extreme heat expected to intensify across much of the southeast
Extreme heat is expected to intensify across much of the Southeast and Tennessee Valley today, with the most dangerous combination of high temperatures and humidity occurring from Monday through Wednesday. This will lead to a prolonged and extremely hazardous heat wave. Heat levels will become dangerous for anyone without adequate cooling or hydration.
High temperatures will soar into the upper 90s to low 100s, with heat index values (“feels like” temperatures) surpassing 110-115 degrees.
Several major metropolitan areas–including Raleigh, Charlotte, Nashville and Orlando–are expected to face Extreme Heat Risk for multiple days, with over 20 million people impacted at the peak.
Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 247 AM EDT Sun Jul 27 2025
Valid 12Z Sun Jul 27 2025 – 12Z Tue Jul 29 2025 …
Dangerous, long-lasting extreme heat expected across the Southeast this week…
… Severe weather and flash flooding possible for portions of the Upper Midwest, Ohio Valley and Northeast/Mid-Atlantic today…
if feels unhelpful completely at liberty to stop at any point
In the UK and elsewhere, bibliotherapy – which also includes recommendations for non-fiction and self-help literature – has been soaring in popularity as a means of improving people’s wellbeing, help navigate tough life decisions, and even to treat specific mental health conditions.
For people wanting to try out bibliotherapy for themselves, Carney recommends trying to find a club for group discussions. Jolly recommends public libraries, where you can try lots of books for free – and if a book isn’t resonating with you, pick up another one instead, try something shorter, or a different genre like poetry. And if reading isn’t for you, Poerio adds, maybe there are other ways to improve wellbeing, like music or visual art. “If you feel it’s helping you, if you’re feeling the benefit… you’ll want to carry on,” Schuman says. “But if it feels unhelpful or intrusive, then [you] should feel completely at liberty to stop at any point.”
The idea or concept sounds good – improving people’s wellbeing, help navigate tough life decisions, and even to treat specific mental health conditions by reading.
BUT anything that needs the caveat … But if it feels unhelpful or intrusive, then [you] should feel completely at liberty to stop at any point …
Really?
I mean if I find something unhelpful or intrusive, something kicks in that makes want to finish everything in the bowl anyway.
Well, no that’s not true.
The truth of the matter, I go into any enterprise looking for any reason to bail out.
But what to do with that … And if reading isn’t for you.
Gosh.
Heard of those folks.
Glad its a complaint I have avoided all my life.
Of the many things I have written about, I am not so sure that the line, if reading isn’t for you, if it feels unhelpful or intrusive, then feel completely at liberty to stop at any point.
Boy Howdy but that sounds sad.
Don’t get me wrong on one part of that.
I have long felt that mature reader is someone who can pick up a book and after investing in a few chapters – pages – paragraphs – lines can feel that the book unhelpful or intrusive … or just a bad book and I feel completely at liberty to stop at any point.
Nothing makes me drop a book or a show quicker that a historical story told incorrectly or incompletely.
One feller I can think of wrote about the greatest College to NBA basketball transition of all time (the Ervin Johnson/Larry Bird era) and claimed to have grown up in East Lansing and knew most of the people in the book but couldn’t kept confusing Jay and Sam Vincent.
I found that book to be unhelpful or intrusive and into the bottom desk drawer.
Maybe one of the worst examples I came across was a book about Theodore Roosevelt where the author repeated a lot of writings and speeches AND CORRECT THE SPELLING of words like lite, thru and laf WITHOUT seemingly to know that Mr. Roosevelt embraced the concept of Simplified Spelling … oh well.
have no incentive to continue to do so … desegregation
Students and teachers working in school districts today might be decades removed from the people who led the push for desegregation in their districts, but they still benefit from the protections that were long ago put in place. Without court oversight, school districts that were already begrudgingly complying might have no incentive to continue to do so.
Many assumed another kicker would be signed, but Lions special teams coach Dave Fipp believed fiercely in Bates and told anyone who would listen they needed to buy in on him. Head coach Dan Campbell trusted Fipp. That meant no training camp competition. There were skeptics, but being underestimated probably was beneficial for Bates. “He’s so determined to prove people wrong who didn’t think he was good enough,” Fipp says.
In the first preseason game, he kicked a 53-yard field goal in bad weather against the Giants. Bates started to think he could do this. Then a 30-yard field goal attempt went wide right. Before the miss, he told himself, “Don’t miss it, don’t miss it, don’t miss it.”
Fipp encouraged positive thoughts. “You never want to say, ‘Don’t miss,’” he told him. “You want to say, ‘Put it through the middle.’”
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