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Whitefield Youth Association is a voluntary group based in Pendle, east Lancashire, that was originally set up with the aim of transforming young lives after disturbances that blighted Burnley in 2001. Good Sports, by the local photographer Nik Hartley, casts a light on the group, which now attracts about 200 young people a week
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“Good riddance,” said a second DoD official.
Asked to respond to the news that DoD officials are pleased by his departure from Fox, Carlson responded by text message: “Ha! I’m sure.” He declined to comment further.
The tension between the former cable host and Pentagon leadership isn’t new. Carlson drew the ire of top DoD officials early in the Biden administration for personal attacks on a number of military leaders, as well as ridiculing the armed forces’ efforts to increase diversity. A slew of conservative leaders quickly followed Carlson’s lead, giving rise to a small but vocal minority that to this day continues to hammer DoD officials, saying they’re focusing personnel policies at the expense of preparing for war. The Pentagon says only a small percentage of troops’ time is spent on diversity training.
Most memorably, Carlson’s remarks disparaging female service members in March 2021 prompted a rare rebuke from then-Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby.
After President Joe Biden announced new efforts to recruit and keep women in the service — including designing new body armor, updating requirements for hairstyles and the nominations of two female generals to become combatant commanders — at a White House ceremony, Carlson accused the commander in chief of making a “mockery” of the troops.
“So, we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It’s a mockery of the U.S. military,” he said.
In response, Kirby took a rare swipe at the Fox News host.
“What we absolutely won’t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military,” Kirby said during a briefing with reporters, adding that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “shares the revulsion” of others who criticized Carlson’s remarks.
The comments yielded another rarity: The Pentagon’s in-house news service published an article focused entirely on the dust-up: “Press Secretary Smites Host That Dissed Diversity in U.S. Military.”
Kirby, who is now the top spokesperson for the National Security Council at the White House, declined to comment for this story.
The Fox News host targeted the Air Force in particular, calling Lt. Gen. Brad Webb, then-commander of Air Education and Training Command, a “doughy moron” for updating pilot tests to address systemic racism. He also mocked Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, head of the Air Force’s recruiting office, for arguing that the service’s pilot force needs to become more diverse.
Carlson “made a mockery” of the free press and “repeatedly cherry-picked department policies and used them to destroy DoD as an institution,” said the first senior DoD official.
One general who clashed with Carlson on social media during the episode, Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, had his retirement delayed for several months while the Army conducted a probe of the exchanges.
While several military leaders sent messages in support of women in the services without naming Carlson, Donahoe tweeted that the host “couldn’t be more wrong.” That prompted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to send a letter to Austin accusing Donahoe and other military leaders of expressing partisan views.
The saga ended in January with no action taken against Donahoe, who tweeted Monday’s news about Carlson’s exit with the message, “I have thoughts.” Donahoe declined to comment for this story.
Joe Gould contributed to this report.
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He called Carlson “one of the smartest voices in the conservative movement,” and lauded Carlson’s willingness to “defect from party orthodoxy when necessary.”
“There’s definitely a thought leadership vacuum in political media, across the political spectrum. And Tucker was one of the great political thinkers and commentators of our time,” Ramaswamy said.
The 37-year-old biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke Inc.” also has a connection to the ouster of Don Lemon on CNN. Lemon, who announced he was terminated by CNN on Monday, got into an on-air skirmish with Ramaswamy last week about race and the role of firearms in Black American history. During the heated exchange, Lemon indicated network staff off-screen were “talking in (his) ear.” The New York Times reported that Lemon’s conduct during the interview left top CNN officials “exasperated.”
“I think my exchange with him played a role in this,” Ramaswamy said on Monday, agreeing with the Times’ report.
“I think it’s a gutsy decision, that I applaud,” he said of CNN’s ouster of Lemon. “It’s another example of companies gaining a spine.”
Ramaswamy recently met with network CEO Chris Licht, according to a person aware of the meeting.
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Mumbai: Shehnaaz Gill, who rose to fame with ‘Bigg Boss 13’, and is recently making headlines for her stint in actor Salman Khan starrer ‘Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan’, talked about her working experience with the Bollywood superstar.
