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Items you should never leave in your vehicle in winter that cause exploding

People facing winter storm do not have to deal with winter weather but other things also. Experts have issued a warning about the goods you should never leave in your car you should be very careful.

In preparation of the chiller temperatures arriving drivers have been reminded to take careful step when it comes to safety of their cars.Some items should never be left in the car overnight when temperature are very low so they can end up very dangerous.

Leaving things unattended overnight when the weather is low could put your vehicle and health at danger like deodorants and medications. Below is a list you should not left in your car in extreme cold seasons.

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What is Open and closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2024

The stock market is closed on Martin Luther King Jr, Day which is set for Monday Jan 15.
After MLK Day, the next full stock market closure will come on President Day Feb 19
Monday marks the first federal holiday since New Year Day.
While commemorating the civil rights icon legacy , shoolsm government offices some services will be closed in observance of the federal holiday.

Here is what opens and closed on Monday

National Parks
In honor of MLK Day, national parks will waive entrance fees for every person on Monday Jan 15. It is also a day of service when thousands of volunteers participate in service projects across the country including national parks.

Postal Service
Post Offices will close on Monday which means packages and mail would not be delivered by the United States Postal Service. UPS would not have delivery or pickup service and various store location may be closed. UPS Express Critical services is available 24 hours a day. Customers can call 1-800-714-8779 or visit upsexpresscritical.com

Stores and restaurants
Various grocery stores will open as well as big box retailers and chain restaurants. Some retailers may opt to close or open or adjust their hours, Customers should check their local destination on Monday before visiting.

Banks and financial institutions
The Federal Reserve is observing the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. which indicates various banks will be closed. Banks are not required to close on federal holidays. Check your local branch before going. The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will be closed.

Is the Stock Market Closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
There are 9 federal holidays across the year during which the stock market is closed. There are several partial market closure in 2024.

Schools
Schools are closed on MLK Day, there have been exceptions. It is always best to check with your local school district.

Government Offices
MLK Day is a federal holiday all nonessential federal government offices are closed.

Bond markets
Bond traders also get a long weekend.Bond markets will be closed on Monday.

The holiday is always celebrated on the third Monday in January which this year falls on King actual birthday.

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Hydro One Staff ready for another winter storm is expected to bring blizzard like conditions

Hydro One support staff, crew and damage assessors are ready to work through blizzard like condition predicted for this weekend as much of the region prepares for another winter storm. There heavy blowing snow, thunder snow this storm is brin f damaging winds to parts of central, eastern and southern Ontario.

Hydro One has a number of modern outage instrument available for consumers to report outages and access updates when and how they desire outage text alerts.

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Popular Cork pub Plans sky bridge bar expansion into closed bookshop building

The pub company are looking to renew the bookshop building which was sat empty since it closed in 2020.

Mutual Enterprises the owners of venues including BarBarossa, Vodoo Rooms and An Brog have applied to change the former Uneeda bookshop into a new bar to add to the Oliver Plunkett Street nightlife strip.

The former Soho venue is an over 23s club with a new DJ booth and couple bars downstairs including the main bar area with bar seating booth style tables and live music performances.

They have done mega job in six months of renovations

Police charge teen in trying carjacking and shooting that injured Uber driver in Austin

Chicago police have arrested a teenage boy in relation with a shooting attempt that left Uber driver seriously injured in Austin earlier this month.

The 16 year boy arrested thursday faces single counts of attempted murder, armed robbery, attempted carjacking and aggravated battery with a firearm related to attack which left 51 year old man in serious condition according to police.

Two other chicago ride share drivers were also shot and murdered in the previous month. Lyft driver Adraina Arocha died Dec 26 and livery and Uber driver Mohammed al Hijoj died Dec 3. Pair were in their vehicles in Austin

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Avista asking consumers to cut back on natural gas as a result of mechanical issue with supplier

The utility organization has requested Idaho and Washington natural gas consumers to cut back on usage for the next 24 hours.

The utility company has said its local gas system is safe and was not damaged by the equipment issue. Those consumers are being asked to conserve their natural gas for the 24 hours next.

 Avista is asking its customers to conserve natural gas as outcome of mechanical issue occurring with a natural gas provider with the company.

The company said the pipeline supplier issue is affecting Avista ability to supply natural gas for its customer homes and businesses throughout its service territory. The company expressed it will release updates on the situation by saturday morning.

” Our gas transmission suppliers are working diligently to resolve the issue” Heather Rosentrater Avista Said. We recognize the hardship this request presents our consumers given the extreme cold temperatures. We will provide updates as the situation evolves. We are thankful for everyone patience and please know we are working around the clock to mitigate impact

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Deontay Wilder break down in Tears on The Traitors while revealing he ‘CANT GO ON’.

