Gov. Tim Walz:

Sure, nicely, we hold speaking about these elementary freedoms.

Look, these guys aren’t going to do something about that. They did not when Donald Trump was in. We have been stacking our bodies in U-Hauls as a result of he would not observe science on COVID. The remainder of the world is experiencing far increased impacts. We’re seeing these numbers come down. We’re seeing housing costs begin to stabilize.

We’re seeing actual wages stand up. And we’re ensuring that we’re not going to remove your well being care. We’re not going to remove your private freedoms. We’re not going to inform you what books to learn. We’ll proceed to focus and put the nation ahead.

So I believe, after we begin speaking about our insurance policies, and between now and November, I count on to see these historic job numbers proceed to go in the suitable path and we’ll see costs stabilize, as they’ve been. And Donald Trump’s proposals of isolating America, turning in direction of Russia, and ruining our insurance policies of unity with NATO and others, these are usually not going to be interesting.

Look, he is in an issue now’s, he is acquired a campaigner on the market in opposition to him that’s placing a constructive imaginative and prescient of America ahead. And his negativity, you’ll be able to really feel it. In the event that they assume it is a sugar excessive or a bump, go forward and assume that.

However I am telling you, I’ve executed this lengthy sufficient and I get a really feel for issues on right here. Donald Trump continues to say he will win these locations. We do not take something without any consideration, however we’re on the bottom working. We’re energizing individuals.

And I’ll inform you, concern is perhaps a great short-term motivator, but it surely wears individuals out. Hope and optimism drive individuals to one thing higher. So we’ll be there. I like our probabilities. One factor is, I like the concept of American politics being extra unifying, extra first rate, much less name-calling, much less unfavorable.

And so Vice President Harris on her transfer to President Harris goes to carry us alongside together with her.

MINNEAPOLIS — Since President Biden ended his reelection bid Sunday, Vice President Harris has already damaged a fundraising file, locked down a whole lot of delegates and secured vital endorsements in her efforts to turn into the Democratic Occasion’s nominee for president. A kind of key endorsements consists of Minnesota’s governor.

Gov. Tim Walz, who’s chair of the Democratic Nationwide Conference guidelines committee, advised WCCO’s Esme Murphy on Monday night time that the nomination course of will likely be open to different candidates.

“Anyone can run,” Walz stated of the nomination course of. “This Wednesday we’ll set the foundations. There will likely be three days after that, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. Anybody who needs to can get 300 delegates. If you may get 300 delegates in your facet, your title will likely be put into nomination.”

Walz says, at that time, these being thought of for nomination will then have three days to make their case to delegates. On Aug. 1, the voting will start and whoever will get probably the most votes and reaches the edge quantity turns into the get together’s nominee.

Based on Walz, nobody outdoors of Harris has but to place their hat into the ring.

“Everyone seems to be welcome,” he stated.

Walz, whom at the least one different Minnesota Democrat has floated as a potential vice presidential candidate, was requested if he’s being thought of for the function.  

“I have no idea that,” he stated. “I spoke to the vice chairman on Sunday, shortly after the announcement by President Biden, and he or she simply made it clear that she needs to earn the endorsement.”

Walz is amongst different Democrats being floated as potential choices, together with Gov. Josh Shapiro of swing state Pennslyvania and Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, which has been a reliably Republican state in presidential elections.

However does the two-term governor, who has seen progressive wins with Democrats in charge of the state legislature, wish to be vice chairman?

“I do not assume you flip down a job that you have not been supplied, however I’ve one of the best job on the earth in being the governor of Minnesota,” Walz stated.

He says Harris’s record-breaking fundraising on Monday is proof of small donors’ and voters’ enthusiasm for the brand new possible Democratic nominee.  

Walz spoke with the media on Tuesday morning at an occasion saying a $200 million grant from the Environmental Safety Company to assist cut back the carbon footprint of the state’s meals system. When requested by reporters if he was being vetted as a doable vice presidential nominee, he reiterated that he had spoken with Harris and advised her that he would “be there to do something [he] can do to assist,” however did not go into any additional particulars.

“I am not going to speak concerning the specifics that had been in on that, and at this time limit we’re simply going to go away it at that,” he stated.

However when a reporter famous that his title was being floated as a contender, Walz laughed and stated “I’ve seen it on the market and it is a bit bizarre!”

He famous that Harris was a “nice candidate,” and that he feels a “burst of vitality” within the marketing campaign.

