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Here's How Much $1000 Invested In KLA 10 Years Ago Would Be Worth TodayTwo cracking goals helped Maidstone beat Eastbourne and took their unbeaten run into double figures. Bivesh Gurung sparked memories of his FA Cup stunner against Barrow in giving George Elokobi’s side the lead. And while George Alexander levelled for high-flying Eastbourne early in the second half, a superb effort from Antony Papadopoulos restored the lead. Aaron Blair then secured victory in added time after a mistake by Boro keeper Joseph Wright. Maidstone are now 10 games unbeaten in National League South, a run stretching back to early September, and sit just four points off the play-off places. The match was only seven minutes old when Gurung fired the hosts in front. Forcing a mistake in the Eastbourne defence, he pinched possession before arrowing an absolute beauty into the top corner from 25 yards. It was his first goal since his wonder strike in the FA Cup against Barrow last season and this one was hit equally well. Maidstone were pressing well but Eastbourne had a good chance to level before the 20-minute mark after launching a counter-attack down the right. George Alexander chested down a cross and looked set to score but a touch off Alexis Andre Jr sent the ball out for a corner, from which Jayden Davis might have levelled after the second ball fell his way when well-placed. Matt Bentley had a close-range effort blocked at the other end after meeting Charlie Seaman’s cross, while Greg Cundle fired narrowly wide after a decent run into the box and Temi Eweka’s header from a Sam Corne corner was saved. The Stones played the odd loose pass and conceded a couple of needless free-kicks out wide as the half wore on but Eastbourne’s deliveries were poor. However, their defensive Achilles heel was exposed again in the 53rd minute as another free-kick led to Boro’s equaliser. They didn’t deal with the initial delivery and when the ball came back across goal, Alexander nodded home. Maidstone turned to Sol Wanjau-Smith before the hour mark, the returning forward given a warm reception after rejoining on loan from Bath until the end of the season. He was quickly involved but it was another loanee, Crawley man Papadopoulos, who restored the hosts’ lead with another special strike in the 69th minute. Cundle more than played his part, keeping the ball alive out wide and finding Bentley. He then fed Papadopoulos, who bent the ball past keeper Wright from the edge of the area. Substitute Riley Court threatened a late third after pouncing on a loose ball and beating his man but fired just wide. Maidstone made sure of the points in the third minute of added time when Wright came rushing out of his area, only to lose out to Blair, who found the empty net. Eastbourne finished with 10 men with Yahaya Bamba dismissed after a melee in the corner in the closing seconds. Maidstone: Andre Jr, Seaman, Fowler, Eweka, Brookes, Corne, Gurung (Wanjau-Smith 59mins), Papadopoulos, Bentley (Greenidge 70mins), Cundle (Court 82mins), Blair. Subs not used: Coulthirst, Holden. Eastbourne: Wright, Barry, Alexander, Sesay, Kensdale, Davis (Pavey 74mins), Odusanya, Johnson (Bamba 46mins), Clarke (Diarra 90+3mins), Willard-Innocent, Bird. Subs not used: Quick, Diarra, Ligendza. Referee: Isaac Searle. Attendance: 1,860.A stroke changed a teacher’s life. How a new electrical device is helping her move
ExpressVPN Black Friday deal: Get up to 61 percent off a 30-month planA University of British Columbia PhD student has invented a new way to connect patients in rural and remote communities with ultrasounds without patients having to leave their communities. For this invention, David Black was given the Mitacs Innovation Award for Outstanding Innovation at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Tuesday. Mitacs is a non-profit national research organization that partners with Canadian post-secondary students, private industry and government to fund research and foster innovation. The award recognizes extraordinary talent from across Canada whose Mitacs-funded research has the potential to achieve larger societal and economic impacts, according to the organization. Mitacs is itself funded by the federal and provincial governments. Remote ultrasounds will allow health-care professionals to better triage patient care and help people living in remote communities avoid unnecessary travel, says Black, a PhD student in the department of electrical and computer engineering under the supervision of UBC professor Tim Salcudean. Currently, people in remote communities pay extortionate amounts to access ultrasounds, which tend to take only a few minutes, Black says. As an example Black points to Bella Bella, a remote community on British Columbia’s central coast. He says community members collectively spend around $500,000 per year to fly to Vancouver for ultrasound appointments. Research done by UBC Centre for Rural Health Research co-founder Jude Kornelsen in 2020 found that rural residents