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Bridge by Steve Becker

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If you play in events scored by International Match Points —mostly team contests — you know that at this form of scoring, overtricks or undertricks usually are of little consequence. The loss of an IMP here or there, it is said, will rarely make a difference in the outcome. Remarkably, within less than a half-year’s time, a single IMP or two proved to be the deciding factor in two major events. First, in 2003 the United States defeated Italy by just 1 IMP to win the world championship. Then, five months later, the outcome of the Vanderbilt championship was altered twice in the ...

Valley Grows Calendar

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Here are upcoming gardening events through the Ohio State University Extension Office. For more information and a complete list, contact: • OSU Mahoning County Extension Office, 490 S. Broad St., Canfield. 330-533-5538. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. • OSU Trumbull County Extension Office, 520 W. Main St. Suite 1, Cortland. 330-638-6783. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Plant and Pest Clinic You can submit your questions by calling the Mahoning County office at 330-533-5538 or emailing us at ...

The dial-up approach to improving your health

Lisa Resnick Column

Let me start by saying this: By no means should you take anything I say after this sentence as an absolute. I am not a doctor. I am not a dietitian. I am not a nutritionist. I am nothing more than an avid Googler, podcast listener and someone with my own experiences. That said, I think a lot about health. Probably because, like many of you, I’ve spent years trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Right now, we’re living in the world of GLP-1s. Whether you love them, hate them, are considering them, or are already using them, they have changed the conversation ...

Speaker recounts Holy Land pilgrimage

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CANFIELD — Millions of people visit the Holy Land each year. The most recent First Friday Club of Greater Youngstown speaker, George Beelen, PhD, discussed his pilgrimage there more than 10 years ago in his talk “Glimpses of the Holy Land.” “My wife, Betty, and I have traveled a ...

I wasn’t screaming. It was the Tarzan yell

Burton Cole column

I wanted to be Tarzan. In my youth, I studied all 24 Tarzan novels that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote. I practiced the language of the great apes (“mangani”). If I worked at it, I could yodel that Tarzan yell without it dissolving into fits of coughing. Only two things held me back from ...