Although nearly a dozen named storms have appeared in the eastern Pacific this season, the Atlantic basin has been much calmer. This has only seen three named storms so far, none in August. This calm is a historical exception that has not happened 25 years ago. But it is too early to declare the situation as a record. Currently, NOAA is monitoring an area of low pressure likely to materialize into a specific storm by the end of the week. This has a 50% chance of forming before the end of the month. Tropical activity in September However, September may…
Author: Cole Hanson
A nursing home in Japan is “hiring” children to do an essential job: keeping the elderly residents company and making them smile. Salary? Diapers and powdered milk. New recruits at the Kitakyushu (southwest) facility must be less than four years old and their parents or guardians must sign a contract stating that infants and young children can come to work “only when they want to.” They are allowed to take a rest “when they are hungry, sleepy, or according to their mood,” the contract states. Kimi Jundo, who runs the nursing home, said more than 30 children have registered so…
(Longueuil) Big disappointment, Monday morning, at Canadian Space Agency headquarters, in Longueuil, when NASA announced the cancellation of the launch of its new Artémis lunar rocket. Updated yesterday at 9:01 am. Pierre Saint Arnaud News agency USAID engineers found that one of the temperature sensors for one of the four engines presented a value that did not match the expected standard. “Just before liftoff, we wanted to clear all the fuel lines and the engineers didn’t like what they were seeing in terms of telemetry and temperature, so out of caution they decided to go take a closer look,” said…
A senior Pentagon official said Monday that the Russian military is struggling to recruit in the midst of the conflict with Ukraine, searching for volunteers even in prisons, to the point that new recruits are often “old, in poor condition and poorly trained.” • Read also: Ukraine counterattack in the south, IAEA mission to Zaporizhia • Read also: A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency is on its way to the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant Russian President Vladimir Putin last week ordered an increase in the strength of the Russian army by 10%, or about 137,000 troops, by January…
(Longueuil) Big disappointment, Monday morning, at Canadian Space Agency headquarters, in Longueuil, when NASA announced the cancellation of the launch of its new Artémis lunar rocket. Posted at 6:35 a.m. Updated at 9:01 am. Pierre Saint Arnaud News agency USAID engineers found that one of the temperature sensors for one of the four engines presented a value that did not match the expected standard. “Just before liftoff, we wanted to clear all the fuel lines and the engineers didn’t like what they were seeing in terms of telemetry and temperature, so out of caution they decided to go take a…
NASA’s latest rocket, the most powerful in the world, was scheduled to blast off for the first time Monday from Florida to the moon, but the operations to fill the rocket with its fuel gave the space agency’s teams a rough time, a few hours. before launch. The tanks started filling up with a delay of about an hour, due to the high risk of lightning strikes in the middle of the night. Operations were to last several hours, until the rocket was filled with more than three million liters of hydrogen and super-cold liquid oxygen. But around 3:00 a.m.…
(Washington) “Keep on dancing”: Former US Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton endorsed Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Sunday, whose supposed taste of partying earned her controversy around the world. Updated yesterday at 7:34 PM. In a tweet posted on her official account, Hillary Clinton posted a photo of herself dancing with her arm raised, taken in April 2012 at Café Havana, in Cartagena, Colombia. “I’m here in Cartagena when I was there for a meeting as Secretary of State,” Hillary Clinton wrote, adding, “Keep dancing, @marinsanna.” Sanna Marin reacted quickly, tweeting “Thank you, Hillary Clinton.”…
Two 100-meter-high apartment buildings were demolished on the outskirts of New Delhi on Sunday, in an event broadcast live on TV channels. The destruction of these two 100-meter-high “twin towers” in Noida, where there is a forest of similar concrete structures, is a rare example of the authorities’ hard-line attitude towards developers and corrupt officials. The 32 floors of Apex and 29 of Siani, which together house nearly a thousand apartments that had never been inhabited during nine years of legal wrangling, collapsed in a matter of seconds amid a huge cloud of dust. Local media reported that the towers…
The Ukrainian public operating company on Saturday warned of the danger of “radioactive material scattering” at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, which is occupied by Russian forces. According to Energoatom, Russian forces have bombed the site “repeatedly over the past day”. “As a result of the periodic bombing, the plant’s infrastructure has been damaged and there are risks of hydrogen leakage and radioactive material spraying,” the Ukrainian nuclear power company said on Telegram, adding that there was a “high risk of fire.” According to the operator, since Saturday noon (0900 GMT), the plant is “operating with the risk…
Security camera footage released this week shows the moment a 6-year-old girl escapes from her attacker while trying to kidnap her outside her home in Ohio, US, according to New York Post. Rescue cry: A home security camera captured the alleged attempted kidnapping of a six-year-old girl from outside her home in Hamilton, Ohio, on August 3. 23.Derek McPherson was arrested early on August 24 and charged with kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault. pic.twitter.com/Al7o4iHKrv- Newsmax (newsmax) August 27 2022 The little girl was taking out the trash when Derek McPherson, 33, grabbed her by the arm. Fortunately, she was able…
