Japan holds nationwide disaster drills
9/1/2018, 7:16:05 AMAnnual disaster drills were held across Japan on Saturday, with the central government-led exercise based on a scenario that a massive earthquake originating in the Nankai Trough in the Pacific had rocked wide areas in central and western Japan. Local governments also conducted their own drills assuming major quakes and… ✔ In collaboration with the Self-Defense Forces and the Japan Coast Guard, the drill assumed that a magnitude 7.3 quake hit the industrial district facing Tokyo Bay and triggered a fire at a petroleum tank ✔ About 90 people, including employees of hotels and souvenir shops, practiced guiding tourists to a temporary shelter set up on the premises of a temple
P.M. Update: Hefty showers and storms in the immediate area, with another round of showers and storms Saturday
9/1/2018, 3:25:06 AMSome flood warnings are up into the pre-dawn hours. ✔ But with some late-day sun popping back up, and outflow boundaries bouncing around, it’s hard to rule out another storm or two into evening ✔ And if you haven’t already, join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram ✔ Want our 5 a.m. forecast delivered to your email in-box
California approves measure to pass on wildfire costs
9/1/2018, 6:41:52 AMSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature voted Friday to allow power companies to raise electric bills to cover the cost of lawsuits from last year's deadly wildfires ✔ Regulators generally don't let utilities bill their customers for lawsuits linked to imprudent management of electrical equipment, but the legislation would create a special process for the 2017 fires ✔ The measure is scheduled for votes in the Senate and Assembly Friday night, Aug. 31, 2018, following months of contentious negotiations
Terps earn draw with three-time defending national champion Stanford
9/1/2018, 2:00:47 AMMaryland's winless drought reaches eight games bridging the past two seasons after 0-0 affair at College Park. ✔ Maryland’s drought was further illuminated Friday by its home-opening foe, Stanford, the three-time defending champion ✔ But after five losses, they fell to Albany on penalty kicks, marking the third time in four years they’d failed to win an NCAA tournament game ✔ Freshman Giannis Nikopolidis made four saves in recording his second shutout
In California's worst fire season ever, lawmakers ratify new efforts at prevention and assessing who's responsible
9/1/2018, 7:25:08 AMCalifornia's Legislature adjourned for the year just after midnight on Saturday, sending a package of wildfire-inspired bills to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown. The most sweeping effort would revamp the rules that govern liability costs imposed on electric utility companies. ✔ An additional bill could provide financial incentives for landowners to profit from wood products made with small trees removed for fire prevention reasons ✔ That includes, he said, a more focused look at the limitations of existing insurance for both utilities and homeowners
California Passes Bill to Rescue Utility Facing Fire Costs
9/1/2018, 6:40:37 AMCalifornia lawmakers approved legislation to rescue the state’s largest utility by letting it bill ratepayers for some of the billions in liability it faces following 2017’s catastrophic wildfires. ✔ It cleared both houses of the California legislature in the final hours of its regular session Friday night, passing the Assembly on a 45-10 vote, and the Senate on a 29-4 vote ✔ The bill stopped short of proposing a change to a state liability rule that allows compensation for property damage caused by government entities or state actors ✔ If you do something to keep them from that, it’s a step in the right direction
Top bosses ‘don’t trust fire safety’
9/1/2018, 3:00:52 AMMAJOR fire hazards are threatening safety in hospitals, schools and other public buildings, senior managers revealed yesterday. Days before the Grenfell Tower disaster inquiry resumes, a survey of 500 “key decision-makers” for security products company Allegion showed almost half did not trust their properties’ safety procedures and 45 per cent believed difficulties were caused by design faults. ✔ James Keith, of Allegion UK, said: There are legitimate concerns over the safety of both staff and visitors within these buildings ✔ You only have to look to recent events in the news to see there would be potential areas of concern or questions ✔ Judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick resumes his inquiry on Monday following a month-long summer break
