Editor’s Note: This story contains disturbing descriptions of the tasks the children were hired to perform during their employment in the meat processing plants. Nearly a dozen children worked under strenuous and hazardous conditions at a pork processing plant in Iowa, the US Department of Labor announced following an investigation. The 11 children hired by a third-party Oklahoma-based sanitation contractor, Qvest, were allegedly employed to use corrosive products to “clean head splitters, jaw pullers, bandsaws and neck clippers” at the Seaboard Triumph Foods facility in Sioux City from at least 2019 to 2023, the department said in a news release . Federal law bans children under 18 from working in dangerous jobs, including cleaning dangerous equipment on the floors of the meatpacking and poultry slaughtering plants. The department noted in its news release that these were children hired at the facility and did not list their ages. CNN has reached out to Qvest LLC and Seaboard Triumph Foods for comment. Adam Greer, Qvest’s vice president of operations, told The New York Times that the company “has not only fully cooperated with the Department of Labor but is and has been committed to strengthening our onboarding process.” In a statement to The Des Moines Register, Seaboard Triumph Foods counsel Paul DeCamp said employers face issues with those obtaining jobs using fake identification documents. The company had not contracted with Qvest for more than a year, “did not employ any of the alleged individuals and has no evidence that any underage individuals accessed the plant,” the statement said. Seaboard Triumph Foods was not a defendant in the enforcement action brought by the US Department of Labor. This marks the second time this year that the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division has investigated a sanitation contractor at the Seaboard Triumph facility and found the contractor hired children for dangerous work. In May, the Labor Department announced a consent and order judgment against Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial Services, which said Fayette had hired nine children to work at the Seaboard Triumph facility after being contracted by the company in September 2023. The complaint also said the janitorial company employed 15 children at a Perdue Farms meat packing plant in Accomac, Virginia. The company hired children as young as 13 years old. Some of the children hired by Fayette were previously employed by Qvest, the department said. “These findings illustrate Seaboard Triumph Foods’ history of children working illegally in their Sioux City facility since at least September 2019,” said Michael Lazzeri, the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Midwest regional administrator. “Despite changing sanitation contractors, children continued to work in dangerous occupations at this facility.” Qvest is required to pay $171,919 in civil money penalties for child labor violations, according to court documents . The company must also hire a third-party “compliance specialist” to ensure that it adheres to child labor laws and has 60 days to implement all necessary measures to prevent the employment of children in prohibited functions at each location where it operates. The Labor Department in May announced Fayette would be required to pay $649,304 in civil money penalties after investigators found the company hired children to “clean dangerous kill floor equipment.” “The realization that the use of fraudulent identification documents had allowed individuals under the age of 18 to circumvent our policies and procedures required immediate action,” Fayette said in a statement sent to CNN in May, adding that “substantial investments in proprietary systems and technologies has closed the gap that allowed this situation to arise.” The company added that it has cooperated with the DOL, and that “our goal remains to ensure a safe and compliant work environment for all of our employees.” Within the fiscal year 2024, the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour division concluded 736 investigations involving child labor violations that affected 4,030 children, according to the news release. 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Contact Information Email : [email protected] Website : www.monportlaser.com Address : Monport Tech Inc., 300 Lenora St 878, Seattle, WA 98121-2411, United States SOURCE Monport LaserWhile Seth Meyers is discussing his new HBO stand-up special “ Dad Man Walking ,” he’s visited by his 8-year-old son Ashe, who’s trying to keep it cool while his dad is on the phone. “He’s doing what he thinks is a helpful tiptoe walk that is 1/10 of the speed of normal,” Meyers narrates. “Now he’s pulling paper out of the printer one piece at a time. He’s finally leaving ... He’s also wearing pajamas that look like prison stripes.” It’s fitting that Meyers is facing the typical interruptions of parenthood while answering questions about “Dad Man Walking,” which is largely filled with the wry observations of a modern father and is in the race for the Golden Globes’ best performance in stand-up category. While his day job as the host of “Late Night With Seth Meyers” is marked by political comedy and celebrity interviews, he says he enjoys the different muscles he uses while sharpening his stand-up. “On ‘Late Night,’ I feel like my entire staff is a really good dance partner, where we all know what we’re after,” he says. “It’s so thrilling too to be doing your stand-up special where all of a sudden, you’re in Philly and realizing, ‘Wow, if I was in Studio 8, a lot of people would help me out — even just on a hair and makeup level.’ But I get that rush of going out on stage and just making people laugh. And the fine-tuning of language is a thing that you can do with a stand-up special that I’m so drawn to.” The process of crafting and perfecting a joke is instrumental to Meyers as a writer. He’s been able to sharpen the bits in this hour of stand-up through a series of co-headlining gigs and a New York City residency with his friend and fellow talk show host John Oliver. Meyers says he is consistently writing down funny ideas and real-life situations on his phone and can gauge what works by reading different nuances in the audience’s reaction. For example, while many of the jokes lovingly poke fun at his three kids — Ashe, 6-year-old Axel and 2-year-old Adelaide — and wife Alexi, Meyers can quickly find the line if he goes a little too far. “It’s how you feel in telling it — sometimes even just the way people laugh,” he says. “You invited it, and then you’re like, ‘That’s my wife I’m talking about!’ But if it’s ever anything I’m worried she won’t love, I try it first, and if I can’t make it work, there’s no reason to have brought it to her — only when it’s a feasible bit. To her credit, if it works, she’s always very supportive.” Ultimately, reflecting on life with his family for audiences is an essential part of Meyers’ love language. “I just love doing stand-up because it’s so different — not just in format, but also in the topics,” he says. “There’s something so universal about my family, and it should be noted that even though I bust on them pretty hard, I love talking about them. They’re my favorite people. Sometimes with ‘Late Night,’ which is a show I love doing, I spend a lot of time talking about people I don’t have a great deal of affection for, so it’s nice to be out there spending an hour sharing anecdotes and observations about my family, the best people on Earth.” As our conversation wraps, Ashe reenters the room — still clad in his prison-stripe pajamas — and wants to say goodbye to both me and his dad. We all wish each other a good night, and Meyers is off, ready to have a few more silly moments before bedtime.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100None
