BREAKING!!
TRUMP Did it AGAIN!
They Are Heading To TEXAS RIGHT NOW!
The United States economy thrives on a simple principle of production.
When we produce more than we consume, then we can export that excess and bring money
in via sales outside of the United States.
According to The Balance, gross domestic product (GDP) is the best way to measure a country's
economy.
GDP is the total value of everything produced by all the people and companies in the country.
Assuming we can produce more than we use, that means we're not just passing money
around, we're importing it by way of foreign sales, and that's great for us.
The way we achieve a significant GDP is by doing more producing and manufacturing in
the United States.
That will also create jobs as more companies move back to America.
If companies invest in their employees and bring their business to America, then we all
do much better in the long run.
In recent years, it has made more financial sense, even for American companies, to push
their manufacturing outside our borders.
That puts a hit on our economy, even if you factor in the shipping costs.
It costs Americans to lose jobs when a company moves to another country.
This is why we need to bring those businesses back to America and give those jobs to our
citizens.
Thanks to the business-minded policies of the Trump Administration, the United States
is once again going to be home to the manufacturing of the products that had previously gone outside
the U.S.
You were probably buying their products and didn't realize it.
UPI reports that the company will close down its Canadian plant and split the manufacturing
between three plants within the United States:
"Jan. 24 (UPI) — The Campbell Soup Company announced Wednesday that it will shut down
its Toronto plant and move operations to its three U.S. factories.
The Toronto plant will be closed in phases over the next 18 months and production moved
to Maxton, N.C.; Napolean, Ohio; and Paris, Texas.
Mark Alexander, the president of Americas Simple Meals and Beverages, Campbell's parent
company, said the closing was 'a difficult one' that was 'the best course of action
for our business.'
'We are operating in an increasingly challenging environment as our industry's consumer and
retail landscapes continue to change dramatically,' he said in a statement.
Ana Dominguez, president of Campbell's operations in Canada, told the Toronto Star that one
reason for the closing is the company has too much soup and not enough customers.
'Simply put, we are in a situation where we can produce a lot more soup than we can
sell,' she said.
With slow soup sales, the amount of jobs created in the three U.S. factories will be 'minimal,'
company spokesman Thomas Hushen told Bloomberg."
Jobs are important for every American.
Previously unemployed or underemployed people will value job increases more than anyone.
Agendas and political platforms will come and go, but you can always depend on a business
to do what is best for their bottom line.
Campbells and the other companies who've made the same move are proof that the America
First plan is working.
It shows because our economy is improving.
This isn't a move that was made under any sort of financial hardship either.
This move comes shortly after they bought Snyder snack company and thereby expanded
their customer base by quite a bit:
"Dec. 18 (UPI) — Campbell Soup announced Monday a deal to buy the snack maker Snyder's-Lance
for $4.87 billion.
The 148-year-old company said it plans to pay $50 a share in an all-cash deal.
That's a 27 percent premium to Snyder's closing price on Wednesday on Nasdaq, a day
before CNBC first reported the company was considering the sale.
Campbell, based in Camden, N.J., has been on a buying spree, acquiring Bolthouse Farms
in August 2012, organic baby food company Plum in June 2013, biscuit company Kelsen
in August 2013, fresh salsa and hummus maker Garden Fresh Gourmet in June 2015, and organic
broth and soup producer Pacific Foods earlier this month.
Campbell's other brands include Pepperidge Farm products — cakes, Goldfish crackers
and Milano cookies — which it acquired in 1961.
Campbell's also makes Arnott's Tim Tam Biscuits.
'The acquisition of Snyder's-Lance will accelerate Campbell's strategy and is in
line with our purpose, 'real food that matters for life's moments,' ' Denise Morrison,
Campbell's president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.
'It will provide our consumers with an even greater variety of better-for-you snacks.'
Snyder's-Lance, the No. 2 salty snack company behind Frito-Lay, produces brands that include
Snyder's of Hanover, Kettle, Cape Cod, Jays, Archway and Diamond.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Snyder's-Lance has approximately 6,000 employees and operates
13 manufacturing centers throughout the United States and Britain.
'This acquisition will dramatically transform Campbell, shifting our center of gravity and
further diversifying our portfolio into the faster-growing snacking category,' Morrison
said about the company, which was founded in 1869.