Ant and Dec face losing millions after luxury Algarve villa resort goes bust
9/1/2018, 7:03:28 AMThe ITV pair stand to lose £2.5million each after they bought adjoining villas at the upmarket The Keys development in Quinta do Lago ✔ Yesterday, sources said they believed Ant and Dec were at risk of having their dream villas repossessed so the bank which financed the development can recover its losses ✔ The ones Ant and Dec picked were said to include two swimming pools, including a rooftop pool, and a luxury basement level with a cinema, bar, butler’s kitchen and staff quarters
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South Korea's military launches new security command
9/1/2018, 5:44:56 AMundefined ✔ It was also found to have inspected civilians related to the 2014 ferry disaster and carried out secret online operations to back previous conservative governments ✔ The DSSC is composed of around 2,900 personnel, a 30 percent cut from the some 4,200 at the DSC
Pro-junta groups poach opposition politicians before Thai election
9/1/2018, 6:09:16 AMMilitary government hopes to win over rural voters ✔ In late June, Suriya and other leaders of the recruitment campaign invited some 50 former lawmakers to join them at a golf club in a Bangkok suburb where Prayuth plays ✔ But even if the junta succeeds in pulling PTP out of power in the house in the next general election, it will face difficulties in government due to the lack of policy consensus, said a political expert in Thailand
In with the old, in with the new
9/1/2018, 4:20:15 AMTwo first-of-its-kind books representing two prominent publishing trends rubbed shoulders when they were launched at the Beijing International Book Fair, the world's second-largest book fair, that ended on Aug 26. ✔ So efficient was the translator that the Publishing House of the Electronics Industry published the translation simultaneously with the original English version ✔ In fact Ray Kurzwell, an American futurist, has been brave - or foolhardy - enough to put a date on the demise of human translators: 2029
Where are the names of Puerto Rico's dead?
9/1/2018, 4:50:13 AMNearly a year after Hurricane Maria, they're still numbers. ✔ Yet that's just a statistical estimate -- an approximation ✔ But they started from a place of minimizing fatalities ✔ It now stands higher than the toll from Katrina, which was 1,833 ✔ President Trump followed that up on Wednesday by saying that the federal government had done a fantastic job of responding to the disaster in Puerto Rico ✔ CNN's Leyla Santiago and Jason Kravarik contributed to this report
Old-school eulogy at Aretha Franklin funeral ignites wrath
9/1/2018, 1:31:30 AMDETROIT (AP) — A fiery, old-school eulogist at the funeral of Aretha Franklin fell flat for many in the crowd and prompted a social media uproar when he declared "black America ha ✔ DETROIT (AP) A fiery, old-school eulogist at the funeral of Aretha Franklin fell flat for many in the crowd and prompted a social media uproar when he declared black America has lost its soul, black women are incapable of raising sons alone and the Black Lives Matter movement is unfounded in the face of black-on-black crime ✔ 31) As for black women, he preached that as proud, beautiful and fine as our black women are, one thing a black woman cannot do, a black woman cannot raise a black boy to be a man
Clean-up time for toxic vandals
9/1/2018, 5:53:51 AMTougher jail sentences and increased community awareness are needed to combat environmental wreckers. ✔ After the July, 2017 fire at a Coolaroo recycling plant – a fire that raged for 11 days and caused a significant deterioration in air quality in the northern suburbs – a multi-agency taskforce began cataloguing the worst industrial sites across Victoria
Trump Gets Brutally Mocked Over 'Biggest Stadium' Pledge For Ted Cruz
9/1/2018, 7:00:46 AM"So no 'lying Ted' chants this time?" ✔ There’s a few smaller stadiums that seat just over 90,000 like Cotton Bowl in Dallas You should probably look for a big YMCA or rec center! The Judge (@sanepatriot) September 1, 2018 tfw keeping a texas senate seat becomes something you have to work to do https://t.co/bzhtJ6KmsY Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) August 31, 2018 Would this be Lying Ted??
