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QUINTEROS: Just one single layer is fine.
AUBREY: He says, in combination with skin repellent that he sprays on his exposed skin, he's found that permethrin-treated clothing really works. And there's a fair amount of science to back him up. Neeta Connally oversees the Tickborne Disease Prevention Lab at Western Connecticut State University.
NEETA CONNALLY: There are several studies now that provide pretty compelling evidence that wearing permethrin-treated clothing has the potential to reduce tick bites.
AUBREY: The most recent comes from a study done by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They purchased a bunch of pretreated clothing. These are garments treated with permethrin by the manufacturer. Lars Eisen is the study author. He explains, they tested different species of ticks on the clothing, including blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ticks, which can transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
LARS EISEN: We wanted to see how long they have to be in contact with the treated clothing to be incapacitated and die.
EISEN: It took them less than a minute to receive a dose of permethrin that killed them.
AUBREY: Even though they don't die right away, the permethrin quickly incapacitates them, so they're unable to bite. So why don't more people use permethrin? Neeta Connally says her research suggests that many people don't know about it, or they're hesitant to use a pesticide on their clothing. But there's evidence it's safe. It's the same chemical that many of us have put on our kids' heads to treat head lice.
CONNALLY: When, you know, I think of the potentially serious illnesses that my family members or I could get from a single tick bite, I feel very comfortable wearing treated clothing.
AUBREY: The benefits outweigh the risks. Allison Aubrey, NPR News.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, before the Joint Economic Committee hearing on the economic outlook.
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday told U.S. lawmakers that while the Fed is ready to do more to help an economic recovery that’s “close to faltering,” Congress and the White House should also take steps to aid a persistently weak recovery.
The Fed chief said that, while fiscal policy is of critical importance, there are other areas in which the government can help: “labor markets, housing, trade, taxation and regulation, for example,” he told the Joint Economic Committee.
His call for broader action included a pointed plea to Congress and the White House to come up with a long-run deficit- reduction plan without cutting too aggressively right away.
The Fed chief also urged lawmakers to find tax and spending policies that encourage long-term growth and to fix a broken budget process that leads to the kind of tumultuous debates about government debt that unsettled markets so much in August.
The U.S. recovery from the deep recession — now in its third year — has been much less robust than the Fed had hoped, Bernanke said, and Europe’s continuing financial crisis poses additional challenges. He warned lawmakers that the U.S. jobs market is likely to remain sluggish for some time.
Pizza and Pints featuring Kap Brothers Band – GO!
Kap Brothers Band will be performing live from 6pm to 9pm!
The Kap Bros. Band have always been the home town favorites for annual Ogden Street Festival with their contagious blend of blues, rock, country and original classics.
Their career highlights include opening for Huey Lewis and The News at the 2002 Winter Olympics, performing with David Crosby at The Festival of the West, opening for rock legend John Kay & Steppenwolf at the annual MDA run. Over the years they’ve played with greats such as Norton Buffalo, Charlie Musslewhite, William Clark, and John Mayhall, as well as local music legends Joe McQueen, Dan Weldon, Scotty Haze, Dicky Martinez and Brad Wheeler.
HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - The Floyd E. “Tut” Fann Veterans Home in Huntsville is facing a second investigation.
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed Wednesday it was on-site performing an unannounced, full audit.
The Alabama Department of Public Health confirmed Monday it was also performing a survey at the home.
The investigations come after multiple WAFF 48 News reports that outlined allegations of physical abuse and mistreatment.
WAFF 48′s sources include a current veteran at the home, a current employee, two former employees, and two former family members of veterans.
ADPH State Program Director Mia Sadler declined to comment on the rationale behind the state investigation, but Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Kent Davis did request an ADPH investigation in the aftermath of WAFF’s reports.
A resident also told WAFF that state inspectors were asking about physical abuse on Monday.
Federal VA spokesman Jeff Hester said the federal investigation is in direct response to WAFF’s reports, and will not be replacing the facility’s annual audit.
Hester said the federal inspectors will be looking at both “administrative and clinical audits" which includes everything from financial paperwork to the dietary offerings at the home.
Multiple sources at the home tell WAFF the federal inspectors met with veterans in a group setting Wednesday.
Hester said the inspectors will be interviewing one on one with veterans, staff and family members.
He said the majority of audits take three days, but it could go longer depending on what is discovered.
The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs owns the home and declined to comment on the federal investigation.
The ADPH also declined to comment on the Federal VA’s presence.
HMR Veterans Services Inc. runs the day to day operations of the home, and has not yet sent a statement to WAFF 48 News.
In March, Senator Doug Jones requested an investigation from the United States Federal VA Inspector General.
It’s unclear what, if any, role that office is playing in the investigation.
However, Hester did cite Senator Jones’ request as part of the reason the department is investigating.
US Airways and American Airlines planes parked on the tarmac at Washington's Reagan National Airport, where both carriers have agreed to relinquish some of their gates.
The creation of the world's biggest airline may actually be a good deal for some of its low-cost competitors, but it's still unclear if the merger will come at the cost to passengers in small towns that could lose service.
