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In an act of solidarity, New York actors join Broadway's musicians in a strike to keep live, pit orchestras playing in theaters. Following weeks of negotiations, the musicians' union and the League of American Theatres and Producers fail to reach an agreement over a new contract. Hear Jeff Lunden's report.
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NPR's Robert Siegel talks with writer John Le Carre, also known as David Cornwell, about his latest novel, Absolute Friends. It's the story of two friends, one British, one German, who met as intelligence agents during the Cold War. Le Carre explains how that friendship -- and the writer's own conscience -- is tested by post-Cold War realities and the current conflict in Iraq.
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The latest action movie, Tears of the Sun, finds actor Bruce Willis portraying a veteran officer of a Navy SEAL unit in Africa who finds himself conflicted between following military orders and his own conscience. Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan says the film is actually a humanitarian action flick.
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The ancient culture of the land that is now called Iraq is the subject of a "draw in" at the Assyrian Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York. Artists make new sketches interpreting some of civilized man's earliest creative efforts. NPR's Jacki Lyden reports.
Copyright 2003 NPR | https://www.kunm.org/2003-03-07/artists-take-new-look-at-works-from-cradle-of-civilization | 2022-03-02T01:29:31 | en | 0.932176 |
Cowboy poets, writers, musicians and their fans descended on the small town of Elko, Nev., for the 20th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Who better to report on the sights and sounds of it all than Morning Edition's own resident cowboy poet and commentator Baxter Black.
The performers include Wally McRae, a third-generation Montana rancher who says he enjoys "getting on stage and having that nervous adrenaline and having the rush to get up there." But McRae says he has the advantage -- he knows what's coming and the audience doesn't.
Among the musical performers is Wylie Gustafson, the voice behind that Yahoo! commercial. He hails from from Dusty, Wash. (population 12) and describes himself as a "horseman/cowboy/yodeler/ entertainer/guy that jumps around a lot."
"All we really want is for someone to listen," says Black, himself a performer at the event.
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Columnist Arianna Huffington first emerged as a GOP Senate candidate's charming wife. Now she's an ex-Republican who has moved to the left. She bashes SUVs and uses her new book Pigs at the Trough to lash out at corporate abuse. Huffington talks to NPR's Steve Inskeep.
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The Dreamers, the latest film from director Bernardo Bertolucci, explores sex and youth against the backdrop of the 1968 student riots in Paris. Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan has a review of the sexually explicit film, which earned a rare NC-17 rating.
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Senior BJP leaders including Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and others gave a miss to Dusshera celebrations at Patna's iconic Gandhi Maidan, where Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was the chief guest.
The chair designated for the deputy chief minister stayed empty during the celebrations, fuelling different speculations in the state's political circles about the alliance partners.
Other than Deputy Chief Minister Modi, the event witnessed the absence of the local BJP MLA, BJP ministers and other eminent BJP leaders.
The official release from the state government said that assembly speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, senior bureaucrats, Patna District Magistrate and other officials were present during the celebrations at the Gandhi maidan.
JDU leader Ajay Alok also took to Twitter questioning BJP leaders absence from the event.
"What happened @BJP4Bihar? Nobody came to Gandhi Maidan for 'Ravana Vadh'? Do you not have to kill Ravana?", he wrote on the microblogging site.
The BJP leaders giving a miss to this key Dussehra event comes days after a war of words erupted between BJP and JDU leaders following the flood situation in Patna.
Earlier this month, Giriraj Singh had said that the state administration is responsible for the "mismanagement" of the flood situation in the capital city and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar "should take responsibility for it".
This led to JDU seeking clarification from the BJP on the same.
Speaking to ANI, JDU General Secretary and National Spokesperson Pavan Verma said, "Whether Giriraj Singh's periodic rants against Nitish Kumar and the NDA government are emanating from the frustration of the individual or he is merely voicing the opinion of the mainstream BJP, must be clarified by the BJP."
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In New York City, Broadway's 18 musicals shut down as a strike between producers and musicians continues. The dispute -- centered on what the minimum size of musical orchestras should be -- is blamed for about $5 million in lost ticket revenue over the weekend. Jeff Lunden reports.
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Crimson Gold, a film by Jafar Panahi, won awards at the Cannes Film Festival this year. But its critical view of class divisions in contemporary Iranian society has left it banned in Iran. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.
Copyright 2004 NPR
Crimson Gold, a film by Jafar Panahi, won awards at the Cannes Film Festival this year. But its critical view of class divisions in contemporary Iranian society has left it banned in Iran. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.
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A dispute between Broadway's musicians and the League of American Theatres and Producers ends in compromise. With New York City's economy losing an estimated $7 million a day since musicians struck on Friday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls representatives together to settle differences. Jeff Lunden reports.
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Miracle -- a film about the 1980 American Olympic hockey victory over a powerhouse Soviet team -- opens in theaters. Hear NPR's Scott Simon, Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Ron Rapoport and New York Times entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell.
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The Chicago quartet The Sea and Cake uses rock band elements to evoke open spaces in much the same way Aaron Copland did with orchestras. Tom Moon of the Philadelphia Inquirer reviews the group's latest release, One Bedroom.
Copyright 2003 NPR
The Chicago quartet The Sea and Cake uses rock band elements to evoke open spaces in much the same way Aaron Copland did with orchestras. Tom Moon of the Philadelphia Inquirer reviews the group's latest release, One Bedroom.
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Forty years ago today, the Beatles arrived in America. An appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later firmly established Beatlemania in the United States.
That broadcast is well remembered by the millions of people that watched it -- and by the people in the audience, including 15-year-old Robin Lynn.
As the Fab Four opened with "All My Loving," the camera cut to the audience and held on the teenager's face. In the four decades since, Lynn's appearance has made her a familiar face to strangers, and the source of many family jokes.
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with the grown-up Robin Lynn and her son, Dan Blumberg.
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Actress Lynne Thigpen dies at her Los Angeles home this week. The cause of death is not immediately known. She was 54. Born and raised in Joliet, Ill., she distinguished herself on the stage -- winning a Tony for An American Daughter -- and in film and television appearances. Most recently she was a co-star of the CBS drama The District.
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Sam Miltich is an 18-year-old who lives in the Minnesota woods and plays jazz guitar in the style of Django Reinhardt. He practiced for nine hours a day to become good enough to play in Amsterdam with one of Europe's hottest swing guitar groups -- and also at Lincoln Center. Chris Julin of Minnesota Public Radio reports.
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Austin, Texas, bills itself as the music capital of the world, and this is the week it earns that title. Austin hosts the 17th annual South by Southwest music festival. Every stage in the city is throbbing with live music, and artists are even playing on the street. Hear NPR's Rick Karr.
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Historical novelist Thomas Mallon, author of bestsellers Dewey Defeats Truman and Clara and Henry, has come home to roost. The former literary editor of men's magazine GQ, Mallon has crafted a novel set in the 1920s about the ruthless competition between a fictional New York City magazine and its cutthroat rival.
Bandbox is populated by molls and mobsters, with several real-life characters thrown into the mix. Mallon deftly captures life in the 'Roaring Twenties' through meticulously accurate dialogue, descriptions and plot developments.
NPR's Scott Simon spoke to Mallon and discovered his primary rule when writing historical fiction: read less about the period and more from the period. Mallon feels this is the only way to truly represent the time he has chosen to write about. The author reveals that this process was more important for Bandbox than for his earlier works, which all revolved around a specific historic event that could be easily researched.
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Director Gurinder Chadha's hit British film Bend It Like Beckham is now attracting attention in the United States. It tells the story of Jess, a young Indian-British girl who wants to play soccer like her idol, sports celebrity David Beckham. NPR's Jacki Lyden reports.
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Elmore Leonard doesn't care to be characterized as a mystery writer. The author of Get Shorty, Maximum Bob and 52 Pickup, says he writes crime novels that delve into the bad-guy characters from the get-go rather than having them suddenly appear in the last act. NPR's Brian Naylor interviews the best-selling author on Weekend Edition Sunday.
Anyone who's read Leonard's novels -- or watched many of their big-screen adaptations -- knows he has an ear for dialogue.
"From the very beginning, my purpose was to [let the characters talk]," Leonard says. "To first of all establish the characters, as many as possible in the first 100 pages and audition them. Let's see if they can talk. If they can't talk, they're liable to slip from view or get shot early on.
"If I have several bad guys, and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. Normally, it's the one who's the most interesting talker."
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Paddy Keenan is an Irish musician descended from a long line of traveling pipers. In the 1970s, Keenan cofounded the influential group the Bothy Band. The group added driving rhythms to traditional Irish music. On the CD The Long Grazing Acre, Keenan plays the Irish bagpipes. Keenan discusses his music with NPR's Melissa Block.
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Fiction and historical distance can sometimes allow us to examine our current worries in a different light. Ann-Marie MacDonald sets her second novel The Way the Crow Flies at the height of the Cold War. She uses the tensions generated by the U.S.-Soviet arms race to explore a contemporary issue: governmental secrecy. Martha Woodroof reports.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
0-7-2
(zero, seven, two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
0-7-2
(zero, seven, two) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-16969684.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:22 | en | 0.880928 |
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) _ Cerro Grande Mining Corp. (CEGMF) on Tuesday reported a loss of $172,000 in its fiscal first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Santiago, Chile-based company said it had a loss of less than 1 cent.
In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, the company's shares hit 2 cents. A year ago, they were trading at 2 cents.
