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The real reasons long trains keep derailing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:11 GMT

This story was originally published by ProPublicaBy Dan Schwartz and Topher Sanders, with additional reporting by Gabriel Sandoval and Danelle Morton, graphics by Haisam Hussein, ProPublicaJust before 5 a.m., Harry Shaffer’s wife called to him from across the living room, where he’d fallen asleep on the couch, exhausted from installing an aboveground pool. Did he hear that sound, that metallic screeching from up the valley? She opened the door of their double-wide trailer and walked outside as Shaffer closed his eyes.A moment later came a thunderous crack of splintering lumber. Debris shot through the living room. Shaffer opened his eyes again to find a hulking train car steps from where he lay. It had shorn off the roof, exposing the murk of the pre-dawn sky. He jumped up and ran outside and saw the garage next door in flames.Though it sat at the floor of a valley along a busy stretch of railroad tracks, the quiet town of Hyndman, Pennsylvania, hadn’t seen a major derailment in rec...

Play Free Slots: Updated List of the Best Free Online Slot Games in 2023 (No Download Needed)

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:11 GMT

Looking to play free slots?We’ve rounded up top online casinos with the best free online slots you can start playing as soon as you visit their sites.Each casino hosts hundreds of slot games that you can play for free — but we’ll cover 5 that stood out the most for us as well as everything else the casinos have to offer, including free spins and other bonuses for real money players.Ignition is the winner overall, thanks to 200+ games, a $3,000 welcome bonus, and a safe and secure environment for you to play for free and for real.But with 5 free slots sites to choose from altogether — you’re bound to find the perfect one for you.Best Free SlotsIgnition (A Night With Cleo): Best free slots site overallMyStake (Money Train 2): Best variety of slotsSlots.LV (Mythic Wolf): Best bonusesRed Dog Casino (Desert Raider): Best for new slotsDucky Luck (Hail Caesar): Great choice for jackpot slots1. Ignition (A Night With Cleo) — Best Free Slots OverallPros:$3,000 welcome bonus150+ carefully-sel...

Tiger Woods and his limp back at Masters, but for how much longer?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:11 GMT

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods is back at the Masters, along with his slight limp. It is not every step, every minute. But it is there. And as much hardware as he has in his mended right leg, the limp figures to be with him for as long as he plays the sport he once dominated.As for how long he keeps playing Augusta National? That’s a little harder to foresee.Woods conceded that each trip to the Masters — at his age (47) and with surgeries on both legs and his back over the last decade — makes him wonder if it’s going to be the last one.“I don’t know how many more I have in me,” Woods said Tuesday.This will be his 25th time playing the Masters, and Woods still is surprised there was a 24th. He was still recovering last year from crashing his car off a suburban Los Angeles road at over 85 mph, crushing bones in his right leg so badly he said doctors contemplated amputation.“I didn’t know if I was going to play again at that time,” Woods said. “For some reason, everything kind ...

Undercover Los Angeles cops file claims in photo backlash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:11 GMT

More than 300 undercover Los Angeles police officers filed legal claims against the city and police department Tuesday after their names and photographs were released to a technology watchdog group that posted them online.The watchdog group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition posted more than 9,300 officers’ information and photographs last month in a searchable online database following a public records request by a reporter for progressive news outlet Knock LA. Hundreds of undercover officers were included in the database, although it's not clear exactly how many because the database doesn't specify which officers work undercover.The officers were not given advance notice of the disclosure and the backlash has roiled the department. The inspector general is investigating Chief Michel Moore and the agency's constitutional policing director Liz Rhodes after an officers' union filed a misconduct complaint.While the city attorney’s office determined the agency was legally required to...

This is how much money you need to be 'happy' in California, study says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:11 GMT

Who wouldn’t be happy with having more money in the bank?A March study from Go Banking Rates and Purdue University unveiled how much money a person would need to make to be “happy” in each state based on multiple factors such as cost of living expenses.A Purdue University study from 2018 found that the average income needed to achieve “happiness” in the U.S. was $105,000; experts at Go Banking Rates used that figure to rank states that require the least to the most amount of money to achieve “happiness.” This is where California residents can find the cheapest homes Researchers noted that ‘happiness’ is subjective, so that these numbers won’t apply to everyone.In California, the minimum salary needed to be “happy” is $145,635, with experts citing that the state’s “notoriously high cost of living” was one of the primary factors behind the high amount.Massachusetts and Hawaii were the only states with a higher salary requirement than the Golden State.Researchers found that in Massac...

