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Fedora said he watched film on UCF Monday morning.
The Carolina Hurricanes will go into Game 6 of their playoff series with the Washington Capitals facing a hard truth: a loss will end their season.
A voluntary recall of frozen fruits and vegetables is ongoing, and the Food and Drug Administration is investigating the listeriosis outbreak that caused it.
CRF Frozen Foods' recall, which was first announced April 22 and expanded May 2, includes all frozen organic and traditional fruit and vegetable products manufactured or processed in CRF Frozen Foods' facility in Pasco, Washington since May 1, 2014.
On May 10, Kroger recalled Simple Truth Organic Frozen Mixed Vegetables due to the Listeria concern. Customers are warned not to consume the 10-ounce product with sell-by dates of December 2016 and January 2017.
Anyone with questions about the CRF Frozen Foods recall is urged to call the consumer hotline at (844) 483-3866.
Go here for a full list of the recalled foods.
The FDA is not the only entity investigating this outbreak: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local officials are also looking into it. The CDC reported that from Sept. 2013 through March 2016, eight people who became infected with Listeria in California, Maryland and Washington got it from frozen vegetables under various brand names produced at the CRF facility in Pasco.
Mr. Teiji Tachibana has been serving as Independent Chairman of the Board of Directors in MISAWA HOMES CO., LTD. since June 2010. He is also serving as Chairman of the Board and Representative Director in TOYOTA HOME Co., Ltd. He used to work for a company that is under the new name, Toyota Motor Corporation.
Here's how Americans can some time and get great tax deductions before April 15 despite government tax delays.
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Calculators are humming and pencils are sharpened, all in anticipation of that annual exercise in angst and anxiety -- filing your tax returns.
Last year more than 148 million federal tax returns were filed, according to the Internal Revenue Service. That's up 2.1% from 2011.
In addition, the IRS' website logged more than 340 million visits last year, up 17% from 2011, as Americans struggled to keep up with changes in the U.S. tax code.
Expect that number to climb this year, as the fiscal cliff negotiations that went right up to Jan. 1 meant the IRS didn't even start accepting federal tax returns until Jan. 30.
How can Americans save some time and still get great tax deductions before April 15?
Get free help.If you earn less than $51,000 per year, you likely qualify for volunteer income tax assistance. It's free and reliable. Find out if you qualify here.
IRS-certified volunteers provide free basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals in local communities. They can inform taxpayers about special tax credits for which they may qualify, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and Credit for the Elderly or the Disabled. VITA sites are generally located at community and neighborhood centers, libraries, schools, shopping malls and other convenient locations.
Tax credit for kids. The tax code allows plenty of good deductions for parents with children -- even kids in college. The IRS has a good summary of the Child Tax Credit here.
Direct to savings. Gutter advises using IRS Form 8888 to have your tax refund sent right to your bank savings account. That protects you from making "impulse purchases." He also advises filing your tax returns as soon as possible if you anticipate a refund. That way your money accrues more interest.
Take a mulligan. Amend previous years' tax returns to grab deductions or tax credits you missed on the first go-round. The IRS does allow "do-overs."
Don't forget those IRA contributions. Gutter reminds tax filers that the deadline for making tax-deductible IRA contributions from income earned in 2012 is April 15.
Thanks to the fiscal cliff near-fiasco, this year's tax filing season is more hectic than usual. So take a page out of Gutter's handbook and use some handy and timely tax tips that will keep more cash in your pocket -- and less in Uncle Sam's.
Women sing along as thousands pack the streets for the Women’s March on Washington.
Do you remember your first political protest? I remember mine, even if it comes with a big asterisk. It happened on Oct. 15, 1969, and it was called the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. The asterisk is that I really didn't do much — not even march in the streets or carry a peace flag. All I did, actually, was ride in the backseat of our family's Ford Country Squire station wagon with our headlights on during broad daylight — a sign that you were against the war. For those who cruised America's highways that Wednesday, the sight of so many other headlights was a close encounter of the first kind, meaning you were not alone … in wanting the troops to come home from Southeast Asia.
I've been thinking a lot about the 1969 moratorium — especially since about noon or so on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Of course, it was just the next day that America saw the Women's March, a 4-million-participant warning shot across the bow of the Trump presidency, and that has been followed by other protests, including targeted efforts that have played a role in so far blocking any efforts to repeal Obamacare. And yet the broader protest fervor seems to have waned even as the threat that Trump and his team pose to America's democratic norms has grown in recent weeks. Is there a lesson for today's Trump Resistance in a wildly successful protest that took place nearly 48 years ago?
