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By the time he was rescued, Mr. Metcalfe had walked more than 15 miles from the Jeep, and about 11 miles from where Miss Crowley's body was found by a search helicopter. |
About a quarter inch of rain fell Sunday and Monday over much of Eastern Washington and North Idaho, clearing out smoke and dampening the thirsty landscape. |
Felts Field in Spokane measured 0.35 of an inch of rain during the 24-hour period through 3 p.m., said Mark Turner, National Weather Service observing program leader in the Spokane office. Pullman had .32 of an inch, Kettle Falls got 0.20 of an inch, Coeur d’Alene had 0.45 of an inch fall, and Lewiston had 0.38 of an i... |
The rain did not fall heavily, however, in the Cascades, where the largest fires in the region are burning and producing smoke. |
The Methow Valley State Airport, located between Twisp and Winthrop, measured only .01 of an inch of rain. The Crescent Mountain fire, which is about 8 miles west of Twisp, has burned nearly 70 square miles. |
Joey Clevenger, a weather service meteorologist, said locations near fires could see smoke return to the skies Monday or Tuesday. |
“It depends on how much smoke the fires are putting out,” he said. |
Rain on Sunday was the first measurable rain Spokane has received this August. The last measurable rain fell on July 27, but it was only 0.02 of an inch. The last time more than 0.10 of an inch fell was June 21. |
Despite a drier-than-normal summer, Spokane is close to a normal amount for the year. Since Oct. 1, Spokane has had 16.87 inches of rain, more than an inch above average. |
Since Jan. 1, Spokane has had 9.71 inches of rain. The normal is 10 inches. |
After a cooler day on Monday, the weather service is expecting temperatures in Spokane to return to the low 80s on Wednesday before falling back into the 70s the rest of the week. No rain is in the forecast. |
Published: Aug. 27, 2018, 7:46 a.m. Updated: Aug. 27, 2018, 8:59 p.m. |
Market Harborough has become a house price ‘hot spot’, with prices rising faster than the surrounding towns. |
But the higher prices - especially when compared to neighbouring towns - are not putting people off buying, estate agents insist. |
The result is that detached houses in the town sold for an average £335,000 in the last 12 months. |
That’s 12 per cent higher than Lutterworth, 20 per cent higher than Leicester, 37 per cent higher than Desborough and 44 per cent higher than Corby, according to the website Rightmove. |
Semis in Market Harborough cost an average £228,000. |
That’s 24 per cent higher than Lutterworth, 30 per cent higher than Leicester, 46 per cent higher than Desborough and a huge 60 per cent higher than Corby. |
Terraced house prices in Market Harborough average a hefty £199,000, boosted by large three-bedroom terraced houses in the older parts of town. |
Rightmove says that’s 20 per cent higher than the average price in Lutterworth, 39 per cent higher than Leicester, 50 per cent higher than Desborough and 55 per cent higher than Corby. |
You’d think that would mean that housebuyers would ignore Market Harborough and settle in cheaper towns nearby. |
But that isn’t happening, estate agents say. |
The truth is that buyers still think that Market Harborough is worth the extra money. |
“Yes, the gap keeps widening, but people are still buying,” said David Hulatt, director at Henderson Connellan. |
“It’s one of the nicest market towns in the county and probably further afield,” said Peter Buckingham, director at Andrew Granger. |
Prices are kept high because well-off older people stay in their big homes, parents help children buy in to the town, and London people still pour in looking for bargains and a do-able commute. |
If you've got serious hauling on the mind, these five trucks are your best bet for the task. |
These days, lots of vehicles offer utility and versatility, but trucks still rule as the best choice for the most demanding tasks. The top pickups in the segment have the goods to haul big loads, and they're also accommodating enough to serve as daily transportation. |
Our annual Daily News Autos Awards honor the most exceptional models across a host of different vehicle segments, as voted on by our staff and contributors. We took a look at this year's crop of pickup trucks, and the models shown below are the ones we deemed most impressive. |
We kick off the list with the award-winning model, followed by alternate recommendations displayed in alphabetical order. All prices shown include the destination charges. |
If you're about to purchase a pickup, we encourage you to use our picks to guide your choices. |
Americans love trucks, and the Ford F-150 is the most beloved truck of them all. This model has been the top-selling vehicle in the nation for decades, winning the hearts of buyers with its rugged capabilities and overall competence. It's offered in a dizzying array of configurations, and there's a cab style and bed le... |