pay an average of $2,234 in out-of-pocket expenses per diagnosis, per individual, accounting for travel, meal, accommodation and lost wage costs. If an ultrasound could be done in a resident’s community, that would save people time and money and reduce carbon emissions, Black says. There’s also the added benefit of being able to access health care no matter the weather and giving the patient the ability to ask for a family member or trusted community member to perform the exam, he says. Black says his invention was tested this summer in Skidegate, on Haida Gwaii, where 10 healthy volunteers had abdominal ultrasounds done at the Skidegate Health Centre. The ultrasounds were led by two expert sonographers 750 kilometres away at UBC’s Vancouver campus and performed by volunteers in Skidegate. Normally people living in Skidegate have to take an eight-hour ferry to Prince Rupert for an ultrasound, which requires a full day of travel each way and a day to be in Prince Rupert, which means taking several days off work or arranging child care to access a single test, Black says. Depending on the season, weather can disrupt ferry sailings and extend travel time. Using Black’s system, sonographers see the ultrasound reading and a video of the patient in real time, connected over Wi-Fi or 5G, and manoeuvre the ultrasound probe using a type of lever that mimics the shape and manoeuvrability of the probe. In Skidegate, a volunteer wore a mixed reality headset and could see both the patient and a hologram image of where and how the expert had placed the ultrasound probe. The ultrasound probe has pressure sensors on it, allowing the volunteer to mimic the placement, angle and pressure that the expert wants. When the expert sees the ultrasound reading in real time, they are able to, for example, use their lever to push a little harder and lean the probe slightly to the right. The volunteer would see the hologram shift slightly to the right and that the colour of the hologram has shifted too. Blue means too little force, green means the right amount and red means too much. The volunteers “resoundingly” said that the system was easy to use and needed minimal time to learn, Black says. Black says the goal is to make tele-ultrasound “more accessible than video calling,” in a way that helps, but does not replace, doctors. Remote scans could help identify both patients who don’t need further medical care, saving them an unnecessary trip, and patients who do need further medical care, he said. “Ultrasound is becoming a main diagnostic tool in trauma calls,” Black said. One day his device could be used by paramedics or search and rescue teams to check patients for internal bleeding while still in the backwoods, he said. Rural barriers to health care Many British Columbians who live in urban settings have a hard time understanding some of the challenges people have accessing health care in more rural and remote settings, says Paul Adams, executive director of the BC Rural Health Network. These challenges started more than 20 years ago when B.C. split the province up into regional health authorities, which centralized health-care services in larger urban centres, Adams says. The last couple of decades have seen public and cross-provincial transportation diminish, adding to access challenges, he adds. “The development of the ultrasound piece from a remote diagnostic perspective is fantastic and we support those types of initiatives,” Adams said. The Rural Coordination Centre of BC is running a similar program called Real-Time Virtual Support, which is working to bring virtual care to Indigenous communities in the north and providing specialty consultations online, Adams says. “The challenge that we still face is that many of these communities still don’t have internet access and you can’t replace people with technology,” he said. “Care provision really is a human skill, and something is lost between you in the screen versus you and the person who is providing care to you.” Indigenous people may have valid reasons for not trusting Canadian medical institutions, and rebuilding those relationships is a really significant step, Adams said. He added, “You can’t necessarily do that remotely. You have to engage people in person in order to create those avenues of trust.” Black says he hopes his device can help build trust, because it would give people in remote communities the opportunity to have the ultrasound performed by someone they know. He says he is hoping to finish his PhD by mid-summer and start a company to continue developing his device and partnering with more communities. Robots can also be used in a similar way to provide remote ultrasounds. Robots are already being used in B.C., for example at a Victoria clinic offering dense-breast ultrasound screening. There are benefits to using robots, as they will do exactly what you tell them and are good at performing repetitive tasks, but they are also expensive and complex and require a lot of maintenance and setup, Black says. A robot may be useful when