of HTTP, not only physical servers.
Disk space.
SMTP servers' availability—by way of SMTP, not only physical servers.
A history of these events to diagnose and pinpoint problems.
This article explains the process I developed and how I set up disk, Web and SMTP monitoring both quickly and simply. Keeping the monitoring process simple meant that all the tools used should be available on a recent Linux distribution and should not use advanced protocols, such as SNMP or database technology. As a result, all of my scripts use the Bash shell, basic HTML, some modest Perl and the wget utility. All of these monitoring scripts share the same general skeleton and installation steps, and they are available from the Linux Journal FTP site (see the on-line Resources).
Installing the scripts involves several steps. Start by copying the script to a Web server and making it world-executable with chmod. Then, create a directory under the root of your Web server where the script can write its logs and history. I used webmon for monitor_web.sh. The other scripts are similar: I used smtpmon for monitor_smtp.sh and stats for monitor_stats.pl. monitor_disk.sh is different from the others because it is the only one installed locally on each server you want to monitor.
Next, schedule the scripts in cron. You can run each script with any user capable of running wget, df -k and top. The user also needs to have the ability to write to the script's home. I suggest creating a local user called monitor and scheduling these through that user's crontab. Finally, install wget if it is not already present on your Linux distribution.
My first challenge was to monitor the Web servers by way of HTTP, so I chose wget as the engine and scripted around it. The resulting script is monitor_web.sh. For those unfamiliar with wget, its author describes it as "a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely used Internet protocols" (see Resources).
After installation, monitor_web.sh requires only two choices for the user, e-mail recipient and URLs to monitor, which are labeled clearly. The URLs must conform to HTTP standards and return a valid http 200 OK string to work. They can be HTTP or HTTPS, as wget and monitor_web.sh support both. Once installed and run the first time, the user is able to get to http://localhost/webmon/webmon.html and view the URLs, the last result and the history in a Web browser, as they all are links.
Now, let's break down the script; see monitor_web.sh, available on the LJ FTP site. First, I set all the variables for system utilities and the wget program. These may change on your system. Next, we make sure we are on the network. This ensures that if the server monitoring the URLs goes off-line, a massive number of alerts are not queued up by Sendmail until the server is back on-line.
As I loop through all the URLs, I have wget connect two times with a timeout of five seconds. I do this twice to reduce false positives. If the Web site is down, the script generates an e-mail message for the recipient and updates the Web page. Mail also is sent when the site is back up. The script sends only one message, so we don't overwhelm the recipient. This is achieved with the following code:
wget $URL 2>> $WLOG if (( $? != 0 ));then echo \<A HREF\="$URL"\>$URL\<\/A\> is down\ $RTAG $EF.\ $LINK Last Result $LTAG >> $WPAGE if [[ ! -a down.$ENV ]];then touch /tmp/down.$ENV mail_alert down else echo Alert already sent for $ENV \ - waiting | tee -a $WLOG fi fi
I have included the HTML for green and red text in the script, if you choose not to use graphics. Again, the full script is available from the Linux Journal FTP site.
With the Web servers taken care of, it was time to tackle disk monitoring. True to our keep-it-simple philosophy, I chose to create a script that would run from cron and alert my team based on the output of df -k. The result was monitor_disk.sh. The first real block of code in the script sets up the filesystems list:
FILESYSTEMS=$(mount | grep -iv proc |\ grep -iv cdrom | awk'{print $3}')
I ignore proc and am careful not to report on the CD-ROM, should my teammates put a disk in the drive. The script then compares the value of Use% to two values, THRESHOLD_MAX and THRESHOLD_WARN. If Use% exceeds either one, the script generates an e-mail to the appropriate recipient, RECIPIENT_MAX or RECIPIENT_WARN. Notice that I made sure the Use% value for each filesystem is interpreted as an integer with this line:
typeset -i UTILIZED=$(df -k $FS | tail -1 | \ awk '{print $5}' | cut -d"%" -f1)
A mailing list was set up with my team members' e-mail addresses and the e-mail address of the on-call person to receive the critical e-mails and pages. You may need to do the same with your mail server software, or you simply can use your group or pager as both addresses.
