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Pandemic leads to rise in Canada fatal drug overdoses
A homeless Canadian with a drug addiction, Luc Laplante has lost three friends—Dave, Emily and Pat—to opioid overdoses in the last three months of the coronavirus pandemic.
Partly to blame, he said, is a government emergency program that put temptation in the way of users by giving them a sudden cash infusion with few questions asked.
"People have been applying for the government COVID-19 aid, using it to binge on drugs and overdosing," he said, just hours after surviving a dangerously high dose of fentanyl himself.
It left him with a painful reminder: he fell while high, suffering a bloody scrape along the right side of his face.
Addicts and outreach workers say several factors have contributed to a surge in overdoses during the pandemic: physical isolation amid lockdowns, reduced access to addiction services such as safe injection sites, and shifts in health care resources from serving addicts to treating COVID-related illnesses.
'People went on benders'
The Trudeau government introduced a monthly Can$2,000 ($1,500) emergency benefit in March to help Canadians left jobless by the pandemic, as businesses were ordered closed to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The government simplified the application process to quickly funnel payments to Canadians in need.
Applicants are required only to answer a few questions and certify their veracity.
"With Can$2,000 in their pocket, people just went on benders," Laplante said.
"They had access to quick cash and it killed them."
The Ontario coroner estimates fatal overdoses have shot up by 25 percent in the last three months. In British Columbia, deaths increased by 40 percent over the same period last year.
Clusters of overdoses
"Tragically, other jurisdictions across the country are reporting similar trends," Canada's chief public health officer Theresa Tam said last month.
She pointed to "clusters of overdoses due to unknown or unusual mixes of toxic illicit substances" in several cities, including Toronto and Calgary.
Bonnie Henry, the chief public health officer in British Columbia, broke down in tears at a recent briefing while describing a record 170 overdose fatalities in May, more than the number of coronavirus deaths in the province.
"COVID-19 is not our only health crisis," Henry said.
Three safe injection sites in Ottawa's Lower Town neighborhood slashed in half the number of spaces available to drug users, in keeping with new social distancing rules.
As a result, some people have been using drugs and overdosing in the streets.
Outside a 'safe' site
An AFP journalist observed paramedics responding to several overdoses right outside a safe injection site.
Laplante, 37, a bent cigarette dangling from his lips and with dirt wedged beneath his fingernails, said he was alone in an empty parking lot when he shot up Monday night.
He said he was looking to relieve pain in his knee, aggravated by walking around in poor footwear while lugging all his worldly possessions in a large backpack.
It was a "stronger batch of drugs" than he was used to that did him in, he insisted.
Luckily for him, a passerby spotted him lying on the ground and alerted paramedics.
"They got me back on my feet and sent me on my way. I rested up and did more drugs," he said.
Anne Marie Hopkins of Ottawa Inner City Health said some of her clients had used payments to rent hotel rooms and died of an overdose—alone.
"It's very sad, and devastating for everyone involved," she told AFP.
"We were already dealing with a lot, with the opioid crisis, but we were making headway. And then the pandemic hit and it made things worse," she said.
A University of British Columbia study released Thursday found that a disproportionately high number of Canadians with mental health issues (59 percent versus 33 percent) had experienced a decline in their emotional, psychological and social well-being during the pandemic. Many have ended up homeless and addicted.
"People who were already experiencing mental health challenges and... marginalization appear to be the hardest hit," researcher Emily Jenkins said in a statement.
Hopkins said she fears people with drug addictions could suffer "severe withdrawal effects" when the government funds run out.
Too, some who had used the money for better housing could be back on the streets.
And if people are found to have wrongly tapped into the emergency benefit, the government might claw it back from future financial aid, she said.
"It's a frightening time for a lot of people already suffering from trauma in their lives," she said.
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Psychopathy by U.S. State
14 Pages Posted: 12 Jun 2018
See all articles by Ryan Murphy
Southern Methodist University (SMU)
Rentfrow et al. (2013) constructs a cross-section of the "Big Five" personality traits and demonstrates their relationship with outcomes variables for the continental United States and the District of Columbia. Hyatt et al. (Forthcoming) creates a means of describing psychopathy in terms of the Big Five personality traits. When these two findings are combined, a state-level estimate of psychopathy is produced. Among the typical predictions made regarding psychopathy, the variable with the closest univariate relationship with this new statistical aggregate is the percentage of the population in the state living in an urban area. There is not a clear univariate relationship with homicide rates.
Keywords: Psychopathy, Personality Psychology, Geographical Psychology, Big Five Personality Traits
JEL Classification: R19, D91
Murphy, Ryan, Psychopathy by U.S. State (May 26, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3185182 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3185182
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Former San Francisco DA taking on L.A. DA in battle over criminal justice reform
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The Los Angeles County district attorney's race is shaping up as the highest-profile 2020 local election in the nation with a criminal justice reform crusader resigning as San Francisco's DA so he can run against the Los Angeles DA who
San Jose mayor joins push to break up PG&E
Chris Reed October 24, 2019
The political pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Legislature and the California Public Utilities Commission to break up Pacific Gas & Electric has grown rapidly since PG&E ordered power outages from Oct. 9-12 that affected more than 2 million people
New law makes it easier for authorities to force troubled homeless into conservatorships
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Reflecting frustration over the fact that years of adding resources to fighting homelessness had brought little progress, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill making it significantly easier for authorities in three counties with 40 percent of California's population to
Potential break-up of PG&E looking less likely
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Eight months after the head of the California Public Utilities Commission suggested it was time for a radical shake-up of Pacific Gas & Electric, the state's largest power utility appears to be at much less risk of a hostile takeover
Gov. Newsom pushes for quick action on wildfire plan
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Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the Legislature to agree to sweeping reforms in wildfire liability rules by July 12, before lawmakers start a one-month recess. After first calling on legislative leaders to shape new policies to help investor-owned utilities deal with
Four voter-approved measures in legal limbo in San Francisco, Oakland
Chris Reed April 22, 2019
A confusing 2017 California Supreme Court ruling about the threshold of approval for local ballot measures that are qualified for the ballot through citizen-led signature-gathering efforts – as opposed to being placed before voters by local officeholders – is causing
Response to San Francisco car break-in epidemic faulted
In September, when the FBI released national crime statistics for 2017 that showed San Francisco had the highest rate of property crimes per capita of any of the 20 largest U.S. cities, officials were quick to say the problem was
San Francisco leaders seem overwhelmed by homeless crisis
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Not just Seattle: Tech backlash roils San Francisco politics
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The Seattle City Council's interest in imposing an unusual "head tax" on large employers based on their number of employees won international headlines this month after giant online retailer Amazon protested by freezing a plan to add 1 million square
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Woman who worked as a child psychologist turned out to be fraud, sentenced to prison
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A Virginia woman who pretended to be a psychologist and "treated" more than 100 patients was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison.
Sharonda Avery, 44, practiced for three years at the former Pediatric Partners for Attention and Learning in Stafford, where she worked under a licensed doctor, according to the Fredricksburg Free Lance-Star.
Over the years, Avery handed out fake diagnoses and prescriptions to her patients, primarily children, and testified in court as a medical expert.
"Your lies and misrepresentations were truly astounding," Judge Charles Sharp said during the sentencing hearing Friday. "I don't think I've ever seen a case in which non-violent acts caused so much damage."
Avery's attorney argued that she was suffering from mental health issues and had been off her medication, but prosecutor Greg Holt wrote her off as a "con artist."
"Real lives were changed and hurt by her," Holt said, according to the Free Lance-Star. "She not only stole money, she stole trust."
