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- 「マッキーに（覚醒剤を）もらった」 槇原敬之容疑者を警視庁がマークした理由〈週刊朝日〉（AERA dot.） - Yahoo!ニュース
- Roundup: Brunswick hockey team uses three-goal third period to defeat Gunnery - Greenwich Time
- Lynn Cohen, ‘Sex and the City’ Actress and Veteran Broadway Performer, Dies at 86 - TheWrap
- Virus renews safety concerns about slaughtering wild animals - Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Paula Kelly, Emmy-nominated actress, dancer, and singer, dies at 77 - The Boston Globe
- Pregnant actresses: 'We're not treated like people' - BBC News
- Coronavirus Covid-19 sweeps in to upend global IT supply chains - IDG Connect
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| 「マッキーに（覚醒剤を）もらった」 槇原敬之容疑者を警視庁がマークした理由〈週刊朝日〉（AERA dot.） - Yahoo!ニュース Posted: 15 Feb 2020 12:36 AM PST 「マッキーに（覚醒剤を）もらった」 槇原敬之容疑者を警視庁がマークした理由〈週刊朝日〉（AERA dot.） - Yahoo!ニュース  覚醒剤と危険ドラッグ「ラッシュ」を所持したとして、覚醒剤取締法違反（所持）と、医薬品医療機器法違反（同）の疑いでシンガー・ソングライター槇原敬之（本名・範之）容疑者（50）が警視庁に逮捕された事件。希代のヒットメーカーの再度の過ちに、テレビ各局はイメージソングを差し替えるなど対応に追われている。 「関西のテレビ局は槇原容疑者による社歌の扱いに頭を悩ませているし、某キー局は番組冒頭で流れるテーマソングが差し替えになるなど大混乱」（テレビ局芸能デスク） 本誌が既に報じているが、事件の端緒は2年前にさかのぼる。 槇原容疑者は2018年3月30日に東京都港区海岸のマンションの1室で指定薬物の亜硝酸イソブチルを含む液体64・2ミリリットルを所持し、同年4月11日には同じ部屋で覚醒剤0・083グラムを所持した疑いだ。 このマンションには当時、槇原容疑者と共に、所属していた芸能事務所関係者の男性（43）が住んでおり、男性は18年3月16日と30日に覚醒剤を所持したなどとして起訴され有罪判決を受けている。 薬物事件を専門に扱う警視庁組織犯罪対策5課は、その後の捜査で槇原容疑者も関与した疑いが強いと判断し、13日午後に渋谷区神宮前の自宅で逮捕したというわけだ。 そもそも警視庁は2年前の事件をなぜこのタイミングで立件したのだろうか？ 「実は1999年の最初の逮捕以降、槇原容疑者をずっとマークしていたんだ。組対5課では一度逮捕した人物を定期的に行動確認して動きがおかしければ、24時間体制で監視する。2年前の関係者の男性の事件との接点を裏付けるものがあるから逮捕している」（捜査関係者） 警視庁組織対策5課にとっては厚労省麻薬取締部がライバル組織で日々手柄を競い合っている。社会的反響が大きい芸能人やスポーツ選手などをターゲットにさまざまな手段で事件の種になる情報を収集しているという。 「一番多いのはタレコミ。S（スパイ）も使うなど端緒をつかんだら徹底してマークする。ゴミもあさってブツを入手することもある。ルートによって相関図を作っているが必ず芸能人の名前が入っている」（警視庁関係者） 捜査関係者によれば、2年前の事件で槇原容疑者の関係者男性の自宅から押収された覚醒剤が入っていた袋から槇原容疑者の指紋が検出されたという。また、関係者の男性は覚醒剤について、「マッキーにもらった」という趣旨の供述をしているという。 槇原容疑者の口から事件について語られることが果たしてあるのだろうか。（本誌・野田太郎） ※週刊朝日オンライン限定記事 2020-02-15 06:53:00Z https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiRWh0dHBzOi8vaGVhZGxpbmVzLnlhaG9vLmNvLmpwL2FydGljbGU_YT0yMDIwMDIxNS0wMDAwMDAxMy1zYXNhaGktc29jadIBAA?oc=5  |
| Roundup: Brunswick hockey team uses three-goal third period to defeat Gunnery - Greenwich Time Posted: 15 Feb 2020 12:29 AM PST  Three unanswered third-period goals lifted the Brunswick School ice hockey team to a 5-2 road win over The Gunnery on Friday. Ranked eighth in the latest USHR.com weekly prep poll, Brunswick improved to 18-5-2 overall with its seventh triumph in its last eight games. Brunswick has four regular season games remaining ahead of a potential post-season bid, including a rematch with Gunnery at Hartong Rink on Friday. Brunswick's Andon Cerbone tallied the opening goal of the game, taking a pass from Connor Welsh from behind the net and scoring with the team on a power play in the second period. Gunnery notched a tying goal following a faceoff win in the Bruins' zone to make it a 1-1 midway through the second period. With 8:51 remaining in the second frame, Matthew McGroarty netted a tough-angle shot, giving the Bruins a 2-1 lead. In the final seconds of the second period, the hosts knotted the score at 2-2 with a goal. In the decisive third period, the Bruins started their three-goal run with a wrister by Jakub Teply off a rebound during a power play at the 8:34 mark. Welsh added another extra-man goal on an odd-man rush, giving Brunswick a 4-2 cushion with 5:50 remaining. McGroarty scored an empty-netter with less than two minutes to play to cap the scoring. GREENWICH BOYS BASKETBALL Senior forward Jayden Solomon scored 22 points for Greenwich, which built a 17-point halftime lead in its 58-40 win over host Bridgeport Central in an FCIAC matchup on Thursday night. Solomon scored 10 of his game-high 22 points in the third quarter for the Cardinals, who entered halftime with a 33-16 advantage. "Jayden had a really outstanding game," GHS coach Chris Lovermi said. "He scored on a variety of drives to the basket and provided a big lift offensively." Junior forward Mason Muir scored 10 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, while sophomore forward Chason Barber had 10 points and 10 rebounds in the winning effort. "Our inside game was key tonight," Lovermi said. "We took full advantage of our size in the post area." Senior guard Daniel Lustosa scored eight points, including two 3-pointers for Greenwich, which led 52-30 after three quarters of play. Junior Jamir Saunders scored 16 points, with three 3-pointers for Central. Jeremiah Devalt added 11 points for the Hilltoppers. "Defensively, we were solid," Lovermi said. "We did a good job of shutting down their dribble-drive game and that allowed us to get a lead." Greenwich (4-12, 3-10 FCIAC) hosts Trumbull Wednesday at 7 p.m. GREENWICH HIGH GIRLS BASKETBALL The Cardinals ran their record to 13-5 by rolling to a 62-24 victory over visiting Bridgeport Central in an FCIAC game held on Wednesday night. The win also improved Greenwich's record in FCIAC play to 11-4. Greenwich is in fifth place in the FCIAC with two games remaining in the regular season. Eight teams qualify for the FCIAC Tournament, which begins on Feb. 22, with the quarterfinals being played at Staples. Senior guard Kate Loughran paced a balanced scoring effort for Greenwich with 12 points. Loughran also made two 3-pointers in the win. Freshman forward Mackenzie Nelson added 11 points, eight of which came in the first half, while sophomore guard Kristin Riggs scored 10 points for the victors. Senior forward Julia Conforti scored seven points, senior guard Jordan Moses had six points and freshman guard Ava Sollene and sophomore forward Kelly Martyanov added five points apiece. Conforti and senior forward Ciara Munnelly each had four rebounds and two steals, while sophomore forward Kayla Anderson had two rebounds. Nelson tallied three rebounds, four assists and five steals. Kiara Powell had nine points for Central. Up next for Greenwich is a home game on Saturday at 12 p.m. against Wright Tech. dfierro@greenwichtime.com "Goal" - Google News February 14, 2020 at 06:30PM https://ift.tt/2Stj5gn Roundup: Brunswick hockey team uses three-goal third period to defeat Gunnery - Greenwich Time "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Lynn Cohen, ‘Sex and the City’ Actress and Veteran Broadway Performer, Dies at 86 - TheWrap Posted: 15 Feb 2020 12:21 AM PST  |
| Virus renews safety concerns about slaughtering wild animals - Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted: 14 Feb 2020 11:41 PM PST  BEIJING — China cracked down on the sale of exotic species after an outbreak of a new virus in 2002 was linked to markets selling live animals. The germ turned out to be a coronavirus that caused SARS. The ban was later lifted, and the animals reappeared. Now another coronavirus is spreading through China, so far killing 1,380 people and sickening more than 64,000 — eight times the number sickened by SARS. The suspected origin? The same type of market. With more than 60 million people under lockdown in more than a dozen Chinese cities, the new outbreak is prompting calls to permanently ban the sale of wildlife, which many say is being fueled by a limited group of wealthy people who consider the animals delicacies. The spreading illness also serves as a grim reminder that how animals are handled anywhere can endanger people everywhere. "There's a vast number of viruses in the animal world that have not spread to humans, and have the potential to do so," said Robert Webster, an expert on influenza viruses at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. SARS and the current outbreak of COVID-19 are not the only diseases in people traced back to animals. The killing and sale of what is known as bushmeat in Africa is thought to be a source for Ebola. Bird flu likely came from chickens at a market in Hong Kong in 1997. Measles is believed to have evolved from a virus that infected cattle. Scientists have not yet determined exactly how the new coronavirus first infected people. Evidence suggests it originated in bats, which infected another animal that spread it to people at a market in the southeastern city of Wuhan. The now-shuttered Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market advertised dozens of species such as giant salamanders, baby crocodiles and raccoon dogs that were often referred to as wildlife, even when they were farmed. Of the 33 samples from the Wuhan market that tested positive for the coronavirus, officials say 31 were from the area where wildlife booths were concentrated. Compared with long domesticated livestock like chickens and pigs, researchers say less is known about the viruses that circulate in wild animals. The Wuhan market was also like many other "wet markets" in Asia and elsewhere, where animals are tied up or stacked in cages. Activists say it's difficult to distinguish between those that were legally farmed and those that may have been illegally hunted. The animals are often killed on site to ensure freshness. The messy mix raises the tiny odds that a new virus will jump to people handling the animals and start to spread, experts say. "You've got live animals, so there's feces everywhere. There's blood because of people chopping them up," said Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, which works to protect wildlife and public health from emerging diseases. And more frequent global travel and trade means there's greater risk for outbreaks to spread, Daszak said. China's taste for wildlife is relatively new, prompted by the country's economic growth, said Peter Li, who studies Chinese politics at the University of Houston. But with the outbreak upending lives across the country, many on Chinese social media are expressing frustration that rich people's appetite for wild animals is again endangering everyone else. "This is the second time … the first is SARS, this time is Wuhan. We don't want a third time," Lai Xinping, a project cost assessor, said by phone from her home in Sichuan. "We hate them too, and we are blamed," said Tao Yiwei, a 36-year-old homemaker. She is among those who want the temporary ban on wildlife, enacted to contain the current outbreak, to be permanent. There are signs the Chinese government may make more lasting changes to how exotic species are raised and sold. This month, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said the country should "resolutely outlaw and harshly crack down" on the illegal wildlife trade because of the public health risks it poses. In the eastern province of Anhui, officials sealed farms breeding species like badgers and bamboo rats. In the port city of Tianjin, authorities say their crackdown on the sale of wildlife caught six traders, including three who were selling pythons and parrots. All told, officials say about 1.5 million markets and online operators nationwide have been inspected since the outbreak began. About 3,700 have been shut down, and around 16,000 breeding sites have been cordoned off. It's not clear how the measures will play out over time. Before the outbreak began, it was legal in China to sell 54 species like pangolins and civets — as long as they were raised on farms . That made it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal wildlife in wet markets, and enforcement was lax, said Jinfeng Zhou of China Biodiversity, Conservation and Green Development Foundation, an environmental group based in Beijing. He pointed to a widely shared image of a Wuhan market advertisement listing 72 species, including peacocks and bullfrogs, as proof that the trade is too lucrative to be stopped by anything less than a total ban on all wildlife. "The profit is huge ... like drugs," Jinfeng said. Others disagree, arguing that banning the wildlife trade is not a realistic way to reduce risk, especially in poorer regions of the world where it can be an important food source. They say improved monitoring, regulation or public education may better control the problem. When wildlife is farmed, for example, it allows for greater surveillance and testing for viruses, said Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance. Even if China successfully regulates or bans it, the wildlife trade is likely to continue elsewhere. Recent visits to wet markets in the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia and in the coastal city of Doula in Cameroon revealed similar conditions to wet markets in China. Vendors were slaughtering and grilling bats, dogs, rats, crocodiles and snakes, and sanitary measures were scant. Ongoing destruction of species' habitats will likely bring people into closer contact with animals and their viruses, said Raina Plowright, a Montana State University researcher who studies how diseases spread from wildlife to people. "We are inevitably going to be exposed," she said. ___ This story has been corrected to indicate that Raina Plowright is affiliated with Montana State University, not the University of Montana. 