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Author Affiliations: Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research (Drs Glanz, McClure, Magid, Daley, and Hambidge); Department of Prevention, Kaiser Permanente Colorado (Dr France); Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health (Dr Glanz); The Children's Hospital, Denver (Dr Daley); Department of Community Health Services, Denver Health (Dr Hambidge); and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado (Drs Daley and Hambidge).
To quantify both the individual-level and attributable risk of varicella infection requiring medical care in children whose parents refuse varicella immunizations.
Matched case-control study with conditional logistic regression analysis.
Kaiser Permanente of Colorado (KPCO) health plan between 1998 and 2008.
Each pediatric physician-diagnosed case of varicella (n = 133) was matched to 4 randomly selected controls (n = 493). Cases were matched by age, sex, and length of enrollment in KPCO.
Main Exposures
Varicella vaccine refusal.
Outcome Measures
Varicella infection.
There were 7 varicella vaccine refusers (5%) among the cases and 3 (0.6%) among the controls. Children of parents who refused varicella immunizations were at a greatly increased risk of varicella infection requiring medical care (odds ratio, 8.6; 95% confidence interval, 2.2-33.3) compared with children of parents who accepted vaccinations (P = .004). In the entire KPCO pediatric population, 5% of varicella cases were attributed to parental vaccine refusal.
Children of parents who refuse varicella immunizations are at high risk of varicella infection relative to vaccinated children. These results will be helpful to health care providers and parents when making decisions about immunizing children.
Routine childhood immunization in the United States has led to significant reductions in the morbidity and mortality of numerous vaccine-preventable diseases.1- 3 Much of this success can be attributed to the public's wide-scale trust and support of the national immunization program for the last half century. Recent trends, however, suggest that this foundation of public support is eroding.4- 6 Expanding childhood immunization requirements and increased media coverage of alleged associations between vaccinations and chronic illnesses have heightened parental concerns regarding vaccine safety.7- 9 Parents have also expressed concerns that children are at low risk of infection and that many vaccine-preventable diseases are not serious.10,11 During the last decade, as a consequence, the number of parents who claimed nonmedical exemptions to school immunization requirements has increased significantly.12
The vaccine against varicella-zoster virus is the most commonly refused childhood vaccine; both parents and providers view varicella illness as the least severe vaccine-preventable disease.11,13- 15 Prior to varicella vaccine licensure in 1995, however, there were 4 million cases of varicella infection annually, resulting in more than 10 000 hospitalizations and 100 deaths per year in the United States.16- 18 Since licensure, universal immunization has reduced annual morbidity, mortality, and hospitalizations owing to varicella by more than 80%.19- 21 No study to date has examined the association between parental vaccine refusal and the risk of varicella infection in children.
To better establish the relationship between vaccine refusal and the risk of varicella infection, we examined individual-level data on both vaccination and disease status in a population of children enrolled in a managed health care plan for a 10-year period. Our objective was to quantify both the individual-level and attributable risk of varicella infection requiring medical care in children whose parents refuse varicella immunizations. Such information will be useful to physicians who have to counsel vaccine-refusing parents.
We conducted a case-control study to determine whether children who contracted varicella infection were more likely to have parents who refused varicella vaccination than a similar group of children who did not develop varicella infection. The setting was Kaiser Permanente Colorado (KPCO), a Denver-based health plan with more than 430 000 members. Members of KPCO receive full coverage of all pediatric vaccines, as recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.22 The study population included children aged 12 months to 8 years who were members of the health plan between 1998 and 2008. Currently, 95% of children in KPCO have up-to-date varicella vaccinations. During the entire study period, varicella vaccine was routinely given to children aged 12 to 18 months; after 2005, a second dose was routinely given to children aged 48 to 59 months. Children had to be continuously enrolled in KPCO for at least 6 months to be eligible for the study. The study was reviewed and approved by the KPCO institutional review board.
Potential cases of varicella were identified using the KPCO automated databases. Potential cases were selected if they had an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) code for varicella (052.x) or a laboratory test ordered for varicella. The laboratory tests included polymerase chain reaction, direct fluorescent antibody, isolation of varicella virus, or rise in serum varicella IgG.
The medical records of the potential cases were reviewed by a trained abstractor (Nicole Wagner, MPH) to confirm case status. The date of the ICD-9 code or laboratory test from the automated data represented the medical encounter date. The abstractor, blinded to vaccination status, recorded details for this encounter and all encounters up to 14 days following this encounter from the medical record. The abstractor recorded presenting symptoms (eg, presence of a maculopapulovesicular rash, number of vesicular lesions, fever, malaise), laboratory results, clinical diagnoses, and complications of varicella infection (eg, secondary bacterial infection of skin lesions, encephalitis, pneumonia, ataxia, hepatitis, thrombocytopenia, optic neuritis, myocarditis, transverse myelitis, invasive group A streptococcal infection, death). Of the cases with invasive streptococcal infection, the abstractor examined the medical records for diagnoses of cellulitis, necrotizing fasciitis, septicemia, and toxic shock syndrome.
The abstractor recorded prior exposures to close contacts infected with varicella; a close contact was defined as someone at daycare, school, or home with known varicella infection. The abstractor also recorded preexisting conditions that may increase the risk of severe varicella infection including malignancies and human immunodeficiency virus or AIDS. Additional variables including birth date, sex, and medical setting of the qualifying encounter were extracted from medical records.
Patients were classified as confirmed cases if they had a physician diagnosis of varicella documented in the medical records. Confirmed cases aged between 12 months and 8 years were eligible for the final analyses. Cases diagnosed prior to 12 months were excluded because children are not immunized until they are at least 12 months of age. Cases diagnosed within 14 days of varicella vaccination were excluded because they likely represented wild-type varicella infection before a full immune response had developed to the vaccine.23
An index date was defined for all cases and controls. The date of varicella diagnosis was the index date for the cases. Each case of varicella was then matched to 4 randomly selected controls by sex, length of KPCO enrollment in months, and age at index date (within 7 days). Each matched control had to be enrolled in KPCO on the index date. Matched controls also had to have at least the same amount of enrollment prior to the index date as the corresponding matched case. The controls were selected from a pool of pediatric members enrolled in the KPCO health plan between 1998 and 2008. Eligible controls did not have a record of varicella infection prior to the index date.
