El ladrón callejero Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) es reclutado por el experto cazador de tesoros
Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) para recuperar una fortuna perdida hace 500 años de
Ferdinand Magellan. Lo que empieza como un atraco para el dúo se convierte en una carrera
de trotamundos llena de adrenalina para conseguir el premio antes que el despiadado Moncada
(Antonio Banderas), quien cree que él y su familia son los herederos legítimos. Si Nate y Sully
pueden descifrar las pistas y resolver uno de los misterios más antiguos del mundo, podrán
encontrar $5 mil millones en el tesoro y tal vez incluso al hermano de Nate… pero solo si
pueden aprender a trabajar juntos.
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Houston Texans fire coach David Culley after just one season
The Texans have fired head coach David Culley.
Offensive coordinator Tim Kelly also was fired, a source told Schefter.
On Sunday, after the Texans completed a 4-13 season, Culley said he expected to return for a second season. However, the Texans’ ownership and front office took the past few days to evaluate the coach and decided to fire him on Thursday.
The firing comes one year after the Texans hired Culley, a longtime assistant, who became the oldest first-time NFL head coach at age 65. Culley, hired in January 2021 by team CEO and chairman Cal McNair and general manager Nick Caserio, was the lone Black coach hired last offseason and was one of three Black coaches in the NFL. Culley’s firing leaves the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mike Tomlin as the NFL’s only current Black head coach.
Before being hired in Houston, Culley spent two seasons as the Baltimore Ravens’ assistant head coach, passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach. Culley spent 43 years as an assistant in college football and the NFL.
In Culley’s first season as a head coach, the Texans won the same number of games as they did the previous season under interim coach Romeo Crennel. Culley did it with a depleted roster and team that has had just one first-round pick in the last four years.
Houston was without quarterback Deshaun Watson, who requested a trade in January after the McNair family hired Caserio. Less than two months later, the first of 23 lawsuits were filed against Watson alleging sexual assault and inappropriate behavior. Watson, who still faces 22 active lawsuits, reported to training camp and was on the active roster all season. The quarterback was a healthy scratch for each game.
The 2021 Texans were also without defensive end J.J. Watt, who requested to be released after the 2020 season and now plays for the Arizona Cardinals.
This season, the Texans dominated the Jacksonville Jaguars in the season opener before losing veteran quarterback Tyrod Taylor in Week 2 with a left hamstring injury. He was replaced by 2021 third-round pick Davis Mills, who went 0-6 in his six starts while Taylor was on injured reserve.
After Taylor struggled in his return from injured reserve, he was benched for Mills, who beat the Jaguars and Los Angeles Chargers in consecutive weeks.
Houston’s offense ranked 31st in Football Outsiders’ DVOA under Culley and Kelly. The Texans were outscored by 172 points, the largest points differential in franchise history, according to ESPN’s Stats & Information.
The Texans’ 13 losses were the franchise’s most in a single season since 2013.
Source: espn
Russia says Ukraine talks hit ‘dead end’, Poland warns of risk of war
Poland’s foreign minister said on Thursday that Europe was at risk of plunging into war as Russia said it was not yet calling time on diplomacy but that military experts were preparing options in case tensions over Ukraine could not be defused.
U.S. Ambassador Michael Carpenter said after talks with Russia in Vienna that the West should prepare for a possible escalation in tensions with Moscow. “The drumbeat of war is sounding loud, and the rhetoric has gotten rather shrill,” he told reporters.
Russia said dialogue was continuing but was hitting a dead end as it tried to persuade the West to bar Ukraine from joining NATO and roll back decades of alliance expansion in Europe – demands that the United States has called “non-starters”.
“At this stage it is really disappointing,” Russian Ambassador Alexander Lukashevich told reporters after a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the third leg in a series of East-West talks this week.
He warned of possible “catastrophic consequences” if the two sides could not agree on what Russia has termed security red lines but said Moscow had not given up on diplomacy and would even speed it up.
The Russian comments reflect a pattern of Moscow saying it wants to pursue diplomacy but rejecting calls to reverse its troop build-up near Ukraine and warning of unspecified consequences for Western security if its demands go unheeded.
Earlier, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau told the 57-nation security forum: “It seems that the risk of war in the OSCE area is now greater than ever before in the last 30 years.”
While overlooking wars during that period in the former Yugoslavia and parts of the former Soviet Union, his comment highlighted the level of European anxiety over Russia’s build-up of some 100,000 troops within reach of its border with Ukraine.
Rau reported no breakthrough at the meeting, which followed Russia-U.S. talks in Geneva on Monday and a Russia-NATO conference in Brussels on Wednesday.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the earlier meetings had shown there was a “dead-end or difference of approaches”, and he saw no reason to sit down again in the coming days to re-start the same discussions.
He told RTVI television Russian military specialists were providing options to President Vladimir Putin in case the situation around Ukraine worsened, but diplomacy must be given a chance. “I must reiterate that dialogue is still underway at many levels and in many directions,” Ryabkov said.
