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Slow travel on a staycation in Co Waterford throws up all kinds of treats on a family visit King of the Vikings, a replica viking house in Waterford. Photo: Peter Grogan / Emagine / Fáilte IrelandWhen fearsome Norwegian Vikings landed on the south-eastern coast of Ireland in the year 914 AD, they probably imagined a finer legacy for themselves than impressing little boys in the year 2024.But as any weary parent who has navigated their family through a historical attraction knows well, a small child’s respect isn’t easily won. Source link

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Joe Biden’s extraordinary decision to not pursue the Democratic nomination for president has upended the 2024 presidential race, with Vice President Kamala Harris emerging as a strong favorite for the Democratic nomination. Here are some of the key public opinion dynamics around Biden’s choice. Job approval Biden’s job approval ratings have been more negative than positive since late 2021. And only about a third of Americans have approved of his performance for the last year. But Biden’s approval rating was far higher in the early months of his presidency. At about the 100-day mark of his presidency, Biden’s 59% job…

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“It has become impossible to get about in the city center,” a man named Rodolphe said from his electric bike as he dodged foot traffic on the sidewalk alongside the famous Rue de Rivoli, just next to barriers blocking off its empty bike lane Antoine, another visibly irritated cyclist, said he was at a loss for words after failing to convince police officers to let him pass a checkpoint. He said the QR code he had brandished was not the right one to cross the Seine. Some 30,000 police officers and gendarmerie will be deployed to the city. | Maja Hitij/Getty Images Shops and…

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“Core on deck!” For two months, whenever I heard that cry, I would run up to the deck of the JOIDES Resolution to watch the crew pull up a 30-foot (10-meter) cylindrical tube filled with layered, multicolored rock and sediment drilled from the seafloor beneath our ship. The crew drilled more than 780 cores from the seabed on the expedition. Erick Bravo/IODP In the winter of 2022, I spent two months cruising the south Aegean Sea on board the International Ocean Discovery Program’s JOIDES Resolution as part of IODP Expedition 398. My geologist colleagues and I used this former oil…

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the Aqualunar Challenge is a £1.2 million international prize funded by the UK Space Agency’s International Bilateral Fund and delivered by Challenge Works today, it is awarding £300,000 to UK teams developing technologies to purify ice frozen in the Moon’s soil to make human habitation on the lunar surface viable diamond encrusted filtration units, concentrated sunshine and ultrasound purification are in the running to win the Aqualunar Challenge Ten cutting-edge teams of innovators, engineers and scientists, that are developing new technologies to provide a permanent crewed base on the Moon with reliable water supplies, have been named finalists in the…

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Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Ambassador Bonnie D. Jenkins will travel to Bucharest, Romania from July 20-24, 2024. While in Romania, the Under Secretary will participate in the 5th Partnership for Transatlantic Energy and Climate Cooperation (P-TECC) Ministerial and attend events highlighting the Romania small modular reactor (SMR) project based on U.S. technology. The project was announced by Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Romania President Klaus Iohannis at the Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26). Romania is leading the way in the region on building clean, safe, and reliable SMR technology to…

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The sight of a swarm of wasps, or even just a single wasp, strikes fear into many people’s hearts. Most wasp species aren’t dangerous to humans (unless you’re allergic), but their stings are painful. Some wasp species can wreak havoc in other ways, though. Take the family Vespidae, which includes more than 5,000 species. Of those, about 700 are social wasps, meaning they live in groups, with nests containing anywhere between 25 and 7,000 wasps. Sometimes social wasps are able to reach countries beyond their natural range and establish populations there. This usually happens when hibernating queens accidentally travel as…

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It costs a lot of money to become president of the United States. The 2020 presidential election cycle involved campaign expenditure of US$14 billion (£11 billion) – an amount that will almost certainly be beaten in November 2024. By Sunday June 2, and after a buoyant Republican National Convention at which he was endorsed as the party’s candidate for the November election, data recorded by the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) had challenger Donald Trump leading incumbent president Joe Biden in the fundraising stakes by US$757 million to US$746 million. This reflected a surge in the second quarter of the…

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Following their biggest-ever headline gig in Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens, Pillow Queens have announced an Irish national tour for later this year. The queer rockstars will travel to nine different venues all over the country, warming up the cold winter months with some of the hottest music around. The tour kicks off in Dogheda on November 21. From there, the group will head to Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Limerick, Cork, Belfast and Galway, before ending the run in Dublin on December 13. Tickets for the shows go on sale on Friday, July 26, and will be available from venue box offices, Ticketmaster…

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HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit asking a federal court to require the owner and operator of three popular north Houston-area restaurants in Tomball and Spring – that allegedly used a portion of employees’ tips for business expenses, including condiments and takeout packaging – to pay back wages and damages to the affected workers.The allegations stem from investigations by the department’s Wage and Hour Division that found Tejas Chocolate LLC and Tejas Dragon Companies LLC collected the employees’ tips to distribute among them; however, the employer diverted some of the tips for business purposes in violation of the Fair Labor…

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