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Sunday, May 27, 2018
Maryland State Police Urges Caution As Portion Of I-695 Outerloop Floods
(PIKESVILLE) — Maryland State Police are warning motorists to proceed with caution as the outerloop of I-695 between I-70 and Washington Boulevard was flooded on Sunday evening.
According to the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration, water levels as of 6 p.m. were at three feet and that the roadway will be impassible for an unknown, but extended period of time until the water level recedes.
The State Highway Administration has units on scene and are contacting additional units to respond at this time.
With the National Weather Service issuing a flash flood warning or watch for much of the state, Maryland State Police are warning motorists to be cautious while driving. Flash floods can come quickly and without warning during times of excessive rainfall. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it takes just 12 inches of rushing water to strand a small vehicle, while 24 inches of fast flowing water can carry away most vehicles.
Following the simple advice of “Turn Around, Don’t Drown,” could save lives during flash flooding conditions. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than half of flood-related deaths occur when a vehicle is driven into hazardous flood water.
According to the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration, water levels as of 6 p.m. were at three feet and that the roadway will be impassible for an unknown, but extended period of time until the water level recedes.
The State Highway Administration has units on scene and are contacting additional units to respond at this time.
With the National Weather Service issuing a flash flood warning or watch for much of the state, Maryland State Police are warning motorists to be cautious while driving. Flash floods can come quickly and without warning during times of excessive rainfall. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it takes just 12 inches of rushing water to strand a small vehicle, while 24 inches of fast flowing water can carry away most vehicles.
Following the simple advice of “Turn Around, Don’t Drown,” could save lives during flash flooding conditions. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than half of flood-related deaths occur when a vehicle is driven into hazardous flood water.
Hogan Declares State of Emergency
I have spoken to Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman and am currently heading to Ellicott City. I have directed Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) to assist in any capacity possible, and numerous other state agencies are providing support. I have declared a State of Emergency.
Flash Flood Warning for Baltimore and Howard Counties, MD
The National Weather Service in Sterling Virginia has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
East central Howard County in central Maryland...
Southwestern Baltimore County in northern Maryland...
* Until 730 PM EDT.
* At 425 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the area. Two to four inches of rain has fallen
and this will cause creeks and streams to rise rapidly. The Howard
911 Center reported flooding on Main Street in Ellicott City.
Please seek higher ground immediately.
* Some locations that may experience flooding include...
Ellicott City, Catonsville, Woodlawn, Arbutus, Ilchester and Oella.
* Flash Flood Warning for...
East central Howard County in central Maryland...
Southwestern Baltimore County in northern Maryland...
* Until 730 PM EDT.
* At 425 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the area. Two to four inches of rain has fallen
and this will cause creeks and streams to rise rapidly. The Howard
911 Center reported flooding on Main Street in Ellicott City.
Please seek higher ground immediately.
* Some locations that may experience flooding include...
Ellicott City, Catonsville, Woodlawn, Arbutus, Ilchester and Oella.
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How going for a walk in the woods can improve your life
Police sirens, traffic lights and mobile phone alerts – city folk are accustomed to hearing and seeing these city sights and sounds.
Sarah Ivens, whose new book Forest Therapy hits the shelves today, tells Healthista how escaping oppressive city life and taking a walk in the woods can benefit our health:
When I was a child, trying to understand my parents’ divorce or forget about bullies in the school playground, I found solace in the green spaces around my London home.
I’d naturally seek peace and quiet, and use free time to explore and create in the nearby forest or by a pond I frequented with my grandmother.
Then as an adult, I shut myself into grey offices, Underground tunnels and smoky bars, staring at my phone.
My green spirit turned into a dull charcoal and I let stress and lethargy get the better of me.
The powerful and of-the-moment movement of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing as we call it in the UK, began in the 1980s in Japan.
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Sarah Ivens, whose new book Forest Therapy hits the shelves today, tells Healthista how escaping oppressive city life and taking a walk in the woods can benefit our health:
When I was a child, trying to understand my parents’ divorce or forget about bullies in the school playground, I found solace in the green spaces around my London home.
I’d naturally seek peace and quiet, and use free time to explore and create in the nearby forest or by a pond I frequented with my grandmother.
Then as an adult, I shut myself into grey offices, Underground tunnels and smoky bars, staring at my phone.
My green spirit turned into a dull charcoal and I let stress and lethargy get the better of me.
The powerful and of-the-moment movement of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing as we call it in the UK, began in the 1980s in Japan.
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Saturday, May 26, 2018
5 Hard Things You Need to Start Doing for Yourself on Hard Days
On particularly hard days when I feel that I can’t endure, I remind myself that my track record for getting through hard days is 100% so far.
