- Harris says the US will ‘under no circumstances’ permit the forced relocation of Palestinians CNN
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- Harris focuses on shaping a post-conflict Gaza during a diplomatic blitz in Dubai with Arab leaders The Associated Press
- Kamala Harris tells Egypt’s Sissi that US won’t allow forced relocations of Palestinians The Times of Israel
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A’s owner Fisher says Vegas relocation application filed, points finger at Oakland – ESPN – ESPN
- A’s owner Fisher says Vegas relocation application filed, points finger at Oakland – ESPN ESPN
- The John Fisher interview: Oakland A’s owner talks Vegas, backlash and future plans NBC Bay Area
- Exec says Oakland A’s temporary home after 2024 likely down to three sites, including … SF Giants’ Oracle Park? The Mercury News
- COMMENTARY: The Las Vegas Athletics: ‘A bright future together’ Las Vegas Review-Journal
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A’s fans to take one last stand against relocation with reverse boycott: ‘It’s gonna be a fun party’ – The Athletic
- A’s fans to take one last stand against relocation with reverse boycott: ‘It’s gonna be a fun party’ The Athletic
- Opinion: A’s owners are failing on Las Vegas move. It’s time for Rob Manfred to act Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Defiant Athletics fans plan ‘Reverse Boycott’ at Coliseum – ESPN ESPN
- Who knows if it’ll work, but the Reverse Boycott promises to be a good time Athletics Nation
- Oakland A’s reverse boycott: Four things to know as fans plan to protest ownership at the Coliseum CBS Sports
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LeBrun: Clock ticking on Coyotes as Gary Bettman lays out NHL’s options for relocation and expansion – The Athletic
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- Bettman ‘hopeful’ NHL will find solution for Coyotes in Arizona – ESPN ESPN
- NHL commish doubles down on desire to keep Coyotes in Arizona amid failed arena vote: ‘We’ll make it work’ Fox News
- News From Gary Bettman’s Annual “State Of The Union” Press Conference: Salary Cap, Expansion, Arizona Coyotes, Ottawa Senators NoVa Caps
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Kherson: Russia ramps up relocation of civilians in city. It may be on the brink of losing one of the biggest prizes of its war
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The Russian-installed leaders in Ukraine’s Kherson region on Wednesday began massively ramping up the relocation of up to 60,000 people amid warnings over Russia’s ability to withstand a Ukrainian counter-offensive.
Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of generating “hysteria” to compel people to leave. Residents in the city of Kherson began to receive text messages on Wednesday morning from the pro-Russian administration.
“Dear residents,” it read. “Evacuate immediately. There will be shelling of residential areas by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There will be buses from 7:00, from Rechport [River port] to the Left Bank.”
Meanwhile on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had signed a law introducing martial law in Kherson and three other Ukrainian regions the Kremlin claims to have annexed, in violation of international law. The other regions are Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk.
In his first outing on Russian state television as the Kremlin’s new commander for Ukraine, General Sergey Surovikin said Tuesday evening that the situation in Kherson was “far from simple” and “very difficult.”
“Our further plans and actions towards the city of Kherson will depend on the military and tactical situation on the ground,” he said.
Ukrainian forces have been advancing through several parts of the Kherson region in recent weeks, capturing villages and farmland along the western bank of the Dnipro River, also known as the right bank.
Russia’s ability to resupply its troops in Kherson has been severely hampered by frequent Ukrainian missile and artillery strikes on Russian-controlled bridges crossing the Dnipro. The explosion earlier this month that badly damaged the Kerch bridge, which connects Russia to Crimea, further bottlenecked Russia’s logistics.
Last week the head of the Russian-backed administration appealed to the Kremlin to help with the evacuation of civilians near the frontline.
On Tuesday, the rhetoric hit a new level. Just past 11 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET), Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the Russian-backed administration, posted a video to his Telegram channel.
“The Ukrainian Nazis pushed by the West will start their attack on Kherson very soon,” he said. “We are strongly advising to leave the right bank area.”
This morning, just after 8 a.m., he followed that up with: “Cross as quickly as possible onto the left bank [the eastern side] of river Dnipro.” Hours later, the Russian-backed administration went so far as to close off all entry to the right bank of the Dnipro River for seven days.
