Childcare, social bubbles and the return of pubs and restaurants – Executive announces lockdown relaxations

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Childcare, social bubbles and the return of pubs and restaurants – Executive announces lockdown relaxations

DEPUTY First Minister Michelle O’Neill has revealed that the ‘bubble’ concept can be extended to two households in the next number of weeks.

his came after a raft of Covid-19 lockdown relaxations were announced for the hospitality sector.

Speaking at this afternoon’s press briefing, First Minister Arlene Foster also confirmed that the Executive has been looking at how other countries has developed their own one metre vs two metre rule debate.

Commenting on the relaxations for pubs, restaurants and hotels, DUP leader Mrs Foster explained that they can reopen on July 3, while caravan parks, camping sites and self-catering tourist accommodation can open on June 26.

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First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill during the daily media broadcast in the Long Gallery at Parliament Buildings, Stormont on Monday.

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“Pubs, bars and social clubs with outdoor spaces will also be permitted to serve alcohol outdoors by table service and indoor pubs, bars and social clubs will be able to serve meals with alcohol,” she said.

“Hotel restaurants will also be permitted to reopen and hotel bars will be restricted to serving meals with alcohol auxiliary to this.

“As with pubs and bars, hotels with outdoor spaces will be permitted to sell alcohol in those spaces.

“We can also confirm today that visitor attractions such as museums, historical houses, cultural and heritage venues may also open from July 3 with strict social distancing in place.”

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First Minister Arlene Foster during the daily media broadcast in the Long Gallery at Parliament Buildings, Stormont on Monday. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Mrs Foster added that the Executive has agreed to adopt a “graduated approach” to extending the bubble concept, where a network of people can see each other and stay at each other’s homes.

Two full households can come together to create a bubble and a date for when that can happen will be announced in the next few weeks.

Sinn Fein’s northern leader Ms O’Neill, stated: “I am pleased today that we’re able to signal our intention to continue with that phased approach to the relaxation of restrictions on social contact.

“We propose that in the next number of weeks, two households on any size will be able to form an exclusive bubble with each other.

“Our ability to move to this will depend on the assessment of risk at that time but we hope that this will give people something to look forward to after such a long time without close contact in which we know has been very difficult for many people.”

Mrs Foster added that childcare will also be extended to those working in the manufacturing and construction sectors and a further paper on childcare will be presented to the Executive this Thursday for discussion.

“The Executive also recognises that childcare is essential to many people returning to work,” she said.

“We have already agreed to extend the definition of key worker for childcare to include the retail sector and there will also be a gradual increase in the number of family child minders who are permitted to permit child care over the coming months.

“Today we have agreed that childcare should also be made available to those working in the manufacturing and construction sectors who had not previously been covered by the definition of key worker.

“Officials from health and education are continuing to work alongside a sector reference group in the development of a recovery strategy for childcare.

“This will be based on parental need and including assessing where there are capacity gaps.”

When asked about the one metre vs two metre social distancing debate, both Mrs Foster and Ms O’Neill stated that it was something the Executive was constantly keeping under review.

“I’m very aware of the calls for the two metres versus one metre move,” said Ms O’Neill.

“I think that certainly it’s something we discuss at every single Executive meeting.

“We’re continually keeping this issue under review and we have to come at this in a balanced way so trying to measure the risk and see how far we can move.

“We’re not at the point yet where we can move but we certainly have committed that we will continue to keep this issue under review.”

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Politicians Praise Supreme Court’s Decision On LGBTQ Worker Protections

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Politicians and LGBTQ rights advocates are applauding the Supreme Court’s ruling that employers cannot fire an employee based on their sexual orientation, calling Monday a historic day in the fight for equality. 

In a 6-3 ruling, the court announced Title VII from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 offers protections from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

“[I]t is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the opinion.

Gerald Bostock, a plaintiff in the case, said in a statement that he was “elated” over the decision. He was employed by Clayton County, Georgia, until he was fired in 2013 for joining a gay softball league.

“There are truly no words to describe just how elated I am,” Bostock said. “When I was fired seven years ago, I was devastated. But this fight became about so much more than me. … Today, we can go to work without the fear of being fired for who we are and who we love. Yet, there is more work to be done. Discrimination has no place in this world, and I will not rest until we have equal rights for all.”

Aimee Stephens and Don Zarda, also plaintiffs in the landmark case, both died before the decision was released. Stephens, a transgender woman from Michigan, was fired after announcing she would return to her job as a funeral director after having gender reassignment surgery. Zarda, a skydiving instructor from New York, was fired from his job after revealing he was gay. 

“There is no question: LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination in the workplace,” the American Civil Liberties Union said in a tweet praising the Supreme Court’s decision. 

Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and CEO of LGBTQ rights group GLAAD, said the decision “affirms what shouldn’t have even been a debate.”

“The decision gives us hope that as a country we can unite for the common good and continue the fight for LGBTQ acceptance,” Ellis said. “Especially at a time when the Trump Administration is rolling back the rights of transgender people and anti-transgender violence continues to plague our nation, this decision is a step towards affirming the dignity of transgender people, and all LGBTQ people.”

The Trump administration on Friday released a regulation to roll back protections against gender identity discrimination in health care. It would allow health insurance companies, doctors and hospitals regulated by the Affordable Care Act the ability to discriminate based on gender identity, posing a threat to transgender people seeking health care.  



