“There is a massive outbreak of COVID-19 across the state of Texas,” Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, told KFDA, a television station based in the Texas panhandle. The governor said health officials were expected on Wednesday to report more than 5,000 new cases for the second day in a row. Tuesday was the first day since the pandemic began that Texas reported an increase of more than 5,000 new cases....
Wendy Auger, a bartender in Rochester, has had plates reading “PB4UGO” for 15 years. But last week, she received a recall notice from the DMV, ordering her exchange them for a standard license plate or another vanity plate. “Who has a mom or dad or parental figure who hasn’t said [‘pee before you go’] to kids before leaving the house?,” Auger told Seacoast Online. “I’m not the type to sit here with a picket, but come on....
The Alzheimer’s Association recommends screening for cognitive impairment at Medicare annual wellness visits. It recommends using the GPCOG, Memory Impairment Screen (MIS), or the Mini-Cog for this purpose. This article provides an overview of the GPCOG, including what to expect, how it’s scored, and how it compares to other screening tools. Tasks in the GPCOG The first section of the GPCOG is a brief patient assessment, which takes about four minutes....
The results, published in the journal Science, shed new light on the movement of microplastics around the globe, highlighting the important role of atmospheric transport, a process that has been previously overlooked by scientists. The world produced nearly 350 million tons of plastic in 2017, according to research, and this figure is growing every year. A large proportion of the plastic that is manufactured accumulates in the environment as waste, eventually degrading into tiny microplastic particles that are now found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet, from the ocean depths to mountain tops....
SUTERWALLA: Does your work with Chris-tian Solidarity Worldwide encourage the slave trade? COX: The answer is an emphatic “no!’’ The National Islamic Front [NIF] regime [in Khartoum] is a fundamentalist Islamist regime that takes and keeps power by military force. It represents no more than about 7 percent of the Sudanese people and is deeply loathed by the rest. It has declared jihad against all those who oppose it–be they Christians, animists or even other Muslims....
The Wild, who were hosting the Predators at the Xcel Energy Center, jumped up to a quick 2-1 lead in the first period — thanks to a pair of goals from Granlund. Then, with less than a minute to go, Granlund lit the lamp a third time to complete the hat trick and secure the 4-2 victory for the Wild, their second straight. Granlund opened up the scoring on Friday night midway through the first period, after catching a pass from Matt Dumba and snapped it past Predator goalie Pekka Rinne....
Jim Martin, Allen’s high school coach from Providence School, watched his former star go from a forgotten freshman to a national basketball darling from his home in Jacksonville, Fla. MORE: Four lead to five for Coack K | Way-too-early-Top 25 | Duke championship gear “I literally had to stand up and get next to the screen,” Martin told Perform Media in a phone interview Tuesday. “As everyone else that’s a Duke fan and a Grayson Allen fan, we were as nervous as probably his parents are up in the stands....
The first crack in this Great Wall of Secrecy appeared last week. It came from, of all places, a tourist agency. Chinese authorities informed Inner Mongolia’s Alashan Tourist Company, which has for years organized launchpad tours for Chinese citizens, that it could take tourists to watch the next spacecraft, the Shenzhou V, ferry the first Chinese astronaut into space. “We’re so excited,” says manager Yang Chengzhang. “The tourists will be only a few hundred meters away from the Shenzhou V site on launch day....
Steve Bruemmer, a 62-year-old from Monterey, was attacked while swimming off Lovers Point in the city of Pacific Grove on June 22. The shark had bitten his leg, stomach and arms. Two paddleboarders and a surfer saved his life when they came to his rescue after hearing his cries for help. Heath Braddock, the surfer, told KRON4: “He was 300 feet out. A lot of tourists cry wolf and cry out ‘shark!...
The shark captured in the footage—which was taken by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Instituto Oceanográfico de Moçambique—has been matched as the same individual previously observed swimming off Struisbaai, in South Africa, in May 2022. Scientists confirmed that this young shark had traveled a total of 1,100 miles along the African coast. They were able to match the shark to previous records based on its distinct facial scars and matching fin coloration....