Avery was convicted of five counts of obtaining money by false pretenses, two counts of passing forged documents, perjury and practicing psychology without a license.
Sharp sentenced her to 46 years with all but 11 suspended, well above the recommended two years and three months, and called her actions "unforgivable."
"You undercut the whole system," Sharp said.
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Days from voting for Biden, Electoral College elector from Auburn dies
Cyrus Moulton
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AUBURN – Friends are mourning the death of Ronald R. Valerio, a longtime community leader, Worcester State booster, and Democratic Party stalwart who was set to cast his vote for President-elect Joe Biden as an elector on Monday.
Valerio, 68, died Tuesday after a brief hospitalization, said Bill Eddy, a friend.
"I'm devastated," said Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman Gus Bickford. "He's a dear friend – we've been active together for over 30 years – and he is really just an incredible individual who led with his values and worked very hard for Democrats up and down the ticket."
Bickford said an alternate will likely take Valerio's place.
"The (state) electors are meeting on Friday, where they will elect a replacement," Bickford said Wednesday.
Bickford said that when the 11 state electors were elected by the Democratic State Committee at the Aug. 8 meeting, two alternate electors were elected as well.
Although Bickford said any Democrat could technically be chosen to replace Valerio, "electors will likely choose from one of those two alternates to replace Ron."
Bickford said an alternate elector has not been used at least since 1992.
Bickford and Eddy both praised Valerio for his work as chairman of the MassDems Site Selection Committee, and bringing the state Ddemocratic convention to Worcester.
"He has been an incredible ambassador for the city of Worcester," Bickford said. "He was just always such an incredible force."
Friend John Brissette, who worked with Valerio on both boards at Worcester State as well as in the Democratic Party, agreed.
"He's just a kind-hearted, good man," Brissette said.
"Ron was as kind and decent a man as they come," said Eddy, a fellow Democrat who worked with Valerio on various area boards and committees for more than 25 years. "He was raised with a sense of decency and caring for his common man, and those qualities made Ron want to help."
Valerio grew up in Main South and attended Worcester State University, graduating in 1975. He was dedicated to the school in his adult life, serving on the university's alumni association's advisory board for nearly two decades, including time as the board's leader, before being appointed to the board of trustees. He served as chairman of the board of trustees between 2014-16.
"Under Valerio's able and savvy guidance, especially interfacing with state officials, we completed a 10-year, $200-million-dollar investment in new and renovated facilities that transformed the campus, adding a new residence hall and wellness center," Worcester State University President Barry M. Maloney said in a statement. "We also greatly improved our graduation and retention rates and invested in hiring full-time faculty. An untold number of past, present, and future students have and will benefit from Ron's legacy."
Maloney, who noted that Valerio oversaw the search committee that hired him as president, also looked to Valerio as a mentor.
"Personally, Ron was a great mentor who saw things in me I didn't necessarily see in myself, and a supporter who readily and publicly supported me," Maloney continued. "He was a kind and generous person who sustained university leaders through some difficult situations. He will be missed by all who knew him and his impact felt by so many who never had the pleasure of knowing him."
Valerio, a successful businessman with UFP Technologies in Georgetown, was also very involved in Democratic politics, an involvement which was to have culminated in casting his vote as a state elector for Biden on Monday.


It's never a good idea to miss a concert from this British vocal ensemble: There are no finer singers of early music.
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Biden and Japan's Suga project unity against China's assertiveness
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The talks offered the Democratic president, inaugurated in January, a chance to work further on his pledge to revitalize US alliances that frayed under his Republican predecessor Donald Trump
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden hold a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 16, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
President Joe Biden on Friday sought to present a united front with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to counter an increasingly assertive China as the US leader held his first face-to-face White House summit since taking office.
The talks offered the Democratic president, inaugurated in January, a chance to work further on his pledge to revitalize US alliances that frayed under his Republican predecessor Donald Trump.
China topped the agenda, underscoring Japan's central role in US efforts to face down Beijing. The two leaders addressed an array of geopolitical issues, including Taiwan, with Suga saying they reaffirmed "the importance of peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait," a slap at Beijing's increased military pressure on the Chinese-claimed, self-ruled island.
"Today Prime Minister Suga and I affirmed our ironclad support for the US-Japanese alliance and for our shared security," Biden told a joint news conference in the White House Rose Garden, calling the discussions "productive."
"We committed to working together to take on the challenges from China and on issues like the East China Sea, the South China Sea, as well as North Korea, to ensure a future of a free and open Indo Pacific."
Other pressing concerns at the talks included China's increased military movements near Taiwan, its tightening grip on Hong Kong and its crackdown on Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang.
Suga said he and Biden agreed on the necessity of frank discussions with China in the context of Beijing's activities in the Indo-Pacific region.
The summit - Biden's first in-person meeting with a foreign leader as president - came just days after China sent 25 aircraft, including fighters and nuclear-capable bombers, near Taiwan, which Beijing considers a wayward province.
"I refrain from mentioning details, since it pertains to diplomatic exchanges, but there is already an agreed recognition over the importance of peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait between Japan and the United States, which was reaffirmed on this occasion," Suga said.
In a joint statement, the leaders said they underscored "the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and encourage the peaceful resolution of cross-Strait issues", similar phrasing used by the foreign and defense ministers of both countries following a meeting last month.
It was the first such reference to the issue in a US-Japan leaders' statement since 1969, before Tokyo normalized ties with Beijing. Attention had been focused on wording on the topic, given caution in Tokyo about the need to balance its security concerns with Japan's deep economic ties with China.
Digital Competitiveness, Human Rights
In another swipe at China, Biden told the news conference the United States and Japan will invest together in areas such as 5G, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, genomics and semiconductor supply chains.
The joint statement said the United States had committed $2.5 billion and Japan $2 billion to strengthen digital competitiveness including in 5G and beyond 5G networks.
"Japan and the United States are both deeply invested in innovation and looking to the future," Biden said. "That includes making sure we invest in and protect technologies that will maintain and sharpen our competitive edge."
China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said China has expressed solemn concern about "collusion" between Japan and the United States, and the countries should take China's concerns seriously.
Speaking later to a Washington think tank, Suga said Japan would say what is needed to be said to China and speak up on human rights, while also stressing the need to establish a stable, constructive relationship with Beijing.
The leaders' statement said they "share serious concerns" about the human rights situation in Hong Kong and China's Xinjiang region, where Washington has said Beijing is perpetrating a genocide against Muslim Uighurs. China has denied abuses.
Japan has been criticised for not taking stronger action on alleged human rights abuses for fear of a backlash that could hurt its firms with business in China, its biggest trade partner.
At the White House news conference, Suga said he told Biden that he was committed to moving forward with the summer Olympic Games in Japan and that Biden offered his support. Japan is grappling with rising coronavirus infections with fewer than 100 days until the planned start.
"I told the president about my determination to realize the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games this summer as a symbol of global unity," Suga said.
As they sat down for talks, Biden, Suga and their two delegations all wore masks, in keeping with protocols to protect against the spread of COVID-19.
Biden appeared determined to get off on the right foot with Suga after four years in which Trump sometimes chastised allies in Asia and elsewhere over what he saw as insufficient defense spending or funding for US troop presence and questioned the value of bedrock military alliances.
With the Suga meeting and another planned summit with South Korea in May, Biden hopes to energize joint efforts with Australia, India and Japan in a grouping known as the Quad, as well as with South Korea, to counter China and longtime US foe North Korea.
