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Celebrate nature, community and a disappearing way of life in Texas through the lens of photographer Willetta Crowe. The Nocona photographer is headlining the exhibit “Eye of the Beholder” at the Galleria at The Forum through Dec. 15. |
Crowe developed an eye for visual storytelling through her 25-year career as an English teacher and her years as a graphic designer for the Wichita Falls Times Record News. |
The Forum is located at 2120 Speedway. For more information, call 766-3347. |
The Kell House Museum at 900 Bluff in downtown Wichita Falls is a link between our past and our future. Its exhibits and tours tell the stories of Wichita Falls, from our greatest successes to our biggest failures. In order to ensure the stories are preserved, the Wichita County Heritage Society recently began fundrais... |
After several months of fundraising, $537,000 of the $2 million needed for the rehabilitation of the Kell House has been raised. Several public foundations have offered grants, as well as historic tax credits, but they only fund projects once the organization has met half its goal. Therefore, the Kell House Museum need... |
For more information, call the Wichita County Heritage Society at 723-0623 or the Kell House Museum at 723-2712. |
WARRI— DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday, warned that he would not accept anybody putting pressure on him to negotiate for anything, whether elective or appointive positions in Warri North Local Government Area of the state. |
Governor Uduaghan, who spoke at a stakeholders’ conference with leaders and representatives of Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups to proffer solutions to the crisis that broke out, July 2, described the Egbema Radical Group, ERG, the militia responsible for the crisis as hooligans. |
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Chike Ogeah, has denied reports that the Secretary to State Government, SSG, Mr. Ovuozorie Macaulay, castigated journalists in Warri for allegedly writing irresponsibly and escalating the crisis. Ogeah, who spoke on the crisis said: “I was there at the meeting. The... |
Meantime, Ijaw and Itsekiri leaders, who were at the stakeholders’ conference, corroborated the claim of the governor that the militia members were oil thieves and sea pirates. |
Uduaghan said: “I am doing the best I can, but nobody, I repeat, nobody should put a gun on my head to negotiate for anybody. You will not blackmail me to negotiate, nobody has two heads. We all have one head each and you can decide to use your head positively or negatively. |
In this case, what happened is that some people decided to use their heads negatively. I do not want to hear about ERG. I plead with the media to stop giving them attention. People who go to the internet to send statements should not be given publicity for whatever they say. That is what is emboldening them. |
He said since the crisis had simmered down, government would do a thorough assessment of the situation and in collaboration with the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, to ascertain the assistance to offer those whose property were damaged. |
On the issue that led to the crisis, which the governor and leaders from both ethnic groups agreed was not political, but criminal, Uduaghan said he met with leaders of both groups sometime before the current crisis, where matters of elective offices and appointments in Warri North was raised. |
He said: “I said the issue of appointment as a governor, I am deeply involved in it, both at the state and federal levels and I said I can help in that area. But for elective offices, I do not have power over elective offices, so the Ijaws and Itsekiris in the three Warri local governments should meet because if that i... |
Edun said a man, his wife and son were also killed, while the rampaging boys burnt down Ebohimi. At Eghoro they killed three persons and burnt houses. The council chairman said he contacted the Commanding Officer, Army, in the area and other security chiefs, but while Itsekiri victims of the attack fled the communities... |
Ijaw leader, Chief E. Ebimami, said the crisis was orchestrated by some youths who had been advised not to take the issue of political positions as an opportunity to cause violence in the state, but they refused to listen to good counsel. He said that the Egbema-Ijaw leaders were not in support of the havoc wreaked on ... |
Chief Ebimami said he was surprised that while Egbema-Ijaw leaders told the boys not to do anything that would cause trouble in the state, they went into the creek to form camp and from there, launched attack on Itsekiri communities on July 2. |
Former chairman of Warri North, Mr. Michael Diden, who also spoke blamed the crisis on oil thieves and sea pirates, saying the crisis had nothing to do with political marginalization of Ijaws in the the area as alleged by the attackers. He said some Ijaw and Itsekiri leaders had met before the present debacle and told ... |
Itsekiri youth leader, Mr Ayiri Emami, who stressed the need to differentiate criminality from political struggle, said before the incident, security agencies were alerted, but they did not do much to stop the crisis. He said some of the security chiefs assured that they would take care of the situation and did nothing... |
Egbema Ijaw youth leader, Ezekiel Akpasubowei, agreed with his Itsekiri colleagues that the Ijaw boys that carried out the action were criminals, who were fighting for selfish ends. He said the criminals were threatening him and other Egbema-Ijaw leaders for saying that they were hooligans. |