Varicella vaccination status for both cases and controls was assessed retrospectively from the index date. The medical records of cases and controls were reviewed by a trained medical records abstractor who was blinded to varicella case status. The medical abstractor documented the dates of varicella vaccinations received and whether varicella immunizations were refused by parents for personal, nonmedical reasons. Children were classified as vaccine refusers if it was explicitly documented in the medical record that their parents had refused 1 or more varicella immunizations for personal, nonmedical reasons. Children were classified as vaccine acceptors if they were vaccinated against varicella at the index date. Cases and controls were excluded if they had a documented medical contraindication to vaccination (malignancy, human immunodeficiency virus or AIDS, systemic lupus erythematosus, cystic fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and patients receiving corticosteroids or intravenous immune globulin). Cases and controls were also excluded if the reason for lack of vaccination was not explicitly documented in medical records.
To estimate the association between vaccine refusal and varicella infection, we used conditional logistic regression to calculate matched odds ratios and associated 95% confidence intervals. In the regression model, the dependent variable was varicella case status and the main independent variable was vaccine refuser status. The matched odds ratio from the conditional logistic regression model was used to calculate the percentage of attributable risk in the vaccine refusers and the attributable risk in the total population.24
As a subanalysis, we ran a logistic regression model on the unmatched data, controlling for age, sex, and length of KPCO enrollment.
We identified a cohort of 86 993 children who were continuously enrolled in KPCO for a minimum of 6 months between 1998 and 2008. In this cohort, we identified 343 patients with an ICD-9 diagnostic code of varicella infection in the automated administrative databases. Three of these patients (0.9%) also had a positive IgG test for varicella. One hundred twenty-two patients (36%) were excluded because the diagnosis was for a history of varicella illness rather than an acute infection. We excluded 34 patients (10%) with a varicella diagnosis prior to their 1-year well-child visit. Nine cases (3%) were excluded because they were diagnosed by telephone only. We excluded 17 patients (5%) that were diagnosed within 14 days of varicella vaccination. Twenty-six unvaccinated cases (8%) were excluded because the reason for lack of vaccination was not documented in the medical records. Two additional patients (1%) were excluded because they had medical contraindications to varicella vaccination. This resulted in a final study population of 133 confirmed cases (39%). None of the confirmed incident cases were diagnosed with a positive laboratory test; they were all diagnosed by clinical evaluation. In the final case population, 7 (5%) had parents who refused all varicella immunizations.
The mean age of the cases was 3.9 years, and 55% were female (Table 1). The incidence rate of confirmed varicella cases did not vary by year or season (quarter of year). Most cases presented in the clinic or emergency department, and 1 case (0.8%) was hospitalized (Table 2). The most common complication was secondary bacterial infection, seen in 6% of children with varicella.
Of the 532 potential controls, we excluded 39 children (7%) who did not have immunization records because the reason for lack of vaccination was not documented in the medical records. This resulted in a final study population of 493 controls. The controls had similar sex and age distributions as the cases. In the final control population, 3 children (<1%) had parents who refused 1 or more varicella immunizations (Table 1).
Varicella vaccine refusal was strongly associated with medical record–verified varicella illness (odds ratio, 8.6; 95% confidence interval, 2.2-33.3; P = .004). The percentage of attributable risk in the vaccine refuser population was 99.4% (95% confidence interval, 97.2%-99.9%), suggesting that all 7 of the unvaccinated varicella cases were attributed to vaccine refusal. The total population attributable risk was 4.7% (95% confidence interval, 0.7%-8.5%), suggesting that 4.7% of the varicella cases in the total population were associated with vaccine refusal.
In an unmatched analysis, none of the matching variables (age, sex, length of medical plan enrollment) were statistically significant. The odds ratio for vaccine refusal in this subanalysis was 9.1 (95% confidence interval, 2.3-35.7).
Our study found a strong association between parental varicella vaccine refusal and the risk of medically attended childhood varicella disease. Compared with vaccine acceptors, children of vaccine-refusing parents had a 9-fold increased risk of varicella illness. Overall, 5% of varicella cases in the study population were attributed to vaccine refusal. We believe these results will be helpful to health care providers and parents when discussing decisions about immunizing children.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the relationship between vaccine refusal and the risk of varicella infection. Our study was conducted using individual-level clinical data on a well-defined cohort of children. We were able to minimize potential biases due to misclassification of exposure and outcome by validating both varicella vaccination status and varicella case status with a detailed medical record review.
Our results have important clinical implications. Universal immunization against varicella has significantly reduced rates of hospitalization and death due to varicella infection in children.18,25,26 Parents who refuse varicella immunizations place their children at risk for varicella infection requiring medical care when compared with fully vaccinated children. If the number of vaccine-refusing parents continues to increase across the US, it is likely that the incidence of severe varicella-associated complications will also increase over time.
High immunization rates help prevent the spread of varicella infection throughout the population, a concept known as herd immunity. Herd immunity provides protection to those who are at highest risk for severe varicella infection, including pregnant women, infants, persons with human immunodeficiency virus and other immunodeficiency disorders, those receiving chemotherapy, and patients treated with high-dose corticosteroids.23 Therefore, as rates of vaccine refusal increase, herd immunity wanes, and certain vulnerable populations will be at higher risk for severe varicella infection. In addition, because vaccine refusal in known to vary geographically, the associated risks for varicella infection are likely to be exacerbated in communities where vaccine refusal clusters.27
Routine varicella immunization has also led to substantial health care and societal cost savings.26,28 Prior to universal varicella immunization, varicella illness was responsible annually for more than $330 million in health care costs and more than $1.5 billion in societal costs. Since licensure, universal 2-dose immunization has reduced varicella-associated health care costs by 97% and societal costs by 98%. It is therefore likely that parents who refuse to vaccinate their children place added economic burden on our nation's health care system and society as a whole.
