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Estados Unidos, China y Europa dominan las emisiones de dióxido de carbono.

Los niveles de dióxido de carbono en la atmósfera terrestre ya superan consistentemente la simbólica marca de 400 partes de CO2 por cada millón de moléculas (ppm).

Y todo indica que se mantendrán así “durante muchas generaciones”, advirtió la Organización Meteorológica internacional (OMI) en su último informe.

La simbólica marca -que muchos científicos creen es prueba irrefutable de la responsabilidad humana sobre el cambio climático- ya había sido superada por primera vez en la historia moderna el año pasado.

Pero, según la OMI, todo indica que 2016 va a ser el primer año completo en superarla, en buena medida por causa del reciente fenómeno de El Niño.

“Las condiciones de sequía en las regiones tropicales provocadas por El Niño redujeron la capacidad de la vegetación para absorber CO2″, explicó Matt McGrath, corresponsal para temas ambientales de la BBC.

“Y los fuegos provocados por las condiciones secas también produjeron emisiones adicionales”, agregó el experto.

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La estación en el observatorio de Mauna Loa en Hawái fue la primera en registrar la histórica marca.

La Organización Meteorológica internacional, sin embargo, advirtió que si bien el factor El Niño ya desapareció, no sucede lo mismo con el impacto humano en el cambio climático.

“Y si no se aborda el problema de las emisiones de CO2 no se puede combatir el cambio climático y mantener el aumento de temperatura en menos de dos grados centígrados con respecto a la era industrial”, dijo el secretario general de la organización, Petteri Taalas.

Según los expertos, la última vez que los niveles de CO2 estaban regularmente por encima de los 400 ppm fue hace cinco millones de años.

Y, antes de 1800, los niveles se mantenían en aproximadamente 280 ppm, según cifras de la oficina nacional de control atmosférico y oceánico de EE.UU., NOAA

Otros gases

El reporte de la OMI también destacó el crecimiento de otros gases de invernadero, incluyendo metano y óxido nitroso.

En 2015, los niveles de metano eran 2,5 veces superiores a los de la era pre-industrial mientras que el óxido nitroso estaba 1,2 veces por encima de los máximos históricos.

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la reducción de los niveles de CO2 es fundamental en el combate contra el cambio climático.

Y el estudio también destacó el impacto del mayor volumen de esos gases sobre el clima del planeta.

Según los datos de la OMI, entre 1990 y 2015 se produjo un aumento del 37% del forzamiento radiactivo, como se conoce al efecto de calentamiento causado por la acumulación de estas substancias derivadas de actividades industriales, agrícolas y domésticas.

En diciembre de 2015 unos 200 países suscribieron en país un acuerdo para combatir el cambio climático y una reunión para decidir los próximos pasos tendrá lugar en Marruecos en noviembre de este año.

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More than 30 states have medical marijuana programs — yet scientists are only allowed to use cannabis plants from one U.S. source for their research. That’s set to change, as the federal government begins to add more growers to the mix.

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More than 30 states have medical marijuana programs — yet scientists are only allowed to use cannabis plants from one U.S. source for their research. That’s set to change, as the federal government begins to add more growers to the mix.

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After more than 50 years, the federal government is lifting a roadblock to cannabis research that scientists and advocates say has hindered rigorous studies of the plant and possible drug development.

Since 1968, U.S. researchers have been allowed to use cannabis from only one domestic source: a facility based at the University of Mississippi, through a contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

That changed earlier this month, when the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it’s in the process of registering several additional American companies to produce cannabis for medical and scientific purposes.

It’s a move that promises to accelerate understanding of the plant’s health effects and possible therapies for treating conditions — chronic pain, the side effects of chemotherapy, multiple sclerosis and mental illness, among many others — that are yet to be well studied.

“This is a momentous decision,” says Rick Doblin, executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which has spearheaded research into other Schedule 1 drugs — the most restrictive class of controlled substance, which the federal government defines as “drugs with no currently accepted medical use.”

“This is the last political obstruction of research with Schedule 1 drugs,” he says.

About one-third of Americans currently live in a state where recreational marijuana is legal — and more than 30 states have medical marijuana programs. Yet scientists still aren’t allowed to simply use the cannabis sold at state-licensed dispensaries for their clinical research because cannabis remains illegal under federal law.

