Latest news with #Pry
Miami Herald
30-06-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Virginia Tech Football Preview 2025: Can Brent Pry Finally Make the Hokies Contenders?
It's not that the Brent Pry era has been bad, and it's not even that it's been disappointing. It's that it's been, to put it into technical terms ...Blah. Beating arch-rival Virginia two years in a row was nice - the 2022 game was cancelled due to the tragic events that ended the Cavaliers' season - and getting to bowl games over the last two years was fine, but it's possible to do so much more with this football program. X CFN, Fiu | CFN Facebook | Bluesky Fiu, CFN Virginia Tech Offense BreakdownVirginia Tech Defense BreakdownSeason Prediction, Win Total, Keys to Season It's never easy when you're trying to live up to the impossible standards of a dogging Virginia Tech in any way, but it's not Alabama, or Florida State, or Texas, or Ohio State, and yet Frank Beamer was a double-digit win machine for so long that it became Fuente was able to keep the success going for a while, but things started to slip, 2020 was a problem, and now Virginia Tech is on a run of four losing seasons in the last five years - the first such run since 1970 to 1974 - and now that's starting to seem routine. Pry has tried rebuilding, and he's doing a decent job of bringing in the talent, but there hasn't been a whole lot of luck, and there's been less early success. Virginia Tech needs to do two things. 1) Start better, and 2 beat the mid non-ACC power is now 0-6 against non-conference Power Four teams, and it's not like his guys had to deal with Michigan and Georgia, losing to Vanderbilt, Minnesota, Purdue, West Virginia, and twice to Rutgers. And because of that, the Hokies have had a hard time getting off the launching pad. It's hard to matter when you're all but out of contention for anything fun before October Hokies began last year with a 2-3 September - but to be fair, they were totally hosed in the Miami loss - started 2-3 in September of 2023, and 2-2 before October in 2022. And after that, the conference seasons haven't been much the last three seasons they're 10-13 in the ACC, the program has suffered four losing seasons in the last five, and ... Pry is trying to fix that in a big hurry. The Hokies aren't getting rocked. Five of the six regular season losses last year were by one score, they hung tough with Clemson, and a few injury issues and inconsistencies didn't close. Pry did a nice job in the transfer portal, the coaching staff has been changed up a bit, and there isn't a game on the schedule his team can't win if things start to go the right run of losing seasons will stop here, but to do more, especially in the ACC, it's time to crank up the ... Virginia Tech Offense BreakdownVirginia Tech Defense BreakdownSeason Prediction, Win Total, Keys to Season © 2025 The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
Chicago Tribune
19-06-2025
- General
- Chicago Tribune
Aurora's Grand Army of the Republic Museum director honored by statewide group
The director of Aurora's Grand Army of the Republic Museum has been named the Museum Professional of the Year by the Illinois Association of Museums. Grand Army of the Republic Museum Director Eric Pry was honored as part of the association's fifth annual awards ceremony, which recognizes outstanding contributions and achievements in various categories, highlighting the individuals and institutions that make the museum industry both vibrant and dynamic, according to a news release from the city of Aurora. 'This recognition reflects the unwavering dedication of our team and the Aurora community in preserving our rich history,' Pry said in the city news release. 'Since 1999, the commissioners of the G.A.R. Military Museum and leadership within the Community Services Department have supported the museum's transformation into a vibrant center for education and remembrance, ensuring that the memory of our veterans' sacrifices remain at the forefront.' The G.A.R. Military Museum was built in 1878 with funds raised by Aurora residents as a monument to the city's Civil War veterans and as a shrine to their fallen comrades — plus, it served as a veterans' meeting hall and as the city's first free public library, the news release said. The museum is at 23 E. Downer Place in downtown Aurora and is open from noon to 7p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Fox News
17-02-2025
- Science
- Fox News
The reality of a nuclear EMP attack: Why the US needs to be prepared
A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike could cripple the U.S. electrical grid, communications, transportation, and other critical infrastructure for months, an expert warned. Historian William Forstchen, a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on EMPs, discussed with Fox News Digital how the U.S. – and everyday Americans – can prepare for the "existential threat" that the attack poses. "This is a very real threat," he said. "EMP is generated when a small nuclear weapon, 40 to 60 kilotons or about three times the size of a Hiroshima bomb, is detonated 200 miles out in space above the United States. It sets up an electrostatic discharge which cascades to the Earth's surface, feeds into the millions of miles of wires which become antennas, feeds this into the power grid, overloads the grid and blows it out." Forstchen, citing Congressional reports from 2002 and 2008, said that 80%-90% of Americans would be dead a year later if an EMP strike happened. While an EMP strike, at first glance, appears to be more science fiction than fact, Forstchen said that the potential for such an attack was recognized decades ago. "The thread of an EMP was first realized during the 1962 Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test. What happened was that it blew about 500 miles away from Hawaii and 200 miles up," he said. "They were able to bring the system back within a matter of days, but what would it be like if it took a month, six months, a year, or five years to fix?" The late Peter Pry, a nuclear weapons expert, and former staff director at the Congressional EMP Commission, agreed. Before his death in 2022, Pry warned that Kim Jung Un's launch of a high-altitude ballistic missile was a test of North Korea's EMP capabilities against the United States. "Cars would be paralyzed," Pry told Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight in May 2017. "Airplanes could fall out of the sky. You'd have natural gas pipeline explosions, nuclear reactor overloads. And worst of all, if you had a protracted blackout, it would be a serious threat to the survival of the American people." The threat of EMP propelled President Donald Trump, during his first term in 2020, to issue a study with the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). "Just within the last couple of days, the Trump administration is again talking about Israel's Iron Dome but in the United States," he said. Forstchen shared three ways that the U.S. could prepare for a potential EMP attack. Calling the current electrical grid "antiquated," Forstchen argued that it needs to be updated for the 21st century. "It's scary to realize that almost all of our electricity is pumped on systems that are 30, even 40 years old," he said. Joseph J. Brettel, communications consultant and former energy spokesman, wrote in a Fox News Digital opinion piece that the electrical grid "is in desperate need of investment and modernization." "This isn't just an infrastructure problem; it's an economic opportunity," he wrote. "By unleashing vast resources and problem-solving determination toward the grid, the President could solve a decades-long challenge while creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs." Similar to Israel, the U.S. needs an Iron Dome, Forstchen said. "Ronald Reagan proposed it in the '80s, it was known as Star Wars," he said. "But that was impossible back then, but with the technology we have today and guys like [Elon] Musk, it's very possible that we could make one for relatively minor cost compared to some other things." Trump has ordered the construction of an advanced, next-generation missile defense shield to protect the United States from aerial attack. In January, he signed an executive order that tasks Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with drawing up plans to build an "Iron Dome for America" that will protect Americans from the threat of missiles launched by a foreign enemy. In doing so, Trump kept a campaign promise to prioritize missile defense. "By next term we will build a great Iron Dome over our country," Trump said during a West Palm Beach event on June 14. "We deserve a dome…it's a missile defense shield, and it'll all be made in America." Forstchen encouraged people to prepare for the potential threat by stockpiling necessities. "I urge every American citizen to take this seriously and prepare a little bit. I'm not talking about turning your home into a fortress," he said. "I am saying to have a month or two worth of emergency supplies on hand." As a resident of Asheville, North Carolina, Forstchen said that the devastation following Hurricane Helene has been "horrific," leaving some still homeless months following the natural disaster. "And this is a small regional event, imagine if it was the entire United States," he said. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense for comment.