Speaking to media here on Sunday, the actress also shared the difference she found in the Hindi film industry after being part of Punjabi industry and the advice she got from Salman for her career.
After working in the Punjabi industry, Shehnaaz experienced an altogether new atmosphere in Bollywood.
She said: “These are big-budget films. In fact, most Bollywood films are made with huge budgets and that can be seen on sets — they are so big. I just hope the Punjabi industry also grows in the same way and similarly, big-budget films are made.”
Shehnaaz said: “Salman is the same in reality as he is seen on the stage of ‘Bigg Boss’. I can’t see any difference in him. He gives good advice to others and motivates them. He corrected me and asked me to concentrate on my work. I am doing the same and learning Hindi.”
Sharing her shooting experience, she said: “Salman used to have a lot of fun with us. From lunch to dinner, we enjoyed having food there.”
Talking about her journey in the industry, Shehnaaz said: “I want to focus on my career and nothing else. I want to dedicate my life to work and I keep getting love and support from the media and the audience.”
“I don’t believe in planning. Because it never works. Just go with the flow.”
The actress said that she will work hard on her acting skills and will do whatever roles will come to her.
She said that if she can reduce weight then she can do anything and she will give her best.
Shehnaaz also answered the question about Salman restricting actresses from wearing revealing dresses, however, she declined it and said: “Nothing like that, I wore a very sexy dress during the promotion.”
“Salman sir keeps motivating me and saying that you will grow in your career,” she concluded.
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Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to provisionally promote 10 standard students to next class in a bid to avoid academic loss. This follows the conclusion of the Class X exam on Wednesday. More than 63500 students appeared for the matriculation exam in soft zones of Kashmir.
This was for the first time that the board exam was held in March. In August last year, the government shifted the academic session to March in sync with National Education Policy (NEP).
Principal Secretary, Education, Alok Kumar told The Kashmir Monitor that they always provide provisional admission to the students. “It is not a new thing.
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We do provide provisional admission to the students. This time too it will be done. Till results are out, the students will be promoted to the next class,” he said.
As per the ‘Uniform Academic calendar, the students who appear in Class 10 and 11 examinations shall be provisionally admitted in Class 11th and 12th respectively after the conclusion of the Board examination.
According to a government order, students, who are declared unsuccessful shall be permitted to continue their studies in Class 11th and 12th till the result of the Biannual/Annual Private examinations is declared. “In respect of the candidates who fail to pass in Bi-annual examination, provisional admission shall be canceled,” the order said.
This year, 630 exam centers were set up for Class X students across the Kashmir division. Nearly 63543 students had enrolled for the exam in the soft zones of the valley.
Officials said the March session has helped to overcome many academic hiccups for the students. “Earlier students who had to seek admission elsewhere had to face migration issues.
This time students can seek admission anywhere. There will be no problem whatsoever,” said an officer.
The government is now planning to hold exam for hard zones. Hard zones are those areas which are snowbound and not reachable. Since access to the area is difficult during March, the government decided to hold their exam separately.
These students too will be given provisional admission and promoted to the next class. “They will also be promoted provisionally,” said an officer
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But what the critics overlooked was that cable news coverage isn’t supposed to be viewed nonstop like a news version of Empire — the way most of them were watching — but sporadically. That’s especially true of dominant stories like the arraignment of a former president who happens to be a candidate for reelection. That the story was news, nobody will deny. Every newspaper in the country put the Trump arraignment on Page One above the fold and published supplementary pieces galore about the legal and political ramifications of the criminal charge, yet you don’t hear anybody talking about print overkill.
Cable news was designed from its beginning in 1980, when Ted Turner started CNN, to deliver saturation coverage of major breaking news events like elections, catastrophic weather, wars, riots, school shootings, major criminal trials, impeachments, and now, arraignments like Trump’s, as they happen. When a big story breaks, the cable networks expect — rightly — that casual viewers beyond the core audience will tune in solely to learn the latest. These viewers come in waves, wanting to partake, however distantly, in the story that’s dominating the news. They tune in until their curiosity is sated and then tune out as other viewers arrive.
