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Morris said by spearheading innovative partnerships and leveraging resources from ASU, tribes and community organizations, she hopes that Inno-NATIONS will create a “collision community,” causing a ripple effect of economic change in tribal communities.

The first collision takes place with the inaugural learning lab series, “Beyond Buckskin: Beyond Online” on March 1 followed by “Protection in All Directions: A Fashion & Resistance Awareness Event” on March 4. The latter will include discussions, multi-media discussions and a fashion show highlighting local Native American designers including Jared Yazzie of OxDX.

Both events are free and take place at The Department in downtown Phoenix.

Inno-NATIONS will also launch a three-day pilot cohort with approximately 20 Native American businesses starting in June.

“Beyond Buckskin” features Jessica Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Dartmouth graduate and entrepreneur, who grew a small online store into a successful boutique on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

The store promotes and sells Native American-made couture, streetwear, jewelry, and accessories from more than 40 Native American and First Nations artist, employing tribe members from the Turtle Mountain community.

ASU Now spoke to Metcalfe to discuss her work.

Jessica Metcalfe

Question: We’ve seen Native American fashion emerge and evolve. How did you get into the business?

Answer: I was writing my master’s thesis in 2005 and my advisor at the time had told me about some research she had done, which looked at Native American fashion in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She had wondered if I was interested in picking up where her research left off. I looked into it and found that there were these breadcrumbs, little bits here in there, that something had been going on in the past 60-70 years, but hadn’t been looked at as a collective movement.

Through my doctoral dissertation, what I discovered was that Native American fashion has gone through waves of acknowledgements by the broader public, but what we’re experiencing now is perhaps the biggest wave yet.

You have designers like Patricia Michaels out at New York’s Style Fashion Week and the Native Fashion Now traveling exhibit touring the country, so there’s really a lot of exciting things happening lately. It’s coming from a collective movement. Designers basically grouping together to share costs but also to put together more events to cause a bigger ruckus.

Q: How did you build your online store into a brick-and-mortar business?

A: I first launched a blog in 2009 as an outlet for my dissertation research, and wanted to share it with more people and to also get more stories and experiences. My readers kept asking where could they see and buy these clothes? At that time, there wasn’t an easy way to access functions like a Native American Pow Wow or market in order to do that.

I had established a rapport with designers through my research and writing. They saw what I was doing through the blog and then a question popped into my head. “How would you feel about creating a business together?” There were 11 initial designers who said they needed the space, and I worked with them to sell their goods online. We just now opened our design lab on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. We are creating a system where we can meet demand and maximize a need in Indian Country.

We employ Native Americans from ages 15 to 22. There aren’t a whole lot of opportunities for people that age on the reservation. They either work at the grocery store or the gas station. One of them is interested in film and photography and so they run our photo shoots. Another person is interested in business entrepreneurship, and they get to see how an idea goes from concept to execution.

Q: The subtext is that this isn’t just about fashion but, history, representation and cultural appropriation?

A: Our clothing is just more than just objects. It’s about how the material was gathered, what the colors represent, what stories are being told and how does that tie into our value system. One of the things I often discuss is the Native American headdress. Our leaders wear them as a symbol of their leadership and the dedication to their communities. These stories are a way to share our culture with non-Natives and protect our legacy for future generations.

Q: Why is it important for Native American businesses to branch out into other cultures?

A: Native American people desperately need to diversify their economic opportunities on and off the reservations. Up until recently, people haven’t thought of fashion or art as a viable career path.

A recent study conducted by First Peoples Fund that found a third of all Native American people are practicing or are potential artists. That is a huge resource we already have in Indian Country and we need to tap it and develop it, and push for Natives in various fields to look at themselves as entrepreneurs and launching businesses.

Now, Native American people have an opportunity to make a positive impact in their local communities by reaching people through their art and sharing our culture with the rest of the world.

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Impeaching a U.S. president might not be the be-all-end-all for their career. We explain why this is the case.
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WASHINGTON – Expanding his scorched-earth defense against possible impeachment, President Donald Trump now accuses House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of “treason” and says she is the one who should be impeached.

Having made similar claims against Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Trump said Pelosi has abetted unfair tactics in the investigation of his dealings with Ukraine.

“This makes Nervous Nancy every bit as guilty as Liddle’ Adam Schiff for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and even Treason,” Trump tweeted late Sunday. “I guess that means that they, along with all of those that evilly ‘Colluded’ with them, must all be immediately Impeached!”

Members of Congress cannot be impeached. Impeachment is a tool that Congress uses to investigate judges or executive branch officials they believe may have committed crimes. 

Pelosi, Schiff, and other Democrats have made clear they will continue to investigate Trump’s efforts to have Ukraine and perhaps other countries investigate Joe Biden, a Democratic U.S. presidential candidate.

“It’s about a damning call in which the President pressured a foreign power to investigate a political rival, harming national security,” Schiff tweeted over the weekend. “It’s about our democracy.”

Some critics have accused Trump of “treason” – a crime punishable by death – for seeking to involve another country in the American presidential election.

Trump’s attack on Pelosi came during a weekend of angry tweets against Democrats, journalists, whistleblowers, and others involved in the impeachment drama.

At one point, Trump took after Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, for criticizing the president over calls to have China, as well as Ukraine, investigate Biden.

Trump also called to have Romney impeached, though, again, members of Congress are not subject to the impeachment process.