A man holds a Pride Flag while standing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building on Monday, after the court ruled that LGBTQ people can not be disciplined or fired based on their sexual orientation. With Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the Democratic appointees, the court ruled 6-3 that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Many politicians also expressed excitement over Monday’s court ruling. 

“Congratulations to the LGBTQ+ community on this monumental victory for equality,” tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who said it was a “historic day.” “We must never stop fighting to end all forms of discrimination and build a nation based on justice for all.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is said to be on the shortlist to become Joe Biden’s running mate, called the decision a step in the right direction, but said there was more work to be done. 

“No one should have to live in fear of discrimination,” she wrote on Twitter. “The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold protections for LGBTQ+ workers preserves the LGBTQ+ movement’s hard-won progress—but we must keep up the pressure to ensure every LGBTQ+ person is free to be who they are without fear.” 

The congressional LQBTQ+ Equality Caucus also encouraged people to keep fighting.

Democrats say the next step is to pass H.R. 5 – Equality Act. The bill would prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. It has passed in the House and has been sent to committee in the Senate. 

“The long march for equality takes a step forward,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Monday. “The real answer is to pass the Equality Act, but we all breathe a sigh of relief that the Supreme Court did the right thing.” 



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US revokes emergency use of malaria drugs to treat coronavirus

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US revokes emergency use of malaria drugs to treat coronavirus

Dr Steven Nissen, a Cleveland Clinic researcher who has been a frequent FDA adviser, agreed with the decision and said he would not have granted emergency access in the first place.

“There has never been any high-quality evidence suggesting that hyrdoxychloroquine is effective” for treating or preventing coronavirus infection, he said, but there is evidence of serious side effects.

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On Thursday, a National Institutes of Health panel of experts revised its recommendations to specifically recommend against the drug’s use except in formal studies, and “that, I’m sure, had influence on the FDA,” Nissen said.

The actions by FDA and NIH send a clear signal to health professionals against prescribing the drugs for coronavirus.

Trump aggressively pushed the drug beginning in the first weeks of the outbreak and stunned medical professionals when he revealed he took the drug pre-emptively against infection.

No large, rigorous studies have found the drugs safe or effective for preventing or treating COVID-19. And a string of recent studies made clear they could do more harm than good.

The FDA had granted emergency use of the drugs for coronavirus patients in March.Credit:AP

The FDA granted emergency use of the drugs for coronavirus patients in late March at the same time the US government accepted 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine that had been donated by two foreign drug manufacturers. Millions of those doses were shipped to US hospitals to treat patient who weren’t enrolled in clinical trials.

But the FDA previously warned doctors that it had seen reports of dangerous side effects and heart problems reported to poison control centres and other health systems.

The agency said on Monday it revoked the authorisation in consultation with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, which had requested the emergency use.

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BARDA’s former director said in April that he was removed from his job because he resisted political pressure from Trump appointees to allow widespread use of the malaria drugs. Rick Bright said he worked with FDA senior staff to limit the drugs’ authorisation to patients hospitalised with COVID-19 and under professional supervision.

Among other issues, Bright objected to the fact that some of the doses imported by the US government were manufactured at facilities in India and Pakistan that had not been reviewed by the FDA.

The FDA says it sampled and tested the imported drugs to confirm they met the agency’s standards for safety and quality.

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F1 2020: Mugello and the latest on the sport’s calendar plans

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F1 2020: Mugello and the latest on the sport’s calendar plans

Will the European season be extended beyond Monza – and what are the most likely circuit contenders? 2020 calendar latest discussed on The F1 Show as the sport works to finalise schedule

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Sky Sports’ Craig Slater provides an update on where F1 may head next once the initial eight-race European calendar is completed in early September.

Sky Sports’ Craig Slater provides an update on where F1 may head next once the initial eight-race European calendar is completed in early September.

Formula 1 continues to explore its options for the remainder of the 2020 season beyond the initial eight-race calendar – with Italy’s Mugello circuit still considered the front-runner to extend the European season.

F1 has said it expects to announce the rest of the revised calendar for this year before the delayed season begins in Austria at the start of July, and confirmed last week that the sport had received “interest” from venues not on the original 2020 schedule.

Mugello, the Ferrari-owned circuit which has never previously staged a Grand Prix but hosted in-season testing in 2012, is understood to remain the most likely addition to follow the Italian GP on September 6, the final round announced so far.

“It does seem as though we will have an extension of the European season,” reported Craig Slater on The F1 Show.

“Various tracks have been mentioned. Of those tracks, I understand Mugello is probably the most serious contender to follow the Italian GP at Monza. That is looking likeliest of the circuits looking to extend the European season.”

Several other circuits have been mooted as possible additional rounds too. These include Portimao, in Portugal’s Algarve, Germany’s Hockenheim and Imola, another Italian track, which has been off the calendar since 2006.

Like Mugello, Portimao has never previously staged a Grand Prix – although did host tests in 2008 and 2009.

“They are back-up options for Formula 1 if the next portion of the season proves more difficult to fill in,” added Slater.

What’s the plan beyond Europe?

Seven events on the original 2020 calendar have now been cancelled outright for this year – Australia, Netherlands, Azerbaijan, Monaco, France, Singapore and Japan – while uncertainty remains over some of the sport’s other flyaway events in Asia and the Americas.

As a result, a double-header in Russia is now under serious consideration. A back-to-back at China’s Shanghai International Circuit has also been discussed, although any such plan is understood to be dependent on Vietnam’s inaugural street race in Hanoi not taking place this year.

