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On Tuesday, a senior U.S. defense official reiterated that U.S. troops will not be fighting in Ukraine. That includes in the use of a no-fly zone, saying there's no discussion about it.
But U.S. troops are still heavily deployed in Poland in a show of force for an important NATO ally.
Service members with the 82nd Airborne Division arrived with a mobile radar unit, Humvees and other heavy equipment.
They are setting up camp just a few miles from the border with Ukraine in a frigid, sparsely-populated part of Poland.
President Joe Biden has deployed 7,000 U.S. service members to NATO's eastern flank in recent weeks, most of them to Poland, adding to the 4,000 that were already stationed in the country. Last week, the president sent an additional 7,000 troops to Germany.
Others in the 82nd are engaging in joint training exercises with Polish forces around two hours north.
The goal of the drills, according to the Pentagon, is for the American and Poles to get to know each other's equipment, capabilities and tactics.
The paratroopers are there, the U.S. says, to help Americans evacuate Ukraine, but their foremost purpose is deterrence against Russian aggression towards a NATO ally.
The rising show of force goes beyond troops. The day after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. transferred UH-60 Black Hawks and AH-64 Apache attack helicopters there from a base in Greece.
The Biden administration has been under increasing pressure to set up a no-fly zone over Ukraine but has so far refused, arguing that the risk of getting into a shooting war with Russia in the skies over Ukraine is simply too great.
For the same reason, there are no plans to send U.S. troops into Ukraine.
But war is unpredictable, and should the orders change, the troops are ready.
A Pentagon official says in the last 24 hours, there have been fewer than 70 American citizens who have moved from Ukraine into Poland. A handful of American service members provided them with food, water and internet access.
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AUSTIN, Texas — All eyes are on the the race for Texas Attorney General as three well-funded GOP challengers try to send incumbent Ken Paxton packing.
It's the most likely big statewide race in the Texas Primary to wind up in a runoff, although Paxton could avoid one if he gets at least 50% of the vote.
"He’s been on the ballot a long time. You can’t count him out. There is a shot he does this without a runoff and it’ll probably be by a nose. Very, very close," Republican strategist Jessica Colón said.
Accusations of bribery and corruption and an ongoing federal investigation of Paxton make him more vulnerable than most incumbents.
RACE RESULTS: Check back here for results after 7 p.m.
Recent polls show the most likely runoff contenders are Land Commissioner George P. Bush and Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman. U.S. Rep. Louis Gomert is polling behind them.
"You can kind of guess from what the campaigns are doing. You see particularly George P. Bush, the land commissioner, taking attacks at Eva Guzman. And Ken Paxton attacking Eva Guzman," said former Harris County GOP Chairman Paul Simpson.
Attacks, counter-attacks
That was evident when a recent debate turned into an all-out brawl as Bush and Guzman took shots at each other.
They went after each other’s records and legal qualifications. Bush called Guzman a “gutter politician,” while Guzman said Bush was “entitled” and angry that she had jumped into the race.
Gohmert took advantage of Paxton’s absence to hammer the incumbent on the FBI investigation and present himself as a conservative alternative without the baggage.
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The debate, held in Austin five days before election day on Tuesday, was organized by The Texas Tribune, Spectrum News and The Dallas Morning News.
The attacks began less than a minute into the debate when Bush took the final part of his allotted time to say Guzman had engaged in negative campaigning.
“She’s run a multimillion-dollar attack maligning my character, impeaching my track record and, of course, going after my wife,” Bush said. “Eva Guzman, you’ve crossed the line. You can go after me but you can’t go after my family. I look forward to this discussion to show you that you are a gutter politician.”
Bush’s campaign said Guzman’s camp had referenced the company of Bush’s wife in a negative mailer implying conflicts of interest.
Guzman came right back, saying Bush had lied about her in his ads by saying she did not support former President Donald Trump’s border wall.
“He knows that’s been part of my plan. It was on my website,” she said. “There is no room in Texas for another lying attorney general.”
Hurricane Harvey
Guzman also criticized Bush for his handling of federal recovery funds for Hurricane Harvey, which a Republican Harris County commissioner has called incompetent.
“Millions of Houstonians are in harm’s way because George mishandled the distribution of Harvey funds,” she said. “George gave millions of Harris County residents zero.”
Bush dismissed the criticisms as “gutter politics” and said Democratic leaders in Harris County squandered the funds provided to them by the federal government while he has built thousands of homes for people affected by the 2017 hurricane.
Paxton and FBI investigation
One of the things the three challengers agreed on was that Paxton needs to go.
Gohmert stayed out of the fight between his two opponents on stage and set his sights on Paxton. From his first answer, he needled the incumbent for not showing up to debates and public events with the other candidates.
“It’s because he is under indictment for fraud,” Gohmert said, referring to a seven-year-old securities fraud case that is ongoing and adding that Paxton is also under FBI investigation. “He’s likely going to be indicted after the primary when we can’t replace him.”
Gohmert compared his record to Paxton’s.
“I’ve been a prosecutor, I’ve been a litigator at all levels,” he said. “I have much more experience.”
In the final months of the campaign, Paxton appears to have recognized Gohmert’s threat among conservative voters and began running negative TV ads against him in Gohmert’s home region of East Texas. A week before the election, Paxton ran TV ads that blasted Gohmert for missing hundreds of votes in Congress during his 17 years in office.
Gohmert brushed off those criticisms at the debate.
“That’s coming from an attorney general that’s under indictment and has lied repeatedly,” he said.
Gohmert said those were mostly procedural votes and he still gets an “A+” with voters for the votes he has taken.
'Ken, I know you're watching'
Bush also chided Paxton for his absence, saying he was evading conservative voters.
“Ken, I know you’re watching, you’re sitting there on your couch,” he said. “When are you going to come out of the shadows?”
For months, Paxton’s opponents have blasted him for his legal troubles, which they see as signs that he is too distracted to effectively carry out his duties. Eight of Paxton’s former top deputies accused him of bribery and abuse of office, which the FBI is now investigating. Paxton has also been under indictment since 2015 on securities fraud charges.
With legal clouds hanging over his candidacy, Paxton is a prime target for Democrats in the general election. Bush and Gohmert said if Paxton wins, the Republicans would essentially hand the general election to Democrats.
Abortion, gender-affirming care
On the issues, all three challengers were mostly in agreement. They said they would defend Texas’ new abortion restrictions approved by the Legislature last year, agreed with Gov. Greg Abbott’s floated idea of clemency for Austin police officers charged with using excessive force during a social justice protest last summer and agreed with Paxton’s recently issued legal opinion that called gender-affirming care for transgender children child abuse.
Bush and Gohmert criticized Paxton’s lawsuit to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election in four battleground states.
Bush said it was “frivolous” and said he was “clearly trying to save his own you-know-what” by trying to get a pardon from Trump. Gohmert said the state had no standing to file the suit but Paxton filed it to distract people from the abuse of office accusations from his former top deputies.
On Biden's win over Trump
When asked if they believed President Joe Biden had won the election, Bush and Guzman raised their hands, with Guzman saying it was “undetermined, but yes, he’s our president.”
Gohmert said: “I don’t know whether he did or not.”
Just days before the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol a year ago, an assessment by Capitol Police intelligence analysts, obtained and first reported by Politico, flagged Gohmert’s comments on a right-wing news network as potentially encouraging violence in response to the 2020 election.
Gohmert subsequently said on air: “The ruling would be that you got to go to the streets and be as violent as Antifa and [Black Lives Matter]," the Tribune reported.
In a statement provided to Politico, he said that he had “not encouraged and unequivocally do not advocate for violence.”
Democrats on the ballot
We're also following the Democratic side of the ballot, where Lee Merritt, Rochelle Garza, S. 'T-Bone' Raynor, Joe Jaworski and Mike Fields are running. You can read up more on that race there.
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CAMERON COUNTY, Texas — Cameron County is showing up for the 2022 primaries.
Not as much as voters in the south Texas county would for a presidential race, but in a major way for a midterm election year.
"We're actually seeing a big increase in the turnout during early voting for this cycle," said Remi Garza, elections administrator in Cameron County. "We're thinking it's a combination of more people accessing the polls, but also the interest of the candidates."
Specifically, the candidates in this year's gubernatorial race, where Republican incumbent Greg Abbott is attempting to secure his party's nomination en route to a potential third term in office. His primary competition: Democrat Beto O'Rourke, who came as close as any Texan in recent decades to turning a U.S. Senate representative seat from the Lone Star State blue in 2018.
The Rio Grande Valley will play an important role in this race for governor. It's made up of four counties: Starr, Willacy, Hidalgo and Cameron. Hidalgo is the most populous, with Cameron County coming at No. 2, with more than 420,000 residents.
Here, Garza says, busy midterms for Republicans and Democrats is an indicator of big turnout come November.
"We're expecting an extremely high turnout here in Cameron County," he said. "I wouldn't be surprised that we do surpass 2018, because that was one of the highest gubernatorial elections that we've ever had in Camera County."
Experts say it's certainly become a battleground region.
Clyde Barrow, chair of the political science department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, said the area matters in the gubernatorial race even though, overall, it accounts for only 3% to 4% of Texas' voter base.
"It's generally considered important, particularly to Democrats, because, historically, it has been an overwhelmingly Democratic region of the state," Barrow said. "And in a close race, it could be the margin of difference."
Is it possible for a Democrat to be elected to lead Texas from Austin, something which hasn't happened since Ann Richards in 1991. ? I think it’s 1991. Here’s the reference https://lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/governors/govBrowse.cfm
Barrow says it is, but O'Rourke would have to articulate a clear policy in the months to come. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/special-reports/at-the-border/the-important-role-the-rio-grande-valley-plays-in-the-2022-election/273-1f9cbcf7-f7f1-4b57-bd10-2da7893fabb1 | 2022-03-02T01:44:13 | en | 0.969878 |
NEW YORK — It's that time of year for the NFL when the season just ended but the front offices are ramping things up.
The NFL Scouting Combine takes place this week. Meanwhile, teams have one week before the deadline to designate franchise or transition tag players on March 8, and then on March 16, player contracts from 2021 expire and the free agency period begins.
So if you're a team out there without a current, stable franchise quarterback, there are a lot of decisions that have to be made soon. This is expected to be an all-time offseason for quarterback movement in the NFL.
On the Peacock and Williamson NFL Show, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, NFL analysts Brian Peacock and Matt Williamson cycled through every team with a potential question mark next to their QB situation and discussed what they think should or will or could happen with those teams and their QBs.
You can listen to Part 1 and Part 2 of Peacock and Williamson's QB Carousel episodes below:
Obviously the conversation omits teams with stable current situations like Kansas City, Buffalo, both Los Angeles teams, Dallas, Cincinnati and Baltimore. But they discuss about 20 teams' quarterback situations heading into March and speculate on what could happen.
Unlikely to make a change, but not impossible
Arizona Cardinals
The Cardinals obviously are in a public tiff with their 2019 No. 1 overall pick Kyler Murray, who is trying to get a new contract prior to the fourth year of his rookie deal. But it's up in the air whether that will happen. Is there any chance Murray isn't Arizona's starter in 2022?
Peacock: There is some heat to this and this was a storyline this offseason and scrubbing of all Cardinals photos in his social media, I think he’s kind of gotten over that, maybe he was talking to buddies at the Pro Bowl when that happened and got some ideas. But, then heads were more level the following week.
Williamson: I’m not implying that Kyler isn’t a good leader, but he had Larry Fitzgerald the first two years there was always an older brother in that building with him. When Larry left, they went out and got AJ Green, JJ Watt, Rodney Hudson and we said why are they getting all these old dudes? Well they need leaders and I’m not sure Kyler is an extreme leader at this point…You can see where there’s a little crack in the relationship…But Kyler’s going to stay home.
Minnesota Vikings
Kirk Cousins is heading into the final year of his contract with the Vikings and with a new head coach coming in, it's not completely 100% that Minnesota will roll with Cousins this upcoming season.
Peacock: Plan A is likely still just Kirk Cousins. But, maybe plan A is they’re blown away by an offer from another franchise and then plan B is Kirk Cousins. But there’s no fall back, there’s no plan C to me. I think it’ll remain the same with Kirk Cousins.
Williamson: A lot of these newly hired coaches, we assume got hired because they’re going to take the QB there and deal with it and work around him or improve him. I think it’s a little different than Jacksonville, Chicago where it’s a second year guy…But, speaking of Arizona, didn’t Kingsbury get hired to get Josh Rosen right and then convinced everyone to get Kyler Murray in the draft?
Las Vegas Raiders
The Raiders likely have their franchise guy in Derek Carr but in a world where the futures of Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers remain up in there, is there any sort of trade possibility?
Peacock: I think Derek Carr is their plan, I have him penciled in there. The only think that makes sense for the Raiders to change is if they’re able to swing a deal for like Russell Wilson and if that’s the case, the Seahawks will want Derek Carr. Or maybe the Packers are OK with trading Aaron Rodgers if he wants to go and they make that happen.
