Who: No. 12 Oklahoma State vs. Northern Colorado
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Gallagher-Iba Arena TV/Radio: Big 12 Now on ESPN+, Hot 93.7 KSPI-FM Series History: OSU is 16-0-1 against Northern Colorado with the tie coming in 1963 and the last matchup being in 2020.
All eyes will be on the 141-pound bout between Carter Young and Andrew Alirez.
Projected Lineup: 125: No. 21 Trevor Mastrogiovanni vs. No. 17 Stevo Poulin
133: No. 2 Daton Fix vs. Jace Koelzer 141: No. 32 Carter Young vs. No. 1 Andrew Alirez 149: No. 20 Victor Voinovich vs. Chris Sandoval
157: No. 11 Kaden Gfeller vs. No. 31 Vinny Zerban
165: No. 22 Wyatt Sheets vs. Baylor Fernandes
174: No. 6 Dustin Plott vs. No. 31 Andrew Berreyesa
184: No. 12 Travis Wittlake vs. Branson Britten
197: No. 21 Luke Surber vs. Xavier Vasquez
HWT: No. 25 Konner Doucet vs. Xavier Doolin
OSU should have a strong performance in its Friday dual against Northern Colorado. Although any bout can go any way, Northern Colorado is favored in a few. Everyone will be watching Carter Young as he takes on the best 141-pounder in the nation, Andrew Alirez.
Alirez has a 92.3 bonus-point percentage and has yet to allow a takedown on the year. While Alirez is expected to notch a victory, one can’t count out Young’s clutch factor. OSU coach John Smith knows what Alirez brings to the table and also knows Young will have to be at his best to defeat him.
“He’s good, he’s really good, let’s just say that,” Smith said.
“(Young) better be good if he wrestles at the weight.”
Outside of the 141-pound bout, there are a few more exciting matches that the Cowboys will wrestle. At 125 pounds, there’s a top-25 showdown between Trevor Mastrogiovanni and Stevo Poulin. Poulin has a 18-3 record in his first year as a Bear and has been one of the more impressive young wrestlers in the Big 12.
At 157 pounds, Vinny Zerban who finished eighth at the Southern Scuffle will get a rematch against Kaden Gfeller after suffering an injury against him in Chattanooga. Another Southern Scuffle rematch will occur at 174 between Dustin Plott and Andrew Berreyesa. Plott got the best of him with a decision victory in Chattanooga and will seek more of the same on Friday.
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On Tuesday morning, D1Baseball released its preseason top 25 rankings.
OSU was one of three Big 12 programs that appeared on the list, checking in at No. 9. TCU at No. 15 and Texas Tech at No. 24 joined the Cowboys on the list.
It marked just the third time since 2016 OSU earned a top 10 preseason ranking. The Cowboys are coming off of a loss to Arkansas in the Stillwater Regional after a 42-22 regular season finish in 2022 and a three-way tie for second place in the Big 12.
Josh Holliday’s team lost seven players from last year’s roster to the MLB draft, four of which were starting pitchers. Seven more transferred or exhausted eligibility.
With the return of notable names such as Nolan McLean, Roc Riggio, Zach Ehrhard and Marcus Brown, the Cowboys are ladened with talent to compete for a Big 12 conference title.
Prime transfer portal names such as former Long Beach State pitcher Juaron Watts-Brown and former BYU pitcher Janzen Keisel entered the program.
OSU begins its 2023 season at Globe Life Field in the College Baseball Showdown, and will face a trio of SEC foes in Missouri, Vanderbilt and Arkansas — two of which are in the preseason top 10.
Oklahoma State University hosted the annual Oklahoma Ground Water Association Conference and Trade Show on Jan. 4 and 5.
Over 200 groundwater professionals attended. The event allows attendees to connect and learn about Oklahoma’s groundwater issues.
Josh McClintock, the executive director of OGWA, said the gathering is helpful for the professionals.
“The OGWA Conference and Trade Show facilitates conversations between professionals at every level of our industry,” McClintock said. “Oftentimes, the different facets of the industry are siloed between the scientists and engineers, federal and state agency officials, manufacturers and suppliers, and the good drillers and pump installers. Many of the latest developments in the industry come about as a result of direct communication between these different sectors.”
Fred Rothauge, the selected McEllhiney Lecturer, gave the opening remarks on behalf of the National Ground Water Association (NGWA). The conference featured a wide array of seminars, discussing topics like
rig safety and business management.