“It is a big disconnect,” says Dr. Igor Grant, a psychiatry professor and director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at University of California, San Diego.

The new DEA decision doesn’t resolve the conflict between federal and state laws, but it does offer researchers a new, federally sanctioned pipeline for more products and strains of cannabis.

“We’ll see a decade or more of explosive cannabis research and potential new therapies,” says Dr. Steve Groff, founder and chairman of Groff North America, one of three companies that has publicly announced it has preliminary approval from the federal government to cultivate cannabis for research.

A long-running fight to overturn federal “monopoly”

Despite their efforts, scientists have encountered administrative and legal hurdles to growing pharmaceutical-grade cannabis for decades.

In 2001, Dr. Lyle Craker, a prominent plant biologist, first applied for a license to cultivate marijuana for research — only to encounter years of delay that kicked off a prolonged court battle with the DEA, which has to greenlight research into Schedule 1 drugs like cannabis.

“There’s thousands of different cannabis varieties that all have unique chemical profiles and produce unique clinical effects, but we didn’t have access to that normal diversity,” says Dr. Sue Sisley, a cannabis researcher and president of the Scottsdale Research Institute, which also received preliminary DEA approval to produce cannabis for research.

Only in 2016 did the federal government signal a change in policy that would open the door for new growers, but applications to do so languished for years. Craker and others ended up suing the federal government over the delay.

Sisley has long taken issue with the supply of cannabis coming from the NIDA facility in Mississippi — in particular, how it’s processed. She used cannabis produced there in her recently published clinical trial on treating PTSD in military veterans.

She describes the product as an “anemic” greenish powder.

“It’s very difficult to overcome the placebo effect when you have something that diluted,” she says.

The 76-person study, which took 10 years to complete, concluded that smoked cannabis was generally well tolerated and did not lead to deleterious effects in this group. But it also did not find any statistically significant difference in abating the symptoms of PTSD when compared to a placebo.

For Grant of UCSD, the problem with the long-standing supply of cannabis isn’t so much the quality, but the lack of different products like edibles and oils and of cannabis strains with varying concentrations of CBD and THC, the plant’s main psychoactive ingredient.

“We don’t have enough research on the kind of marijuana products that people in the real world are using,” he says.

Because of the limited domestic supply, some researchers have resorted to importing cannabis from outside the U.S. — a legal but wildly counterintuitive arrangement that is “arduous” and prone to hiccups, says Sisley.

The constraints on research cannabis also has impeded the pathway to drug development because the NIDA facility’s cannabis could only be used for academic research, not for prescription drug development. A drug studied in phase 3 clinical trials — what’s required before submitting for approval from the Food and Drug Administration — must be the same as what’s later marketed.

“The NIDA monopoly has primarily been why we have medical marijuana in the states, but we don’t have medical marijuana through the FDA,” says Doblin of MAPS. “It’s a fundamental change that we can now have drug development with domestic supplies.”

A few barriers still remain

The few companies that will soon land DEA spots to cultivate cannabis have an eager marketplace of researchers who are “clamoring” for the chance to study the scientific properties and medical potential of the plant, says Groff, whose company is up for DEA approval and who also has an FDA project to study the antimicrobial properties of cannabis for killing dangerous bacteria like MRSA.

By the end of next year, Groff anticipates his company will be producing up to 5,000 pounds of marijuana per year, offering researchers a “full menu of customizable options.”

Biopharmaceutical Research Company — a third company that will soon cultivate cannabis with a DEA license — already has dozens of agreements in place with U.S. researchers and is hearing from more academic institutions, drugmakers and biotech companies in the wake of the change in policy, says CEO George Hodgin.

“Now there’s a very clear, approved and legal path for them to legally enter the cannabis space in the United States,” says Hodgin.

Washington State University’s Center for Cannabis Policy, Research and Outreach is one of the places that expects to eventually procure cannabis from Hodgin’s business.

“It’s definitely a big step in the right direction because the industry is moving much faster than we are in research,” says Michael McDonell, an associate professor of medicine and director of the university’s cannabis center.