Williamson: I do think the Vikings and Raiders situations are similar. New coach. I don’t know which is the better team but they’re both average. I think the Vikings would love for someone to call them about Cousins but I don’t think the Raiders are looking for anything except an upgrade. They don’t want draft picks for Carr.
Seattle Seahawks
Many continue to speculate on the future of Russell Wilson in Seattle after a rough season and the potential for change coming in Seattle. Last year, Wilson gave Seattle a list of four teams he'd be willing to be traded to, but Peacock and Williamson both say it's tough to see Seattle giving him up for what teams would be willing to give.
Peacock: Our colleague from Locked On Seahawks Corbin Smith did a podcast talking about what a trade offer should look like for Russell Wilson and what they would be looking for and it involves getting a good QB in return and staying good. That doesn’t exist for you. The Seahawks don’t get better by trading Russell Wilson. They fall apart, they get a bunch of draft picks and they get better later. That’s it. Getting a worse quarterback in return makes zero sense, so Russell Wilson, unless he forces his way out, is staying in Seattle.
Williamson: I tend to agree. Maybe they work a deal out where somehow they end up with Daniel Jones or Jordan Love or somebody like that and say, that’s probably our opening day starter but we’re also going to draft one in the first round…But I think they should trade Wilson.
Green Bay Packers
Of course, this is the biggest domino to fall. If Aaron Rodgers and the Packers don't agree to come back together and he wants to go elsewhere, it opens the floodgates for the QB carousel around the league. But how likely is that?
Peacock: Do we keep Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay? They’re in a similar situation with Seattle where if they don’t get better by moving him, they’ve got to start moving on from multiple people. You’re not going to get someone to win you 13 games a year again if you’re moving on from Aaron Rodgers, including Jordan Love.
Williamson: Rodgers is the biggest domino without question…When it’s all said and done I think Rodgers will be a Packer. I think Rodgers looks at the NFC, the division, the success he’s had and they figure out a way to keep him and extend him…But there’s still a domino if he stays because I think they trade Jordan Love. I think Jordan Love ends up in Atlanta or something like that.
Houston Texans
The Texans weren't a bit of a weird mess last season but ended up giving the starting reigns to 2021 third-round pick Davis Mills. Both Peacock and Williamson said they find it hard for there to be a scenario where they don't stick with him at QB1 for another season.
Peacock: I talked to our Locked On Texans hosts and I said hey what about Jimmy Garoppolo? And they scoffed at it, saying Davis Mills is the guy. Is it that easy? We have a cheap, maybe future starter in Davis Mills, this draft class isn’t amazing, we’re not going to spend anything on trading for a guy.
Williamson: I think it’s gotten to that point where you hope Mills turns into a Dak Prescott, Russell Wilson mid-round gift from the gods…Maybe you bring in a Ryan Fitzpatrick or Andy Dalton or someone like that.
Miami Dolphins
While there were midseason questions about Tua Tagovailoa with a rumored Deshaun Watson trade brewing, Peacock and Williamson believe that Tua will be their quarterback.
Peacock: “They’re all in at Tua it feels like. Do they revisit the Deshaun Watson stuff? New coach. Mike McDaniel will probably live and die by Tua over there though.”
Williamson: “I think ownership wants that and that’s the answer.”
Teams that may make changes
Philadelphia Eagles
The Eagles are in a bit of a weird spot because they have Jalen Hurts and they also have THREE first round picks this year. They're one of few teams that have attractive enough capital to make a big trade for a big QB.
Peacock: The question for the Eagles is would sticking with Jalen Hurts be plan A and see what you have with him…Or are you willing to trade all your first round picks and you’re in the Wilson, Rodgers, Watson market? Is that plan A for the Eagles?
Williamson: I think plan A is Wilson and I don’t think it will happen. Plan B, likely, is giving Hurts a big receiver and see another year with him.
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are in a similar spot that the Eagles are in where they could be a possibility for a trade. They have Baker Mayfield for one more year after he didn't earn a new contract last season.
Peacock: What do you do with Baker Mayfield? I think you have to stick it out there and just see how he looks on his fifth year option and then make a decision next offseason. This was supposed to be the offseason that Baker Mayfield was supposed to get a big contract and he did not earn that this past season.
Williamson: Option 1, which I don’t think will happen, is offering Seattle three to two firsts for Russell Wilson and we’re going to try to win the AFC. But then Seattle is saying why do we want Baker?...My prediction for the Browns is they stay put and cut Case Keenum and draft Drake London or something in the first round and then the second round they might try to trade up for Sam Howell or get Carson Strong at their spot. It seems like the logical move.
New York Giants
New York is another team that could try to make a deal with Seattle for Russell Wilson. The likelihood is low, but New York is always a destination market.
Peacock: It sounds like the Giants are going to stick with Daniel Jones even though I believe they absolutely should not. I’ve got plan A being Russell Wilson, trying to talk Wilson and Ciara into coming to the big city New York, you make that deal and you’ve got pick five and seven in the draft, which could be enticing for the Seahawks. But it sounds like the Giants will go with a fallback option like Mitch Trubisky, who their new coach was just coaching as a backup there in Buffalo. I think that’s the wrong plan, but I think that’s going to be their plan.
Williamson: I agree with everything you said. I think Trubisky makes an awful lot of sense and those two have some similarities and you could see where that would be some competition, an insurance policy. Chances are neither ends up hitting and you’re in this conversation again next year but you never know. I think the wild card is taking Malik Willis with one of their first round picks.
Atlanta Falcons
Peacock and Williamson both say the Falcons should try to trade Matt Ryan, but the cap hit that he's making will be hard to deal away.
Peacock: You can talk me into a Matt Ryan trade, in fact I would be trying to trade Matt Ryan if I was the Falcons. This team is not going anywhere as currently constructed. By the time the Falcons are good, Matt Ryan is going to be gone anyway. Plan B should be Matt Ryan, plan A should be to see what we can get.
Williamson: I agree. I can’t see anything good about where the Falcons are right now. I’d rather be GM of the Texans or Jags. I think they’re really in a bind. I wonder if they’d be better off calling a team with cap space and giving Matt Ryan and a second for just a mid-round draft pick…I don’t think they’ll do that…But you can make the argument the franchise would be better served with Jordan Love or Mitch Trubisky than Matt Ryan.
Indianapolis Colts
It's hard for anyone to see exactly what could happen with the Colts' QB situation for next season. They brought in Carson Wentz but after the Colts failed to make the playoffs, there's some blame game going around that could result in a breakup. Peacock suggested that the Falcons and Colts swap quarterbacks in some sort of trade, bringing Matt Ryan over to Indy.
Peacock: What can you do with Carson Wentz? You don’t have a first round pick, you’re not going to be able to trade for a big time player. If you give away Carson Wentz, who takes him and how do you get better? Are you swapping Wentz for Garoppolo? That doesn’t seem worth doing really.
Williamson: I think they’ll probably just kiss and make up with Wentz and run it back and try to win a bad division. But, if (Jim Irsay) doesn’t like Wentz, then Wentz isn’t coming back.
Detroit Lions
The Lions were very, very bad, but there were some bright spots with the offense toward the end of the year, namely Amon-Ra St. Brown's connection with Jared Goff. Detroit is in a rebuild, but would they draft a new starting QB this year?
Peacock: If you’re the Lions, you go to the draft. None of the veteran quarterbacks are going to want to go there, you already have Jared Goff in house. So you’re drafting a quarterback. And you’re not drafting one at No. 2 most likely. So that leaves with them with pick 32. I would put money on the Lions drafting a QB between picks 2 and 32, whether they trade up from 32 or down from 2.
Williamson: The Lions might even be able to stay put at 32 and end up with Demond Ridder or Sam Howell.
Teams that will definitely have new QBs
San Francisco 49ers
The 49ers are getting rid of Jimmy Garoppolo and pretty much everyone knows it. That will likely lead them to start 2021 third overall pick Trey Lance next season...unless a certain 44-year-old retiree wants to come back for one last hurrah. Ultimately, Peacock and Williamson do agree it will be Lance with potentially a veteran backup brought in.
Peacock: I have a feeling that Tom Brady is retired but that he wouldn’t mind playing one more year for his hometown team, the San Francisco 49ers. He grew up in the shadow of of Candlestick Park. He tried to go to the 49ers a couple years ago after their Super Bowl run, they decided to stick with Garoppolo, which probably was the wrong decision. The Niners are trying to trade away Jimmy G.
Williamson: The problem with Brady to the Niners is Tampa wants something for him if he leaves, you can't just get him.
Pittsburgh Steelers
Obviously the Steelers will have a new starter with Ben Roethlisberger retiring. Peacock and Williamson agree that Pittsburgh isn't interested in a rebuild.
Williamson: The Steelers are always going to try to win the Super Bowl to some degree. I do think they would be really infatuated with a QB that can move and someone on their rookie deal because they haven’t had it here in so long…I like the Jameis Winston, Mitch Trubisky, Marcus Mariota way of doing things for them. But they also just hired Brian Flores and Flores really wanted Deshaun Watson. So if it was an all-in guy, I think it’s likely Watson over Rodgers and Wilson.
Peacock: Get a stop gap quarterback like Marcus Mariota, if Jameis Winston is not available…With a draft pick like Pickett or Willis, maybe move around on draft day. So a rookie QB plus a stop gap like Mariota, I think that is the most likely scenario for the Steelers.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
With Tom Brady hanging them up, the Bucs will need a new starting quarterback. But like the Steelers, Peacock and Williamson don't think they're going to tear it all down and rebuild yet.
Peacock: Is plan A for the Bucs for Tom Brady to go film a movie and then come back and say just kidding I’m not retired anymore?
Williamson: The door’s always open Tom, he might go stir crazy I guess it’s possible. I can’t see them saying Kyle Trask or Blaine Gabbert is the guy. I think it’s a Kirk Cousins or Carson Wentz possibility in Tampa.
Carolina Panthers
Sam Darnold was pretty much a disaster for Carolina and they'll have a new quarterback next year. Peacock and Williamson pitched that it could be the right destination for Deshaun Watson.
Peacock: There is an ownership group here that is active and they want to win…Deshaun Watson, is that option A for the Panthers? Bring the Clemson kid back home. I feel like this is the perfect opportunity for the Panthers to fix their situation and go get a quarterback.
Williamson: Houston isn’t the worst place to send Sam Darnold if you can make a trade. Houston can absorb his salary…I’m not going to say it’s likely but I do think Watson getting traded in the next month or two is very likely and there’s not many landing spots. I can’t come up with a better one than Carolina.
Denver Broncos
Of course there's been plenty of buzz about the potential for Aaron Rodgers to come to Denver. There was plenty last offseason and with the hiring of Nathaniel Hackett, that stoked the fire more. But, what happens when Rodgers stays home?
Peacock: Option A and plan A is clearly Aaron Rodgers…Its hard to imagine Rodgers being anywhere other than Green Bay or Denver at this point. That’s all going to be decided by Aaron Rodgers in the coming weeks…If Plan A doesn’t happen, do you go to Jordan Love and go get the backup and have him battle it out with Drew Lock? Or do you start calling on Deshaun Watson, Kirk Cousins, Jimmy Garoppolo?
Williamson: I think it’s Rodgers, which might not be an option, then Watson, then Cousins, because if Cousins plays elsewhere I think it’s Denver or Tampa. I think it will be Rodgers, Watson or Cousins.
Washington Commanders
It's unlikely the Commanders are going to stick with Taylor Heinicke for much longer. What moves could they make this offseason?
Peacock: If you’re Washington, if you’re Ok with Jimmy Garoppolo and you have pick 11, you know there might be a quarterback there for you. Garoppolo, plus Willis, that might be a good situation for you. The 49ers just went to the NFC Championship Game with Garoppolo and developed their young quarterback. You could have the same plan if you’re Washington.
Williamson: Totally agree. If you trade for Garoppolo today, that doesn’t mean you can’t use your first round pick on your favorite quarterback.
New Orleans Saints
The Saints had Jameis Winston starting last season and then he tore his ACL and they went with Trevor Siemian and Taysom Hill. Winston will be a free agent if they don't re-sign him, so what's going to happen here?
Peacock: I’ve got them in the Russell Wilson sweepstakes. He listed them in his group of four teams that he would want to go to last year, but Sean Payton is gone now and they have a rough situation with this salary cap now. Adding a $30-$40 million QB might be tough. I’m not going to put it past the Saints to figure it out. Is that plan A?
Williamson: I think you have that conversation within your walls and when you leave that meeting, you say that’s not really feasible for us…I think it’s Jameis Winston, maybe even Jameis and Matt Corral. | https://www.kens5.com/article/sports/locked-on/nfl-podcast/qb-carousel-which-nfl-teams-will-have-different-quarterbacks-next-season-aaron-rodgers-russell-wilson-carson-wentz-kirk-cousins-tom-brady/535-33f9771f-c5cc-47b2-9c50-8e142729a6f3 | 2022-03-02T01:44:19 | en | 0.967526 |
A German film now in U.S. theaters tells the story of an East German woman who falls into a coma in 1989, missing the fall of the Berlin Wall. When she awakes, her family must prevent her from learning anything that might shock her -- leading them to re-create the fallen communist regime. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.