Campbell's plans to finance the acquisition through $6.2 billion of debt.
Campbell's baked snacks generated sales of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2017, which is about
31 percent of Campbell's sales.
Campbell's soup portfolio is approximately 27 percent of the company's annual net sales."
It just makes good business sense for America to incentivize American companies to manufacture
here.
The left wanted everyone to believe that it could not be done, but here we are watching
it happen.
It's not that complicated.
Somebody who knows how to balance a checkbook just has to get the ball rolling.
President Trump's business background is helping the American economy improve.
Unemployment, stocks, and jobs are all looking great right now.
Share and comment if you'd like to see America First be the main priority
of
President Trump.
For more infomation >> BREAKING!! TRUMP Did it AGAIN! They Are Heading To TEXAS RIGHT NOW! - BreakingNews24 - Duration: 22:06.-------------------------------------------
Wetlands for Birds - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official] - Duration: 9:00.
[light wind]
- CAROLYN: We're in Brewster County Texas,
and we're in the southern part of it.
Nearly adjacent to Big Bend National Park.
This is a curved-billed thrasher.
And what's interesting is they're not known to nest
in nesting boxes but they do here.
Well I've got boxes up all over the place.
That just comes with having a bird sanctuary I guess.
[generator starts]
- NARRATOR: Meet Carolyn Ohl-Johnson.
This birder loves her water.
- CAROLYN: I'm going to pump some water into a concrete tank
where it'll last a lot longer.
[water splashing]
- NARRATOR: She needs all this water for the ponds,
and trees...
and birds.
- CAROLYN: There's a blue grosbeak.
- NARRATOR: You see, this part of West Texas is a dry,
prickly desert, that doesn't get much water.
But there's plenty here at the Christmas Mountains Oasis.
[playful acoustic music]
Carolyn and her late husband Sherwood started building
this oasis in the 90s.
- And I told him how we could put in some diversion dams,
and he just hopped right on that without greasing
his equipment, the same day!
And so we started out with one tank that wasn't
nearly big enough.
- NARRATOR: They ended up with three dams...
and five water tanks.
Almost 20 years later, and here we are!
- CAROLYN: It's a refuge for birds, butterflies.
[dragonfly flutters]
Just give them a little dry seed.
- She's built this oasis out of gravel and creosote,
and put in some wetlands to catch rainwater,
the birds also use the water, and she's created truly
an oasis out in the desert.
- Oh, here's a black-throated sparrow just came in
to the feeder, he sticks his little head in there.
I can be sitting here, just looking at the same old stuff,
and bet money that nothing interesting's going
to come along.
And there, all of a sudden, oh my gosh, there's a lifer!
But it won't happen if I'm not sitting here looking,
so what do you do!
You sure don't get much work done, that's for sure.
- NARRATOR: Plenty of work's been done here as well.
Deep in the Chihuahuan desert near Presidio,
in the driest ecoregion of Texas is the
B.J. Bishop Wetlands, a river wetland ecosystem.
A habitat that's pretty much dried up round these parts.
- Originally, back when the Rio Grande was still
healthy with good flows,
you had ebb and flows that created estuaries like this.
Well, those no longer really exist.
And so we had an opportunity here working with the city
to put this in and create something unique.
- NARRATOR: Terry allows the city of Presidio to discharge
its treated wastewater here.
[birds chirp]
And the people of Presidio get their first ever
birding wetland.
- PATT SIMS: Yeah those black, those are the white-faced ibis.
- As farmland turned into wetland,
I never would have thought it could do this.
This was an amazing, creative idea.
And in a year and a half, it has just really increased
the numbers and species of birds that we're being able
to see here!
- If you look over here, right on that vegetation there,
there's some killdee working the uh, the water there,
you'll see them moving their feet, and they're eating
the bugs that come scurrying out of that!
Must be great for killdee, because I have never seen
so many in one place here in the Presidio valley.
- NARRATOR: This man-made wetland is a win-win,
for the birders and the birds.
- PATT: I am surprised at how many species have
cashed in on this.
I really am and the numbers, the birds know it's here,
so they're coming in!
- DENNIS: And to have one here, have one in Presidio,
and to have it be such an integral part of all the
environment here is pretty unique, and it's pretty awesome!
- ELLEN WEINACHT: We are at the Sandia Wetlands,
on the west side of Balmorhea.