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President Donald Trump is acknowledging Democrats in the House “have the votes” to begin a formal impeachment inquiry, but he says he’s confident it will backfire politically and they won’t have the votes to convict in the GOP-controlled Senate. (Oct. 4)
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Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/07/treason-trump-lashes-out-pelosi-and-wants-impeach-her/3896006002/

There was one person who wasn’t pleased to see Alec Baldwin return to “Saturday Night Live” last night: President Trump.

After a few weeks away, Baldwin appeared as Trump in the show’s cold open mocking the president’s White House Rose Garden speech where he declared a national emergency in order to build his border wall. On Sunday morning, Trump tweeted, “Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC!” He also pondered how “networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution?”

In a follow-up tweet, Trump once again called the media “the enemy of the people.”

Baldwin replied on Twitter saying “Trump whines.”

On “SNL,” Baldwin’s nearly seven-minute faux press conference took aim at many of the president’s declarations.

“I’m here to declare a very urgent, important national emergency. This is a big one so I don’t want to waste any time. That’s why first I want to blow my own horn a little bit, OK?” Baldwin began before mocking Trump’s health exam and upcoming summit with North Korea.

“Let’s cut to the chase, folks: We need wall. OK? We have a tremendous amount of drugs flowing into this country from the southern border, or ‘the Brown Line,’ as many people asked me to call it,” Baldwin continued. “That’s why we need wall. Because wall works. Wall makes safe. You don’t have to be smart to understand that; in fact, it’s even easier to understand if you’re not smart. You all see why I need to fake this national emergency, right? I have to because I want to. It’s really simple.”

Trump told reporters Friday “I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster.”

Baldwin wrapped up the sketch by taking questions from the press. He poked fun at Trump’s tiff with CNN’s Jim Acosta, played by Kyle Mooney, who said statistics show that undocumented immigrants commit less crime than native-born Americans.

“Oh my God, Jim, those numbers are faker than this emergency,” Baldwin quipped. “In conclusion, this is a total emergency, a five-alarm blaze, which means I have to go to Mar-a-Lago and play some golf.”




Source Article from https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2019/02/17/trump-slams-snl-for-mocking-his-national-emergency/23671438/

Las firmas agrícolas fueron las de mayor peso entre las principales empresas exportadoras de 2015 y tomaron fuerza las madereras, pero el ranking sigue siendo encabezado por Conaprole con 5,1% del total. A su vez, hay nueve frigoríficos entre las 20 empresas más exportadoras, pero ninguno en los primeros lugares.

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Según datos brindados a El País desde el Instituto Uruguay XXI, del total de US$ 8.967 millones (incluyendo las zonas francas) exportados desde Uruguay en 2015, un 36% corresponde a estas 20 firmas.

Conaprole fue la empresa con mayor volumen exportador durante 2015 al totalizar US$ 465 millones y 177.000 toneladas de ventas. Sin embargo, su vicepresidente Wilson Cabrera dijo que “fue un año muy malo para la exportación de productos lácteos” por los bajos precios internacionales.

Efectivamente, los tamberos nucleados en Conaprole elevaron su nivel de producción exportadora en 2015, aunque recibieron menos dinero que en los últimos años. La empresa láctea vendió al exterior el año pasado un 35% más de toneladas de leche que en 2014 pero facturó un 7,1% menos. En comparación con 2013, el volumen de exportaciones fue 8,9% superior y el monto recibido fue 20,5% menos.

El año pasado fue el primero con un ciclo completo de producción de la planta de celulosa de Montes del Plata, lo que derivó en que la firma Eufores S.A. (la encargada de los bosques) ocupe el segundo lugar en el ranking de exportadores con 3.396.000 de toneladas de madera vendida a la zona franca donde está la planta. Estas transacciones totalizaron casi US$ 300 millones en 2015, un 98% más que la cifra alcanzada por la firma en 2014.

El gerente general de Montes del Plata, Luis María Rodríguez, manifestó a El País que el volumen de producción alcanzando por la planta de celulosa tuvo “una curva creciente” durante el año que se alcanzó tras realizar “algunos ajustes para alcanzar la plena capacidad”.

En el tercer escalón del ranking aparece la granelera Crop Uruguay con US$ 235 millones en ventas de soja y trigo. Este sector al igual que el lácteo se vio afectado por la caída en el precio internacional de los alimentos, lo que se refleja en una baja de 33,7% de las exportaciones en monto de la firma respecto a 2014 y de 44,7% respecto a 2013.

La firma Compañía Forestal Oriental (la maderara que provee a la plata de celulosa UPM) ocupa el cuarto lugar. En 2015 totalizó 2.931.000 toneladas de madera vendida por un valor de US$ 219 millones, montos inferiores a los alcanzados en los últimos dos años.

En el quinto lugar aparece la firma agrícola LDC Uruguay con un total de US$ 192 millones de exportación, con la soja como principal producto pero también ventas de arroz y trigo. Otra granelera como Barraca Jorge W. Erro la sigue en el listado, con US$ 190 millones y 560.000 toneladas exportadas el año pasado. Ambas firmas tuvieron caídas superiores al 15% en sus montos de exportación durante los últimos dos años.