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Walter Mosley is best known for his entertaining Easy Rawlins mysteries, but with his latest title the author decided to turn his sights on heavier stuff. His new book, a non-fiction essay on America and its role in the world, is called What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace.
In a Morning Edition interview with NPR's Juan Williams, Mosley discusses his views on the war on terrorism, the looming conflict with Iraq, and oppression around the world -- and what America should or should not be doing about it. Mosley also talks about the unrecognized political and economic power of African Americans.
What Next starts with his father's experience in World War II. Mosley writes that his father, a black man, never thought of himself as a full American citizen until German soldiers began shooting at him with the same vengeance that they targeted white GIs.
The author says he had a similar breakthrough about his American identity on Sept. 11, 2001. "When I'm looking out my window and I'm seeing these planes crashing into the World Trade Center, I say, 'Wow -- just like my father -- these guys are shooting at me."
Below is an excerpt from What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace by Walter Mosley:
A Father's Story
When I was eight, I asked my father if he was afraid to go off to fight in World War II. He said, "No, honey. I wasn't afraid. You see, I knew that the Germans were fighting the Americans, but I didn't know that I was an American."
"Why not?" I asked.
"Nobody thought that Negroes were Americans where I was raised," he said. "We couldn't vote, we had no rights that couldn't be taken away by white people, and most of us believed that we weren't really equal to whites. So I thought that the Germans would just pass me by looking for their American enemies."
"Did they?" I asked, and my father laughed. I always loved it when my father laughed. Humor in our house was both strength and knowledge.
"No," he said. "Those Germans wanted to kill me just as much they wanted to kill every other foreign soldier. As a matter of fact, them shooting at me was what made me realize that I really was an American. That's why, when I was discharged, I left the South and came here to Los Angeles. Because I couldn't live among people who didn't know or couldn't accept what I had become in danger and under fire in the war."
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My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. My father's instructions have sustained me in the complex life we live here in America. Some of his lessons I'm still working out over forty years later.
What did he intend for me to learn when he told me about the war and his safety zone of race? I already knew that I was an American because every Election Day my parents made a big deal about going out to vote. California was our home, and I was so insulated by their love that racism seemed like a far off, almost mythical foe. Maybe this story about the war was just a humorous tale. But no, if you had been there, you would have felt the passion and deep emotion. You would have heard the relief in his laughter.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities. All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought. Even the few philosophers who were obviously born on the Mother Continent were most often represented in white face. This is changing somewhat, but I'm still of a generation whose minds' eyes were trained to see white men as the only leaders and scientists and thinkers.
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. He laughed when things got really bogged down, but he was no Sophist. My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life. Or, if I did make a misstep, he wanted to make sure that I could find the remedy in his great treasury of tales.
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The first thing I had to work out was that his story unfolded in three stages: First the fearless ignorance that blinded my father to his real place in the world and the real threat of the war; then the violent and frightening experience that made him see that he had been wrong all those years; and finally the wisdom he gained, which showed him that he had to break away from the world he had known, and the world that knew him, in order to act on the knowledge he had gained. His was a path set out in ideas and a system of thought based on a unique experience.
On the face of it, one might think that my father was just slow. Why didn't he see that if he put on a uniform and crossed the mighty Atlantic that his life would be in jeopardy just like the white soldiers who came from America? This story, you might think, only proves that LeRoy Mosley didn't have the sense to come in out of the rain. But my father had been seeing Black men in uniforms go along almost invisibly his entire life. They were butlers and porters and hotel clerks, red caps and jazz band members who labored in the background, in the shadows of their own skins. There were even Black policemen in my father's time, but they were not allowed to arrest whites. They weren't even allowed in certain parts of the police station. Black men in uniform, for the most part, went unnoticed. But even if some white soldier did see him, why would he worry?
Racist doctrine held then (as today) that the only true Americans were white Americans. Native Americans, Blacks, Asians, Mexicans, and all other dark-skinned people were, at best, temporary visitors who served in menial posts. They couldn't make demands or see themselves in important roles in American culture. The images on movie screens, in magazines and newspapers, and storefront windows all extolled Euro-Americans. If an Asian or Black were depicted, it was in service or for a joke. There certainly weren't any Black war heroes killing or being killed.
Jesus was a white man, and God was his sire. Taking this as his cue, my father decided that he was not considered a part of the greater moral and political system. White America and white Germany had a problem with each other; and if my father was dressed in a uniform and sent over there, it was only for him to be of service-or a joke.
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When he was drafted, my father had to take a battery of tests. These tests revealed his ability to read, work with arithmetic, and type-skills that made him perfect for statistics, which at that time basically meant keeping tallies of the dead. So they gave my father a desk in a tent, a typewriter, a stack of long sheets, and an M1 rifle. Every now and then, orders would come through, and he would have to jump into the back of a truck with these tools, only to be deposited in some new countryside a few miles from the fighting.
The new land, Europe, was strange. Black soldiers weren't treated with the condescension or contempt that was their daily fare in the United States. Many white Europeans conversed with him openly, some thanked him, a few of the ladies even invited him home. My father chalked up these odd experiences to the strange character of Europe. He wondered about these unusual customs, but he didn't question his worldview until the day the Germans broke through Allied lines and marched on his bivouac.
"They were shooting at me, Walter," he said. "I could hear their bullets cutting through the air. When I picked up that rifle, I knew that I had just as much on the line as all those white soldiers. And when I thought about it afterwards, I realized that if I had just as much to lose, then I deserved all that any white man deserved. I became an American in France, under fire and afraid for my life."
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So my father became an American, and I became a possibility in his life: a son who would be an American from the moment he was born, with all the rights, privileges, and hopes of any other American.
And he wasn't alone in this newfound and ecstatic view of his place in the world. A new wave of racial unrest swept the nation after World War II. The Civil Rights Movement blossomed. Black Americans began to demand their rights. They came out of the shadows and took advantage of the opportunities inherent in a nation that had been taking advantage of them for centuries. The term "American" took on a new face, and there was a resurgence of commitment to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
We (people of all hues and persuasions) are the heirs of this political movement. And I, personally, am the beneficiary of my father's interpretation of the structure of his experience. He graduated from the school of hard knocks and passed me his notes, in hopes that I would be able to make the transition, if ever a time came when I found myself in a situation where my perception of the world proved to be wrong. If I survived that realization, just as he survived the German attack, he hoped that I could go back to his words and discover a path of my own.
From What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace by Walter Mosley, published by Black Classic Press. © Copyright 2003.
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For the past several years, recordings of symphony orchestras on major record labels have dwindled. In an effort to get their performances out to the public, some orchestras have started releasing records themselves. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
9-4-5-0
(nine, four, five, zero)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
9-4-5-0
(nine, four, five, zero) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-16969686.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:28 | en | 0.921698 |
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) _ Dutch Bros Inc. (BROS) on Tuesday reported a loss of $2.9 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Grants Pass, Oregon-based company said it had a loss of 6 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 2 cents per share.
The results matched Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of 2 cents per share.
The drive-thru coffee chain operator and franchisor posted revenue of $140.1 million in the period, exceeding Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $133.5 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $14 million, or 31 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $497.9 million.
Dutch Bros expects full-year revenue in the range of $700 million to $715 million.
Dutch Bros shares have fallen roughly 7% since the beginning of the year.
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Organizers of the Academy Awards say that the March 23 presentation show will go on, despite the possibility of war with Iraq. And the NCAA says its men's and women's basketball tournaments, which start this week, will go on as scheduled. NPR's Renee Montagne reports.
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Bassist Viktor Krauss has worked with many Grammy nominees and Grammy-winning artists: Bill Frisell, Elvis Costello, Graham Nash, Dolly Parton.
The Illinois native -- brother of Alison Krauss -- made a significant contribution to Lyle Lovett's My Baby Don't Tolerate, nominated this year for Best Country Album, including a co-writing credit on "You Were Always There." Krauss has toured with Lovett for nearly a decade.
But now Krauss has a chance to shine on his own. Far from Enough, just released on Nonesuch Records, is his first solo recording -- though he gets some backup help from Frisell on guitar, Jerry Douglas on steel guitar and dobro and Steve Jordan on drums.
Sister Alison contributes wordless vocals -- except for a mellow version of Robert Plant's "Big Log" -- and plays the viola.
Krauss describes his CD as "a soundtrack without a movie," telling Naylor: "I've always kind of envisioned writing music with kind of a program involved."
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
05-06-09-23-33
(five, six, nine, twenty-three, thirty-three)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
05-06-09-23-33
(five, six, nine, twenty-three, thirty-three) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-Double-Play-16969685.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:34 | en | 0.902977 |
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (AP) _ GCP Applied Technologies Inc. (GCP) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $1.8 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
The Alpharetta, Georgia-based company said it had net income of 2 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 12 cents per share.
The specialty construction chemicals maker posted revenue of $244.3 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $21.2 million, or 29 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $970.1 million.
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Commerical airlines struggling in a sluggish U.S. economy, compounded by war, push for economic help from Congress. Airlines are asking for $9 billion in aid, but lawmakers are reluctant to grant that amount. They say the airlines remain inefficient, even after Congress granted a $15 billion bailout in 2001. NPR's Peter Overby reports.
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Winners of the 46th annual Grammy Awards are announced Sunday, and for some artists and their record labels, a win can translate into record sales and prestige.
Norah Jones was a big winner in 2003, and sold almost 500,000 records the following week. In 2002, the soundtrack for the film O Brother Where Art Thou saw sales triple after the collection of old-timey music won album of the year.