Ukrainian officials believe that fewer than half of Kherson’s civilian population are left in the city – around 130,000 people.
Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-backed leader in the Kherson region, told Russian state television on Tuesday evening that they planned to move 50,000 to 60,000 people from the right to the left bank of the Dnipro River.
Hear what Russian officials texted Ukrainian residents under Putin’s martial law order
The Ukrainian leaders-in-exile of the Kherson region accuse the Russia leaders of drumming up “hysteria” to intimidate the population and enact “voluntary deportations” to Russia, where they’ve been promised help with housing.
“On the one hand, we understand that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will liberate Kherson and the region – accordingly, there may be active hostilities, and this is a risk for the local population,” Yurii Sobolevskyi, deputy head of Ukraine’s regional council for Kherson, told CNN on Wednesday.
“On the other hand, there are no guarantees that the evacuated people will be safe there and far from the front line. Now people make their own decisions – to leave or stay. It is difficult to say what decision they will make.”
The “massive deportation of civilians” by Russia could, along with other alleged abuses, constitute crimes against humanity, according to a July report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In September, the UN Security Council also said Russia’s forcible deportation of 2.5 million people from Ukraine – including 38,000 children – constitutes human rights violations.
Ukraine denounced Russia’s “filtration” scheme at a United Nations Security Council meeting last week. Deputy Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN Khrystyna Hayovyshyn said Ukrainians forced to head to Russia or Russian-controlled territory are being killed and tortured.
Hayovyshyn told the Security Council that thousands of Ukrainian citizens are being forcefully deported to “isolated and depressed regions of Siberia and the far east.
Ukrainian citizens are terrorized, under the pretense of a search for “dangerous” people by Russian authorities, Hayovyshyn said. Those who have different political views or are affiliated with the Ukrainian government or media disappear into a gray area. Children are ripped from the arms of their parents, the Ukraine representative declared.
In the heady early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when confusion reigned, the capture of the southern city of Kherson was a key strategic and propaganda victory for the Kremlin.
On just the seventh day of the war, Kherson’s mayor announced that Russian soldiers had entered his office, and the city had fallen.
Geographically, it was vital: Kherson lies on the mouth of Ukraine’s central artery, the Dnipro River, and not far from the canal that supplies water to Crimea. Ukraine’s government had shut that canal down in 2014, when Russia illegally annexed the peninsula.
It was the first major city Russia captured, and the only regional capital taken since February. (In addition to Crimea, Russian-backed forces have controlled Donetsk and Luhansk cities since 2014.) It’s the second-biggest population center that Russia has captured after Mariupol.
Seventh months later, the Kremlin considers the Kherson region to be part of Russia, after claiming to annex it last month. And yet, everyone from Russia’s designated leaders in the region to the new commander of its entire Ukrainian war effort are sounding the alarm on their ability to withstand a Ukrainian offensive in the region.
Russia’s puppet administration has promised that there is no plan to abandon Kherson city, and that once the military “solve all of the tasks,” normal life will return.
In his remarks on Russian television, Surovikin, the Russian commander, repeated what has become a bit of a trope in Russian circles: That the Ukrainian military was preparing to shell Kherson’s city center, of even to strike the dam that’s part of a hydroelectric plant at Nova Kakhovka, and unleash floodwaters on low-lying areas downstream.
Ukrainian officials have dismissed that idea as Russian propaganda. It will not be easy for Ukraine to retake Kherson city if Russia seriously contests it, and the Ukrainian military will be reluctant to attack an urban center where tens of thousands of civilians could remain.
But Ukraine’s military brass remain bullish over the Kherson offensive.
“We will make significant progress by the end of the year,” the head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Agency, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, said on Tuesday.
“These will be significant victories. You will see it soon.”
Tysons Foods next big company leaving Chicago
Tyson Foods will relocate around 1,000 corporate positions from the Chicago area as well as South Dakota to its headquarters in Springdale, Ark.
One of the world’s largest meat producers said Wednesday that corporate staff at its Chicago and Downers Grove, Ill., locations and Dakota Dunes, SD, office will begin relocating early next year.
The consolidation of corporate offices is intended to allow for closer collaboration and no layoffs will accompany the shift, the company said. Tyson plans to expand and remodel its headquarters in Arkansas.