But he also points out that even with more growers coming online, it’s still by no means easy to study cannabis, because researchers need a special license when working with a Schedule 1 drug and grants to conduct these studies are hard to come by.

Despite the widespread use of marijuana in the U.S., research into the medical potential of other Schedule 1 drugs like MDMA (ecstasy) is much further along than cannabis.

UCSD’s Grant says the biggest leap forward for research would come from moving cannabis out of the Schedule 1 drug classification. “If that were to happen,” he says, “that would solve a lot of these problems that we’ve been talking about.”

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/30/1000867189/after-50-years-u-s-opens-the-door-to-more-cannabis-crops-for-scientists

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“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

About 100 CIA officers and family members are among about 200 US officials and kin sickened by “Havana syndrome”, the CIA director, William Burns, said on Thursday, referring to the mysterious set of ailments that include migraines and dizziness.

Burns, tapped by Joe Biden as the first career diplomat to serve as CIA chief, said in a National Public Radio interview that he had bolstered his agency’s efforts to determine the cause of the syndrome and what is responsible.

He confirmed that among other steps, he had tapped a senior officer who once led the hunt for Osama bin Laden to head a taskforce investigating the syndrome, and said he had tripled the size of the medical team involved in the investigation.

The agency also had shortened from eight weeks to two weeks the time that CIA-affiliated people must wait for admission to Walter Reed national military medical center, he said.

“It’s a profound obligation, I think, of any leader to take care of your people and that is what I am determined to do,” Burns told NPR in his first interview since becoming CIA director in March.

Havana syndrome, with symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, migraines and memory lapses, is so named because it first was reported by US officials based in the US embassy in Cuba in 2016.

Burns noted that a US National Academy of Sciences panel in December found that a plausible theory was that “directed energy” beams caused the syndrome.

There was a “very strong possibility” that the syndrome was intentionally caused, and that Russia could be responsible, he said, adding that he was withholding definitive conclusions pending further investigation.

Moscow denies involvement.

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/22/havana-syndrome-cia-officers-family

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NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

La lucha incesante por encontrar aquellos seres queridos que una vez los grupos armados se llevaron y no se volvió a saber nada de ellos, volvió a sentirse ayer en el país al conmemorar el Día internacional de la desaparición forzada.

Madres, hombres y niños salieron a reclamarles a esos actores que devuelvan vivos a los que un día se llevaron, o en su defecto, que digan dónde fueron sepultados sus cuerpos para terminar con la incertidumbre de no saber dónde y por qué se los llevaron.

En la Fiscalía y la Unidad Nacional para la Atención y Reparación Integral a las Víctimas (UAV) reposan denuncias sobre 45.630 personas de las cuales no hay noticia. Al llevarse a punto de comparación —y toda comparación es odiosa y más tratándose de las víctimas—, el número de desaparecidos equivale a llenar el estadio de fútbol de Medellín.

“Es duro uno tener que levantarse a diario y esperar a tener noticias de nuestros hijos. Uno guarda la esperanza de verlos vivo”, asegura Margarita Rondón, familiar de una víctima desparecida.

El tema de la desaparición debe ser un asunto primordial para el Estado, como lo aseveró al Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica el asesor de la oficina del Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas, Guillermo Fernández Maldonado: “no estamos hablando de algo que sucedió en el pasado, es algo que sigue sucediendo, y sobre lo que se debe estar pendiente en cuanto a prevención, investigación y sanción”.

ES NECESARIA LA REPARACIÓN

En datos suministrados por la UAV, el 2002 fue el año con mayor desapariciones. Desde entonces, se observa una disminución (se pasó de 14.094 víctimas entre directas e indirectas en 2002 a 127 registradas en 2014). Los departamentos más afectados son Antioquia (10.855 víctimas), Meta (3.122), Valle del Cauca (1.971), Cesar (1.865), Caquetá (1.812) y Putumayo (1.711).

“Desde el 2013, la Unidad para las Víctimas ha apoyado 45 acciones simbólicas de conmemoración dedicadas a las víctimas de desaparición forzada y sus familiares. El apoyo psicosocial es fundamental para el proceso de sanación y acompañamiento a los seres queridos”, explica Paula Gaviria, directora nacional de la Unidad para las Víctimas. 