En la séptima posición se encuentra la arrocera Saman, que supo ocupar el podio de empresas exportadoras en 2008 y 2009. El año pasado registró ventas al exterior de 342.000 toneladas de arroz por US$ 165 millones, lo que representa una caída cercana al 30% en monto en comparación con los últimos dos años.

A partir del octavo lugar se ubican nueve frigoríficos. En comparación con las ventas de 2014, cinco empresas incrementaron sus cifras de exportación, Pulsa tuvo montos iguales y las restantes tres tuvieron caídas. Breeders & Packers Uruguay y Frigorífico Tacuarembó son las únicas exportadoras de carne dentro del ranking que incrementaron sus ventas en los últimos dos años. En contrapartida, los frigoríficos San Jacinto y Carrasco redujeron sus niveles respecto a 2013 y 2014.

El director del Frigorífico Las Piedras, Alberto González, dijo que la caída del precio internacional de la carne en promedio fue de 6% durante el pasado año. Pero el mayor volumen de producción en Uruguay hizo posible que muchos establecimientos pudieran acercarse, igualar o superar los anteriores montos totales de exportación. “Las ventas fueron más importantes en el segundo semestre que en el primero”, añadió.

El director general para el Cono Sur del Grupo Marfrig (Frigorífico Tacuarembó y Establecimientos Colonia entre otros), Marcelo Secco, señaló un enlentecimiento de las ventas en el sector. Identificó “procesos más complejos” a la hora de cerrar contratos, sin facilidades para ingresar a nuevos mercados como ocurrió años atrás con Rusia, China o Europa.

En la parte final del ranking se encuentran la curtiembre Paycueros, la agrícola Cereoil Uruguay, la firma de oleaginosos Aarhuskarlshamn (AAK) y Cristalpet, dedicada a la manufactura de plástico.

Paycueros y AAK atraviesan ciclos positivos con importantes incrementos de sus ventas al exterior en los últimos dos años, mientras que Cereoil y Cristalpet sufrieron caídas significativas, en especial la firma agrícola que bajó más de 50% sus exportaciones.

Perspectivas

Cabrera indicó que el panorama del sector lácteo hacia el futuro “es incierto” porque no hay señales que hagan prever una suba de los precios. “En el mercado internacional en este momento sigue habiendo una oferta abundante y una demanda más bien retraída”, explicó el vicepresidente de Conaprole. Agregó que los negocios concretados hasta el momento se dieron nuevamente a valores bajos.

Otros sectores con problemas similares son la carne (ver aparte) y los granos. Se estima que el valor mundial de la soja continuarán en baja tras una cosecha récord en Estados Unidos. Mientras que en el sector oleaginoso, el aumento de producción de Brasil “no dejará mucho espacio para la recuperación de precios”, informó hace algunas semanas a El País el asesor agrícola Fernando Villamil.

Rodríguez de Montes del Plata señaló que el objetivo para 2016 es “producir a capacidad de diseño durante todo el año” y generar al menos 1,3 millones de toneladas de pulpa de celulosa.

Frigoríficos se preparan para año complejo

El responsable para el Cono Sur del Grupo Marfrig, Marcelo Secco, dijo que hay varios factores que podrían complicar al sector cárnico este año: el fortalecimiento global del dólar, los problemas económicos de China, el aumento de oferta de competidores directos como Australia y Brasil, y la recuperación de Argentina.

Además, Secco expresó que probablemente le haya llegado la hora a la carne de reducir sus valores internacionales, tras la caída de precios que han experimentado en el último tiempo los principales commodities. Para el director del Frigorífico Las Piedras, Alberto González, en 2016 el sector aumentará aproximadamente 5% su producción. Aunque indicó que esta suba posiblemente no alcance para “compensar la baja de los precios” de exportación.

Hubo caída en el sector exportador tras 5 años

La colocación de bienes en el exterior acumuló US$ 8.967 millones en 2015 y cerró el año con una baja de 11,6% respecto a 2014. También acumulan trece meses consecutivos de resultados negativos. El año pasado hubo menores ventas a 14 de los 20 principales destinos de Uruguay, con significativas caídas en las exportaciones hacia Brasil (30,2%) y China (6,1%). Las exportaciones uruguayas no registraban un cierre de año con caída desde 2009.

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Rodríguez: “La producción tuvo curva creciente

2015 fue el primer año calendario completo (en Montes del Plata) con más de 1,2 millones de toneladas de producción anual. La capacidad de producción fue optimizándose a lo largo del año, especialmente luego de que realizáramos algunos ajustes”.

“Cabrera: “Un año muy malo para los lácteos

No tuvimos una baja en la cantidad de producción (en Conaprole) pero sí en los precios internacionales, donde hubo una caída importantísima. Esto influyo para que se cierren muchos establecimientos, yo creo que como nunca había pasado en Uruguay”.

“Secco: “Fue muy complejo cerrar contratos

Fue un año de transición, porque veníamos de tiempos dinámicos. La demanda apuntó a procesos más complejos y trabajosos para cerrar contratos, y en precios fue un año de ajustes. Esta lentitud para la concreción de negocios seguirá en 2016″.

Source Article from http://www.elpais.com.uy/economia/noticias/temporada-complicada-mayores-exportadoras.html

Josh Yokela, a Republican state legislator in New Hampshire, is working on a way around that problem. He is the lead sponsor of a bill, passed by the State House last month, to request that New Hampshire be shifted into the Atlantic time zone, which by fine coincidence would do exactly what daylight saving does now: put the state an hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time. Then the state would opt out of seasonal clock changes, as the 1966 law allows.