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Medicare indeed has serious problems (and conservative congressmen and corporate media aren't helping solve them), but Social Security's troubles are relatively minor. The Republican Party and its allies, who opposed Social Security from its beginning in the 1930s, try to spook people into believing otherwise. To them, the huge success of this grand government-run social welfare program is a continuing rebuke.
To begin with, the dismal projections for Social Security are based on assumptions about economic growth that some economists believe are too conservative. If more optimistic — some say "realistic" — figures are used, the Social Security "crisis" is put off for another 75 years or so. Even if the system needs work now, it's only minor tinkering. Raise the ceiling slightly on the amount of yearly wages subject to the Social Security tax (the ceiling is now a little over $100,000), and the system will be fit.
As we said, Medicare does need help, and one of the best ways to help it is to restrain the runaway cost of health care. One way to do that is to establish the government-run health-care program that President Obama proposes, so that the government can use its purchasing power to drive prices down. The Arkansas congressional delegation ought to pitch in and help, of course. This is not a time for Blue Doggery.
We've said before — perhaps more than once — that Mike Huckabee is not so bad when he can be kept away from Republicans. He was insulated from their influence to a great extent while governing Arkansas, but it appears he's fallen deeply into their clutches as a would-be presidential candidate. The almost-moderate, nearly-tolerable Huckabee may never be seen again. Lately he's been touring the country urging Republicans to stay on the Far Right, warning against what he calls the "mushy middle." Extremism in pursuit of political ambition is no vice, he's decided. Had the younger Huckabee followed the advice he's now giving, he'd never have been elected governor.


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We only have ~20 games worth of data (and for some players, even less). As a result, the models have higher variance – both in terms of puck movement factor (PMF) and quality of competition they face (QoC). Still, the output provides a strong "ballpark" for their performance to date.
As a reminder, our PMF metric measures a defenseman's ability to drive possession and help their players generate scoring chances. The numbers cannot be directly compared with each other: quality of competition that they face needs to be considered…(take us to point 3).
We layer in QoC on the Y-Axis. This indicates the level of competition a player faces and is a function of opponent corsi %, goals and primary assists per 60, and TOI per gp, weighted by the time they face each opposing forward. I wouldn't conclude from the above chart that Carlo or McAvoy certainly play tougher minutes than Krug. Their QoC scores are in the same range. But you can conclude that Chara is deployed against toughest opposition whereas Kevin Miller and O'Gara are the third pairing who are "sheltered" by the coaching staff.
+ Charlie McAvoy (PMF + 1.87) is having a tremendous season. He spends most of his time on the top pairing with Chara and has been excellent at driving possession, moving the puck from the d-zone, and making life easier for the forwards he plays with, despite facing above average competition (often paired with Chara on top pairing).
+ Torrey Krug (PMF +3.66) has the strongest puck movement factor score among all Bruins defensemen. This should come as little surprise: Krug is a prototypical, modern-day defenseman who displays excellent puck skills, strong vision, and top notch skating ability. He does play 5v5 on the second pairing and is usually shielded from facing the top opposing lines.
+ Brandon Carlo (PMF -3.42) has struggled as a puck mover while playing 2nd pairing minutes.
+ Charlie McAvoy has been impressive through 16 games for the Bruins.
+ Torrey Krug continues to show he's an excellent defenseman, suited for today's fast paced game.
+ Marchard – Bergeron – Pastrnak remain one of the most dangerous top lines in the leagues.
As Chara needs retirement, the Bruins need a new "face" for their d-corps. If McAvoy continues to develop, he just might be that guy.


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Megan Rapinoe on deadly Capitol attack: 'This was about holding up white supremacy'
Doug McIntyre
Megan Rapinoe is back with the United States women's national team for the first time since the pandemic hit last March — and for the first time since a violent mob of President Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C. while lawmakers were confirming President-elect Joe Biden's victory, leaving five people dead.
So it was no wonder that when Rapinoe, an outspoken critic of Trump, was made available to national media on a Zoom call on Tuesday, reporters wanted her take on the riots. Rapinoe obliged.
"As I think it sets in almost a week out from January 6, which will certainly and rightfully so live on in the echoes of American history forever, it's just striking how horrible it was and how insane it was," she said in response to the first question she received.
"A white supremacist mob is nothing new to America as people of color, Black and brown, know very well. All the calls for unity moving forward obviously cannot come without justice. If we don't punish this and investigate this to the fullest extent, it only encourages more of this to happen."
Megan Rapinoe spoke out on President Donald Trump and last week's storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. (Photo by Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)
Rapinoe noted that the deadly rampage could've been even worse had the insurrectionists come face to face with elected officials who were forced to shelter in offices. On videos of the incident, rioters were heard calling out for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence by name.
"We should not underestimate what could have happened. I think that we are very lucky that that officer led them away from the Senate hall," Rapinoe said, referring to the actions of Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman, who has been credited for saving lives. "I mean we saw people with weapons, and people with zip ties. They put up a gallows outside where they were chanting to hang the vice president of the United States.
"We should make no mistake about what the intent was behind it," she added. "And it was a murderous moment. I mean, five people are dead and we can't bring them back. So this week certainly will be hugely consequential in the history of our country. Just from a personal standpoint, it's very unsettling and scary."
Rapinoe then called out the Republican lawmakers who, despite the fear that they and their Democratic colleagues had been subjected to just hours earlier, still objected to Biden's win, which Trump baselessly dismissed as fraudulent even though his own Justice Department and Republican election officials around the country have called it the most secure and scrutinized election in U.S. history.
"The utter bottomlessness for some of these lawmakers to continue incite violence, and still call for overturning the election when the mandates have been given by the United States and by the people of the United States, is just absolutely insane and they should be held accountable," she said.
"Hopefully this is the last layer that we needed to rip off, although it's been abundantly clear for a number of hundred years what the real issue is. This was about white supremacy, and holding up white supremacy, and I hope that we can see this and move forward with justice. I think that's the only way that we can actually move forward. I think it's all out in the open, it's all stripped bare, and so hopefully the lawmakers will have the courage to do what needs to be done and every day citizens as well."
Before her virtual media availability ended, Rapinoe also answered a question about the Trump supporter returning from Washington wearing a USWNT sweatshirt, whose photo was shared widely on social media by women's soccer fans.
"I feel like I can probably speak on behalf of a lot of my teammates," Rapinoe said. "That is not the kind of fan that we will welcome. The U.S. crest is not to be confused with anything that has to do with white supremacy, anything that has to do with the Trump administration, anything that has to do with that divisive culture that we saw on the Capitol.
"I saw the picture," she added. "We want to create, and continue to create, a place that is inclusive and safe and diverse for our fans and for our players to play in front of and for people to watch on TV and for the media to cover.
"So don't bring that bulls*** here."
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Malicious damage on Middlesex Road: At 9:35 a.m. a caller reported that on Sunday morning a young male tipped over a concrete planter and a concrete bench.
Graffiti on Monmouth Street: At 12:35 p.m. a caller reported graffiti on a fence.
Suspicious activity on Summit Avenue: At 4:01 p.m. a woman reported that at around 2:40 p.m. a man approached her 13-year-old daughter and two friends and began asking them questions. He then followed them around the Washington Square area and kept trying to talk to them.
Confused raccoon on Middlesex Road: At 12:43 p.m. a caller reported a raccoon was sitting in the middle of Middlesex Road and Reservoir Road and seemed confused.
Robe theft on Kent Street: At 6:03 p.m. a caller reported that a neighbor had stolen her robe out of the dryer in the laundry room. The caller suspected an elderly woman who lives in another unit.
Break and enter on Ivy Street: At 11:05 a.m. a caller reported that some time since the previous Wednesday, a TV was taken and drawers had been gone through.
