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Celebrate Moms Who Protect Children's Health
Mothers want to do everything possible to help their children develop into healthy adults. This month, CDC urges mothers to protect themselves and their children from the dangers of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke and also encourages family members to support moms in maintaining a tobacco-free life. Why?
- Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. In 2010, nearly one in five U.S. adults (45.3 million) were current smokers.
- Smoking dramatically increases one's risk for heart disease, stroke, many kinds of cancer, and other illnesses.
- Heart disease continues to be the leading killer of women in the United States.
- Smoking causes an estimated 80% of all lung cancer deaths in women.
- Compared with nonsmokers, smoking is estimated to increase a woman's risk of developing lung cancer by 13 times.
- 17% of women in the United States still smoke cigarettes, but surveys indicate that 7 out of 10 of them want to quit.
Support from family and friends is important in helping smokers quit. Let moms know how special they are and how you want them to do something important for themselves and their families by quitting smoking.
Meet Tiffany, Who Quit Smoking to Be There for Her Daughter
When Tiffany was 16 years old, her mother, a cigarette smoker, died of lung cancer. Tiffany felt lost and abandoned. "Watching her suffer and cough was awful," she recalls. "I felt alone and scared, and I felt it could have been prevented." Still, Tiffany started smoking cigarettes in her late teens. "On the college scene, a lot of students were smoking, and I wanted to fit in." Throughout the years she tried to quit, but it wasn't until her own daughter was 16 that she made the connection to her mother and put forth a serious attempt to quit. "I didn't want my daughter to think, 'Wow, my mother loves cigarette smoking more than she cares about me,'" says Tiffany.
In her effort to quit, she set a specific date to quit smoking and reached out to family and friends for support. Tiffany also changed her morning ritual. Instead of getting up an hour early to drink coffee and smoke, she enjoyed an extra hour of sleep. She got rid of all the cigarettes and ashtrays in her home and car and carried a picture of her mother, especially during long road trips, to remind her of everything her mother went through and her death from lung cancer. Tiffany says that during previous attempts to quit smoking, she used a nicotine patch, but only for a few days. This time she read and followed all the instructions. This helped ease the cravings for cigarettes. For awhile, Tiffany avoided social events where she might be tempted to smoke. She drank a lot of water and started exercising more often. She quickly discovered that without cigarettes, she had more energy and stamina. The support she received from family and friends helped, too. They sent cards of encouragement, helped her keep a positive attitude, and called and reminded her of all the reasons to never smoke again.
Tiffany's biggest motivation has been her daughter. "She was so happy and proud of me when I quit," says Tiffany. "She told me she had prayed that I would quit smoking. And I told her, 'I quit because I want to be around for you.' I love her so much, and watching her grow up and thinking how successful she could be in her life, I can't bear the thought of missing out on any of it!"
Meet Terrie, Who Quit Smoking for Her Grandchildren
In high school, Terrie was a pretty cheerleader who competed on the cheer circuit, but with a father and many friends who smoked, Terrie soon found herself lighting up in social settings. "It was the cool thing to do," she says.
Eventually, she was smoking up to two packs a day and started feeling the effects of tobacco at age 25—a sore throat that never seemed to go away. In 2001, at the age of 40, Terrie was diagnosed with oral cancer. Later that same year, Terrie was diagnosed with throat cancer. It was then that she quit for good. The doctors informed her that they would need to remove her larynx. Today, Terrie speaks with the help of an artificial voice box that was inserted in her throat. "This is the only voice my grandson knows," she says. "I miss being able to sing lullabies to him. When children ask me why I talk like this, I tell them it's because I used to smoke cigarettes. My fear now is that I won't be around to see my grandchildren graduate or get married."
Terrie works tirelessly to educate young people about the dangers and consequences of tobacco use. She's as active as she can be, lending her time and support to several health organizations. "I'm busier now than before I got cancer," Terrie says. Unfortunately, cancer has returned numerous times since she was first diagnosed, and she continues to battle it today.
Everyone, Especially Children, Should Be Protected From Secondhand Smoke
Did you know that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke?
- Tobacco smoke contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals (including toxic substances like formaldehyde, arsenic, lead, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, and butane).
- Separating smokers from nonsmokers, cleaning the air, and ventilating buildings cannot completely eliminate exposure of nonsmokers to secondhand smoke.
- Each year more than 300,000 children suffer from infections caused by secondhand smoke, including bronchitis, pneumonia, and ear infections.
- Secondhand smoke exposure causes sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), acute respiratory infections, and more frequent and severe asthma attacks in children.
- Millions of children continue to be exposed to secondhand smoke in the United States. In 2007–2008, about 54% of children (aged 3–11 years) and 47% of youth (aged 12–19 years) were reported to be exposed to secondhand smoke.
Meet Jessica and Her Son, Aden
Jessica's 7-year-old son, Aden, suffers from asthma attacks that have been triggered by secondhand smoke exposure. Aden was 3 years old when he was diagnosed with asthma. Although Jessica never smoked, many of Aden's attacks happened at the house of his caregiver, who was a smoker. Unfortunately, Jessica wasn't aware of the connection between secondhand smoke exposure and asthma. It took a visit to the emergency room for her and Aden's doctors to make that connection.
"What I've learned is that you have to protect your kids and stay away from people who smoke because it's really bad." Jessica urges people—especially first-time moms—to be more aware of their surroundings and not be shy about telling people not to smoke around their children.
Tips to Share With Moms to Help Protect Children From Secondhand Smoke
- Do not let people smoke around your children. If you take care of children in your home, do not allow anyone to smoke there. Do not let babysitters, family, or friends smoke around your children.
- If you are a mom who smokes, quit. Children of parents who smoke are twice as likely to become smokers. Resources like 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) and www.cdc.gov/tips can help moms quit smoking for good.
- Choose restaurants and businesses that are smoke-free. "No Smoking" sections in restaurants do not protect children from secondhand smoke.
- Make sure your children's day care centers and schools are tobacco-free. A tobacco-free campus policy prohibits any tobacco use or advertising on school property by anyone at any time. This includes off-campus school events.
- Make your home and car completely smoke-free. Opening a window does not protect you or your children from secondhand smoke.
- Teach your children about the health risks of exposure to secondhand smoke.
An Important Reminder for Future Moms
For women planning to have children, it's important to understand the health risks associated with tobacco use. Smoking increases the risk for adverse pregnancy-related health outcomes, including infertility, spontaneous abortion, premature rupture of membranes, low birth weight, neonatal mortality, stillbirth, preterm delivery, and SIDS.
Free Support to Quit
Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) for free support and advice from experienced counselors, a personalized quit plan, self-help materials, the latest information about cessation medications, and more.
More Information
For more information on the health consequences of smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke, as well as resources on how to quit, consult the following:
- Page last reviewed: May 6, 2013
- Page last updated: May 6, 2013
- Content source:
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health
- Page maintained by: Office of the Associate Director for Communication, Digital Media Branch, Division of Public Affairs


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quote: The grand delusion among Apple, Microsoft and Google critics is that each of them, in their own way, forces us to do and buy things we either don't need or want.
quote: Apple is closed (bad, reduces freedom, locks customer in)Google is good (open - everyone is happy in and free in Googeland)
quote: If you buy music on your uPhone, you might have to use uTunes or an uPod to listen to it. You can't just decide to start using WMP or Rhythmbox when you get sick of uTunes. So you will continue to use uTunes because of the DRM that is attached to it. Or you can forfeit the hundreds of dollars that you spent building your library and start over again with a different content distributor like 7digital or Amazon (which BTW you can use with any media player).

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Scientists at Oregon State University say they have discovered that one gene in a common fungus acts as a master regulator, and deleting it has provided access to a wealth of new compounds that have never before been studied. The researchers believe their finding may open the door to the identification of a range of new antibiotics.
Their study ("The Fusarium graminearum Histone H3 K27 Methyltransferase KMT6 Regulates Development and Expression of Secondary Metabolite Gene Clusters") has just been published in PLOS Genetics.
The OSU team succeeded in flipping a genetic switch that had silenced more than 2,000 genes in Fusarium graminearum. Until now this had kept it from producing novel compounds that may have useful properties, particularly for use in medicine but also perhaps in agriculture, industry, or biofuel production, the group explains.