[upbeat music]
And we're happy for anybody to come!
- RICH KOSTECKE: A bunch of teal flying right there.
- NARRATOR: Ellen Weinacht's place is another birding oasis
in the desert.
[water trickles]
Sandia Springs flows through her land and she decided to set up
her own birding wetland.
- You see the killdeer moving, there's at least
three of them in there.
- We have a water right on that spring, and it just made
sense to use it to make a pond!
Really been a lot, been a lot of fun!
[blue-winged teal flush]
- We are in the desert, and water is very limited,
so these little patches, they may not seem like much.
But the birds do find them and they can get really heavy use!
- CLIFF: You wouldn't believe what's flying over the desert
until you create the gas station, the stopover sight
for these birds to refuel.
[green heron calls]
- ELLEN: Would you say try something different
at each pond.
- Yes absolutely, something different
in each pond would be good!
Hey, hey look at that!
What is that!
That's a peregrine!
No, it's a prairie falcon.
He would eat ducks!
- ELLEN: Really, he is that big!
- Oh yeah, he would definitely take a blue-winged teal.
Creating these wetlands out in the desert are a
magnet for wildlife.
I mean every critter needs water!
- ELLEN: So, thanks for coming.
- CLIFF: And so to bring water, open water to the desert
is fantastic.
[light wind]
- NARRATOR: Back at Christmas Mountains Oasis,
Carolyn is getting her place ready for a special guest.
- CAROLYN: You know it just evolved, where the trees
attracted more birds.
And then you flip them real quick.
And then I learned more and learned about the lucifers,
and how rare they were and special they were.
If everybody's real still they'll come into the feeder!
- NARRATOR: Carolyn's oasis is home to one of the
rarest hummingbirds in the United States.
- CAROLYN: Basically, this is lucifer central.
- CLIFF: The lucifer hummingbird has a very tiny
global range in Mexico.
It just peaks into a little part of Texas right here.
And he's very special, because if you want to see that bird
in the U.S., you need to come here!
He's sitting right there, near the tip top of that shrub
in the background.
- BIRDER: Okay, on the top of that tree right there!
- CAROLYN: He's back on that perch there, if you can get
that oughta be a-- ooops!
You know, when I originally did it, it was only for my
enjoyment, but it didn't take long for me to realize
that I had to share it!
- BARBARA PANKRATZ: It just sat down!
Oh my goodness!
- CLIFF: The male has a very long beautiful purple
magenta gorget, it has a fairly long and drooped bill!
- BARBARA: That's the lucifer!
That's a lifer for me!
- Well it is for me too!
[laughing]
- BARBARA: This is the most amazing place!
Beautiful!
It truly is an oasis in the middle of the desert!
It's a daunting task to have come out here
and to create such a haven, thankfully she did!
- It's fantastic to landowners doing this,
and bringing back this wetland habitat out
in the Chihuahuan desert.
- NARRATOR: For Carolyn, she's happy to be behind the scenes.
So the lucifer can shine!
And folks will continue to enjoy her West Texas wonder.
- CAROLYN: To me this place is wonderful and special,
and I know it won't be here forever!
You just can't not share it with people that love it,
that's to me what life is all about!
- NARRATOR: This project was funded in part by a grant
from the Wildlife Restoration Program.
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Woman who bought the Turpins' Texas home found feces everywhere - Duration: 4:32.
Woman who bought the Turpins' Texas home found feces everywhere
She said shed always wondered what happened to the family who lived in the home before she bought it.
Nearly two weeks ago, she finally found out.
The home belonged to David and Louise Turpin, the California couple accused of torturing and starving their 13 children, whom they kept shackled to their beds for weeks or months at a time, according to prosecutors.
Evidence from inside their Perris, California, home suggests the children were often not released from their chains to go to the bathroom, Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said at a news conference last Thursday.
Im shocked, said Baldwin, 78.
The Rio Vista home was in such terrible condition, she said, that bankers wouldnt let her look at the property unless they signed a harmless clause, which said that if she or her family got sick in the house, the bank was not responsible.
But we didnt think anything about it, Baldwin said.
Shed purchased properties in the past that stunk and needed work, so she didnt give it a second thought.
The home, she told CNN, was foreclosed on in April 2010 and sat on the 36-acre property for a year before Baldwin bought it.