The Russian rouble fell by more than 2% against the dollar on Ryabkov’s comments, which also prompted a sell-off in government bonds. A trader at a major Russian bank told Reuters the market had partly reacted to a comment from Ryabkov, in reply to a question, that he would neither confirm nor rule out the possibility that Russia might deploy “military infrastructure” in Cuba and Venezuela.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told MSNBC in an interview: “The jury’s out on which path Vladimir Putin is going to choose. Is he going to choose the path of diplomacy and dialogue to resolve some of these problems or is he going to pursue confrontation and aggression?”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said: “I believe that the only way for the Russians to confirm their lack of intention to solve problems by force is to continue the discussion in the established formats, in particular in the OSCE.”
Russia denies plans to invade Ukraine but its military build-up has forced the United States and its allies to the negotiating table.
It says it is threatened by the fact that NATO has expanded towards its borders by taking in 14 new members from formerly communist eastern Europe since the Cold War ended. It wants to draw “red lines” to stop the alliance from admitting Ukraine as a member or basing missiles there.
Washington has rejected those demands but said it is willing to talk about arms control, missile deployments, and confidence-building measures to move on from one of the most fraught moments in East-West relations since the Cold War.
Ambassador Lukashevich told the OSCE that unless Moscow received a constructive response, “we will be forced to draw appropriate conclusions and take all necessary measures to ensure strategic balance and eliminate unacceptable threats to our national security.”
He went on: “Russia is a peace-loving country. But we do not need peace at any cost. The need to obtain these legally formalized security guarantees for us is unconditional.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said after talks with Russia on Wednesday that countries must be free to choose their own security arrangements.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticized a sanctions bill unveiled by U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday that would target top Russian government and military officials, including Putin, as well as key banking institutions if Russia attacks Ukraine.
Peskov said sanctioning Putin would be tantamount to severing relations.
“We view the appearance of such documents and statements extremely negatively against the background of an ongoing series of negotiations, albeit unsuccessful ones,” he said.
Peskov was quoted by the TASS news agency as saying Putin was receiving regular updates on the talks and the Kremlin was clear about the outcomes but was waiting for replies from the other side in writing.
Carpenter told the OSCE meeting: “As we prepare for an open dialogue on how to strengthen security for the benefit of all, we must decisively reject blackmail and never allow aggression and threats to be rewarded.”
Russia has said it will decide on its next moves after this week’s talks and threatened unspecified “military-technical measures” if its demands are rejected.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Wednesday that if Russia walked away, it would show it was never serious about diplomacy in the first place.
Source: reuters
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TPWD Closing Oyster Harvest Area in San Antonio Bay
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is closing TX-25 in San Antonio Bay to commercial and recreational oyster harvest beginning at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Jan. 14, 2022.
This closing is based on samples recently collected by TPWD showing low abundance of legal-sized oysters. TPWD has worked with the oyster industry to develop criteria for closing areas to harvest. The criteria include parameters for oysters when they fall below certain thresholds based on the abundance of legal-sized oysters (3 inches or greater) and the percentage of small oysters (2-2.9 inches).
All areas currently closed to harvest will continue to be monitored by TPWD and will reopen when criteria thresholds are met. As of Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 these areas will be closed to public oyster harvest:
Galveston Bay System — TX-1, TX-4, TX-5, TX-6, TX-7,
Matagorda Bay System — TX-12, TX-13, TX-15, TX-16, TX-18, TX-19, TX-20, TX-21,
San Antonio Bay System — TX-24, TX-25, TX-26, and TX-27,
Aransas Bay System – TX-28, TX-32
Source: tpwd
TSA Extends Federal Face Mask Requirement for Public Transit through March 18
As a reminder, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has extended the face mask requirement (SD 1582/84-21-01C) for individuals across all transportation networks throughout the United States, including at airports, on board commercial aircraft, on over-the-road buses, and on a commuter bus and rail systems through March 18, 2022.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) will continue to require a CDC approved face mask to be worn over the mouth and nose by passengers, operators, and contractors at all times while on DART vehicles including buses, trains, and paratransit vehicles, Trinity Railway Express trains, in buildings and onboard the Dallas Streetcar.
Refusing to wear a mask, unless exempted or excluded under the CDC guidelines, is a violation of federal law and failure to comply will result in denial of boarding or removal, and passengers may be subject to federal penalties, including a fine ranging from $500 for the first offense up to $3,000 for repeat offenders.
Face masks and hand sanitizer dispensers are installed on buses, light rail vehicles, TRE vehicles, and Dallas streetcars, and will continue to be available to all passengers.
If a DART passenger is concerned with someone not wearing a mask, they can contact DART Customer Service at (214) 979-1111, or use the “DART Say Something” app, which can be downloaded from the Apple Store or Google Play for free.