Source Article from http://www.eluniversal.com.co/colombia/en-colombia-no-hay-noticias-sobre-45630-desaparecidos-204398

President Trump has finally stopped banging his head against “THE WALL” and turned his attention to our absurd asylum law, which has led to the near collapse of our whole immigration system, such that we ever had a “system.”

It’s going to come with a legal fight that the White House may very well lose, but it’s the fight the country needs. Even in defeat, there will be some success in just having elevated the issue so that people can see the wreckage at our southern border created by our immigration law’s gaping asylum hole.

The White House announced Monday that it was directing federal agencies to adjust how they manage asylum claims so that they can be adjudicated quicker and so that migrants flooding the system aren’t simply turned loose upon arrival to enjoy their stay.

The directives put a 180-day deadline on deciding asylum cases (they can currently last up to years); place fees on asylum applications (which are now free to whoever shows up and says the magic word); and withhold work permits from asylum applicants who did not enter the United States through a legal port of entry (i.e. illegal border crossers, which make up the vast majority of asylum claims).

Word got out south of the border a long time ago that anyone who wants to take their chances in America needs only to float 50 feet across the Rio Grande, hit the U.S. bank, and find a border agent to claim asylum. Chances of getting to stay are nearly 100% for those who bring children. So that’s what they do, putting children’s lives at risk in the process.

When I went to the Rio Grande Valley sector of the Texas border earlier this year, I watched what appeared to be a young mother, who was from Guatemala, and seven very young minors in her company. They sat on the side of the road, a few feet from the river that they had crossed, and waited for an agent to find them in order to claim asylum.

On the river bank, I looked to the other side and there were dozens of people, waiting their turn to make the crossing and do the same.

The system functions exactly as the law says it should. It’s broken for us, but it works very well for those gaming it.

The immigration legal backlog is at nearly 1 million cases, a number that will only increase without a policy fix. Trump’s directive is at least a look in the right direction.

Democrats in Congress and the ones running for the 2020 presidential nomination are all too happy to keep things the way they are. But it’s not clear that their voters want the same thing.

A new Washington Post poll found that 35% of Americans now say the border situation is in a “crisis,” an 11-point increase from January. That bump was seen across the board by party, but the biggest jump came from Democrats. In January, just 7% of that party’s voters said there was a crisis at the border. In the new poll, it’s 24%.

The asylum loophole is creating a crisis. The White House is doing the right thing by trying to close it.

[Related: GOP sets sights on asylum regulations]

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-asylum-loophole-is-breaking-the-border-trumps-new-directive-is-a-good-start-at-fixing-it

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NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/







Declaran infundada solicitud de exclusión contra Keiko Fujimori by Jorge Luis Paucar Albino

Por otro lado, la tarde del último miércoles el congresista Heriberto Benítez presentó nuevas evidencias para respaldar la tacha interpuesta contra la lideresa del partido naranja. En un DVD, el parlamentario entregó una grabación dónde Pedro Espadaro, congresista por Fuerza Popular, reconoce Marco Pichilingüe como el “coordinador provincial de dicha organización en el Callao“.


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Artistas y diversos personajes reconocidos se pronunciaron en contra del citado fallo.










 

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O presidente do Conselho Deliberativo da Chapecoense, Plínio David de Nes Filho, e o prefeito de Chapecó, Luciano Buligon, que quase embarcaram no voo que caiu na Colômbia, se emocionaram ao falar sobre a tragédia ao lado de Galvão Bueno e Rodrigo Bocardi no Bom Dia Brasil.

“Nós estávamos programados para estar neste voo. Eu, particularmente, voei com esse avião. Estivemos em Barranquilla e voamos com esse mesmo avião. O piloto entrou em contato comigo, às 9h, dizendo que a Anac não havia liberado para que ele pudesse pousar em Guarulhos, pedindo apoio, inclusive, porque a gente já se conhecia. Mas aí optamos em voar à tarde, em voo regular, fazendo uma ponta em Bogotá. Voltaríamos com esse voo, fazendo uma escala em Santa Cruz, e iríamos pousar, como já pousamos, no aeroporto internacional de Foz do Iguaçú”, detalhou o prefeito.