“There’s plenty of pleasure. I believe issues have modified when Donald Trump was tweeting at me at present, in order that tells me possibly we have modified the dialogue in America.”

Trump did point out the governor on his Reality Social account on Tuesday, criticizing Fox Information for having Walz on certainly one of their applications.

Walz has been showing on nationwide cable information this cycle as a marketing campaign messenger for the one-time Biden marketing campaign, and now the Harris marketing campaign.

Wastewater testing is detecting “very excessive” ranges of COVID-19 in California and different western states, in keeping with a U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention dashboard.

As of July 18, the dashboard additionally exhibits very excessive ranges for Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Florida, North Carolina, West Virginia, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, Alaska and Hawaii.

(Video above: Pharmacists see enhance in sufferers as COVID-19 circumstances rise in California.)

The federal authorities not tracks COVID-19 ranges however as an alternative screens wastewater ranges as “an early warning that ranges of infections could also be growing or reducing,” in keeping with the CDC.

For the week ending on July 13, ranges throughout the west have been decrease than they have been final winter however larger than they have been in July 2023.

NBC Information reported that summer season journey and folks staying indoors to flee the warmth might be resulting in extra infections.

In the meantime, the newest info from the CDC exhibits the KP.3 variant because the dominant pressure within the west and the nation general.

KP.3 is reported to be an analogous variant to the “FLiRT” variants KP. 1.1 and KP.2, which all descend from the dominant winter variant, JN.1. All are within the Omicron household, in keeping with Prevention.com. Signs are mentioned to be much like these of previous COVID-19 strains.

“We’re seeing lots of people coming in each for remedy and for vaccination and for testing,” Clint Hopkins, CEO of Pucci’s Pharmacy in East Sacramento, advised KCRA 3 final week.

Hopkins mentioned he is heard individuals are extra sick with this new pressure of COVID than they have been previously.

Dr. Vanessa Walker, the chief medical government for Sutter Roseville Medical Middle, known as the virus a “grasp masquerader.”

“It simply continues to seek out new methods to develop, new methods to evade the immune system,” she mentioned. “And in order these new variants come out, they’re simply barely completely different than earlier strains. It is tougher for our physique to struggle them.”

On Tuesday, Fresno County’s Division of Public Well being cited “excessive” and growing ranges of COVID-19 in wastewater within the San Joaquin Valley.

“Older adults and people with weakened immune methods are at best danger for hospitalization and dying from COVID-19, and are strongly inspired to get vaccinated,” the county mentioned. “COVID-19 vaccines stay one of the crucial efficient instruments to scale back the unfold of COVID-19 and stop extreme sickness.”

Sacramento County officers directed KCRA 3 to a different dashboard that confirmed “medium” ranges of COVID-19 in wastewater for the world. The identical dashboard confirmed excessive ranges in Turlock and throughout the Bay Space.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported earlier this month that emergency rooms visits have been rising in California however not at ranges seen in previous years.

–KCRA 3’s Andres Valle contributed to this story.

Over two months after Pink Lobster filed for chapter, the seafood restaurant chain might quickly have a brand new proprietor, in response to USA At the moment.

RL Purchaser, a stalking horse bidder — a agency that places the primary bid on a bankrupt firm’s belongings to determine a low-end bid — is ready to take over the chain, USA At the moment experiences.

Court docket paperwork filed within the Center District of Florida in Orlando on Monday point out the change of possession. RL Purchaser consists of Pink Lobster’s lenders, and it reportedly acquired the chain’s remaining belongings for a bid of $376 million.

Pink Lobster filed for Chapter 11 chapter again in Could, resulting in restaurant closures throughout Central Florida. The chapter was largely sparked by unstable management, an Final Countless Shrimp deal, and an enormous drop in clients lately.

Funding agency Fortress Credit score Company is accountable for controlling RL Purchaser, although Pink Lobster wouldn’t be the primary of Fortress’ acquisitions. Different bankrupt corporations, equivalent to Vice Media and Alamo Drafthouse, had been additionally acquired by Fortress (although Alamo Drafthouse was later bought to Sony).

The acquisition (which RL Purchaser gained by default) might give Pink Lobster the flexibility to reorganize and amend a few of its operational issues, although no info has been offered right now about whether or not CEO Jonathan Tibus will stay in his position.

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PARIS — Charlotte Dujardin, certainly one of Nice Britain’s most adorned feminine Olympians, has pulled out of the Paris Video games after a video surfaced displaying her “making an error of judgement.”

