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PG&E, facing more than $30 billion in potential liability claims from various parties, said it intends to file for bankruptcy protection later this month, Bloomberg reported.
USAA offers financial services to members of the military, veterans and their families. It’s one of the largest employers in San Antonio with more than 19,000 workers.
Hartwig said “more focused targeting of the military community by competitors and new entrants” into the market have created an “increasingly competitive environment” for the company.
“USAA is setting the pace, but we must continue to invest in the people, processes and technologies that will allow us to be there for members today and in the future,” he said.
The bonus for 2018 was announced at an employee meeting hosted by CEO Stuart Parker on Tuesday at USAA’s headquarters.
The company had about 12.8 million members at the end of 2018, an increase of 400,000, or about 3 percent, from 2017. By comparison, membership expanded by more than 500,000, or about 4 percent, in 2017.
USAA’s board reviews annual results in several areas, including financial strength, employee productivity and how well the company delivers on its mission, to gauge corporate performance and calculate the bonus.
The privately held company will release 2018 financial results in April, but said its net worth rose more than $500 million to $31 billion last year.
USAA officials view the figure — the difference between its assets and liabilities — as one measure of its financial health and strength.
The San Antonio Express-News previously has reported that the maximum performance bonus nonexecutives and nonmanagers could earn in any given year was 20 percent under the scoring system USAA uses.
Also Tuesday, Fortune magazine ranked USAA 24th on the publication’s list of the world’s most admired companies, down four spots from a year ago.
The publication of the National Audit Office's (NAO) report into the abandoned process means another day of humiliation for civil servants at the department, who were condemned for their "damning failure" by new transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin in the Commons yesterday.
Officials were forced to cancel the bidding process after a legal challenge from Virgin Rail against the decision to award the lucrative franchise to rival train operator First Group.
It subsequently emerged the process was fundamentally flawed. The NAO said there were "significant errors" in the tool used by the DfT to calculate how big a loan bidding companies would be required to have, in order to guarantee franchise payments to the government.
There was no one person in charge of the process and the competition "lacked strong project management", the NAO said.
"Cancelling a major rail franchise competition at such a late stage is a clear sign of serious problems. The result is likely to be a significant cost to the taxpayer," NAO chief Amyas Morse said.
"The failure of essential safeguards raises questions about the department's broader management approach, as well as this specific matter."
Staff and adviser costs, legal costs and external advisers together cost the taxpayer over £9 million, the NAO found.
Yesterday Sam Laidlaw's report into the fiasco found that Virgin and First Group had been given confusing information and were treated inconsistently by the department.
"His report appears to blame officials for many of these problems on the basis ministers were not made sufficiently aware, or were even misled," transport committee chair Louise Ellman said.
"This begs serious questions about ministerial accountability."
Peter Riddell, director of the Institute for Government, said there had been "failings at every level" - and warned that a big part of the problem might be civil servants struggling to cope with the impact of austerity.
"We have raised the issue of a 'fragile' Whitehall getting through a challenging era of cuts," he commented.
"This is possibly an early glimpse of what happens when parts get stretched too far doing too many things at the same time. What matters now is that the civil service and ministers find a way forward and learn these harsh lessons quickly."
A successful marriage involves talking. Lots of talking So says Marty Whelan, veteran broadcaster and husband of 33 years to Maria.
“The thing about us is that we are always chatting about something,” he laughs down the phone line. The couple got married in 1985, but met almost a decade before that in 1974 at the now defunct Grove disco. “We started talking then and we never stopped.
Longstanding love is the subject of photographer Ari Seth Cohen’s latest book, Advanced Love. Profiling 40 couples to whom love is not bound by age or time, the book explores themes of love and companionship through first person accounts from the couples themselves, as they muse about lives spent together.
