FBI Director Kash Patel is planning to visit Russia later this year, likely in mid-October, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the situation. It would be an unusual and sensitive trip for an FBI chief to one of America's top adversaries. The plans come as Washington and Moscow continue to be at odds over the war in Ukraine, with U.S. lawmakers demanding the imposition of heavy new sanctions on Russia.
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Earth's climate systems are inexorably and often unexpectedly interconnected. ... Among the most influential planet-shaping forces is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an immense Atlantic Ocean current system that acts as a planetary conveyor belt. It brings balmy water northward from the tropics to Europe, then cycles the cooled water back south along the seafloor.
The Federal Communications Commission will vote to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule that is supposed to prevent a single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. The proposed change sets up a likely court battle over the FCC claim that it has authority to repeal a limit set by Congress. read more
@#13 ... in north AL and listen to WLS 890 AM 50,000 watts out of Chicago ...
Yeah, those so-called "clear channel" AM stations were great in their time.
Clear-channel station
en.wikipedia.org
... A clear-channel station is a North American AM radio station that has the highest level of protection from interference from other stations, particularly from nighttime skywave signals. This classification exists to ensure the viability of cross-country or cross-continent radio service enforced through a series of treaties and statutory laws. Known as Class A stations since the 1983 adoption of the Regional Agreement for the Medium Frequency Broadcasting Service in Region 2 (Rio Agreement), they are occasionally still referred to by their former classifications of Class I-A (the highest classification), Class I-B (the next highest class), or Class I-N (for stations in Alaska too far away to cause interference to the primary clear-channel stations in the lower 48 states). The term "clear-channel" is used most often in the context of North America and the Caribbean, where the concept originated.
Since 1941, these stations have been required to maintain a transmitter power output of at least 10,000 watts to retain their status. Nearly all such stations in the United States, Canada and The Bahamas broadcast with 50,000 watts, with several clear-channel stations in Mexico going as high as 150,000 watts, and XEW in Mexico City having formerly operated with 250,000 watts for over 80 years before moving the transmitter and reducing to 100,000 watts in 2016. Cuba was originally included in the plan and had several stations given clear-channel status, but stopped participating after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. ...
Fun stuff ...
Taylor Farms lettuce is still focus of cyclospora investigation despite false positive test, FDA says
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... A sample of lettuce from Taylor Farms that had tested positive for cyclospora was a false positive, the Food and Drug Administration said Sunday. But the FDA said Monday that its investigation and data "continue to converge on shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms locations in central Mexico."
In the statement announcing the false positive, the FDA said that as of Sunday it had not found any "confirmed positive sample results for product testing for Cyclospora."
In a subsequent statement Monday, it said, "To clarify, this false-positive lab sample DOES NOT change the basis for FDA's ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms." ...
@#9 ... Boston also had a "stake in the ground" underground station like WNEW-FM in NYC. Unfortunately, it is too long ago and I no longer recall the call letters ... :( ...
Possibly WBCN?
WBMX
en.wikipedia.org
... WBMX (104.1 FM) is a radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, serving Greater Boston with a hot adult contemporary format. The format started at 98.5 FM on February 9, 1991, and moved to 104.1 FM, replacing WBCN on August 12, 2009, to allow for the launch of WBZ-FM at 98.5 the next day. Its studios are located in Brighton, and its transmitter is on the upper FM mast of the Prudential Tower in Downtown Boston.
The 104.1 MHz facility went on the air in 1958 as WBCN.
A classical music station for its first ten years, beginning in 1968 WBCN featured a rock format for 41 years.
Known as "The Rock of Boston", WBCN became a legend in the rock music industry for breaking many bands, including U2.[3] ...
@#7 ... a fringe (often "underground") appeal ...
Maybe take a peek at WFMU ...
WFMU
en.wikipedia.org
... WFMU (91.1 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, independent community radio station licensed to East Orange, New Jersey, with studios in Jersey City. It is owned by Auricle Communications, broadcasting a free-form radio format. ...
I receive the station over-the-air here.
Yeah, "free-form" is a proper appellation for the station.
My guess is that they also have a streaming link ...
@#1 ... AMOC ...
More on AMOC ... (and, no, this is not AOC in Congress...)
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
en.wikipedia.org
... The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean.[1]:2238
It is a major component of Earth's ocean circulation system and plays an important role in the planet's climate system.
The AMOC includes Atlantic currents at the surface and at great depths that are driven by changes in weather, temperature and salinity.
Those currents comprise half of the global thermohaline circulation that includes the flow of major ocean currents, the other half being the Southern Ocean overturning circulation.[2]
The AMOC is composed of a northward flow of warm, more saline water in the Atlantic's upper layers and a southward, return flow of cold, less salty, deep water. Warm water from the south is more saline ('halocline') because of the higher evaporation rate in the tropical zone. The warm saline water forms the upper layer of the ocean ('thermocline'), but when this layer cools down, the density of the salty water increases, making it sink into the deep.
This is an important part of the motor of the AMOC system. The limbs are linked by regions of overturning in the Nordic Seas and the Southern Ocean. Overturning sites are associated with intense exchanges of heat, dissolved oxygen, carbon and other nutrients, and very important for the ocean's ecosystems and its function as a carbon sink.[3][4]
Changes in the strength of the AMOC can affect multiple elements of the climate system.[1]:2238 ...
... Upon its release, "Like a Rolling Stone" quickly stood out given its unusually long length of 6:13. In those days, songs played on the radio were usually around three minutes long, as the New York Times noted in 2004. ...
Yeah, back in the day when "Like a Rolling Stone" was released, most radios were AM only.
Car radios were not required to receive FM until the 1970's.
When Did FM Radio First Become Available in Cars?
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Was there ever such a AM/FM mandate for non-vehicle radios, i.e., those in homes?
I cannot find one.
There was the non-duplication rule, though ...
FM Non-Duplication Rule
en.wikipedia.org
... The FM Non-Duplication Rule was adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 1, 1964, after a year's consideration.
It limited holders of FM licenses in cities of more than 100,000 who also held AM licenses to simulcasting no more than 50 percent of their AM signal on the FM station.
The commissioners considered the excessive simulcasting wasteful and an impediment to the development of FM broadcasting.
A year later, the FCC reaffirmed the rule, and, after a delay requested by broadcasters, set its effective date for October 1965; some stations were granted exemptions if they could demonstrate their simulcasting served the public good. ...
As I was growing up, we always had an AM/FM radio in the house. I remember listening to WABC in NYC on their FM channel, 95.5.
That non-duplication rule, though, gave rise to FM stations that would broadcast songs longer than the three minute limit of the AM stations.
Can you say WNEW-FM (102.7)? I knew you could.
... Judge Blocks Paramount purchase of Warner Bros-Discovery ...
The lock is only for 14 days, allowing for arguments from both sides to be presented in Court.
I am not a lawyer, so, YMMV.