Because our filesystems tend to be large, about 72GB–140GB, I have set critical alerts to 95%, so we still have some time to address issues when alerted. You can set your own threshold with the THRESHOLD_MAX and THRESHOLD_WARN variables. Also, our database servers run some disk-intensive jobs and can generate large amounts of archive log files, so I figured every 15 minutes is a good frequency at which to monitor. For servers with less active filesystems, once an hour is enough.
Our third script, monitor_smtp.sh, monitors our SMTP servers' ability to send mail. It is similar to the first two scripts and simply was a matter of finding a way to connect directly to a user-defined SMTP server so I could loop through a server list and send a piece of mail. This is where smtp.pl comes in. It is a Perl script (Listing 1) that uses the NET::SMTP module to send mail to an SMTP address. Most recent distributions have this module installed already (see the Do I Have That Perl Module Installed sidebar). Monitor_smtp.sh updates the defined Web page based on the success of the transmission carried out by smtp.pl. No attempt is made to alert our group, as this is a trouble-shooting tool and ironically cannot rely on SMTP to send mail if a server is down. Future versions of monitor_smtp.sh may include a round-robin feature and be able to send an alert through a known working SMTP server.
Also checking the page ...
We have also scripts for monitoring a web server. Additionally to know that the web service is up and running we were interested in knowing that the page haven't had changes, so we did this:
- Precalculated and stored de md5 from the page we want to check
- Every few minutes (crontab line), get the page and calculate the md5 for the page we get and compare it with the precalculated. If they are different, there is a problem.
The calculus is an onliner:
fetch -q -o - http://www.thepage.tocheck | md5
Also, to avoid the problem of installing some modulus in Perl to send email, we use this:
sub send_mail {
# Send email messages using the sendmail process
# parameters:
# $from_address, addres to use in From field
# $subject, Subject for the message
# $body, Message body
# $to_address, address(es) destination for the message
my ( $from_address, $subject, $body, $to_address) = @_;
open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t") or warn "Cannont open sendmail: $!\n";
print SENDMAIL <<MESSAGE;
To: $to_address
From: $from_address
Subject: $subject
close SENDMAIL;
So, not having the module is not a problem for sending emails :)
How would you include you sendmail script in the web_monitor.sh ?
script errors
I get a ": bad interpreter" error when running monitor_web.sh after having configured web servers, email addy and correcting the path to wget. Please advise.
line endings
I had to fix the line endings of the script after downloading it to Windows XP and moving the tgz file to my Debian box. Try
tr -s "\r" "\n" < monitor_web.sh > b && mv b monitor_web.sh;
You'll have to re-enable the executable bit.
bash or ksh ?
is the first line pointing to bash or ksh?
make sure its bash if using linux as most distros don't have ksh by default.
permissions ok?
have you set perms to 755 on the script?
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With the 22nd day of June in the year 2012, the National Hockey League selects to begin its 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Join us four discussion of the 1st round of the draft.
The first step (not really, but it fits for a narrative) to the NHL Entry draft in Pittsburgh is this evening with the Draft Lottery.
Will a city known for it's steel or a city known for cigars and strip bars host the 2012 NHL Entry Draft?
As you've all been waiting to figure out whatt to plan your weekend around, now you know. Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal match-up between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Tampa Bay...
A new day dawns, and the second season begins. Everything you knew is now rendered moot. Everything you will know will be provided to you on a game-by-game basis. The 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs...
Just because the Bolts are hurting does not mean that a white flag will be waved tonight at Consol Energy Center... Or shouldn't, at least.
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Jannero Pargo felt a little like an interloper. Josh McRoberts felt a little like an interloper.
Thats just how it is in the NBA when one guy shows up on a 10-day contract and another shows up in a trade-deadline deal. Particularly so when youre joining the NBAs worst team, a group with obvious holes to fill.
The transition can feel awkward.
Pargo and McRoberts are the new guys for the Charlotte Bobcats. Each has quickly helped this team. Each says part of that is about a locker room where nobody acts threatened by their presence.
