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Emissions generated by tropical forest loss have doubled in the last two decades and are continuing to increase, according to resarch
Carbon emissions driven by the destruction of tropical forests have doubled over the last 20 years and are continuing to accelerate, according to a study which has warned of the failure of existing strategies to halt deforestation.
The research, published yesterday in journal Nature Sustainability, claims the rate of carbon loss from forest conversion in the tropics is much more acute than set out in other recent analyses, such as the Global Carbon Budget 2021 report, which highlighted a slight decline in land use emissions since 2000.
By tapping different types of high-resolution datasets, the researchers calculated there was a doubling of gross tropical forest carbon loss worldwide between the periods of 2001-2005 and 2015-2019.
The paper, which was led by academics at China's Southern University of Science and Technology, warns expansion of agricultural frontiers and pursuit of commodities are the major drivers of carbon emissions generated by forest loss around the world, with 80 per cent of deforestation associated with these activities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, and Brazil recorded the largest acceleration in forest loss from 2001 to 2020, according to the analysis, with the South American country "far exceeding losses in any other country" over the 19 year period surveyed due to its ongoing clearance of the Amazon Rainforest and other forest ecosystems. The research also found that roughly a fifth of land clearing in the tropics took place in mountainous regions, which boast relatively high carbon stocks.
The researchers said the findings highlighted the weakness of existing efforts to tackle deforestation, and said monitoring deforestation trends would be critical in the wake of the latest wave of multinational pledges on deforestation.
At COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, more than 142 countries, which accounted for more than 90 per cent of the world's forests, committed to halting and reversing forest loss and land degradation by 2030.
The declaration came seven years after the New York Declaration on Forests saw 39 countries accounting for 40 per cent of both global tree cover and primary tropical forests pledge to halve natural forest loss by 2020 and end it by 2030. The coalition missed its 2020 goal by a large margin.
Companies, too, have struggled to meet their deforestation goals over the years. Not a single company that signed a declaration organised by the Consumer Goods Forum in 2010 to achieve net zero deforestation in their supply chains by 2020 achieved their goal.
The latest worrying report comes in the same week as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a major new update on climate impacts, warning that impacts are happening faster and proving more severe than previously thought. Echoing the latest findings on deforestation rates, the IPCC report warned there was mounting evidence that natural carbon sinks were being rapidly eroded and some were becoming net sources of greenhouse gas emissions as temperatures continue to rise.
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Williamsport, Pa. – The Williamsport Bureau of Police is one step closer to purchasing new equipment that Police Chief Justin Snyder said will benefit both the community and the officers.
On Tuesday, the Public Safety Committee voted in favor of recommending that City Council pass a resolution authorizing the purchase of 48 Watchguard body cameras and 14 in-car video systems from Motorola.
City Council will have the opportunity to vote on the resolution on Thursday evening, March 3.
Cost of the technology is just over $347,000 for the whole package that includes the bodycams, in-car systems, all related equipment, and installation.
The pros for purchasing the technology and equipment are many, according to Snyder, including violence prevention, improved behavior, better transparency and accountability, higher rates of citizen compliance, faster rates of resolution, and opportunity for using the video footage to train officers. “The Lycoming County DA's office has been using body cameras and have reported reduced complaints,” he said.
The downsides to using body cameras include potential privacy concerns and cost.
“I’m 100% behind this purchase,” said Councilwoman Bonnie Katz during the Public Safety Committee meeting on Tuesday. “These are as vital as radios, and I’m sorry it’s taken this long to purchase them,” she said.
The whole system is integrated using a cloud-based evidence system called “Command Central Evidence.” All footage is downloaded each day after a shift, when the unit is placed on the dock to charge. The 50-gig storage on each unit is enough to cover a shift, according to Snyder.
Keystone Communications in Northumberland is the approved vendor. Cars will have to be taken to the Northumberland location to be outfitted with the in-car system.
Body cams and in-car video systems have been hovering on the City budget for years. The WBP is hoping to capitalize on American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to finally make the purchase. “I picked up where the previous administration left off,” said Snyder, who was able to work with Motorola to bring the price down from previous estimates.
Snyder said he is hopeful the resolution will pass through City Council. “With ARPA funds, there is always a chance for opposition,” he said. “The Public Safety Committee members did say this purchase was ‘long overdue.’”
According to a November 2018 study published by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 47% of general-purpose law enforcement agencies had acquired body-worn cameras; while 80% of large police departments had acquired them.
In an article published June of 2021 by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), findings indicated that, “in some cases, body camera footage has shed light on police misconduct that would not have been witnessed otherwise. However, it is important to note that even when body camera footage has clearly demonstrated officer misconduct, often such footage has not helped hold police accountable.”
The NIJ concluded there are mixed results on the effectiveness of body cameras, and therefore more study is needed.
The Williamsport Public Safety Committee voted all in favor of recommending the resolution be presented to City Council.
“All of our officers are very much on board with it,” added Snyder.
According to Williamsport Mayor Derek Slaughter, there will be a second reading of ordinance for the allocation of ARPA funds at the next meeting.
Williamsport City Council meets Thursday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Trade & Transit 1 building, third floor. | https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/request-to-buy-body-cams-and-in-car-video-systems-for-williamsport-police-headed-for/article_4fcfc444-997d-11ec-b47b-0f0aa0fda2c5.html | 2022-03-02T01:52:16 | en | 0.969799 |
Northumberland County -- PennDOT will implement a lane restriction tomorrow on Route 61 (Veterans Memorial Bridge) in Sunbury, Northumberland County, for maintenance work.
On Wednesday, March 2, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) maintenance crew will perform delineation replacement along the Veterans Memorial Bridge. Motorists can expect the left (passing) lane to be restricted in both directions.
Be alert, slow down, expect travel delays, watch for lane changes, and drive with caution. | https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/roads/lane-restriction-tomorrow-on-veterans-memorial-bridge-sunbury-northumberland-county/article_5898cab4-99a3-11ec-8777-f3776cac225c.html | 2022-03-02T01:52:22 | en | 0.895598 |
Williamsport, Pa. —Three Lycoming County residents were charged after an alleged break-in that ended with threats being made against a family.
Destiny Paige Hoy, 24, of Williamsport, Brian Keith Hoy, 57, of Lock Haven, and Todd Edward Hubert, 30 of South Williamsport were all accused of entering a trailer near the 1900 block of Beech Street on the night of Feb. 5, 2021. After the trio allegedly forced their way into the trailer, officers said they argued with the residents. Destiny Hoy allegedly threatened to kill children that were inside the trailer at the time of the incident.
Destiny Hoy, who was given $99,000 monetary bail during an arraignment with Judge William Solomon, was charged with first-degree felony burglary and third-degree criminal trespassing. She was also charged with first-degree misdemeanor terroristic threats and third-degree disorderly conduct.
Brian Hoy was charged with third-degree felony criminal trespassing and misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Brian Hoy was given $25,000 monetary bail during an arraignment. Court records show he is scheduled to appear before Judge Solomon on March 2 for a preliminary hearing.
Hubert was charged with third-degree felony criminal trespassing along with several misdemeanors that included second-degree theft, receiving stolen property, and third-degree disorderly conduct.
Destiny Hoy and Hubert are both scheduled to face Judge Solomon on March 9 for a preliminary hearing. | https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/three-people-charged-after-alleged-break-in/article_9c766aba-9963-11ec-8ade-cfbe33e0e7e4.html | 2022-03-02T01:52:26 | en | 0.978858 |
Climate-aware and eco-friendly clothing, homeware, and personal care products form part of major new product line from the tech and retail giant
Amazon has launched a new line of climate-aware and eco-friendly clothing, homeware, and personal care products under the banner Amazon Aware, which will see a wide range of new products backed by third-party environmental certifications.
The new line of products - initially launching today for customers in the US, Canada, and Europe - is being given its own brand store on the online retail giant's website, the company said.
The Amazon Aware line includes apparel, home, beauty, and other products all of which have been "thoughtfully designed" using materials such as recycled polyester, organic cotton, and bio-based ingredients backed by independent green certifications that are specific to product type, according to Amazon.
Products in the range include bedding made from organic cotton, clothing made from recycled materials, and skincare products free of 'chemicals of concern' and packaged in plastic-free bottles.
The new brand forms part of Amazon's Climate Pledge Friendly programme, launched in 2020, which is aimed at helping customers purchase more sustainable products on its retail site.
Amazon has sought to ramp up its sustainable retail credentials in recent years, such as through offering customers better access to certified, second-hand and repaired products. It is also the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy, as part of its drive to become a net zero emission firm by 2040.
However, the firm has faced criticism from campaigners over its consumerist business model, which some argue drives inefficient resource use and more throwaway societal behaviours.
But Matt Taddy, vice president for Amazon Private Brands, said the firm was "committed to creating programs that contribute toward a more sustainable future".
"We are excited to introduce Amazon Aware, as it's another step that continues in our commitment to test, learn, and innovate, while offering low-priced, everyday essentials to our customers, all with third-party certifications featured in our Climate Pledge Friendly program," he said.
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Builders' merchants hails benchmark for future branches, as it hails redevelopment of Wishaw outlet to include latest clean technologies
Leading builders' merchant Jewson has today celebrated the opening of its first net zero carbon site following the redevelopment of its outlet in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire.
The company, which is a subsidiary of building materials giant Saint-Gobain, said the store would set a benchmark for future branches and as such represented a major step towards its goal of delivering net zero emissions by 2050.
The Wishaw branch has been completely redeveloped through the installation of rooftop solar panels, air source heating and heat recovery systems to capture waste heat, external and internal LED lighting, and a new 180mm insulated roof to improve energy efficiency.
In addition, new electric charge points have been installed for cars and vans and a brand-new fleet of electric forklift trucks has been deployed.
The changes were enabled by Saint-Gobain's Carbon Fund, which awarded the branch nearly £240,000 towards the redevelopment.
"We all understand the challenges we face in combatting climate change, especially after COP26 in November," said Brian Jennings, branch manager at Jewson Wishaw. "But by doing our bit, and making sure our branch is as energy efficient as possible, we're making sure it can be enjoyed by generations to come.
"We're so proud that the Wishaw branch is Jewson's first net zero carbon branch and is leading the way for further cuts in carbon emissions across the company."
Mike Newnham, managing director at Jewson, said that similar green upgrade projects were now in the pipeline across the business. "The renovation at Wishaw is just the first part of several multi-million-pound investments we'll be making over the next three years to help accelerate our journey to becoming net zero," he said. "These investments are designed to help lower the carbon footprint of our branches, whilst also improving the spaces for both our colleagues and customers to enjoy."
The upgrade programme is accompanied by a Making Better Homes hub, which aims to bring together relevant tips and guidance for tradespeople on how to create comfortable and more sustainable living spaces for their customers.
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Pioneering company allocates at least £1m of new £20m fundraising round to crowd-funding platform, offering public the chance to invest in advanced self-driving technology
Autonomous vehicle and robotic technology firm Academy of Robotics has today announced the official launch of a £20m pre-series A fundraising round, including an opportunity for the public to invest directly in the firm.
The company is a player in the nascent market for autonomous technologies that can used for last-mile logistics, having developed its first autonomous vehicle (AV), the Kar-go Delivery Bot, using proceeds from an initial crowdfunding round in 2017.
The company said it has successfully proved its complete self-driving delivery technology in road trials with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in September 2021 that focused on providing last-mile airbase logistics Brize Norton air base in Oxfordshire.
The Kar-go Delivery Bots have also been certified as roadworthy by the DVLA, enabling trials in Hounslow, Surrey, and South London.
The company said that in the first Hounslow road trials, the company used its technology to deliver medicines during the pandemic and it is now working on further developments in medical logistics.
As such the company is now ramping up its £20m investment round, having already secured a £1m investment and a further £1m in match-funding through the UK government's Future Fund scheme.
With the first £2m secured, the company said it has now allocated at least £1m of the total pre-series A fundraise to retail investors using the Crowdcube platform, making it the first British AV company to launch a pre-series A fundraise on Crowdcube.
The pre-series A funding will be used to scale-up production of the company's electric AV technology, including through a new factory and test-track facility at a rural location in the East of England, which is expected to create at least 100 new jobs by 2023, including skilled work and technological development opportunities.
"Having achieved so much since our last fundraise, we are excited to launch our next round, offering the community of individual investors a chance to participate in the high-growth autonomous vehicle and robotic technology space in the UK," said William Sachiti, CEO and founder of Academy of Robotics. "As we support the UK competing for its rightful share of the global AV sector, we can, at the same time, alleviate some of society's challenges, including supply chain pressures and air pollution.
"The UK government's Future Fund investment has provided us with a valuable funding injection following a challenging couple of years for high-growth technology start-ups, which will allow us to make the critical investments we need to scale to the next level at pace and stay ahead in this highly competitive, fast-moving autonomous vehicle space."
The latest milestone was welcomed by Minister for Investment, Lord Grimstone, who said it underscored the UK's position as "a world leader in the development of automated vehicles". "Today's announcement demonstrates our commitment to encouraging the growth of high potential British technology companies, and I look forward to seeing Academy of Robotics go from strength to strength as we build back better," he added.
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EXCLUSIVE: Hybrid Air Vehicles teams up with AECOM to develop hydrogen supply infrastructure for fuel cell airships in the UK
Hybrid Air Vehicles' ambitions of flying zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell-powered airships in UK skies by the end of the decade have taken a step forward today, with the firm confirming it has tapped consulting specialist AECOM to advise on developing hydrogen supply infrastructure in the UK.
Engineering consultancy giant AECOM is to provide Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) with end-to-end infrastructure services to facilitate operation of the air ships, which the UK developer claims can generate 90 per cent fewer emissions than other aircraft by using electric and fuel-burning engines alongside a helium hull to provide buoyant lift.
The technology offers significant potential capacity for carrying passengers or moving cargo, while the aerodynamic lift generated by the helium in the airship's Hull unlocks "powerful efficiency" without the need for the significant infrastructure associated with other aircraft, the developer claims.
HAV aims to bring its first hybrid 'Airlander' into service in 2026, with a view to then further developing the aircraft to run entirely on hydrogen fuel cell technology by 2030, which would pave the way for zero-emission flight.