The key is that moving to a different time zone does not require an act of Congress — all it takes is an order from the Transportation Department, the federal agency that oversees time (a legacy of its duties regulating railroad schedules).

“We would be on the same time as the rest of the Eastern time zone for eight months of the year, because they accept daylight saving time — and when they fall back in the winter, we wouldn’t,” Mr. Yokela said.

Of course, it matters what your neighbors’ clocks say, and not just your own. Regional considerations played a role both in how daylight time first appeared a century ago, and in the debate over what to do about it now.

New Hampshire’s bill, for example, says that because the state is so closely tied economically with the other New England states, especially Maine and Massachusetts, it would only try the jump to Atlantic time if the others did as well.

Proximity also had ripple effects in the 1920s, when New York City, having tasted daylight saving as a temporary measure during World War I, decided to keep it in peacetime. Retailers found that people shopped and spent more on their way home from work when there was more evening light, and Wall Street investors liked gaining an hour of overlap with trading on the London financial markets.

Supporters also argued that nudging the clock forward to have more of a summer’s daylight fall in the evening would save energy by reducing the need for artificial light.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/us/daylight-savings-time.html

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate Democrats warn Trump: Don’t invite Putin to G-7 Trump blames Fed for manufacturing slowdown Pence responds to Haley tweet: I’m looking forward to running with Trump in 2020 MORE on Tuesday dismissed three potential Republican presidential primary challengers as “Three Stooges” as he seeks reelection in 2020.

In a pair of tweets, the president mocked former Reps. Mark SanfordMarshall (Mark) Clement SanfordThe Hill’s Morning Report – Trump says US-China trade talks to resume, hails potential trade with Japan, UK Weld ‘thrilled’ more Republicans are challenging Trump The Hill’s Campaign Report: Democratic field begins to shrink ahead of critical stretch MORE (R-S.C.) and Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) as well as former Massachusetts Gov. William WeldWilliam (Bill) WeldHere are 5 controversial things Joe Walsh has said Joe Walsh urges Republicans to ‘say publicly what you think privately’ about Trump Joe Walsh says he’s ‘partly responsible for Trump’ MORE (R).

Walsh and Weld have announced GOP primary campaigns against Trump in 2020, while Sanford has said he is considering one as well.

“Can you believe it? I’m at 94% approval in the Republican Party, and have Three Stooges running against me,” Trump tweeted, though it was unclear what poll he was citing.

“One is ‘Mr. Appalachian Trail’ who was actually in Argentina for bad reasons,” he continued, referring to Sanford.

“Another is a one-time BAD Congressman from Illinois who lost in his second term by a landslide, then failed in radio. The third is a man who couldn’t stand up straight while receiving an award. I should be able to take them!” he added, referring to Walsh and Weld, respectively.

Weld, who ran on the Libertarian Party ticket in 2016, was the first to announce he would seek to challenge Trump for the GOP nomination. The 74-year-old has struggled to gain traction, however, and most polls have shown him receiving single-digit support.

Walsh, meanwhile, announced his campaign on Sunday. He previously served one term as a congressman in Illinois and went on to become a conservative talk radio host, though he said this week that he lost his show upon launching his primary bid.

The ex-congressman has become a fervent critic of Trump’s rhetoric and character. Walsh himself has a history of making controversial statements, and acknowledged in recent days that he has said “racist things.”

Sanford said last month he was considering a primary challenge to Trump, though he has not formally announced a campaign. He has also been critical of the president, and he lost his reelection bid for his House seat last year after Trump endorsed his primary opponent. 

Sanford had an extramarital affair in 2009 while serving as governor of South Carolina, but he lied and said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when he had actually gone to Argentina to visit his mistress.

All three men and any other prospective challengers face slim odds to unseat Trump on the 2020 ticket.

The president has the financial backing of the Republican National Committee, and he has solidified support within the GOP, consistently polling close to 90 percent among Republicans in Gallup surveys.

Updated at 7:59 p.m.

Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459059-trump-dismisses-potential-primary-challengers-as-three-stooges

As mourners at a New Jersey funeral on Wednesday paid their respects to the college student who was killed after she mistook a car for her Uber ride, lawmakers in South Carolina, where she died, are pushing to require ride-share vehicles to be clearly marked with illuminated signs.

Samantha Josephson, a 21-year-old University of South Carolina student from New Jersey, was killed last week. Investigators think she got into the wrong car early Friday while waiting for an Uber outside a bar in Columbia. A suspect has been arrested, and police say she apparently mistook his car for the Uber she ordered.

Nathaniel D. Rowland, 24, has been charged with murder and kidnapping. The student’s body was found in a wooded area in Clarendon County on Friday afternoon. Rowland was arrested after he was pulled over in Columbia early Saturday, police have said.

Seth Josephson told mourners Wednesday that the family’s “sadness will never end,” NBC New York reported.

“It may wane in the future, but it will always leave a hole in the heart,” he said, while reading a statement on behalf of Josephson’s family. Seth Josephson is a cousin of Samantha Josephson’s father.

Josephson’s father, Seymour Josephson, has said he would dedicate his life to improving the safety of ride-share services.

“Samantha was by herself. She had absolutely no chance. None. The door was locked, the child safety locks were on. She had absolutely no chance,” he said at a vigil in Columbia on Sunday.