Cohen’s inspiration comes from the love that he observed between his grandparents. “The image of my grandparents holding hands lovingly and laughing at one another’s jokes will forever be ingrained in my memory,” he explains.
All my grandparents stayed together until the end of their lives. They were madly in love. This kind of love seems to becoming more rare these days.
The 35-year old Cohen learned a lot about love while making the book. While making it, he found himself in his first long-term relationship, and he nurtured this newfound love with lessons he gleaned from the senior set.
“So much about staying vital is linked to having a sense of community, whether it be family, friends, a pet, or a partner,” he suggests.
Laughter, says psychoanalyst and former RTÉ newsreader Michael Murphy, is key to making a marriage work in the long term. Murphy has been with his husband Terry for 34 years, and they laugh every day.
Over the years, Michael left broadcasting to train as a psychoanalyst, and the couple run a successful practice from Dublin.
“I also think that partly a relationship can succeed when the people are very different, and we are very different people,” says Terry.
“We each have a different response to life and we live as much in the day as we possibly can. I’ve had a long career of working with people who are either alcoholics or drug dependent and that is one of the things that I have learned from them.
You can be successful in your life if you keep it very much in the day and don’t let your neurosis and all the rest of it run away with you.
Alice Carey, an Irish American and author of memoir Manhattan To West Cork (Collins Press) is featured in Advanced Love with her husband Geoffrey Knox. Carey has always railed against conformity, and it was no different when considering marriage during the mid 1970s.
Alice and Geoffrey were obvious choices, says Cohen, when he was compiling his wish list for Advanced Love.
Alice says that installing a few key relationship rules have kept her and Geoffrey on the straight and narrow since they got together all those years ago.
“Make love as often as you can in ways that give equal pleasure to both,” she orders.
Turn off the telly and sit on the couch together of an evening and talk. Always call each other by their first name - not sweet heart or darling - so you really connect with the person you’re talking to.
Finally, Alice says that the key to a long relationship is in making plans.
Michael and Terry agree with Alice about the importance of making plans.
Above all, they say, is to find a way to be kind to each other every single day.
“We are both very kind and we have a respect and admiration for each other. That’s very important. We have been very lucky because we really admire each other and the work that we do,” points out Michael.
For Marty Whelan, one of the great joys of his marriage to Maria has been the family that they have created together.
“My daughter Jessica is 28 and my son Thomas is 25 and they still live at home. They are our friends as well as our children. They live independently of us, and we all get on very well.
We are so aware of how lucky we are to get on the way we do. We have very few fallings out in our home, and we are so grateful for that.
As Marty and Maria celebrate their fourth decade together, Marty is in love with his bride as much today as on the day they married.
As a result of meeting the couples in his book, Ari Seth Cohen has come to one conclusion about love that lasts, and that is that it must be grounded in one thing, in order to stay the course.
So what should we look for in a mate for life? What is the key to long-lasting love? The answer, says Alice Carey, is simple. Seek out a person who you enjoy spending time with and you will find true love.
Grocery chain Aldi, which currently has about 1,700 stores in the United States, plans to open 800 more by 2022. Aldi, which started off as a small food store in Germany in the early 1900s, opened its first US location opened in southeastern Iowa in 1976. In addition, the chain has also pledged $5 billion to renovate existing stores. According to industry watchers, the decisions by Aldi are because of recent predictions that deep-discount-grocery business will grow five times faster in the US than traditional stores.
The remodeled ALDI store in Dickson is opening Aug. 22.
Company spokesperson Brett Cozzi said the remodeling is part of a nationwide $1.6 billion investment plan ALDI announced last year. More than 1,300 ALDI stores will be remodeled and expanded across the U.S. by 2020, Cozzi said.