You come into a situation with a bunch of guys whove been on the team all professionals, all competitors, and no one wants to come out of the game, Pargo described.
I come here, or anyone on a 10-day contract comes here, and he hasnt been through training camp. Then you get thrown in the game. Its tough to take two or three shots in a row over guys who dont get that opportunity (without making waves). But Ive noticed here guys want to see you do well.
Thats almost identical to McRoberts impression. He showed up last month in a minor trade-deadline deal. The Bobcats acquired him from the Orlando Magic for Hakim Warrick. Three weeks later, McRoberts is starting over Byron Mullens, Jeff Adrien and Tyrus Thomas at power forward.
McRoberts has said more than once how welcome all his new teammates have made him feel. Gerald Henderson, a former teammate of McRoberts at Duke and a Bobcats co-captain, explained why Monday night.
Nobody on this team is an All-Star, where you just throw him the ball every time and he gets 30 a night, Henderson said.
Translation: There is no one so skilled and talented on this Bobcats roster that he should feel others dont deserve a chance.
Its an open question whether Pargo and McRoberts will be Bobcats beyond this season. Technically its no given Pargo will be on this roster beyond his current 10-day contract.
But each has quickly proven valuable in the here-and-now. In his last four games McRoberts has averaged 12.2 points and nine rebounds. Just as importantly, hes improved the Bobcats ball-movement with his passing. You dont necessarily see that in his assist numbers hes more a pass-that-leads-to-the-pass guy -- but its no coincidence the Bobcats had a season-high 32 assists versus the Washington Wizards Monday.
Pargo, a nine-year NBA veteran, was brought in as an injury replacement for Ramon Sessions. He had 18 points in his second game here and 11 in his third. He can make 3s and, as Henderson described, is a fine on-the-ball defender.
Since he can guard bigger players, coach Mike Dunlap is using some of the same two-point guard sets that worked with Sessions and Kemba Walker.
You dont play a 6-1, 185-pound guy against NBA shooting guards unless hes scrappy tough.
All I have to say is, South Chicago Dunlap said of the neighborhood where Pargo grew up. You dont come out of there unless youre tough.
Pargo agrees, but toughness isnt just physical, its mental, too. Hes become used to these plug-in opportunities, where there is next to no time to prove yourself to new coaches and teammates.
You havent been under pressure in basketball until youve played on a 10-day contract, Pargo said. Im lucky to be playing with a young group of guys who trust me to take a tough shot. Those guys have confidence in me, and that makes it a lot easier.
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Editor's Note: Maybe today's installment of Korrina's Skycast should be called Korrina's Earthcast? I thought this information was worth sharing!
If a major earthquake hit the midwest, would you know what to do?
Various government agencies want you to be prepared. Thursday Feb. 7 is the annual Great Central U.S. ShakeOut.
"Scientists estimate that there is a 25 to 40 percent probability of a damaging earthquake occurring in the central U.S. within the next 50 years," according to the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut website. "The ShakeOut is designed to help individuals and communities in the region get ready for damaging earthquakes, practice how to protect themselves and to prevent disasters from becoming catastrophes."
There have been a number of documented strong earthquakes on the New Madrid Fault. The New Madrid seismic zone starts includes portions of southern Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri. The biggest earthquakes to hit the New Madrid fault occurred Dec. 16, 1811 (7.7 on the Richter Scale), Jan. 23, 1812 (7.5) and Feb. 7, 1812 (7.7).
"There is broad agreement in the scientific community that a continuing concern exists for a major destructive earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone," according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The Great Central U.S. ShakeOut website says 2.5 million people participated in last year's drill. This year's drill will be held at 10:15 a.m. Feb. 7. The focus is to "Drop, Cover and Hold On":
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The National Weather Service in Chicago states, "Listen to NOAA Weather Radio, or local radio and TV stations, at 10:15 a.m. on Feb. 7, to participate in this earthquake drill."
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Olive Virginia Showalter, a longtime nurse in Wyandotte and dedicated churchgoer, died in her Wyandotte home on Tuesday. She was 93.
