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With the NBA planning to resume play late next month, the league said on Friday that after testing 302 players for the coronavirus on June 23, 16 players tested positive.The league did not say which players had tested positive for the virus, but those players will remain in self-isolation until they satisfy public health protocols for discontinuing isolation and has been cleared by a physician.Meanwhile, the league is moving forward with a planned relaunch on July 30, with 22 teams of the league’s 30 teams participating in the conclusion of the season and subsequent postseason based at Orlando’s Wide World of Sports. Fans will not be allowed to watch in person.The league also announced that the 2020-21 season will begin on December 1. The league suspended play on March 11 when Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 moments before tipoff in a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Several games were allowed to conclude that evening, but the NBA has not held a game since.“We have worked together with the Players Association to establish a restart plan that prioritizes health and safety, preserves competitive fairness and provides a platform to address social justice issues,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “We are grateful to our longtime collaborator Disney for its role in playing host and making this return to play possible, and we also thank the public health officials and infectious disease specialists who helped guide the creation of comprehensive medical protocols and protections.”The league said on Friday that the league and its players’ association have completed a comprehensive plan for the remainder of the season.The NBA said the 22 participating teams will be the eight teams in each conference with the highest current winning percentages and the six teams that are currently within six games of the eighth seed in either conference. The teams will play eight games each to determine seeding. Schedules for those games will be released tonight, the NBA said.Following the conclusion of the season, this is how the NBA says the postseason will be determined:At the conclusion of the seeding games, the seven teams in each conference with the highest combined winning percentages across regular-season games and seeding games will be the first through seventh seeds for the NBA Playoffs for that conference. If the team with the eighth-best combined winning percentage (regular-season games and seeding games) in a conference is more than four games ahead of the team with the ninth-best combined winning percentage in the same conference, then the team with the eighth-best winning percentage would be the eighth playoff seed in that conference.If the team with the eighth-best combined winning percentage in a conference (Team 8) is four games or fewer ahead of the team with the ninth-best combined winning percentage in the same conference (Team 9), then those two teams would compete in a play-in tournament to determine the eighth playoff seed in the conference. The play-in tournament will be double elimination for Team 8 and single elimination for Team 9.The NBA’s standard playoff tiebreaker procedures will be used to break any ties on the basis of winning percentage. Once the 16-team playoff field is set, the NBA Playoffs will proceed in a traditional conference-based format with four rounds and best-of-seven series in each round. The 2020 NBA Finals will end no later than Oct. 13. 3463

against a school district alleging they failed to address bullying, racism and her son’s special needs.Rebecca Ligler’s son Elijah, a 16-year-old sophomore at Noblesville High School, was involved in a fight with another student on Sept. 25.The altercation was captured on cellphone video and posted on social media.As a result of the fight, Elijah was expelled and can’t return to the district until July 31, 2020, records show.The video was used as evidence in Elijah’s expulsion. 484

