[Gateway] Dominican professional basketball player, Óscar Cabrera Adames, 28, tragically died of a heart attack on Thursday while undergoing a stress test at a health center in Santo Domingo.
A stress test is a medical procedure designed to measure the heart’s ability to respond to external stress in a controlled clinical environment.
It still remains unknown if the stress test was the direct cause of Cabreras’ heart attack.
The tragic news was confirmed by respected Dominican sports commentator, Héctor Gómez, who announced the athlete’s sudden death via an Instagram post.
"Basketball player Óscar Cabrera has just died of a heart attack while performing a stress test, at the age of 28," Gomez wrote.
Back in December 2021, Cabrera collapsed during a game in the Spanish Amateur Basketball League (EBA) at the La Albericia pavilion. He was carried out on a stretcher and subsequently diagnosed with myocarditis, a condition that can impair the heart’s ability to pump blood.
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Died from an MI during a stress test? It's not like they wouldn't have had any warnings from a 12-lead EKG. What do they use for Cardiologists in Santo Domingo?
Vicious heat wave now in Texas but this week, California will get in on the action. Below is from the NWS Sacramento
[Weather.gov] An upper ridge will move over California starting early on Thursday, and become the predominant pattern late that night/early Friday morning, bringing in warm and dry air. This will cause higher temperatures across the region, along with widespread Moderate Heat Risk during the extended forecast period. Temperatures will likely reach 100 degrees over the weekend in many places within the Sacramento Valley. Additionally, some areas in the northern Sacramento Valley may actually pass the century mark. Luckily for CA, there will be an above average amount of hydropower from the winter precip and wind will not go stagnant either so they will likely survive this one.
In the old days they called this kind of thing “summer”.
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So the season changes, they get the usual heat waves that I experienced even in the early 1970's living in Fresno. But now it is :
Climate
Ice-Age,
Ozone depletion,
Warming,
Drought,
Change,
or whatever?
I guess as long as there is $$$$$$ and clickbait for the Media, the Speaking Heads and the Profiteers.
There will be always be something that going to happen in the next 5, 10, 20 years.
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H/T to Rantburgers - its a 108 at my house, per comments the other day, I put a cooler with iced blocks and a couple of waters inside for a scheduled Amazon delivery. I'm sure he appreciated it.
I had some people clearing built up growth in the yard so I set out a water cooler full of ice cubes and some glasses. Seemed only 'right' and they sure appreciated under the summer sun.
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Greece's conservative New Democracy party won a landslide victory in Sunday elections, handing its leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis a second term as prime minister.
New Democracy's win in Greece's second election in five weeks inflicted a stinging defeat on their main rivals, the left-wing Syriza party.
Near complete results show New Democracy has won just over 40.5% of the vote while the Syriza, was struggling to reach 18% -- 2 percentage points lower than the last elections in May.
"With today's electoral result, Greece opens a new, historic chapter in its course," Mitsotakis said in a televised statement. Voters, he said, "gave us a strong mandate to move faster on the course of the big changes our country needs. In a loud and mature way they have permanently closed a traumatic cycle of lies and toxicity that held the country back and divided society."
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Sunday's vote was held under an electoral system that grants a bonus of between 25 and 50 seats to the winning party, depending on its performance, which makes it easier for a party to win more than the required 151 seats in the 300-member parliament to form a government.
Conservatives and populists are winning a lot of elections lately as the neoliberal/neosocialist WEF claque becomes more and more discredited.
Related, in Italy, Georgia Meloni insists that religious liberty "is not a second class right."
Something we need to hear in America, the former "land of the free."
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this week that Italy intends to set an example in aiding persecuted Christians around the world, insisting that "religious freedom is not a second-class right."
Meloni's statement came the day after a United Nations "expert" declared that when religious liberty clashes with LGBT rights, religious liberty must yield.
Freedom of religion or belief is compatible with equality for LGBT persons, Victor Madrigal-Borloz asserted in his June 21 address to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, as long as religious groups embrace the claims of homosexual and transgender persons.
Religious narratives that clash with the beliefs and lifestyle choices of LGBT persons, however, are "beyond the scope of the right freedom of religion or belief," Madrigal-Borloz said.
In her videotaped statement, Meloni insisted that the opposite is true.
"One point is very clear," she said. "Religious freedom is not a second-class right; it is not a freedom that comes after others or can even be set aside for the benefit of new, so-called freedoms or rights."
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Italy's first female prime minister stated:
Religious liberty is a natural right and precedes every juridical formulation because it is written in the heart of man. It is a right proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but still today it is trodden underfoot in too many nations in the world, too often in the face of almost total indifference.
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The difference is, the average person's pain threshold for the outcomes of leftist policies run amok was reached quickly in a small, homogeneous country.
IT will take longer to boil the frog here. If the heating rate isn't carefully calibrated, you can bet the frog will jump and no voting shenanigans will cover it.
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Greeks get tired of the commies wrecking their economy?
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[Shafaq News] Iraq has pared down its holdings of U.S. Treasury Bonds, curtailing the value by more than $6 billion during the first quarter of 2023, data by the U.S. Department of the Treasury showed on Sunday.
The treasury's most recent tables demonstrated that this strategic reduction in bond holdings, spanning from January to April, positions Iraq as the 36th nation among a roster of 38 states holding a significant amount U.S. Treasury bonds.
Iraq's holdings demonstrated a pattern of stepwise descent during the period under review. From an initial strength of $41.2 billion in January, the holdings witnessed a marginal contraction to $40.7 billion in February, further squeezing to $39.3 billion by March, and ultimately dropping to $34.8 billion by the end of April.
