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| Men Convicted in Delhi Bus Rape Are Hanged in India - The New York Times Posted: 19 Mar 2020 11:55 PM PDT  NEW DELHI — India brought a gruesome and infamous rape case to a close Friday morning, hanging four men who had been convicted of raping and murdering a young woman on a moving bus in 2012, jail officials said. The men, who were sent to the gallows at a large jail in New Delhi in the early morning hours, had trapped the young woman on the bus and brutally assaulted her with an iron bar, leaving her mortally wounded. The grisly nature of the crime and the fact that it unfolded on the busy streets of India's capital sent shock waves across the nation and around the world, leaving a deep mark on India's psyche. The 23-year-old-victim, a physiotherapy intern who had dreamed of being a doctor and had asked her parents to use her wedding money for her education, came to be known as Nirbhaya, the Fearless One. Her death from the injuries she sustained in the attack sparked uncomfortable discussions about the abuses that countless Indian women suffer every year. After the execution, the victim's mother said that "even if delayed," her daughter "got justice." "Our faith in justice is restored," said the mother, whose name was withheld because Indian law requires that the victim's name and her family's identity be kept private. The convicts who were hanged Friday morning at the Tihar jail were: Mukesh Singh, approximately 32, one of the ringleaders and the brother of the bus driver, Ram Singh (who killed himself in jail in 2013); Akshay Kumar, approximately 30, a cleaner on the bus; Pawan Kumar Gupta, approximately 25, a fruit seller who came from same run-down neighborhood and joined the others in the assault; and Vinay Sharma, approximately 25, a part-time gym instructor who also lived in the neighborhood and participated in the rape. Indian news channels reported that the men's last legal challenges were rejected around 3:30 a.m. They had refused to eat and were up much of the night before being led to the gallows around 5:30 a.m. A small crowd had gathered outside the jail, counting down to the hanging. The jail's spokesman, Raj Kumar, confirmed that all four had been hanged and said, "We will issue a statement later.'' Women's activists have said they wonder how much difference the executions will make, and lamented how little has changed since Nirbhaya's death. After her assault, huge protests erupted across the country, with hundreds of thousands of young people pouring into the streets demanding tougher rape laws, more effective policing and better treatment of women. Many Indian women are forced into arranged marriages, harassed on the streets and silenced by the men in their family. "We keep talking about women and we do nothing to educate men," said Deepa Narayan, a social scientist who recently published a book on how women are treated in India. "Even the police and the judicial system, they're all part of the same patriarchal culture." The Indian government created a high-level committee, the Verma Commission, to recommend possible changes to the laws related to sexual violence against women. Though some laws covering rape have been stiffened, India still makes international headlines for horrendous gang rapes, and the cases keep coming. Only a few months ago, a young veterinarian was raped and murdered by a group of men in an incident reminiscent of the 2012 bus attack. India has been reluctant to execute its citizens. Its last execution was of Yakub Memon, a convicted terrorist, in 2015. A huge percentage of the more than 2,000 death sentences imposed in the past two decades have been overturned or commuted by higher courts, a recent study found. But in the Nirbhaya case, there was enormous pressure on the courts and the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to show no mercy. The four convicts had tried everything to avoid the hanging, filing petition after petition. One of the convicts even tried, in vain, to use New Delhi's pollution problem as an argument not to hang him. "Everyone is aware of what is happening in Delhi NCR in regard water and air," said the petition filed by Mr. Kumar in December. "Life is short to short, then why death penalty?" The family of Mr. Gupta, one of the youngest of the convicted men, had tried to argue for a lesser sentence because the family contended he was a juvenile at the time of the crime. One juvenile was convicted in the case and sentenced to three years in a reform facility; he has since been freed. Mr. Gupta's family produced a school certificate that said he was 16 in 2012 but the courts have consistently rejected the claims. Still, judges granted several delays of the execution to allow all appeals and mercy petitions to be exhausted. In recent weeks, as it became clear the courts were losing patience, Mr. Gupta's mother, Indira Devi, who works at the same small stand selling grapes, apples, cherries and oranges as her son had, said she had lost the strength to talk to her son anymore. "It's nearing the end and still no one listens to us," she said. On the night of the attack, Dec. 16, 2012, the physiotherapy intern and a male friend were leaving a mall in New Delhi after watching the film "Life of Pi." A private bus, mostly empty, offered them a ride. According to investigators, the passengers on the bus were the Singh brothers, Mr. Kumar, Mr. Gupta, Mr. Sharma and the juvenile. They had robbed at least one other person that night, the police said. When the intern and her companion boarded, the men locked the doors and savagely attacked the couple. As the bus cruised Delhi's streets, the men raped the woman, rammed the iron rod into her body, beat her and bit her all over. An hour or so later, they pushed the couple's bloody, naked bodies out the door and left them for dead. The victim's male friend recovered, but the woman died 13 days later at a hospital in Singapore. "It's like she had been dragged from the clutches of animals," her mother said in an earlier interview. Her mother, who has become a women's rights activist and now travels around India speaking against rape, said that at a recent court date, one of the convict's mothers asked her for forgiveness. "I can't forgive," the victim's mother said. "All good memories of my daughter are gone. When I see her in my mind, I see her blood-streaked face. The face of December 16 is the only face that comes." 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| Posted: 19 Mar 2020 11:48 PM PDT JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Testing sites for COVID-19 are popping up all across the nation, including Jacksonville, where residents can find one drive-thru outside Ascension St. Vincent's. News4Jax spoke with a woman who used the facility, which has been open since Tuesday. The 26-year-old, who has been experiencing symptoms on-and-off, asked to remain anonymous. On Thursday, she and her boyfriend went and got tested. "It was kind of a bizarre experience especially because we couldn't actually, like, interact with the people," she said. "We were all kind of yelling through the car door, the car windows." The woman said there are two stops to verify your documents and personal information before you can pull up to the actual testing tent where crews are dressed in protective gear from head to toe. If you don't have documentation to be tested through the St. Vincent's portal, she said you will be turned away. "They tape the test in a bag in a biohazard bag onto your window," the woman said. The entire process, the woman said, took less than three minutes. "They hand you a packet, and it says that you will get your results in three to five days," she said. Mayor Curry on Thursday announced that the city is working with Baptist Health and Telescope Health to open another drive-thru testing site at the Prime Osborn Convention Center. Another testing site outside TIAA Bank Field will open at 11 a.m. Friday. It will remain open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week, at least while testing supplies last. Copyright 2020 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved. About the Author: "Mobile" - Google News March 19, 2020 at 03:57PM https://ift.tt/2J4oAws Patient shares 'bizarre experience' at St. Vincent's mobile testing site for COVID-19 - WJXT News4JAX "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2020 10:14 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content] Actress Angelica Ross Finds Out New Boyfriend Has Fiancée, Child After Posting Photo With Him on Twitter The Daily Beast"Actress" - Google News March 19, 2020 at 04:56PM https://ift.tt/2wmTNbH Actress Angelica Ross Finds Out New Boyfriend Has Fiancée, Child After Posting Photo With Him on Twitter - The Daily Beast "Actress" - Google News https://ift.tt/31HZgDn Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Italy surpasses China in number of coronavirus deaths - CNN Posted: 19 Mar 2020 09:55 PM PDT The number of deaths in Italy reached 3,405 on Thursday, the Italian Civil Protection Agency said at a news conference -- 156 more than China's toll, which, according to Johns Hopkins University, stands at 3,249. The total number of cases in Italy rose to 41,035 with 5,322 new cases, officials added. The grim figure comes hours after China marked a major milestone in the battle to limit the spread, reporting no new locally transmitted coronavirus cases for the first time since the pandemic began. As cases ratcheted up, Italy imposed nationwide restrictions similar to those seen in China -- placing more than 60 million people under lockdown. Italy's world-class health system has been pushed to the brink amid the outbreak, especially in the country's north, which has seen the highest concentration of cases.  People are being treated in field hospitals and lined up in corridors inside its straining public hospitals. Doctors and nurses are being infected, due to a lack of adequate protection. Italian authorities are considering lengthening school closures beyond April 3, amid rumors of the lockdown also being extended. "I think we are going toward an extension," Italian Education minister Lucia Azzolina said Thursday, adding that schools would reopen once there is "certainty of absolute safety." Corriere della Sera quoted Thursday Italian PM Giuseppe Conte as saying "it is clear" the measures to tackle the outbreak, "both the one that has closed a lot of the country's businesses and individual activities, and the one that concerns the school, can only be extended to the deadline." The Prime Minister's spokesperson told CNN no official decision had yet been taken. 