How Kristen Butler Built An Empire of Positivity

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:11 GMT

If you’re into the world of personal development, mindset, and positive thinking, you’re probably no stranger to the name Kristen Butler. Kristen is a pioneer and trailblazer when it comes to mindfulness and positivity. So, what is the writer, blogger, and entrepreneur up to these days? And how did she build such a powerful business around the concept of positivity?Kristen is on a mission to improve the well-being and lives of people worldwide by providing inspiration and teaching the power of positivity. With a following of more than 50 million across the social platforms of her flagship brand, Power of Positivity, and the sister brand, Positive Energy+, Butler aims to uplift as many people on this planet as possible With her large social media footprint, more than 50,000 copies of her self-published best-selling 3 Minute Positivity Journal selling in just six months, and a new book coming out April 2023, Kristen is on her way to do just that.So, how did it all begin? How has Krist...

Expert Self-Care Right at Home: How Nushape’s Lipo Wrap Transforms Personal Health and Wellness

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:11 GMT

The demand for non-invasive, at-home health and wellness solutions has grown exponentially in recent years. Nushape, a company at the forefront of this trend, has developed a red light therapy device that can help improve general health and wellness. It’s called the Nushape Lipo Wrap.The Nushape Lipo Wrap is a wearable, at-home device that uses red light and infrared technology to promote weight loss, reduce the appearance of cellulite, and detoxify the body. The wrap is made from a special fabric that contains 600 diodes that emit red light at gentle wavelengths, which penetrate deeply to target fat cells.Benefits of the Nushape Lipo WrapAccording to Nushape’s CEO Jessica Charles, the Nushape Lipo Wrap has numerous benefits for health and wellness. “The Lipo Wrap can help with weight loss and cellulite reduction, boost metabolism, improve circulation, and assist the body to eliminate toxins,” Charles says.Studies have shown that red light and infrared light therap...

Collagen supplements, Frog Fuel and OP2 Labs: The advantages of Ready-to-Drink Over Powder, Starting with that Sloshing in Your Stomach

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:11 GMT

Who would have thought the difference between liquid collagen supplements and the powder form were so different?They are in fact very different, and that differentiation can mean the difference between a smooth recovery from an injury, or a bit of a rougher road.According to webmd.com, “Collagen is a protein responsible for healthy joints and skin elasticity, or stretchiness. It’s in your bones, muscles, and blood, comprising three-quarters of your skin and a third of the protein in your body.”But as we age, the website continues, collagen breaks down and your body has to work harder to produce it.This is where collagen supplements come in. And this is where Frog Fuel plays a pivotal role in maintaining your health, as you recover from an injury sustained during a workout or competition.Developed by the team at OP2 Labs, Frog Fuel is a clinically-proven, high-quality, nano-hydrolyzed collagen protein supplement for athletes recovering from workouts and injuries.OP2 Labs Founders and...

Review: Steel town blues pack a wallop in Center Rep play

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:11 GMT

There’s a lot of humor in Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat,” but it packs a truly devastating wallop, and Center Repertory Company’s production at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts doesn’t pull any punches.Set mostly in 2000 with framing sequences in 2008, “Sweat” explores the human cost of the collapse of U.S. factory towns, with generations-long, union-protected jobs suddenly dissolving as work is shipped out of the country. The play almost all takes place in a bar where steelworkers hang out. Even the bartender worked on the factory floor for decades until a work-related injury took him out.Commissioned as part of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle,” “Sweat” premiered at OSF in 2015 and went on to hit runs off- and on Broadway. It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making Nottage the only woman so far to have won two drama Pulitzers. (She won the first in 2009 for “Ruined,” which played Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2011.) Americ...

READ: Trump indictment and statement of facts related to hush money payment

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:11 GMT

Former President Donald Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts in an indictment unsealed Tuesday.Indictment: View this document on ScribdStatement of facts: View this document on ScribdRead the indictment and statement of facts here.The-CNN-Wire & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.