And, I remind myself that hard days are necessary, to live through and to learn from. The hardest days make us who we are, inside and out. This can be difficult to grasp at first…
So many of us are afraid of ourselves, of our own truth, and our feelings most of all. We talk about how great the concepts of life and love and passion are, but then we subconsciously hide from them every day. We hide from our truest feelings. Because the truth is, life and love and passion all hurt sometimes, and the feelings this pain brings disturbs us.
We are taught at an early age that pain is evil and harmful. Yet, how can we ever deal with real life and true love and passionate work if we’re afraid to feel what we really feel? We need to feel pain, just as we need to feel alive and loved and driven. Pain is meant to wake us up, yet we try to hide from it. Realize this! Pain is something to carry willingly, just like good sense. Because you can only learn how strong you are in every important area of your life when being strong is the only choice you have.
It’s all in how you carry the things that don’t come easy or don’t go your way. That’s what matters in the end. You should stand up for your right to feel pain, to endure it, to deal with the hard realities of life and love and work, as you grow into the strongest, wisest, truest version of yourself.
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And, I remind myself that hard days are necessary, to live through and to learn from. The hardest days make us who we are, inside and out. This can be difficult to grasp at first…
So many of us are afraid of ourselves, of our own truth, and our feelings most of all. We talk about how great the concepts of life and love and passion are, but then we subconsciously hide from them every day. We hide from our truest feelings. Because the truth is, life and love and passion all hurt sometimes, and the feelings this pain brings disturbs us.
We are taught at an early age that pain is evil and harmful. Yet, how can we ever deal with real life and true love and passionate work if we’re afraid to feel what we really feel? We need to feel pain, just as we need to feel alive and loved and driven. Pain is meant to wake us up, yet we try to hide from it. Realize this! Pain is something to carry willingly, just like good sense. Because you can only learn how strong you are in every important area of your life when being strong is the only choice you have.
It’s all in how you carry the things that don’t come easy or don’t go your way. That’s what matters in the end. You should stand up for your right to feel pain, to endure it, to deal with the hard realities of life and love and work, as you grow into the strongest, wisest, truest version of yourself.
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Jim Kunstler Laments America's "Mushrooming Matrix Of Scandals"
When historians of the future finish their meal of rat à la moutarde at the campfire, and pass around the battered plastic jug of wild raisin wine, they will kick back and hear the griot sing of John Brennan, the fabled chief of an ancient order called the CIA, and how he started the monkey business aimed at bringing down the wicked Golden Golem of Greatness, chief of chiefs in the land once known as America.
Alas, the hero’s journey of Brennan, ends in a jail cell at the storied Allenwood Federal Penitentiary, where he slowly pined away between games of ping-pong and knock-hockey, dreaming of a cable network retirement package that never was...
One gets the feeling more and more that Mr. Brennan is at the center of this ever-mushrooming matrix of scandals around the 2016 election.
“Bigger Than Watergate?” the headline in today’s New York Times asks? The mendacity of this once-proud newspaper is really something to behold. Take the following paragraph, for instance:
“Depending on what is eventually proven, the core scandal could rival Watergate, in which a “third-rate burglary” of Democratic National Committee headquarters ultimately revealed a wide-ranging campaign of political sabotage and spying to influence the 1972 presidential election and undercut perceived rivals. In the current case, a hostile foreign power sought to sway the 2016 election and there is evidence that at least some people in Mr. Trump’s circle were willing to collaborate with it to do so.”
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Alas, the hero’s journey of Brennan, ends in a jail cell at the storied Allenwood Federal Penitentiary, where he slowly pined away between games of ping-pong and knock-hockey, dreaming of a cable network retirement package that never was...
One gets the feeling more and more that Mr. Brennan is at the center of this ever-mushrooming matrix of scandals around the 2016 election.
“Bigger Than Watergate?” the headline in today’s New York Times asks? The mendacity of this once-proud newspaper is really something to behold. Take the following paragraph, for instance:
“Depending on what is eventually proven, the core scandal could rival Watergate, in which a “third-rate burglary” of Democratic National Committee headquarters ultimately revealed a wide-ranging campaign of political sabotage and spying to influence the 1972 presidential election and undercut perceived rivals. In the current case, a hostile foreign power sought to sway the 2016 election and there is evidence that at least some people in Mr. Trump’s circle were willing to collaborate with it to do so.”
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Blundering Into Recession
June 12 is just three weeks away.
That’s when the Federal Open Market Committee, FOMC, the Fed’s interest rate policy arm, will in all likelihood raise interest rates another 0.25%, the seventh such rate increase since the “liftoff” in interest rates in December 2015.
The market is currently putting the odds of a rate hike at 95%.