Staying Safe While Riding DART
DART remains committed to doing everything possible to keep both our patrons and employees safe through this pandemic. The agency remains in close contact with local, state, and national health authorities, including the Texas Department of State Health Services and the CDC. DART encourages passengers who feel sick or are experiencing symptoms to stay home and avoid public places.Set featured image
Cleaning and Protection
DART continues to undertake aggressive agency-wide cleaning and safety protocols on buses, light rail, paratransit vehicles, and properties. In addition to thorough nightly cleanings, DART buses and trains are also cleaned on a rotating basis with hydrogen peroxide-based cleaning solutions to sanitize and disinfect each vehicle.
Social Distancing
DART recommends maintaining a six-foot distance between both fellow riders and your DART operator, leaving an open seat between yourself and other riders when available, avoiding large groups, and staying home if you feel sick or are experiencing symptoms.
Source: dart
US Department of Labor finds federal helium enrichment unit failed to follow safe chemical handling procedures in Amarillo, Texas
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found that the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management violated procedures for safe handling of chemical materials at its Cliffside Helium Enrichment Unit in Amarillo, a federal chemical producing plant that refines and sells helium products to private entities.
OSHA issued the facility 21 notices of unsafe working conditions. This is OSHA’s first use of the egregious violation policy in citing unsafe working conditions at a federal facility. The violations of process safety management procedures would carry a private sector penalty of $1,023,987.
The Department of Interior’s Office of the Inspector General initiated the June 8, 2021, inspection after the OIG received serious safety and health allegations from workers at the facility.
“OSHA found the Bureau of Land Management’s Cliffside Helium Enrichment Unit willfully and repeatedly failed to take required safety measures to ensure the facility’s compliance with federal safety and health procedures and protect employees from chemical production hazards,” said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Douglas Parker. “Federal employers, just like private-sector employers, are responsible for knowing what hazards exist in their facilities and taking appropriate precautions to keep workers safe.”
Six willful safety violations include failing to train workers to understand the purpose and function of the energy control program, and five egregious willful violations are for failing to perform inspections and tests on process equipment. OSHA cited serious violations for process safety management failures, and other-than-serious safety violations involved notification and records violations.
As required by the Occupational Safety and Health Act, federal agencies must comply with the same safety standards as private sector employers. The federal agency equivalent to a private sector citation is the notice of unsafe and unhealthful working conditions. A notice is used to inform establishment officials of violations of OSHA standards, alternate standards, and 29 Code of Federal Regulations citable program elements. Monetary penalties are not assessed to federal agencies for failing to comply with OSHA standards.
The BLM’s Cliffside Helium Enrichment Unit has 15 business days from receipt of its notices to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA’s area director, or appeal the notices by submitting a summary of the agency’s position on the unresolved issues to OSHA’s regional administrator.
Source: osha
Governor Abbott Appoints Three to Nursing Facility Administrators Advisory Committee
Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Ronald Palomares, Ph.D., and reappointed Liam Fry, M.D. and Abraham Mathew, D.B.A. to the Nursing Facility Administrators Advisory Committee for terms set to expire on February 1, 2027. The committee provides recommendations to the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services for licensure sanctions and rule changes for the Nursing Facility Administrator Licensing Program.
Liam Fry, M.D. of Austin is a Physician and the President of Austin Geriatric Specialists. She is a member of the Travis County Medical Society, Texas Health Care Association Commitment to Care Committee, American Medical Director Association, and the Texas Medical Association and president of the Texas Medical Director Association. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Fry received a Bachelor of Arts in Plan II Liberal Arts Honors from The University of Texas at Austin and a Doctor of Medicine from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. She is board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Internal Medicine.
Abraham Mathew, D.B.A. of Pasadena is the Senior Executive Director of Buckner Retirement Services in Houston. He is also a licensed nursing facility administrator and has been serving in the senior living industry since 2003. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Texas Association of Realtors, and Houston Association of Realtors. Mathew received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Master of Social Work from Bharathidasan University, a Master of Arts in English Literature from Annamalai University, and a Doctor of Business Administration in Health Care Management and Leadership from California Intercontinental University.
Source: gov.texas
Governor Abbott Appoints Three to Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
Karen Friese, P.E. of Austin is the President and CEO of K Friese & Associates, Inc. She is a member of the American Council of Engineering Companies, the Austin Area Research Organization, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. In addition, she is a graduate of Leadership Austin, a member of the Junior League of Austin, and a former advisory council member of I Live Here I Give Here. Friese received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois.
Albert Cheng of Houston works in government relations for Harris County. In his first term on TBPELS, he served as the Legislative Issues Committee chair and as Treasurer. He has over 25 years of experience in government and politics, including working for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. He is a board member of the Maplewood South North Civic Club and a Director for Texas Latino Conservatives. Previously, he served as a community advisory board member for The University of Texas Health Science Center for Clinical and Transitional Sciences. Cheng received a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the University of Houston.
Catherine H. Norwood, P.E. of Midland is a Senior Consulting Engineer with Hickman McClaine & Associates. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas and New Mexico. She is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and has served on the national Member Benefits Committee and as chairman of the Permian Basin Reservoir Study Group. She is a member of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers and has served as Chairman of the Midland Chapter. Additionally, she has also been inducted to the Texas Tech Petroleum Academy. Norwood received a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University.
Source: gov.texas