"We found that regions with secondary metabolite clusters are enriched for trimethylated histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3), a histone modification associated with gene silencing. To find functions for H3K27me3 we deleted the gene for the putative H3K27 methyltransferase, KMT6. The kmt6 mutant lacks H3K27me3," wrote the investigators. "We show that absence of H3K27me3 allowed expression of an additional 14% of the genome, resulting in derepression of genes predominantly involved in secondary metabolite pathways and other species-specific functions, including putative secreted pathogenicity factors. Results from this study provide the framework for novel targeted strategies to control the 'cryptic genome,' specifically secondary metabolite expression."
"About a third of the genome of many fungi has always been silent in the laboratory," notes Michael Freitag, Ph.D., an associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics in the OSU College of Science. "Many fungi have antibacterial properties. It was no accident that penicillin was discovered from a fungus, and the genes for these compounds are usually in the silent regions of genomes."
However, as Dr. Freitag pointed out, "What we haven't been able to do is turn on more of the genome of these fungi, see the full range of compounds that could be produced by expression of their genes. Our finding should open the door to the study of dozens of new compounds, and we'll probably see some biochemistry we've never seen before."
The gene (kmt6) that was deleted in this case regulates the methylation of histones, the proteins around which DNA is wound, according to Dr. Freitag. Creating a mutant without this gene allowed new expression, or overexpression of about 25% of the genome of this fungus, and the formation of many secondary metabolites.
kmt6 encodes a master regulator that affects the expression of hundreds of genetic pathways, researchers say. It's been conserved through millions of years, in life forms as diverse as plants, fungi, fruit flies, and humans.
The discovery of new antibiotics is of increasing importance as bacteria, parasites, and fungi are becoming increasingly resistant to older drugs.
"Our studies will open the door to future precise 'epigenetic engineering' of gene clusters that generate bioactive compounds, e.g. putative mycotoxins, antibiotics, and industrial feedstocks," the researchers stated in the conclusion of their journal article.
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Blame Plushenko. He was supposed to go to Worlds, win at least a silver medal, and get Russia three spots for the Men. He was injured, so Russia gets one.
I&K have been a hot mess since they moved up to seniors. They have gone backwards under Morosov and they were assigned to him precisely because they weren't doing well under Zhulin, who had little patience for their lack of work ethic. They had better results and better placements under Zhulin than they've had under Morosov.
I have always said that expectations for this team way outstripped any potential I saw in them. The Russian fed was convinced that if V&M and D&W could move up to Seniors and win the OGM and the OSM four years later, I&K could do it too. But I&K had only been skating together for 18 months when they won Jr. Worlds, and V&M and D&W had both been skating together for more than 10 years when they moved up to senior. Big difference in experience.
If you remember at the beginning of the season Lena dislocated her shoulder, so I imagine that would have interfered with training of lifts. Also, if you look at Worlds training footage Lena had a small patch on her back. So they were not 100% here. Nikita also makes mention of it in an interview after the World Championships. ([URL="http://fsrussia.ru/news/516_nikita-kacalapov-nado-rabotat-dnem-i-nochyu-i-vse-poluchitsya--/"] So maybe we could cut them just a little slack. They need more time, they and S/S are going through growing pains. But I think in the years to come they will both be very hard to beat.
I said that they were supposed to WIN the OGM next year. I don't see that happening. At this point, I don't see them winning a medal of any colour. Morosov has given them the worst material possible. A dance is supposed to highlight their strengths and minimize weaknesses. Morosov's material for them has done the opposite.
Many skaters going through puberty deal with problems such as growing taller and developing hips. But Tuktamysheva's problem is NOT growing taller and developing hips. She is growing out rather than up---even her face has become round and she has a hint of a double chin. And it is affecting her jumps and ice coverage. She would do well to add lots of off-ice training to her regimen.
The one thing she should not do is wear those horrible black costumes with heavy black tights that not only do NOT make her appear slimmer, but make her look short, squat and almost matronly.
the black costumes are indeed used to make her appear slimmer but its really terrible to look at
Mishin has mentioned several times she is gaining weight
It will do best Liza to eat only 1 meal a day or less intake or carbs, forumers mention she really loves ice cream
imo, Mishin should monitor everything Liza eats and bar her eating any sweets that is causing her alarming weight gain
For the women, they sent the best 3 they could; the group simply under delivered. I don't think any of their men would have finished high enough to secure two spots, although there arguably was a more deserving athlete. Pairs and dance teams did fine.
Guys who are calling Liza heavy, have any of you SEEN her in person? My guess is she looks very tiny in person. I've seen pictures of her on facebook and instagram and she looks tiny. Not waif-thin but petite, muscular, not fat or overweight in any way. Mostly what I notice is she has a rectangular build, in other words, her shoulders, waist, and hips are all about the same in width, and given that she is short and particularly through the torso, this combined with those ugly costumes are making her appear frumpy and though she might be out of shape when I severly doubt that is the case. She wouldn't be reeling off 3lz-3t as easy as she does if she were not in good shape and carrying a bunch of extra weight on her. It is normal during puberty for the waist to thicken and then later the weight redistributes itself and the shape is more mature and womanly. Liza isn't curvy and she's short, but her weight is fine and she's jumping well regardless of her changing build. Mostly I notice her legs are more muscular than last season, that seems to be where she mainly filled out, and that is normal and strong leg muscles will help her jump. Starving herself and eating once a day is NOT the answer. Plus, I would assume she's doing the best she can with her weight and trying to eat properly already.
I don't think it was wrong to send Liza and Adelina and it was right to send them. the problem may be the whole environment and that is why a better leader of the whole federation could be an improvement. The pushing of kovtun was a huge mistake because unlike Aaron and hanyu and gachinski and others in the pas two years did really awful. Where was any talent. Gold, osmond, zijun li, newcomers all did better. The sigles was not good.
No one can say morosov has been bad for I/k because they have shown improvement and did well in gp and euros. Obviously if you think morosov has been bad for I/k results who would be good and how are they transferred?
Gorshkov oversaw the transfer of I/k to morosov the sending of kovtun the training of sotnikova and tuktamisheva or maybe should have been aware of all the situations that produced bad results for singles and 2 dance teams and 1 pairs teams. There seems to be extreme chaos before Sochi and decline.
Only good things were v/t wining and b/s bronze which a lot happened after gorshkov was elected.
Maybe someone in russian skating needs to take some responsibility!
Some girls gain weight when they go through puberty. Liza is one of them. So was Slutskaya---she lost her jumps at one point because she'd gained weight. The answer is off-ice training, not starvation. Liza needs to develop healthy eating and exercise habits until her body stabilizes. The truth is, her skating is suffering right now. She isn't getting high PCS scores even when she lands all her jumps because she's slow and her ice coverage is subpar.


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Lawyers Behaving Badly Get A Dressing Down From Civility Cops
Adversarial System Grows Obscenely Nasty; 'Get More Results With Sugar'
In New York one night recently, U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan donned his robes, walked onstage and belted out to his colleagues this heartfelt plea for lawyerly politeness (to the tune of "If I Were a Rich Man"):
"If lawyers were more civil
Daidle deedle daidle daidle daidle deedle daidle dum
They'd treat their breth-er-en with more respect
Wouldn't always yell, 'object.' "
The ditty struck a nerve—and brought down the house, a largely pinstriped crowd of 80 or so lawyers there for a musical refresher course on the virtues of civility.
But it is no laughing matter to those who fret that a tide of rudeness has engulfed the legal profession.
From courtroom yelling matches to insulting letters and depositions that turn into fistfights, some lawyers and judges worry that the adversarial system of justice has gotten a little too adversarial.
To rein in "Rambo" litigators, the politeness patrol is pushing etiquette lessons, and even seeking to have civility included in attorney oaths.
The well-mannered caution that lawyers who shout, lie and shoot off vulgar emails don't merely alienate judges and juries. They also slow the wheels of justice and cost clients money.
"Lawyers already have a bad enough reputation," said Stewart Aaron, a litigator and head of Arnold & Porter LLP's New York office. He performed alongside Judge Sullivan in the revue.