The Professional boxer is overwhelm with tears after Maks exit.Deontay is relaxed by traitor Phaedra Parks who wipes.

Hosted by Alan at an ancient castle set deep in Scottish Highlands, the celebrity contestants work jointly on a series of mission to build a prize fund worth up to $250,000. Hidden amongst the faithful are the traitors, whose mission is to reduce the faithful and claim the prize money for themselves. Under the darkness, the traitors murder the faithful one by one in a treacherous while the faithful making effort to banish them from the game.

If the faithful contestants banish all the traitors they will share the prize fund, if traitors make it to the end they will snatch all the amount.

Deontay Wilder was emotional and came near to quitting. The Traitors after wrongly accusing Maks Chmerkovskiy of being a traitor and getting him banished from the game.

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Background actor of ‘MaXXXine’ accused Mia Goth kicking in the Head in Latest Lawsuit

background actor sued Mia Goth on Friday, alleging that she intentionally kicked him in the head during a scene last April. In the lawsuit James Hunter states that he was hired for three days to work to play the role of “Dead Parishioner” On the fist night of shooting, he lay on the ground for several hours covered in fake blood enduring mosquitoes and ants.

Hunter claims that he suffered a concussion after Goth kicked him during production on the A24 sequel “MaXXXine”. The film is third in a trilogy of horror movies directed by Ti West and Starring Goth, following Pearl and X both released in 2022.

In the scene Goth was to run past him and sometimes

WWE provides latest health news on Austin Theory and Carmelo Hayes after match is stopped by ref

NXT star Carmelo Hayes appeared on WWE SmackDown for a backstage chat with GM Nick Aldis. It turned out to be setting up a game between Austin Theory and Hayes later in the night.

The match itself had a terrifying ending on a Spanish Fly try from Theory. Theory looked to land on his head/neck, and there was concern for health of both men.Referee rapidly called for the match to stop right there.This was clearly a legitimate injury scenario and not a work. Commentator Corey Graves said ” that did not end well” s

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Quaker recalls granola bars, cereals over salmonella exposure

Quaker Canada is recalling 38 types of granola bars and Harvest Crunch cereals due to the potential exposure to salmonella.This action is being taken in Canada out of abundance of commitment and caution to the wellbeing of our Canadian customers”Quaker canada told to media. The company expressed the recalled products have been sold across Canada.

The company said it is working closely with Canadian Food Inspection Agency to ensure the recalled products are removed from the shops.

Quaker Canada cautioned people to not buy use the recalled product. In another the Canadian government told food contaminated with salmonella may not look to smell spoiled but can still make you sick.

Quaker Oats U.S. parent company which is owned by PepsiCo, declared a product recall on Dec 15, 202 3. Thursday release was an expansion of that recall, the U.S. FDA said on its website.

What is a blizzard warning and could one be issued during Friday & Saturday snowstorm?

What remains to be seen is how long those conditions might last as uncertainty over whether the system will bring more snow or rain to many locations

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Electric Power Introduce 10 New Sustainable Community Networks in California

Program will assist almost 400,000 residents gain access to battery storage system + solar. Electric Power holding trusted provider of energy storage and management solutions for small and home businesses declared that it will introduce 10 new Sustainable Community Networks SCN in municipalities in Los Angeles County under one contract.

Electricq is set to launch the PoweredUp Network program to customers by the end of Q12024. Almost Four Lacs resident across the 10 communities will be able to take advantage of the program.

The Sustainable Community Networks program also famous as PoweredUp Network.There is no property, credit or income lien requirements making it ideal for low to moderate income residents to get access to reliable cheap and clean energy. The system can save up to 20% stabilize electric cost by avoiding periods of top backup power during power outage and peak pricing.

In California residential electric rate increases have ranged between 34% to 82% across the investor owned utilities. Power outages continued to impact the state caused by severe weather and increased demand on the electric grid.

Solar+ battery storage system protect homeowners against uncertainties from fuel

MLGW prepares for severe winter weather

Memphis Light Gas and Water keeping the lights on, the heat up and water running is preference.The upcoming days will test the improvements and upgrades made to MLGW infrastructure in the last one year. MLGW Presiden McGowen told media that the utility is a much better position this year to manage severe winter weather.

Leading up to a First Alert Weather day, bringing thuderstorms in round one and a snow with low temperatures in round two.

To avoid a similar disastrous winter of 2022 when MLGW consumers lost water service and power. MLGW winterized all electric substations and treated circuit breaks with anti freeze.

Water pumping stations are online. The

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Michael Strahan daughter Isabella, 19 reveals brain tumor battle and diagnosis

Michael Strahan and his daughter Isabella unfolded in sentimental “Good Morning America” interview she has been fighting with brain tumor.

