Va. lawmakers reject gift of last Founding Father home in private hands

The aging owners of James Monroe’s Loudoun County estate have turned down offers from developers of more than $55 million because they want the state to have it as a park.

The Washington Post

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🚨SPECIAL ELECTION - VIRGINIA STATE SENATE DISTRICT 32🚨

Democrat: Kannan Srinivasan (@kannanforva)

Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, JANUARY 7TH🗓️

Area: Loudon County

Note: This election will determine control of the VA State Senate. Early voting ends January 4th.

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A Bluebird Day at the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens
Saturday, October 5th, 2024 @ Fairfax County, VA
https://www.rovingsun.com/2024/10/05/a-bluebird-day-at-the-meadowlark-botanical-gardens/

We visited the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens as the weather was forecast to be good. We saw a variety of flowers & many birds. There were Eastern Bluebirds everywhere! Later, we visited the Red Rock Wilderness Overlook Regional Park for the first time.

#MeadowlarkBotanicalGardens #FairfaxCounty #RedRockWildernessOverlookRegionalPark #LoudonCounty #Virginia #birds
#flowers

A Bluebird Day at the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens

We decided to visit the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens this weekend as the weather was forecast to be pretty good. It was a bit questionable on our way there but the skies cleared quickly! We saw quite a variety of flowers, as usual, and many birds. In particular, there seemed to be Eastern Bluebirds everywhere! Later on in the afternoon, we visited the Red Rock Wilderness Overlook Regional Park in Leesburg for the first time.

Roving Sun

From WTOPNews.com: ‘Total devastation’: 1 firefighter killed, 11 others injured after Loudoun County home explodes

#virginia #LoudonCounty

https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/02/possible-house-explosion-rocks-loudoun-co-2/

‘Total devastation’: 1 firefighter killed, 11 others injured after Loudoun County home explodes

One firefighter is dead, nine others are injured, and two civilians are in the hospital Friday night after a home explosion in Sterling, Virginia.

WTOP News
What a tragedy, for Virginia and for the U.S. as a whole, as well as, obviously, for #JenniferWexton. Wexton is terminally ill and not able to run for reelection to #Congress. Gift access to reporting at https://wapo.st/3Lu8lcR. I fervently hope an excellent #Democrat steps up to run in #LoudonCounty. Carrying Wexton’s mission forward is imperative for America.
Rep. Jennifer Wexton will not seek reelection as diagnosis changes

Wexton (D-Va.), hoped to continue serving in Congress and fight what doctors thought was Parkinson’s disease. She will no longer seek reelection in 2024.

The Washington Post

.> ... large-scale AI models are indeed big water consumers. For example, training GPT‑3 in Microsoft’s state-of-the-art U.S. data centers can directly consume 700,000 liters of clean freshwater (enough to produce 370 BMW cars or 320 Tesla electric vehicles), and the water consumption would have been tripled if training were done in Microsoft’s data centers in Asia. These numbers do not include the off-site water footprint associated with electricity generation..> ChatGPT needs a 500-ml bottle of water for a short conversation of roughly 20 to 50 questions and answers, depending on when and where the model is deployed. Given ChatGPT’s huge user base, the total water footprint for inference can be enormous..> ... if we only consider carbon footprint reduction (say, by scheduling more AI training around noon), we’ll likely end up with higher water consumption, which is not truly sustainable for AI..> ... the vast majority of data centers still use potable water and cooling towers. For example, even tech giants such as Google heavily rely on cooling towers and consume billions of liters of potable water each year. Such huge water consumption has produced a stress on the local water infrastructure; Google’s data center used more than a quarter of all the water in The Dalles, Ore..> ... some AI conferences have requested that authors declare their AI models’ carbon footprint in their papers; we believe that with transparency and awareness, authors can also declare their AI models’ water footprint as part of the environmental impact. - The Markup: Water Footprint of AI Technology
- A conversation with
Shaolei Ren and Nabiha Syed

#TheMarkup #NabihaSyed #ShaoleiRen #AISalami #ChatGPT #CarbonFootprint #WaterFootprint #California #Oregon #DallesOregon #Virginia #DataCenterCapital #VirginiaLoudon #LoudonCounty

The Secret Water Footprint of AI Technology – The Markup

A conversation with Shaolei Ren

Bombshell Testimony in Brazilian Congress Attack – 1,000 Case New Holland Workers Fought Down Deal – #LoudonCounty Transit Workers Strike

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Bombshell Testimony in Brazilian Congress Attack – 1,000 Case New...

Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where former National League Most Valuable Player Andrew McCutchen has returned to play for the hometown Pittsburg Pirates. With the offseason additions of pitcher Rich Hill and 1st baseman Carlos Santana, this could be one of the best Pirates teams in a long...

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