The six-time Olympic dressage medalist mentioned in an announcement posted to Instagram that the Worldwide Federation for Equestrian Sports activities (FEI) is investigating the matter and that she would “withdraw from all competitors whereas this course of takes place.”

“A video has emerged from 4 years in the past which reveals me making an error of judgement throughout a training session,” she mentioned. “What occurred was utterly out of character and doesn’t mirror how I practice my horses or coach my pupils, nevertheless there isn’t a excuse. I’m deeply ashamed and may have set a greater instance in that second.”

The FEI, which confirmed the investigation, mentioned it suspended Dujardin from competitors after receiving a video two days prior showing to point out the equestrian “participating in conduct opposite to the rules of horse welfare.”

The video was despatched to the FEI by a lawyer representing an undisclosed complainant, the regulatory physique mentioned in an announcement. “In response to the knowledge obtained, the footage was allegedly taken a number of years in the past throughout a coaching session performed by Ms. Dujardin at a personal steady. ”

It isn’t the primary time an alleged violation of a horse’s welfare has compelled an equestrian from Olympic competitors. In 2021, a German coach was booted from the Tokyo Video games as a result of she hit a horse.

Dujardin was barred from her occasion lower than per week earlier than she was as a consequence of compete. She is one medal shy of turning into Britain’s most adorned feminine Olympian and Paris — what would’ve been her fourth Olympics — provided her an opportunity to seize that document.

July 23, 2024

By Matt Palmer

When actor and comic Bob Newhart died on July 18 on the age of 94, many in The Catholic College of America neighborhood fondly recalled that he delivered the deal with on the one centesimal graduation ceremony on Could 17, 1997. Newhart additionally acquired an honorary doctorate in humane letters from the College and was a proud mum or dad of a Cardinal: his son, Timothy, graduated from the College in 1989 with a bachelor’s diploma in English. 

The Grammy and Golden Globe winner began his profession as an accountant however rose to fame together with his seminal standup comedy albums. The lifelong Catholic later turned a family identify together with his sitcoms, “The Bob Newhart Present” and “Newhart.” The comedy legend gained his first and solely Emmy for his visitor appearances on a extra present present, “The Large Bang Idea.”

“I actually don’t delude myself that there aren’t actually extra essential issues to do in life than make folks giggle, however I can’t think about something that may carry me extra pleasure,” Newhart advised the graduates, households, college, and employees gathered. 

Addressing the category of 1997, Newhart provided an unconventional tackle how humor can form and save lives. All through the speech, Newhart’s trademark dry and uproarious perception into religion and life was current.

“I’ve discovered that one different factor that humor does is it makes us free,” Newhart mentioned. “That will appear to be an odd conclusion, however so long as the tyrant can’t management the minds of free males,  they continue to be free. Humor abounded behind the Iron Curtain and in POW camps.”  

Learn extra of Newhart’s speech, “Humor Makes Us Free, Laughter Offers Us Distance”  beneath.

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Thanks very a lot.  

Viewers:  “Hello, Bob.”  

“Hello, Bob,” I do know.  

I’ll go down in historical past for that.  With all I’ve  achieved, I’ll go down  in historical past for  “Hello, Bob.”

I’m honored and moved to be requested to be the 1997 graduation speaker. These might seem like tears however they’re truly allergic reactions.  My son graduated from right here in 1989 with a level in English literature,  specializing within the poetry of Yeats.  As you all know, once you decide up the categorized pages, you simply see web page after web page for jobs for Yeats students. 

After I was requested to be the graduation speaker  I used to be reminded a couple of story about Jascha  Heifetz,  the famed violinist, and he was requested to play in Grange Corridor in Minot, North Dakota and he agreed to do it someday in December. As December got here across the  climate  turned  horrible  in New  York and he known as  up  and mentioned,  “I am sorry, I  gained’t  be  in a position  to  make  it.” The  man  who organized for him to seem there mentioned, “We now have 3,000 folks in Grange  Corridor right here  in Minot,  might you attempt to?”  And  he  mentioned,  “I’ll.”  So  he lastly  acquired  out  of  New  York and flew  to Denver, caught  a  small  aircraft,  and  lastly  acquired  into  Minot  at  about  11 o’clock  at evening and walked into Grange Corridor and there have been 12 folks within the Grange Corridor. 

He mentioned,  “I am sorry  I can not seem in entrance of such a small viewers. You  mentioned  there  have been  3,000  folks  right here.” And he mentioned, “Effectively there  have been, however they have been afraid you would not  present up.” 