The show—titled "A Civility Seder" and put together by the New York Inn of Court, a legal group that promotes collegiality and ethical behavior—might be the most colorful example of the manners movement. But it pales beside the R-rated antics of the attorneys whose behavior inspired it.
Take, for instance, lawyer Marvin Gerstein of Illinois, who has been disciplined three times for his profane epistolary style, according to the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Illinois Supreme Court.
Over the years, Mr. Gerstein has sent letters to legal adversaries calling them, variously, a "fool," "idiot," "slimeball," and other names unfit for publication. He has also suggested opponents have their heads inserted so far into an unpleasant place that they "think it's a rose garden," language that an expert witness for Mr. Gerstein said served a business purpose by vividly demonstrating the point.
The disciplinary commission rejected that argument, although a dissenting member argued that his conduct was protected by the First Amendment.
"If you cross the line with me, you get both barrels," said an unrepentant Mr. Gerstein. He has since dialed his language back to avoid further sanctions, he said, but "it's none of their business what goes on between two attorneys."
Jaw-droppingly outrageous conduct is rare, even the most ardent defenders of decorum agree. More common are small-bore disputes: lawyers whose sniping, in person and on paper, can spiral out of control.
"When I'm upset, I can feel the testosterone rising, and I can literally feel my judgment declining," said David Casselman, a senior partner at Wasserman, Comden, Casselman, & Esensten LLP in Tarzana, Calif., and a co-chair of the American Board of Trial Advocates' committee on professionalism, ethics and civility. "It's so easy to slide into tit-for-tat mode."
Last month Indiana's Supreme Court chastised lawyers on both sides of a $1.75 million medical negligence lawsuit for making excessive objections and for "the unnecessary sparring and outright contemptuous conduct of each attorney directed toward the other."
"A jury trial is not a free-for-all," Justice Steven H. David wrote.
Whether the problem is worse now is hard to quantify. Professional codes instruct lawyers to be civil, but rudeness isn't tracked or punished as much as more concrete trespasses, such as filching clients' money.
But a number of attorneys and judges say courtly conduct has collapsed over the years, particularly in the more fractious realms of the profession, like divorce proceedings.
Some blame email, and the decline of face-to-face interactions among lawyers in big cities, where sparring attorneys rarely encounter foes at their kids' weekend soccer game.
"You don't do this to people you know," said San Francisco lawyer William B. Smith, also a co-chairman of the trial lawyers' civility committee. "Now it's people sitting behind computers doing nasty things to each other."
Mr. Casselman began collecting examples of bad behavior a few years ago.
He enlisted prominent judges and lawyers for a civility video, and, with Mr. Smith, persuaded the trial lawyers group to develop an entire program on the topic.
Thus far the amiability advocates have made presentations at dozens of law firms, bar groups and law schools. Now they are pushing legal educators to make civility a regular part of the curriculum.
Some lawyers say nastiness and aggression results in smaller settlements or can even lose a case, hitting lawyers where it hurts—their wallets.
"I tell all the lawyers in my firm, you're not a fighter, you're a lover," said Stephen Susman, a founding partner at litigation boutique Susman Godfrey LLP, which has a tradition of inviting opposing counsel to its holiday party. "You will get more results with sugar than with vinegar."
Still, the bad behavior rolls on.
Last year Meyer Ziman, an Arizona personal-injury lawyer, was suspended from practice for 12 months after he "repeatedly and intentionally committed offensive conduct," in violation of the state's oath of admission to the bar.
In one instance, during phone calls while trying to obtain a client's medical records, Mr. Ziman allegedly showered a hospital employee with expletives, then told another who asked him to watch his mouth, "you are nothing but a slut that works for a copy service."
Mr. Ziman said during disciplinary proceedings that he had used the term "slug," an explanation that Arizona's attorney discipline panel found "implausible" according to its report on the case.
Mr. Ziman, wrote Presiding Disciplinary Judge William J. O'Neil, "brandishes his opinion as a battering ram, intentionally offending people…While in his private life he may be as rude, offensive and demeaning as he chooses, in his professional life he may not hide behind his First Amendment right [in order] to ignore his sworn responsibilities."
Mr. Ziman doesn't feel his conduct warranted a suspension, said his lawyer, Joseph Collins, who said he personally doubts civility codes will do much to burnish lawyers' reputations.
"I think the end goal," Mr. Collins said, "is not going to be achieved by pursuing attorneys who use offensive language."
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JOHNSTOWN - The Penn Cambria High School football team faced a boat-load of adversity over the second half of this season.
Four straight losses after a promising 4-0 start led to the abrupt and shocking resignation of PC's veteran head coach, Ernie Fetzer. Penn Cambria also surmounted the grind of having to win both of its last two regular-season games just to qualify for the District 6-AA playoffs.
Then along came a quarterfinal-round playoff date Friday night with top seed Richland, which is showing the capability to make a deep run in the PIAA tournament this year.
The 11-0 Rams showcased their vaunted offensive attack again Friday, churning out 381 yards in total offense, including 221 through the air, in rolling up a 28-0 victory over Penn Cambria at Herlinger Field.
Penn Cambria closed a 6-5 season with its interim head coach, Tony Tomaselli, revealing that he is planning to apply for the team's head coaching position in the coming weeks.
"I really am proud of our kids,'' said Tomaselli, who served a six-year tenure as PC's head coach in the 1990s and has nearly three decades of coaching experience as an assistant coach. "They were really up against it, but they came to work every day. We got outstanding senior leadership.
"Yes, I may as well make it public - I am going to apply for this job when it opens up,'' said Tomaselli, who had been an assistant coach before Fetzer departed. "We have a nice coaching staff, and the kids have done a great job this year.''
The deck was stacked against PC Friday night. Richland, which defeated Penn Cambria, 30-12 in the eighth week of the regular season, got three touchdown passes from senior quarterback Matt Shaffer, who completed nine of 14 attempts for 208 yards. Senior wideout Luke Shertzer caught scoring throws of 58 yards in the first quarter and 39 in the third, and junior wideout Kyle Flick caught a 36-yard TD pass in the fourth quarter.
Junior running back Tanner Solarczyk, who rushed for 112 yards on 14 carries, accounted for Richland's other touchdown, on a 1-yard second-quarter burst that capped the Rams' 94-yard scoring drive.
"They're a talented team,'' Tomaselli said of Richland. "Their quarterback throws the ball real well, and their receivers keep you off-balance.''
Richland will host the winner of tonight's Cambria Heights-at-Tyrone quarterfinal playoff game next weekend.
The Rams figure to be a handful for any team they face this postseason.
Richland's explosive passing game exploited Penn Cambria's 1-on-1 coverage.
"They were covering our guys 1-on-1, and most games, I'll take those matchups,'' Richland coach Brandon Bailey said. "Luke Shertzer is an excellent football player who is one of our team leaders, and Kyle Flick ran a great route on that touchdown catch.''
Shertzer's acrobatic one-handed catch of Shaffer's pass down the middle of the field produced the game's first touchdown, and a Nico Pecora interception stalled the Panthers' best drive of the night, which had been set up by James Mardula's second interception.
Following Pecora's pick, Richland embarked on its 94-yard scoring drive that was highlighted by Solarczyk's 30-yard run, a 22-yard pass from Shaffer to Flick, and an 18-yard toss from Shaffer to Shertzer. Richland led, 15-0 at halftime.
Bailey is familiar with both the Cambria Heights and Tyrone teams. His Rams lost to Tyrone in last year's District 6-AA championship game, and beat Cambria Heights earlier this year.
"We know a little bit about both those teams,'' Bailey said, refusing to speculate about which he would rather see his team face next week. "We're just happy to be moving on.''
Game notes: Penn Cambria played without two-way senior standout Mack Behe, who was sidelined with a concussion ... Shertzer picked off a pass for Richland, which also recovered two fumbles.
Penn Cambria0 0 0 0 - 0
Richland7 8 7 6 - 28
First quarter
R-Shertzer 58 pass from Shaffer (Colvin kick), :44.
Second quarter
R-Solarczyk 1 run (Shaffer run), 2:42.