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The documentary film Rivers and Tides focuses on the "wilderness art" of Andy Goldsworthy -- enhanced dramatically by the big screen. Goldsworthy uses natural elements to create work that is often ephemeral in nature. Los Angeles Times film critic Ken Turan offers a review.
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Director Neil Jordan brings a smoky, jazzy sensibility -- and some new twists -- to his remake of the classic 1955 French film, Bob Le Flambeur. But The Good Thief's best asset may be its star Nick Nolte, who portrays a "glorious wreck." NPR's Bob Mondello reports.
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Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson has spent more than 20 years writing a cycle of plays that chronicle black life in 20th-century America, decade by decade. In works such as Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson writes about segregation and race relations; the daily struggle to find and hold a decent paying job; love, death and spirituality.
Wilson likes to say his work is inspired by the four Bs: Writers Amiri Baraka and Jorge Luis Borges, painter Romare Bearden, and the blues. But if you press him, you'll find the blues get top billing. As part of Intersections, a Morning Edition series on artists and their inspirations, Marcie Sillman of member station KUOW spoke with the playwright.
As a young man, Wilson haunted Pittsburgh's thrift stores, buying stacks of old albums for a nickel each. One day, he came across a recording by Bessie Smith, one of the great blues singers of the 1920s and '30s.
"I put that on, and it was unlike anything I'd ever heard before," Wilson recalls. "Somehow, all that other music was different from that. And I go, 'Wait a minute. This is mine… there's a history here.'"
The first song on the record was "Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine." Listening to the song, over and over, Wilson realized he could write in the language he heard around him -- black street vernacular -- rather than the English he admired in the works of such writers as Dylan Thomas. It was, he recalls, a defining moment: "The universe stuttered, and everything fell into place."
In Wilson's Ma Rainey, the title character calls the blues "life's way of talking." Wilson says the blues are life's instructions: "Contrary to what most people think, it's not defeatist, 'Oh, woe is me.' It's very life-affirming, uplifting music. Because you can sing that song, that's what enables you to survive."
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As the nation celebrates National Poetry Month, NPR's Susan Stamberg interviews poet Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. They discuss the NEA's comeback from controversies and the outlook for arts funding.
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The Return of the King, the final installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, wins all 11 Oscars for which it was nominated, including best picture and best director. Best acting honors go to Charlize Theron for her transformation into a serial killer in Monster, and Sean Penn for his performance as the troubled father of a murdered child in Mystic River. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne.
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This year's Pulitzer Prizes are announced Monday. Among the winners: Samantha Powers for her book on genocide called A Problem from Hell, Jeffrey Eugenides for his novel Middlesex about a hermaphrodite, and composer John Adams for his Sept. 11th-inspired music On The Transmigration of Souls. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.
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An ambitious 11-part requiem dedicated to the memory of Mr. Rogers has its premiere in Pittsburgh, where Fred Rogers lived for many years. The 21-year-old composer Luke Mayernik created the piece to honor Rogers, who died one year ago. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Mayernik.
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Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji dies Sunday at age 76. Olatunji recorded an album in 1959 called Drums of Passion, and it was for many Americans their first exposure to African drumming. While studying at Atlanta's Morehouse College, Olatunji learned about Africa, colonialism, slavery, and about being dark skinned in America in the '50s, and he became an ambassador for African Culture in America. We remember his music.
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Brick Lane, a novel set in the world of Bengali immigrants in London, is nominated for a prize from the National Book Critics Circle, which holds its 30th annual awards ceremony Thursday. The book, by first-time novelist Monica Ali, caused a sensation when it was published in Britain last year. NPR's Renee Montagne speaks with Ali.
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The new film A Mighty Wind -- from the comic talent behind Spinal Tap -- spoofs the folk music era of the early 1960s. The original songs were filmed as live performances. Eugene Levy, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest are among the stars. They talk with NPR's Melissa Block.
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The new jazz opera Forgotten: The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant chronicles the unionization of the Ford Motor Company. The story centers on the questionable 1937 death of union organizer and Methodist minister Lewis Bradford, a distant relative of the opera's composer, Steve Jones. NPR's Bob Edwards speaks with Jones.
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Director Federico Fellini called an interview he gave to filmmaker Damian Pettigrew, "the most detailed conversation ever... of my personal vision." That interview is now the basis of Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, a new film from Pettigrew. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.
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Classically trained piano player Regina Spektor grew up in Moscow during the 1980s, but when she moved to the U.S. as a teenager, she began to sing and write pop music. Mikel Jollett reviews her third and latest pop CD, Soviet Kitsch, as well as her previous CD Songs.
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Host Bob Edwards talks with radio producer Larry Josephson, about the classic comedy skits of radio personalities Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. Josephson has reissued a CD with a sampling of the pair's sketches, in honor of Bob Elliott's 80th birthday.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with playwright, director and Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins about his new play Embedded, currently on stage in New York. It's a parody that skewers the media coverage of the war in Iraq.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with playwright, director and Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins about his new play Embedded, currently on stage in New York. It's a parody that skewers the media coverage of the war in Iraq.
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Marooned in Iraq is the latest film from Iranian-based Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, who won acclaim for his first effort, A Time for Drunken Horses. The story touches on Saddam Hussein's brutal crackdown on the Kurds in the 1980s, but it's really a "road movie musical" with an often comic sensibility. Pat Dowell reports.
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Liane Hansen
Liane Hansen has been the host of NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday for 20 years. She brings to her position an extensive background in broadcast journalism, including work as a radio producer, reporter, and on-air host at both the local and national level. The program has covered such breaking news stories as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the deaths of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Columbia shuttle tragedy. In 2004, Liane was granted an exclusive interview with former weapons inspector David Kay prior to his report on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The show also won the James Beard award for best radio program on food for a report on SPAM. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-06/alis-novel-madras-on-rainy-days | 2022-03-02T01:47:01 | en | 0.964912 |
The British electronic duo Death in Vegas scores in British dance clubs by mixing rock and techno. The duo's latest CD is called Scorpio Rising. Charles de Ledesma offers a review.
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The British electronic duo Death in Vegas scores in British dance clubs by mixing rock and techno. The duo's latest CD is called Scorpio Rising. Charles de Ledesma offers a review.
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Actor and writer Spalding Gray is confirmed to be dead, two months after he was first reported missing. His body was pulled out of New York's East River Sunday. Gray, best known for Swimming to Cambodia, was 62. NPR's Neda Ulaby recounts Gray's career.
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Literature aimed at adolescents is difficult to translate to film. Yet, a buzz builds around the film version of a Newbery Award-winning novel. Like the book, the movie is called Holes. NPR's Bob Mondello says it has a shot at being as big a hit on screen as it is at bookstores.
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T.C. Boyle is the author of 15 books, including the novels Water Music, World's End and The Road to Wellville. His latest, Drop City, was nominated for a National Book Award last year. Boyle's fiction is known for its wit, biting satire, historical sweep and verbal pyrotechnics. For Intersections, a Morning Edition series on artists and their influences, Boyle tells reporter Tom Vitale that his literary reputation owes much to rock 'n' roll.
Boyle says that somewhere inside him lives a trapped rock star, crying to get out: "I think every writer of my generation and down is only writing because we can't have our own rock bands."
Boyle did have his own rock band for a while in the 1980s, when he sang lead vocals with a group called The Ventilators. But by then, Boyle was already an established writer; music was just recreation. It wasn't always that way. Growing up, Boyle wanted to be a musician. But a poor audition for his college's music major program led him to explore other fields.
Boyle began writing at the height of the 1960s, when rock dominated the culture. Music soon infused all aspects of Boyle's work. The characters and settings in one of Boyle's best-known stories, "Greasy Lake," were directly inspired by Bruce Springsteen's "Spirit in the Night," a song about an all-night party with bikers and rockers at a local hang-out. And in Drop City, the Van Morrison song "Mystic Eyes" is used to underscore the novel's central conflict between a hippie commune in Alaska and the locals they incense.
But Boyle says his work owes more to rock than mere lyrics: "Somehow, the sense of rhythm has infected my work. Anyone who hears me read aloud will understand the importance to me of rhythm."
And Boyle's hip, edgy public persona was also shaped by rock 'n' roll.
"It's true that this kind of cocky attitude that the bands presented… that is sort of how I approached the media myself, when finally I got attention as a writer," he says.
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The children's book Holes arrives in movie theaters. The Newbery Medal-winning author, Louis Sachar, also wrote the screenplay. Andrew Davis, who also directed The Fugitive, works with a young cast plus grown-up stars Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight. NPR's Lynn Neary reports.
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Filmmaker Pearl Gluck's documentary film, Divan, tells the story of an heirloom couch through oral histories that trace her family's history back to Hungary. The film also depicts Gluck's quest to find a place in the Hasidic Jewish culture she grew up in. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Gluck.
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Songwriter Felice Bryant dies at age 77 at home in Gatlinburg, Tenn. She collaborated with her husband to pen some of the best-known tunes in country music and early rock 'n' roll. Her songs Bye Bye Love and Wake Up Little Susie were Everly Brothers standards, just as Rocky Top became a country standard. NPR's Melissa Block offers a remembrance.
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Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ has astonished Hollywood by recording blockbuster ticket sales. The Passion remains the nation's top film for a second straight weekend, taking in $53.2 million. In the 12 days since its release, the film has earned a total of $213.9 million. NPR's Kim Masters reports.
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Poor CD sales and Internet theft of song files spell tough times for the mainstream music business, but it's a different story for musicians who reject the conventional "record label" business model. For these artists, the same trends that hurt the conventional recorded-music industry prove to be a boon for independent musicians and producers. Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers reports.
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The body of actor and writer Spalding Gray was pulled out of New York's East River Sunday, two months after he was first reported missing. He was 62. Best known for a 1987 movie based on his monologue Swimming to Cambodia, Gray inspired a whole generation of performers with his groundbreaking confessional, humorous and disarming storytelling. NPR's Bob Edwards has a remembrance.
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Paul Winfield, the third African American nominated for a best actor Oscar, died Sunday of a heart attack. He was 62. Winfield earned his Academy Award nomination for his turn in the 1972 film Sounder. In 1995, he won an Emmy for his portrayal of a federal judge in the TV show Picket Fences. NPR's Bob Edwards has a remembrance.
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Mexican tenor Ramon Vargas releases In My Heart, a CD of 17th and 18th century Italian love songs sung in the Bel Canto or "beautiful song" style. It's a type of operatic singing characterized by rich tonal lyricism and brilliant display of technique. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Vargas.
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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/2004-03-10/l-a-schools-welcome-film-shoots | 2022-03-02T01:47:38 | en | 0.929369 |
Citation
Rial A, García-Couceiro N, Gómez P, Mallah N, Varela J, Flórez-Menéndez G, Isorna M. Addict. Behav. 2022; 129: e107288.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
DOI
10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107288
PMID
35219995
Abstract
The high prevalence rates of cannabis use in adolescents and its early onset constitutes a major public health problem, raising the need for its early detection. The availability of validated tools to analyze early cannabis use is essential to detect problematic use at an early age. The Cannabis Abuse Screening Test (CAST) (Legleye et al., 2007) is widely applied in Europe; however, the CAST cut-off scores vary according to the setting, the screening objective, and the correction version (CAST-f or CAST-b), creating therefore confusion in its application. Moreover, the psychometric properties of the CAST as a tool for detecting problematic cannabis use are understudied. To fill this gap, such psychometric properties have been analyzed in a sample of Spanish adolescents while using different cut-off scores for CAST-f and CAST-b. Based on our findings, the optimal cut-off scores are 2 points for CAST-b and 4 points for CAST-f. The internal reliability of CAST-f (α = 0.83) and CAST-b (KR-20 = 0.80) are satisfactory. Factorial analysis suggested the assumption of a one-dimension model. The CAST seems to be a valid and reliable tool for early screening of problematic cannabis use in Spanish adolescents.
Language: en
Keywords
Prevention; Adolescents; Cannabis; Drugs; Screening; CAST | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709676_24 | 2022-03-02T01:47:43 | en | 0.851086 |
The new Al Pacino movie People I Know offers an acid portrait of Manhattan politics, and Pacino provides the story with a complex, nuanced anti-hero. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.
Copyright 2003 NPR
The new Al Pacino movie People I Know offers an acid portrait of Manhattan politics, and Pacino provides the story with a complex, nuanced anti-hero. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.