A decision on Vietnam’s event is expected within the next week.

The confirmed 2020 F1 dates so far

July 5 Austrian GP – Spielberg
July 12 Steiermark GP – Spielberg
July 19 Hungarian GP – Budapest
August 2 British GP – Silverstone
August 9 70th Anniversary GP – Silverstone
August 16 Spanish GP – Barcelona
August 30 Belgian GP – Spa-Francorchamps
September 6 Italian GP – Monza

F1 remains confident of piecing together a season of between 15 and 18 races, with the expectation that the campaign will conclude in December in the Middle East.

Bahrain is set to prove 2020’s penultimate destination before the season concludes in Abu Dhabi and, with unprecedented double headers already confirmed for Austria and Silverstone this summer, F1 motorsports chief Ross Brawn has said that Sakhir’s outer circuit configuration – which is nearly an oval in its layout – could be considered too if required.

“One of the nice attractions of Bahrain is it has many configurations, so we could go to Bahrain and race on two different tracks there,” Brawn told the official F1 website.

“There’s a nice sort of almost oval track that would be quite exciting, and all the layouts have a Grade 1 licence with the FIA, so that is an option in the pocket.”

The Formula 1 season will begin on July 3-5 live on Sky Sports F1 with the Austrian GP. The race is the first of eight in 10 weeks in Europe, with every race live on Sky Sports.



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Protest live updates: Rayshard Brooks’ widow speaks; Tulsa jaywalking arrest ‘nonsense’; Minneapolis officers quit after George Floyd

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Protesters were sent scrambling as police fired tear gas canisters into a crowd of protesters.

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Rayshard Brooks’ widow Tomika Miller and other family members addressed the media Monday along with her family attorneys.

Protesters also demonstrated with a March for Justice, starting at the Richard B. Russell Federal Building and ending at the state Capitol.

Brooks was fatally shot by police in Atlanta on Friday night outside of a Wendy’s after police responded to a call about him being asleep in his car in the drive-thru lane. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office ruled his death a homicide Sunday night, caused by two shots to the back.

In Minneapolis, at least seven police officers have resigned since the death of George Floyd on Memorial Day.

And in Kentucky, no-knock warrants such as the one used when police in Louisville crashed into Breonna Taylor’s apartment may be passing into history. The city has already banned them, a state lawmaker says she will offer a bill this week banning them statewide, and U.S. Sen Rand Paul, R-Ky, is pressing for a nationwide ban.

A closer look at some recent developments:

  • As protests continue in Minneapolis, some police officers have quit while others are resigning, citing a lack of support from department and city leaders.
  • A California woman apologizes for ‘disrespectful’ behavior after a viral video shows her threatening to call the police on a man who stenciled ‘Black Lives Matter’ on his property.
  • Sen. Tim Scott said President Donald Trump was not aware of the significance of Juneteenth in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when his team scheduled a rally for the same day.

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Brooks’ widow, Tomika Miller: ‘Long time before this family heals’

While speaking at a press conference alongside several other family members and family attorney L. Chris Stewart, Tomika Miller, Brooks’ widow, fought back tears and thanked the Atlanta community for an outpouring of support over the weekend.

“There’s no justice that can ever make me feel happy about what has been done,” Miller said. “I can never get my husband back. I can never get my best friend. I can never tell my daughter: ‘Oh, he’s coming to take you skating,’ or for swimming lessons. It’s just going to be a long time before I heal. It’s going to be a long time before this family heals.”

Miller asked protesters to remain peaceful during demonstrations “because we want to keep his name positive and great.”

Stewart also thanked actor and comedian Tyler Perry for his offer to pay for Brooks’ funeral services.

L.A. sheriff to provide update on hanging death of Robert Fuller

The Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva on Monday will discuss the death of Robert Fuller, 24, a Black man whose body was found Wednesday hanging from a tree near Palmdale City Hall. The Sheriff’s Department is leading the investigation and has said it is a possible suicide, which has drawn the ire of Fuller’s family and others in the community who want the state attorney general to take over the probe.

“I take my commitment to transparency very seriously,” Vallanueva tweeted. “As such I want to thank Attorney General Xavier Becerra for agreeing to monitor our investigation.”

Ten days earlier, the body of Malcolm Harsch, 38, was found hanging in Victorville, 50 miles east of Palmdale. San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Jodi Miller said no indication of foul play had been found.

Breonna Taylor’s legacy could be an end to no-knock warrants

Louisville’s ban on no-knock search warrants, the kind used in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor, may be the start of something bigger. State Rep. Attica Scott, D-Louisville, said she expects to prefile within the next week a bill to ban no-knock warrants in Kentucky. And U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has already said is filing a bill he’s calling the “Justice for Breonna Taylor Act” that effectively would end no-knock warrants in the U.S.

Police investigating a drug case obtained a warrant with a no-knock provision for Taylor’s apartment, though officials have said that officers knocked before crashing through the door. Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker has said he did not hear anyone announce that they were police, and fired at what he thought were intruders. Taylor was killed in the ensuing gunfight. No drugs were found.

– Matt Mencarini, Louisville Courier Journal

Mom of Black teen stopped for jaywalking in Tulsa: ‘It’s nonsense”

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Tulsa police said that the incident is under investigation.

