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While EU negotiator Michel Barnier has handled talks with London on the divorce deal, planning for a “no-deal scenario” has fallen to the bloc’s powerful secretary general, Martin Selmayr.
Brussels has taken a co-ordinating role for member states and published 88 advisory notes, sector by sector, focused on threats to financial markets, air traffic, customs and emissions trading.
After Tuesday’s failed vote in London, the commission announced plans to send teams to all 27 other EU capitals to co-ordinate a continent-wide plan.
Ireland, the only EU member with a land border with Britain, has the next most to lose in a chaotic Brexit. Politically, concerns have focused on how renewed border controls could stir potential unrest in Northern Ireland, but the economy is also at risk.
Ireland is hiring 1,000 staff to implement agricultural and customs checks, although the government has faced criticism for failing to disclose how many hires have been completed.
In its 2019 budget, unveiled in October, the Republic put aside a €.5bn “rainy day fund” and a “no-deal Brexit” omnibus bill will go to parliament in March.
At the port of Dublin, work is under way on 33 inspection bays, 270 truck parking spaces, a dedicated border control post for live animals, and office accommodation for an additional 144 staff.
The Netherlands would be heavily exposed because of trading links via Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port. It has set aside €100m for preparations, including the appointment of 900 new customs officers.
The government also announced unilaterally last week that the approximately 45,000 British citizens and their families currently living in the Netherlands will get a 15-month “grace period” to apply for a full residency permit.
France activated its plan for handling the effects of a no-deal Brexit on Thursday. It provides for €50m of investment in ports and airports, infrastructure for carrying out border checks, and extra car parks to help cope with tailbacks.
France plans to recruit 580 additional customs staff and veterinary inspectors.
Belgium’s government is going through its own crisis as Britain wrangles with Brexit, with Prime Minister Charles Michel having lost his majority in a row over immigration. But legislation has been prepared to recruit 115 new public servants to reinforce customs, and animal and farm product health controls.
The estimated 25,000 British citizens in Belgium have been promised they will be allowed to stay on reciprocal terms to the Belgians living in the UK.
Tuesday, July 24: Isolated showers and thunderstorms after noon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent. High near 83.
Wednesday, July 25: Scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. High: 82.
Thursday, July 26: Chance of afternoon showers. Chance of precipitation 10 percent. High near 81.
Friday, July 27: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82.
Saturday, July 28: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82.
EAGLE COUNTY — As significant rain continues to avoid the Vail Valley, local streams are running low and slow, weeks before the usual low-flow times of late summer and fall. Those low flows mean water users need to make some changes.
The Eagle River Water & Sanitation District — which serves water users from East Vail to Edwards — is asking its customers to cut back on outdoor water use to help maintain water in local streams. While most indoor water is returned to local streams, far less irrigation water makes it back.
In a memo to the district’s elected board, communications and public affairs manager Diane Johnson wrote that streamflows measured on Gore Creek, the Eagle River near Minturn and the Eagle River at Avon are all running significantly below seasonal norms.
• Gore Creek was running at 36 cubic feet per second, 38 percent of the normal flow.
• The Eagle River near Minturn was running at 49 cfs, 43 percent of normal.
• The river at Avon was running at 108 cfs, 36 percent of normal.
Those readings are among the lowest on record. Only the drought years of 2002 and 2012 showed lower streamflows from April 1 to July 22. Even in those drought years, the graph lines show the occasional bump, when rainfall temporarily boosted streamflows.
This year, those bumps haven’t developed.
The short boosts to streamflow in those other years started coming in about mid-June, the result of the annual “monsoon” flow that generally brings some significant moisture to the area.
The U.S. Climate Prediction Center in late spring predicted a better-than-average change of precipitation into the summer. That hasn’t developed so far this year.
Tom Renwick, a forecaster at the Grand Junction office of the National Weather Service, said the monsoonal flow in Western Colorado usually develops when a high-pressure system sets up over Texas and Oklahoma and a low-pressure system develops over the desert Southwest United States. When that happens, moisture is suck...
Renwick said high pressure has been setting up in the wrong place so far this year.
That high pressure usually means dry conditions. At the moment, high pressure is farther west than it needs to be to bring rain.
“It’s basically on top of us,” Renwick said.
While Western Colorado hasn’t been getting its usual summer rainfall, Renwick said other areas are seeing seasonal precipitation. The monsoons have hit Mexico.
Locally, the lack of the monsoon rains is starting to concern water providers.
That said, there are adequate supplies for domestic use.
Aquatic life can be hard-hit by low streamflows, especially when those low flows are combined with warm temperatures.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife last week called for a voluntary fishing closure on portions of the Eagle, Colorado, Crystal and Roaring Fork rivers. Anglers are asked to stop fishing from 2 p.m. to midnight on stretches of those streams. Water temperatures near or above 70 degrees Fahrenheit can be damaging to fish that a...