The Dickson ALDI, located at 781 Highway 46 South, is among 16 stores in the Nashville area in which the company is investing $24 million to update by the end of 2019.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony and official grand opening followed by a golden ticket giveaway will take place that day at 8:45 a.m.
The remodeled ALDI stores will focus on fresh food, produce, dairy and baked goods. The updated design also features open ceilings, natural lighting and environmentally friendly building materials.
Its innovative business model has made ALDI one of the fastest-growing retailers in the U.S. As part of the company’s expansion plans, 25,000 new jobs will be added in stores, warehouses and offices nationwide by 2022. ALDI recently was named to the Forbes America’s Best Large Employers list and is proud to offer staff market-leading salaries and benefits.
Open since 1976, ALDI operates more than 1,750 U.S. stores in 35 states. More than 40 million customers each month benefit from the ALDI simple and streamlined approach to retailing. ALDI sells the most frequently purchased grocery and household items, primarily under its exclusive brands, which are designed to meet or exceed the national name brands on taste and quality.
The Queensland Public Sector Union (QPSU) says it will work closely with the Corrective Services Department to make changes to working conditions at the Townsville prison in the state's north.
Earlier this week, prison officers unanimously supported a motion of no confidence in senior management, over rostering and security concerns.
QPSU spokesman Joel Wilson says Corrective Services has now agreed to a negotiation period of about six weeks .
"We are happy that we didn't have to take any stronger industrial action other than our coordinated meeting on Monday morning," he said.
"In terms of not having to push harder to get our voices heard, yes we're happy.
"It was very encouraging and I think the department's really been left with little option but to come to the table and talk to us properly.
"No doubt there'll be some fine points to pick over and then as to how they're to go about fixing the rostering system so it doesn't put officers and the general community at risk.
"There's lots to discuss but it was a very encouraging meeting and hopefully it's going to mean good progress from here."
SO SCOTT drops below level of claim coming off layoff. HEWITTS has speed, drops in class. CROWN THE CHIEF looks like the one to catch; handles wet.
REVOLUTIONARY beaten favorite in all three starts should run past them late this time. TRANSPARENT cost $725GF as yearling, gets blinkers on for fifth start. MACHITE stretches out after rallying for second his first two starts.
ANCIENT ROME plunges from $30G to $15G, has touch of back class. TOWERING blew cheap maiden claimers away with blinkers on. BLUE CREEK also drops to $15G after finishing third for $30G.
TALMADGE HILL drops into maiden claimer after flashing speed vs. special weights. AZASECRET comes off several good tries at this level. AWESOME ISLAND has speed, drew the rail.
TUG OF WAR stretches out after losing his last two starts by neck, head. THE THINKER gets blinkers on for second start back; ran well over the inner dirt last winter. SMOKIN CANDY makes first start since being claimed Nov. 9; moves up in wet going.
GW’S HAMMER showed big improvement in second start; blinkers on. MONTEREY DRIVE liable to come out running in first start. BURNING FLAME set pace to deep stretch in turf sprint.
ESCAPEFROMREALITY dueled, drew off late in debut. STONELESS set pace vs. stakes company last three starts. GO GET THE BASIL broke maiden by daylight at 23-1.
SHESABRONXBOMBER makes first start after being claimed by Rudy; has faced better than these. SALLY’S DREAM ran third over the IDT off string of solid grass efforts. HUNTER FORWARD drops in class, tries dirt after some decent tries on turf.
DENDRITE has had many chances, but appears best in this cheap field. REVERE figures to be in front most of the trip. TOUGH ALL DAY came off long layoff to run second as favorite at Parx. HARVEST KING ran second last two starts at this level.
1 What Happens in a Case of Potassium Imbalance in the Body?
2 How Much Potassium Should a Person Have on a Daily Basis?
High potassium in your blood can occur as a result of trauma, medications or kidney failure. If left uncontrolled, elevated potassium can lead to a heart attack. It is important that your doctor review your medications to see if any are causing your high potassium level. Loading up your diet with low-potassium foods and avoiding the high-potassium ones can keep your diet in check.