Will there be a big winner in 2004? Urban music could be this year's success story, with all but one of the nominees for record of the year coming from the R&B or hip hop categories.
NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
02-03-16-17-36
(two, three, sixteen, seventeen, thirty-six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
02-03-16-17-36
(two, three, sixteen, seventeen, thirty-six) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-16969683.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:40 | en | 0.901844 |
LATHAM, N.Y. (AP) _ Plug Power Inc. (PLUG) on Tuesday reported a loss of $192.9 million in its fourth quarter.
The Latham, New York-based company said it had a loss of 33 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 32 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 12 cents per share.
The alternative energy company posted revenue of $161.9 million in the period, surpassing Street forecasts. Eight analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $158.4 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $460 million, or 82 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $502.3 million.
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This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on PLUG at https://www.zacks.com/ap/PLUG | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/business/article/Plug-Power-Q4-Earnings-Snapshot-16969633.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:40 | en | 0.961647 |
The Arabic-language television news network Al-Jazeera comes under fire from British and American military officials, as well as from some Arab viewers. Al-Jazeera is broadcasting graphic pictures of dead British and American soldiers and footage of American POWs being interrogated by Iraqis. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.
Copyright 2003 NPR | https://www.kunm.org/2003-03-26/arab-tv-network-criticized-for-graphic-coverage | 2022-03-02T01:30:45 | en | 0.961381 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
02-24-25-27-28-29-30-35-36-38-39-42-49-51-53-54-55-57-60-71-72-80
(two, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty-two, forty-nine, fifty-one, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-seven, sixty, seventy-one, seventy-two, eighty) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-16969682.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:46 | en | 0.837405 |
Mandalit del Barco
As an arts correspondent based at NPR West, Mandalit del Barco reports and produces stories about film, television, music, visual arts, dance and other topics. Over the years, she has also covered everything from street gangs to Hollywood, police and prisons, marijuana, immigration, race relations, natural disasters, Latino arts and urban street culture (including hip hop dance, music, and art). Every year, she covers the Oscars and the Grammy awards for NPR, as well as the Sundance Film Festival and other events. Her news reports, feature stories and photos, filed from Los Angeles and abroad, can be heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, Alt.latino, and npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-08/beyonce-big-winner-at-grammys | 2022-03-02T01:30:46 | en | 0.929369 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
01-05-07-08-09-11-13-14-15-16-23-24
(one, five, seven, eight, nine, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty-three, twenty-four) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Evening-16969619.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:46 | en | 0.882584 |
In the new film Assassination Tango, actor Robert Duvall steps behind the camera as writer and director. Duvall also steps onto the dance floor; he plays an assassin living in Argentina who wants to learn how to tango. NPR's Bob Mondello reports.
Copyright 2003 NPR | https://www.kunm.org/2003-03-27/assassination-tango-an-exercise-in-nuance | 2022-03-02T01:30:51 | en | 0.934822 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JC-2C-4C-7C-3H
(JC, 2C, 4C, 7C, 3H)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JC-2C-4C-7C-3H
(JC, 2C, 4C, 7C, 3H) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Poker-Lotto-game-16969689.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:52 | en | 0.882854 |
With her 1979 hit "Chuck E's in Love," Rickie Lee Jones established herself as a musician with a bohemian image and a penchant for storytelling. On a dozen albums, Jones has combined plaintive vocals with lyrics that could stand alone as poetry. For Intersections, a Morning Edition series on artists and their inspirations, NPR's Tom Vitale talks with the singer about the varied sources that informed her style.
The daughter of a Sinatra-style singer and granddaughter of a Vaudeville performer, Jones says performing was all she ever knew. She says she first realized she wanted to tell stories through song at age 8, while watching West Side Story.
"I'm still a real musical theater person," Jones says. "I never separated the song from the text. It was natural to me that you would turn and sing the song. I never felt odd about that."
As an adolescent, Jones became captivated by a different cast of characters -- The Beatles. More than a girlhood crush, Jones looked to the Fab Four for lessons in songwriting, and their music wove itself into her psyche: "I think a lot of the texture of my voice -- you know, maybe others wouldn't hear it -- but I know when I'm doing the Beatles."
In the 1970s -- at a time she says music suffered a "total breakdown" -- Jones clung to a handful of songwriters "like life rafts": Randy Newman, Tom Waits and especially Laura Nyro. Jones drew inspiration from Nyro's lyrics and their rich, cinematic details, which seemed to suggest a bigger story and deeper understanding of character.
"When I heard Laura Nyro, she had these tones and chords, and the idea of this New York -- this mystical urban place, where life is teeming and it's all fail or win, at any moment," Jones says. "She was so unlike anything that I had ever heard. And I think it really inspired me in a great way."
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
0-7-2
(zero, seven, two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
0-7-2
(zero, seven, two) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-16969684.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:53 | en | 0.880928 |
The Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film is Germany's Nowhere in Africa, a fact-based story of refugees in a time of war. Now showing on U.S. screens, the movie follows a German-Jewish family that fled to Kenya in 1938 to escape the Nazis. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.
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AP PHOTOS: Destruction, death in Ukraine under bombardment
1of 33 An armed man stands by the remains of a Russian military vehicle in Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Serhii Nuzhnenko/AP Show More Show Less
2of 33 People walk along an empty road during curfew, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less 3of 33
4of 33 Ukrainian emergency service personnel carry a body of a victim out of the damaged City Hall building following shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Pavel Dorogoy/AP Show More Show Less
5of 33 Ukrainian families say goodbye as they prepare to board a bus to Poland at Lviv bus main station, western Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Bernat Armangue/AP Show More Show Less 6of 33
7of 33 Animal keeper Kirilo Trantin comforts an elephant at the Kiev Zoo in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1. 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
8of 33 People arrive at a train station as they try to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less 9of 33
10of 33 A damaged car sits at the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Pavel Dorogoy/AP Show More Show Less
11of 33 Ukrainians prepare to board a bus to Poland at Lviv bus main station, western Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Bernat Armangue/AP Show More Show Less 12of 33
13of 33 EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Morgue workers look at the body of a killed volunteer of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces at a hospital in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Show More Show Less
14of 33 A woman speaks by phone holding her sick baby in a basement used as a bomb shelter at the Okhmadet children's hospital in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1. 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less 15of 33
16of 33 Ukrainian servicemen ride on top of an armored personnel carrier speeding down a deserted boulevard during an air raid alarm, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Vadim Ghirda/AP Show More Show Less
17of 33 A nurse shows a newborn baby to a woman who gave birth at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less 18of 33
19of 33 People look at the gutted remains of Russian military vehicles on a road in the town of Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Serhii Nuzhnenko/AP Show More Show Less
20of 33 Oleksandr Konovalov, an ambulance paramedic, center, pushes a stretcher with a woman injured by shelling in a residential area at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less 21of 33
22of 33 People crowd on a platform as they wait to board a Lviv-bound train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1. 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
23of 33 Ambulance paramedics move an injured man on a stretcher, wounded by shelling in a residential area, at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less 24of 33
25of 33 Plastic sheeting wraps shelves with alcoholic beverages banned for sale in a supermarket in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
26of 33 The dead body of a victim from shelling in a residential area lies on a stretcher in a corridor in a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less 27of 33
28of 33 A women with a child who fled from the war in Ukraine reacts as they reunite with their family after crossing the border in Medyka, Poland, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Markus Schreiber/AP Show More Show Less
29of 33 EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Dead bodies lie in the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Pavel Dorogoy/AP Show More Show Less 30of 33
31of 33 A man sits by the remains of a bonfire after fleeing from the Ukraine near the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Markus Schreiber/AP Show More Show Less
32of 33 A car driving along a road is visible from a Ukrainian army position through the viewfinder of a Dragunov sniper rifle in the northern part of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Ricrad Garcia Vilanova/AP Show More Show Less 33of 33
Russia's escalating attacks on populated urban areas of Ukraine left rubble and wreckage in streets and plazas as the invasion claimed new victims across the country. The central square in Ukraine’s second-biggest city was hit with what was believed to be a missile, leaving the massive area piled high with debris.
Hospitals raced to treat victims of the bombardment even as mothers and children sheltered in their basements. While the fighting in Ukraine raged, the death toll remained unclear.
At the border, anguished families said goodbye as women and children fled while many men returned to fight. More than 675,000 people have escaped to neighboring countries since the Russian invasion began — a number that will only grow, according to the U.N. refugee agency. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/AP-PHOTOS-Destruction-death-in-Ukraine-under-16969698.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:58 | en | 0.909423 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
6-5-4-3, FIREBALL: 3
(six, five, four, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
6-5-4-3, FIREBALL: 3
(six, five, four, three; FIREBALL: three) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-16969621.php | 2022-03-02T01:30:59 | en | 0.890369 |
Just after World War II, Tupperware was invented. Earl Tupper, a reclusive but ambitious inventor looking for a discovery that would change American life, created the unspillable, plastic containers with their revolutionary air-tight, waterproof seals.
But his product was not an instant hit, and sales were small. It seemed his invention was stale. But then Tupper met Brownie Wise. She was a divorced woman from rural Georgia, with no more than an eighth grade education. Not exactly the ideal 1950s woman. But Wise came up with a sales strategy that would ignite the Tupperware empire: women throwing parties at their homes to sell Tupperware.