Third quarter
R-Shertzer 39 pass from Shaffer (Colvin kick), 4:55.
Fourth quarter
R-Flick 36 pass from Shaffer (kick failed), 11:53.
T-Score (Conversion), Time.
RUSHING: Penn Cambria-Lawhead 12-42, Fuller 11-38, Przybys 4-37, Eckenrode 3-4, Hurley 1(-4). Richland-Solarczyk 14-112, Shaffer 10-20, Snopko 3-12, Farina 4-7, Naglic 1-6, Hoover 2-5, Metzgar 1-1, Flick 1-(-2), Somiari 2-(-1).
PASSING: Penn Cambria-Eckenrode 5-12-2-48. Richland-Shaffer 9-14-1-208, Pecora 2-5-1-13.
RECEIVING: Penn Cambria-Mardula 1-28 Lawhead 2-11, Keagy 1-9. Richland-Shertzer 5-118, Flick 5-88, Solarczyk 1-15.
INTERCEPTIONS: Penn Cambria-Mardula 2. Richland-Pecora, Shertzer.
First downs717
Yards rushing31-11738-160
Passing (cmp.-att.-int.)5-12-211-19-2
Yards passing48221
Total yards165381


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The past few months have been kind of special for us Ohioans. We have been fussed over, courted, wined, dined and pampered by all of those hopeful candidates who want our much-coveted votes. Every time a candidate comes to town, it's as if we are on some date where the suitor is telling all of his funniest stories, opening the door for you, being as charming as possible, and hopefully picking up the tab. Of course, they occasionally flub, maybe coming back from the restroom with toilet paper on their shoe. But nobody's perfect.
We're pretty special, we swing-staters. I'm kind of going to miss all the attention after it's all over. But electoral votes aside, the numbers game of elections makes you realize that we are all categorized - as men, women, young, old, rich, poor, consumers, audience - by just about everyone and everything.
We 18-35ers are particularly important to the numbers game. It seems as if our opinion affects just about everything. Television, music, politics, trends, pop culture, Internet, whatever. Companies spend millions on commercials during shows that we like. The Internet churns endlessly to spit out stuff for us to spend money on. Whatever we are talking about or doing is analyzed, marketed and produced in a never-ending cycle of the next-big thing.
It's kind of mind-boggling. Facebook is a perfect example of this. Next time you're logged on, check out the ads going down the right side of the page. Dating, college, clothes, music, makeup are all looking at me - and that's no coincidence. My vital statistics, commonly discussed topics and web-browsing patterns are all analyzed by Zuckerberg and Co. in order to offer the ads most likely to be clicked by an interested me. The algorithms and whatnot are created just to find out exactly what we Generation X / Yers are interested in. Kind of empowering, huh?
Of course, with great power comes great opportunity to have some fun with it. Try looking up a bunch of weird, random topics through Google. Change your Facebook profile to say you're a 105-year-old Eskimo man or something. Post a status about hot dogs, Ferraris and life insurance. Then see how your ads change. Somewhere, some Internet guy is shaking his fist, going "you meddling kids!"
Scary how everything you do is being monitored. When I buy groceries, my discount card tells some giant machine what I buy, and therefore what coupons to offer me. When I buy something online, I mysteriously start getting emails offering me similar stuff. Even my dad, when he tries to win a lawnmower at the county fair, starts getting calls from a plethora of lawn-care companies (and grief from my mom).
I guess our age group makes us highly desirable. It's about time for us to start making money and looking for houses / cars / boats. We (hopefully) are going to be around to buy stuff and watch stuff for a long time. We are supposedly cool and in-the-know about what the next trend is going to be. Thusly, movies, TV, music, Internet, and all kinds of stuff is molded to our desires.
It doesn't always go according to plan. They make one movie we like, but then it's overkilled by remaking the same movie over and over. Sometimes the best shows get canceled, while formulaic nonsense thrives. Poor souls sometimes embarrass themselves trying to be "hip" and "relatable" to us (by the way, Tom Cruise, stop it).
We only have so long to be this relevant. It's kind of neat to have such importance put on your likes and dislikes, your style, your opinions. Treasure it. Because soon, nobody will care what brand of soda you prefer, or which Internet meme you think should be made into the next summer blockbuster (coming in summer 2013: "Gangnam Honey Badger!"). But maybe when I'm not such a desirable consumer, my inbox will be much less cluttered.
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Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal
quote: ...accept the fact that a gun is more likely to make your family less safe (according to statistics).
quote: Lets face it, some of the highest crime areas in the US are in areas where there is very tight gun control, this is not a coincidence. Since guns were banned in the UK the incidence of home invasion and violent crime has skyrocketed. Being gunless has really help protect people there hasn't it?


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Not a spleecher or a barfoom in that the originator of these stinkbombs cannot be detected until it is too late.
Some broccoli-munching vegan cut a silent but deadly stinkbomb on the bus. Eat meat, twerp!
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A creeper, a floating air bisquit. A fart that can not be heard but can sure as hell be smelt. This type of flatulent sneaks up on you and unless there is a breeze, hard to tell who it came from. Don't ever recognize this type of fart out loud otherwise you fall into the rule of: "Whoever smelt it delt it"
"Dayum, someone done let loose a silent but deadly"
by D. Ferrel September 29, 2003
When a fart can be emitted so silently yet its strong enough to floor a rhino.
Eating a Meat-Lovers pizza gives you silent-but-deadly ass-gas.
by Didda Tinkle May 24, 2004
A fart that is not heard, but smells so horrid that it could kill; also: Silent but violent, SBD
Your farts aren't that bad when compared to Grandpappie's ol' silent but deadlies.
by King Shit January 16, 2003
something that, when combined with a dutch oven maneouver, is an excessive use of deadly force.
easy elevator clearance...
by Greg April 29, 2004
A subtle release of nasty botty gas.
I just did a SBD!
by Andrew Briggs January 31, 2004
Legend has it that a man named Pierre Chappele, when on a recon mission, he found an enemy that was going to the bathroom.
Pierre snuck up behind him and slit his neck, his last words sounded like a mild fart.
Pierre snuck up behind him and slit his neck, his last words sounded like a mild fart.
Silent But Deadly is now used as a military term to describe an AWOL (Absence without leave)
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - When Molly Franklin and Kortney Solis have the green light to shoot - which is every time down the court - the Incline girls are a dangerous basketball team.
Incline's big two combined to score 34 points on five 3-pointers Tuesday night, and the Highlanders rolled to a 47-28 Mount Rose League win against visiting Whittell.
"It was a win, but it was ugly," said Incline coach Wayne Nash, who lamented his team 6-of-20 shooting from the free-throw line and missed layups. "We had our (full-court) pressure going, but offensively we were really sluggish."
Despite Whittell senior Emily Harris' hot shooting hand - she hit three 3-pointers in the game and had 10 points in the first half - the Highlanders jumped out to a 17-7 lead by the end of the first quarter and held the Warriors to single digits in each of the remaining three quarters.
After Harris connected on a 3-pointer to cut Incline's lead to 19-14 midway through the second quarter, the Highlanders powered out of the half with eight straight points to extend their lead to 27-14. Franklin hit a shot from the perimeter and followed with a hard drive to the hoop, while Kerrie Tonking and Torii Baker each drove coast-to-coast after steals to close out the half.
"Our big thing was turnovers and fouls," said Whittell coach Tom Esposito, whose team had more than 20 turnovers. "That will hurt you. But other than that, it was a good game."
The Warriors never relented after the break, as they created 17 turnovers themselves with a scrappy zone defense and full-court press late.
But the shooting of Franklin and Solis were too much to overcome, as Solis closed out the third quarter with a 3-pointer to increase Incline's lead to 36-22.
"We started off kinda slow, but we're really good at working as a team, and I think our defense picks us up and that turns into offense," said Solis, who finished with 13 points.
Incline outscored Whittell 11-6 in the fourth to seal the win.
"We're playing our best basketball right now," said Incline coach Wayne Nash, whose Highlanders have won five straight and seven of their last eight. "The girls really turned a corner. I think we're now one of the strongest teams in the state. Pershing County obviously is the best, but then I think it's up for grabs."
