March 21, 2022
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A 2013 fertilizer plant blast in Texas that killed 15 people and wiped out hundreds of homes was caused by a “criminal act,” federal officials said Wednesday.
The findings were revealed in a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation into the origin of the deadly fire and explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. on April 17, 2013, in the rural town of West.
The explosion flattened the farming community of 2,800 people, just north of Waco, turning some 500 homes into rubble as residents tried desperately to flee the horrific scene. Over 200 people were injured.
The force felt was equivalent to that of a magnitude-2.1 earthquake, and a 93-foot-wide crater scarred the site of the fertilizer plant, where dangerous chemicals, including ammonium nitrate, were stored.
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Rescue personnel search an apartment complex after the West Fertilizer plant exploded April 18, 2013, in West, Texas. Houston Chronicle via AP — file
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March 21, 2022
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March 21, 2022
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Tiger Woods’ children, Sam and Charlie, looked grown-up but still adorable as they supported their dad as he was given a major honor.
Tiger Woods, 46, celebrated with his entire family on Wednesday, March 9 as he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame ahead of the Players Championship. Joining his for his honorary moment was his mom, Kultida Woods, 78, his longtime girlfriend, Erica Herman, 37, plus his two children, daughter Sam,14, and son Charlie,13.
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March 20, 2022
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THE 94TH ANNUAL OSCAR NODS ARE IN FOR 2022
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March 20, 2022
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The mood is squarely risk-off, with stocks down and crude and other commodities higher — but off much stronger levels from earlier — after U.S. officials raised the possibility of Russian oil sanctions. That’s as the world faces an ever-worsening humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, where the Russian invasion has reached day 12 and more than a million people have fled the fighting.
Against the backdrop of unpredictable and dangerous geopolitical upheaval, here is some wartime investing advice from Berkshire Hathaway’s BRK.A, -1.05% Warren Buffett, from an interview in 2014, the last time Russia invaded Ukraine.
“The one thing you can be quite sure of is if we went into some very major war, the value of money would go down — that’s happened in virtually every war that I’m aware of. The last thing you’d want to do is hold money during a war,” he said.
Buffett bought his first stock in 1942, when “macro factors were not looking good,” but insisted investors would frankly “be a lot better owning productive assets over the next 50 years” than pieces of paper.
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A sign gives directions for people fleeing war-torn Ukraine, after they arrived on a train from Poland at the Hauptbahnhof main railway station on March 6, 2022, in Berlin, Germany. Carsten Koall/Getty Images
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March 20, 2022
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Come November, 81-year-old Paul Gatling will get to do something that many Americans take for granted —he’ll get to vote for a presidential candidate.
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson vacated Gatling’s 1964 murder conviction on Monday and restored his rights, including his right to vote.
“I want my name cleared,” Gatling told NBC News before Thompson made it official. “Most of all, I just want to vote before I die.”
The delighted Gatling said his only regret is that President Obama won’t be on the ballot.
“That’s a big deal for me,” Gatling said. “I couldn’t vote for the first black president.”
But Gatling declined to say who he would vote for in November.
Thompson said full justice for Gatling was a long time coming.
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Paul Gatling, who spent nine years in prison for a 1963 murder in which he was wrongly convicted, at his home in Hampton, Va., April 30, 2016.COURTNEY MANION / The New York Times via Redux
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March 19, 2022
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Wulingyuan is a scenic and historical site in the Wulingyuan District of South Central China’s Hunan Province. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. It is noted for more than 3,000 quartzite sandstone pillars and peaks across most of the site, many over 200 meters (660 ft) in height, along with many ravines and gorges with picturesque streams, pools, lakes, rivers, and waterfalls. It features 40 caves, many with large calcite deposits, and a natural bridge named Tianqiashengkong (meaning ‘bridge across the sky’), which is one of the highest natural bridges in the world. The site also provides habitat for many vulnerable species, including the dhole, Asiatic black bear, and Chinese water deer.
The site is situated in Zhangjiajie City and lies about 270 kilometers (170 mi) to the northwest of Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province. The park covers an area of 690 square kilometers (266 square miles). Wulingyuan forms part of the Wuling Mountain Range. The scenic area consists of four national parks, which are the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Suoxi Valley Nature Reserve, Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve, and the recently added Yangjiajie Scenic Area. Overall there are over 560 attraction sights to view.
The quartzite sandstone pillars and the surrounding regions were formed during the Devonian period (400 to 350 million years ago) from a combination of tectonic uplift and water erosion. The highest area in the park is Huang Shi Zhai (黃石寨). It reaches a height of 3,450 feet (1,050 m) and is accessible via cable car or a set of stairs. Wikipedia
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An image from Wulingyuan
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March 19, 2022
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Banks are in the business of making money, and a lot of it — even if that means charging you to deal with money that’s yours.
From ATM fees to overdraft fees to maintenance fees, banks have all sorts of ways of extracting funds out of consumers. You go to an out-of-network ATM for cash and wind up paying a few extra dollars. You don’t have a ton of money in your checking account and notice your bank is charging you each month just to hold onto your (dwindling) funds. Maybe you screw up, accidentally try to spend money that isn’t in your account, and you get slapped with a $35 overdraft fee. Or you don’t have a bank account, need to cash a check, and the place where you do it winds up keeping a cut.
The whole thing can feel a little gross. Sure, banks are private businesses beholden to shareholders. At the same time, it’s hard not to look at the ways big and small they’re scooping up extra cash and think wait, what? Banks made $279.1 billion in 2021, up $132 billion from the year before.
“One might want to question whether the amount of fees that are being charged are necessary to cover the costs, given those levels of profit margins,” said Brian Shearer, senior adviser to the director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which recently launched an initiative to look into what it describes as “junk fees” from banks and financial institutions. “One, they add up and they really can have a substantial impact on consumers’ pocketbooks, and, two, we’re concerned that they distort the competitive process and have hindered overall competitive forces in banking.” The concern is that consumers aren’t able to effectively comparison shop because of practices such as drip pricing or hidden pricing that hide actual costs. Basically, if you’re looking for a new bank and on the back end there are all sorts of fees you don’t notice, you might not make the best choice for yourself — and banks won’t have to compete as hard for your business.
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Out-of-network ATM charges can make it pricey to withdraw your own money.Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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March 19, 2022
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When something feels off, but isn’t exactly life-threatening and not entirely weird, what is it? Creepy. Researchers at Knox College — in the first empirical study of creepiness — have now discovered the parameters for what makes someone likely to be perceived as creepy. The study surveyed 1,341 people, who were an average age of 29, Slate reported. The survey had participants rate how creepy 44 different behaviors and habits were.
As it turns out — and as everyone has probably encountered at some point in time — creepiness is felt when someone interacts with something that’s “outside the norm, like a person with idiosyncratic behavioral patterns, unusual physical characteristics, or a tendency to over-or underemote,” according to Slate. The person doesn’t know if they should interpret the interaction as a threat, and thus is creeped out. “Atypical expressions” could be one reason, according to a neurologist who wrote a column for Psychology Today, why many people describe Republican presidential candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as creepy.
Behaviors considered creepy according to the survey were akin to the creepy uncle trope, like constantly licking their lips or bringing up the same topic (usually sex) over and over in conversation.
The creepiest features were having greasy hair, unclean clothes, and a “peculiar smile,” according to Slate.
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March 19, 2022
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