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Firefighters battling the Dixie Fire have also been facing a second enemy: a serial arsonist who went on a spree of setting fires in July and August — and who sought to trap fire crews with his fires, according to agents from the U.S. Forest Service. They allege former college professor Gary Maynard is the culprit, citing their tracking of his movements and other evidence. "Where Maynard went, fires started. Not just once, but over and over again," the government said in a court memorandum arguing for Maynard to be denied bail.

As a retiree from high school teaching in NYC, we have Medicare (80%) and supplemental insurance (20%). Effective Jan. 1, our insurance will be NYC Medicare Advantage Plus Plan and will be administered by Emblem Health and by Blue Shield, not by the troika of Medicare, Emblem Health, and Blue Shield as is presently the case. All medical bills will go to the new plan. The plan in turn will pay the doctors and hospital. There is a $253 deductible for each person and a $300 deductible for hospital admission. My experience is that we are already moving toward Medicare...

Far too many scientists have been afraid to test climate doomsday narratives. Last week, a group of scientists sent shock waves through the climate-science community. They boldly pointed out that current climate models exaggerate greenhouse warming. In other words, they confirmed what climate skeptics have been arguing all along: that most computer climate models forecast unrealistic warming -- warming not observed anywhere in the real world. Could this be a turning point for climate science? Has the hitherto staunch resistance to any kind of scrutiny regarding the dangerous warming narrative come to an end? Scientific MethodScience is not a body...

Aug. 12—Lansing — Riding a wave of frustration focused on the last election, Kristina Karamo and Matthew DePerno have risen, in a matter of months, to become contenders for top Republican spots on Michigan's ballot in 2022. Karamo, an Oak Park educator who hopes to be the GOP nominee for secretary of state next year, and DePerno, a Kalamazoo lawyer who is seeking the nomination for attorney general, gained prominence by contending there was fraud in Democrat Joe Biden's presidential victory over Republican Donald Trump in Michigan. Their campaigns are poised to test how closely state Republicans are holding to...

Vermont Democrat Party chair Bruce Olsson published a commentary recently proclaiming yet again that Republicans are "racist." This is particularly rich since the Democrat party is the oldest and most enduring racist political party in history, and its racism continues to this day. Here are the facts: The Democrat Party was founded in 1828. Its first national party platform, ratified during the 1840 Presidential election, stated: “ that all efforts by abolitionists or others, made to induce congress to interfere with questions of slavery… are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and that all such efforts...

My question relates to damages caused by a vaccine. If the employer requires the vaccine to maintain employment, are they then liable for damages resulting from the vaccine? I understand that it would be considered a workman's comp covered event.

The sendoff of fallen Chicago police Officer Ella French was reportedly rushed by the department’s No. 2 official – and former Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy argued it reflected a nationwide lack of support for police officers from government leaders. "The officers here in CPD and probably across the country … feel under attack by politicians and the public," McCarthy said Wednesday during an appearance on Fox News' "The Story." "Most of them feel like they’re not being supported by their leadership." "We’re not waiting on the bagpipes" because "we don’t have 20 minutes for this s---," Chicago First Deputy...

NEWBERG, Ore. - Nearly 5,000 kids attend Newberg-area schools. As one parent points out, not all of them feel safe. "Black students and other kids of color are under attack in Newberg schools," parent Tai Harden-Moore said. "I know this to be true because my son was called a n----- at school." During a virtual meeting Tuesday night, Harden-Moore explained to the Newberg school board that a Black Lives Matter sign in a classroom can go a long way in helping her son feel safe. The same can be said about the Pride flag for students who identify as LGBTQ....

Two members a hip-hop group with ties to the Wu-Tang Clan were assassinated early Tuesday morning in Portland, Oregon, according to police. The deceased musicians were identified by relatives on social media as 12 O´Clock and Murdock, whose birth names are Odion Turner, 50, and David Turner, 45, respectively. The two were cousins who performed in the four-person project Brooklyn Zu. !2 O'Clock's younger brother Stephon Turner says the shootings were targeted, and believes they were motivated by 'jealousy and lust,' but did not comment further on who he believed was behind the killings. Police haven't released many details about...

