DYING IN DESIGNER
NEW SINGLE & MUSIC VIDEO "PTSD" OUT NOW
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March 26, 2019 - Chicago-based singer/rapper dying in designer has released a brand new single and music video, "PTSD." Fans can watch the video here and stream the single here.
Produced by Nick Mira (Juice WRLD, Kodak Black), "PTSD" is a dream collaboration between dying in designer's Bobby O'Brien and the celebrated producer.
On "PTSD," Bobbyshares, "Working with Nick Mira was sick as fuck. Nick produced one of the biggest songs of 2018 in "Lucid Dreams", so working with him early on feels damn good. Nick sent over a beat pack with 11 curated beats specifically for my sound so jumping into these was a breeze. At the time, I was going through some bad PTSD from my past relationship, so the song "PTSD" pretty much wrote itself. I just talked about how I was feeling and what was going on in my life; I was feeling super depressed and alone. I was relying on friends to be there when I needed them most, but to be honest, they weren't. I had to get through this shit alone."
For Chicago-based singer/rapper, dying in designer,2018 was the hardest year of his life. Fully-consumed by a toxic relationship that ultimately led to immense pain, heartbreak, depression and suicidal thoughts, vocalist Bobby O'Brien, used every ounce of pain and sorrow to create music that pulled him back into the world. The result is a lyrically gut-wrenching, honest, raw portrait of emotion backed by catchy melodies, cathartic 808s and breakdowns.
Hailing from the South Side of Chicago, dying in designer's early influences came from bands like Blink 182, Taking Back Sunday, and Silverstein. He played in several emo and hardcore bands throughout high school. At the same time, dying in designer became fully-engulfed in rap and the Chicago drill scene (Chief Keef, Lil Durk). Throwing down cyphers in the high school cafeteria and writing his own bars, dying in designer cemented his unique style, blending pop punk, emo, rap, and trap to create a melodic sound that is all his own.
This unique blend of styles shines through in "Devil's Callin',"the melodic, uplifting single that hits hard with a false bravado. Feeling broken, and anxious, dying in designer uses these feelings of pain, anger, and sadness as fuel toward something therapeutic and cathartic. On the meaning behind the song, dying in designer explains, "The song is about saying you feel better about moving on from a past relationship, when in reality, you really don't want to move on at all." Following that theme, "Gerard Way," deals with missing someone after they are completely out of your life, wrestling with the good and bad moments, and ultimately admitting that "you're not okay."
On "Lately" - the first track to hit over a million streams, dying in designer laments, "This was my worst fucking year. I could drown in my own tears." Stripping out all pretension and leaving raw vulnerability, dying in designer admits freely to dealing with suicidal thoughts.. "Lately was written like a suicide note. I was in a very toxic relationship, which put me in an extremely dark place," dying in designer shares. "I want to help people who feel the way I have felt. I want to be a role model to these broken kids around the world. I want these kids to know that it's okay to feel down sometimes - emotions are real and will always be universal. I want my music to save lives."
Stayed tuned for new music from dying in designer.
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Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is scheduled to appear before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on March 28, at 10:00 am EST for a full committee hearing on his nomination to become Secretary of the Interior. Senators will have the opportunity to question Bernhardt about his conflicts of interest and lack of transparency as head of the agency charged with stewarding America’s public lands.
Before joining the Trump administration, David Bernhardt was a high-powered lobbyist and lawyer for oil, gas, and mining industries. As Deputy Secretary under former Secretary Ryan Zinke, Bernhardt was behind some of the most controversial and consequential policy decisions issued by the Interior Department’s leadership, including stripping wildlife protections, undoing national monument designations for mining and development, and offering vast swaths of public lands—nearly the size of South Carolina—for oil and gas leasing.
To accomplish such controversial and unpopular policy decisions that directly benefit his former clients, Bernhardt has cut out the public from the policy making process and refused to turn over documents upon request from Congress. Below is background information on questions that Bernhardt may face during his Senate confirmation hearing.