He  mentioned, “I’ve by no means  appeared  in  entrance  of  such  a  small viewers.” And the person who had organized  for him to be there mentioned,  “Jascha if  you  might  simply  sing  one  or  two  songs,  that could be … ” 

So I considerably really feel like that, I am very honored.  I am undecided you have got the suitable man,  however I’m very honored. I’m Irish Catholic, 3/4 Irish,  1/4. German, and I am fairly certain the humor comes from the Irish aspect because the Germans have by no means been referred to as one of many nice enjoyable races of all time. The issue with Germans,

Germans are very Iiteral and American humor, we fairly often are very perverse in our humor and we are going to say the direct reverse of what we imply.  A German vacationer might cease and say, “I don’t  imply to trouble  you however your buddy Curly over there has no hair in any respect on his head, and Tiny is over 350 kilos.” 

I used to be raised Catholic and a variety of my associates are Jewish, others are Protestant. All religions are saying one factor, and that’s “be good to one another.”  

Within the  Catholic faith, as you understand, we now have a confession. And non-Catholics actually don’t perceive how we go into this little darkish room and say the horrible issues we’ve performed through the week. However if you’re raised Catholic there are particular methods you study: you sit within the final pew and also you watch the 2 strains transfer and whichever line strikes the quickest that is the one you get into. 

We have all performed that. 

Rising up in  Chicago, the perfect time to go to confession was through the  Notre Dame-SMU recreation. You would  inform  that priest  something:  “I  simply  killed  my  household.” “Effectively, don’t do it once more,  my son,”  and you can hear the sport on within the background. 

The toughest half I discovered in being Catholic was once you needed to study the commandments to your first confession. The primary one was “Thou shalt not  worship false idols.”  

I grew up in Chicago, as I mentioned, and I do not learn about D.C., however you can drive round Chicago for 10-12 miles and by no means even see a false idol. Even in case you do, the very last thing you will do is cease your automobile and worship it. 

Possibly flip to your spouse and say: “Lock your door, honey, I’m fairly  certain that is  a …yeah, tha’’s  a false idol over there.” 

The  different  one which  threw  me  was “Thou shalt not covet  thy neighbor’s  spouse.”  Now, I used to be 7 and I at all times thought the priest was saying thou  shalt not “cowl” thy neighbor’s spouse, and I did not need to try this anyway. However apparently, it is solely a sin in case you cowl thy neighbor’s spouse. 

You may cowl all the opposite wives within the neighborhood and also you’re residence free, however the minute you cowl thy neighbor’s spouse you’d higher get to confession.

 In preparation for as we speak, I learn a lot of different graduation addresses. There appears to be an compulsory reference to Aldous  Huxley’s Courageous New World.  And likewise to present the notion that you’re clever,  you do not truly need to BE clever, however simply create the notion. This could normally be achieved by a reference to Katka even if in case you have by no means learn any of his … or her, works. 

A recurrent theme operating all through graduation addresses is that what the speaker does for a residing is worth it. 

So I’ll now try and justify what I do for a residing. I  was amazed once I reread among the books I had beforehand learn on humor and laughter by the breadth of people that have written on the topic,  beginning with  Aristotle,  Plato,  Hobbes, Freud (who devoted a whole treatise on it), Kant, Schopenhauer, Spenser, and Arthur Roestler, who devoted the primary 90 pages of his ebook  The  Act of  Creation to humor and its place within the artistic course of. 

I’ve discovered that one different factor that humor does is it makes us free. That will appear to be an odd conclusion, however so long as the tyrant can’t management the minds of free males, they continue to be free. Humor abounded behind the Iron Curtain and in POW camps. 

Humor can also be our approach of coping with the inexplicable. We had an earthquake a few years in the past in Los Angeles, and it wasn’t greater than three or 4 days later that I heard the primary earthquake joke. 

Somebody  mentioned, “The  site visitors  is  stopped, however  the freeways  are transferring.” Laughter offers us distance. It permits us to step again from an occasion over which we now have no management and cope with it after which transfer on with our lives. It helps distinguish us from animals. 

It doesn’t matter what hyenas sound like, they aren’t truly laughing. It additionally helps outline our sanity. The schizophrenic has no humorousness. His world is a always daunting,  unfriendly place. The nationwide man is ready to discover humor in his. 

Erasmus wrote in Reward of Folly, “No society, no union in life may very well be both nice or lasting with out me,” after all, that means folly. 

