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Should San Jose ask developers to pay for public art?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:10 GMT

(BCN) -- San Jose creatives want more funding for the arts--and they are turning to the city for help.San Jose Arts Advocates, a coalition of art and culture leaders, is asking city officials to move forward on applying a "percent for art policy" on new development to fund art and culture projects. The coalition held a meeting Thursday to prepare for a city council arts funding study session on Nov. 30. Pregnant woman, baby killed in San Jose hit-and-run crash The city council first broached the idea in 2007 with a goal to implement it by 2020, but it didn't happen. In 2020, just a month before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, six councilmembers approved of the fee creation as one of the city's top priorities. But priorities shifted during the pandemic. The hospitality sector collapsed and revenue from a tax charged to hotel guests--the city's main funding for art projects--plummeted.Brendan Rawson, executive director of San Jose Jazz and a founding member of San Jose Arts Advocates, sa...

AP Top 25 Takeaways: No. 6 OU upset; No. 8 Oregon flexes; No. 1 UGA, No. 4 FSU roll before CFP debut

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:10 GMT

The upsets have arrived.Kansas made it two weeks in a row with an unranked team beating a top-10 team, when the Jayhawks knocked No. 6 Oklahoma out of the ranks of the unbeaten Saturday to snap an 18-game losing streak against the Sooners.OU’s loss comes a week after then-No. 10 North Carolina lost to Virginia at home, and three days before the first College Football Playoff rankings are released. Before the Tar Heels were tripped up, there hadn’t been a top-10 loss to an unranked team since Week 1.Kansas’ upset wasn’t as stunning at Virginia’s. These are not your older brother’s Jayhawks (6-2). Coach Lance Leipold has Kansas bowl eligible for the second year in a row. That’s only happened one other time in the history of the program.“It’s time for me to start talking about how far we’ve come,” Leipold said.In just three seasons in Lawrence, Leipold has turned around what was the worst Power Five program. The Jayhawks won 21 games from 2010-...

Wrong distance takes women’s walk race athletes to mistaken world record at Pan American Games

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:10 GMT

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Peru’s Kimberly García thought she set the world record in the women’s 20 kilometers walk race at the Pan American Games. She later found out she didn’t.Organizers of the largest multi-sports in the continent said in a statement that the times of the race were annulled due to “a measuring problem” in Santiago’s O’Higgins Park. They blamed the Association of Pan American Athletics for the mistake.Athletes believe the distance they ran in Chile was about 3 kilometers (almost 1.9 miles) shorter.The gross mistake adds to Santiago’s woes in the organization of the Pan American Games, which started on Oct. 20 and finish on Nov. 5.García finished her race in a cold and damp morning in 1 hour, 12 minutes and 26 seconds. The record belongs to China’s Jiayu Yang in 1 hour, 23 minutes and 49 seconds. Eleven other competitors seemingly finished their race below the world record. “We do control our pace a lot and right out of the g...

Mbappe scores late winner as PSG edges Brest 3-2 in French league

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:10 GMT

BREST, France (AP) — Kylian Mbappe scored twice to reach 250 goals in his club career as defending champion Paris Saint-Germain edged Brest 3-2 to stay a point behind provisional leader Nice in the French league on Sunday. Nice had beaten Clermont 1-0 to take the provisional league lead on Friday but Monaco can snatch back top spot with a victory at Lille later Sunday. Mbappe scored the winner in the 89th minute with his league-leading 10th goal this season. The France striker converted the rebound after Brest goalkeeper Marco Bizot had saved his penalty, which was awarded after a video review showed that Lilian Brassier had tripped Randal Kolo Muani. Mbappe was shown a yellow card for taunting Brest supporters while celebrating his goal. There was no love lost between them as the supporters replied with insulting chants. PSG midfielder Warren Zaire-Emery opened the scoring in the 16th by evading a challenge from Hugo Magnetti on the edge of the box to unleash a powerful strike into...

How to prepare for increase in avalanche danger with new snow accumulation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:10 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Any time there is a snowstorm, it increases the risk of avalanche danger.The natural hazard kills six people on average in Colorado every year. Live Updates: Tracking snow and cold weather in Denver, across Colorado Ethan Greene, director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, told FOX31 it takes a little bit of knowledge, training and the proper equipment to avoid them. The map on the CAIC's website showed no avalanche danger in the state of Colorado on Saturday, but forecasters said that's all about to change. “Anytime we have a snowstorm, we’re going to see the increase in the avalanche danger," Greene said.He said how much and where the avalanche danger increases depends on the time of year.“We document over 5,000 avalanches a year. We put out daily products for public recreation and for the Colorado Department of Transportation to manage the avalanche threats to the state and federal highways. Every day starting in November and going into Memorial Day,"...