In response to Josephson’s death, South Carolina lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require all ride-share drivers to display an illuminated sign to clearly mark their vehicles.

“We can’t stop a psychopath from doing something hideous, but as lawmakers, policymakers, we need to take precautions to make the likelihood that something like this happen less,” said state Rep. Seth Rose, a Democrat, according to NBC affiliate WIS of Columbia.

The bill, the “Samantha L. Josephson Ridesharing Safety Act,” was introduced Tuesday.

It would require that “transportation network company” vehicles display an illuminated sign that can be seen in darkness. The current law requires a sign or emblem that is reflective.

Uber and Lyft did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday about the proposed changes to the law or about regulations they have regarding lighted signs.

It appears from Lyft’s website that its lighted sign, called “amp” is available to higher-tier drivers in some areas. Uber also has a lighted sign called “beacon” that is described as an option, according to that company’s website.

The University of South Carolina on Monday announced a “What’s My Name” campaign to help students stay safe when requesting ride-share vehicles.

Uber announced it would partner with the university to raise awareness about safety.

“Since 2017, we’ve been working with local law enforcement to educate the public about how to avoid fake rideshare drivers,” Uber said in the statement. “Everyone at Uber is devastated to hear about this unspeakable crime, and our hearts are with Samantha Josephson’s family and loved ones.”

Uber encourages users to check the car, license plate and driver against information delivered through the app before getting in. If the information does not match, do not get in the vehicle, the company says.

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-lawmakers-push-lighted-signs-ride-share-vehicles-after-n990746

Wilbur Scoville ganhou um Doodle do Google com direito a um jogo que simula o ‘teste da escala quente’ de pimentas. Hoje, o Google celebra o nascimento do químico há 151 anos (1865-1942). Scoville, além de receber a homenagem desta sexta-feira (22), é conhecido por ter inventado um método de avaliação do nível de ardência de vários tipos de pimenta, a famosa Escala de Scoville, disponível abaixo em app. 

Escala Scoville; app salva de pimenta ‘muito quente’

O Doodle do Google, além de animado, é interativo. No jogo, os usuários devem fazer com que um sorvete acerte a pimenta para acabar com a ardência na boca de Scoville, após o químico prová-la. O leite, muito presente no sorvete, é um dos principais componentes neutralizadores do ardor da pimenta.

Doodle de Wilbur Scoville brinca com jogo que usa ‘teste da pimenta’ (Foto: (Foto: Reprodução/Google))

A cada degustação que Wilbur Scoville prova, uma pimenta diferente e as suas propriedades e curiosidades também são reveladas. Após terminar as “lutas”, que você pode ganhar (e aí desbloquear “novas pimentas” para enfrentar) ou perder (e fazer com que Scoville caia no chão com a boca “pelando”), um sistema de compartilhamento dos resultados do jogo nas redes sociais é exibido.

Ralador de pimenta bloqueia Wi-Fi e deixa todo mundo ’em família

O Doodle foi produzido pela artista e doodler do Google Olivia Huynh. Para a designer, a melhor parte do trabalho foi desenhar as pimentas e as reações de Scoville. “O conceito de picante é universal, cômico, e foi o que tentei usar para criar esse jogo de luta”, explica Huynh, em post do Google.

“Fiz storyboards de como poderia ser, rascunhos e testamos um protótipo. Depois vieram os cenários e animações. Desenhar as pimentas e as reações de Scoville foram minhas partes favoritas”, conta. 

Doodle também é informativo, detalhando tipos de pimentas  (Foto: Reprodução/Google)

Escala de Scoville

Wilbur Lincoln Scoville nasceu em Bridgeport, nos Estados Unidos, em 22 de janeiro de 1865 e morreu em 10 de março de 1942. O trabalho do americano como farmacêutico é reconhecido mundialmente: criou o Teste Organoléptico de Scoville, que gerou a já conhecida Escala de Scoville.

Com este método, Wilbur Lincoln Scoville definiu o grau de pungência de vários tipos de pimenta, através da detecção da concentração de capsaicina, substância responsável pela ardência da pimenta.

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O teste é um Procedimento de Diluição e Prova. Scoville misturava as pimentas puras com uma solução de água com açúcar, e quanto mais solução fosse necessária para diluir a pimenta, mais alta seria sua picância. Depois disso, o método foi melhorado e foram criadas as unidades de calor Scoville (Scoville Heat Units, ou SHU).

Doodle Wilbur Scoville (Foto: Reprodução/Google)

Uma xícara de pimenta que equivale a 1.000 xícaras de água é uma unidade na escala de Scoville. A substância Capsaicina, que gera a ardência nas pimentas, equivale a 15 milhões de unidades Scoville.

A pimenta mexicana Habanero chega a 300 mil, uma “Red Savina Habanero”, modificada, tem 577 mil, e a Tezpur indiana, 877 mil.

Entretanto, este não foi o único trabalho de Scoville. “The Art of Compounding” (A Arte dos Compostos), de 1895, é um de seus livros, que foi usado como referência na farmacologia até os anos 60.

Scoville também publicou um livro com centenas de fórmulas de perfumes e outras essências, que foi chamado de “Extract and Perfumes” (Extratos e perfumes).