We would like to acknowledge several limitations of this study. First, our study population was selected from a single managed health care plan in Colorado, which may limit the generalizability of our findings. Kaiser Permanente Colorado, however, is a large integrated health care delivery system that broadly represents Colorado's population. Moreover, the rates of varicella infection and vaccine refusal in KPCO are similar to previously published estimates.11,29,30
Second, it is possible that physicians are more likely to make a diagnosis of varicella in children who are unvaccinated than in children who are vaccinated. This type of diagnostic bias would lead to an overestimate of the risk associated with vaccine refusal. However, breakthrough cases in vaccinated patients are common23,31; in our study, 95% of varicella cases were in children who were vaccinated against varicella. For this reason, we do not believe that a diagnostic bias had a substantial effect on our results.
Third, vaccine refusal in our case-control population was uncommon; there were only 10 vaccine refusers (1.6%) of the 626 cases and controls. As a consequence, we did not have sufficient statistical power to evaluate the association between vaccine refusal and varicella infection by year from 1998 to 2008. In addition, a case-control study design does not allow for the calculation of parental vaccine refusal rates over time.
Finally, we may have missed mild cases of varicella that did not come to medical attention. If a disproportionate number of these mild cases had been vaccinated, it could have led to an overestimate of the risk associated with vaccine refusal. Conversely, vaccine refuser cases may have been underrepresented in our study because parents who refuse vaccination may be less likely to bring their children to medical attention.32 This behavior would result in an underestimate of the effect of vaccine refusal on the risk of varicella infection.
Parental refusal of varicella vaccination has important clinical and economic implications for children and the broader community in which they live. Our results provide details about the individual-level risk of disease owing to the refusal of varicella vaccination, the most commonly refused of all childhood immunizations. We found that children of parents who refuse varicella vaccination are at a significantly increased risk of varicella infection requiring medical care. These results provide evidence to counter the misperception among some parents that unvaccinated children are not at risk for vaccine-preventable diseases. As vaccine refusal increases in the United States, health care providers are in a uniquely trusted position to influence immunization behavior. We believe this information will be useful to physicians who counsel patients about immunizations.
Correspondence: Jason M. Glanz, PhD, Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, PO Box 378066, Denver, CO 80237-8066 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: July 21, 2009.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Glanz, McClure, Daley, France, and Hambidge. Acquisition of data: Glanz and McClure. Analysis and interpretation of data: Glanz, McClure, Magid, Daley, and Hambidge. Drafting of the manuscript: Glanz, McClure, and Magid. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Daley, France, and Hambidge. Statistical analysis: Glanz and McClure. Obtained funding: Glanz and Hambidge. Study supervision: Glanz, Daley, France, and Hambidge.
Financial Disclosure: None reported.
Funding/Support: This study was supported in part by grant K01 AI073295 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and in part by Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research.
Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of Kaiser Permanente Colorado, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or the National Institutes of Health. The sponsor had no role in the preparation of this manuscript.
Additional Contributions: We thank Nicole Wagner, MPH, and Candido Chacon, BS, for their roles in data collection and medical record review.
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Loretta Schaefer, a floral designer and owner of Wean Florist in Kenmore, died Sunday in Williamsville Suburban Nursing Home. She was 92.
Born Loretta Ciecko in Buffalo, Miss Schaefer had worked at Dunlop Tire Co. in the early 1940s before joining Wean Florist, then located on Tacoma Avenue in Buffalo, as an apprentice in 1946.
She took classes to become a floral designer and, in the 1950s, moved with the business to its new location on Delaware Avenue in the Village of Kenmore, where she rose through the ranks to manager, vice president and president.
A prominent floral designer, Miss Schaefer designed at many floral shows across the country and worldwide with Teleflora, FTD [Florists' Transworld Delivery] and Florafax.
She also worked at several design schools and was a former president of the upstate unit of Teleflora, serving on its board of directors. In addition, she was a floral instructor for the Niagara Frontier Retail Florist Association.
Following the death of William Wean in 1972, Miss Schaefer succeeded him as owner of the business and operated it until she became ill in 2007.
Miss Schaefer was very active in the Zonta Club of Kenmore and was a former president of the Delaware-Sheridan Businessmen's Association.
She loved animals and contributed regularly to the SPCA Serving Erie County.
Survivors include two sisters, Julie Fremont and Eleanor Gajewski, and a brother, Richard Ciecko.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in St. Christopher Catholic Church, 2660 Niagara Falls Blvd., Town of Tonawanda.

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The Killers, a band with a new wave-esque British sound, will perform at Family Circle Magazine Stadium on Tuesday, Aug. 13., behind its latest release, "Battle Born."
The Killers
With a new wave-esque British sound, The Killers were originally passed over by labels in the States when they emerged in 2001. With the Las Vegas-based group's first single, "Mr. Brightside," finding footing overseas and then at home, the group quickly found their debut album "Hot Fuss" earning some serious air time. The indie rock quartet has since released three more albums, with sales nearing 20 million, and been nominated for seven Grammy Awards, among numerous others. The band is touring behind its latest release, "Battle Born."
When: Tuesday, gates open at 6:30 p.m. with the show starting at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Family Circle Magazine Stadium, 161 Seven Farms Drive, Daniel Island
Price: $25-$65
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Sawyer Brown and Little Texas
One of those rare instances where an act hit it big as a direct result of winning a TV talent show, Sawyer Brown has had a lucrative career for more than 30 years with only a few bumps along the way. Having performed more than 4,000 shows during that time and logging mileage well into the seven figures, the group is celebrating the release of its latest album, very appropriately titled "Travelin' Band."
Also performing will be Little Texas. With 15 Top 10 hits to their name, including "God Blessed Texas" and "What Might Have Been," expect to hear your favorites.
Wine, beer and other beverages, as well as food, will be available for purchase. Coolers, outside food or beverages and pets are not permitted.
When: Saturday, gates open at 6 p.m. with the show starting at 7 p.m.
Where: Boone Hall Plantation, 1235 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant
Price: $25 for general admission, $35.50 for VIP reserved seating, $275 for VIP reserved tables for eight
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Rob Delaney
Listed as one of the "funniest people on Twitter," comedian Rob Delaney keeps racking up the accolades. Comedy Central gave him the 2012 Comedy Award for Best Twitter while Variety named him among the 10 Comics to Watch the same year. Originally from Boston, Delaney regularly performs stand-up at the top comedy venues in Los Angeles, New York, and various clubs and theaters across the United States.
When: 8 p.m. Thursday
Where: Theatre 99, 280 Meeting St.