Because the networks understand that their audience is cycling through, they do their best to find new ways to keep telling it and to have something to share, even if it’s a kind of rerun when new viewers join. This system isn’t perfect. Often, when there’s no new breaking news to report, the reporters and commentators “dribble,” that is, keeping the news ball moving but not taking any shots because there are no shots to take. But even dribbling can be defended if it serves incoming viewers.
Cable news producers never expected anybody to watch 12 hours straight, and practically nobody does, just like nobody read every story the New York Times published about the Trump arraignment. The last time the Pew Research Center analyzed the cable news audience, it found the average viewer tunes in for only 25 minutes a day. Even the heaviest cable news viewers last for an average of only 72 minutes on the medium.
Like most drug users, cable news viewers have learned to titrate their dose before suffering the insulin shock of boredom that overwhelmed so many members of the commentariat this week. However many viewers suffered through all the coverage, there can’t be many aside from the journalists who had to tune in for their jobs or their own perverse addiction, so keep your pity in reserve. The most popular shows on cable news rarely get more than 3.3 million viewers a night.
If you were crazy enough to watch the coverage into the night, at which point reporters had actually read the formal charges against Trump, you would have learned something the daylight hours didn’t report: That district attorney Alvin Bragg appears to have a weak case. So there’s that.
In a perfect world, nobody would ever waste time watching breaking news on TV, waiting anxiously for something important to happen. Every moment would top the last as new revelations poured in. But news has its limits, as the BBC admitted on the evening of April 18, 1930, after the news well went dry one day. The announcer didn’t dribble, he came clean. “There is no news,” he said, and cut away to piano music for 15 minutes until the next scheduled program started.
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Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday said in the last eight years, the state government has brought many radical changes for good governance.
“Ensuring the reach of every welfare and public-centric scheme is the utmost priority of the state government. No department or sector has remained untouched by the IT reforms so as to ensure transparency,” he said while addressing a gathering at the ‘Jan Samvad’ programme at Baliali village in Bhiwani district.
He is currently on a visit to Bhiwani district where he is holding interaction with the villagers.
The chief minister said the entire Haryana is like his family and as the head of the family, he always tries his best to extend every possible help and cooperation to every member.
He said that during his tenure special focus has been given on development works and adequate funds have been ensured for the meticulous implementation of every development scheme.
During his interaction at another village in Bhiwani named Bapora, the chief minister announced that now there will be no need for verification of online ‘Fard’ (land record) copy from the Patwari (revenue official).
“Now, only online Fard copy will be valid and all institutions including banks will recognize online Fard,” he added. An order in this regard will be implemented in the entire state, he said, according to an official statement.
At Baliali, he said that the benefits of all the public welfare policies are being ensured to grassroots levels.
While interacting with the villagers, the chief minister said that they should compare the tenure of the previous governments with that of the present dispensation. The difference will be clearly visible in terms of development undertaken including infrastructure works.
At his ‘Jan Samvad’ programme at Tigrana and Dhanana villages, Khattar said the compensation for crop loss of farmers caused by the recent rains and hailstorms will be given by the government by May after getting Girdawari (field inspection) done.
He also visited the residence of boxer Nitu Ghanghas at Dhanana village in Bhiwani and extended greetings on her achievement for adding a world championship title to her name.
The chief minister said that several steps are being taken to groom talent in sports, which is why players of Haryana are bringing laurels at the world level.
He also visited the residence of Vir Chakra awardee Mathan Singh who was martyred in the 1965 war and met the family before holding the Jan Samvad programme in Bapora village, Bhiwani district.
The chief minister also met the families of four more martyrs. He said the people of the country are proud of such brave sons who laid down their lives for the nation.
“Haryana has been the land of brave soldiers,” he added.
“Whether it is war with China or Pakistan or fighting terrorists, these brave sons made supreme sacrifice for their motherland. Today, a strong India is being built because of the sacrifices of the brave soldiers..,” he said.
Bhiwani’s railway junction is named after Mathan Singh.