Reading labels can help you identify foods containing potassium. Look in the ingredients for any item with the word "potassium" and reduce intake of these foods. When cooking, use low-potassium herbs such as rosemary, thyme or oregano instead of salt substitutes. Many low-sodium foods, such as canned soups or packaged foods, replace sodium chloride with potassium chloride. Being aware of this ingredient can limit the amount of potassium you are eating.
While whole-grain foods and nuts have lots of nutrients and fiber, they are also high-potassium foods. In order to lower your potassium intake, skip whole-wheat bread and pasta, whole-grain rice and bran cereal. Instead, choose lower-fiber white versions of these foods for your diet. Nuts can also be a problem, especially because people often eat more than the recommended 1-ounce portion. Alternate snack choices in place of nuts are crackers, popcorn or tortilla chips.
Many of the liquids you drink are naturally high in potassium and need to be monitored. Cow and soy milk are both high-potassium drinks. Replace these beverages with nonenriched rice milk. Tomato and orange juice are two additional beverages that have a high potassium content. Select grape, apple or cranberry juice as a replacement. Sports drinks with added electrolytes can also contribute dietary potassium if you are not careful. Read the labels on these drinks and avoid those with high amounts of potassium.
Packed with nutrients, certain fruits, vegetables and legumes have a high amount of potassium and should be limited in your diet. Bananas, oranges, cantaloupe, prunes, tomatoes, potatoes, cooked spinach, avocado, split peas, lentils and baked beans all contain more than 200 milligrams of potassium per serving. Limit these foods and portion sizes to decrease intake of dietary potassium. Since these foods are part of a balanced diet, you should replace them with lower potassium choices such as applesauce, grapes, canned peaches or pears, green beans, lettuce, cooked summer squash and bell peppers.
Stacey Phillips is a registered dietitian and nutrition writer. She has had articles and patient information handouts published in the "Renal Nutrition Forum" and the "Journal of Renal Nutrition." She holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and a Masters degree at Central Michigan University.
Phillips, Stacey. "Diet for Lowering High Blood Potassium." Healthy Eating \| SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/diet-lowering-high-blood-potassium-10206.html. 12 December 2018.
Can Too Little Potassium Be Harmful?
HOUSTON -- Authorities in Texas have arrested a former sports medicine trainer charged in connection to Larry Nassar, the former sports doctor who admitted to molesting gymnasts for years. The Walker County district attorney's office says Debra Van Horn was detained Thursday morning by Homeland Security officials at a Houston airport as she exited a flight from China.
The charges stem from an investigation at the famed gymnastics training center run by Bela and Martha Karolyi north of Houston.
In May, former gymnasts Jamie Dantzscher and Jeanette Antolin told "CBS This Morning" they were sexually abused by Nassar for years, often while training at the Karolyi Ranch.
"We're not backing down, we're not going away," Dantzscher told CBS News' Omar Villafranca. "We're going to keep fighting until the right people are held accountable for the mistakes they've made."
Robert Miller played piano and trumpet growing up, but his first love was the bass. He studied under Jimmy Garrison, who played for John Coltrane and now leads Project Grand Slam, a rock, jazz and fusion band.
The six-member combo has a unique sound that has won praise from music critics.
Its third album, Made in New York was released last year.
It features Miller penned hit singles “New York City Groove” and “The Winner,” four other original songs and two tracks recorded live at the world famous New York City jazz club, Blue Note. A re-imagined version of Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” is also included.
The band’s fourth and newest album, The Queen’s Carnival, is due next month. The lead single “The Rescue” is already out.
Kat Robichaud, a semi-finalist on NBC’s “The Voice,” guest sings with the band and appears in videos for “Groove” and “Fire.” They have been viewed more than 150,000 times to date on YouTube.
Other band members include Marcello Casagrandi on keyboards, Mario Castro on sax, Yasser Tejeda on guitar, Joel E. Mateo on drums, and Guillermo Barron Rios on percussion.
The band’s music was featured on the NBC-TV series “Lipstick Jungle,” starring Brooke Shields and Kim Raver. Five tunes were included on the soundtrack.
IM caught up with Robert fresh from a rehearsal to gain some insights into Project Grand Slam’s unique sound.
TheImproper: Tell us about the formation of Project Grand Slam.

