Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”, showing Feb. 7-13 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RwLdIiZk_8 United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the…
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Verde Valley News – Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) announced that Anjaneyulu Kosaraju, MD, has joined the NAH primary care office in Camp Verde. He is accepting patients now. Dr. Kosaraju joins longstanding NAH physician, Steven Taylor, DO, at the office, who has helped families and the community stay healthy by offering personalized preventive and diagnostic care at NAH for over five years. “We are excited to welcome Dr. Kosaraju to the Camp Verde primary care office,” said Northern Arizona Healthcare Medical Group President Pasquale Bernardi, MD. “Dr. Kosaraju has a passion for health care and we know that he shares…
Verde Valley News – This could be the year you launch your healthcare career – and Yavapai College is here to help. YC and its Regional Economic Development Center invite students and community members to its Health Sciences Career Expo, Tuesday afternoon, February 11 from 3 to 6 p.m. at YC’s Prescott Valley Center, 3800 N. Glassford Hill Road. The Health Sciences Career Expo puts qualified caregivers and job-seekers in contact with local and regional healthcare providers. The Expo will host a dozen potential employers, including Dignity Health YRMC, Fresenius Kidney Care, Honor Health, NextCare Urgent Care, Northern Arizona Healthcare,…
Sedona News – “Monday at the Museum” is a demonstration conducted every Monday. Please call for a current schedule. The Museum is always looking for participants who are willing to share their knowledge and skills. For details call 928-282-7038. February 3, Red Rock Quilters Love quilting? Got questions? Members of the Red Rock Quilters will be the featured guests for Monday at the Museum on Monday, February 3, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Perhaps bring a small project to work on and enjoy the fellowship of quilting by getting your questions answered or just talking about the joy of…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters” live on stage at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Feb. 8, 14 and 15 — the perfect theatrical treat for Valentine’s Day! “Love Letters” — a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama — stars Leslie Brott and Chris Mixon and is directed by Richie Call. This production of “Love Letters” is a program of the film festival’s new Sedona Professional Theatre Company. “Love Letters” centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. They read notes, cards and love letters…
By David Stephen Sedona, AZ — Sedona.biz — Assuming an AI alignment or safety app rose to first place on the app store, it would have been a major great news for the world. This app, say with a capability to authenticate or track AI outputs, especially against misuses, would have found broad usefulness, gating risks as artificial intelligence advances towards artificial general intelligence. There is a current need to solve deepfake images problem, affecting schools. There is a problem of AI voices of loved ones. There are fake videos as well as fake texts. There are cybersecurity misuses of…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Anora”, showing Feb. 7-13 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m6UrWMl18M “Anora” is nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner “Anora” is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern-day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets…
Sedona News – Eric Glomski, Founder and Director of Winegrowing at Page Springs Vineyards & Cellars, will present a talk at the Sedona Heritage Museum entitled “What the Northern Arizona Wine Industry Could Have Been – The Story of Henry Shuerman.” The talk will take place at 10 am on Thursday, February 13 in the Historic Apple Shed at the Museum. Glomski’s talk is part of the Museum’s popular Sedona Stories Speaker Program. Henry Schuerman made Arizona history when he opened the first commercial vineyard and winery in the state in the 1880s. After decades of successful operations, Schuerman was…
Arizona News – Back for a third year, the Arizona Department of Transportation is again asking the public to name its snowplows. ADOT’s Name-A-Snowplow Contest gives Arizonans the opportunity to submit creative names for six snowplows across the state at azdot.gov/NameAPlow. ADOT’s snowplow operators play a vital role in clearing snow and ice off Arizona’s highways when winter storms hit places such as Flagstaff, along the Mogollon Rim and southeast Arizona. Last winter, ADOT snowplows logged about 1 million miles. “Our snowplow operators help keep Arizonans safe on the highways when winter storms hit,” ADOT Director Jennifer Toth said. “This contest is an…
Sedona News – The 20th Anniversary RunSedona Half Marathon/10K/5K running event will be held Saturday, February 1, 2025, just behind the Verde Valley Medical Center, on Navoti Drive in Sedona. The races will take place 8:00 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. Additionally, the inaugural Run The Runway event will take place beginning at 1:30pm at the Sedona Airport, located at 235 Air Terminal Drive in Sedona. The RunSedona Events Half Marathon/10K/5K race route starts on Navoti Drive just behind the Verde Valley Medical Center in Sedona, travels on Dry Creek Road to Boynton Canyon Road and Boynton Pass Road and then returns…
Sedona News – Dr. Steve Taubman is making a Sedona stop with “Mind Magic” live at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 8 at 7:00 p.m., presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. Mind Magic combines comedy, mind reading, psychology and theater into an interactive experience of wonder, awe, mystery and astonishment. Dr. Steve captivates imagination, casts a shadow of doubt on the limits of reality, and leaves an indelible impression on the soul. Dr. Steve’s celebrity fans include Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Cleese, Dick Cavett, Sigourney Weaver, Brian Dennehy, and more! “Best I’ve ever seen! Truly…
… I took a quick swing by the ponds Friday afternoon as the sun was going behind the mountain and shadows were advancing across the ponds. The first pond by the parking lot was seeing a lot of action as the young Rainbow Trout were all coming to the surface and going airborne to catch the tiny insects that were hatching. Likewise the Black Phoebes were active over the ponds catching the new hatch of insects too … amazing how nature works and takes care of all levels of life! It also thankful that we are at the top of the food…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “I’m Still Here”, showing Feb. 7-13 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDunV808Yf4 “I’m Still Here” is nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best International Feature Film and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Fernanda Torres. Torres recently won the Golden Globe Award for the same category. Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. We are introduced to the Paivas: a father, Rubens, a mother, Eunice, and their five children. They live by the…
Arizona News – The message is simple: slow down and pay attention. Beginning today, drivers traveling through the I-17 Improvement Project corridor between Anthem Way and Sunset Point will see additional Department of Public Safety troopers looking for drivers who speed and drive recklessly. This collaborative effort between the Arizona Department of Transportation and DPS is designed to increase safety and reduce the number of crashes in the work zone. The enforcement patrols will focus on hazardous driver behaviors that could create safety issues in the work zone for both travelers and construction crews. ADOT and DPS want to remind drivers about…
By Dave Steve Sedona, AZ — What is the difference between evaluating AI for intelligence based on some benchmarks, and measuring AI for a possible measure of pleasure or pain? There are some tests to evaluate artificial intelligence, especially around questions it had not encountered in training. They include Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (ARC-AGI), Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI (MMMU), MLE-bench, the FrontierMath test, GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark and Humanity’s Last Exam. If artificial intelligence, like human intelligence quotient (IQ) tests, is possibly measured by questions, could AI’s pain or…