The sailboat was laden with dozens of migrants but went down when it struck rocks, authorities said Thursday. The coast guard said four bodies were found in the water around a rocky islet near the island of Antikythera, about 145 miles south of Athens, after the accident. It was the second deadly incident in as many days. On Tuesday night, a boat that sank near the island of Folegandros was experiencing engine failure and started taking on water....
That is indeed a problem. Strongman Kim Jong Il still trumpets juche, or self-reliance, an ideal that has transformed North Korea from a socialist industrial power into a famine-ravaged outlaw nation. This commitment to juche has condemned his country to a lot of pain. North Koreans today must scrape together a living in part by peddling scrap metal, passing counterfeit money and pushing drugs. Last year their government had to accept nearly $1 billion in food aid, and life is not getting better....
The images were snapped by South African wildlife photographer and filmmaker Danie Ferreira over the course of his extensive travels to the polar regions—including expeditions to Greenland, the Canadian High Arctic, the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard and Antarctica—over the past 30 years. Ferreira has now published a book, Out in the Cold, that contains images from these travels, many of which pay homage to the extraordinary determination, stamina and strength of the Greenland dogs that have played an integral role in human transport and exploration in the Arctic region for centuries....
also proof positive that the Pathfinder spacecraft would meet one of its main scientific goals: taking images of the Red Planet. Soon after, the first-ever high-resolution color images of Mars arrived. It was the ultimate Kodak moment. The photo showed gleaming black solar panels atop Pathfinder’s open ““petals,’’ or sides; the little six-wheeled, microwave-oven-size dune buggy of a rover that was all set to become the first-ever mobile explorer of another planet, and the deflated air bags that had cushioned Pathfinder’s pinpoint landing and now lay under the petals like crumpled beach towels....
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Friday declared that an emergency exists in Texas “due to a shortage of electric energy, a shortage of facilities for the generation of electric energy, and other causes.” It added that this emergency order is meant to “serve the public interest.” The department’s emergency order allows Texas grid operators to pollute more than allowed in an effort to boost electricity generation amid threatening cold temperatures....
Biffle, who has struggled this season, doesn’t have a sponsor signed for next year, so just how long this contract runs is still to be determined. But he’ll be there at least through 2016, and give the organization a veteran 44-year-old driver to go along with 26-year-old Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and 23-year-old Trevor Bayne. MORE: Roush makes Edwards move official | Gordon still the man after Indy win | Best and worst from Indy | Hamlin infraction...
Hardy is on the commissioner’s exempt list as a result of his arrest last May on domestic violence charges in Charlotte, N.C. Hardy wants to be reinstated now that prosecutors in Mecklenburg County, N.C., have dropped the charges after his accuser failed to appear in court for a trial. MORE: NFL players arrested in 2015 | Players arrested on domestic violence charges under Goodell | Hardy’s ‘14 tag worst...
The former NFL tight end announced TJ’s impending surgery via social media early on Friday: MORE: Greg Olsen says son TJ’s heart ‘reaching its end’ Olsen later provided an update, saying doctors “are very happy” with TJ’s surgery. He also thanked the family of the person whose heart was used in the surgery: Olsen’s last update came three hours later via Instagram, thanking everyone nationwide who supported him and his family....
A 20-year-old Black man, Wright was shot dead by police on Sunday in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, after his vehicle was stopped over an alleged traffic violation. On Monday, Brooklyn Center Police Department chief Tim Gannon said Wright’s death was the result of “an accidental discharge” as officer Kimberly Potter threatened to use her Taser before opening fire and killing Wright. “It just makes you sick to your stomach,” Popovich said during his media availability on Monday, as per Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News....
Before the Spurs tipped off against the Jazz on Sunday, Popovich was asked what he knew about the team they were facing. Being his usual ho-hum self, his answers were brief, honest and dripping with sass, saying that he hasn’t been paying attention to the Jazz’s recent surge and that he’s done no scouting to prepare for the game. When asked if he knew anything at all, he gave the perfect answer....
