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"The work represents a first step in understanding how gene expression is affected by the environment. In this case, malnutrition resulted in changes in gene expression through epigenetic changes that could be potentially transferred down through the generations," says Dr. Roman. "The next steps would be to understand how these genes might affect lung function in these offspring and what other factors can influence these events."
The survey, conducted Dec. 4-7, finds that 51 percent of respondents think their situation has deteriorated, compared with 35 percent who say they’re doing better. The balance isn’t sure. Americans have grown more downbeat about the country’s future in just the last couple of months, the poll shows. The pessimism cuts across political parties and age groups, and is common to both sexes.
“It’s definitely different this year than it’s been,” says poll respondent Larry Deyo, a 38-year-old father of two in Marlton, New Jersey. “I can’t really do too much with spending.” He says he lost his job at a kitchen and bath design center when the company closed, and he’s now working at a Home Depot Inc. store with a “significant decrease” in pay.
It was President Ronald Reagan who popularized the question, “Are you better off or worse off than you were four years ago” in his 1980 campaign against Jimmy Carter.
Obama’s numbers in the poll, given the context of an economy that is struggling to recover from the longest recession since the Great Depression and the experience of past presidents, aren’t so bad.
As Reagan approached the end of his second year in office, his numbers were more negative than Obama’s in this survey. In an ABC News/Washington Post poll taken in Oct. 1982, 61 percent of Americans said things were worse and 33 percent said they had improved. Reagan won re-election in a landslide in 1984. In the final months of George W. Bush’s presidency, as the financial crisis intensified, Americans said by a 2-to-1 margin that their financial situation had deteriorated, compared with a year earlier.
Americans in the poll also oppose Republican lawmakers’ calls to extend tax cuts for upper-income Americans beyond the end of 2010. Obama reluctantly agreed to a two-year extension of those cuts as part of a compromise package that also retained breaks for the middle class.
Sixty-six percent say the nation is headed in the wrong direction. That’s up from 62 percent who felt that way in an October poll and is the worst reading since the Bloomberg National Poll began in September 2009.
Unemployment and jobs are the most important issue facing the country now, the poll finds. Fifty percent of those surveyed identified joblessness as their top concern, twice the number who chose the federal budget deficit and government spending.
Members of Obama’s Democratic Party are about evenly split on the question of whether they are doing better than two years ago. Republicans and political independents are more downbeat. More than 60 percent of Republicans say they’re doing worse under Obama. Just over 50 percent of political independents feel that way, compared with a third who say their situation has improved.
Obama, 49, inherited an economy in deep crisis. While it has started to recover -- showing 3.2 percent growth over the past year -- unemployment has remained high. Joblessness rose to a seven-month high of 9.8 percent in November, significantly above the 7.4 percent rate that prevailed in December 2008, the month before Obama was inaugurated.
The stock market has performed much better. The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index has risen more than 50 percent since Obama was sworn in Jan. 20, 2009.
“After looking at all the politicians and all the policies, they’re not geared toward Americans. They’re geared toward the corporations,” says Ken Cmar, a 45-year-old poll respondent residing in Crystal River, Florida.
He says his business aligning wheels on vehicles has shrunk as trucking companies and municipalities with bus fleets have cut back. “It’s that trickle-down economic thing and I’m at the wrong end,” Cmar says.
By age group, only the young -- those under 35, a core constituency for Obama in his presidential bid -- consider themselves better off than they were two years ago.
While Democrats and political independents agree that unemployment is the top issue, Republicans are about evenly split between jobs and the budget deficit, which totaled $1.29 trillion in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
On the tax cuts, the survey conducted before, during and after the negotiations between the White House and congressional Republicans this week, shows that only a third of Americans support keeping the lower rates for the highest earners.
Another third say they want only the tax cuts for the middle class to be extended, while more than a fourth say all the tax cuts should be allowed to expire Dec. 31, as scheduled.
The agreement Obama announced Dec. 6 would temporarily sustain the tax reductions for all income levels. The president said the compromise was needed to break a deadlock with Republicans who vowed to block tax cuts for middle-income Americans if those for individuals earning more than $200,000 and couples earning more than $250,000 weren’t extended, too.
The Bloomberg National survey of 1,000 U.S. adults has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
The CSA/Sea Pines Plantation security department has announced restricted areas for the Heritage golf tournament this week.
