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Santa Barbara Strings will present the 10th iteration of its unique multimedia Story-Telling with Strings Attached project as part of its Spring Concert, 4 p.m. Saturday, May 10 at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall. The Santa Barbara Strings provides training for musicians, ages 4-19 years, in three progressive levels. (Courtesy photo) Using composer Prokofiev’s age-old classic tale of “Peter and the Wolf” as a template, this year’s student authors of the story wrote an original narration titled “The Five Obstacles.” Student musicians then wrote accompanying tunes/themes to be worked into a complete composition for string orchestra by…
New York Yankees’ slugger Aaron Judge smashed a solo home run in the first inning against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Bangladesh has substantially reduced its outstanding dues to India’s Adani Power related to a power-supply deal and the company is confident of recovering the roughly $900 million still remaining, its chief financial officer said.Bangladesh has struggled to pay its dues per the deal, signed in 2017, as imports got costly since the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022 and amid the domestic political turmoil last August that led to the ouster of the country’s prime minister.As a result, Adani had halved supply last year but CFO Dilip Jha said the company has resumed full supply since as the country’s monthly payments started…
NEW YORK — Passengers with flights to or from Newark Liberty International Airport encountered long delays and cancellations Saturday due to an air traffic controller shortage, a nationwide problem the Trump administration has pledged to fix.The busy airport outside New York City experienced disruptions all week. Faulting the Federal Aviation Administration’s alleged failure to address “long-simmering” challenges related to the air-traffic control system, United Airlines cut 35 daily flights from its Newark schedule starting Saturday. United CEO Scott Kirby said the technology used to manage planes at the New Jersey airport failed more than once in recent days. The flight…
Windows 7 came onto the market in 2009 and put Microsoft back on the road to success after Windows Vista’s annoying failures. But Windows 7 was not without its faults, as this curious story proves. Some users apparently encountered a vexing problem at the time: if they set a single-color image as the background, their Windows 7 PC always took 30 seconds to start the operating system and switch from the welcome screen to the desktop. In a recent blog post, Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains the exact reason for this. According to him, a simple programming error meant that…
Video Details The New York Knicks eliminated the Detroit Pistons in Game 6 by a score of 116-113. Craig Carton, Danny Parkins, and Mark Schlereth ask if there was any doubt entering the final minutes of the game and how impressive the win was for the Knicks. 1 DAY AGO・breakfast ball・4:06
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Aside from being arguably the most famous city in North America, no city has more titles in the “Big Four” sports than New York.However, the most notable New York team is without a doubt the Yankees. The Yanks played in the World Series in 2024 and have the most championships in MLB history with 27 World Series wins.But with a city full of stars, who shines the brightest?We ranked the 10 best athletes currently in the Big Apple.10 biggest athletes in New York City Nicknamed “The Polar Bear,” Alonso is a pure masher, having delivered 30 or more homers in…
President Trump shared an AI-generated photo of himself dressed as the pope just days after telling reporters that he’d “like to be pope.”The image – which Mr. Trump first posted on his social media platform Truth Social – was also shared by the White House’s official social media account on Friday. It comes as cardinals from around the world are set to gather in Vatican City to choose Pope Francis’ successor as the leader of the Catholic Church.The image shows Mr. Trump seated in an ornate chair, dressed in white papal vestments and headdress, with a finger raised. pic.twitter.com/x2HrR939tn— The White…
McDonald’s, a stalwart American fast food chain, posted a steep sales drop at U.S. restaurants in its first quarter earnings report Thursday, citing economic uncertainty and diminished consumer sentiment.”Heightened anxiety” about the economy, driven largely by tariffs, is weighing on lower-income Americans, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski said on the call. The burger chain’s same-store sales in the U.S. declined 3.6% in the first quarter, reflecting economic pressures weighing on low- and middle-income consumers in particular, McDonald’s said on its earnings call. That marks the biggest U.S. decline for the company since the COVID-19 pandemic forced stores to close nationwide.Kempczinski added that…