used in a busy hospital setting but isn’t practical in small communities, he says. Black points to a 2022 study from the University of Saskatchewan that compared the costs of using a robot, a robot and a travelling sonographer, just a sonographer, and having all patients travel to urban settings for ultrasounds, and found the combination of the robot and travelling sonographer was the most affordable option. The cost analysis set the cost of a telerobotic ultrasound system at $154,000 and an ultrasound system at $54,000. Annual equipment maintenance was estimated to be around 10 per cent of the purchase cost. Black’s device is even more affordable than the robot and could make for some big health-care savings, he says. A mixed reality headset costs around $500, and then you just need an ultrasound probe and a volunteer to run his test, he says. “It’s important to invest in innovation in order to build a more prosperous future,” Mitacs CEO Stephen Lucas told The Tyee in an emailed statement. “That’s why Mitacs is committed to bringing together researchers and enterprises and providing the critical talent needed for innovation.” Mitacs does not have a requirement for any of the projects it invests in to then be made available to the public or government at reduced cost.YORK, Pa. — Pennsylvanians who signed Elon Musk’s America PAC petition supporting free speech and the right to bear arms are beginning to receive their promised $100 checks. However, some people are getting the checks, even though they say they never signed the petition themselves, which is raising questions about data misuse and fraud. Jeanne Fermier, who lives in Springettsbury Township, York County, said she was surprised when she received a $100 check on Election Day from “United States of America Inc.” "I thought, 'This is strange,' so I opened it and it's a check for $100, and the memo field says 'America PAC Petition,'" Fermier said. The America PAC petition was launched by Musk in October. In a post on X, Musk invited registered voters in Pennsylvania to sign , promising $100 for signers and anyone who referred them. People who signed the petition didn't have to promise they would vote for a certain candidate, or even that they would vote at all. They also weren't paid to vote. They just had to be registered to vote. Fermier says she never signed the petition and never gave anyone permission to use her name. Fermier is a registered voter in Pennsylvania, but she is registered as "no party affiliation." She fears someone could have gotten that information and thought, "I could sign her up for this and get the referral money." In Pennsylvania, voter registration data—including names, addresses, registration status, and political affiliation— can be purchased for $20 from the Department of State . Fermier has filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Department of State. She wants answers about who signed her up and why. "I'd like to know who signed me up and ask the question, 'Why do you think it was okay to do that without my knowledge?'" she said. FOX43 Finds Out reached out to the Pennsylvania Department of State and the Federal Election Commission about this story to ask if it was election fraud. We were told they would not be the agency involved in any investigation and that would be the Department of Justice. We also asked the PA Attorney General's Office if they had any other similar complaints, and they would not confirm not deny anything. Fraud, But Not Election Fraud Michael Dimino, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School, said Fermier’s case isn’t election fraud. "It is rather just regular old fraud," Dimino explained. "The person who signed her name without her knowledge to the petition and tried to get themselves a bit of money from the PAC is committing fraud, but not so much against her—against the PAC." Dimino clarified that paying voters to sign a petition is legal, as long as participants were already registered to vote before signing. What Should You Do If You Receive a Check? Dimino said anyone who receives a check but didn’t sign the petition, should not cash it. "If you didn't sign the petition, you're not entitled to the money," he said. "But if you did sign, there’s no issue with cashing the check." Dimino also believes there could be more legal challenges against the petition, but he doesn't believe they have a case. He believes most people who signed the petition and got the check, will be able to keep that money. Fermier said she has no intention of cashing her check, fearing potential legal consequences. FOX43 Finds Out did reach out to a lawyer representing the America PAC. We asked if they'd heard of any other fraud reports or if they could figure out who signed Fermier's name and address without her permission, and we never heard back. If you have a story you want Jackie De Tore to look into, FOX43 wants to find out. Send her a message on Facebook or send an email to FOX43FindsOut@FOX43.com . You can also join the FOX43 Finds Out Facebook Page .