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The mother of one of two Black teens involved in a confrontation with Tulsa police officers who accused them of jaywalking said the boys were walking down a back road where there was no sidewalk. Police have released footage of the June 4 incident on Facebook, saying the officers were members of a special Gang Unit and that the “stop occurred just outside of a complex in which there is a documented increase in criminal activity.” One teen was released, the other struggled with the officers and was arrested. An investigation of the stop is underway.

“It’s nonsense,” Tawanna Adkins told CNN, who said the boys were visiting a relative. “They weren’t jaywalking.”

Minneapolis police officers quit, resign amid George Floyd protests

At least seven Minneapolis police officers have resigned since widespread unrest began following the death of George Floyd last month, and more than half a dozen are in the process of leaving, department officials told The Star Tribune. Some officers said they were upset with Mayor Jacob Frey’s decision to abandon the Third Precinct station during the protests where demonstrators set the building on fire after officers left.

The department currently has about 850 officers, almost 40 short of the number authorized for this year, the newspaper reported.

LaFace Skincare CEO Lisa Alexander apologizes after viral video backlash

The woman in a video that gained national attention last week has apologized for confronting and threatening to call police on a Filipino man stenciling “Black Lives Matter” on his San Francisco property. Lisa Alexander, founder and CEO of LaFace Skincare, was later identified on social media. She issued an apology Sunday saying, “I should have minded my own business.”

“There are not enough words to describe how truly sorry I am for being disrespectful to him last Tuesday when I made the decision to question him about what he was doing in front of his home,” Alexander said in a statement.

The video shows Alexander and a man, later identified as Robert Larkin, asking James Juanillo whether he lives in the house before asserting that they know he doesn’t live there and is therefore breaking the law. Juanillo doesn’t answer the couple, but invites them to call the police. Juanillo told KGO-TV he believed the couple accused him of defacing private property because they didn’t think he belonged in the wealthy Pacific Heights neighborhood.

Protests continue in Berlin, Milan against police brutality

Protests against police brutality continued abroad Sunday in the wake of George Floyd demonstrations across the U.S. In Berlin, demonstrators formed a human chain across the city in a message against racism, discrimination and social inequality. They were linked by colored ribbons, forming what organizers called a “ribbon of solidarity.”

In Milan, Italy, protesters scrawled ’’rapist” and “racist’’ in Italian on the statue of late Italian journalist Indro Montanelli on Saturday. Montanelli was a correspondent for a fascist newspaper in the 1930s and had a 12-year-old Eritrean while stationed there. Activist group Retestudentimilano said in an Instagram post that “ignoring or underestimating the seriousness of having before our eyes, in the center of Milan, a statue testifying to racist crimes denotes an obvious lack of historical and moral awareness.”

Protesters in California, New York seek justice for the Black LGBTQ community

Demonstrators in California and New York took to the streets on Sunday to honor and demand justice for Black queer and trans people who have died in police custody. In Los Angeles, thousands marched along a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, where an ‘All Black Lives Matter’ mural was painted in rainbow colors, the Los Angeles Times reported. The march, also called ‘All Black Lives Matter,’ was organized by Black leaders in the LGBTQ+ community.

Meanwhile, in New York, thousands gathered in the courtyard of the Brooklyn Museum and surrounding parkway Sunday for a silent march in support of Black transgender lives, NBC News reported. The protest comes after the killings of two Black trans women – Riah Milton in Ohio and Dominique “Rem’Mie” Fells in Pennsylvania – in the last week, as well as Tony McDade, who was fatally shot by a Tallahassee police officer in May, Layleen Polanco, who died while in solitary confinement on Rikers Island, and Nina Pop, who was stabbed to death in Missouri in May.

“Show them what community sounds like! This is what community sounds like,” the protesters, clad in white, chanted as they walked, according to Twitter posts.

Beyonce urges arrest of police officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s death

More than three months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot in her Kentucky apartment by Louisville Metro Police officers, Beyonce is calling on the state to “take swift and decisive action in charging the officers.” In a letter addressed to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and shared on her website, Beyonce called for criminal charges to be brought against LMPD Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and officers Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, and for the AG to “commit to transparency” during the investigation and prosecution processes. 

“Three months have passed – and Breonna Taylor’s family still waits for justice,” Beyonce wrote. “Ms. Taylor’s family has not been able to process and grieve. Instead, they have been working tirelessly to rally the support of friends, their community, and the country to obtain justice for Breonna.”

– Hannah Yasharoff and Sarah Ladd, USA TODAY

A Michigan case similar to Floyd’s death may reopen six years later

Six years after his death, the family of McKenzie Cochran — a Ferndale, Michigan, man who died when security officers pinned him to the floor at a mall — may get the justice they have long been seeking in the wake of the George Floyd protests. Like Floyd, Cochran died at the hands of white security officers who held him face down on a mall floor, including one who said: “If you can talk, you can breathe.”

Cochran died that day. The autopsy said the cause was compression asphyxiation. No charges were filed, his death ruled an accident. On Friday, Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper, facing mounting pressure from protesters amid a thundering Black Lives Matter movement, asked the state Attorney General’s Office to review the case.

– Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press

Sen. Tim Scott: Trump didn’t know the significance of Tulsa and Juneteenth

President Donald Trump was unfamiliar with the significance of June 19 when his campaign scheduled a rally for that date in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but rescheduled the event when he learned the day know as Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in the U.S., according to South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. 

