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This issue Previous Article On the well-posedness of the anisotropically-reduced two-dimensional Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation Next Article On weak (measure-valued)-strong uniqueness for compressible MHD system with non-monotone pressure law
Boundedness in a two species attraction-repulsion chemotaxis system with two chemicals
Aichao Liu1,2, ,
Binxiang Dai1, , and
Yuming Chen3, ,
School of Mathematics and Statistics, HNP-LAMA, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China
Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada
* Corresponding author: Binxiang Dai and Yuming Chen
Received: April 30, 2021
This paper deals with a class of attraction-repulsion chemotaxis systems in a smoothly bounded domain. When the system is parabolic-elliptic-parabolic-elliptic and the domain is $ n $-dimensional, if the repulsion effect is strong enough then the solutions of the system are globally bounded. Meanwhile, when the system is fully parabolic and the domain is either one-dimensional or two-dimensional, the system also possesses a globally bounded classical solution.
Boundedness,
attraction-repulsion,
chemotaxis,
two species and chemicals.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35A01, 35Q92, 92C17.
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1994 World Golf Rankings: No. 1, Top 50 at End of Year
Who was the No. 1 player in men's golf at the end of 1994? Which golfers finished the year ranked the highest in the Official World Golf Ranking? Below is the year-end list of 1994's top-ranked golfers.
Nick Price was ranked No. 1 at the end of the year after winning six PGA Tour titles, including two majors: the 1994 British Open and 1994 PGA Championship. Price's other wins were in the Honda Classic, The Colonial, the Western Open and the Canadian Open. Price also won the ICL International on the Sunshine Tour.
Men's World Golf Rankings, End of 1994
These were the Top 50 golfers in the final Official World Golf Ranking of the calendar year 1994. For comparison's sake, the Top 10 golfers are listed with their average ranking points earned per tournament.
1. Nick Price, Zimbabwe, 21.30
2. Greg Norman, Australia, 20.68
3. Nick Faldo, England, 16.78
4. Bernhard Langer, Germany, 15.66
5. Jose Maria Olazabal, Spain, 15.18
6. Fred Couples, United States, 13.74
7. Ernie Els, South Africa, 13.57
8. Colin Montgomerie, Scotland, 12.38
9. Jumbo Ozaki, Japan, 11.39
10. Corey Pavin, United States, 10.87
11. David Frost, South Africa
12. Fuzzy Zoeller, United States
13. Tom Kite, United States
14. Seve Ballesteros, Spain
15. Vijay Singh, Fiji
16. Ian Woosnam, Wales
17. Tom Lehman, United States
18. Mark McNulty, Zimbabwe
19. Loren Roberts, United States
20. Phil Mickelson, United States
21. Paul Azinger, United States
22. Mark McCumber, United States
23. Larry Mize, United States
24. Tom Watson, United States
25. John Cook, United States
26. Davis Love III, United States
27. Brad Faxon, United States
28. Jeff Maggert, United States
29. Hale Irwin, United States
30. Scott Hoch, United States
31. Lee Janzen, United States
32. Frank Nobilo, New Zealand
33. Ben Crenshaw, United States
34. Barry Lane, England
35. Bill Glasson, United States
36. David Gilford, England
37. Bob Estes, United States
38. Steve Elkington, Australia
39. Sam Torrance, Scotland
40. Jesper Parnevik, Sweden
41. Bruce Lietzke, United States
42. Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain
43. John Huston, United States
44. Craig Parry, Australia
45. David Edwards, United States
46. Tommy Nakajima, Japan
47. Jay Haas, United States
48. Mark Calcavecchia, United States
49. Robert Allenby, Australia
50. Rick Fehr, United States
Comparing the above end-of-1994 rankings with the end-of-1993 rankings, the biggest jump from outside the Top 50 into the Top 50 from 1993 to 1994 was by Loren Roberts, who improved from 107th to 19th.
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11:00am-11:20am Rapid Grassland Desertification on the Tibetan Plateau and its Possible Implications
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Houston Hospitals Ready For COVID Surge, CEOs Say
The heads of four hospitals in the Texas Medical Center said that, despite fears to the contrary, they have ample bed capacity and PPE to deal with the spike in cases
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Houston hospital leaders said they are ready to meet the region's surge of COVID-19 cases, despite fears to the contrary.
The heads of four major hospitals in the Texas Medical Center said they have more than enough beds to meet the current surge, as well as an abundance of personal protective equipment.
"The reality is our capacity to care for those patients significantly exceeds what we're staffing on any given day," said Dr. Doug Lawson, CEO of CHI Saint Luke's Health. "And so, we work hard. While we're working to make sure that we're staffing appropriately on a day-to-day basis, we're also actively planning for anticipated increases over the coming weeks and months."
"Quite frankly, we're concerned that there is a level of alarm in the community that is unwarranted right now, because we do have the capacity to care for many more patients and have lots of fluidity and ability to manage," said Dr. Marc Boom, CEO of Houston Methodist.
The news comes as the Texas Medical Center is already operating at roughly 97 percent capacity.
Lawson and Boom were joined by the heads of Memorial Hermann and Texas Children's hospitals. They say that while their capacity rates are currently in the high 90-percent range, the hospitals are used to operating at such a high level and are able to prioritize beds to intensive care as needed.
The CEOs urged residents to stay home and, when out, to wear face masks and practice social distancing.
Counties around the state have seen hospital bed usage on the rise, due in part to an influx of people with COVID-19. Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday again suspended elective surgeries in many of the largest Texas hospitals, including those in Harris County, in order to save space for coronavirus patients. The governor also put on pause the state's reopening plan.
But Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo's office said the county is prepared for a surge. Rafael Lemaitre, a spokesman for Hidalgo, said an overflow space at NRG Park is ready to receive patients at a moment's notice. That space would only be used if hospital surge capacity is exceeded, he said.
Funding for the site will come from FEMA and CARES Act funding, Lemaitre added.
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Since the start of the year, I've not found it too tough to find new things to do after work every day. But now that summer's pretty much here, I feel like there are even more options thanks to the dry, warm, light evenings.
Tonight I took advantage of one such summer option – a free Chekhov play in Central Park.
This couldn't have been easier. The show, which is performed by the New York Classical Theatre, started at 7pm on West 103rd Street at the park entrance. It cost nothing and there were no chances of spots running out because the audience simply scattered across the grass.
I've both been in and read a fair few Chekhov plays, but I've never actually seen one. The Seagull was a great place to start. The intricacies and interactions of these dramatic characters were gripping. And somehow, the writing seemed really modern; the jokes just weren't dated at all.
The acting was superb. I couldn't take my eyes off Lindsey Kyler, who played a dramatic and ultimately unstable Nina, or Tamara Scott as the beautiful but cruel Irina. And the bumbling bitterness of Medvedyenko, a poor schoolteacher played by Zachary Fine, got me chuckling every time he spoke.
