Man’s Major Risk Turns Into A Life -Altering Choice

Man’s Major Risk Turns Into A Life -Altering Choice, There’s a persistent rhythm to the sewing machines at the Colonial Mills factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Needles puncture through cords of cotton and linen, binding yards of fabric into soft braided rugs and baskets so fast they’re barely visible at a passing glance.

The women operating the machines act like snake charmers, coaxing tangled piles of baby pink, gray or floral blue fabric out of barrels and into recognizable rug forms with seemingly magical ease.

Only the hissing sound of forced air competes with the drum of the needles. The air comes through small holes drilled into sprawling green wooden tables, helping to levitate the rugs and ease the process of spinning them as they grow to 9- or 12-feet wide.

There’s a loft-like feeling to the 68,000-square-foot factory, with windows that flood the wide-open floor plan with light, and cheerful white and green painted walls that give off an energetic freshness. Rooms for bobbin production, fabric storage and braid making are remarkably clean, with not one fabric cutting out of place.

On an average day, 80 employees will make about 700 rugs, and in a year fill 175,000 orders. Often it only takes two days from when you hit “submit” on your online order to having one of these rugs under your feet.

While the digital age may have added online-only retailers like Wayfair.com (W) to Colonial Mills’ traditional customer base of stores such as Pottery Barn and Kohl’s (KSS), the company hasn’t much changed the way it makes its rugs since it opened in the 1950s. They all start as cotton from Georgia or wool from Canada or America that is dyed, braided into flat or cable lock patterns and then sewn on one of the company’s 35 sewing machines.

Coincidence Wows Lake Rescue Workers

Coincidence Wows Lake Rescue Workers, A man who crashed his truck into a Dallas creek was saved on Tuesday. The group stood on the truck bed, which was almost completely submerged, as they worked to pull the man out of the driver’s-side window.

Although this story is amazing enough on its own, there’s another factor that’s caught national media’s attention. HLN reports, “They had no idea the driver was a friend of theirs … the rescuers smashed a window and pulled a guy out and that’s when they realized, ‘We know him!'”

One of the rescuers told CBS, “As a co-worker, we are like a family.”

Reports say the man in the truck, who hasn’t been identified, is a colleague of the City of Dallas men who rescued him. WFAA reports, “The rescuers say the driver was alert but stuck in water up to his neck.”

The man reportedly suffered a medical emergency before his truck went into White Rock Creek. He is recovering at a hospital.

Cosby’s Lawyer Addresses Rape Allegations

Cosby’s Lawyer Addresses Rape Allegations, Bill Cosby will not dignify “decade-old, discredited” claims of sexual abuse with a response, his attorney said Sunday, the first reaction from the comedian to an increasing uproar over allegations that he sexually assaulted several women in the past.

In a statement released to The Associated Press and posted online, attorney John P. Schmitt said the fact that the allegations are being repeated does not make them true.

He doesn’t intend to “dignify” the allegations with a comment.

There has been a growing uproar over allegations that Cosby assaulted several women in the past.

The renewed attention to a dark chapter for Cosby began last month when a comedian, Hannibal Buress, assailed the veteran entertainer during a stand-up performance in Philadelphia, calling him a “rapist.” His remarks were captured on video and posted online, gaining wide exposure.

One of Cosby’s accusers, Barbara Bowman, recently leveled allegations of sexual assault against him in interviews and in an online column.

Cosby, who was never criminally charged in any of the cases, settled a civil suit in 2006 with another woman over an alleged incident two years before.

Clinton Admits Outcome That Surprised Him

Clinton Admits Outcome That Surprised Him, The Nebraska doctors treating a surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone say he is in extremely critical condition.
Dr. Martin Salia, who was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday, arrived in Omaha Saturday.

Dr. Phil Smith leads the Nebraska Medical Center’s biocontainment unit that has successfully treated two other Ebola patients this fall. Smith said Sunday that Salia is “extremely ill.”

The hospital says the 44-year-old Salia might be more ill than the first Ebola patients successfully treated in the United States.

The deadly virus has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leona. Of the 10 people treated for the disease in the U.S., all but one has recovered.

Obama To Move On Immigration Despite GOP Warnings

Obama To Move On Immigration Despite GOP Warnings, U.S. President Barack Obama defended his plan to use executive powers to implement some immigration reforms, saying in an interview broadcast on Sunday he had waited long enough for Congress to act.

Obama told congressional leaders on Friday he would try to ease some restrictions on undocumented immigrants, despite warnings from Republican leaders that such actions would “poison the well” or would be “a red flag in front of a bull”.

The meeting came after Obama’s Democratic Party was punished in midterm elections on Tuesday. Republicans seized the U.S. Senate and kept a majority in the House of Representatives, in what Obama said was a message from voters who held him responsible for how Washington worked, or didn’t.

In an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Obama said he had watched while the U.S. Senate produced a bipartisan immigration reform bill, only to have it not taken up by House Republican Speaker John Boehner.

Obama said he had told Boehner if he could not get it done by year’s end, the White House was going to have to take steps to improve the system.

“Everybody agrees the immigration system’s broken. And we’ve been talking about it for years now in terms of fixing it,” Obama said in the interview, according to a CBS transcript.

U.S. borders needed to be secure, the legal immigration system needed to be more efficient and there needed to be a path to legal status for the 11 million undocumented immigrants.

“We don’t have the capacity to deport 11 million people — everybody agrees on that,” he said.

Obama insisted he was not telling Republicans they had run out of time or trying to circumvent them.

“The minute they pass a bill that addresses the problems with immigration reform, I will sign it and it supersedes whatever actions I take,” Obama said in the interview.

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