Price: $20
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Cheers to Breathing
Cystic fibrosis is a life-threatening genetic disease that affects approximately 30,000 people in the United States. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation-South Carolina Chapter aims to fund research and provide specialized medical care to improve the length and quality of life for those living with this disease. For the second year, the organization will gather for an afternoon of live music, food and beverages, a raffle, silent auction and more. All proceeds from the event will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
When: 4-7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Midtown Bar & Grill, 559 King St.
Price: $20
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USGA Championships Women's Amateur
One of the United States Golf Association's original three championships, the Women's Amateur is being held in South Carolina for the first time this year. The week-long event has been conducted since 1895 with only two exceptions, 1917-18 for World War I and 1942-45 for World War II. The championship had a starting field of 156 players, all of whom were competing for the Cox Trophy, the only USGA trophy donated by a person from another country and the oldest survivor among trophies for USGA championships. Spectators are encouraged to attend.
When: Through Sunday
Where: Country Club of Charleston, Country Club Drive
Price: Free
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'Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013'
Were you one of the lucky ones to be in the audience at Madison Square Garden in April for Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival? If not, your luck is changing as you live in a place where the guitar god will be making a special one-night appearance. OK, so it's not live, but it's the next best thing, right? The two-night festival was recorded and will be shown, complete with backstage access, at two local theaters. In addition to performances by Clapton, the show features John Mayer, Keith Richards, Keith Urban, the Allman Brothers Band, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Los Lobos, Warren Haynes and more.
When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Regal Charlestowne Square 18, 2401 Mall Drive in North Charleston and Regal Azalea Square Stadium 16, 215 Azalea Square Blvd. in Summerville
Price: $15
For more info: www.FathomEvents.com, www.ericclapton.com, www.crossroadsguitarfestival.com
Sawyer Brown (pictured), along with Little Texas, will perform at Boone Hall Plantation on Saturday.×
Little Texas (pictured), along with Sawyer Brown, will perform at Boone Hall Plantation on Saturday.×
Rob Delaney will perform Thursday at Theatre 99.×
Eric Clapton performs during the 2011 Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago. His 2013 show at Madison Square Gardens was recorded and will air at two local movie theaters on Tuesday.×


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Iranians Favor Diplomatic Relations With US But Have Little Trust in ObamaSeptember 19, 2009
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A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of Iranians finds that six in 10 favor restoration of diplomatic relations between their country and the United States, a stance that is directly at odds with the position the Iranian government has held for three decades. A similar number favor direct talks.
However, Iranians do not appear to share the international infatuation with Barack Obama. Only 16 percent say that have confidence in him to do the right thing in world affairs. This is lower than any of the 20 countries polled by WPO on this question in the spring. Despite his recent speech in Cairo, where Obama stressed that he respects Islam, only a quarter of Iranians are convinced he does. And three in four (77%) continue to have an unfavorable view of the United States government.
"While the majority of Iranian people are ready to do business with Obama, they show little trust in him," says Steven Kull, director of WPO.
At the same time, there are some signs of softening. Trust in Obama is three times higher than the 6 percent of Iranians who expressed confidence in George W. Bush in a 2008 WPO poll. Unfavorable views of the United States government are down 8 points from the 85 percent unfavorable views in 2008 (WPO).
On Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the survey finds that eight in 10 Iranians say they consider him to be the country's legitimate president. Ahmedinejad, who will visit the United States on Tuesday and address the UN General Assembly, was the focus of large-scale protests in Tehran after opposition supporters disputed the validity of his reelection in June.
WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO) conducted the poll of 1,003 Iranians across Iran between Aug. 27 and Sept. 10, 2009. Interviewing was conducted by a professional survey organization located outside Iran which used native Farsi speakers who telephoned into Iran (8 in 10 Iranian households have a telephone line). The margin of error is 3.1 percent. WPO, a collaborative project involving research centers from around the world, is managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland.
The Iranian government has opposed restoration of full diplomatic relations with the United States since 1979, when the Islamic Revolution toppled the US-backed regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and ties were severed over Iran's takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran.
However, WPO finds 63 percent of Iranians polled say they favor restoration of diplomatic ties. Only 27 percent are opposed.
Asked if they favor or oppose full, unconditional negotiations between the governments of the two countries, 60 percent say they do. Thirty percent are opposed.
Obama is not viewed warmly by most Iranians, the poll indicates. Some 71 percent have little or no confidence that Obama will do the right thing regarding world affairs. Many also question his attitude toward Islam, with 59 percent saying he does not respect the religion and just 25 percent saying he does.
Iranians show high levels of mistrust in the United States. Eight in ten say the United States seeks to weaken and divide the Muslim world (unchanged from 2008). Three in four say the United States has the goal of imposing American culture on Muslim society.
But there are also some positive signs. While most Iranians continue to believe that it is not really a goal of the United States to bring about an independent Palestinian state, the number believing that it is a goal has doubled from 12 to 25 percent--suggesting that Obama's efforts to stop Israeli settlements may be having some impact.
Also attitudes toward the American people are largely positive, with 51 percent of those polled expressing favorable feelings toward Americans (13 percent very favorable).
While one in four (26%) Iranians say they support attacks on US troops in neighboring Afghanistan (26%) half (49%) are opposed (41% strongly)--perhaps due in part to past friction between Iran and the Taliban.
Most Iranians express acceptance of the outcome of the Presidential election. Eighty-one percent say they consider Ahmadinejad to be Iran's legitimate president, and 62 percent say they have a lot of confidence in the declared election results, while 21 percent say they have some confidence. Just 13 percent say they do not have much confidence or no confidence in the results. In general, eight in 10 (81%) say they are satisfied with the process by which authorities are elected, but only half that number (40%) say they are very satisfied.
"The extremely high number of people refusing to answer questions about their voting preference--something not found in response to any other questions--suggests that people have some discomfort with this topic," says WPO's Kull. "Thus these findings on voting preference are not a solid basis for estimating the actual vote."
Eight in 10 say Ahmadinejad is honest but slightly less than half - 48 percent -- say he is very honest. Asked about the institutions that make up the government of the Islamic republic, large majorities express at least some confidence in major institutions. The president is viewed most favorably, with 84 percent of respondents expressing a lot (64%) of or some (20%) confidence.