In future, HAV believes its aircraft have the potential to carry battery and solar cell technologies at a scale required to achieve ultra-low and zero carbon operations.
"The relationship between AECOM and Hybrid Air Vehicles is centred in our shared commitment to delivering net zero," said Tom Grundy, Hybrid Air Vehicles' CEO. "We urgently need to reduce emissions in aviation, so we will work with AECOM and Airlander operators to make zero emission flight for 100 passengers or ten tons of cargo a reality within the decade."
A memorandum of understanding between the two firms announced today "sets out the basis and scope of a long-term infrastructure partnership", according to AECOM, which is set to provide advice on hydrogen supply infrastructure and transit interchange design to support HAV's airships.
The two companies said they would work together with HAV's customers to develop the infrastructure to operate Airlander, including for hydrogen on site for the hybrid-electric and all-electric models, in addition to collaborating on a manufacturing facility for the aircraft.
Colin Wood, AECOM's Europe and India chief executive, said its infrastructure work with HAV could help enable the transition to net zero aviation.
"Just a few months ago, speakers at COP26 called on industry to develop the solutions so desperately needed to limit global warming," Wood added. "Whilst there is no room for complacency, I'm proud of the work AECOM is doing to tackle this challenge head on by taking bold steps to advance new and emerging sectors which will help us achieve net zero."
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Draft proposals seen by Reuters could pave way for windfall taxes to help fund major acceleration of European clean energy and efficiency programmes
The European Commission is reportedly preparing a sweeping new package of reforms to bolster the bloc's energy security in a move that appears designed to enable further sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine.
Reuters reported yesterday that the Commission is working on plans that would allow member countries to tax the windfall profits enjoyed by energy companies as a result of recent gas price spikes and invest the resulting revenue in renewable energy and energy efficiency measures.
There have been growing calls for windfall taxes across the bloc to help fund measures to help households and businesses cope with record high gas prices, but there have also beenm concerns that such moves could fall foul of EU tax and competition rules. The new Commission proposals are expected to confirm that such taxes would be permissable, as long as the resulting financial support packages do not distort competition.
Proposals are expected to be published as early next week, as the bloc seeks to drastically reduce its reliance on imported Russian gas, oil, and coal, better protect European economies against spikes in fossil fuel prices, and accelerate its decarbonisation efforts.
The move comes as Western governments prepare to take steps to introduce further sanctions on Moscow, following this week's moves to lock the country out of much of the global banking system. Speaking today, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson again rejected calls for NATO powers to impose a no fly zone over Ukraine, but stressed that further sanctions on Russia were being planned.
Proposals to impose sanctions on fossil fuel exports that many commentators argue have helped to bankroll Russia's military have been hampered by Europe's reliance on Russian gas to meet a large chunk of its energy needs.
However, governments appear to be increasingly committed to imposing wider sanctions in response to Russia's attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine. Ukraine's government has called for western powers to impose a "full embargo" on Russian oil and gas, while White House press secretary Jen Psaki this weekend indicated that energy sanctions remain "on the table".
"We have not taken those off [the table]," she told ABC's This Week programme. "But we also want to do that and make sure we're minimizing the impact on the global marketplace and do it in a united way."
Meanwhile, there are also concerns Russian President Vladimir Putin could act first and block fossil fuel exports to Europe as tensions between Moscow and the West continue to escalate.
As such, a drastically accelerated clean energy and energy efficiency programme could play a critical role in protecting European economies against the likelihood of further increases in energy costs in the longer term, while also potentially enabling further sanctions on Russian oil and gas exports in the near term.
The draft proposal, which was seen by Reuters, would also allow EU member states to use the proceeds of windfall taxes to support consumers and industries hit by high electricity prices.
And it is expected to order EU members states to fill their gas storage capacity ahead of next winter and accelerate permitting processes for new renewables projects.
The news comes as the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to reverberate around global energy markets.
Yesterday, oil and gas giant Shell followed BP's decision to offload its stake in Russian gas giant Rosneft by announcing it would similarly exit its joint ventures with Gazprom. The move will see Shell exit its 27.5 per cent stake in the Sakhalin II liquefied natural gas facility, its 50 per cent stake in the Salym Petroleum Development, and the Gydan energy venture.
"We are shocked by the loss of life in Ukraine, which we deplore, resulting from a senseless act of military aggression which threatens European security," said Shell's chief executive officer, Ben van Beurden.
And British Gas owner Centrica today announced it was working to "exit our gas supply agreements with Russian counterparts, principally Gazprom, as a matter of urgency".
However, French oil giant TotalEnergies sparked an angry response from campaigners after it stopped short of committing to offload its own interests in Russia, instead pledging only to halt new investment in the country.
"TotalEnergies supports the scope and strength of the sanctions put in place by Europe and will implement them regardless of the consequences (currently being assessed) on its activities in Russia," the company said in a statement. "TotalEnergies will no longer provide capital for new projects in Russia."
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire is expected to meet Total CEO, Patrick Pouyanné, in the coming days to discuss the decision.
Isabelle L'Heritier, lead campaigner for 350.org in France, said it was "outrageous that Total refuses to withdraw from fossil fuel projects in Russia".
"Oil giants BP and Shell have both announced plans to drop holdings, worth tens of billions, in Russian fossil fuels," she added. "It is an important first step and now we need to see more companies, like Total and Exxon, pulling their support for fossil fuel projects in Russia and around the world."
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'Integrated' transition framework aims to help boost financial institutions' financial and environmental performance, according to its authors
A new framework that aims to help financial institutions develop consistent climate and nature scenarios and transition plans has been published this morning by the Finance for Biodiversity Initiative.
Finance for Biodiversity said the "integrated" transition framework was the first of its kind and would enable financial institutions of varying sizes, complexities, and maturity to better manage climate and nature-related risks and opportunities, and structure their approach to transition to a net zero and nature positive world.
The group has argued that an integrated approach that combines nature and climate considerations is needed to ensure that financial institutions correctly value assets, avoid the risk of mispricing assets, and ultimately drive a better financial performance. Few institutions within the sector have to date adopted such an approach, it noted, despite the "clear scientific evidence of the critical importance of the climate-nature nexus" provided by the world's leading climate and nature scientists through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD).
"Put simply, financial institutions that successfully integrate climate- and nature-related risks and opportunities into their decision making now will be better able to manage their investments, and ensure they are ahead of the inevitable policy changes that will mandate such behaviour in the future," said Finance for Biodiversity chair Simon Zadek. "Our integrated transition framework offers an off-the-shelf solution that FIs can use - from today - to develop quantitative, nature-inclusive strategies that will potentially help to drive investment success."
Finance for Biodiversity said its new framework would "complement and strengthen" existing efforts to embed climate and nature considerations into financial decision making, highlighting how it was consistent with the work of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and would be able to be used alongside the latter group's 'beta' framework, which is expected to be published this month.
Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of Storebrand Asset Management, said biodiversity was "increasingly on the agenda" of financial institutions, thanks in part to the formation of the TNFD.
"Beyond its contribution to climate change mitigation and adaption, biodiversity underpins all economic activities and human well-being," he said. "While financial sector action on climate change continues to mature and expand rapidly, we urgently need to approach transition to both a net zero and nature positive in an integrated way. By recognising the interactions between climate change and nature, the financial sector can avoid mispricing risks and opportunities, and can correctly value assets."
Finance for Biodiversity said it hoped its framework would encourage other organisations in the financial sector to move more rapidly towards an integrated approach to nature and climate, including the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), and the Science-based Targets Network (SBTN). It added that it would expand the framework over time as best practice evolves.
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The Arizona Senate, in a bipartisan vote, has censured a Republican lawmaker for calling for violence against her political opponents, saying state Sen. Wendy Rogers "has damaged the reputation of the Arizona State Senate by her actions."
The move comes days after Rogers spoke at a conference organized by a well-known white nationalist in which she called for her political rivals to be hanged. She later used anti-Semitic tropes to describe Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, whose nation is being invaded by Russian troops.
The event — the America First Political Action Conference — which was organized by Nick Fuentes, an online troll and outspoken white nationalist, was also attended by U.S. Reps. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. Both lawmakers have drawn scrutiny for their past remarks though neither was officially reprimanded by party leadership for their presence at the event, though both face political isolation.
"There's no place in the Republican Party for white supremacists or anti-Semitism," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement, not naming any of the event's participants by name.
During the conference, speakers made racist remarks and cheered on Russian President Vladimir Putin, comparing the Russian leader favorably to Adolf Hitler.
Rogers, in her remarks, praised Fuentes — an outspoken racist who has said he does not believe women should have the right to vote — as "the most persecuted man in America."
Thirteen Democrats and 11 Republicans in the 30-member chamber voted to censure Rogers. She engaged in "conduct unbecoming of a senator, including publicly issuing and promoting social media and video messages encouraging violence against and punishment of American citizens and making threatening statements declaring 'political destruction' of those who disagree with her views," the censure motion against Rogers said.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday following the censure, Rogers defended her appearance at the conference as an expression of her First Amendment right to free speech.
"I do not apologize, I will not back down and I am sorely disappointed in the leadership of this body for colluding with the Democrats to attempt to destroy my reputation," she wrote.
Separately, Congresswoman Taylor-Greene, who has a long history of promoting racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, also took to Twitter to double down on her remarks.
Posted with a video clip from her remarks at the conference, Greene wrote: "I am not going to play the guilt by association game in which you demand every conservative should justify anything ever said by anyone they've ever shared a room with."
"I'm not going to be drawn into that. I'm only responsible for what I say," she said, referring to speeches that included bigoted language and praise for Hitler as "a few off-color remarks."
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A large cargo ship that was carrying luxury cars from Germany to the U.S. sank Tuesday in the mid-Atlantic — nearly two weeks after a fire broke out on board, according to Portuguese navy officials.
Officials confirmed that the ship, Felicity Ace, lost stability and sank about 250 miles off Portugal's Azores islands as it was being towed to land. The ship sank in a location outside Portugal's economic zone in an area that's nearly 2 miles deep.
Navio mercante "Felicity Ace" afunda fora da Zona Económica e Exclusiva Portuguesa
— Marinha (@MarinhaPT) March 1, 2022
Hoje, durante o reboque, que se tinha iniciado no dia 24 de fevereiro, o navio "Felicity Ace" perdeu estabilidade tendo vindo a afundar-se.
Notícia completa em https://t.co/dxKBKcyN2o pic.twitter.com/yZygL537uk
In its statement, the Portuguese navy said that only a few pieces of debris and a small amount of oil were visible where the ship sank and that tugboats were breaking up the patch of oil with hoses.
One of the vessels that had been monitoring the Felicity Ace was en route to Ponta Delgada in the Azores to pick up pollution containment equipment, Portuguese navy officials said.
The 650-foot-long vessel is capable of carrying 4,000 cars. It is unclear how many vehicles were on board the ship.
European auto manufacturers declined to comment regarding exactly how many cars and what models were on board the ship, The Associated Press reported. However, Porsche customers in the U.S. were being contacted individually by their dealership.
"We are already working to replace every car affected by this incident and the first new cars will be built soon," Angus Fitton, vice president of public relations at Porsche Cars North America Inc., told the AP.
The Portuguese navy rescued all 22 members of the crew from the ship, which was scheduled to arrive in Davisville, R.I., on Feb. 16. The crew was taken by helicopter to Faial island in the Azores, the AP reported. None of the crew members was hurt.
Volkswagen confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that insurance has covered the loss of its vehicles, which could be as much as $155 million to the German motor vehicle company. The total estimated loss for all the cargo, which included Porsches, Bentleys, Lamborghinis and Volkswagens, is close to $440 million, the Journal reported.
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At least five legislators announced Tuesday that they had tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of tonight's State of the Union address.
To attend tonight's speech, guests — even those who are fully vaccinated — are required to produce a negative test.
California's Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Pete Aguilar, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington and Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida — all Democrats — announced by statements or tweets Tuesday that they had tested positive.
As I do regularly, I tested yesterday for COVID. Late last night, I received a positive test result with a breakthrough case. I’m asymptomatic and grateful to be fully vaccinated and boosted.
— Senator Alex Padilla (@SenAlexPadilla) March 1, 2022
Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois said Friday that she had tested positive.
Typically, a State of the Union address is attended by 1,500 people or more. Members of Congress and other political dignitaries bring guests and family members. But last year, only 200 people attended Biden's joint address to Congress in April, just as COVID-19 vaccines had started to become widely accessible to most American adults.
This year, all 535 members of Congress were invited to attend tonight's speech, a decision made with the guidance of Brian P. Monahan, the Capitol's attending physician. Many Republicans have decided to skip the event. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said he would not attend because he objected to the requirement that all those present would need to take a COVID-19 test.
Attendees will not be required to wear masks tonight — a change to Monahan's guidance made in the wake of falling COVID-19 levels in the D.C. area. The White House also recently changed its mask policy, allowing fully vaccinated staff members to go maskless.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine is forcing Silicon Valley giants into a geopolitical high-wire act they have long tried to avoid.
From Facebook and Google to Apple and Microsoft, platforms have moved to limit the reach of Kremlin-controlled media outlets.
Google has booted Russian state media from its Google News service. Facebook is making posts from Kremlin-affiliated news outlets harder to find on its app. TikTok, YouTube and Facebook are blocking two of the biggest outlets, RT (formerly known as Russia Today) and Sputnik News, across Europe. Apple and Microsoft have barred downloads of their apps.
But these actions run the risk of angering President Vladimir Putin so much that the platforms themselves get kicked out of Russia.
Tech companies are doing "a delicate dance" as their services have become a key battleground in the war in Ukraine, said Katie Harbath, a former public policy director at Facebook now at the International Republican Institute.
On one hand, the companies don't want to let Russia use their platforms to amplify propaganda and disinformation.
But on the other, "they want to make sure their tools remain available in both Russia and Ukraine, because they are some of the few ones that activists have in order to organize and to get their messages out that are not controlled by the Russian government," Harbath said.
Facebook executive says remaining online in Russia is a top priority
On a call with reporters on Tuesday, Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Facebook parent company Meta, described the industry's efforts to curb the reach of Russian state media as "exceptional measures" taken in response to "a highly exceptional and tragic state of affairs."