Tupperware!, a documentary airing Feb. 9 on PBS' American Experience, tells the story of Wise and Tupperware. NPR's Melissa Block, host of All Things Considered, talks with the film's director, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-08/tupperware-the-movie | 2022-03-02T01:31:01 | en | 0.965926 |
Salman Rushdie's novel of war and religious intolerance, Midnight's Children, finds new life on the stage. The adaptation by the Royal Shakespeare Company makes its American premiere at the University of Michigan. Celeste Headlee reports.
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President Joe Biden plans to announce Tuesday night that the U.S. is banning Russian aircraft from its airspace in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The move follows similar action by Canada and the European Union this week. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s State of the Union speech in advance.
In remarks released by the White House in advance of the speech, Biden offers an ominous warning that without consequences, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression wouldn’t be contained to Ukraine.
“Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson — when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos,” Biden says. “They keep moving. And, the costs and threats to America and the world keep rising.”
The ban would come on top of a wide range of sanctions the U.S., Europe and other nations have imposed on Russia that are expected to hammer that nation's economy.
On Sunday, the European Union and Canada announced they were closing their airspace to Russian airlines and private planes owned by wealthy Russians.
Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday said that it suspended flights to New York, Washington, Miami and Los Angeles through Wednesday because of Canada's decision.
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Associated Press writers Daria Litvinova in Moscow and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/AP-source-Biden-to-ban-Russian-planes-from-US-16969714.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:04 | en | 0.95496 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
9-4-5-0
(nine, four, five, zero)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
9-4-5-0
(nine, four, five, zero) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-16969686.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:05 | en | 0.921698 |
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Va., that killed more than 50 white people. An independent film debuting on PBS examines The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron's controversial 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Turner's alleged jailhouse statements and other versions of the insurrection leader's story.
The documentary, Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, features dramatizations by five different actors playing Turner -- each one depicting a different author's view. Pat Dowell reports.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-09/the-many-faces-of-nat-turner | 2022-03-02T01:31:07 | en | 0.906779 |
A strike by Broadway's musicians union wins supports from actors and stagehands, who pledge to honor the picket lines. Producers are forced to cancel many weekend musicals. The dispute focuses on computerized "virtual orchestras" and efforts to abolish a guaranteed minimum number of live musicians for each show. Jeff Lunden reports.
Copyright 2003 NPR | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2003-03-07/broadway-strike-silences-musicals | 2022-03-02T01:31:10 | en | 0.947096 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
05-06-09-23-33
(five, six, nine, twenty-three, thirty-three)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
05-06-09-23-33
(five, six, nine, twenty-three, thirty-three) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-Double-Play-16969685.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:11 | en | 0.902977 |
HOUSTON (AP) — Issues related to media publicity and a gag order as well as a concern over a lack diversity among attorneys representing those killed or injured during last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival were discussed during a court hearing on Tuesday.
The hearing was the first time lawyers handling the nearly 500 lawsuits filed after 10 people died and hundreds of others were injured during a massive crowd surge at the Nov. 5 concert headlined by rapper Travis Scott had met in court after the cases were consolidated before one judge.
After being appointed last month by a judicial panel overseen by the Texas Supreme Court to handle all pretrial matters in the lawsuits, state District Judge Kristen Hawkins issued a gag order in the case.
During Tuesday’s hearing, Hawkins clarified her order, saying lawyers could tell the media about factual issues that happen in court, but she didn’t want attorneys to make their cases in the court of public opinion and possibly influence the jury pool.
“This case should be tried in the courtroom and not on social media or with press releases or other statements to the media,” Hawkins said.
Brent Coon, an attorney who is representing about 1,500 concertgoers and is asking for $10 billion in damages, said after the hearing he understands the judge’s goal of “let’s keep who’s pointing the finger at who, let that be courtroom issues and jury issues ultimately.”
“But this is a case of public import for all the reasons that are obvious,” Coon said.
Most of Wednesday’s court hearing was spent discussing how the cases would proceed, the creation of a leadership structure that would speak on behalf of attorneys for each side, how disputes over evidence or other matters would be handled. Hawkins said she planned to have monthly hearings. She requested that by the next hearing, lawyers give her a breakdown of the various lawsuits by four categories: deaths, bodily injuries, brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorder.
Coon said it could be years before any trials or settlements in the case take place.
During the court hearing, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family of the youngest person to die from injuries during the festival, said that most of the victims killed or injured were Black but the majority of attorneys representing them are white. During Wednesday’s hearing, most of the 50 to 60 attorneys in the courtroom were white.
“There seems to be not much representation in the court of those African American voices. We really grapple with it. We are concerned about them not having a voice,” said Crump, who represents the family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, who was Black. Ezra's father, Treston Blount, who was with his son at the concert, was at Tuesday's court hearing.
In recent years, Crump has represented victims of police brutality and vigilante violence and has been the lawyer for the families of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
Hawkins told Crump this issue is something “that has not gone unnoticed by the court ... I would like that to be considered going forward.”
But Hawkins said she was “not going to choose someone’s counsel for them. I do know we have excellent attorneys in this room and those attorneys come from all aspects of Harris County.”
Neal Manne, who represents Astroworld festival promoter Live Nation, thanked Crump for highlighting this issue, saying, “I agree with him.”
Houston police are still conducting a criminal investigation of the Astroworld concert.
The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee in December announced it was investigating Live Nation’s role in the deadly concert.
Last month, Houston officials announced the creation of a new task force that will look at improving the safety at large Houston-area events.
Those who died in the concert ranged in age from 9 to 27 years old. Roughly 300 people were injured and treated at the scene, and 25 were taken to hospitals. Those killed died from compression asphyxia.
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Find the AP’s coverage of the Astroworld festival: https://apnews.com/hub/astroworld-festival-deaths
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Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70 | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Gag-order-diversity-discussed-at-Astroworld-16969709.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:16 | en | 0.980907 |
Musicians and theater producers reach a tentative agreement to end a strike that shut down almost all of Broadway's musicals. The dispute centered on what the minimum size of musical orchestras should be. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Jeff Lunden of member station WNYC.
Copyright 2003 NPR | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2003-03-10/tentative-deal-reached-in-broadway-strike | 2022-03-02T01:31:16 | en | 0.924664 |
The Federal Communications Commission is beginning town hall meetings across the United States to give people a chance to discuss how well the media serves their community's public interest.
One of the FCC's most vocal critics has been known to introduce herself at public hearings this way: "My name is Jenny Toomey and I'm a rocker."
But as NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, Toomey is also executive director of the four-year-old Future of Music Coalition, a Washington, D.C., think tank advocating more local access to radio stations -- especially for independent musicians.
Toomey, a Georgetown University grad with a philosophy degree, was a fixture of D.C.'s punk rock and riot grrl scene. Her band Tsunami gained some national attention in the 1990s. But when she sought a deal with a national label, she became frustrated with the workings of the music industry.
So Toomey and her friend Kristen Thompson made their own label -- Simple Machines -- and encouraged other bands to do things for themselves and manage their own businesses. They even wrote a how-to booklet.
Now Toomey organizes conferences that bring together music industry sectors that usually don't interact much: FCC commissioners, professors and recording industry honchos.
Ian MacKaye, of the band Fugazi, says Toomey "desires to humanize what has turned into a largely inhuman industry."
Toomey's last album was released over a year ago and she still hasn't had time to promote it. For now, she says, it's more important to speak out on behalf of her fellow musicians than to sing her own songs.
"There's not a lot of people who've had this many years of experience being both a musician and an activist," she says. "And we really need musician activists right now."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-10/jenny-toomey-rocking-the-fcc | 2022-03-02T01:31:16 | en | 0.977124 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
02-03-16-17-36
(two, three, sixteen, seventeen, thirty-six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
02-03-16-17-36
(two, three, sixteen, seventeen, thirty-six) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-16969683.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:17 | en | 0.901844 |
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Alabama this weekend to commemorate a key moment of the civil rights movement.
Harris will speak in Selma at an event marking the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 when white police attacked Black voting rights marchers.
Harris will also take part in the annual event's symbolic march across the bridge. Several other members of President Joe Biden's administration will also attend the event, including Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan.
On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of demonstrators. The confrontation set the stage weeks later for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the massive Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights.
The events galvanized support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.
Harris is the first female U.S. vice president and the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent in the role. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Kamala-Harris-to-mark-Bloody-Sunday-anniversary-16969715.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:22 | en | 0.934418 |
Malcolm X's diaries, photos, letters and other items -- saved from the auction block last year -- have found a new home at the New York Public Library. The papers of the late civil rights and religious leader "help reconnect the icon with the human being," says Howard Dodson, director of the library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which will make the collection available to researchers and the general public.
"The more people become icons, the further away they move from their existence as human beings," Dodson tells NPR's Bob Edwards. "What the collection does as much as anything else is to help reconnect the icon with the human being."
The items had been placed in a temporary storage facility by one of Malcolm X's six daughters. After monthly payments were not received, a buyer arranged for them to be auctioned at Butterfield's, an auction house owned by eBay. Dodson became involved in an effort by the family and scholars in retrieving the documents last year.
Under an agreement announced in January with Ilyasah Shabazz and Malaak Shabazz, as the administrators of the estate of Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's widow, the materials will be deposited with the Schomburg Center for 75 years. Ownership of the collection will remain with Malcolm X's family, who will also retain intellectual property rights.
The papers include sermons by Malcolm X that allow readers "to track the evolution of his Muslim beliefs," Dodson tells Edwards. "Most people in the United States, at least, tend to forget; they generally think about Malcolm X as a political leader, but he was a spiritual leader."