American hockey player Adam Johnson dies after getting cut in the neck by a skate in England

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:10 GMT

NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) — American hockey player Adam Johnson, who appeared in 13 NHL games with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2019 and 2020, has died after his neck was cut by a skate blade during a game in England on Saturday, his team said. He was 29.Johnson was playing for the Nottingham Panthers in a Challenge Cup game against the Sheffield Steelers when he suffered the skate cut during the second period of the Elite Ice Hockey League game at Sheffield’s Utilita Arena.“The Nottingham Panthers are truly devastated to announce that Adam Johnson has tragically passed away following a freak accident at the game in Sheffield last night," the team said Sunday.“The Panthers would like to send our thoughts and condolences to Adam’s family, his partner and all his friends at this extremely difficult time. Everyone at the club including players, staff, management and ownership are heartbroken at the news of Adam’s passing."A Minnesota native, Johnson spent 13 games over parts of the 2018-1...

US national security adviser defends Israel’s efforts to defeat Hamas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:10 GMT

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan defended Israel’s campaign against Hamas on Sunday, amid mounting criticism of the Israeli military’s deadly siege of Gaza following the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack.“What a lot of people are calling for is just a stop to Israeli military action against terrorists period. Just stop, no more, Israel cannot go after terrorists who conducted this largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust,” Sullivan said during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “We have taken the position that Israel has a right to defend itself against terrorist attacks.”Hamas launched its attack on Israel on Oct. 7, killing over 1,400 people and seizing more than 200 hostages; it has continued to launch rocket attacks. Israel has retaliated with daily airstrikes and a siege of Gaza, where more than two million people live. Israeli strikes had knocked out most internet and phone connectivity in Gaza late earlier in the week, but communications had been restored...

Iranian foreign minister deflects question about threatening US

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:10 GMT

Iran’s foreign minister said his country doesn’t want the Israel-Hamas war to expand but declined to say that Iran would not get involved in broader regional fighting.Speaking via a translator on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian did not directly answer a question as to whether he was threatening the United States during a speech Thursday. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly that day, he said of the United States, “If the genocide in Gaza continues, they will not be spared from the fire.”On Sunday, he told interviewer Bianna Golodryga: “We don’t want this war to spread out.”But, while not answering Golodryga’s question as to whether Iran was threatening American forces, he condemned the United States for “interfering in all aspects of the region.”Amir-Abdollahian also said that Iran was not responsible for Hamas’ attacks on Israel or any strikes in the region either against Israel or American forces in the area, including by Hezbollah, its close ...

Sánchez’s backing of Catalan amnesty sparks big far-right protest

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:10 GMT

Thousands of people, mainly from the ranks of far-right group Vox, took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday to protest government’s backing of amnesty for Catalan separatists, a measure they claim conflicts with upholding the country’s rule of law.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Saturday said he was in favor of the controversial amnesty toward those involved in Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid. Sánchez, of the Socialist Party (PSOE), argued that the time was ripe for Catalonia to undergo a “total reunion,” noting how a 2021 pardon of high-ranking separatists had been instrumental in easing divisions within the country. “Overcoming definitively the conflict would require other measures in the future because we can’t leave this wound open indefinitely,” Sánchez told party members on Saturday. Sánchez said the move was the “only way” to persuade Catalonia’s parties, such as ERC and JxCat, to endorse him in forming a new Spanish government, a...

Trade talks between Australia and EU collapse

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:10 GMT

Last-chance negotiations on a trade agreement between Australia and the European Union have fallen through, Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell said on Sunday. “Unfortunately, we have not been able to make progress,” Farrell said in a video statement after informal discussions between Canberra and Brussels. “Negotiations will continue and I am hopeful that, one day, we will sign a deal that benefits both Australia and our European friends.” The talks, held on the sidelines of a meeting of G7 trade ministers in Japan, were seen as a last-ditch attempt for the two sides to bridge remaining gaps.Australia performed a theatrical walk-out in July, objecting that the offer on the table wouldn’t open the EU market sufficiently to its farm produce. The Australian trade minister warned over the weekend that he’d be ready to walk away again if the offer from Brussels was “not good enough” for Australia. He also said that failure to reach a...