Despite the potential of losing lines to the trees, their projection was fantastic – reaching the back of the ever-growing crowd and keeping even the littlest audience members entertained for nearly two hours.
Every 20 minutes, we were led to a different part of the park – a rock, a shade of trees – which allowed for more intimate or wider stages. I particularly liked how we started on one side of the lake and finished as the sun was setting on the other, allowing us to look back and consider how much had changed since the beginning. It did mean contending with the odd bicycle, inquisitive child or dog yap, however.
There is no reason not to go to this! It's every Thursday to Sunday until June 23. It's definitely an activity to make the most of a warm summer evening, and a good excuse to check out another corner of the park.
As an extra new thing, today's the day my subway card karma finally paid off. I give a swipe a week to a stranger, and tonight the man in the booth said hello and then pressed a button to magically let me through. As Noah would say, what good fortune.


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August 2nd, 2018 Antigua and Barbuda – On July 31st, the crew of Sea Shepherd's The MV Brigitte Bardot, together with researchers from the Antigua Sea Turtle Project (ASTP), rescued an endangered sea turtle on the beaches of Barbuda during Operation Jairo Caribbean.
The turtle, a critically endangered hawksbill, had come ashore to nest and became trapped under a rocky ledge. Unable to free herself, she could not return to the ocean.
"She wedged herself into a position where she couldn't back up and she couldn't turn around." says Dr. Kate Levasseur, a conservation researcher with ASTP who has been collecting data on the turtles of Antigua and Barbuda since 2009.
Working quickly and carefully, the conservationists managed to free the turtle, allowing her safe passage back into the ocean. Researchers believe that she had been trapped in the heat of the mid-day sun for up to six hours but upon rescue, the turtle appeared to be in good health and successfully managed to return to the ocean.
"She was slow to go back to the water, but she was ok." says Dr. Levasseur.
The turtle that was saved was the same turtle first encountered by the crew when the campaign began several weeks ago. She was the very first turtle to be monitored and tagged by researchers this season.
Sea Shepherd has been in Barbuda since July 7th, patrolling and protecting the nesting beaches of endangered hawksbill, green, and leatherback sea turtles. The campaign, Operation Jairo Caribbean, is named after Jairo Mora Sandoval, a Costa Rican conservationist murdered while protecting nesting leatherback turtles in 2013. In Barbuda, Sea Shepherd is working in collaboration with the Antigua Sea Turtle Project, an environmental awareness group working to protect Antigua and Barbuda's endangered sea turtle populations through nesting surveys, education, and advocacy for turtle-friendly practices.
Hawksbill turtles are a critically endangered species and are at risk of extinction. They are slow to mature and their numbers have declined by over 80% within the past three generations. Loss of nesting habitat is one of the major threats to the survival of the species.
Over sixty nests have been documented so far, 12 of those turtles were encountered and tagged by patrols, and three return nesters have been identified that were previously tagged in 2014 / 2015 surveys. The group has also observed hatching leatherback and hawksbill nests, recording hatchling success rates and standing by to ensure the newborn turtles make it safely into the ocean. The campaign also incorporated the use of a night vision drone to spot turtle tracks and nesting females, enabling wider coverage and helping to ensure that researchers identify every turtle in the patrol area.
Operation Jairo is working closely with the Barbuda community in this effort. Members of the Barbuda Council visited the team on board the Brigitte Bardot and joined in night patrols on Low Bay. Council members were lucky to witness a critically endangered hawksbill turtle laying her eggs in the sand. Chairman of Agriculture, Lands, Fisheries and Coastal Protection shared that it was an "experience of a lifetime" and emphasized the Barbuda Council's support for conservation measures. The team have also been reaching out to youth in the community, hosting three local interns on board and interactive turtle talks with local children in the main town of Codrington.
Kate Levasseur, PhD researcher with the ASTP who has been collecting data on Barbuda since 2009 said it was "fantastic to watch to the nesting process with the Barbudan kids. Some had never seen a turtle laying eggs before, they had lots of great questions and were excited to see how we tag and collect data".
In the final week, the campaign will be completing survey efforts and compiling data which will be shared with local management agencies and regional bodies to strengthen sea turtle protection measures and conservation of the important coastal areas upon which these endangered species depend.
The Antigua Sea Turtle Project (ASTP) of the Environmental Awareness Group has been working since 2007 to protect Antigua and Barbuda's endangered sea turtle populations through nesting surveys, education, and advocacy for turtle friendly practices.


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Avoided Deforestation Method in the spotlight – CMI's response
Wednesday 22 September: The Carbon Market Institute's response to the report 'Questionable integrity: Non-additionality in the Emissions Reduction Fund's Avoided Deforestation method' by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and The Australia Institute (TAI), published September 22, 2021.
CMI welcomes ongoing scrutiny of Australia's emissions reduction activities that enhances the integrity, transparency and accountability of the abatement generated across our landscape. CMI notes the ACF/TAI report's focus on one specific vegetation method, however we disagree with some of the specific assumptions and modelling that underpin the report.
CMI also notes, as outlined in the report, that the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC) has not finalised its recent review of the Avoided Deforestation Method. CMI looks forward to ERAC providing this advice to the Minister as soon as possible and welcomes these outcomes and any ministerial decisions to be made public to ensure integrity of the method is maintained.
From John Connor, CEO, Carbon Market Institute: "While investigations of integrity into Australia's carbon market are welcome, we are disappointed by what appear to be critical errors in this report. This report was not tested with us or market participants. We share a frustration with the report's authors at Australia's lack of urgency in industrial decarbonisation efforts, but errors in this report undermine community confidence in nature-based climate solutions and the opportunities they can bring for jobs, investment and the environment in regional Australia."
The report appears to confuse clearing rates and crediting periods. Avoided Deforestation projects are eligible to receive credits over 15 years, with clearing rates modelled across the 100-year permanence period required by the project, not a 15-year period as the report suggests. It also ignores the 100-year permanence obligations protecting forests and effective easements applied to properties subject to Emissions Reduction Fund contracts.
The report overlooks a range of conservative requirements or conditions applied to these projects including:
the five per cent 'risk of reversal buffer', that ensures against any activities (such as land clearing) that might negate reductions made throughout the project's 100-year permanence period.
rules that restrict native forest protection projects to areas that can be broadscale cleared that have intact forest on them. Whilst there are thousands of clearing permits, most don't allow broadscale clearing. For the few permits that do allow broadscale clearing, they often don't cover significant forest areas of a size warranting protection.
of those forest areas with permits that do qualify for clearing, only areas that would be cleared form part of the project. This excludes riparian zones, rocky ridges, high slopes and pastures etc. In the remaining areas, only permitted species and trees of a certain size can be cleared and included in accounts.