With November being "National COPD Awareness Month,” experts urge patients who suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease to verify their treatment plans, and to be diligent about COVID-19 precautions.Seventy-one-year-old Janice Cotton is a self-proclaimed "advocate for COPD-ERS." Her advocacy is all over YouTube. She says, “Oh, I think so!.. I think I’m a YouTube star.”Cotton said she likes to tell her story, and while full of personality, her road to advocacy wasn't easy.“In 1997, my mom died from COPD,” Cotton said. “We didn’t know what it was. We had no idea. The last thing she said was, ‘Janice, please stop smoking.’”She said she smoked a pack a day for more than 40 years. Even after being diagnosed with COPD, she says she still smoked.“I didn’t quit smoking when he told me, because when I went into the office to get the test, I was told you’ll be dead in 10 years so I said, ‘What the heck? I may as well keep smoking,’” Cotton said.Eventually, she quit, and now urges others to do the same.Does Cotton still crave tobacco?“Oh no way Jose. Not at all; I don’t crave it,” Cotton said. “I don’t think about it. I tell people who are thinking about smoking, I say, 'Put a straw in your mouth, toothpick, something, anything but a cigarette.'”“This is a treatable disease,” said Dr. Tom Corbridge, pulmonologist, a faculty member at the University of Northwestern near Chicago, and GlaxoSmithKline medical expert. “It is a progressive illness but it's also a treatable illness and the sooner you get in, the sooner you connect with a trusted healthcare provider, the sooner you can get help to restore some of the things you’ve lost.”He says COPD is an umbrella term for chronic lung disease, which include things like emphysema and chronic bronchitis. He says there are 27 million patients with COPD in the U.S. and it's the fourth-leading cause of death.“The main symptom that COPD causes (is) shortness of breath," Corbridge said. It's "hallmark symptom that would be worse with exertion, but also cough, raising of phlegm or mucous and wheezing are really the hallmarks of the disease.”Those symptoms, he said, can be complicated by COVID-19.“The pandemic has impacted my life and my disease management,” Cotton said. “So many of us were scared (of) death and afraid and didn’t want to go anywhere, didn’t want anybody to come see you.”In a recent GlaxoSmithKline study, 83% of people living with COPD agree that COVID-19 has been a wake-up call about the vulnerability of the illness. But, Cotton said she's using her voice to make sure all COPD patients are diligent about things like face masks, hand washing and social distancing. She also recommends having what she calls an "action plan" with your doctor.“I want people to understand and realize that knowledge is power. The more you investigate and research, the better off you’ll be when it comes to managing COPD,” Cotton said.Doctors say the most important aspect is staying in touch with your physicians and staying on top of your symptoms. 3035

With warmer weather and shorter winters, the ski industry is suffering.“We’re long passed the time when you can drive a Prius and say, ‘I’m doing what I can on climate,’” said Auden Schendler, senior vice president of sustainability with Aspen Skiing Company, one of the oldest ski resorts in the country.Schendler says with the planet warming due to greenhouse gas emissions, America has lost a month of winter since 1940, if you count winter as a day with frost. He predicts those numbers will get even worse, if the world doesn’t get a better grip on climate change."50% reduction in the season in certain locations by 2050 and 90% by end of century,” Schendler said. “If you loss the last half of March, because its suddenly super hot and people are playing golf, you’re going to go out of business.”While these environmental challenges are impacting ski town economies across the country, scientists say warming weather is also hurting people who never even hit the slopes.“Scientifically, changes have been happening really quickly and we’ve been able to see them intensify over the years, too,” said Twila Moon, deputy lead scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center.Her team’s research shows climate change has a trickle-down effect on some of our most important industries.“It does influence agriculture,” Moon said. “It influences water run off which impacts our drinking water. So, drought and flood patterns are different.”Also, it means a different way of operating for ski resorts.“We used to be able to have more snow more reliably and now it’s more volatile,” said Jim MacInnes, CEO of Crystal Mountain Resort in Michigan.MacInnes has had to adjust to changing climate during his 35 years in the ski industry. Today’s warmer weather causes his team to spend more money and more energy on making snow at times of winter when it used to still fall from the ski.The dry-up has caused his Crystal Mountain to adjust operations and become more of a four-seasons resort.“We do a lot of things in the spring, summer and fall that have helped to mitigate the winter climate change problem,” he said.A former electric engineer, MacInnes is looking for ways to fix this worldwide problem.“Just know that there are a lot of solutions shifting more of our energy use to electricity, clean electricity,” he said.Back in the Rocky Mountains, Schendler supports scientific solutions but believes real changes on the ground level will only come through pressuring high-ranking government officials.“This is a global systems problem, and we need systems solution,” he said. “Which means American government needs to lead.” 2639

— are also increasingly getting caught up in dangerous situations, Southwick said. "Journalists reporting on those issues and on activists are being caught up in the same kind of threats that the activists themselves are facing," she added.Southwick said it was essential that governments push back against organized crime and impunity. "They [organized crime gangs] see that there are no consequences for killing journalists — that sends a message that they can continue getting away with it.""We welcome the unprecedented fall in the number of journalists killed in war zones but, at the same time, more and more journalists are being deliberately murdered in connection with their work in democratic countries, which poses a real challenge for the democracies where these journalists live and work," Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said in a statement.The organization also noted that the number of journalists who had been arbitrarily detained was 12% higher than in 2018, with 389 journalists in prison connected to their work as of December 1.China, the report said, holds a third of arbitrarily detained journalists. 1155