内容摘要：Players crowded around a hydration station to drink water and cool themselves off as temperatures reached into the 90s (32 to 38 Celsius). Athletic trainer Armand Daigle monitored a wet-bulb globe temperature gauge. Players could also dunk their elbows into ice chests and Daigle wiped their necks with cold towels.

Players crowded around a hydration station to drink water and cool themselves off as temperatures reached into the 90s (32 to 38 Celsius). Athletic trainer Armand Daigle monitored a wet-bulb globe temperature gauge. Players could also dunk their elbows into ice chests and Daigle wiped their necks with cold towels.

Elections always occur on Saturdays and are family affairs — voters arrive with their children and dogs. And turning up to vote is required by law, resulting in turnouts higher than 90% and ensuring a captive market for democracy sausage sales.Brett attributed the sausage’s appeal to the Australian sense of humor — “It was a bit of a joke,” she said — and its grassroots origins.

“Government didn’t think it up, a political party didn’t think it up as a slogan,” she added.“It’s something that binds everyone together,” Dawson said. In 2016, the Australian National Dictionary Centreas its word of the year.

The sausage has also proved a political cipher, a way for aspiring leaders to show they’re humble enough to consume a cheap piece of meat wrapped in bread, at times with mixed results. Photographs of politicians eating democracy sausages in bizarre and ungainly ways have become memes or episodes of Australian political folklore.“It has been a way, I think, of connecting a younger generation, a social media generation, into the civic rituals of election day,” Brett said.

Some commentators suggest that early voting could spell the end for the democracy sausage. More than 4 million Australians went to the polls before election day, a new record. But Dawson said he wasn’t worried, because those who voted early could still drop by a polling place on Saturday to buy a snack.

“We’ve heard reports of people who are tourists over here, foreign students, that will go along to election days just to get the sausages,” he added. “I think that’s a great piece of Australian culture for people to take home with them.”for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at

RIOHACHA, Colombia (AP) — Climate change is rapidly altering the way of life of the Indigenous Wayuu people, a semi-nomadic Indigenous group living in the arid La Guajira region, which spans northern Colombia and Venezuela.Prolonged droughts, intensified by climate change, have worsened water scarcity, straining the Wayuu’s already limited access to drinking water and resources for livestock and agriculture. As rainfall becomes more erratic, food insecurity rises, with crops failing and livestock struggling to survive.

Health risks also escalate, with heat waves increasing dehydration and extreme weather events leading to flooding and waterborne diseases.Their way of life is also being threatened as companies and the government — who want to capitalize on the region’s wind potential — seek to