Folks with a humorousness are usually much less selfish and extra life like of their view of the world and extra humble in moments of success and fewer defeated in occasions of travail. 

I actually do not delude myself that there aren’t actually extra essential issues to do in life than make folks giggle, however I can’t think about something that may carry me extra pleasure. 

Now I want to congratulate the category of 1997. Congratulations! 

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U.S. Sen. Mike Lee was fast to supply his condolences to the household of Jimmy Carter on the passing of the previous president on Tuesday.

Too fast, it seems. Carter, 99, isn’t lifeless.

Lee fell for a hoax information launch posted to X from the “Workplace of Jimmy Carter.”

The pretend announcement contained some express language when referring to Carter’s late spouse, Roslyn. It included a fabricated quote from the previous president supposedly calling her a “baddie” and the “unique Brat” — slang phrases for a lady who will get her method — and evaluating her sexual talents to these of the late first woman Nancy Reagan.

The senior senator from Utah seems to haven’t learn that a part of the assertion when he posted on X from his private @BasedMikeLee account that, “Former President Jimmy Carter has died. My ideas and prayers are together with his household.”

Lee deleted the publish a short while later. His workplace didn’t reply when requested in regards to the senator’s goof.

The hoax launch concluded with a bogus assertion from Carter’s son, Chip, saying that the previous president will likely be missed “not solely by his household however by the American folks and our enemies all over the world who thrive immediately due to his peace-through-weakness agenda.”

The Carter Middle confirmed to tv station Atlanta Information First that the previous president is, actually, alive. He’s in hospice care in Georgia and can flip 100 on Oct. 1.

A hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone Nationwide Park broken a boardwalk and despatched particles a number of tales into the air Tuesday morning within the Biscuit Basin space northwest of Previous Devoted, based on the scientist-in-charge on the U.S. Geological Survey’s Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

The explosion, which Scientist-in-Cost Michael Poland stated was a “small” one, occurred round 10 a.m. Tuesday about 2.1 miles northwest of Previous Devoted, doubtless within the Black Diamond Pool in Biscuit Basin, Poland stated.

Poland stated in an info assertion early Tuesday afternoon there had thus far been no accidents reported within the explosion.

Movies posted on-line by individuals who witnessed the explosion confirmed a number of individuals on the boardwalk near the place the explosion occurred, and movies of the aftermath present particles throughout the realm and a broken boardwalk.

Biscuit Basin’s parking zone and boardwalks are briefly closed for security; Yellowstone Nationwide Park geologists are investigating the explosion however say information exhibits no out-of-the-ordinary volcanic exercise.

“Monitoring information present no adjustments within the Yellowstone area. At present’s explosion doesn’t mirror exercise throughout the volcanic system, which stays at regular background ranges of exercise,” Poland stated in an announcement. “Hydrothermal explosions like that of right now aren’t an indication of impending volcanic eruptions, and they aren’t brought on by magma rising in the direction of the floor.”

He stated most of these explosions occur when water shortly adjustments to steam underground and they’re “comparatively widespread” in Yellowstone Nationwide Park.

There was an identical explosion in Biscuit Bay in Could 2009 and a smaller explosion in Norris Geyser Basin on April 15. Porkchop Geyser in Norris Geyser Basin exploded in 1989.

Hydrothermal explosions usually ship boiling water, steam, mud and rock into the air and may attain heights of as much as 1.2 miles, based on the U.S. Geological Survey. It stated in a 2018 report that enormous hydrothermal explosions occur on common each 700 years. At the least 25 craters have been recognized within the park which might be a minimum of 328 ft extensive, based on the report.

“Though giant hydrothermal explosions are uncommon occasions on a human time scale, the potential for extra future occasions of the type in Yellowstone Nationwide Park is just not insignificant,” the report says. “Based mostly on the prevalence of huge hydrothermal explosion occasions over the previous 16,000 years, an explosion giant sufficient to create a 100-meter (328-ft-) extensive crater is likely to be anticipated each few hundred years.

In accordance with the Nationwide Park Service, Black Diamond Pool erupted black, murky water following an earthquake in July 2006 and noticed “a number of explosive eruptions” within the days after, although eruptions have been “rare” since then. Its common temperature is 148.5 levels Fahrenheit.

The general public affairs workplace for Yellowstone Nationwide Park pointed the Every day Montanan to the information launch from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory and stated no additional info was instantly out there early Tuesday afternoon.

The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory stated it might launch extra info because it turns into out there.

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