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Pittsburgh was truly the Steel City. Coke plants, tar plants, steel mills, glass manufacturers and other ancillary heavy industry lined the banks of the rivers, producing the raw products of the country’s industrial revolution. A remnant of these days are the current U.S. Steel facilities still occupying their locations in the Mon Valley. These facilities have been part of the area’s history in place for over a century — the early 1900 Clairton Coke Works and byproducts facility and the Edgar Thomson Steel Works that has been active since the late 1800s in Braddock. Hulking dinosaurs of the past with almost unimaginable forces at work, the sheer volume of raw material input, energy use and generation, pressures, heat, size of the equipment, products and byproducts generated by these activities and harnessed by man are awe-inspiring. The ongoing debate regarding the sale of these symbols of American industrial might and Pittsburgh’s namesake to Japan’s Nippon Steel has shone a national spotlight on the Mon Valley. Missing from the debate are recent events that would likely have served to avoid the current Mon Valley saga. In early 2020, U.S. Steel announced that it would invest $1.2 billion in its Braddock and Clairton facilities. This investment not only would have created and/or retained thousands of jobs and made the company more competitive globally, but it would also introduce first-of-its-kind, innovative technology to address air emissions. U.S. Steel committed to collaborating with the regulating authority, the Allegheny County Health Department, to develop these state-of-the-art technologies and significantly reduce air emissions. Not only would these innovative technologies have benefited U.S. Steel, employment prospects and air quality in the Mon Valley, these same technologies could be adopted by the world’s developing and largest coal-burning countries to mitigate both local pollution in their countries and greenhouse gases which have no global boundary. Reflexively, in an apparent pique of myopia, the usual list of environmental zealots worked to shut this huge investment and benefit to all parties down. Congratulations on the pyrrhic victory over the “evil” American corporation. The rest of the world has and will happily pick up the slack with lesser technologies and continue to pollute unabated by the American environmental zealotry. Who would wonder why U.S. Steel desires to sell off these facilities when faced with the anti-industrial activists and diminished benefits of ownership? Is it the appropriate role of government to prohibit this sale? Alternatively, one must wonder why Nippon Steel does not see the same confrontation with the usual cast of characters on the eco-left as they contemplate taking over these allegedly evil, polluting facilities in the Mon Valley. Nippon Steel claims that it will invest $1 billion to upgrade the Mon Valley facilities. Where have we heard this before? The headwinds any ongoing operation of these heavy industrial facilities will face, whether it be a foreign or domestic operator, are not only the usual pedestrian types of criteria air emissions, but also the current world war on the very building block of life, carbon. We continue to expend more and more efforts to seek those last molecules of contamination to satisfy our environmental appetite for cleaner, with the add-on feature of now alleging carbon as a pollutant. If the past is prologue, the Mon Valley industrial saga is not coming to an inflexion point for future ongoing operations by any owner; it is only a matter of who will be holding ownership when these activities are brought down by the irrational lust for ever cleaner. Robert T. Smith is an environmental scientist and co-owner of a Pittsburgh-area environmental consulting company.New York state government agencies will have to conduct reviews and publish reports that detail how they're using artificial intelligence software, under a new law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hochul, a Democrat, signed the bill last week after it was passed by state lawmakers earlier this year. The law requires state agencies to perform assessments of any software that uses algorithms, computational models or AI techniques, and then submit those reviews to the governor and top legislative leaders along with posting them online. Canadian legal information database sues company behind AI chatbot National security agencies should explain how they're using AI: federal advisory body Will the AI chatbot wave come for the federal government? It also bars the use of AI in certain situations, such as an automated decision on whether someone receives unemployment benefits or child-care assistance, unless the system is being consistently monitored by a human. WATCH | Canada invests in Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute: Canada launches AI watchdog to oversee the technology’s safe development and use 1 month ago Duration 1:50 Amid rapid global advances and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies, the federal government has invested millions to combine the minds of three existing institutes into one that can keep an eye on potential dangers ahead. Law shields workers from limiting of hours due to AI State workers would also be shielded from having their hours or job duties limited because of AI under the law, addressing a major concern that critics have raised against generative AI. State Sen. Kristen Gonzalez, a Democrat who sponsored the bill, called the law an important step in setting up some guardrails in how the emerging technology is used in state government. Federal government use of AI in hundreds of initiatives revealed by new research database Facial recognition technology gains popularity with police, intensifying calls for regulation Experts have long been calling for more regulation of generative AI as the technology becomes more widespread. 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Emily Ratajkowski is thoroughly enjoying her December. The model and author has shared various albums of her most recent activities, packed with some of what she's been up to over the past month. One of these photos shows her in a Santa Claus hat, spreading the festive Holiday cheer. Emily Ratajkowski debuts her empowering ‘divorce ring’ Watch the 10 Best Celebrity TikToks of the Week: Shawn Mendes, Sabrina Carpenter, Camila Cabello, and more Ratajkowski shared the photo earlier this month, showing her followers a thorough look of her activities. Photos showed her having some drinks and spending time with her friends at various outings. They also showed her enjoying various Christmas trademarks , like setting up the Christmas tree and attending various potlucks. Her son, Sly , was also featured, looking adorably out the window while wearing some reindeer antlers. One of the photos showed her wearing bright red shorts, a black sweater and a Santa Claus hat. The image shows her looking towards her left, with one of her legs raised up in a chair. Ratajkowski's Christmas Eve plans In a more recent post, Ratajkowski shared a look at the remainder of her December, revealing that she made time to enjoy a bit of the snow and spend time with her loved ones on Christmas Eve. Photos showed her and Sly making snow angels, likely taken at some point during the past week in New York, where we experienced the first snow of this winter season. The pair were accompanied by their dog, Colombo, an adorable and furry Husky-German Shepherd mix. More photos showed an inside look at her home, including her stockings placed over her fireplace, which holds an adorable framed photo of herself holding on to a baby Sly. She appears to have celebrated Christmas with friends and family, wearing a tight black dress for the occasion and spending the evening in an apartment, with them gathering to enjoy a meal and some Christmas cookies.