She was born Oct. 31, 1918, in Ayden, NC, to John Stokes and Lidia Elizabeth (Kittrell) Stokes. She was 6 years old when her mother died. After that, she was raised by neighbors, in the southern style, by the Harper family and later by the family of Thomas Heath. She grew up on tobacco farms and attended the Contentnea High School.
Olive loved to read and study. Her desire to become a nurse came true when she attended the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing. Upon graduation in 1940, she and two of her nursing school friends were recruited and hired at the former Wyandotte General Hospital. At the time, the municipal hospital provided a nurse's dorm for single nursing employees. Olive was promoted to head operating room nurse in 1965, a position she held until she retired in 1981.
Around the time her career began in 1940, she met Merton Showalter, a Wyandotte police officer. The two were married on June 19, 1942. They had three children–David Wilbur, Paul Merton and Martha Elizabeth. In addition to her children, Olive also is survived by two granddaughters–Lauren Marie Showalter and Emily Elizabeth (Showalter-Cassel) Moul. She was particularly proud that all of her children and grandchildren were college graduates, relatives say.
Olive was the sixth of seven children, with only her younger sister, Lucille Zory, 90, of New York, surviving her.
In 1983, Olive was selected as the Mellus-News Herald "Mother of the Year," having been nominated by the Downriver Nurses Association.
She was very active in her church, . She held various leadership positions in the Wyandotte church and was active in many activities. She was a particularly fine seamstress, quilter, and southern style cook. She also loved to travel and enjoyed vacations with her daughter to many different locations, particularly to the beach home in Surf City, NC.
Her husband, Mert, died in 1969, but Olive was loved and cared for by her children and friends until the date of her passing. in Wyandotte is handling the arrangements. Visitation is set for 1 to 8 p.m. Friday. Final visitation is set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. John United Church of Christ, with the funeral starting at 11 a.m. She will be buried at Ferndale Cemetery in Riverview.


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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal — County lawmakers were caught off-guard last month when they recently learned that an upgrade to the county's emergency communications project could cost an extra $330,000. Now they're asking why the county should have to pay the difference. So are we.
The seven-tower project involves building three new towers — in North Tonawanda, at the Upper Mountain fire hall and the Terry's Corners fire hall. All three new builds were expected to stand 180 feet tall. Not anymore.
Apparently someone didn't take line of sight into enough consideration. This blunder means that the Terry's Corners tower will have to be raised 20 feet. That's not too bad. But, the Upper Mountain tower must be raised by 50 feet and the North Tonawanda site by 120 feet, bringing that structure to a towering 300 feet tall! How that was miscalculated has us baffled.
Motorola Solutions — a well-known communications company — is the company that submitted the $10 million winning bid. L.R. Kimball & Associates is the project manager that prepared bid specifications and scrutinized bids. The explanation from Kimball & Associates for the added growth is unsettling.
The "experts" who designed the system didn't account for a few objects that would block the signal between towers. Things such as a tree near the Terry's Corners hall, a Covanta smokestack between the N.T. site and an existing tower at Niagara Falls Medical Center and — our favorite — power lines associated with the Niagara Power Project near the Upper Mountain site.
We can give the experts a slight pass on the smokestack because the location of the North Tonawanda site changed several times. Still, they should have taken a final look. We can't forgive them for failing to take the power lines into proper consideration. And a tree? Really?
It doesn't take an engineer to realize that a cell phone call can be disrupted by a hill or a building blocking line-of-sight. One would think that the experts at well-established companies such as Kimball & Associates and Motorola would have caught something so basic.
This is not Niagara County's mistake, and its taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for it. We're hoping that County Manager Jeff Glatz was serious when he suggested that the county's not going to cover that portion of the bill. Let the "experts" eat the difference and give taxpayers a break.


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A mesmerizing portrait of 1950s hypocrisy and unexpected love, from a powerful new voice
It is 1957, and Lewis Aldridge, straight out of prison, is journeying back to his home in Waterford, a suburban town outside London. He is nineteen years old, and his return will have dramatic consequences not just for his family, but for the whole community.
