Mike Rowe is the man. Can I just say that up front? He’s the host of “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” and was also the host of the much loved and missed show, “Dirty Jobs”.
Rowe is a thinking, and he addressed the United Airlines fiasco by using his Facebook page. A reader of his asked, “Were you as disturbed as I was? How can a company treat their customers like that and remain in business? I know you fly all the time — what would [you] do if you were the CEO?”
Rowe recognized that the sight of a passenger of the airline being dragged down the aisle way by police security is not the best look, and he at fist thought of “the obvious ease with which it could have been avoided. A little common-sense and the freedom to apply it could have resolved this situation in a dozen different ways.”
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
Don't Give Kids Cough Syrup Or Pain Meds That Contain Codeine, FDA Says
The Food and Drug Administration says children under 12 should not be given prescription medicines that contain codeine or another narcotic, tramadol, and that such drugs can also be dangerous to youth between 12 and 18.
On Thursday, the FDA said it will require that prescription drugs containing codeineor tramadol carry a warning on the label against using them in children under 12 or in women who are breast-feeding. The agency cited evidence that the drugs could cause dangerously slowed breathing in some children, which could lead to death.
Multiple prescription drugs contain codeine or tramadol. For example, the painkiller Tylenol 3 contains acetaminophen and codeine. Drugs containing codeine already carry a black-box warning against using it to treat pain in children who have their tonsils removed.
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On Thursday, the FDA said it will require that prescription drugs containing codeineor tramadol carry a warning on the label against using them in children under 12 or in women who are breast-feeding. The agency cited evidence that the drugs could cause dangerously slowed breathing in some children, which could lead to death.
Multiple prescription drugs contain codeine or tramadol. For example, the painkiller Tylenol 3 contains acetaminophen and codeine. Drugs containing codeine already carry a black-box warning against using it to treat pain in children who have their tonsils removed.
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#EndorseThis: Your Brain On Drugs Meets Our Failed War On Drugs
“This is your brain,” said the pretty teenager, placing a pristine egg on the kitchen counter, “and this is heroin,” she added, hefting a big cast-iron skillet. “And this is what happens to your brain when you snort heroin,” she shouted, suddenly crushing the egg with the pan, and then smashing up the rest of the kitchen to dramatize the destructive impact of addiction.
Now actress Rachel Leigh Cook is back with another egg-based ad, two decades after that famous public service message flooded the airwaves. And this time, she has brought two eggs — one white and one brown — to illustrate the ruinous social consequences of the war on drugs, especially in communities of color, which has failed to reduce narcotics abuse while wrecking millions of lives and wasting untold billions of dollars.
The original ad was a production of the Partnership for A Drug Free America; this powerful rebuttal, and that’s what it is, was produced for the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes decriminalization, treatment, and harm reduction as alternatives to “war” and imprisonment.
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Now actress Rachel Leigh Cook is back with another egg-based ad, two decades after that famous public service message flooded the airwaves. And this time, she has brought two eggs — one white and one brown — to illustrate the ruinous social consequences of the war on drugs, especially in communities of color, which has failed to reduce narcotics abuse while wrecking millions of lives and wasting untold billions of dollars.
The original ad was a production of the Partnership for A Drug Free America; this powerful rebuttal, and that’s what it is, was produced for the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes decriminalization, treatment, and harm reduction as alternatives to “war” and imprisonment.
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Heading 50 EAST out of Ocean City to Salisbury....... drive careful.... allot of trees down in road way with debris....
Publishers Notes: I'm sure they meant WEST, but it's whatever.
Australia Plans To Tighten Rules For Citizenship
It may soon become harder for immigrants to become Australian citizens. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbullproposed sweeping changes Thursday.
Turnbull said applicants would need to be permanent residents for four years — three years longer than the current wait — show higher English competency and display even more evidence of integration through work or school and "respect for women and children."
"There is no more important title in our democracy than Australian citizen, and Australian citizenship, the Australian citizen, that institution must reflect Australian values," Turnbull said.
In followup remarks, the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton said the prospective citizen will have to show Australian values. How those values will be tested has yet to be determined, Dutton said, but the public will have the opportunity to weigh in.
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Turnbull said applicants would need to be permanent residents for four years — three years longer than the current wait — show higher English competency and display even more evidence of integration through work or school and "respect for women and children."
"There is no more important title in our democracy than Australian citizen, and Australian citizenship, the Australian citizen, that institution must reflect Australian values," Turnbull said.