He also characterized the decisions as "a difficult balancing trick." Ordinary Russians are using Meta's services, which also include WhatsApp, to get information, organize protests, speak out against the war and communicate with friends and family, he said.
That's why Meta disagrees with calls from Ukraine's government to cut off its services inside Russia, he said.
"In the long run, the thing that really undermines propaganda is counter speech," he said.
The threat of a shutdown in Russia is real. Last week, the country's internet regulator said it would limit access to Facebook in response to what it described as "censorship" of state media outlets. Meta said the throttling was in retaliation for its refusal to remove fact-checks on false or misleading posts from Russian state media.
Clegg said the Russian government's actions were making it harder for people inside Russia to see videos on Facebook and Instagram. "The degradation of the service is definitely discernible," he said.
Over the weekend, Twitter said its service was also being restricted in the country. Russia has previously throttled Twitter, and fined Meta and Google, for not taking down posts the government said were illegal.
On Tuesday, Russia's internet regulator demanded that Meta, YouTube and TikTok lift their blocks on RT and Sputnik in Europe, saying they amounted to open censorship.
The tech companies don't disclose how many of Russia's estimated 113 million internet users are on their services. A poll from the independent Levada Center last year found YouTube was the most popular foreign internet platform in Russia, with 35% of respondents saying they used it. The poll found 31% of respondents said they used Instagram, 14% TikTok, 9% Facebook and 3% Twitter.
Russian state media broadcasts propaganda to millions of followers
Even as tech companies face Russia's ire, they are also under pressure from Western governments and civil society groups to act aggressively against Russian propaganda and disinformation.
Major social media platforms have become quicker and more effective at spotting and removing Russian interference efforts, in contrast to how they were caught off-guard during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Over the weekend, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter took down accounts involved in a Russian-linked disinformation campaign and a separate hacking attack on prominent Ukrainians.
But those cloak-and-dagger tactics are only part of Russia's playbook, said Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and former FBI special agent who has long tracked Russia's influence operations.
He said state-backed outlets like RT and Sputnik play key roles in creating and disseminating pro-Kremlin propaganda, which can then be further seeded across the internet by fake accounts, bots and online trolls.
"So if you really want to dent their ability to shape perceptions, you need to eliminate the entire ecosystem, or mute it to some degree," he said.
State media has played an important role in promoting the Kremlin's version of events in Ukraine to an international audience of millions, not only on internet platforms including Facebook and YouTube, but also on TV and radio stations in many countries.
They've echoed Putin's pretexts for the invasion, including false allegations that Ukraine is conducting a genocide against Russian speakers and that NATO is to blame for the conflict, said Nina Jankowicz of the Wilson Center.
"State-sponsored media like RT and Sputnik have been dehumanizing Ukrainians for the past eight years," giving support to Putin's justification for attacking Ukraine, she said.
Since the invasion, RT, Sputnik and other state media outlets have continued to push the Kremlin's framing that rather than an unprovoked invasion, its troops are conducting a "special operation" in response to Ukrainian aggression.
The first move tech companies made against Russian state media outlets after Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday was to cut them off from their ad tools, so that RT and its peers cannot make money off their online content.
But profit is not the main purpose of propaganda.
"The Kremlin is happy to operate RT bureaus around the world at a loss because they're not in it for revenue, they're in it for the propaganda value," said Nu Wexler, a former communications staffer at Twitter, Facebook and Google.
Soon, calls came to do more. Over the weekend, Google and Meta said they were blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets in Ukraine at the request of the government there.
Then on Sunday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a ban on RT and Sputnik within the European Union so they "will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin's war." Meta, TikTok, Google and Microsoft quickly said they were complying.
Meta's Clegg says the company is reviewing requests from countries outside of Europe to block the channels elsewhere.
The restrictions continued to escalate this week. Twitter and Facebook said they would start labeling posts with links to Russian state media stories, warning people about the source of information before letting them share or click.
Google is limiting recommendations to state media outlets across its platforms. Microsoft is demoting RT and Sputnik in search results on Bing. Netflix said it's refusing to follow a Russian law requiring it to stream state TV channels in Russia starting on Tuesday.
In a statement on Tuesday, RT's deputy editor in chief Anna Belkina said critics of the outlet had not "pointed to a single example, a single grain of evidence that what RT has reported over these days, and continues to report, is not true."
Sputnik did not respond to a request for comment.
Tech companies "have to choose" sides, Russia expert says
As their response to Russia has escalated, the tech giants have made clear they see clamping down on state media as a response to an unprecedented situation, and emphasized they're acting at the behest of governments.
"We're a company, not a government," Clegg told reporters repeatedly on Tuesday's call.
But observers say it is becoming increasingly difficult for tech companies to strike a balance between their own stated commitment to democratic ideals and the demands of authoritarian regimes around the world.
"There's three internets now. There's China's, there's the internet of the European Union and the U.S., and then there's distorted internets in between," in countries like Russia, Watts said.
"The idea of being a global company in the tech space is dead," he said. "They have to choose."
Editor's note: Meta pays NPR to license NPR content. Apple and Microsoft are among NPR's financial supporters.
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Major League Baseball announced Tuesday it's canceling the start of the upcoming regular season, which was scheduled to begin March 31st.
The announcement follows the breakdown of labor negotiations between owners and players, who've been locked out since the beginning of last December.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said he's canceling each team's first two series of the season, totaling 91 games. Players won't be paid for games they don't play.
This is the first time regular season games have been cancelled because of a work stoppage since the disastrous player's strike in the 1994-95 season.
"I'm really disappointed," Manfred said after the player's union rejected the owners' most recent offer Tuesday afternoon. "This is a first time situation. Since we've gone to interleague play, we've never cancelled games."
Baseball introduced interleague play in 1997, where a National League team plays one from the American League.
When he was asked why games are being cancelled, instead of postponed and rescheduled, as has been the case during the coronavirus pandemic, Manfred said the unique nature of interleague play makes it impossible.
"Every single day, you have an interleague series, where those teams are not [playing each other] enough to make rescheduling feasible," Manfred said.
Huge gaps remain between players and owners
The two sides can't reach agreement on a number of key issues, including player minimum salaries, the size of a bonus pool for players before they're eligible for salary arbitration, when players become eligible for arbitration, and the Competitive Balance Tax, also known as a luxury tax, which essentially acts to restrain what teams spend on players salaries.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Manfred apologized to baseball fans.
"Our failure to reach an agreement was not due to a lack of effort by either party," Manfred said. "The players came [to Florida for negotiations] for nine days. They worked hard, they tried to make a deal and I appreciate their effort. Our committee of club representatives committed to the process, they offered compromise after compromise and hung in past the deadline [originally Monday], to make sure that we exhausted every possibility of reaching an agreement before the cancellation of games."
MLB's union call this a "sad day" and said it would take time
But Tony Clark, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, questioned whether owners really did put in the maximum effort.
Speaking after Manfred, Clark, who called today a "sad day," said the changes and improvements the players have wanted take time to resolve.
"It's why we started the process when we did [last] April," Clark said. "It's why we made the core economic proposals we did in the first part of May. It's why we remained available, whether on Zoom or as the pandemic afforded us the opportunity to meet in person, we made ourselves available then."
"It's why we stood ready for six weeks after the lockout on December 1st, ready to have a discussion," he added. "It's remarkably interesting, against the backdrop of the things that needed to be worked through, to find ourselves on February 28th, [and] over the course of the last week, working through the issues that quite honestly need to be and could have been and should have been discussed in more depth much earlier than they were."
Manfred said the earliest the two sides can meet again is this Thursday, although nothing's been scheduled.
And with each day of no new contract, baseball's work stoppage will continue and more games will be crossed off the schedule.
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The end of 2021 was filled with highs and lows for Kanye West. At the end of November, he experienced the loss of Virgil Abloh, a beloved fashion designer and DJ who passed away after a two-year battle with cancer. Kanye and Virgil were close friends and the two collaborated numerous times over the years. A short time later, Kanye and Drake held their Larry Hoover Benefit Concert, which came after the two settled their differences after being on bad terms for three years. During a celebrity-filled Black Future Month brunch that was held last month, Kanye reflected on Virgil’s death and reconnecting with Drake.
“Virgil was the third person in a position of power at LVMH to die of cancer,” Kanye said. “Without his gang, without his support system, without his Dame Dash.” Kanye also expressed his frustration with seeming to have been boxed out of a collaboration with Virgil. He also claimed he was not allowed to speak at the late designer’s funeral back in December. Later, Kanye thanked Larry Hoover for helping to patch things up between him and Drake.
“Larry Hoover brought me and Drake together,” he said. “That man created peace. He called that from the prison. Larry Hoover called that from the prison, and everybody was happy.” He added, “When people see me and Drake pull up to a basketball game with both of our sons, with my oldest and his son, that’s gonna save people’s lives in the hood. They’re gonna see that.”
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(CNN)About a week ago, a US basketball player from Maryland was in Ukraine playing in the international leagues. Little did he know that within days he would urgently start a journey to get back to his home, nearly 5,000 miles away.
Lucious "Lucky" Jones had been playing professional basketball in Ternopil, a town about two hours east of Lviv, for a little over a month.
But early last Thursday, coaches and league officials instructed him to leave the country as Russia began its invasion on Ukraine.
"My heart dropped," Lucky told CNN on Monday, "They called and said, 'Hey, pack your stuff, it's time to go, they're bombing.'"
He and three of his teammates -- two Americans, one Lithuanian -- were the only ones alerted to leave because the other teammates were Ukrainian.
"It was very frustrating because I didn't know what was going to happen or what I was going to do," Lucky said.
About 5,000 miles away, in Maryland, was his wife Marissa with their four children -- ages 8 and 5, and 2-year-old twins.
She received a phone call from Lucky around 2 a.m. her time. "He said, 'I gotta get out of here, I'm leaving but I don't know what's happening,'" Marissa told CNN on Tuesday.
Over the following days, the couple kept in contact sparingly as Lucky's cell phone signal was spotty. Marissa said he FaceTimed her when he could.
"He was definitely panicked and scared," Marissa said. "He said things like, 'Tell my kids I love them,' 'Send me pictures of my kids, I want to see my kids,' and 'Make sure they know I love them.'"
Since the war began, groups of Ukrainians have left the country in masses. Some 500,000 have fled to other countries in Eastern Europe, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
At the time, Lucky said, he didn't hear any explosions or chaos.
But a town that he described as normally relatively quiet was full of people and panic. "That day was different," Lucky said. "So many people were outside, I knew something was going on."
"People were going to the grocery store and getting all the food, going to the borders, going to the medical facility to get medicine, going to the bank and taking out their money," Lucky said.
That morning, the teammates quickly packed their bags, and a few hours later they were picked up by a car to start what would be an exhausting journey home.
They were given no directions, Lucky said, and he wasn't sure which country they would be traveling to.
'It was very, very tough on my body and mind'
Their first move was to head to the neighboring country to the west, Poland, as that was the safest option at the time. But when officials told them the borders were closed, the car turned around and headed back into Ukraine.
The next best option was to head south to Romania. As they neared the border, they had to get out of their car and walk a few miles.
The men got hardly any sleep and went to the bathroom outside when they needed to. Lucky said one gas station they came across at 1:30 in the morning was like a lifesaver, as they were able to get a quick bite to eat.
Not only were things exhausting mentally, but physically. Temperatures were freezing and the entire time, they were carrying their bags.
"It was very, very tough on my body and mind," Lucky said, "I was ready to just break down and go to sleep, but I couldn't. I had so many things on my mind and so many things to do to get out of there safe and sound."
And things only became more difficult when they ran into trouble at the border.
Lucky said the border patrol officers were refusing to let them in, as crowds of people were rushing to get across as well. "It was terrifying because we just didn't know what was going to happen," he said.
Back home, Marissa was trying to do what she could to help Lucky out. She said she called the Romanian Embassy to see what information they could give her about her husband.
"I provided them with information to let them know he and his teammates were at the border and for them to keep a lookout for them," she said.
Eventually the players were allowed through and they took a train to the capital, Bucharest.
Throughout the journey, the urgency of the evacuation weighed heavily on the basketball players. "Everyone was panicking," Lucky said, "There was very high emotion."
After about a six-hour train ride to the capital, the group was able to get a flight out of Romania to Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Friday morning.
There, Marissa said, they were able to get a hotel, which allowed them finally to rest, shower and change their clothes.
Yet another flight took them through Dublin, Ireland, and eventually to the United States.
Nervous family awaits back home
As Lucky traveled through country after country, Marissa was at home trying to stay calm for him and the children.
Their oldest child had an idea of what was happening with the invasion, Marissa said, but she kept everything hidden until she knew Lucky was safe.
"I had to be the calm through the storm," she said. "I couldn't panic the kids or him."
When Lucky crossed the Romanian border, she revealed to her children that their dad was safe, and they were able to talk to him on FaceTime.
Saturday, when Lucky finally landed at Dulles International Airport, he, Marissa, and his entire family were overcome with relief that he was finally on US soil again.
"It was knowing that I was on my way and that my wife will be happy, my kids, my mother and father," Lucky said.
He met his family outside the airport. "On his way out he ran out to the car and was jumping with excitement," Marissa said.
Hugs and 'I love you's' were exchanged all around.
Lucky has been on the basketball court since the age of 4 and attended Robert Morris University until 2015. Professionally he's played for multiple teams, including in Finland, Greece and Belgium.
But right now, Lucky said, he is going to focus on training and coaching kids in the sport rather than his own skills. This leaves his basketball career up in the air for now, as the situation continues to weigh heavy on him.
"I'm not really focused on basketball right now as far as myself, because this was a real traumatic experience," he said.
While he's home safe with his family, Lucky said, he thinks of his friends and teammates in Ukraine.
"It's a sad situation," he said. "I just hope that all my friends and teammates that are over there and their families -- that it is a lot better (than) when we first left." | https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/01/us/american-basketball-player-flees-ukraine-journey-trnd/index.html | 2022-03-02T01:57:10 | en | 0.996579 |
Before we begin, go and do something that brings you joy. Maybe crack open something to drink, or pet your dog, or listen to a song you really enjoy. I am advising you to do this because there is a chance the following video from Wheel of Fortune is going to ruin your night.