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| Paula Kelly, Emmy-nominated actress, dancer, and singer, dies at 77 - The Boston Globe Posted: 14 Feb 2020 11:21 PM PST Advertisement She also toured with Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, twirled alongside Sammy Davis Jr. and Gene Kelly on dance specials and variety shows, acted in Broadway productions directed by improv guru Paul Sills, and accompanied the UCLA marching band at the Academy Awards in 1969, performing a playful solo routine to ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' that introduced her to millions of viewers nationwide. ''I suspect you are going to notice her — cool and angular and with legs as elegantly articulated as an aristocratic crane's — wherever she turns up, this year or next,'' New York Times theater critic Walter Kerr wrote in 1971, after Ms. Kelly starred in Sills's adaptation of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses.'' ''Some performers are performers; a few are presences.'' Ms. Kelly made her Broadway debut in 1964 with the musical ''Something More!'' and, after being spotted at a Caesars Palace dance show in Las Vegas, was cast in the musical ''Sweet Charity'' on London's West End, winning a British theater award for her supporting role as a ballroom dancer-for-hire. Advertisement Loosely inspired by Federico Fellini's film ''Nights of Cabiria,'' ''Sweet Charity'' was adapted into a 1969 movie by Fosse, with Ms. Kelly appearing alongside Shirley MacLaine and Chita Rivera, dancing on a rooftop for ''There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This'' and pursuing a client in the sultry number ''Big Spender.'' ''Sweet Charity'' launched Ms. Kelly's film career, leading to roles as a nurse in the science-fiction thriller ''The Andromeda Strain'' (1971) and a love interest in ''Soylent Green'' (1973). At a time when relatively few movie parts existed for Blacks, Ms. Kelly also starred in Black-oriented films such as ''Cool Breeze'' (1972), a remake of ''The Asphalt Jungle'' starring Thalmus Rasulala, and ''Trouble Man'' (1972), featuring Robert Hooks and a soundtrack by Marvin Gaye. Her other film roles included Dahomey Queen, a prostitute who becomes involved with a Black revolutionary in the CIA movie ''The Spook Who Sat by the Door'' (1973); Leggy Peggy, the wife of a congressman in ''Uptown Saturday Night'' (1974), an action comedy starring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, and Belafonte; and Satin Doll, a stripper in ''Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling'' (1986), Richard Pryor's sole feature film as a director. She also became a frequent TV guest star, appearing in programs such as ''The Carol Burnett Show,'' ''Sanford and Son,'' ''Police Woman,'' ''Hill Street Blues,'' ''Kojak,'' and ''Golden Girls.'' In 1984, she played a public defender on the NBC sitcom ''Night Court,'' earning her first Emmy nomination but leaving the show after only one season. Advertisement She received another Emmy nomination for ''The Women of Brewster Place,'' a 1989 ABC miniseries that Oprah Winfrey's production company adapted from a novel by Gloria Naylor. The show was unusual in spotlighting the daily lives of Black women on network television and featured Winfrey, as well as Cicely Tyson, Jackée Harry, Lynn Whitfield, and Robin Givens. Ms. Kelly played Theresa, who lived at Brewster Place with her partner Lorraine (Lonette McKee). The actors delivered ''perhaps the most compelling and compassionate portrayals of lesbians on television,'' wrote Boston Globe arts critic Ed Siegel. Paula Alma Kelly was born in Jacksonville, Fla., on Oct. 21, 1942, and raised in Harlem. ''My mother said that I danced before I walked,'' Ms. Kelly told Eichenbaum, recalling a childhood in which jazz music blared from open windows. She later told the New Pittsburgh Courier, ''The only time I feel complete expression is when I'm dancing. Then I feel I have no problems, no worries, no hang-ups. I feel I could do anything in the world.'' Ms. Kelly studied at the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan before enrolling at Juilliard. She took time off from school after her second year to make her professional debut on tour with Belafonte; according to school records, she left permanently in the spring of 1964 without receiving a degree. Her theater career took off with Broadway productions including ''The Dozens,'' a 1969 comedy in which she starred alongside Al Freeman Jr. and Morgan Freeman. That same year, amid the boundary-breaking upheaval of the sexual revolution, she made headlines when she danced nude for full-frontal photos in Playboy magazine. (Rolling Stone called them ''notably 'artistic,' suggestive of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase.") Advertisement Ms. Kelly later appeared in the Los Angeles production of ''Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope,'' a Black musical revue by Micki Grant; helped choreograph a musical adaptation of ''Peter Pan'' for NBC in 1976 (she played Tiger Lily); and danced in the 1982 touring production of ''Sophisticated Ladies,'' a Duke Ellington revue. In 1985, she married British film and television director Don Chaffey, who died in 1990. Nearly two decades later, she performed for the last time, in a Pasadena Playhouse production of Regina Taylor's ''Crowns.'' Fittingly, she was Mother Shaw, a grandmother character that one critic called ''a living link to the generations that have passed.'' 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| Pregnant actresses: 'We're not treated like people' - BBC News Posted: 14 Feb 2020 11:21 PM PST  Claire Danes's pregnant belly was hidden with computer graphics in the second season of Homeland, Olivia Coleman hid hers in big sweaters during filming of The Night Manager. And when Gillian Anderson's bump could no longer be hidden on the X-files, "Scully" was abducted by aliens. But not all actors are indulged by the production. Those playing smaller parts in films and commercials often find they are forced to hide their pregnancies, not from the viewers but from people making the programmes themselves. Some are successful, but many are mistreated by an industry marked by high staff turnover, an overabundance of competition and in some cases, a profound lack of respect. Several women spoke to the BBC on the condition of anonymity. All say they lost jobs or auditions when it was found they were pregnant. Either they were asked to disclose their pregnancy on a form before their audition, or they were asked in person during their interview. Three who spoke to the BBC were not showing at the time their commercials would have been shot. 'I felt so weak'Sarah (not her real name) describes herself as a jobbing actress. She mainly works on films and TV but commercials help her to pay the bills. Early in her pregnancy, she had reservations about a commercial audition that her agent had scheduled. She decided to tell him her news and she expected the worst. "But, he was brilliant," she says. He told her about her rights. How under the Equality Act, she was not required to disclose her pregnancy until 15 weeks before her due date. "They are not allowed to discriminate against you," he promised. The casting notice for the audition, often called a breakdown, said the ad might require some physical activity, but also mentioned a stunt double might be used for the more highly athletic moments. Together, Sarah and her agent decided she should just go to the audition and see. "You always want to be ready and available for work," she says. Her worry grew as she sat among the other actresses in the waiting area outside of the audition room. Women coming out of the session were stressed and said the experience was physically taxing. Sarah was up next. Her name was called alongside another actress who was also auditioning for the same role. They went in as a pair to see the casting director. The other woman was chosen first to read out the lines. Then the casting director turned to Sarah. "You'll do the physical part. Are you fit?" she was asked. "I am fit, but I need to be safe," she said. "Why?" said the casting director. "Because I am pregnant," said Sarah. She says the casting director then became angry, saying: "Didn't you read the script? What did you think we were going to do today? I don't even understand why you have come. Don't you think it was a bad idea?" Sarah says she felt humiliated, and froze. "I said to the casting director I'm so sorry for wasting your time, and then I even said to the other actress - I'm so sorry didn't mean to waste your time either". "Then the casting director said, 'Yes, I think it's best if you leave'." Sarah left the casting and once on the street, she burst into tears. "It made me feel so unconfident about my pregnancy and my own physical ability. It made me feel so weak." Her "confidence was knocked," she says, until she won a role on a television series, where the production was much friendlier and had no problem shooting her from the bump up. Tim Gale, head of commercials at the actor's union, Equity, is well acquainted with standing up for his members on this issue. "We used to get two to three calls a week but we get less than one a month now," says Mr Gale. Sometimes, a form is provided in the waiting room which asks an actor to tick a box to say if they or their partner are expecting. Actors of both sexes who sent the BBC copies of these forms, say that when they disclosed a pregnancy, jobs they had secured were either pulled or delayed. A few said they spoke with the union and assumed the problem had been sorted after their particular situation was treated. But Mr Gale says even in recent weeks, he has seen these forms pop up. Actors' Equity along with the Casting Directors Association and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, have drafted an artist declaration form. The form only asks an actor to disclose any reputational risk or any reason an actor might not be able to travel by plane. There is no mention of pregnancy. The actor's union has lobbied production companies to use this new form, but there is such high staff turnover in production companies, the old forms keep popping up. Sometimes the insurance companies that underwrite commercial productions demand such a form be used and Equity has had to fight this, too. Pregnancy is not a disability under the Equality Act - and therefore insurance companies cannot demand the production company deny work to those expecting. 