Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Viewfinder Virtual Film Series: Leslie Thornton on Surviving August 5, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. ET

Washington, D.C - Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for an engaging virtual lecture with award-winning filmmaker Leslie Thornton. Learn how Thornton, with her decades-long episodic film epic Peggy and Fred in Hell (1983–2015), secured a place of reverence in cinema history. Enjoy a special screening of the series’ most well-known video, Peggy and Fred in Kansas (11 mins, 1987). In this short piece, viewers are introduced to the protagonists

Oceana Finds Vessels Speeding in Areas Designed to Protect Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales Along U.S. Atlantic Coast

New report shows need for government to update vessel speed requirements and expand enforcement

 

WASHINGTON — Today, Oceana released a new report finding that most vessels are exceeding speed limits in areas designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, of which only around 360 remain. Oceana analyzed vessel speeds from 2017 to 2020 in speed zones established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) along the U.S. Atlantic coast, and found non-compliance was as high as almost 90% in mandatory speed zones, and non-cooperation was as high as almost 85% in voluntary areas.

 

Collisions with vessels are one of two leading

2021 GOLD Nationals: Day Three Recap

USA Softball Gold National Championships

Day Three Recap 

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SALEM, Va. – The 16-Under and 18-Under divisions brought their best to the field today as bracket play started up at the 2021 USA Softball GOLD National Championships. Teams fought to put themselves in the best position for elimination play which begins tomorrow.

Eight teams will roll through into the 16-Under