In financial disclosures and ethics recusals, David Bernhardt lists more than two dozen former clients. During Bernhardt’s tenure at the Interior Department, the agency has completed or advanced at least 25 policy actions that have been requested or supported by at least 16 of his former clients, according to a newly updated analysis from the Center for Western Priorities.
According to an analysis by the Center for American Progress, David Bernhardt is the most conflicted of all of President Trump’s cabinet-level nominees. Nearly three-quarters of Bernhardt’s 27 former clients listed on his recusals have actively lobbied the Interior Department since 2017. According to the Washington Post, Bernhardt has so many conflicts of interest that he carries a list of his former clients in his pocket.
Bernhardt’s calendars released to the public are overwhelmingly void of meaningful details, with hundreds of hours of “internal” and “external” meetings lacking descriptions of who he meets with. While Bernhardt and his staff have fought to keep his calendars secret, a number of undisclosed meetings are known to have been with oil and gas industry representatives, including the American Petroleum Institute. At a recent House Oversight Committee hearing, an Interior Department official was unable to confirm that the Acting Secretary’s calendars are not deleted or erased on a regular basis. In a letter responding to a request for Bernhardt's calendars from House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva, Bernhardt denied that he keeps a calendar but said he has staff that creates entries on a daily schedule for “the organization of daily appointments.”
Last week, Senator Tom Udall and Representative Betty McCollum wrote a letter to Interior’s Office of Inspector General calling for an investigation into the ethical irregularities of David Bernhardt and asking for a review whether the ethical policies that apply to Bernhardt are sufficient.
To prevent additional information from being released to the public, Bernhardt’s Interior Department proposed rules to limit Freedom of Information Act requests. A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley and House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, wrote a letter to Bernhardt saying the “proposed rule needlessly encroaches” on the public’s right to government information.
As part of Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda, Bernhardt's Bureau of Land Management has offered more than 17 million acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing since 2017. Leases for oil and gas development covering more than 2.9 million acres have been purchased at auction.
During the latest federal government shutdown, Acting Secretary Bernhardt recalled Interior employees to process more than one hundred offshore and onshore oil and gas drilling permits and environmental reviews—at least 73 permits were for companies with ties to Bernhardt. Members of Congress have sent two letters to Bernhardt asking for an explanation—Bernhardt has not made a response publicly available.
As Deputy Interior Secretary, Bernhardt has led the agency’s charge to weaken the Endangered Species Act. Interior has proposed policy changes to weaken protections for threatened species by allowing economic considerations to override wildlife protections and limiting input from other federal government agencies.
Just four months after joining the Interior Department as Deputy Secretary, Bernhardt directed Interior staff to weaken wildlife protections for California’s delta smelt—a narrow policy change that would directly benefit one of Bernhardt’s former clients, Westlands Water District. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren, in addition to the Campaign Legal Center, sent letters to Interior’s Inspector General and a top ethics official expressing significant concern about Bernhardt taking actions to benefit Westlands Water District.
Oil and gas companies with ties to Acting Interior Secretary Bernhardt own more than 20 percent of all federal oil and gas leases that overlap with sage-grouse habitat across five Western states — Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. Earlier this month, Bernhardt announced finalized changes to sage-grouse conservation plans covering seven Western states—removing wildlife protections over 8.9 million acres of sage-grouse habitat. One in five of all oil and gas leases offered since the start of the Trump administration have been in areas identified by states as important wildlife migration corridors.
In early March, Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced plans to lift Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf in the lower 48 states. Scientists dispute the administration’s reasoning for delisting.
President Trump’s Interior Department has removed nearly 13.5 million acres of protections from public lands across the country, including major reductions of two national monuments in Utah, as well as millions of acres of sagebrush habitat across the West.
A news report revealed that the Trump administration met with a uranium mining company with claims inside of Bears Ears National Monument before announcing an executive order to review monument designations. Documents released following a House Natural Resources Committee Hearing revealed that Interior officials directed Bureau of Land Management staff to remove coal resources from the boundaries of the redrawn Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, regardless of the monument’s paleontological resources and against the recommendations of the Bureau of Land Management.