The parent company of Jimmy Dean and Ball Park products employs about 137,000 workers worldwide. The announcement follows some recent high-profile corporate maneuvers, including naming John Tyson — the great-grandson of the company’s founder — as its chief financial officer.
Chicago has had a number of corporate departures in recent months.
Boeing announced in May that it would move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia. The following month, construction equipment maker Caterpillar said it was moving its headquarters from the Chicago suburbs to Texas.
Citadel hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin, a billionaire who has been a vocal critic of Illinois’ Democratic governor and of crime rates in Chicago, also recently moved his company’s headquarters to Miami.
In a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago last month, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski said he often fields calls from mayors and governors trying to get him to move McDonald’s headquarters out of Chicago. Kempczinski said McDonald’s has no plans to leave, but has struggled with crime and homelessness in its Chicago restaurants.
“While it may wound our civic pride to hear it, there is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis,” Kempczinski said, adding that it is becoming more difficult for the company to recruit promising employees.
Texas Board of Education got proposal to call slavery ‘involuntary relocation’
Minutes of a June 15 meeting in Austin, which lasted over 13 hours, said committee members got an update on the social studies review before giving their feedback.
“The committee provided the following guidance to the work group completing recommendations for kindergarten-grade 8: … For K-2, carefully examine the language used to describe events, specifically the term ‘involuntary relocation.’ ”
Aicha Davis, a Democratic board member representing Dallas and Fort Worth, raised the wording during the meeting, which was first reported by the Texas Tribune.
She told The Washington Post on Friday that when looking through a hefty package of recommendations, she saw the proposed language the group wanted to suggest, and “I immediately questioned it.”
“I am not going to support anything that describes the slave trade as ‘involuntary relocation,’ ” she said. “I’m not gonna support anything that diminishes that journey.”
Part of the proposed draft standards for the curriculum directed students to “compare journeys to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times,” the Texas Tribune Texas reported and Davis confirmed to The Post.
She said that such comparisons were “absolutely” not fair. “The journey for the Irish folk is totally different from the journey of Africans,” she said, adding that any comparisons “will distort a lot of things in a young child’s mind.”
The chair of the State Board of Education, Keven Ellis, told The Washington Post in a statement that the board “voted unanimously to send the language back to be reworked.” Adding, “this board is committed to the truth, which includes accurate descriptions of historical events.” He said there had been no attempt to “hide the truth from Texas second graders about slavery.”
The work group behind the recommendation included teachers, social studies specialists, instructional coaches and a university professor, according to a list on the education agency’s website.
In a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday, the Texas Education Agency responded to the backlash the proposal had created.
“As documented in the meeting minutes, the SBOE provided feedback in the meeting indicating that the working group needed to change the language related to ‘involuntary relocation,’ ” it said.
“Any assertion that the SBOE is considering downplaying the role of slavery in American history is completely inaccurate.”
The State Board of Education mandates policies and standards for Texas public schools, setting curriculum rules, reviewing and adopting instructional materials and overseeing some funding. It will have a final vote on the curriculum at the end of the year, according to board member Davis, who said it had a responsibility to adopt truthful information to prepare students for their futures.
Next year, the board will also select textbooks to match the standards they eventually adopt, she added. “We have some work to do.”
The incident has sparked anger on social media. Former Austin and Houston police chief Art Acevedo called it “whitewashing history” and said “slavery deniers are just as dangerous as Holocaust deniers.”
One user wrote: “Involuntary relocation is what happens when you lose your home in a hurricane. Not what happened during slavery.”
“Involuntary relocation” for chattel slavery? Human bondage? The selling and buying of human beings from Africa or descended from Africans? Do people understand that for millions of u, this is family history? That for the country this represents a civil war? https://t.co/JLnS12l8p4
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) July 1, 2022
Texas’s education system has been the subject of much recent controversy amid a culture war over how historical and current events should be taught.
Recent policies have led to books on sexual orientation being banned, as well as those that “contain material that might make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress.”
Last year, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill prohibiting K-12 public schools from teaching “critical race theory” — an academic framework centered on the idea that racism is systemic, not limited to individual prejudices, that conservatives have used as a label for any discussion of race in schools.