Overall most Iranians express support for their current system of government. Nine in ten say they are satisfied with Iran's system of government, though only 41 percent say they are very satisfied. Six in ten approve of the system by which a body of religious scholars has the capacity to overturn laws they deem contrary to the Koran, while one in four express opposition. A modest majority (55%) says that the way the Supreme Leader is selected is consistent with the principles of democracy, though three-fifths say they are comfortable with the extent of his power.
Funding for this research was provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Calvert Foundation.
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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
April 5, 2013
Saint Vincent College Small Business Development Center will host Google Analytics Basics on Thursday, April 11 from 9 a.m. to noon at Saint Vincent College. Participants will learn how Google Analytics can help track website visitor information – how many visitors, content they're looking for, technical device used to view the site, keywords used to find the site or others like it, where, demographically, the viewers are located, and more. This program is designed to provide knowledge of how Google Analytics works and how it can be used to better market a business. It is targeted toward web designers, web analysts, online marketers and business people who want to learn more about how their website really works. The fee to attend is $40. Coffee/tea set up and light refreshments are included, as well as an optional one-year subscription (12 issues) to Inc. magazine, valued at $10. Joe Polk, technology specialist consultant, will present. Polk was previously senior technical specialist with PennTAP, web technology specialist with Marconi PLC and web developer with Management Science Associates in Pittsburgh. Saint Vincent College Small Business Development Center is part of a statewide system of university-based economic development organizations, whose mission is to provide high quality education and consulting to entrepreneurs, to help them start and grow their businesses in the competitive global economy. Early registration is recommended, as space is limited. To register or to obtain additional information, contact the Saint Vincent College SBDC at 724-537-4572.
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5 Most Disastrous Internet Beauty Tips (Tested)
Pinterest is the website embodiment of your high school's cheerleading squad, minus the mean girls and the dummies. Picture the beautiful cheerleaders who were also smart and also nice and would go out of their way to volunteer at the food bank while you couldn't be bothered to help your mom do the dishes. Or picture Mother Teresa, but hot. Either way, Pinterest is where perfect people post pictures of their perfect lives and the rest of us repin their perfection dozens of times a day. It's sick. Here's my page.
Among the Nutella and peanut butter milkshake recipes, inspirational quote macros, and hundreds of ways to distress your own furniture (my favorite is to tell it you're pregnant), Pinterest hosts thousands of tutorials for becoming beautiful. In one day, I tried all of them.
#5. Use Straw Curlers (to Look Like Napoleon Dynamite)
Before continuing, I suspect you already have questions. You're probably wondering: "Use straws to do what?" And "Why straw curlers?" And "Drinking straws or hay straw?" And "What's wrong with you?" My answers are "Curl your hair," "I don't know," "Drinking," and "I super don't know. I probably drink too much." All I can say is that, like an addict who tries a new drug just to see what it does to his body, I tried the drinking-straw hair curler tutorial just to see what would happen to my hair. The analogy especially works because when I took out the straws, my hair looked like each individual strand had been on a decade-long meth bender. But we'll get to that in a moment. Let's start with the tutorial itself.
According to the dozens of pictures I saw of this hair hack on Pinterest, it should have been easy. Before you go to bed, you divide your wet hair up into sections, wrap them around a straw, tie the straw in a knot, then go to sleep and wake up to a head full of curls. Yes, there was a 50 percent chance an errant straw end would gouge your or your lover's eye out in your sleep, but who are we kidding about lovers when you look like this:
Beauty hack or human/straw hybrid? You decide.
There were a few red flags I should have paid attention to before I tied plastic drink tubes into my hair. First, a lot of the tutorials were for African-American women, who have a different hair texture from mine. I'm pretty colorblind, so I missed that note the first go-around. (Thank you, '90s era United Color of Benetton ads.) Second, most of the Caucasian women who demonstrated the tutorial had really long hair, and mine is jowl-flap length. I'm pretty lengthblind, so I missed that red flag as well. What happened next will make your jaw drop (in fear).
There's good news and bad news. The good news is that the straw curlers really did curl hair, so that's a WIN for Pinterest. The bad news is that they already recast Annie and Quvenzhane Wallis got the part, so that's off the table for me. Which is a travesty, because I've been working on those songs longer than Quvenzhane's great-grandparents have been alive. Whatever. I'm over it. You know who else is over it? The one lock of hair that tried to make a run for it as soon as I took the straws out.
Approximately 30 seconds after taking the straws out of my hair, I realized something else: School wasn't out. School wasn't out, and I had to take a child to school about 15 minutes after taking the picture above. Good thing Pinterest teaches you how to fashion scarves into turbans! If only there was a Pinterest tutorial for how to conduct yourself during an emergency end-of-year parent-teacher conference while looking like a Gypsy.
Driving with a crystal ball balanced on your lap is harder than it looks.
I wasn't sure of the correct Gypsy accent, but Dracula always works in a pinch. "Vat is ze vinal grade in Englishsszzzzz?" I asked while tucking away the little runaway tendril and letting my sunglasses gently graze my chin bone. Keeping a straight face during the conference less than an hour after pulling straws out of my hair is how I ended up with my second Oscar. The first was for special effects. (It was me who did Star Wars.)
#4. Use Concealer to Conceal Your Humanity
Five minutes into the Hair and Beauty section of Pinterest, I find out that other girls are messing with their faces in ways previously only used at Cirque du Soleil and LA casting calls. They're using different colored makeup to contour their faces into perfection. I don't mean using dramatic eye shadow or lipstick to look fancy; I mean using different shades of flesh-colored cream to give the illusion of a skinnier face. Like this:
Stop being so hot, Pinterest.
Unless you live in a never-ending loop of tribal initiation rituals, you probably aren't seeing many women walking around with different colored lines on their faces. That's because the next step after applying the concealer is blending it in so the unsuspecting public never knows you're face-tricking them. My friend Katie Willert made the observation that once you've applied your makeup in this particular pattern, there's no reason to blend. After all, why bother with a skinnier face when you can shoot for LION? It's a great point, but once I put on the contouring makeup, I felt less like a lion and more like a clown melting in the sun.
On to the next parent-teacher conference!