I think so. The strategy of the Vietnam moratorium — as mapped out by its leaders, all 20-something veterans of campus protests or the failed 1968 antiwar presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy — was brilliant. Some activists thought the next step in antiwar protest should be a general strike, but leaders Sam Brown, David Hawk, David Mixner, and Marge Sklencar had a better idea. Plan the kind of inclusive event where every American who opposed the war — not just crazy campus radicals with their Viet Cong flags, but churchgoing suburbanites and baseball moms and your next-door neighbor — could find some way, big or small, to take part.
Hold up a candle at a vigil. Attend a rally or a "teach-in" at your town square or in your church. Call in sick from work or stay out of school to march in a protest. Or, failing that, at least take two seconds to flip on your headlights. Anything that would prove that opposition to the Vietnam War was not only nonviolent, but moral and middle-class. And, most important, mainstream. The first round of coast-to-coast protests that October drummed up support for a mass march on Washington exactly one month later that drew an eye-popping 500,000 people.
"The predominant event of the day was that of a great and peaceful army of dissent moving through the city," the New York Times reported from Washington on Nov. 15, 1969, adding later in its front-page piece: "Overall, the slogans, like the sign 'We're here because we love our country,' seemed to be asserting that the demand for withdrawal from Vietnam is now the only moderate course."
It's easy to dismiss the moratorium because — as history showed us — the Vietnam War didn't end right away in 1969. The final U.S. combat troops didn't come home until the winter of early 1973. But in other ways, the protest effort was a stunning success. October 1969 also marked the first time the Gallup Poll showed a majority of Americans believed the war was a mistake. President Richard M. Nixon felt that heat inside the White House, where that fall, he addressed the public to insist that a so-called silent majority supported his policies. But Nixon also speeded up the pace of troop withdrawals, and Congress eventually moved to pass the War Powers Act, seeking to restrict presidents' ability to launch another Vietnam. It didn't last, but U.S. foreign policy was arguably more restrained and wiser over the next decade or two — all because everyday citizens had taken action.
What happened in 1969 is more proof that citizen action — or inaction — is the tipping point between democracy and authoritarianism. The largest wrench in the would-be despot's toolbox is apathy — a dazed and confused populace that sits on its hands when a self-proclaimed strongman moves to restrict the freedom of the press or curb the power of the judiciary or independent prosecutors or strip people of voting rights. The flip side is that it's remarkable what a truly engaged citizenry can accomplish.
In South Korea, during the same weeks that Trump was transitioning into the presidency, as many as 1.7 million people at a time flooded the streets of downtown Seoul to protest corruption by their country's then-president, Park Geun-hye, in demonstrations the Washington Post described as a "democratic, peaceful and even joyous assembly, demanding the president's ouster." And ousted Park was. In Poland, democracy seemed to be hanging by a thread last month as the ruling party sat poised to crush that nation's independent judiciary — until the masses took to the streets of Warsaw.
The bottom line is that government does respond to the people, but only when the people respond to the government. When Trump fires the FBI director who's probing his campaign or calls the free press "the enemy of the American people," right now he doesn't see 1.7 million people outside his bedroom window. He sees only the prattling heads on Fox & Friends — and so it's only going to get worse, especially with the new report that special prosecutor Robert Mueller is bringing evidence before a grand jury. Now is the time for America to show its inner Seoul.
A long time ago, I chose a keyboard over marching boots. But today, I'm using my keyboard and my platform as an opinion writer to offer this opinion: What America needs right now is a Moratorium to End the Trump Presidency — a mass event that will show the world a not-so-silent majority of Americans does not support an uncouth and irrational wannabe despot in the Oval Office. It's great that 61 percent of the public can tell a pollster they disapprove of Trump's presidency. But now we need 61 percent of Americans to tell that to their neighbors, to their local communities, and to the world, in a public display of disaffection.