'A long road'If an actress wins a role, an insurance company is allowed to ask after the health of an actress. Commercial productions only film for a day or two and an intense risk assessment is carried out to factor costs that might occur from a delay in shooting. While it is not appropriate to ask at the job interview stage, once they are cast, the insurance company backing the production can ask, for example, if an actress is pregnant. They can also raise their premiums if they find out a woman is pregnant, but extra costs have no impact on the law. The actress cannot be fired, as it would be discrimination. However, experts say, the same insurance company could be liable if a director or producer misuses that information and the actress is fired. "Things are much better than they were, even five years ago. But it has been a long road getting to this point," says Mr Gale. The association which represents casting directors says it is not acceptable to ask actors if they are pregnant "before or at casting calls". "If actors are pregnant, we would expect casting directors to support them, as well as those who may be breastfeeding or have childcare commitments," says Kate Evans the chair of the Casting Directors Association. Know your rightsMany actors are unaware of their rights under the 2010 Equality Act. The Equality and Human Rights Commission - responsible for enforcing the act - says actors should not be asked any personal questions about relationships and family planning in interviews. "Such attitudes are straight out of the dark ages and have no place in a modern working culture," says the Commission. "Everyone has the right to work and a working environment that allows them to achieve their full potential." Katie Wood, a barrister for Maternity Action says sometimes the law is misinterpreted because employers think the Equality Act only covers full-time employees, but pregnancy rights extend to the self-employed as well. "To ask someone about whether their partner was pregnant holds the potential for associative discrimination," she says. English case law on actors is varied and in some results, actors have been categorised as "service providers". This means they work like a sole trader who might provide a service to a company, much like a plumber. But Ms Wood says even then, the Equality Act applies. 'Lonely experience'One actress tells the BBC that she continued to work because she just "flat out refused" to mention her pregnancy. "I didn't tell my agent. I didn't tell anyone. I was afraid it would cost me work." She was cast in a film and between the costume fitting and the movie shoot there were a couple of weeks. "When I put on my costume I had definitely gained weight. They asked, 'what happened?' And I just threw up my hands and said, 'Oh, yeah. I wonder why'." She did not know what her rights were and she felt it was just better to keep it a secret because actors are "so easily replaceable". Having courage was hard, she says. "I had such bad sickness in the beginning, but couldn't tell anyone. I was also nervous because what if something went wrong? "What should have been such a natural thing was a really lonely experience." Another actress agrees: "As actors, we are not treated like people. It's like we just don't matter." "Actress" - Google News February 14, 2020 at 09:48PM https://ift.tt/2HoLiP9 Pregnant actresses: 'We're not treated like people' - BBC News "Actress" - Google News https://ift.tt/31HZgDn Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Coronavirus Covid-19 sweeps in to upend global IT supply chains - IDG Connect Posted: 14 Feb 2020 10:41 PM PST  Phil Muncaster has been writing about technology since joining IT Week as a reporter in 2005. After leaving his post as news editor of online site V3 in 2012, Phil spent over two years covering the Asian tech scene from his base in Hong Kong. Now back in London, he always has one eye on what's happening out East. Top stories - Google News February 14, 2020 at 01:00AM https://ift.tt/3bFpyMY Coronavirus Covid-19 sweeps in to upend global IT supply chains - IDG Connect Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Coronavirus death toll leaps, party bosses in China's Hubei province sacked - Himalayan Times Posted: 14 Feb 2020 10:11 PM PST
BEIJING: The Chinese province at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in the death toll on Thursday under a new diagnostic method, and Beijing sacked two top provincial officials after criticism of their handling of the crisis. Health officials in Hubei province said 242 people had died from the flu-like virus on Wednesday, the fastest rise in the daily count since the pathogen was identified in December, and taking the total number of deaths to more than 1,350. A total of 1,310 deaths have been reported from Hubei.  A worker with sanitizing equipment crosses the road in front of a hospital in Yichang city of Hubei, the province hit hardest by the novel coronavirus outbreak, China February 12, 2020. Picture taken February 12, 2020. China Daily via Reuters Asian stock markets wobbled and the safe-havens of the Japanese yen, gold and bonds rose after the new Hubei numbers dashed hopes the epidemic was stabilising and the Chinese economy could bounce back quickly. The spike in the death toll came a day after markets were cheered when China reported its lowest number of new cases in two weeks, bolstering a forecast by the country's senior medical adviser that the epidemic could end by April. Reports in state-run media said provincial Communist Party boss Jiang Chaoliang had been sacked as secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee, and Ma Guoqiang had been removed as party chief in the provincial capital Wuhan. The reports did not give a reason for the dismissals but the two are the most high-profile Chinese officials to be removed from duty following the coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan late last year. "Thank you Communist Party. It should have been done earlier," Wuhan resident Wang You told Reuters. Dozens of low-level health officials across the country have also lost their jobs for failing to contain the epidemic, which is believed to have emerged from a market in Wuhan where wildlife was traded illegally. Another 14,840 cases were reported in Hubei alone on Thursday, from 2,015 new cases nationwide a day earlier, after provincial officials started using computerised tomography (CT) scans to look for signs of the virus. About 60,000 people have now been confirmed to have the virus, the vast majority in China. Hubei had previously only allowed infections to be confirmed by RNA tests, which can take days to process. RNA, or ribonucleic acid, carries genetic information allowing for identification of organisms like viruses. Using quicker CT scans that reveal lung infections would help patients get treatment more quickly and improve chances of recovery, the Hubei health commission said. The new diagnostic procedure could explain the spike in deaths, according to Raina McIntyre, head of biosecurity research at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales. "Presumably, there are deaths which occurred in people who did not have a lab diagnosis but did have a CT. It is important that these also be counted," she told Reuters. The new testing methodology is only being used in Hubei province, Chinese officials said. 'IS THIS REAL?' The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday the number of cases of infection in China had stabilised but it was too early to say the epidemic was slowing. "This outbreak could still go in any direction," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva. Chinese scientists are testing two antiviral drugs and preliminary clinical trial results are weeks away but a vaccine could take 18 months to develop. Hundreds of infections have been reported in more than two dozen other countries and territories, but only two people have died from the virus outside mainland China – one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines. The biggest cluster of cases outside China is on a cruise ship quarantined off the Japanese port of Yokohama, where a further 44 cases were reported on Thursday. In all, 219 of about 3,700 people on board have tested positive. There was a happy ending for another cruise ship, the MS Westerdam, which docked in Cambodia after being denied docking rights in Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Guam and the Philippines over fears one of its 1,455 passengers and 802 crew might have the virus, even though none had tested positive. "Just seeing land was such a breathtaking moment," Angela Jones, an American tourist on the ship, told Reuters. "I thought: Is this real?" Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, remains under virtual lockdown, and other major Chinese cities are facing severe travel restrictions. Many airlines have suspended flights to China, while countries have imposed bans or quarantine for people arriving from China, disrupting businesses and playing havoc with conferences and sporting events. The Mobile World Congress, a telecoms industry gathering that draws more than 100,000 visitors to Barcelona, has been cancelled after an exodus of exhibitors. The Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix, set for Shanghai on April 19, was postponed, as was Singapore's rugby sevens tournament scheduled for April 11-12, a source said. Hong Kong, where 50 cases have been confirmed, extended the suspension of schools to March 16. 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| The BEST DUNKS From The NBA Rising Stars Game! | 2020 NBA All-Star - NBA Posted: 14 Feb 2020 10:11 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| Manchester City Banned From Champions League for 2 Seasons - The New York Times Posted: 14 Feb 2020 09:41 PM PST  Manchester City, the reigning Premier League champion and one of the world's richest soccer clubs, has been barred from the Champions League for the next two seasons for "serious breaches" of European soccer's financial regulations. The decision, announced Friday by an independent financial control body of UEFA, the governing body for soccer in Europe, found that Manchester City had been guilty of multiple violations related to club licensing and so-called financial fair play rules — cost controls put in place by UEFA to try to mitigate the growing gap between rich clubs and poor ones in European leagues, and to tackle a growing debt crisis. The club, which also was criticized for failing to cooperate with UEFA's investigators, also was fined 30 million euros ($32.5 million). The penalty is the most significant punishment UEFA has handed out in the decade since it created its financial fair play regulations, and if upheld its consequences for Manchester City's balance sheet and its competitive future could be severe. Participation in the Champions League is worth about $100 million a year to the club, and missing out on it could factor into the career decisions of some of the team's star players, potential signings and even City's coach, Pep Guardiola.