PG&E, facing more than $30 billion in potential liability claims from various parties, said it intends to file for bankruptcy protection later this month, Bloomberg reported.

USAA offers financial services to members of the military, veterans and their families. It’s one of the largest employers in San Antonio with more than 19,000 workers.

Hartwig said “more focused targeting of the military community by competitors and new entrants” into the market have created an “increasingly competitive environment” for the company.

“USAA is setting the pace, but we must continue to invest in the people, processes and technologies that will allow us to be there for members today and in the future,” he said.

The bonus for 2018 was announced at an employee meeting hosted by CEO Stuart Parker on Tuesday at USAA’s headquarters.

The company had about 12.8 million members at the end of 2018, an increase of 400,000, or about 3 percent, from 2017. By comparison, membership expanded by more than 500,000, or about 4 percent, in 2017.

USAA’s board reviews annual results in several areas, including financial strength, employee productivity and how well the company delivers on its mission, to gauge corporate performance and calculate the bonus.

The privately held company will release 2018 financial results in April, but said its net worth rose more than $500 million to $31 billion last year.

USAA officials view the figure — the difference between its assets and liabilities — as one measure of its financial health and strength.

The San Antonio Express-News previously has reported that the maximum performance bonus nonexecutives and nonmanagers could earn in any given year was 20 percent under the scoring system USAA uses.

Also Tuesday, Fortune magazine ranked USAA 24th on the publication’s list of the world’s most admired companies, down four spots from a year ago.

The publication of the National Audit Office's (NAO) report into the abandoned process means another day of humiliation for civil servants at the department, who were condemned for their "damning failure" by new transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin in the Commons yesterday.

Officials were forced to cancel the bidding process after a legal challenge from Virgin Rail against the decision to award the lucrative franchise to rival train operator First Group.

It subsequently emerged the process was fundamentally flawed. The NAO said there were "significant errors" in the tool used by the DfT to calculate how big a loan bidding companies would be required to have, in order to guarantee franchise payments to the government.

There was no one person in charge of the process and the competition "lacked strong project management", the NAO said.

"Cancelling a major rail franchise competition at such a late stage is a clear sign of serious problems. The result is likely to be a significant cost to the taxpayer," NAO chief Amyas Morse said.

"The failure of essential safeguards raises questions about the department's broader management approach, as well as this specific matter."

Staff and adviser costs, legal costs and external advisers together cost the taxpayer over £9 million, the NAO found.

Yesterday Sam Laidlaw's report into the fiasco found that Virgin and First Group had been given confusing information and were treated inconsistently by the department.

"His report appears to blame officials for many of these problems on the basis ministers were not made sufficiently aware, or were even misled," transport committee chair Louise Ellman said.

"This begs serious questions about ministerial accountability."

Peter Riddell, director of the Institute for Government, said there had been "failings at every level" - and warned that a big part of the problem might be civil servants struggling to cope with the impact of austerity.

"We have raised the issue of a 'fragile' Whitehall getting through a challenging era of cuts," he commented.

"This is possibly an early glimpse of what happens when parts get stretched too far doing too many things at the same time. What matters now is that the civil service and ministers find a way forward and learn these harsh lessons quickly."

A successful marriage involves talking. Lots of talking So says Marty Whelan, veteran broadcaster and husband of 33 years to Maria.

“The thing about us is that we are always chatting about something,” he laughs down the phone line. The couple got married in 1985, but met almost a decade before that in 1974 at the now defunct Grove disco. “We started talking then and we never stopped.

Longstanding love is the subject of photographer Ari Seth Cohen’s latest book, Advanced Love. Profiling 40 couples to whom love is not bound by age or time, the book explores themes of love and companionship through first person accounts from the couples themselves, as they muse about lives spent together.

Cohen’s inspiration comes from the love that he observed between his grandparents. “The image of my grandparents holding hands lovingly and laughing at one another’s jokes will forever be ingrained in my memory,” he explains.