'Stay at home'Chinese medical experts helping the country deal with the crisis said the measures in the hard-hit Lombardy region are "not strict enough." The situation "is similar to what we experienced two months ago in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of Covid-19," the Chinese Red Cross vice president, Sun Shuopeng, said Thursday in a news conference in Milan, the region's capital. "In the city of Wuhan after one month since the adoption of the lockdown policy, we see a decreasing trend from the peak of the disease," Sun Shuopeng said. "Here in Milan, the hardest hit area by Covid-19, there isn't a very strict lockdown: public transportation is still working and people are still moving around, you're still having dinners and parties in the hotels and you're not wearing masks. We need every citizen to be involved in the fight of Covid-19 and follow this policy." He advised Italians to stop all "economic activities and cut the mobility of people," calling on everyone to just stay at home. Top stories - Google News March 19, 2020 at 01:02PM https://ift.tt/3b8Jp68 Italy surpasses China in number of coronavirus deaths - CNN Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Edge Computing: Why 5G Requires Re-Architecting Mobile Networks - Data Center Knowledge Posted: 19 Mar 2020 09:48 PM PDT  Mobile broadband isn't just for smartphones and laptops with LTE eSIMs. Developments like industrial IoT, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), connected vehicles, 5G devices like drones, smart cities, and rugged edge computing locations will all make the expansion of mobile broadband capacity more urgent. That, plus the amount of internet traffic already going over mobile networks, makes it important to have far better connections between cloud networks and mobile networks than today – especially in geographies like Africa, where mobile networks have outpaced fixed networks. Data centers need to deliver compute, storage, and other services to an ever-growing number of networked devices and users. Putting compute closer to data sources and users with distributed networks of edge computing data centers is only part of the answer. Another big part, which will take a lot of time and investment, is improving those links between mobile and cloud networks. Verizon's wireless network, for example, needs to get a whole lot better at communicating with Microsoft's Azure cloud network. Or with the network of a company like Cloudflare, which offers Content Delivery Network services and DDoS protection, but has been increasingly getting into cloud computing services for developers. Better connection between its network and mobile networks is a long-term goal for Cloudflare's recently announced expansion of edge computing locations with edge data center specialists EdgeMicro and Vapor IO, beyond the immediate goal of putting more compute and caching capacity closer to more users. "The idea is that mobile networks could open up parts of the radio access network that traditionally weren't available for IP peering, and providers like ourselves could interconnect with somebody like an AT&T or T-Mobile or Verizon not in tens of places but potentially hundreds or thousands," Nitin Rao, head of global infrastructure at Cloudflare, told DCK. Until relatively recently, all AT&T interconnections for mobile traffic happened in just two locations in the US, he said. But then, "we as an industry realized that two wasn't enough, and for the vast majority of services that number is closer to ten, and in some cases slightly higher." That still adds dozens or hundreds of milliseconds to each network roundtrip, because a packet must travel to the interconnection hub and then back in a long, trombone-shaped (or hairpin-shaped) loop. "Data was an afterthought for today's mobile networks," Matt Trifiro, Vapor IO's chief marketing officer, told us. "You might think you could easily peel a data packet off a wireless network, but sometimes packets don't even get an IP address until they're in another state. With one carrier [he didn't say which one] you don't get an IP address until it gets to Dallas. "Even if you have an entire edge infrastructure, if it's [traveling] over the legacy wireless network, that packet's going to trombone all the way to Dallas, get an IP address, then get routed on the internet, then have to come all the way back, so you get no benefit to being on the edge." As a result, Rao said, "it feels like as an industry we're looking at that number [of interconnects] once again and saying, what would it take for us to get to a hundred? That means different architecture choices in terms of how both cloud providers like ourselves, but also mobile networks architect their network." That will take time. "There's a significant amount of technical work to be done in terms of rearchitecting how these networks are designed," he warned. "We are a little ways away from being able to run compute at cell tower aggregation points or cable-head and the like." Other vendors in the edge computing ecosystem are seeing the same need to better bridge cloud and mobile networks. "Enabling edge computing efficiently and cost-effectively requires new approaches to distributed cloud networking, including interconnection to public clouds and ecosystem partners located across multiple edge data centers," Mike Capuano, chief marketing officer at Pluribus Networks, told us. (Pluribus recently announced software-defined networking product designed to run in telco central offices.) Edge Specialists Hope They Can Help Carriers Act Faster5G is promising to deliver a fiber-like connection wirelessly. That may already be pushing mobile networks to look for more interconnections with the cloud at the edge, Rao suggested. "From our vantage point it does feel like this year we're making progress from a series of companies across the stack just talking about it to actually reaching into their pocketbooks and making investments of time and capital," he said. "Mobile networks are seriously thinking about this, and it shows up on their roadmaps." Having met with many of the major players recently, Jason Bourg, VP of strategy at EdgeMicro, said he'd also been observing mobile operators becoming more receptive to the idea. "We just have to get everybody moving in the right direction, which is a little bit like herding cats at times," he said. Having Vapor IO and EdgeMicro deploying their edge data centers (both started relatively recently) could help encourage internet providers to improve these connections. "We hope it becomes a slightly easier decision for them to set up many interconnection points rather than just a few," Rao said. Peering and Local BreakoutEdgeMicro is trying to replicate the benefits of internet peering exchanges in tier-two markets for both terrestrial and mobile networks, Bourg told us. (Vapor is building exchanges in the cities it deploys to as well.) "We've always envisioned stopping the tromboning, the hair-pinning, and the backhauling of traffic by creating an exchange for private peering and public internet traffic in these markets where it doesn't exist," Bourg said. The company started with terrestrial networking, partly because that's easier than the mobile side and partly because customers couldn't wait until mobile operators were ready to make the necessary architectural changes in their networks. EdgeMicro has developed its own mobile edge traffic exchange, capable of "local breakout" to reroute some mobile traffic at the 4G LTE network edge to its data centers, with the rest going on to the mobile network core. 4G can be adapted for local breakout like this, but it's standard in 5G, Trifiro pointed out. "It allows you to peel off the data stream and assign an IP address at the packet gateway – which could be located just about anywhere, because it's going to be a virtualized network function," he explained. "So, in the same data center as the Cloudflare server, you could have a virtualized packet gateway for the wireless company you're cross-connecting to, and that connection is almost instantaneous at that point." Vapor IO is establishing similar relationships with last-mile network providers, having them terminate in its network and allowing them to offload some of their backhaul from congested legacy networks, like 2G, and avoid expensive upgrades that could otherwise cost them billions. Cloudflare is an ideal partner in these relationships, because its DDoS-protection and CDN services deliver a lot of caching capacity. "If a user or a device makes a request for some content that's cached and sitting in one of our Kinetic Edge data centers, then we can offload that request onto our network and serve it from a Cloudflare server in that region on that network," Trifiro said. "It never hits the carrier's backhaul network, it never actually hits the internet, it's served in a very low-latency way." The Wireline-Wireless Convergence5G, he pointed out, is not exclusively a wireless technology. "We're seeing convergence of wireline and wireless networks, and some of the companies that run both are converging on a 5G core. Cable companies and so on are implementing a common core." That means full network transparency to the computing backend, regardless of whether a connection is 5G, fiber to the home, or a cable modem. For many 5G workloads, predictable latency will be as important as low latency. "In a typical network, 30 milliseconds of latency means it averages 30 milliseconds; sometimes it might be 10 milliseconds; sometimes it might be 100 milliseconds," Trifiro said. "And an autonomous drone that you're controlling over 5G can't tolerate 100 milliseconds. For a lot of low-latency workloads it's more about controlling the jitter than the actual latency." That requires reducing the number of network hops a packet has to travel between source and destination, which in turn requires more interconnection points with mobile networks. Rao's hundred interconnections could be conservative. "I think every city is going to have to have ten," Trifiro told us. "They don't need ten today, but competitive pressure is going to drive that – and the technology [to do it] exists." "Mobile" - Google News March 19, 2020 at 12:59PM https://ift.tt/2Qv9Hrw Edge Computing: Why 5G Requires Re-Architecting Mobile Networks - Data Center Knowledge "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| California orders 40 million residents to stay at home starting tonight - CNN Posted: 19 Mar 2020 09:25 PM PDT It is the most restrictive order by a governor so far during the novel coronavirus pandemic. It applies to most of the state's 40 million residents. There are exceptions for workers in "16 critical infrastructure sections." The order takes effect Thursday night. "Those that work in critical sectors should go to work. Grocery stores, pharmacies, banks and more will stay open," Newsom tweeted. "We need to meet this moment and flatten the curve together." Law enforcement will not arrest violators, Newsom said in a news conference today. "I don't believe the people of California need to be told through law enforcement that it's appropriate just to home isolate, protect themselves," he told reporters. The governor said the order is open-ended. "This is a dynamic situation," Newsom said. It comes as the number of cases in California and the United States skyrocket. The rising toll has medical officials around the country looking at how to treat the deadly virus, but one of the nation's preeminent infectious disease experts told CNN on Thursday that "there's no magic drug" now. The number of reports of positive tests has gone from a few thousand on Sunday to more than 13,000 as more people are infected and more people with Covid-19 find out through testing they have the disease. In a news briefing Thursday, President Donald Trump said he had pushed the US Food and Drug Administration to eliminate barriers to getting therapeutics to coronavirus patients. Trump said the antimalarial drug chloroquine and its analog hydroxychloroquine would be available by prescription to treat the novel coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the two drugs would be made available but there needs to be way to see how safe they are and whether they work to inhibit coronavirus. "What the President was saying is that we're going to look at all of these drugs and we're going to try to get them available in the context of some sort of protocol," he said, referring to a trial period, on CNN's "Coronavirus: Fact and Fears" town hall special. The doctor wanted to make sure Americans know there are no proven safe and effective therapies as of today. "That doesn't mean that we're not going to do everything we can to make things that have even a hint of efficacy more readily available," Fauci told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. "But there's no magic drug out there right now." Concerns over suppliesWhile an increased flow of testing kits was welcomed, there is concern about whether communities have enough medical supplies -- New York's mayor said they may run out of some items within a few weeks.  "Tens of thousands" of tests are being conducted every day, Vice President Mike Pence said in a White House briefing. The administration faced criticism in recent days for being unable to say exactly how many people in the US had been tested. "Testing is available in all 50 states," the vice president said. "It is becoming increasingly available literally every hour of the day." Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said the "dramatic increases in the number of new cases" was "based on our ability to test additional people." The number of cases will continue to rise over the next two or three days, she said, as health officials clear testing backlogs. "The number of test positives are increasing," Birx said. "That is a dramatically important signature that everyone is doing their job." New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told CNN in an interview Thursday morning that 8,000 tests were done in his state overnight. Later in the evening, officials reported New York state had 5,298 coronavirus cases -- an increase of about 2,300 since late Wednesday. "When you do 8,000 tests," the governor said, "the numbers are going to go up exponentially." More than 2,700 new cases were reported in the US in 24 hours between Wednesday morning and Thursday morning. At least 13,133 people across the country have tested positive for the virus, as of Thursday evening. At least 193 have died. But as the number of cases grows, so does the burden on health officials across the country. Many communities are already grappling with shortages of medical equipment, with some attempting to fill the gaps on their own. Hospital patient warns others to be seriousKevin Harris has been in hospital for about two weeks. He believes coronavirus nearly killed him and it was through God's grace that he is getting better.  When he sees people out celebrating St. Patrick's Day or partying with other spring breakers it upsets him. The 55-year-old from Warren, Ohio, told CNN's Erin Burnett he hopes those people don't get infected and they take the next few months to avoid interacting with others. "These people have to take this serious," he said. "I know you're going to be inconvenienced for a while with social distancing. However, do you want to be socially dead?" Sewing masks togetherIn southwest Georgia, hospitals are left with three days' worth of masks, Scott Steiner, president & CEO of Phoebe Putney Health System, told CNN. "We have gone through five months, now six months' worth of supplies in less than a week," he said. "And we are scrambling."  To get the supply to last longer, Steiner said a team of staff members are sewing masks together. "We have about 3,000 of these made. We believe we can make 200,000 of them," he said. "It will take a few weeks, but this is kind of what we're having to do because we don't know when the next shipment is coming." Similar stories of DIY supplies have been pouring in from across the country. "We literally were down to under half a day's worth of personal protective equipment," Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, the chief clinical officer and executive vice president of Providence St. Joseph Health, a system of more than 50 hospitals that provides services across seven US states, said Wednesday. "We've been virtually desperate, looking under every nook and cranny, trying to find the equipment we need. "  Those hospitals typically together go through 250,000 masks a year, she said. In three months this year, a single hospital has gone through the same amount. "The increased demand has just far outstripped supply," Compton-Phillips said. So hospitals are resorting to making their own equipment. "We're actually going to put out (a) 100 million mask challenge with plans on how to build the masks as well as design so you can make it at home. Because we need to do something. And we know the global supply chain is just tied up right now," she said. State measures to combat shortagesNew York City is two to three weeks away from running out of some medical supplies, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio. He said Thursday that the city needs 3 million N95 masks, 50 million surgical masks and 15,000 ventilators. Additionally, the city needs 25 million surgical gowns, coveralls, gloves and face masks. Officials in King County, Washington, on Wednesday said they are setting up a temporary hospital on a soccer field that will provide the county an additional 200 medical beds. Health officials estimated the county needs about 3,000 more beds.  Meanwhile, Maryland health officials were working to increase their number of beds by at least 6,000, and in New York state, Gov. Cuomo said they would need as many as 110,000 beds when the virus peaks in an estimated 45 days. Some of the demand for beds will be alleviated by Carnival Cruises, which the President said would provide ships to be used as temporary hospitals. According to the cruise line, this could provide 1,000 hospital beds and up to seven intensive care units per ship. Beds aren't the only concern. The state has a capacity of 3,000 ventilators, but Cuomo said that's not enough.  "They all talk about flattening the curve," he told CNN's Chris Cuomo earlier this week. "I don't see a curve. I see a wave. And the wave is going to break on the health care system and ... it is going to be a tsunami." Michael Dowling, president and CEO of the Northwell Health, was picked by New York's governor to lead a hospital surge team. He said he wants to purchase as many as 500 ventilators, which can cost $20,000 to $40,000 a machine. But with an abruptly heightened demand for ventilators, manufacturers say it's hard to keep up. "It is more than we can currently provide," said Kathrin Elsner, team leader of MarCom Ventilators at Hamilton Medical Inc. The company has received hundreds of orders and requests within the past few weeks, Elsner said. Top stories - Google News March 19, 2020 at 08:43PM https://ift.tt/2xbTSyM California orders 40 million residents to stay at home starting tonight - CNN Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Breakingviews - Tortuous Japanese hotel deal takes viral twist - Nasdaq Posted: 19 Mar 2020 09:22 PM PDT HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - A tortuous Japanese takeover battle has taken a viral twist. Unizo, an owner of hotels and commercial property, is backing a $1.9 billion bid from buyout shop Lone Star that matches the price offered by peer Blackstone. Fresh Covid-19 volatility could accelerate an endgame, but also calls into question the structure of the frontrunner's deal. Even as market values have tanked around the world, Unizo's has been underpinned by eager suitors. Its shares are trading at around 5,900 yen apiece, just shy of the 6,000 offered by both Lone Star and Blackstone. They were worth less than 2,000 last July when it received a hostile approach from a domestic travel agency. SoftBank-owned Fortress also was later in the mix. The novel coronavirus may help wrap things up. After mostly waiting quietly in the wings for months, hedge fund firm Elliott Management and Ichigo Asset Management, the company's two biggest owners with a combined stake of more than 22%, will now tender to Lone Star, Unizo said this week. Although the preferred buyer's valuation is the same as Blackstone's, other components of its offer are notably different. Under terms of the recommended deal, Unizo would be controlled by a unit that is 73% owned by dozens of employees and the rest by Lone Star. Some staff say they've been duped, however, and complained to Japan's securities regulator that it is a management buyout in disguise that would lead to mass divestitures and layoffs, according to the Financial Times. Unizo declined to comment on the allegations. The deal also would be financed with up to $1.2 billion in loans from Lone Star, payable six months after the initial drawdown date. Heading into a worldwide recession when travel is all but shut down, Unizo already carries debt of about 12 times EBITDA. Plans to sell more properties also look questionable with credit markets roiled and asset prices tumbling. It isn't clear if Blackstone's deal would be cleaner from a financial perspective, but it has at least implied it wants to develop Unizo into a bigger company and offered employees a way to benefit from any upside. Absent a higher bid, though, Unizo shareholders and staff may soon find out just how solid Lone Star's proposal is. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. "viral" - Google News March 19, 2020 at 08:13PM https://ift.tt/3dbCzP4 Breakingviews - Tortuous Japanese hotel deal takes viral twist - Nasdaq "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2020 09:22 PM PDT Jennifer Lopez's house gets compared to the Parasite home in a viral retweet of her video with son MaxSPOILERS: There will be SPOILERS for the Best Picture winning film Parasite below, so if you haven't seen it yet read on at your own risk. Jennifer Lopez tried to make the best of her being quarantined due to the Coronavirus, and yet found her amusing video going viral for comparisons to Best Picture winner Parasite. Lopez, 50, tweeted a video of her son Max, 12, on a hoverboard, serving his mother a drink in their backyard, joking, 'We can't go out to any restaurants or anything but the service and entertainment here is pretty good... #StaySafe.' The video got over 4 million views, but a Twitter user named @niazahraaa quote retweeted the video with 'please check your basement,' a reference to the movie Parasite since their home looks eerily similar to the Parasite home.  