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Famed Santa Cruz County glassmaker embraces imperfection in art and life

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:06 GMT

Over the millennia, people have used glass to drink, decorate cathedrals and illuminate rooms. As a Bay Area art student in the 1970s, Annieglass founder Annie Morhauser embraced glass as a way to craft beautiful, shimmering objects that could adorn people’s dinner tables and homes.Along the way, Morhauser discovered that the process of making glass also offers important lessons about life.In her Watsonville production studio, artisans use precision tools to cut out shapes for plates, bowls and sculptures from sheets of glass used in high-rise windows. They smooth the edges to prevent later chipping and accent the pieces with precious gold or platinum.Then comes the “slumping,” where the magic happens — and where things sometimes go wrong. They lay the pieces across ceramic molds and place them in a kiln for up to eight hours in temperatures as high as 1,700 degrees to melt the glass into the contour of the mold. The result is plates, bowls and sculpture exquisite enough...

Missing Fremont girls found safe, returned home

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:06 GMT

(KRON) -- Two 10-year-old girls who were reported missing by Fremont police on Thursday night have been found safe and returned home, police said on Friday morning.Dhaneissa Set and Nailah Johnson were reported missing from the area of Celia Court. They were both described as Asian females who are 4-foot-7 and 50 pounds. Civil rights attorney John Burris hired by family of Walgreens shooting victim Dhaneissa has long, straight, dark hair and was last seen wearing a blue sweatshirt, blue jeans and white shoes. Nailah has long, curly, dark hair in a ponytail. She was last seen wearing a white-and-tan letterman jacket with a white hood, blue jeans, black-and-white Converse shoes and a light gray backpack. "Two missing juveniles have been found safe and returned home," Fremont PD posted on Facebook. "Thank you!"

San Jose PD deploying additional resources for Cinco de Mayo, sideshows

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:06 GMT

(KRON) -- The San Jose Police Department will be deploying additional resources this weekend for Cinco de Mayo and to respond to sideshow activity, police said. San Jose typically draws large crowds of people for Cinco de Mayo celebrations. While police say most of those who come to celebrate are "law abiding," the celebration has also attracted individuals responsible for "various crimes, including vandalism, and sideshows." SF parking ticket scam going around in city: Here’s what to look out for SJPD will be deploying additional personnel and resources this weekend and advises residents living in the Downtown area and the King Road corridor to expect vehicular and traffic delays. Police are also recommending that residents find alternate routes if possible.Unplanned traffic diversions may be activated in other areas where congestion occurs, police also said. "Officers may utilize traffic diversions to reduce gridlock along major arterial roadways, and freeway exits that normally...

NBA Playoffs: Warriors’ Klay Thompson extends 3-point record

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:06 GMT

When Klay Thompson gets hot, forget it.Golden State evened up its Western Conference semifinal series with the Los Angeles Lakers at a game apiece on Thursday night, rolling to a 127-100 victory in Game 2.And Thompson extended an NBA record in the process.No other player has more than four playoff games with at least eight made 3-pointers. Thompson now has six, after going 8-for-11 from 3-point land in the win. Not surprisingly, the Warriors are 6-0 in those games where Thompson makes that many 3’s.“That’s the best version of Klay, when he really’s going offensively but he takes great shots,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. Thompson’s Golden State teammate Stephen Curry has four playoff games with at least eight made 3’s, as do Damian Lillard and Ray Allen.Chris Paul, Jamal Murray and Donovan Mitchell each have two such games — and nobody else has more than one.WHAT’S NEXT?Friday’s slate will see Denver seeking a 3-0 lead when it visits Phoe...

US full-back Joe Scally growing up fast in German league

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:06 GMT

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Joe Scally arrived in Germany just after his 18th birthday in the depths of a pandemic lockdown and soon became a regular starter in the German soccer league. The next step is to become a regular with the U.S. national team. After breaking into the team at Borussia Moenchengladbach, Scally was included in the U.S. squad for the World Cup in Qatar last year but did not play a single minute. He’s already looking ahead to the 2026 World Cup that will be co-hosted by the U.S., when Scally is determined to have a much bigger role.“Not being able to play one minute (in Qatar) definitely affected me immensely just because, playing every single game in the Bundesliga then to not even get a minute, I don’t understand that,” the 20-year-old Scally said in a recent call with reporters. “I definitely have that next World Cup, you know, circled on my calendar to be playing. When you see the guys out there walking out on the national anthem, it is, I’m sure, no b...