Believe it or not, I've never streaked brown eye shadow down my neck in order to create the illusion of an hourglass neck before. That "blush" is also brown eye shadow. Those "eyes" are brown eye shadow. Everything is brown eye shadow, and color is an illusion. I am Lion, and nothing else matters.
#3. Use Baby Powder for Eyelashes (That Look Like Spiders)
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Once I rethought my stance on blending the white and brown streaks on my face, it was time to decorate my eyehair. If eyes are the windows to your soul, Pinterest eyes are windows that are wearing Las Vegas showgirls for curtains. Finding a subtle eye makeup tutorial on Pinterest is like finding subtle eye makeup on a pig's butt. Look all you want, but you're probably wasting your time. Speaking of butts, one of the cheapest hacks for getting fancy eyes is tangentially related to baby butts, but I'll get back to that after an explanation that leaves you feeling uncomfortable longer than necessary.
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Too late in the game for "Baby's Got Back" jokes, too desperate to stop myself.
Women who want thicker, more bangable eyelashes have a few options, each more horrific than the one before: eyelash serum, which could be nothing but semen in a tube, for all I know; false eyelashes, which require overcoming the fear of permanently gluing your eyes shut; or eyelash extensions, which are exactly what they sound like and cost more than a week's worth of groceries for a family of five. But according to Pinterest, there's another option for lush lashes: All you have to do is apply a powder usually reserved for baby butts to the hair surrounding your eyes! Dangerous? Maybe! Worth it? Probably not!
Never say I didn't put baby powder in my eyes for you.
According to the tutorial, all I had to do was put on a layer of mascara, then use a Q-Tip to apply a layer of baby powder to my lashes, then do the mascara again, so my eyelashes don't look like they're full of cocaine and that I'm the world's dumbest drug addict. The tutorials don't tell you to do that routine six more times, but I did anyway, just in case they meant to say "Repeat" but forgot. By the time I was done, my mascara wand was no longer able to penetrate the black jungle of tangled gunk that framed my eyeballs.
"For my next number, 'Here Comes the Story of the HAIRICANE,' by BOB Dylanfrizz."
For anyone keeping score, my hair was in revolt from both my scalp and nature itself, my face was semi-streaked with what could have passed for poop under the wrong lighting, and my eyes looked like they were surrounded by thousands of black caterpillars making love to spider legs. I never felt more beautiful.


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We all try to copy someone else. Don't tell me that you have never ever tried to copy someone's style, the way they dress, do their hair or the kind of clothes they wear. Look at celebrities for example. The salons were flooded the day Karthik calling Karthik's movie trailer got out. Everyone wanted Deepika Padukone's haircut in that movie. When it comes to guys, I am sure you would have seen many Ghajini's walking around, though not even one could pull the look off. We all have been wannabes at some point of our lives, though we could never come face to face with that fact.
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• 1962 – Nuclear Fuel Services Inc., a private corporation, reaches agreement with the federal Atomic Energy Commission and New York State to build a first-of-its-kind commercial nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant on a 3,300-acre site at West Valley in the Cattaraugus County Town of Ashford.
• 1966 – Reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel begins at West Valley. It results in the creation of 600,000 gallons of liquid high-level radioactive waste.
• Late 1960s – An unknown volume of nitric acid that contained radioactive fission products leaks from the acid recovery system, housed in the southwest corner of the main plant. The acid flows down the walls of the building, migrates into the sand and gravel underlying the plant, and eventually mixes with groundwater. It is believed to be the source of the existing radioactive strontium plume.
• 1972 – The reprocessing plant is shut down for modifications. Operations never resume after more rigorous federal standards for the nuclear industry are enacted.
• 1975 – Burial of radiological waste generated from hospitals, universities, industry and commercial nuclear power plants in the New York State Licensed Disposal Area at West Valley ceases. It marks the last time any wastes are brought to West Valley from off-site.
• 1980 – The West Valley Demonstration Project Act is passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in Niagara Falls. The act requires the solidification of high-level radioactive waste at the site as well as the development of permanent disposal containers and transport to a federal repository along with the disposal of low-level and other radioactive wastes and the decontamination and decommissioning of equipment and material used in the project there.
• 1985 – 625 spent fuel assemblies are shipped back to their original owners. The Department of Energy took title to the remaining 125 spent fuel assemblies and shipped them to Idaho in 2003.
• 1986 – Burial of radiological waste from the reprocessing plant in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Licensed Disposal Area ceases.
• 1988-95 – The high-level radioactive waste is pretreated to remove sodium salts and sulfates prior to vitrification. In all, 1.7 million gallons of liquid waste and sludge wash water are treated, producing 19,877 drums of cement-stabilized low-level waste. The drums of cemented waste are shipped off-site for disposal.
• 1995 – A "pump and treat" recovery system is installed to remove strontium from the western portion of the migrating plume heading in a northeasterly direction toward Franks Creek. In 1999, a pilot-scale permeable treatment wall is installed on the eastern portion of the site.
• 1996-2002 – Nearly all of West Valley's high-level liquid waste, 24 million curies, are transformed into glass in an innovative process known as vitrification in order to stabilize the materials. The molten glass is poured into 275 stainless steel cylinders where it solidifies into a hard, Pyrex-like glass. By comparison, the then-Soviet government estimated that 50 million curies escaped in the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
• 2004-05 – Operations to remotely process and package the high-level waste behind six-foot-thick concrete walls begin, and the cell where the vitrification process took place is dismantled.
• 2010 – A two-phase decommissioning and "long-term stewardship" Environmental Impact Statement for the West Valley site is published by the DOE. The first phase, estimated to take 10 years and $750 million to complete, is already in motion and includes relocating the 275 high-level waste canisters into a dry cask storage system with the demolition of structures on the site and continued shipping of low-level waste out West. That work would be followed by extensive soil-remediation work.
• December 2010 – An 860-foot-wall is installed along the site perimeter and proves effective in capturing the migrating strontium plume.
• 2012 – Contractors start demolishing "01-14 Building" formerly used during the vitrification process. Demolition expected to be finished in June 2013. More than 42,000 cubic feet of low-level waste shipped for disposal out West.
• 2013-15 – Preparatory facility modifications to be performed that will allow for removal of the 275 high-level waste canisters stored in the main process plant building.