Rainfall and cooler water temperatures are good for both aquatic life and landscaping. Until those rains come, though, district customers are being asked to let their landscaping dry out a bit.
When the monsoonal flow might develop remains an open question, but Renwick said he’s optimistic.
There’s a possible monsoonal pattern developing later this week for New Mexico, the Front Range and parts of Wyoming, but not Western Colorado.
We look at criticism of Trump and key Republicans ahead of publication of a memo they say shows improper use of surveillance by the FBI in the Russia probe. The NYT Editorial Board says it's a "plot"; an opinion piece in The Washington Post argues "Presidents don't win against the FBI". We also look at the Senegalese p...
LaBove appears in the Lowcountry this weekend and shortly after that he'll be moving to New York to perform a one-man show based on his life and career. He's also working on an autobiography.
"You find yourself in all these situations, and you think, 'How did I get here?'," he said. "And then you look back and see how the dots connect. Life can be hard. It can rise up and kick you in the groin. But to be able to recover from that is something great."
LaBove and Kinison worked their first stand-up show together at a comedy club in LaBove's native Texas. They both came from similar backgrounds, kids from religious families who really didn't know what they were about to get into.
"We were kindred spirits," he said. "We're were figuring out what we were going to do."
Kinison and LaBove moved to Los Angeles with nothing much more than a car and a few belongings. LaBove started as a doorman at the famed Comedy Store, owned by Pauly Shore's mother, Mitzi, and worked his way on-stage.
Kinison hit it big after Rodney Dangerfield's Young Comedians Special in 1984. Kinison, LaBove and a few other fellow comics branded themselves the "Outlaws of Comedy," reflecting their politically incorrect style. They toured amphitheaters like rock stars. Kinison became one of the biggest comics in the '80s but delve...
By that time, LaBove and his wife had a daughter. Shortly after Kinison's death, LaBove's wife told him the girl's father was actually his former best friend and comedy partner.
Strapped by the custody payments, LaBove began to fight in the courts to prove the girl wasn't his. Years later, he had a DNA test done that proved the girl was a member of the Kinison family. But because he couldn't specifically prove Sam Kinison was the father, judges didn't rule in his favor.
"I fought paternity battles for 15 years, and the judge went against me," he said. "I just accepted that we don't win all the time in life. What I can do now is tell the tale."
He'll be sorting through all those emotions in his one-man show and in his book. Since going public with his dispute, he's become a bit of a poster boy for ugly paternity disputes, appearing on talk shows and counseling people going through similar situations.
"He didn't live long enough to make things right," LaBove said. "My assumption was that he would have. We probably wouldn't be friends for a long time but something would have pulled us together again. We would have moved on. I made myself happy by coming to terms with all this."
Minecraft has a dedicated legion of fans that has been waiting for this movie to arrive. While they may not be thrilled about the continuous delays, they may appreciate more clarity about its release schedule.
The movie is being directed by Peter Sollett. Earlier reports had suggested that Rob McElhenney and Shawn Levy had been confirmed as the directors during the various stages of development. The official word now is that Sollett will be in the director’s chair for this live-action Minecraft movie.
State police officer Andrew Dykstra plays taps during the funeral service for fallen McHenry County Sheriff Deputy Jacob Keltner Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at Woodstock North High School in Woodstock.
, at the end of what seemed like a neverending week, I was over at a neighbor’s house hoping for a few minutes to relax.
As I sat down on the couch in a room away from everyone else, I got a text from one of our reporters.
I sat there and cried.
It wasn’t just about the dog. I don’t know that dog. But it was about the week, the shooting of a sheriff’s deputy in Rockford that required constant and careful coverage, several fatal wrecks and now ... a dog.
I didn’t know Jacob Keltner either, but I know what he was doing and what he did every day, helping to protect us.
None of those things were about me, or about us, but it doesn’t mean we don’t feel them. It’s our job to feel them, and report what happened with feeling.
Sometimes that’s good things, a football state championship or a state championship wrestler, a school getting high marks or an important piece of legislation that will help us.
Sometimes, it’s not. It’s people making mistakes, like Woodstock’s Quincy Hagerty’s Facebook post about the procession for fallen Deputy Jacob Keltner.
We’re not immune, for sure, and neither are others. Most of the time, our coverage focuses on things in between. We inform and you decide how you feel about it. We spend our days doing our best to do the right things to inform you.
Two weeks ago, we made a name mistake in a story about the McHenry County College election. We corrected it the next day after calling the candidate multiple times to apologize. It’s something were not proud of, but certainly wasn’t done intentionally. And this week, there was a correction in the same election from the...