Despite widespread support for public land conservation in the West, Acting Secretary Bernhardt has made it clear he has no interest in protecting America’s national parks. Congress’ recent bipartisan reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) appears to have had little impact on the funding priorities laid out by President Trump and Acting Secretary Bernhardt in the Fiscal Year 2020 proposed Interior Department budget. The proposal asks Congress to eliminate 95 percent of federal-level LWCF appropriations, leaving critical parts of national parks, public lands, and wildlife habitat at risk of development.
In addition, the 2020 budget would cut the National Park Service budget by 17 percent, eliminating hundreds of jobs from the park service and cutting $113 million from major maintenance and construction needs.
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CROP PROGRESS AND CONDITION MONTH OF MARCH 2019
AGRICULTURAL SUMMARY: Utah saw some moisture over the last few weeks, and snowpack levels remain well above normal, according to the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. Topsoil moisture level conditions rated surplus rose from 9 percent to 50 percent, with the moisture received. Barley planting progress is currently at 1 percent, slightly behind last year. Good condition ratings for cattle and calves fell from 76 percent to 65 percent and sheep and lambs from 74 percent to 68 percent. The percentage of cattle and calves receiving supplemental feed is 89 percent, compared to 82 percent from a year ago. Box Elder County reports good moisture over the last month, with excellent snowpack in the mountains. Wasatch County reports good snow cover. Uintah County reports beef producers have lost a high percentage of their calves due to deep snow. Beaver County reports lots of sick young calves with the wet, cold weather. Hay and roughage supplies were rated 9 percent very short, 31 percent short, 53 percent adequate, and 7 percent surplus. Stock water supplies were rated 7 percent short, 92 percent adequate, and 1 percent surplus.
Note: The first weekly report will be released on Monday, April 1, 2019.
NA – not available (--) – zero
SOIL MOISTURE CONDITION Commodity Current report Previous report Previous year 5-year average Topsoil moisture (percent) (percent) (percent) (percent) Very short ......................................................... -- -- 3 NA Short ................................................................. -- -- 28 NA Adequate .......................................................... 50 91 63 NA Surplus ............................................................. 50 9 6 NA Subsoil moisture Very short ......................................................... -- -- 10 NA Short ................................................................. 1 11 27 NA Adequate .......................................................... 77 83 63 NA Surplus ............................................................. 22 6 -- NA NA – not available (--) – zero
CROP AND LIVESTOCK PROGRESS Commodity Current report Previous report Previous year 5-year average (percent) (percent) (percent) (percent) Barley Planted ............................................................... 1 NA 8 NA Cattle and calves Cows calved ....................................................... 41 12 40 NA Receiving supplemental feed ............................. 89 93 82 NA Sheep and lambs Ewes lambed – farm flock ................................. 44 21 36 NA Ewes lambed – range flock ................................ 7 1 5 NA Receiving supplemental feed ............................. 68 67 66 NA
CROP, LIVESTOCK, PASTURE AND RANGE CONDITION Current report Previous report Previous year 5-year average (percent) (percent) (percent) (percent) Pasture and range Very poor .......................................................... 12 1 4 NA Poor ................................................................... 14 17 24 NA Fair .................................................................... 29 27 42 NA Good ................................................................. 31 54 30 NA Excellent ........................................................... 14 1 -- NA Winter wheat Very poor .......................................................... -- -- 2 NA Poor ................................................................... 9 4 14 NA Fair .................................................................... 28 32 56 NA Good ................................................................. 56 58 24 NA Excellent ........................................................... 7 6 4 NA Cattle and calves Very poor .......................................................... -- -- -- NA Poor ................................................................... 7 4 2 NA Fair .................................................................... 28 20 19 NA Good ................................................................. 65 76 69 NA Excellent ........................................................... -- -- 10 NA Sheep and lambs Very poor .......................................................... -- -- -- NA Poor ................................................................... 6 5 2 NA Fair .................................................................... 26 21 24 NA Good ................................................................. 68 74 66 NA Excellent ........................................................... -- -- 8