Drivers will be required to have hang tags in their vehicles to enter the following: Harbour Town area; Racquet Club; Heritage Villas; Stoney Creek area; St. Andrews Place; Planters Woods area; Gleneagle Green; Greenwood Forest; Heritage Woods area; Baynard Park Road; Marsh Drive and the Plantation Drive area.
The tags can be picked up from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the security office at 175 Greenwood Drive.
The incident, which rendered nearly half a dozen police personnel injured, took place at around 8 pm on Thursday, when the shift changes. The number of workers swelled by the time police reached the factory in Udyog Vihar.
A mob of hundreds of workers resorted to violence inside the Priyagold biscuit manufacturing unit at Surajpur in Greater Noida, and later pelted stones at police personnel, who arrived to intervene.
The company officials said that the mob was instigated by some outsiders, who were present at the spot.
“The workers were annoyed with some issue. They were alleging that some officer favoured another group. It was a non-issue, but they ransacked the office premises on the ground and first floors and broke all window glasses. They even misbehaved with top officials of the unit and manhandled other officers,” said DK Tyagi, general manager.
“I had left the unit by 6.30pm. When I returned I saw some outsiders pelting stones at our unit’s premises. They even pelted stones at the police personnel. We have about 700-800 workers, but we cannot identify who were actually involved in the violence. We are filing our complaint with the police,” Tyagi said.
Police reinforcements were summoned from nearby areas to control the rampaging mob.
Meanwhile, police officials said that they are scanning video recordings and CCTV footages of the unit to identify the protesters.
“We are trying to ascertain the number of injured policemen. Our initial assessment is that five to six personnel could be injured due to stone-pelting by the workers. We are in the process of lodging an FIR against them and will also register the complaint forwarded by the unit officials,” said Suniti, superintendent of police (rural).
Confidence in the UK’s financial services industry is falling at its fastest rate since the height of the 2008 crisis. Political uncertainty continues to “chip away” at the sector, threatening the City’s international standing, new research has claimed.
Headcount has also fallen across businesses, meaning that overall employment within the sector has hit its lowest level for four years in March, according to a survey from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and accountancy giant PwC. This is despite the UK’s historically low unemployment rate of 3.9pc.
Atlanta Councilman C.T. Martin (right) announced Tuesday that his campaign will return a controversial donation from a ballot committee with ties to Mayor Kasim Reed (center). Reed directed the committee to contribute to seven council members, six of whom have now said they will return the money or donate it to charity. Only councilwoman Cleta Winslow (left) has not answered the AJC’s questions about what her campaign will do with the money.
Atlanta city councilman C.T. Martin, who is trying to become the next council president, announced Tuesday that he will donate to charity a $2,600 contribution his campaign received from a controversial ballot committee with ties to Mayor Kasim Reed.
Citizens for Better Transportation 2016 is a ballot committee formed to campaign on behalf of a sales tax increase passed last year that will pay for transportation improvements in the city. The committee raised more than $1.2 million from major Atlanta businesses, but only spent half of those funds.
In June, Reed directed maximum contributions of $2,600 from the left-over transportation committee funds to seven council members who have been among his most loyal supporters.
The state ethics commission has said donations from the committee to council candidates are questionable, as state law clearly dictates that excess funds after an election should be returned to the donors proportionally, or given to a non-profit.
Martin,the long-standing District 10 representative, made his announcement after five of his colleagues on city council had already said they would either return the money or give it to a non-profit organization in their districts. The campaign contribution to Martin was not reported on his July or October disclosure filings.
Council members Michael Julian Bond, Carla Smith and Ivory Lee Young have said they are returning contributions to the transportation committee; Natalyn Archibong, Joyce Sheperd and now Martin are donating their contributions to charity.
Only councilwoman Cleta Winslow has not responded to the AJC’s questions about the transportation committee’s contribution to her campaign.
Martin said his donation will to go the non-profit Hosea Feed the Hungry, which provides meals to the homeless in the Atlanta-area.
The honored Class of 2019 for the Polk County Sports Hall of Fame are Jack Myers, Joe Nemechek, Mike Estridge, Herbert Dixon, Forest McKennie and Alan Mills.
For years, Jack Myers has been the one to vote others into the Polk County Sports Hall of Fame.
This year, he'll be joining it.
Myers, 61, joins five other members of the Polk County Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2019 who will be inducted during a ceremony at the RP Funding Center on June 11.
The other members include NASCAR driver Joe Nemechek, amateur golfer Mike Estridge, former professional golfer Herbert Dixon, former high school football coach Forest McKennie and former professional baseball player Alan Mills.