Full-size trucks aren't the only game in town. The midsize Chevrolet Colorado offers a choice of gas and diesel power plants, its towing capacity is impressive, and it’s available in off-road performance ZR2 specification. Its footprint is small enough to make it a maneuverable companion, and it provides a comfortable ... |
The full-size, light-duty GMC Sierra 1500 provides the power you need to handle challenging tasks, and it pulls this off while delivering admirable fuel efficiency. Its cabin is pleasant and serene, and its agreeable ride quality makes it a great companion on daily journeys. Plus, if you’re seeking a luxury truck, the ... |
If you value an agreeable ride quality, athletic handling, and innovative utility solutions, you'll love the Honda Ridgeline. This midsize truck comes with an independent rear suspension that gives its handling a level of refinement that isn't typically seen in pickups. The Ridgeline also impresses with an attractive c... |
The Ram 1500 offers the brawn you need from a pickup, and it pairs this with handling that won't beat you up on your everyday commutes. One key characteristic is its stylish cabin, and this truck also offers an off-road package for those times when you want to venture beyond the paved path. Most trims come standard wit... |
Does working too hard prevent employees from being productive? It's been debated for years and IT Business Edge editor Ann All points out a new Harvard Business School study that says making workaholics take some time off improved their performance. |
The practice of providing guaranteed solace from the workplace has worked for some places. According to a Wall Street Journal article, imposed breaks pushed the employees of Boston Consulting Group to communicate better and forge closer relationships with colleagues on project teams. Employee satisfaction increased, to... |
Some places are even looking at limiting the use of BlackBerries, after a UK study concluded that the devices compel people to work an extra 15 hours a week. |
So what do you think? Join the discussion in the Knowledge Network. |
President Donald Trump said China had agreed to cut import tariffs on American-made cars, buoying shares in BMW and Daimler AG who manufacture in the United States for export to the world's biggest auto market. |
Shares of Chinese car dealers also perked up on hopes that such a move could revitalize the domestic auto market that is poised for its first annual sales contraction in decades amid cooling economic growth and a debilitating U.S.-China trade war. |
Trump, fresh from agreeing a 90-day cease-fire in his trade war with China at the meeting of the G20, said on Twitter "China has agreed to reduce and remove tariffs on cars coming into China from the U.S. Currently the tariff is 40%." |
The move, if realized, would bolster U.S. carmakers who were hit hard when China ramped up levies on U.S.-made cars in July as part of a broad package of retaliatory tariffs amid the sprawling trade war between Washington and Beijing. |
"If they cancel the extra 25 percent tariff on U.S.-made cars, then we will see positive signs for imported cars," Wang Cun, director of the China Automobile Dealers Association's import committee, told reporters in Beijing. |
Beijing raised tariffs on U.S. auto imports to 40 percent in July, forcing many carmakers to hike prices in a major hit to the roughly $10 billion worth of passenger vehicles the United States sent to China last year. |
That put U.S.-made car brands like Tesla Inc and Ford Motor Co's Lincoln at a major disadvantage as the move came soon after China slashed auto import tariffs for the wider market to 15 percent from 25 percent. |
Trump's tweet did not give any further detail about the tariff cuts, such as when the deal had been reached or a new level for the Chinese levies. |
The White House and U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) office did not immediately respond to a request for comment late on Sunday. China's commerce and finance ministries did not respond to requests for comment on Monday. |
In early European trade on Monday, shares in Germany's BMW, Volkswagen ASG and Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler rose between 4-7 percent. |
In China, listed car dealers such as Grand Automotive , Pangda Automobile Trade and Sinomach Automobile climbed on the news, with some local carmakers falling back. |
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to halt new tariffs during talks in Argentina on Saturday, following months of escalating tensions on trade and other issues. |
After a 2-1/2 hour dinner with Xi on Saturday in Buenos Aires, Trump agreed to postpone an increase in the tariff rate on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports to 25 percent from 10 percent that was scheduled for Jan. 1. China agreed to resume purchases of some U.S. farm and energy commodities. |
The two sides also agreed to negotiate in the next 90 days over "structural changes" to China's policies on technology transfers, intellectual property protection, non-tariff barriers, cyber intrusions and theft, services and agriculture. |