The ban has no effect on this year's Champions League; Manchester City, which has never won the competition, will play Real Madrid on Feb. 26 in the first leg of a home-and-home series in the round of 16. And City, which is currently second in the Premier League, may be able to delay a ban for next season if its appeal is not resolved before the 2020-21 Champions League begins this fall. UEFA's decision also raises the prospect of further penalties from the Premier League, which has its own cost control regulations that rely on clubs' providing accurate financial information. The Premier League said last March that it had opened an investigation into Manchester City in the wake of leaks of the club's internal documents in the Football Leaks hacking scandal. The Premier League's chief executive, Richard Masters, last week declined to answer when asked about the status of that investigation. Shortly after UEFA's ruling, City issued a statement indicating it would appeal the Champions League ban. "Manchester City is disappointed but not surprised by today's announcement by the UEFA Adjudicatory Chamber," the statement said. "The Club has always anticipated the ultimate need to seek out an independent body and process to impartially consider the comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence in support of its position." Manchester City already has sought to short-circuit the investigation by financial regulators at UEFA — and preserve its place in the Champions League, European soccer's richest competition and the trophy the club covets most — by appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. But in November the court rejected the appeal, in which City had tried to end the investigation on procedural grounds, by ruling that it could not hear the case until the club had exhausted the disciplinary process at UEFA. The earlier decision at CAS was not, its officials noted at the time, a verdict on whether Manchester City did or did not breach financial regulations, a charge that English soccer authorities and officials at UEFA had been investigating for months. Manchester City has vigorously denied wrongdoing, and its officials had warned UEFA that they would mount an aggressive response to any effort to bar the club from the competition. "The accusation of financial irregularities are entirely false," City said in a statement last year, after news media reports that it would face a one-year ban. Critics fear that City's ability to avoid punishment would be a death blow for UEFA's ability to impose financial limits on its clubs. Those rules, in place since 2011, were designed to impose a measure of financial fairness within the European soccer economy, but powerful clubs — including City, as well as Paris St.-Germain, A.C. Milan and others — have routinely avoided serious punishment for breaking them. Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga, the Spanish top flight, and a longstanding, outspoken critic of Manchester City praised UEFA for "finally taking decisive action." "Enforcing the rules of financial fair play and punishing financial doping is essential for the future of football," Tebas said. "We have been calling for severe action against Manchester City and Paris St.-Germain for years. Better late than never." Manchester City has assembled one of the best, and most expensive, teams in the world through the backing and financial might of the club's owner: Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the brother of the ruler of the United Arab Emirates. Sheik Mansour has invested hundreds of millions of dollars over the past two decades — on players, coaches, facilities and the team's operations — to transform Manchester City, which played in England's second tier as recently as 2002, into one of soccer's biggest and most successful clubs. Many of the allegations of financial impropriety against Manchester City came to light after they were reported by news media outlets with access to the Football Leaks files. The files are said to include emails and internal club documents showing efforts by City to get around UEFA's financial fair-play regulations. The scheme involved funneling millions of dollars from a United Arab Emirates state-backed investment company through inflated sponsorship agreements with entities including the U.A.E.'s national airline, Etihad. UEFA's rules permit sponsorships from companies linked to a club's owners, provided the agreements are struck at prices that reflect the market rate. The Etihad deals allowed the club to report tens of millions of dollars in income that was used to offset spending on new players. City has been aggressive in its approach to UEFA's financial regulations for years. According to one of the leaked emails, details of which were published by the German outlet Der Spiegel, a club lawyer, Simon Cliff, cited the club's chairman during an earlier financial fair play investigation as saying "he would rather spend 30 million pounds on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue them for the next 10 years." That process ended with City's agreeing a settlement with UEFA in 2014 in which the club accepted a fine of 49 million pounds and a restriction on its squad size and transfer market spending. Manchester City dismissed the initial reports of renewed financial impropriety as "an organized and clear attempt" to smear the club's reputation, and complained that any club documents had been obtained illegally. And CAS seemed to agree with some of the club's arguments even as its dismissed Manchester City's appeal in November. The court suggested the governing body's behavior in a separate case involving A.C. Milan highlighted a "rather nontransparent internal policy." It also said the leaks of Manchester City's internal documents, details of which remain confidential, and have not been linked directly to UEFA or any of its officials, were "worrisome." In its coming appeal, Manchester City may point to inconsistencies in the manner in which UEFA dealt with P.S.G. and its financial fair play case, even though the cases are not entirely similar. In City's case, UEFA concluded club officials had misled investigators and acted in bad faith when they presented details of sponsorship agreements that the leaked emails showed were not independent of the team's wealthy owner. In leaked emails, a club official stated that only a fraction of the sponsorship agreement with Etihad came from the airline; the rest, the email said, would be paid for by an investment vehicle controlled by Sheikh Mansour. Unlike City's owners, though, P.S.G. officials have been able to cultivate a close relationship with UEFA, where the club's president holds a seat on the organization's executive committee. The president, Nasser al-Khelaifi, is also a major executive at beIN Media Group, a broadcast company that is the biggest buyer of UEFA's television rights. Top stories - Google News February 14, 2020 at 10:43AM https://ift.tt/37qXwkX Manchester City Banned From Champions League for 2 Seasons - The New York Times Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Wendy’s employees fired after viral video shows worker bathing in kitchen sink - TODAY Posted: 14 Feb 2020 09:36 PM PST The food safety protocol at a Wendy's restaurant in Greenville, Michigan, was considerably compromised after an employee was caught bathing in the restaurant's kitchen sink. On Tuesday, Connor Somerfield shared a video (which was first posted to TikTok by user @paulkash2) on Facebook with an impassioned warning to potential Wendy's customers. The post, which now has nearly 3,000 shares, documented an unnamed person wading around in a sudsy sink at what was later confirmed to be a Wendy's restaurant kitchen. The original TikTok video has since been taken down, and the account that initially posted the video is no longer active. "So yeah I'm just gonna tell everyone right now DONT NOT GO TO THE GREENVILLE WENDYS. THIS IS DISGUSTING PLEASEEEEEE SHARE THIS," Somerville wrote on Facebook. Trending stories,celebrity news and all the best of TODAY. "See how they throw Dishes in with him," one person commented in horror, referring to the other uniformed employee tossing his coworker something with which to "wash" himself. Another stated an opinion rather simply: "Dude no. Not okay." Regulations for keeping food and food prep surfaces clean and safe are imperative to a successful restaurant. Unfortunately, the rules are sometimes broken. And lately, they are being broken with the sole purpose of achieving viral fame. Chipotle recently came under fire, for example, after employees reported that their managers are jeopardizing food safety in New York City restaurants. While specific codes may vary from restaurant to restaurant since they're monitored by local health departments, washing one's body where dishes are supposed to sanitized is a ubiquitous no-no. Regardless of the consequences, however, more and more employees are putting themselves (and people's meals) in questionable positions. Why? It's all for the sake of entertainment ... if that's what folks want to call it. Many people use TikTok for harmless stunts or even good deeds, likethe New York City-based deli worker who gives customers free snacks for solving math problems. But some people post rather unsavory footage in hopes of getting likes, shares, shocks and laughs. An employee at Panera recently exposed how the chain makes its mac and cheese. In exchange for going viral, she was ridiculed by viewers for not wearing gloves to cover her long nails during the food prep process and eventually lost her job for revealing what really goes on behind the curtain. The mystery Wendy's bather may have emerged from the tiny tub all clean and spiffy, but his time crafting Baconators is up. The people behind Team Schostak Family Restaurants, the restaurant group that owns the Greenville Wendy's, plus dozens of other Wendy's, Applebee's and other eateries, confirmed that the worker in the video has since been fired. "This egregious behavior is completely unacceptable and counter to our safety, training and operational standards. Upon learning of this situation, all employees in the video were terminated immediately and the restaurant was completely sanitized," Christian Camp, vice president of the company's human resources team, said in a statement provided to TODAY. "The health department visited the restaurant following this incident and no violations were reported."  "viral" - Google News February 14, 2020 at 11:07AM https://ift.tt/38vRa54 Wendy's employees fired after viral video shows worker bathing in kitchen sink - TODAY "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Chinese medical staff paying ‘too high a price’ in coronavirus battle - South China Morning Post Posted: 14 Feb 2020 09:11 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| Beijing Tightens Quarantine Rules in Coronavirus Battle - The New York Times Posted: 14 Feb 2020 07:41 PM PST  The authorities in China tightened their coronavirus quarantine rules for Beijing on Friday, saying that all residents returning from outside the capital city would be required to isolate themselves for 14 days. The order was the latest sign that China's leaders were still struggling to set the right balance in battling the coronavirus contagion that began a few months ago in Wuhan, 600 miles to the capital's south, while also restarting the economy, which has been hobbled by the epidemic. As of Friday, the coronavirus had infected more than 66,000 people, nearly all of them in mainland China — including more than 1,700 medical workers — and killed more than 1,500 people, all but three of them in mainland China. The infection also has reached into more than two dozen countries and territories, the latest being Egypt, which on Friday became the first country on the African continent to report a confirmed case. International health officials have expressed deep concern about coronavirus infections in Africa, where medical systems are among the least equipped to handle them. This week, China's top officials ordered people to return to their urban workplaces from their hometowns. Tens of millions had gone home to celebrate Lunar New Year holidays before the government acknowledged the seriousness of the epidemic. They have faced local government checkpoints on the way back to work and then lengthy quarantines upon their return to big cities. But while national leaders may be worried that travel restrictions and quarantines may be preventing companies from having enough workers to resume full production, that did not stop Beijing municipal leaders from further tightening controls in the city on Friday evening. The policy may reduce the chances that people returning from the hinterlands could infect the country's elite. The new rules also require those returning to the city to give advance warning of their arrival to the authorities in their residential area. China maintained extensive controls on citizens' movements under Mao, and some of the institutions and rules from that period have been reimposed lately. Even before Beijing issued its new rules, so-called neighborhood committees had been playing an increasingly assertive role across the country, including in Shanghai, the country's largest city. The committees have been demanding that recent returnees isolate themselves for 14 days upon arrival, venturing out for little except food. Anxiety about coronavirus transmissions has caused sharp drops in international travel and forced the cancellation or delay of many conferences and other events. But International Olympic Committee officials reiterated on Friday that the Summer Games in Tokyo would go on as planned, citing discussions with the World Health Organization. Top stories - Google News February 14, 2020 at 02:30PM https://ift.tt/2vw2eAO Beijing Tightens Quarantine Rules in Coronavirus