Commissioner of Police, Delta State, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba and Brigadier General Patrick Ake, in charge of 4 Brigade, Benin City, Edo State said they were taken aback by the allegation by the leaders that security agencies did not live up to expectation. Brigadier-General Ake said the army confronted the militia and dest... |
Mr. Aduba also said the police had obtained information on identities of the gunmen, which he read out openly, and called for concerted efforts to track them down. He said no group of gunmen should be allowed to hold people ransom in the state and security agencies need cooperation of the people to fish them out. |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oil and gas drilling gives off far more of the powerful greenhouse gas methane than the U.S. government estimates as leaky wells go unnoticed by federal regulators, scientists said on Thursday. |
Methane, the main component of natural gas, is colorless and odorless. It is a major force in short-term global warming because it has more than 80 times the heat trapping potential of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after it escapes into the atmosphere, scientists say. In high concentrations it can also lead to f... |
The amount of methane leaked from U.S. oil and gas wells and related infrastructure in 2015 equaled about 2.3 percent of the country’s overall natural gas output, a study led by the Environmental Defense Fund advocacy group said. That was much more than the 1.4 percent the Environmental Protection Agency estimated for ... |
About $2 billion in fuel vanishes in the air annually, and some energy companies are expected to cut those losses with the help of improved monitoring equipment in drones and vehicles. |
“This is a solvable problem because you are losing product that you could sell,” said Steven Hamburg, the EDF’s chief scientist and a co-author of the study. “But the entire industry has to take action to stop the problem,” he added. |
Once leaks are detected, stopping them becomes a matter of routine maintenance that cuts down on well breakdowns, which are more expensive to fix, he said. |
The study, integrating five years of research by scientists from 15 universities and institutions, including Stanford, Harvard and Purdue, was the most comprehensive look ever at fugitive methane emissions from U.S. energy development, EDF said. The research, which featured measurements from more than 400 well pads and... |
While President Donald Trump’s administration has been trying to roll back methane rules on energy operations set under former President Barack Obama, the EPA’s underestimation had nothing to do with politics, said Hamburg. |
Still, federal regulations are needed to address the emissions, because voluntary actions by companies are not enough, he said. “The data is saying the problem is worse than we thought, the need for regulation is thus that much greater,” Hamburg said. |
The EPA likely underestimates the emissions because it seeks permission from oil and gas operators to take measurements and workers may avoid errors or fix problems when measurement teams arrive, the study said. |
The study relied on both top-down measurements, such as aircraft observations, and bottom-down measurements made directly at, or downwind of energy facilities. |
An EPA spokeswoman said the agency will review the study. |
Seth Whitehead, a spokesman for the drilling industry group Energy in Depth, called EDF’s emissions estimate “exaggerated” because it relied on previous studies that did not involve industry consultation. |
Most of the emissions come from malfunctioning well pads that are not fixed because the leaks are not detected, the study said. Leaks can be found at both young and mature wells and at fracking and conventional wells. The malfunctioning wells were “largely absent from EPA’s inventory,” Hamburg said. |
The study did not consider leaks from local distribution and power plants that burn natural gas or chemical plants that use it to make products. But scientists say those leaks are significant. |
NEW YORK — With one All-Star out injured and another banished to the locker room, the Detroit Pistons pulled it together to preserve their slim playoff hopes for at least another day. |
Reggie Jackson scored 29 points, Stanley Johnson had 17 and the Pistons beat the Brooklyn Nets 108-96 on Sunday night. |
Detroit, playing its third straight game without injured forward Blake Griffin, avoided elimination from post-season contention for at least one game. Griffin, acquired Jan. 30 from the Los Angeles Clippers, suffered a bone bruise in his right ankle during last Monday’s win over the Lakers. |
Ish Smith had 17 points, all in the first half, and Andre Drummond added 13 points and 14 rebounds for the Pistons before being ejected in the third quarter. Detroit has won five straight for the third time this season. |
The Pistons are four games behind Miami — which holds the eighth and last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference — with five games remaining for each team. The Pistons have not made the post-season since 2016, when they got swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round. |
Brooklyn was led by reserve Joe Harris and Jarrett Allen, who each had 15 points. |
Detroit started off the second half with a 14-point advantage and saw it increase to 20 on Drummond’s alley-oop dunk with 3:56 left in the third quarter. |
The Pistons then missed six straight shots as the Nets took off on a 12-0 run that bridged the end of the third quarter — which included a minor shoving match between Drummond and Brooklyn forward Quincy Acy in which both got ejected with 18.6 seconds left– and the opening minutes of the fourth. |