Parasite: Jennifer Lopez tried to make the best of her being quarantined due to the Coronavirus, and yet found her amusing video going viral for comparisons to Best Picture winner Parasite The video shows Max bringing out a Perrier water can to Lopez's fiance Alex Rodriguez, spinning around on the hoverboard while pouring the drink. The youngster then showed off some dance moves before jumping into the family's pool, but @niazahraaa and others noticed how their backyard bears a striking resemblance to the home built for the Best Picture winner Parasite. Both homes feature large glass floor-to-ceiling windows that look out into the neatly manicured backyard, though the Lopez home features a pool and the Parasite home doesn't.  Dance: The youngster then showed off some dance moves before jumping into the family's pool, but @niazahraaa and others noticed how their backyard bears a striking resemblance to the home built for the Best Picture winner Parasite  Waiter: The video shows Max bringing out a Perrier water can to Lopez's fiance Alex Rodriguez, spinning around on the hoverboard while pouring the drink  Tweet: The tweet from @niazahraaa went viral in its own right, racking up nearly 16K retweets and 78K likes The film follows an impoverished family who infiltrates a wealthy South Korean family, as they discover the previous maid has been secretly living in the basement. The tweet from @niazahraaa went viral in its own right, racking up nearly 16K retweets and 78K likes. The Parasite house was built from scratch, created by production designer Lee Ha Jun, in what IndieWire called, 'one of the most astounding pieces of production design in recent memory.  Basement: The film follows an impoverished family who infiltrates a wealthy South Korean family, as they discover the previous maid has been secretly living in the basement Parasite earned $53.3 million domestic and $254.1 million worldwide, before it became the first foreign-language film to win the Best Picture Oscar. There is no indication whether or not Lopez or Rodriguez have even seen Parasite, or if they're familiar that their house bears a similar resemblance to the Parasite home. Regardless, Lopez and Rodriguez also spent part of their coronavirus quarantine on Thursday night by showing off their dance moves.  No indication: There is no indication whether or not Lopez or Rodriguez have even seen Parasite, or if they're familiar that their house bears a similar resemblance to the Parasite home Rodriguez took to his Instagram on Thursday night to share a video of him, his daughters and Lopez's son Max doing the same dance. 'Worst to best,' Rodriguez said in the caption of the video, which started with him dancing followed by their kids and Lopez showing up last. The family is certainly keeping their spirits up in the wake of the spreading coronavirus.  Video: Rodriguez took to his Instagram on Thursday night to share a video of him, his daughters and Lopez's son Max doing the same dance 
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| Posted: 19 Mar 2020 09:14 PM PDT POSE actress Angelica Ross had an extraordinary plot twist in her real life love life. The 39-year-old started Wednesday with a cute reveal of her new romance on social media.  4 "Finally found him and have to distance myself from him 😫 an early test we're committed to passing," she captioned photos of her getting close with a guy. "I miss you B ❣️😷" Fans were happy for her until she explained things had taken an unexpected turn. One day later she wrote: "The internet is AMAZING. I've been talking to the mother of his son and fiancé all morning. #PlotTwist!" One of her followers laid out what happened.  4  4  4 SHOTS FIREDRapper Tekashi 6ix9ine sued for $150 MILLION by woman injured in 2018 shootingDVD REVIEWSThis week's DVDs from funny fable Judy And Punch to Matt Damon in Le Mans '66MY BOY!Ryan Thomas shares first picture with newborn son Roman Ravello from self-isolation'I HIT ROCK BOTTOM'Celebs Go Dating's Amy Hart breaks down in tears in emotional finaleCASH AND GRAMMYRufus Wainwright on going back and trying to work out why rules exist"For those who don't get it. Queen Angelica found this man and was dating. She posted this on Twitter and we all REJOICED in excitement. Twitter FBI probably saw the tweet and told Angelica this man has a kid and is engaged. Angelica was talking to his fiancé all morning," the fan wrote. She responded, "Basically." Ross is a transwoman who began acting in Her Story, a popular web series about trans women in Los Angeles, which was nominated for an Emmy Award. Her breakthrough role was her portrayal of the character Candy Ferocity in Ryan Murphy's Pose. Angelica Ross reveals the shocking treatment she suffered waiting tables before making it as an actress Do you have a story for The US Sun team? Email us at exclusive@the-sun.com or call 212 416 4552 "Actress" - Google News March 19, 2020 at 08:08PM https://ift.tt/2x8XRMI Pose actress Angelica Ross says she just learned her boyfriend has a fiancée and child after posting pics on - The Sun "Actress" - Google News https://ift.tt/31HZgDn Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Mobile fights for more testing kits as the County announces first COVID-19 case - NBC 15 WPMI Posted: 19 Mar 2020 08:48 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content] Mobile fights for more testing kits as the County announces first COVID-19 case NBC 15 WPMI"Mobile" - Google News March 19, 2020 at 08:33PM https://ift.tt/2U6luyk Mobile fights for more testing kits as the County announces first COVID-19 case - NBC 15 WPMI "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Virus Hits Europe Harder Than China. Is That the Price of an Open Society? - The New York Times Posted: 19 Mar 2020 08:25 PM PDT  The macabre milestones keep coming. By Wednesday, Europe had recorded more coronavirus cases and fatalities than China. On Thursday, Italy — by itself — passed China in reported deaths. While China claims to have lowered its rate of new cases essentially to zero, Europe's numbers grow faster each day — about 100,000 confirmed infections and 5,000 deaths in all so far — suggesting that the worst is yet to come. So how is it that the new disease, Covid-19, has hit harder in Europe, which had weeks of warning that the epidemic was coming, than in China, where the virus originated and where there are twice as many people? To some extent, experts say, Europeans are paying a price for living in open, affluent democracies, where people are used to free movement, easy travel and independent decision-making, and where governments worry about public opinion. Governments aren't used to giving harsh orders, and citizens aren't used to following them. But China acted with a severity and breadth that stunned the West, making unpopular moves and accepting deep economic damage as the price of containing the disease. It closed off tens of millions of people, prohibiting them from leaving their cities and even their homes, except to get food and medical care, and it imposed lesser restrictions on hundreds of millions, shutting down whole industries in the process. "China has been willing to go to pretty extraordinary lengths, using the army, using the police, locking people in their homes, using drone technology to monitor behavior, setting up roadblocks," said Dr. Arthur L. Reingold, head of the epidemiology division at the public health school of the University of California, Berkeley. "Whatever measures have been put in place in Europe really have only been put in place recently, and frankly, and none of them has been as draconian and all-encompassing as what was done in Wuhan," Dr. Reingold said. The consistency and reliability of the numbers from China and some other countries have been questioned, but the overall situation and its direction are clear. While China stumbled in the early going — local and regional officials attempted to censor any talk of an outbreak, and medical gear was in critically short supply — it then addressed the crisis seriously. The coercive power of an authoritarian government was only one factor. Speed and aggressive action have been essential, and some East Asian governments have used an assertive combination of widespread testing, quarantines for the sick and the quick tracking of their contacts to contain the outbreak without shutting down the economy. "They saw what SARS did" in 2003 and 2004, "and they prepared for the next one," said Thomas R. Frieden, a former director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While China lost precious weeks in the beginning, it then moved faster and more decisively than Western countries have. China imposed its first big lockdown, of Wuhan and other cities, on Jan. 23, less than a month after local officials there conceded that they were facing a new pathogen, and barely two weeks after the virus was identified. When Wuhan was closed off, there were fewer than 600 confirmed infections worldwide, though testing had barely begun. "China may have acted late. I have reservations about some measures they implemented, but they controlled the epidemic," Francois Balloux, an epidemiologist at University College London, wrote on Twitter on Thursday. "Doing so, they gave the world a window of opportunity to prepare, which was squandered." Europe's first effort to rope off a broad area — Italy's much less stringently enforced isolation of the northern region that includes Milan — took effect on March 8, when the country had reported more than 7,300 cases. Spain and France had similar caseloads the following week, when they chose to ban most public outings nationwide. "You have to do strict social distancing within a week of the start of community transmission, otherwise you get an explosion, and once you get that explosion, it's very hard to contain," Dr. Frieden said. "The key is not to get to that point, and much of Europe is beyond that point, and New York is beyond that point." Some parts of East Asia acted quickly, but with a very different strategy than China's or Europe's: aggressive testing and contact-tracing to stop the chain of transmission, without shutting down economic activity. As a result, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong have had few cases, and South Korea, which has tested more than 200,000 people, has brought a large outbreak under control. "South Korea showed to the world that it can allow curtailing a pandemic with limited infringements to individual freedom and disruption to the economy and the fabric of society," Dr. Balloux wrote. But that strategy, Dr. Reingold said, is "a herculean undertaking, very resource-intensive" — and one that the United States, in particular, could not replicate. "There's still a long way to go before testing is readily available here," he said. Epidemiologists also say that wide-scale testing and contact-tracing, like social distancing, work best in containing an outbreak when they are used before the contagion is spreading out of control. Put another way, the best response to a serious outbreak is the one that will draw accusations, at first, that the government is overreacting. But experts say it is often impossible to know at the outset which outbreaks are serious. If Italy's lockdown measures are effective at preventing new infections, it will not become evident in the numbers for a few more days, at least, experts say. In other countries, which took those measures later, the benefit will show up later. At its peak in early February, China reported 3,000 to 4,000 new confirmed infections per day. Italy is now adding cases faster than that, and Europe's caseload grows by well over 10,000 daily. On Thursday, Italy reported about 41,000 infections and 3,400 deaths. The country's caseload could double by the end of March and pass China's official tally, experts say, and other countries might follow. Top stories - Google News March 19, 2020 at 06:06PM https://ift.tt/2xV0hir Virus Hits Europe Harder Than China. 