Berlin police say 'the use of violence is part of Germany's legal system' in response to claims of using excessive force against protesters at a recent anti-lockdown rally. ...

“The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them” (Proverbs 12:26).

Norfolk-based USNS Comfort was deployed to help treat patients in the early days of the pandemic. Mississippi health officials hope it can be deployed again. NORFOLK, Va. — Hampton Roads could send help to one of the COVID-19 pandemic's hardest-hit states. Mississippi has requested the federal government send a military hospital ship such as the Norfolk-based USNS Comfort to help its overloaded hospitals with COVID-19 patients, state health official Jim Craig said Wednesday.... The University of Mississippi Medical Center has 127 COVID-19 patients, including 26 children, Dean LouAnn Woodward said Wednesday. About 90% of them are unvaccinated, she said. The...

I’ve often wondered about the GOP’s history of aligning with the interests of business owners with their desire for cheap labor (usually fulfilled by legal/illegal aliens). My parents told me that when they came here from Greece in 1968 (legally), the plan was to work a few years, save a lot of money, then head back to Greece. They changed their mind and decided that there were better opportunities in the US and applied for citizenship. Did the GOP assume that is what most immigrants (legal or not) would do…at least back in the 60s and 70s? I find it...

The Biden administration and Democratic congressional leaders are pushing back on Republican lawmakers who have said Democrats will have to go it alone on raising or suspending the debt ceiling. President Biden said Wednesday that he is not worried about the debt ceiling and pointed out that the national debt rose dramatically under the previous administration when Republicans were in power. "They're not going to let us default," Mr. Biden said in response to a question on the debt ceiling. "$8 trillion of that is on the Republican conscience." The suspension of the limit for how much the United States...

Michael Hồ Đình Hy (胡廷僖; 1808 – May 22, 1857) was a Vietnamese mandarin official who was martyred for his Roman Catholic belief during the persecutions by Emperor Tự Đức. He was canonized in 1988 along with another 116 Vietnamese Martyrs He was born to Christian parents in North Cochin-China, and was by profession a wealthy silk trader. After his remaining son died at the age of 12, Michael Hồ Đình Hy declined to have his elder son returned home, according to Confucian traditions, citing he could not protect his own faith. During his years at the king's post,...

August 12th , 2021 Memorial of St. Michal My, Martyr of Vietnam Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, QATAR Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingJoshua 3:7-11,13-17 ©The Israelites cross the Jordan dry-shodThe Lord said to Joshua, ‘This very day I will begin to make you a great man in the eyes of all Israel, to let them be sure that I am going to be with you even as I was with Moses. As for you, give this order to the priests carrying the ark of the covenant: “When you have reached the brink of the waters of...

<p>A Southwest Airlines flight attendant based in Las Vegas died Tuesday from COVID-19, according to his family and co-workers.</p><p>Maurice "Reggie" Shepperson, a native New Yorker whose brightly colored pants earned him the nickname Skittles during training in 2014, tested positive for COVID in early July and had been fighting the virus in the hospital for a month, according to Marcia Hildreth, a Southwest flight attendant who called him her best friend.</p>

Everyone needs to make sure when talking about the "vaccines" they refer to them as EXPERIMENTAL vaccines because they are using the normality of the word vaccine the majority of people have no problem with to make this seem as if THIS is NORMAL.

Rusetskii: Investigation LENR Processes in Condensed Matter on the HELIS Setup - Overview and Prospects A. S. Rusetskii1 , O. D. Dalkarov1 , M. A. Negodaev1 , B.F. Lyakhov2 , E.I. Saunin2 e-mail: rusetskijas@lebedev.ru 1. P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 53, Moscow, 119991 Russia 2. A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119071, Russia The report presents the results of studies LENR Processes in Condensed Matter using the ion accelerator HELIS. The results of measurements of the DD-reaction yields from the Pd/PdO:Dx and the Ti/TiO2:Dx structures in the energy...

SAN ANTONIO (WOAI) — A San Antonio family is devastated after their loved one lost her battle with COVID-19 — even though she was fully vaccinated. Tracy Anderson just turned 48 years old before being admitted to CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital Westover Hills.