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Welcome to National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day!
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 citizens of the United States who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harborin Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
On August 23, 1994, the United States Congress, by Pub.L. 103–308, designated December 7 of each year as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.[1] On Pearl Harbor Day, the American flag should be flown at half-staff until sunset to honor those who died as a result of the attack on U.S. Military and naval forces in Hawaii.[2]
Pearl Harbor Day is not a federal holiday – government offices, schools, and businesses do not close. Some organizations may hold special events in memory of those killed or injured at Pearl Harbor.[2]
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Syracuse football 2016 report card: Quarterbacks (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
While the Syracuse Orange went 4-8 for the second consecutive year, it was far from the same 4-8 the team saw in its final season under Scott Shafer. In Dino Babers’s first campaign, SU’s offense looked far more capable and the team looked more competitive overall. They also dealt with a boatload of injuries and a difficult schedule — both of which scuttled chances to improve in the win column this year.
Still, after what was an admittedly fun season, it’s worth looking back to see which units did well and which failed to, and how that impacted the Orange’s success or lack thereof.
We start with...
Quarterbacks
In 2015, Syracuse’s quarterbacks put up bad numbers, coupled with bad production. There was the promise of Eric Dungey, sure. And the big game heroics of Zack Mahoney, too. But the team’s passing offense was 117th in the nation, and the Orange were one of a handful of FBS squads to throw for less than 2,000 yards on the year.
Fast forward one year, and quite a lot has changed.
In eight games and a quarter before getting injured (again), Dungey had 2,679 passing yards, 293 rushing yards and 21 total touchdowns. He was completing nearly 65 percent of his passes and breaking/getting close to most of the school single-game records while seemingly improving by the week. The offense was improving with him as well, gradually picking up the pace, and even pulling off a major upset of Virginia Tech.
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Orange in the NFL: Week 13 (cuse.com)
The Orange football program features 10 alums who are on current NFL rosters. Here's a quick recap of how they fared during Week 13 of the 2016 season:
Jay Bromley, New York Giants
- Recorded a tackle in New York's 24-14 loss at Pittsburgh on Dec. 4.
Riley Dixon, Denver Broncos
- Punted 11 times for a career-high 506 yards (40.8 avg).
Dwight Freeney, Atlanta Falcons
- Played, but did not record a statistic in Atlanta's 29-28 loss vs. Kansas City.
Arthur Jones, Indianapolis Colts
- Registered two tackles in the Colts' 41-10 win against the New York Jets.
Chandler Jones, Arizona Cardinals
- Had two tackles in Arizona's 31-23 win against Washington.
Cameron Lynch, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Played, but did not record a statistic in the Bucs' 28-21 win in San Diego.
Ryan Nassib, New York Giants
- Did not play in New York's 24-14 loss at Pittsburgh.
- Backup quarterback behind 13-year veteran Eli Manning.
Justin Pugh, New York Giants
- Did not play in the Giants' 24-14 loss to Pittsburgh.
Andrew Tiller, San Francisco 49ers
- Played in San Francisco's 26-6 loss in Chicago on Dec. 4.
Shamarko Thomas, Pittsburgh Steelers
- Played in his first game since Nov. 6, recording a tackle, but left the game in the second quarter with an injury.
Other
Randy Yerden leads a high-tech CNY company that sounds like science fiction (PS; Linhorst)
When Randy Yerden describes his company, it sounds like science fiction. His company, BioSpherix Ltd., operates from a former school in Parish. BioSpherix's 40 employees - scientists, engineers, sales people and machine operators - design, make and sell cell incubation and processing systems.
The machines are shipped around the world and used to grow cells. Mostly, the machines are used by researchers. But sometimes the machines are put to clinical uses, and that's where Yerden expects business to grow. When a new organ is grown from a person's own stem cells and transplanted, the risk of rejection fades.
In Yerden's favorite example, documented in 2013 for an NBC television special entitled "A Leap of Faith," surgeons took stem cells from the bone marrow of a 2-year-old girl born without a trachea. They used one of BioSpherix's incubators to help grow the stem cells into a trachea and transplanted it in the girl. Yerden and two employees, Paula Goodnough Easton and Matt Freeman, helped it all unfold at a hospital in Illinois.
You actually grew a trachea?
Yeah, we grew the trachea in the machine that's right down the hall in our showroom.
The little girl was born without a trachea, without a windpipe. She lived her whole life with a tube down her throat. She had never been out of the intensive care unit. She had never tasted anything. She had never swallowed. She had never said a word.
It was a world-class, ground-breaking effort by the surgeons. The organ took a couple days to grow. The implant operation took nine hours. We saw the new trachea pulled out of our machine, taken to the operating room and sewed into the baby.
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