Suspicious person on Brook Street: At 6:39 p.m. a caller reported that a man approached her outside of an apartment building. He had been talking to people passing on the street and said that he was locked out and also asked how much apartments cost. The caller said the man was sitting on the building's stoop at the time of her call.
Missing car on Lancaster Terrace: At 10:04 p.m. a caller reported that he could not find his car which he had parked at Lancaster Terrace and York Terrace. He said the car was not in the spot where he had parked it.
Suspicious people on Thornton Road: At 10:10 p.m. a caller reported suspicious people with wrenches. The caller believed the people were either trying to break into a vehicle or fix it.
Vehicle theft on Francis Street: At 7:28 a.m. a caller reported that a car had been taken from a driveway some time since 9 p.m.
Malicious damage on Beverly Road: At 9:29 a.m. a caller reported that someone drove a truck onto a lawn overnight, causing damage.
Theft from St. Mary of the Assumption: At 1:06 p.m. a caller reported that during the 12:10 p.m. Mass, a man got up as if to go to the restroom but instead went into the sacristy, where he went through items and then walked out of the church.
Suspicious man on Eliot Street: At 2:46 p.m. a caller reported a young man who walked down Eliot Crescent to Eliot Street, then to Rout 9 and then appeared to circle back. The caller said he seemed to be "casing the joint." The caller described the man as white, in his 20s, slender, 6 feet and wearing a gray hoodie, an orange shirt and baggy pants.
Youths on Highland Road: At 5:48 p.m. a caller reported that at least two children were throwing rocks at cars. The caller said a rock hit her windshield.
Off-leash dogs in Coolidge Park: At 9:06 p.m. a caller reported six dogs off-leash.
Moped theft on Summit Avenue: At 1:27 p.m. a caller reported a moped had been taken and was last seen the night before.
Suspicious man at Billy Ward Park: At 5:06 p.m. a caller reported that a man was taking pictures of children in the park and when the caller asked him not to take a picture of her son, he did it anyway.
Graffiti on St. Marys Street: At 5:07 a.m. a caller reported getting to work at Encore Realty and finding graffiti on the side of the building.
Off-leash dogs in Coolidge Park: At 9:22 a.m. police received a report of three dogs off-leash.
Turkeys at Lawrence School playground: At 11:19 a.m. a caller reported that a flock of turkeys had been separated behind the tennis courts. The caller said that one turkey could not figure out how to reunite with the family on the other side of the fence and all the turkeys were pacing back and forth.
Larceny on Royal Road: At 11:03 p.m. a caller reported that multiple laptops and books had been stolen during the past two hours.
Group gathering on Boylston Street: At 6:03 a.m. police received a report of a group gathering outside of a Boylston Street building for an unknown purpose.
Blue jay on Allandale Road: At 1:07 p.m. a caller reported a blue jay appeared ill and had not moved "for hours." The caller said the bird was near the farm stand and that lots of people had been touching it.


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May 28, 2022 May 28, 2022 2 min read David Grimes
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of a galaxy that's over twice the size of our Milky Way.
According to NASA, the gigantic elliptical galaxy (dubbed NGC 474) sits about 100 million light-years from Earth, toward the constellation of Pisces. And its size stretches almost 250,000 light-years across – which is 2.5 times larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. Last week, NASA released a rare, close-up view of NGC 474's central region, captured by the Hubble telescope's "superb sharp eye."
"Images like this are showing the complexity and activity of galaxies." Hubble's senior project scientist Dr. Jennifer Wiseman told USA TODAY in an emailed statement. In addition to its massive size, NGC 474 is unique because it has a series of complex, layered shells of dust and gas that surround its core. How exactly the shells formed is still unknown, but astronomers believe that they may have resulted from the galaxy absorbing one or more smaller galaxies over time.
Thanks to the Hubble telescope, Wiseman explained, astronomers know that galaxies have frequently merged with their neighbors by mutual gravitational pulls throughout cosmic history. And the long merger process, which can take billions of years, creates a much larger merged galaxy and often sparks a "frenzy of star formation as gas within the region is stirred up and compressed." While NGC 474 is an elliptical galaxy (and among the only 10% of elliptical galaxies with shell structures), numerous types of modern galaxies are also the products of previous mergers. Our spiral Milky Way, for example, experienced mergers but ended in a different structure.
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, "The rumors of Desert Lake County Club's death have been greatly exaggerated." For months, rumors have circulated that things at DLCC were in disarray. Would it stay open? Would it still hold NSCA-registered events? Was this year's Desert Lake Classic still on? I'm happy to report the answer to all three questions is a resounding "yes."
Located in Boulder City, Nevada, Desert Lake is a welcome reprieve from the crowds, bright lights and congestion of nearby Las Vegas. With its desert terrain, arid valleys and dry washes, the club is able to create some unique target presentations not normally associated with sporting clays.
To ensure that everything ran smoothly at this year's event January 27-29, Dan Mitchell of Mitchell's Clay Target Sports was hired as tournament director and main target setter. For Mitchell, this was a homecoming of sorts -- he was the tournament director four years ago at the first Desert Lake Classic.
Utilizing DLCC's varied terrain, Mitchell, Brooks Robison and Wally Richardson were able to set up two challenging courses for the main event. In addition, they set up a 100-bird preliminary, a 100-bird 5-stand and three 50-bird sub-gauge events.
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New report: Falling Short: An analysis of the reporting of UK drone strikes by the MoD
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Drone Wars is today publishing 'Falling Short: An analysis of the reporting of UK drone strikes by the MoD'. Since the beginning of air attacks against ISIS in Iraq and Syria (Operations Shader), the MoD has periodically published reports of the RAF strikes on its website. Law lecturer and member of the Drone Wars Steering Committee, Max Brookman-Byrne, has undertaken quantitative analysis of these reports and examined them in the light of international law.
The report finds that while the MoD's attempts to be transparent in this area are to be welcomed, too often insufficient information is given. The fact that nearly half of all reports of drone strikes fail to convey sufficient information for even cursory or superficial assessments in light of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is highly concerning. It means that while the MoD's reports provide an apparently transparent framework, in reality they fall short in this regard. Read more →
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2018: British armed drone operations reach a crossroads
In December 2017 the RAF announced that British Reaper drones had reached the significant milestone of flying 100,000 hours of combat operations. First deployed in Afghanistan in 2007 and, on operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria since 2014, the UK's Reapers have been continuously engaged in surveillance and strike operations for a decade. However, with the collapse of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, ten years of continuous drone operations should be coming to an end. But statements by British government ministers as well as senior military officers indicate that the UK wants its Reapers to continue to fly, seemingly indefinitely. Read more →
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The lawfulness of the drone strike against Sally Jones
12/10/2017 aguestcontributor
By Max Brookman-Byrne, Lecturer in Law, University of Lincoln. Reposted with permission.
Sally Jones, reportedly killed in US drone strike in June 2017
It was today revealed by various newspapers (for instance, the Guardian, BBC and Mail) that Sally Jones, the so-called 'White Widow', has likely been killed by a targeted drone strike. Jones was described as being a member of ISIS and was apparently killed, along with her 12-year-old son, in June 2017 near the Iraq-Syria border.
As a researcher whose work for the last three and a bit years has been on the lawfulness of drone strikes, the question of whether this strike was lawful or not immediately came to mind. Jones was viewed as a member of ISIS and generally the media has uncritically reported her death, implying an assumption that the strike was lawful. But is this correct?