Franklin scored a game-high 21 points and Tonking had five, while Harris led Whittell with 12 points, Amanda Harris added six points, and Kenya Maltase and Harki Mand each had four.
Incline improved to 14-12 overall and 6-3 in the Mount Rose League. Whittell dropped to 9-14 overall and 2-7 in league.
With her team now firing on all cylinders, Solis said she and the Highlanders can hardly wait to enter the Northern Division III regional tournament in Elko on Feb. 14-15. The Highlanders will likely enter as the No. 3 seed if they win their remaining league game at Sparks on Saturday.
"I'm looking forward to playoffs because the difference between the start of the year and now is huge," Solis said. "I can't wait to show everyone how much we've improved."
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Many cell phone users find that indoor coverage can be spotty at best. Dead spots inside homes or offices make it hard to get a signal and talk without interference or dropped calls. This is especially problematic for users who only use cell phones.
One way to improve cellular coverage indoors is by using a device that resembles your typical wireless router, known as a femtocell. Verizon Wireless has announced that it will be selling its first femtocell early next year. Verizon had previously said that it would launch femtocells this year, what led to the delay is unknown.
Verizon isn't the only cellular provider that is offering femtocells. Both Sprint and T-Mobile offer femtocells to customers. The femtocell connects the cellular phone of a user to the broadband internet connection in a home or office to route calls over the internet.
Like any other VOIP service, call quality is likely to be affected by the available bandwidth on the network at the time. Sprint's femtocell is far from the bargain users will hope for at $99.99 for the hardware and an additional $10 to $20 per month for the privilege of using the femtocell.
T-Mobile also offers a femtocell-like service from called HotSpot@Home and requires a special handset to use whereas the Sprint and coming Verizon femtocells will work with any handset. Verizon is still mum on how much its femtocell will cost and what fees the femtocell will carry monthly. Pricing is likely to be in line with what Sprint charges for its femtocell service.
quote: t would be far, far cheaper for Verizon/Sprint to take calls over the internet than at their cell towers. People using this device in their homes would be cheaper in operation for the cell company, not more expensive...so why charge for it?
quote: Well, the ATM fee analogy doesn't really fly here
quote: Well, the ATM fee analogy doesn't really fly here,


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DEP: Future bright for area gas drilling
February 14, 2013
As natural gas drilling slows, some have feared that Lycoming County's golden-egg laying goose is about to fly the coop....
Oh Bobbie I forgot, our Hut is a tree-house for the grandkids set up in the backyard.
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You know what Bobbie your almost funny! My hut is already set up in St. Augustine's but thanks for thinking of me.
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Yes I did sell my house 4 days ago for Cash. I got rid of my realtor and sold it myself. The buyers made me add my Baseline Water Tests to the disclosure or they were not going to buy it. It's over, thanks for asking.
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"As time goes on, we're finding that most gas and oil companies are generally abiding by the law." Not a very high bar in terms of compliance. And,the quote shows that compliance was even lower to start with. I doubt many ideas, investments, projects etc. could be sold with the quote used above.
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Never ceases to amaze me with some of the debate on this page. Like the safety deal. Do you think your car is safe now? How bout aircraft? Good enough then, no need to continue to try to improve further. How bout if they would have stopped improvement on them in the 60's? Good enough for you, right? Wake up, the more anything is done the more improvements will be made.
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Why is the head of DEP promoting the industry?? Should he be more concerned about the environment??
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It is slowing down, maybe Krancer doesnt read the news, but nat gas prices are extremely low, a lot of people already got laid off and most people in the industry are hopping job to job with which ever company has work at the time.
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Really read this article and look at what this guy is saying out of both sides of his mouth. For instance, it is getting safer. I was lead to believe it was safe from the beginning. If these guys are plucking holes in the ground it better darn well be safe from the beginning, not experimenting around until they get it safe. This is like an admission that they made mistakes in the past.
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This is funny coming from Krancer since he voted NOT to have drilling in his backyard.
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Ernestine V. Glossbrenner
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Ernestine Ernie Glossbrenner, a high school math teacher in the small South Texas town of Alice, taught her students that numbers could be fun. Later, as a distinguished state representative, she earned a reputation as a champion of quality and equitable public education for all children.
Representative Glossbrenners service to Texas is from the heart. As a representative she lived solely on her $7,200 annual state salary, and democrats and republicans alike admire her integrity and intelligence.
She is a tireless voice for children, human rights and issues that affect the daily lives of average citizens.
Representative Glossbrenner received the 1991 Friend of Education Award from the Texas Classroom Teachers Association, the Public Service Award from Common Cause of Texas, and the1990 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Texas at Austin. Additionally she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Disabled American Veterans and the 1974 Woman of the Year Award from the Texas Womens Political Caucus.
In 2001 Ms. Glossbrenner served as a commissioner on the Texas Ethics Commission.
She earned her bachelor of arts in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and her masters in mathematics at Texas A & I in Kingsville.
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The West Linn Planning Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing, on Wednesday February 20, 2012, starting at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 22500 Salamo Road, West Linn, to consider a request for a Conditional Use and Class II Design Review for a new City of West Linn police station at 1800-1950 8th Avenue and 1819-1849 13th Street (tax lots 1900, 2000, 2100, and 2200 of Clackamas County Assessor's Map 2-1E-35C). A Lot Line Adjustment is also requested to combine the four site lots into one, and a Class II Variance is requested to develop within part of the dripline-plus-10-feet area of the only significant tree on the site.
Conditional Use criteria are found in Chapter 60 of the Community Development Code (CDC). Criteria for Design Review are found in Chapter 55. Variance criteria are found in Chapter 75. Lot Line Adjustment criteria are found in Section 85.210 of Chapter 85. Approval or disapproval of the request by the Planning Commission will be based upon these criteria and these criteria only. At the hearing, it is important that comments relate specifically to the applicable criteria listed.
The complete application in the above noted file is available for inspection at no cost at City Hall or via the web site at http://westlinnoregon.gov/planning/1800-8th-avenue-new-police-station-conditional-use-class-ii-design-review-lot-line-adjustme, or copies can be obtained for a minimal charge per page. At least ten days prior to the hearing, a copy of the staff report will be available for inspection. For further information, please contact Tom Soppe, Associate Planner, at City Hall, 22500 Salamo Road, West Linn, OR 97068, email@example.com, or 503-742-8660.
The hearing will be conducted in accordance with the rules of Section 99.170 of the CDC. Anyone wishing to present written testimony on this proposed action may do so in writing prior to, or at the public hearing. Oral testimony may be presented at the public hearing. At the public hearing, the Planning Commission will receive a staff presentation, and invite both oral and written testimony. The Planning Commission may continue the public hearing to another meeting to obtain additional information, leave the record open for additional evidence, arguments, or testimony, or close the public hearing and take action on the application as provided by state law. Failure to raise an issue in person or by letter at some point prior to the close of the hearing, or failure to provide sufficient specificity to afford the decision maker an opportunity to respond to the issue, precludes an appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) based on that issue.
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Mouse bait stations are used in the industry for several different reasons. These stations will extend the freshness of the bait, keep the rodenticide free from dirt, dust and weather. They will limit the rats from taking the bait away, which reduces excessive bait loss, and will also help you with monitoring population. Tamper-resistant style mouse bait stations such as the Protecta Keyless Bait Station, RTU Protecta Stations reduce the chances of accidental poisoning of non targeted animals.
Along with baits ePestsolutions provides different methods of mouse control which include the use of mouse traps, glueboards and mouse control kits.


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Each session focuses on the discussion of a pre-circulated paper. The essayist and an assigned commentator will each have an opportunity for remarks before the discussion is opened to the floor. Papers must be available for circulation at least a month before the seminar date.
The seminar's steering committee would like to fill at least two sessions through this call for papers. To be considered for a slot, please send your CV and a one-page précis of your paper by March 15 to Jane Becker, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, or to email@example.com. In your proposal, please indicate when your paper will be available for distribution. If there are special scheduling conditions, such as a planned trip to Boston or an extended period when you can not make a presentation, please indicate in your proposal.


