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by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer PART One Last week, Attorney General Pet er Neronha spent more than an hour sharing his worries with ConvergenceRI about future for Health care delivery in Rhode Island. The prognosis does not look good. In his direct, truth-telling fashion, Neronha identified what he saw as the troublesome trends and symptoms: • A dire lack of primary care providers, rendering the metrics of high numbers of people with Health insurance coverage meaningless. • The growing financial instability of hospital finances, related to disparities in the payer mix, caused in part by an increasing dependence on low-paying public heath insurance plans. • The structural problems of private equity financing of hospitals, where profit, not patient outcomes, drives investments. • The lack of regulatory oversight of the Health care industry, in particular hospitals, outside of transactional consolidations and mergers, making solutions difficult to ach...

by John Donnelly, meteorologist Monday 2/27/23: A sunny start with lows in the mid 20’s gradually clouds over during the afternoon, as low pressure over the midwest begins to invade the northeastern US. We’ll have an afternoon high in the mid 30’s as a high overcast begins to thicken and lower through the evening on a light southeasterly breeze, with snow beginning around midnight and carrying through the night and into Tuesday. __ John Donnelly was born in Hialeah, Florida and moved back to Rhode Island and settled in Johnston, where he grew up until graduating from Lyndon State College in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology. As a child John always wanted to know how air moved, and he ran towards, not away from, thunder and lighting and various other ominous weather phenomena. He returned in 2001 to the old family neighborhood of Elmhurst . Source: https://thefoxposts.com/rhode-island-weather-for-february-27-2023-john-donnelly-TheFOXpo...

Johnson & Wales University to Host Third Annual Food Innovation & Technology (FIT) Symposium on March 6 and 7, 2023 A Two-day public event to bring together the industry’s top culinarians and thought leaders; Keynote Speaker to Discuss Cuisine as an Academic Subject Johnson & Wales University’s College of Food Innovation & Technology (CFIT) will gather food leaders from across the country on Monday, March 6 and Tuesday, March, 7, 2023 for the third annual  Food Innovation & Technology (FIT) Symposium. This two-day convening of culinary innovators and thought leaders will tackle food-based topics including food service, food/beverage product development, food security and access, and food system sustainability. Building on the success of past FIT Symposiums, this year’s event offers expanded programming including a keynote address from prominent culinary historian and  author Paul H. Freedman, Ph.D. who will discuss  Cuisi...

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo, top: Proposed new transit center at Doorance and Dyer streets. (RIPTA) The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority has finally got with the program, or so it seems. It has apparently ditched its relatively attractive new transit hub on Dorrance Street for a plug-ugly center that checks all the boxes for what passes for the latest in contemporary architecture. Cheesy materials and even cheesier factory generated design. Look at how thin the exterior walls are. Got it. Good work, guys! This may only be a computer generated prototype put out by RIPTA to illustrate its latest request for proposal (RFP), but the mere fact that the agency has decided to replace its more or less traditional building proposal with something like the above shows that it has bought fully into the ugly club. My skepticism of RIPTA’s reasons for relocating its bus hub out of Kennedy Plaza remains. My doubts have been mod...

No wonder the whole world unites if tomorrow Earth is invaded by aliens. It may sound like science fiction, but there’s no denying the probability that it is. There are many accounts of encounters with non-human beings, but such stories are often neglected due to a lack of hard evidence. However, things turn differently when a government itself supports such claims. Some of them were General Douglas McArthur, General George Marshall, Werner Von Braun, President Ronald Reagan, General Nathan Twining, General Walter Bedell Smith, Dr. Carl Gustav Jung and many others. Former United States President Ronald Reagan expressed concern about an alien invasion in his speeches from 1985 to 1988. In one of his speeches to the UN, he said: “What if all of us in the world were threatened by an external power, from outer space, from another planet. Suddenly we would realize that we had no difference at all. None of the presidential aides, speechwriters and handlers...

Rare gold coins and a golden earring have been discovered in the ancient Mediterranean port of Caesarea in northern Israel — possibly left and never recovered as Crusaders conquered the area 900 years ago. The Israel Antiquities Authority announced the find on Monday of a small bronze pot holding 24 gold coins and the earring. According to the authority, it was found between two stones in the side of a well in a house in a neighbourhood that dates back some 900 years, during the Abbasid and Fatimid periods. The directors of the excavation, the IAA’s Pet er Gendelman and Mohammed Hatar, said the coins in the cache date to the end of the 11th century. That makes it possible “to link the treasure to the Crusader conquest of the city in the year 1101, one of the most dramatic events in the medieval History of the city”, an IAA statement said. “According to contemporary written sources, most of the inhabitants of Caesarea were mᴀssacred by the army of Baldwin I (...

Central Falls Connect provides eligible households with $30 per month toward high-speed home internet service, making some plans completely FREE for city residents! This program is made possible through the federal Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The ACP benefit can be applied to a new or existing internet plan (for example, WiFi through Cox or Verizon). Eligible households can also receive a one-time discount of up to $100 to purchase a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet from eligible providers, if they contribute more than $10 and less than $50 toward the purchase price. APPLY NOW! Who is eligible for Central Falls Connect? If you live in Central Falls, your household qualifies if it has an income at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines OR any member of the household: Participates in certain assistance programs, such as SNAP, Medicaid, Federal Public Housing Assistance, SSI, WIC, or Lifeline; Received a federal Pell Grant in th...

by John Donnelly, meteorologist Even weathermen have birthdays. I’ll celebrate this one with some morning drizzle and mist, maybe some breaks in the overcast later in the day. It’ll be warm again, mid 50’s for highs from morning lows in the mid 40’s on a south-southwesterly breeze. (Editor’s Note: Happy, happy birthday!) ___ John Donnelly was born in Hialeah, Florida and moved back to Rhode Island and settled in Johnston, where he grew up until graduating from Lyndon State College in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology. As a child John always wanted to know how air moved, and he ran towards, not away from, thunder and lighting and various other ominous weather phenomena. He returned in 2001 to the old family neighborhood of Elmhurst . Source: https://thefoxposts.com/rhode-island-weather-for-february-20-2023-john-donnelly-TheFOXposts-13588.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Ca...

RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY A lawsuit filed by former legislator Blake Filippi against the Speaker of the House for not holding meetings or disclosure opportunities for the JCLS – the group that is an administrative funding arm of the General Assembly has been dropped with the Speaker announcing that he will hold quarterly public meetings of JCLS. $920,280 grant for Accessibility Improvements at Warwick Public Library’s Apponaug and Norwood Branches Central Falls is holding nominations for the 2023 Womens Hall of Fame – due on February 28th Brown approves a 4.75% tuition increase for undergraduates, many graduate students Brown’s college-readiness program for Providence Public Schools students will recruit its first class for fall 2023. The program was first set to start fall 2022. A hotel in Concord, MA will be rented for housing the homeless or migrants from 3-5 days COVID relief checks in RI do not need to be reported as income on ...

Late on Friday, RI Senate President Dominick Ruggerio called for the immediate resignation of former Warwick mayor and RIPTA Chief Executive Officer Scott Avedisian – and the placement of the bus transportation company to now fall under the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, headed by Pet er Alviti. Within a short time, a statement from RIPTA from Avedisian was received. Avedisian has served in his role since 2018 after 18 years as Warwick Mayor. Avedisian reports to the RIPTA board of directors chaired by Normand Benoit. Pet er Alviti serves ex-officio as a member of that board. Patrick Crowley, Secretary-Treasurer of Rhode Island AFL-CIO, and a member of the RIPTA board tweeted that he supported Ruggerio’s call and for the Senate to hold oversight hearings. Some upcoming initiatives involving RIPTA are creation of the Pawtucket Central Falls Train Station Bus Hub facility (with waiting areas, rest rooms, facilities for drivers and covered bus areas ...

Photo: See Narragansett The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) are announcing a project to improve much-used coastal access trails at Black Point, overlooking the bay in Narragansett, is set to start in March, weather permitting. Costing around $90,000, the work aims to limit erosion on parts of the rutted, packed-dirt paths and improve access with the installation of timber steps at a heavily trafficked fishing and sightseeing area, while minimizing impacts to the sensitive shoreline habitat surrounding the trails. DEM and TNC are sequencing the work so that the existing trail area will remain largely open to the public for use while a new trail footprint is set in an area about 800 feet southeast from the parking area, located at the trailhead at 655 Ocean Rd. Located a mile north of Scarborough State Beach, Black Point is a free, DEM-managed, public fishing access area that is used by recreational anglers fishing for specie...

Quick facts When is it? Every February 16th Tagged as Food & Drink Nuts What are the hashtags? #AlmondDay #NationalAlmondDay Have we missed something? Almonds, a bite-sized little nut common in trail mix and other breakfast and snack Recipes . More likely than not, you’ve tried an almond before. But, did you know there is an entire day devoted to the celebration of almonds?! National Almond Day is a reason for foodies to celebrate! It’s generally believed and agreed by historians (and food historians in particular) that almonds were one of the earliest cultivated foods by mankind. Almonds are mentioned as far back in history as the Bible! Although their first place of origin is debated, almonds were thought to have first been cultivated in China and Central Asia. While Travel ing the Silk Road between Asia and the Mediterranean, explorers were said to snack on almonds during the long Travel times. As explorers settled in the Mediterranean region, the trees be...

Hearthstone fans have been having a pretty good day today thanks to the launch of the Return to Naxxramas mini-set, but Blizzard may have dampened celebrations slightly with a new announcement. It has revealed that over the next week, the prices of several in- Game items will increase for various different countries, including Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Japan, and a whole lot more. This was announced by community manager Umilidis on the Hearthstone forums, who explains that these price adjustments will be taking place shortly and that any price descrepancies will be fixed quickly. The statement itself appears to be in Spanish, but we've ran it through Google Translate and included it below. It doesn't specify which items will see a price increase or by how much, but we should know in the coming week. Related: I Play Hearthstone Obsessively For A Week Every Two Years "During the next week, along with the 25.4 update, the price of various Hearthst...

by Kevin Kearns, contributing writer on exercise, fitness Explosive Power in most sports is a must. In MMA it’s as natural as throwing a jab or muay Thai  kick. We have seen many an athlete and many a fighter be extremely explosive right out the gate. It reminds me of thoroughbred racing. You look at a horse and you just see how much stored energy is in their muscles. So, what is explosiveness and what does it take to be explosive in the fight Game . Explosive energy is the ability to react quicker, faster and in some instances harder than your opponent. It can be a matter of microseconds or sometimes the last minute of a grueling championship fight . This energy system which is mostly “ATP”  and “CP” in nature can be developed by anyone with the right training. The challenge is most people’s view of this type of training is confusing at best. They either “do what their last martial arts instructor taught them” or “run to the nearest cross fit gym”.  Unfor...