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Scotsman
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Greenbelt Festival launches NO FLY ZONE, its virtual live-streaming ticket venue
Ever missed out on a festival? It's time to end the FOMO. Greenbelt Festival is launching the NO FLY ZONE, a new virtual venue in partnership with Christian Aid. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The NO FLY ZONE will live stream from morning until night throughout the festival weekend. Think of it as a mini-festival from the comfort of your own home, watch anywhere in the world. And the icing on the festival cake? A NO FLY ZONE virtual festival-goer weekend ticket is just £35! It's often said that Greenbelt is a festival that defies simple description; a mix of music, artistry, activism, belief, theatre, comedy, art and ideas. It's somewhere to belong to, somewhere to believe in. Greenbelt's NO FLY ZONE venue offers just that. Now you can be part of it without physically being there. The venue will livestream pretty much 100% of its programming every day; it'll feel like a condensed microcosm of Greenbelt Festival at large. Catch some festival favourites… NO FLY ZONE TICKET PRICING PHENOMENAL SONGWRITERS Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Don't miss Martyn Joseph, a completely unique, mind-blowing artist. His talent is compelling, energetic and passionate. Each day he'll be hosting his songwriter circle show The Rising live from the NO FLY ZONE where he'll be joined by a guest from another part of the world as well as a live guest. Remote singer-songwriters include the brilliant talents of Canadian Dave Gunning, American Crys Matthews and Englishman abroad Tom McRae SLAM DUNK Slam-poetry and spoken word legend, Harry Baker, will be offering up a daily injection of Worldwide Woken Spurred. Prepared to be thrilled and inspired by the blistering wordplay from slam poets Luka Lesson from Australia, and Lyndsay Rush (aka Mary Oliver's Drunk Cousin online) from the States. NO FLY ZONE PROGRAMME POETRY EXPOSED Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama will be hosting a Poetry Unbound-style daily show live from the NO FLY ZONE venue featuring an eclectic mix of inspiring guests including Rumi translator and poet Haleh Liza Gafori from New York City. WHO ELSE? The programme also includes globally renowned authors, including one of our greatest living novelists, Marilynne Robinson from the States, the prolific award-winning author, Tim Winton from Australia with his most recent novel Juice, and philosopher-activist Dougald Hine from the small Swedish town of Östervåla. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad In addition, the NO FLY ZONE plans to connect with Daoud Nassar and family at The Tent of Nations in the West Bank, and team up with Brian Eno in conversation with Liz Slade to take a deep dive on the subject 'Is Art a Form of Religion or is Religion a Form of Art'. The venue will also livestream a simple act of Communion service on Sunday morning, and dig into global development issues with its main partners Christian Aid and others. GREENBELT'S HEADLINERS But if you want to experience Greenbelt IRL then here's who to look out for. Headliners include activist and Bridgerton actor Adjoa Andoh; disco soul gospel legends Annie and the Caldwells; Queen of English folk Kate Rusby; afro-fusion collective K.O.G.; clothier, sustainability advocate, the Sewing Bee's Patrick Grant, tragi-comedy coming-of-age one-man show Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me; musician and activist Brian Eno; politician Jeremy Corbyn; Mercury Prize-nominated singer, songwriter Nadine Shah; stand-up comedian Lost Voice Guy; Rizzle Kicks' Jordan Stephens and Silent Witness actor and disability activist, Liz Carr. QUITE THE LIST! WANNA KNOW MORE? Pop over to Greenbelt's website to check it out in all its glory - here. FESTIVAL CREDENTIALS Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Each year Greenbelt strives to deliver a festival rich in diversity. Since its inception 51 years ago, its ethos has always been to create a space that is inclusive and representative. Great artistry, courageous activism and open-hearted belief has always been at the heart of the festival's programming. A true trailblazer amongst UK's festivals, Greenbelt believes in creating a diverse, intentional, all-inclusive line-up. The first Greenbelt took place in 1974 on a Suffolk farm with the words 'If you've got a field, you've got a festival'. The Sun Newspaper reviewed the first one as 'The Nice People's Pop Festival', but it was more subversive than it appeared. Over the years Greenbelt has welcomed headline acts such as Pussy Riot, Sinead O'Connor, Kae Tempest, Estelle, Laura Mvula, Magic Numbers, Ezra Furman, and Mavis Staples to name but a few! It has seen early performances by future global artists such as Ed Sheeren, Corinne Bailey Rae, as well as the mighty U2 who played Greenbelt in 1981 when they had only released their first album. FESTIVAL DATE & VENUE Thursday 21 – Sunday 24 August 2025 l Boughton House l Kettering TICKET INFORMATION You can get your NO FLY ZONE tickets here. Or you can buy tickets and find out more about Greenbelt's ticketing structure here. FOLLOW