OSU’s Gary F. Stewart Core Research Facility held a workshop with professors Jim Puckette and Yulun Wang.
The Boone Pickens School of Geology’s recent partnership with NGWA made OSU the ideal host.
David Correll, OGWA President said he is excited to see what the partnership will bring.
“Our industry is facing a massive deficit of trained professionals, and NGWAU’s work aims to fill the gap by making the needed educational tools readily available,” Correll said. “The OGWA believes NGWAU Powered by OSU will enrich and elevate the lives of those who enter the groundwater industry for years to come.”
Correll said groundwater research is important to understand. Its systems affect everyone.
“It’s common between industry professionals to lightheartedly joke that most folks only know that they turn on their tap and water always flows out,” Correll said. “But a lot of hard work, education and experience is involved in making that tap flow. There is an excellent group of professionals working tirelessly in this state to provide our citizens with clean water today, tomorrow and forever.”
McClintock shared the importance of having groundwater professionals convene at events like OGWA.
“This is where issues and con-
cerns are discussed, and those discussions kick off the domino effect across the industry that make it possible for everyone else to continue turning on their taps and taking for granted that our most precious natural resource will continue to flow,” McClintock said.
OSU’s 141-pound weight class just received a major boost in depth.
Wednesday night, Rutgers transfer Sammy Alvarez announced his intentions to transfer to the Oklahoma State Cowboys, per Willie Saylor of MatScouts.
Alvarez has consistently hung around the top-15 ranking for the majority of his wrestling career.
Alvarez has dealt with his fair share of injuries throughout his promising career, ending attempts at the NCAA tournament. He’s posted a 50-14 career record including a 13-2 record this season. Alvarez wrestled the first three years of his career at 133 pounds but made the switch to 141 this year.
As a high-schooler, Alvarez was the No. 34 recruit according to FloWrestling and the No. 3 recruit at 126 pounds. He was a three-time state finalist and a one-time NJSIAA champion in 2019.
Alvarez’s best season came in 2020 during his impressive freshman campaign. Alvarez posted a 26-10 record and finished sixth in the 133-pound bracket in the Big Ten Wrestling Championships and earned the No. 10 seed at the NCAA Championships. After nationals were canceled due to COVID-19, he earned 2020 second-team All-American status and was a 2020 All-Rookie selection according to Amateur Wrestling News
Alvarez has yet to make a real run in the postseason as he was robbed in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and has dealt with weight changes and injuries preventing him from making it back to the tournament.
Alvarez’s addition to OSU’s wrestling room provides much-needed depth and should create more competition with current 141-pounder Carter Young, who has had a rough sophomore season.
In a historic blow to Haiti’s already dysfunctional judicial system, a judicial oversight board has rebuked more than two dozen judges for misconduct and paved the way for their firing — a clean-up of the nation’s judiciary that will likely affect its handling of pressing legal matters, from corruption to gang violence to drug trafficking.
The Superior Council of the Judiciary informed the justice minister of 30 judges whose certification won’t be renewed for offenses that range from drunkenness and property theft to a lack of moral integrity and academic qualifications to abuse of authority and facilitating the release of notorious criminals.
The exposure of the corruption in Haiti’s judiciary comes just five months after the government’s anti-corruption unit issued a report detailing corruption in government institutions and agencies. That report concluded that Haiti’s public administration is a cesspool of corruption in which the actions of civil servants and elected officials go unchecked and they do as theIn a historic blow to Haiti’s already dysfunctional judicial system, a judicial oversight board has rebuked more than two dozen judges for misconduct and paved the way for their firing — a clean-up of the nation’s judiciary that will likely affect its handling of pressing legal matters, from corruption to gang violence to drug trafficking.
The Superior Council of the Judiciary informed the justice minister of 30 judges whose certification won’t be renewed for offenses that range from drunkenness and property theft to a lack of moral integrity and academic qualifications to abuse of authority and facilitating the release of notorious criminals.
The exposure of the corruption in Haiti’s judiciary comes just five months after the government’s anti-corruption unit issued a report detailing corruption in government institutions and agencies. That report concluded that Haiti’s
public administration is a cesspool of corruption in which the actions of civil servants and elected officials go unchecked and they do as they like without concerns about the consequences. From the judicial oversight body’s list, the judiciary seems to be no better off.