Alright, so, Tuesday night’s episode of the long-running television show, a puzzle with the very vague category “PHRASE” popped up. The contestants got far enough down the road that we found ourselves, following Laura’s decision to buy an “O,” in the situation depicted in the picture at the top of this post. Laura tried to solve, guessing “Another feather in your cap.” A good guess! But Pat Sajak let her know that was not correct, and as such, things moved on to Christopher.
Not much of note happened there, as Christopher wanted a “G” but didn’t get one. Totally fine, let’s move to Thomas … ah heck, bankrupt, ok! Back to Laura, who once again tried to solve, and went with “Another feather in your lap.” Nope, not it, Christopher! You’re up pal. Let’s get a spin and $900 and a guess, this time a “D.” Nope! Thomas, back to you. Oh no! A lose a turn! Unfortunate.
It is at this point where I will drop in the video. Sorry.
I'd like to solve… ANOTHER FEATHER IN EVERYTHING BUT YOUR CAP.
Thank you, Wheel, for not editing out 6 of these 8 lost turns in a row like you normally would.#WheelofFortune pic.twitter.com/7MByDsn32p
— WheelRob (@WheelRob10) March 2, 2022
You can’t really fault Laura for trying to get that little bit of extra cash — it’s the whole objective of the show! — and “P” is a good letter to guess. But then hitting everyone with “MAP” for the last word was just gutting … AND THEN CHRISTOPHER WENT BANKRUPT.
Congratulations to Thomas for, mercifully, spinning and not having something catastrophic happen. He guessed “C” and then solved the puzzle. It is quite the feather in his hat/lap/map/cap. We’ve seen some particularly bad moments on Wheel in the past, and this is as hard to swallow as any. | https://uproxx.com/sports/wheel-of-fortune-another-feather-in-your-cap-fail-video/ | 2022-03-02T01:57:10 | en | 0.957288 |
The animated movie Home on the Range, opening in U.S. theaters Friday, is the last hand-drawn feature Disney will make at its studios in Southern California. As computer-generated animation becomes the film industry standard, many now-unemployed artists who animate by hand say theirs is a disappearing art form. Hear NPR's Kim Master.
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'Swipe' Combines ID with Art Published March 31, 2004 at 11:00 PM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 0:00 Three performance artists have developed an art piece called Swipe, which reveals how much information your drivers license contains. Rob Schmitz of member station KPCC reports. Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-31/swipe-combines-id-with-art | 2022-03-02T01:59:22 | en | 0.939204 |
Author Ben Macintyre's The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan tells the true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker who some 150 years ago began a 20-year trip through Central Asia.
After riding into Afghanistan on an elephant, Harlan declared himself to be royalty — and the heir to Alexander the Great. His adventures are widely believed to have inspired Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King.
Macintyre, a senior columnist at The Times of London, has written extensively about Afghanistan. In fact, that's where he first learned of Harlan's exploits. But the foundation of his book rests on Harlan's own journals — which Macintyre came across in a Pennsylvania museum.
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Motown founder Berry Gordy has decided to sell his stake in 15,000 Motown songs known as the Jobete collection to EMI Music Publishing. The catalog includes hits by the Supremes, Marvin Gay, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson, as well as many songs never released. With the deal, Gordy breaks all ties to the Motown empire he created and nourished. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.
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The 1970s movie Walking Tall, about a man who takes the law into his own hands after his town becomes a sinkhole of iniquity, became a B-movie classic, inspiring a TV movie and a short-lived network series. A new remake, starring wrestler-turned-actor the Rock, opens this weekend. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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Novelist Eudora Welty loved gardens and gardening, and her vivid descriptions of the flowers, shrubs and trees of her native South fill her writings. This weekend in Welty's home town of Jackson, Miss., the public will be able to experience one of the most intimate of her bucolic inspirations: the Welty family garden.
The garden was started by Welty's mother Chestina in 1925 behind their Pinehurst Street home in Jackson. Mother and daughter passionately maintained the plot through the 1960s, with Eudora taking over on her own after her mother's death.
In 1973, Eudora Welty won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Optimist's Daughter. The resulting demands of a literary career kept the writer from tending to the family garden and it became overgrown from neglect.
Several years before Welty's death in 2001, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History came to the rescue. The group restored the garden with help from Chestina Welty's original 1925 plan for the garden, the meticulous planting records kept by the family over the years and guidance from Eudora's own fiction.
NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with garden writer Jeanette Hardy, who got a preview of the restoration project.
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James Abbot McNeill Whistler's painting commonly known as "Whistler's Mother" has left its home in Paris for a rare tour stop in Detroit. Museums routinely use one-time loans like this one to stage major events and generate increased revenue. This practice has become more difficult with the rising costs of security after Sept. 11. Celeste Headlee from Detroit Public Radio reports.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken with the President of the European Council, Charles Michel and expressed his anguish over the deteriorating situation and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
He reiterated India's appeal for cessation of hostilities and a return to dialogue.
The Prime Minister stressed that the contemporary global order was anchored on international law, UN Charter and respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty of all states.
PM Modi welcomed the talks between the two parties and stressed upon the importance of ensuring free and uninterrupted humanitarian access and smooth movement of all people.
He also spoke about efforts being made by India to send urgent relief supplies, including medicines, to the affected areas.
Meanwhile, India is sending Air Force C-17 transport aircraft to Romania on Wednesday to bring Indian citizens from stranded in Ukraine, said Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Tuesday.
The aircraft will take off from its home base in Hindon Air Force Station near Delhi.
The war has reached to Ukraine's capital city Kyiv and the second-largest city Kharkiv. Further, countries' embassies, including Indian Embassy, based in Kiev are moving Lviv amid intensified bombing.
Read | DNA Special: Russia-Ukraine crisis - Lethal effects of vacuum bomb explained
Over the next three days, 26 flights have been scheduled to operate. "Tomorrow morning at 4am, C-17 will fly to Romania to evacuate the students," Shringla said.
Expressing deep concerns, Shringla said that so far 12,000 Indians have been brought out of Ukraine which is 60 per cent of total Indians in Ukraine. He also confirmed that no one is left in Kiev as of now.
The Foreign Secretary said that Indian nationals had been advised in Kiev to head to western parts and exit from there whenever they can. They can go towards Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Poland and Moldova. 7700 nationals have exited through these routes, he informed.
Modi has expressed deep anguish over killing of Indian student and we have not just reiterated and demanded in Delhi, envoys of Russia and Ukraine but also in those countries through diplomatic and military channels for safe passage of Indians, said Foreign Secretary. | https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-pm-modi-speaks-to-eu-president-expresses-anguish-on-humanitarian-crisis-2937001 | 2022-03-02T01:59:54 | en | 0.963593 |
Ten years ago, Kurt Cobain -- co-founder and lead singer of the group Nirvana -- apparently committed suicide. Cobain introduced the sound known as grunge to audiences around the world. His death prompted thousands of fans to hold vigils in his hometown of Seattle, Wash. Many likened its impact to the effect John Lennon's murder had on their parents. Marcie Sillman of member station KUOW has a remembrance.
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An exhibition called "The Gates" opened at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Tuesday. The exhibit includes drawings, plans and mockups of the 7,500 saffron-colored, nylon fabric "gates" that famed conceptual artist Christo and his wife, Jeanne Claude, want to install along Central Park's walkways. NPR's David D'Arcy reports.
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Music Review: Brubeck's 'Time Out' Box Set Fresh Air | By Kevin Whitehead Published April 6, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 0:00 Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a new box set of Dave Brubeck's Time Out albums. Copyright 2004 Fresh Air | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-04-06/music-review-brubecks-time-out-box-set | 2022-03-02T02:00:08 | en | 0.69612 |
When the 68th Masters Tournament begins Thursday at Augusta National Golf Club, former tournament champion Tom Watson takes to the green without his on-course companion of nearly three decades. Caddie Bruce Edwards died this morning at his home in Florida after a year-long struggle with ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 49. Commentator John Feinstein writes about Edwards in his new book, Caddy For Life: The Bruce Edwards Story.
Edwards brought energy and enthusiasm to what had been an overlooked part of professional golf, helping to make caddies indispensable. Edwards was among the first to walk tournament courses and gather information that today's pros can't do without: green tendencies and shot yardage.
NPR's Bob Edwards talks with Feinstein about the pair's long history together and the life of Bruce Edwards.
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Evangelical protestant Gospel music is surprisingly popular in traditionally Catholic France. Winning converts and inspiring new trends, it's a hit both in churches and in stores. NPR's Nick Spicer reports.
Copyright 2004 NPR
Evangelical protestant Gospel music is surprisingly popular in traditionally Catholic France. Winning converts and inspiring new trends, it's a hit both in churches and in stores. NPR's Nick Spicer reports.
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It's been seven years since detective Jane Tennison last applied her world-weary determination to solving a case on Masterpiece Theatre's Prime Suspect. But on April 18, acclaimed British actress Helen Mirren revives Tennison's character, returning to PBS in Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness. Mirren speaks with NPR's Lynn Neary.
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The new film The Girl Next Door appears to be a typical teen comedy with an adult twist: what happens when a stunning former porn star moves in next door to a lucky high school senior. Some critics find its attempt to make the world of pornography seem mainstream disturbing. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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British singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore is just 24, but last fall she released her fifth CD, Avalanche. Her engaging tunes are matched by thought-provoking lyrics, reflecting the influences of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello and the Replacements.
When NPR's Linda Wertheimer spoke with Gilmore about her music, the artist agreed that her lyrics have a darker, challenging edge. "I'm always saying 'Wake up and pay attention!'" Gilmore admits. "I never say anthing else."
An astute observer of modern culture, Gilmore's mission is focused on what she sees as her generation's apathy and inattention. She's careful to mention that the message is often aimed inward as well, revealing her own tendency at times to take the easy way out.
Still, the message rocks, and Avalanche delivers it in a way that's attracting fans in in the U.S. just as her earlier albums have done in Britain.
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best known as the screenwriter for 1985's My Beautiful Laundrette and 1987's Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. He's written a script for a new film -- The Mother -- and has a new novel out called The Body. Both mark a departure from his socio-political stories about being a person of color in England. Now the subject of aging takes center stage. Frank Browning reports.
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Each month, All Things Considered tries to learn a little bit more about what people on the other side of the radio are listening to -- songs that might not be heard on the FM dial, or featured in Rolling Stone, or even found on the Internet. That's clearly the case with the selections of 17-year-old Lexi Sanborn, a high school senior from West Sacramento, Calif.
Sanborn's first selection is "Secret Garden" by Gackt, from the album Rebirth. Gackt is a multi-instrumental Japanese artist who tends towards the pop orchestral; this song might remind some people of the music of Duran Duran. Sanborn first encountered Gackt while watching a Japanese television show (aired in California) called Hey! Hey! Hey!.
Sanborn says she became interested in Japanese culture when she started watching anime (Japanese animation) at age 13. That initial interest led to a trip to Japan, as well as her ongoing studies of the country's language. Sanborn plans to continue studying Japanese language and culture next year in college.
The second musical pick comes from several continents away. The song is "Der Weg" by German artist Herbert Gronemeyer. Der Weg is a tragic ballad Gronemeyer wrote about his wife having cancer. Sanborn found out about Herbert Gronemeyer's music from an Austrian pen pal, who also provided her with a translation of the lyrics.
Sanborn's third selection is the "Lupin the 3rd Theme" by the Yuji Ohno Trio, a jazz group. The song is the theme to a popular Japanese anime series about a master thief. The show started in the late 1960s, and the theme song has a mod jazzy sound reminiscent of music from the Austin Powers movies. Sanborn says she grew up listening to classical and jazz, and now tends to seek out music that suits her international tastes. And although she rarely listens to American music, she says she's trying to change that.
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LATHAM, N.Y. (AP) _ Plug Power Inc. (PLUG) on Tuesday reported a loss of $192.9 million in its fourth quarter.
The Latham, New York-based company said it had a loss of 33 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 32 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 12 cents per share.
The alternative energy company posted revenue of $161.9 million in the period, surpassing Street forecasts. Eight analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $158.4 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $460 million, or 82 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $502.3 million.
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Liane Hansen
Liane Hansen has been the host of NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday for 20 years. She brings to her position an extensive background in broadcast journalism, including work as a radio producer, reporter, and on-air host at both the local and national level. The program has covered such breaking news stories as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the deaths of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Columbia shuttle tragedy. In 2004, Liane was granted an exclusive interview with former weapons inspector David Kay prior to his report on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The show also won the James Beard award for best radio program on food for a report on SPAM. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-04-10/life-outside-the-pages-a-chance-meeting | 2022-03-02T02:00:49 | en | 0.964912 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
0-7-2
(zero, seven, two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
0-7-2
(zero, seven, two) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-16969684.php | 2022-03-02T02:00:52 | en | 0.880928 |
Alan Cheuse reviews All That is Gone by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels, a collection of short fiction dramatizing aspects of 20th century Indonesia that only remain in memory. Published by Hyperion, February 2004.
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In the 1970s, Patti Smith hit the underground music scene with an ecstatic blend of free-form poetry and three-chord rock. The woman hailed as the "godmother of punk" credits her signature sound to lessons in free-verse defiance from 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud and 20th-century music legend Bob Dylan. Tracey Tanenbaum speaks with Smith for Intersections, a series on artists' influences.
Smith, 57, spent most of her childhood in rural New Jersey. Gangly and rail thin, she fell short of the fleshier and blonder ideal of beauty of the day. "I didn't really mind being different," she says, "because I perceived that it was connected with creativity."
Although Smith says she had no special talents of her own, she felt a kinship with artists. At age 16, she came across a book by Rimbaud in a pile of recycled paperbacks. "The language in it just totally seduced me, and I fell in love," she says.
Rimbaud believed a poet's role was to jar the senses. As a teenager roaming the streets of Paris, he was one of the first to draw images from dreams and drug-induced states. Smith -- an outsider in high school -- clung to the bohemian poet as the ideal imaginary boyfriend.