Major U.S. automakers said they were unaware of the lower tariffs on exports to China. |
The automakers have a previously scheduled meeting with USTR on Monday, two people briefed on the matter told Reuters. |
The lower tariffs would be a boost to automakers exporting vehicles to China, including Ford and German carmaker BMW, which exports U.S.-built luxury vehicles to China. |
It would also be good news for Tesla that has been hit hard by increased tariffs on the electric cars it imports to China. |
The U.S. firm, led by billionaire Elon Musk, has said it will cut prices to make its cars "more affordable" and absorb more of the hit from the tariffs. Tesla is also building a local plant in Shanghai to help it avoid steep tariffs. |
The United States currently charges tariffs of 27.5 percent on Chinese vehicles. On Wednesday, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Trump had directed him to examine all available tools to raise U.S. tariffs on Chinese vehicles to the level that China is charging. |
Nine months after historic referendum on EU membership, Britain finally on the verge of implementing 'Brexit'. |
After nine and a half months, Britain appears poised to finally implement the results of last year’s historic referendum on membership in the European Union, the so-called “Brexit” vote. |
On Monday night, the British Parliament voted to empower Prime Minister Theresa May to invoke Article 50 of the EU Treaty, ending the UK’s affiliation with the union. |
While backers of the Brexit, including former UK Independence Party (UKIP) chief Nigel Farage, had hoped for a speedy departure from the EU, implementation of the Brexit was stymied for months by legal challenges and political hand-wringing over the nature of the UK’s departure from the EU. |
With the parliament’s vote on Monday, however, the final barrier to a clean break from the EU has been removed. |
Following the vote, Prime Minister Theresa May reiterated her intention to invoke the EU’s Article 50 at the end of March - a move that has been dubbed 'B-Day' inside the Prime Minister's office - setting her country on an irreversible course which will culminate in the termination of Britain’s membership in the multin... |
Once Article 50 has been invoked, the EU and UK will begin formal negotiations for the terms of Britain’s departure. The future status of Britons in the EU and EU citizens in Britain will be addressed, as will the terms of trade between EU member states and the UK. |
According to the EU charter, negotiations must be concluded within 24 months of the invocation of Article 50. If no agreement has been reached, the UK will be automatically removed from the EU, with trade and residency rights returned to status quo ante. Any deal between the EU and UK would also require approval by the... |
While a unanimous vote by EU members could extend negotiations, Germany has already indicated it will not back such an extension. |
Following the UK’s letter later this month notifying the EU of its intention to leave, the 27 remaining EU member states will hold a summit to decide the union’s terms for the negotiations with Britain. European Council President Donald Tusk has indicated this summit will most likely take place in April. |
Dominican protector of captives and sailors. Born in Astorga, Spain, he entered the Dominicans and became the chaplain and confessor of King St. Ferdinand of Castile. He preached a campaign against the Moors, and then cared for the captured Muslims. He also cared for sailors, who dubbed him Thelmo, after St. Elmo. |
The transition from ape-like shuffling to upright walking (bipedalism) as we do has long fascinated scientists. Why did it happen? When? |
The second question is a little closer to being solved. An analysis of 3.6 million year old hominin footprints in Tanzania suggests our ancestors evolved the hallmark trait of extended leg, human-like bipedalism substantially earlier than previously thought. Many millions of years before humans. Like the chicken and th... |
As you'd expect, fossilized footprints are the only way to deduce how ancestors of humans moved about. To glean answers, scientists have to account for differences in size and use inference. The new examination shows hominins were walking in a way that is very similar to living humans. At least when they walked, these ... |
Our species, Homo sapiens, emerged roughly 200,000-300,000 years ago. The genus Homo is thought to have emerged about 2-2.5 million years ago. The term hominin is used in a general sense to refer to a broader set of ancestors that existed before that. It is thought that hominins began walking on two legs around 7 milli... |
Image credit: David Raichlen, University of Arizona. |
The recent estimate was derived from a combination of experimental data and morphological studies to show that the footprints from Laetoli, Tanzania are consistent with fully upright, human-like bipedal walking. In one experiment, the team compared the depth and shape of the Laetoli footprints to those left by eight vo... |
