Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Widespread power outages hit White House, Washington area

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Washington (CNN)Widespread power outages hit across Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, affecting government and privately-owned buildings and the city's public transit rail system intermittently early in the afternoon.

The power outage, which is affecting about 2,000 customers in the Washington area was caused by a small explosion and fire at a power substation in southern Maryland, according to local and U.S. officials.

Charles County Fire & EMS dispatched firetrucks to the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative's Ryceville power substation shortly after 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, when 9-1-1 calls came in reporting the incident, said Bill Smith, the Fire & EMS department's public information officer. The station is partly operated by PEPCO, the electricity utility in Washington, D.C.

Fire officials extinguished the "small fire" that sparked off at a transformer at the power station in about 35 minutes, Smith told CNN. There were no injuries, he added.

"The power has been shut down [at the station]. Any fires that we had are out," he said.

By 2 p.m., most power was back on, SMECO said. It explained the outage on Twitter.

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Social Security benefits will increase by 1.7% in 2015 COLA

The Social Security Administration also announced Wednesday that the maximum amount of earnings that workers pay Social Security taxes on will increase from $117,000 to $118,500 in 2015, based on the increase in average wages.

Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 64 million Americans will increase 1.7 percent in 2015.
The 1.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits that more than 58 million Social Security beneficiaries receive in January 2015. Increased payments to more than 8 million SSI beneficiaries will begin on December 31, 2014.

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http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/22/retirement/social-security-cola/index.html

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Brundy Married with Children Video Clips

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Friday, September 19, 2014

Blue Jet US plane in emergency landing after engine 'explodes' Long Beach Airport

Passengers evacuated onto the runway using the Airbus A320’s emergency slides

ared West was headed home Thursday morning on a flight to Austin after visiting family in Fullerton.

Not long after his plane took off from Long Beach Airport, the Dripping Springs, Texas, resident heard a “boom” on the right side of the plane. About 10 seconds later, the cabin filled with smoke.

Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and passengers nearby were screaming and holding each other tight. Fearing this was his end, West, himself an amateur pilot, put on his oxygen mask and started recording a video message on his smartphone.

“I said, ‘If anyone finds this, tell my mother that I love her,’” West, 34, said.

But it wasn’t the end for West and the other 141 passengers and five crewmembers on JetBlue Flight 1416.

Shortly after takeoff at 9:05 a.m., “an overheat warning” was reported for one of the aircraft’s two engines, airport officials said. Long Beach Fire Department spokesman Jake Heflin said the crew spotted smoke billowing from the engine and pilots deployed a fire extinguishing agent from the cockpit.

Passengers exiting Long Beach Airport later that afternoon described flight attendants deploying oxygen masks and telling them to “brace, brace, brace!” The smoke in the cabin was so thick they couldn’t see, some passengers said.

For a moment, passengers such as Upland resident Laura Andreasen, 57, who was aboard the airliner with her family traveling to Orlando, Fla., for a Disney cruise, feared for their lives.

“I wasn’t sure if we were going to plummet or make it back,” she said.

The airplane landed safely and the passengers and crew evacuated on inflatable slides.

Three people were treated for injuries and released, and one was taken to a local hospital, Heflin said. One of the passengers had tailbone pain after using the evacuation slide, he said.

The Airbus A320 was in the air for less than 30 minutes. After departing, it turned back and landed at the airport at 4100 Donald Douglas Drive at 9:29 a.m., city officials said.

Some departures were delayed, and two flights from the Bay area that were scheduled to arrive before 11 a.m. were diverted. The aircraft was cleared and operations were back to normal by 11:15 a.m., but with some delays expected throughout the day, officials said.

Jackson Rathbone, an actor who portrayed Jasper Hale in the movie “Twilight,” tweeted that he was on the plane.

“Our right engine exploded and our cabin filled with smoke,” he wrote. “The doors were thrown open, once on the Tarmac. The stewardesses yelled for us to get out and as far away from the airplane as possible...I grabbed my son and jumped down the inflated ramp, my wife following. We left all our personal effects onboard.”

The moment jet passengers thought they might die (but some were still going to take one last picture): US plane in emergency landing after engine 'explodes' and cabin fills with smoke

Passengers express confusion as they are shrouded in a haze of smoke and a wailing child is heard in the background, but everyone remains calm as they prepare for an emergency landing.