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Spartan, the latest film from acclaimed writer-director David Mamet, is an espionage thriller involving a president's missing daughter, white slavery and political chicanery. The movie opens in U.S. theaters Friday. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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Citation
Luo X, Zheng R, Xiao P, Xie X, Liu Q, Zhu K, Wu X, Xiang Z, Song R. Asian J. Psychiatry 2022; 70: e103043.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
DOI
10.1016/j.ajp.2022.103043
PMID
35219979
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: School bullying, as a public health problem, has been linked to many emotional disorders. However, the overall status of school bullying among adolescent students in China is unknown. This nationwide study aimed to investigate school bullying in China and evaluate the relationships between school bullying and mental health status. METHODS: A total of 15, 415 middle and high school students were enrolled in this study through multistage stratified cluster random sampling. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to examine the association between school bullying and mental health status and the analysis was stratified by gender. RESULTS: Students were divided into four groups: 2.72%, bully/victims; 1.38%, bullies; 10.89%, victims; 85.01%, uninvolved. Compared with uninvolved students, students with anxiety symptoms, non-suicidal self-injury and suicide ideation had a higher risk of being involved in school bullying and were more likely to be bully/victims, bullies, and victims. Stratified analysis indicated that boys with anxiety symptoms and non-suicidal self-injury risks tended to be bullies, victims and bully/victims. However, for girls, bullying others or being bullied was related to anxiety symptoms and suicide ideation. CONCLUSION: Our study indicated that school bullying is still a health problem in the adolescent students of China, and is related to many mental health problems. Intervention programs are in urgent need to help the students involved in school bullying, both in terms of their mental and physical health.
Language: en
Keywords
School bullying; A nationwide cross-sectional study; Adolescent students; Mental health status | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709680_24 | 2022-03-02T01:47:49 | en | 0.967278 |
In the early 1980s, New York kids reacted to the urban decay and poverty around them with a burst of creative self-expression that became known as hip hop: rapping, DJ-ing, breakdancing and graffiti art.
Subway trains were the white canvasses graffiti writers used to make their mark on the world. In 1983, PBS aired Style Wars, a documentary chronicling the early days of hip hop, when young graffiti "taggers" used to spray their names on subway trains for fame, to the chagrin of authorities and their parents. NPR's Mandalit del Barco looks back on the film, which has just been re-released on DVD with updated material.
Style Wars celebrates the graffiti artists' modern-day hieroglyphics, and captures the days and nights when the young outlaws ruled the subway lines.
The film follows notorious graffiti writers such as Min One, Dez, Iz and Seen as they sneak through subway tunnels to train yards, avoiding the ominous electric third rails. Armed with cans of Krylon spray paint, they outrun transit police to create mural masterpieces with block letters and cartoon figures, all in the name of fame. Style Wars documents the thrill of seeing their so-called "wild style" graffiti tags on passing subway trains throughout the city.
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Last year, Donald Rumsfeld's pronouncements from Pentagon briefings and media interviews were arranged into poems. Now those poems have been set to music.
Columnist Hart Seely put the defense secretary's words to poetry in the book Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. One poem, "The Unknown," was based on one of Rumsfeld's most famous phrasings: "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know..." (See the full text below.)
San Francisco-based pianist Bryant Kong set the poems to music in The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, issued on his newly formed label, Stuffed Penguin Music.
No, Rumsfeld doesn't sing. That job falls to a soprano.
Kong tells NPR's Renee Montagne that he composed the songs for friend Elender Wall, who hardly sounds like the secretary of defense. "Certainly if I knew a tenor or a baritone, then we would have written them for him," Kong says. "Any singer can, as it were, play the Donald Rumsfeld character in a musical."
Below are selected lyrics from The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld.
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
Department of Defense news briefing
Feb. 12, 2002
A Confession
Once in a while,
I'm standing here, doing something.
And I think,
"What in the world am I doing here?"
It's a big surprise.
Interview with The New York Times
May 16, 2001
Happenings
You're going to be told lots of things.
You get told things every day that don't happen.
It doesn't seem to bother people, they don't--
It's printed in the press.
The world thinks all these things happen.
They never happened.
Everyone's so eager to get the story
Before in fact the story's there
That the world is constantly being fed
Things that haven't happened.
All I can tell you is,
It hasn't happened.
It's going to happen.
Department of Defense briefing
Feb. 28, 2003
The Digital Revolution
Oh my goodness gracious,
What you can buy off the Internet
In terms of overhead photography!
A trained ape can know an awful lot
Of what is going on in this world,
Just by punching on his mouse
For a relatively modest cost!
Following European trip
June 9, 2001
© 2003 Hart Seely. Used by permission.
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Singer-actress Bernadette Peters toured in the musical Gypsy when she was 9 years old -- now she's starring in the Broadway revival of the same show. Peters talks to NPR's Scott Simon about her interpretation of Mama Rose and explains why the role has been a life-changing one for her.
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Citation
Garcia EC, Vieira PSC, de Andrade Viana RC, Mariano FC, de Brito MIB, de Araújo Feitosa Neto J, Lima NNR, Neto MLR. Child Abuse Negl. 2022; 127: e105573.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
DOI
10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105573
PMID
35220073
Abstract
India has the highest number of suicides in the world. Indian men account for a quarter of global suicides, while Indian women account for 36% of all global suicides in the 15-39 age group. One suicide every 25 min. These are not isolated incidents. Mental health experts say that one of the main reasons for this situation is rampant domestic violence. India's official data are hugely underestimated and do not convey the true scale of the problem. Women from this country are responsible for 36% of global female suicide deaths. In a country like India, with its wide sociocultural variations, there can be multiple risk factors: hanging, pesticide consumption, drug overdose, and self-immolation. Access to these "lethal" resources is an important factor.
Language: en
Keywords
Suicide; Mental health; Domestic violence; Deaths; India's women | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709681_24 | 2022-03-02T01:47:56 | en | 0.837219 |
Gregor Piatigorsky, the Russian cello virtuoso, used to talk about "tasting the blood" of music -- music as destiny. "Nobody can really choose music as a profession like you can choose to become a dentist," he once said. "It chooses you. So actually from the beginning you have very little to say. You are taken by it."
As NPR's Susan Stamberg reports, Piatigorsky also was taken by the works of art that he collected throughout his life. In celebration of the centennial of Piatigorsky's birth, samples of his collection -- along with his prized Stradivarius cello -- are on exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
The cellist's daughter, Jephta Drachman, sees a connection between the art her father collected, and the music he made. "His music is full of warmth and human qualities. He spoke through music, but mainly he really told a story, he told of his feelings, he told from the heart. And the things he picked out all have that warmth and expression. They all speak."
Among those works being shown are a large folding screen by Picasso, featuring two musicians in curvy blue-black lines, two geometric figures in a pink-orange field by Paul Klee and a widow in black, against a vivid orange background by Chaim Soutine.
Baltimore Museum curator Katie Rothkopf says Piatigorsky was an ardent collector. "He fell in love with what he saw. He loved color, he loved line, he loved exuberance. He loved seeing the artists' personality in the art."
Gregor Piatigorsky: Virtuoso as Collector is on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art through June 8. On Sunday, in Baltimore, a concert will celebrate the centennial of Piatigorsky's birth. His grandson and several of his students will perform works for which the master cellist was famous.
Music Heard in This Report
1. Gregor Piatigorsky playing Ernest Bloch's "Shlomo, A Hebrew Rhapsody," Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, conductor (1957 recording)
2. Piatigorsky playing Serge Prokofiev, Cello Sonata, Opus 119, pianist Ralph Berkowitz (1953 recording)
3. Piatigorsky playing Robert Schumann, cadenza from final movement of Cello Concerto in A Minor, London Philharmonic (RCA, 1934)
4. Evan Drachman (Piatigorsky's grandson) playing the Bach Suite #1 in G, BWV 1007. (Drachman's version is not available commercially.)
5. More from the Robert Schumann concerto. (See #3)
Note: These recordings may not be commercially available.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kunm.org/2003-04-28/gregor-piatigorsky-a-musicians-love-of-art | 2022-03-02T01:47:56 | en | 0.961146 |
Author Sarah Dunant's historical novel The Birth of Venus is set in 15th-century Florence. The book portrays a young woman's growing appreciation for art -- and for one artist in particular. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and Dunant.
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Author Sarah Dunant's historical novel The Birth of Venus is set in 15th-century Florence. The book portrays a young woman's growing appreciation for art -- and for one artist in particular. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and Dunant.
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International art experts meeting in Paris say some thefts of ancient artifacts from Iraq museums were made on behalf of smugglers who hired the looters. Among the items stolen or destroyed are tens of thousands of examples of cuneiform -- the world's oldest-known form of writing. Baghdad's Museum of Antiquities housed 100,000 of the tablets, many of which had yet to be studied and translated. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.
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Citation
Miu AC, Szentágotai-Tătar A, Balazsi R, Nechita D, Bunea I, Pollak SD. Clin. Psychol. Rev. 2022; 93: e102141.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
DOI
10.1016/j.cpr.2022.102141
PMID
35219929
Abstract
Childhood adversity is a major risk factor for multiple forms of psychopathology, and recent efforts have focused on understanding the underlying psychological mechanisms. One outstanding candidate is emotion regulation, which has been associated with both childhood adversity, and psychopathology. Based on the available evidence, the present meta-analysis set out to investigate the mechanistic involvement of emotion regulation in the relation between childhood adversity and psychopathology. Systematic searches in three databases (PubMed; PsycINFO; Web of Science) identified 215 eligible studies. Using meta-analytic structural equation modeling, we fitted a partial mediation model to the available data across studies, in which childhood adversity was related to psychopathology both directly and through emotion regulation. Multiple emotion regulation dimensions were analyzed, including emotion regulation difficulties and the habitual use of rumination, distraction, reappraisal, and suppression. Measures of psychopathology included a wide range of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in both clinical and non-clinical samples. The results indicated that childhood adversity was positively associated with emotion regulation difficulties, as well as with the habitual use of rumination and suppression. In turn, these measures of emotion regulation were positively associated with psychopathology. Habitual reappraisal use showed negative relations with both childhood adversity and psychopathology. All these emotion regulation measures were supported as mediators in the relation between childhood adversity and psychopathology. In contrast, distraction was not related to childhood adversity or psychopathology, and its mediator role was not supported. These results suggest that altered emotion regulation is a consistent marker of childhood adversity and contributes to risk of psychopathology.
Language: en
Keywords
Regulation; Childhood; Emotion; Adversity; Psychopathology | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709682_24 | 2022-03-02T01:48:02 | en | 0.935341 |
Music critic Chris Nickson has a review of the new "best-of" collection from the Ukranians. The band is best known for its quirky covers -- many of which are on Istoriya: The Best Of The Ukrainians. Nickson says their more traditional songs are worth hearing, as well.
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Citation
Davis JP, Rao P, Dilkina B, Prindle J, Eddie D, Christie NC, DiGuiseppi G, Saba S, Ring C, Dennis M. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022; 233: e109359.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
DOI
10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109359
PMID
35219997
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The United States (US) continues to grapple with a drug overdose crisis. While opioids remain the main driver of overdose deaths, deaths involving psychostimulants such as methamphetamine are increasing with and without opioid involvement. Recent treatment admission data reflect overdose fatality trends suggesting greater psychostimulant use, both alone and in combination with opioids. Adolescents and young adults are particularly vulnerable with generational trends showing that these populations have particularly high relapse rates following treatment. METHODS: We assessed demographic, psychosocial, psychological comorbidity, and environmental factors (percent below the poverty line, percent unemployed, neighborhood homicide rate, population density) that confer risk for opioid and/or psychostimulant use following substance use disorder treatment using two complementary machine learning approaches-random forest and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) modelling-with latency to opioid and/or psychostimulant as the outcome variable. RESULTS: Individual level predictors varied by substance use disorder severity, with age, tobacco use, criminal justice involvement, race/ethnicity, and mental health diagnoses emerging at top predictors. Environmental variabels including US region, neighborhood poverty, population, and homicide rate around patients' treatment facility emerged as either protective or risk factors for latency to opioid and/or psychostimulant use. CONCLUSIONS: Environmental variables emerged as one of the top predictors of latency to use across all levels of substance use disorder severity. RESULTS highlight the need for tailored treatments based on severity, and implicate environmental variables as important factors influencing treatment outcomes.
Language: en
Keywords
Machine learning; Overdose; Polydrug use; Heroin; Relapse; Stimulant | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709683_24 | 2022-03-02T01:48:09 | en | 0.849976 |
NPR's Michele Norris talks with Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat about her latest collection of stories, The Dew Breaker. The interlinking tales reveal the character of a former Haitian torturer who now lives in Queens, New York, and struggles to come to terms with his past.