Drummond exited the visitor’s locker room before the media was allowed in, but Acy wasn’t too pleased with the All-Star centre’s antics after both players battled for a loose ball after a missed attempt by Smith. |
Drummond swung his right elbow as both players got tangled up. Acy stepped toward him, and Drummond shoved the reserve forward back with his left arm. Referee David Guthrie stepped in to intervene but was pushed away by a furious Acy. |
After DeMarre Carroll capped the run with 3-pointer to make it 83-75 with 10:45 to go in the final period, Luke Kennard ended a streak of seven straight misses for the Pistons to make it 85-75. Jackson then made a pair of baskets that extended Detroit’s lead 89-78. |
The Nets managed to make a seven-point game on Caris LeVert’s 3-pointer with 3:56 left in regulation, but Pistons used an 8-2 spurt highlighted by Anthony Tolliver’s 3-point shot from the wing to increase the lead 101-89 and put the game out of reach. |
The Pistons went 2-0 to conclude their brief weekend visit to the Big Apple. Detroit held on for a 115-109 victory over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. The Pistons also beat Brooklyn earlier this season at Barclays Center. |
Pistons: Tolliver had 10 points and 12 rebounds. . Reserve forward Eric Moreland played almost the entire fourth quarter with Drummond out of the game and picked up 6 of his 10 rebounds during that stretch along with two blocked shots. |
Nets: The fell to 13-25 at Barclays Center this season and just have one more game at home, April 9 against Chicago. Brooklyn went 13-28 at home last season and 14-27 during the 2015-16 season after making the playoffs during their first three years at Barclays Center after moving from New Jersey. |
Pistons: Host Philadelphia on Wednesday. |
Nets: Visit Philadelphia on Tuesday night to tip-off a three-game road trip. |
UK and US regulators have agreed a new bilateral deal which provides for current safety regulation between the two countries to be kept in place in the event of a no-deal Brexit. |
The UK Civil Aviation Authority says the agreement – signed with the UK Department for Transportation and the US Federal Aviation Administration – is intended to ensure that co-operation between the two countries will "remain the same", even if a no-deal Brexit means that the UK is no longer able to remain a member of ... |
There would be "no change" to maintenance oversight, with the UK and USA committed to mutual recognition of approvals, says the CAA. |
Products, parts and appliances manufactured by UK and US companies will continue to be accepted in both countries. The CAA will permit the operation by UK companies of aircraft designed in the USA and previously validated by EASA. |
Design-validation processes will be "similar" to those implemented under the EU-US bilateral air services agreement, says the UK regulator. The exception is that an application will need to be made to the CAA for FAA validation of designs produced in the UK. |
The CAA says the new agreement – which is part of its no-deal contingency planning – gives assurances to airlines and aerospace companies in both countries that transatlantic trade would in a no-deal scenario continue "with minimal change" to the current oversight regime. |
Similar bilateral safety arrangements with aviation authorities in Canada and Brazil are being finalised, it adds. |
In July Rick Sanchez and CNN had a very tough month compared to July 2009. Rick’s List was down over 50% with the advertising-centric 25-54 demographic where Situation Room averaged 276,000 viewers last July and Rick’s List averaged 134,000 this July. |
Rick’s List was down nearly 50% with overall viewers, too. In July 2009, Situation Room averaged 1.083 million from 4p-5p. This July Rick’s List averaged 555,000. |
Note: CNN’s ratings were still riding highs last July due to coverage of the death of Michael Jackson. |
Ljubljana, 14 January - President Borut Pahor will pay an official visit to Serbia at the end of the month to meet Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vučić. He will be accompanied by business executives striving to promote cooperation in digitalisation, management and administration, circular economy and tourism, the Chamb... |
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Talking to a friend a couple of days ago about a friend of his who collapsed with a heart attack whilst out running in Norwich got me thinking about the subject again. |
I’ve had four other friends suffer similar experiences during the last seven months and thankfully all of them have recovered or are on the road to recovery. |
I’ve touched on this subject before but it’s one of the utmost importance. Don’t get me wrong, for as long as I have been running, incidents have occurred whereby some of them have turned out to be tragic with a loss of life. |
With more people running now than ever, then the likelihood is that more such occurrences will happen. However, I am always keen to get people running, telling them that if they can put one leg in front of the other and are medically fit, then the only person stopping them is themselves. |
I think it is great watching people of all ages, shapes or sizes out there having a go and I am sure they all get a buzz from doing something which is designed to keep them fit and healthy. |
I cannot imagine for one moment that anyone who takes up running think anything other than that too. Nevertheless, does it come down to some of us pushing ourselves far too hard at times when perhaps we shouldn’t? Or are some people just destined for something to happen to them which unfortunately occurs during the cou... |
I organise two or three run groups each week at a park near to my home which the group have named the Field of Pain. |