"It's pretty humbling, to be quite honest, and I'm honored," Myers said. "It never crossed my mind."
Myers is a graduate of Florida Southern College and lives in Auburndale. Myers had a hand in politics and sports, as he helped oversee the plans for the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex. Myers also served two terms on the Polk County Commission and served six years on the Auburndale City Commission.
Myers was quick to thank the many people who had a hand in helping him get the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex built.
"When you do work on those particular boards, you can never do anything by yourself," he said. "You have to have other commissioners to vote for the same thing you're proposing. I share this with a lot of other people that had the (same) vision."
Nemechek, 55, is perhaps the most well known name on this year's list of inductees.
Born in Lakeland, Nemechek began competitive racing at the age of 13 in motocross. When he switched to stock cars in 1986, his career really took off, winning titles and rookie of the year honors in three different series in three consecutive years.
Among Nemechek's biggest accomplishments are four career wins on NASCAR's main circuit with 62 top 10 finishes, the 1992 Busch Series (now XFinity) points champion and 16 career wins on the NASCAR XFinity circuit. He currently runs NEMCO Motorsports and fields a team in the Gander Outdoors Truck Series. Nemechek is also heavily involved in the racing career of his son John Hunter Nemecheck, who races on the XFinity Series.
"I'm proud of that accomplishment," Nemechek said. "It was a lot of hard work across the way to being a kid starting my racing career at Auburndale Speedway, going through the mini-stock ranks to super late models ... It's just been a very, very fun career. I got to meet a lot of good people along the way and the folks that we met, we still see a lot of them that were around during the initial racing days."
Mills, a Kathleen High graduate, spent 12 years in Major League Baseball as a relief pitcher with the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles. After his playing career was over, Mills, 52, returned to Polk County and was the head coach of the Kathleen baseball team from 2010 to 2012. He then returned to the majors as a pitching coach for the Orioles' minor league system before becoming the Orioles' bullpen coach in 2016."
"I don't give much thought to things like that," Mills said. "It never was a goal of mine. I'm grateful and very thankful. There are a lot of guys that are in there that I'm a fan of and I've watched over the years. To be included in that group ... I'm humbled being included in that group. I've been very fortunate to be around people that have helped me along the way. There's an enormous amount of people that have helped me become who I am today. I thank God for always surrounding me with good people."
Dixon is going in thanks to his contributions as a professional golfer at the height of the Jim Crow Era. He is still active on the links despite being 99-years-old.
This will be Dixon's third Hall of Fame induction. The Bartow native is also a member of the African American Golfers Hall of Fame and the World Golf Hall of Fame. Dixon has won more than 50 tournaments during his competitive career, including a professional victory in the United Golf Association Tour's stop in Jacksonville in 1951, for which he paid the entry fee by picking fruit.
Estridge, 70, is also no stranger to Polk County golfers either.
Another Bartow native, Estridge began his career at Mulberry High School, where he played basketball and golf. Estridge won the Youth Villa Classic seven times from 1967 to 1989 and won two consecutive Florida junior college state titles while he was at Polk State College. He was the team captain at the University of Florida.
"It's a great honor," Estridge said. "I've truly been blessed. I never really thought about it. I've always enjoyed my golf, I never made it (seem like) work."
McKennie, who died in 1975, is best remembered as the head football coach at Union Academy in Bartow. McKennie coached nine former professional football players, including Sam Silas, Jerry Simmons and Ken Riley in his 18 years at Union, retiring as the most successful football coach in the school's history with a record of 111-31.
"We were very happy that he has been chosen, and it's a very great honor for him to be chosen," McKennie's daughter Wylinda McKennie Johnson said. "We feel very happy about it. I'm excited, and all of us are excited and we think that he deserves it. It's a great accomplishment for him and we're very pleased, thankful and grateful to God that it has happened. We are most appreciative to the people on the committee for voting him into the Hall."
Use your scanner to create digital files of your images and documents.
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Documents that previously filled filing cabinets and took up precious office space can now be quickly and easily scanned into a computer system and retained in a digital format. Scanning clerks work to ensure that documents scanned in this way are accurate and the highest quality possible.
The main task of a scanning clerk is to produce digital copies of documents for retention purposes. The scanned copies of the documents need to be legible, otherwise they're of no use. So the scanning clerk manning the scanner needs to make any adjustments necessary for clean scans. Depending on the position, the scanning clerk might also be responsible for organizing scanned documents on various local, network and cloud storage devices.