The bank had done some cleaning inside the home before the purchase, but the inside was still filthy.
Besides the feces on the wall, there was trash all over, everywhere you looked, and the drywall had holes in it.
The smell inside was so terrible that after a day of cleaning the house, Baldwin would pour two or three gallons of bleach on the floors just to combat the stench for the next day, when shed do it again.
Makes you sick inside to think that people lived like that, you know? Baldwin said.
That that many children were living in such deprived conditions for 12 years and nobody around there knowed it. Authorities say David and Louise Turpin beat and choked their children, feeding them small portions of food on a strict schedule and allowing them to shower only once a year.
The children ranged in age from 2 to 29; the oldest weighed only 82 pounds.
The parents were arrested after their 17-year-old daughter escaped their Perris home and called police to tell them her siblings were being held captive inside.
The parents have pleaded not guilty to 37 charges.
Its heartbreaking.
Its really sad to think that children lived in that house, Baldwin said of the Rio Vista home.
She hopes the children are able to recover and that they will have a more promising future.
All we could do is pray for them kids, she said, and hope that now that they get a better life, that theyll be in a place where theres happiness and love and theyll be able to forget the past..
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Texas District Replaces School Board and Plans for State Accountability - Duration: 3:52.
About a year ago, we experienced a lot of stress, as a district.
Really trying to bring together a lot of conflicting interests.
And going into the school year I didn't really
know what to expect except that I was optimistic.
The district was somewhat fragile and complicated.
Frankly, for an entire school year,
we did not hire a superintendent or high school principals.
So the commissioner of education felt that the governance issue
needed to be addressed so we could
move the district forward.
We had five goals--
stewardship, absenteeism, graduation rate,
college readiness, and early literacy.
Those were five areas that needed improvement.
The decision was basically to remove the existing
board of trustees and to place a board of managers
here in Edgewood ISD.
Since the board of managers and myself were sworn in,
we have a new vision.
We have a new mission for Edgewood.
And now with a new strategic plan,
we feel like we have a roadmap for success.
I came here thinking, OK, well I'm
going to be a part of one action on one topic.
But this is different.
This is going in front of the board and that, to me,
is the level where you are saying this is business.
I think it's great that we have a variety of stakeholders here.
We all want the same thing.
We all want student success at Edgewood.
The question is, how do we get there?
Our graduation rate is still not at 100%.
Our strand is improving literacy.
It's not just beginning of the year training, it's ongoing.
I think what we've really focused
on is creating a plan over the next three to five years
where we're going to bring together
everyone in the district to make sure everyone's
on the same page.
And you can go from one campus to the next
and really see a system of best practices employed
throughout the district consistently.
The thing that I think is really, really strong here
in Edgewood are it's people.
I love that they just included everybody.
It'll make this a better buy-in for the community.
We have a new mission.
We have a new vision.
We have new goals.
We have new strategies.
We heard some really touching stories,
both from the students, and we heard
the parents who care nothing more than about their child's
education.
I may go drop off my daughter or pick her up from school,
and you really don't know what's going on behind the scenes
at school.
But sitting in these meetings they really
expect and want to help each and every student,
and give everyone a bright future.
She actually helped us revise one of the action steps we had.
They take to heart what I have to say.
Because I'm not only representing myself,
but all the students and the Edgewood community.
To see everyone come together and really develop these plans,
it was as if I was seeing our dreams grow
right in front of me.
And I was happy and so excited to be a part of that.
To actually hear firsthand the struggles
that a principal, and or teacher, and or student
has to go through is just amazing.
We're not where we want to be, but we're not where we were.
For Edgewood to have met standard
is not a small accomplishment.
It's a very, very big accomplishment.
Five years down the road, I can't wait to see what we do.
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Sand tunnel collapses on Texas tourist at Florida beach - Duration: 9:44.
Sand tunnel collapses on Texas tourist at Florida beach
A Texas man was critically injured Sunday when sand collapsed on him after he reportedly dug a tunnel near Crescent Beach in St.
Augustine, according to emergency personnel.
The incident occurred at about 1:40 p.m.
ET Sunday in the 8200 block of A1A South, where a man dug a sand tunnel/hole parallel to a dune.
Some sand collapsed and he became buried in it, according to St.