Whilst this is all tongue in cheek and everyone laughs about how hard some of my sessions are (ask Mark Armstrong), the truth is that the standards within these groups are anything from those who might take over 12 minutes to run a mile to those who run very fast 10ks and marathons at five and six-minute mile pace. |
More recently I have become even more aware of the need to be very mindful of not just how hard I push the runners in my group, but how hard they push themselves. |
In other words we all assume that when we are running well, we are indeed medically fit and almost indestructible at times. |
At the local running clubs they have coaches who are there to guide their members of all standards with thorough care and attention which of course is a must. |
Unfortunately though and despite all the information online or in magazines, there are still a lot of people out there who don’t have any guidance or indeed are confused and just think that all they have to do is go buy a “proper pair of running shoes” and take off without the fear of getting hurt. |
At Sportlink we see people on a daily basis who are all relatively new to running, coming in to ask us questions why they have still got hurt albeit just a minor niggle or indeed a favourite subject of mine, to talk about blisters despite having purchased a good quality pair of running shoes. |
Whilst these types of issues are far less extreme, it does also confirm that a lot of people are still somewhat unaware as to how much stress they are applying to their body when first taking up this form of exercise and that even the very best running shoes do not come with a guarantee which says you will not get inju... |
On a more serious note, as running does put a lot of stress on the body, be it through the impact and vibrations that run through the body upon each foot strike or through all the other stresses that are placed upon our very complicated, but extremely sophisticated bodies, it is the responsibility of those like myself ... |
At Sportlink all the staff do their very best to advise and even educate people about all aspects of running, but at the same time perhaps the best advice to those who may be unsure as to where they are at before starting out, is to go get the good old fashioned check from their GP. |
On the whole, running has so many great benefits to mind and body hence why so many people are addicted to it and why I will always endorse it. However, and whilst always wanting to learn more, I decided to go and speak to Chas Allen at Walk to Run where he is the Director of Performance. |
To say he thinks and cares very deeply about this subject is an understatement. His knowledge is indeed very complex for which my column next week will be dedicated to his very constructive views on running and exercise. |
Congressman Ted Lieu, D-California, hosted a telephone town hall Monday night to address the current direction of the nation after a series of actions by President Donald Trump. Lieu, who represents California’s 33rd Congressional District, which includes Westwood, answered questions from his constituents, covering top... |
Lieu said he thinks a republic cannot tolerate a president who lies pathologically, claiming such circumstances are dangerous and can lead to authoritarian regimes. He also urged residents to write letters to editors of publications to help publicize their dissent with Trump’s recent actions. |
Lieu clarified that the recent travel ban affecting refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries will not apply to green card holders. He added he and his team are focusing on stopping the executive order in its entirety. Lieu also said he thinks refugees fleeing from terrorist organizations abroad are not ... |
Lieu told constituents he thinks the Constitution’s system of checks and balances will provide roadblocks to further oppressive action by Trump. He cited recent judicial overrides of Trump’s travel ban as evidence of the judicial branch’s push back against the president. |
Lieu said he, like many of his constituents, struggles to explain Trump’s presidency to his children. He said he thinks Trump is especially dangerous since he makes the public believe fake news is everywhere and causes them to doubt reality. He urged listeners to tell their children reputable news sources such as the L... |
Contributing reports from Alyssa Hsu, Daily Bruin contributor. |
- In a recipe for fresh green bean salad that appeared in the July 23 Du Page editions of the Food Guide, the ingredients list did not specify ''1 tablespoon red wine vinegar,'' a necessary component of the dressing. The full recipe will appear in next Thursday`s Du Page Food Guide. |
- An article in the July 23 Food Guide listed an incorrect number for obtaining information about canning and freezing from Kerr Consumer Products. The correct number, for use between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, is 312-226-1700. |
- In Friday`s Tempo, the name of actress Veronica Hamel is misspelled in a story on Chicago actress Peggy Roeder. |
Is 'The Green Hornet' Movie On Life Support? |
On a basic level, I'd love to see a modern day movie adaptation of the 1960s TV series The Green Hornet. As it happens, this very project has been slowly creeping forward for about a year and a half. For the longest time, the only solid news regarding the film was the fact that Seth Rogen would be involved with the fil... |
Nothing like having a clear vision for your film right from the start. |
Evan Goldberg - Writer of Knocked Up, Superbad and Pineapple Express. |
Seth Rogen - Writer of Knocked Up, Superbad, Drillbit Taylor and Pineapple Express. |
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