A flurry of aftershocks hit southwestern Japan on Saturday as rescuers scrambled to reach trapped survivors of two big quakes that killed at least 35 people. About 190 suffered serious injuries, according to the government.
Evacuation orders were issued for areas vulnerable to landslides amid powerful thunderstorms in the area, the government’s main spokesman Yoshihide Suga said in an evening press briefing.
“There are still sporadic aftershocks from this morning’s earthquake, and so there is still a need to be vigilant,” Suga warned.
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College students carry blankets and food toward a gym-turned shelter as a damaged apartment building is seen in the background after an earthquake in Minamiaso village, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, April 16. Yuki Sato / Kyodo News via AP
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his debut in Major League Baseball, becoming the first black player to cross the game’s deeply entrenched color line. But nearly seven decades after Robinson made history, there’s at least one position in America’s favorite past time that’s struggling to integrate: pitching.
Out of 449 pitchers on major league rosters this year on opening day, only 14 are black.
“The cruel reality is that the African-American baseball player — whether prodded to abandon pitching or by their own volition — is being excluded from more than half the jobs in the industry.” — John Nightengale
Pitching is arguably the game’s most important position, but black players are less represented there than they are at other positions on the field. The game does boast some high-profile black pitchers, including C.C. Sabathia of the New York Yankees and Marcus Stroman of the Toronto Blue Jays. tangie
The questions have come up before: Why isn’t there a White History Month? Why isn’t there a network for White Entertainment Television, like BET? Black Girls Rock? What about White Girls Rock? What about the critically acclaimed Broadway play Hamilton‘s call for nonwhite actors?
Clearly, these few examples demonstrate “reverse racism,” or the discrimination against members of a dominant racial group. Right?
Kobe Bryant said goodbye to the NBA on Wednesday night in really the only way he could have: By launching more shots than any other player since at least the 1983-1984 season, including a late jumper to take the lead.
Bryant took 50 shots in all during his final game as a member of the Lakers, connecting on 22 of them on the way to 60 points, the most by any NBA player in his final game, and even more than former teammate Shaquille O’Neal requested.
The Lakers came from behind to beat the Utah Jazz 101-96, but that was almost a footnote in a game that was more a celebration of Bryant’s two decades in the league than anything else. The game plan was pretty simple.
It looked like an episode of Gilligan’s Island, but it was a real-life plea for help.
On Thursday, the United States Navy and Coast Guard rescued three shipwrecked mariners from a desert island after they wrote the word “help” on the beach using palm fronds, the Washington Post reported.
The men’s 19-foot skiff overturned on Monday night, leaving them to swim over two miles to the shores of “the tiny Pacific Island of Fanadik, several hundred miles north of Papua New Guinea,” according to the Post. They remained there until Thursday morning, when a Navy plane noticed the letters on the beach.
Eight-year-old Heidi VanSumeren lost all her reading materials last month when a fire destroyed her family’s home in Parma, Michigan.
According to her mom, Beth VanSumeren, the second-grader was devastated by the loss.
“Books are really special for her,” Beth told “Good Morning America.” “We can talk to her and try to explain but when she can read it on her own whenever she’s sad and needs help, that’s always been an easier way for her to understand things.”
Now, thanks to numerous authors, illustrators and librarians across the country, Heidi’s book collection has been restocked — and then some.
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Heidi VanSumeren recently lost all her reading materials in a fire. Now, several authors are rallying to help.
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More than three months before any ballots have been cast at the Republican convention, Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again consigliere, has delivered the campaign equivalent of a severed horse head to delegates who might consider denying Trump the nomination. Trump’s supporters will find you in your sleep, he merrily informed them this week. He did not mean it metaphorically.
“We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal,” Stone said Monday, on Freedomain Radio. “If you’re from Pennsylvania, we’ll tell you who the culprits are. We urge you to visit their hotel and find them. You have a right to discuss this, if you voted in the Pennsylvania primary, for example, and your votes are being disallowed,” Stone said.
Over the years, I’ve covered elections in Iraq, Iran, and Burma. Stone’s taunt is every bit as threatening as anything I heard in those places, which have far less experience than America with democracy. Such is the moment we currently inhabit.
