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With enough lifeguards, all public pools now open in City of Austin

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:25:02 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — As the summer starts off with a heatwave, public pools are popular places to cool down.Starting on Monday, all 32 operational pools opened for the season in the City of Austin.This marks the first time since 2019 that the city has opened all its public pools.According to the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, there are 712 lifeguards staffed while many more are in training.“We're really hoping to have around 850 lifeguards this summer,” City of Austin aquatic supervisor Aaron Levine said. “We have training classes going on each week.”Last summer, less than half of the city’s pools opened at the beginning of June because of a lifeguard shortage.This year, PARD has seen a significant surge in applications. During the month of May, the department received 35% of their total applications for the entire year.Levine said much of this can be credited to the city’s summer employee bonus program, aimed at attracting applicants for various part-time positions. MORE: Aus...

National High School BBQ Championship coming to Central Texas

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:25:02 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Teams from around the country will be in Hutto, Texas this weekend preparing their rubs, sauces, and meat ahead of the National High School Barbecue Championship. PREVIOUS: Local high school students compete in state BBQ championship Next Monday, the cooking will begin with pork chops, skirt steak, chicken, ribs, and pork butt.The competition runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 19 at Texas State Technical College. National High School BBQ Championship Director Mike Erickson talked with KXAN about how this started, and what to expect. Tom Miller: What is the National High School Barbecue Championship?Mike Erickson: It started as a group of educators, and it's high schools, teachers and schools from all over the state of Texas, and now we have it in Missouri and Florida. The kids are competing for scholarships and trophies, and it's the top high school barbecue teams in America.Tom: This started out in Burnet years ago. How is it developed?Mike: I was a teacher at Ver...

Long commutes after I-95 collapse in Philadelphia

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:25:02 GMT

PHILADELPHIA — Drivers began longer commutes Monday after an elevated section of Interstate 95 collapsed in Philadelphia a day earlier following damage caused by a tanker truck carrying flammable cargo catching fire.Sunday’s fire closed a heavily traveled segment of the East Coast’s main north-south highway indefinitely. Newscasts warned of traffic nightmares and gave advice on detours, urging drivers to take more time to travel.“This is really going to have a ripple effect throughout the region,” AAA spokesperson Jana Tidwell said Monday. She advised people to avoid peak travel times.Tidwell also anticipated that drivers will incur additional costs — “more gasoline, more wear and tear on their cars, additional tolls, in terms of leaving Pennsylvania into New Jersey and then back into Pennsylvania.”The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said it was operating three extra morning and late afternoon trains on its Trenton, New Jersey, line, and adding capacity to regular...

Broadview Federal Credit Union debit cards experiencing trouble

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:25:02 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- According to an online statement from Broadview Federal Credit Union, some members are having issues going to use their debit cards. Broadview says they are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Stick with News10 for updates regarding the ongoing debit card issue.

NE-YO, Robin Thicke, Mario to perform at SPAC

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:25:02 GMT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- On Monday, three-time Grammy winner NE-YO announced his "Champagne and Roses Tour" with special guests Robin Thicke and Mario. The tour will come to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) on Thursday, September 14. Presale tickets will be available starting Tuesday, and general on sale starting Friday online. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! R&B singer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur NE-YO is a three-time Grammy winner who's had three albums chart at number one on SoundScan's Top Current Albums. NE-YO is known for his charting songs such as "Because of You," "She Knows," "So Sick," and "Time of Our Lives." He has film and television credits including NBC's Word of Dance, Netflix's Dance Monsters, Empire, Stomp the Yard, and more. He most recently released his eighth full-length album "Self Explanatory."Robin Thicke is a five-time Grammy winner whose 2013 album "Blurred Lines" ...

De-risking: Alternative stratégique ou multiplication de risques ?