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Want a glorious Memorial Day weather weekend, Boise? You got it
Whether you plan to attend the city of Boise's Memorial Day Ceremony, go for a walk, bike ride on the Greenbelt or just spend time in the yard this weekend, you're in for a treat with blue skies and lots of sun. Sunday's forecast high is 87 degrees, making it the warmest day of the weekend. Memorial Day itself should be around 80 degrees. And that's after an 80-degree Saturday. The normal high temperature for this time of year is about 75 degrees, according to National Weather Service data. Clear conditions are expected for the weekend, and as of now, there is no sign of rain in Boise. 'We're not looking for any precipitation right now for Memorial Day. There could be some thunderstorms around on Monday, but we don't have anything here in the valley; it's going to be mostly in the mountains,' said Josh Smith, a meteorologist overseeing Boise for the National Weather Service. Although the weekend is expected to be pleasantly warm with no extreme weather, conditions will be most favorable for outdoor activities on Saturday and Sunday, with those two days being the 'clearest and the warmest,' according to Smith. 'If you're going to stay in the valley, I would not expect any adverse weather,' Smith said. If you are leaving the valley to spend time in the mountains on Monday, weather conditions won't be as clear. 'Some people are going to be out camping or hiking in the mountains, so there is a chance for some thunderstorms … most of the day Monday. So that might be a concern for some people outside,' Smith said.
Toronto Star
23-05-2025
- Automotive
- Toronto Star
Speed bumps can't be vandalized
Speed camera on Parkside Drive — one of Toronto's most dangerous streets — reinstalled for the fourth time, May 14 If the city truly wanted to slow traffic on Parkside Drive, there is a simple solution: install speed bumps. Unlike speed enforcement cameras, they can't be vandalized. But Toronto won't because it makes too much money. John Adamthwaite, Thornhill, ON Bill 5 is another Greenbelt fiasco — only worse What Doug Ford is really 'unleashing' with Bill 5? May 17 Bill 5 is proof that environmental protection is not unnecessary bureaucracy. Using economic uncertainty to justify overriding environmental laws to fast-track approval of corporate development and infrastructure projects without consultation has always been part of Doug Ford's agenda. It's the Greenbelt fiasco revisited only worse. Kat Duffy, Mississauga Dufferin Street residents rely on the curb lane How this transit plan could finally make 'Sufferin' Dufferin' a thing of the past, May 19 Dufferin Street is an original concession road. The land abutting that part of Dufferin that Shawn Micallef is writing about was subdivided well over a century ago, before cars or buses existed. It is, in fact, a residential street without any driveways with small houses standing shoulder to shoulder. All those residents rely on the curb lane Dufferin to conduct their everyday lives. The street was planned that way. Take away their established rights to use the curb lane, and they will suffer. Micallef instead wants bus riders on Dufferin to have exclusive access to the curb lane. He dismisses the burden this will put on properties that have relied on that curb lane to be available to them for more than a hundred years. Historically, cities would decide that the existing subdivision of the lands has outlived its usefulness to the community and expropriate all the property and start again. But of course, Toronto stopped doing that 60 years ago. Graham Haig, Toronto Where are the Canadian-owned battery manufacturers? Honda's plans to delay electric vehicle factories 'a blow to the community,' May 1 We keep hearing how Ontario has the knowledge, technology and skilled labour to build car batteries. Ontario and Canada also have money to give to companies for a battery plant. If we have all this, why do we seem beholden to foreign companies? Why isn't there a large Canadian battery manufacturer? We seem to have all the necessary requirements. If there was a Canadian battery company, perhaps we wouldn't worry too much if, say, Honda postpones their plans. A Canadian battery company could pivot sales to another customer. I believe if we're good enough for foreign companies, then we should be good enough for ourselves. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Julius Olajos, Cambridge, ON Fund education, not alcohol Ontario to spend hundreds of millions to boost alcohol sector, May 15 All Ontarians need to speak up about the consistent underfunding to schools, colleges and universities by the Conservative government. Investment in youth and an educated population will do more to improve life in Ontario that reductions to alcohol costs. It is shameful to have unqualified people in classrooms, no custodians and crumbling school buildings. These practices are reminiscent of conditions in developing countries. There has been consistent animosity toward teachers from the Conservatives who seem more concerned with scoring business deals at any cost and without concern for proper oversight. Education in properly funded, resourced and clean schools is a right all young people should have. Diane Sullivan, Toronto All motor vehicles in Canada need to be fitted with the following safety features 'Those kids were her world': Three children killed in Highway 401 crash involving allegedly impaired driver, May 19 People who are impaired do not have the judgment to stay off the road, so they need to be protected from themselves. All motor vehicles in Canada need to be fitted with the following safety features: 1. Ignition interlock to prevent the vehicle from operating when alcohol or drugs are detected on the driver. 2. Speed limiter with the limit set from the current roadway. 3. Cellphone disabler for the driver's compartment with GPS functional (for modern drivers who rely on GPS). The first two features are already available. The third might require some ingenuity to implement. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW William Lynn, Toronto Why should status in the sports world have bearing on this trial? Jury dismissed. Hockey Canada trial to go judge-alone after jurors report being 'made fun of' by defence lawyers, May 21 I'm puzzled as to why the trial of five young men continues to be characterized as a Hockey Canada sexual assault trial. While I understand their involvement in the 2018 Canadian world junior championship team, it seems irrelevant to the nature of the charges laid against them. Canadians are naturally proud of men and women who represent their country and are understandably shocked by the alleged behaviour of these young hockey players. But why should their status in the sports world have any bearing on this trial? Are we, in some way, judging this type of behaviour differently due to their elevated status in the sports community? I sincerely hope not. Legal cases such as this should be dealt with regardless of an individual's personal achievements or affiliations, sporting or otherwise. Keith Spicer, Oakville Province should expropriate privately owned sections of Highway 407 It's time to seriously look at expropriating the privately owned sections of Highway 407 and returning them to the public realm. The reasons are obvious: 1) It will be both cheaper and faster to 'buy' a complete highway than build a replacement. 2) Ontario does not need a third highway across southern Ontario. Building a new highway (or tunnel) would use too much new land and expel unnecessary carbon. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW 3) Recent talk of subsidizing trucks (and cars too?) on the 407 would be money poorly spent on 'rental' instead of ownership. Legally the province has the right to take back Highway 407 in the public's interest. Further, it was a sale of a major public asset that was not examined outside of Cabinet. Expropriation does not have to be bad. A fair purchase price would repay all new investments, plus interest: not including re-investments of toll revenue. Does the Ford government really want to solve gridlock in the GTA? Expropriation would be by far the fastest and best way to fulfil their promise. Richard Cassel, Toronto Canada's 'Core 4' economy Our economy is failing for the same reason the Toronto Maple Leafs have — repeatedly. When too few players take too great a portion of the available resources there is not enough left to build a successful economy. A rebuild is the only option for both. Rick Lockman, Orillia, ON
New York Times
21-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Trump Administration Live Updates: House G.O.P. Races to Revamp Major Policy Bill, Grasping for Votes to Pass It
A protest last week outside the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Md. The Trump administration has turned to countries to take on migrants from countries around the globe, and not necessarily their home country. A federal court ordered the Trump administration on Tuesday to maintain custody of migrants on a deportation flight that immigrants' lawyers said was headed to South Sudan, a transfer the judge said appeared to violate an injunction he issued in April. 'I am not going to order that the plane turn around,' said the judge, Brian E. Murphy of the Federal District Court in Boston. Instead, he said, any migrants in Department of Homeland Security custody must not leave U.S. control once the plane landed, at least until a hearing Wednesday to determine whether they had received adequate due process. The order capped a tumultuous hearing hastily called by the judge, during which Trump officials said they could not say where the flight was or where it was going. Judge Murphy repeatedly expressed concerns that the administration had violated his order not to deport immigrants to countries where they are not from and may face danger without giving them enough time to challenge their removal. And he warned that officials involved in the deportations who were aware of his order, including potentially the pilots of the plane, could face criminal sanctions. 