“Montamos um QG no próprio vestiário. Falei com a minha senhora. Ela está indo de encontro às senhoras dos jogadores e dos dirigentes. Existem amigos de uma vida toda que estavam no voo. (…) Esse grupo dentro da Chapecoense, entre atletas e direção, não era apenas um grupo de respeito mútuo, mas familiar. Grupo de amizade, todo mundo ria muito, mesmo nas derrotas. Nós viviamos em uma harmonia muito grande. Ontem de manhã, eu me despedindo, eles me diziam que iam em busca para tornar esse sonho uma realidade. Compartilhamos esse sonho, muito emocionados. E esse sonho acabou essa madrugada”, chorou Plínio.

Assista à reportagem completa no vídeo acima.

 

Source Article from http://g1.globo.com/bom-dia-brasil/noticia/2016/11/diretor-do-chapecoense-chora-o-sonho-acabou-nessa-madrugada.html

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“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

El DT del Veracruz tomó con buen humor las fallas de los silbantes que le costaron la eliminaciòn

Carlos Reinoso es un usuario asiduo de las redes sociales, ya sea para comentar sobre partidos o responder a las críticas en los programas de análisis, el DT del Veracruz siempre comparte su opinión a través de este medio.

El entrenador de los Tiburones Rojos compartió un tuit en el que ironizó sobre el error arbitral en el gol de Fidel Martínez (posición adelantada) que a la postre le dio la victoria a Pumas y le costó la eliminación al equipo del puerto.

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Veracruz, Carlos Reinoso, Liga MX, fútbol, Pumas


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A protester uses a shield to cover himself as he faces police in Hong Kong on Saturday.

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Defying a government ban, thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators returned to the streets of Hong Kong on Saturday and clashed with police in one of the most dramatic and violent days of unrest since June when the protests began.

Perhaps the most striking image from Saturday’s protests has been that of a large fire, blazing across a street in a major shopping district. Protesters created a wall of barricades and set it ablaze.

Earlier on Saturday, police fired tear gas and used water cannons in their attempts to disperse protesters throwing objects and gasoline bombs at the main government headquarters. Protesters also reportedly gathered near the Hong Kong police headquarters.

Some of the protesters called their demonstration early on Saturday a “religious rally” — what NPR correspondent Emily Feng described as an attempt to evade the police restrictions around protests (Police still considered the event an illegal gathering.).

“Throughout the afternoon, protesters alternated between chanting for democratic elections and also singing religious songs,” Feng told NPR’s Weekend Edition. They said they were praying for peace — and also for “sinners.”

Saturday’s demonstrations came on the fifth anniversary of Beijing’s decision to continue vetting all candidates for Hong Kong’s chief executive position. That decision sparked the 2014 “Umbrella Revolution,” which consisted of months of mass pro-democracy protests but ultimately failed to secure direct elections for Hong Kong.

The past three months of protests in Hong Kong were triggered by legislation that would have allowed Hong Kong’s government to extradite people to China for certain crimes — a proposal that critics feared could be used to target outspoken critics of China.

Though Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, responded to protests by suspending the bill in mid-June, protesters continued to demonstrate because the bill has yet to be formally withdrawn. The activists have since expanded their list of demands to include calls for Lam’s resignation, direct elections, an inquiry into police tactics and the unconditional release of all arrested protesters.

Lam has refused or ignored the demands. On Tuesday, Lam said the government was looking into all “legal means to stop violence and chaos” in Hong Kong. This week, China sent additional troops to Hong Kong.

In a news conference Friday, Hong Kong police commander Kwok Pak Chung said unauthorized demonstrators could face jail sentences of up to five years.

Demonstrators showed out despite that warning — because, as NPR’s Feng reported, “they’re furious at what they see as police brutality, and they’re further galvanized by a wave of arrests of prominent activists and politicians.”

On Thursday and Friday, police arrested three prominent activists — most notably, 22-year-old Joshua Wong, who leads the youth activist group Demosisto. Wong was released on bail and attended Saturday’s protests, NPR’s Feng reported. Three pro-democracy lawmakers were also arrested on Friday, according multiple media reports.

Police in Hong Kong have made over 900 arrests associated with this summer’s protests, but some see these targeted detentions as a shift in strategy. Man-kei Tam, director of Amnesty International Hong Kong, called the latest arrests and the ban on Saturday’s rally “scare tactics straight out of Beijing’s playbook.”