"Debate on this method needs to be placed in context of historical approaches to landclearing and the conversation about whether emissions avoidance or carbon sequestration or removal activities are prioritised in valuing carbon reduction. On the latter we need to be building a substantial negative emission industry based on removing carbon from the atmosphere but should avoid simplistic rejection of emissions avoidance activities, this could undermine rewards for changed Savanna burning activities for example. Australia still hasn't got the mix of restrictions and incentives right when it comes to landclearing which is still happening at too large a scale but is down from historic excesses."
"There is a suggestion that these properties weren't going to be cleared, unfortunately every year more land is cleared and it's a mug's game to say what will happen over the next 100 years. We only need to look to the water market, where many thought water extraction rights weren't being used but they turned zombie."
"I can't speak for each property, but after visiting project areas in NSW I have witnessed farmers who have protected parts of their property under this method and cleared other areas where the method couldn't be applied."
"The carbon industry remains committed to the ongoing improvement of Australia's domestic offset schemes and working with industry and other stakeholders to ensure critical environmental integrity, transparency and accountability remains the foundation of our domestic offset scheme".
"We should continue to place scrutiny on these methods, we look forward to the response of ERAC and will further discuss the issues raised with the report authors," concluded Mr Connor.
13th Emission Reduction Fund Results: Time for new direction as Abbott-era funds committed, regional Australia remains a big winner


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Roland Garros 2022: The chameleonic Nadal, before Ruud and history | Sports | The USA Print
History repeats itself in Paris, the commotion returns. The tradition. The races and the stress throughout the compound. The journalists and all the workers of Roland Garros come and go because it is the prelude to the final and, above all, because the king returns to it, the admired and recognized champion – "Rafa, Rafa, Rafa", the stands bellowed on Friday– who lost his place last year and wants to regain it today (3:00 p.m., Eurosport and DMAX) in the final against Casper Ruud. Everything goes at full speed and in the end, not oblivious but abstracted, the one who handles the situation with greater aplomb is Nadal himself, who walks with a firm step and a good countenance through the space in which the special envoys work, mentally polishing how will address the big day and how to disarm the Norwegian, who is attending as a novice. Wolf with sheep's skin. There is a magnificent player there on clay.
"A candidate in all the tournaments he plays on this surface," underlines the Spaniard, the man who this afternoon could become the longest-serving winner of the great Frenchman – ahead of Andrés Gimeno, who triumphed 50 years ago when he was 34 – and eternal redeemer. He punishes his foot, he arrived in Paris in the right mood and he can't compete with the regularity he would like, but adversity doesn't find the formula. There is no way or way to knock down the irreducible Nadal, who closed the previous day with a bad face, still with the scare in his body due to the unpleasant misfortune of Alexander Zverev in the semifinals – "I think I have several torn ligaments", explained yesterday the German–, and that whatever the problem, he ends up finding the solution. With all of you, Mr. Wolf (Harvey Keitel in pulp fiction) of the racket. No matter what happens, here I am.
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Casper Ruud and the magnetic effect of Manacor
No matter how inclement he has before him, especially in Paris, Nadal ends up getting around it. He arrived with hardly any filming at the tournament and disconsolate, but he arrived on time. He seldom does not get it. It happened in Australia, and the outcome is already known; It could happen again in the Bois de Boulogne, but the finishing touch is missing against Ruud, who bursts in with all the enthusiasm in the world, a good guy too, but who looks to history and has already lost the first point of the match: Nadal's 13 finals, 13 titles. There is no margin for error, and very little throughout the tour: 111 wins and only three losses, for his 13 and 4. too much difference. Or maybe not, who knows. Tennis hides a thousand traps and a thousand surprises, so the Mallorcan team does not trust a single hair of the Nordic. Because nobody forgets the devastating Swede: Robin Soderling, 2009. The warning light is on.
"I would say that Ruud is the tennis player with the most ground game on the circuit. It is a game that tends to extinction, after the balls and tracks have been unified. We have all-terrain tennis players, and he goes a little out of that. We will see a battle at the back of the court, with long exchanges", predicts Nadal's coach, Carlos Moyà, warned against a deceptive rival. Ruud is not illuminated by the spotlights, but if there is a tennis player who handles the codes of the land well – Dominic Thiem disappeared and Stefanos Tsitsipas out of action, apart from others with a more modest profile – that is him. The applied Ruud.
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A tennis player on the edge
In any case, in the case of Nadal, a final and the Chatrier, the outcome of this last episode will fundamentally depend on how the Balearic reacts, who goes to the limit and tries to park the pain, but who accumulates considerable wear and tear. In the last three duels, against Felix Auger Aliassime, Novak Djokovic and Zverev, he spent a whopping 11h 44m on the court. It is his turn, once again, to overcome physically and mentally, although the stimulus is too juicy to let it escape: if he wins, he will win his 14th Parisian trophy and his 22nd Grand Slam.
"It gave him a bit of a downturn. She normally recovers from these situations. he had a rival [Zverev] that, even being a little irregular, when it's good it doesn't let you do many things. Honestly, I didn't have them all with me", says Moyà. "But you always expect Rafa to get something that isn't there, although the situation wasn't easy. Every match he saves is transformation into another player. That gives us a lot of confidence that he can overcome adversity."
Casper Ruud and Rafael Nadal.
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Trust your environment to recover and respond as usual. Nadal (36 years old) has the unparalleled ability to reinvent himself on the fly and to resolve emergencies as usual. Far away is the single record and now, faced with the conflict, he opens the closet and changes his suit like the chameleon. So easy, so hard. "I will not get tired of saying it. This is Roland Garros, this is Rafa Nadal. So to the death", points out Moyà, who looks to the other shore and remembers Ruud: "Meeting yourself with someone super consecrated is not usually easy". And the Norwegian continues: "Playing against him here is the challenge of challenges."
History is cyclical, everything repeats itself. Everything returns. The tingling, the convulsion of the last day. He is the king before another final. The Nordic saw him on television, he portrayed himself at the age of 14 in the stands before that 2013 coronation against David Ferrer. "Yes, I've seen them all, and now I'm here." It's Nadal and that first time in Paris. June 5, 2005. And he is there again.
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Samsung Galaxy S9 Features and Get Started
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Samsung Galaxy S9 Features and Get Started - What is the Samsung Galaxy S9 new features and how to setup and get started with all new AR emoji, Super Slow motions camera, Dual aperture and Bixby live translate.
Everything we know about Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus we share free for you. These phone price $719.99 (about AU$1310) about £739, you can get SIM-free directly from Samsung, but currently unclear. Official Samsung Galaxy S9 best deals today on release date February 25 2018 can be pre-order and the phone will hands from March 16.
Samsung Galaxy S9 release date
If you want to buy in pre-order it from 7PM GMT on February 25 after the launch event. Samsung has confirmed the price of the Galaxy S9 in the UK at £739 and $719.99 in the US (about AU$1310). Right now we don't know pricing for Australia, but we'll update this piece once we hear more.
