Tag: Thursday

Buttigieg to visit scene of Ohio crash Thursday

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While in the eastern Ohio community of about 5,000 people, Buttigieg will receive an update from the National Transportation Safety Board — the lead agency investigating the crash — on its probe, which could take as long as 18 months to complete. He is also expected to meet with DOT officials who arrived on the ground within hours of the derailment.
Buttigieg’s visit comes as Republicans such as Florida Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio have sharply criticized his handling of the issue, including his slowness to visit the scene of the derailment.
It is exceedingly rare for a transportation secretary to visit the site of a train derailment, especially one that resulted in no fatalities — even though this crash has resulted in unusually heavy national media attention, partly driven by the televised image of the accident’s toxic black plume and residents’ anger over the safety of their air and water. About 1,000 train derailments occur each year, according to federal data.
“The secretary is going now that the EPA has said it is moving out of the emergency response phase and transitioning to the long-term remediation phase,” the person familiar with Buttigieg’s thinking told POLITICO.
The trip comes the day after former President Donald Trump was expected to meet with locals Wednesday and deliver cleaning supplies and pallets of bottled water.
“The Department of Transportation will continue to do its part by helping get to the bottom of what caused the derailment and implementing rail safety measures, and we hope this sudden bipartisan support for rail safety will result in meaningful changes in Congress,” DOT said in a statement Wednesday.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

February 22, 2023
Tasteless ads, a dirty drink, and messy Olympic designs – take the Thursday quiz
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The Thursday quiz hopes that Valentine’s Day was everything you dreamed it would be, and that today’s quiz will not give you nightmares. You face 15 questions of varying degrees of topicality, difficulty, and sensibility. There are no prizes, it is just for fun. Let us know how you got on in the comments.
The Thursday quiz, No 95
1.PHEW WHAT A GLOBAL HEATING SCORCHER: The residents of the Swiss canton of Valais are finding what invasive species on their ski slopes due to global heating?
2.POOR TASTE: An advert in Cornwall that was placed next to a direction sign for a crematorium has been removed after people thought it might be offensive. What was it for?
3.WHAT SORT OF UNHOLY DESIGN MESS DO YOU CALL THAT: The Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics have unveiled a set of absolutely baffling pictogram designs. When were pictograms first introduced to the Olympics?
4.DKTR FAUSTUS: In 1986 it inspired a song by the Fall, but the play Faust – Der Tragödie erster Teil was published in 1808 and is generally considered as one of the greatest works of German literature. Who wrote it?
5.HIGHER OR LOWER WITH TONY YEBOAH: This week the Leeds United legend wants to know which of these four Indian cities is the most northerly?
6.SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Simply Red have sold more than 50m albums, so surely at least one of you will be able to put their first four UK album releases in the correct order?
7.ON THIS DAY-ISH: On 17 February, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Which year?
8.HAPPY BIRTHDAY: It is Christopher Eccleston’s birthday today. Happy birthday Chris! What was the name of the first episode of Doctor Who that he starred in?
9.GCSE SCIENCE WRITTEN BY AN AI: The Thursday quiz asked ChatGPT “please write a multiple choice question about human biology aimed at GCSE students” and it said “What type of tissue forms the protective covering of bones?”
10.THE LEFTWING ECONOMIC ESTABLISHMENT WITH LIZ TRUSS: The International Monetary Fund was founded in 1944, and began operation on 27 December 1945. Where is it headquartered?
11.I WANT TO BELIEVE: UFOs are back in fashion in the news. What was the first name of David Duchovny’s character Mulder in the X-Files?
12.COCKTAIL O’CLOCK: What do you add to a martini to make it ‘dirty’?
13.IT’S A DOG’S LIFE: This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian’s Thursday quiz. She wants to know if you think it is true that dogs can sweat through their paws?
14.MATHS WITH GOTHS: The bouncer at Slimelight says they won’t let your goth dogs in unless you can name the lowest prime number with four digits. Which is it?
15.WHAM BAM, THANK YOU SAM: Sam Smith’s outfit at the Brits helpfully outed a load of dullards in comments around the internet who would have been the kind of dads going “Oooooh is it a girl or a boy?” when Culture Club first appeared on Top of the Pops in 1982. But who won artist of the year at the Brits this year?
If you do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers, please feel free to email martin.belam@theguardian.com, but remember the quizmaster’s word is final, and he is actually in Oxford today visiting the Knossos exhibition at the Ashmolean so won’t read them.
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )
February 16, 2023
Intensive operation to clean Yamuna floodplains to be launched on Thursday

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New Delhi: An intensive operation to clean the Yamuna floodplains, involving territorial army personnel, will be launched by Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Thursday, the Raj Niwas said in a statement.
Saxena has directed the agencies concerned with the cleaning to ensure “drastic change” in the quality of river water within the next six months, it said.
A 94-member company of the territorial army will be drafted to ensure ground level enforcement and monitoring of all untrapped drains and sub-drains that pollute the river, it said.
The Lt Governor heads a high-level committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in January to oversee implementation of its orders with regard to cleaning of the Yamuna.
The cleaning and rejuvenation work in the Yamuna and its floodplains has picked up within last one month, said the statement.
In a meeting of the committee on Tuesday, the LG was informed by officials that 13 sub-drains of Najafgarh Drain were fully trapped and 3.03 km of trunk/peripheral sewer lines were completely desilted since January 20 when the panel met for the first time.
In an inspection of 88 industrial units during the period, water and power connection of 12 polluting units were cut and a penalty of Rs 53 lakh was imposed.
The officials informed the LG that so far, a 17-km stretch of Najafgarh Drain has been cleaned. Trapping of three untrapped major drains – Barapullah Drain, Maharani Bagh Drain, Mori Gate Drain – will be completed by September 2023. This will check the flow of 48.14 MGD of sewage into the Yamuna, officials informed.

Under the Interceptor Sewer Projects (ISP), 76 untrapped sub-drains — 44 sub-drains of Najafgarh Drain, two falling into Shahdara Drain and 30 sub-drains of Supplementary Drains — will be completely trapped by September 2023, the officials assured the LG.
Of the 76 sub-drains, 52 will be completely trapped by June 2023, they claimed further.
Also, the faecal sludge (septage) management committee impounded 46 vehicles for unauthorised discharge of septage into the drains. A fine of Rs 12.77 lakh has been imposed, they said.
The officials informed the LG that laying of sewer lines in 573 colonies is underway out of which, work in 264 colonies will be completed by June 2023 and in another 70 colonies by September 2023.
Similarly, connection of drains in 639 JJ colonies with the sewer system is underway out of which 558 JJ colonies have been connected with the sewer system. Work in the remaining clusters will be completed by June 2023.
During the meeting, the LG asked drain owning agencies – the PWD, the MCD, the DDA, the DJB, the DSIIDC – to physically inspect and submit within 15 days a report on all illegal sub-drains that are not in the official records of the agencies but are falling into the main drains, added the statement.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 15, 2023