Em 1922, Scoville recebeu o Prêmio Ebert, e em 1929 ganhou a sua Medalha de Honra Remington e o título de Doutor honoris causa em Ciências pela Universidade de Columbia. O pesquisador morreu no dia 10 de março de 1942, deixando mulher e dois filhos.

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Source Article from http://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/noticia/2016/01/wilbur-scoville-ganha-homenagem-do-doodle-em-seu-151-aniversario.html

Polémica. El caso de Silvana Buscaglia, la mujer que agredió a un policía tras resistirse a una intervención, tuvo fuerte repercusión mediática y en redes sociales, pero la creación de una página en Facebook para apoyarla tras lo ocurrido ha generado gran polémica y críticas por parte de varios usuarios de esta red social.

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La página ‘Silvana Buscaglia Zapler = Inocente’ mostró su rechazo ante la sentencia de 6 años y 8 meses de prisión efectiva contra la mujer con polémicas publicaciones.

Los usuarios en redes sociales han compartido todo tipo de comentarios sobre la página Facebook ya que esta afirma que la “minoría blanca” en el Perú es “altamente discriminada”.

Foto: Captura / Facebook

“Silvana, cometiste una infracción. Pero tu verdadero delito es ser blanca en un país de cholos, resentidos y envidiosos”, fue una de las publicaciones que generó mayor indignación en Facebook.


Además, en la última imagen compartida, la página de Facebook afirma que el Gobierno debe reconocer a la “minoría blanca” como población perseguida.

Hasta el momento no se sabe si se trata de una web satírica.


 

Source Article from http://larepublica.pe/sociedad/727496-polemica-en-facebook-por-pagina-que-apoya-silvana-buscaglia

A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for parts of the Chicago area until midnight.

Counties include Cook, DuPage and Lake counties in Illinois.

Plan on slippery road conditions due to accumulating snow and reduced visibilities.

And the cold and snow will last through the weekend and beyond.

The cold is to tighten its grip on the Chicago area as the core of the bitterly cold air mass, locked over Canada and a chunk of the Lower 48, rotates southward over the area–especially Sunday and Monday.

Daytime highs and minimum morning wind chills expected over the coming  days look like this:

  • Friday: High temp: 17 –  Lowest Fri morning wind chill: 1-below
  • Saturday: High temp: 15  – Low: 5-below
  • Sunday: High temp: 6 – Low: 21-below
  • Monday: High temp: 13 – Low: 23-below
  • Tuesday: High temp: 21 – Low: 4-below

For the latest weather updates, go to wgnv.com/weather.

Source Article from https://wgntv.com/weather/winter-weather-advisory-issued-snow-and-bitter-cold-ahead-for-the-weekend/

India and China blamed each other for the fatal confrontation, claiming the other had violated the June 6 agreement.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a phone call with his counterpart in India, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, to try and mitigate the situation. 

Both sides agreed to deal fairly with the serious situation and cool tensions on the ground as soon as possible, and maintain peace in the border areas, according to CNBC’s translation of an online statement from the Chinese foreign ministry. 

Wang added that China’s will to safeguard its sovereign territory is firm. He expressed his country’s strong disapproval of India’s actions, requesting a thorough investigation and control of troops to ensure such incidents don’t occur again, the statement said. 

On that call, Jaishankar “conveyed the protest of the Government of India in the strongest terms on the violent face-off in Galwan Valley on 15 June 2020,” according to a statement from India’s foreign ministry.

India said China “sought to erect a structure in Galwan valley on our side of the (Line of Actual Control),” referring to the de facto border. It said when a dispute arose, “the Chinese side took pre-meditated and planned action that was directly responsible for the resulting violence and casualties.” 

Still, India said it was agreed that neither side would take any action to escalate matters and would ensure peace per bilateral agreements and protocol. 

University of Sydney’s Yuan added that it is unlikely that a third party, like the United States, would be called in to mediate as both India and China have the mechanisms in place to de-escalate the situation on their own and assess what went wrong. 

CNBC’s Evelyn Cheng contributed to this report. 

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/18/india-is-under-tremendous-pressure-to-respond-to-china-academic-says.html

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Los bombardeos desde el Mar Caspio empezaron el miércoles 7 de octubre.

Funcionarios del ministerio de Defensa de EE.UU. informaron que cuatro misiles rusos disparados contra Siria desde el Mar Caspio cayeron en Irán.

Los funcionarios -que pidieron no ser nombrados- dijeron no saber si los misiles habían causado daño.

La principal agencia de noticias iraní IRNA (Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency) informó que, de acuerdo con el gobernador de la provincia occidental de Takab, un objeto volador desconocido se estrelló en el pueblo de Ghozghapan.

Pero IRNA sugirió que podría ser un avión no tripulado o una explosión en una mina.

Sin embargo, según la agencia de noticias AFP, el ministerio de Defensa de Rusia negó que tal cosa hubiera ocurrido.

“Cualquier profesional sabe que durante estas operaciones siempre fijamos el blanco antes y después del impacto. Nuestros misiles siempre dan en el blanco”, dijo el portavoz del ministerio, general Igor Konashenkov.

“Operación sicológica”

Agencias conservadoras de Irán describieron el reporte de que varios misiles rusos aterrizaron en Irán como “operaciones sicológicas” por parte de Estados Unidos contra Moscú.