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:25:02 GMT

En moins de deux mois, le mot « de-risking » est devenu viral dans la sphère géopolitique. Passé de l’anonymat à l’omniprésence, et approuvé lors d’un sommet du G7, il est considéré comme une inflexion majeure dans la manière dont l’Europe définit les défis posés par la Chine. Un débat qui est pourtant loin de faire consensus, écrit Yi Da (Observateur des relations internationales et sino-européennes).Pour y voir clair, il est essentiel de comprendre l’enjeu qui sous-tend ce nouveau terme et d’en avoir une vision juste.Le spectre de la méfiance derrière le « de-risking »Quand on parle de « de-risking », on fait a priori allusion à la dépendance économique de l’Europe par rapport à la Chine, une situation préoccupante aux yeux des Européens, qui s’engagent désormais à rendre leurs chaînes d’approvisionnement plus résilientes. Un choix bien compréhensible, mais à relativiser tout de même.En effet, un rapport européen montre que moins de 1% des importations européen...

What it's like to wear Apple's $3,500 VR headset

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:25:02 GMT

Putting on Apple's $3,500 new VR headset, called Vision Pro, is like stepping into the future.I was taken by surprise because at first, it looked a lot like the room I was in. Then, the words "Hello" were being written in 3D, hanging in the space in front of me.It was at this moment where I smiled and realized the world has changed, once again.Follow Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro on Instagram!Soon, I was placing virtual Safari, iMessage and other computing windows in the space around me. I could resize them as big or as small as I wanted, and they just hang there.Actually doing work in these windows might be another story, as I wasn't able to do much more than scroll through some text on a webpage or watch a message arrive. I brought up an on-screen keyboard which floated in front of me.The device requires no physical controllers. You use your eyes to "look" at a button you want to hit, then pinch your fingers ever so slightly together to select it. It worked flawlessly for the most par...

California skate park named for Black driver fatally beaten during traffic stop

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:25:02 GMT

Officials dedicated a California skate park Sunday in honor of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who spent much of his youth in the state and was killed last January in what prosecutors said was a fatal beating by police in Tennessee during a traffic stop.An avid skateboarder, Nichols spent much time as a youth at the park on the outskirts of Sacramento. City officials and others held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated skate park now named for Nichols.Nichols moved to Memphis, Tennessee, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic and lived there with his mother and stepfather. He enjoyed photography — especially taking photos of landscapes and sunsets.“Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way. It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people,” Nichols wrote on his website showcasing his photos.Sacramento City Councilwoman Lisa Kaplan, right, consoles Tyre Nichols' mother RowVaughn Wells, left, at the ribbon cutting celebration for the Tyre Nichols Skat...

Shooting at Northern California birthday party leaves teen dead, 6 injured

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:25:02 GMT

A shooting at a birthday party killed an 18-year-old woman and injured six others in Northern California early Sunday, police said.The Antioch Police Department responded to multiple 911 calls about a shooting just before 1 a.m., the department said in a statement.Multiple shots were fired after some people arrived uninvited at a birthday party for a 19-year-old man at a home in the city about 45 miles (72 km) northeast of San Francisco.Victims and a large crowd were found by officers outside the home, police said.The 18-year-old woman was transported to an area hospital, where she died, police said.The victims who suffered non-life-threatening injuries included an 18-year-old man and a 19-year-old man, two 19-year-old women and two 20-year-old women.Some of the victims transported themselves to area hospitals after “a panic where attendees ... fled in multiple directions and into the neighborhood,” police said.The Antioch police said a suspect or suspects fled the scene before offi...

Farewell Festival Season! A Look Back at Cruel World, BeachLife and More

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:25:02 GMT

The term “festival season” has become a bit of an eye-roller thanks to soulless branding, culture vulture commodification and overzealous hashtaggery, but the abundance of Spring flings the past couple of months has made the concept a very real and restless reality. Coachella kicked off outdoor flocking in April, and in its (literal) dust came a manic May filled with choice all-day happenings that Millenials, Gen-Xers and their elders found themselves having to mentally and physically prepare for. Gen-Z kids were more than ready since last year’s fest flurry, bless ‘em.But first we all had to acquire tickets, which meant enduring online waiting rooms and exorbitant processing fees (special thanks to The Cure’s Robert Smith for fighting the good fight for fans against Ticketmaster). Then we needed to get “festival ready”– and we’re not talking about fashion or fitness. The heat; the trek; the traffic; the pricey merch and food; the set time conflicts; and the overall prodigious...