Poland summons Russian ambassador over assassination comment

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:06 GMT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in protest Friday after a former Russian official suggested that it would be acceptable to assassinate Poland’s ambassador to Russia.Pavel Astakhov, Russia’s children’s ombudsman from 2009 to 2016, spoke on a television program hosted by Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov. He was being interviewed after Polish authorities took over a school building in Warsaw on Saturday that was serving the children of Russian diplomats and the military.Astakhov argued that murdering an ambassador in retaliation “for unfriendly actions … is within the framework of international law,” adding: “I was taught this well at the KGB school at the counter-intelligence faculty.”That school takeover was the latest of several incidents which have added to tensions between Russia and Poland, an ally of Kyiv which has been supplying Ukraine’s military with weapons.In the interview with Solov...

12-year-old fatally shot, man wounded at Florida gas station

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:06 GMT

DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A man fatally shot a 12-year-old boy and wounded another man before turning the gun on himself inside a South Florida gas station, sheriff’s officials said Friday.Broward Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of gunfire at a 7-Eleven in Dania Beach just after 11 p.m. Thursday, according to a news release.The boy and the shooter both died at the scene, investigators said. A third person was taken to a hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds, the release said. A condition report was not immediately available.Investigators said witnesses told them the man fired shots at a man in a vehicle that was parked outside the gas station. He then went inside the station and shot the boy, and then himself, the release said.The names of the suspected shooter and the victims have not been released. An investigation is continuing and police are asking anyone with information to come forward.Dania Beach is just south of Fort Lauderdale on Florida’s Atlant...

No place like road: Visiting teams thriving in NHL playoffs

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:06 GMT

When the Vegas Golden Knights went on the road to face the Winnipeg Jets in the first round of the NHL playoffs, they got a chilly welcome — and that was inside.“They had no hot water at the Fairmont Hotel last week in Winnipeg, which I really didn’t like at all,” coach Bruce Cassidy said. “Great hotel, by the way: great service, nice people, just no damn hot water.”And no home cooking. Vegas beat the Jets twice on the road and won the series in five games.The Golden Knights are not alone in what Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper declared “the year of the road team.” Visiting teams have matched the best start in league history with 34 wins through 56 games; the .607 winning percentage is by far the highest of any playoff year dating to 1966, not counting 2020 when games were played at neutral sites with no fans.Coaches point to better preparation and more roster depth as well as parity leaguewide that has evened out the differences among teams playing for the Stanley Cup. Matchups that use...

1st lunar eclipse of 2023 dims full moon ever so slightly

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:06 GMT

Stargazers in Asia and Australia had the best seats for the year’s first lunar eclipse.The four-hour eclipse got underway late Friday or early Saturday, depending on the location, as the moon slipped into the fringes of Earth’s shadow.In what’s known as a penumbral lunar eclipse, the full moon passed within the outer part of Earth’s shadow, causing the moon to dim only slightly. Such an eclipse isn’t as dramatic as a partial lunar eclipse or a total lunar eclipse when the moon, Earth and sun are perfectly aligned. The eclipse was visible from beginning to end, weather permitting, as far west as Saudi Arabia and Africa’s western coast, as far east as Japan and New Zealand’s South Island, and from the South Pole to Siberia. Almost all of Europe also got in on some of the action.The Virtual Telescope Project planned to livestream the moon rising over the countryside in Tuscany, Italy. “Even subtle astronomical events like this one make me excited and happy to share th...

Judge sets a deadline to put Lake Erie on pollution diet

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:06 GMT

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s environmental regulators will have until the end of June to finish a plan to aimed at combating toxic algae blooms that have flourished in Lake Erie since the late 1990s.The deadline is part of settlement agreement a federal judge approved Thursday. The consent decree also calls for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to either approve the plan within 90 days or come up with its plan own if the federal agency determines the state’s proposal isn’t strong enough. The agreement brings an end to a lawsuit seeking to force mandatory pollution rules for the lake.Algae outbreaks have fouled drinking water twice since 2013 and are a threat to fish and wildlife.Nearly all of the phosphorus that fuels the blooms comes from farm fertilizer and livestock manure, researchers have found.Ohio already has been working for months to develop the pollution plan that would set “total maximum daily loads” and impose specific limits on phosphorus that flo...