• 2014 – Forecasted completion of off-site disposal for all "legacy waste."
• 2015-18 – The 275 vitrified high-level waste canisters, robotically packed five at a time into concrete casts, will be placed on an above-ground pad in preparation for future removal to a permanent federal repository.
• 2018-20 – Demolition of the site's main process plant building.
• 2020 – Final decisions to be reached about where the buried high-level waste tank farm – the emptied tanks that formerly held the liquid waste before vitrification – as well as the eight-acre NRC-licensed and 15-acre state-licensed disposal areas will be for the long-term future.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) � Santa Fe police Officer Jeff Worth treats his bicycle like a patrol car, and there�s no reason he shouldn�t. His Kona 27-speed mountain bike is equipped with a siren, flashing lights and an emergency kit. And his authority is the same. The charge for fleeing an officer is the same whether he�s on a bike or in a car.
While he certainly is not getting in high-speed chases or rushing across town, Worth said, as a bike officer, people are more willing to approach him, and that helps cut down on crime.
�If you take care of the little things, then the big things won�t happen,� he said.
Worth is one of two full-time bicycle officers in the Santa Fe Police Department. He and fellow Bike Officer Mike Lowe, with the aid of Pat Hernandez from the Albuquerque Police Department, have been training 11 new bicycle officers, two of whom will serve as full-time bike officers. Worth estimated the department has about 20 bike-trained officers already.
That request for more officers comes from Chief Ray Rael, who said he�s a big supporter of the program because �it�s an extremely useful way to increase our presence in troubled neighborhoods.�
Rael added that the unit can also patrol trails and crowded urban areas more effectively than other officers.
Lowe said he has received thanks from pedestrians while on his bike. He also added he can see things from his bike he might otherwise miss. �I believe in this unit quite a bit,� he said.
Of course, Lowe said, people do occasionally complain when on-duty cops ride through areas where bikes aren�t allowed, such as the Plaza.
Active patrol also includes stealth, Worth said. He described many incidents where he was in full uniform but was able to ride right up to someone committing a crime. One time, he said, he even busted two guys with a mobile meth lab in one of their backpacks.
Worth said, for some reason, people just don�t expect police officers to be on bicycles, which gives police an edge in some situations.
Worth also touted the green benefits of the bike patrol. True, bicycle officers do drive to their patrol area, but, barring emergencies, they probably won�t drive that vehicle until the end of the day, which saves gas.
On a recent Wednesday, the recruits went to Fort Marcy Park to practice slow-riding techniques. Training involves seemingly inconsequential activities, such as riding sidesaddle, and exercises that are supposed to increase control, Worth said. At the practice, such activities quickly escalated into sharp turns accompanied by screeching wheels and officers launching themselves from their bicycles.
Worth said anyone can ride fast, but it takes skill to ride through crowds, and it�s that ability that officers will use most at events such as Fiesta de Santa Fe and Indian Market.
Sgt. Thomas Grundler, one of the program�s administrators, said the schedule for bike officers varies from day to day. On busy days, officers probably will stick to their patrol cars, but on slower days, they may be able to go biking. He added that officers are encouraged to ride their bikes during personal time to maintain their skills.
As for Lowe, he�s been with the program for about a year. He said he originally got involved with it because he likes the community connection the program provides and he likes riding bicycles. Lowe already had his own bikes before he started, but he said he�s become even more active since then. In fact, he said he�s lost about 46 pounds since he started the program.
Riding can take a physical toll, Lowe admitted. He always wears his protective vest, which he described as cumbersome, but he said he would much prefer to have it instead of worrying about his safety. Worth added that officers are taught to pace themselves.
Consider, he said, if an officer bikes full speed to a crime, but then is too tired to do his job when he gets there. �He�s not much help then, is he?�
Worth said the city�s bicycle officers average about 25 miles a day on their bikes, in increments of a half-mile here, or five miles there. He also said not just anyone can be a bike officer. To qualify for the program, applicants must ride through an obstacle course under a set time and pass a written test on bicycle knowledge and road safety.
Ryan Alire-Maez and Nick Chavez passed those tests, though both said they hadn�t ridden bikes in a while. Chavez said he was drawn to the unit because it allows an officer to spend more time in the community. Alire-Maez echoed that sentiment and added that it definitely would be nice to stay active.
Seeing as the two are new, their bike skills aren�t as honed as Lowe�s or Worth�s. Although he hasn�t fallen yet, Chavez said, �It�s going to happen, so I try not to worry about it.�


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In the previous article, we considered how to ease the transition from manual to automated NGS sample preparation. In this article, however, we go one step further. We consider how to sustain the benefits of automation. The following considerations determine the success of automation in your laboratory.
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COLUMBIA South Carolina officials reached a $12 million agreement with credit-monitoring firm Experian outside of the normal regulations for state purchasing.
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Officials said there wasnt time to take formal bids for the service following the massive breach of an S.C. Department of Revenue database.
And Experian was best suited for the job, they said.
For the $12 million, Experian will provide a year of credit monitoring and lifetime credit-fraud resolution for up to 3.8 million taxpayers who had sensitive information in the database. The company also will provide monitoring for minors through a family program.
Officials said Experians work with another Cabinet agency breach earlier this year helped the company land the deal.
After records were improperly accessed at the Department of Health and Human Services in April, the health agency contracted with Experian to provide credit protection for almost a quarter-million Medicaid beneficiaries whose information had been improperly accessed.
That agreement cost the state about $750,000, according to HHS.
Rob Godfrey, spokesman for Gov. Nikki Haley, attributed the Experian-Revenue Department deal to the administrations pre-existing, positive relationship with the company through its work with HHS. He added that the company also was willing and able to provide services to taxpayers on an expedited timeline.
Revenue Department spokeswoman Samantha Cheek said the agency turned to Experian as it is one of the largest and most experienced credit bureaus.
The Haley administration reached an initial agreement with Experian just before officials announced the breach on Oct. 26.
The Secret Service had notified the state of the breach on Oct. 10. Negotiations continued, and the state and company reached an agreement that capped the states costs at $12 million.
Haley has claimed credit for negotiating the company down to that figure, and has said the credit-monitoring service could have cost the state more than $80 million.