West Footscray fire: 'Chemical cocktail' could flow to bay beaches, EPA warns
9/1/2018, 1:31:40 AMToxic waste from the West Footscray factory fire may flow as far into Port Phillip Bay as Brighton, while Victoria's environment monitor says it could take weeks or months for a popular western suburbs waterway to return to normal following the enormous blaze. ✔ National Victoria Marine life West Footscray fire: 'Chemical cocktail' could flow to bay beaches, EPA warns By Anthony Colangelo1 September 2018 11:19am Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Toxic waste from the West Footscray factory fire could flow as far into Port Phillip Bay as Brighton, while Victoria's environment monitor warns it could take weeks or months for a popular western suburbs waterway to return to normal following the enormous blaze ✔ we would expect to see things ease off and see some improvements over weeks and months
The Saturday Briefing: Knowledge Is Power
9/1/2018, 4:36:13 AMIS THERE anything you are desperately yearning to know? Are there any pressing factual disputes you would like us to help resolve? This is the page where we shall do our best to answer any questions you throw at us, whatever the subject. ✔ On the other hand, there is evidence that the melting of glaciers at the end of the last ice age removed the weight of vast quantities of ice that had been keeping the tectonic plates in place, enabling them to move more freely again, bringing an increase in earthquakes and volcanic activity
President Trump to campaign in Texas for Ted Cruz re-election
9/1/2018, 1:17:25 AMPresident Trump says in a tweet "Ted has my complete and total Endorsement." Here's why his backing of Texas senator Ted Cruz matters. ✔ President Donald Trump speaks to a group of supporters at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana(Photo: Timothy D ✔ Contributing: Will Cummings, USA TODAY, and Madlin Mekelburg, El Paso Times ✔ Ted Cruz rides in his campaign bus following an event Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at the Congressman Solomon P
Democrats Need Strong Candidates For Local Office. Cheri Bustos Is Finding Them.
9/1/2018, 12:31:33 AMThe Illinois congresswoman started a boot camp for training women and people of color to run for office. It's working. ✔ Bill Clark via Getty ImagesYou can't find strong Democratic candidates for local seats ✔ … But when you see this talent oozing out of a person, I always like to ask, have you ever thought about running for office ✔ I just had a column with Bernie in Springfield, a guy who does a column that is the most read thing on Sunday
South Africa farm seizures: Victim of Mugabe’s land grab fears repeat of crisis
9/1/2018, 7:02:23 AMA FORMER farmer whose life was destroyed by Robert Mugabe’s chaotic land seizures in Zimbabwe 16 years ago fears South Africa could be following the same path of violent and economic chaos. ✔ We used to have an efficient telephone and electricity system but with no one to pay for it now, all of that is gone ✔ Any responsible government must realise that this sort of land grab would be a disaster to the economy of the country and would only be done for that government to ingratiate itself with an unemployed, dissatisfied electorate
Trump plans to help one-time rival Cruz in Texas campaign
9/1/2018, 4:57:16 AMAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump says he'll ride to the rescue of one-time bitter rival Sen. Ted Cruz this fall, the strongest indication yet that the Texas conservativ ✔ Trump's announcement followed a series of private discussions between the White House and the Cruz campaign about how the Republican president, who handily won Texas in 2016, could be most helpful, according to Republicans with direct knowledge of the discussions but who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter
World's biggest unfinished plane hidden in a hangar
9/1/2018, 6:08:28 AMThe world's biggest unfinished airplane lies in a hangar outside Kiev, Ukraine, awaiting completion since the collapse of the Soviet Union decades ago. Will this enormous plane ever take off? ✔ The wings that would give it a span of 88.4 meters are unattached, stretching off to one side ✔ The nose gear, a mechanism the size of a house, is also nearby ✔ A similar rendering starred alongside Vin Diesel in Fast and Furious 6 ✔ With performances like that, maybe an encore is overdue
PETER OBORNE: Britain's shame and a genocide that must be avenged
9/1/2018, 1:21:37 AMOn Boris Johnson's watch, Britain failed to prevent Myanmar’s genocide of the Rohingya Muslims. There were many warnings, including from the Daily Mail. British ministers ignored them. ✔ ‘It took less than ten minutes.’ Then they shot dead the old women ✔ International giant Coke is a notorious tax avoider and, in the eyes of many, a far from ethical company ✔ I believe that Business Secretary Greg Clark should intervene to block this appalling deal
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