More recently, a north Texas school district was forced to apologize after an administrator advised teachers that if they have books about the Holocaust in their classrooms, they should also include reading materials that have “opposing” perspectives.
Some Texas schools may call slavery ‘involuntary relocation’
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Public schools in Texas would describe slavery to second graders as “involuntary relocation” under new social studies standards proposed to the state’s education board.
A group of nine educators submitted the idea to the State Board of Education as part of Texas’ efforts to develop new social studies curriculum, according to the Texas Tribune. The once-a-decade process updates what children learn in the state’s nearly 8,900 public schools.
The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students “feel discomfort.”
Board member Aicha Davis, a Democrat who represents Dallas and Fort Worth, raised concerns during a June 15 meeting that the term wasn’t a fair representation of the slave trade. The board sent the draft back for revision, urging the educator group to “carefully examine the language used to describe events.”
“I can’t say what their intention was, but that’s not going to be acceptable,” Davis told The Texas Tribune on Thursday.
Part of the proposed draft standards obtained by The Texas Tribune say students should “compare journeys to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times.”
Texas’ public education system has become heavily politicized in recent years, with lawmakers passing legislation to dictate how race and slavery should be taught in schools and conservative groups pouring large amounts of money into school board races.
Texas drew attention for a similar situation in 2015, when a student noticed wording in a textbook that referred to slaves who were brought to America as “ workers.” The book’s publisher apologized and promised to increase the number of textbook reviewers is uses.
Italian towns in Calabria will pay you $33K to move in
Why bother sweating out your mortgage every month when scenic, picture postcard towns in Italy will pay you to move there?
The Italian region of Calabria is percolating a plan to boost populations of dwindling towns by offering people up to $33,000 to move to sleepy hamlets with less than 2,000 inhabitants, according to CNN.
There are over seven towns to choose from, located in the mountains and on the ocean — but there are a few catches.
Hopefuls must commit to starting up a small business, either taking over an existing company or starting their own. And they need to be professionals that the towns are actively seeking, CNN reports. And Boomers need not apply: applicants have to be under 40 and willing to relocate within 90 days of approval.
“We’re honing the technical details, the exact monthly amount and duration of the funds, and whether to include also slightly larger villages with up to 3,000 residents,” Gianluca Gallo, a regional councilor, told CNN. “We’ve had so far a huge interest from villages and hopefully, if this first scheme works, more are likely to follow in coming years.”
The project is called “active residency income,” and aims to boost the appeal of Calabria as a spot for “south-work” — the rebranded southern Italy version of remote working — explains Gianpietro Coppola, mayor of Altomonte, who contributed to the scheme.
He says it’s a more targeted approach to revitalizing small communities.
“We want this to be an experiment of social inclusion,” Coppola told CNN. “We want to draw people to live in the region, enjoy the settings, spruce up unused town locations such as conference halls and convents with high-speed internet.”
The scheme, which has over $850,000 earmarked, will be launched in the upcoming weeks and applications will be found online.
More than 75 percent of the roughly 320 towns in Calabria have fewer than 5,000 people living there, according to CNN. Locals are fearful that some communities will fade away unless younger folks move in.
“The goal is to boost the local economy and breathe new life into small-scale communities,” Gallo said. “We want to make demand for jobs meet supply, that’s why we’ve asked villages to tell us what type of professionals they’re missing to attract specific workers.”
Station astronauts prep for relocation of SpaceX crew capsule – Spaceflight Now
Commander Mike Hopkins and his three crewmates will board their Crew Dragon “Resilience” capsule Monday for a first-time maneuver to relocate the SpaceX-owned spaceship to a new docking port outside the International Space Station.
Hopkins and pilot Victor Glover will be flanked by Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and NASA mission specialist Shannon Walker for the 45-minute maneuver to reposition the Crew Dragon spacecraft. They will be suited in their white SpaceX-made pressure garments, just like any other docking or undocking at the space station.
The docking port swap Monday will be the first time a SpaceX crew capsule has performed a relocation maneuver.
“We’re very excited about it,” Hopkins said Friday.
Russian Soyuz spacecraft have changed docking ports at the International Space Station 19 times, most recently on March 19.
