Two geniuses in the field of electronics whose inventions changed pastimes the world over were born in August. One was television pioneer Philo Farnsworth, whose 1906 birthday is noted today. He conceived the idea of television broadcasting while still in high school and realized it at the age of 21. The other was Lee de Forest, a Yale Ph.D. in physics. He invented the three-element vacuum tube, a step toward creating radio. Holding hundreds of patents, he was a pioneer in not only radio and television, but also film, as he synchronized sound to the motion pictures. Over 217,000 Americans work in the thousands of radio and TV broadcasting establishments advanced by Farnsworth and de Forest. Profile America is in its 19th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Vance County in need
Vance County, north of Raleigh on the Virginia border, is the third-poorest county in North Carolina according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The State Bureau of Investigation reports the county has a crime index more than twice the state average.
Jerry Earnhardt, a regional director for Daymark, said a tool to measure the severity of mental illness in a region is the number of injectable medicines, used for serious thought disorders, given each week.
Compared to about 20 per week in Randolph County and 15 per week in Harnett County, Earnhardt said Daymark administers as many as 100 shots per week in Vance. Despite the challenges — Earnhardt pointed to a lack of public services and transportation in Henderson — coordinators are confident the program will be effective.
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from an article in N&O about mental health