“I’m thankful that he moved it,” Scott – the only African-American Republican in the Senate and one of only three Black senators in total – said on CBS News’ “Face the  Nation” Sunday. “The president moving the date by a day once he was informed on what Juneteenth was, that was a good decision on his part.” Coupled with the significance of the date, the choice of Tulsa – where a white mob killed hundreds in 1921 as it burned and looted an affluent Black neighborhood – was decried by many as racially insensitive amid nationwide protests against discrimination. 

– William Cummings, USA TODAY

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Latest sports news headlines and results: Monday 15 June 2020

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Sport’s return is no longer confined to the weekend and there is plenty of news and a few results to take in this Monday 15 June.

Latest sports news headlines Monday 15 June

Football

Borussia Dortmund coach Lucien Favre insists he will resist the urge to rush Erling Braut Haaland back into the starting side to avoid putting the teenage striker under unnecessary strain.

Galatasaray‘s Uruguayan goalkeeper Fernando Muslera suffered a double leg fracture at the weekend in the club’s first game since matches resumed, the Istanbul giants confirmed Monday.

Hearts launched legal action on Monday after clubs rejected plans to restructure the Scottish Premier League following the decision to end the season.

Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane says that the Premier Soccer League will need at least three weeks of training before any return.

Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM) boss Lawrence Mulaudzi has revealed he didn’t intend to buy Wits until the club was offered to him. 

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder and Aston Villa boss Dean Smith said they were aware the eyes of the world would be on their match when they relaunch the Premier League on Wednesday.

Tennis

The US Open tennis tournament is to go ahead as planned pending formal government approval, the New York Times reported on Monday.

Motorsport

The World Rally Championship (WRC) is weighing several plans for a September return from its shutdown, the president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), Jean Todt, said on Monday.

Rugby

SA Rugby’s hunger alleviation campaign Stronger Together was launched just under a month ago and to date approximately R825,000 has been raised for charity organisations Food Forward SA and Gift of the Givers.

Ireland loose forward CJ Stander says his late hit on former Springbok Pat Lambie still haunts him.

Cricket

The West Indies are showing signs that they are developing a pace attack that could stand comparison with the great Caribbean sides of the past, assistant coach Roddy Estwick said on Monday.

Latest sports results Monday 15 June

Golf 

Daniel Berger parred the first playoff hole Sunday to defeat Collin Morikawa and capture the Charles Schwab Challenge, the first US PGA event in three months.

La Liga

La Liga results on Sunday:

Athletic Bilbao 1 (Muniain 37) Atletico Madrid 1 (Costa 39)

Real Madrid 3 (Kroos 4, Ramos 30, Marcelo 37) Eibar 1 (Bigas 60)

Real Sociedad 1 (Oiarzabal 61) Osasuna 1 (Adrian 29-pen)

Played Saturday

Espanyol 2 (Bernardo 45+3, Wu 47) Alaves 0

Celta Vigo 0 Villarreal 1 (Trigueros Munoz 90+1)

Leganes 1 (Rodriguez 84-pen) Valladolid 2 (Unal 2, Alcaraz 54)

Real Mallorca 0 Barcelona 4 (Vidal 2, Braithwaite 37, Alba 79, Messi 90+3)

Friday

Granada 2 (Djene 70-og, Fernandez 79) Getafe 1 (Timor 20)

Valencia 1 (Rodrigo 89) Levante 1 (Melero 90+8-pen)

Thursday

Sevilla 2 (Ocampos 56-pen, Fernando 62) Real Betis 0

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Latest sports news Monday 15 June

Mainz 0 Augsburg 1 (Niederlechner 1)

Schalke 1 (Caligiuri 51-pen) Bayer Leverkusen 1 (Miranda 81-og) 

Played Saturday

Wolfsburg 2 (Weghorst 14, 27-pen) Freiburg 2 (Hoeler 43, Sallai 46)

Fortuna Duesseldorf 0 Borussia Dortmund 1 (Haaland 90+5)

Hertha Berlin 1 (Piatek 24) Eintracht Frankfurt 4 (Dost 51, Silva 62, 86, Ndicka 69)

Cologne 1 (Cordoba 90+2) Union Berlin 2 (Friedrich 39, Gentner 67)

Paderborn 1 (Sabiri 66) Werder Bremen 5 (Klaassen 20, 39, Osako 34, Eggestein 60, Fuellkrug 90)

Bayern Munich 2 (Zirkzee 26, Goretzka 86) Borussia Moenchengladbach 1 (Pavard 37-og)

Played Friday

Hoffenheim 0 RB Leipzig 2 (Olmo 9, 11)



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The pandemic has forced restaurants to confront an urgent question: Was technology helping or hurting them?

For Glasserie, a Mediterranean restaurant in Brooklyn, N.Y., the answer was both. When restaurants were forced to close for sit-down meals, Glasserie was able to use technology to move sales online and promote itself. But Glasserie’s owner, Sara Conklin, said she was also frustrated by technology providers that moved too slowly and delivery apps that ultimately were more harm than help.

Glasserie has muddled through because of human creativity and hustle that was helped by technology — when it wasn’t a roadblock. The key for Conklin was to lean on technology that compelled diners to come to Glasserie directly, not through an app.

Glasserie dusted off customer email lists, kept coming up with new dishes and started selling online everything from bottles of wine to toilet paper. It was constant improvisation. “There is no book or anything that we’re following,” Conklin said.

Our friends and relatives, parents and teachers, religious institutions, office workers and small businesses like Glasserie have all had to readjust to our pandemic-altered lives mediated by technology. The question now is whether Glasserie — and the rest of us — can harness the skills learned from the darkest times and rebuild even better.