According to the statement, “Rifleman Mathan Singh was martyred in the Indo-Pak war of 1965 and was awarded with Vir Chakra. Bhiwani’s railway junction is named after him,” it said.
It further said Bapora is the village of martyrs and soldiers.
Former Army Chief, General V K Singh is also from Bapora village, who is currently a minister in the Central Government.
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DUBLIN — U.S. President Joe Biden will pay a five-day visit to both parts of Ireland next month to mark the 25th anniversary of the U.S.-brokered Good Friday peace accord, according to a provisional Irish government itinerary seen by POLITICO.
The plans, still being finalized with the White House, have the president arriving in Northern Ireland on April 11. That’s one day after the official quarter-century mark for the Good Friday Agreement, the peace deal designed to end decades of conflict that claimed more than 3,600 lives.
With Irish roots on both sides of his family tree, Biden has long taken an interest in brokering and maintaining peace in Northern Ireland. He has welcomed the recent U.K.-EU agreement on making post-Brexit trade rules work in the region — a breakthrough that has yet to revive local power-sharing at the heart of the 1998 accord.
According to two Irish government officials involved in planning the Biden visit itinerary, the president will start his stay overnight at Hillsborough Castle, southwest of Belfast, the official residence for visiting British royalty, as a guest of the U.K.’s Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.
Then he’s scheduled to visit Stormont, the parliamentary complex overlooking Belfast, at the invitation of its caretaker speaker, Alex Maskey of the Irish republican Sinn Féin party.
That could prove controversial given that, barring a diplomatic miracle, the Northern Ireland Assembly and its cross-community government — a core achievement of the 1998 agreement — won’t be functioning due to a long-running boycott by the Democratic Unionists. That party has not yet accepted the U.K.-EU compromise deal on offer because it keeps Northern Ireland, unlike the rest of the U.K., subject to EU goods rules and able to trade more easily with the rest of Ireland than with Britain. Nonetheless, assembly members from all parties including the DUP will be invited to meet Biden there.
The president is booked to officiate the official ribbon-cutting of the new downtown Belfast campus of Ulster University. During his stay in Northern Ireland he also is expected to pay a visit to Queen’s University Belfast, where former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton serves as chancellor.
Next, the Irish government expects the presidential entourage to cross the border into the Republic of Ireland, potentially by motorcade, the approach last adopted by Bill Clinton during his third and final visit to Ireland as president in 2000.
This would allow Biden to pay a visit to one side of his Irish family tree, the Finnegans, in County Louth. Louth is midway between Belfast and Dublin. Biden previously toured the area in 2016 as vice president, when he met distant relatives for the first time and visited the local graveyard.
In Dublin, it is not yet confirmed whether Biden will deliver a speech at College Green outside the entrance of Trinity College. That’s the spot where Barack Obama delivered his own main speech during a one-day visit as president in 2011.
A White House advance team is expected in Dublin this weekend to scout that and other potential locations for a speech and walkabout. He isn’t expected to hold any functions at the Irish parliament, which begins a two-week Easter recess Friday.
Members of Ireland’s national police force, An Garda Síochána, have been told by commanders they cannot go on leave during the week of April 10-16 in anticipation of Biden’s arrival. The Irish expect U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to accompany the president and take part in more detailed talks with Northern Ireland’s leaders.
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar plans to host the president and Blinken at Farmleigh House, a state-owned mansion previously owned by the Guinness brewing dynasty, inside Dublin’s vast Phoenix Park.
The final two days of Biden’s visit will focus on the other side of his Irish roots, the Blewitts of County Mayo, on Ireland’s west coast, which he also visited in 2016. Distant cousins he first met on that trip have since been repeated guests of the White House, most recently on St. Patrick’s Day.
White House officials declined to discuss specific dates or any events planned, but did confirm that Biden would travel to Ireland “right after Easter.” This suggests an April 11 arrival in line with the Irish itinerary. Easter Sunday falls this year on April 9 and, in both parts of Ireland, the Christian holiday is a two-day affair ending in Easter Monday.
Jonathan Lemire contributed reporting.
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