Doctors expressed Isabella that she had a malignant brain tumor call as medulloblastoma in October about a month after she start facing issue of severe headaches at the beginning of her freshman year of college.

Medulloblastoma is a type of malignant tumor that accounts for almost 20% of all childhood brain tumors according to medical journal.

After undergoing a battery of tests, including an MRI, Isabella was pushed to Cedars Sinai Hospital where she know her rapid growing 4 centimeter tumor.

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Verizon service outage in Tampa Bay

Verizon customers reported that they were facing issues with their mobiles having no signal. Verizon has not reported any problem in the area.According to news outlet more than 2000 Verizon users have reported an outage before 9 am tuesday.

Services were restore to some customers around 10:15 am. If you are a Verizon user you may have experienced phone signal service tuesday morning.

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London to Edinburgh rail travel by half an hour due to track upgrades and rapid trains

Southbound will take 4 hours and 8 minutes, stopping in York and Newcastle. Trains from London King Cross to Edinburgh to take 4 hours and 5 minutes.The journey time will be very swift.

Rail passengers could travel between Edinburgh and London in only 4 hours by the end of this year.It will reduce current average travelling by 30 minutes. The most awaited step will speed the change from airplane to train making travel by train as rapid as flights between the capitals.

The 4 hour travels were first scheduled to initiate in 2019 however were delayed due to Covid catastrophe. LNER London North Eastern Railway plans to rapid trains on the East Coast

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LCUB Power outage in West Knoxville could take multiple hours to restore

LCUB shared around 6 am that 288 consumers were without power. At the top of the outage, more than 1700 consumers in the location of Concord Hills, Woody Road and Canton Hollow were impacted according to LCB outage map.

The Lenoir City Utilities Board is trying hard to restore an outage in West Knoxville due by a drop tree. The utility power shared on Facebook that the full restoration of power will take multiple hours. A fallen tree on Canton Hollow Road affected 4 electric line poles and the associated conductor.

The Eurozone recession period is nearing an end. Positive spike for eurozone economy

Positive hike in eurozone economic. The European Commission economic sentiment symbol improved in last December. It remained at lowest level. Less positive was the inflation all over the eurozone. European Central bank is unlikely to pushed into easing.

A significant symbol within both the EU and the eurozone view a spike in positivity over the employment expectation, economy despite less progress in sales.  

The European Commission economic sentiment show improved to 96.4 in December from 93.8 in November. The indicator is on the lower side it is 3rd increase.

The Eu include nations meeting specific membership standard, while the eurozone includes countries using the euro as their vital currency. Confidence rise in construction +0.8 and retail sector +1.4 . At the same duration, there was a mega rise in services segment sentiment +2.9.Economic sentiment is now turn mount its long term average in all major segments except for industry.

Industrial confidence +0.3 improved. Inventories now view to be going down. Manufacturing sector view a several months of subdued activity. The ESI measures confidence across several segments, consumers at 20%, service providers at 30%, manufactures 40% constructors and retails at 5% each.

Germany view a 2.5% decline in retail volume, while France 0.4% rise assist this decline. Retail sales decline by 1.1% extending a 14 period of contraction. Major EU economies Germany and Spain both spike by 2.4 Points,Itla view a 2.6 pint surge.France had a decline of 1/2 points and Netherlands experienced a 1.1 pint drop.Poland sentiment increase by only 0.2 points.

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This Week 8 January 2024, 7 Live Shows

Here are seven live shows this week

Restless Road

Restless Road declared their 2024 Last Rodeo Headline Tour. The 9 city tour will look the folks starting their year in help of their first album Last Rodeo, The Last Rodeo Tour will kick off in Atlanta, GA on January 11, 2024 and then lead to Nashville on the 12th. Erin Kinsey will be joining the three on the Road.

Friday January 12, 8 Pm

Brooklyn Bowl 925 3rd Avenue North Nashville

Bryon Stripling with Nashville Symphony

The season centenary celebration of George Gershwin Rhaspody in Blue continues at The Nashville Symphony First Bank Pop series with Great Gershwin. Nashville Symphony One Symphony Place Nashville Thursday January 11, 7 30 Pm.

Opry at the Ryman

The Opry will be at The Ryman this week. Artists scheduled to perform will be Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Brothers Osborne.

Ryman Auditorium, 116 Rep. John Lewis Way, Nashville Friday January 12, 9 30 Pm.

Charlie Worsham

Charlie Worsham will be joined by the bluegrass group lon jon to perform songs and bluegrass standards.Worsham was named the Academy of Country Music Guitar Player of the year in 2022 and EP Compadres in October.

Country Musicl Hall of Fame, 222 Rep John Lewis Way Nashville

Tuesday January 9 6 30 Pm

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