Since Glasserie opened in 2013, almost all of its business was dine-in. Occasionally during slow patches, Glasserie would open to orders on Caviar, a takeout and delivery app.

That changed when New York City restaurants were ordered to close, except for delivery and pickup services, in the middle of March. Conklin said that the restaurant scrambled to use Square, the software it uses to record orders, to put up a bare-bones website to sell takeout meals for the first time and to offer a mini-grocery store with items like bottles of olive oil, onions and disposable latex gloves. Regulation changes allowed Glasserie to also sell bottles of wine, beer and cocktails to go.

Conklin said that the restaurant experimented with more delivery and takeout apps including Seamless, Grubhub and DoorDash. But as other restaurant owners have said, she was disappointed by the fees and the difficulty of getting help using the apps’ service. It took one of the delivery apps more than six weeks to update menu photos and other requested changes from April.

Much of the technology the restaurant is using isn’t exactly cutting edge. Conklin said Glasserie used to send a few message blasts a year to about 23,000 customer email addresses. Now the restaurant it sending three to five emails a week about special offers or the return of favorite dishes like grilled bread. “We drove a lot of people crazy but we also found a lot of our core people,” Conklin said.

Glasserie is also trying to keep things fresh. There’s a special meal each week — recently, rabbit stew with polenta, greens and strawberries and cream. A few weeks ago, Glasserie opened one of its windows for walk-up orders of drinks and bar snacks like baked oysters.

Conklin said it’s been a struggle, but she was happy that Glasserie was able to retain about half the sales it did before it closed its doors to dine-in eating. (In takeout mode, the restaurant is selling a larger percentage of food compared with alcohol, which is generating lower profit margins.) Even better, she said, about 95 percent of sales are coming directly from the restaurant’s website rather than through app companies.

“We wanted to drive as much of the business to ourselves in the hopes that when this is over, we’ll keep that business,” she said.

Brian X. Chen, a consumer technology writer at The New York Times, writes in to help those of us who are annoyed about smartphones ditching the familiar round port to plug in headphones.

Many people who bought smartphones in recent years had to part ways with a beloved feature: the headphone jack. That’s because over the last four years, phone makers like Apple, Motorola and Google opted to omit that familiar headphone plug to make room for other components.

  • Updated June 12, 2020

    • Does asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 happen?

      So far, the evidence seems to show it does. A widely cited paper published in April suggests that people are most infectious about two days before the onset of coronavirus symptoms and estimated that 44 percent of new infections were a result of transmission from people who were not yet showing symptoms. Recently, a top expert at the World Health Organization stated that transmission of the coronavirus by people who did not have symptoms was “very rare,” but she later walked back that statement.

    • What’s the risk of catching coronavirus from a surface?

      Touching contaminated objects and then infecting ourselves with the germs is not typically how the virus spreads. But it can happen. A number of studies of flu, rhinovirus, coronavirus and other microbes have shown that respiratory illnesses, including the new coronavirus, can spread by touching contaminated surfaces, particularly in places like day care centers, offices and hospitals. But a long chain of events has to happen for the disease to spread that way. The best way to protect yourself from coronavirus — whether it’s surface transmission or close human contact — is still social distancing, washing your hands, not touching your face and wearing masks.

    • How does blood type influence coronavirus?

      A study by European scientists is the first to document a strong statistical link between genetic variations and Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Having Type A blood was linked to a 50 percent increase in the likelihood that a patient would need to get oxygen or to go on a ventilator, according to the new study.

    • How many people have lost their jobs due to coronavirus in the U.S.?

      The unemployment rate fell to 13.3 percent in May, the Labor Department said on June 5, an unexpected improvement in the nation’s job market as hiring rebounded faster than economists expected. Economists had forecast the unemployment rate to increase to as much as 20 percent, after it hit 14.7 percent in April, which was the highest since the government began keeping official statistics after World War II. But the unemployment rate dipped instead, with employers adding 2.5 million jobs, after more than 20 million jobs were lost in April.

    • Will protests set off a second viral wave of coronavirus?

      Mass protests against police brutality that have brought thousands of people onto the streets in cities across America are raising the specter of new coronavirus outbreaks, prompting political leaders, physicians and public health experts to warn that the crowds could cause a surge in cases. While many political leaders affirmed the right of protesters to express themselves, they urged the demonstrators to wear face masks and maintain social distancing, both to protect themselves and to prevent further community spread of the virus. Some infectious disease experts were reassured by the fact that the protests were held outdoors, saying the open air settings could mitigate the risk of transmission.

    • How do we start exercising again without hurting ourselves after months of lockdown?

      Exercise researchers and physicians have some blunt advice for those of us aiming to return to regular exercise now: Start slowly and then rev up your workouts, also slowly. American adults tended to be about 12 percent less active after the stay-at-home mandates began in March than they were in January. But there are steps you can take to ease your way back into regular exercise safely. First, “start at no more than 50 percent of the exercise you were doing before Covid,” says Dr. Monica Rho, the chief of musculoskeletal medicine at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago. Thread in some preparatory squats, too, she advises. “When you haven’t been exercising, you lose muscle mass.” Expect some muscle twinges after these preliminary, post-lockdown sessions, especially a day or two later. But sudden or increasing pain during exercise is a clarion call to stop and return home.

    • My state is reopening. Is it safe to go out?