The Samsung Galaxy S9 have a major improvements over the display on the Galaxy S8 up to 5.8-inch QHD+ Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1440 x 2960. Galaxy S9 claims the design improvements for the phone include the iris scanner hole being hidden, as well as less bezel at the top and bottom of the display.
Galaxy S9 Features
One of the big problems Galaxy S8 was the strange placement of the fingerprint scanner on the rear of the phone right next to the camera, and Samsung has moved the fingerprint scanner Galaxy S9. There's still a 3.5mm headphone jack on Samsung S9, hardware locations on the bottom edge of the phone on the left-hand side. The USB-C still available for charging and data transfer, and upgrade stereo speakers systems.
Stereo Speakers Systems
The new speakers will allow the S9 features Dolby ATMOS surround sound technology to be 1.5 times louder than the Galaxy S8.
This cell phone IP68 waterproofing make you can handle the odd drop in a puddle without immediately damage S9 in the internals.
Samsung S9 AR Emoji are communicating people with images than ever before, so it has made its own feature called AR emoji Galaxy S9 similar idea to the Animoji feature available on the iPhone X, but this allows you to make your own character and give it different hair colors, dress senses, 12 different clothing options and choose from 7 pairs of glasses. AR stands for augmented reality and this feature uses the front camera to take a selfie and make an emoji based on your looks.
Manualy you can get started use Galaxy S9 camera and move your face to make silly videos, then choose one of 18 different emotions pre-built into the AR emoji app so you don't always need to pull a stupid face into your phone to be able to send one.
How to Create AR Emoji On Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus
You can follow the user manual below on tutorial:
Open the Camera app.
Tap AR Emoji, then Create avatar.
Personalize it.
Have fun with your AR Emoji!
Super Slow motions camera
The new Galaxy S9 slow-mo features of the rear shooter have also been improved so you can now shoot at 960 frames per second, which is four times slower set by Sony phones.
Super Slow motions camera mode S9 uses something called automatic motion detect, which will automatically begin to record when the camera detects movement, so it should make it easier to only record the relevant moments in slow motion.
Dual aperture
Dual aperture is the widest ever aperture in a smartphone, and Samsung claims it should enable you to capture images with more color and detail, and much less noise in low light conditions.
S9 Camera automatically adjust to f/2.4 aperture, and if it's darker than that the camera will opt for the f/1.5 aperture if you're shooting something brighter than 100 lux (which is usually daylight).
There's a 12MP rear sensor with optical image stabilization, and a lot of the other features upgrades is new dual-aperture technology, with the camera automatically adjusting the aperture depending on the scene you're shooting, in any light adopted like the human eye to changing light.
This camera also plays into the facial recognition technology on the front of the phone there's an 8MP shooter with an f/1.7 aperture. The Galaxy S9 Plus get new Bixby Vision camera get enhanced beauty mode, so you can change the look of your selfies too.
Bixby live translate.
Samsung Bixby Vision project is a big improvements from Samsung company.
When you're in the camera app you can tap the Bixby option to access a variety of different new features, including tracking the place you're in provides the name and details of where you are while use Galaxy S9 Bixby you can pointing it at food, at which point it will try to work out what it is and even estimate the calories before you get deals.
Samsung Bixby Live Translation that allows you to put the camera over a menu or text and auto translate it. You'll need an internet connection and to wait a few moments for this to work, but it's an interesting addition that may come in useful when you're traveling.
For Galaxy S9 desktop-like experience, turn your Galaxy S9+ into a touchpad by connecting it to DeX Pad and a monitor. Access the photos and files on your phone as well as check email, surf the internet, and more on a full-size screen.
4 Colors Options
Now you'll be able to buy the phone only 4 colours options Midnight Black, Coral Blue, Titanium Gray and Lilac Purple but some other countries only get 3 colors
The Galaxy S9 a 3,000mAh battery to power it along on a daily basis and the Galaxy S+ have 3,500mAh. Both of the phone support wireless charging technology to use a variety of different pads to charge up your phone without plugging it in. S9 fast charging got from the official charger to ensure get full power into your phone in the minimum amount of time. When you're on the go and there's no outlet in sight, plug your Galaxy S9 or S9+ into this Portable Battery Pack to give your phone a boost. It's compact enough to slip into your pocket or purse but packs a powerful punch with the 5100mAh capacity.
Amazing MicroSD
You can insert a microSD card for up to 400GB of total storage on your device, inthe inside only 4GB of RAM in each version of the phone, for 6GB you'll have to opt for the Galaxy S9 Plus. As for storage, the Galaxy S9 only comes with 64GB of onboard space, but you can add in microSD cards for up to 400GB of amazing extra space. Advertisement
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by Don Boudreaux on April 8, 2022
in Adam Smith, Antitrust, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Immigration, Inflation, Legal Issues, Media, Myths and Fallacies, Seen and Unseen, Trade
My intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy – writing at National Review – is rightly appalled by the lousy 'reporting' done by the New York Times's David Leonhardt about the stance toward Ukraine taken by AIER's Will Ruger and the Koch organization Stand Together. Here's Vero's conclusion:
Here's the bottom line: David Leonhardt seems to have done no actual investigating whatsoever before accusing Charles Koch and Will Ruger of being pro-Putin. This is particularly sad in a piece that actually quotes some people praising Putin. It's obvious that he has delegated to others (in this case a Democrat political operative writing for a subscription-based newsletter — funny for a guy who throws Koch-funded accusations around) whatever "investigation" is done for this section of the report. That alone is disappointing enough. But what is more disappointing is to equate disagreement over just what the U.S. should do regarding the Ukrainian invasion or disagreement about why we shouldn't put boots on the ground in Ukraine (no national-security stakes, vs. Putin has the nuclear bomb) with support for Putin himself. These types of attacks, especially in the pages of the NYT, hinder debates and make us all stupider at a time when we need more debates and more ideas.
P.S. Also sloppy and laughable is calling AIER a Koch-funded organization. Can we please stop assuming that scholars on the right or on the left hold their policy positions because of who funds them? AIER received a small grant from the Koch Foundation in 2018 and 2019. If that makes them a Koch-funded organization, then the NYT should start referring to the ACLU as a Koch-funded organization, too.
Also defending the Koch network from atrocious smears is Reason's Robby Soave. A slice:
Stand Together is a charitable organization founded by Charles Koch that gives money to libertarian groups and causes. It works to advance classically liberal ideas on a variety of issues: school choice, criminal justice reform, regulation, and foreign policy, to name just a few. Stand Together works with right-leaning organizations on some of these issues, left-leaning organizations on other issues, and also with organizations that don't neatly fit the left-right paradigm. (Disclosure: Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes Reason, receives support from Stand Together.)
Unfortunately, many progressive journalists—and even some populist conservatives—view everything connected to Charles Koch and his late brother David as nefarious by default. In their zeal to denounce the Koch brothers' influence on American politics, they end up attacking policies that they should otherwise support.
