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Vitamix is recalling more than half a million blending containers and blade bases sold at retailers nationwide after reports of more than two dozen lacerations, according to a notice posted Thursday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.The recall involves all Ascent and Venturist Series 8-ounce an stanley cup d 20-ounce blending containers and blade bases, including those repaired as part of a prior recall in August 2018. The containers can separate from the blender s blade base, which can then expose the blades and create a laceration hazard, according to the Cleveland, Ohio-based manufacturer.About 569,000 of the containers and blade bases were sold by retailers including Best Buy, Costco, Crate Barrel, Macy s, Target, Walmart and Williams Sonoma and online at Amazon, QVC and Vitamix from April 2017 through May 2024. The recalled products sold for between $30 and $990 for the blender and blending containers when sold with other products. An additional 121,950 blending containers and blade bases were sold in Canada.Vitamix has received 27 reports of lacerations, including 11 reports from the earlier recall, when consumers hands came in contact with exposed blades, the company said. Image of recall stanley cup ed 8-ounce Vitamix blending bowl. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Anyone with the recalled products shoul stanley cup d stop using them and con Wueb SeaWorld responds to petitions calling for musical performance cancellations
NEW YORK mdash; A Wall Street billionaire who made his fortune betting ag stanley cup ainst the U.S. housing market said he is eyeing a move to the hurricane-ravaged, bankrupt island of Puerto Rico.John Paulson, a New York-based financier and the founder of his namesake hedge fund Paulson Co., said Monday evening that the U.S. territory s tax advantages were compelling him to establish resid stanley cup ence on the island once his children move off to college. John Paulson seen in New York on May 16, 2012. Reuters It s the only place a U.S. citizen jordan can go and literally avoid, legally, all their taxes, Paulson said at the Beryl Elite investment conference in Manhattan on Monday, according toBloomberg News.In 2012, hoping to rebrand itself as a global investment destination like its counterpart in the Cayman Islands, the island passed Act 22, legally making it the only place in the country where passive income from financial instruments like capital gains, interest and dividends go federally untaxed. Under the act, would-be Puerto Rico residents, possibly like Paulson, are only subject to taxes levied by the island, like sales tax and license fees, said Matt Fabian, a partner at Massachusetts-based Municipal Market Analytics. Even property tax has a 90 percent exception under the law, Fabian said in a telephone interview Tuesday with CBS News.The act, officially dubbed the Act to Promo