In followup remarks, the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton said the prospective citizen will have to show Australian values. How those values will be tested has yet to be determined, Dutton said, but the public will have the opportunity to weigh in.
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MasterCard Testing Chip-And-Fingerprint Payment Verification System
Vacation Deal Scammer Ordered To Pay $6 Million To Delta For Impersonating Airline
Another scam artist caught pretending to represent a major airline has been hit with a huge judgment. This time, it’s a Florida businessman who has been ordered to pay $6 million for using Delta Air Lines’ name and logo to lure victims into buying bogus vacation packages.
Department Store Departures Will Be Good For Malls In The Long Run
While the nationwide retail apocalypse has led to lost jobs and terrible liquidation sales, there’s one piece of good news for consumers and for the companies that own malls. As old-fashioned anchors like Sears and JCPenney move out, more diverse stores, restaurants, and entertainment venues are moving in, and they’re paying much higher rents.
Harley Davidson to layoff 118 employees from York plant
SPRIGETTSBURY TWP., York County, Pa. — As part of a production realignment, Harley-Davidson will layoff 118 workers at its Vehicle Operations plant in Springettsbury Township.
The layoffs will begin June 23rd and be completed by the end of July.
The company is moving production of its Softail motorcycles to the Kansas City facility, according to Bernadette Lauer, Communications Manager.
The York plant will continue to produce Touring bikes and Trikes. About 800 employees will remain in York after the layoffs, down from over 2,000 just eight years ago, in 2009.
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The layoffs will begin June 23rd and be completed by the end of July.
The company is moving production of its Softail motorcycles to the Kansas City facility, according to Bernadette Lauer, Communications Manager.
The York plant will continue to produce Touring bikes and Trikes. About 800 employees will remain in York after the layoffs, down from over 2,000 just eight years ago, in 2009.
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Friday, April 21, 2017
Spring Bazaar May 6
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SPRING BAZAAR
West Side Fire Dept. - Bivalve, MD
Saturday, May 6th, 2017
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Hamburgers-Cheeseburgers-Hot Dogs
Reuben Sandwiches
Homemade Vegetable Beef Soup
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
410-873-2140
Benefit: West Side Vol. Fire Dept. Auxiliary
Special Weather Statement (Strong Thunderstorms)
Alert: ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOMERSET...SOUTHWESTERN
WICOMICO...WEST CENTRAL WORCESTER AND SOUTH CENTRAL DORCHESTER
COUNTIES...
At 918 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 11 miles northeast
of Saint Inigoes Creek, moving east at 35 mph.
Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail are possible with this
storm.
Locations impacted include...
Princess Anne, University Of Maryland Eastern Shore, Westover, Deal Island, Marion Station, West Pocomoke, Waterview, Oriole, Fairmount, Upper Hill, Rehobeth, Kingston, Dames Quarter, Wingate, Shelltown, Widgeon, Manokin, Upper Fairmount, Mount Vernon and Monie.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
Target Area:
Dorchester
Inland Worcester
Wicomico
Experience Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore
Water, marsh, trees, sky. This is the landscape of Dorchester County, MD, repeating itself along undulating narrow roads with high ditches for dozens of flat country miles.
This is the land where Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in 1822, where her sisters were sold to distant plantations and Tubman was sold to a new master at the age of 6. It’s the land she fled in 1849 to become a free woman in Pennsylvania, and it’s the place to which she returned to free her brothers, parents and approximately 70 others.
With a pistol at her hip and a no-nonsense demeanor, Tubman guided people to freedom through the Underground Railroad, a network of pathways and safe houses established throughout the United States to help enslaved people escape to the North. Tubman liked to say that she never lost a passenger.
Now, more than a century after her death, the woman born Araminta “Minty” Ross is getting her due in the place where she was born. She changed her name to Harriet after marrying John Tubman, a free black man, in 1844.
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NEWS IN NUMBERS
10%
Drop in purchases of sugary drinks in Berkeley, Calif., over the first year the city started taxing them. The Bay Area city was the nation's first to approve a so-called soda tax; since then, a handful of others have.
$3.3 billion
Annual tourism, according to the Perryman Group, that Texas could lose if the legislature passes anti-LGBT bills, including one that would regulate which bathroom transgender people can use.
1 cent per milligram
Tax that Congress and the states of Alaska and California are considering levying on prescription opioids such as OxyContin. The revenue would go toward programs to prevent and treat addiction.
$7 million
Penalty that Virginia and Wisconsin each have to pay the federal government for allegedly making false claims of low error rates in their administration of food stamps. Both states were working with Julie Osnes Consulting at the time.