Among the judges reprimanded by the council are two investigative judges involved in two of Haiti’s most high profile investigations: the inquiry into nearly $2 billion in missing aid from Venezuela’s PetroCaribe oil program, and the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
Based on complaints, the council decided not to certify Ramoncite Accimé, who was charged with getting to the bottom of the PetroCaribe corruption scandal and later was accused of building a $500,000 house on a salary of less than $400 a month. The council also disciplined Garry Orélien, who was appointed to look into the Moïse’s July 7, 2021, assassination and was later accused of corruption while carrying out the inquiry.
Also singled out: Jacques Lafontant, the chief government prosecutor in Haiti’s largest jurisdiction, Port-auPrince, and a judge in the Court of First Instance. In a radio interview on Monday, Lafontant said he won’t resigne despite being publicly denounced for a lack of moral integrity. Another notable judge who has been publicly denounced is Ikenson Edumé, the president of the National Network of Haitian Judges, RENAMAH.
Edumé is the brother of Josue Pierre-Louis, the current secretary general of the National Palace. Edumé was the object of corruption complaints about properties he owned that did not correspond to his salary.
“Firing them would be too easy. When you commit a crime, you need to pay for it,” said Marie Yolène Gilles, a human rights activist who closely monitors judicial and police misconduct. “There are so many people who have been victimized by these corrupt judges; there are people who lost their houses, their land; there are people who were illegally jailed.”
Gilles, who runs Fondasyon Je Klere or Eyes Wide Open Foundation, is demanding that charges be brought against the judges. Her organization led the investigation into Accimé. On Tuesday, her organization demanded that the new dean of the courts, Chavannes Etienne, designate a new investigative judge to carry out the inquiry into the PetroCaribe corruption allegations.
“This country is so rampant with corruption that if there isn’t an example that is made, then it’s everyday we will be saying ‘the justice system isn’t any
good,’” Gilles said. “Today we have an opportunity for us to get rid of a number of judges who are corrupt.”
Haiti’s justice system has long been crumbling, with those detained spending more than a decade in jail without a hearing. Such illegal and arbitrary preventive detentions have been increasing in recent years, say activists and lawyers who cite delayed judicial appointments, protests by clerks seeking higher salaries and gang violence for the poor functioning of the courts.
Things were so bad that in December of 2020 the head of a judges’ association went on radio and warned Haitians: “Don’t let them arrest you, because you don’t know when you will be released from prison.” In June, things got even worse when a notorious gang took control of the main courthouse in Port-au-Prince.
Still, that is not an excuse for corruption among judges, observers say.
The decision not to certify the judges came out of a vetting process, and many of the named judges were already the subject of complaints. In at least one case the judge continued to work despite having been previously
reprimanded.
Moïse himself, shortly after assuming office in 2017, spoke of naming 50 “corrupt judges” to the bench. During a visit to France, the then-president claimed he was forced to appoint the judges under pressure. At the time of his comment, Moïse was on a presidential visit to France and was speaking about the failure of the certification and vetting process in Haiti’s judicial system.
The president’s statement at the time was heavily criticized by a number of people who accused him of jeopardizing the independence of the judiciary, and looking for an excuse for his appointments when he was the guarantor of the proper functioning of the country’s institutions.
Among the president’s critics at the time was then-Supreme Court Justice Windelle Coq Thélot, who today is a suspect in Moïse’s assassination and
remains on the run. She accused Moïse of violating the constitution and of being “incompetent.”
“In due time, the president will have to answer the questions of justice, because he has violated the Constitution,” Coq Thélot, then vice-president of the Supreme Court, said. . While the judicial oversight board, which is currently enjoying more autonomy, can reprimand and discipline judges, it cannot fire them. That job belongs to the government, which will now have to decide what it will do with the 30 judges.
“Ariel has an important role to play in freeing the system of these corrupt judges,” Gilles said of interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry. “We believe it’s time to clean up the system. We need to see if there is a real political will.”
This isn’t the first time that judges’ have had their right to practice
revoked. But it is the first time, observers say, so many judges have been cited for removal at the same time.
In all, the judicial oversight body was asked to review the files of 69 judges who work in courtrooms throughout the country. It found that 31 of the judges passed vetting. The team is still reviewing eight others judges’ certification.
In a statement, Gilles’ group said the 31 judges who passed the vetting should not see it as “an achievement, but an additional requirement of morality.”
“The country has the right to expect from these magistrates a higher degree of morality than that required of ordinary citizens,” Fondayson Je Klere said.
California is about to be hit by an aging population wave, and Steve Lopez is riding it. His new column will focus on the blessings and burdens of advancing age — and how some folks are challenging the stigma associated with older adults.