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| California governor issues statewide order to 'stay at home' effective Thursday evening - CNBC Posted: 19 Mar 2020 07:55 PM PDT  Gov. Gavin Newsom at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. Rich Pedroncelli | AP California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued a statewide order for all residents to 'stay at home' amid a coronavirus outbreak. "We need to bend the curve in the state of California," Newsom said, as he announced a statewide order for Californians to stay home. "There's a social contract here, people I think recognize the need to do more ... They will begin to adjust and adapt as they have been quite significantly. We will have social pressure and that will encourage people to do the right thing," he said, in addressing how this order will be enforced. Newsom added: "Home isolation is not my preferred choice ... but it is a necessary one ...This is not a permanent state, this is a moment in time." The stay home order is in place till further notice. All dine-in restaurants, bars and clubs, gyms and fitness studios will be closed, according to the order. Public events and gatherings are also not allowed. Essential services will stay open, however, such as pharmacies, grocery stores, takeout and delivery restaurants, and banks. Newsom said he made the decision "based upon some new information" and projections that came in from Johns Hopkins University. He reiterated throughout the press conference and in response to questions from reporters: "We need to meet this moment and flatten the curve together." "We have 416 hospitals in CA, but within the hospital system we have a capacity to surge beyond the 78,000 currently staffed beds by an additional 10,000," Newsom said. "If we change our behaviors that inventory will come down, if we meet this moment, we can truly bend the curve." "It's now just time to absorb and recognize that we need to change our behaviors in a way that meets this moment and allows a recognition that this moment will pass," he added. California estimates that more than half of the state — 25.5 million people — will get the new coronavirus over the next eight weeks, according to a letter sent by Gov. Gavin Newsom to U.S. President Donald Trump. "In the last 24 hours, we had 126 new COVID-19 cases, a 21 percent increase. In some parts of our state, our case rate is doubling every four days," Newsom wrote in a letter dated Wednesday. Newsom asked Trump to dispatch the USNS Mercy Hospital Ship to the Port of Los Angeles through Sept. 1 to help with the influx of expected cases. At Thursday's press conference, Newsom said, "We believe the virus will impact about 56% of California's population ... You do the math, that's a particularly large number ... We believe with a 20% hospitalization rate, that's about 19,543 people that would need to be hospitalized – above the existing capacity of our system." California reported nearly 699 confirmed cases as of 9 p.m. ET Wednesday night, according to the California health department. Newsom said the virus is spreading in the community in 23 counties across the state. It is the third hardest hit state in the U.S., behind Washington state which has 1,376 cases as of 6 p.m. EDT Thursday and New York which has at least 5,000 cases. Earlier this week, Newsom ordered all non-essential businesses to close, including bars, beer pubs and wineries. Grocery stores, pharmacies, banks, cannabis clubs and other businesses deemed as essential are still open, state and local officials say. San Francisco Bay area officials on Monday became the first in the country to issue a "shelter in place" order that will affect nearly 7 million residents of six counties in the Bay Area as the region tries to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. California Street, usually filled with iconic cable cars, is seen mostly empty in San Francisco, California on March 17, 2020. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images The order asks all residents of six Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa and Alameda, to remain home as much as possible. It takes effect at midnight and will last until April 7, the order says. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Thursday also issued a "Safer at Home" order, asking residents to stay home and limit all "non essential activities." —CNBC's Dawn Kopecki and Yasmin Khorram contributed to this story This is breaking news. Please check back for update Top stories - Google News March 19, 2020 at 07:39PM https://ift.tt/2wmXLkA California governor issues statewide order to 'stay at home' effective Thursday evening - CNBC Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| 7 years after bus rape and murder shocked the world, attackers hanged in New Delhi - CNN Posted: 19 Mar 2020 06:55 PM PDT  Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma were hanged at a jail in the Indian capital on Friday, March 20, more than six years after being convicted of raping and killing the woman, known only as "Nirbhaya." The four men were convicted in 2013, but three of them appealed their death sentence to India's top court, the Supreme Court. All appeals were denied, including mercy pleas to India's President Ram Nath Kovind. The case prompted outrage around the world and in India, where protesters demanded justice for Nirbhaya, a pseudonym given to the student that means "fearless." Under Indian law, victims of certain crimes cannot be named. Campaigners called for tougher laws on sexual assault in a country where, based on official figures from 2018, the rape of a woman is reported every 16 minutes. While reports of rape are all too common, the execution of prisoners for any type of crime in India is rare. In 2018, trial courts imposed 162 death sentences -- the highest number in nearly two decades -- according to data collated by National Law University in Delhi. However, there were no recorded executions that year, according to Amnesty International. Only a handful of people have been executed over the past 20 years, including three terrorists, and Dhananjoy Chatterjee, who was executed in 2004 over the rape and murder of a school girl. Recently, the Supreme Court has commuted a number of death penalties to life imprisonment. A horrific attackAt about 8:30 p.m. on December 16, 2012, Nirbhaya and her boyfriend took a chartered bus home after watching the film "Life of Pi" at a Delhi movie theater. It's common in India for chartered buses to pick up additional passengers during odd hours. While the bus was moving, a group of men stole the pair's belongings, then took the victim to the back of the bus where they raped and assaulted Nirbhaya with iron rods, according to court documents. They also stripped and beat her boyfriend, who they held down during the attack. Afterward, the men threw the naked victims from the front door of the moving bus and tried to run them over. They then cleaned the bus with the victims' clothes, before burning them and dividing the "loot" among themselves, including two mobile phones, a wrist watch, and a pair of shoes. Nirbhaya died two weeks after the attack in a Singapore hospital, where doctors had been treating her for serious injuries to her body and brain. Before she died, she made statements to the authorities about the attack. The men involvedSoon after the attack, police located six suspects, who knew each other before the incident. The oldest was 34-year-old school bus driver Ram Singh, who "routinely" drove the vehicle where the attack took place, according to court documents. He was accused of the victim's rape and murder but was never convicted as he allegedly killed himself in prison shortly after the trial began. His family claimed that he was murdered, according to media reports. The youngest, who was only 17 at the time of the attack and who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced to three years in a juvenile correctional facility, and was released in 2015. The other four, aged between 28 and 19 at the time of the attack, were convicted and sentenced to death less than a year later. They include bus cleaner Akshay Thakur, part-time gym instructor Vinay Sharma, fruit seller Pawan Gupta, and Ram Singh's younger brother Mukesh Singh. In a 2015 BBC interview, the younger Singh said "a decent girl won't roam around at nine o'clock at night. A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy." A wider issue of rapeIn 2018, more than 33,000 cases of alleged rape were reported -- roughly 91 cases each day, according to India's National Crime Records Bureau. The number of reported rapes has risen since 2012, potentially because of greater awareness and the perception that something will be done. Legal reforms and more severe penalties for rape were introduced following Nirbhaya's death. Those included fast track courts to move rape cases through the justice system swiftly, an amended definition of rape to include anal and oral penetration, and the publication of new government guidelines intended to do away with the two-finger test which purportedly assessed whether a woman had sexual intercourse recently. The authorities also updated the law to allow the death sentence for repeat rape offenders. Prior to that, the maximum punishment for rape was life imprisonment. In 2018, the law was amended so that the death penalty can be handed down in cases where the victim is a girl under the age of 12. Experts say that the outrage following Nirbhaya's death has helped to lift the shame around discussing rape. However, many of the problems associated with India's rape crisis continue. And high-profile rape cases have continued to hit headlines. Last year, four men confessed to the gang rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman, whom they set on fire. The four were shot dead by police in custody after allegedly snatching weapons from police and firing at them while visiting the scene to reconstruct the crime. Top stories - Google News March 19, 2020 at 06:25PM https://ift.tt/2U5iEtK 7 years after bus rape and murder shocked the world, attackers hanged in New Delhi - CNN Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2020 06:44 PM PDT  Actress Evangeline Lilly says she will not self-quarantine, and it's because she puts a higher precedence on her own freedoms. What are the details?It all began when the 40-year-old actress shared an Instagram post documenting her day-to-day activities amid the COVID-19 crisis. "Just dropped off my kids at gymnastics camp," she wrote. "They all washed their hands before going in. They are playing and laughing. #businessasusual." Naturally, many of her followers called her parenting into question and asked if she believed it was truly responsible to avoid self-isolating while in the throes of a deadly pandemic. At the