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Citation
Nilaweera D, Freak-Poli R, Gurvich C, Ritchie K, Chaudieu I, Ancelin ML, Ryan J. J. Affect. Disord. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
DOI
10.1016/j.jad.2022.02.062
PMID
35219735
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Considerable work exists in the literature to describe the negative impacts of early-life stress exposures on health in adulthood. This study investigated whether the accumulation of adverse childhood events is associated with later-life cognitive function and incident dementia. METHODS: Participants were 1562 community-dwelling older adults, who were enrolled in the ESPRIT cohort in France. Adverse childhood events were measured using a modified version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Cognition was measured using tests of global cognition, visual memory, verbal fluency, psychomotor speed and executive function. Fourteen-year incident dementia was diagnosed using DSM-IV criteria. RESULTS: In comparison to participants with two or less adverse childhood events, increased risk of poor psychomotor speed at baseline was observed in individuals with multiple adverse childhood events (3-4 events OR: 1.39, 95% CI: 1.00-1.93); ≥5 events (OR: 1.52, 95% CI: 1.07-2.17), particularly in women but not in men. Worse verbal fluency was also observed in individuals who experienced between three and four adverse childhood events (OR: 1.34, 95% CI: 1.00-1.78). Amongst the individual factors investigated, early-life abuse/maltreatment (OR: 1.47, 95% CI: 1.02-2.14) and poverty/financial difficulties (OR: 1.53, 95% CI: 1.12-2.08) was associated with worse psychomotor speed. No associations were observed with incident dementia. LIMITATIONS: Participants most at risk (those with baseline dementia) were excluded. CONCLUSION: Multiple adverse childhood events are associated with worse psychomotor speed, and verbal fluency in later-life, however further research is needed to determine the mechanisms underlying this association and whether it results from unmeasured confounding, including social disadvantage.
Language: en
Keywords
Cognition; Stress; Dementia; Childhood | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709690_24 | 2022-03-02T01:48:15 | en | 0.922373 |
With the Whitney Biennial just opened, some of the works have already been bought by the Whitney museum itself. Contemporary art is hot: Bloomberg LLP is funding the outdoor sculpture exhibit at the Biennial, and thousands of visitors packed The Armory Show over the weekend to look at and invest in contemporary art.
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Citation
Ellis AS, Brown AM, Martini AI, Page E, Lin L, Vaughn LM. J. Pediatr. Health Care 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
DOI
10.1016/j.pedhc.2022.01.002
PMID
35219548
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Human trafficking (HT) is a global problem that may affect children's health. In the United States, victims and children are at risk in most communities. History of abuse is a risk factor for HT. This study explored associations between pediatric patients with positive universal abuse screens and indicators from the commercial sexual exploitation of children/child sex trafficking (CSEC/CST) screening tool. METHOD: A retrospective chart review was conducted on random patients, aged 11-17 years, with positive universal abuse screens at emergency/urgent care departments in a large Midwest pediatric medical center in 2018. Documentation identifying at least two CSEC/CST screening tool indicators was abstracted from these records. Data analysis included descriptive statistics, univariate analyses, and correlations. RESULTS: Two or more indicators from the CSEC/CST screening tool were identified in 43% (n = 121). Age and history of running away were significant predictors for a patient having two or more CSEC/CST positive indicators. DISCUSSION: Targeted screening and interventions are needed to identify and help these vulnerable youth. Keywords: Human trafficking;
Language: en
Keywords
Human trafficking; child sex trafficking; commercial sexual exploitation of children | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709693_24 | 2022-03-02T01:48:21 | en | 0.907321 |
(CNN)Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was arrested in connection with a shooting in California's Bay Area, police said.
The victim was taken Monday to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the San Jose Police Department.
Velasquez was booked into the Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of attempted murder, police said in a tweet and he was still there Tuesday. CNN has reached out to Velasquez and his manager for comment. It is unclear whether he has retained an attorney.
Police provided few details, other than saying the incident occurred near the intersection of Monterey Highway and Bailey Avenue. CNN has requested a police report but had not received one by Tuesday afternoon.
"The motive and circumstances surrounding this incident are still under investigation at this time," San Jose police said.
Delaney Murray of the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said, "Our Office has not received the police report yet to review and therefore have no information on Mr. Velasquez. No charges have been filed at this time."
A jail entry indicated there was no bail set and a court hearing was possible for Wednesday.
Velasquez, 39, competed for the UFC in the heavyweight division and became a two-time champion. His last fight was in 2019.
The mixed martial arts professional had 12 wins by knockout, two by decision and two title defenses, according to his UFC profile. Velasquez had three losses.
His hometown is Salinas, California, and he trained in San Jose. After leaving the UFC, Velasquez turned to professional wrestling. | https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/01/us/cain-velasquez-ufc-shooting-arrest/index.html | 2022-03-02T01:48:22 | en | 0.988932 |
From member station WFDD in Winston-Salem, N.C., Stephanie Martin reports that restorers have worked for years without a blueprint to reassemble a jumble of pipes and mashed pieces into the world's largest 18th-century organ. It will be heard in concert tomorrow for the first time in nearly a century.
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Citation
Lippard ETC, Nemeroff CB. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
DOI
10.1016/j.pbb.2022.173361
PMID
35219755
Abstract
Childhood maltreatment increases risk for mood disorders and is associated with earlier onset-and more pernicious disease course following onset-of mood disorders. While the majority of studies to date have been cross-sectional, longitudinal studies are emerging and support the devastating role(s) childhood maltreatment has on development of, and illness course in, mood disorders. This manuscript extends prior reviews to emphasize more recent work, highlighting longitudinal data, and discusses treatment studies that provide clues to mechanisms that mediate disease risk, course, relapse, and treatment response. Evidence suggesting systemic inflammation, alterations in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function and corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neural systems, genetic and other familial factors as mechanisms that mediate risk and onset of, and illness course in, mood disorders following childhood maltreatment is discussed. Risky behaviors following maltreatment, e.g., substance use and unhealthy lifestyles, may further exacerbate alterations in the HPA axis, CRF neural systems, and systematic inflammation to contribute to a more pernicious disease course. More research on sex differences and the impact of maltreatment in vulnerable populations is needed. Future research needs to be aimed at leveraging knowledge on modifiable targets, going beyond childhood maltreatment as a risk factor, to inform prevention and treatment strategies and foster trauma-informed care.
Language: en
Keywords
Risk; Alcoholism; Childhood maltreatment; Inflammation; Bipolar disorder; Early life stress; Treatment response; Unipolar depression | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709695_24 | 2022-03-02T01:48:28 | en | 0.861198 |
The new Israeli film Broken Wings has garnered international praise, winning top prizes not only in Israel but at film festivals in Toyko and Berlin as well. Critics say the melodrama about a dysfunctional family could take place anywhere. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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Citation
Kirsch DE, Lippard ETC. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
DOI
10.1016/j.pbb.2022.173360
PMID
35219756
Abstract
Early life stress (ELS) is a well-established risk factor for many psychiatric and medical disorders, including substance use disorders (SUDs). The relationship between ELS and SUDs is complex and there are likely multiple pathways from ELS to adverse substance use outcomes. The association between ELS and substance use emerges in adolescence. Adolescence is a critical period in development during which substance exposure markedly increases risk for SUDs. Therefore, this review focuses on the literature supporting the hypothesis that ELS increases risk for the development of SUDs through its influence on adolescent substance use. We discuss studies substantiating the role of ELS in adolescent substance use and explore how internalizing and externalizing psychopathology may be antecedents of substance use in adolescence. We examine clinical work suggesting ELS sculpts the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis and developing brain-particularly subcortical brain regions that underlie stress response, mesocorticolimbic brain systems associated with reward sensitivity, and prefrontal regions that underlie executive control-in a way that increases risk for adolescent substance use and SUDs. We further explore how substance use during adolescence alters structure and function of these same systems, and how brain changes following ELS and adolescent substance use may independently, additively, or interactively contribute to risk for addiction. We conclude by discussing how the current literature can inform interventions aimed at reducing risk for SUDs in individuals with a history of ELS.
Language: en
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Adolescence; Adverse childhood experiences; Maltreatment; Substance-related disorders; Neuroimaging; Psychological stress | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709696_24 | 2022-03-02T01:48:34 | en | 0.878695 |
Thousands of musicians, music industry insiders and fans descend on Austin, Texas, this week for the 18th annual South by Southwest festival. At a time when employee layoffs and declining sales plague the music industry, the festival continues to grow. NPR's Rick Karr reports.
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Citation
Khan MZK, Rahman A, Rahman MA, Renzaho AMN. Nat. Hazards 2021; 108(2): 2211-2224.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2021, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)
DOI
10.1007/s11069-021-04776-9
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unavailable
Abstract
Natural hazards like floods and droughts affect many aspects of life. The study in particular examined the impacts of droughts on under-five mortality rate in Southern Africa, adjusting for gross domestic product (GDP) and literacy rate. Despite drought and child mortality being key public health concerns in Southern Africa over the past few decades, there have hardly been any studies examining the relationships between them. The study used publicly available data from 1980 to 2012. The Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) was calculated for 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-monthly time scales for ten southern African countries. The wetter and drier states are represented by positive and negative SPI values, respectively. SPI, GDP, and literacy rate were considered for predicting child mortality rate using both Multiple Linear Regression techniques and nonlinear methods (Generalized Additive Model), on a leave-one-year-out cross validation approach for model evaluation. Child mortality increased as the drought worsened for five countries in this region, namely Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia. We found that child mortality can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy using three predictor variables--drought index, GDP and literacy rate. Statistical modelling based on early warning system can complement regional capacities for drought response systems to increase child survival rate in drought-prone areas
Language: en | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709761_24 | 2022-03-02T01:48:41 | en | 0.882158 |
The movie Greendale -- a celebration of small-town life and a cautionary tale about greed and commercialism -- comes from musician Neil Young. It was shot in five weeks with a $500 camera, and characters are played by Young's friends and family. David D'Arcy reports.
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Citation
Giordano N, De Luca F, Sextos A, Ramirez Cortes F, Fonseca Ferreira C, Wu J. Nat. Hazards 2021; 105(1): 339-362.
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(Copyright © 2021, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)
DOI
10.1007/s11069-020-04312-1
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unavailable
Abstract
Empirical vulnerability models are fundamental tools to assess the impact of future earthquakes on urban settlements and communities. Generally, they consist of sets of fragility curves that are derived from georeferenced post-earthquake damage data. Following the 2015 Nepal earthquake sequence, the World Bank, through the Global Program for Safer Schools, conducted a Structural Integrity and Damage Assessment (SIDA) of about 18,000 school buildings in the earthquake-affected area. In this work, the database is utilized to identify the main structural characteristics of the Nepalese school building stock. For the first time, extended SIDA school damage data is processed to derive fragility curves for the main structural typologies. Data sets for each structural typology are used for a Bayesian updating of existing fragilities to obtain regional models for Nepalese schools. These fragility estimates can be adopted to assess potential seismic losses of the school infrastructure in Nepal. Additionally, they can be used for calibrating loss assessment studies in the wider Himalayan region where the structural typologies are similar.
Language: en | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709820_24 | 2022-03-02T01:48:47 | en | 0.862444 |
Southern Culture on the Skids (known to fans as SCOTS) brings the trailer park into your living room -- unless your living room is already in a trailer park. NPR's John Ydstie speaks with founding guitarist Rick Miller, bass player and singer Mary Huff and percussionist Dave Hartman about the group's latest CD, Mojo Box.
Miller formed SCOTS in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1985, where he was attending college. The band played straightforward roots rock that blended surf guitar and southern boogie, reflecting the guitarist's personal history. Miller's youth was divided between North Carolina and Southern California.
SCOTS began to build a regional following and the band soon gained national attention. But Miller, Huff and Hartman have remained true to their local origins.
Mojo Box, released in early 2004, is the band's eighth full-length CD. Earlier efforts include Laquered Up and Liquored Down, Plastic Seat Sweat and Too Much Pork for One Fork.
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Citation
Wesonga S, Osingada C, Nabisere A, Nkemijika S, Olwit C. Afr. Health Sci. 2021; 21(3): 1418-1427.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2021, Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University)
DOI
10.4314/ahs.v21i3.53
PMID
35222607
PMCID
PMC8843277
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Globally, suicide is one of the leading causes of death, and approximately 80% of all suicides occur in lowand middle-income countries. Younger people in Africa are at a higher risk of suicide than others. OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence and factors associated with suicidal tendencies among undergraduate university students using alcohol and other psychoactive substances. METHODS: Convenient sampling was used to identify 400 students who participated in the study. Socio-demographic and Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview tools were used to obtain information. Data were analyzed using SAS 9.4 and presented in descriptive and inferential statistics. RESULTS: Among the respondents, 80% were male, and 85% were using marijuana. 6.3% had suicidal tendencies. Respondents from the northern region had more suicidal tendencies than other regions, and unemployed students had more suicidal tendencies than those employed. After multivariate analysis, being abusive and dependent on other psychoactive substances was associated with suicidality. And having dependence on both alcohol and other psychoactive substances was associated with suicidality. CONCLUSION: Suicidality screening and psychosocial support should be provided to this vulnerable population. Efforts There is a need to strengthen, implement more effective preventive strategies to reduce the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances.
Language: en
Keywords
university students; psychoactive use; Suicidal tendencies; Uganda | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709822_24 | 2022-03-02T01:48:53 | en | 0.935508 |
The Los Angeles Times has called Shattered Glass, the story of disgraced journalist Stephen Glass, one of the top 10 films of 2003. Writer and director Billy Ray says his movie was inspired by another cinematic exploration of journalism ethics: All the President's Men. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports for Intersections, a Morning Edition series on artists and their inspirations.
Directed by Alan Pakula, All the President's Men chronicles how Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward uncovered the details behind the Watergate break in, an investigation that eventually led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. A celebration of journalism at its apogee, the movie was a huge hit in 1976.