“Durante la última semana, desde que Rusia comenzó su operación en Siria, medios comunicación y funcionarios occidentales comenzaron un asalto contra Moscú”, dijo la agencia de noticias privada Fars, considerada cercana a los sectores más conservadores de la clase política iraní.

A pesar de hacer estas afirmaciones, los funcionarios de Estados Unidos dicen que no saben en dónde aterrizaron los misiles“, agrega la agencia.

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El grupo Jóvenes Periodistas Conservadores, YJC por sus siglas en inglés, que es administrado y gestionado por la cadena estatal iraní, se refirió al informe como “un caso más de mentiras de los Estados Unidos” utilizando la misma terminología que Fars.

La decisión del gobienro ruso de bombardear lo que denominan posiciones “terroristas” ha causado sorpresa y resquemor en Occidente. La OTAN y Estados Unidos han dicho que entre los objetivos de los primeros bombardeos aéreos se encontraban civiles y grupos opositores aliados, algo que Rusia ha negado.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/10/151008_iran_misiles_rusia_siria_kb

Un equipo de psicólogos sociales de la Universidad de Cambridge ha revelado una sencilla forma para que el público general pueda ser “vacunado” contra el virus de las noticias falsas y las campañas de desinformación, informa ‘International Business Times’.

Para dar con la fórmula, los investigadores compararon las reacciones de más 2.000 participantes a dos declaraciones polarizadas sobre el cambio climático (una científicamente respaldada y otra con información falsa). El estudio reafirmó el poder de las noticias falsas: cuando se presentaron de forma consecutiva, el material falso anuló completamente la información exacta en la mente de las personas (dejándoles con la misma opinión que tenían antes de someterse a la prueba).

Sin embargo, cuando los psicólogos añadieron una pequeña dosis de información errónea e hicieron una breve advertencia general sobre las tácticas de distorsión utilizadas por ciertos grupos, las personas mantuvieron una opinión más cercana a la verdad. Esta estrategia se llama “inoculación psicológica” e históricamente se ha utilizado para generar incertidumbre pública sobre temas como los riesgos del tabaco para la salud.

“La información errónea se reproduce como un virus”

“La información errónea puede ser contagiosa, al propagarse y reproducirse como un virus”, destaca el autor principal del estudio Sander van der Linden. “Queríamos ver si podíamos encontrar una vacuna mediante la exposición preventiva de las personas a una pequeña cantidad del tipo de desinformación que podrían experimentar”, explicar.

Der Linden afirma que “la idea es proporcionar un repertorio cognitivo que ayude a construir resistencia a la desinformación, por lo que la próxima vez que la gente se cruce con ella será menos susceptible”.

Source Article from https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/229223-vacuna-prevenir-noticias-falsas

More than half of all police-involved killings in the US go unreported with the majority of victims being Black, according to a new study published in the Lancet, a peer reviewed journal.

Research at the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation found that in the US between 1980 and 2018, more than 55% of deaths, over 17,000 in total, from police violence were either misclassified or went unreported.

The study also discovered that Black Americans are more likely than any other group to die from police violence and are 3.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white Americans.

“Recent high-profile police killings of Black people have drawn worldwide attention to this urgent public health crisis, but the magnitude of this problem can’t be fully understood without reliable data,” said Fablina Sharara, a researcher at the University of Washington School of Medicine and co-lead author of the study.

To fully understand the unerreporting of police-involved killings, researchers compared data from the US National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), a government database for tracking the US population, with non-governmental, open-source databases that track police brutality. Open-source databases aggregate information from news reports and public record requests, capturing a wider range of fatal police-involved incidents.

“Open-sourced data is a more reliable and comprehensive resource to help inform policies that can prevent police violence and save lives,” said Sharara.

In total, the NVSS database misclassified nearly 60% of all fatal police encounters involving Black Americans. NVSS also missed approximately 50% of all police-involved deaths of Hispanic people, 56% of all police-involved deaths of non-Hispanic white people, and 33% of deaths involving non-Hispanic people across other races.

“Inaccurately reporting or misclassifying these deaths further obscures the larger issue of systemic racism that is embedded in many US institutions, including law enforcement,” Sharara said.

The paper found that men die from police violence at higher rates than women, with 30,600 police-involved deaths recorded among men and 1,420 among women between 1980 and 2019.

Researchers also noted the large conflict of interests inherent in tracking police-involved deaths. Coroners are often embedded within police departments and can be disincentivized from determining that deaths are caused by police violence.

“The same government responsible for this violence is also responsible for reporting on it,” said Sharara.

Past studies have analyzed underreporting of fatal police incidents and how Black Americans disproportionately die from police violence, but previous research was conducted over much shorter time periods.

The new study published by Lancet is the longest study period to date, though researchers acknowledged that future studies are needed to fully examine the impact of police violence in the US as data collected did not include police officers killed by civilians, police violence in US territories or abroad, and used death certificates that could not identify non-cisgender people, notably masking police violence against trans people.

Overall, an increased use of open-source data collection is needed to document and understand disparities in police brutality by race, ethnicity, and gender, the researchers said, allowing for more targeted changes to policing and public safety protocols. The authors also acknowledged that more needs to be done to combat police-involved violence.

“As a community we need to do more. Efforts to prevent police violence and address systemic racism in the USA, including body cameras that record interactions of police with civilians along with de-escalation training and implicit bias training for police officers, for example, have largely been ineffective,” said co-lead author Eve Wool.