Though police have targeted high-profile activists and pro-democracy thinkers, the protest movement in Hong Kong remains a leaderless movement.

On Sunday, protesters plan to shut down transportation lines into the Hong Kong International Airport for the third time in three months. On Monday, a general strike is set to begin across universities and many other sectors.

“I think when the government go hard, we go hard,” said Isaac Cheng, a vice chairman of Demosisto. “We ask the government, please respond to the five demands as soon as possible. Otherwise, the people may be using some more radical ways or more hard ways to respond to the response of the government.”

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A bench stands outside a scorched building as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County, Calif., on Aug. 4, 2021.

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A bench stands outside a scorched building as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County, Calif., on Aug. 4, 2021.

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Out-of-control wildfires in northern California are burning homes and again forcing thousands to evacuate.

One of the biggest concerns remains the Dixie Fire, the second largest wildfire in the U.S. It has now burned some 322,000 acres, including much of the northern Sierra Nevada town of Greenville.

Until recently, the Dixie Fire had been burning in mostly remote wild lands. But that changed dramatically Wednesday as erratic winds sent the flames racing toward whole communities around the popular vacation enclave of Lake Almanor.

By late afternoon, an ominous emergency alert broke into local radio here warning all Greenville, Calif., residents to leave immediately.

“We lost Greenville tonight,” said U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa in an emotional video to his constituents posted to Facebook. “There’s just no words for how us in government haven’t been able to get the job done.”

Only a dramatic change in the weather will stop wildfires like this in an era of climate change. They’re also burning through dense, overgrown forests built up from a legacy of suppressing fires. The Dixie Fire is the latest to rage in this mostly rural part of the Sierra Nevada that’s been traumatized by huge and deadly wildfires since 2018.

Flames consume buildings as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County, Calif., on Aug. 4, 2021.

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“It started at the same place the Camp Fire did, that’s all people needed to hear,” says Steve Crowder, the mayor of Paradise, Calif.

His community is still reeling from the Camp Fire in November of 2018, which killed 85 people and destroyed close to 19,000 structures. The Dixie Fire started in the same area, also likely due to downed power lines.

“It really is tough on people,” Crowder says. “It just brings back all kinds of memories.”

Paradise is actually pretty safe — for now

The huge, volcano-like plume of the Dixie Fire can be seen from out the back of Paradise town hall, though so far it’s burning away from it. But people who have moved back in, like Stephen Murray, know that could easily change. Paradise is about 15 miles as the crow flies from where the Dixie Fire started and is still burning.

“Last Thursday, I had my truck packed and I was ready to leave. Even though I rebuilt my home and all that, it’s not worth staying,” Murray says. He didn’t end up leaving for good though, for now. He’s been making a living as a contractor, clearing out debris from burnt out lots. But it’s so dry he can only operate machinery in the early morning due to the threat of sparks igniting more fires.

“Unfortunately the Dixie Fire has put me out of work for the last 20 days,” Murray says.

In the hot afternoon sun obscured by dense smoke, he looks nervously at his neighbor’s abandoned property, overgrown with dry brush.

But even if the Dixie Fire were to blow back this way, the irony is that Paradise today is actually pretty safe, for now. New power lines are being buried underground. Homes are being built to more fire resistant code. And most of the forests are gone because thousands of trees had to be removed.

“This is a safer community and quite honestly one of the safest in the Sierra,” says Jim Broshears, a longtime wildland fire chief who now runs the town’s emergency services.

Residents have their bags packed so they’re ready to leave if they have to

This is of little solace to the thousands of Camp Fire survivors who decided to leave Paradise and put their lives back together elsewhere.

Linda and Bob Oslin moved to a home about 30 minutes away from Paradise after losing everything in the Camp Fire. They were evacuated due to wildfires last summer and figure it’s only a matter of time before they’ll have to leave again.

They have suitcases packed and their essential documents are already in a pickup outside.

“I have my suitcase ready to go and I just live out of my suitcase,” Linda says. “This is our life from … May to December.”

The Oslins know this could soon be their life year round as wildfire “seasons” are now a relic of the cooler past.

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