Battle - The New York Times Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Virus renews safety concerns about slaughtering wild animals - Lowell Sun Posted: 14 Feb 2020 07:41 PM PST  By SAM McNEIL and CANDICE CHOI BEIJING (AP) — China cracked down on the sale of exotic species after an outbreak of a new virus in 2002 was linked to markets selling live animals. The germ turned out to be a coronavirus that caused SARS. The ban was later lifted, and the animals reappeared. Now another coronavirus is spreading through China, so far killing 1,380 people and sickening more than 64,000 — eight times the number sickened by SARS. The suspected origin? The same type of market. With more than 60 million people under lockdown in more than a dozen Chinese cities, the new outbreak is prompting calls to permanently ban the sale of wildlife, which many say is being fueled by a limited group of wealthy people who consider the animals delicacies. The spreading illness also serves as a grim reminder that how animals are handled anywhere can endanger people everywhere. "There's a vast number of viruses in the animal world that have not spread to humans, and have the potential to do so," said Robert Webster, an expert on influenza viruses at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. SARS and the current outbreak of COVID-19 are not the only diseases in people traced back to animals. The killing and sale of what is known as bushmeat in Africa is thought to be a source for Ebola. Bird flu likely came from chickens at a market in Hong Kong in 1997. Measles is believed to have evolved from a virus that infected cattle. Scientists have not yet determined exactly how the new coronavirus first infected people. Evidence suggests it originated in bats, which infected another animal that spread it to people at a market in the southeastern city of Wuhan. The now-shuttered Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market advertised dozens of species such as giant salamanders, baby crocodiles and raccoon dogs that were often referred to as wildlife, even when they were farmed. Of the 33 samples from the Wuhan market that tested positive for the coronavirus, officials say 31 were from the area where wildlife booths were concentrated. Compared with long domesticated livestock like chickens and pigs, researchers say less is known about the viruses that circulate in wild animals. The Wuhan market was also like many other "wet markets" in Asia and elsewhere, where animals are tied up or stacked in cages. Activists say it's difficult to distinguish between those that were legally farmed and those that may have been illegally hunted. The animals are often killed on site to ensure freshness. The messy mix raises the tiny odds that a new virus will jump to people handling the animals and start to spread, experts say. "You've got live animals, so there's feces everywhere. There's blood because of people chopping them up," said Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, which works to protect wildlife and public health from emerging diseases. And more frequent global travel and trade means there's greater risk for outbreaks to spread, Daszak said. China's taste for wildlife is relatively new, prompted by the country's economic growth, said Peter Li, who studies Chinese politics at the University of Houston. But with the outbreak upending lives across the country, many on Chinese social media are expressing frustration that rich people's appetite for wild animals is again endangering everyone else. "This is the second time … the first is SARS, this time is Wuhan. We don't want a third time," Lai Xinping, a project cost assessor, said by phone from her home in Sichuan. "We hate them too, and we are blamed," said Tao Yiwei, a 36-year-old homemaker. She is among those who want the temporary ban on wildlife, enacted to contain the current outbreak, to be permanent. There are signs the Chinese government may make more lasting changes to how exotic species are raised and sold. This month, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said the country should "resolutely outlaw and harshly crack down" on the illegal wildlife trade because of the public health risks it poses. In the eastern province of Anhui, officials sealed farms breeding species like badgers and bamboo rats. In the port city of Tianjin, authorities say their crackdown on the sale of wildlife caught six traders, including three who were selling pythons and parrots. All told, officials say about 1.5 million markets and online operators nationwide have been inspected since the outbreak began. About 3,700 have been shut down, and around 16,000 breeding sites have been cordoned off. It's not clear how the measures will play out over time. Before the outbreak began, it was legal in China to sell 54 species like pangolins and civets — as long as they were raised on farms . That made it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal wildlife in wet markets, and enforcement was lax, said Jinfeng Zhou of China Biodiversity, Conservation and Green Development Foundation, an environmental group based in Beijing. He pointed to a widely shared image of a Wuhan market advertisement listing 72 species, including peacocks and bullfrogs, as proof that the trade is too lucrative to be stopped by anything less than a total ban on all wildlife. "The profit is huge … like drugs," Jinfeng said. Others disagree, arguing that banning the wildlife trade is not a realistic way to reduce risk, especially in poorer regions of the world where it can be an important food source. They say improved monitoring, regulation or public education may better control the problem. When wildlife is farmed, for example, it allows for greater surveillance and testing for viruses, said Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance. Even if China successfully regulates or bans it, the wildlife trade is likely to continue elsewhere. Recent visits to wet markets in the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia and in the coastal city of Doula in Cameroon revealed similar conditions to wet markets in China. Vendors were slaughtering and grilling bats, dogs, rats, crocodiles and snakes, and sanitary measures were scant. Ongoing destruction of species' habitats will likely bring people into closer contact with animals and their viruses, said Raina Plowright, a University of Montana researcher who studies how diseases spread from wildlife to people. "We are inevitably going to be exposed," she said. ___ Associated Press writers Niniek Karmini in Jakarta, Indonesia, Maria Cheng in London, Malcolm Ritter and Kathy Young in New York, and researchers Liu Zheng and Yu Bing in Beijing, and Chen Si in Shanghai contributed to this report. __ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content. Top stories - Google News February 14, 2020 at 11:24AM https://ift.tt/2Sv3IE8 Virus renews safety concerns about slaughtering wild animals - Lowell Sun Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Viral video shows man punching woman’s reclined seat on a flight - The Jakarta Post - Jakarta Post Posted: 14 Feb 2020 07:36 PM PST Whether or not to recline your seat on a plane is an age-old debate, with some saying you should not recline and others saying if your chair has that little button, it is your prerogative to sit back and relax. An American Airlines passenger has claimed that a man sitting behind her went as far as to continually punch the back of her reclined seat, leaving her with a headache and in need of medical attention. Travel and Leisure reported that Wendi Williams recorded her experience, releasing the video on Twitter, after she believed American Airlines failed to handle the situation appropriately. "After much consideration, and exhausting every opportunity for #AmericanAirlines to do the right thing, I've decided to share my assault, from the passenger behind me, and the further threats, from an American Airline flight attendant," Williams wrote on Twitter on Feb. 8.
In the video posted, it appears as if the man seated behind her is intentionally and constantly hitting the back of her seat. According to Travel & Leisure, Williams says the man was punching the seat much harder before she started recording. She also says she had an existing neck and spinal condition that has needed further treatment since the incident. Read also: Passenger demands window seat, gets amusing response from flight attendant Williams added that the flight attendant did not help make the situation better. She wrote, "When the FA came. She rolled her eyes at me and said, 'What?' She then told him it was tight back there and gave him rum! She told me I had to delete the video! It's against the law to video on a plane. I asked her name and she gave me a Passenger Disturbance Notice!" In a statement released to NBC News, American Airlines said, "We are aware of a customer dispute that transpired on American Eagle flight 4392, operated by Republic Airways on January 31. The safety and comfort of our customers and team members is our top priority, and our team is looking into the issue." Afterward, Williams tweeted that she was contacted by American Airlines by phone. "The airline didn't really accept any culpability, although she apologized and said what happened was wrong." (mad/wng) Your premium period will expire in 0 day(s) close x Subscribe to get unlimited access Get 50% off now"viral" - Google News February 14, 2020 at 05:42PM https://ift.tt/3bBif8V Viral video shows man punching woman's reclined seat on a flight - The Jakarta Post - Jakarta Post "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Posted: 14 Feb 2020 07:29 PM PST COLUMBUS, Ohio - These may be Chris Kreider's final days wearing a New York Rangers uniform, but he's doing everything in his power to prevent that. In what amounted to one of the biggest wins of the season — perhaps the biggest — Kreider netted a goal on a pass from Mika Zibanejad to give the Rangers a crucial 3-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena on Friday. The goal broke a 1-1 tie with 3:11 to play, moments after a Rangers' power play had ended and Boone Jenner hit the post on a breakaway attempt that would have given the Blue Jackets the lead. The Rangers entered the day trailing Columbus (and the Philadelphia Flyers) by nine points for the two wild card spots in the Eastern Conference. The win amounts to a four-point swing and moves them to within seven points of a playoff spot. JOEY KEANE: Rangers recall defenseman prospect from AHL Hartford PREVIOUS GAME: With Igor Shesterkin out, Rangers win in shootout Pavel Buchnevich got the Rangers on the board quickly, tipping in a slap shot from Jacob Trouba just 22 seconds into the game. It was the 13th goal of the season for Buchnevich and sixth in his last 10 games. The Rangers were in control for most of the opening period, limiting the Blue Jackets to six shots on goal while generating 11 of their own. But the tide turned in the second. Columbus turned up the pressure with 22 shots on goal in the period. The Blue Jackets also had a four-minute power play following a double penalty from Buchnevich, but the Rangers successfully killed it. Alexandar Georgiev made some difficult saves to help the Rangers nearly escape the second period unscathed, but Columbus finally broke through with 1:08 remaining. Oliver Bjorkstrand pounced on a rebound from Gustav Nyquist and flicked a backhand over Georgiev's right shoulder to tie the score at 1.  Kreider came through in the third period to give the Rangers their first four-game winning streak of the season before Ryan Strome added an empty-netter. Moving parts and injury updatesPrior to the game, Rangers coach David Quinn announced that defenseman Tony DeAngelo would sit out with an upper-body injury he sustained near the end of regulation in Thursday's 4-3 shootout win over the Minnesota Wild. The Rangers recalled prospect Joey Keane from AHL Hartford for depth purposes, but the 20-year-old defenseman did not make his NHL debut. Instead, Marc Staal returned after missing one game due to illness and Brendan Smith remained in the lineup. Quinn said he expects DeAngelo's injury "to be short-term." Rookie goalie Igor Shesterkin didn't dress for the second straight game while he nurses an ankle injury. Quinn said Shesterkin is "much closer" than he was Thursday, making a return this week sound likely. For the second consecutive night, the Rangers went with Georgiev in goal and Henrik Lundqvist as the backup. Quinn has been up front about Shesterkin being the No. 1 goalie "right now" because of his strong play since his Jan. 7 debut. His decision to play Georgiev over Lundqvist in both games indicates that Georgiev is currently the No. 2 option. Follow our Rangers coverage at lohud.com/sports/rangers! Twitter: @vzmercogliano "Goal" - Google News February 14, 2020 at 06:31PM https://ift.tt/2SvHr9r Postgame analysis: Chris Kreider's late goal leads to season-best four game win streak - The Journal News / Lohud.com "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| How Patients Die After Contracting COVID-19, The New Coronavirus Disease : Goats and Soda - NPR Posted: 14 Feb 2020 07:11 PM PST  A doctor wearing a face mask looks at a CT image of a lung of a patient at a hospital in Wuhan, China. AFP via Getty Images hide caption More than 1,300 people, almost all in China, have now died from COVID-19 — the newly minted name for the coronavirus disease first identified in Wuhan, China, that has infected more than 55,000 people. Yet according to the World Health Organization, the disease is relatively mild in about 80% of cases, based on preliminary data from China. What does mild mean? And how does this disease turn fatal? The first symptoms of COVID-19 are pretty common with respiratory illnesses — fever, a dry cough and shortness of breath, says Dr. Carlos del Rio, a