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Waste matters – Lethbridge Campus Media [Video]
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A European technology has made its way to southern Alberta. For the last two decades biogas has been generating power throughout Europe. Lethbridge became home to a bigoas facility two years ago, but the facility is still not operating at its full potential. Sarah Redekop has more. The hum of these engines carry waste that […]

Heartbreaking loss USC LSU AP Top 25 poll [Video]
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Heartbreaking loss USC LSU AP Top 25 poll [Video]

Florida State fell out of The Associated Press college football poll on Tuesday after starting the season 0-2, becoming just the third team to go from preseason top-10 to unranked in the first regular-season poll since the rankings expanded to 25 in 1989.Georgia remained No. 1, receiving 57 first-place votes after starting the season with a blowout of then-No. 14 Clemson. The Tigers hung on at No. 25.Ohio State is No. 2 with five first-place votes. No. 3 Texas and No. 4 Alabama each moved up a spot, putting three Southeastern Conference teams in the top four along with Georgia.No. 5 Notre Dame jumped two spots after opening the season with a victory at then-No. 20 Texas A&M, which fell out of the rankings.Florida State has been the early seasons major disappoint. The defending Atlantic Coast Conference champion lost a Week 0 game in Dublin, Ireland, to ACC rival Georgia Tech and then dropped another league game Monday night at home to Boston College.No other preseason Top 25 team this year lost to an unranked opponent to open the season. Florida State did it twice as a double-digit favorite.The other preseason top-10 teams to fall all the way out of the Top 25 after Week 1 in the past 35 years were Michigan in 2007 after famously losing to Appalachian State as No. 5 and Clemson in 2008. The Tigers were No. 9 but opened with a blowout loss to Alabama and tumbled out of the rankings.Mississippi remained at No. 6. Oregon slipped four spots to No. 7 after winning a close game with Idaho. Penn State stayed at No. 8. Missouri moved up two spots to No. 9 to give the SEC five teams in the top 10. Michigan dropped one spot to No. 10.Georgia Techs 2-0 start has the No. 23 Yellowjackets ranked for the first time since 2015.Poll pointsBecause Florida State started its season a week before most of the country, they move into an exclusive club of teams that began their seasons 0-2 with each loss coming while ranked in the top 10.Notre Dame was the last to do it in 2022, when the Fighting Irish began the season No. 5, lost at No. 2 Ohio State in their opener, and then were upset at home the next week by Marshall while ranked eighth. The Irish went to on finish 9-4.Ohio State opened the 1986 season ranked ninth and lost back-to-back games to ranked opponents, No. 5 Alabama and No. 17 Washington. The Buckeyes were No. 10 when they played the Huskies. Ohio State finished 10-3.The 1967 Texas team and TCU from 1952 also started 0-2 while ranked in the top 10 of both games.Florida State is only the second ranked team to lose twice before the first regular-season poll was released, joining 1951 Kentucky. The Wildcats went from No. 6 to No. 17 while going 1-2 to start the season, losing at No. 11 Texas and at Mississippi.Florida State gets a weekend off before resuming its schedule with home games against Memphis and new ACC member California before a trip to SMU followed by a home game against Clemson.Youve got a football team that nobody envisioned ever being where we are and having disappointment, having failure, but I do believe in what this team can do, coach Mike Norvell said after the BC loss. I believe in what this team can accomplish.Moving upThe big movers upward in the Top 25 were Miami and Southern California.The Hurricanes jumped seven spots to No. 12 after routing Florida at The Swamp and have their best ranking since cracking the top-10 late in the 2020 season.No. 13 USC moved up 10 places after beating LSU with a late touchdown Sunday night in Las Vegas. The loss dropped LSU to No. 18. The Trojans started last season at No. 6, but ended up unranked after a disappointing 8-5 season with 2022 Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams.In-and-outThe only other team to move into the rankings this week, along with Georgia Tech, was fellow ACC school Louisville. The Cardinals were among the top unranked voter-getters in the preseason and now sit at No. 22. Conference callDespite Florida State and Clemson starting the season 0-3, the ACC has one more team in this weeks rankings than it did last time:SEC 8 (Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 18).Big Ten 6 (Nos. 2, 7, 8, 10, 13, 21).ACC 5 (Nos. 12, 22, 23, 24, 25).Big 12 5 (Nos. 11, 16, 17, 19, 20).Independent 1 (No. 5).Ranked vs. rankedNo. 3 Texas at No. 10 Michigan. The first regular-season meeting ever is a top-10 matchup at the Big House.No. 14 Tennessee vs. No. 24 NC State in Charlotte, North Carolina. Interesting SEC-ACC ranked matchup.