The collection also includes a set of diaries from Malcolm X's trips to Africa and Mecca in 1964. Alex Haley used the diaries to write The Autobiography of Malcolm X, "but it doesn't appear that anyone else has seen these diaries to date. Those are some things that are going to be very, very important in continuing to study and learn about the transition that Malcolm X went through."
"Of course, everyone was very much aware of the fact that he was at times harshly critical of American society and harshly critical of the African-American community, but he was equally harshly critical of himself," Dodson says.
The papers show that Malcolm X -- who was assassinated in 1965 at the age of 39 -- refined his speeches, "constantly trying to sharpen his thought and his understanding of the issues he was trying to present," Dodson says.
They also reveal the changes Malcolm X was undergoing, shifting away from the Nation of Islam, which was headed by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm X "had made it clear as he was making the break from the Nation of Islam that his loyalties lay with the entirety of the African-American community and with the struggle for human rights of oppressed and exploited people around the world, irrespective of religion or race," Dodson says.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2003-03-12/shedding-light-on-malcolm-x | 2022-03-02T01:31:22 | en | 0.98545 |
NPR's Michele Norris talks with Diane Keaton, co-star of Something's Gotta Give, about her Oscar nomination for best actress in that film. Keaton has already won a Golden Globe for her performance. Her first Oscar win for best actress came for the title role in Annie Hall, which also earned her a Golden Globe.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-10/keaton-contemplates-her-oscar-turn | 2022-03-02T01:31:22 | en | 0.977493 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
02-24-25-27-28-29-30-35-36-38-39-42-49-51-53-54-55-57-60-71-72-80
(two, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty-two, forty-nine, fifty-one, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-seven, sixty, seventy-one, seventy-two, eighty) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-16969682.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:23 | en | 0.837405 |
A sewing circle made up of refugee women from around the world has been meeting regularly in Portland, Ore., for 3 years. The event is organized by the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO). The women gather to share techniques, stories, and support each other as they adjust to life in the United States. At the latest meeting, in the back room of a public library, a few of them discussed their feelings about the war in Iraq with NPR's Ketzel Levine.
Mabi (she asked that only her first name be used) is from Afghanistan. She worries about the women and children of Iraq who will lose their husbands and fathers. "The cruel people," she says, "may God take them from this world. I hate to see the things of war happen to innocent people. The most expensive thing in the world is a human life."
Her friend Kaafiya (again, first name only) does not believe the United States will find Saddam Hussein, just as it has not found Osama bin Laden. But she is certain that innocent people will be killed. "I don't want to watch the news," she says, "it reminds me of my own country. It's so depressing, a whole country in flames."
Generose, from Burundi, is one of the only women in the sewing circle who thinks the war is justified. And she argues that the United States shouldn't stop there. "When they finish with Iraq," she says, "let them go to other countries to make peace. The U.S. is powerful. They can bring peace wherever they want."
The sewing circle's youngest member is Samia. She and her mother, Mabi, left Afghanistan two years ago. "I think Americans have soft hearts," says Samia, "but I do not think the government is good. Instead of trying to solve things in Iraq, I believe they are just trying to become more powerful. Saddam will hide. And the U.S. will take control."
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The Village Voice releases its annual Pazz & Jop poll, which surveys the nation's rock critics on the best new music. Over the last three decades, the poll has developed a reputation for spotting emerging talent overlooked by the Grammys. NPR's Bob Edwards discusses this year's survey results with Village Voice music editor Robert Christgau.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
2-4-2, FIREBALL: 4
(two, four, two; FIREBALL: four)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
2-4-2, FIREBALL: 4
(two, four, two; FIREBALL: four) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-16969620.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:29 | en | 0.896865 |
NEW YORK (AP) — Two British executives were charged with cheating investors out of millions of dollars in a collateralized loan scam that falsely promised investments used for loans were backed by fine wines, authorities said Tuesday.
An indictment returned Monday in Brooklyn federal court charged Stephen Burton, 57, and James Wellesley, 55, with conspiracy and wire fraud.
According to a news release by federal authorities, Wellesley was arrested Feb. 4 in the United Kingdom, while Burton is a fugitive. It said both worked at two private companies, Bordeaux Cellars Limited and Bordeaux Cellars London Ltd., with Burton serving as chief executive and Wellesley as the chief financial officer.
It was not immediately clear who would represent the men in the United States or could comment on their behalf.
Michael Driscoll, head of New York’s FBI office, said the men lied to investors to get them involved in the nearly $100 million swindle.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace in Brooklyn said that the lies the men told investors “did not age well.”
"These defendants duped investors by offering them an intoxicating investment opportunity collateralized by valuable bottles of fine wine that turned out to be too good to be true,” Peace said.
According to the release, the men spent some money from investors, making fraudulent interest payments to them and using other proceeds for personal expenses.
An indictment alleged that the men defrauded investors from June 2017 to February 2019 by soliciting people at conferences sponsored by the companies in the United States and elsewhere to invest money in loans that would be backed by fine wines.
Actually, though, the wine businesses did not have many of the specific bottles of wine that they identified as collateral in the loan documents in their custody, the indictment said.
While some investors received interest payments for a time, all interest payments stopped in February 2019, and principal was not returned, either, the indictment said. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Two-UK-executives-charged-in-100-million-16969133.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:34 | en | 0.982399 |
The Pentagon's practice of embedding reporters with U.S.-led troops in Iraq has an unexpected consequence. Many military families can keep better track of their loved ones through the news media than through infrequent e-mails and phone calls. NPR's Linda Wertheimer reports.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JC-2C-4C-7C-3H
(JC, 2C, 4C, 7C, 3H)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JC-2C-4C-7C-3H
(JC, 2C, 4C, 7C, 3H) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Poker-Lotto-game-16969689.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:35 | en | 0.882854 |
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. But in 1961, he was a student at Saint Paul's prep school in New Hampshire, where he played bass guitar for a band called the Electras. A copy of the band's album sold on eBay this week for more than $2,500. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.
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AP PHOTOS: Destruction, death in Ukraine under bombardment
1of 33 An armed man stands by the remains of a Russian military vehicle in Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Serhii Nuzhnenko/AP Show More Show Less
2of 33 People walk along an empty road during curfew, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less 3of 33
4of 33 Ukrainian emergency service personnel carry a body of a victim out of the damaged City Hall building following shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Pavel Dorogoy/AP Show More Show Less
5of 33 Ukrainian families say goodbye as they prepare to board a bus to Poland at Lviv bus main station, western Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Bernat Armangue/AP Show More Show Less 6of 33
7of 33 Animal keeper Kirilo Trantin comforts an elephant at the Kiev Zoo in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1. 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
8of 33 People arrive at a train station as they try to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less 9of 33
10of 33 A damaged car sits at the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Pavel Dorogoy/AP Show More Show Less
11of 33 Ukrainians prepare to board a bus to Poland at Lviv bus main station, western Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Bernat Armangue/AP Show More Show Less 12of 33
13of 33 EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Morgue workers look at the body of a killed volunteer of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces at a hospital in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Show More Show Less
14of 33 A woman speaks by phone holding her sick baby in a basement used as a bomb shelter at the Okhmadet children's hospital in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1. 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less 15of 33
16of 33 Ukrainian servicemen ride on top of an armored personnel carrier speeding down a deserted boulevard during an air raid alarm, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Vadim Ghirda/AP Show More Show Less
17of 33 A nurse shows a newborn baby to a woman who gave birth at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less 18of 33
19of 33 People look at the gutted remains of Russian military vehicles on a road in the town of Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Serhii Nuzhnenko/AP Show More Show Less
20of 33 Oleksandr Konovalov, an ambulance paramedic, center, pushes a stretcher with a woman injured by shelling in a residential area at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less 21of 33
22of 33 People crowd on a platform as they wait to board a Lviv-bound train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1. 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
23of 33 Ambulance paramedics move an injured man on a stretcher, wounded by shelling in a residential area, at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less 24of 33
25of 33 Plastic sheeting wraps shelves with alcoholic beverages banned for sale in a supermarket in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
26of 33 The dead body of a victim from shelling in a residential area lies on a stretcher in a corridor in a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Show More Show Less 27of 33
28of 33 A women with a child who fled from the war in Ukraine reacts as they reunite with their family after crossing the border in Medyka, Poland, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Markus Schreiber/AP Show More Show Less
29of 33 EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Dead bodies lie in the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Pavel Dorogoy/AP Show More Show Less 30of 33
31of 33 A man sits by the remains of a bonfire after fleeing from the Ukraine near the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Markus Schreiber/AP Show More Show Less
32of 33 A car driving along a road is visible from a Ukrainian army position through the viewfinder of a Dragunov sniper rifle in the northern part of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Ricrad Garcia Vilanova/AP Show More Show Less 33of 33
Russia's escalating attacks on populated urban areas of Ukraine left rubble and wreckage in streets and plazas as the invasion claimed new victims across the country. The central square in Ukraine’s second-biggest city was hit with what was believed to be a missile, leaving the massive area piled high with debris.
Hospitals raced to treat victims of the bombardment even as mothers and children sheltered in their basements. While the fighting in Ukraine raged, the death toll remained unclear.