There is an armed conflict occurring in the situation in which Jones was Read more →
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UK armed drone deployment: brief report from Information Tribunal
Tribunal in closed session
Our appeal against the Ministry of Defence's decision not to release the number of UK Reapers engaged in operations against ISIS, nor the location of all UK Reapers was heard before an Information Tribunal yesterday (11 July). Despite such details being regularly released for 'manned' aircraft engaged in such operations – and as we demonstrated in court – many other operations including Operation Herrick (Afghanistan), Operation Ellamy (Libya) and even Operation Desert Fox (Iraq), the MoD insisted in court there were "appropriate reasons", which could not be revealed in open court, why deployment details of armed drones could not be released. Group Captain Mark Flewin, attached to Permanent Joint Headquarter (PJHQ) and responsible for managing information operations in support of Operation Shader gave evidence for the MoD in open session but repeated stated he could not answer some of our questions in open session. His redacted statement is below. GC Flewin stated in open session: Read more →
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PM must publish Intelligence Committee report on UK drone killings
Dominic Grieve MP, Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee
Soon after it had been re-constituted in the new parliament, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) issued a statement in October 2015 saying that an investigation into the drone strikes in which British nationals were killed was an "immediate priority".
Fifteen months later, in December 2016, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) put a short note on its website saying that it had handed over its report, UK Lethal Drone Strikes in Syria, to the Prime Minister after completing its inquiry and expected a redacted version would be published in the New Year. Four months later we are still waiting. Read more →
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Attorney General speaks on legality of UK preemptive drone strikes
Jeremy Wright speaking at IISS. Click for video of the speech
UK Attorney General Jeremy Wright's speech at the IISS on Wednesday evening, "The modern law of self-defence", trailed by advanced PR as "setting out the legal basis for British military strikes against terror targets overseas", gained a flurry of advance media coverage. I'm sure others far more qualified will comment in detail on the legal content of the speech. However, as it undoubtedly relates to the operation of the UK's drone fleet, it's important to look at what the speech reveals. Read more →
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All Solid-State Batteries and the Future of Energy Storage
The development of all solid-state batteries (ASSBs) has seen tremendous progress in recent years. However, several barriers still need to be overcome before ASSBs can be commercialized. These obstacles include poor interfacial stability, scalability challenges as well as the difficulty to precisely diagnose problems within the cell. Additionally, efforts to develop sustainable recyclability in lithium ion batteries are still lacking. In this webinar, we discuss SSEs chemistries and its implications on interfacial stability. We also cover the current state-of-the-art characterization techniques and evaluate future ASSB prototyping strategies. Finally, we hope to discuss potential strategies toward a sustainable ASSB recycling model to address the growing lithium ion battery waste problem.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 188 › Beals v. Cone
Beals v. Cone, 188 U.S. 184 (1903)
Beals v. Cone
Argued November 11-12, 1902
Decided January 26, 1903
There is no general right to a writ of error from this Court to the courts of a state; nor does the mere fact that the action was brought under sections 2325 and 2328 of the Revised Statutes in support of an adverse claim entitle the defeated party to a writ of error to the state court. There is but a special right to bring such cases, and such cases only, as disclose a federal question distinctly ruled adversely to the plaintiff in error. Where no title, right, privilege or immunity of a federal nature was set up and claimed, nor the validity of any federal statute denied in the state court, nor the validity of any state statute challenged prior to the judgment of affirmance in the highest court of the state, on the ground of its repugnance to paramount federal law, this Court is not justified in taking jurisdiction.
Generally speaking, estoppel and res judicata present questions of local, and not of federal, law.
This is what is known in the mining regions as an "adverse suit," brought under the authority of sections 2325 and 2326, Rev.Stat., in the District Court of the County of El Paso, Colorado, to contest the right of defendants to a patent for the Ophir lode mining claim. The plaintiff claimed a portion of this ground as a part of his own mining claim, and the question presented was as to the priority of right thereto of the respective parties by virtue of discovery and location. Judgment was rendered in the district court in favor of the defendants, which judgment was affirmed by the supreme court of the state. 27 Colo. 473. Thereupon the case was brought here on writ of error.
In the complaint, plaintiff averred that, on or about January 1, 1893, and ever since, he was the owner and in possession of the Tecumseh lode mining claim; that, on or about April 1, 1896, the defendants wrongfully entered upon a parcel of said claim, to-wit, all that part thereof included within the exterior lines of the Ophir lode mining claim, and that they have ever since
wrongfully withheld the possession of said parcel from the plaintiff. The answer denied the allegations of the complaint, and pleaded as a second defense that, before the alleged discovery of the Tecumseh lode mining claim, to-wit, on February 3, 1892, the defendants or their grantors were and defendants still are the owners of the Ophir lode mining claim, and that, by reason of such ownership, they are entitled to the possession of the ground in dispute. To this answer a replication was filed setting forth that defendants on February 10, 1893, made a mineral entry which included said Ophir lode; that subsequently plaintiff, with others, filed a protest against that portion of the entry which related to the Ophir lode -- such protest charging, among other things, that there had been no discovery of any vein, lode, ledge, or deposit of mineral therein; that, on a hearing there was an adjudication by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, affirmed by the Secretary of the Interior, that no discovery had been made, and cancelling the entry. Plaintiff also alleged that, at the hearing on said protest, Cone, one of the defendants, testified that no vein had been discovered in the Ophir claim and no work done on any lode therein during the year 1893, and that the plaintiff was induced by such testimony to go to large expenditures in exploring for mineral in the ground in conflict between the two claims, the defendants knowing at all times that such expenditures were being made in reliance upon the truth of such testimony. In other words, the plaintiff in his replication pleaded two defenses to defendants' claim of title: first, res judicata by reason of the action of the Secretary of the Interior in setting aside the original application for entry of the Ophir lode; and, second, estoppel by reason of the testimony given by one of the defendants. A demurrer to this replication was sustained, and the case went to trial upon the complaint and answer.
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the Court.
The jurisdiction of this Court is denied. The validity of a treaty or statute of or authority exercised under the United States was not drawn in question in the state courts, nor was the validity of a statute of or authority exercised under the State of Colorado challenged on the ground of being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States. So that the jurisdiction of this Court depends on whether some title, right, privilege, or immunity of a federal nature was specially set up and claimed by the plaintiff in error and denied by the state courts. Rev.Stat. sec. 709.
The mere fact that this is an action brought under sections 2325 and 2326, Rev.Stat., in support of an adverse claim, does not of itself entitle the defeated party to a writ of error. Although brought under the authority of a federal statute, the questions involved may be only of general or local law. Blackburn v. Portland Gold Mining Company, 175 U. S. 571; Shoshone Mining Company v. Rutter, 177 U. S. 505.
Two questions of law arose on the pleadings. Both were presented by the demurrer to the replication -- one, a question of estoppel; the other, of res judicata. The estoppel was not one of record, but in pais, arising, as contended, from contradictory statements made by one of the defendants at a different time and place. Whether such statements work an estoppel depends, not upon the Constitution or any law of Congress, involves no federal question, but is determined by rules of general law.