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/30/police-killings-not-reported-mislabelled-study


El resto parece ser un alerón. Sin embargo, habrá que cotejar códigos para confirmar que es parte del Boeing 777 de Malaysian Airlines que desapareció en marzo de 2014 sin dejar rastro.

Las autoridades de Francia están investigando si el fragmento de un avión que fue encontrado en las playas de una isla en el océano Índico pertenece al vuelo MH370 de Malaysia Airlines, desaparecido sin dejar rastro en marzo de 2014.

El resto, que parece ser un alerón, fue encontrado en la isla francesa de Reunión.

Un experto en seguridad aeronáutica indicó que tenía “increíbles similitudes” al alerón de un Boeing 777, el mismo modelo que desapareció hace un año y tres meses cuando volaba de Kuala Lumpur a Pekín con 239 personas a bordo.

Pero la isla está a una gran distancia del área de búsqueda y además han ocurrido otros accidentes más cerca del lugar donde fue encontrado el resto.

Sin rastro

Hasta la fecha, ninguna parte del avión de Malaysia Airlines ha sido hallada.


Aún es muy temprano afirmar que el resto es del vuelo MH370.

El experto en aviación Xavier Tytelman dijo que la idea es examinar un código del avión con el fin de determinar si el alerón pertenece al avión de la empresa malasia.

Un miembro de la Fuerza Aérea Francesa fue cauto y señaló a CNN que “es muy temprano” afirmar que pertenece al vuelo MH370.

En todo caso, un funcionario estadounidense se mostró casi seguro de que el alerón sí pertenece a un Boeing 777.

El funcionario les dijo a investigadores de seguridad aérea que tiene un “alto grado de confianza” en que lo que muestra la fotografía del objeto encontrado en el océano Índico es un componente único de un Boeing 777, el mismo modelo del vuelo MH370.

Por su parte, el gigante de la aviación Boeing dijo en un comunicado que seguirán colaborando con las autoridades.

“Continuamos compartiendo nuestra experticia técnica y análisis. Nuestro objetivo, junto con toda la industria de la aviación global, sigue siendo no solo conseguir el avión, sino determinar qué pasó y por qué”, indica el comunicado.

Una vez el aparato fue dado por perdido en marzo de 2014, equipos de búsqueda centraron su trabajo en un área de 60.000 kilómetros cuadrados frente a la costa occidental de Australia, donde se cree que cayó al mar.

Sin embargo, la isla Reunión está ubicada a 6.000 kilómetros al oeste, muy lejos de esa zona frente a las costas de Madagascar.

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Tytelman tuiteó que las similitudes son “increíbles”.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/07/150729_restos_avion_mar_indico_mh370_ao

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber is asking Gov. Ron DeSantis to support the return of face mask mandates as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns the coronavirus’ evolution into the more contagious Delta variant is getting more and more people sick.

The CDC wants officials to “acknowledge the war has changed” because the variant appears to cause more severe illness, and it spreads as easily as chickenpox, an internal federal health document said, according to The Washington Post.

Dr. Aileen Marty, an infectious diseases expert with Florida International University, said new CDC data shows the average infected person is passing the variant on to six to eight other people. Research shows vaccinated people who got infected carried about the same amount of the virus as those who were not vaccinated.

“If you overwhelm the protection you develop from the vaccine, you are going to get infected, and you are going to have symptoms most likely and you are going to be contagious to others,” Marty said.

Marty said face mask use and vaccines are two of the many preventive measures people need to be taking. She said data shows the vaccinated are still much more protected against severe disease and less likely to catch it.

“Since no single public health measure is 100%; you have to layer your protections,” Marty said.

Coronavirus experts say COVID surge means face mask use is a must in Florida

Coronavirus infections rose 50% this week in Florida with 110,000 new coronavirus cases up from 73,000 last week. COVID hospitalizations are also increasing and the death toll surpassed 39,000 with 409 more this week.

Both Miami-Dade and Broward counties mandated face masks in government buildings. Retailers are making changes. Walmart and Publix announced it’s requiring all employees, regardless of vaccination status, to wear face masks and staff will encourage customers to wear face masks too.

The CDC recommended, “universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors to K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status.” In response, Broward County Public Schools mandated the use of face masks starting on the first day of school Aug. 18.

“There is no way in good conscious that I could bring anybody back into a school environment on the bus, the cafeteria, and not have a mask mandate,” said Rosalind Osgood, the School Board of Broward County’s chair. “That is a moral decision.”

Face mask use increases in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood

Miami-Dade County Public Schools students return to class Aug. 23. DeSantis said he wants to prohibit face mask mandates at public schools in Florida.

“I have (three) young kids. My wife and I are not going to do the mask with the kids. We never have; we won’t. I want to see my kids smiling. I want them having fun,” DeSantis said.

Gelber asked DeSantis to consider the science. In his letter, he added a graph highlighting how hospitalizations plummeted when Miami-Dade County put a mask mandate in place — and how it surged once again when DeSantis banned the measures.

“I just think that the governor has to come to the reality that we are in the midst of a surge that’s unprecedented in the country,” Gelber said. “There is no state doing worse than we are right now.”

Gelber’s letter to DeSantis

Source Article from https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/07/31/miami-beach-mayor-opposes-desantis-stance-against-face-mask-mandates/