Case in point is this bizarre and misleading "exclusive" report on Stand Together from Judd Legum, a progressive journalist who writes the newsletter Popular Information. Legum accuses Stand Together of supporting a "partial victory" for Russia in Ukraine, and wanting the U.S. to drop "virtually all" Russian sanctions.
Most irresponsibly, Legum highlights the following line: "An outright victory by either Russia or Ukraine is increasingly unlikely and a diplomatic resolution is the path that best limits the bloodshed." He describes this as Stand Together advocating for the U.S. to "seek to deliver Russia a partial 'victory'."
But [Dan] Caldwell clearly does not wish for Russia to achieve "victory," partial or otherwise; he is merely acknowledging that any peace will likely involve both Russia and Ukraine getting some things that they want. It's perfectly reasonable to concede that in order to end all the death and destruction, Putin will have to emerge from the conflict as something short of a complete and total loser.
Legum quotes two foreign policy experts—Brian Katulis and Daniel Fried—who think the current sanctions should remain in place and believe they are working to "reduce Putin's resources for further aggression." They are certainly entitled to that opinion; there is little reason to doubt that the sanctions are making things harder in Russia, including for ordinary Russians. But it is not crazy to wonder whether the sanctions will meaningfully prevent Putin from continuing the war in Ukraine, or whether the amount of suffering we are dispensing to the Russian people is ultimately counterproductive or even immoral.
Brent Orrell and Alex Nowrasteh argue that America should welcome the skilled workers fleeing Russia.
Reason's J.D. Tuccille wisely warns against extending the already horrendous precedent for use of the banana-republic practice of civil asset forfeiture. Two slices:
Efforts to punish Russia for invading Ukraine rely not just on funneling weapons to the beleaguered defenders but also on economic sanctions to deny Vladimir Putin's regime resources and to inflict pain until the aggression stops. Among the targets are "Russian elites and their families," in President Joe Biden's words, whose assets are being seized to pressure the regime. But calling somebody an "oligarch" is no substitute for legal proceedings, and the U.S. government is stretching already sketchy asset forfeiture powers in ways that will, no doubt, create precedents for the future.
Russian billionaires will probably survive economic sanctions in relative comfort. But the precedent set by labeling people as untouchables and then imposing penalties without proof of a crime will set the tone for future abuses. Powers used against wealthy Russians now will be deployed in the years to come against people who cross the authorities and have fewer resources for defending themselves.
Speaking of civil asset forfeiture, Reason's C.J. Ciaramella has more.
In this letter in today's Wall Street Journal, my Mercatus Center colleague Alden Abbott defends the consumer-welfare standard for antitrust:
The consumer-welfare standard, defended eloquently by Phil Gramm and Christine Wilson in "The New Progressives Fight Against Consumer Welfare" (op-ed, April 4), is fundamental to advancing the rule of law in antitrust. It provides a clear benchmark for understanding when business conduct is economically beneficial to consumers, while also benefiting workers and producers.
When producers obtain raw materials more cheaply, savings can be passed on to consumers. When workers are more productive, they tend to earn more and can buy more goods or save money. Worker efficiency helps companies produce more and better goods, reducing prices further. Consumers are emphasized because, in the end, everyone is a consumer.
The consumer-welfare standard isn't concerned with a business's size or industry. Maintaining the rule of law necessitates that antitrust enforcers not discriminate. This creates an equal playing field, again to the benefit of consumers.
Abandoning the consumer-welfare standard and considering a broader range of conduct to be antitrust violations would undermine years of progress. By assigning weights and making judgments based on ill-defined criteria like "fairness," enforcers would be picking winners and losers, arbitrarily and inconsistently applying antitrust in defiance of the rule of law.
For most of the 132 years that antitrust laws have been on the books, enforcement has been inconsistent and unpredictable. In the late 1970's, acceptance of consumer welfare as the guiding principle allowed for unprecedented growth and innovation. The last thing we should do is quickly throw out the consumer-welfare standard, disrupt the rule of law, and introduce a new and arbitrary standard that threatens this success story.
Alden Abbott
Mercatus Center at George Mason
Arlington, Va.
Mr. Abbott was the Federal Trade Commission's general counsel (2018-21).
Bradley Smith, writing in the Wall Street Journal, offers some advice to Twitter's largest shareholder, Elon Musk. Two slices:
I wouldn't dream of telling Elon Musk, who recently became Twitter's top shareholder, how to turn a profit. But I do know something about free speech. If Mr. Musk is serious about making the social-media behemoth a force for free speech, here are 10 things he can do:
1. Leave more content up. Twitter has rules about posts, and the bulk of enforcement is done through artificial intelligence. The algorithms err on the side of taking down material that might violate Twitter rules. Instead, they should err on the side of leaving questionable material up until there has been human review.
2. More aggressively screen complaints. Currently, there is too much bad-faith reporting done for the purpose of getting controversial, but legitimate, content taken down. For every 10 content moderators tasked with taking down content, hire a content defender, whose job is to advocate for keeping or putting content back up. Err on the side of speech, not censorship.
10. Stop supporting congressional legislation that would reduce speech, such as the misnamed "Honest Ads Act." Make the company an advocate for free speech, not censorship.
David Henderson reminds us of an insidious consequence of obstructions on commerce.
My GMU Econ colleague Dan Klein, writing at Law & Liberty, corrects Oren Cass's mistaken reading of Adam Smith. Three slices:
On the matter of foreign investment, Cass misrepresents Smith in two ways. First, he seems to suggest that Smith's theorizing assumes that there is little to no foreign investment. Cass writes, "Smith and Ricardo…assumed that capital would remain in the domestic market. And as a corollary, both conceived of trade as occurring only on the basis of goods for goods." In a reply to [Dominic] Pino, Cass writes: "Smith and Ricardo wrote about one very specific kind of trade — the direct exchange of goods for goods — and assumed this would occur in a world where capital remained within national boundaries."
Second, Cass suggests that Smith's favor for liberal policy depended on this same assumption of little to no foreign investment. Cass writes: "Smith and Ricardo never suggest that this pursuit of profit abroad will align with the public interest at home, no other theory gives a reason that it should, and empirically it has not."
On both points, Cass is wrong about Smith. I do not mean to imply that Smith would not under any circumstances favor a restriction on foreign trade or investment. Smith considered arguments for making an exception to the principle of free trade, but, as Boudreaux explains, Smith himself tended to diminish those arguments. We cannot rule out that Smith might favor certain restrictions under certain circumstances, for polity reasons, perhaps because they would support political stability or national security, or simply because they would play a part in the crafty art of liberal politics. Smith strove to make governments less dishonest and illiberal, but knew that foreign countries had governments too. Smith's friend Edmund Burke exemplified the virtuous pursuit of circumstantial liberal politics.