Smith suffered from a variety of illnesses growing up, which gave her plenty of opportunity to nourish her fantasy life. During a severe bout with the flu as a teen, Smith's mother introduced her to another companion -- a Dylan record.
"It immediately spoke to me," Smith says, "and I became overjoyed to find this person, and I have been overjoyed ever since."
Smith says she saw Dylan as a Rimbaud-like figure whose songs were rich in poetry, politics and substance. She began writing poetry of her own, and made a name for herself in Manhattan's underground arts scene before experimenting with music. She says her 1975 debut album, Horses, was her attempt to do for others what her artistic influences had done for her:
"I was consciously trying to make a record that would make a certain type of person not feel alone. People who were like me, different… I wasn't targeting the whole world. I wasn't trying to make a hit record."
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
9-4-5-0
(nine, four, five, zero)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
9-4-5-0
(nine, four, five, zero) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-16969686.php | 2022-03-02T02:00:58 | en | 0.921698 |
Each year since 1992, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville, Va., has presented its Jefferson Muzzles award to people and organizations who have stood in the way of free speech. NPR's Bob Edwards speaks with center director Robert O'Neil about "winners" of the 2004 award, being announced today.
Previous recipients have included Attorney General John Ashcroft, for pushing the USA Patriot Act and other measures in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, for cutting city funding for the Brooklyn Museum over a controversial painting; and the Clinton administration, for its "don't ask, don't tell" policy over homosexuals in the military.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
05-06-09-23-33
(five, six, nine, twenty-three, thirty-three)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
05-06-09-23-33
(five, six, nine, twenty-three, thirty-three) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-Double-Play-16969685.php | 2022-03-02T02:01:04 | en | 0.902977 |
Four years ago, Danish director Lone Scherfig scored a surprise hit with Italian for Beginners. That film followed the strict rules of the Dogme95 movement, which holds that filmmaking austerity inspires creativity. In Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Scherfig moves beyond Dogme, offering a dark comedy that embraces Hollywood technique. Beth Accomando reports.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
02-03-16-17-36
(two, three, sixteen, seventeen, thirty-six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
02-03-16-17-36
(two, three, sixteen, seventeen, thirty-six) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-16969683.php | 2022-03-02T02:01:10 | en | 0.901844 |
Adrienne Young is a singer and guitarist who makes old-fashioned music sound new. Her songs, played on banjo or with a full band, are winning fans across generations for walking the line between traditional folk and bluegrass.
Young's debut album, recorded with her band, Little Sadie, is full of fresh takes on well-worn themes, with song titles like "Marching Jaybird" and "Satan, Yer Kingdom Must Come Down."
Her group's commitment to evoking the past can be heard in its instrumentation, which ranges from mandolin and fiddle to spoons and a washboard. In addition to singing, Young plays guitar and banjo.
As the group tours the United States, NPR's Melissa Block talks with Young about her CD, Plow to the End of the Row.
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Conjuring images of America's founding fathers — Washington, Adams, Franklin — is easy. But less is known about the women who helped build a new nation. In a new book, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, NPR News Analyst Cokie Roberts examines the lives and contributions of Revolutionary wives and lesser-known women of the era. Roberts speaks with NPR's Renee Montagne.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
02-24-25-27-28-29-30-35-36-38-39-42-49-51-53-54-55-57-60-71-72-80
(two, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty-two, forty-nine, fifty-one, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-seven, sixty, seventy-one, seventy-two, eighty) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-16969682.php | 2022-03-02T02:01:17 | en | 0.837405 |
New Orleans, where roughly one-third of residents can barely read, has become the latest of several U.S. cities to use the book A Lesson Before Dying in a campaign to fight illiteracy and promote reading. Set in 1948, the novel addresses literacy, poverty and race relations in the segregated South. NPR's Bob Edwards speaks with author Ernest Gaines.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
1-2-4-8
(one, two, four, eight)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
1-2-4-8
(one, two, four, eight) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Evening-game-16969734.php | 2022-03-02T02:01:23 | en | 0.926812 |
A museum and indigenous Hawaiians are in a custody battle over rare carved artifacts, some of which have been repatriated to sacred burial caves. Harriet Baskas' report on the controversy is the latest in NPR's Hidden Treasures series.
The Bishop Museum in Honolulu is Hawaii's oldest and largest. Its stated mission is to preserve the culture and tell the stories of Hawaii and the Pacific. Like many museums, the Bishop is trying to balance its mission with the 1990 Native American Graves Repatriation Act. Under the law, the museum is returning human remains and funerary items to community groups that claim them.
The museum and several Native Hawaiian groups are struggling to figure out what should be done with 83 objects, including bones and rare carved artifacts taken from sacred burial caves in Kawaihae, on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1905.
Four years ago four groups came to the museum to reclaim those objects. Edward Ayau represents one of the groups, Hui Malama. Ayau says Hui Malama members believed they had consensus from the other three groups when they checked all 83 objects out of the museum, reburied them in the caves, and sealed up the entrance.
Ayau says the items were desecrated by David Forbes, an amateur archeologist in Hawaii around the turn of the last century. But other groups say the items should be returned to the Bishop Museum for display.
The Hidden Treasures Radio Project series, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Cultural Development Authority of King County, Wash.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JC-2C-4C-7C-3H
(JC, 2C, 4C, 7C, 3H)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JC-2C-4C-7C-3H
(JC, 2C, 4C, 7C, 3H) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Poker-Lotto-game-16969689.php | 2022-03-02T02:01:29 | en | 0.882854 |
The new documentary Mayor of the Sunset Strip looks at the life of Los Angeles disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer, who helped introduce such artists as David Bowie, the Sex Pistols and Nirvana. Director George Hickenlooper considers his subject the personification of America's obsession with fame. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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AP PHOTOS: Destruction, death in Ukraine under bombardment
March 1, 2022 Updated: March 1, 2022 7:43 p.m.
1of 23 A damaged car sits at the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Pavel Dorogoy/AP Show More Show Less
2of 23 People walk along an empty road during curfew, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
3of 23 An armed man stands by the remains of a Russian military vehicle in Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Serhii Nuzhnenko/AP Show More Show Less
4of 23 Ukrainian families say goodbye as they prepare to board a bus to Poland at Lviv bus main station, western Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Bernat Armangue/AP Show More Show Less
5of 23 Ukrainian emergency service personnel carry a body of a victim out of the damaged City Hall building following shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Pavel Dorogoy/AP Show More Show Less
6of 23 People arrive at a train station as they try to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
7of 23 Animal keeper Kirilo Trantin comforts an elephant at the Kiev Zoo in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1. 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
8of 23 Ukrainians prepare to board a bus to Poland at Lviv bus main station, western Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Bernat Armangue/AP Show More Show Less
9of 23 A woman speaks by phone holding her sick baby in a basement used as a bomb shelter at the Okhmadet children's hospital in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1. 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
10of 23 EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Morgue workers look at the body of a killed volunteer of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces at a hospital in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Show More Show Less
11of 23 A nurse shows a newborn baby to a woman who gave birth at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less
12of 23 Ukrainian servicemen ride on top of an armored personnel carrier speeding down a deserted boulevard during an air raid alarm, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Vadim Ghirda/AP Show More Show Less
13of 23 Oleksandr Konovalov, an ambulance paramedic, center, pushes a stretcher with a woman injured by shelling in a residential area at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less
14of 23 People look at the gutted remains of Russian military vehicles on a road in the town of Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Serhii Nuzhnenko/AP Show More Show Less
15of 23 Ambulance paramedics move an injured man on a stretcher, wounded by shelling in a residential area, at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less
16of 23 People crowd on a platform as they wait to board a Lviv-bound train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1. 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
17of 23 The dead body of a victim from shelling in a residential area lies on a stretcher in a corridor in a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less
18of 23 Plastic sheeting wraps shelves with alcoholic beverages banned for sale in a supermarket in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
19of 23 EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Dead bodies lie in the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Pavel Dorogoy/AP Show More Show Less
20of 23 A women with a child who fled from the war in Ukraine reacts as they reunite with their family after crossing the border in Medyka, Poland, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Markus Schreiber/AP Show More Show Less
21of 23 A car driving along a road is visible from a Ukrainian army position through the viewfinder of a Dragunov sniper rifle in the northern part of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Ricrad Garcia Vilanova/AP Show More Show Less
22of 23 A man sits by the remains of a bonfire after fleeing from the Ukraine near the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Markus Schreiber/AP Show More Show Less
23of 23 A member of the Ukrainian Emergency Service looks at the City Hall building in the central square following shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Pavel Dorogoy/AP Show More Show Less
Russia's escalating attacks on populated urban areas of Ukraine left rubble and wreckage in streets and plazas as the invasion claimed new victims across the country. The central square in Ukraine’s second-biggest city was hit with what was believed to be a missile, leaving the massive area piled high with debris.
Hospitals raced to treat victims of the bombardment even as mothers and children sheltered in their basements. While the fighting in Ukraine raged, the death toll remained unclear.
At the border, anguished families said goodbye as women and children fled while many men returned to fight. More than 675,000 people have escaped to neighboring countries since the Russian invasion began — a number that will only grow, according to the U.N. refugee agency. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/AP-PHOTOS-Destruction-death-in-Ukraine-under-16969698.php | 2022-03-02T02:01:35 | en | 0.916103 |
NPR's Scott Simon talks to author Daniel Silva about his new novel A Death in Vienna. The former journalist, now a prolific writer, brings back his hero, Gabriel Allon, a European art restorer who hunts down Nazi criminals who have escaped justice. (The book is published by G.P. Putnam & Sons.)
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President Joe Biden plans to announce Tuesday night that the U.S. is banning Russian aircraft from its airspace in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The move follows similar action by Canada and the European Union this week. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s State of the Union speech in advance.
In remarks released by the White House in advance of the speech, Biden offers an ominous warning that without consequences, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression wouldn’t be contained to Ukraine.
“Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson — when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos,” Biden says. “They keep moving. And, the costs and threats to America and the world keep rising.”
The ban would come on top of a wide range of sanctions the U.S., Europe and other nations have imposed on Russia that are expected to hammer that nation's economy.
On Sunday, the European Union and Canada announced they were closing their airspace to Russian airlines and private planes owned by wealthy Russians.
The Canadian ban led Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday to say that it had suspended flights to New York, Washington, Miami and Los Angeles through Wednesday.
The U.S. ban raises the possibility that Russia could respond by prohibiting U.S. flights over its territory, which would make for longer and more costly flights, especially for cargo carriers. FedEx and UPS both fly over Russia, although they announced this weekend that they were suspending deliveries to that country.
No U.S. airlines fly to Russia, though a few flights to India pass through Russian airspace. American Airlines routes its lone flight between Delhi and New York to avoid Russian airspace, which adds miles to the trip and means that the flight often requires a refueling stop in Bangor, Maine, on westbound flights.
Russia also has an interest in preserving overflights by U.S. carriers. Aviation experts say Russia derives a sizable amount of money from fees that it levies to use its airspace or land at its airports.
European airlines fly over Russia far more often than their U.S. counterparts. Before the war, about 600 flights to or from Europe passed through Russian airspace, according to aviation data firm Cirium.
A ban on Russian flights could also lead to retaliation against Boeing, a major U.S. exporter and one of the world’s two dominant aircraft manufacturers.
Russia and China are widely assumed to be talking to each other about foreign policy. The rise in tension between the West and Moscow makes it less likely that China will soon reauthorize flights by Boeing’s 737 Max jetliner, said George Ferguson, an aerospace analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence.
China was the biggest market for the Max before it was grounded following two fatal crashes, and neither China nor Russia has yet approved the plane’s return. A delay in their approving the Max will reduce Boeing’s expected aircraft deliveries, an important source of cash for the Chicago-based company, Ferguson said.
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Associated Press writers Daria Litvinova in Moscow and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/AP-source-Biden-to-ban-Russian-planes-from-US-16969714.php | 2022-03-02T02:01:41 | en | 0.965541 |
Host Scott Simon talks with Monica Mancini, the daughter of film score composer Henry Mancini and singer in her own right, about her father's music, his legacy... and his new postage stamp.
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Host Scott Simon talks with Monica Mancini, the daughter of film score composer Henry Mancini and singer in her own right, about her father's music, his legacy... and his new postage stamp.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: Biden to announce in State of the Union that US is closing airspace to Russian planes over Ukraine invasion.
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: Biden to announce in State of the Union that US is closing airspace to Russian planes over Ukraine invasion. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Alert-AP-sources-Biden-to-announce-in-State-of-16969632.php | 2022-03-02T02:01:48 | en | 0.920685 |
Young Adam and Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself are both Scottish films starring male leads obsessed with death. But the two movies are really quite different. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a comparison.
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Young Adam and Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself are both Scottish films starring male leads obsessed with death. But the two movies are really quite different. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a comparison.
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The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the great natural disasters in American history. The quake and ensuing fire left a city known as the "Paris of the West" in ruins.
Then human venality made things worse. Looters were out in full force, picking damaged businesses clean. Federal troops given license to shoot and kill the thieves fired on many people who were simply trying to save their own property. And members of the security force also joined in the looting.
After the smoke cleared, politicians who had been the target of a massive corruption investigation before the disaster were left in power -- and painted a false picture for the world. They declared that fewer than 500 people had died, a figure that is now believed to be less than 10 percent of the actual toll.
Author and screenwriter James Dalessandro tells the epic story in a new novel, 1906. His heroine, a young investigative reporter at the center of the chaos and scandal, is fictional. But many real-life figures play a role. One is Enrico Caruso, the great tenor, who Dalessandro says really did sing (as legend has long held) from a hotel window as he surveyed the carnage.
The novel, already optioned to filmmaker Barry Levinson, hits shelves on the 98th anniversary of San Francisco's near demise. Dalessandro talks with NPR's Cheryl Corley about using fiction to set the historical record straight.
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Think 1950s food and you might conjure up Jell-O salads with a riot of add-ons or soda pop put to unnatural uses. In her new book, Something from the Oven, author Laura Shapiro deconstructs food from the '50s -- and the industry that foisted it on American households.
She describes how some foods developed for soldiers during World War II were successfully transplanted into the home, while others died unappetizing deaths: Canned peaches survived, but the canned deep-fried hamburger, thankfully, did not.