"I grew up in one of those homes where Woodward and Bernstein were heroes," Ray says. "We were taught to revere what they had done. The idea of the journalist as defender of the right, seeker of the truth -- that was real in our house."
Shattered Glass explores the other side of the media ethics coin. In the late 1990s, Glass was a rising star at The New Republic magazine and a freelancer for Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. His stories enthralled editors; unfortunately, most were complete fabrications. A writer at another media outlet, Forbes.com, eventually uncovered the fictions.
"Shattered Glass is my open love letter to Woodward and Bernstein, by way of examining what's happening to the mantle that they handed down to this new generation of journalists who wants the fame… but doesn't want to do the work," Ray says.
During production, Ray and his crew often looked to All the President's Men for inspiration. It's one of Ray's favorite films of the '70s, a decade when he says directors emphasized great storytelling above all. He admires the way the film details the dirty work of investigative reporting and its powerful yet restrained narrative style. Ray sees a parallel between the current states of journalism and moviemaking. In both fields, he says, there are pressures to do much more than stick to the story.
For his next project, Ray will tackle the story of Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent now in prison for selling government secrets to the Soviet Union. Shattered Glass will be released on DVD this week.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-21/intersections-billy-ray-probing-media-ethics-on-film | 2022-03-02T01:48:54 | en | 0.969545 |
Citation
Newton G. Child Abuse Negl. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
DOI
10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105563
PMID
35221135
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Throughout my graduate coursework, several classes focused on trauma. Considering my experiences, I searched to gain insight into group level trauma adoptees face due to our unique status and common societal factors that influence adoption. Exploring the trauma literature, I found that none of the terms quite represented the complex characteristics of adoption. OBJECTIVE: Realizing the limitations of current trauma definitions, I sought to name group trauma for adoptees and thereby legitimize and validate my and other adoptees' experiences. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: I am the sole participant. The research was conducted in St. Louis, Missouri. METHODS: In this autoethnography, I recount academic experiences that have shaped my emerging and interconnected identities as an adoptee and social worker. I analyze the traumatic and empowering impacts of gaining more information about adoption as a politically and economically influenced system. RESULTS: Examining my intertwined adoption and academic journeys, I propose a trauma and healing of consciousness framework to understand trauma for groups of individuals like adoptees whose trauma is not recognized using historical, collective, or intergenerational models. CONCLUSIONS: The term trauma of consciousness expands existing theories of trauma while including social groups for whom group trauma was not previously recognized. Understanding the trauma of consciousness is imperative because healing cannot begin until the existence of the trauma is recognized. Further exploration on the trauma of consciousness is needed to recognize its impact and to develop creative interventions that can provide hope and enable people to move forward.
Language: en
Keywords
Trauma; Adoption; Adoption microaggressions; Autoethnography; Personal narrative | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709832_24 | 2022-03-02T01:49:00 | en | 0.889479 |
The return of bird songs is one of the first clues that winter is officially over. As naturalist F. Schuyler Mathews wrote nearly a century ago, "It is not possible to listen to the melody of the song sparrow... without realizing that we are released from the cold clutch of winter and set down in the comfortable lap of spring."
Mathews was a bird lover, composer and an artist. He would venture out into the fields and woods around his home in Campton, N.H., and write down the songs the birds were singing. Then, he translated bird song into musical notes.
The first major effort of its kind, his Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music was first published in 1904. Through watercolor illustrations, transcriptions of bird songs and lush descriptions of the birds themselves, the book documented 82 species. Judy Pelikan has re-illustrated and condensed Mathews' work in a new book, called The Music of Wild Birds. NPR's Melissa Block, host of All Things Considered, talks with Pelikan and others who have been inspired by Mathews' work.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-21/the-music-of-wild-birds | 2022-03-02T01:49:00 | en | 0.9711 |
Alan Cheuse reviews A Hole in Texas by 88-year-old Herman Wouk, a fictional account of a scientist involved with the Texas-based Superconducting Super Collider project. Set in the 1990s the novel has both Hollywood and Congress woven into its plot.
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Citation
Huang Q, Lin S, Li Y, Huang S, Liao Z, Chen X, Shao T, Li Y, Cai Y, Qi J, Shen H. Front. Public Health 2021; 9: e809463.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2021, Frontiers Editorial Office)
DOI
10.3389/fpubh.2021.809463
PMID
35223763
PMCID
PMC8867720
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Suicidal ideation is the first step and a strong predictor of suicide. College students are at a considerably high risk of suicidal ideation, and smartphones are commonly used in this group. However, the relationship between suicidal ideation and smartphone use among Chinese college students is unclear. The current study aimed to investigate the prevalence of suicidal ideation among Chinese college students and its association with smartphone use and addiction factors. METHODS: A total of 439 college students participated the survey. We collected the demographic information, physical health, psychosocial factors (depressive symptoms, social support, sleep quality), characteristics of smartphone use, and mobile phone addiction (MPA). Suicidal ideation was measured with a single question, "did you feel that life was not worth living in the past 1 year?" RESULTS: The prevalence of suicidal ideation ("Yes" response) in the past year among Chinese college students was 7.5%. In binary logistic regression analysis, suicidal ideation was significantly correlated with less subjective social support (OR: 2.49, p = 0.049), lower utilization of social support (OR: 13.28, p = 0.012), more depressive symptoms (OR:4.96, p = 0.005), and more than 5 h of daily smartphone use (OR: 2.60, p = 0.025). CONCLUSION: Considering the widely use of smartphones in Chinese colleges and the correlation with suicidal ideation, excessive phone use among college students should be given more attention by administrators and health workers. It is necessary to obtain more information about the intention of smartphone use, make full use of smartphones for health education, and monitor excessive use of smartphones, while improving social support and coping mechanisms for depression, to identify suicidal ideation and prevent suicidal behavior among Chinese college students.
Language: en
Keywords
suicidal ideation; social support; college students; mobile phone addiction; smartphone use | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709880_24 | 2022-03-02T01:49:06 | en | 0.899736 |
For its first 24 years, the Pritzker Architectural Prize was awarded only to men. This year, Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born Briton who has pushed the boundaries of design for a quarter-century, becomes the first woman to receive the prestigious honor.
Hadid, an architect, researcher and educator, tells Chicago Public Radio's Edward Lifson that she hopes her winning the Pritzker will encourage and make it easier for women to enter and excel at architecture.
Pritzker juror Rolf Fehlbaum says: "Without ever building, Zaha Hadid would have radically expanded architecture's repertoire of spatial articulation. Now that the implementation in complex buildings is happening, the power of her innovation is fully revealed."
Hadid, 53, says architecture "is really about ideas." Some of her ideas were considered radical just a decade or two ago. Now her designs have been accepted by cities and corporations worldwide. Hadid's diverse projects have included a firehouse in Germany, a ski jump in Austria and an arts center in Cincinnati. Hadid's London firm is among the five finalist competing to design the 2012 Olympic Village in Queens, N.Y., across the East River from the United Nations.
"What was seen 20 years ago as extreme ideas are now actually achievable and possible to implement," she says of her work. "So [the prize] is an acknowledgement in a sense that that work was not in a fantasia but it was really real and easy to... implement."
Hadid formally claims the $100,000 prize and a bronze medallion at a ceremony May 31 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Citation
Sianko N, McDonell JR, Small MA. Int. J. Child Maltreat. 2022; 5(1): 105-127.
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(Copyright © 2022, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)
DOI
10.1007/s42448-021-00098-2
PMID
35224450
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PMC8871598
Abstract
Adolescents' willingness to disclose violence in romantic relationships has important implications for their safety and overall well-being. However, research is limited on adolescent intentions to seek help for dating violence. Using self-report data from 493 rural youth (54% male, 49.7% African American), this study examined heterogeneity of adolescent help-seeking in relation to different forms of violence and sources of potential disclosure. Latent class analyses identified four distinct groups of adolescents: (a) Multi-help-seekers (20.5%) who are likely to seek help for any form of dating violence from multiple sources, (b) Reluctant help-seekers (21.1%) who are unlikely to seek help for any form of violence from any source, (c) Informal help-seekers (28.8%) who are willing to disclose dating violence primarily to caregivers and friends, and (d) Selective help-seekers (29.5%) with varied intentions to disclose some forms of violence to select people. RESULTS further revealed that class membership was differentially related to gender and caregiver's level of education. Additionally, findings confirmed expectations that variation in adolescent well-being and safety measures was a function of membership in help-seeking classes. The article discusses these findings in the context of targeted programs and services to promote help-seeking among rural youth.
Language: en
Keywords
help-seeking; latent class analysis; teen dating violence | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709885_24 | 2022-03-02T01:49:13 | en | 0.896446 |
In the ninth century, the Buddhist sage Lin Chi told a monk, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." He meant that those who think they've found all the answers in any religion need to start questioning. The new book Killing the Buddha takes this advice to heart, examining American roadside distractions on the path to enlightenment. Chicago Public Radio's Jason DeRose reports.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-22/killing-the-buddha-promoting-religious-inquiry | 2022-03-02T01:49:13 | en | 0.937934 |
The group Ollabelle captures the sound and feeling of the American gospel music that came not just out of churches but from the front porches, cotton fields and honkytonks of the American South. Yet the group's origins can be traced to a corner tavern on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
In the weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 a now-closed bar at East Ninth Street and Avenue C, called 9C, started hosting an open mike for artists willing to sing gospel music. It was called "Sunday School for Sinners." Various members of the group had been playing at the club in some form or another, but the sound of Ollabelle came together during those Sunday night gospel jam sessions.
A little over two years later, and Ollabelle -- Amy Helm, Byron Isaacs, Tony Leone, Fiona McBain, Glenn Patscha and Jimi Zhivago -- is on its way. The group is touring, and just released its debut CD, Ollabelle. NPR's Michele Norris, host of All Things Considered, talks with the band about their sound and how they came together.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-22/the-southern-sound-of-ollabelle | 2022-03-02T01:49:19 | en | 0.949741 |
Citation
Harris DA, Robertson AL, Sims-Knight J. J. Child Adolesc. Trauma 2022; 15(1): 37-46.
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(Copyright © 2022, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)
DOI
10.1007/s40653-021-00348-y
PMID
35222774
PMCID
PMC8837737
Abstract
Although research on populations of incarcerated female adolescents has increased, there remains a dearth of qualitative research that speaks to the life narratives of these girls. Existing research suggests this population is deeply troubled, which necessitates a better understanding of their lived experience to more thoroughly inform prevention and rehabilitation efforts. This article is one of the first to assess a wide range of traits and characteristics of girls in custody. The Multidimensional Inventory of Development, Sex, and Aggression (MIDSA) was administered to 30 girls in custody at a juvenile detention facility in California. Individual narrative reports were generated, and their aggregate results were analyzed. RESULTS are first presented at an aggregate level and details from some individual cases are used to provide an especially rich description of particular circumstances, behaviors, and motivations of these girls. Preliminary findings illustrate the chaotic family backgrounds of the sample and the prolonged and varied trauma they have experienced. RESULTS also suggest that the high rates of self-reported antisocial behavior in which these girls engaged involved a considerable amount of physical aggression and interpersonal violence. Trauma-informed approaches in the juvenile justice space are discussed. Keywords: Juvenile justice
Language: en
Keywords
Adolescent girls; Custody; MIDSA; Self-reported offending | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709891_24 | 2022-03-02T01:49:19 | en | 0.9254 |
The Library of Congress unveiled today its latest acquisition: the archives of legendary folklorist Alan Lomax. The collection had been housed at a college in New York. Now — as NPR's Felix Contreras reports — it is united in Washington, D.C. with the work Lomax did with his father for the library in the 1930s and '40s.
Lomax's relationship with the library started in 1933 when he was 18 years old. He joined his father, John, for their first recording expedition under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Over the course of their travels, they recorded field workers, church singers, convicts, families — and future stars such as Leadbelly and Muddy Waters.
Lomax left the Library in 1942, resigning his position as head of the Archive of American Folk Song to turn his attention and microphones to folk cultures in the Caribbean and Europe. Lomax said the driving force behind his lifetime of collecting was a philosophy that folklore, music and stories are windows into the human condition.