The Department of Justice said Tuesday that US Airways and American Airlines had agreed to give up dozens of gates in New York and Washington to make way for their merger, now valued at $17 billion.
"I think the outcome of this is very positive for the consumer," said Jay Sorensen, the president of IdeaWorks, an airline research firm. "It allows a fourth entity to have a strong position against Southwest, United and Delta," which US Air and American don't have if they don't merge, he said.
The agreement heads off a court battle with the department and six state attorneys general–Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan,Tennessee and Virginia–and the District of Columbia.
"This agreement has the potential to shift the landscape of the airline industry," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement announcing the deal. "By guaranteeing a bigger foothold for low-cost carriers at key U.S. airports, this settlement ensures airline passengers will see more competition on nonstop and connecting routes throughout the country."
But more competition will not necessarily translate into consumer-friendly fare wars.
"For the last year and the foreseeable future, that no longer means cheap fares," Sorensen said. "We are leaving an era where investors are subsidizing consumer airfares.The airlines have been losing money for too long. They need to quit apologizing for the fact that they need to make money. In order to serve their customers, they have to make money."
In a call with journalists Tuesday, US Airways Group Chairman and CEO Doug Parker and AMR Chairman, President and CEO Tom Horton said the improved finances of the new American will pay off in customer service.
"Employee attitude" hasn't always been great, Parker acknowledged, partly because of the "financial strain this industry has been under."
Horton said has has been able to hire 1,500 flight attendants and 1,000 reservation agents this year, and "we're on the verge of hiring new pilots for the first time in a decade."
The deal requires a few more approvals, including a Nov. 25 U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing, which should pave the way for the deal to close in the first half of December, the CEOs said. Customers will begin seeing the airlines operating as one on Jan. 7, the target date for frequent-flier miles to converge, along with other changes.
The two airlines are required to give up 52 slot pairs at Ronald Reagan Washington National; 17 slot pairs at New York LaGuardia; and others at Boston Logan International, Chicago O'Hare International, Dallas' Love Field, Los Angeles International and Miami International. Holder said those reassignments will benefit the low-cost carriers.
JetBlue and Southwest are among the likely winners. The deal may even give rise to the creation of low-cost start-ups, Sorensen said.
"We congratulate all the parties on a tentative settlement that preserves vigorous competition in the U.S. airline industry," Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins said in a statement emailed to CNBC. "We look forward to working with DOJ on a fair and transparent process by which Southwest can expand our low-fare competitive presence at Washington Reagan National and New York LaGuardia."
"We're very happy with the outcome and are interested in growing our presence at DCA," JetBlue spokeswoman Tamara Young said in an email to CNBC. "We'll be looking through court documents and awaiting DOJ guidance on how slots will be divested."
But the loss of gates at Reagan probably means smaller and midsize cites could lose less lucrative routes unless the federal government chooses to reassign them with certain cities in mind, Sorensen said.
Virgin America CEO David Cush echoed that sentiment on CNBC.
"DCA slots, great, LaGuardia slots, great. But what about the people in Peoria and Colorado Springs?" Cush said.
The combined company will have 6,700 flights a day in 330 destinations, making it the biggest airline in the world.
"Even with the divestitures of slots, US Air will be larger at Reagan than it was before the merger," Horton told CNBC.
—By CNBC's Amy Langfield. Follow her on Twitter at @AmyLangfield . CNBC's Phil LeBeau contributed to this report. Follow him on Twitter @LeBeauCarNews.
The deal is the most significant step toward a new agreement since talks with Mexico and Canada began one year ago. But negotiators remain far from finishing their work.
Trump administration officials reached a partial accord with Mexico on the terms of a new North American trade deal, including a provision that would require more auto manufacturing in high-wage factories, according to three people briefed on the agreement.
The president was due to make an announcement from the Oval Office on Monday morning. Trump has held formal announcements for incomplete trade deals before.
“We’ve reached an agreement on all the key issues,” one official briefed on the talks said.
But the agreement left unresolved a number of contentious U.S. demands, and Canada, which has not participated in the deliberations for five weeks, must sign on before a new North American trade deal is complete.
As U.S. negotiators turn to bringing Canada back into the talks, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland is expected to arrive in Washington later Monday or Tuesday morning. The aim is to have a “handshake deal” among the three countries by the close of business Friday, an official familiar with the talks said.
A spokesman for Freeland said Canada was “encouraged by the continued optimism shown by our negotiating partners" but made clear that a final agreement would require careful review and more discussions.
If Canada doesn’t sign off, it is unclear what Trump might do, as he has threatened to try to cancel the entire trade pact.
But if Canada does agree to a new deal, it would allow Trump to officially notify Congress that a deal had been reached, starting a 90-day clock under the rules governing the American president’s trade negotiating authority and allowing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to sign the deal before his successor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, takes office Dec. 1.
López Obrador has been supportive of the negotiations but would be likely to seek changes if the treaty is not completed before he assumes the presidency. His concerns about cementing Mexico’s energy privatization in a new NAFTA were among the final sticking points in the talks.