Shapiro says the '50s food industry tried to convince American women that they didn't enjoy cooking or have time to do it -- and that they'd be better off turning to a box or can. She discusses her history of packaged food with NPR's Melissa Block, host of All Things Considered. Read an excerpt from Shapiro's book below:
Book Excerpt: Something from the Oven
…At the heart of the industry's new definition of cooking was a ticking clock. Homemakers had always valued recipes for dishes that could be prepared with dispatch, and the concept of saving time by using this product or that recipe had been a familiar theme in food writing and advertising for decades. In its classic formulation, speed was associated with emergencies, and emergencies generally amounted to unexpected guests. Novice cooks were always advised to keep a well-stocked pantry in case visitors dropped by.
But during the postwar era, time became an obsession of the food industry and eventually of American homemakers as a manufactured sense of panic began to pervade even day-to-day cooking. Advertisements and stories plowed across the media reminding readers again and again how busy they were, how frantic their days, how desperately they needed products and recipes for quick meals.
"If you're a typical modern housewife, you want to do your cooking as fast as possible," wrote a columnist at Household magazine who was promoting instant coffee and canned onion soup. Not even cold cereal got to the table fast enough. According to Kellogg, what mothers really liked about the new Corn Pops was that the cereal was presweetened, a boon they found to be a great time-saver.
"In this fast-moving era, everyone is concerned with saving time," emphasized a teacher who was submitting her favorite recipe to Forecast, the home economics magazine. "I, in company with innumerable other women, feel the pressing need of entertaining my friends well but with a minimum of time and energy spent in preparation." Her solution was to use a can of baby food as a lasagna ingredient.
In the pages of Forecast and other magazines, it wasn't the arrival of sudden company that threw a household into emergency status --ordinary life was sufficient. "Baby fussing? Dinner to get?" inquired an ad in 1953. "When baby wants attention and daddy wants dinner, your best friend is quick-quick Minute Rice!" Soon no excuse at all was needed, and stories simply promised "Hot breads--in a jiffy!" "Quick fix desserts!" "Suppers that beat the clock!" Here was one claim that manufacturers could stand behind; and when it came to some foods, this was probably the sole claim that could be made with any credibility.
"It's just 1-2-3, and dinner's on the table," exclaimed a story in Better Homes & Gardens. "That's how speedy the fixing can be when the hub of your meal is delicious canned meat." The five menus included several recipes of a type that would become legendary in the annals of packaged-food cuisine, including "Twenty Minute Roast" -- wedges of Spam glazed with orange marmalade –- and a pan of Vienna sausages broiled with canned peaches, which this story identified as a "Harvest Luncheon."
But the insistent rhetoric of high-speed cookery had to be handled with care. The faster the cooking, the less it was going to feel like real cooking, and the greater the potential for guilt on the part of the homemaker. A woman who felt she herself had contributed almost nothing to the dinner she served her family wouldn't buy those particular items again, advised Ernest Dichter, whose theories about the psychology of advertising guided promotional campaigns for a range of consumer products.
He and his staff at the Institute for Motivational Research interviewed thousands of women over the years, and his analysis of "today's lady" reverberated widely throughout the food industry. In the old days, he explained, women felt they were obliged to live up to the most exacting standards of housekeeping. Modern women were shaking off these demands, but not entirely. They were glad to be rid of the hard work but unwilling to give up the rest of what they saw as the important role of housewife.
Their solution -- and this became Dichter's major contribution to package-food cuisine -- was an approach to cooking he called "creativeness." He spelled it out in the form of a dialectic:
Thesis: "I'm a housewife."
Antithesis: "I hate drudgery."
Synthesis: "I'm creative."
Excerpted from Something from the Oven by Laura Shapiro. Note: For ease of reading, paragraph breaks have been inserted into the excerpted text above.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Issues related to media publicity and a gag order as well as a concern over a lack diversity among attorneys representing those killed or injured during last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival were discussed during a court hearing on Tuesday.
The hearing was the first time lawyers handling the nearly 500 lawsuits filed after 10 people died and hundreds of others were injured during a massive crowd surge at the Nov. 5 concert headlined by rapper Travis Scott had met in court after the cases were consolidated before one judge.
After being appointed last month by a judicial panel overseen by the Texas Supreme Court to handle all pretrial matters in the lawsuits, state District Judge Kristen Hawkins issued a gag order in the case.
During Tuesday’s hearing, Hawkins clarified her order, saying lawyers could tell the media about factual issues that happen in court, but she didn’t want attorneys to make their cases in the court of public opinion and possibly influence the jury pool.
“This case should be tried in the courtroom and not on social media or with press releases or other statements to the media,” Hawkins said.
Brent Coon, an attorney who is representing about 1,500 concertgoers and is asking for $10 billion in damages, said after the hearing he understands the judge’s goal of “let’s keep who’s pointing the finger at who, let that be courtroom issues and jury issues ultimately.”
“But this is a case of public import for all the reasons that are obvious,” Coon said.
Most of Wednesday’s court hearing was spent discussing how the cases would proceed, the creation of a leadership structure that would speak on behalf of attorneys for each side, how disputes over evidence or other matters would be handled. Hawkins said she planned to have monthly hearings. She requested that by the next hearing, lawyers give her a breakdown of the various lawsuits by four categories: deaths, bodily injuries, brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorder.
Coon said it could be years before any trials or settlements in the case take place.
During the court hearing, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family of the youngest person to die from injuries during the festival, said that most of the victims killed or injured were Black but the majority of attorneys representing them are white. During Wednesday’s hearing, most of the 50 to 60 attorneys in the courtroom were white.
“There seems to be not much representation in the court of those African American voices. We really grapple with it. We are concerned about them not having a voice,” said Crump, who represents the family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, who was Black. Ezra's father, Treston Blount, who was with his son at the concert, was at Tuesday's court hearing.
In recent years, Crump has represented victims of police brutality and vigilante violence and has been the lawyer for the families of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
Hawkins told Crump this issue is something “that has not gone unnoticed by the court ... I would like that to be considered going forward.”
But Hawkins said she was “not going to choose someone’s counsel for them. I do know we have excellent attorneys in this room and those attorneys come from all aspects of Harris County.”
Neal Manne, who represents Astroworld festival promoter Live Nation, thanked Crump for highlighting this issue, saying, “I agree with him.”
Houston police are still conducting a criminal investigation of the Astroworld concert.
The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee in December announced it was investigating Live Nation’s role in the deadly concert.
Last month, Houston officials announced the creation of a new task force that will look at improving the safety at large Houston-area events.
Those who died in the concert ranged in age from 9 to 27 years old. Roughly 300 people were injured and treated at the scene, and 25 were taken to hospitals. Those killed died from compression asphyxia.
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Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho is a household name in most parts of the world. His new novel, Eleven Minutes, was a global best seller last year -- everywhere but in the United States. According to Coelho's publishers, his books have sold 50 million copies in 150 countries -- sales figures comparable to those of John Grisham and J.K. Rowling.
But the Coelho phenomenon seems to stop at the shores of the American literary market, which remains stubbornly indifferent to foreign best sellers. Coelho's breakout book, The Alchemist, did sell well in the United States 10 years ago, but since then he hasn't had a big hit in America. John Baker, editorial director at Publisher's Weekly, says America is daunting for any foreign-language writer.
"The American publishing market is very broad and very shallow," Baker tells NPR's Martin Kaste. "They don't read all that much and are satisfied with what they get at home."
Baker says some French and German top sellers aren't even translated for U.S. readers because there's little point. Coelho, however, remains undaunted. He says he's determined to crack the U.S. market, and cites the past success of The Alchemist.
" Madonna spoke about the book, and President Clinton was photographed reading [it]," Coehlo says. " …I think it's a matter of time."
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HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers on March 25, meaning those arriving after that date from other places in the U.S. won't have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to avoid sequestering themselves for five days.
Hawaii is the only U.S. state to implement a coronavirus quarantine program of this kind.
Gov. David Ige said at a news conference the requirement saved lives and was a major factor in limiting the spread of COVID-19 in the islands. Hawaii has one of the lowest coronavirus infection rates in the nation.
The quarantine period for travelers lasted 14 days when Hawaii first imposed it in March 2020. The state later created testing and vaccination exemptions.
The state screened 11.3 million passengers since the testing exemption was launched in October 2020, Ige said.
The governor said he would maintain Hawaii's indoor mask mandate at least through March 25, and would be evaluating whether to lift it after that.
Those arriving in Hawaii from outside the U.S. still must adhere to U.S. federal guidelines.
U.S. citizens, permanent residents and immigrants traveling to the U.S. are required to show a negative COVID-19 test or provide documentation they’ve recovered from an infection.
Non-U.S. citizens and those not traveling to the U.S. on an immigrant visa must be fully vaccinated as well as show proof of a negative COVID-19 test or provide documentation of infection recovery. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Hawaii-to-lift-COVID-19-travel-quarantine-rules-16969651.php | 2022-03-02T02:02:06 | en | 0.96075 |
USA Today editor Karen Jurgensen steps down four months after the revelation that former foreign correspondent Jack Kelley fabricated stories under her watch. Jurgensen had held the paper's top editorial post since 1999. NPR's Bob Edwards speaks with Marvin Kalb, senior fellow at Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A judge has overturned a new capital gains tax on high profit stocks, bonds and other assets that was approved by the Washington Legislature last year, ruling that it is an unconstitutional tax on income.
In his written decision issued Tuesday, Douglas County Superior Court Judge Brian Huber agreed with opponents of the new tax who had argued it was a tax on income that violates previous state Supreme Court rulings and the state constitution because it is not a uniform taxation on property.
Huber cited several elements of the law that he said “show the hallmarks of an income tax rather than an excise tax," including a reliance on federal IRS tax returns that must be filed by Washington residents, the fact it is levied annually instead of at the time of the transaction, and that it is based on an aggregate calculation of capital gains over the course of a year.
“The State characterizes the new tax statute as a “tax that applies on the sale or transfer of property” and argues that such taxes are excise taxes” he wrote. “But as noted above, the new tax is not levied upon ’the sale or transfer” of capital assets. Instead, the new tax statute levies a tax on receipt, and thus ownership, of capital gains.”
Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in an email Tuesday his office would appeal to the state Supreme Court.
“There’s a great deal at stake in this case, including funding for early learning, child care programs, and school construction," he wrote. “Consequently, we will continue defending this law enacted by the peoples’ representatives in the Legislature.”
The measure imposed a 7% tax on the sale of stocks, bonds, and other high-end assets in excess of $250,000 for both individuals and couples. It was projected to bring in $415 million in 2023, the first year the state would see money from the tax.
The legal challenge stems from two lawsuits that were later consolidated. The first was filed last April by The Freedom Foundation, an Olympia-based conservative think tank. A month later, former Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna filed the second on behalf of state residents including manufacturing business owners, investors, and the Washington State Farm Bureau.
“Washington’s courts have twice rejected previous efforts by the legislature to enact an unconstitutional income tax, while Washington’s voters have rejected 10 straight ballot measures, including six proposed constitutional amendments, that would have created a graduated state income tax," McKenna said in astatement. “Judge Huber’s decision rightly upholds those precedents and honors the voters’ clearly state preference that we remain a state without a graduated income tax.”
Supporters of the tax say that Washington — one of a handful of states with no income tax on wages — leans too heavily on its sales tax, disproportionately affecting those with less income. When the governor signed the new tax into law last May, Washington joined 41 states plus the District of Columbia in having a capital gains tax.
Retirement accounts, real estate, farms and forestry were all exempt from the tax. Business owners were also exempt from the tax if they are regularly involved in running the business for five of the previous 10 years before they sell, own it for at least five years, and gross $10 million or less a year before the sale.
Under the new law, taxpayers could deduct up to $100,000 a year from their capital gains if they made more than $250,000 in charitable donations in the same tax year, something Huber cited in his ruling, noting that like “an income tax and unlike an excise tax, the new tax statute includes a deduction for certain charitable donations the taxpayer has made during the tax year.”
Because the state wasn't set to see any revenue from the tax until next year, it does not affect the work being done by lawmakers on the state supplemental budget this year. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Judge-overturns-Washington-state-s-new-capital-16969772.php | 2022-03-02T02:02:12 | en | 0.979601 |
Carroll Musical Instrument Rentals is a a huge warehouse in New York City that rents all types of exotic bells, whistles, and acoustic effects to orchestras, movie studios and musicals across the country. Hear commentator Miles Hoffman and NPR's Bob Edwards as they take an audio tour of the warehouse.
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Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory dies at age 85 after a long illness. McGrory won a Pulitzer Prize for her commentary during the Watergate scandal. Hear NPR's Bob Edwrds and Post columnist David Broder.
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Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory dies at age 85 after a long illness. McGrory won a Pulitzer Prize for her commentary during the Watergate scandal. Hear NPR's Bob Edwrds and Post columnist David Broder.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Alabama this weekend to commemorate a key moment of the civil rights movement.
Harris will speak in Selma at an event marking the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 when white police attacked Black voting rights marchers.
Harris will also take part in the annual event's symbolic march across the bridge. Several other members of President Joe Biden's administration will also attend the event, including Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan.
On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of demonstrators. The confrontation set the stage weeks later for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the massive Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights.
The events galvanized support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.
Harris is the first female U.S. vice president and the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent in the role. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Kamala-Harris-to-mark-Bloody-Sunday-anniversary-16969715.php | 2022-03-02T02:02:19 | en | 0.934418 |
A report published in the Journal of Death Studies finds that poets die younger than novelists, playwrights and other writers. James Kaufman, a researcher at California State University at San Bernardino, suggests poets may die young because they tend to be more tortured and prone to self-destruction. NPR's Bob Edwards reports.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Kent Waldrep, a TCU running back who became an advocate for disabled people after a spinal injury during a game left him paralyzed, has died. He was 67.
His mother, Denise Waldrep, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that her son had died Sunday in Natchitoches, Louisiana. TCU confirmed his death in a Tuesday statement to The Associated Press.
“We were saddened to learn of the passing of Kent Waldrep." TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati said in the statement. “He was and will always be an important part of TCU and our football program.”