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Sanaria and the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) at the University of Maryland College Park won a $3 million, three-year phase 2 SBIR grant from NIAID to fund development of genetically engineered mosquitoes that produce parasites for Sanaria's malaria vaccine manufacturing process. The new funds will enable continuation of the phase 1 SBIR grant-supported partnership between the organizations, which is leveraging the expertise of IBBR's Insect Transformation Facility.
"The SBIR grants are critical to the success of our malaria vaccine development efforts, which are aimed at producing a vaccine that can be used to eliminate malaria from defined geographical areas," comments Sanaria CEO Stephen L. Hoffman,M.D. "This ongoing collaboration with IBBR provides an excellent opportunity to exploit state-of-the-art mosquito transformation methodologies to further our goal of generating extraordinarily high numbers of malaria parasites in mosquitoes to facilitate lower cost vaccine production.
Sanaria is dedicated to the development of nonreplicating sporozoite-based malaria vaccines that provide long-lasting protection against malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum and P. viva. The firm claims it has solved the technical and practical issues associated with generating a cost-effective sporozoite-based vaccine. It now intends to demonstrate that a vaccine meeting regulatory requirements can be produced economically and reproducibly at a commercial scale and protects against 90% of immunized adults and infants against challenge with P. falciparum sporozoites.
In January Sanaria announced the start of a Phase I trial at NIH to evaluate its attenuated sporozoite P. falciparum vaccine candidiate PfSPZ in 51 healthy volunteers. Sponsored by NIAID in collaboration with Sanaria and the U.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program, the dose-ranging trial, designated VRC 312, will evaluate the efficacy of a course of intravenously administered vaccine against subsequent challenge with a drug-sensitive P. falciparum strain.
Sanaria's vaccine program has led to the development of expertise in the manufacture and assay of malaria parasites and mosquitoes in a cGMP compliant, industrial setting. The firm is making its parasites, mosquitoes, and assay services available to the research community through a suite of products and services.
The IBBR was established by the Unvierstiy of Maryland College Park, the University of Maryland Baltimore, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Insect Transformation Facility is dedicated to advancing insect molecular science and its clinical application. It acts as a resource for generating modified insects for academic and industrial clients and developing new transgenic insect technologies.
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Penguin Books
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Description: Star Wars: Mysteries of the Jedi
Mysteries of the Jedi is a dynamic visual guide that brings the Star Wars galaxy to life for a new generation of Star Wars fans. In it, younger readers will meet all the Jedi heroes from Anakin to Yoda, understand what it takes to become a Jedi, find out how to wield a lightsaber, discover the secrets of the Force, examine the tools of the Jedi trade, and more!
Star Wars: Beware the Sith
Who is threatening the Galaxy? What is the power of the Force? Could YOU defeat the dark side?
Discover the secrets of the dark side and meet the most fearsome and powerful Sith Lords of the Star Wars universe! Part of the exciting new series for young readers, Star Wars: Beware the Sith takes a new look at the missions, plots, duels, and adventures of your favorite Star Wars villains like Darth Maul, Darth Vader, Count Dooku, and Emperor Palpatine. Learn how the Sith appear after 1,000 years of exile to fight the Jedi in order to gain power at any cost!
- Author: DK Publishing
- Format: Hardcover
- For ages 7 to 12
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Star Wars: Battles for the Galaxy
Star Wars is presented in a new dynamic and fun way that young readers are sure to love! This new book presents classic Star Wars events in a way they have never been seen before. Find out how clone troopers evolved into Darth Vader's stormtroopers and how the ARC170 influenced the Xwing. Bold text and captivating imagery makes Star Wars: Battles for the Galaxy a must have for your young Star Wars fan.
- Author: Daniel Wallace
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Dako signed an agreement with Genentech to collaborate on FDA regulatory submissions of two Dako tests as companion diagnostics for Genentech's trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1), a candidate for advanced Her2-positive breast cancer. The submission would cover use of HercepTest™ and HER2 FISH pharmDx™ to identify patients who may be eligible for treatment with T-DM1.
In March Roche, Genentech's parent company, confirmed plans to file regulatory approval applications for T-DM1, an antibody-drug conjugate, to both FDA and the European authorities later this year. The decision came on the back of positive data from the first Phase III study evaluating the drug in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer (mBC). T-DM1 combines Roche's Herceptin (trastuzumab) and ImmunoGen's cancer-killing agent DM1 using ImmunoGen's linker technology.
Today's announcement from Dako and Genentech comes on the heels of another collaboration between the firms. Last December the companies decided to collaborate on the regulatory submissions of HercepTest and HER2 FISH pharmDx as companion diagnostics for Pertuzumab. Roche has submitted a BLA and MAA for people with previously untreated, Her2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
Dako's deal with Genentech is in line with its strategy to combine its strengths with pharmaceutical companies to grow its offering of companion diagnostic assays. The company has cancer companion diagnostic deals with several firms including Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and OSI Pharmaceuticals.
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Many of us have family Thanksgiving traditions that have been passed down through the years. Others who have moved around the country and lost family connections may have established their own traditions that have become a part of their new families.
Regardless, it is usually enjoyable to experience Thanksgiving in whatever ways that have been a part of our lives. My earliest memories of the day are going to my grandfather's home on my mother's side of the family. She was from a large family, and after they all got married and had children, it was a fairly large group. For several years, our great-grandmother was alive and enjoyed the day with us.
It was probably a typical Thanksgiving with all kinds of food. Meats usually included ham and chicken. Turkey was too expensive back then. One dessert that was always on the table was a big prune cake. My grandfather's favorite dessert was prune cake, so it was a requirement.
They lived on a hill, so when there was snow, which seemed quite often, we would take our sleds and slide downhill. There was a creek at the bottom and, if the sledding was good, we had to turn before we got to it. Otherwise it was a cold, wet trek back up the hill into the house to get dried off.
Back in my younger days, growing up in northern Trumbull County, there were many things we did not have. But there was always plenty of food on Thanksgiving. And we always had enough food on the table as we were growing up. In some ways, though, it was different from today's foods.
Dad either had an animal to butcher for our meat or bought beef and pork by the half. Mom then had the job of cutting up and preserving that meat. Our refrigeration was a big, old ice box, so much of it had to be canned or salted and smoked. My memory says it was always good and we had enough.
Potatoes were usually bought in 50-pound bags from a local grower, so they were of all sizes and had to be paired before cooking. But we knew they were real potatoes. Vegetables were canned sometimes from our own garden, but more often Dad bought quantities from local sources. Mom then had to can those. Prepared foods were unknown.
We are very fortunate these days. We can go to the grocery store and find food of all kinds and prepared for us in so many different ways. When we think of Thanksgiving, we need to give thanks to all those who grow our food for us. Also are all those along the way that get that food to the processor who puts it in forms we enjoy. Then credit also goes to the grocery store where all that food is displayed attractively and easy for us to buy.
While we have so much to be thankful for, we have several groups in our society that don't understand what today's family farms are like. Today's family farms are more environmentally friendly than farmers of years ago.
Dr. Jude Capper from Washington State University has been studying what is called the "carbon footprint" of livestock. She found that from between 1944 and 2007, the carbon footprint to produce one gallon of milk has been reduced by 63 percent. Beef cattle farmers have reduced it by 18 percent from 1977 to 2007.
We can be thankful that our family farms, both large and small, are concerned about the environment. In fact, they were taking steps to improve the environment before others in our society were concerned.
So on this day of Thanksgiving, if it has been a day of rest, I hope you enjoyed the Thanksgiving parade on TV and spent more time with family.
Parker is an independent writer for the Tribune.


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From South Tahoe High School Ally founder to the first openly gay student body president at Sonoma State, Alex Boyar doesn't let inertia intimidate him.
His efforts to promote diversity and shift the status quo didn't end with graduation. The 22-year-old STHS alumnus now works as the state director of finance for Delaware's Sen. Chris Coons, a job that Boyar calls "a dream for any political fundraiser."
Two pivotal 2008 events sparked Boyar's interest in politics - the election of President Barack Obama and what he called the "crushing defeat" that followed the passage of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage in California.
Boyar plunged into the world of student government as a freshman at Sonoma State University shortly after that November election. He climbed the collegiate political ranks, culminating as president of the Associated Student Body in his senior year.
