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PG Replaces Current CEO with a Former CEO

CINCINNATI (AP) - Procter & Gamble says it is replacing CEO Bob McDonald with former CEO A.G. Lafley, effective immediately.Lafley, 65, served as CEO at the world's largest consumer goods maker from 2000 to 2009. He will also take the chairman title.McDonald, who has worked for P&G for 33 years, and became CEO after Lafley retired, will retire on June 30.Under McDonald, ...
Boy Scouts To Accept Gay Scouts

GRAPEVINE, Texas In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization. Gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout leaders.Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent ...
Kenwood Womans Club awards annual scholarships at lunch

Six high school seniors and two women received scholarships for college. From right to left are scholarship winners Nora and Ellen Molinaro of Mount Notre Dame High School, Ashley Schlissel of Indian Hill High School, Lynn Kendall of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and Alexis Teeters of Indian Hill High School. / Thanks to Dawn ...
Finneytown meets new school superintendent

Finneytown Local School District Superintendent Tyrone Olverson, 45, meets with Finneytown resident Bob Briggs, 86, during a meet and greet with the community at the Finneytown secondary campus. / Monica Boylson/The Community ...
Friends tie for first in Girls on the Run 5K

DELHI TWP. — Mady Nutter and Erica Schloemer had just yards to go to pass the finish line in the Girls on the Run 5K at Paul Brown Stadium. Exhausted the two knew they had to increase their speed to take first place in the girls ...

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Kagemusha [Blu-Ray]

By 1980, as he was entering the fifth decade of his career as a film director, Akira Kurosawa was probably best known outside of his native Japan for his samurai films, including Seven Samurai (1954), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo (1961), and Sanjuro (1962). W ... ...

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Rookie on the move

Tanner Hawkinson, the Bengals fifth-round pick, is a young man the Bengals are hurrying along the offensive line. Envisioning Hawkinson as the next Dave Lapham, he's working at left tackle and left guard this week as OTAs opened at Paul Brown Stadium."Being versatile is what he's going to be really good at," said Kyle Caskey, offensive line coach Paul Alexander's ...
CMHA looking for properties in Green Twp.

GREEN TWP. — The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority is searching for multifamily buildings available for sale in the ...
Colerain woman benefits from Repair Affair

Eva Taylor can get in and out of her Colerain Township home more easily thanks to the installation of a wheelchair ramp by a group of Northwest Community Church members volunteering through the People Working Cooperatively's Repair Affair. / ...
Test Program Would Allow Pilots To Text While Flying

An experiment is under way to see if pilots should be allowed to text while flying. Not to their friends, but back and forth with the control tower. It's a small experiment in the United States, but texting in the sky is widely used in other places. Local 12 news reporter Jeff Hirsh shows us how it works and why it may be coming to your flight. When pilots and air traffic controllers ...
Bob McDonald out as CEO at Procter Gamble

Bob McDonald is retiring from P&G after a 33 year career. Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co. is replacing CEO Bob McDonald with a familiar name. The company's board of directors has named A.G. Lafley as the new CEO and chairman of the consumer goods giant. Lafley returns to the job after an absence of about four years, having served as president and CEO from 2000 to 2009. We thank Bob ...

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Biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease uncovered

University of Cincinnati researchers have identified a number of biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which could help with earlier diagnosis and intervention in those who have not yet shown symptoms.

This finding was made possible by using the Department of Defense Serum Repository (DoDSR).

The DoDSR is a biological repository operated by the U.S. Department of Defense and contains over 50 million human serum specimens, collected primarily from applicants to and members of the U.S. uniformed services.

This discovery, the first of its kind and led by UC's Bruce Yacyshyn, MD, is being presented via podium presentation by staff from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Digestive Disease Week 2013, being held May 18-21 in Orlando, Fla.

"With collaborators from Walter Reed, we were able to identify all of the active duty service men and women who developed IBD and then used the repository to go back and look at various biomarkers to see what each person had in common," said Yacyshyn, a professor of medicine at the UC College of Medicine and UC Health gastroenterologist.

IBD is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine. The main types of IBD are Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis; inflammatory bowel diseases are considered autoimmune diseases in which the body's own immune system attacks elements of the digestive system. ...