With only five days remaining for the United States and Canada to iron out their differences, negotiators realize they have exhausted all their wiggle room. “Realistically, it’s certainly tight,” the official said.
Larry Herman, a Toronto trade lawyer and former Canadian trade negotiator, said Canada has “every right” to examine the details of what was agreed to between Mexico and the United States and will then decide how to proceed.
“I think it’s appalling that Canada has been kept at arm’s length from these talks over the past number of weeks,” Herman said.
White House officials had insisted that the new NAFTA deal would have to expire after five years, a sunset demand that both Canada and Mexico had rejected in recent weeks. It could not be learned whether Trump administration officials had backed down from this demand or whether it would be part of the final discussions.
Trump has made renegotiating NAFTA a centerpiece of his economic and foreign policy agenda, arguing that the aging trade deal disadvantages American workers by luring U.S. jobs and companies overseas.
This approach has alarmed many Republicans, who support NAFTA’s free trade roots and worried about how Trump’s approach would impact farmers. But Democrats have mostly been split, as some agreed with Trump’s focus on manufacturing jobs but others worried about Trump’s take-it-or-leave-it negotiating style.
Even if Trump cuts a final deal with Mexico and Canada, Congress will likely have to vote to approve any changes.
In an effort to force both Mexico and Canada to agree to a new deal, Trump has imposed tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports from their countries and suggested that he would waive these tariffs only if they make concessions as part of a new trade deal.
Talks have dragged on for months, at times becoming quite personal, particularly when Trump hurled a series of insults at Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, leading many to believe that a deal would ultimately prove out of reach.
But it was Mexico that offered Trump the best opening in recent weeks.
In recent days, U.S. and Mexican diplomats reached agreement on key elements of a new treaty, including an increase in the percentage of each car — to 75 percent from the current 62.5 percent — that must be made in North America to qualify for duty-free treatment.
The two sides agreed to a provision that would require a significant portion of each vehicle to be made in high-wage factories, a measure aimed at discouraging factory jobs from leaving the United States for Mexico.
Negotiators also resolved a dispute over how to treat cars and trucks produced in Mexican plants that do not comply with the new treaty’s content rules. American companies importing those vehicles will pay a 2.5 percent tariff.
“What most of us are focused on now is: what happens next?” said Dan Ujczo, a trade attorney with Dickinson Wright.
Having resolved their major sticking points with Mexico, the Trump administration is now expected to press Canada to accept quickly the consensus terms. But Trudeau, whom Trump criticized in harsh terms following the Group of Seven summit in Quebec in June, does not want to be viewed at home as conceding to the unpopular American president.
Trump has been critical of Canada’s dairy management system, which restricts imports of poultry, eggs and dairy products to provide Canadian farmers high prices.
Another long-standing point of contention was the U.S. demand that the treaty sunset every five years unless explicitly reauthorized by the three governments. Business leaders complain such language would make it too difficult to plan future investments.
The NAFTA renegotiation has been a rocky one. The president over the past year repeatedly lambasted the original 1994 treaty, calling it a “bad joke” and blaming it for the loss of millions of American factory jobs.
One year ago, U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer kicked off the negotiations by calling for a major overhaul of trade rules to take account of nearly a quarter-century of economic changes and to rectify the imbalance in trade between the United States and its southern neighbor.
Though trade deals are complex affairs that typically require years of glacial bargaining, administration officials initially hoped to finish the job by the end of 2017. They failed to meet that ambitious timetable and also blew through revised deadlines for the end of March and late May.
This time, the deadline may be real, given a congressional requirement for 90 days notice of an impending trade deal. If the administration doesn’t formally notify Congress that it has reached agreement with both Canada and Mexico by the end of August, Peña Nieto, the outgoing Mexican president, will not be able to sign it.
Negotiators want to get a deal wrapped up before López Obrador, who might demand additional changes, takes office.
Alan Freeman in Ottawa contributed to this report.
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - The Bangor Humane Society is marking a big birthday this year - 150 years in the community.
And the staff will be celebrate with a new look for the facility.
The Bangor Humane Society is a nonprofit organization serving over 200 communities in northern and eastern Maine since 1869. BHS strives to facilitate the human-animal bond by re-homing and rehabilitating homeless pets with humans through pet adoption.
In 1996 the current facility on Mount Hope Avenue was built to function as housing for more than 10,000 pets annually. Between significant overpopulation and not enough adopters, nearly half of the animals BHS housed annually were euthanized.
Nearly 20 years later, the success of spay/neuter efforts and simultaneous shift in the animal welfare mindset has changed the environment. BHS now operates at a 95% live release rate.
Better methods for caring for homeless animals, providing quality adoptions between local residents and animals, as well as ensuring better living conditions for the animals are priorities that need structural facility changes in order for BHS staff and volunteers to realistically maintain these priorities long term. A capital campaign is raising $1,750,000 for those changes, with construction set to begin in August.
- improved veterinary care area for spay / neuter and treatment of sick surrendered pets.
For more information on the campaign and how to help, you can log on to www.BangorHumane.org or www.BHSBuilding4Tomorrow.org.