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ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old . The Carter Center said the 39th president died Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died in November 2023, lived most of their lives. A moderate Democrat, Carter ran for president in 1976 as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad grin, effusive Baptist faith and technocratic plans for efficient government. His promise to never deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia. “If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter said. Carter’s victory over Republican Gerald Ford, whose fortunes fell after pardoning Nixon, came amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over race, women’s rights and America’s role in the world. His achievements included brokering Mideast peace by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David for 13 days in 1978. But his coalition splintered under double-digit inflation and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His negotiations ultimately brought all the hostages home alive, but in a final insult, Iran didn’t release them until the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, who had trounced him in the 1980 election. Humbled and back home in Georgia, Carter said his faith demanded that he keep doing whatever he could, for as long as he could, to try to make a difference. He and Rosalynn co-founded The Carter Center in 1982 and spent the next 40 years traveling the world as peacemakers, human rights advocates and champions of democracy and public health. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, Carter helped ease nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiate cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, the center had monitored at least 113 elections around the world. Carter was determined to eradicate guinea worm infections as one of many health initiatives. Swinging hammers into their 90s, the Carters built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The common observation that he was better as an ex-president rankled Carter. His allies were pleased that he lived long enough to see biographers and historians revisit his presidency and declare it more impactful than many understood at the time. Propelled in 1976 by voters in Iowa and then across the South, Carter ran a no-frills campaign. Americans were captivated by the earnest engineer, and while an election-year Playboy interview drew snickers when he said he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times,” voters tired of political cynicism found it endearing. The first family set an informal tone in the White House, carrying their own luggage, trying to silence the Marine Band’s traditional “Hail to the Chief" and enrolling daughter, Amy, in public schools. Carter was lampooned for wearing a cardigan and urging Americans to turn down their thermostats. But Carter set the stage for an economic revival and sharply reduced America's dependence on foreign oil by deregulating the energy industry along with airlines, trains and trucking. He established the departments of Energy and Education, appointed record numbers of women and nonwhites to federal posts, preserved millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness and pardoned most Vietnam draft evaders. Emphasizing human rights , he ended most support for military dictators and took on bribery by multinational corporations by signing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He persuaded the Senate to ratify the Panama Canal treaties and normalized relations with China, an outgrowth of Nixon’s outreach to Beijing. But crippling turns in foreign affairs took their toll. When OPEC hiked crude prices, making drivers line up for gasoline as inflation spiked to 11%, Carter tried to encourage Americans to overcome “a crisis of confidence.” Many voters lost confidence in Carter instead after the infamous address that media dubbed his “malaise" speech, even though he never used that word. After Carter reluctantly agreed to admit the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979. Negotiations to quickly free the hostages broke down, and then eight Americans died when a top-secret military rescue attempt failed. Carter also had to reverse course on the SALT II nuclear arms treaty after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Though historians would later credit Carter's diplomatic efforts for hastening the end of the Cold war, Republicans labeled his soft power weak. Reagan’s “make America great again” appeals resonated, and he beat Carter in all but six states. Born Oct. 1, 1924, James Earl Carter Jr. married fellow Plains native Rosalynn Smith in 1946, the year he graduated from the Naval Academy. He brought his young family back to Plains after his father died, abandoning his Navy career, and they soon turned their ambitions to politics . Carter reached the state Senate in 1962. After rural white and Black voters elected him governor in 1970, he drew national attention by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Carter published more than 30 books and remained influential as his center turned its democracy advocacy onto U.S. politics, monitoring an audit of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. After a 2015 cancer diagnosis, Carter said he felt “perfectly at ease with whatever comes.” “I’ve had a wonderful life,” he said. “I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.” ___ Contributors include former AP staffer Alex Sanz in Atlanta. Bill Barrow, The Associated PressHyderabad: Vice-chancellor of Sri Konda Laxman Telangana Horticultural University Dr D Raji Reddy has said that the Internet of Things (IoT) is going to be the future of horticulture, where horticultural crops will be mapped using remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS) in the near future. He was addressing the “International workshop on GIS for Plant Biodiversity” held at the Horticultural University in Mulugu on Wednesday, December 25. Addressing the experts who attended the workshop, he said that DNA finger-printing and genome sequencing of important vegetables, fruits and medicinal plants will be done in the near future. He explained that specific models of plants will be developed using artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning techniques. “GIS and remote sensing will be highly useful for faster availability of data. The university will work on these in the near future,” he informed the participants who came from across the country and beyond. “Disentangling phylogenetic relationships in citrus and its relatives with complete chloroplast genomes and conserved nuclear genomes” was discussed in the context of the research applied to the case of Japanese flora and exploring the world’s plant resources using GIS. Dr Shyam Saran Shrestha, program coordinator at Shraddha Institute of Health Sciences and president of Himalayan Research and Development Center, Nepal, spoke on the topic “Bio-prospecting medicinal plants of Nepal, Italy and Japan.”