time of this writing, there have been over 240,000 confirmed cases of the disease, and over 9,800 people have died because of the coronavirus. "I am living with my father at the moment, who has stage four lukemia [sic]," she revealed. "I am also immune compromised at the moment. I have two young kids. Some people value their lives over freedom, some people value freedom over their lives. We all make our choices." Lilly also added that she believes the U.S. government is exercising far too much control over the masses and their panic stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. "Where we are right now feels a lot too close to Marshall [sic] Law for my comfort already, all in the name of a respiratory flu," she reasoned. "It's unnerving. ... Let's be vigilant right now. And kind. Watchful and gracious — keeping a close eye on our leaders, making sure they don't abuse this moment to steal away more freedoms and grab more power." She later cryptically noted, "There's 'something' every election year.'" What else?Lilly — famous for her role in long-running TV show "Lost" — later added, "I think we all need to slow down, take a breath and look at the facts we are being presented with. They do not add up to the all-out, global lockdown, control, pandemonia and insanity we are experiencing. I hope that people will find their peace and sanity where you are soon. Sending you loving prayers." "Actress" - Google News March 19, 2020 at 02:28PM https://ift.tt/2xU1aI4 Actress Evangeline Lilly won't self-isolate — because she values freedom over anything and says the government already has too much control - TheBlaze "Actress" - Google News https://ift.tt/31HZgDn Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| The shocking centre of the COVID-19 crisis - Sky News Posted: 19 Mar 2020 05:25 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content] The shocking centre of the COVID-19 crisis Sky NewsTop stories - Google News March 19, 2020 at 04:03PM https://ift.tt/3dhFWnu The shocking centre of the COVID-19 crisis - Sky News Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Coronavirus: How bad information goes viral - BBC News Posted: 19 Mar 2020 05:22 PM PDT There's a huge amount of misleading information circulating online about coronavirus - from dodgy health tips to speculation about government plans. This is the story of how one post went viral. It's a list of tips and advice - some true, some benign, and some possibly harmful - which has been circulating on Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and elsewhere. Dubbed the "Uncle with master's degree" post because of the alleged source of the information, it's hopped from the Facebook profile of an 84-year-old British man to the Instagram account of a Ghanaian TV presenter, through Facebook groups for Indian Catholics to coronavirus-specific forums, WhatsApp groups, and Twitter accounts. At first glance it seems legitimate because the information is attributed to a trusted source: a doctor, an institution, or that well-educated "uncle". Poster ZeroThe earliest version that we could find was posted by a Facebook user on 7 February. It was shared in a group called Happy People, with nearly 2,000 members. The post read: "My classmate's uncle and nephew, graduated with a master's degree, and work in Shenzhen Hospital. He is being transferred to study Wuhan pneumonia virus. He just called me and told me to tell my friends…" The tips that follow are misleading or wrong. One says that you don't have the virus "if you have a runny nose". According to fact checking organisations Full Fact and Snopes, citing health authorities including the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and The Lancet medical journal, a runny nose is uncommon - but it's not unheard of among coronavirus patients. The post also encourages people to "drink more hot water" and "Try not to drink ice". There's currently no medical evidence that either of those things will help prevent or cure coronavirus. "That has no support," says Alex Kasprak of Snopes. "It's wild to see that in there, it's a big red flag." We attempted to contact the person who posted the information; she did not respond. The post spreadsThe list picked up momentum several days later when it was shared by a man named Glen in India. He put it in several different Facebook groups, including ones for Catholics. The new post built on the 7 February post with additional information. Although the new post stated "My classmate's uncle and nephew, graduated with a master's degree ... just called me and told me to tell my friends...", Glen didn't actually receive a phone call from an uncle. He says the post was just "a forward that I got and forwarded it on". The additional tips included some accurate advice - for instance, it tells people to wash their hands, a key preventative measure. But the new version also added some unsubstantiated and misleading information. For instance, it described in very specific detail how the disease progresses. But doctors say coronavirus symptoms and severity are highly variable, and there's no one exact progression pattern. The post goes viralFor several weeks the post was confined to relatively minor outlets. But on 27 February, an 84-year-old former art gallery owner named Peter made it really go viral. Peter's post was similar to Glen's, but again included some new information - some of which was wrong or misleading. Peter's post spread rapidly, bringing it to the attention of fact checkers including Full Fact and Snopes. Both organisations wrote detailed stories debunking the claims, citing reliable medical sources including the WHO, the US CDC, the UK National Health Service (NHS) and others. For instance, one claim in the post stated that the virus "hates the Sun", but as of yet there's no evidence that sunlight kills the virus, and cases have been reported in many countries with hot and sunny climates. Other claims in the post were factual. For instance, it repeated the advice about hand-washing. Peter, who lives in southern England, edited the misleading parts of his post after the fact checkers posted their stories. But by then, it had already been shared nearly 350,000 times. When contacted by the BBC, Peter would not say specifically where he got the information in the post, but said that he trusted his source at the time. "I believed him actually to be a relation of this scientific guy, a medical guy who'd given all those facts and figures," he told us in a phone interview. Peter says he was trying to help people protect themselves. "I try to be as factual as I can. And if I'm corrected, or if I discover myself that I've said something incorrectly, I apologise and I amend it," he says. The post mutatesDespite his fact-based edits, the claims in the original version of Peter's post soon spread, and mutated. Some versions started to absorb further misleading information. The source shifted as well. In some versions, which moved beyond Facebook to Whatsapp and Twitter, the "uncle with a master's" became "a member of the Stanford hospital board" and even "a friend's sister's friend's brother who just happens to be on the Stanford Hospital board". There was also information attributed to "Japanese doctors" and "Taiwanese experts" - among many other modifications. The posts mentioning Stanford - at least 100 have appeared on Facebook alone - spread so rapidly that the university issued a statement denying it had anything to do with them. The post crosses languagesThe post then spread - helped by celebrities, including a Ghanaian TV presenter and an American actor, but also by scores of ordinary people. One American woman posted a version in a Facebook group called Coronavirus Updates - one of thousands of virus-focused groups that have blossomed on the social network. April's post was attributed to "a friend's nephew in the military". She explained when contacted via Facebook Messenger that she had seen the information when a friend shared it, but later realised that "all [my friend] did was copy and paste it like I did. Looks like most of it is false." "I use Facebook all day long, everyday," April says. "I have found lots of helpful information... I don't watch the news." At the same time the post was translated into several languages including Arabic, Amharic, Vietnamese, French, Spanish and Italian. Again, some of the posts contained accurate or at the worst benignly misleading information - but other alleged "facts" had the potential to be harmful. One piece of advice suggests doing a coronavirus "self-check" every morning by holding your breath for more than 10 seconds. But there's no evidence to indicate that your ability to do this means you are virus-free. Beyond "fake news"Copypasta"Uncle with a master's" is a specific type of viral post - the slang term for it is "copypasta". This is material that someone copies and pastes instead of using "share", "retweet", other sharing tools provided within social networks. That makes each post look original: it looks like it was written by someone you know, possibly a friend or relative, thus increasing the chance that you might trust it. Because there are so many "original" posts, it also makes it difficult for social networks and people who study them to keep track of exactly how far such posts have spread. We know that Peter's single post was shared hundreds of thousands of times - but it's a colossal, perhaps impossible, task to calculate how many people have seen the various copied variations of "uncle with a master's" on Facebook, or any of the major social networks. Clearly though, millions have.  Media playback is unsupported on your device What Facebook is doingOf the misleading posts that weren't edited to remove misinformation, a Facebook spokesperson told us: "These posts violate our policies and have been removed." "We are working continuously to remove harmful misinformation about coronavirus," the spokesperson said. "Facebook has also partnered with the NHS to connect people to the latest official NHS guidance around coronavirus - both directly in their News Feeds and when people search on the topic." The company is also plugging the text from the posts into automated systems in order to detect similar content. The tech giants - Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Linkedin, Reddit, Twitter and YouTube - have pledged to work together to fight virus misinformation. Fact checkers say that we all have a part to play - by thinking before we share. "Pause for a second. Have a little look. See if you can find out more information about it," says Claire Milne from Full Fact. "Work out if it's correct or if you are sharing something with your friends and family that might be misleading and could harm them." If the source seems vague or the post is a long list or thread packed with information, compare the claims to known, trusted sources. Blend of truth and nonsenseThe people sharing the "uncle with a masters" post - which in its various versions is still spreading online - generally aren't being malicious: they usually believe that they're passing on facts. Or they may be unsure about the veracity of the information, but believe that they're helping anyway, "just in case" what's outlined is true. In general, they aren't foolish or stupid. It's easy to get duped if you're anxious. The "uncle" post is also a blend of truth and nonsense, which makes it more pernicious and easily spread. "When things [that are false] are mixed with things that sound reasonable or true, it confuses people, and in some cases, it allows people to think that the rest of the advice is legitimate as well," says Mr Kasprak from Snopes. Three questions to ask before you share