NoneArticle content Sometime this financial quarter, the Canadian oilsands will hit a major milestone: one trillion dollars in cumulative spending. This number does not represent profits or dividends. It is the amount of direct spending – the capital, the operating expenses, the taxes and the royalties – that Canada’s most important industrial activity has injected into the economy over a period of about 25 years. The oilsands are Canada’s winning lottery ticket. Economists are well aware of the huge outlay of capital that the oilsands attracted in the early 2010s. Many macroeconomic datasets are distorted by them: investment attraction, productivity, GDP per capita: all enjoyed a bump during the oilsands’ most capital-intensive years. What’s less discussed is how those early outlays of capital committed producers to operational and de-bottleneck spending for years to come: the drilling, well pads, gathering pipelines and equipment needed to sustain and optimize operations. As a result of higher royalties and taxes, oilsands spending actually peaked in 2022, not 2014, the latter of which was the high point for the construction phase of the oilsands’ life cycle. The 2022 oilsands expenditures were equivalent to the GDP of Saskatchewan that same year. The trillion dollars in spending has bolstered the Canadian economy in hundreds of ways, but a few are worth highlighting. Over $107 billion in royalties and $79 billion in taxes have been paid to Canadian governments, representing more than the last five years of Canadian defense spending . Billions in goods and services have been procured from Indigenous businesses, and tens of billions from the manufacturing sector in central Canada. Far from just an Alberta success story, the oilsands are a quintessentially Canadian sector. M ore than 2,300 companies outside of Alberta have had direct business with the oilsands, including over 1,300 in Ontario and almost 600 in Quebec. If anything, the trillion-dollar figure is conservative. It does not include third-party handling, tankage or pipeline spend (the cost of TMX, for example). And it does not include IT, corporate, research and development, diluent costs or the indirect spend that impacts countless firms across the country. These add tens of billions more to worker paycheques, small business profits, and taxes. Such a golden goose should surely be cossetted by our political class? Of course not. The oilsands have been consistently undermined by Ottawa. The announcement of an emissions cap is the latest example. Analysis by S&P Global and the Conference Board of Canada show that, depending on the implementation, the cap could force a reduction in output of well over one million barrels of oil equivalent/day, almost of all of which would have to come out of our exports to the United States. This would lead to a significantly lower balance of trade and an even weaker dollar, affecting all Canadians’ buying power. Canada has the world’s fourth-largest oil reserves; a democracy alone on a list with authoritarian regimes Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Ninety-seven per cent of those reserves are in the Alberta oilsands. That juggernaut could keep Canada’s economy prosperous for many more decades, providing the feedstock for chemicals and carbon-based materials whenever global fuel consumption starts to decline. In fact, based on the last three years of current expenditures, the oilsands would hit their next trillion-dollar spending milestone in half the time it took to hit the first. With good planning and collaboration, some of its future expenditures will go toward emissions-reductions activities such as carbon capture and storage, and new technology investment such as carbon fibre production . But if companies are forced to cut their production, they won’t be able to afford to aggressively cut emissions. Nor will they be able to make other investments to maximize and sustain the value of this resource. Shareholders will put their money elsewhere, and spending will decline. A trillion-dollar milestone is something to celebrate. Governments and industry need to collaborate so we can reach it again. Heather Exner-Pirot is the director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Bryan Remillard is senior advisor, policy, at Pathways Alliance and has over 30years of experience in the oilsands sector.
The Bears need to keep their eyes on both “Knuckles” and “Sonic.” That’s the “Thunder and Lightning"-style nickname that Lions running backs David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs gave each other earlier this year, a nod to the “Sonic the Hedgehog” video game. “Both of them are pretty good backs, but they do present a different style of play,” defensive end Montez Sweat said before the Bears’ walk-through Tuesday. “[Gibbs] is definitely a more speedy back. Montgomery, who used to be here before I was, is more of an in-between-the-tackles guy.” In his second season, Gibbs ranks fourth in the NFL with 886 rushing yards. “The way that they can isolate him versus certain aspects of your coverage and ... they find ways to scheme to get him the football,” defensive coordinator Eric Washington said. Montgomery, who spent his first four seasons with the Bears before signing with the Lions in March 2023, has 632 rushing yards — just 33 shy of the Bears’ leading rusher, D’Andre Swift. Only five teams have more rushing yards than the Lions. They’ve played nine games in which both running backs scored touchdowns, tied for third all-time for a pair of teammates, per NFL Next Gen Stats. That’s a major challenge for a Bears defense that’s gotten worse against the run since nose tackle Andrew Billings was hurt against the Cardinals in Week 9. “Our major thing