All my grandparents stayed together until the end of their lives. They were madly in love. This kind of love seems to becoming more rare these days.

The 35-year old Cohen learned a lot about love while making the book. While making it, he found himself in his first long-term relationship, and he nurtured this newfound love with lessons he gleaned from the senior set.

“So much about staying vital is linked to having a sense of community, whether it be family, friends, a pet, or a partner,” he suggests.

Laughter, says psychoanalyst and former RTÉ newsreader Michael Murphy, is key to making a marriage work in the long term. Murphy has been with his husband Terry for 34 years, and they laugh every day.

Over the years, Michael left broadcasting to train as a psychoanalyst, and the couple run a successful practice from Dublin.

“I also think that partly a relationship can succeed when the people are very different, and we are very different people,” says Terry.

“We each have a different response to life and we live as much in the day as we possibly can. I’ve had a long career of working with people who are either alcoholics or drug dependent and that is one of the things that I have learned from them.

You can be successful in your life if you keep it very much in the day and don’t let your neurosis and all the rest of it run away with you.

Alice Carey, an Irish American and author of memoir Manhattan To West Cork (Collins Press) is featured in Advanced Love with her husband Geoffrey Knox. Carey has always railed against conformity, and it was no different when considering marriage during the mid 1970s.

Alice and Geoffrey were obvious choices, says Cohen, when he was compiling his wish list for Advanced Love.

Alice says that installing a few key relationship rules have kept her and Geoffrey on the straight and narrow since they got together all those years ago.

“Make love as often as you can in ways that give equal pleasure to both,” she orders.

Turn off the telly and sit on the couch together of an evening and talk. Always call each other by their first name - not sweet heart or darling - so you really connect with the person you’re talking to.

Finally, Alice says that the key to a long relationship is in making plans.

Michael and Terry agree with Alice about the importance of making plans.

Above all, they say, is to find a way to be kind to each other every single day.

“We are both very kind and we have a respect and admiration for each other. That’s very important. We have been very lucky because we really admire each other and the work that we do,” points out Michael.

For Marty Whelan, one of the great joys of his marriage to Maria has been the family that they have created together.

“My daughter Jessica is 28 and my son Thomas is 25 and they still live at home. They are our friends as well as our children. They live independently of us, and we all get on very well.

We are so aware of how lucky we are to get on the way we do. We have very few fallings out in our home, and we are so grateful for that.

As Marty and Maria celebrate their fourth decade together, Marty is in love with his bride as much today as on the day they married.

As a result of meeting the couples in his book, Ari Seth Cohen has come to one conclusion about love that lasts, and that is that it must be grounded in one thing, in order to stay the course.

So what should we look for in a mate for life? What is the key to long-lasting love? The answer, says Alice Carey, is simple. Seek out a person who you enjoy spending time with and you will find true love.

Grocery chain Aldi, which currently has about 1,700 stores in the United States, plans to open 800 more by 2022. Aldi, which started off as a small food store in Germany in the early 1900s, opened its first US location opened in southeastern Iowa in 1976. In addition, the chain has also pledged $5 billion to renovate existing stores. According to industry watchers, the decisions by Aldi are because of recent predictions that deep-discount-grocery business will grow five times faster in the US than traditional stores.

The remodeled ALDI store in Dickson is opening Aug. 22.

Company spokesperson Brett Cozzi said the remodeling is part of a nationwide $1.6 billion investment plan ALDI announced last year. More than 1,300 ALDI stores will be remodeled and expanded across the U.S. by 2020, Cozzi said.

The Dickson ALDI, located at 781 Highway 46 South, is among 16 stores in the Nashville area in which the company is investing $24 million to update by the end of 2019.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony and official grand opening followed by a golden ticket giveaway will take place that day at 8:45 a.m.

The remodeled ALDI stores will focus on fresh food, produce, dairy and baked goods. The updated design also features open ceilings, natural lighting and environmentally friendly building materials.