      States are reopening bit by bit. This means that more public spaces are available for use and more and more businesses are being allowed to open again. The federal government is largely leaving the decision up to states, and some state leaders are leaving the decision up to local authorities. Even if you aren’t being told to stay at home, it’s still a good idea to limit trips outside and your interaction with other people.

    • What are the symptoms of coronavirus?

      Common symptoms include fever, a dry cough, fatigue and difficulty breathing or shortness of breath. Some of these symptoms overlap with those of the flu, making detection difficult, but runny noses and stuffy sinuses are less common. The C.D.C. has also added chills, muscle pain, sore throat, headache and a new loss of the sense of taste or smell as symptoms to look out for. Most people fall ill five to seven days after exposure, but symptoms may appear in as few as two days or as many as 14 days.

    • How can I protect myself while flying?

      If air travel is unavoidable, there are some steps you can take to protect yourself. Most important: Wash your hands often, and stop touching your face. If possible, choose a window seat. A study from Emory University found that during flu season, the safest place to sit on a plane is by a window, as people sitting in window seats had less contact with potentially sick people. Disinfect hard surfaces. When you get to your seat and your hands are clean, use disinfecting wipes to clean the hard surfaces at your seat like the head and arm rest, the seatbelt buckle, the remote, screen, seat back pocket and the tray table. If the seat is hard and nonporous or leather or pleather, you can wipe that down, too. (Using wipes on upholstered seats could lead to a wet seat and spreading of germs rather than killing them.)

    • Should I wear a mask?

      The C.D.C. has recommended that all Americans wear cloth masks if they go out in public. This is a shift in federal guidance reflecting new concerns that the coronavirus is being spread by infected people who have no symptoms. Until now, the C.D.C., like the W.H.O., has advised that ordinary people don’t need to wear masks unless they are sick and coughing. Part of the reason was to preserve medical-grade masks for health care workers who desperately need them at a time when they are in continuously short supply. Masks don’t replace hand washing and social distancing.

    • What should I do if I feel sick?

      If you’ve been exposed to the coronavirus or think you have, and have a fever or symptoms like a cough or difficulty breathing, call a doctor. They should give you advice on whether you should be tested, how to get tested, and how to seek medical treatment without potentially infecting or exposing others.

A friend who recently bought the new iPhone SE ran into this conundrum and asked: How do I use earphones while charging the phone?

This is definitely one of the biggest pains involved in transitioning to a jack-less phone. Here’s my advice.

There are two main paths you can take:

  • The first option is to buy a pair of wireless earphones, which connect to your phone via a Bluetooth connection. You can keep listening while your phone’s only port is connected to its charger. Apple’s AirPods are popular, and so are headsets from Bose and Jabra.

    The downside is that good wireless earphones are fairly expensive. Plus, many headsets include rechargeable batteries that eventually deplete and can’t be replaced, meaning in a few years you would probably have to pony up for a new pair. This is not ideal in hard times when many people are losing their jobs.

  • Here’s a second option for people who prefer to keep using their wired earphones or want a less costly approach. You could buy an inexpensive adapter that lets you plug your earphones into your phone’s connection port. An iPhone owner would need a Lightning-to-headphone-jack dongle and Android users would need a USB-C-to-headphone-jack dongle. To charge the phone simultaneously, you can place the phone on a flat wireless charging pad, another relatively cheap accessory.

    (Some newer iPhones included earbuds equipped with a Lightning connector, in which case you could skip buying an adapter and buy just the wireless charging pad.)

    The downside is that the dongles are annoying to carry and easy to lose.

Neither of these solutions is ideal. I prefer the first option because I like to move around freely without wires. But I definitely will have to pay for this benefit until more headphone makers offer wireless earphones with replaceable batteries.

  • A whodunit of garbage ideas: My colleague Nicole Perlroth has a wild tale about Americans who spread online the false accusations that a flawed Iowa voting-reporting app was a politically motivated plot. Nicole tries to untangle the mystery, which also sheds light on Americans’ inclination to spread divisive online conspiracies about one another.

  • Your reminder that technology superpowers are very rich: Pandemic? Economic freeze? Protests about systemic inequalities? None of that stopped Facebook, Apple and other tech giants from splurging on investments to keep pursuing growth as other industries retrench, The Times tech reporter Mike Isaac wrote.

  • No one consented to this: Go read my Opinion colleagues’ investigation last year into how apps we’ve never heard of purchase smartphone data that track demonstrators in Hong Kong and elsewhere. Then read this Wall Street Journal article about political operatives gathering data by tracking the cellphones of U.S. protesters to send them messages about registering to vote or taking other actions. One voter registration executive told the Journal that this was “deeply spooky yet extremely helpful.”

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Hansal Mehta warns young ‘outsiders’ of Bollywood trappings

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta has warned young “outsiders” to avoid the traps of Bollywood, where your value is a direct reflection of your success or failure. The director took to Twitter to share a word of advice with a string of posts.

“There are many young ‘outsiders’ in this industry. Remember this — there is an establishment that will make you feel like the next big thing until they need you. They will drop you and mock you as soon as you falter. Do not fall for the trap,” he wrote.

“The ones that celebrate you will celebrate your downfall some time later. Success and failure are transient. You are not. Just be authentic, follow your heart and stop seeking acceptance from anybody. Your connection should be with your art, your craft and with your audience. Nothing else matters,” added the “Aligarh” maker.

The director continued: “Over the years you will succeed, you will stumble. But remember that nothing is more important than you. Look after yourself. And know that you matter. The world is much bigger and wiser than what you perceive. So are opportunities. If you stay they will be yours. Lots of love. Never lose heart.”