Johns County Fire Rescue.
Emergency personnel arrived and removed two to three feet of sand, uncovered the man and transported him to Flagler Hospital, where he was in critical condition Sunday afternoon.
No other injuries were reported.
Holes on beaches — and their tendency to collapse — are far more dangerous than they appear at first glance.
On July 31, 2017, Ashley OConnor, 30, of Plano, Texas, was found buried in a hole on the beach in Ocean City, Md.
Police say she died of asphyxiation; her death was ruled an accident. .
Also in July 2017, a 12-year-old boy in California died after digging a tunnel into the side of a sand dune, which then collapsed on him, according to ABC News.
In June the same year an Indiana teen was severely injured after jumping into a 7-foot pit he'd dug in the sand and it caved in and buried him.
And a 16-year-old boy was buried after a tunnel he was digging in the sand on a New Jersey beach collapsed.
In 2012, The (Salisbury, Md.
) Daily Times reported that a man attempting to connect two 6-foot holes through an underground tunnel on Rehoboth Beach, Del.
, was resuscitated by emergency medical technicians after the tunnel collapsed.
And in 2007, an 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy was resuscitated by emergency responders after he suffocated under a collapsed tunnel dug on the beach in Ocean City, The Daily Times reported.
A hole dug on a beach of sand reacts differently than a hole dug in a farm field, Stephen Van Ryswick, chief of the Coastal and Environmental Geology Program at the Maryland Geological Survey, told The Daily Times.
What makes holes in the sand so prone to falling in on themselves, or "slumping," has to do with their low "angle of repose," Van Ryswick said.
An angle of repose is the maximum angle an object can rest on an incline without sliding down.
A rock, for example, would have a 90-degree angle of repose, meaning that its sides can be straight up off the ground.
Beach sand, however, would have an angle of repose closer to 30 degrees, he said.
A grain of sand that reaches the beach has tumbled far through a marine environment, Van Ryswick said, making it round.
All those grains on the beach add up to a wide expanse of tiny marbles.
"Think of it like a sandcastle, where if you add a little water to the sand, you can achieve even a 90-degree angle," he said.
"The water holds it together.
However, too much water is going to liquify it.
If you add a bucket of water to that castle, it's all going to slump away." Holes are typically dug into the beach when the sand is moist, in a zone where the tide has recently receded.
As the sand dries, its structural integrity gets weaker.
And when disturbed — by a person or other vibrations — it can collapse suddenly. If someone falls into that hole, it can quickly prove deadly.
The risk with a sand collapse is similar to drowning in a liquid: oxygen deprivation leads to cardiac arrest and organ damage.
The brain is particularly vulnerable, said Dr.
Brian Delligatti, a physician and assistant medical director at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center emergency room.
"With drowning, you can inhale water and, to a lesser degree, sand particles," Delligatti said.
"They're really very similar.
The latter is almost like drowning in sand, essentially the same." After a few minutes without oxygen, Delligatti said, a victim would lose consciousness.
The heart rate would drop, then stop.
At that point, the victim would be without oxygen to his or her brain.
"It's hard to say for certain, and it can vary from patient to patient, but within fewer than 10 minutes you're in serious, serious risk of death," he said.
Emergency responders must work fast, Delligatti said, because inhaling sand blocks air flow.
The first step would be a breathing tube and IV fluids. If that didnt work, experts would insert a tiny camera via a breathing tube directly into the patients airway to help a pulmonologist determine if sand needs to be washed out, he said.
If sand or swelling in the lungs still prevents oxygen from entering, the final step would be an advanced procedure in which the blood would be passed out of the body and through a machine –– bypassing the lungs, to provide oxygen to the patient.
The weight of sand makes sand collapses even more dangerous.
According to the U.S.
Natural Resources Conservation Service, sand weighs about 100 to 112 pounds per cubic foot.
By comparison, a cubic foot of water (roughly 7.5 gallons) weighs about 62 pounds.
Each cubic foot of sand on a victims torso is the equivalent of a 13- to 15-year-old boy standing on the victims chest.
"Just from a mechanical standpoint, the muscles of the chest wall might not be able to overcome the pressure and expand to allow the patient to breath," Delligatti said.
"That's a complication that's actually not present in drowning, and one that can really lessen the time a victim has before rescue is an absolute necessity." .
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