By comparison, Iraq's portfolio of U.S. Treasury bonds in January of the preceding year, 2022, stood at a slightly more robust $40.8 billion, reflecting an oscillating trend within the nation's investment approach towards U.S. reserves.
The Treasury's data places Iraq as the fourth Arab state with most exposure to U.S. treasury bonds, following Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait in the hierarchy of holders of U.S. Treasury bonds.
The recalibration of Iraq's investment policy portends intriguing implications for the nation's fiscal dynamics and its wider economic orientation under the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani. This pivot could be construed as an effort by Iraq to introduce greater diversity into its foreign reserves in compliance with the government's economic policies.
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[Regnum] US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters on June 25 that the agency had begun an official investigation into the tragedy of the missing Titan submersible.
Moger noted that a commission had been set up to investigate the disappearance of the underwater vehicle, as well as the causes of the death of five people in it.
Coast Guard Captain Jason Newbauer will lead the investigation .
As reported by IA Regnum, former British Royal Navy submarine captain Ryan Ramsey noted two possible reasons for the crash of the Titan submersible in the Atlantic Ocean.
Ramsey suggested that one of the versions of the explosion - the hatch with bolts used to seal the ship - broke, which led to the destruction of the bathyscaphe's hull. The second possible cause of the disaster is that the hull of the underwater vehicle was designed with errors, it could not withstand the water pressure.
On June 23, it became known that the people who were in the Titan bathyscaphe died painlessly, and their bodies are unlikely to be found. According to experts, the destruction of the body of the apparatus occurred in a fraction of a millisecond, and people, most likely, did not even have time to realize what had happened.
The company sold tourist tickets for the Titan, which descended to the Titanic that sank in the early 20th century, for $250,000. Bathyscaphe disappeared from radar on June 18, almost immediately after the descent.
The cause of the explosion could be its faulty batteries. So says the historian of the submarine fleet, captain of the 1st rank, officer of the submarine fleet Nikolai Cherkashin.
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Why are the US taxpayers funding this when all evidence points to an egocentric and arrogant individual that flaunted all the rules and the accident took place in international waters? This is crazy
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Did this occur in US waters? No.
Was this mission run from the US? No. Why is this supposed to be any of your business?
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Let's take bets.
#1 - Rapid de-lamination of Carbon Fibers due to multiple stress micro-fractures obtained during previous 'voyages'. (Someone here at the 'burg said something to the effect of "Carbon Fiber is very strong, until it isn't")
#2 - 'Inspiring' pilots, with knowledge of game controllers, utilized in lieu of someone with actual undersea experience in what to do for an emergency. (Probably moot point if #1 occurred, although someone experienced might have actually checked hull conditions in detail prior to dive)
#3 - Idiot (and greedy) company owner(s) who bypassed deep dive hull safety conventions when constructing this little non-metallic death trap.
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The detection of the implosion is not a new thing. The wreck of the USS Scorpion was found using similar data. The work of Dr. John P. Craven at the US Navy's Special Project Office was key to that effort.
I'd expect that the US Navy is still interested in any new empirical observations that can be made from such events. And here's one to examine.
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#2 Why are the US taxpayers funding this when all evidence points to an egocentric and arrogant individual that flaunted all the rules and the accident took place in international waters? This is crazy
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USN,
My understanding is that since the USCG was tasked to help and there were US citizens aboard, they have the right to institute a full investigation. Yes, it's more of Our Tax Dollars At Work, but quite honestly if they help put a crimp in the Titanic tourism industry I for one will consider it money well spent. My $0.02 of course, YMMV. :)
#8 The detection of the implosion is not a new thing. The wreck of the USS Scorpion was found using similar data. The work of Dr. John P. Craven at the US Navy's Special Project Office was key to that effort.
I'd expect that the US Navy is still interested in any new empirical observations that can be made from such events. And here's one to examine.
Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-06-26 09:59
M. Murcek,
What amazes me is this: the best way to picture what the USN did is to imagine standing about 300 feet from a six lane interstate with nothing but longhaul trucks blasting along at 70 MPH...and being able to pick out from the middle of it a Coke can being run over.
Acoustic data collection poss monitored by Seaman 0 class. No alerts posted to alarm.
Data released at end-of-shift for next day review.
Missing vessel report posted. Somebody said, 'Oh yeah. (We) might have heard that."
Data pulled from the 3 shifts prior 'unremarkable' archive for review. Incident confirmed to upstairs. Policy manual reviewed for information release constraints.
Appropriate command level is notified.
Release authorized. 4 days later.
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Skid, exactly. The listeners may not have even been aware that the submersible was being launched, and that it had disappeared. Only later when they went back and looked at the data did they realize "Hey, that funny noise we heard could have been it."
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^ how often do they hear that kind of pop? I'm sure the experienced ones can tell subs apart like a good tracker following game.
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Investigation with lots of media potential, chances to justify jobs, organizations, positive PR, what Biden political appointee would pass that up?
For the SOSUS guys, a chance to evaluate how your reporting system reacted to something undersea off the coast of North America that went kaboom at depth, with the bulk of the non-classified work done by the "Puddle Pirates".
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Look into Thresher accident for interesting SOSUS discussion. The ‘failed valve’ was never proven, just the consensus of the accident board. The acoustic record provided a different theory, but when that goes against ADM. Rickover, well draw your own thoughts. But in dockside trials, Thresher did have the moisture in the air for the ballast blow tanks freeze as there was no moisture-removing system installed. Blocked airflow. That came after Thresher.
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[Gateway] Dominican professional basketball player, Óscar Cabrera Adames, 28, tragically died of a heart attack on Thursday while undergoing a stress test at a health center in Santo Domingo.