Does Smith ever frown on foreign investment? Smith does say that British capital invested in Britain more surely augments employment in Britain than British capital invested abroad. But universal benevolence does not stop at the border: "The capitals of the British manufacturers who work up the flax and hemp annually imported from the coasts of the Baltic, are surely very useful to the countries which produce them." Smith hardly seems opposed to British investment in the Baltic countries. Elsewhere Smith writes: "Though the same capital never will maintain the same quantity of productive labour in a distant as in a near employment, yet a distant employment may be as necessary for the welfare of the society as a near one; the goods which the distant employment deals in being necessary, perhaps, for carrying on many of the nearer employments."
Cass suggests that Smith wishes to confine the invisible-hand point to circumstances in which the individual invests domestically, writing: "If a capitalist wishes to deploy his capital domestically, and if the domestic investment that will generate the most profit for him is also the one that will create the most value and employ the most people in his country, then we will have a well-functioning capitalist system." I take it that Cass means only then.
But it is daft to think that Smith thusly confined the invisible-hand idea. As Peter Minowitz has shown when criticizing a similar misreading, the invisible-hand idea is all over Wealth of Nations. Minowitz's textual analysis refutes Cass's attempt to confine the point.
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Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies Explains Why He's Called for the Withdrawal from the 1951 Refugee Convention Treaty
Live from Music Row Thursday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville's Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian to the newsmaker line to discuss his recent call for the withdrawal of the United States from the decades-old 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 protocol as the southern border leaks more than Latin American refugees.
Leahy: We are joined now on our newsmaker line by our very good friend, Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Mark, welcome and thank you, thank you.
Thank you for writing your very important article at the National Review Online. Time to Withdraw from the UN Refugee Treaty. Thanks so much. It's about time, isn't it?
Krikorian: Oh, yeah, absolutely. Because we're talking about a lot of loopholes in the law, and how are we going to, you know, sort of nip here and tuck there. But you got to go to the root of the problem which is that we are subject, we signed a treaty 70 years ago.
This is a lifetime ago. A UN treaty on refugees. But it was written in – the terms of it are based on post World War II and the beginning of the Cold War conditions. That's a world that no longer exists. And yet we have signed the treaty.
We signed the sequel to it, but it doesn't matter. We're still subject to its terms, and we incorporated them into our law. And the main problem here is not refugees that we go and pick and resettle in the U.S. That's a problem.
But that's something that's up to us. We run refugee resettlement. I know Nashville has a real issue with a lot of refugee settlements, but that's something that we under our law and under our decision-makers do. And I think we need to change it, but we have the power to do that ourselves.
The real problem with this treaty is that it sets up asylum law as well. Which are illegal immigrants coming into the U.S., sneaking in, overstaying a visa, whatever it is, and then saying, you have to let me stay because of the terms of this refugee treaty.
And that's what we need to fix because if we don't, we don't have control over our own borders. Basically, the rest of our immigration laws are irrelevant. If illegal immigrants can just hop over and say, you have to let me stay, I don't really care what your immigration law is.
Leahy: This treaty was the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the status of refugees. President Harry Truman in 1951 did not sign that because he felt it infringed on U.S. sovereignty. This is from your article.
In 1968, Lyndon Johnson reversed course and signed the protocol, and the Senate ratified it, binding the U.S. to its terms. The provisions were formally incorporated into a U.S. statute called the Refugee Act of 1980. But you say in your article, Truman was right not to sign it.
Krikorian: Truman was right because he chose not to sign it at the time – 1951 – because he viewed it as infringements or provisions of it as an infringement on U.S. sovereignty. And we resettled refugees between Truman's decision and then LBJ's getting us into that treaty, with Congress, passed legislation.
And we did it on our own decision. What happened in 1968 is we bound ourselves to these asylum provisions. But even then, it didn't make that much difference because, how many people were sneaking across our borders and then saying political asylum in 1968?
It wasn't seen as a problem – was only when the Cold War ended and transportation and communications around the world became dirt cheap, relatively speaking, and easy and quick. So now, instead of one ballerina from the Soviet Union defecting – which is what asylum is for, defections.
Now we've got 200,000 people a month coming across our Mexican border. Not from Mexico or Central America, but from Uzbekistan, Mauritania, Romania, and you name it. We got people coming from all over the world and saying, oh, I fear return. You have to let me stay and let me stay as a refugee.
And Europe faces the same problem. But you know, that's their problem. They need to deal with it, too. We need to deal with our own problems. And that is not that we're never going to give asylum to anybody, but that we need to set asylum rules based on the national interest. Based on what's good for the United States and not based on some UN treaty.
Leahy: Mark, you reference in your outstanding article at National Review Online, a book written in 2011 by John Fonte called Sovereignty or Submission, which is about the struggle between national sovereignty and global governance. Now, I guess, was prophetic. The past 10 years have not been so great for American sovereignty.
Krikorian: No, definitely not. And this book, Sovereignty or Submission, deals with a whole bunch of things. It's not about immigration. My point was that this issue of refugees and asylum fit into that broader push by these mainly left-leaning groups that see themselves not as citizens of their country.
Not as American groups or French or German or British organizations. And the people in them don't think of themselves that way. They think of themselves as citizens of the world and they want there to be more and more rules that countries have to follow, whether their people like it or not.
Globalism is kind of the shorthand we use. This refugee treaty is an important part of that globalism push because the point of it is to limit more and more the control a country has and therefore the people of that country have over their own borders.
Because if there are rules set by the UN about who you can deport, who you are legally required to let stay in your country, even if you didn't choose it, even if they came against you without your consent, then you progressively lose sovereignty over your own borders.
Leahy: I agree with your suggestion that we withdraw from the UN refugee treaty immediately. Let's talk about the politics of this. What's the likelihood that in the current Congress that a proposal like this would have any chance of success?
Krikorian: First of all, it's the president, whoever the president is can withdraw us from a treaty. The way a treaty works is that the president and the people who work for him sign a treaty, negotiate and sign it, and then the Senate has to ratify it.
Okay it or not. If they do that, it becomes law of the land according to the Constitution. The president can then back out of the treaty on his own. He doesn't need a vote for that. President Trump, for instance, and I'm pretty sure President Bush got us out of a couple of treaties because all treaties have a provision that says, if you want to get out of it, you have to send us a notice.
And then however much time, in this case, one year later, you're then free of the treaty. Obviously, (Chuckles) President Biden is not going to be pulling us out of the treaty. So this is something that would have to wait until we had a President who was not just more in touch with his surroundings, but just generally speaking, ideologically and politically, very different.
Maybe, hypothetically, a President DeSantis might do something like that. But even then, it's the necessary first step. But even then, just getting out of the treaty doesn't free us from the UN provisions. We have to then change the legislation, the law, and that's something Congress will have to do.
You'll have to see what the makeup of Congress is at some point. It's certainly not going to happen with a Democratic majority. It won't happen immediately with the Republican majority potentially either, because this is one of the reasons I wrote the article.