professor of medicine and global health at Emory University who has consulted with colleagues treating coronavirus patients in China and Germany. "Some people also get a headache, sore throat," he says. Fatigue has also been reported — and less commonly, diarrhea. It may feel as if you have a cold. Or you may feel that flu-like feeling of being hit by a train. Doctors say these patients with milder symptoms should check in with their physician to make sure their symptoms don't progress to something more serious, but they don't require major medical intervention. But the new coronavirus attacks the lungs, and in about 20% of patients, infections can get more serious. As the virus enters lung cells, it starts to replicate, destroying the cells, explains Dr. Yoko Furuya, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. "Because our body senses all of those viruses as basically foreign invaders, that triggers our immune system to sweep in and try to contain and control the virus and stop it from making more and more copies of itself," she says. But Furuya says that this immune system response to this invader can also destroy lung tissue and cause inflammation. The end result can be pneumonia. That means the air sacs in the lungs become inflamed and filled with fluid, making it harder to breathe. Del Rio says that these symptoms can also make it harder for the lungs to get oxygen to your blood, potentially triggering a cascade of problems. "The lack of oxygen leads to more inflammation, more problems in the body. Organs need oxygen to function, right? So when you don't have oxygen there, then your liver dies and your kidney dies," he says. That's what seems to be happening in the most severe cases. About 3% to 5% of patients end up in intensive care, according to the WHO. And many hospitalized patients require supplemental oxygen. In extreme cases, they need mechanical ventilation — including the use of a sophisticated technology known as ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), which basically acts as the patient's lungs, adding oxygen to their blood and removing carbon dioxide. The technology "allows us to save more severe patients," Dr. Sylvie Briand, director of the WHO's pandemic and epidemic diseases department, said at a press conference Monday. Many of the more serious cases have been in people who are middle-aged and elderly — Furuya notes that our immune system gets weaker as we age. She says for long-term smokers, it could be even worse because their airways and lungs are more vulnerable. People with other underlying medical conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes or chronic lung disease, have also proved most vulnerable. Furuya says those kinds of conditions can make it harder for the body to recover from infections. "Of course, you have outliers — people who are young and otherwise previously healthy who are dying," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently told NPR's 1A show. "But if you look at the vast majority of the people who have serious disease and who will ultimately die, they are in that group that are either elderly and/or have underlying conditions." The WHO has said most deaths so far appear to be from multi-organ failure and has calculated the case fatality rate at about 2% or less, based on earlier data from China. However, infectious disease experts note that it's hard to know the true numbers at this point in the epidemic. But del Rio notes that it's not just COVID-19 that can bring on multi-organ failure. Just last month, he saw the same thing in a previously healthy flu patient in the U.S. who had not gotten a flu shot. "He went in to a doctor. They said, 'You have the flu — don't worry.' He went home. Two days later, he was in the ER. Five days later, he was very sick and in the ICU" with organ failure, del Rio says. While it's possible for patients who reach this stage to survive, recovery can take many weeks or months. In fact, many infectious disease experts have been making comparisons between this new coronavirus and the flu and common cold, because it appears to be highly transmissible. "What this is acting like — it's spreading much more rapidly than SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome], the other coronavirus, but the fatality rate is much less," Fauci told 1A. "It's acting much more like a really bad influenza." What experts fear is that, like the flu, COVID-19 will keep coming back year after year. 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| Carnival, T-Mobile, Barclays: Stocks That Defined the Week - Wall Street Journal Posted: 14 Feb 2020 06:39 PM PST  A member of the media works in front of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, operated by Carnival Corp., in Yokohama, Japan, Wednesday.Photo: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg NewsCarnival Corp. Cruise companies are experiencing turbulence as the coronavirus epidemic spreads. More than 170 passengers aboard Carnival's Diamond Princess cruise ship have caught the virus, causing about 3,700 passengers and crew to be quarantined for two weeks. Carnival has canceled February cruises on four Costa Cruises ships in China as well as 12 sailings of the Diamond Princess in Japan, and said the virus could weigh on global demand for cruises. Shares fell 2% Thursday. T-Mobile US Inc. T-Mobile's takeover of Sprint Corp. will test the idea that three giants in the U.S. wireless market will compete as effectively as four did. A federal judge approved the deal, worth $26 billion when it was struck two years ago, and concluded that the merger wasn't likely to substantially lessen competition. The two companies spent more than seven years pursuing a combination before striking an agreement in 2018 that would create a company closer in size to Verizon and AT&T. Dish will become the fourth major carrier, acquiring airwaves and about nine million customer accounts from Sprint. T-Mobile shares gained 12% Tuesday. Restaurant Brands International Inc. The wildly-popular Popeyes chicken sandwich is now outperforming other fast-food mainstays produced by its own parent company. Restaurant Brands said Monday that higher revenue in the fourth quarter was driven by gains from Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen while its Burger King and Tim Hortons chains reported weaker-than-expected sales. Tim Hortons introduced Beyond Meat Inc. plant-based sandwiches last year but recently pulled them after they failed to stir up sales, while Burger King's national rollout of the plant-based Impossible Whopper wasn't enough offset the chain's weakness during the quarter. Shares gained 3.2% Monday. Alphabet Inc. Google is tangling once again with the European Union's antitrust enforcer. The Alphabet subsidiary told a Luxembourg court Wednesday that European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager had no legal grounds for awarding a multibillion fine for allegedly abusing its dominance over smaller rivals. In 2017, she found that Google stacked the deck in favor of its own comparison-shopping service. A verdict isn't expected until early next year, but the litigation is a test case for Ms. Vestager and the continuing probes into Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. Alphabet shares gained 0.6% Wednesday. Barclays PLC Barclays Chief Executive Jes Staley is facing scrutiny of his professional ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who died in jail last year. The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority is examining how Mr. Staley characterized their relationship to Barclays and how the British lender described it to the regulator, Barclays said Thursday. Mr. Staley told reporters his interactions with Mr. Epstein began in 2000 and "tapered off" in 2013, with their last interaction taking place during 2015. In 2008, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. American depositary shares of Barclays fell 0.7% Thursday. Mattel Inc. Even "Toy Story 4" couldn't save Mattel's holiday sales. Growth in its larger brands, such as Barbie and Hot Wheels, wasn't enough to offset weakness for Fisher-Price and American Girl products during the fourth quarter. Toy makers had to contend with a shorter holiday shopping period in 2019 as they continue to adjust to the absence of Toys "R" Us Inc. Mattel also said earlier this week it has closed two factories in Asia and plans to close one in Canada as the company reduces its sprawling manufacturing footprint to reduce costs. Mattel shares fell 3.1% Friday. Yelp Inc. Yelp's latest performance is getting poor reviews from investors. The online listings company reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales Thursday and named a new finance chief as it faces pressure to improve its financial performance. Best known for its reviews of restaurants and other local services, Yelp has been pushing to develop other business lines such as offerings for restaurant operators. In September, the company said it added new features allowing restaurateurs to reach consumers by sharing information on users' Yelp home screens. It also rolled out a feature predicting wait times at restaurants. 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| James Blake defends Jameela Jamil after viral post about her health - Insider - INSIDER Posted: 14 Feb 2020 06:06 PM PST
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter James Blake is stepping up in defense of his girlfriend, "The Good Place" actress Jameela Jamil, who has faced several recent controversies, most recently viral allegations that she has exhibited signs of Munchausen Syndrome. The 33-year-old actress has faced speculation of having the mental health disorder which causes a person to pretend they suffer from an illness. The conspiracy spread online after a viral Instagram post called into question past statements about her health, some seemingly incongruous with each other. Jamil defended herself against the allegations across social media, beginning with a tweet on Wednesday. "First I'm lying about my sexuality, now I'm now being accused of munchausens?[sic]" the actress wrote. "By an unhinged idiot who didn't even realize in all her 'research' that my car accident injury stories are 'different' because they were about TWO SEPARATE CAR ACCIDENTS 13 years apart? You can keep it." Her boyfriend, Blake, 31, echoed Jamil's remarks while defending her in a statement shared with his 330,600 Twitter followers Friday. "I would have spoken on this earlier but Jameela asked me not to," Blake wrote on Twitter, attaching screenshots from the iPhone's notes app, the all-too-familiar way celebrities have come to post lengthy statements to circumvent the platform's 280 character limit. —James Blake (@jamesblake) February 14, 2020 "It's pretty disgusting to watch the woman I love just being dog piled on every day for such ridiculous things," Blake said. "She hasn't abused anyone. She hasn't funded anything dangerous or brought any deliberate harm to any marginalized group. She's just done her best as an ever learning human, as most of us are, to help other people with her privilege." Jamil has become well-known, at least online, for her staunch advocacy against products peddled by celebrities like Kim Kardashian that claim they help with weight loss or improve imperfections to meet societal beauty standards. "She doesn't want others to feel alone, gaslit, or ashamed the way she has," he said.Blake said he had seen evidence of injuries and illnesses Jamil has previously discussed, which was the subject of the viral social media posts. "I am there for her swollen joints, her dislocations, her severe allergic reactions...and her constant high fevers," the "King's Dead" singer said, mentioning a concussion, three months of seizures, a cancer diagnosis, and complications resulting from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). Per Health.com, Jamil first said she had EDS in February 2019, though she had at least hinted at it prior. According to the National Institutes of Health, EDS describes various connective tissue disorders, including at least 13 types of known variants. Some forms of the disease, which often affects joints and can affect the vascular system, can result in decreased lifespans, though not all variants are as serious. "The signs and symptoms of EDS vary by type and range from mildly loose joints to life-threatening complications," the NIH said. "Features shared by many types include joint hypermobility and soft, velvety skin that is highly elastic (stretchy) and bruises easily. Mutations in a variety of genes may lead to EDS; however, the underlying genetic cause in some families is unknown." "Her being attractive, tall, and successful doesn't mean she hasn't been sick," Blake said, noting that EDS is real and that the disease is "vastly under researched." Blake said those attacking Jamil did not know her, adding that many people believed she really was her Tahani Al-Jamil, the fictional character she portrayed on NBC's "The Good Place" from 2016 to 2020. "I'm not gonna stand by and let some total strangers try to push my girlfriend over the edge to what… stop her from helping kids with eating disorders? stop removing mainstream shame of talking about mental health," he said. Jamil was criticized earlier in February by members of the LGBT community after she accepted a gig on HBO's upcoming show "Legendary", which will follow ballroom culture. The culture is often associated with the oppression of Black and Latinx members of the LGBT community, Indy100 reported. Actress Trace Lysette, who is transgender, shared her annoyance in a viral tweet following news that Jamil had been cast and said that she — a longtime participant of ballroom culture — had been overlooked for the same gig. Jamil claimed they were going for different jobs, though Lysette disputed that in a follow-up tweet. —Trace Lysette (@tracelysette) February 4, 2020 Jamil gave conflicting statements on whether she was "newcomer" or a longtime fan of the culture, Indy100 said. The British actress then said she was a member of the LGBT community, coming out as queer, but she faced questions and criticism over why she decided to do that amid the critiques about her role on "Legendary." Blake questioned why so many people seemed to be enjoying the social-media attacks on his girlfriend: "I don't ever see men treated like this, the way we tear women from limb to limb," he said in his statement. 