July 1
Deadline for states, set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to clarify their policy on what happens when parents fall behind on school meal payments. New Mexico, for example, recently became the first to ban "lunch shaming," the practice of making students work for their meals or feeding them less nutritious options.
26
Number of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers that each earned more than $125,000 in overtime. These officers doubled, sometimes tripled, their base salaries.
Fewer than 12,200
People who were caught illegally crossing the Southwest border of the United States last month, which is the lowest number in 17 years.
1960s
The last time, until this year, when the New Hampshire House failed to pass a state budget, which means the governor's budget will now go directly to the state Senate without any of the House's changes.
60%
Drop in Seattle police officers' use of moderate and high-level force since 2011, when the Justice Department released a scathing report on SPD and ordered the city to adopt new policies and training to reduce excessive force.
$12 million
Amount Michigan has spent defending itself in cases involving the Flint water crisis. Part of the money has gone to Flint to reimburse the city for legal costs it also incurred.
64 cents
What women in Wyoming are paid for every dollar that men make, which is the largest gender wage gap of any state.
Amid competition, Verizon loses key customers for first time
In the first three months of the year, Verizon lost 307,000 wireless subscribers who are billed each month, the more lucrative kind of wireless customer. MoffettNathanson Research says it's the first-ever lost in that category, which covers phones, tablets, smartwatches and other connections. For cellphones alone, Verizon lost 289,000 customers. Verizon said it would have lost even more customers if it hadn't launched the unlimited plan.
Total wireless revenue fell 5 percent to $20.9 billion, because of fewer customers and less money coming from the fees Verizon charges when customers go over their data limits. Unlimited plans don't have those fees.
Growth in the wireless subscribers has slowed down now that most Americans have a cellphone. Instead, companies have been poaching customers from each other with lower prices and offers to pay people to switch.
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Wrongfully Convicted Entitled to Refunds, Rules Supreme Court
People who are freed from prison when their convictions are reversed deserve a refund of what they paid in fees, court costs and restitution, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
"They are entitled to be presumed innocent" once their convictions are thrown out, said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the state "has zero claim" to their money.
The 7-1 decision orders the state of Colorado to refund several thousand dollars to two defendants, a woman and a man, who were convicted of sex crimes but had their convictions reversed. Shannon Nelson, who was charged with abusing her children, was acquitted in a retrial, and the prostitution-related charges against Louis Madden were dropped.
In both instances, the state insisted on keeping the restitution they had paid.
UCLA law professor Stuart Banner and the UCLA Supreme Court Clinic appealed the case of Nelson v. Colorado to the high court last year, noting that Colorado was the only state that regularly refused to refund money taken from criminal defendants who were later exonerated.
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"They are entitled to be presumed innocent" once their convictions are thrown out, said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the state "has zero claim" to their money.
The 7-1 decision orders the state of Colorado to refund several thousand dollars to two defendants, a woman and a man, who were convicted of sex crimes but had their convictions reversed. Shannon Nelson, who was charged with abusing her children, was acquitted in a retrial, and the prostitution-related charges against Louis Madden were dropped.
In both instances, the state insisted on keeping the restitution they had paid.
UCLA law professor Stuart Banner and the UCLA Supreme Court Clinic appealed the case of Nelson v. Colorado to the high court last year, noting that Colorado was the only state that regularly refused to refund money taken from criminal defendants who were later exonerated.
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Medical Marijuana Gets West Virginia Governor's Approval
Saying he was there to show basic compassion, Gov. Jim Justice signed into law the bill that makes West Virginia the 29th state to legalize medical marijuana.
Justice signed the bill in a Wednesday ceremony with a few legislators in attendance, including Delegate Mike Pushkin, D-Kanawha, who sponsored several medical marijuana bills through the years, and Sen. Richard Ojeda, D-Logan, who was the lead sponsor of the bill that passed.
"With great pleasure, I'm going to sign this into law," Justice said. "I think all of us feel like we are doing something good for families out there. At the end of the day, no matter what we do, there's a name attached to it -- a family attached to it. We know that."
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Justice signed the bill in a Wednesday ceremony with a few legislators in attendance, including Delegate Mike Pushkin, D-Kanawha, who sponsored several medical marijuana bills through the years, and Sen. Richard Ojeda, D-Logan, who was the lead sponsor of the bill that passed.
"With great pleasure, I'm going to sign this into law," Justice said. "I think all of us feel like we are doing something good for families out there. At the end of the day, no matter what we do, there's a name attached to it -- a family attached to it. We know that."
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