The minimum requirement for most scanning clerk positions is a high school diploma or GED. Because most scanning clerk positions are entry level, a college degree is usually not required. However, in a competitive marketplace, an associate's degree in office administration or outside classes in document management or imaging programs will help increase your chances of landing a position.
Scanning clerks should be highly organized and well versed in various types of filing systems and methodologies. They should also be comfortable working with computers and computer storage systems. Scanning systems can range from a single computer with a flatbed scanner all the way up to document systems that scan hundreds of pages at one time.
Medical scanning clerks are specialized imaging technicians that work in the healthcare industry. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was enacted to help encourage the healthcare industry to start using electronic records for data retention and storage. Medical scanning clerks scan in patient records and maintain them in databases for hospitals, doctors and private care centers. HIPAA maintains stringent guidelines over these records. Among other things, these guidelines determine how documents must be stored electronically and how the hard copies must be destroyed.
McGinty, Nathan. "Scanning Clerk Job Description." Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/scanning-clerk-job-description-17002.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.
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LA HABRA HEIGHTS >> Members of oil opposition group Heights Oil Watch on Monday filed an initiative that would prohibit drilling of new wells for oil and gas, the reactivation of old wells, and create a ban on fracking.
Mike Hughes, the group’s president, said the measure is aimed at stopping Matrix Oil Company’s plan to drill for oil on an 18-acre parcel owned by Southern California Gas Company at 2490 Las Palomas Drive.
“We’re hoping that it makes them think a couple of times as to whether it’s really that feasible to start drilling out here,” Hughes said.
“We want to retain our rural environment, keep the public safe from trucks and keep our air quality as it is now,” he said.
Mike McCaskey, executive vice president for Matrix, said he still needs to finish reviewing the measure, but predicted there would be “legal consequences” for it.
“These types of initiatives deny rights to property owners,” McCaskey said.
Still, Matrix will just observe the process and not get involved, he said. “We will either respond to questions about it or help to identify what our project is,” McCaskey said. “We can’t get in the middle of this. This is something for the voters to decide if it gets enough signatures.
Council members said they also haven’t yet had a chance to read the full measure.
Heights Oil Watch members won’t be able to start collecting signatures for a while. Interim City Attorney John Brown must prepare a title and ballot summary and he expects that to be completed next week. Then, Heights Oil Watch must post notices in the city and local newspapers before they can get started.
While the group has 180 days to collect signatures, Hughes said the goal is to put the measure on the March 3 City Council election ballot. To do that, the group needs to submit signatures by the end of October, City Manager Shauna Clark said.
If Heights Oil Watch can’t get the measure on the March 3 ballot, the number of signatures they collect will determine when it would go to the voters.
Heights Oil Watch could collect signatures of as little 10 percent of the voters — an estimated 377 — but the city could wait until its next council election before putting it on the ballot.
If the group gets 15 percent or an estimated 565 signatures, the council would have to call a special election.
The measure would amend the city’s general plan and municipal code.
It would prohibit high-intensity oil drilling, such as the injection of water, steam, polymers, carbon dioxide, or other fluids and gases.
Banned would be the drilling of any new oil or gas wells as well as the reactivation of any idle wells.
A spokeswoman for a group supporting domestic oil production said the measure would hurt California by making it more reliant on imported oil.
“This is an arbitrary energy ban that goes beyond hydraulic fracturing and targets techniques used for decades in California,” said Sabrina Lockhart, spokeswoman for Californians for Energy Independence, a statewide coalition of oil companies, including Occidental Petroleum.
Jesse LoVerme, a board member for Heights Oil Watch said it doesn’t matter even if the techniques may have been used for decades.
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Hoarders seeking to sell their homes make notoriously difficult clients for real estate agents, but a clean-up service that caters to homeowners with the psychiatric condition may help agents uncover new opportunity in this segment of homesellers. Agents who join a referral network launched by clean-up and junk-removal service Address Our Mess can earn up to a $250 referral fee for sending customers the firm’s way.
Third party headsets are unusable on the Xbox One until Microsoft releases an adapter, which won't be until next year. Your Trittons, your Turtle Beaches, your Astros and Afterglows, forget it. Except one audiophile, a guy with a soldering gun and a purpose, wouldn't let it go.
Reader alsybub says he made his Xbox One compatible with his Tritton cans in about 15 minutes. "I simply opened up the headset connector, de-soldered the standard headset and soldered a 3.5 mm jack cable to the same points," he writes. "It looks like a product you might buy in a store, and it should work with any headset.
"It took around 15 minutes to complete."

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