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Newsweek
27-05-2025
- Health
- Newsweek
Owner Feels Bump in Rescue Dog's Leg, Leads Them To Uncover Horrific Past
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Pet parent Caroline Haug knew her rescue canine came with baggage, but what she discovered under the dog's fur left her heartbroken. Haug and her husband first started fostering Blossom when the dog was about 9 months old, she told Newsweek. Blossom, an American bulldog and boxer mix, had been in and out of foster homes. At one point, she was adopted but later returned because of littermate syndrome. Her previous owners thought it would be best to separate her and her sibling. Haug said they picked Blossom to foster, then adopt, because of how scared she looked in her kennel. She would cower in the back, terrified of everything. Her ribs protruded as she was severely underweight. While living with the Haugs, the owner noticed a lump in Blossom's fur. She took the dog to the vet, as she thought it could've been a tumor. Haug said the vet confirmed it was a BB. "I cried when I first discovered the BB," she said. All together, she said she discovered 15 BBs in Blossom scattered all around her body, but the location where she found one especially broke her heart. She shared in a December 11 Instagram video, posted to the account @mymerrymutts, that one of the BB balls she found was lodged in Blossom's mouth. It made her realize the dog's abuser must've been very close to her. Photos of Blossom, a dog foster and later adopted by the Haug's, becoming more confident after being fearful and scared of humans. Photos of Blossom, a dog foster and later adopted by the Haug's, becoming more confident after being fearful and scared of humans. Courtesy of Caroline Haug Haug explained that the vet appointment revealed the BBs are not causing her any pain, which is why they have not been removed. However, if they ever did start causing pain, she would get surgery. Haug believes the other puppies from Blossom's litter might've received the same unfortunate fate. She noticed in old photos of the litter that multiple puppies had dot wounds. Plus, hearing from the new owners, those dogs have also been scared and skittish around humans. For Blossom, it took about six months for her to become comfortable with Haug's husband. She still does not like new people, but Haug said she's come a long way. She's "a lot more confident now." Haug credits the couple's other dog, Gunnar, for helping Blossom come out of her shell and trust the owners. Viewer Reactions The Instagram clip reached over 355,000 views, 13,800 likes and 280 comments. Viewers felt horrible that Blossom went through that trauma, especially at such a young age. "I'm glad she's safe with you now," one comment reads. A second person wrote: "She can sleep safe with new dreams now." Another added: "Will never understand ppl! I'm so glad Blossom have you. She is so beautiful and her eyes are so expressive."
Straits Times
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Straits Times
Table tennis-Red alert: bright tables cause controversy at World Championships
Table tennis players are seeing red as the bright tables at the current World Championships have left them squinting, grumbling and even reaching for sunglasses. While tables in the fast-paced sport are usually blue, dark green or black, the ones at the ongoing World Table Tennis Championships in Doha are red - and many players are not happy about it. "It gets very unusual at times. If the light shines on the table, you get a very dazzling effect, where you might lose sight of the ball. Which is... yeah, very unusual, really," Norwegian player Borgar Haug told state broadcaster NRK earlier this week. "There were some funny ones in the training hall who started wearing sunglasses when they played, because it got so bright," Haug added. His concerns were echoed by other players, who are also struggling to adapt to the colour. "I have never played on red tables - no one has," Swedish player Truls Moregard told the news agency TT. The finals in the Qatari capital will take place on May 25. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Thousands of Twin Cities workers at Cub and Festival near strike — and other labor news
Workers with UFCW Local 663 demonstrate outside Lunds and Byerlys in Edina on April 27, 2025. (Photo by UFCW Local 663) Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: Nearly 3,0000 grocery store workers threaten strike; paid family and sick leave unscathed in state budget deal; Minnesota employment flat in April; and hundreds of federal workplace safety employees reinstated. Nearly 3,000 workers are headed toward unfair labor practices strikes at 38 grocery stores across the Twin Cities after they rejected the latest offers from UNFI-owned Cub, Haug and Knowlan's Festival Foods. It was an unprecedented vote by workers who could walk off the job around Memorial Day if they don't reach a deal with the companies, according to leaders with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663. 'They're not listening. Pure and simple. They're ignoring everything we've suggested,' said Nicolas McBride, assistant meat manager at Haug's Cub in Minnetonka and member of the bargaining team. McBride said the companies want to shift more health care costs onto workers, which would more than double his cost and eat up the modest pay raise of $3 per hour spread over the life of the three-year contract. He also said the companies' proposed pay raises would only kick in once the contract is ratified, with nothing retroactive to when the contract expired in March. That would add up to hundreds of dollars for workers. 