Walking upright with the legs fully extended uses less energy than bipedal walking in a more ape-like crouched manner, allowing one to endure longer journeys. This suggests that the switch to a more human-like gait likely had something to do with how our ancestors found food--and how far they had to travel to find it. ... |
Right-handed pitcher Tyson Ross will try to rejuvenate his career by returning to the San Diego Padres in 2018 after the two sides agreed to a deal. |
Per SB Nation's Chris Cotillo, Ross signed a minor league deal with the team. |
Ross has fallen on hard times since the start of 2016. The 30-year-old made just one start for the Padres in that season after suffering a shoulder injury. |
San Diego decided to non-tender Ross last offseason, making him a free agent, and the Rangers took a chance on him. |
Things didn't work out for Ross in 2017. The right-hander spent time on the 60-day disabled list before returning to Texas' rotation on June 16. He posted a 7.71 ERA with more walks (37) than strikeouts (36) in 49 innings. |
At his peak from 2013-15, Ross showed the ability to be a strikeout artiest. He wasn't much of a strikeout pitcher in Oakland (102 in 148.2 innings), but he averaged 9.2 punchouts per nine innings in four seasons with the Padres. |
Ross was effectively wild at his best, as he walked 116 hitters in 320.2 innings in 2013-14. He was more erratic in 2015 with a league-leading 84 free passes. |
The Padres need depth in their starting rotation after finishing 23rd in MLB with a 4.83 ERA last season. Ross is a low-cost, high-reward investment for the team that knows him better than anyone else. |
That's what AIDS patients were in the 1980s. |
When I visited my brother, Jim Sammone, the first time in the hospital, I was stunned by the giant red sign on his hospital-room door. TAKE PRECAUTIONS. WEAR PROTECTIVE GARB. AIDS had already been around for a few years, and the panic was reaching its peak. It was 1987. |
It wasn't enough that (at the time) the largely homosexual group of men who had this fateful disease were subject to hate crimes and other forms of discrimination. Now, they were forced to wear a "scarlet letter" as it were, and were unceremoniously declared "sinners" in the eyes of television evangelists across the co... |
As this was happening, pharmaceutical companies were scrambling to develop new drugs to combat HIV and prevent it from turning into full-blown AIDS. Unfortunately, the FDA was incredibly slow to approve any new drugs. The Reagan administration and Congress were both turning a blind eye to funding research. In the meant... |
It was a true epidemic. For a while, no one knew how one caught it; no one knew where it came from; no one knew how it got here. |
Rock Hudson died, and the most reported news article about his death was whether Linda Evans was exposed to HIV when they kissed during the taping of a television show. |
When my brother was diagnosed, he decided he had two choices: Give up or fight. And fight he did. He did it, as in all other areas of his life, with style and finesse. He got people interested in this cause. He joined local advocacy groups and later founded AIDS Coalition Endowment in Orlando to try to give the all but... |
President Ronald Reagan formed the Presidential Commission on AIDS. Jim spoke passionately in front of its members at a Miami meeting, unwell as he was. One would not have known how ill he was by looking at him. (He looked perfect, of course.) He died shortly thereafter, in 1988, with at least some satisfaction that he... |
We have progressed in some ways and regressed in others. Our society has stopped marginalizing what was considered a "gay disease" largely because the fastest-growing group of HIV-positive people is now adolescent girls. This is mainly because of a lack of education about sexual activity and health among young people. |
There are still thousands in Africa dying of AIDS every day. Fortunately, some pharmaceutical companies are now providing drugs at a discounted rate to third-world countries in an effort to control disease (not only AIDS) in poor and famine-ravaged nations. |
It's easy to forget 25 years later. There are many social causes in the world -- many of them still considered more socially "correct" in which to participate. Consider that there are still many young women in this country suffering, many men suffering, millions in Africa suffering. |
Three words echo in my head today. This mantra is on my brother's gravestone: Witness for me. |
Monday is World AIDS Day. Get involved by educating, advocating and giving comfort. You can make a difference. |
Introduction to the social science literature on factors contributing to gender disparities in the scientific workplace (e.g. implicit bias and stereotype threat). Discussions focus on steps that individuals and institutions can take to promote the advancement of women and other underrepresented groups in science, and ... |
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