going into this game is to stop the run so we can earn the right to rush the passer,” defensive end Darrell Taylor said. Less ‘Rique Cornerback Tyrique Stevenson started Sunday but played less than half of the Bears’ defensive snaps for the first time all season. Stevenson — who infamously spent the start of the Commanders’ Hail Mary yapping at fans — was replaced by Terell Smith, who appeared in two-thirds of the Bears’ defensive snaps to Stevenson’s 35% against the Vikings. The week before, Smith appeared in 41% of the Bears’ snaps to Stevenson’s 59%. The reason for the uptick, Washington said: Smith’s production. “I love his man-coverage ability,” he said. “Love his ability to diagnose and to really feel route concepts, pattern pressure ... A couple of weeks ago, he came up with a pick for us. So the production is there. We trust him, he’s reliable and he can really fit exactly what we need that position to do.” Special mistake Special teams coordinator Richard Hightower said he thought Bears coach Matt Eberflus had decided to try a field goal when kicker Cairo Santos and holder Tory Taylor ran on the field for fourth-and-4, only to be sent back when the Bears’ offense stayed on the field. Quarterback Caleb Williams eventually threw incomplete. Hightower said his headset was tuned to the special teams channel, when Eberflus communicated the decision on the offensive coaches’ channel. “[Eberflus] said he was [going for it] on the other line, and he just didn’t get it communicated back to us,” Hightower said. Notes • The Bears have worked on Cairo Santos’ spinning onside kick — the one he converted to give his team a chance to tie the game — since Hightower’s arrival. “They never complained about doing it twice a week for two-and-a-half years,” Hightower said. • The Lions and Bears estimated their practice participation after holding a walk-through for the second-straight day. Ninth-year left tackle Taylor Decker missed his second consecutive Lions practice with a knee injury. Receiver Kalif Raymond (foot) and cornerback Carlton Davis III (knee/thumb) also missed practice. All-world receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown, who was a knee injury, was estimated as a limited participant. Bears safety Elijah Hicks did not participate in the team’s walk-through, while guard Ryan Bates was limited but remains in concussion protocol.
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‘There are kids on the estate with potential; we want to give them the opportunity’ – Bransholme club offering free rugby trainingThe withdrawal in the case marked the end of the years-long legal battle between Mr Trump and the special counsel, Jack Smith, and reflected the extraordinary ability of Mr Trump to sidestep an indictment that would have sunk the presidential bid of anyone else. Mr Trump’s election victory was always going to spell the end of the criminal cases against him due to justice department policy that prohibits prosecutors from taking criminal action against a sitting president. But the pre-emptive withdrawals showed how Mr Trump used politics to beat the legal system. In a six-page motion to dismiss the 2020 election interference case, prosecutors said even though Mr Trump was not yet president, they had been told by the department’s office of legal counsel, which provides internal legal advice, to withdraw the case before his inauguration in January. “It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting President,” wrote Mr Smith’s top deputy, Molly Gaston. “That prohibition is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Government stands fully behind,” she added. At the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, from where Mr Trump is running the presidential transition and once stashed classified documents after he left office in 2021, Mr Trump’s communications director, Steven Cheung, issued a gleeful statement on the news. “Today’s decision by the DOJ ends the unconstitutional federal cases against President Trump, and is a major victory for the rule of law. The American People and President Trump want an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system,” Cheung wrote. Within days of Mr Trump’s victory, prosecutors started examining how to shut down the 2020 election case in federal district court in Washington, and the more complicated matter of the classified documents case that was before the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit. Mr Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2022 under the cloud of an impending special counsel investigation into his retention of national security materials at his Mar-a-Lago club after he lost the 2020 presidential election and left the White House. He repeatedly told supporters at rallies and in public statements that he was running for his literal freedom, urging voters to return him to the presidency in part because the charges would only disappear if he were re-elected. Mr Trump also vowed to pursue the prosecutors and federal investigators involved in the cases. In anticipation of an expected legal retribution effort, Mr Smith and his top deputies are expected to resign from the justice department before Mr Trump is inaugurated, the Guardian has reported. For months, Mr Trump’s overarching legal strategy was to delay the criminal cases until after the election – banking on the fact that if he won he could appoint a loyalist attorney general who would simply drop the prosecutions. He was unsuccessful in delaying his New York criminal case, tied to his efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 election through an unlawful hush-money scheme, and for which he was convicted on 34 felony counts. Sentencing has been postponed indefinitely. – Guardian