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New York public school regionalization plan creates firestorm of fear among many on Long IslandTwo separate United Airlines flights have left their passengers and crew in shock following the details that both services had close calls at one of the United States' busiest airports - Chicago O'Hare International Airport . Both flights inbound from NYC Information has surfaced about two United Airlines flights that needed to facilitate 'go-arounds' due to other aircraft being in their way on the runway as they came into land. Two close calls occurred in one day (Thursday, December 12). While the two flights were 12 hours apart, the fear that some passengers experienced is not the first to hit the headlines in a long run of near-misses due to a stretched air traffic control workforce in the United States. Ironically, Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth was at a congressional hearing in Washington, DC, on Thursday, stressing that close calls are still happening. On December 12, United Airlines UA1857, arriving from New York La Guardia to Chicago , and UA546, arriving from Newark Liberty International Airport, both approached Chicago O'Hares International Airport but necessitated the aircraft to abort their landings due to traffic on the runway. A passenger onboard, Nicole Loftus, shared her experience with ABC 7 News : "We were literally right over the runway, about to touch down, and, all of a sudden, the plane roared its engines, and we went tilted up to come back up off the ground, and the cabin went silent, and everyone was looking at each other and whispering. And it was the eeriest feeling I've ever felt." As Loftus reiterated, passengers onboard an aircraft put their lives in the hands of the airline crew and air traffic control. One aircraft was cleared to cross the runway, while another was cleared for takeoff. Get all the latest airline route news right here Go around at Chicago O'Hare Just 12 hours after the go-around required for the La Guardia inbound service, United Airlines 546 had also been on approach from Newark Liberty. Passengers onboard recalled their flight, noting the pilot had come onto the PA system and confirmed he had observed another aircraft crossing the runway as the flight made its final approach. A go-around ensued as the flight accelerated quickly away from O'Hare and over the lake. An interim investigation by United Airlines has verified what caused these near misses, and it was due to other aircraft still in the process of exiting the runways. United Airlines has pointed the finger at the Federal Aviation Administration, noting that they are responsible for ensuring aircraft are managed when on the ground. The flights became within 600 feet of each other and required evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision. As we enter into one of the busiest travel times of the year, concerns are rising around the understaffing of air traffic controllers, which in turn is jeopardizing the results of the safety of flights and their passengers and crew onboard. However, there is no quick fix, with any solution taking billions of dollars and taking years of training, as stressed by Kevin Walsh from the Government Accountability Office . Texas Senator Ted Cruz has also weighed in on the pattern of continued near-miss flight reports in the US, reaffirming the need for improved air traffic control and radar facilities: "Based on FAA data, the reliability of the FAA's radar fleet is declining. The United States should be a leader in aviation technology. Sadly, this is often not the case." Making the situation even more complicated, Mike Whitaker, the 19th Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator, has announced his plans to step down in January. This follows President-elect Donald Trump's recent win and his plans to appoint his own FAA administrator. Rumors have surfaced that this may be the case of Tesla billionaire Elon Musk . The billionaire has recently updated his fleet of private jets.
A voting machine firm suing Fox News now wants to probe Murdoch family trust fightOn Jan. 6, 2025, Betty Benulis, RN, will celebrate a half-century of employment at St. Luke’s Miners Campus, a milestone that no other employee of the Coaldale hospital is known to have reached. She admits she wouldn’t have predicted spending 50 years at any job but isn’t surprised she’s achieved it at St. Luke’s, which has managed the hospital since 2000, or half of her tenure there. “Time goes fast, and I like my work,” said Benulis, 71 and a long-time resident of New Philadelphia. She found her niche caring for the sick and recovering patients and never second-guessed her decision. And it doesn’t faze her that she has been employed at the Miners hospital longer than some of her coworkers have been on Earth. Becoming a nurse “When I graduated from Nativity BVM High School, in Pottsville, in 1971, my father told me I could go to college to become a teacher or to nursing school to become a nurse,” she recalls. She soon left the coal town, where she was born and raised, to attend Allentown’s Sacred Heart Hospital’s School of Nursing. “It had a really good reputation,” she said. “When I came out, in 1974, I was well-prepared.” After graduating, she returned to Schuylkill County, following a brief stint at the Hamburg Center, which until 2018 treated persons with physical and mental disabilities. Benulis served on general medical-surgical units, then the ICU, which she managed. Working part-time for a period, she and her husband, whom she married in 1974, raised their three sons. Later, after moving into cardiology, she helped introduce several innovations in heart diagnostic technology, one of them assisting the cardiologist and radiology technologist in performing the first nuclear stress tests at the hospital in the early 1990s. “It was nice seeing how patients benefitted from these advancements,” she said. In 1996, Benulis started working in the hospital’s cardiac rehab unit. She has been employed since 2012 in the cardiopulmonary rehab unit, where patients go to recover from a heart attack, cardiac bypass or valve surgery or find hope living with heart disorders. “I feel good that I can help people,” she says, observing that, “lots of the patients of my age come there.” She works part-time, appreciating the flexibility of having more time to spend with her husband, with whom she celebrated 50 years of marriage on Oct. 5, and to work out, walk her black lab and watch her seven grandchildren grow. With five decades of experience, Benulis says she would do it all again. And she would encourage graduate nurses to blaze their own paths in the profession. “As a nurse, you can get experiences in many different areas, treating patients with different diseases,” she said. “You can work five years or 50 years, and it will be challenging but also very rewarding.”