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December 5, 2024 -SAN FRANCISCO, AL ‒ USA Today is reporting that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the town of Petrolia in California. Southern Oregon to San Francisco is under a tsunami warning. The quake occurred near California's sparsely populated northern coast. The quake struck on the San Andreas fault, which runs along the coast line. The quake was felt by people across Humbolt County, CA. "Move out of the water, off the beach, and away from harbors, marinas, breakwaters, bays and i...
Where premium brand automakers' opulent station wagons and sedans once reigned supreme, a substantial selection of compact and midsize SUVs have taken over. In fact, today's new car market in general is dominated by SUVs—luxury or not—even if they aren't the most value-minded approach to everyday transportation. Mix in some leather seating, LED lighting, and a BMW, Mercedes-Benz, or Cadillac badge, and even less so. Finding a new luxury SUV that fits everyday consumers' budgets can be challengin...
Health care is rapidly evolving as 2025 approaches, and nurses are at the center of it all. As the backbone of the healthcare system, nurses are often impacted by industry changes long before many other healthcare professionals. They must be prepared to face the challenges that shifting trends might create and quickly grasp the changes needed to overcome them. Nurses can expect technology to play an even bigger role in how they do their jobs in the coming year. Vivian Health examined five trends...
December 6, 2024 - When some people harvest their first wild animal, it awakens an appreciation of the great outdoors and nature. For others, it is much more emotional and prompts memories of family or loved ones. For Sadie Pettus, the latter is true. On a recent hunting trip to Barbour Wildlife Management Area (WMA), Pettus was able to take a feral hog, and it evoked memories of her late father, Clark Crates. Although Crates was an avid outdoorsman as well as a talented musician on the piano,...
More than 1 million Americans live with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, with tens of thousands of new diagnoses each year. But with earlier diagnoses and advances in treatment, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has become far more manageable. Death rates among diagnosed individuals have dropped, even as recently as the past five years. Stacker analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to better understand drops in HIV-related deaths nationally and among certain...
Smartphones already make day-to-day life more convenient. Soon, they may be widely used to prove identities. Nine in 10 Americans own smartphones to stay connected, find information, track exercise, play games, capture life's moments, and more, Pew reported in June. Increasingly, smartphones also store highly personal information, like credit card numbers, personal health data, bank accounts, and investment portfolios. Most people still carry around a physical driver's license or state ID to...
The COVID-19 pandemic was a turning point for nursing home care in America. It amplified the dire needs of the nation's vulnerable older adults and spurred families to effect change. Four years later, nursing homes are struggling. They're hurting for funding, under-regulated amid labor shortages, and facing lawsuits from residents' family members alleging lapses in care are causing early deaths. Even after engaging with facility administrators over safety and accessibility concerns during the...
On-the-job training for managers dropped substantially over the past five years, with major repercussions for their employees and organizations. In 2023, managers received an average of 50 days of on-the-job training, down from about 68 days in 2018, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. While they still receive about 19 more training days than is typical across all U.S. jobs, this decline could spell trouble for companies. WorkTango used Bureau of Labor Statistics data to analyze further the...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (DEC. 6, 2024) – Researchers from the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have partnered with atmospheric scientists from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to make groundbreaking discoveries about gamma-ray emissions from thunderstorms. Once considered rare and short-lived, these high-energy bursts are now revealed to be far more dynamic, extensive and frequent than previously thought, particularly in tropical regions, a...
"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority," wrote Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in a 1995 ruling affirming Americans' constitutional right to engage in anonymous political speech. That shield has weakened in recent years due to advances in the surveillance technology available to law enforcement. What used to be a manual process is becoming increasingly automated, making mass deanonymization of protesters, even those taking active steps to hide their identities, possible....
Sameerah Abdullah sends her three school-aged kids to a cyber charter school for some of the same familiar reasons that other families across the nation do, including the flexibility and personalization. For financial literacy class, they go to the bank to open an account. For science class, they head to a museum. On nice days, they try to get out of the city and into the woods. But her motivations are also deeply personal, cultural, and, in some ways, unique to Philadelphia, Chalkbeat reports....
December 7, 2024 – ATLANTA, GA – the Southeastern Conference championship will be decided on the field today when the two beast SEC teams face off in Atlanta in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game. The University of Alabama is not a participant this year. The University of Georgia and the University of Texas will play for the SEC championship. This is a disappointment for Tide fans; but it appears after the Playoff Committee released their ranking showing Alabama ahead of Miami tha...
Business expenses are the ordinary and necessary costs required to run a business. Any money spent in the name of doing business can be categorized as a business expense. Every company incurs expenses in the course of doing business. Common examples of business expenses include the cost of goods and services, everyday operating expenses like payroll and rent, and countless others. Organizing all your expenses into business expense categories ensures you know exactly how your business spends...
Florida is attracting lots of Americans. After accounting for households that moved out of the state, Florida gained 125,316 households from other states in the 2022 tax year. And most of the households coming in are bringing higher incomes than those leaving. This influx of new residents can give Florida economic momentum. With this in mind, SmartAsset evaluated the latest IRS data to see which households from different states are moving into Florida—and which states Floridians are r...
The average square footage of a house in the United States is 2,430 square feet, according to the National Association of Home Builders. That figure varies significantly from state to state, however, with averages ranging from 1,164 square feet all the way up to 2,800 square feet. Average home sizes tend to be larger in areas where prices are lower and smaller in more expensive locales, though other factors also come into play. Understanding the average square footage of houses in your area can...
December 9, 2024 - MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL - Known as the largest and oldest High-IQ society in the world, MENSA International is a non-profit organization for those who have an Intelligence Quotient score in the upper 2% of the general population. MENSA was initially founded by an Australian and a British scientist/lawyer at Lincoln College, in Oxford, England in 1946. The largest national groups are the American MENSA with more than 50,000 members. Followed by the British MENSA with 18,000 members...
According to recent research from experts at the University of California, Los Angeles and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, higher temperatures brought on by anthropogenic climate change have turned an ordinary drought in the American West into the "exceptional" category, with greater evaporation contributing more than a lack of rainfall. The study, published in Science Advances, found that evaporation accounted for 61% of drought severity in the West from 2020 to 2022,...