When? Why not Oct. 15, 2017, the 48th anniversary of the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, when the weather is good and the kids on campus have settled in for the fall semester? What? Whatever it takes to show people that decent Americans want this nightmare to end. You can't do the headlight thing thanks to daytime running lights (darn you, Detroit!), but you can wear blue, or fly a crazy flag from your car, or march in silent solidarity through the streets of your hometown. Where? Philadelphia. Or Paoli. Or Peoria or Pittsburgh or Portland — anywhere people want this president out of the White House. Why? Because it's going to take more than 140 characters or your most impassioned Facebook rant to change America for good. Then, a month later — say Nov. 18, 2017, a Saturday — converge 1.7 million, give or take a few, of those people in front of Trump's White House fence. And watch to see who will be the first Republican congressman from a swing district to endorse impeachment.
You know, moratorium, at first blush, seems like an odd thing to call a protest. But the definition of moratorium is "a temporary prohibition" of a regular activity. For the last 28 weeks, America has endured a president who is, in the words of the Twitter hashtag, #NotNormal. Maybe mixing up our routines for a couple of days this fall is the best way to get our nation back to, you know … normal.
Where are the modern redemption songs?
We need to cut each other some slack in our society and our polity today.
Fritz Hollings had incredible physical posture. He stood tall. And it fit him.
June 4, 2016 Skateboard street, X Games.
Decenzo, a 29-year-old Canadian, received a score of 87.13 on his second of three runs through the course to win his third career X Games gold.
Huston, 21, had won seven of the last eight skateboard street competitions he’d entered. On his final run, which rivaled Decenzo’s best, Huston waited to see his score. But his 87 fell just short.
The event turned out to be the last of the evening. The Big Air venue still was too wet for competition and BMX and Skateboard Big Air are rescheduled for Sunday.
Investigators believe that Thomas fired at the juvenile in self-defense after the 14-year-old attempted to rob him.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Evansville police say a shooting that occurred in the course of a drug deal gone wrong Friday evening was an act of self-defense.
Jiles Thomas, 21, of Cahokia, Illinois, was arrested on drug dealing and obstruction of justice charges after police say he shot a 14-year-old male in the torso. The shooting occurred around 8:30 p.m. at the corner of Riverside Drive and Boeke Road.
The juvenile, who has not been named, is expected to survive.
According to a news release by EPD, police investigators believe that Thomas fired at the juvenile in self-defense after the 14-year-old attempted to rob him in the course of making a making a marijuana deal.
Thomas ran away after the shooting but was soon caught near the intersection of Vann and Pollack.
Thomas told police that two teenagers had approached him to make the transaction, but when one pointed a gun at him and attempted to rob him, Thomas defended himself.
EPD officers were able to view communications between the teenagers and Thomas that corroborated Thomas' story.
EPD now believes the shooting was an act of self defense, despite occurring in the commission of a separate crime. Police recovered a small amount of marijuana and a replica firearm that may have been carried by the teenager.
The juvenile, who remains hospitalized, refused to cooperate with investigators. He has not been charged with a crime, although an investigation into his actions continues.
PLANS ARE UNDERWAY to create a form of remembrance to Leitrim’s World War I dead, in an effort to “challenge assumptions” about them.
A tender has been issued for the development of a form of remembrance to the men and women affected by the First World War. The tender was issued by Leitrim County Council on behalf of Leitrim County PEACE IV Partnership.
The move follows a period of consultation with interested parties and “with due sensitivity as to location, security, [and] content”.
It is envisioned that this project will include participants from republican groups, historical societies, Protestant church based groups and the Orange Order. In addition, many people who are not part of the abovementioned groups may also have an interest in being involved.
According to the tender documents, during initial discussions there were “strongly differing opinions around the capital element of the project”. It was also noted that there was a lack of engagement at public workshops by the general public.
Provide information and clarification on assumptions around: who from Leitrim went to the War and why they went. It was felt that this factual research had potential to surprise and challenge communities’ perceptions in a positive way.
It was recommended that research would be carried out around the people of Leitrim affected by the First World War, and that a central digital resource around new research/material arising from this project would be created.
A list of Leitrim people who died in World War 1 would also be published. There would be a series of community-based programmes that would be linked to the existing and new and historical research.
It is envisioned that the ‘List of Dead’ and capital project would be launched in June.
Closing date for receipt of tenders is Monday 17 December at 4pm.
The Leitrim PEACE IV Partnership was established in 2016 as a sub-committee of the Local Community Development Committee and is led by Leitrim County Council.