At the border, anguished families said goodbye as women and children fled while many men returned to fight. More than 675,000 people have escaped to neighboring countries since the Russian invasion began — a number that will only grow, according to the U.N. refugee agency. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/AP-PHOTOS-Destruction-death-in-Ukraine-under-16969698.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:41 | en | 0.909423 |
The Return, a new Russian-language film, tells the story of two brothers whose prodigal father returns unexpectedly after more than a decade. The intense family drama marks the feature-directing debut of 40-year-old former actor Andrei Zvyagintsev. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) _ Cerro Grande Mining Corp. (CEGMF) on Tuesday reported a loss of $172,000 in its fiscal first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Santiago, Chile-based company said it had a loss of less than 1 cent.
In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, the company's shares hit 2 cents. A year ago, they were trading at 2 cents.
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President Joe Biden plans to announce Tuesday night that the U.S. is banning Russian aircraft from its airspace in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The move follows similar action by Canada and the European Union this week. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s State of the Union speech in advance.
In remarks released by the White House in advance of the speech, Biden offers an ominous warning that without consequences, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression wouldn’t be contained to Ukraine.
“Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson — when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos,” Biden says. “They keep moving. And, the costs and threats to America and the world keep rising.”
The ban would come on top of a wide range of sanctions the U.S., Europe and other nations have imposed on Russia that are expected to hammer that nation's economy.
On Sunday, the European Union and Canada announced they were closing their airspace to Russian airlines and private planes owned by wealthy Russians.
Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday said that it suspended flights to New York, Washington, Miami and Los Angeles through Wednesday because of Canada's decision.
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Associated Press writers Daria Litvinova in Moscow and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/AP-source-Biden-to-ban-Russian-planes-from-US-16969714.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:47 | en | 0.95496 |
Researcher Dan Starer provides bestselling authors with all manner of background information for their novels. Starer has dug up historical and scientific tidbits to give the ring of truth to more than 100 bestsellers. He speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep.
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) _ Dutch Bros Inc. (BROS) on Tuesday reported a loss of $2.9 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Grants Pass, Oregon-based company said it had a loss of 6 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 2 cents per share.
The results matched Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of 2 cents per share.
The drive-thru coffee chain operator and franchisor posted revenue of $140.1 million in the period, exceeding Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $133.5 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $14 million, or 31 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $497.9 million.
Dutch Bros expects full-year revenue in the range of $700 million to $715 million.
Dutch Bros shares have fallen roughly 7% since the beginning of the year.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Alaska Airlines said Tuesday it is temporarily suspending its partnership with a Russian airline over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“We are deeply concerned by the humanitarian crisis taking place in Ukraine," a statement from the Seattle-based airline said. ”As a result, we are temporarily suspending our partnership with the Russian airline S7."
Alaska Airline guests, as of March 1, will not be able to earn miles on S7, and Alaska’s work to enable redemptions on S7 also will stop.
Alaska said it has also suspended its limited interline relationships with S7 and Aeroflot, the largest carrier in Russia. Interlining allows passengers on one airline to be ticketed on a competing airline for various issues such as bad weather.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday announced a move to sever ties with Russian entities doing business with Washington state in protest of the invasion of Ukraine and urged private businesses in the state to consider cutting ties with Russia. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Alaska-Airlines-suspends-partnership-with-Russian-16969558.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:53 | en | 0.957809 |
NPR's Michele Keleman talks to author Cormac O'Brien, whose book Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents details some great and some not-so-great background stories of America's presidents.
Copyright 2004 NPR
NPR's Michele Keleman talks to author Cormac O'Brien, whose book Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents details some great and some not-so-great background stories of America's presidents.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. (AP) _ GCP Applied Technologies Inc. (GCP) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $1.8 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
The Alpharetta, Georgia-based company said it had net income of 2 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 12 cents per share.
The specialty construction chemicals maker posted revenue of $244.3 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $21.2 million, or 29 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $970.1 million.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: Biden to announce in State of the Union that US is closing airspace to Russian planes over Ukraine invasion.
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: Biden to announce in State of the Union that US is closing airspace to Russian planes over Ukraine invasion. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Alert-AP-sources-Biden-to-announce-in-State-of-16969632.php | 2022-03-02T01:31:59 | en | 0.920685 |
Filipino poet Nick Carbó grew up in Manila, a city saturated with American pop culture. He now lives in South Florida and writes about the oddness of being Asian in America. For Intersections, a Morning Edition series on artists and their inspirations, Carbó tells reporter Lyn Millner how U.S. cultural icons helped shape his witty, often subversive point of view.
American movies, especially musicals, had a huge impact on Carbó. One childhood favorite was South Pacific. The film featured two "brown" children adopted by white parents -- a situation that mirrored real life for Carbó and his sister, who were adopted by wealthy Caucasians. Like the children onscreen, Carbó and his sister would often perform for his parents' guests. " I think it was getting the affection of white parents for these brown children that struck me most [about the film]," he says.
Carbó began writing after moving to the United States to attend college. He soon discovered he had a flair for humor, especially when observing American culture. That talent is evident in "Little Brown Brother," a poem in which Carbó imagines he is the Filipino boy befriended by John Wayne in the 1940s war film Back to Bataan.
Carbó seems always to have his radar up for references to Asians in U.S. pop culture -- even when they're not there. For years, he misunderstood the lyrics to the 1960s hit song "Secret Agent Man" --- a mistake that fueled the premise of his second book of poems, Secret Asian Man.
"When I first heard the Johnny Rivers song, a long time ago, I thought 'Asian man?' They're talking about me," Carbó says. "I came to the realization -- that could probably be the best metaphor for the Asian-American male. A lot of times, he's invisible in this American culture."
Carbó says he's troubled that Americans seem to know so little about the Philippines, even though U.S. cultural influences dominate the islands: "By writing about these influences, it's my way of kicking back."
Carbó has written three books of poetry and edited three anthologies of Filipino literature. He's the visiting poet at Columbia College in Chicago.
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LATHAM, N.Y. (AP) _ Plug Power Inc. (PLUG) on Tuesday reported a loss of $192.9 million in its fourth quarter.
The Latham, New York-based company said it had a loss of 33 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 32 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 12 cents per share.
The alternative energy company posted revenue of $161.9 million in the period, surpassing Street forecasts. Eight analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $158.4 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $460 million, or 82 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $502.3 million.
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BOSTON (AP) — Boston is planning to lift its indoor mask mandate for businesses and many other venues starting this weekend.
Mayor Michelle Wu on Tuesday pointed to the city's improving COVID-19 numbers as key to her decision to lift the mandate as of Saturday.
Masks will still be required in schools, public transportation, and health care and congregant care settings, per state and federal mask orders.
Earlier Tuesday, the city's Board of Health voted unanimously to endorse the recommendation from the city's commissioner of public heath to rescind the order.
Wu said the decision was made based on COVID-19 metrics showing continued improvement in the prevalence and severity of the pandemic in Boston.
Beginning Saturday, residents and visitors to Boston will no longer be required to wear a face covering in indoor public spaces, such as gyms, bars and restaurants, museums, and entertainment venues. Individual businesses may still choose to require masking.
Boston Public Schools will continue to require masking while school leaders monitor metrics including school positivity and vaccination rates following last week’s school vacation.
The masking requirement will be lifted at city buildings including for city workers, except for Boston Public Schools and Boston Public Health Commission.
Masks are recommended in city buildings where vulnerable populations are served, such as Boston Public Library branches and community centers.
“I’m grateful that our city is ready to take this step in our recovery thanks to the hard work and commitment of residents keeping our communities safe over many, many months,” Wu said.
While masks are no longer mandated in certain indoor settings, the Boston Public Health Commission recommends masking in these settings for people who are at high risk for severe illness or for people who will be around individuals who are, Wu said. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Boston-to-lift-mask-mandate-for-businesses-other-16969560.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:05 | en | 0.962359 |
Viktor Krauss, a bassist of choice in Nashville, has issued his first album as a group leader. The new recording, Far From Enough, doesn't showcase Krauss's bass. Instead, it places him in the more traditional role of bringing out the best in his colleagues. Critic Jim Fusilli has a review.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
01-05-07-08-09-11-13-14-15-16-23-24
(one, five, seven, eight, nine, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty-three, twenty-four) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Evening-16969619.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:11 | en | 0.882584 |
NPR's Michele Norris talks with David Evans, editor of Air Safety Week, about methods of investigating airline disasters, and NOVA's documentary Crash of Flight 111, which airs tonight on PBS. The program describes the events -- and investigation into -- the crash of an airliner off Nova Scotia that killed 229 people in 1998.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
6-5-4-3, FIREBALL: 3
(six, five, four, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
6-5-4-3, FIREBALL: 3
(six, five, four, three; FIREBALL: three) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-16969621.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:17 | en | 0.890369 |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republicans forged ahead Tuesday with an overhaul of mine safety regulation that would strip the state of its ability to cite coal companies for unsafe working conditions.
They blocked an effort by Democrats to derail the measure. That came a day after dozens of miners and former miners gathered at the Capitol on Monday night, helmets in hand, to testify against the bill. The hearing happened the same day a veteran coal miner died in southern West Virginia. He was pinned by an air drill.
During the hearing, miners said the regulations keep them safer.
“Every one of these laws that’s written, state and federal, they’re not wrote by ink. They’re wrote by blood,” said Barry Brown, a disabled coal miner who worked underground for 32 years. “Every one of these laws has blood on them. Doing away with the state department and their enforcement, I think, would be the worse thing that this state could do.”
The bill is scheduled for a final reading in the House on Wednesday and still must be considered in the Senate. It essentially would strip the state office of miners’ health, safety and training of its ability to enforce laws — in fact, it eliminates all enforcement language from state code.