The united Lomax collection includes 5,000 hours of recordings, 400,000 feet of motion picture film, thousands of videotapes, books, journals and hundreds of photos and negatives. The library now begins the enormous task of cataloging and eventually digitizing the collection.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-23/library-of-congress-unites-work-of-alan-lomax | 2022-03-02T01:49:25 | en | 0.971689 |
Citation
Tusa BS, Kebede SA, Weldesenbet AB. PLoS One 2022; 17(2): e0263811.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2022, Public Library of Science)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0263811
PMID
35226676
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is the most serious and pervasive yet under-recognized human rights violation in the world, particularly in Ethiopia. Hence, the objective of this study was to find the spatial distribution of IPV and its determinant factors in Ethiopia. METHODS: Secondary data analysis was conducted among 2,687 reproductive age group women (15-49 years). The distribution of IPV across the country was observed by ArcGIS software. In SaTScan software, the Bernoulli model was fitted by Kulldorff methods to identify the purely spatial clusters of IPV. Besides, Generalized Structural Equation Model (GSEM) was used to determine factors associated with each domain of IPV (physical, emotional & sexual violence). RESULT: The spatial distribution of IPV was found to be clustered in Ethiopia with Global Moran's I 0.09 (p < 0.001), and the highest IPV cluster was observed in Oromia (p < 0.001), Somali (p < 0.001) and SNNP (p<0.001) regions. Watching television and not having attitudes toward wife beating were negatively associated with physical violence. Being rich and nonsmoker were inversely associated with emotional violence. The odds of experiencing sexual violence were high among pregnant women and wives of uneducated husbands/partners. In addition, women's decision-making autonomy and husband/partner drinking alcohol have positive and negative associations with all domains of IPV respectively. CONCLUSION: There was a significant clustering of IPV in Ethiopia and the highest IPV cluster was observed in Oromia, Somali and SNNP regions. Being rich, watching television, not having attitudes toward wife beating, women's decision-making autonomy, and husband's/partner's high education and non-alcohol drinker status were negatively associated with IPV. The likelihood of experiencing IPV was also high among smokers and pregnant women. Thus, we recommend that improving the economic status of the household through social protection and empowerment of women in decision-making autonomy by education and employment and increasing community awareness about the consequences of IPV with particular emphasis on Oromia, Somali and SNNP regions is essential.
Language: en | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_709923_24 | 2022-03-02T01:49:25 | en | 0.948083 |
Fifty years ago today, the first color TV sets made for consumers started rolling off the assembly line. Because they were initially too expensive and there was little color programming available, it took more than a decade for color television to become a household fixture.
NPR's Lynn Neary reports on the early days of color TV, and the way today's new technology -- from HDTV to TiVo -- is similarly transforming home entertainment.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-24/color-tvs-50th-anniversary | 2022-03-02T01:49:31 | en | 0.954727 |
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Jack Weatherford about his new book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Weatherford has spent the past eight years in Mongolia researching the man he deems the greatest ruler the world has ever seen. He says that Khan was not the stereotypical barbarian of lore, calling him a statesman responsible for laying the foundations for global trade and diplomacy.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-24/revising-genghis-khans-legacy | 2022-03-02T01:49:33 | en | 0.954362 |
The Smithsonian's newest museum is dedicated to one of the hemisphere's oldest subjects, the history and culture of Native Americans. NPR's Juan Williams tours the construction site of the National Museum of the American Indian, which opens in Washington, D.C., this fall, with its director, W. Richard West.
Indian tribes from throughout the hemisphere took part in designing the $200 million facility and setting the tone for its exhibits. The facility, 15 years in the making, will house the world's largest collection of Indian artifacts. The collection will include objects from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, which opened in New York City in 1922.
West says initial permanent exhibitions will include: "Our Universes," featuring tribal cosmology and philosophy; "Our People," Indian history told from Native American viewpoints; and "Our Lives," exploring the continuing evolution of Native America.
"I want to be sure that when people leave this place, they have a clear understanding not just of the tragedies but that they have an appreciation of the broader sweep and the complete spectrum through time and space in this hemisphere of the first citizens of the Americas," West says.
The new museum -- located on the National Mall next to the National Air and Space Museum -- is set to open Sept. 21.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-25/american-indian-museum-prepares-for-opening | 2022-03-02T01:49:39 | en | 0.959354 |
Violinists with the Beethoven Orchestra in Germany sue for a pay raise on the grounds that they play many more notes per concert than their musical colleagues. Orchestra officials, however, say the violinists knew this when they began taking violin lessons -- and if they wanted to play fewer notes, they should have chosen a different instrument. Kyle James reports.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-25/german-violinists-sue-for-raise | 2022-03-02T01:49:47 | en | 0.970151 |
Director Kevin Smith's latest film, Jersey Girl, stars Ben Affleck as a single father raising a young daughter. It's a departure from Smith's past work. The biting, iconoclastic humor of films such as Clerks, Dogma and Chasing Amy had established Smith as a force outside Hollywood's mainstream. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-25/movie-review-jersey-girl | 2022-03-02T01:49:53 | en | 0.946715 |
It began when prisoners from urban jails were moved to new "supermax" facilities in rural Appalachia. The racial tension between white corrections officers and black inmates could be felt throughout the community.
Amelia Kirby and Nick Szuberla of the Appalshop arts center in Whitesburg, Ky., were looking for a way to ease that tension and find common ground between the cultures. They came up with the idea to combine mountain music with hip-hop. The result is being called "hick-hop" or "hill-hop," a compelling mix of uniquely American -- and disparate -- musical genres.
NPR's Howard Berkes heard about Appalshop's "Holler 2 the Hood," a weekly hip-hop radio show that caters to the nascent hick-hop scene. He went to Whitesburg, where he met Delivery (a.k.a. Mike Shepherd) and The Kuntry Killaz as they worked on lyrics with African-American poet Ren Pegues.
The Killaz follow in the footsteps of Dirk Powell, a renowned mountain music fiddler, and Virginia hip-hop artist DanjaMowf. The two collaborated on the first hick-hop project at Appalshop two years ago, blending beat box rhythms with a banjo and fiddle. And the mix was magical -- an oil-and-water mystery that held together in spite of the perceived differences.
Something similar is happening with the Kuntry Killaz as they work with Pegues in the Appalshop studio.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-26/hick-hop-hip-hop-meets-the-hollow | 2022-03-02T01:49:59 | en | 0.960114 |
Jan Berry, one half of the '60s musical duo Jan and Dean, dies at 62. William Jan Berry and Dean Torrence produced a string of gold records, including "Surf City" and "Little Old Lady from Pasadena." Berry spent nearly a year in a coma after a 1966 car accident. Hear NPR's Howard Berkes.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-26/jan-and-dean-musician-berry-dies-at-62 | 2022-03-02T01:50:05 | en | 0.908227 |
NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell about the Coen brothers' remake of the comic 1955 film The Ladykillers. The original version starred Alec Guiness and Peter Sellers. The new film stars Tom Hanks.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-26/remaking-the-ladykillers | 2022-03-02T01:50:11 | en | 0.781123 |
Today marks the 80th anniversary of a New York Philharmonic tradition: the Young People's Concerts. They predate the late Leonard Bernstein, but it was under the legendary conductor that the concerts became an entertaining force for a generation of American children. Some of those children are now musicians in the New York Philharmonic. Jeff Lunden reports.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-26/young-peoples-concerts | 2022-03-02T01:50:18 | en | 0.93311 |
NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Karen Armstrong, author of The Spiral Staircase about leaving the convent, her diagnosis with epilepsy, and her self-described "climb out of darkness."
Copyright 2004 NPR
NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Karen Armstrong, author of The Spiral Staircase about leaving the convent, her diagnosis with epilepsy, and her self-described "climb out of darkness."
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-27/armstrong-novel-extends-post-convent-story | 2022-03-02T01:50:24 | en | 0.928144 |
Daniel Robinson is a young artist based in the small town of Fossil, Oregon. His paintings, often depicting idealized mixtures of industrial and rural landscapes, recall the social realist images of the 1930s and '40s.
Robinson has been associated with Boston's Mercury Gallery since 2000; a new exhibition of his paintings, titled In Oregon, opens at the Mercury on April 1.
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This week, a researcher revealed the ancestral homeland of Elvis Presley. Three hundred years ago, Andrew Presley worked as a blacksmith in the tiny village of Lonmay, Scotland, and the modern-day residents of Lonmay are bracing for the potential windfall of tourism. NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with Christina Gibbons, owner of the village's only hotel, the Bancar.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-27/roots-of-elvis-traced-to-scotland | 2022-03-02T01:50:36 | en | 0.917619 |
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says the Liberal government will soon introduce new gun-control legislation.
Mendicino told the House of Commons public safety committee Tuesday the bill will be "very proactive," though he did not provide specifics on timing or elements of the legislation.
The move could revive some federal measures that did not pass before last year's general election and flesh out new proposals made during the subsequent campaign.
The Liberals have promised a mandatory buyback of banned guns they consider assault-style firearms.
They have also pledged to work with any province or territory that wants to ban handguns, earmarking at least $1 billion for the effort.
The Liberals have also said they will crack down on high-capacity firearm magazines and do more to combat gun smuggling.
The proposed buyback program would make it mandatory for owners of a wide variety of banned firearms, including the Ruger Mini-14 used in the 1989 École Polytechnique shooting, to either sell them back to the government or have them rendered inoperable at federal expense.
The proposal has won applause from gun-control advocates but the fierce disapproval of some firearm owners and Conservative MPs.
At the committee meeting, Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed asked Mendicino what he would say to those who believe that gun buybacks and further enforcement amount to an attack on innocent, law-abiding civilians.
Mendicino said the Liberals would deliver "responsible and strong gun control to protect our communities."
The buyback of guns is an essential tool to get firearms "which have no business in our communities — because they only have one purpose, which is to kill people — off our streets," he said. "And that's our commitment and we're going to make good on it."
In Canada, it is illegal to make guns without the required firearms business licence. As a result, it is a crime to create a gun at home, for instance with a 3D printer or various components, without authorization.
The Canada Border Services Agency says it works closely with the RCMP and other partners to stop prohibited and undeclared firearms, as well as firearm parts, from entering Canada.
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki told the committee she would welcome additional measures to prevent people from making their own guns at home, saying, "we need to get those off the street."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 1, 2022. | https://www.cp24.com/news/liberals-plan-proactive-gun-legislation-soon-1.5801675 | 2022-03-02T01:50:42 | en | 0.972217 |
Actor and author Peter Ustinov has died of heart failure at a clinic near his home in Switzerland. A popular storyteller and actor who won two Oscars, Ustinov often worked as an author and director as well. For more than 30 years, he also served as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. Hear NPR's Melissa Block.
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Police are warning the public about a mortgage fraud scam after a Canada-wide warrant was issued for a Toronto resident accused of raking in more than $10 million from the alleged scheme, police say
Toronto police allege that 23-year-old Yuansen Fu, working with a female mortgage broker, targeted law firms in the Chinese community.
According to police, Fu used the name ‘Lucas’ and, using fake identification, set up fictitious lenders, borrowers and companies in order to obtain private mortgages.
They say Fu then used fake identities of real people in order to place the fraudulent mortgages on the victims' homes without their knowledge
To date, over ten million dollars in mortgages have been obtained by Fu, according to the force, and the scam has targeted several law firms throughout the Greater Toronto Area.
A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for Fu. He is wanted for one count of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, one count of fraud exceeding $5,000 and one count of uttering forged documents.
The charges have not been proven in court.
Police say Fu is known to frequent Vancouver, and is believed to be armed and dangerous. They are advising against approaching him, if seen, and instead say to immediately contact local police.
“Investigators are advising the public, especially those in the mortgage and legal professions, to scrutinize all identification and be vigilant in confirming the identities of individuals in real estate transactions,” the release said. | https://www.cp24.com/news/man-wanted-by-toronto-police-allegedly-obtained-more-than-10-million-dollars-in-fraudulent-mortgages-1.5801761 | 2022-03-02T01:50:48 | en | 0.965515 |
Renowned British broadcaster Alistair Cooke, the longtime host of PBS' Masterpiece Theatre, has died at his home in New York at the age of 95. No cause of death was given, but earlier this month, Cooke retired because of heart disease. For 58 years, Cooke's Letter from America program was heard on the BBC's World Service and Britain's Radio 4. NPR's Bob Edwards has a remembrance.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-03-29/broadcaster-alistair-cooke-dies-at-95 | 2022-03-02T01:50:48 | en | 0.962596 |
The Boston band Tarbox Ramblers has roots in prewar gospel and blues. The group's latest album takes off from their first record, using the old songs as a jumping-off point for leader Michael Tarbox to write primal gut rock and roll. The CD is called A Fix Back East. Meredith Ochs has a review.
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Before there was "the Passion," there was "the Life" -- The Life of Brian. The Monty Python classic is being re-released on its 25th anniversary; its producers say the film offers an alternative to Mel Gibson's epic. The Passion of the Christ phenomenon is also being poked fun at by the TV series South Park. David D'Arcy reports.
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Residents of Normandy, France, old enough to remember the 1944 invasion are being encouraged to come forward and share their memories. As the 60th anniversary of D-Day in June approaches, towns and villages across the region are holding meetings in an effort to record the testimony of those who lived through the Nazi occupation and the liberation. Alasdair Sandford reports.
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Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association failed to reach an agreement prior to Tuesday's deadline. The failure to find mutual ground on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement means that there will not be a full 162 game regular season in Major League Baseball this year.
This is the second-longest stoppage in the history of the sport, solely behind the 1994-1995 strike that left the sport without a postseason and world champion.
Following a Monday in which Major League Baseball’s brass and the MLB Players Association met and debated for 16 grueling hours until 2:30 a.m. Eastern time, the deadline to reach a deal was extended to 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The two sides had remained far apart since the lockout began all the way back on December 2nd. After Monday's marathon meeting, there was new-found optimism heading into Tuesday's extended deadline that a deal would be met.