With respect to the other question, this may be said: the validity of the denial of the original application for entry was not challenged. It was accepted as conclusive, and a subsequent entry was relied upon. The rule of res judicata was, however, invoked by plaintiff on the ground that a question of fact had been decided in the first application, which, as alleged, was conclusive between the parties in this action. But the applicability of the rule depends on the fact that the parties to the two actions or proceedings are the same, and also acting in the same right. Here, the parties to the prior proceeding were the applicants
for the patent and the United States, and the matters decided bound them, and them only. The fact that his plaintiff, with others, filed a protest against the entry did not make them parties to the application to the extent that they were concluded by a decision either way. There is no suggestion in the pleadings that the protestants were in any way interested in the ground applied for, or that they were acting other than as good citizens, seeking to prevent a wrong upon the government. Their standing in the proceeding was in the nature of amici curiae. As such, whatever the result, no rule of res judicata could be invoked by or against them. Hence, the ruling on the demurrer was not concerning the effect of a decision made by the Land Department upon the parties to the proceeding, but a mere determination that one who was not a party could not claim the advantages of a party. It is not open to question that the trial court properly sustained the demurrer to this portion of the replication. To call this the decision of a federal question adverse to the plaintiff is so manifestly without foundation that it may rightfully be disregarded.
The record of the trial, which took place before a jury, is voluminous -- the bill of exceptions, containing the testimony, the instructions, and the proceedings on the motion for a new trial, filling 436 printed pages. The testimony was mainly directed to such matters of fact as the time and place of discovery of mineral, the character of the veins, the percent of mineral, and the general nature of the rock formations in which the veins were alleged to have been discovered. From the beginning of the trial to the end of the testimony, there appears no single distinct claim based upon the Constitution or statutes of the United States. No statute of the State of Colorado was questioned, nor was any title, right, privilege, or immunity under the Constitution or laws of the United States specially set up or claimed. In the instructions asked and refused, as well as in those given, there is only a general mention of the laws of the United States, and none of any particular statute. In the motion for a new trial, as well as in the assignments of error in the supreme court of the state, there is not the slightest reference to the Constitution, the laws of the United States, or
any section or part thereof. And in the opinion of the supreme court, outside of the matters of estoppel and res judicata before referred to, there is nothing to even suggest that it was requested to consider any question of a title, right, privilege, or immunity under the Constitution or laws of the United States. Indeed, while this case has evidently been hotly contested, yet the matters which were subjects of controversy and determination were questions of fact concerning the time, extent, and effect of the alleged discoveries of mineral, and also alleged wrongs in respect to the jury. To those matters, and to those alone, was the attention of the parties and the courts directed. Counsel for plaintiff in error has filed an elaborate brief of 249 printed pages which is able and exhaustive both on questions of mining law and the conduct of the trial. One cannot, however, fail to be impressed, after a perusal thereof, with the fact of a failure to recognize that there is no general right to a writ of error from this Court to the courts of a state; that there is but a special right, a right to bring such cases, and such cases only, as disclose a federal question distinctly ruled adversely to the plaintiff in error. We fail to see that any title, right, privilege, or immunity of a federal nature was specially set up and claimed. Very likely the construction and the effect of federal statutes were, in a general way, discussed and considered, but nowhere do we find that special setting up or claiming of a federal right which justifies us in taking jurisdiction. As we have stated, the validity of no federal statute was denied in the state courts. Neither did the plaintiff in error, prior to the judgment of affirmance in the supreme court, challenge the validity of any state statute on the ground of its repugnance to paramount federal law.
The writ of error is
Dismissed.


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Q: Magento 2: Customising Checkout page – not working! I am trying to remove input fields (Company and Telephone) from the Checkout page. I have followed what is explained on the M2 site here under 'Disable a component'. I have done the below but nothing is changing on the Checkout page:
I copied the checkout_index_index.xml file from vendor/magento/module-checkout/view/frontend/layout/ and placed it in VENDOR/THEME/Magento_Checkout/layout/.
I updated this new file (checkout_index_index.xml) by adding the below to the company item:
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
   <item name="componentDisabled" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
</item>

Resulting in it looking like this:
<item name="company" xsi:type="array">
   <item name="config" xsi:type="array">
      <item name="componentDisabled" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
   </item>
   <item name="validation" xsi:type="array">
      <item name="min_text_length" xsi:type="number">0</item>
   </item>
</item>

Once I saved this file, I deleted all the content from:
var/di
pub/static/
var/cache/
var/generation/
var/page_cache/
var/view_preprocessed/

Then ran:
php magento setup:static-content:deploy
php magento cache:clean

Refreshed the browser... and nothing. No change at all. What am I doing wrong?


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Bought an MTS MBlaze and set it up on Ubuntu Precise (12.04). I tried the autorun.sh script provided with the USB, in its flash storage. They described this in a How-to-install.txt. Script didn't work.
So, I tried using it through the detected CDMA connection. Enabled networking, manually edited the connections and set username:internet@internet.mtsindia.in and password : MTS. This didn't work either. The MTS network was detected but it could not be connected to. DuckDuckGo'ed the problem and found a soution.
Save the file (make sure you edit it as root).
wvdial then starts the connection and you can start browsing.
wvDial is a point-to-point protocol dialer [P2P Protocol]. It is used to establish a direct connection between nodes.
About usb-modeswitch, it is needed in Linux. The USB modem comes with on-board drivers for windows, and when plugged in, the drivers are installed (normal for flash storage devices). If the drivers are already installed the USB modem comes up.
In Linux, this usb-modeswitch tool is needed to switch flash-storage to usbserial.
I guess, Starting an Online Room Allocation Website and ditching the rumours aside would be a cool prank.
I needed something for students to trust the site, 'Office of Registrar, Pantnagar' anyone??...To make students believe, I had to imitate the front-end very closely. Saving the entire webpage through chrome isn't difficult.
is simple. Gain user trust at the first page, request their IDs and Passwords, albeit passwords had no importance. Even if you entered an invalid one, there was no way for me to check. The IDs were required to make sure students allocate room only once. Besides this, there were other loopholes too. One was inadvertent. The user could use the back button of browser and allocate rooms as many times he likes. Fortunately, I figured it out when Neeraj started doing it, and had that resolved.
As I told, there was no way to check the entered passwords, some students figured that out, and the site was soon declared "FARZI". But, still it wasn't clear to most. It was only after Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie Allocated a room for themselves (with Satya, :D), people declared it fake.
I didn't use student IDs to fill the Allocated_Rooms table, Instead I used their names provided (when requested) at Room-selection-page. This idea makes the site more engaging,,,whos-with-whom?? kind of thing.
Awesome, yeah! Pretty Awesome. The site was online for only 4.5 hours (after that it got disabled by the host becoz of the CPU usage limit.
If we entered the correct passwords at the site, Were they saved in Db?
But I don't have them anymore, I deleted the table from the Database.You may check (or even change) your passwords if you are skeptical. Besides, the table had a lot invalid IDs (many entered by myself) and invalid passwords too. I won't go all the way through checking what ones are correct.
bhala kyu maangu?? :P .
I mean I helped you change "SYST", something you don't consider important.


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There are 60 Senior Living options in the Belleville area, with 12 in Belleville and 48 nearby.
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12 Senior Living Options in Belleville, IL
The Atrium of Belleville
Provides: Independent Living
201 South Belt West, Belleville, IL 62220
"The staff is professional and very friendly. The menu in the restaurant is varied daily and the meals we ate, as guests, were top shelf. Excellent chef and serving staff. The apartment is..." More
Dammert Geriatric Center
726 Community Dr , Belleville, IL 62223
"I can say that Dammert Geriatric Center is a top facility in the area, and it is purely private pay, so it is expensive. All the people who work there are happy. It is very clean, and the food is..." More
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The Apartment Community of Our Lady ...