'Based on what I have been told,' he said, 'this seems like it may be contempt.' The question of whether the Trump administration defied his previous order added to the remarkable series of faceoffs it has had with the judicial system as President Trump has aggressively pursued his promises of mass deportations. In case after case, judges have rebuked the administration for not allowing adequate due process, and Trump officials in turn have questioned the authority of courts to hear such disputes and even called for the impeachment of judges who rule against it. Immigration lawyers at the hearing on Tuesday said at least two migrants had been told they were going to be deported to South Sudan, a violence-plagued country in Africa that the State Department advises Americans not to travel to. After a break in the proceedings to gather information, a lawyer for the Justice Department, Elianis N. Perez, said that one of the migrants, who is Burmese, was returned home to Myanmar, not South Sudan. But she declined to say where the second migrant, a Vietnamese man, was deported, saying it was classified information. It was unclear how many other migrants might be on that deportation flight. 'Where is the plane?' Judge Murphy asked. 'I'm told that that information is classified, and I am told that the final destination is also classified,' Ms. Perez said. She said the government had not violated any court orders because the man had not claimed to be fearful of removal. Judge Murphy asked what authority the government was using to classify the location of the deportation flight. 'I don't have the answer to that,' she responded. After a second break, Joseph N. Mazzara, the Homeland Security Department's acting general counsel, said that he was not sure whether the information was classified but that he did not know the plane's current location in any event. Earlier in the hearing, lawyers from the National Immigration Litigation Alliance and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project had said they had been told Monday that a client of theirs, the man from Myanmar, was informed that he would be deported to South Sudan. When the lawyers checked on the man on Tuesday, they said, they were told that he had already been deported. Elsewhere, they said, a Vietnamese man 'appears to have suffered the same fate.' They said they wanted Judge Murphy to demand that the Trump administration return the migrants. The lawyers included a pair of documents in the filing, including one Department of Homeland Security document that listed South Sudan as the removal destination for one of the immigrants. 'This morning, they learned from a detention officer via email that N.M.,' the migrant from Myanmar, 'was removed this same morning to South Sudan,' the lawyers said. In response to that claim, Judge Murphy said he believed it was likely a violation of his previous order issued in April, when he directed the Trump administration not to deport immigrants to countries other than their own without first giving them 15 days' notice to raise concerns that they might face danger there. Judge Murphy later said that if N.M. was in fact removed to Myanmar rather than South Sudan, his deportation may not have violated his April order. But he still told the administration to be prepared on Wednesday to address the details of his removal. The chaotic hearing on Tuesday carried echoes of another one in March, presided over by Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington. Judge Boasberg ordered that planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador turn around. They did not. Unlike the migrants in Judge Boasberg's case, who were deported using the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used wartime law, the plaintiffs in the case before Judge Murphy have a 'final order of removal,' meaning their status has already been considered by an immigration court. The Trump administration has increasingly turned to countries to take on migrants from places around the globe instead of just their own citizens. In the early months of the administration, officials have already deported migrants from the Eastern Hemisphere to Costa Rica and Panama, and have sent migrants from Venezuela to El Salvador under the wartime act. 'We are actively searching for other countries to take people from third countries,' Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a cabinet meeting at the end of April. He said the United States had pushed the deals and asked countries whether they would take back nationals from other countries 'as a favor to us.' 'And the further away from America, the better, so they can't come back across the border,' he said. At Tuesday's hearing, Mr. Mazzara resisted a request from the plaintiffs' lawyers that deportees not be shackled while aboard the plane. He said that there were 'at least one rapist and one murderer' aboard the flight, and attributed that claim to what he had been told by other administration officials. Judge Murphy's April order has already been the subject of much dispute with the Trump administration. On Friday evening, a federal appeals court that sits over Judge Murphy had rejected the Justice Department's request to put the ruling on hold as the administration sought to challenge it. And immigration lawyers have asked Judge Murphy several times to enforce his order on the Trump administration. Last month, the lawyers claimed that four men were sent from a U.S. naval base in Cuba to El Salvador without proper notice. And earlier this month, they raised alarms to Judge Murphy that the administration was planning to deport a group of immigrants to Libya without sufficient notice. Judge Murphy warned the government that the flight to Libya would have violated his order, as well. 