Harry Potter HBO Show Finds Its Severus Snape By The upcoming has reportedly found its Severus Snape, with THR reporting that is being eyed to play one of the biggest roles in the series. According to THR’s report, Essiedu is up for the role of Professor Severus Snape, and not only is in consideration, but has been offered the role. The report mentions that it’s unclear whether or not negotiations have begun as of yet, but it seems as if Essiedu is who Warner Bros. Discovery wants to play the role. Essideu is best known for his role in the HBO miniseries I May Destroy You, where he broke out into superstardom and earned a Primetime Emmy Award and British Academy Television Award nomination. He’s also appeared in projects like The Outrun, The Lazarus Project, Black Mirror, and more. Severus Snape is one of the most important characters in the original Harry Potter books. He first appears as the professor of Potions at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and frequently has run-ins with Harry and his group of friends. What do we know about the Harry Potter HBO show? The series is described as a “decade-long” project, with each season expected to adapt one book in Rowling’s acclaimed book series. At the moment, the casting search for the is still underway in the U.K. and Ireland. The chosen child actors must be aged 9 to 11 in April 2025, teasing its potential production start date. It’s unclear as of now who else will be in the cast, although rumors have circulated about potential other casting, and . The HBO adaptation is being written by Emmy-winning-producer (Killing Eve, Succession). The series is executive produced by Gardiner, Mark Mylod, Rowling, Neil Blair, Ruth Kenley-Letts, and long-time Harry Potter franchise producer David Heyman. Mylod, who has worked with HBO on Games of Thrones and The Last of Us, will also helm multiple episodes. It is a production by HBO in association with Brontë Film and TV and Warner Bros. Television. (Source: ) Anthony Nash has been writing about games and the gaming industry for nearly a decade. When he’s not writing about games, he’s usually playing them. You can find him on Twitter talking about games or sports at @_anthonynash. Share article
A melee broke out at midfield of Ohio Stadium after Michigan upset No. 2 Ohio State 13-10 on Saturday. After the Wolverines' fourth straight win in the series, players converged at the block "O" to plant its flag. The Ohio State players were in the south end zone singing their alma mater in front of the student section. When the Buckeyes saw the Wolverines' flag, they rushed toward the 50-yard line. Social media posts showed Michigan offensive lineman Raheem Anderson carrying the flag on a long pole to midfield, where the Wolverines were met by dozens of Ohio State players and fights broke out. Buckeyes defensive end Jack Sawyer was seen ripping the flag off the pole and taking the flag as he scuffled with several people trying to recover the flag. A statement from the Ohio State Police Department read: "Following the game, officers from multiple law enforcement agencies assisted in breaking up an on-field altercation. During the scuffle, multiple officers representing Ohio and Michigan deployed pepper spray. OSUPD is the lead agency for games and will continue to investigate." Michigan running back Kalel Mullings on FOX said: "For such a great game, you hate to see stuff like that after the game. It's bad for the sport, bad for college football. At the end of the day, some people got to learn how to lose, man. "You can't be fighting and stuff just because you lost the game. We had 60 minutes and four quarters to do all that fighting. Now people want to talk and fight. That's wrong. It's bad for the game. Classless, in my opinion. People got to be better." Once order was restored, officers cordoned the 50-yard line, using bicycles as barriers. Ohio State coach Ryan Day in his postgame press conference said he wasn't sure what happened. "I don't know all the details of it. But I know that these guys are looking to put a flag on our field and our guys weren't going to let that happen," he said. "I'll find out exactly what happened, but this is our field and certainly we're embarrassed at the fact we lost the game, but there's some prideful guys on our team that weren't just going to let that happen." The Big Ten has not yet released a statement on the incident. --Field Level MediaJimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100Fadnavis Holds Meeting to Expedite Agri Stack Initiative
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