It was above 90 degrees in the District on Sunday, for the 17th day in the past 21. In that simmering three-week stretch, two of the four days below 90 were also fairly warm, with highs of 88.
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Block Island School students visit Washington, DC
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A bunch of 15 college students, one trainer and an extra chaperone from the Block Island Faculty spent six days in Washington, DC from March 20 to 25, assembly with members of Congress and speaking about key points the USA faces immediately.
In Washington, the group efficiently accomplished the demanding “Shut Up Washington” scholar program. This included spending over 80 hours with college students from faculties nationwide, and utilizing the nation’s capital as a dwelling classroom.
Amira Veldman-Wilson, a senior, stated, “Shut Up was an eye-opening expertise that not solely allowed us to expertise the fantastic thing about our capital however work together with youngsters from all totally different backgrounds. From having considerate conversations on our state’s insurance policies to debating federal payments, we have been
all capable of really take pleasure in this expertise. The journey helped me open up various factors of view and see different issues in numerous methods.”
Jayne Conway, the highschool historical past trainer who organized the expertise, stated, “This program is an unbelievable alternative for our college students to see the world’s biggest symbols of democracy up shut. It exhibits them, in an experiential method, the significance of being knowledgeable and engaged to be able to protect democracy. That is extra vital now than ever.”
Block Island has been sending juniors and seniors to Shut Up each different yr for over 30 years, except for 2020. With the help of the Block Island neighborhood, each scholar who desires to attend this journey is in a position, by way of fundraising efforts by dad and mom and native organizations. For extra info on contributing to the 2024 journey, contact Jayne Conway on the Block Island Faculty.
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In D.C., Sunday was the 17th day over 90 in three weeks
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Washington is hot in July, often memorably so. For most of the month, the city’s average daily high temperature is 90. But Sunday was seven degrees above the District’s elevated average.
Perhaps all hot days are hot in their own way. Sunday’s heat, though obvious and apparent, seemed a bit more tolerable, a bit less insufferable, because it came unaccompanied by the unpleasant humidity of the two earlier days.
The heat index, a measure of the special torments presented by the combination of heat and humidity, remained in the 90s. Unlike Friday and Saturday, it made no forays above 100 degrees.
Dew points, which also express the extent and effect of humidity, also declined on Sunday, remaining in the low 60s.
In essence, that meant the day was not simultaneously scorching and steamy. The scorch could certainly be felt, but the frequently moist and vaporous sense of objectionable sultriness, that seemed largely absent.
On Friday, the dew point just before 3 p.m. was an oppressive — if not insufferable — 74. By Saturday at the same hour, it had declined to 70 degrees. That was a descent perhaps not universally acknowledged.
But on Sunday, the difference seemed marked, with a dew point of nine degrees less, at 61.
Such small distinctions make one summer’s day different from another. They prevent each day during a hot season from seeming to merge into the next, as only another unpleasantly torrid extension of what had come before.
But in the main, these have been hot days. On Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced an extended heat emergency that was to remain activated through the weekend and into Tuesday or until conditions improved.
The city encouraged residents and visitors to guard against heat-related illnesses and to check on neighbors.
Officials urged those without air conditioning to seek relief in air-conditioned buildings and cooling centers.
They said people could ask for accessible transportation to a cooling center for themselves or for others by calling the shelter hotline at 202-399-7093 or by dialing 311.
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USA: Uyghur community members demonstrate outside Chinese Embassy in Washington DC to mark 15th anniversary of Urumqi Massacre | Indiablooms
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Uyghur community members of the USA recently marked the 15th anniversary of the Urumqi Massacre in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC.
The association also shared pictures of their protest on X.
“Uyghur Americans commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Urumchi Massacre in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., today,” the community shared on X.
Who are Uyghur Muslims?
Uyghur Muslims are a Turkic minority ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia. It is now widely publicized that their human rights are crushed by China and they were sent to “re-education camps” by the communist regime in Beijing.
The Uyghurs are recognized as native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China.
An American representative at the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said in 2018 that the committee had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uyghurs in China have been held in “re-education camps” by the Chinese authorities.
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Stolen French bulldog returned to owner, D.C. police say
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“Yurman is now back with his owner,” the police announced.
Yurman is a 2-year-old dark-colored male. It was not clear who found him or how. No information was provided about any arrest or charges.
Yurman’s owner was walking her dog in the 1700 block of Fort Davis Street SE about 8:20 p.m. on June 29 when someone approached with a gun, police said.
Police reported the robbery twice on social media, once just after it occurred and again with a brief surveillance video on Wednesday.
Numerous thefts of French bulldogs have occurred in the District and around the country.
In November, three were taken at gunpoint as they were being walked near the 5200 block of East Capitol Street, according to police.
Authorities said the robbers jumped from a vehicle and seized the animals.
Many of the dogs taken here have been recovered.
Purebred French bulldogs may sell for several thousand dollars and appear to be highly prized as pets. Authorities have said they are often taken to be sold.
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