Oxygen masks were deployed after the engine failure occurred on a JetBlue flight from Long Beach, California, to Austin, Texas, on Thursday.

video filmed by a passenger wearing an oxygen mask shows the dramatic scene inside an aircraft after one of its engines malfunctioned and filled the cabin with smoke.

Friday, June 6, 2014

Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl and President Obama

President Obama stands with Bob and Jani Bergdahl during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White

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Obama's Bergdahl Strategy Underestimated America's Complicated Relationship with


Birth name	Bowe Robert Bergdahl
Born	(1986-03-28) March 28, 1986 (age 28) Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S.
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	2008–present^[1]
Rank	Sergeant (promoted in absentia)
Unit	1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division
Battles/wars	Global War on Terrorism War in Afghanistan (POW)
Relations	Jani Larson (mother) Robert Bergdahl (father) Sky Albrecht (sister)^[2]

Bowe Robert Bergdahl (born March 28, 1986) is a United States Army soldier who was held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan from June 2009 until his release in May 2014.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] The circumstances under which Bergdahl went missing are disputed. Accounts of how he was captured differ. The U.S. Department of Defense reported that he went missing on July 2, 2009, attributing his disappearance to "walking off his base in eastern Afghanistan with three Afghan counterparts".^[7]

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Early life and education[edit]

Bergdahl was born on March 28, 1986, in Sun Valley, Idaho, to Jani (née Larson) and Robert "Bob" Bergdahl, a commercial truck driver.^[1]^[8]^[9] Bergdahl has an older sister, Sky Albrecht,^[1]^[10]^[11] and was home schooled by his mother Jani in Hailey, Idaho. The family attended Sovereign Redeemer Presbyterian Church, an Orthodox Presbyterian Church. According to Bowe's pastor at the time, he struggled with his faith.^[12]
He received a GED certificate through the College of Southern Idaho by the time he was in his early 20s.^[8]^[13]^[14]^[15] As an adult, Bergdahl studied and practiced fencing and martial arts before switching to ballet classes at the Sun Valley Ballet School in Ketchum, Idaho.^[8]^[13] He never owned a car; he rode his bicycle everywhere.^[15] He spent time in a Buddhist monastery between 2007 and 2008.^[12]

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http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-bergdahl-strategy-underestimated-americas-complicated-relationship-war-195500916.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowe_Bergdahl

Monday, May 19, 2014

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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Affair with Bill Clinton was consensual: Monica Lewinsky

Monica Lewinsky

WASHINGTON, MAY 7 (IANS)

Published on 8 May. 2014 1:45 AM IST

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Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern whose affair with Bill Clinton nearly brought down the then US president, says her boss took advantage of her, but the affair was consensual. Saying “It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress”, she breaks her silence over the affair in the 1990s with an unmistakable reference to her dress stained with presidential semen.
“I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton,” says Lewinsky after keeping virtually silent for over ten years on the political scandal that followed. “So silent, in fact,” she writes in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, “that the buzz in some circles has been that the Clintons must have paid me off; why else would I have refrained from speaking out?” “I can assure you that nothing could be farther from the truth,” she says.
Clinton at first denied a sexual relationship with Lewinsky while she worked as an intern at the White House in 1995 and 1996.
But once it became known that she had kept “the blue dress” without getting it dry-cleaned, Clinton admitted to having had an “inappropriate relationship” with her.
In 1998, Republican-led House of Representatives impeached Clinton on the grounds that he had lied about the affair. But the Republicans failed to oust him as Clinton was subsequently acquitted of all impeachment charges during a trial by the Senate.
Washington Post opinion writer Ruth Marcus suggested that Lewinsky “may not have intended it this way, but she just did Hillary Clinton a big favour”. The “timing of Lewinsky’s Vanity Fair piece -- as the political world awaits Hillary Clinton’s presidential determination, as Chelsea Clinton prepares to have the first child -- would seem not exactly fortuitous for the Clintons,” she says. But in Marcus’s view, Lewinsky’s piece defuses Republican Senator Rand Paul’s line of attack -- whether Democrats in general, and Hillary Clinton in particular, should consort with a “sexual predator” like Bill Clinton.
http://nagalandpost.com/ChannelNews/InterNational/InterNationalNews.aspx?news=TkVXUzEwMDA1OTQwMg%3d%3d

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