And that is that no Republican politicians have submitted changes, proposed changes to the refugee law. So this is a discussion that I'm trying to move along. And this kind of, you're addressing the issue on your show is one step in that direction.
Leahy: We're talking with Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Mark, can you stay with us because when you come back, I'm going to ask the big question about the politics and your outstanding proposal that the United States should withdraw from the United Nations Convention relating to the status of refugees. Can you stick with us through the break?
Krikorian: Sure. I'd be happy too. Thank you.
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You might have noticed that Facebook and Apple started a raid on bringing news and content to mobile devices in a more "native" way, making the loading time faster and ad spaces to be less intrusive. Instant Articles is an example of what Facebook will focus in the near future.
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Google has now come up with a response – AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), a project meaning that they are up for the challenge and fighting back. This is an open source HTML standard available for everyone, that uses the current available web technologies to create fast loading pages with stylish ads available inside them.
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The new framework is actually a stripped down version of HTML where CSS, JavaScript is used at the minimum and mostly replaced by custom elements that can be used if you need richer and more effects on the page. These additional elements are actually embeds from well known providers, images, video holders, carousels and lightbox features for your content. Everything is being done for the pursuit of speed and page rendering.
According to the AMP Tech Lead, this project is aimed to make the user focus on the content. Websites these days tend to be very heavy and take a lot of time to load, plus that new scripts and layout options are used making it harder to concentrate on the content. "The Web today is many things: An application platform, an e-commerce platform, a content platform, a gaming platform, and so much more. We decided to focus entirely on static content as it lends itself to more radical optimization approaches that are easier to apply across the board", Google says.
If the service will be delivering a good layout for the reader, the AMP Project will be a success, as users are now looking for faster and more user friendly ways to interact with content, and Google will surely want to cash in on this, bringing the fight back to Apple and Facebook.
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By BY LIZ MOOMEY and The Herald-Leader - Associated Press - Sunday, March 21, 2021
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Applying for unemployment benefits felt like a full-time job for Jessica Seguin.
In May, Seguin left her job at Dollar General in Bardstown over concerns about her 10-year-old son, who has respiratory issues, contracting COVID-19.
Seguin struggled to navigate the system, initially applying for unemployment insurance instead of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, a program created to qualify more people for unemployment money who lost their job or had their hours decreased because of the coronavirus pandemic.
She received benefits in late summer and then on Dec. 27 the benefits stopped.
That day, the Continuing Assistance Act was signed by then-President Donald Trump, extending unemployment insurance benefits from the CARES Act and changing some parts of how the benefits work. There was a gap between the two stimulus packages and benefits were delayed as states waited for guidance from the Department of Labor.
"That's led to a huge interruption of benefits for people and you had a lot of people whose benefits were going OK and then they fell into this pit and we are having to pull people out one by one," said Evan Smith, an AppalReD attorney who specializes in unemployment benefits.
Every morning at 7:59 a.m., Seguin calls the unemployment office with hopes of talking to a representative. If she gets into the phone system, which is about three times a week, she is on hold hoping to speak to someone by 4 p.m., the time the call automatically ends. The other option is to request an appointment, which must be done when they become available at midnight. The slots fill within a minute.
"It has consumed my life," Seguin said. "This is a full-time job to contact unemployment."
On March 8, Seguin reached out for support and help through the Unemployment Kentucky Facebook page. She posted a screenshot of the page she sees every time she requests a claim.
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The system was stuck in January and wouldn't advance.
"I'm in an endless nightmare loophole," she said.
Last week, after waiting seven hours and 22 minutes, Seguin was able to talk to a representative who fixed her claim within 10 minutes. She has received her benefits and back pay.
One of the people who commented on Seguin's Facebook post was Melissa Weeks, a Paris resident who is working part-time b ecause her grandchild's daycare closed.
Weeks began claiming unemployment in September. It disappeared after Dec. 27.
"I have been stuck in the loop," Weeks said. "I've gotten nothing since Jan. 7."
Weeks emails the state unemployment office every day and calls once a week. She estimates she spends 20 hours a week trying to get her benefits.
She calls the process time-consuming, deflating and frustrating,
Crissie Jones owns a decal business that was hit hard with the shutdown. Her husband Greg was a diesel tech. Now he works odd jobs. Their weekly income went from $2,200 a week to $200 a week. She applied for a small business loan but wasn't approved. She applied for unemployment benefits and received them starting April without any issues. In December, it stopped.
Like Seguin and Weeks, her claim is stuck in January.
Jones calls the office daily and can get through about three times a week. She also has sent about 300 emails.
"Nobody cares," Jones said. "It does something to your soul."
Jones was able to talk to a representative with the Office of Unemployment Insurance Wednesday morning. The representative said the claim was fixed and that she would see the funds within the next day. She had still not received the money by Thursday afternoon. She said she has no hope.
As the state began shutting down due to COVID-19 last year, AppalReD assumed it would need to represent a lot more people in unemployment hearings who had been wrongfully denied, Smith said. Instead, people were not getting denied or approved, they just sat there.
He and others in state legal aid offices were at a loss of how to solve the problems, saying there needed to be a "bureaucratic plunger" to push things through. Last year, the legal aids threatened action against the state after people were getting charged for over-payments while never receiving a decision on their unemployment benefits.
They have been meeting with the governor's and unemployment offices biweekly since November.
"The fundamental problem is you got a software system and, in some sense, a staffing system that requires individual attention for a lot of these cases," Smith said.
He said finding a solution to these cases takes persistence and an unending supply of patience.
"I don't expect people to have that," Smith said. "What people are going through dealing with this on top of all of the other stresses in life. It's asking the impossible. It's harder than having a job."
The Kentucky Labor Cabinet recognizes the problem.
"As a result of an unprecedented number of claims, a limited number of experienced UI staff, and the antiquated computer system, it is taking longer than anyone would like to process unemployment benefits," Kevin Kinnaird, a spokesperson for the cabinet, said in an email.
Things are slowly improving. Lines aren't outside the Capitol Annex in Frankfort, like in June. The state set up 125 phone appointment times per day as a partial solution.
The Kentucky Career Center will open 11 regional offices around the state on April 15. The Office of Unemployment Insurance will also open a new call center next month, hiring 20 daytime employees and adding 40 more employees to work the afternoons, nights and weekends. There are plans to add a second call center.
Still, data shows that it's harder to get unemployment benefits now than it was a year ago.
On March 31 last year, 96% of unemployment insurance applicants in Kentucky would get their first payment within three weeks, according to U.S. Department of Labor data. By Oct. 31, only 27% of applicants received their first payment within three weeks and that number rose to just 36% within three months.
Those timelines had improved again by Jan. 31, when 63% of claimants would receive their first payment within three weeks. Still, more than 30% of applicants who were still waiting for their first payment at 10 weeks.
The federal expectation is that first payments are made on 87% of claims within three weeks.