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| Posted: 14 Feb 2020 05:59 PM PST The Portuguese forward has continued his prolific goalscoring run from the end of last year with at least one goal in every game he has played so far in 2020. Ronaldo's last-gasp penalty against AC Milan in the Coppa Italia semifinal first leg means the 35-year-old has now scored 12 goals in just eight games at the start of the new decade. That his goalscoring run on Thursday continued, however, was perhaps a tad fortuitous. With Milan leading 1-0 and the clock approaching the 90th minute, Juventus was awarded a dubious penalty thanks to VAR as referee Paolo Valeri penalized Davide Calabria for handball after Ronaldo's effort struck him on the arm from just centimeters away. Calabria was also comically booked for the apparent infraction, but Ronaldo made no mistake from the penalty spot to ensure the two teams return to Turin level for the second leg in three weeks' time.  Milan head coach Stefano Pioli was understandably furious at full-time. "I got angry first and foremost because there was a foul on Ibrahimovic earlier in the move," he told reporters after the match. "Plus, I remember the referees showed footage of that Cagliari-Brescia penalty at the start of the season and said it was an error to award it because the player couldn't see the ball. "I don't see what's so different with this situation, as Calabria couldn't see the ball. Alberto Cerri, in that situation (against Brescia), jumped and could not just cut his arms off, you have to use your arms when jumping. He didn't have time to get his arms back into position." Battle of the man bunsRonaldo's goal in Saturday's defeat at Hellas Verona meant he became the first player in Juventus history to score in 10 consecutive games for the club, while his brace against Fiorentina a week earlier saw him become the second fastest player in Serie A history to reach 50 goals.  One man whose goalscoring exploits in Serie A he still lingers well behind is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has scored 124 league goals in Italy. Both men seem to defy the inevitable ticking of time and at 38 years of age and on his return to Europe for the first time since leaving Manchester United in 2018, the Swede has already bagged three goals in six starts. In another three years, however, Ronaldo may well have surpassed Ibrahimovic's record in Serie A -- but he still has a lot of catching up to do in the top knot department. "Goal" - Google News February 14, 2020 at 05:06AM https://ift.tt/2SOsZrQ Cristiano Ronaldo continues 2020 goal glut with last-gasp penalty to save Juventus - CNN International "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Coronavirus live updates: China reports 143 more deaths, 2,641 additional cases - CNBC Posted: 14 Feb 2020 05:11 PM PST  This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8:50 am: IBM withdraws from RSA conference in San FranciscoIBM says it's no longer participating in a major conference — the RSA cyber security conference — in San Francisco in February over virus fears, it said in a tweet. The conference is scheduled for Feb. 24 to Feb. 28. Another major event, Mobile World Congress (MWC), the world's largest trade show for the mobile phone industry, was canceled this week over those fears. That decision came after many companies pulled out of the conference, such as LG, Sony, Ericsson, Nokia, Nvidia, Intel and Amazon. 8:05 am: China confirms 143 more deaths, 2,641 new casesChina's National Health Commission reported an additional 143 deaths nationwide, as well as 2,641 new confirmed cases as of Feb. 14. That tally includes Hubei, the epicenter of the outbreak, where 2,420 new cases were reported, and 139 more deaths. That brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 66,492, and number of total deaths at 1,523, the authority said. All times below are in Eastern time. 3:03 pm: US health officials will check patients with flu-like symptoms for coronavirusU.S. health officials will monitor people with flu-like symptoms for the coronavirus in five cities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The five labs are in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago and New York City, but the agency hopes to expand the monitoring nationwide. — Feuer 1:21 pm: CDC concerned with report of infected health workers in ChinaA U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said the notice from China's National Health Commission about 1,716 health workers infected with the coronavirus was "concerning." Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters during a press briefing that there are currently no U.S. health workers infected with the virus. She also reiterated the possibility of community spread in the United States. — Lovelace 12:11 pm: Chinese official to travel to Germany to discuss outbreak11:55 am: WHO and China investigate health workers infected with virusWorld health officials are working with Chinese authorities to determine when the 1,716 health workers in the country were infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus. It appears infections among medical workers peaked in mid-January and has "rapidly" decreased since, Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization's emergencies program, said at a news conference at the agency's headquarters in Geneva. "This may reflect increased levels of training, increased levels of protection and increased levels of awareness." — Lovelace 10:44 am: WHO reveals details on its mission to ChinaDirector-general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news briefing he expects the WHO-led mission to China to arrive over the weekend. The team will include 12 international and WHO experts, Tedros said, as well as the same number of Chinese counterparts, though he did not identify individual members. He said the experts will visit three provinces to observe on-the-ground response efforts, but did not say if the mission will visit the epicenter of the outbreak, the city of Wuhan in Hubei province. "The goal of the joint mission is to rapidly inform the next steps in the COVID-19 response and preparedness activities in China and globally," he said. —Feuer 10:14 am: Beijing authorities issue self-quarantine order for returning residentsBeijing officials charged with responding to the virus issued an order for all those returning to Beijing to remain in quarantine at home for 14 days, Chinese state media The People's Daily reported. Those who refuse to quarantine themselves or follow the official rules on virus containment will be punished according to law, the newspaper said in a post on Chinese social media site Weibo. —Feuer — CNBC's Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and William Feuer contributed to this report. Top stories - Google News February 14, 2020 at 04:18PM https://ift.tt/2SswKnZ Coronavirus live updates: China reports 143 more deaths, 2,641 additional cases - CNBC Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| 槇原敬之さん逮捕で日本エンターテイナーライツ協会が声明 「本当に犯罪行為を行ったのか疑問が残る状況」「冷静かつ慎重な報道を」 - ねとらぼ Posted: 14 Feb 2020 05:34 AM PST 槇原敬之さん逮捕で日本エンターテイナーライツ協会が声明 「本当に犯罪行為を行ったのか疑問が残る状況」「冷静かつ慎重な報道を」 - ねとらぼ  歌手の槇原敬之さんが覚醒剤取締法違反の疑いで逮捕されたことを受け、日本エンターテイナーライツ協会（ERA）は2月14日、各報道機関に対し、冷静かつ慎重な報道を行うよう求める声明を発表しました。併せて、過度な自粛により槇原さんの楽曲使用を控えることがないようにとも求めています。 ERAは槇原さんの被疑事実について、本人の認否がまだ明らかにされていないことや、逮捕時の所持品検査や家宅捜索でも薬物が発見されておらず、尿検査の結果も報道されていないことなどに触れ、現時点では「槇原さんが本当に犯罪行為を行なったのか否かに相当の疑問が残る状況」であると説明。こうした状況で「槇原さんが有罪であることが前提であるかのような報道」を行うことは、槇原さんの人権を著しく侵害するものであるとし、各メディアや報道機関に対し「槇原さんが有罪であることを前提としない、冷静かつ慎重な報道を行なう」ことと、「過度な自粛による槇原さんの楽曲の使用を控えることがないように」との2点を求めました。 声明を受け、ネット上では「素晴らしい声明」「彼の子供達（楽曲）の傷が最小限になりますように」など、声明に賛同する声もあがっています。 関連記事関連リンクCopyright © ITmedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2020-02-14 11:40:00Z https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiO2h0dHBzOi8vbmxhYi5pdG1lZGlhLmNvLmpwL25sL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMDIvMTQvbmV3czE0MC5odG1s0gE2aHR0cHM6Ly9ubGFiLml0bWVkaWEuY28uanAvbmwvYW1wLzIwMDIvMTQvbmV3czE0MC5odG1s?oc=5  |
| The Holy Trinity of John Cusack Movies Tells a Cautionary Tale - Slate Posted: 14 Feb 2020 04:47 AM PST The Holy Trinity of John Cusack Movies Tells a Cautionary Tale - Slate  Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Twentieth Century Fox, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, and Touchstone Pictures. The first time we see Rob, John Cusack's record-collecting romantic in High Fidelity, he's on the verge of screaming. His long-term girlfriend, Laura, is walking out on him, and Rob, who resents not only her departure but the way it interrupted the song he was listening to, runs to the window as she gets into her car. "If you really wanted to mess me up," he yells down at her, "you should've got to me earlier!" The sight of a bereft Cusack shouting from a second-story window acts as a warped reflection of what remains the most iconic image of his career: Lloyd Dobler standing outside his ex-girlfriend's window, serenading her with a portable stereo hoisted over his head. The story from the making of Say Anything is that Cusack wanted the music blaring from Lloyd's boombox to be by the ska-metal band Fishbone but writer-director Cameron Crowe argued, correctly, that something that aggressive would make Lloyd seem like a deranged stalker rather than a pleading lover. That's the energy that pours out of Rob's window as he cranks up the 13th Floor Elevators' "You're Gonna Miss Me" and screams across a city street. He's not trying to win his girlfriend back. He's shoving her away so he can get back to the familiar business of being bitter and alone. High Fidelity, which was released in 2000, doesn't just reflect back on Cusack's breakthrough movie. It functions as the close of an unofficial trilogy that begins in 1989 with Say Anything and continues through 1997's Grosse Pointe Blank. In all three, Cusack plays a man who's trying to figure out his life, not just who he is but what he stands for, and the later in life the story catches up with him, the more dire his situation becomes. Say Anything's Lloyd Dobler is a high school senior struggling to figure out his next steps. Grosse Pointe Blank's Martin Blank is a professional hit man thrown into a crisis of conscience by his imminent 10-year high school reunion. Rob Gordon is an aging hipster who realizes that leading the life of a "professional appreciator" has left him with few achievements of his own. It's too much to say that he's playing the same character in all three (although Martin Blank is definitely a Sliding Doors version of Lloyd Dobler), but there's enough connecting them to make them feel like overlapping parts of a whole, a Venn diagram that verges on a single circle. In all three movies, Cusack plays a man who's trying to figure out who he is and what he stands for, and the later in life the story catches up with him, the more dire his situation becomes. As a white child of the suburbs who grew up along with, if several years behind, Cusack, I both identified with these characters and aspired to be them. Lloyd became a touchstone for a generation of straight men and the people who pined for them: a wise-beyond-his-years teenager who was both vulnerable and strong, guileless and worldly. I wasn't killing people for money in my mid-20s, but I was, like a lot of Gen Xers, dreading the prospect of a world in which career stability came at the price of my soul. But by the time of High Fidelity, the relationship had soured. When I read the Nick Hornby novel from which it's adapted the year I graduated from college, I saw its glib quirkiness and pat moralizing, but I also felt like it was describing a type of person I'd never seen depicted before, a person I knew and sometimes was. But I couldn't see myself in Cusack's Rob, and it wasn't until rewatching the film recently that I realized why. We remember High Fidelity as a movie about pop-cultural obsessives, about dudes trading Top Five lists and Jack Black chasing a customer out of the store for asking about the wrong record. But what struck me watching the movie now, 20 years later, is how angry Rob is. He's in a fury from the movie's opening minutes, when Laura grabs his attention by ripping his headphone cord out of the stereo. He's like a newborn who's been ripped from the womb and does not like the world he's been thrust into. Her eyes are red, her pale skin blotchy, so it's clear they're already in the middle of a fight. But Rob just wants to be alone with his records, an endless collection of songs about men and the women who did them wrong. For Rob, music is both a comfort and a curse. It salves his heartbreak, but it also intensifies it and sets terms no real-world romance can match. ("Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable?" he asks, "Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?") In the course of High Fidelity, he tracks down the women on the other end of his "desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable breakups," beginning, most painfully, with the girl who broke his heart in middle school. But he discovers that their relationship, which amounted to a few days of after-school necking, meant so little to her that it didn't even count. It's only in the echo chamber of Rob's head that it's grown into a