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| Posted: 19 Mar 2020 05:22 PM PDT  Kathy Wright Kathy Wright, right, and Rick Wright sit with their masks aboard the flight from Japan to Travis Air Force Base, where the couple was quarantined before Rick tested positive for coronavirus. He has not shown any symptoms of the illness.For a month, Rick Wright's life has been in limbo. More than a dozen times, the Redwood City man has been tested for coronavirus — yet results swing back and forth, never assuring him that he is, or is not, harboring the virus. "I'm sitting in a holding pattern," said Wright, who never felt sick after being evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan last month but was quarantined at a San Francisco hospital for eight days and then at home, to protect his family and community. "You're happy one day, then sad the next. You just want to be cleared and have your life back." He's not alone in this mystery. As testing increases, so do reports of inconclusive test results. In general, the test for COVID-19 is very reliable, especially in people with symptoms. But the specter of so-called "false negatives," of wrongly telling people they're free of the virus when they are actually infected, looms menacingly over the effort to detect and control the disease as quickly as possible. Because the virus can be transmitted by people without symptoms, ambiguous results can send infected people out into the community. Last Saturday, after testing negative, a Stanford student left campus by car with five other students. But on Sunday, he learned that he tested positive, according to the Stanford Daily. At The Forum at Rancho San Antonio retirement community in Cupertino, a male employee in the Skilled Nursing Unit was tested three times, six days apart. Twice he got good news. The third time, in an account that alarmed family members of the frail and elderly residents, he tested positive. According to conversations and emails sent to a family member, it has not been confirmed whether he somehow became infected during a hospital visit — or if his initial results were false. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not disclosed how sensitive its test is to detect very low levels of the virus. When Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was asked about it in a recent interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association, he hedged. "If (the test is) positive, you absolutely can make a decision," he said. The uncertainty of test reliability means that quarantined passengers of the Grand Princess cruise trip at Travis Air Force Base are being held for a full 14 days — even though they test negative. "I can almost see my house from here — but I can't go there," said Carl Mianecke, 76, of Napa, who tested negative but won't be released from quarantine for another five days. "I've resigned myself to it. I'm reading, watching TV and using my computer to work, but I would like to get home to make some real food." One of the first reports of suspect test results came during the initial outbreak of the disease in China. A young man with intermittent fever tested negative, then positive — then negative, twice. "This case highlights that a single negative result of the test does not exclude COVID-19," wrote Qinjian Hao and his team at Sichuan's Center of Gerontology and Geriatrics, in a published report. Such cases may risk "a potentially higher spread of the disease in the hospital and community because of delayed quarantine of the missed case," the team warned. The test is called Reverse Transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR). It measures tiny bits of viral RNA, a chain of cells that carry genetic information, that swim in oceans of cells in a patient's sputum. Test results may be inconclusive for several reasons, according to the expert virologists and the CDC. There's the possibility of simple technical errors, such as improper collection, handling or shipping. Or the test's reagents (key chemical components of the kit) may be flawed, creating diagnostic inaccuracy. It's possible that the patient who tested negative, then later positive, is carrying levels of the virus that are so low they're below the threshold of detection. "Viral load goes up and down," said Dr. Charles Chiu, director of UC San Francisco's Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center. "That's the natural course of the disease. You can test a patient and they'll be positive one day and negative the next day." There's another possibility: If the patient isn't showing symptoms, they may not have coughed up enough of the virus from their lungs into their upper respiratory tract, where test samples are taken. It's also possible the test can't detect some strains of the virus, according to the CDC. RNA viruses like the COVID-19 pathogen have a lot of genetic variability. Although efforts were made to design test assays that target the parts of the viral genome that are shared by all strains, said the CDC, there might be a mismatch."We don't have a test that can definitely say someone is not infected," said Dr. John Swartzberg, a specialist in infectious disease and clinical professor emeritus at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. "We know by the time symptoms appear, we will find it," he added. "And we also know in a small number we can find it before symptoms. We don't know how long before. "We are asking more of the test than it can give us," he said. For Wright, the ambiguity has changed his life. To be safe, he remained alone at home, in self-quarantine, for 19 days. His wife, Kathy, who was also on the cruise but never tested positive, moved out of the home to stay with her sister; they waved to each other through the window. His most recent test was taken eight days ago. Will it be definitive? "I'm still waiting for results," he said. 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| Torres rejects Valencia contract offer as Barcelona close in - Goal.com Posted: 19 Mar 2020 05:20 PM PDT  Ferran Torres has rejected Valencia's latest contract offer with just one year remaining on his current deal, with Barcelona thought to be interested. Goal can reveal that it is the second proposal to have been knocked back by the 20-year-old winger, and Los Che chiefs are beginning to suspect that the youngster has his heart set on a move away from the Mestalla. The latest offer included a substantial pay rise that would have placed the wide-man amongst the club's top earners, but the player's outright rejection indicates that he may be holding out for a move to a club that can offer an even more attractive financial package. If that is the case, Valencia's inability to compete financially may see them forced to accept the loss of their prized possession in the summer. Should Torres leave, he is thought to have no shortage of suitors. Borussia Dortmund and Juventus have registered their interest in the past, while Barcelona are also thought to be monitoring his situation. The winger's current contract contains a €100 million (£91.8m/$106.8m) release clause, but the Blaugrana are hoping that a refusal to renew by the player will force Los Che into negotiating a sale at a more reasonable price before Torres' deal runs out in the summer of 2021. Torres has hit six goals and recorded a further seven assists in 35 appearances for Valencia across all competitions so far this season and is an important player for the La Liga side, who sit just three points and one place outside the European places at present. As a result, Valencia will continue to negotiate with Torres and his camp in the hope that an agreement can be reached over a contract renewal to keep the young winger at the Mestalla for a few more seasons at least. Torres is a guaranteed starter at the Mestalla, whereas he would be competing for minutes with the likes of Lionel Messi, Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele at Barcelona, meaning his development may be best served by staying put, at least for the moment. However, Torres' representatives – Leaderbrock Sports – manufactured the deal that saw Barcelona strike a deal for exciting teenager Pedri, who will officially join the Blaugrana from Las Palmas in the summer, and Torres may well tread the same path. "Goal" - Google News March 19, 2020 at 10:48AM https://ift.tt/2UjIOI2 Torres rejects Valencia contract offer as Barcelona close in - Goal.com "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| 嵐ベスト盤が2019年世界でもっとも売れたアルバムに - ナタリー Posted: 19 Mar 2020 09:56 AM PDT 嵐ベスト盤が2019年世界でもっとも売れたアルバムに - ナタリー この賞は世界のレコード産業を代表する組織であるIFPI（国際レコード産業連盟）が、世界中のフィジカルアルバムとデジタルアルバムの売上を合算し、年間のベストセラーアルバムをランク付けしたチャートをもとに決定。CEOのフランシス・ムア氏は、「嵐は日本を象徴するボーイズ・グループで、20年間の音楽活動を通じてアジア全域に巨大で熱狂的なファン層を築いてきた。彼らの驚異的な売上を誇る作品群と長いキャリアの証として、嵐の本賞の受賞を祝福したい」と賛辞を送っている。 「5×20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019」は嵐のデビュー20周年を記念して2019年6月にリリースされたベストアルバムで、デビュー曲「A・RA・SHI」から2018年10月リリースのシングル曲「君のうた」までのシングル表題曲63曲と、新曲「5×20」の計64曲が収録されている。なお2019年に世界各国で売れたアルバムのトップ10「IFPI Global Top 10 Album Chart」の2位にはテイラー・スウィフト「Lover」、3位にはBTS「MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA」がランクインした。 Top 10 Global Albums 20191位：嵐「5×20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019」 2020-03-19 16:09:08Z https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiJGh0dHBzOi8vbmF0YWxpZS5tdS9tdXNpYy9uZXdzLzM3MjAzMdIBKGh0dHBzOi8vYW1wLm5hdGFsaWUubXUvbXVzaWMvbmV3cy8zNzIwMzE?oc=5  |
| 日向坂46新三期生 髙橋未来虹 森本茉莉 山口陽世、メディア初撮り下ろし先行公開 - ドワンゴジェイピーnews Posted: 19 Mar 2020 05:55 AM PDT 日向坂46新三期生 髙橋未来虹 森本茉莉 山口陽世、メディア初撮り下ろし先行公開 - ドワンゴジェイピーnews 3月25日（水）の単行本『日向坂46ストーリー』（集英社）発売に合わせて、日向坂46を全70ページにわたり特集する、3月23日（月）発売の『週刊プレイボーイ No.14』。   日向坂46メンバーによるグラビアページジャックの中には、2月にグループに加入したばかりの髙橋未来虹、森本茉莉、山口陽世という"新三期生"の3名の撮り下ろしも掲載される。彼女たちが"日向坂46"としてメディアに登場するのは、今回が初となる。 さらに、今号では、彼女たちにフォーカスした『日向坂46ストーリー』の"新章"を掲載。また、特別付録として単行本の"アナザーブックカバー"も収録。勢いを増し続ける日向坂46の物語を、ぜひ『週刊プレイボーイ』でもご覧いただきたい。 ＜基本情報＞ ●タイトル：『週刊プレイボーイ 2020年4月16日発売号 No.14』 ●発売日／2020年3月23日（月） ●定価／470円（税込） ●判型／B5版 ●タイトル：『日向坂46ストーリー』 ●発売日／2020年3月25日（水） ●定価／1,500円（税込） ●判型／四六判・368ページ ●著者／西中賢治
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| TVアニメ「ヒプノシスマイク」4ディビジョン・12キャラが揃うキービジュアル公開 - ナタリー Posted: 19 Mar 2020 04:25 AM PDT TVアニメ「ヒプノシスマイク」4ディビジョン・12キャラが揃うキービジュアル公開 - ナタリー  TVアニメ「『ヒプノシスマイク -Division Rap Battle-』Rhyme Anima」のキービジュアルが公開された。 キャラクターラッププロジェクト「ヒプノシスマイク -Division Rap Battle-」を原作とする本作は、武力による戦争は根絶され、武力ではなく人の精神に干渉する特殊なマイク"ヒプノシスマイク"によって争う世界を舞台にした物語。キービジュアルにはイケブクロ、ヨコハマ、シブヤ、シンジュク、4ディビジョンの12キャラクターが描かれた。またキービジュアルの解禁に合わせてキャスト情報も公開に。アニメの公式サイトもリニューアルされている。 (c)『ヒプノシスマイク-Division Rap Battle-』Rhyme Anima 製作委員会 2020-03-19 11:10:22Z https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiJGh0dHBzOi8vbmF0YWxpZS5tdS9jb21pYy9uZXdzLzM3MjAwMNIBKGh0dHBzOi8vYW1wLm5hdGFsaWUubXUvY29taWMvbmV3cy8zNzIwMDA?oc=5  |