“There is a big difference between how Soyuz does it and we do it,” Hopkins told Spaceflight Now in an interview last year. “Soyuz does it all manually, and this is planned to be automated. However, we do have a capability to take over and do it manually if we needed to.”
Hopkins’s crew launched Nov. 15 aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which they named Resilience, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, kicking off the first fully operational flight of a SpaceX crew capsule. Their mission, known as Crew-1, docked with the International Space Station the next day.
The Crew Dragon Resilience glided in to a smooth docking with the forward port of the space station’s Harmony module, the same location once used by visiting space shuttles. The relocation maneuver Monday will park the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft at an identical docking port on the top, or zenith side, of the Harmony module.
Ground controllers at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, planned to activate and check out systems on the Crew Dragon capsule Sunday.
“Sunday’s going to be really busy before we do the port relocate,” said Steve Stich, NASA’s commercial crew program manager. “We’ll wake Dragon up. It’s been largely quiescent for these four-and-a-half months (since docking).”
On the 141st day of their mission, Hopkins, Glover, Noguchi, and Walker will float into their spaceship early Monday and close hatches between the Crew Dragon and the space station.
The Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the space station at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 GMT). A few minutes before the capsule detaches from the station, an automated command will begin the process of disconnecting power umbilicals and opening hooks to permit the Crew Dragon to depart the docking port.
“What’s interesting about it is it’s really a combination of really four different flight phases that we have with the vehicle. So there’s the standard undocking, which we will go through all the same steps — we’ll be suited — all of the same checks that we would on the normal day of undocking,” Hopkins said. “We just set a flag that tells the vehicle that this is going to be a relocate as opposed to a normal undocking.”
The capsule will back away to a distance of about 200 feet, or 60 meters, according to Stich, and use its Draco thrusters to fly from a position in front of the space station to a location above the complex.
“Then there’s a phase after that undocking where … the relative navigation systems have to reacquire, and so that’s a critical phase,” he said. “Once that is done, we’re then able to set up for that port relocation piece. And then once we command the port relocation piece to start, you go from that forward docking axis to the zenith docking axis. At that point, it’s like a normal docking all over again.”
The Crew Dragon’s computers will guide the capsule to an automated link-up with the zenith port on the Harmony module at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT).
Just like Soyuz crews who head out for a relocation maneuver, the Dragon astronauts will be prepared to come back to Earth in case of problems reconnecting with the space station.
“In this very short period of time, we have three or four different phases of flight that are happening and still you have that potential that if something goes wrong on the docking attempt, you might end up coming home,” Hopkins said. “So we have to be prepared to come home as well.
“So it’s a very interesting piece of the flight, and we’re very excited that we get the opportunity to do that because I think it’ll be challenging, but I think it’ll be a great capability to add, particularly with the number of different types of vehicles that we have coming up in the near future,” Hopkins told Spaceflight Now.
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, who was aboard the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft when it swapped docking ports last month, said the relocation is “not just a pleasure trip.”
“It’s all of the fun and the work of undock day, plus all of the fun and the work of docking day,” Rubins said, speaking from recent experience. “It’s a lot of activity. But it’s pretty cool, and it is quite an amazing view to separate from your vehicle that’s been your home for months and to be able to look at it from 60 meters.”
The relocation Monday will clear the way for the next SpaceX crew mission to dock with the forward position on the Harmony module. SpaceX’s Crew-2 mission mission, set for launch April 22 from the Kennedy Space Center, will carry commander Shane Kimbrough, pilot Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet.
Hopkins and his crewmates are scheduled to end their mission April 28 with a departure from the space station and a fiery re-entry back into Earth’s atmosphere, culminating in a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida.
Their undocking April 28 will then clear the top port on the Harmony module for the arrival of the next SpaceX Dragon cargo mission scheduled for launch June 3. NASA wants the Dragon cargo ship to dock with Harmony’s zenith port, within the reach of the space station’s Canadian-built robotic arm, which will extract a new pair of solar arrays from the Dragon’s trunk to upgrade the orbiting lab’s power system.
“We’ve got some pretty big milestones coming up, so let’s not take our foot of the gas and make sure we’re keeping our eye on the ball,” Hopkins said Friday.
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