While at the university, Boyar helped raised $100,000 to update the school's diversity center and hire a diversity director who ensures that students have access to a safe haven on campus.
"It's the center for that continually ongoing conversation about how we secure long-term diversity," Boyar said.
His work to carve out a niche for students of diverse backgrounds began in the South Shore with the help of fellow STHS graduate Jade Copple and English teacher Bridey Heidel. If they could make STHS a more comfortable environment for even one lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender student, the work would be worth it, Boyar said.
Boyar came out of the closet when he was 15 years old. His parents were "accepting and loving" but his peers were not always so tolerant. A suicide note that a student wrote during Boyar's sophomore year convinced him that the environment at the high school needed to change. So he founded Ally, a club for LGBT students, that year.
The administration supported the club, but Heidel said she sometimes fielded questions and concerns from the community. STHS staff would address bullying issues on campus if they heard about them, but students often kept silent, Heidel said.
"Jade and Alex just put themselves out there. It was pretty brave of them to be on the front lines. (Boyar) was very willing to be public, and he was doing this at a time when he was very much alone ... The entire school benefits from their bravery," she said.
Boyar said he battled discrimination from some of his fellow students through junior year, but Ally changed that.
"It was a dark and scary place for a time. But it didn't hit me because I was doing what I believed in and was living my truth," Boyar said.
"The fact of the matter is I was the token LGBT student. I was out there. There were times when I got picked on, when students didn't say the kindest things, when it got scary. But by my senior year, it really started to turn around," he said.
By the 2007-08 school year, many people had rallied around Ally. Students would wear the club's T-shirts around South Lake Tahoe and more teens were openly stating that they were gay or lesbian.
"He wanted other kids to have a safe harbor. He was tormented. It's tough being different," Boyar's mother, Virginia Boyar, said.
Boyar moved to Delaware five days after graduating from Sonoma. He helped raise $180,000 for Andy Staton's campaign for a senate seat before Coons hired him to be his fundraising and finance director.
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MySQL track at the German Oracle User Group conference
By Giuseppe Maxia on Jul 04, 2010
As we have seen for other events, the MySQL community has been invited to attend and participate in conferences organized by the Oracle User Groups.After the past, present and future events in the United States, now we start with Europe.
There is a MySQL Track at the DOAG 2010 Conference, the main event of the German Oracle User Groups, and the CfP expires on July 10th.
The event is of course important for German speakers, but English speakers are also accepted.
As the other events in the US, this is a good occasion for MySQL users to get acquainted with the independent Oracle user group organization, and find common business needs. There are many MySQL users among the Oracle User Group members, and much curiosity about this small database that powers the Internet.
If you want to get a talk at this conference, feel free to submit a proposal. Or simply mark the dates: November 16th to 18th.
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LOS ANGELES - The role of female talk show hosts in late-night TV broadcast network history, all 50-plus years of it, can be summed up in two words: Joan Rivers. It takes just another two - Arsenio Hall - to do the same for minorities.
There's no indication that's going to change in the latest round of musical chairs involving "Tonight" and "Late Night." All the NBC, ABC and CBS showcase jobs at 11:30 p.m. and later appear likely to remain securely in white men's hands.
Jay Leno is handing off to Jimmy Fallon, with speculation tagging Seth Meyers as his likely successor. Meanwhile, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson and Carson Daly are sitting pretty, without the faintest drumbeat of a pair of advancing high heels to signal a threat.
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Comedian Chelsea Handler is a hit on her E! talk show "Chelsea Lately," but the odds of her getting a major network slot are slim. Joan Rivers is the only woman to ever have a late night talk show on a broadcast network.
Arsenio Hall — here with then-presidential candidate in Bill Clinton playing the saxophone in 1992 — is the only minority to ever have a major network late night show. "The Arsenio Hall Show" went off the air in 1994.
There have been alternatives bandied about - Chelsea Handler, black comedian-writer Aisha Tyler - but no hints they or others are getting traction.
"In real life it seems to me that women have definitely shown themselves to be able to carry on a conversation," said Merrill Markoe, the Emmy Award-winning writer who helped David Letterman create "Late Night" at NBC. "Women have exhibited an interest in talking for centuries. I'm not sure how it is that no one has seemed to notice."
NBC did not respond to requests for comment on the issue. But if belles du jour Tina Fey and Amy Poehler can excel at TV sitcoms and movies and teach Ricky Gervais a thing or two (or three) about hosting the Golden Globes, could they be queens of the night with their own talk shows? Or maybe a Hispanic or Asian-American man could have a turn. We may miss out on a "Jimmy Kimmel Live" clip of a heavyset woman lifting her T-shirt, and the host then warning us, "I need to take a break. I'm going to throw up," but we might get other thrills.
Women and minorities have conquered other traditionally white male-dominated arenas, on and off TV - think anchorwoman Diane Sawyer, President Barack Obama - but in late-night even daring cable is content with the homogenized likes of Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, with such occasional dashes as E!'s Handler, BET's Mo'Nique and TBS' now-gone George Lopez thrown in.
Rivers, who became host of Fox's "The Late Show" in 1986 after filling in as the sole regular guest host on Johnny Carson's "Tonight," calls the lack of female hosts "beyond" frustrating.
Blame the broadcast industry's resistance toward change and the risk of failure, she said: "Everybody is running so scared, and has always run scared."
And executives can find reasons, or excuses, for keeping the status quo.
"They had surveys at NBC, and the surveys were that women would rather watch a man at night, which is what they're always throwing up in your face," Rivers said.
That's an argument that's still made, privately, in the industry: Women want to hear their pre-bedtime monologue jokes from a man, while Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and Katie Couric are welcome in daytime.
It's true that women make up a majority of the audience for every network late-night show. ABC's Kimmel, for instance, is averaging 1.4 million female viewers and 770,000 male viewers this season, while Leno is watched by 1.9 million women and 1.5 million men, according to Nielsen Co. ratings.
But "Chelsea Lately" casts doubt on the notion of women snubbing women. Of Handler's 650,000 viewers, about 65 percent are female - a higher percentage of women than any male network host except Kimmel, who's about even with that number.
While networks also have to worry about drawing male viewers, especially the advertiser-coveted younger ones, the hard truth is that battle is being lost to edgier cable hosts - Stewart, Colbert and O'Brien all have majority-male audiences - and to the video games and online distractions that consume their attention.
The networks have other reasons to reconsider their white-guys-only strategy, according to an analysis of Nielsen data: They are losing out on minority viewers, Hispanics in particular.
Of the total 3.44 million viewers averaged by "Tonight" for the season through March 24, there were 188,000 Hispanics. That's about 5 percent of the total audience, compared to the nearly 17 percent Latino slice of the U.S. population.
The other late-night shows show similar degrees of disconnect with Hispanics, although some can boast healthy black viewership.
"Guess what? America's becoming more diverse," said Darnell Montez Hunt, a University of California, Los Angeles, professor who studies race and media. Late-night shows "could grow a larger and diverse audience by making different choices behind the camera and in front of the camera."
That means, in part, casting a wider net for young comedians and giving them a chance to develop into big league material, as Fallon was able to do when he moved from "Saturday Night Live" to "Late Night."
TBS turned to an established comic in 2010 when it launched "The George Lopez Show." But when Lopez was bumped back an hour to midnight to make way for O'Brien's post-"Tonight" effort, ratings fell and Lopez got a pink slip. He had averaged 910,000 viewers at 11 p.m. Eastern; so far this season, O'Brien is averaging just under 600,000 - and just earned a renewal through 2015.
Lopez is canceled, Wanda Sykes loses her low-rated Saturday night Fox show, and it gives networks an out, said UCLA's Hunt: "They'll point to the example of the cautionary tale as to why diversity is not a good thing for the bottom line."
But Garth Ancier saw firsthand the value of going against the grain in his tenure as Fox's first entertainment programming chief.
While Rivers' Fox stint was relatively brief - the network cited low viewership, she blames a business clash - it helped give a boost to Hall, one of the guest hosts who succeeded her, and proved there was an audience appetite for something new.
