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Risk of heatwave raises fears of a stifling Games

Risk of heatwave raises fears of a stifling Games

Canadian athlete Damian Warner at the Tokyo Olympic Games on August 5, 2021. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP Will all the athletes at the Paris Olympic Games (OG) have to endure the same ordeal of a heatwave stiffling the atmosphere of the Paris region? While it’s still too early to answer this question, the recent past is enough to make organizers sweat. According to data from French weather service Météo-France, France has experienced 22 heatwaves since 2010 (only 2014 and 2021 were heatwave-free), more than during the 1947-2000 period. Over the last five years, France experienced two in 2019, two in 2020, three in 2022 and one in 2023. Some of these took place during the period when the Olympic Games will be running from July 26 to August 11. Notably, there was a heatwave from August 6 to 13, 2020, when the temperature in Paris approached 40°C, and a very long hot spell from July 31 to August 13, 2022. “The Games will start at the time of the ‘climatological peak,’ on July 25. This …

Justin Long admits he previously thought wearing a wedding ring ‘would be stifling’

Justin Long admits he previously thought wearing a wedding ring ‘would be stifling’

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Justin Long has revealed he had a change of heart about wedding rings. The He’s Just Not That Into You lead opened up about his previous concerns about wearing a wedding ring while co-hosting CBS’s The Talk on 16 February. Long, 45, tied the knot with Kate Bosworth about nine months ago. During the show, co-host Jerry O’Connell welcomed Milo Ventimiglia as the guest for the week. O’Connell asked him how married life had been going since the Gilmore Girls favourite just recently married Jarah Mariano. In response, Ventimiglia explained how he was so thrilled to be a husband that he hadn’t taken his ring off and didn’t plan to. This prompted Long to admit he initially wasn’t keen on wedding rings. “I thought it would be stifling and I wouldn’t be able to get it off. But I like it,” Long confessed. Knowing …

Labour accuses UK government of ‘stifling children’s creativity’ | Arts in schools

Labour has accused the government of “stifling children’s creativity and damaging the talent pipeline” for Britain’s creative industries by failing to provide proper arts and culture education. The party said the arts were being squeezed out of schools as a result of tightened budgets, teacher shortages and the decreasing importance of arts and culture subjects through school accountability measures such as English baccalaureate entries. It condemned what it called a “narrative at the top of the government” that the arts played second fiddle to other subjects, leading to low morale among teachers and a drop in arts provision, and pledged to put the creative and cultural sectors at the heart of its mission to grow the economy. Speaking at a panel on arts education at the Theatre and Touring Summit in London on Monday, the shadow arts minister, Barbara Keeley, will highlight the stark drop in the number of students taking arts GCSEs, which has fallen by 40% since 2010. There are now 12,000 fewer students taking music (a 27% reduction) – despite the UK …