'I've been in the union for 28 years and every single contract we've gotten back pay,' McBride said. UFCW Local 663 has been negotiating with the companies since January, along with Lunds & Byerlys, Jerry's Cub Food, Kowalski's and Radermacher's Cub Foods. Workers at those four companies ratified contracts over the weekend, averting a strike. While the offers were similar, UFCW Local 663 President Rena Wong said the companies made good faith efforts to listen to workers and respond to their proposals. For example at Lunds & Bylerlys, workers wanted to raise part-time wages, particularly for the custodial staff. 'They came back and they made that change. They listened,' Wong said. 'That is contrary to what UNFI, Haug's and Knowlan's did.' The union has filed an unfair labor practice charge against UNFI with the National Labor Relations Board, which oversees private sector unions, alleging the company has not bargained in good faith. The union also alleges Haug's and Knowlan's have violated labor protections for collective bargaining. In a statement, UNFI said it has been negotiating 'diligently and in good faith' and has offered 'strong wage increases, continued market-leading union health care and significant increases in our contributions to the union's pension plan.' Paid family leave and earned sick time came out of difficult budget negotiations largely unscathed under a deal announced by legislative leaders and Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday. The deal doesn't have complete buy-in from progressive Senators because it would roll back access to MinnesotaCare for undocumented adults, however. Much could still change between now and the end of the session. Paid family leave and earned sick time have faced stiff resistance from business leaders, who have found sympathetic ears among moderate Senate Democrats and newly empowered House Republicans in control of half the lower chamber. The budget agreement would reduce the maximum payroll tax for the paid family leave program from 1.2% to 1.1%. The change may be insignificant since payroll taxes might never rise to the tax cap, depending on how many people claim benefits. The program is slated to start next year with a payroll tax of .88%, with employers paying at least half of the cost. The tweak is far less significant than cuts proposed by two moderate Democrats and Republicans earlier this year, which would exempt businesses with 15 or fewer employees and reduce the total number of weeks employees could take off in a year from 20 to 14. Moderate Senate Democrats also recently voted with Republicans to exempt small farms and businesses from providing paid sick and safe time — at least six days a year for full-time employees — among other changes sought by business leaders. That proposal appears to be dead. Democrats did make concessions on unemployment insurance for hourly school workers, with legislative leaders agreeing to repeal the benefit in 2029. School districts complained paying for unemployment for school bus drivers, paraprofessionals and cafeteria workers threatens their tight budgets and makes it harder to fill part-time summer positions. Democrats vowed to protect the benefit, although they will have to win back control of state government to do so if the deal becomes law. Minnesota employment stayed relatively flat in April, losing 1,300 jobs out of about 3 million statewide, according to data released by the state Department of Employment and Economic Development on Thursday. The labor market has stayed strong despite upheavals in the global economy since President Donald Trump took office and launched a trade war, halted billions in federal funding, and moved to eliminate more than 120,000 federal jobs. DEED reported 200 federal jobs lost in Minnesota last month, a small percentage of the 18,000 federal employees in the state, not including postal workers and military personnel. Many of the Trump administration's layoffs have been reversed or paused, while those workers who took the 'Fork in the Road' buyout offer won't show up in the data until they are off the payroll. 'We would expect to see a drop at some point, it's just hard to say when,' said Angelina Nguyen, director of the labor market information office at DEED. Unemployment also ticked up slightly to 3.2% in April, mainly due to 3,300 joining the labor force. The unemployment rate remains 1 percentage point lower than the national rate. The Trump administration reinstated hundreds of laid off workers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health this week, including those who screen coal miners for black lung and those who provide services to the first responders to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. The reversal comes after intense public pressure from unions, members of Congress and a lawsuit brought by a coal miner, which led to a federal judge ordering nearly 200 workers be reinstated on Tuesday. The following day, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Congress 328 employees at NIOSH had been reinstated. Some 900 workers, or more than 90% of the entire agency, were planned to be permanently cut as part of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency's campaign to drastically shrink the size of the federal workforce. The agency, which is part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, helps reduce workplace injuries and illnesses across industries by investigating workplaces to mitigate exposure to toxins, inspecting personal protective equipment for nurses and firefighters, and tracking cancer in firefighters. On Wednesday, the AFL-CIO, leading a coalition of unions, filed a lawsuit challenging the dismantling of the agency, saying it would lead to more workers dying on the job. 'Working people have fought too hard for these critical protections to now watch an unelected billionaire dismantle them and take us back to a time when chronic disease and death on the job was commonplace,' said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler in a statement.