monster, the explanation and the rationale for his subsequent misanthropy. Martin Blank is who Lloyd might have become if he'd never worked up the courage to ask out Diane Court but did keep up his intensive kickboxing regimen. Watching the Cusack trilogy in close succession, you can chart the steady extinguishing of hope, the journey from youthful idealism to embittered resignation. Lloyd is almost painfully open to the world. Words spill out of his mouth as fast as he can think them, and when he's talking about dating Diane Court (Ione Skye), the class valedictorian with "the body of a game-show hostess," his shoulders jiggle with nervous anticipation. (Later, after the first time they have sex, his whole body quivers, as if he's both awed by and a little afraid of what's just happened.) Crowe has said that the character embodied "optimism as a revolutionary act," the idea that you could know that the world is a dangerous and terrible place and choose to live as if it weren't, because hardening yourself is worse than wearing your heart on your sleeve. (When a friend warns him that pining for the most popular girl in school will only wind up with him getting hurt, Lloyd responds, "I want to get hurt!") He's an existential hero in teen-romance clothing, unable to be anything other than what he is. When a male classmate, incredulous that Lloyd has snared a date with the school's most coveted girl, asks him, "Who are you?" he responds, "I'm Lloyd Dobler." Martin Blank is who Lloyd might have become if he'd never worked up the courage to ask out Diane Court but did keep up his intensive kickboxing regimen. Instead of embracing the unknowable future the way Lloyd did, Martin ran from it, leaving his high school sweetheart, Debi (Minnie Driver), stranded on prom night and disappearing without a trace. When he comes back 10 years later, it's as a killer for hire, a former government contractor who's gone out on his own in part because he likes the solitary lifestyle. The movie's underlying gag is that while Martin is a professional assassin, he doesn't think that necessarily makes him a bad guy. Most of his victims probably deserve what they get, and anyway, if he didn't kill them, somebody else would. "It's not me," he tells one, right before he pulls the trigger. Martin is fully alienated from his labor, but no more so than the classmate who went into real estate and sold Martin's childhood home to a company that knocked it down and replaced it with a convenience store. "You can never go home again," he muses, "but I guess you can shop there." Where Lloyd embraced the future, Martin is terrified of it, so much so that his life has frozen in place. The movie's soundtrack (which would fall in my own personal top five) is full of great songs, but they're almost all drawn from the previous decade, and when Martin visits Debi, who has been married and recently divorced, at home, it's in her childhood bedroom, which has remained virtually untouched. It's a second-chance movie, one that, by the end, effectively allows Martin a do-over on the past 10 years of his life, but for all that he's been through, in some ways he's never left. For Rob, who's in his mid-30s, the future is a dead end. He's seen it, and he wants no part of it. The movie binds us at first to Rob's self-pitying account of his and Laura's breakup, but we eventually find out that he cheated on her and then badgered her into getting an abortion after finding out she was pregnant. Lloyd takes his lumps, and Debi calls Martin "broken" (later amending it to "mildly sprained"), but Rob is bent. His inability to progress through life isn't a result of youthful naïveté or quarter-life fumbling; it's because, on some level, he doesn't want to, and he won't let anyone make him. He sneers at Laura for taking a job at a law firm and losing the pink dye from her hair, because he only sees her moving forward as moving away from him. (Lloyd didn't know where he wanted to go, but at least he knew he wanted to be with Diane.) There's a seething quality to Cusack's performance in High Fidelity that seems intentional, although the movie doesn't always know what to do with it. Being lost and directionless is part of Lloyd and Martin's charm, but by Rob's age, it's no longer so endearing. The tour through Rob's past breakups starts off as a comedy of errors, the equivalent of getting to the point where you look back on your old relationships and no longer wonder why you broke up but why you were ever together. But there's one that underlines how cruel Rob's haughty diffidence can be. When he catches up with his ex-girlfriend Sarah (Lili Taylor), it's clear she's in a worse place than he is, and she doesn't try to hide her deep depression. But rather than reaching out to another soul in distress, Rob is repelled by her; he's supposed to be figuring out his own problems, not dealing with someone else's. Rob walks her to her apartment, and the way she lingers in the doorway makes it clear she wants, even needs, him to come in. But he turns and walks away, and we see her recede over his shoulder, still waiting for him to see her. It's the most painful moment in the movie—and the one that makes Rob seem like the biggest asshole. In retrospect, it's not surprising that Cusack left this character type behind after High Fidelity, or that he's never seemed as right for any role as he did those three. (On the occasion of Say Anything's 20th anniversary, John Mahoney, who plays Diane's father, called it the movie where he "found his Cusackness.") They're all stories about growing up, and about realizing that it's not something you just do once and get it over with. Part of that growth is putting the past behind you, and part of it is accepting that, 20 years later, it's time for someone else to tell that story instead. 2020-02-14 10:50:00Z https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiaGh0dHBzOi8vc2xhdGUuY29tL2N1bHR1cmUvMjAyMC8wMi9qb2huLWN1c2Fjay1tb3ZpZXMtaGlnaC1maWRlbGl0eS1zYXktYW55dGhpbmctZ3Jvc3NlLXBvaW50ZS1ibGFuay5odG1s0gFnaHR0cHM6Ly9zbGF0ZS5jb20vY3VsdHVyZS8yMDIwLzAyL2pvaG4tY3VzYWNrLW1vdmllcy1oaWdoLWZpZGVsaXR5LXNheS1hbnl0aGluZy1ncm9zc2UtcG9pbnRlLWJsYW5rLmFtcA?oc=5  |
| Harvey Weinstein defense team presents closing arguments - ABC News Posted: 14 Feb 2020 04:47 AM PST Harvey Weinstein defense team presents closing arguments - ABC News [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| Posted: 14 Feb 2020 04:47 AM PST Meghan Markle, Prince Harry will skip Prince Andrew's birthday, royal source claims: 'It's an open secret' - Fox News Prince Andrew will be turning the big 6-0 on Feb. 19 but there are two royal guests who will be noticeably absent from the royal family get-together. U.K.-based broadcaster Neil Sean told Fox News that Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, reportedly won't be returning from Canada for the royal's birthday. Andrew is Harry's uncle as well as Queen Elizabeth II's third child and second son. The Duke of York is eighth in the line of succession to the British throne. In November 2019, Andrew announced he asked his mother, 93, if he can "step back" from his public duties following a disastrous interview with the BBC about his relationship with the financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. "A mole [told] me, 'It's an open secret they declined the invite but it's not very nice for the queen as, whatever people say and think, he is [still] her son and she wanted her close family around her,'" Sean alleged. "'The reason given is that they already have commitments on the day but also plan to send a gift/card and a video message to be played at the party." According to Sean, the reigning monarch originally had plans for a party in honor of her son's birthday, which would also celebrate his charities. However, a palace source told him that Elizabeth "is [now] understood to be holding only a small family dinner."  (L-R) Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York. (KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/AFP via Getty Images) And while Andrew is laying low following the ongoing scandal and nuclear interview, Sean said he will make an appearance for his daughter Princess Beatrice's wedding in May. The royal family announced on its official social media accounts that Princess Beatrice of York will tie the knot to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on May 29, 2020. "The wedding of HRH Princess Beatrice of York and Mr. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi will take place on Friday 29 May 2020. The couple became engaged in Italy in September 2019," the statement reads. "Her Majesty The Queen has kindly given permission for the ceremony to take place at The Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. The ceremony will be followed by a private reception, given by The Queen, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace." A source told People magazine that Beatrice and Mozzi's wedding will be a "low-key" celebration amid reports that the ceremony will not be televised due to Andrew's connection to Epstein. PRINCESS BEATRICE'S WEDDING DATE, 'LOW-KEY' PLANS REVEALED: REPORT  This undated photo released by Buckingham Palace shows Britain's Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, in Italy. Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson announced on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2019, the engagement of their elder daughter, Princess Beatrice to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. (Photo by Princess Eugenie/Buckingham Palace via AP) Sean said it's uncertain whether The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will travel across the pond for Beatrice's big day. "Fans will have to wait and see if Meghan and Harry attend this event," he said. "A mole [told] me, 'Beatrice really got on well with Meghan and is sad she left, but so far they have been unable to keep that friendship going.' Others though [say] that Meghan values her own PR and believes any association right now with the brand of York may not be that great for the couple earning power outside the royal family." Andrew didn't attend Beatrice's engagement party in London, which was held in December 2019, People magazine previously reported. It is believed he skipped the festivities, hosted by Mozzi's mother at Chiltern Firehouse, due to the ongoing controversy surrounding his connection to Epstein. However, the outlet shared Andrew has remained incredibly close to his family, including his ex-wife. In addition, he has continued to spend time with his mother. They were seen together exchanging smiles during a church outing on Jan. 19 and then spotted horseback riding around the Windsor Castle estate. In January, authorities announced Andrew has refused to cooperate with federal investigators as they continue their probe into Epstein. PRINCE ANDREW HAS 'PROVIDED ZERO COOPERATION' IN JEFFREY EPSTEIN PROBE, AUTHORITIES SAY  Photo from 2001 that was included in court files released last week shows Prince Andrew with his arm around the waist of 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre who says Jeffrey Epstein paid her to have sex with the prince. Andrew has denied the charges. In the background is Epstein's girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. (Florida Southern District Court) (U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals) According to the New York Post, Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman told reporters at a news conference outside Epstein's former Upper East Side residence that federal prosecutors reached out to Andrew and have been struggling to get the prince to agree to sit down with them. Berman told the press outside the mansion: "The Southern District of New York and the FBI have contacted Prince Andrew's attorneys and requested to interview Prince Andrew, and to date, Prince Andrew has provided zero cooperation." Andrew is accused of having sex with at least one of the women Epstein allegedly trafficked. Berman said he elected to share Andrew's reluctance to cooperate simply because the prince "publicly offered, indeed in a press release, to cooperate with law enforcement investigating the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators."  Prince Andrew (right) is dealing with harsh backlash from critics and media personalities over an interview about his relationship with now-deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the numerous sexual assault allegations against the British royal. (Getty) MEGHAN MARKLE, PRINCE HARRY 'WERE BULLIED OUT OF THE ROYAL FAMILY,' AUTHOR CLAIMS A royal insider told the Post in an e-mail: "This issue is being dealt with by The Duke of York's legal team. Buckingham Palace will not be commenting further on this particular matter." Andrew has vehemently denied any claims of wrongdoing at the hands of his relationship with Epstein. Epstein, 66, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City in August. Despite the fact the financier died behind bars awaiting trial for sex trafficking, the top prosecutor said the feds' investigation into his sex abuse network will continue because "Jeffrey Epstein couldn't have done what he did without the assistance of others." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "And I can assure you that the investigation is moving forward," Berman added. Fox News' Julius Young contributed to this report. 2020-02-14 10:00:56Z https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiYGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZveG5ld3MuY29tL2VudGVydGFpbm1lbnQvbWVnaGFuLW1hcmtsZS1wcmluY2UtaGFycnktc2tpcHBpbmctcHJpbmNlLWFuZHJldy1iaXJ0aGRhedIBZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZveG5ld3MuY29tL2VudGVydGFpbm1lbnQvbWVnaGFuLW1hcmtsZS1wcmluY2UtaGFycnktc2tpcHBpbmctcHJpbmNlLWFuZHJldy1iaXJ0aGRheS5hbXA?oc=5  |
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