No cause of death was given. Waldrep would have turned 68 on Wednesday.
After his injury during a 1974 game at Alabama left him paralyzed, Waldrep went on to help raise tens of millions of dollars around the world for paralysis research.
He served on the National Council of Disability during the Reagan and first Bush administrations and helped draft and win passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. He also chaired the Texas Rehabilitation Commission and the grant committee of the College Football Assistance Fund that provides financial aid to football players who suffer serious injuries.
Waldrep sued TCU for worker's compensation, arguing that as a player he was a TCU employee. A Travis County jury rejected his claim in 1997, and a state appeals court declined to overturn the verdict. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Kent-Waldrep-TCU-rusher-paralyzed-during-a-game-16969762.php | 2022-03-02T02:02:25 | en | 0.986067 |
Every Saturday night in a gritty YMCA in the South African city of Durban, men put on finely-pressed suits, drink cheap beer and compete in an a cappella Zulu choir competition called isicathamiya. They're sometimes called the "tip-toe guys". Isicathamiya means "in a stalking mood" and it refers to the slow deliberate dance moves the men do in unison while harmonizing. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously confirmed the appointment of Deputy Chief Kristin Crowley to be the first woman to lead the LA Fire Department.
Crowley will replace Ralph Terrazas, who became the department’s first Latino chief in 2014 and promoted Crowley several times.
Mayor Eric Garcetti nominated Crowley for the top spot in January.
Crowley, who currently holds the jobs of acting administrative operations chief deputy and fire marshal, said at the time of her nomination that keeping the department operationally ready would be her number one priority.
Her appointment comes as the fire department deals with issues ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to claims that its female employees face bullying and harassment.
Harassing behavior will not be tolerated, Crowley said in January. She was a firefighter, paramedic, engineer and battalion chief in the steps of her career leading up her joining the department’s command staff.
Terrazas plans to retire March 26, ending a 38-year career that included the department responding to the coronavirus pandemic by running city sites that have administered millions of COVID-19 tests and vaccinations.
The department has about 3,400 uniformed personnel and 106 fire stations serving about 4 million people across 469 square miles (1,215 square kilometers). | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Kristin-Crowley-to-be-1st-woman-as-LA-fire-16969773.php | 2022-03-02T02:02:31 | en | 0.970626 |
The Holocaust Memorial Museum's new exhibit, "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race," takes a chilling look at the Nazi use of eugenics and its applications. The term "eugenics" comes from the Greek word meaning "well-born." In the 20th century, it came to mean something far more sinister: a scientific movement to create a more perfect race. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.
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Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr
Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr (pronounced "FRIME n WIRE") is a producer and editor for NPR's Arts Information unit, primarily dealing with the subjects of classical music and digital technology. Along with David Schulman, he co-produced the occasional series Musicians In Their Own Words." Their profile of Ladysmith Black Mambazos Joseph Shabalala won a Silver Award at the 2004 Third Coast International Audio Festival. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-04-22/musicians-in-their-own-words-paul-jacobs | 2022-03-02T02:02:37 | en | 0.855335 |
IMMOKALEE, Fla. (AP) — An endangered Florida panther has died after being struck by a vehicle.
It’s the eighth panther death attributed to fatal collisions, out of eight total deaths this year, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The remains of the 1-year-old male panther were found Monday along a rural road northwest of Immokalee in Collier County, wildlife officials said.
Florida panthers once roamed the entire Southeast, but now their habitat mostly is confined to a small region of Florida along the Gulf of Mexico. Up to 230 Florida panthers remain in the wild. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Officials-Florida-panther-struck-and-killed-by-16969739.php | 2022-03-02T02:02:37 | en | 0.965255 |
Noi is a new film from Iceland about a disaffected Albino high school student. The film blends comedy and tragedy in its approach to its subject. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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Noi is a new film from Iceland about a disaffected Albino high school student. The film blends comedy and tragedy in its approach to its subject. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two British executives were charged with cheating investors out of millions of dollars in a collateralized loan scam that falsely promised investments used for loans were backed by fine wines, authorities said Tuesday.
An indictment returned Monday in Brooklyn federal court charged Stephen Burton, 57, and James Wellesley, 55, with conspiracy and wire fraud.
According to a news release by federal authorities, Wellesley was arrested Feb. 4 in the United Kingdom, while Burton is a fugitive. It said both worked at two private companies, Bordeaux Cellars Limited and Bordeaux Cellars London Ltd., with Burton serving as chief executive and Wellesley as the chief financial officer.
It was not immediately clear who would represent the men in the United States or could comment on their behalf.
Michael Driscoll, head of New York’s FBI office, said the men lied to investors to get them involved in the nearly $100 million swindle.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace in Brooklyn said that the lies the men told investors “did not age well.”
"These defendants duped investors by offering them an intoxicating investment opportunity collateralized by valuable bottles of fine wine that turned out to be too good to be true,” Peace said.
According to the release, the men spent some money from investors, making fraudulent interest payments to them and using other proceeds for personal expenses.
An indictment alleged that the men defrauded investors from June 2017 to February 2019 by soliciting people at conferences sponsored by the companies in the United States and elsewhere to invest money in loans that would be backed by fine wines.
Actually, though, the wine businesses did not have many of the specific bottles of wine that they identified as collateral in the loan documents in their custody, the indictment said.
While some investors received interest payments for a time, all interest payments stopped in February 2019, and principal was not returned, either, the indictment said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Two-UK-executives-charged-in-100-million-16969133.php | 2022-03-02T02:02:44 | en | 0.982399 |
NPR's Cheryl Corley speaks with Alexandra Patsavas, music supervisor of the television show The O.C.. The program has become a showcase for new music that's fallen under the mainstream radar.
Cheryl Corley is a Chicago-based NPR correspondent who works for the National Desk. She primarily covers criminal justice issues as well as breaking news in the Midwest and across the country. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-04-23/music-of-the-o-c | 2022-03-02T02:02:49 | en | 0.95504 |
SEATTLE (AP) — A woman who torched five Seattle police cars during a tumultuous protest that heralded a summer of unrest after George Floyd's murder in 2020 was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison.
Margaret Channon, 26, of Tacoma, used an aerosol can and a lighter as a makeshift flame-thrower to burn the unoccupied, parked police vehicles in downtown Seattle on May 30, soon after officers sprayed tear gas to disperse a massive crowd. For 25 minutes she ran back and forth between the cars, adding fire as necessary to destroy them.
The burning police cars became some of the most indelible images of Seattle's unrest — overshadowing the thousands who demonstrated for racial justice with justifiable anger, but who were nevertheless peaceful, Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg told U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour.
“She wasn't alone, but Ms. Channon set the tone for what that protest became moving forward,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said. “Ms. Channon left downtown Seattle in flames and in billowing smoke.”
Millions across the country took to the streets after cellphone video surfaced of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee against the neck of Floyd, who was Black, for 9 1/2 minutes as Floyd pleaded for breath. Chauvin was convicted last year on state charges of murder and manslaughter and was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison; he and three other officers have been convicted of federal civil rights violations.
In cities across the United States, protesters fed up with seeing Black people killed by police faced off against heavily-armed officers, with some smashing cruisers, ransacking businesses and setting fires. In Seattle, demonstrators went on to seize an area of several city blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood — the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest — and police for a time abandoned the nearby East Precinct building.
Channon, who also acknowledged smashing a store window and busting the cash register at a sandwich shop, was the fifth and final defendant sentenced in federal court for actions related to the civil unrest in Seattle.
Kelly Jackson received more than three years for throwing Molotov cocktails at two Seattle police vehicles on May 30. Tyre Means got five years for burning one Seattle police vehicle and stealing a firearm out of another that day. Desmond David-Pitts and Isaiah Willoughby received 20 and 24 months, respectively, for setting fires at the East Precinct.
Channon apologized in a letter to the court and through a sentencing memo filed by her lawyer, acknowledging that the Black Lives Matter movement does not condone illegal acts and that as a white woman it was not her place to coopt the cause.
“I apologize to the many workers and activists — who have given decades of their lives to building a countermeasure to police violence — that did not want to see fire,” Channon wrote. “I had intended to effect positive change, but my attempt was misguided.”
Her mother, Elizabeth MacGahan, wrote her own letter to the court, saying Channon grew up in a family with a long history of civil service and citing the destabilizing effects of the pandemic, the protests and the recent deaths of her two beloved grandmothers as possible factors in her actions.
“It’s a very difficult time to be young and sensitive, and to suffer losses,” she said.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said it offered Channon a chance to plead guilty to conspiracy, rather than arson — which would have enabled her to argue for a sentence less than than the five-year mandatory minimum for arson.
Channon refused. Her attorney, Vanessa Pai-Thompson, wrote that “Channon was adamant that she would not do anything to shift blame to others for decisions that were hers alone.”
After the sentencing, Seattle U.S. Attorney Nick Brown — the first Black person to serve as the Justice Department's top prosecutor in western Washington — said he understood and shared the anger over Floyd's murder.
“I watched people gather and protest here in Seattle with a lot of admiration,” Brown said. “To see that devolve into bombing of police vehicles and destruction of businesses ... was profoundly sad for me.”
His nearly 80-year-old father, Hank, was jailed during civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, and Brown said he appreciated that protests sometimes must be loud, angry and disruptive — but not destructive. Channon's actions undercut the message of the Black Lives Matter movement, he said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Woman-gets-5-year-term-for-police-car-fires-in-16969624.php | 2022-03-02T02:02:50 | en | 0.975657 |
Liane Hansen
Liane Hansen has been the host of NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday for 20 years. She brings to her position an extensive background in broadcast journalism, including work as a radio producer, reporter, and on-air host at both the local and national level. The program has covered such breaking news stories as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the deaths of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Columbia shuttle tragedy. In 2004, Liane was granted an exclusive interview with former weapons inspector David Kay prior to his report on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The show also won the James Beard award for best radio program on food for a report on SPAM. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-04-24/possible-source-for-nabokovs-lolita | 2022-03-02T02:02:55 | en | 0.964912 |
It's tough making a living as a writer. NPR's Noah Adams continues his series on low-wage jobs with a look at writers in Seattle who can only dream of quitting their day job to dedicate themselves to their art.
Adams visits the Richard Hugo House, a writers' community center named in honor of the late poet, a Seattle native.
It is there that spoken-word artist Iese Ionatana holds an afternoon workshop. Ionatana, who works 30 hours a week as an education counselor at a boys' and girls' club, hopes to challenge his young students to use their words to speak out and change the world.
The center also has a theater, where Adams finds Stephen McCandless, a former Microsoft employee, and Bret Fetzer, a playwright and director, are working on a play based on McCandless' experiences as a $9-per-hour emergency medical technician.
And on the bleachers of a baseball field across the street from the Hugo House, Adams speaks with Sarah-Katherine Lewis, a self-described sex worker who writes an online journal. She reads an essay she has written about kissing. Lewis, 32, says she hopes to make enough money to earn a living as a writer by the time she's too old to be a sex worker.
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Walter Mosley's latest novel, The Man in My Basement, examines race, power and identity -- core subjects of much of his past work. But this time he has even more fundamental mysteries in mind.
"I wanted to show a meeting between evil and innocence," he tells NPR's Cheryl Corley during a discussion of his book and its underlying themes.
Mosley pursues that goal by matching two characters whose lives are worlds apart.
Charles Blakey, the protagonist, is an African-American slacker who has lived a directionless life since being fired from his latest job. One day, Anniston Bennett, a wealthy, 57-year-old WASP, appears at Charles' doorstep and offers $50,000 to rent his basement for the summer. But there are a few conditions:
As a kind of self-punishment, Bennett transforms the basement into a locked cage. And an experimental relationship unfolds with Bennett playing the role of a white prisoner, with Blakey as his black jailer.
Mosley uses the mock prison-cell setting to play with the dynamics of race, freedom and manipulation. In exploring those topics, he gives a nod to classic existentialist novels of the past.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Josiah-Jordan James scored a career-high 23 points, including back-to-back 3-pointers that gave No. 13 Tennessee the lead early in the second half, and the Vols overcame a slow start to beat struggling Georgia 75-68 on Tuesday night.
Georgia led 44-43 following a 3-pointer by Kario Oquendo. James answered with his 3s on consecutive possessions, and another 3 from James capped Tennessee's 11-0 run for a 54-44 lead.
Tennessee (22-7, 13-4 Southeastern Conference) began the day tied with No. 14 Arkansas and No. 7 Kentucky for second place in the league, one game behind No. 5 Auburn.
Kennedy Chandler had 16 points for the Vols.
Georgia (6-24, 1-16) suffered its 10th consecutive loss since beating Alabama on Jan. 25, its only SEC win. The Bulldogs have lost 18 of 19 games.
Aaron Cook led Georgia with 17 points and Kario Oquendo had 16.
Tennessee took a 64-49 lead but couldn't put the game away. Georgia closed the deficit to four points but couldn't score on two possessions when it had the opportunity to pull even closer.
Back-to-back baskets by John Fulkerson helped the Vols stop Georgia's comeback.
The Bulldogs enjoyed a rare streak of explosive offense in the first half to cap an 8-0 run.
Oquendo started a streak of three consecutive jams by the Bulldogs when he scored following a steal and assist by Christian Wright. Jabri Abdur-Rahim added a dunk following a steal by Noah Baumann before Oquendo's powerful one-handed jam on a fast break gave the Bulldogs a 24-18 lead.
There were scattered boos for Georgia fourth-year coach Tom Crean during pregame introductions. Crean fell to 47-73 overall and a dismal 15-56 in SEC games in his fourth season.
The 24 losses this season are the most in Georgia history. The Bulldogs have one more opportunity to avoid finishing the season with only one conference win for the first time in the program's history.
BIG PICTURE
Tennessee: Led by James' long-distance shooting, the Vols enjoyed a strong recovery from a sluggish first half. The Vols struggled defensively in the first half, allowing the Bulldogs to make 51.7% of their shots from the field and claim a 22-16 advantage in the paint. Only five 3-pointers, including three by Santiago Vescovi, allowed Tennessee to settle for a 35-35 halftime tie.
