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UK weather: Amber warning for heavy rain issued by Met Office – with ‘rivers continuing to rise’ | UK News

UK weather: Amber warning for heavy rain issued by Met Office – with ‘rivers continuing to rise’ | UK News

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An amber warning for heavy rain has been issued by the Met Office – warning of further flooding and travel disruption across large swathes of the UK. The new weather alert covers central England from 6pm on Thursday until 6am on Friday. Nearly three inches of rain could fall over several hours in the worst-affected regions with “rivers continuing to rise after the rain clears”, the Met Office warned. Several yellow weather warnings had already been issued for large parts of the country from 6am on Thursday until 9am on Friday. These include three separate warnings for rain – one covering western parts of Northern Ireland, one in northern England, and another for a large area covering most of England and Wales. Check latest weather forecast where you are Image: The latest UK weather warnings. Pic: Met Office “Slow moving showers and thunderstorms will develop through the afternoon, merging into a large band of heavy rain through the evening, before clearing slowly south overnight,” the Met Office said of the amber alert. “Some places, especially …

Stanford Continuing Studies Offering an Online Course Exploring the Music of the Grateful Dead

Stanford Continuing Studies Offering an Online Course Exploring the Music of the Grateful Dead

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Image via Wiki­me­dia Com­mons A quick heads up: On Octo­ber 3rd, Stan­ford Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies will kick off an 8‑week online course called Did It Mat­ter? Does It Now? The Music and Cul­ture of the Grate­ful Dead. Led by David Gans (author of Play­ing in the Band: An Oral and Visu­al Por­trait of the Grate­ful Dead), the course will fea­ture a num­ber of spe­cial guests, includ­ing Jesse Jarnow (host of The Good Ol’ Grate­ful Dead­cast), Den­nis McNal­ly (author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside His­to­ry of the Grate­ful Dead) and David Lemieux (Grate­ful Dead Archivist). Open to any adult, the course descrip­tion reads: The Grate­ful Dead’s ground­break­ing fusion of music, coun­ter­cul­ture, and com­mu­ni­ty engage­ment forged an endur­ing lega­cy that tran­scends gen­er­a­tions while shap­ing the evo­lu­tion of music and cul­tur­al expres­sion. Near­ly 30 years after the band played its last show, Grate­ful Dead music is more pop­u­lar than ever—in both live and record­ed form. This course invites stu­dents to delve into the phe­nom­e­non that is the Grate­ful Dead through a cap­ti­vat­ing explo­ration of the band’s his­to­ry, …

Ping-pong the latest vehicle for China’s continuing face-off with Taiwan | Paris Olympic Games 2024

Ping-pong the latest vehicle for China’s continuing face-off with Taiwan | Paris Olympic Games 2024

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“No politics at the Olympics! Bye! Thank you!” To be fair to the group of Chinese fans outside the table tennis arena at Porte de Versailles, this is undoubtedly the most sensible answer to any question about the tectonic ripples, the ping‑ping diplomacy angle of a meeting across the pink and black Olympic table of China and the entity called Chinese Taipei, also known, outside of Olympic unreality, as Taiwan. These are not matters to be taken lightly. In May this year the Chinese government announced it would consider applying the death penalty to those promoting the cause of Taiwanese separatism, a complex proposition given Taiwan is, on the face of it, already separate; but just another note in the drip-drip of manoeuvres and pre-invasion chat being enacted across the Straits. So yes, probably best to keep shtum on all that for now. The Olympic Games do insist on throwing up these moments. Session two, Sunday afternoon, South Paris Arena, third quarter‑final of the mixed doubles. China, the draw decided, would play its most coveted neighbour. This is an occasion that should be …

King returns to duties to join Queen in continuing work they hope will define their moment in history | UK News

King returns to duties to join Queen in continuing work they hope will define their moment in history | UK News

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The King and Queen have spent the weekend at Highgrove, probably the least regal of their residences. Today there will be no big fanfare compared to the spectacle they experienced at Buckingham Palace last year on Coronation Day, just private time and maybe a chance to reflect on what a year it’s been. As one palace insider put it, the contrast between a day of “carriages, crowns and crowds to cancer” and doctors’ orders to retreat from public life couldn’t have been more extreme. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 2:37 The King returned to public duties this week For the King I’m told it has been a time of “personal frustration that he could not be more involved” in the ways he usually would, but his “appetite for work and passion for his causes has in no way been diminished”. He’s never been a man content with simple reflection, he’s always wanted to see action. It means that alongside his treatment, and keeping up with his constitutional duties, he’s wanted …