Nationwide, 78% of claimants received their first payment within three weeks on Jan. 31. In October, the rate was 57%, and in March, it was 97%.
More than 1.8 million unemployment insurance claims have been filed in Kentucky during the pandemic, with 745,000 being unique claimants, according to the Kentucky Labor Cabinet. More than 634,000 claimants, or 85%, have been paid as of March 11.
Kentucky has paid out more than $5.9 billion in benefits since last March.
Last week, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to continue unemployment benefits until Labor Day. Amy Cubbage, general counsel for Gov. Andy Beshear, said unlike in December when there was a disruption for claimants, there should be no gap in benefits.


Jose doesn't make a ton of televised appearances these days, but crowds love him, nevertheless, especially Brooklyn, where he wrestled Austin Aries last year. He wasn't even able to make his full entrance before Sullivan attacked him from behind on the ramp. It was totally unexpected and I like the angle because it finally moves the physically impressive Sullivan into a full-fledged feud where we can see what he's capable of.
Royce and Billie Kay have been spinning their wheels in NXT for so long that I honestly think it's time they're brought up to the main roster. It's obvious they won't be dethroning Asuka as NXT Women's Champion, so they might as well go to Raw or SmackDown Live. At any rate, this was a decent match while it lasted, though nothing memorable. Logan had a fine outing, but she'll need more opportunities to showcase her skills and develop her character before she can become a player in NXT's women's division. Hopefully she'll get that opportunity in the Mae Young Classic airing next week.
Brooklyn was the perfect place to bring the United Kingdom competitors in for a match in NXT because of course the fans there are very familiar with them. Each of them received loud reactions from the audience, particularly Dunne. That guy has all the makings of a main event star. This was a super fun tag team match, and although it wasn't terribly long, the crowd enjoyed the action. We really should be seeing more of these four on NXT TV and not every few months.
As is usually the case with these post-TakeOver editions of NXT, almost the entire episode consisted of footage from the event as well as interviews and recaps. That show was sensational on Saturday night, but you would be better off watching the whole thing and not just bits and pieces. As a result, we were left with two matches and an angle on this show, and only the tag team main event is worth watching.


A Horry County Sheriff's Office van was swept away in flood waters Tuesday night near Nichols resulting in two female mental health patients drowning in the Little Pee Dee River, according to officials.
The families of two women who died while being transported to a mental health facility during Hurricane Florence are outraged at their deaths.
The incident happened in the area of the Little Pee Dee River, which branches off from the Lumber River, in Mullins, South Carolina.
"They were unable to do so", Thompson said.
"High water rescue teams arrived and were able to rescue the two deputies from the top of the van".
On Wednesday, a report in KOAA identified the victims as Windy Wenton, 45, and Nicolette Green, 43.
The two individuals being transported were confirmed dead by the Marion County coroner. "It's come up 2 feet since just last night".
Richardson said the patients' bodies were being recovered Wednesday morning.
More miles of northbound Interstate 95 in SC, just south of the North Carolina line, have been closed due to flooding from Hurricane Florence, the S.C. Department of Transportation said Tuesday. He said the deputies, Stephen Flood and Joshua Bishop, drove around barricades on the flooded road, and authorities are trying to figure out why. They were women who voluntarily sought help. Thompsons said his office would cooperate with the probe.
She said her mother was a trusting person who was betrayed by the deputies. Their names also yielded no records in the Horry County jail and court index systems.
Hershberger said that her mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia three years ago and took medication for the condition; a new therapist who Green visited on September 18, determined she needed to be committed to a mental institution. She posted multiple times about her struggles. At almost 7 p.m. Wednesday, State Law Enforcement Division spokesman Thom Berry confirmed the bodies had been recovered.
Speaking to the Associated Press, Marion County Coroner Jerry Richardson said, "They're both still under the water".
Some Carolinians were relieved that the storm was pushing out, despite the continued threat of flooding from rivers. The death toll from Florence has risen to at least 32 people in three states, with 25 fatalities in North Carolina.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Mr Moon, Kim also said he will visit the South's capital Seoul "in the near future ". The Kaesong complex was shut down in early 2016 as part of Seoul's unilateral sanctions against the North.
Still, during a radio interview , Brady said that he hates to "make projections and expectations" about how Gordon can help. But more or less, it's just looking at the playbook".
The Russian defence ministry said body fragments, personal belongings and the plane's debris had been found by search ships in the Mediterranean on Tuesday.
It was his second hat-trick for Chelsea , coming four years after he scored all the goals in their 3-0 win over Newcastle . On current form, he could easily win the award again this season.
Markle's mother, Doria, and her family has stayed out of the spotlight and now some relatives are sharing their family history. In an interview with Vogue , he said: "The last thing I wanted Harry to look at was her make-up; I wanted him to see her".
Police say they found a 52-year-old woman in the basement of the daycare with what they say was a self-inflicted slashed wrist. It was not immediately clear how many other children were at the centre at the time of the assault.
Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a statement Monday. Trump announced the move Monday afternoon, after repeated requests from Republicans in both chambers of Congress.
And he called a question about whether Kavanaugh should withdraw "ridiculous". "I think they're going to do a good job". One of Kavanaugh's friends was in the room and Kavanaugh covered her mouth to stop her from screaming, she said.
Surveillance video that showed Knight hitting the two men with his truck was likely to play a central role for both sides. Knight ran over Carter after a fistfight with Compton consultant Cle "Bone" Sloan , whom he also clipped with his truck.
Visiting manager Mark van Bommel had no complaints with the defeat, but did feel the final result slightly flattered Barca. What did you make of Messi's free-kick? "We have to pinch ourselves to remind us that we are living through a unique era".
We like to think we know Chrissy Teigen pretty well. "They can name me Janet and I won't". Chrissy Teigen has been letting fans mispronounce her last name for years .
Back in 1991, however, the FBI did investigate sexual harassment claims against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. If she shows, or makes arrangements to testify behind closed doors or to committee staffers, fine.
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Philip Henry (born April 16, 1971) is an American former rower.

Biography
Henry trained in Princeton, New Jersey, but grew up in Seattle and attended the University of Washington. He was a member of the American eight crew that won the gold medal at the 1997 World Rowing Championships. In 1999 he was World Champion in the coxed pair and won gold in the eight at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg. He was an alternate at the 2000 Summer Olympics for the United States.

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Lane Speer is a 16 year old girl who spends her family vacations camping in the mountains. She takes the memories for granted until she loses her father to an unexpected bout with cancer. Only a year later, as Lane is still reeling from her father's death, he mother remarries a guy that Lane hardly knows. Worst of all, he is a Mormon. To top it off, while they are on their honeymoon, they arrange to have her stay with her Mormon step-aunt who takes her away to a bible-themed girls camp with a bunch of young Mormon girls. Confronted with memories of camping with her family, she tries to find peace with her new surroundings and deal with the death of her father.
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