Its innovative business model has made ALDI one of the fastest-growing retailers in the U.S. As part of the company’s expansion plans, 25,000 new jobs will be added in stores, warehouses and offices nationwide by 2022. ALDI recently was named to the Forbes America’s Best Large Employers list and is proud to offer staff market-leading salaries and benefits.

Open since 1976, ALDI operates more than 1,750 U.S. stores in 35 states. More than 40 million customers each month benefit from the ALDI simple and streamlined approach to retailing. ALDI sells the most frequently purchased grocery and household items, primarily under its exclusive brands, which are designed to meet or exceed the national name brands on taste and quality.

The Queensland Public Sector Union (QPSU) says it will work closely with the Corrective Services Department to make changes to working conditions at the Townsville prison in the state's north.

Earlier this week, prison officers unanimously supported a motion of no confidence in senior management, over rostering and security concerns.

QPSU spokesman Joel Wilson says Corrective Services has now agreed to a negotiation period of about six weeks .

"We are happy that we didn't have to take any stronger industrial action other than our coordinated meeting on Monday morning," he said.

"In terms of not having to push harder to get our voices heard, yes we're happy.

"It was very encouraging and I think the department's really been left with little option but to come to the table and talk to us properly.

"No doubt there'll be some fine points to pick over and then as to how they're to go about fixing the rostering system so it doesn't put officers and the general community at risk.

"There's lots to discuss but it was a very encouraging meeting and hopefully it's going to mean good progress from here."

SO SCOTT drops below level of claim coming off layoff. HEWITTS has speed, drops in class. CROWN THE CHIEF looks like the one to catch; handles wet.

REVOLUTIONARY beaten favorite in all three starts should run past them late this time. TRANSPARENT cost $725GF as yearling, gets blinkers on for fifth start. MACHITE stretches out after rallying for second his first two starts.

ANCIENT ROME plunges from $30G to $15G, has touch of back class. TOWERING blew cheap maiden claimers away with blinkers on. BLUE CREEK also drops to $15G after finishing third for $30G.

TALMADGE HILL drops into maiden claimer after flashing speed vs. special weights. AZASECRET comes off several good tries at this level. AWESOME ISLAND has speed, drew the rail.

TUG OF WAR stretches out after losing his last two starts by neck, head. THE THINKER gets blinkers on for second start back; ran well over the inner dirt last winter. SMOKIN CANDY makes first start since being claimed Nov. 9; moves up in wet going.

GW’S HAMMER showed big improvement in second start; blinkers on. MONTEREY DRIVE liable to come out running in first start. BURNING FLAME set pace to deep stretch in turf sprint.

ESCAPEFROMREALITY dueled, drew off late in debut. STONELESS set pace vs. stakes company last three starts. GO GET THE BASIL broke maiden by daylight at 23-1.

SHESABRONXBOMBER makes first start after being claimed by Rudy; has faced better than these. SALLY’S DREAM ran third over the IDT off string of solid grass efforts. HUNTER FORWARD drops in class, tries dirt after some decent tries on turf.

DENDRITE has had many chances, but appears best in this cheap field. REVERE figures to be in front most of the trip. TOUGH ALL DAY came off long layoff to run second as favorite at Parx. HARVEST KING ran second last two starts at this level.

1 What Happens in a Case of Potassium Imbalance in the Body?

2 How Much Potassium Should a Person Have on a Daily Basis?

High potassium in your blood can occur as a result of trauma, medications or kidney failure. If left uncontrolled, elevated potassium can lead to a heart attack. It is important that your doctor review your medications to see if any are causing your high potassium level. Loading up your diet with low-potassium foods and avoiding the high-potassium ones can keep your diet in check.

Reading labels can help you identify foods containing potassium. Look in the ingredients for any item with the word "potassium" and reduce intake of these foods. When cooking, use low-potassium herbs such as rosemary, thyme or oregano instead of salt substitutes. Many low-sodium foods, such as canned soups or packaged foods, replace sodium chloride with potassium chloride. Being aware of this ingredient can limit the amount of potassium you are eating.