726 Community Drive, Belleville, IL 62223
"My aunt lives at The Apartment Community of Our Lady of the Snows. I like it. To me, it's ideal. Her apartment is big and everything is very nice and clean. One thing that this place has that a lot..." More
St Paul's Home
Provides: Independent Living and Nursing Homes
1021 WEST E STREET, Belleville, IL 62220
"My dad was in St. Paul's until he passed away. The location was good, and it had just been renovated. I liked the building and everything. When my father went to the hospital, he lived in a rehab..." More
Bria of Belleville
150 N 27th Street, Belleville, IL 62226
"My family member was at Bria for rehab. The building is old but the care was wonderful. All the nurses were so good to my sister. They always spent time with her and got to know her. The aides were..." More
Midwest Rehabilitation
727 N 17th St, Belleville, IL 62226
"Midwest Rehab does not have a good reputation. They do take mental health patients, and that is hard to find in the area, so they are used. It is a really old facility as well. " More
Four Fountains Convalescent Center
101 S Belt W, Belleville, IL 62220
"Wonderful staff. Wonderful care. Thank you to everyone who got my mom home safely to me. I've been in a lot of facilities in my day doing volunteer work. The staff here are absolutely wonderful..." More
Helia Healthcare of Belleville
40 N 64th Street, Belleville, IL 62223
"The staff at Willow Creek Rehab & Nursing Center knows what they're doing, but I would like to see more staff for each patient. The rooms are of average size. They have bingo and other..." More
Memorial Convalescent Center
4315 MEMORIAL DRIVE, Belleville, IL 62226
"Overall, this was one of the better nursing homes in the area. The staff was always very friendly with both the patients and the visitors. The rooms were pretty big as far as nursing home rooms go...." More
Vintage Support Group
218 West Main Street, Suite 100, Belleville, IL...
"They allowed an adult under their care to leave the premises without them knowing. The individual broke into my house and ransacked several bedrooms. Notified State OIG about their neglect " More
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The Golden Years Adult Support Center
#7 North 44th Street, Belleville, IL 62226
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Cedarhurst of Collinsville
1207 Vandalia, Collinsville, IL 62234
"I'm staying at Cedarhurst of Collinsville. It's very nice, the people are very accommodating, they go out of their way to make sure you're comfortable, it's a very safe and warm environment, like..." More
Cambridge House of O'Fallon
844 Cambridge Blvd., O Fallon, IL 62269
"I LOVE the staff at Cambridge House of O'Fallon. A building is just a building, it is the Residents and the Staff that make Cambridge House of O'Fallon into a HOME. The Staff really does care..." More
Regency Manor
128 Regency Park Drive, O Fallon, IL 62269
"I really liked Regency Manor a lot. It was beautiful and everybody was very kind. The lady showed me all around and took me to all three different floors of the building. The security was so good...." More
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Cedarhurst of Shiloh
429 South Main Street, Shiloh, IL 62269
"I liked Cedarhurst. The staff was friendly and showed me one of the nice apartments that had a patio and a closed garage, which was hidden, and a complete kitchen. I was more interested in the..." More
1463 Benchmark Ct, Swansea, IL 62226
"My mom moved into Bradford Place. It's been almost two months, and she seems to love it there. They're very good with her. Her room is very clean, comfortable, and they come in very often. They..." More
Cambridge House of Swansea
3900 Sullivan Drive, Swansea, IL 62226
"Cambridge House is a new facility and it's very nice. The staff is top notch. For an assisted living place, they have a lot of nursing services available that most assisted living places do not..." More
Cedar Trails Senior Living Community
490 Urbanna Dr., Freeburg, IL 62243
"Locally owned and operated in the village of Freeburg, Cedar Trails enjoys quaint relaxing home-town values within convenient driving distance from the St. Louis metro area, Fairview Heights,..." More
Collinsville Villas and Reflections
121 South Bluff Road, Collinsville, IL 62234
"Opening Early 2019 The Villas of Holly Brook is a state-of-the-art licensed assisted living community. We offer our residents the comforts of their own home while providing for their needs with..." More
58 Frank Scott Parkway, Swansea, IL 62226
"Grand Manor was wonderful. The lunch we had was delicious, and we had a lot of fun playing Scrabble. The people were very engaging, and the staff was very friendly. They have exercise and art..." More
Sycamore Village Assisted Living
225 Castellano Drive, Swansea, IL 62226
"I visited Sycamore Village. I liked the fact that they had a sign posted on the wall that stated that only 14 nursing homes nationwide received an award from the Alzheimer's Foundation, and they..." More
Heritage At The Colonnade
700 Weber Rd, O Fallon, IL 62269
"The Colonnade was very good, very nicely decorated, and very friendly. The people who lived there are very happy. You can eat whenever you want to, and you can order from a menu. They have lots of..." More
Reflections at Garden Place
710 S. Main St, Columbia, IL 62236
"My dad has only been in Reflections of Garden Place for a week, but there have already been significant changes. The staff interacts with the people, and the place has a homey atmosphere. People..." More
Morningside of Shiloh
1201 Hartman Lane, Shiloh, IL 62221
"Mom has been at Morningside for almost two years.. It was a perfect fit right from the start. She considers it home and is very happy there. All types of activities for different interests and..." More
Parkway Gardens
379 Fountains Parkway, Fairview Heights, IL 62208
"Parkway Gardens was a super nice facility and very accommodating because they don't have a set time to eat. It's an open dining room. We looked at an alcove. They have a smaller amount of space for..." More
Caseyville Nursing & Rehab Center
601 WEST LINCOLN AVENUE, Caseyville, IL 62232
"The staff is excellent. They answered all of our questions and concerns. They are very compassionate and attentive to the patient." More
Knollwood Retirement Center
921 Knollwood Village Road, Caseyville, IL 62232
"My father was a resident of Knollwood for several years before he became to ill to stay there. His stay there was great. The staff were friendly and very helpful. He made great friends there and..." More
Garden Place Senior Living - Millstad...
208 S. Kossuth St, Millstadt, IL 62260
"We visited Garden Place. The rooms were very nice. There was a window in the living area, which was nice too. They have no openings, so we have to be on the waiting list there. The amenities were..." More
Charles Gardens
120 South Ruby Lane, Fairview Heights, IL 62208
"We chose Charles Gardens because it's one level and it's assisted living. Mom is to move in next month. It's not so big to where she will feel like she's lost. They do assist in medicine. It's just..." More
Freeburg Care Center
746 URBANNA DRIVE, Freeburg, IL 62243
"My great grandmother was in an assisted living facility for several years and I visited her many times during that period. The staff was very courteous and attentive. They took the time to get to..." More
Grange Nursing Home
901 NORTH TENTH STREET, Mascoutah, IL 62258
"My husband is at Terrace on The Park. So far everything has been very good. People are very friendly and nice. The food is good. The only problem I have is that it is not in the town where I live,..." More
Rosewood Care Center of Swansea
100 Rosewood Village Drive, Swansea, IL 62226
"This facility has changed to Mercy Rehab. We had a very good experience there. Definitely the cleanest facility in the area and we looked at several before placing our mother here. She got..." More
Cedar Ridge Health Rehab Center
ONE PERRYMAN STREET, Lebanon, IL 62254
"Cedar Ridge Health Rehab Center appeared to be a tad better and nicer than other places. The staff was friendly and helpful. They offered everything, including physical therapy and occupational..." More
Lebanon Care Center
1201 N Alton St, Lebanon, IL 62254
"My father moved to the memory care unit in Lebanon Care Center from another nursing home. In the month that he has been there, my family has been very pleased with the care. While it's not the..." More
Assisted Living at Silver Creek
1227 Winding Oaks Ln, Mascoutah, IL 62258
Atrium Hc & Rehab Ctr of Cahokia
3354 JEROME LANE, Cahokia, IL 62206
Cahokia Nursing & Rehab Center
2 ANNABLE COURT, Cahokia, IL 62206
Collinsville Rehabilitation & Health ...