California declares State of emergency as land movement threatens power lines [Video]
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California declares State of emergency as land movement threatens power lines [Video]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Tuesday in the city of Rancho Palos Verdes as severe land shift in the area is threatening the community and disrupting power lines.Emergency officials will be able to direct state resources toward responding to the threat of the land movement, the governor’s proclamation said.More than 200 homes in the city, around 30 miles south of Los Angeles, had their power cut Monday as a long-running ground shift close to them is threatening utility lines.”The city is located on four out of five sub-slides that comprise the Greater Portuguese Landslide Complex,” the governor’s office said. “Land movement at part of the Complex has significantly accelerated following severe storms in 2023 and 2024.””This is unprecedented,” Rancho Palos Verdes City Council member Barbara Ferraro said Sunday. “No one knows really, in a way, what to do.”Southern California Edison cut off electricity Sunday to 140 homes in the Portuguese Bend community, an outage that it says is indefinite because the shifting ground threatens utility poles and raises the risk of fires in the city.”There was a fire last week,” SoCal Edison spokesperson Kathleen Dunleavy told CNN affiliate KABC. “It was a small fire, but the fire was caused when one of our lines fell because of land movement, and that shows how dangerous this area is.”An additional 105 customers lost power Monday evening as the company continues to monitor the threat from ground movement.Rancho Palos Verdes is an oceanfront community in southwestern Los Angeles County, west of Long Beach. It was incorporated as an independent city in 1973.Officials say the land there has been shifting slowly for decades, but the problem is worse than it used to be. “The movement has accelerated dramatically over the last 12 months, where some areas are moving up to 10 inches a week,” said City Council member David Bradley. “You can almost see the ground move.”To encourage wary residents to heed evacuation warnings, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said law enforcement is stepping up patrols in the community and launching drones to look for looting. “You’re going to jail if you come here to steal anything,” Luna said in a news conference on Sunday.Rancho Palos Verdes has been under a local state of emergency since October 2023, and natural gas service was shut off in the Portuguese Bend neighborhood on July 29.Fourth District Supervisor Janice Hahn said Sunday that Los Angeles County has set aside an additional $5 million to respond to the disaster.”Yes, this landslide has been moving for decades, but the acceleration that’s happening currently is beyond what any of us could have foretold, and it demands more response from the state, more response from the federal government,” Hahn said.

Absolute Health Care Services Celebrates 20 Years of Home Healthcare [Video]
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Absolute Health Care Services Celebrates 20 Years of Home Healthcare [Video]

[video:6045]ALTON – When Debra Ross saw her fellow Medicare home health nurses leaving the profession, it inspired her to open Absolute Health Care Services as another option for nurses and families in the Riverbend area. Absolute Health Care Services offers different levels of at-home care, from companionship to housekeeping to complete personal care. This month, they’re celebrating 20 years of business.“When you’re providing services for someone, it’s not only going in there and helping them with personal care or housekeeping,” Ross said. “There’s a lot more that’s involved in that. We advocate in every aspect of their care.”Depending on what a client needs, Ross will connect them with a companion, sitter, registered nurse or other licensed employee. She said she is “cost-conscious” and works with clients to find a schedule that works for them. Unlike other home health services, Absolute Health Care Services doesn’t charge extra for nights or weekends. They also don’t require a minimum of hours, so clients can utilize them as needed, even if it’s just for a few minutes at a time. “In our business, people only need us when they need us. That’s that. And when they don’t, we’re not there,” Ross explained. “They create their schedule, they create the time, they create the days of the week…For that reason, too, we created bath and mini visits. So if someone doesn’t need us for two hours, and they need just assistance for a bath, we go in and do a bath and then we leave.”Absolute Health Care Services can work with you to decide what assistance you need. Some clients contact them for transportation and pet care; others need help with dressing, grooming and toileting. Their services run the gamut, and their only goal is to make life easier for their clients, and maybe a little brighter, too.“We have one client that we literally take up to Grafton to get a fish sandwich every week. That’s what he wants,” Ross laughed.Absolute Health Care Services recognizes that a family’s decision to utilize a home health service is often a difficult and emotional one. Ross and marketing associate Hazel Morgan noted that this job is about the client, but they also try to support the loved ones as much as they can.“You’re not only addressing the client’s needs,” Ross said. “You’re also really engaging the family and assisting them and guiding them and supporting them, too.”Absolute Health Care Services is celebrating 20 years this month. They have an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, and Ross jokes that she promised employees they’ll have a cake to mark the occasion. After all these years, how are they still so successful?“Deb was there when a lot of people weren’t,” Morgan said. There were not a lot of homecare agencies around. So word of mouth and the job that she does, they’re very well-known…[The employees are the] best of the best, and the fact that they’re all licensed and trained, you can count on them.”To learn more about Absolute Health Care Services and what they can offer you, call them at 618-466-1010. Ross added that prospective employees should also reach out.