"Arsenio was getting ratings almost immediately because there was no one like him on late night," recalled Ancier. Hall made such a splash that, although Fox failed to snap him up, he struck a syndication deal and was on the air from 1989-94.
As for the minority presence in late-night, that's getting a boost this September with Hall's return. Is NBC, CBS, ABC or Fox to be the broadcast network home to "The Arsenio Hall Show"?
None of the above. It's syndicated.


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The professional football player and Avagyan – who have been dating since 2011 – have a 14-month-old daughter, Briseis.
Bush, 29, is currently running back for the Detroit Lions. He famously dated Kim Kardashian for three years before they split in 2010. Armenian native Avagyan, 26, is a professional dancer.
Kardashian's stepbrother Brody Jenner attended the nuptials, sharing a photo of the newlyweds on his Instagram account.
Bush recently shared a sweet photo of Avagyan and their daughter.
The night before the nuptials, the couple went out to San Diego's FLUXX Nightclub with about 15 friends. The group kept things low-key, arriving a little before midnight and leaving around 1:20 a.m. after getting bottle service.
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A new audit has determined that a private sector electronic system of collecting weight/mile data would save money for the trucking industry and the State Highway Fund, Secretary of State Kate Brown said Thursday.
The audit was conducted at the request of the Oregon Department of Transportation, which is considering the feasibility of using a global positioning device and cellular technology to capture and transmit operating data from trucks, and using it to determine how much the companies pay into the Highway Trust Fund.
"This is a great example of how state auditors can help government and business use cutting edge technology to save money and improve performance," Brown said.
Brown praised ODOT Director Matt Garrett for seeking the audit to evaluate the system developed by the New Zealand-based EROAD, Inc.
"Too often, auditors are brought in because something has gone wrong," she said. "Director Garrett's decision to have auditors review a pilot project before the state proceeded demonstrates just the kind of innovative thinking we need in government."
Oregon taxes commercial vehicles based on their weight and the number of miles they travel in order to calculate the true damage to the state's highways.
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Weight/mile taxes go into the Highway Trust Fund, which is used to build, improve and maintain the state's public highways, roads, streets and roadside rest areas.
About 277,000 trucks are registered to operate in the state, including more than 41,000 from Oregon-based companies.
In January, ODOT asked the Secretary of State's Audits Division to evaluate a pilot project that sought to test the accuracy and reliability of EROAD's services, which offered to cut down on costs and reduce errors by replacing a manual reporting system with an automated one.
The audit team concluded that the services both accurately, reliably and securely reported weight/mile data.
The auditing team included William K. Garber, CGFM, Deputy Director; Neal E. Weatherspoon, CPA, CISA, CISSP, Audit Manager; Erika A. Ungern, CISA, Principal Auditor; Teresa L. Furnish, CISA, Senior Auditor; Amy M. Mettler, CPA, CGFM, Staff Auditor; and Matthew C. Owens, CISA, Staff Auditor.
The report, including the agency response, can be found at sos.oregon.gov/audits.


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Sheriff's deputies performing security checks at schools
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LISBON — Ever since last month's school shooting in Newtown, Conn....
You own a hand gun in America and it is registered. You don't re-register that gun who do you think will be knocking on your door? It will be enforced and Obama has etched that in stone! So in some sense ladybug, they will be knocking on your door eventually.
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Welcome to the world of gun confiscation and taxation...all rolled in to one nice little package deal! WE ALL LOSE!
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Before you respond...think before you speak you already made the statement: "These people could care less about your rights,It's the money game ,like everything thing else in this country anymore."
This means you should be furious with the UNIONS!
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Straight from Obama's executive order. Source...the White House.
• Provide incentives for police departments to hire officers for schools and mental-health counselors
Then read what Stone said in this article. "Stone said if President Barack Obama and Congress restore federal funding for the program, which has been suggested, he would consider applying for grant money to get a deputy for as many of the schools as possible."
The UNIONS have already chimed in for the demand for money!
There is the connection to Union and the second amendment! Still in denial????
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think will be enforcing and collecting those guns? Or do you believe that we are just going to have "drop off boxes" in a parking lot?
Guess who ran to the head of the line and asked how all this would be paid for and compensation for the extra work the police departments will be adding to the "extra duty" on their officers? The big bad union is already in force on this.
Now lets jump back to the little old Sheriff Department? SWAGER NAILED IT. Do you really believe Ladybug those deputies are going to do this for free? At this point they will but Swager is right watch it all unfold!
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Confiscation is already beginning in New York. In the fury over the new gun law in New York almost unnoticed is the provision that will apparently, read carefully ladybug:
"Require pistol permit holders or those who will be registered as owners of assault rifles to be re-certified at least every five years to make sure they are still legally able to own the guns."
Currently pistol permits are issues for life. Now they are only good for five years. Anybody with any experience in obtaining a pistol permit in New York knows that some judges just refuse to approve them. That has been happening for a long time all over this nation. And so when you're turned down on renewal you'll have to turn them guns in, you just can't keep them, do you follow this yet? That is what the Obama administration is calling "legal confiscation". Now for your Union question.
Now who do you think will be collecting those guns? Those so called gun registrations? Come on Ladybug who do you t
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Ladybug states: "These people could care less about your rights,It's the money game ,like everything thing else in this country anymore."
You mean because the Unions lead the pack on that money game?
You want to see how Unions are already diving into the money game and connecting to the second amendment?
Ladybug you made this statement: "My god to listen to you people ,you'd think they where knocking on the doors to collect your guns."
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY 100 percent correct. They don't have to come for our guns, the plan they are outlining is going to make it easier. We will be taking our guns to them and the Unions want to make sure they get a piece of that money pie!
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No notSocialist let him ramble on. Because this proves how much in denial he really is when it comes to the truth, the big picture he refuse to acknowledge in his protection of Union and that almighty dollar he rejects unless it is in a union pocket!
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Sombody pulls a knife in Salem and you'd there was a crime wave going on.
As far as drugs.This has been a problem in this whole area for yrs.Its just locals didn't want to admit it. Like everything in Salem .Ignore it it'l go away sooner or later.
Know their worried about the decaying bldg.Oh gee whiz.
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Try that attitude on some of the styreets of our bigger cities,
draw your ole gun,Those people would have no trouble filling you full of holes.
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Give everyone a gun to carry and secure every bldg,event ,gathering and place armed gaurds on every corner.
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Seems no one concerned that 35 people /day are being killed by guns. OVER 12000/YR.
I don't know the answer,but something needs to be done'
My whole family are gun owners ,some belong to the NRA.
These people could care less about your rights,It's the money game ,like everything thing else in this country anymore.
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What the ------------- does union contract have to do with the 2nd amendment.
My god to listen to you people ,you'd think they where knocking on the doors to collect your guns.
What ever happened to the concern for those poor little kids slauhtered 1 month ok.
Oh i get it ! thats old news .
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Maybe the disagrees are union reps. We only have the law enforcement that is union approved. If there is a clause in a contract somehere, the union will tell them to stop, and they will.
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To the those that disagreed with my comment...C O W A R D S.
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Sheriff Stone I applaud you. Any step and I mean, any step we can take as a community to protect our children from these sick and twisted minds, I am all for it! Even if it means using deadly force to stop them. The criminals are winning and we can not let it happen.
"The only thing that can stop someone with a gun is someone else with a gun," said Stone"
Words to live by!!
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"Good for them, checking on the schools. A small step in the right direction."
That statement drew two disagrees? Really? Only convinces me of one thing and one thing only...we have some sick and twisted minds living amongst us. All I can say is...WOW! Isn't this horrifying? And to think the Democrats want to disarm us against sick and twisted minds like this. Makes one wonder who the true criminals really are!
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Hmmmm Sheriff Stone I guess this helps to solidify that you really don't see Knox Township as being in your county!!! I say this because if you did you would have mentioned WEST BRANCH LOCAL SCHOOLS seeing as how KNOX ELEMENTARY is in Knox Township COLUMBIANA COUNTY!!! The people in Knox Township already feel like the Sheriffs Office could care a less about them and this just helps there case tremendously!!!!! The only time it seems that Sheriff Stone remembers Knox Township is in Columbiana County is at Election Time!!!!
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