A vaguely familiar chap keeps showing up at my house every morning and evening, seven days a week, without fail.
I look in the mirror and see a cross between my father and myself.
A part of me is unsettled by the slow and steady aging process, which creeps in uninvited and, if you’re lucky, hangs around a while. But another part of me is defiant. I don’t feel as old as the man in the mirror, and I’m leaning on the George Burns line that you can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
Getting older, by the way, is an epidemic. About 10,000 people turn 65 each day in the United States, and by 2035, people 65 and older will outnumber those under 18 for the first time. In California, a quarter of the population will be 60 or older by 2031.
These trends will challenge and transform us in ways we’ve barely begun to prepare for. Housing, healthcare, the economy, the workforce and the design of cities, homes and transportation will all be impacted. Millennials and older people, who don’t usually end up at the same parties, could become increasingly dependent on each other.
After climate change, “population aging is the second most important phenomenon that humanity will have to figure out a way to address in the 21st century,” said Paul Irving, founding chairman of the Milken Institute’s Center for the Future of Aging. This is true throughout much of the world, he added, with birthrates dropping as the population of older people rises.
But this presents opportunities as well as challenges.
Laura Trejo, director of aging and community services for L.A. County, thinks about the ways in which older people can mentor younger people, and vice versa. She talks about addressing
the problems of financial and housing insecurity, and isolation, by creating an inventory of homeowners who live alone and pairing them with roomies young and old.
“I feel like I’m an imagineer,” says Trejo, who cared for her ailing father before his death, and lives with her 85-year-old mother. “I get to imagine a better future for every older person and their families.… What kind of community do I want to age in? I think about this all the time … and that’s how we should be doing the work we do.”
In L.A. County and beyond, as the population ages, tens of thousands of people will find that growing old is unaffordable. Many will live in poverty and become homeless. And just as low-income people and minorities were hit hardest by the coronavirus, the same inequities will hammer the aging population.
Fernando Torres-Gil, director of UCLA’s Center for Policy Research on Aging, said that for many adults, the two big questions are “can I afford to cover my bills as I get older, and who will take care of me as I get older?”
Those questions and others are the focus of California’s 10-year Master Plan for Aging, which launched in 2021 with ambitious goals. Torres-Gil is one of the monitors tracking Gov. Gavin Newsom’s promise to “advance solutions for not just older Californians, but for all of us who love and care for them.”
At the moment, the state projects a potentially catastrophic care-provider shortage, in the near future, of more than 3 million people. Finding and training more help is one monumental task; paying them enough to survive, in an industry with notoriously low wages and high numbers of women and minorities, is another.
I found myself immersed in such issues while writing about the last stages of my parents’ lives, when both were in hospice care. About 10 years ago, my father fell trying to walk to the bathroom in the middle of the night and couldn’t get up.
My dad refused another trip to the hospital, so my mother got down next to him, pulled up a blanket, and they went to sleep together on the floor until help arrived in the morning. I was struck by the cruel irony that at the time in life
when you’re least able to fight, you have to be at your strongest.
Long before you reach that stage, aging forces you to make concessions, to adapt, to reinvent yourself. I spent a year on a book project, researching the transition from work to retirement, and in the end, I decided I wasn’t quite ready to walk away.
I am, however — speaking of reinvention — ready to make an announcement.
I’m turning 70 this year, and as of today, my column will focus on aging. The blessings and burdens. The challenges and advantages. The hopes and fears of the blessed
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I’m calling it Golden State.
Finally, after nearly 50 years as a journalist, I’ve got a topic I know something about firsthand.
But I need your help.
Tell me how you’re doing.
Are you thriving or struggling?
When you glimpse your own reflection, do you see someone celebrating life or fearing death?
Was David Bowie right when he said that as you age, you become the person you always should have been?
I’d like to hear from those who can’t find work because of age discrimination, those who can’t afford to stop working, those who have struggled in retirement and those who have thrived.
If you’re a student of medicine, social work, urban planning or technology, what role do you see for yourself in confronting the challenges my peers are facing today and all of you will face tomorrow?
I want to hear from caregivers, too, and I’d like to go find, and thank, the wonderful hospice nurse who comforted my mother in her last days of life.
I’d like to hear from the so-called sandwich generation — the people caring simultaneously for parents and children. I want to know what can be learned about the past, present and future when you stand at the very center
of three generations. And I’d like to hear from millennials who are locked out the housing market and can’t wait for some of us to shrivel up and die.