614 Summit Ave, Collinsville, IL 62234
Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House
1200 North 13th Street, East Saint Louis, IL 62205
Mar Ka Nursing Home
201 SOUTH 10TH STREET, Mascoutah, IL 62258
St John's Community Care
222 Goethe Avenue, Collinsville, IL 62234
Swansea Rehab Health Care
1405 NORTH SECOND STREET, Swansea, IL 62226
Virgil Calvert N & Rehab Center
5050 SUMMIT AVENUE, East Saint Louis, IL 62205
Park Haven Care Center
107 South Lincoln, Smithton, IL 62285
"Park Haven Care Center is a 101-bed Intermediate Care facility located in Smithton, IL; an idyllic small town just 10 minutes from the St. Louis Metro-East. We specialize in mental health..." More
Brightly Senior Care
649 Legacy Place, Mascoutah, IL 68180
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Men's Golf Ready for the Schenkel Invitational
By Jack Bluhm
STATESBORO, Ga. - The Lipscomb men's golf team will hit the links this weekend at the Schenkel Invitational in Statesboro, Georgia, March 15-17.
The tournament will be held at the Forest Heights Country Club on a par-72 course, which runs 6,962 yards. The tournament will be three rounds with 18 holes being played Friday through Sunday. Teams will start to tee-off at 9 a.m. (EST) Friday and Saturday and will begin at 8 a.m. (EST) on Sunday.
The tournament field is stacked with 10 out of the 14 teams ranked in the top-100, according to Golfstat.
The last time the Bisons were in action they finished in 11th at the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate. Linus Samuelsson paced the Purple and Gold with a three-round total of 226 and tied for 42nd.
Live scoring will be available through Golfstat.com.
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All tagged Cover story
Mar 17 Grooming the Globe
Helene Barthelemy
It can be hard to tell whether consultants work to sell an ideology or only to bring in a paycheck. In this broader vein and under a more scintillating name, the US indeed influences elections and campaigns worldwide.
Dec 20 Diplomacy on Ice
Mikå Mered
Arctic and Antarctic, Cover Story, Domestic, Environmental, National Security, World
Antarctica is home to more than emperor penguins and a few dozen humans with science citizenship barricaded in small hermetic bases. It is also host to an estimated 200 billion barrels of hydrocarbons, alongside large quantities of gold, silver, uranium, and many other rare metals underneath a pristine ice cap still virgin of commercial exploitation. Securing a territory with such a rich underground, in whole or in part, would bless any country with durable energy security and, thereby, increased political independence in the international arena.
Oct 24 Acknowledging the Americas
Matt A. Getz
Cover Story, Domestic, Latin America, World
Dec 1 Reaching for the Stars
Ganesh Betanabhatla
Cover Story, Organizations, World
The responsibility for choosing the proper judicial body reverts back to the UN. Unfortunately, as the oil-for-food scandal has shown, it is no longer clear that the international community can afford to place its trust in the UN.


What is Profitability Index (PI)?
The net profit margin, also known as net margin, indicates how much net income a company makes with total sales achieved. A higher net profit margin means that a company is more efficient at converting sales into actual profit. Net profit margin analysis is not the same as gross profit margin. Under gross profit, fixed costs are excluded from calculation. With net profit margin ratio all costs are included to find the final benefit of the income of a business. Similar terms used to describe net profit margins include net margin, net profit, net profit ratio, net profit margin percentage, and more. To calculate net profit margin and provide net profit margin ratio analysis requires skills ranging from those of a small business owner to an experienced CFO. As a result, this depends on the size and complexity of the company.
For example, a company has $200,000 in sales and $50,000 in monthly net income.
This means that a company has $0.25 of net income for every dollar of sales.
Steve has $200,000 worth of sales yet his net income is only $50,000. By decreasing costs, he can increase net income. In conclusion, he evaluates his decision and decides to implement the online system he was thinking about.
Net margin measures how successful a company has been at the business of marking a profit on each dollar sales. It is one of the most essential financial ratios. Net margin includes all the factors that influence profitability whether under management control or not. The higher the ratio, the more effective a company is at cost control. Compared with industry average, it tells investors how well the management and operations of a company are performing against its competitors. Compared with different industries, it tells investors which industries are relatively more profitable than others. Net profit margin analysis is also used among many common methods for business valuation.
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Solution of double-layer composite oil pipeline in gas station
Corrosion resistance: HDPE material itself has strong corrosion resistance and rust. It is especially used in areas with strong soil corrosivity and high humidity. It has obvious advantages compared with the characteristics that steel pipes are easy to be corroded and rusted.
Strong pressure bearing capacity: the pipeline system of Aiyuan gas station can continuously and safely transport fluid with a pressure of 10 bar, which is equivalent to the seamless steel pipe currently used in the gas station, which is more than twice the actual * oil transmission pressure of the gas station. The instantaneous pressure bearing capacity of the pipeline system of Aiyuan gas station exceeds 30 bar and the burst pressure is 45 bar.
Tough and reliable: the tough and flexible structure of high-density polyethylene material makes the pipeline system of Aiyuan gas station have strong compression resistance, impact resistance, puncture resistance, tensile resistance and ground motion resistance. The pipeline system of Aiyuan gas station can be stretched 6 times without fracture, which can effectively resist the effect of in-situ stress without affecting the tightness of various connecting parts due to ground motion, so as to ensure the safety and reliability of the pipeline system of the gas station.
Long service life: the service life of HDPE material can reach 50 years after laboratory test; The service life of steel pipe mainly depends on the influence of soil on its anti-corrosion coating, ranging from 5-10 years to 20-30 years.
Effective elimination of static electricity: the unique electrostatic conductive coating of the pipeline system of Aiyuan fuel station can eliminate static electricity while the fluid in the pipe flows. This performance has been tested and fully conforms to the relevant German regulations on the elimination of static electricity of combustible liquids.
Safe installation: compared with steel pipes, the welding of the pipeline system of Aiyuan gas station does not need hot work, but only needs a special intelligent welding machine. The pipeline system of Aiyuan gas station does not need to be treated. With the patented technology of wohong company, even the connection of double-layer pipeline can be completed at one time, and the pipeline can be directly buried after connection. It takes 3 to 5 days to complete the pipeline installation of an ordinary gas station. The use of seamless steel pipe requires anti-corrosion treatment of no less than the reinforced grade, electric welding and burying in the reserved pipe trench, but the use of seamless steel pipe takes about 15 days.
Wide application range: the pipeline system of Aiyuan gas station can work normally in the range of soil temperature - 40 º c-50 º C, which is suitable for most areas.
Extremely low pipeline permeability: under stable room temperature conditions, the total amount of hydrocarbon steam penetrated from the pipe wall of Aiyuan oil pipeline per square meter per day is 0 when the fluid in the pipe is gasoline with octane number of 98; It's 15% methanol
0.03 g when mixed with 85% petroleum. The standards formulated by UL / ULC and IP are 4G / m2 / day and 2G / m2 / day respectively.
Double protection: the pipeline system of Aiyuan gas station adopts the coaxial "pipe in pipe" structure. The interior is the low leakage oil transmission pipeline, and the exterior is the protective sleeve to prevent the internal pipeline from being affected by the outside and prevent leakage again.
All-weather monitoring: in order to ensure safety, Aiyuan fuel pipe can also be equipped with a leakage detector to monitor the pipeline all-weather. Once a leakage is found, the oil delivery system will be closed automatically.
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