A decade earlier, his father's homecoming has a very different effect. The war is over and Gilbert has been demobilized. He reverts easily to suburban lifecocktails at six-thirty, church on Sundaysbut his wife and young son resist the stuffy routine. Lewis and his mother escape to the woods for picnics, just as they did in wartime days. Nobody is surprised that Gilbert's wife counters convention, but they are all shocked when, after one of their jaunts, Lewis comes back without her.
Not far away, Kit Carmichael keeps watch. She has always understood more than most, not least from what she is dealt by her own father's hand. Lewis's grief and burgeoning rage are all too plain, and Kit makes a private vow to help. But in her attempts to set them both free, she fails to foresee the painful and horrifying secrets that must first be forced into the open.
In this brilliant debut, Sadie Jones tells the story of a boy who refuses to accept the polite lies of a tightly knit community that rejects love in favor of appearances. Written with nail-biting suspense and cinematic pacing, The Outcast is an emotionally powerful evocation of postwar provincial English society and a remarkably uplifting testament to the redemptive powers of love and understanding.
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Gilbert was demobbed in November and Elizabeth took Lewis up to
London to meet
him at the Charing Cross Hotel. Lewis was seven. Elizabeth and he got onto the
train at Waterford and she held his hand firmly so that
he wouldn't fall when he climbed up the high step. Lewis sat next to the window
and opposite her, to watch the station get small as they pulled away, and
Elizabeth took
off her hat so that she could rest her head against the seat without it getting
in the way.
The seat was itchy against Lewis's bare legs between his shorts and his socks and he liked the way it was uncomfortable and the way the train moved from side to side. There was a feeling of specialness; his mother was quiet with it and it changed the way everything looked. They had a secret between them and they didn't need to talk about it.
He looked out of the window and wondered again if his father would be wearing his uniform and, if he were, if he would have a ...
Many of Jones's characterizations are one-dimensional. Almost all the adults are cardboard representations of some character type: the distant father, the alcoholic mother, the bully, the abused wife. There are no surprises here; each acts as one would expect. The exception is the insight and depth with which Jones draws her protagonist, Lewis. Her development of this character is nothing short of brilliant. She manages to capture all the uncertainty and conflicting emotions inherent in teenagers in general, along with Lewis's particular anguish -- yet she does so without over sentimentalizing. She explains the impetus for his bad behavior, but does not justify it. Lewis is in pain, he's confused, but he doesn't come across as a victim. It's a fine balance, one that Jones achieves perfectly.
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Education: B.S. Calvin College; M.A. Geneva College
Dave's position brings the curricular and co-curricular sides of campus together; as an instructor he teaches courses in the adventure education major. As director of adventure programs, he provides oversight to all adventure programming on campus and advises the Outdoors Club. Dave has been involved in adventure programming in the college setting since 1991. He holds an M.A. from Geneva College in Higher Education and is finishing a D.Ed. degree from Penn State Harrisburg in Adult Education. His area of research is the role of play and playfulness in the adult learner classroom. Although he loves playing and learning with students, his favorite play mates are his wife Tricia and their three children. Dave enjoys a variety of outdoor activities but is most passionate about whitewater canoeing.
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Emergency vehicles and law enforcement personnel respond to a reported shooting at an entrance to the Washington Navy Yard September 16, 2013 in Washington, DC.
The Washington D.C. headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command, the scene of Monday's shooting where at least a dozen people were killed after a gunman opened fire, is home to the largest of the five "system commands" in the U.S. Navy.
With a team of 60,000 civilians, military, and contracted employees, the mission at NAVSEA is to "design, build, deliver and maintain ships and systems on time and on cost for the U.S. Navy," according to its website. This means its team of engineers, buys, builds and maintains ships, submarines and combat systems for the Navy's current and future operational needs.
NAVSEA is active in16 states with about 3,000 employees who call the Washington headquarters home. It is located at the Washington Navy Yard, about 2 miles southeast of the National Mall, along the Anacostia River near the Department of Transportation and the Washington Nationals baseball team.
The Yard is the administrative location for the U.S. Navy and home of the Chief of Naval Operations.
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