Georgia: The Bulldogs can't be accused of giving up on Crean or the season. Even so, their performance remained too flawed to sustain a strong first half. The Bulldogs' 12 turnovers were a problem, but the more telling was Georgia's deficit on the boards. Tennessee had a 39-28 advantage in rebounds.
UP NEXT
Tennessee: Closes its regular season at home on Saturday when it plays No. 14 Arkansas. The Vols lost at Arkansas 58-48 on Feb. 19.
Georgia: At Missouri on Saturday to end its regular season.
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June Lockhart was a TV staple in the 1950s and '60s, playing Timmy's mom on Lassie and Maureen Robinson on Lost in Space. The actress, who recently helped open a lunchbox exhibit at the Smithsonian, takes a fun look back at those shows -- and discusses more recent interests: NASA and C-SPAN.
In an interview with NPR's Bob Edwards, Lockhart describes how Lassie's fight scenes were done and recalls a Lost in Space episode ("The Great Vegetable Rebellion") that left her in stitches. "Every time somebody sat down, you took root," she says.
In the 1950s, Lockhart was a panelist, along with White House correspondents, on the TV quiz show Who Said That? Ever since then, Lockhart has had an open invitation to attend White House press briefings, which she considers fun. She's also an avid watcher of C-SPAN and a NASA groupie -- astronauts have told her watching Lost in Space inspired them to seek their careers. "I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer,'" Lockhart says with a laugh.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — All the Buffalo Bills wanted in January was one more chance to beat Kansas City.
Now they're trying to make sure no NFL team begins the offseason as it did.
On Tuesday, more than a month after enduring a crushing AFC divisional round loss without ever touching the ball in overtime, Bills general manager Brandon Beane threw his support behind a proposal to change the league's postseason rules.
“Ours is going to be more instead of one possession and then you get the other possession, is a time, similar to in basketball, you play five minutes," Beane said.
“Baseball, both teams get the top half and the bottom half (of an inning). So a time limit, and I’m talking about postseason only. That way, both teams will definitely have a chance and maybe even more than one possession."
Beane acknowledged the league's competition committee could field multiple proposals during this week's meeting at the annual NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, joking there could be one from all 32 teams. No decision is expected this week.
And it's not just current Bills jumping on board.
Colts coach Frank Reich, the former quarterback who orchestrated the NFL's greatest comeback during his tenure in Buffalo, also supports the move. Reich is a first-year committee member and is uncertain what that might include.
“It’s basically something that would guarantee each team a possession,” Reich said. “My opinion is that I think there’s a place for both teams to have a possession. But I can see both sides of it. You’ve got 60 minutes to win a game, so go win the game. Or play defense.”
The NFL last changed its overtime rules in 2010 after complaints the coin flip often determined the winner. Under the current system, if the opening possession of overtime results in a touchdown or a defensive score, the game ends. That's what happened to Buffalo.
But if the opening possession results in a field goal, the opposing team gets a chance to tie the score or win the game. Those rules apply throughout the entire season.
And now the Bills want every playoff team to get one last opportunity.
“I think, experiencing what we experienced overall, I think there’s a better way out there," Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “We’ve got some ideas and I think they’ll help move the game forward. And we’ll see where it goes."
OPEN DOOR POLICY
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians won't be shutting the door on seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady anytime soon.
Exactly one month after Brady announced his retirement, Arians acknowledged Brady's replacement already may be on the roster. Tampa Bay drafted Kyle Trask in the second round last year.
But if Brady changed his mind, well, the Bucs would welcome him back.
“That door is never closed. Whenever Tom wants back, he’s back," Arians said.
Would the Bucs be as accommodating if Brady wanted to play for another team?
“Nope," Arians said. “Bad business.”
TRADING PLACES?
Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke holds the No. 1 overall pick for the second straight year.
He doesn't need another quarterback after selecting Trevor Lawrence last season and even though this year's college quarterback class is light on star power, it's created speculation about a possible trade.
“You are always open for business," Baalke said. “To say we won’t shop it is probably not 100% correct. To say we will, is probably not either. We’ll see if something comes our way that makes sense to us.”
But it might not be the same kind of seller's market Colts general manager Chris Ballard found in 2018 when the shipped the No. 3 overall selection to the New York Jets.
“You need a little luck and you need someone to covet a player up high," he said. “That was a really heavy quarterback draft, people were reaching up to get them so it worked out. This year, I don't know."
SO LONG, SAQUON?
Giants general manager Joe Schoen said difficult decisions are forthcoming as he finagles his team under the salary cap. He might even consider trading running back Saquon Barkley, the No. 2 overall pick in 2018.
“We’re still working through that, but I’m open to everything, whether it’s trading player for player. I’ll listen to anybody if it’s trading a couple players,” Schoen said.
“Again, we’re in a situation where unfortunately we have to get under the salary cap and we’re not in very good salary cap health. Again, I’m not going to say yes to every deal, but I’m definitely going to listen and I’ll be open to the situations that are best for the New York Giants.”
OVER THERE
One day after league officials announced the Green Bay Packers would play in London in the 2022 season, general manager Brian Gutekunst said the team's large, loyal fan base was enthused. Green Bay is the only NFL team that hasn't played a regular-season game in London since the international series began in 2007.
“Our fans are excited," Gutekunst said. “I've been getting texts ever since the announcement. So Packers Nation will show up strong."
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NPR's Robert Siegel talks with writer Gilbert Sorrentino about Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, who died Monday. Sorrentino grew up with Selby, says he made literature out of a kind of language that few writers dared use before. He was not the rough hewn person characterized in his prose. His inspiration was growing up on the streets.
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Jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall's latest CD is called The Girl In The Other Room.
The release is a departure from her past work, in that it bypasses interpretations of jazz standards in favor of new songs written by Krall and her husband, Elvis Costello.
Critics have given the record a warm reception, saying it points Krall in an exciting new direction. Tom Moon has a review of the album, released March 27 by Verve records.
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Alan Cheuse reviews Little Black Book of Stories, by English writer A.S. Byatt. Three of the five stories included in the collection touch on the weird, the ghostly, and the miraculous.
Copyright 2004 NPR
Alan Cheuse reviews Little Black Book of Stories, by English writer A.S. Byatt. Three of the five stories included in the collection touch on the weird, the ghostly, and the miraculous.
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Dorie McCullough Lawson's new book features letters to children written by John Adams, Barbara Bush, Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Beecher, among others. Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children, written by the daughter of historian David McCullough, spans three centuries of letters from famous parents. Hear McCullough Lawson and NPR's Bob Edwards.
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Herman Wouk, the 88-year-old author of The Caine Mutiny and The Winds of War, talks to NPR's Bob Edwards about A Hole in Texas -- the first novel he's written in 10 years. The book tells the story of a scientist whose scuttled work on the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas becomes a matter of Hollywood interest and national security.
An excerpt from A Hole in Texas:
Wincing at each move, he dressed, limped out to the garage, and eased himself into his car. When he pressed the garage-door opener, nothing happened. What now? Low battery? He lurched to Penny's car and tried her remote. It did not work, either. The wall button goosed the door to rattle upward a foot, then it halted. He had never before tried using the manual lift. How did it work, exactly? He grasped the thick rough cord in both hands and with excruciating pain hauled the screeching door halfway up, where it stuck. His lower back aflame, pulsating, he called the project scientist on his cell phone to beg off from the meeting.
She was unsympathetic. "Guy, take a couple of Aleves. Peter's on his way. Why don't I alert him to pick you up? You've got to be here."
"Why me, Ottoline? I'm crippled, I tell you —"
"You know more about the Superconducting Super Collider than anyone here."
"The Super Collider? So what? It was killed back in '93. It's dead and forgotten."
"Not anymore."
"How's that? For crying out loud, Ottoline, what's up?"
"Not over the phone. I'll page Peter and see you in a bit."
Penny said, "Aleve, my foot," and gave him two of her migraine capsules. "These will do the trick."
"Codeine? I'll be a zombie," he protested, downing them.
"All the better. Don't commit yourself to anything involving colliders."
"Not with a knife at my throat."
Soft soothing warmth gradually suffused his back as he waited for Peter Braunstein. Memories flooded him, memories long suppressed, released and made dreamily vivid by the opiate. Those years in alien Texas, years of working his heart out on that stupendous machine; years of the greatest fun and challenge in his life, and the worst frustration! He knew too much, that was the trouble. The monster might well have worked, but then again, every one of those ten thousand supermagnets had to function flawlessly, and they were his responsibility. He had fought in vain for more time, more careful designing, more testing. Hurry, hurry, national prestige at stake, get the thing going, then see! That was the word from on high, with unsubtle slurs about his foot-dragging...
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He was the first president to golf while in office, but despite the energy of a 350-pound build and potential to hit the long ball, William Howard Taft was one of the worst presidential golfers. The best? John F. Kennedy, bad back and all. That's the lowdown from journalist Don Van Natta Jr., author of First Off the Tee, a book about golf and those who played it in the White House.
In an interview with NPR's Bob Edwards, the New York Times reporter notes that golf is the sport of presidents -- 14 of the last 17 commanders-in-chief took a swing at it. "It's a way to really judge their character" Van Natta says. "They're really themselves out on the golf course."
He says U.S. presidents find the sport "a mind game. They just love the camaraderie. They love being out away from the pressures of the Oval Office.
Van Natta gives Edwards a tour of presidential golf history:
• William Howard Taft. "Theodore Roosevelt warned him not to play because people were laughing behind his back and even to his face. But he insisted on playing anyway and he was really a trailblazer for all the presidential golf nuts to come." Taft "did everything he could to play golf. He had a visit once with a Chilean diplomat and he said, 'I'll be damned if I'm going to give up my golf game to see this fellow.' He went out to Chevy Chase and played 18 holes."
• Calvin Coolidge. "The absolute worst" player. "He didn't even dress for the game. He went out there dressed as if he was going to a dinner party. On the first tee, people didn't know whether he was going to make a toast or hit a golf ball."
• Woodrow Wilson. He played almost every day. The only day he didn't play was Sunday. "He played in the snow... with golf balls painted red by the Secret Service men. [But he] never got good despite all that practice."
• Ronald Reagan. He played only about a dozen times while in office, but he loved to putt around. There are photos of him putting on Air Force One and in the Oval Office.
• Dwight Eisenhower. "Ike made the game accessible to people and he made the game cool." He was actually good at it, loved it and looked good playing it. Eisenhower played 800 times during his eight years in office and had a putting green installed on the south lawn of the White House. He broke 80 on a dozen occasions.
• John Kennedy. Though he was a great golfer, JFK didn't want to be seen playing because he wanted to contrast with his predecessor's image of golfing his way through the presidency. "JFK and his aides made a lot of hay out of Ike's golf playing. They called him the Duffer in Chief... They kept [JFK's] game in the closet. In fact, Americans didn't really realize JFK loved golf until several months after he was in office. They let the cat out of the bag only because there were all these rumors about JFK and other extracurricular activities. He was sneaking off doing other things and [spokesman] Pierre Salinger had to tell people, 'No, no, no. He's playing golf.' That was better than the alternative."
• Gerald Ford. "He hit many, many people with golf balls and took a lot of ribbing from Bob Hope and many other comedians, Chevy Chase among them." Van Natta says Ford hit more spectators because he tended to play in tournaments where crowds lined both sides of the fairway, in contrast to Eisenhower and Kennedy, who preferred to play without an audience. But Ford, an athlete, was actually a good golfer.
• Lyndon Johnson. He "really tore it up. He would take 300, sometimes 400 swings to get around an 18-hole golf course... he just wanted the feel of one perfect golf shot and if it took 400 swings to do it, he was going to do it. He was the president and nobody was going to get in his way."
• Bill Clinton. He leads the book's Hail to the Cheats section, which also features Richard Nixon, Warren Harding and Johnson. Van Natta golfed with Clinton last summer. "He followed the rules for about a hole and a half. Then he let down his guard and started taking these do-over shots, gimme putts and at the end of the 18 holes, it took him about 200 swings to score an 82."
• The Bushes. They play "aerobic golf," a fast-paced version of the game. "In contrast to Clinton, who will take six hours to get through 18 holes with no one in front of him, the Bushes want to get off the course as quickly as possible. The score doesn't matter. It's the time elapsed that matters the most to the Bushes."
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LATHAM, N.Y. (AP) _ Plug Power Inc. (PLUG) on Tuesday reported a loss of $192.9 million in its fourth quarter.
The Latham, New York-based company said it had a loss of 33 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 32 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 12 cents per share.
The alternative energy company posted revenue of $161.9 million in the period, surpassing Street forecasts. Eight analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $158.4 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $460 million, or 82 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $502.3 million.
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Graham Parker's sarcasm and anger were the trademark of his Squeezing Out Sparks. Nearly three decades after making quintessential bar-band rock with his group The Rumour, the sharp-tongued Englishman releases a more folksy, roots-oriented CD called Your Country. Meredith Ochs has a review.
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The Stax Museum of American Soul Music opens Friday in Memphis, Tenn., honoring the recording studio that once churned out hundreds of R&B and pop hits. The Stax studio -- built in a movie theater that once stood on the same site as the new museum -- drew music talent from all over the South, including Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes. Stax became known for the trademark rich, gritty soul that defined its sound. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.
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Tuesday's Mark Steyn Show started with a Ukrainian update and then a look at the broader challenges the country faces - which, as longtime Steyn readers won't be surprised to hear, are rooted in demography. Mark Steyn Club member William Fleishman joined us from Ukraine with his take.
With influential US think-tankers calling for "regime change" at the Kremlin, Mary Dejesky assessed how much peril Putin is in, after which Sergey Panashchuk reported from Mark's (sort of) ancestral home of Odessa.
Man cannot live on imminent nuclear apocalypse alone, so we rounded out the hour with Ray Williams, the man who teamed Elton John with Bernie Taupin.
All that plus your comments and questions. Click below to view the full show:
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After disappointing returns from The Alamo and The Punisher, Hollywood awaits next weekend's opening of Van Helsing. It's a traditionally slow time of year for movie theaters. Los Angeles Times critic Ken Turan speaks with NPR's Bob Edwards about why that is.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
0-7-2
(zero, seven, two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
0-7-2
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