| Linda Fairstein Sues Netflix for Defamation in ‘When They See Us’ - The New York Times Posted: 19 Mar 2020 04:19 AM PDT Linda Fairstein Sues Netflix for Defamation in 'When They See Us' - The New York Times  The former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein sued Netflix and the director Ava DuVernay on Wednesday, arguing that she was falsely portrayed as a "racist, unethical villain" pushing for the convictions of five black and Latino teenagers in "When They See Us," a series about the Central Park Five case. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Fort Myers, Fla., came after the series made Ms. Fairstein, a best-selling crime novelist, the object of public outrage, prompting her to be dropped by her publisher and resign from several prominent boards. In the suit, Ms. Fairstein claims the four-part series defamed her in nearly every scene in the three episodes in which her character appears. "Most glaringly, the film series falsely portrays Ms. Fairstein as in charge of the investigation and prosecution of the case against The Five, including the development of the prosecution's theory of the case," said Andrew Miltenberg, a lawyer for Ms. Fairstein. "In truth, and as detailed in the lawsuit, Ms. Fairstein was responsible for neither aspect of the case." Netflix rejected Ms. Fairstein's claims. "Linda Fairstein's frivolous lawsuit is without merit," the company said. "We intend to vigorously defend 'When They See Us' and Ava DuVernay and Attica Locke, the incredible team behind the series." Ms. DuVernay, an Academy Award-nominated director, writer and producer, declined to comment on the lawsuit. Ms. Locke, a writer and producer of the series, who was also named as a defendant, did not respond to an email. "When They See Us," which debuted last May, centers on the 1989 case of five teenagers who were arrested and convicted in connection with the rape and assault of a white female jogger in Central Park. The case came to symbolize panic about urban crime and racism in the media and in the criminal justice system. The five were convicted based partly on police-coerced confessions, and each spent years in prison before they were exonerated in 2002 after Matias Reyes, a convicted murderer and serial rapist, confessed to the crime. In 2014, they were awarded a $41 million settlement, though the City of New York denied any wrongdoing. Ms. Fairstein ran the sex crimes division of the Manhattan district attorney's office in 1989 and was portrayed in the series as the driving force behind the prosecution. After the show premiered, online petitions and a hashtag, #CancelLindaFairstein, called for a boycott of her books and her removal from prominent boards. She was dropped by her publisher, Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, and resigned from the boards of several organizations including Safe Horizon and the Joyful Heart Foundation, both of which aid victims of sexual violence, and Vassar College, her alma mater. "Ms. Fairstein's reputation and career — in the law and in literature — have been irreparably damaged by the defendants' actions," Mr. Miltenberg said. Even before the show debuted, Ms. Fairstein's reputation had taken a hit. In 2018, Mystery Writers of America, which presents the annual Edgar Awards, said it would no longer honor her with one of its "Grand Master" awards for literary achievement. The organization withdrew the award after New York City released internal law enforcement documents from the Central Park jogger investigation that reinforced the decision to overturn the convictions of the five defendants. After the Netflix series began streaming, Ms. Fairstein denounced her depiction as "grossly and maliciously inaccurate," and wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal last year claiming the series was full of "distortions and falsehoods." In the lawsuit, she argues that the series depicts her as a "racist, unethical villain who is determined to jail innocent children of color at any cost." The suit claims the series falsely showed Ms. Fairstein calling for a roundup of young black "thugs," referring to people of color as "animals," directing detectives to coerce confessions and suppressing DNA evidence. Ms. Fairstein is portrayed in the series by the actress Felicity Huffman, who was sentenced to 14 days in prison in the college admissions scandal after filming was complete. Mr. Miltenberg said that the lawsuit was "not intended to re-litigate the guilt or innocence of The Five" and that Ms. Fairstein agreed with the decision to vacate their convictions after Mr. Reyes's confession. Nicole Sperling contributed reporting. 2020-03-19 03:03:09Z https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiTGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm55dGltZXMuY29tLzIwMjAvMDMvMTgvdXMvbGluZGEtZmFpcnN0ZWluLWNlbnRyYWwtcGFyay1maXZlLmh0bWzSAVBodHRwczovL3d3dy5ueXRpbWVzLmNvbS8yMDIwLzAzLzE4L3VzL2xpbmRhLWZhaXJzdGVpbi1jZW50cmFsLXBhcmstZml2ZS5hbXAuaHRtbA?oc=5  |
| 'The Voice' joined by Thunderstorm Artis of Hendersonville, who turned all 4 chairs - Tennessean Posted: 19 Mar 2020 04:19 AM PDT 'The Voice' joined by Thunderstorm Artis of Hendersonville, who turned all 4 chairs - Tennessean CLOSE  Thunderstorm Artis wasn't allowed to say he didn't like a genre of music until he'd taken the time to understand it. That was his dad's rule, a "mentality (that) helped me so much," Artis said. "You can't just take things at face value." Growing up with 10 siblings — six boys and five girls — in Haleiwa, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, the Artis Family Band laid the foundation for the now-23-year-old Hendersonville resident, who has toured the U.S. for the past six years to jump-start his musical career. Now, Artis is looking ahead to competing on "The Voice" after a blind audition so powerful that he quickly achieved a four-chair turn. How Artis turned all 4 chairsThe NBC competition show features four celebrity coaches — Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, Nick Jonas and Blake Shelton in season 18 — who select contestants to coach. Selections happen during the blind audition rounds, in which coaches sit with their backs facing contestants to decide solely on vocal ability. If coaches want that contestant on their team, they turn their chairs to face them. Within one minute of Artis finishing his audition, with "Blackbird" by The Beatles, all four coaches turned to face him. Vying for the addition to their respective teams, coaches hailed Artis as a "ridiculously talented" singer who didn't need much help. "I am notoriously stingy about turning around for anybody," Legend said after Artis' audition. "But when I do turn, I usually turn fast because I can hear in someone's tone that magic, and Thunderstorm, your tone was magical. "We heard it and one second in, we're like, 'this guy belongs on 'The Voice,'" he said. "And I would love to coach you, Thunderstorm." Artis said he was "in awe," not expecting the praise he got from his audition. Free to select any of the four coaches to work with, Artis agreed to move forward with Legend. Family values led to opportunities todayWhen asked which artists have inspired him over the years, Legend was among the first Artis named — followed by Nat King Cole and Marvin Gaye, among others — after his oldest brother Ron Artis who "took me under his wing." Artis said "we all play music," and the tight-knit family ingrained at a young age that the most important thing in life was one another. Those values and a deep love for music also got the family through hardships. Artis' father, Ron Artis Sr., died of a heart attack in 2010. Turning to music was how Artis found a "healthy way" to cope with the loss. "Music was one of the ways I was able to process what I was going through," Artis said. "My mom was the first one who encouraged me to step out and really share that music with people ... Writing from a place of pain (shares) some things that people can really relate to." Artis' eldest brother "took me under his wing." They began playing as a duo for a few years before pursuing solo work. Artis, who described his voice and his style as a cross between Legend and James Taylor, played several instruments in nearly every genre with his siblings and began songwriting seriously at age 14. "I don't think I would even have the opportunity I have today if it wasn't for my family," he said. 'Am I good enough to turn these chairs?'Artis moved to Hendersonville last year for the singer-songwriter culture in Middle Tennessee. "(If you) want to get better at something in life, (you should) surround yourself with people better than you," he said. So, he moved to Tennessee and "engulfed" himself in music, wanting "to be inspired" by other songwriters. When he decided to audition for "The Voice," Artis said it was "pretty nerve-wracking," performing first in front of producers before advancing to blind auditions. "I've performed all my life, but never had I had to do it and be criticized," he said, wondering, "am I good enough to turn these chairs? ... (The coaches are) four powerhouses in their own professions. "(I was) nervous, but at the same time I knew that I trained for this for my whole life," he said. Trial and error before 'The Voice'Training for blind auditions, Artis said he selected "Blackbird" because it's "such a beautiful song." He just had to "fine-tune it," and "connect with people." Playing shows before the audition, Artis played "Blackbird" and tested audience responses. If he didn't get a good response, he put in "a lot of work" to develop it into a version that fit for him. And based on the response he received on "The Voice," that version worked. During auditions, contestants don't hear the sound effect of one of the coaches pushing the button to turn their chairs that viewers recognize at home. Artis began the song with his eyes closed. By the time he opened them, he was "super shocked" to see three of the four coaches had turned around already. Shelton, the last to turn around, didn't take long to join his counterparts facing Artis. "It's so crazy (and) not at all what I was expecting," Artis said. "A lot of people (on 'The Voice' are) going out there and doing a lot more musically and presence-wise ... I just wanted to go out there and be me. "To get the response that I got was so surreal and super cool." Artis couldn't go into too much detail about his next steps on "The Voice" when speaking with the Tennessean, but said he looks forward to the opportunity to work with Legend. "I'm just an example, if you work hard at something in your life ... you never know the response you're going to get," Artis said. "It's been a dream, something I've been reaching for. ... There's no better time than now." Kelly Fisher can be reached at KPFisher@gannett.com, 615-801-3866 or on Twitter at @KellyPFisher. Read or Share this story: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/sumner/hendersonville/2020/03/18/voice-joined-thunderstorm-artis-hendersonville/5063703002/ 2020-03-19 00:03:00Z https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/sumner/hendersonville/2020/03/18/voice-joined-thunderstorm-artis-hendersonville/5063703002/  |
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