Mes: septiembre 2019

(CBS News) Spencer West completed an amazing feat: He climbed the world’s largest stand-alone mountain in the world, the Mount Kilimanjaro Volcano in Tanzania. Even more amazing? He has no legs. But West says he wants to be defined by more than the fact that he is a double amputee. “I don’t have any legs. That’s the obvious thing…” he said Thursday on “CBS This Morning.” “The second piece is that doesn’t just define who I am. What defines who I am is my name, what I do for my job, what am I interested in. All of those things define who I am. Not just I don’t have any legs. So we can talk about that. But then I would rather be known for the work that I do and who I am as a person other than just Spencer West without legs.” West said he credits his parents for the person he has become. “They raised me…to not ever see myself as different, but to also focus on what I could do instead of focusing on what I can’t do because I was told I would never be a functioning member of society. We refused to believe that. We sort of set out to redefine what’s possible for me.” For legless climber, 카지노 환전 알바 summiting Kilimanjaro proof that anything is possible West said he realized he...

(AP) TERRADES, Spain – As a wildfire closed in on them, five members of a vacationing French family abandoned their car and stumbled through thick smoke down a steep hillside in a desperate bid to reach the waters of the Mediterranean. Instead of a beach, they found themselves at the edge of a cliff with no choice but to jump or try to climb down. Two plummeted to their deaths. The deaths of the father and daughter off the 65-foot high cliff were among the most tragic tales from Spain as it battles blazes during one of its driest summers in decades. The fire involved was likely sparked by someone throwing a lit cigarette out of a car along a small road inundated by vehicles heading to France, police said. The deaths occurred Sunday night in Portbou, a Spanish town just three miles from the French border. Because wildfires elsewhere had forced the closure of the main highway linking Spain to France, traffic was diverted to the smaller road via Portbou. The tossed cigarette apparently started a fire on the pavement which quickly spread to woods along the road before the cars could escape and officials could shut the thoroughfare, Deputy Mayor Elisabet Cortaba said Monday. Around 150 people were soon running from their vehicles and down into the rocky terrain toward the beach. The deadly northern regional wind...

Leaders of the Catholic Church in Australia have released its response to a roster of recommendations by a royal commission in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal that has roiled the church. A press release out Friday morning from Australia’s Catholic leaders vows “that the church’s shameful history will never be repeated” and expresses “deep sorrow that vulnerable children were abused, weren’t believed and weren’t supported when seeking justice.” The royal commission — Australia’s highest form of inquiry — laid out 26 recommendations on how the Catholic Church could reform. Leaders say they accept 98 percent of the recommendations, according to the press release. The report was completed after consultation with the Vatican. However, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) — the country’s top Catholic body — isn’t accepting a recommendation that would require priests by law to report abuse to the police when it’s revealed during confession. “The Council … continues to support retention of the civil law protection for the seal of the confessional,” the ACBC said in its response. ACBC president Archbishop Mark Coleridge told reporters Friday the seal of confession was “a non-negotiable element of our religious life and embodies an understanding of the believer and God.”  According to the Reuters news agency, one of Australia’s eight states and a territory have introduced laws making it a crime for priests to fail to report abuse...