Earlier this month, the World War I memorial sculpture The Hauntings Soldier had red paint thrown over it in Stephen’s Green in Dublin. The paint was removed and a standing down ceremony was held for the statue earlier this week.
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As of April 3 the General Services Administration no longer will pay for vendors to test their products and services to ensure they are interoperable under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 requirements.
GSA set up a free testing lab last May to ensure agencies could meet the new National Institute of Standards and Technology's Federal Information Processing Standard-201 guidelines.
Since setting up the lab, it's spent $725,000 testing products, GSA said.
The General Services Administration is planning to let state and local governments order products and services from federal contracts in the event of major disasters or terrorist acts.
An interim rule change to 40 U.S.C. 502 published Feb. 1 in the Federal Register is an initial step toward making this possible, GSA said.
The new support should be available to state and locals this spring.
The federal government continues to earn poor grades for cybersecurity, said the Cyber Security Industry Alliance in its second annual report card.
The alliance gave the Bush Administration and Congress three "D" grades for 2006 for its lack of progress in securing sensitive information against crime, protecting critical cyberinfrastructures and maintaining federal information integrity. A year ago, the alliance handed out an F, six Ds, four Cs and a B on a similar scorecard.
As Maine and other states dig in their heels against the Real ID Act of 2005, Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., called on the Homeland Security Department to move forward quickly to show how the program should be implemented.
"The department's leadership in the coming weeks is crucial to the success or failure of the Real ID program," Davis, responding to bills pending in several states asking Congress to repeal the Real ID Act.
Transportation Security Administration officials presented point-by-point rebuttals of statements reported in Washington Technology sister publication Government Computer News, citing security and durability flaws in Transportation Worker Identification Credential cards.
The flaws could expose the cards to counterfeiting and rapid failure that would facilitate their use as "breeder documents" to illegally obtain secure credentials, GCN's sources said.
The Health and Human Services Department awarded $103 million to 27 states to fund new ways to improve Medicaid efficiency, economy and quality of care, including implementing health IT.
States are to use the funds for innovative systems to get more value from money they spend providing health care to low-income clients.
The Homeland Security Department's plan to shift oversight of the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program to a new directorate to be led by DHS Preparedness undersecretary George Foresman has drawn criticism from Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., House Homeland Security Committee chairman.
"I am troubled by assertions that it has been moved merely to put the program under a particular individual," he said.
The Homeland Security Department is exploring whether to create a new regional border intelligence capability along the U.S. border with Mexico.
DHS is evaluating how a Homeland Security Intelligence Support Team, in a location such as El Paso, Texas, could provide that capability, a DHS official told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The Navy in coming months will hold a competition to supply a small, tactical unmanned aerial system.
Already proven valuable in Iraq and Afghanistan, small unmanned aerial vehicles are used by the Navy and Marines for surveillance and reconnaissance in battlefield situations.
The draft request for proposal is expected this fall.
The Homeland Security Department must better integrate its domestic and international airline passenger screening programs, said the Government Accountability Office.
GAO recommended that "DHS make key policy and technical decisions necessary to more fully coordinate Customs and Border Protection's international prescreening program with Transportation Security Administration's prospective domestic prescreening program."
The New York State Technology Office issued a best-practices guideline to help state agencies and local governments manage employee and citizen access to online applications and transactions.
The NYS Trust Model sets basic standards and processes to govern management of identity credentials and is intended as a foundation for future identity and access management policies.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., added two new subcommittees, reflecting expanded jurisdiction and focus on homeland security issues.
The Disaster Recovery Subcommittee will be headed by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.
Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., will chair the State, Local and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration Subcommittee.
Harris Corp. completed a point-to-point satellite call under simulated high-sea shipboard conditions using an advanced multiband prototype system to prepare for an upcoming $1 billion Navy contract competition.
Harris successfully logged onto, communicated with and tracked a Milstar satellite, a joint-service satellite communications system that provides secure communications around the globe.
The new 'Captain Marvel' trailer oozes power!
Before Avengers: Endgame comes to wreak havoc on the lives of the superheroes we already know, Captain Marvel will step up to introduce a brand-new hero.
Brie Larson plays Carol Danvers, an Earthling who gained some powers but lost her memory, and now finds herself back on her home planet trying to recapture her murky past. Also, there's a two-eyed Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and a really cute cat! What's not to love?
Captain Marvel arrives in theaters March 8.

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