While whole-grain foods and nuts have lots of nutrients and fiber, they are also high-potassium foods. In order to lower your potassium intake, skip whole-wheat bread and pasta, whole-grain rice and bran cereal. Instead, choose lower-fiber white versions of these foods for your diet. Nuts can also be a problem, especially because people often eat more than the recommended 1-ounce portion. Alternate snack choices in place of nuts are crackers, popcorn or tortilla chips.

Many of the liquids you drink are naturally high in potassium and need to be monitored. Cow and soy milk are both high-potassium drinks. Replace these beverages with nonenriched rice milk. Tomato and orange juice are two additional beverages that have a high potassium content. Select grape, apple or cranberry juice as a replacement. Sports drinks with added electrolytes can also contribute dietary potassium if you are not careful. Read the labels on these drinks and avoid those with high amounts of potassium.

Packed with nutrients, certain fruits, vegetables and legumes have a high amount of potassium and should be limited in your diet. Bananas, oranges, cantaloupe, prunes, tomatoes, potatoes, cooked spinach, avocado, split peas, lentils and baked beans all contain more than 200 milligrams of potassium per serving. Limit these foods and portion sizes to decrease intake of dietary potassium. Since these foods are part of a balanced diet, you should replace them with lower potassium choices such as applesauce, grapes, canned peaches or pears, green beans, lettuce, cooked summer squash and bell peppers.

Stacey Phillips is a registered dietitian and nutrition writer. She has had articles and patient information handouts published in the "Renal Nutrition Forum" and the "Journal of Renal Nutrition." She holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and a Masters degree at Central Michigan University.

Phillips, Stacey. "Diet for Lowering High Blood Potassium." Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/diet-lowering-high-blood-potassium-10206.html. 12 December 2018.

Can Too Little Potassium Be Harmful?

HOUSTON -- Authorities in Texas have arrested a former sports medicine trainer charged in connection to Larry Nassar, the former sports doctor who admitted to molesting gymnasts for years. The Walker County district attorney's office says Debra Van Horn was detained Thursday morning by Homeland Security officials at a Houston airport as she exited a flight from China.

The charges stem from an investigation at the famed gymnastics training center run by Bela and Martha Karolyi north of Houston.

In May, former gymnasts Jamie Dantzscher and Jeanette Antolin told "CBS This Morning" they were sexually abused by Nassar for years, often while training at the Karolyi Ranch.

"We're not backing down, we're not going away," Dantzscher told CBS News' Omar Villafranca. "We're going to keep fighting until the right people are held accountable for the mistakes they've made."

Robert Miller played piano and trumpet growing up, but his first love was the bass. He studied under Jimmy Garrison, who played for John Coltrane and now leads Project Grand Slam, a rock, jazz and fusion band.

The six-member combo has a unique sound that has won praise from music critics.

Its third album, Made in New York was released last year.

It features Miller penned hit singles “New York City Groove” and “The Winner,” four other original songs and two tracks recorded live at the world famous New York City jazz club, Blue Note. A re-imagined version of Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” is also included.

The band’s fourth and newest album, The Queen’s Carnival, is due next month. The lead single “The Rescue” is already out.

Kat Robichaud, a semi-finalist on NBC’s “The Voice,” guest sings with the band and appears in videos for “Groove” and “Fire.” They have been viewed more than 150,000 times to date on YouTube.

Other band members include Marcello Casagrandi on keyboards, Mario Castro on sax, Yasser Tejeda on guitar, Joel E. Mateo on drums, and Guillermo Barron Rios on percussion.

The band’s music was featured on the NBC-TV series “Lipstick Jungle,” starring Brooke Shields and Kim Raver. Five tunes were included on the soundtrack.

IM caught up with Robert fresh from a rehearsal to gain some insights into Project Grand Slam’s unique sound.

TheImproper: Tell us about the formation of Project Grand Slam.