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Even before he was a candidate, Trump displayed a rare gift for cultivating the dark power of a crowd. Credit Photograph by Edmund D. Fountain/The New York Times/Redux
A federal judge in New Orleans granted final approval Monday to an estimated $20 billion settlement, resolving years of litigation over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The settlement, first announced in July, includes $5.5 billion in civil Clean Water Act penalties and billions more to cover environmental damage and other claims by the five Gulf states and local governments. The money is to be paid out over a 16-year period.
The judge, Carl Barbier, set the stage for the settlement with an earlier ruling that BP had been “grossly negligent” in the offshore rig explosion that killed 11 workers and caused a 134- million-gallon spill.
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Fire boats battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, in this April 21, 2010 handout file photo. U.S. Coast Guard via Reuters
The Jazz On Line website wishes to provide access to the American music of the first half of the twentieth century, secular, in particular the jazz music.
This American music was recorded on 78 rpm shellac discs. The first half of twentieth century, secular music is a humanity treasure and is to be preserved
The present moment is a period of time between the past and the future. We can not change the past because it’s gone. We can only create a more desirable, satisfactory, and effective future by working hard in the present moment.
Each one of us wants his future to be Beautiful and bright. A bright future requires hard work in present. But many people don’t use their present for working towards a better future. The brightness of the future depends upon how we use our present moment. Every moment of our life is indistinguishable (Absolute) we make them distinguishable by our thoughts. Our thoughts make them favorable or unfavorable for us.
In the world, human beings are facing various problems. People who are full of greed, anger, and ignorance are seen to be fighting with each other in words and deeds. As the fighting continues, various problems such as civil wars, wars of aggression, and wars of aggression are occurring. As world peace is being destroyed, humans are facing unbearable problems. Innocent children and women are not getting the rights they deserve and deserve. I can't think of one thing every time. What is it? The United Nations. If we look at the responsibilities and duties of the United Nations, I think it is not suitable for solving the problems that are happening in the world today. In fact, the United Nations and the World Security Council, such an organization must rule the world, must be able to give orders, and must have various ways to obey orders. There must be no organization that can influence more than that organization. There should be experts from each country. They can even dominate the superpowers like the US, China, and Britain. Only then will global peace be achieved quickly. Now, if a country with power develops more militarily, economically, or socially than its own country, then powerful countries will jealously seek out enemies and wage war. Or they will attack with fighter jets. In this, innocent people are losing their lives. No one understands the value of a life. You should think about how to achieve global peace by controlling these. If the US continues to be the permanent president of the UN, world peace will never be achieved. If you think carefully, no one sees that they are working for the common good, but for their own benefit, for the benefit of their own country. The permanent president of the UN and the Security Council has rejected this, As a young Rohingya, I have come to realize that only by electing the president and secretary from among the countries in the world through a secret ballot system and governing the world fairly can we achieve global peace. The United Nations and the Security Council are organizations in which any country must govern, give orders, and make them obey their orders. For example, only when a defendant is tried in court can we hold the leaders of the countries in check and control them, can we achieve global peace smoothly. Otherwise, it will not be easy for powerful countries to use various excuses to end this war every year, every year, for the benefit of themselves and their countries. No country's leaders pay any attention to the words of the United Nations and the Security Council. If we look at it in practice, look at the Rohingya issue. Myanmar is a small country. Even that country has been under siege for 8 years. What action can be taken? Why is the UN and the Security Council Powerless? Without such Power, how can the organization bring about global peace? Everyone should think about it. Whether there is a veto or a strong one, all countries in the world can only achieve global peace if they are subject to the UN and the Security Council. Seek peace in the quiet embrace of nature. Peace is an indispensable need of the human race. It is not as if one person can kill another person, and it is as if one country can attack another country, but instead of trying to build peace, we must try to destroy the peace now, and the world is getting hotter and is on the verge of collapse. I especially appeal to all the world experts to urgently try to bring about peace in all parts of the world. Mr, Noor Muhamed Arkhan Rohingya Youth Myanmar
Film and Writing Festival for Comedy. Showcasing best of comedy short films at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Plus, showcasing best of comedy novels, short stories, poems, screenplays (TV, short, feature) at the festival performed by professional actors.
College students carry blankets and food toward a gym-turned shelter as a damaged apartment building is seen in the background after an earthquake in Minamiaso village, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, April 16. Yuki Sato / Kyodo News via AP
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