The Herald Scotland
27-04-2025
- Sport
- The Herald Scotland
Crystal Palace relegated from WSL as Manchester City maintain push for third
Palace needed to avoid defeat to keep their unlikely survival prospects alive but saw Martinez bank a dazzling first-half hat-trick to leave them in deep trouble. She made it 4-0 shortly after the hour, becoming just the sixth player in WSL history to score four in a game. Viviane Asseyi joined in with a sumptuous chip and there was a late double for Emma Harries. Crystal Palace Women's relegation from the @BarclaysWSL has been confirmed, following today's result at the VBS Community Stadium. — Crystal Palace F.C. Women (@cpfc_w) April 27, 2025 Katie Stengal provided the only moment of respite with an 80th-minute penalty, but her side's fate was already sealed. Manchester City ensured they can still finish in the top three courtesy of a 1-0 win at Leicester. They had plenty of chances to score but had to wait until Jess Park's 70th-minute effort to break the deadlock. Leicester briefly looked to have hit back but Sam Kierney was denied by the offside flag. Brighton snatched a stoppage-time winner against Everton, with Nikita Parris on hand to complete a 3-2 win against her former side. The Toffees took an early lead through Sara Holmgaard and regained it through Katja Snoeijs just two minutes after Michelle Agyemang's equaliser. Fran Kirby levelled the scores just before the interval and the comeback was completed in the closing moments when Parris made a decisive break. After three straight defeats, three points nudged Albion back into fifth place ahead of Liverpool. The Reds had to settle for a 2-2 draw at home to Tottenham, with Sophie Roman Haug twice on target. Haug gave the hosts the lead in the 12th minute before Spurs turned things around before the break through a Rachael Laws own-goal and a smart finish from Clare Hunt. A header from Haug restored parity and left out-of-sorts Tottenham winless in eight.
CBS News
20-03-2025
- CBS News
Copper wire thieves once again leave Minneapolis communities in the dark
Copper wire theft continues to be a growing issue in Minneapolis, leaving residents in the dark both near Lake of the Isles and in Stevens Square. "It's been hard with the darkness," said Arden Haug, pastor of Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church. Most of the lights surrounding Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church have been dark for months. "We're concerned when people walk out and there is complete darkness out here," said Haug. Haug said it is a safety issue and an especially big one during Lent. "We told everyone to keep their Christmas lights on as long as possible," said Haug. "One night of theft equals about one week of public works repair to follow up on that theft," Park Board Commissioner Elizabeth Shaffer told WCCO back in December. Since then, Shaffer said the problem around Lake of the Isles has gotten even worse. The city said it had repaired the lighting in both 2023 and 2024 around Lake of the Isles. However, the majority of the wire around the lake has once again been stolen. Copper wire theft is also a problem in Stevens Square. Neighbors on Clinton Avenue said none of their streetlights work. A spokesperson with the City of Minneapolis said eight blocks of the neighborhood have suffered streetlight wire damage and theft. All told, roughly 15 miles of below-ground wiring is missing throughout Minneapolis, according to the city, with streetlight wiring repair costs between $30,000 to $40,000 per mile. The city said they are testing ways to harden the bases of streetlights. They have also used aluminum wire for lights, marked with the message "no scrap value." Despite the markings, even those wires have been swiped. "It would be great to have lights. We would also feel a lot safer at night because even though we can think that it's a very safe neighborhood, there's still carjackings, there are people that are concerned about every time they go out at night and park in this neighborhood," said Haug.