MLB spokesman says: "They couldn't make us a CBT (luxury) tax proposal last night, so we agreed to extend the deadline to exhaust every option. ....The MLBPA had a decidedly different tone today and made proposals inconsistent with the previous discussions.''
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) March 1, 2022
A major issue in the bargaining was the Collective Bargaining Threshold. Major League Baseball inched ever closed to the players union's desire of a $775,000 minimum salary and bonus pool of $115 million by coming up to $675,000 minimum salary with a bonus pool of $25 million.
Union source says they were always far apart on major issues. It was MLB's optimism they were pushing (re yesterday). That was 'ridiculous.'
— Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) March 1, 2022
For four consecutive seasons, the average player salary has decreased whilst MLB revenue has increased, leading the players union to stand firm on their lists of demands.
Additionally, the sides remained devastatingly far off in terms of the luxury tax threshold per year of the CBA as well.
Players union requested luxury tax figures of 238M, 244, 250, 256 and 263. MLB had offered 220M, 220, 220, 224 and 230. That is a massive difference.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) March 1, 2022
Players and MLB agreed to expand the playoffs from 10 teams to 12 after the players union scoffed at Major League Baseball’s proposal of a 14 team playoff after securing broadcast rights with ESPN for an expanded wild-card round.
As a contingent, the league had offered a $700,000 minimum salary and $40 million bonus pool had the union agreed to a 14-team playoff expansion, but the union refused to budge on playoff expansion.
Major League Baseball essentially offered a "take it or leave it" deal towards the end of the self-imposed deadline, with the hopes to reach an agreement in time to play a full season.
MLB's best-and-final offer:
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) March 1, 2022
- No changes to CBT thresholds (220/220/220/224/230)
- A $5M increase on pre-arb bonus pool from $25M to $30M
- An increase of minimums from $675K to $700K, moving up $10K/year
The MLBPA's previous offer:
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) March 1, 2022
- CBT thresholds at 238/244/250/256/263
- Pre-arb bonus pool at $85M with $5M annual increases
- Minimums at $725K going up $20K a year
What comes next is yet to be determined, but what is known is that as of now, there will not be an Opening Day on March 31st, and the second-longest work-stoppage in the history of Major League Baseball, continues. | https://www.northcentralpa.com/life/major-league-baseball-and-players-association-dont-reach-deal-before-deadline-shortened-season-now-reality/article_687f8b4e-9993-11ec-816a-03ba8b8ebd16.html | 2022-03-02T01:52:06 | en | 0.965794 |
Environmental groups and National Farmers Union united in criticism of UK-New Zealand trade deal, which government hails one of its ‘greenest ever’
The government has hailed a new free trade agreement with New Zealand one of its "greenest ever", while claiming it could boost the UK economy by £800m a year by removing trade barriers on a "huge range"...
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Lewisburg, Pa. – One week after Bucknell University students, faculty, and staff led a campus walkout voicing their dissatisfaction of the alleged mishandling of campus crimes, students say the issues have not been addressed.
In turn, university officials say they are working on addressing communication with students and university staff and faculty regarding the public safety department. A forum with the new Chief of Public Safety, Anthony Morgan, is planned for Thursday, March 3.
Students are hoping the public safety department will offer more transparency. One of the walkout organizers, student Jillie Santos, said last week she had met with Morgan, who seemed receptive to working with students and being more transparent.
A press release sent Monday from the Bucknell University Democratic Socialists (BUDS), who helped to organize the walkout, claimed the university had not responded to the issues outlined during the Feb. 21 event. The walkout event was held in response to the news of the recent whistleblower lawsuit filed against the university by former public safety officer Colby M. Snook.
In the complaint, Snook alleged that former Chief of Public Safety Steve Barilar allowed a student involved in a sexual harassment incident to destroy evidence.
"Students participated in the walkout out of a belief that such conduct formed a pattern of abuse and irresponsibility by Public Safety, demanding reforms to the structure and oversight of the department," the release stated.
Snook’s lawsuit, filed in January at the Union County Court of Common Pleas, maintains that the male student who allegedly recorded a woman in a campus restroom in May 2021 was given an opportunity to erase cell phone evidence. Barilar had allowed the student access to the phone in the public safety office’s evidence room after he met with the student’s parents.
Related Reading: Former Bucknell public safety officer sues university for violating whistleblower law
Snook's lawsuit claims that when he reported the alleged mishandling of the case, university employees retaliated and created a hostile work environment which forced him to resign on Nov. 16, 2021.
Barilar retired at the end of January, a retirement that had long been planned, according to university officials. Morgan stepped into the role of chief of public safety on Feb. 1.
Student speakers at the walkout also mentioned the Fran’s House incident from May 2021, in which fraternity members had harassed and threatened members of the LGBTQ+ affinity house.
When public safety officers arrived at the scene, they fraternized openly with the individuals attempting to break into the house and promised them access to it once final exams concluded that semester, according to the students’ release.
The speakers also brought up a letter sent to the university administration two years ago from the Coalition of Concerned Students regarding the mistreatment of the Black campus community. The students said in the release that no plan of action has been formed yet to address the issue.
Student organizers announced at the walkout that they had planned a forum for the following day, Feb. 22. Morgan was invited and allegedly accepted the invitation, according to the students’ release. However, Morgan "allegedly retracted his acceptance shortly before the walkout, citing hesitance to 'distract from the conversation,'" according to the release from the student group.
Mike Ferlazzo, director of media relations for Bucknell University said Morgan has met with a number of student groups since he took over the chief of public safety position on Feb. 1, including BUDS, who he met with on Feb. 11.
"During that meeting, he was informed of an event the following Tuesday, but it was mischaracterized as an opportunity for further engagement with members of BUDS, not as a public forum associated with a larger protest directed at Public Safety," Ferlazzo said in an email. "He declined the invitation because he didn't want his presence to distract from the conversation."
The university’s forum planned for Thursday is part of two Community Conversations on Public Safety planned for the spring semester, according to Ferlazzo. The purpose is to engage the university students and employees in broad discussions.
At the forum, Morgan will present his vision for campus security, followed by a 30-minute question-and-answer session with attendees. Students, university staff, and faculty will have an opportunity to meet Morgan at a reception following the forum.
Colby Snook lawsuit
As for Snook’s lawsuit, the allegations are still under investigation. Snook presented the allegations last summer to Union County District Attorney Pete Johnson, who forwarded the complaint to the public corruption office at the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office.
On Feb. 23, Bucknell filed preliminary objections at the Union County courthouse, contending there was not any evidence of wrongdoing in the allegations made by Snook.
The university also denied Snook was discharged after reporting the alleged wrongdoing last summer to the Union County District Attorney. The university “denies that he was mistreated by other Bucknell employees,” according to a statement issued by the university.
Furthermore, the university acknowledged in the statement that Bucknell is aware that the Union County district attorney forwarded Snook’s complaint to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office more than six months ago.
“Bucknell has not received any official contact from the Attorney General suggesting the investigation will result in any charges, but is prepared and willing to cooperate in the investigation, should it move forward,” the university said in the statement.
Full statement issued on Feb. 24 by Bucknell University:
Yesterday Bucknell University filed preliminary objections to the whistleblower complaint filed by a former Bucknell public safety officer, and requested dismissal of the complaint.
In support of the motion, Bucknell cites the absence of any evidence of wrongdoing in the allegations made by the plaintiff and denies that the plaintiff was discharged after reporting the alleged “wrongdoing” to the Union County District Attorney. The plaintiff resigned from the University, and the University denies that he was mistreated by other Bucknell employees.
Bucknell is aware that the plaintiff’s complaint to the Union County District Attorney was forwarded to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office over six months ago. Bucknell has not received any official contact from the Attorney General suggesting that the investigation will result in any charges, but it is prepared and willing to cooperate in the investigation, should it move forward.
Both Union County judges have recused themselves of the case. The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts will assign a judge from outside of the area to hear the case.
Is Barilar in or out?
Several weeks ago, some members of the campus community became upset when they found out Barilar’s employment had been retained for a two-week period after his retirement. The extension was to finish a student discipline case unrelated to the lawsuit, Ferlazzo said.
At the beginning of February, Barilar’s profile on the Bucknell website showed up with the title Special Advisor to the General Counsel. A short time later, the title was changed to Casual Public Safety. Ferlazzo said the first title posted was an error.
Related Reading: Bucknell retains former public safety chief as counsel, despite corruption allegations
Three mothers of Bucknell students sent a letter to university officials expressing their disappointment that Barilar’s employment term had been extended. The letter was sent to university president John Bravman; Karin Rilley, general counsel; and Pierre Joanis, vice president of human resources.
In the letter, the women said it was "a travesty" that the university and Rilley in particular would hire Barilar as an advisor. Rilley met with Snook in July, after he initiated the complaint against Barilar for the alleged misconduct, and she allegedly threatened him about his future employment with Bucknell. | https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/crime/bucknell-students-demand-accountability-university-requests-dismissal-of-whistleblower-lawsuit/article_4e2fcc8a-97f0-11ec-abe5-836bb6db0ffe.html | 2022-03-02T01:52:08 | en | 0.973345 |
A six-fold increase in funding flows from richer nations to poorer nations to support nature protection is needed to help slow the rate of biodiversity loss, charities have warned
Many of the world's leading environmental charities have called on wealthy countries to commit to delivering at least $60bn a year of international finance to enable biodiversity protection and enhancement in developing countries, arguing the investment is necessary to compensate for the devastating impact richer nations' consumption habits are having on nature in poorer regions.
The organisations, which include Conservation International, Campaign for Nature, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Nature Conservancy, WWF, and the World Resources Institute (WRI), said countries and markets like the UK, France, Canada, US, and European Union have a "moral responsibility" to put a halt to biodiversity loss and achieve a nature-positive economy.
Flows of international finance to support biodiversity currently fall far short of $60bn a year, with just $10bn of annual biodiversity funding currently flowing from richer nations to poorer nations for nature protection, the charities have warned.
The groups have made their request ahead of United Nations biodiversity negotiations taking place in Geneva later this month, which are expected to feed into crucial talks about a international treaty for tackling biodiversity loss at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit that is slated to take place this autumn in Kunming, China following repeated delays as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
"As the world prepares to meet [at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit] in Kunming [later this year], we must raise our ambition once again for both action and funding for biodiversity," said James Roth, senior vice president for global policy and government affairs at Conservation International. "This funding is an investment in the future we all want - and will help address the many challenges facing the planet, including climate change mitigation and adaptation, pandemic prevention, and the conservation of the nature we all need for food and fresh water. The time to act is now - there is not a moment to waste."
The charities said increased international biodiversity finance should be accompanied by a push to eliminate harmful subsides, increase domestic funding for nature, and boost the effectiveness and efficiency of resource use.
The charities behind the appeal have calculated that some $844bn is required to address the biodiversity crisis in total, a sum that is roughly $711bn more than current spending levels. Enabling increased flows of public and private finance from rich to poor nations to support biodiversity projects is widely seen as critical to leveraging in the further investment and regulatory reforms that could finally lead to a reversal in global biodiversity loss.
Marco Lambertini, director general of WWF International, said unsustainable production and consumption, particularly of food, was driving biodiversity loss across the globe, which is in turn damaging economies and leading to increased risks for human societies.
"To move towards a nature-positive economy, we need to spend more directly on biodiversity conservation and end pressure on nature from harmful financial flows and subsidies," he said. "We are finally beginning to understand that this is not only essential for nature: it will safeguard humanity, help prevent pandemics and create essential new jobs."
He added that wealthy countries had a "moral responsibility to support a target of at least $60bn of international finance for nature annually in Asia, Africa, Latin America, as a part of a necessary comprehensive resource mobilisation strategy".
Richer nations do not have a good track record of meeting their environmental finance obligations. They have collectively failed to meet their international climate finance target to mobilise $100bn annually for poorer nations by 2020, despite the target being established in 2009. However, the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow did secure a renewed commitment to deliver on the target, increased funding for climate adaptation, nature, and projects to tackle deforestation, and a promise to begin a "dialogue" to explore how to provide funding to tackle climate-related "loss and damage".
The latest call to action comes a day after a landmark IPCC report into climate impacts warned climate change was causing widespread and irreversible impacts for humans and animals, and recommended that nature protection and conservation schemes and projects were put at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem.
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Perry Twp., Pa. -- St. John's Lutheran Church in Mt. Pleasant Mills was broken into and ransacked, according to a police report by Pennsylvania State Police - Selinsgrove.
The incident occurred some time between Feb. 3 at 10 a.m. and Feb. 4 at 6 p.m.
A stained glass window in the church at 9084 Rt. 35 in Perry Twp. was also broken.
PSP Selinsgrove are investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call 570-374-8145. | https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/crime/police-investigate-church-vandalism-in-selinsgrove/article_47c6a608-98cb-11ec-9633-4348c231c2c6.html | 2022-03-02T01:52:10 | en | 0.968081 |
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