The advice comes after the sudden demise of Sushant Singh Rajput.

Sushant was found hanging in his Bandra residence on Sunday morning by his domestic help. He was reportedly battling depression over the past few months and undergoing treatment for the same.

After establishing himself on the small screen with “Pavitra Rishta”, he transitioned to the big screen with film “Kai Po Che!”. He went on to do projects including “Shuddh Desi Romance”, the biopic “M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story”, “Kedarnath” and “Chhichhore”, among several others

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For those looking for multiple connecting ports

Offering a seamless viewing experience is only a small part of what smart TVs offer nowadays. They can turn into large gaming consoles as well. This device has 3 USB ports to connect hard drives and other USB devices. It also boasts of 20W speakers with DTS-HD that deliver room-filling sound to complete the viewing experience.
It has 3 HDMI ports to connect the set top box, Blu Ray players, gaming console. This device sports built-in Wi-Fi, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Google Assistant.

If you are looking for maximum viewing experience

Gone are the days where TVs were huge black boxes, with a screen at one side and knobs for changing channels at the other. It’s time to go slim, and this product is the perfect buy for you if you want the most screen space from your TV. This LED TV comes equipped with a host of different features such as Zero Dot A+ Grade Panel, a Piano Black Finish Body, and an Ultra-thin Bezel for maximum viewing experience. It also has 2 USB ports to connect hard drives and other USB devices. You can enjoy an immersive audiovisual experience in this aesthetically designed TV.

For quality and brand value

This product will be a great addition to your smart home, as it will seamlessly integrate with all of your innovative devices. They up the style quotient of your living space along with providing great entertainment. This full HD device has a refresh rate of 50 Hz and 2 HDMI ports to connect set top box, Blu Ray players, gaming console. It has a USB port to connect hard drives and other USB devices. Replete with immersive sound, it has a SmartThing app along with content sync and share ability.

For crystal clear viewing experience]

Want better than HD? We have one for you, that will provide you with that little ‘extra’ in your viewing experience.This device with ultra-high definition picture quality has 3 HDMI ports to connect your set top box, BluRay players, gaming console and what not. It has 2 USB ports to connect hard drives and other USB devices.
The TV is loaded with amazing features and stunning picture quality through 4K active HDR. It is lightweight and has a metallic design. Key features include 4K IPS display, wide viewing angle, Apple Air Play2, DTS Virtual. It also has Web OS, AI Launcher, home dashboard, magic mobile connection, Quad Core Processor, cloud photo and video and 2 way Bluetooth audio playback. If you are looking for a Smart TV, you really can’t have an excuse for not buying this!

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‘A Shocking Dereliction Of Duty’: Supreme Court Brushes Off Police Immunity Cases

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WASHINGTON ― On the same morning that the Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion upholding the rights of gay and transgender Americans, the nation’s highest court brushed aside a number of cases that would have allowed it to readdress law enforcement officers’ broad immunity from lawsuits over police brutality.

Justices on the Supreme Court turned away more than a dozen lawsuits related to qualified immunity, the legal doctrine which lets police officers escape accountability for using tactics that haven’t been expressly banned in prior court decisions. Even when police officers clearly violate constitutional rights, they are often not held liable because the right that they violate wasn’t clearly established by the courts at the time.

The decision came three weeks after the police killing of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests. The mass support of the Black Lives Matter movement has swiftly ushered in public opinion shifts on law enforcement issues, even though it’s unclear whether law enforcement will once again stave off broader changes to America’s policing system. 

The Supreme Court, per standard practice, didn’t explain why it brushed off the cases. But Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that he had previously expressed his doubt about “our qualified immunity jurisprudence.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor has previously criticized the court for failing to get involved in police violence cases and said in 2015 that the court has been “sanctioning a ‘shoot first, think later’ approach to policing.” 

David Cole, national legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union, called the Supreme Court’s decision “deeply disappointing,” especially in a “time of national reckoning over police violence.”

“Justice Thomas’s dissent from the denial of review in the ACLU’s challenge to qualified immunity underscores how far off course the law has strayed,” Cole said. “We have seen the deadly consequences play out on the streets, and Black Americans have largely paid the price. Recent events demonstrate the urgent need for Congress to stand up for the rule of law and abolish qualified immunity — for anyone acting under color of law — to close the loophole allowing government officials to escape accountability for violating constitutional rights.”

Cato Policy Analyst Jay Schweikert called the Supreme Court’s decision “a shocking dereliction of duty” that “could not come at a worse time.”

“There was simply no excuse for the Court to decline this golden opportunity to begin addressing its mistakes in creating and propagating the doctrine of qualified immunity,” Schweikert said. “The petitions before the Court plainly demonstrated both the moral injustices and practical absurdities of the ‘clearly established law’ standard.”

Schweikert said the “senseless violence committed by Derek Chauvin—and the stunning indifference of the officers standing by as George Floyd begged for his life—is the product of our culture of near-zero accountability for law enforcement.”

He said qualified immunity “will go down in history as one of the Supreme Court’s most egregious, costly, and embarrassing mistakes.”

A HuffPost/YouGov survey found that curtailing qualified immunity for police officers is a broadly popular policy proposal. But Republicans want to leave qualified immunity out of police reform proposals, with Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) calling qualified immunity a “poison pill” that would kill broader police reform efforts in Congress.



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