'If there is any doubt — the court sees none — the allegedly imminent removals, as reported by news agencies and as plaintiffs seek to corroborate with class-member accounts and public information, would clearly violate this court's order,' he wrote. Over the weekend, the lawyers raised another concern, saying that a Guatemalan man had been sent to Mexico without proper notice or a chance to express his fears about being sent there. After initially claiming that the man had in fact been told that he was being flown to Mexico, the administration abruptly reversed itself, acknowledging that it could not find any officials who had in fact given the man the proper notice. The hearing scheduled for Wednesday before Judge Murphy will consider his claims as well. Carol Rosenberg contributed reporting.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
NASA continues building next-gen Roman Space Telescope despite budget worries
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA engineers have successfully completed testing on one half of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a key step in making sure this future observatory will perform as expected once it reaches space. "This milestone tees us up to attach the flight solar array sun shield to the outer barrel assembly, and deployable aperture cover, which we'll begin this month," said Jack Marshall, who leads integration and testing for these Roman Space Telescope elements at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "Then we'll complete remaining environmental tests for the flight assembly before moving on to connect Roman's two major assemblies and run the full observatory through testing, and then we'll be ready to launch!" he continued. Launch is expected to occur sometime in early 2027. That timeline, however, could still be up in the air as the White House plans to slash NASA's budget in 2026. The drastic 24% cut — the largest in NASA's history — would affect major projects like the Gateway moon-orbiting space station and Mars sample return, among others. Previously released "passback documents," which also describe possible White House fiscal year budget scenarios, suggested funding will be given for the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope but not other telescopes. However, the agency is still awaiting a finalized budget. For now, engineers are continuing their work on Roman. Back in January, before thermal testing could begin, engineers attached the telescope's visor-like sunshade called the "deployable aperture cover" to the telescope's outer barrel assembly, which will eventually house its powerful instruments. By March, they'd also added a set of test solar panels. In April, this entire setup was moved into the Space Environment Simulator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland — a giant chamber that mimics the harsh hot-and-cold temperatures Roman will face in space. Of note, those aforementioned passback documents had reportedly suggested the White House's possible cuts to NASA funding could see Goddard Space Flight Center shut down entirely. Related Stories: — NASA installs 'bulletproof' sunshade on powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (photos) — Trump's 2026 budget plan would cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return mission. Experts say that's a 'major step back' — Experts alarmed as White House proposes 'largest single-year cut to NASA in American history' "The test verifies the instruments will remain at stable operating temperatures even while the sun bakes one side of the observatory and the other is exposed to freezing conditions — all in a vacuum, where heat doesn't flow as readily as it does through air," said Jeremy Perkins, an astrophysicist serving as Roman's observatory integration and test scientist at NASA Goddard. Once Roman is out in orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, there's no easy way to send astronauts to fix it. That's why NASA engineers work tirelessly to make sure everything deploys and operates flawlessly. No second chances. Technicians are gearing up to connect Roman's two main sections this November. Once joined, the telescope will officially become a fully assembled observatory by the end of the year. After final testing is complete, Roman will be packed up and shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin launch preparations in summer 2026. NASA scientists say the mission remains on schedule, though they are working hard toward the possibility of an even earlier liftoff as soon as fall 2026.