I intend to have some fun with this new beat, too. A reader named Jose Bautista saw me talking about semiretirement on television, with two guitars behind me, and he extended a tempting offer.
“You mentioned something about starting a garage band. I would be interested,” said Bautista, 71. “I meet every two weeks with 83-year-old Alec, who has a good voice. So far we know one song, ‘My Way,’ by Frank Sinatra. Our objective is to possibly perform at [his] and his wife’s retirement center by next Christmas.”
Stay tuned. There could be video.
Also, please send me your picks for best early-bird meals in Greater Los Angeles, so I can play restaurant critic.
On that note, I should say that although I think an early-bird column can be done in good taste (no pun intended), ageism is real. It’s fueled in part by stereotypes and by the
profiteers selling the illusion of eternal youth.
In my many years of covering mental health, one of my favorite sources was Stella March, a stigma buster on a mission to call out stereotypes that created fears, misunderstandings and outright discrimination. I hope to follow in her footsteps, and I hereby deputize readers to become ageism stigma busters.
You might have noticed, by the way, that I have not used the words “senior,” “elderly” or “boomer.” I just don’t care much for the “B” word. And as for the other two, for many who work in the field of aging, those terms are considered outdated, and the preferred language is “older” or “aging” adults.
I’m not wild about either of those, or the use of “mature” adults, a term that overlooks a sizable percentage of the population, in my experience. I’ll keep working on this, and if you’ve got ideas, send them my way.
In her new book, “Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About
Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live,” Becca Levy makes a mind-body argument that cognitive and physical decline are accelerated in those who buy into negative views about aging.
The Yale professor says she has improved people’s memory performance and gait, balance and speed “by activating positive age stereotypes” in her lab at Yale. I invited myself to give it a try, and Levy gave me the OK, so I’ll let you know how that goes.
The term “silver tsunami” is often used as a warning, Levy says in her book, but she sees it differently.
“The fact that so many people are getting to experience old age, and doing so in better health, is one of society’s greatest achievements,” she wrote. “It’s also an extraordinary opportunity to rethink what it means to grow old.”
I’m working on that. And to repeat the offer, I’d like to hear from those who glimpse their evolving selves in the mirror and might let me walk through time with them.
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Busche said. “OSU’s land grant mission means serving our communities in the state and Canopy will be a catalyst to move OSU virtual health technology into the real world.”
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Rivals on the field, innovators in the research.
On Wednesday, Jan. 18, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, the University of Tulsa and Tulsa Innovations unveiled an initiative known as Canopy Healthtech. With a multi-year action plan, the team-up is looking to fast-track the commercialization of virtual health innovations through the universities in Oklahoma.
The initiative is looking to create critical virtual health technologies to help mitigate gaps in healthcare delivery.
“To reach their potential, these technologies need business, regulatory and marketing expertise,” said Shawna Khouri, director of the Virtual Health portfolio at Tulsa Innovation Labs and architect of the Canopy Healthtech program. “Canopy will surround clinical and technical faculty members with the necessary funding as well as the expertise that’s critical to bridging these innovations from bench to business.”
What makes this program incredibly unique is its use across major Oklahoma universities in the state, uniting the schools and creating room for the initial statewide.
Senior associate vice president for research at OSU, Ron Van Der Busche, is excited about the direction the Canopy could take OSU in making a difference in public health.
“We are excited to see where this new partnership will take us,”
The initiative is inspired by the Coulter Translational Program and works in three sectors.
Canopy PREP- workshops focused on the commercialization of virtual health technologies and the annual problems and questions that arise from them.
Canopy FUND- $400,000 for competitive non-dilutive awards to translate ideas and concepts into successful and commercially viable virtual health technologies. (Had trouble rewriting this part)
Canopy COMMENCE- allows industry experts and ecosystem assistance access to push forward the translational success of Canopy Fund award winners.
The initiative is being executed by Executive Director Rachel Lane, Ph.D., R.D., a senior staff member of the University of Oklahoma Price College of Business Tom Love Innovation Hub and former CEO of BIO Alabama.
Lane has earned her doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center helped to found the Oklahoma Association for Women in Science Affiliate Group and has much work experience with the industry as well as entrepreneurship experience.
Researchers, faculty members, students, post-docs and all other clinicians are encouraged to apply projects for consideration in changing Oklahoma’s virtual health. Applications are now being taken and must be submitted by 1 p.m. on March 1.
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