We also should have taken a closer look at the ad we ran on the cover of Thursday’s section, which included six pages of coverage of Keltner’s funeral and the procession that followed.
We were fully concentrated on that coverage of the event, which passed by our office as many Shaw Media employees stood and watched. But if we had to do it again, we would have switched the days we ran those, and we have changed our process to add more awareness of that juxtaposition.
Monday marks the beginning of widespread early voting for the April 2 election. We won’t be running endorsements on the many contested races in the county and local municipalities this time, but we are posting candidate questionnaires in some of the top contested races. You can find those at nwherald.com/election.
These are certainly important elections, the levels of government that impact you the most, and we are doing our best to cover those and inform subscribers before they head to the polls while also staying on top of the daily news.
Starting next week, you’ll probably notice a difference in our weekend editions as well. Michael Penkava has chosen to stop writing his column for now, and we want to thank him for the many entertaining columns he has written. A few other fun weekend Page 2 items will go away with that as well, but I’ll let you do the ...
And we’re hiring a new news reporter, a job that was posted this week at shawmedia.com/careers. If you’re interested and have what it takes, make sure to apply.
A CARER who suffered from bad hearing for decades has told how new technology helped him to save his wife’s life.
Charles Carmichael was fitted with a revolutionary hearing aid just weeks before his diabetic wife Eileen collapsed at their home in Newton Mearns, near Glasgow.
The 64-year-old, who suffers from Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (CSOM), also known as runny ears, was able to use the specialist equipment – known as a Baha – to listen to her breathing and talk to the 999 operator.
He initially feared his wife, who has suffered a heart attack and stroke in recent years, was suffering another stroke, but was able to use a microphone linked to his Baha to help deal with the emergency.
Mrs Carmichael was not having a stroke, but had a severe chest infection which has since caused her a lot of health problems.
Mr Carmichael is her main carer and the equipment now allows him to hear her clearly even when in another room.
Since he was a boy, Mr Carmichael struggled with his hearing and had recurrent ear infections.
It was not until he was in his late 40s that he was finally fitted with analogue hearing aids.
Up until that point, he had got by at home and at work – as a health and safety officer for special needs charity Key Community Supports – by lip-reading. However, the hearing aids contributed to the ear infections and within a few years he began to suffer continual runny ears.
“It would literally pour down the side of my face,” he said. “I couldn’t sleep properly because as soon as I lay down my pillow was wet.
The skin around his ears became sore from lying on damp patches and he had to attend clinics every fortnight to have his ears syringed and cleaned.
The condition affected his balance and also meant he was left out of conversations with work colleagues, friends and family because he could not hear.
He said: “I felt so insecure and embarrassed as I thought the first thing people looked at when they saw me was my runny ears.
Help finally came when he was sent to see an audiologist at The New Victoria Hospital in Glasgow who recommended he be fitted with a Baha, which transfers sound by bone vibration directly to the cochlea, bypassing the outer and the middle ear where the infection lay. “It was like a light switch being flicked on,” said ...
“I could focus on work because I could hear better and my confidence levels improved.
He can now hear others clearly when in the same room as them and uses the special microphone to hear his wife when he is in another room.
A Healthy Ears campaign to raise awareness of CSOM launched earlier this week.
l Anyone looking for more information should visit www.Iwanttohear.com.
Young Adults Can Keep It Simple: Start Saving For many 20-somethings, financial independence marks their arrival at adulthood. But it can be a hard place to get to if you're also shouldering a lot of debt.
Saving money doesn't have to be complicated, says financial adviser Beth Kobliner. The main point is for young people to get started early, she says.
For many 20-somethings, financial independence marks their arrival at adulthood. But it can be a hard place to get to if you're also shouldering a lot of debt.
That's a concern for Brandon Smith, who recently graduated with a degree in journalism — and $98,000 in student loans. NPR asked personal finance expert Beth Kobliner what advice she might give Smith and other young adults. And she started her answer with one practical point.
"There's something called income-based repayment plans," Kobliner tells Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep. "So, basically you pay back your loans as a percentage of income — and, after 20 years, if you're going into a relatively low-income job, your loans disappear completely."
Another idea is for students to consider debt when they're looking at colleges and fields of study, says Kobliner, the author of Get a Financial Life.
There have been several initiatives to teach financial literacy to young people. But it can be hard for students to find time for the programs — and to absorb what they teach.
"You can be in information overload and you say, 'There is so much out there — I have no idea where to turn, so I'm just going to ignore it all,' " Kobliner says.
And while new technology, like budget-tracking software, can help, it doesn't guarantee better results.
"I think we have to go back to basics," Kobliner says. "We have to look at the very old-fashioned notions of, 'Hmm ... we shouldn't spend more money than you have.' "
She says that another thing to keep in mind when researching options for saving and investing is where all of the data come from.

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