This is the most aggressive tempo of rate hikes of any major central bank and puts U.S. policy rates significantly higher than those in the U.K., Japan or eurozone.
The issue for investors is whether the Fed is raising rates too aggressively considering the strength of the U.S. economy. Higher rates imply a stronger dollar, imported deflation and head winds to growth.
If the U.S. economy is on a firm footing, then the rate hikes may be appropriate, even necessary to head off inflation.
But if the U.S. economy is vulnerable, then the Fed’s actions could trigger a recession and stock market sell-off unless the Fed reverses course quickly.
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That’s when the Federal Open Market Committee, FOMC, the Fed’s interest rate policy arm, will in all likelihood raise interest rates another 0.25%, the seventh such rate increase since the “liftoff” in interest rates in December 2015.
The market is currently putting the odds of a rate hike at 95%.
This is the most aggressive tempo of rate hikes of any major central bank and puts U.S. policy rates significantly higher than those in the U.K., Japan or eurozone.
The issue for investors is whether the Fed is raising rates too aggressively considering the strength of the U.S. economy. Higher rates imply a stronger dollar, imported deflation and head winds to growth.
If the U.S. economy is on a firm footing, then the rate hikes may be appropriate, even necessary to head off inflation.
But if the U.S. economy is vulnerable, then the Fed’s actions could trigger a recession and stock market sell-off unless the Fed reverses course quickly.
More
Anti-Trump forces threaten GOP lawmakers’ lives in name of #Resistance
Political conversations have grown increasingly nasty in recent years, and it may be spawning something even worse: a growing number of people taking their vitriol to another level by threatening members of Congress.
In the past couple of months, the Justice Department announced action in four cases involving people who threatened serious harm, or even death, to federal lawmakers.
Most of those threats were made online, reflecting just one way people can convey their most vulgar feelings toward those on other sides of public policy disputes.
Most of the targets have been Republican lawmakers, who are in the crosshairs of anti-Trump forces who relish their stance as a self-styled #Resistance.
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In the past couple of months, the Justice Department announced action in four cases involving people who threatened serious harm, or even death, to federal lawmakers.
Most of those threats were made online, reflecting just one way people can convey their most vulgar feelings toward those on other sides of public policy disputes.
Most of the targets have been Republican lawmakers, who are in the crosshairs of anti-Trump forces who relish their stance as a self-styled #Resistance.
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Trump: No Deal on Immigration unless includes Wall
President Donald J. Trump vowed not to sign a bill on illegal immigration unless it included funding for a wall and strong border security.
“Unless it includes a wall, and I mean a wall, a real wall, and unless it includes very strong border security, there will be no approvals from me,” Trump said in an interview with Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade aired Thursday morning.
Trump added he was frustrated that he did not get more funding for the wall in the last funding bill, but said that $1.6 billion was a good start.
“I can tell you there is a mood right now for very strong border security,” he said.
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“Unless it includes a wall, and I mean a wall, a real wall, and unless it includes very strong border security, there will be no approvals from me,” Trump said in an interview with Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade aired Thursday morning.
Trump added he was frustrated that he did not get more funding for the wall in the last funding bill, but said that $1.6 billion was a good start.
“I can tell you there is a mood right now for very strong border security,” he said.
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Saved In The NECCO Time! Bankrupt Candy Company Sold At Federal Auction
NECCOmaniacs, take heart!
The bankrupt New England Confectionery Co., primarily known for its chalky sugar wafers and Valentine's Day candy conversation hearts, received an $18.83 million winning bid from Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company, maker of Dum Dum lollipops and Circus Peanuts, at a federal bankruptcy auction in Boston on Wednesday.
And while the future of NECCO candy is still uncertain, the deal may keep the company's products — which also include Mary Janes, the Sky Bar and Candy Buttons — on the shelves a little while longer.
That's good news for fans of the 171-year-old Massachusetts candy maker, which traces its roots back to 1847, when Oliver Chase, an immigrant from England, invented a lozenge cutter (the first American candy machine, according to NECCO). He and his brother, Silas, then founded Chase and Co., which became the New England Confectionery Co. after a merger in 1901.
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The bankrupt New England Confectionery Co., primarily known for its chalky sugar wafers and Valentine's Day candy conversation hearts, received an $18.83 million winning bid from Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company, maker of Dum Dum lollipops and Circus Peanuts, at a federal bankruptcy auction in Boston on Wednesday.
And while the future of NECCO candy is still uncertain, the deal may keep the company's products — which also include Mary Janes, the Sky Bar and Candy Buttons — on the shelves a little while longer.
That's good news for fans of the 171-year-old Massachusetts candy maker, which traces its roots back to 1847, when Oliver Chase, an immigrant from England, invented a lozenge cutter (the first American candy machine, according to NECCO). He and his brother, Silas, then founded Chase and Co., which became the New England Confectionery Co. after a merger in 1901.