The Holy Spirit is continuing to move on Gen Z at the University of Tennessee

The Holy Spirit is continuing to move on Gen Z at the University of Tennessee

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ” data-image-caption=”University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Credit: w_lemay, Wikpedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 Deed ” data-medium-file=”https://i3.wp.com/openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2024/05/niversity-of-tennessee-knoxville-tn-credit-w_lemay-wikpedia-cc-by-sa-2.0-deed-.jpg?w=500&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i3.wp.com/openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2024/05/niversity-of-tennessee-knoxville-tn-credit-w_lemay-wikpedia-cc-by-sa-2.0-deed-.jpg?w=500&ssl=1″ width=”500″ height=”375″ fifu-data-src=”https://i3.wp.com/openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2024/05/niversity-of-tennessee-knoxville-tn-credit-w_lemay-wikpedia-cc-by-sa-2.0-deed-.jpg?w=500&ssl=1″ alt=”University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN” class=”wp-image-93763″ srcset=”https://i3.wp.com/openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2024/05/niversity-of-tennessee-knoxville-tn-credit-w_lemay-wikpedia-cc-by-sa-2.0-deed-.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2024/05/niversity-of-tennessee-knoxville-tn-credit-w_lemay-wikpedia-cc-by-sa-2.0-deed-.jpg?w=768 768w, https://openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2024/05/niversity-of-tennessee-knoxville-tn-credit-w_lemay-wikpedia-cc-by-sa-2.0-deed-.jpg 800w” sizes=”(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px”/>University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TNCredit: w_lemay, Wikpedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 Deed Despite the negative reports of the rampant violence and antisemitism occurring in American universities, we have another report on how the Holy Spirit is moving on university campuses. This involves a recent outpouring at the University of Tennessee on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, CBN reports. Over 8,000 students gathered at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, TN, which saw hundreds of students respond, and 150 get water baptized. This was the last event of the year for the semester, and it was obvious many students were impacted. “We have been waiting for a move like this all school year,” a student told FOX & Friends. “At the finale of the event we were singing ‘Speak the Name of Jesus’ and students just rushed to the front. I …

King Charles to return to public duties while continuing cancer treatment | King Charles III

King Charles to return to public duties while continuing cancer treatment | King Charles III

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King Charles, who is being treated for cancer, is to return to public duties, with doctors pleased and “very encouraged” by his progress and “positive” about his continued recovery, Buckingham Palace has said. Charles, who announced in early February he had been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer, will continue treatment while resuming some public-facing engagements, though he will not undertake a full summer programme. His first engagement will be to visit a cancer treatment centre on Tuesday accompanied by Queen Camilla, though it is not a centre directly involved in his medical care. There he will meet medical specialists and patients as patron of Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Cancer Support. He will also host a state visit by the emperor and empress of Japan in June. A palace spokesperson said Charles was “greatly encouraged to be resuming some public-facing duties and very grateful to his medical team for their continued care and expertise”. In a statement, Buckingham Palace said: “His Majesty the King will shortly return to public-facing duties after a period …

Skills for Living with People (And Continuing to Like Them)

Skills for Living with People (And Continuing to Like Them)

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This is Part I of a 5-part series on DBT house rules for successful relationships with live-in partners, family, and roommates. Living with other people can be irritating. They do annoying things. They get crabby, bossy, or passive-aggressive. We often respond with defensive or avoidant behavior. Sometimes, the web of our relationships becomes so tangled that we aren’t sure we even like these people anymore. You can change that dynamic using the skills taught in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Steve and John credit their wonderful loving marriage to the “DBT House Rules” they created from the skills they learned in DBT therapy. Steve explains, “John made a snarky comment about my neglect of the laundry pile I left on the couch for two days. My first thought was: He’s so passive-aggressive. He doesn’t understand the pressure I’m under. My first impulse was to yell: If it bothers you so much, why don’t you put it away?” But Steve didn’t lash out. Instead, he paused, took a deep breath, and looked at the “DBT House Rules” he …

Zelenskyy fires senior aide in continuing reshuffle – POLITICO

Zelenskyy fires senior aide in continuing reshuffle – POLITICO

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Last month, Zelenskyy removed Valerii Zaluzhnyi as head of the armed forces. He was appointed Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom earlier this month. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s air force said on Saturday that Russia launched 12 Shahed drones overnight, nine of which were shot down, and fired four missiles into eastern Ukraine. Russia has unleashed a barrage of 38 missiles, 75 airstrikes and 98 attacks from multiple rocket launchers over the last 24 hours, Ukraine’s armed forces said in social media posts. Ukrainian energy company Centrenergo announced on Saturday that the Zmiiv Thermal Power Plant, one of the largest thermal power plants in the eastern Kharkiv region, was destroyed following Russian shelling last week. Power outage schedules were still in place for around 120,000 people in the region, where 700,000 people had lost electricity after the plant was hit on March 22, the Associated Press reported. Russia has escalated its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure recently, causing significant damage in several regions. Officials in the Poltava region said Saturday there had been “several hits” to an infrastructure facility, without …

‘The fight is continuing’: a decade of Russian rule has not silenced Ukrainian voices in Crimea | Crimea

‘The fight is continuing’: a decade of Russian rule has not silenced Ukrainian voices in Crimea | Crimea

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“Ten years of the Crimean spring,” say billboards around the Crimean peninsula. “It all started with us.” The Russian presidential election, to be held over three days at the end of this week, coincides with the 10-year anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. The swift seizure of the peninsula in March that year, Vladimir Putin’s response to the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv, was indeed the beginning of 10 years of military action against Ukraine. At the time, although almost no other countries recognised the annexation as legitimate, most people believed Russian rule was likely to remain in Crimea for decades. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, however, the situation has become increasingly unpredictable. People walk past a mural depicting Vladimir Putin in Simferopol, Crimea. Photograph: Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters The stalling of Ukraine’s counteroffensive makes it highly unlikely that Kyiv could take back Crimea militarily any time soon, and the brief period of optimism in late 2022 when top officials described the return of Crimea as “inevitable” has long dissipated. But the …