Instead of going to mines for inspections, inspectors will go for “visits” and make “recommendations” instead of “orders.” There would be no more “investigations," just “reviews.”
The proposal would remove almost all penalties mining companies might face for safety violations. Under current law, companies can face thousands of dollars of fines and even prison time for failing to implement safety measures. The state can also close down portions of a mine or an entire mine.
One of the co-sponsors, Republican Del. Adam Burkhammer, said he respectfully disagrees with the miners.
“I appreciate their passion,” he said.
Burkhammer, who works as a contractor with the West Virginia Miner's Health and Safety program, said a “culture shift” is needed to nudge the focus of inspectors more toward training than enforcement. He said there will still be the same number of inspectors in the state with the same jurisdiction on the mines, "but you're going to have a different outlook when you walk onto the job. You're going to be inspecting for things that you can train on.”
Burkhammer asserts it may make companies feel freer to bring up concerns to the state about possible safety violations if they aren't “at risk of being fined for several thousand dollars.” The bill’s sponsors also have argued that the existence of federal inspectors makes state inspectors redundant.
But Tony Oppegard, a Kentucky lawyer who has represented miners in safety cases for decades, said the bill would do nothing to improve safety for miners. He called it an “anti-safety bill masquerading as a safety bill.”
Leaving only the federal safeguards in place, he added, “basically it cuts protection for coal miners in half."
He said the real motivation for the bill is the bottom line.
“If you’re an advisory agency, it’s less expensive for the operator, because they don’t have to worry about paying any fines," Oppegard said. “They really don’t have to worry about their mine being shut down for any reason.”
There are 511 mines, quarries and coal handling facilities in West Virginia, according to the state. Under state law, inspectors are required to visit each mine in their region at least four times a year.
Coal mine operators and miners cannot legally be given advance notice of an inspection — a law that is punishable by a fine of $15,000 or one to five years in prison. The inspector must be accompanied by a company representative and a miner representative.
The proposed bill removes the requirement for the minimum number of “visits” that must take place a year and the mandate that mines cannot be warned ahead of time about inspections. It also cuts the requirement that a miner representative be allowed to attend.
Kelly Blair, a Charleston-based state inspector who lost his oldest brother and uncle in mining fatalities, said miners aren’t going to approach him about concerns if there is someone from the company standing by.
“If you take away my ability to enforce, then I can’t do my job," he said. "I can’t protect the miners."
Steve “Zimmy” Zimmerman, a safety committee member for the Harrison County Coal Mine, said when he writes up complaints to mine management and they are ignored, he has no recourse. But when he takes it to state inspectors, they can cite the company.
“This all comes down to the bottom dollar: When the company has to pay for such conditions, the hazardous conditions get remedied, they get fixed. The miners are safe.”
Zimmerman was among a group of somber miners huddled together, praying after Monday's public hearing for the miner who died. He had 20 years' experience.
“We want all our miners to come home,” Zimmerman said. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/GOP-pushes-to-strip-safety-measures-from-West-Va-16969546.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:18 | en | 0.970991 |
In 1928, violinist Louis Kaufman became the first person to buy a painting by Milton Avery. A year later, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., became the first museum to acquire a work by Avery. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on a new exhibit at the Phillips that celebrates the long friendship between the two artists.
Stamberg describes the works as abstract but accessible. "The paintings of Milton Avery are rooted in home and hearth," she says. "He was a very personal painter. A painter of the familiar -- his family, his studio, a seascape he loved. And friends" -- like Kaufman and his wife, Annette. Her portraits are part of the exhibit, Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips, which runs through May 16.
The show features some 80 works created from 1926 to 1963, some making their public debut. They include items from the Phillips and Kaufman collections as well as selections from the National Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-16/discovering-milton-avery | 2022-03-02T01:32:19 | en | 0.976411 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
2-4-2, FIREBALL: 4
(two, four, two; FIREBALL: four)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
2-4-2, FIREBALL: 4
(two, four, two; FIREBALL: four) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-16969620.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:23 | en | 0.896865 |
HOUSTON (AP) — Issues related to media publicity and a gag order as well as a concern over a lack diversity among attorneys representing those killed or injured during last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival were discussed during a court hearing on Tuesday.
The hearing was the first time lawyers handling the nearly 500 lawsuits filed after 10 people died and hundreds of others were injured during a massive crowd surge at the Nov. 5 concert headlined by rapper Travis Scott had met in court after the cases were consolidated before one judge.
After being appointed last month by a judicial panel overseen by the Texas Supreme Court to handle all pretrial matters in the lawsuits, state District Judge Kristen Hawkins issued a gag order in the case.
During Tuesday’s hearing, Hawkins clarified her order, saying lawyers could tell the media about factual issues that happen in court, but she didn’t want attorneys to make their cases in the court of public opinion and possibly influence the jury pool.
“This case should be tried in the courtroom and not on social media or with press releases or other statements to the media,” Hawkins said.
Brent Coon, an attorney who is representing about 1,500 concertgoers and is asking for $10 billion in damages, said after the hearing he understands the judge’s goal of “let’s keep who’s pointing the finger at who, let that be courtroom issues and jury issues ultimately.”
“But this is a case of public import for all the reasons that are obvious,” Coon said.
Most of Wednesday’s court hearing was spent discussing how the cases would proceed, the creation of a leadership structure that would speak on behalf of attorneys for each side, how disputes over evidence or other matters would be handled. Hawkins said she planned to have monthly hearings. She requested that by the next hearing, lawyers give her a breakdown of the various lawsuits by four categories: deaths, bodily injuries, brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorder.
Coon said it could be years before any trials or settlements in the case take place.
During the court hearing, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family of the youngest person to die from injuries during the festival, said that most of the victims killed or injured were Black but the majority of attorneys representing them are white. During Wednesday’s hearing, most of the 50 to 60 attorneys in the courtroom were white.
“There seems to be not much representation in the court of those African American voices. We really grapple with it. We are concerned about them not having a voice,” said Crump, who represents the family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, who was Black. Ezra's father, Treston Blount, who was with his son at the concert, was at Tuesday's court hearing.
In recent years, Crump has represented victims of police brutality and vigilante violence and has been the lawyer for the families of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
Hawkins told Crump this issue is something “that has not gone unnoticed by the court ... I would like that to be considered going forward.”
But Hawkins said she was “not going to choose someone’s counsel for them. I do know we have excellent attorneys in this room and those attorneys come from all aspects of Harris County.”
Neal Manne, who represents Astroworld festival promoter Live Nation, thanked Crump for highlighting this issue, saying, “I agree with him.”
Houston police are still conducting a criminal investigation of the Astroworld concert.
The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee in December announced it was investigating Live Nation’s role in the deadly concert.
Last month, Houston officials announced the creation of a new task force that will look at improving the safety at large Houston-area events.
Those who died in the concert ranged in age from 9 to 27 years old. Roughly 300 people were injured and treated at the scene, and 25 were taken to hospitals. Those killed died from compression asphyxia.
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Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70 | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Gag-order-diversity-discussed-at-Astroworld-16969709.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:24 | en | 0.980907 |
A century ago today, an abandoned young woman took the stage at La Scala in Milan, Italy, praying for her lover's return. Thus, the world was introduced to Madame Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini's most famous heroine. Her story, set in Japan around 1900, is a tragic one of innocence betrayed. But as NPR's Ketzel Levine reports, Madame Butterfly lives on through an immortal musical score.
Puccini first came across the story of Madame Butterfly in 1900, when he saw a play of the same name in London. Puccini was captivated by the sad tale of a callous American officer, B.F. Pinkerton, who marries and leaves Cio-Cio-San, a vulnerable Japanese girl, and spent four years setting it to music.
The opera, in two acts, contains a world of characters, but at its heart lays one resplendent soprano, with grit and transcendent grace -- all qualities possessed by arguably the most celebrated Butterfly of her generation, Renata Scotto. When Scotto first performed the role in the 1950s, she was barely older than the character she portrayed -- a besotted teen who leaps blindly into marriage and ends up taking her own life. Scotto says it was hard not to develop an emotional attachment to Butterfly.
"You should never be too much involved… otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing," Scotto says. "This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly."
It's easy to feel sympathy for Butterfly. The same cannot be said of Pinkerton, a cad of epic proportions. Acclaimed tenor Placido Domingo, who's played the role many times throughout his career, believes that after Butterfly's suicide, Pinkerton gets his own, unspoken comeuppance: "Probably after that moment, he's unhappy for the rest of his life."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-16/madame-butterfly-turns-100 | 2022-03-02T01:32:25 | en | 0.970841 |
SEATTLE (AP) — Alaska Airlines said Tuesday it is temporarily suspending its partnership with a Russian airline over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“We are deeply concerned by the humanitarian crisis taking place in Ukraine," a statement from the Seattle-based airline said. ”As a result, we are temporarily suspending our partnership with the Russian airline S7."
Alaska Airline guests, as of March 1, will not be able to earn miles on S7, and Alaska’s work to enable redemptions on S7 also will stop.
Alaska said it has also suspended its limited interline relationships with S7 and Aeroflot, the largest carrier in Russia. Interlining allows passengers on one airline to be ticketed on a competing airline for various issues such as bad weather.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday announced a move to sever ties with Russian entities doing business with Washington state in protest of the invasion of Ukraine and urged private businesses in the state to consider cutting ties with Russia. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Alaska-Airlines-suspends-partnership-with-Russian-16969558.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:29 | en | 0.957809 |
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers this month, meaning that starting on March 26 those arriving from other places in the U.S. won't have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to avoid sequestering themselves for five days.
