By Denise Yost
Managing Editor, nbc4i.com
Published: January 13, 2009
CENTRAL OHIO—As snow fell Tuesday, Central Ohio residents prepared for an arctic blast later in the week.
Tuesday’s snowfall was familiar for residents in Knox County, where Storm Team 4 meteorologist Jym Ganahl predicted blizzard-like conditions Wednesday.
The area saw about 4 inches of snowfall over the past week and residents are eyeing the temperatures, wind and forecast, NBC 4‘s Marcus Thorpe reported.
Five trucks within the city of Mount Vernon will be spreading a 50/50 mix of salt and grit during 12-hour shifts.
The forecasted snowfall has not made area small business owners happy. They said diminished foot traffic and slumping sales is a recipe for more tough times.
Conversely, the weather is helping local hardware stores. The Do It Best shop in Centerburg ran out of rock salt and the push for shovels, scrapers, sand and other wintry items is only expected to increase in the coming days.
Businesses aren’t the only ones preparing for the wintry weather. School districts around Central Ohio are preparing families for a snow day. Wind chills are expected to be below zero, making it dangerous for students to stand outside and wait for their school bus or walk to school.
South-Western City Schools officials told NBC 4‘s Candice Lee that calling off school due to snow or cold temperatures begins at 2 a.m.
A team of administrators including the superintendent hit the roads looking at road conditions, snow levels, ice, and the wind chill.
“We have urban areas, we have suburban areas and we have rural areas. So the snow clearance in each of those areas is different as are the icy conditions, the wind conditions,“ said Sandy Nekoloff, of South-Western City Schools.
They also make sure buses will start and are able to pick up the 14,000 students that transport them to school.
Columbus City Schools spokesperson Jeff Warner said there is no state law mandating school cancellations and the decision is solely at the discretion of the superintendent. New Albany, Dublin and Westerville schools had similar policies to South-Western City Schools, but only Westerville City Schools has a statement concerning wind chills.
In a November letter to parents, Superintendent Dr. J. Daniel good explained that wind chills at or below -15 degrees during key walking and waiting-for-bus times are given special consideration.
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Everything below is very true except that distilled water has neutral PH which means it is not acidic.
*Subject:* Fw: Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins
**AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO
TRY (TRY THE KEY WORD) AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS
FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY. (A
PREVENTIVE WAY)**
**Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins *****
**1. Every person has ****cancer cells** in the body. These ****cancer cells** do not show up in the standard **** **Tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the ****cancer cells** because they have not reached the detectable size. ****
**2. ****Cancer cells** occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime ****
**3. When the person's immune system is strong the ****cancer cells** will be destroyed and prevented******From multiplying and forming tumors. ****
**4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These ****
**Could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors. ****
**5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.****
**6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing ****cancer cells** and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc., and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.****
**7. Radiation while destroying ****cancer cells** also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs. ****
**8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction. ****
**9 When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications. ****
**10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause ****cancer cells** tomutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause ****cancer cells** to spread to other sites. ****
**11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the ****cancer cells** by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply. **** CANCER CELLS** FEED ON:****
**a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the ***cancer cells**. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Splenda, Spoonful, etc. are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be raw honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or Celtic sea salt. ***
**b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in thegastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with raw milk ****cancer cells** are being starved. ****
c**. ****Cancer cells** thrive in an acid environment. Ameat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and alittle chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which areall harmful, especially to people with cancer. ****
**d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for bui lding healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C). ******
**e. Avoid coffee, tea, and processed chocolate, which have highcaffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it. Drink 8 or more glasses of water a day to help flush out the ******cancer cells**.*****
**12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup. ****
**13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of ****cancer cells** and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the ****cancer cells**. ****
**14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence,Essiac, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy ****cancer cells**. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell d eath, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.****
**15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful an d acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life. ****
**16. ****Cancer cells** cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy ****cancer cells**. ****
**(PLEASE FORWARD IT TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT) ****
**CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL, U S - PLEASE READ****
**1. No plastic containers in micro. ****
**2. No water bottles in freezer. ****
**3. No plastic wrap in microwave.****
Johns Hopkins** has recently sent this out in its newsletters.
This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well
*
**Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer. ****
**Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.***
**Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. *****Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us.. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. *****
**This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the
container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper . The dioxin problem is one of the reasons. ***
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
**This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.*****
Thanks Sylvia for the info!!!
By Denise Yost
Managing Editor, nbc4i.com
Published: January 13, 2009
COLUMBUS, Ohio—An announcement scheduled for Wednesday is expected to result in more than 200 new jobs for Central Ohioans.
According to Katy Delaney with Battelle, the announcement will be regarding an investment in infrastructure that will post productivity from the tech sector of Central Ohio.
Although officials are not yet announcing the exact amount of money that will be invested, Delaney said it will be more than $100 million in hopes of creating 200 new jobs.
The announcement was scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Mount Carmel Health System said it will eliminate 300 positions from its payroll. The cuts include an unspecified number of layoffs.
Claus von Zychlin, the hospital system's chief executive officer, called the cuts "painful" and blamed the bad economy.
"There's never a good way to do this," he said. "We're trying to be as good a citizen-partner as we can."
The jobs will be cut through attrition; consolidating some services that are currently offered its four Mount Carmel hospitals; transferring workers from the hospital to separate for-profit, joint ventures; and layoffs.
None of the targeted positions will affect patient care and come at all levels of the hospital system, including eliminating some management positions.
Von Zychlin would not give a break down of the affected jobs - where they are in the health system or how many workers will be unemployed by the end of February.
Affected employees were told in person beginning yesterday.
Healthcare had been seen as a recession-proof industry, but as the economy worsens, hospitals have seen a dip in patient volume as people put off elective procedures to save money.
And as more people lose their jobs across the workforce, the hospital charity care and bad debt are increasing.
"We don't have a count, but we definitely do know that there are a number of hospitals that are feeling the effects of the economic downturn," said Caroline Steinberg, vice president for trends analysis at the American Hospital Association.
"And some have ended up having to do staff layoffs."
Mount Carmel's decision to make cuts comes after hospital leaders reduced spending in other areas, including travel, supplies and vendor contracts.
Despite today's announcement, the 8,800-employee health system is financially sound, von Zychlin said. He expects the economy to get worse before it gets better.
"This is also more about what we see coming down the pike and there's nothing derailing this process in the next year, two years," he said. "The general economy has not hit rock (bottom) yet."
The health system operates four hospitals - Mount Carmel West and Mount Carmel East, both in Columbus; Mount Carmel St. Ann's, in Westerville; and the Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital in New Albany - as well as numerous outpatient facilities, urgent-care centers and medical offices.
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