The Revenue Department estimates the potential savings from the negotiation was lower: as much as $47 million.
Many taxpayers have complained about wait times for reaching Experian call-center representatives, with some saying they havent been able to reach a live person at all before being directed to visit a website and getting disconnected. The company has added more employees at the call center since the breach was first announced, according to the Revenue Department.
Haley has praised Experian and another company, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., which is providing monitoring to businesses at no cost to them or the state.
Experian and Dun & Bradstreet could not be any better in walking people through the process, she said during a recent stop in the Lowcountry.
The new deal with Experian didnt come about in the way most state contracts are struck: through a request for proposals from different companies.
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The emergency law can be used when there is immediate threat to public health, welfare, critical economy and efficiency, or safety under emergency conditions.
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Cheek said legal counsel hired by the state obtained pricing from two other companies, Citreas and Identity Force.
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HARRISBURG - A senate judiciary hearing to discuss the closing this year of two state prisons helped to raise awareness of the local impact area communities will face, but it may have achieved little in terms of changing the institutions' inevitable fate, legislators said Tuesday.
Two weeks ago, DOC officials announced that the State Correctional Institution in Cresson and the State Correctional Institution at Greensburg would close by June. Employees at SCI Cresson are still "shell shocked," said Sen. John Wozniak, D-Cambria.
Wozniak challenged Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel's assertion that the closures would be beneficial to the state.
"I asked him directly, 'Is this changing?' He said, 'Absolutely not,'" Wozniak said.
Wozniak attended the hearing after being granted special committee members privileges. State Rep. Gary Haluska, D-Patton, was also in attendance.
Both lawmakers criticized the announcement of the prison closures and the lack of transparency behind the move.
"I think it's gutless the way they're doing this. Gutless," Haluska said.
Corrections officials should have given the public advance warning or held public forums when the closures were first considered an option, Haluska said.
"These are major decisions in people's lives. ... I just don't think we've given them the proper time to make a proper decision," said Sen. Randy Vulakovich, R-Allegheny.
On Tuesday, Wetzel provided lawmakers with a packet of information collected by the department, including the state's projected prison inmate population, cost benefits of closing the two prisons and transferring inmates and collective bargaining agreements for employees, said Susan McNaughton, corrections spokeswoman.
Wetzel and the corrections contingent left the hearing immediately after presenting their testimony, Haluska said.
"They didn't have the courtesy to stay," Haluska said. "I can see they're really concerned."
McNaughton said individuals are free to leave after their portion of the hearing is concluded.
"He still has a system to run," McNaughton said.
She said Wetzel and corrections officials will work with the departments of Labor and Industry and General Services to visit the Cresson and Greensburg communities in an effort to help with the impact of the institutions' looming closures.
"[Wetzel] is planning to visit the two institutions in the near future," but no time frame has been established, McNaughton said.
About 800 employees at the two prisons are expected to lose their existing jobs when the prisons close. A pay freeze within the corrections department will allow employees to transfer to any facility, including newly-constructed SCI Benner in Centre County.
Employees had until Tuesday to request relocation to other state prisons.
Officials from the PA State Corrections Officers Association, the union which represents the prison guards, plan to hold a private meeting in Harrisburg to discuss their options, officials said Tuesday.
"Give these people some time. They need to figure it out," said Roy Pinto, president of the officers association.
The loss of the prison to the Cresson area would be hard-felt, Wozniak said.
"How about a little empathy for the people who are losing their jobs or have to travel 120 miles a day," to accept a position at a different prison, he added.
Wozniak said he remained hopeful the hearing "awakened" Wetzel to the various issues and hardships the community will face, but he added the state and corrections department have been less than willing to sit down with local legislators and discuss the closures.
He said DOC officials and Gov. Tom Corbett were invited to attend a community meeting at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 31 at the Cresson Volunteer Fire Department to discuss the local impact of the prison closure.
Haluska said he is holding out little hope of an appearance from the governor's office or corrections department.
"Our governor is just unbelievable, how little he's cared about this whole situation," Haluska said.
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"We've sold a lot of them but it's never been huge hit," Jobs said last week. How could we not agree: Apple TV wasn't a game changer for the living room. But hey, there are hundreds thousands of users completely satisfied with the existing ATV (according to the analysts, Apple might have sold 3 million Apple TV devices worldwide) and most of them never even thought of hacking this mysterious box! That's why here at Apple TV Hacks, we think Steve has figured it out very well: what the average customer wants from his/her HDTV in the living room is to play latest movies, popular TV shows, family vacation photo slideshow and maybe some music from time to time. We, geeks, need more, that's obvious, and that's why we are so disappointed with the new device. The only thing we can do now is to try to squeeze as much as we can out of this hockey puck when we put our hands on it sometime at the end of September.
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Rick A. Hoffbauer, age 44, of McCutchenville, died at 3 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at Mercy Tiffin Hospital.
He was born on Feb. 12, 1968, in Tiffin, to Paul J. Hoffbauer, Fostoria, and Judith R. (Zeigler) Von Blon, rural McCutchenville. Rick married Kelly A. (Wagner) on May 7, 1994, and she survives.
He is also survived by his two sons, Travis A. Hoffbauer, of McCutchenville, and Dylan A. Hoffbauer at home; his maternal grandmother, Virginia Zeigler, rural McCutchenville; one half sister, Joyce Gossard, Findlay; and two half brothers, Joe Hoffbauer, Findlay, and Ronald Hoffbauer, Fostoria.
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Rick owned his own construction company going by Hoffbauer Construction and Excavating. He also owned a driveway sealing business called Seal King. He was a 1987 graduate of Mohawk High School.
For hobbies, Rick liked to hunt and fish and ride his Harley Davidson motorcycle. He also loved to go camping at Lake Erie. His biggest passion was spring car racing and go-cart racing with his two sons at all the area race tracks like Attica, Fremont and Bellevue.
A memorial service for Rick will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at All Saints Catholic Church, New Riegel, with the Rev. Timothy Kummerer officiating. Burial will take place at a later date.
Visitation will be held on Thursday morning from 9 a.m. 11:30 a.m. at the church prior to the memorial service. A dinner will follow the service at the New Riegel American Legion. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Walton-Moore Funeral Home, Sycamore, Ohio.


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