Hawaii is the only U.S. state to implement a coronavirus quarantine program of this kind.
Gov. David Ige said at a news conference the requirement saved lives and was a major factor in limiting the spread of COVID-19 in the islands. Hawaii has one of the lowest coronavirus infection rates in the nation.
The quarantine period for travelers lasted 14 days when Hawaii first imposed it in March 2020. The state later created testing and vaccination exemptions.
The state screened 11.3 million passengers since the testing exemption was launched in October 2020, Ige said.
Those arriving in Hawaii from outside the country still must adhere to U.S. federal guidelines, which vary depending on American citizenship. International tourists do not need to quarantine but still need proof of vaccination and a negative test.
The governor said he would maintain Hawaii's indoor mask mandate at least through March 25, and would be evaluating whether to lift it after that. Hawaii is last state in the nation with a statewide mandate in effect.
The governor said state Department of Health will review recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before he decides, Ige said.
Ige said he wants to make sure that public schools will be able to continue with in-person learning. He said more people will be traveling as spring break comes, which could increase the presence of the coronavirus at schools.
"The pandemic is not over. Tragically, we continue to see those that we know and love continue to suffer from COVID-19," he said.
The governor said he was proud of how the community responded the pandemic.
“It is about the people, place and culture of all of us here, coming from diverse backgrounds but always understanding that there is a bigger reason to be willing to sacrifice individual needs to benefit the community,” Ige said. “And over and over again, we were willing to do that.” | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Hawaii-to-lift-COVID-19-travel-quarantine-rules-16969651.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:30 | en | 0.972263 |
An artist in Cologne, Germany, is working to memorialize individual victims of the Nazis. He's embedding thousands of small concrete blocks, each topped by a brass plate, in sidewalks across the country. Each of these so-called "stumbling blocks" bears the name, and fate, of one person killed by Adolph Hitler's regime. Kyle James reports.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-16/memorial-honors-nazis-victims-one-at-a-time | 2022-03-02T01:32:31 | en | 0.939455 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: Biden to announce in State of the Union that US is closing airspace to Russian planes over Ukraine invasion.
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: Biden to announce in State of the Union that US is closing airspace to Russian planes over Ukraine invasion. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Alert-AP-sources-Biden-to-announce-in-State-of-16969632.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:36 | en | 0.920685 |
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Alabama this weekend to commemorate a key moment of the civil rights movement.
Harris will speak in Selma at an event marking the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 when white police attacked Black voting rights marchers.
Harris will also take part in the annual event's symbolic march across the bridge. Several other members of President Joe Biden's administration will also attend the event, including Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan.
On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of demonstrators. The confrontation set the stage weeks later for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the massive Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights.
The events galvanized support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.
Harris is the first female U.S. vice president and the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent in the role. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Kamala-Harris-to-mark-Bloody-Sunday-anniversary-16969715.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:36 | en | 0.934418 |
Tom Moon reviews music from British hip-hop sensation Dizzee Rascal. Moon says that no British hip-hop import has had much success in the states, but Dizzee may be the one to break through, with his CD Boy In Da Corner.
Copyright 2004 NPR
Tom Moon reviews music from British hip-hop sensation Dizzee Rascal. Moon says that no British hip-hop import has had much success in the states, but Dizzee may be the one to break through, with his CD Boy In Da Corner.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-16/music-review-boy-in-da-corner-from-dizzee-rascal | 2022-03-02T01:32:38 | en | 0.963131 |
BOSTON (AP) — Boston is planning to lift its indoor mask mandate for businesses and many other venues starting this weekend.
Mayor Michelle Wu on Tuesday pointed to the city's improving COVID-19 numbers as key to her decision to lift the mandate as of Saturday.
Masks will still be required in schools, public transportation, and health care and congregant care settings, per state and federal mask orders.
Earlier Tuesday, the city's Board of Health voted unanimously to endorse the recommendation from the city's commissioner of public heath to rescind the order.
Wu said the decision was made based on COVID-19 metrics showing continued improvement in the prevalence and severity of the pandemic in Boston.
Beginning Saturday, residents and visitors to Boston will no longer be required to wear a face covering in indoor public spaces, such as gyms, bars and restaurants, museums, and entertainment venues. Individual businesses may still choose to require masking.
Boston Public Schools will continue to require masking while school leaders monitor metrics including school positivity and vaccination rates following last week’s school vacation.
The masking requirement will be lifted at city buildings including for city workers, except for Boston Public Schools and Boston Public Health Commission.
Masks are recommended in city buildings where vulnerable populations are served, such as Boston Public Library branches and community centers.
“I’m grateful that our city is ready to take this step in our recovery thanks to the hard work and commitment of residents keeping our communities safe over many, many months,” Wu said.
While masks are no longer mandated in certain indoor settings, the Boston Public Health Commission recommends masking in these settings for people who are at high risk for severe illness or for people who will be around individuals who are, Wu said. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Boston-to-lift-mask-mandate-for-businesses-other-16969560.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:42 | en | 0.962359 |
NPR's Michele Norris talks with Stephen Webber, Berklee College of Music professor and author of Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ. Webber teaches students to use the turntable as a musical instrument in a class he says is the first of its kind at a college of music. Webber demonstrates DJ techniques -- scratching, juggling beats and crabbing -- using turntables and a mixer.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-18/colleges-new-class-turntable-101 | 2022-03-02T01:32:44 | en | 0.910024 |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republicans forged ahead Tuesday with an overhaul of mine safety regulation that would strip the state of its ability to cite coal companies for unsafe working conditions.
They blocked an effort by Democrats to derail the measure. That came a day after dozens of miners and former miners gathered at the Capitol on Monday night, helmets in hand, to testify against the bill. The hearing happened the same day a veteran coal miner died in southern West Virginia. He was pinned by an air drill.
During the hearing, miners said the regulations keep them safer.
“Every one of these laws that’s written, state and federal, they’re not wrote by ink. They’re wrote by blood,” said Barry Brown, a disabled coal miner who worked underground for 32 years. “Every one of these laws has blood on them. Doing away with the state department and their enforcement, I think, would be the worse thing that this state could do.”
The bill is scheduled for a final reading in the House on Wednesday and still must be considered in the Senate. It essentially would strip the state office of miners’ health, safety and training of its ability to enforce laws — in fact, it eliminates all enforcement language from state code.
Instead of going to mines for inspections, inspectors will go for “visits” and make “recommendations” instead of “orders.” There would be no more “investigations," just “reviews.”
The proposal would remove almost all penalties mining companies might face for safety violations. Under current law, companies can face thousands of dollars of fines and even prison time for failing to implement safety measures. The state can also close down portions of a mine or an entire mine.
One of the co-sponsors, Republican Del. Adam Burkhammer, said he respectfully disagrees with the miners.
“I appreciate their passion,” he said.
Burkhammer, who works as a contractor with the West Virginia Miner's Health and Safety program, said a “culture shift” is needed to nudge the focus of inspectors more toward training than enforcement. He said there will still be the same number of inspectors in the state with the same jurisdiction on the mines, "but you're going to have a different outlook when you walk onto the job. You're going to be inspecting for things that you can train on.”
Burkhammer asserts it may make companies feel freer to bring up concerns to the state about possible safety violations if they aren't “at risk of being fined for several thousand dollars.” The bill’s sponsors also have argued that the existence of federal inspectors makes state inspectors redundant.
But Tony Oppegard, a Kentucky lawyer who has represented miners in safety cases for decades, said the bill would do nothing to improve safety for miners. He called it an “anti-safety bill masquerading as a safety bill.”
Leaving only the federal safeguards in place, he added, “basically it cuts protection for coal miners in half."
He said the real motivation for the bill is the bottom line.
“If you’re an advisory agency, it’s less expensive for the operator, because they don’t have to worry about paying any fines," Oppegard said. “They really don’t have to worry about their mine being shut down for any reason.”
There are 511 mines, quarries and coal handling facilities in West Virginia, according to the state. Under state law, inspectors are required to visit each mine in their region at least four times a year.
Coal mine operators and miners cannot legally be given advance notice of an inspection — a law that is punishable by a fine of $15,000 or one to five years in prison. The inspector must be accompanied by a company representative and a miner representative.
The proposed bill removes the requirement for the minimum number of “visits” that must take place a year and the mandate that mines cannot be warned ahead of time about inspections. It also cuts the requirement that a miner representative be allowed to attend.
Kelly Blair, a Charleston-based state inspector who lost his oldest brother and uncle in mining fatalities, said miners aren’t going to approach him about concerns if there is someone from the company standing by.
“If you take away my ability to enforce, then I can’t do my job," he said. "I can’t protect the miners."
Steve “Zimmy” Zimmerman, a safety committee member for the Harrison County Coal Mine, said when he writes up complaints to mine management and they are ignored, he has no recourse. But when he takes it to state inspectors, they can cite the company.
“This all comes down to the bottom dollar: When the company has to pay for such conditions, the hazardous conditions get remedied, they get fixed. The miners are safe.”
Zimmerman was among a group of somber miners huddled together, praying after Monday's public hearing for the miner who died. He had 20 years' experience.
“We want all our miners to come home,” Zimmerman said. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/GOP-pushes-to-strip-safety-measures-from-West-Va-16969546.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:48 | en | 0.970991 |
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