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Professor Vows to Boost Female Students’ Grades to Offset Gender Imbalances
University calls prof’s ploy unacceptable
University of Akron officials this week blocked a professor from carrying out his plan to raise female students’ grades as part of what he called a “national movement to encourage female students to go to information sciences.”
According to school officials, Liping Liu, an information systems analysis and design teacher who has worked at the university since 2001, said in an email to students:
“FYI, your grade has been sent to the university registrar. The following categories of students may see their grades raised one level or two: Female students (it is a national movement to encourage female students to go to information sciences).”
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University of Akron officials this week blocked a professor from carrying out his plan to raise female students’ grades as part of what he called a “national movement to encourage female students to go to information sciences.”
According to school officials, Liping Liu, an information systems analysis and design teacher who has worked at the university since 2001, said in an email to students:
“FYI, your grade has been sent to the university registrar. The following categories of students may see their grades raised one level or two: Female students (it is a national movement to encourage female students to go to information sciences).”
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Evergreen State Is Cutting Tons Of Staff Because No One Wants To Attend The School Anymore
The Evergreen State College is cutting dozens of faculty and staff positions, according to a Tuesday announcement it sent to employees.
The Washington state school is cutting 24 faculty positions, some of which were occupied by adjunct professors, and striking 19 vacant staff capacities,reported Campus Reform.
“Over the past several days, 20 staff members have been notified that they are at risk for layoff,” wrote John Carmichael, Evergreen board of trustees’ secretary and president’s chief of staff, in an email obtained by Campus Reform. “These layoffs, although necessary to stabilize the college’s budget, represent a profound loss felt by many.”
The college previously announced it would be trimming $5.9 million from its operating budget, a decrease of over 10 percent, according to The Olympian.
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The Washington state school is cutting 24 faculty positions, some of which were occupied by adjunct professors, and striking 19 vacant staff capacities,reported Campus Reform.
“Over the past several days, 20 staff members have been notified that they are at risk for layoff,” wrote John Carmichael, Evergreen board of trustees’ secretary and president’s chief of staff, in an email obtained by Campus Reform. “These layoffs, although necessary to stabilize the college’s budget, represent a profound loss felt by many.”
The college previously announced it would be trimming $5.9 million from its operating budget, a decrease of over 10 percent, according to The Olympian.
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Mueller probe on Trump obstruction charge will end by Sept. 1, vows Rudy Giuliani
Special counsel Robert Mueller will finish his probe into whether President Donald Trump obstructed the Russia election inquiry by September 1, vowed Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
His announcement puts heavy public pressure on the special counsel's office to meet that deadline as Trump spent Sunday in a tweet storm that was full of rants and raves about Mueller's handling of the investigation into Russia's role in the presidential election.
The former New York City mayor said waiting any longer would risk influencing voters in November's midterm election, which could hurt the Republican Party at the polls.
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His announcement puts heavy public pressure on the special counsel's office to meet that deadline as Trump spent Sunday in a tweet storm that was full of rants and raves about Mueller's handling of the investigation into Russia's role in the presidential election.
The former New York City mayor said waiting any longer would risk influencing voters in November's midterm election, which could hurt the Republican Party at the polls.
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Brennan "Needs Very Good Lawyer" Says DiGenova; "He's Going To Be In Front Of A Grand Jury Shortly"
Veteran D.C. attorney Joe diGenova - who President Trump initially wanted to hire to represent him in the Mueller probe, only to have to step aside due to conflicts - sat down on Fox News on Thursday where he put a bow on what many believe was a high-stakes gamble by various members within the Obama Intelligence Community (IC) and others to infiltrate the Trump campaign and frame Donald Trump with Russiagate.
Key among the participants in this alleged plot is former CIA director John Brennan, whose involvement is thought to have dovetailed with the FBI's recently disclosed "operation Crossfire Hurricane" - the code name given to the agency's earliest counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. The FBI says the operation was launched following a drunken conversation between a Clinton-linked Australian ambassador and a low-level Trump associate, George Papadopoulos, who may have been set up from the start after being fed information by a professor named Joseph Mifsud, who is currently missing.
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Key among the participants in this alleged plot is former CIA director John Brennan, whose involvement is thought to have dovetailed with the FBI's recently disclosed "operation Crossfire Hurricane" - the code name given to the agency's earliest counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. The FBI says the operation was launched following a drunken conversation between a Clinton-linked Australian ambassador and a low-level Trump associate, George Papadopoulos, who may have been set up from the start after being fed information by a professor named Joseph Mifsud, who is currently missing.
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