The film was praised for its visual style, acting, and cinematography, but was controversial for whitewashing the cast, particularly Johansson's character, a cyborg who was meant to hold the memories of a Japanese woman.

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# DreamWorks accused of 'whitewashing' Ghost in the Shell by casting Scarlett Johansson

More than 15,000 sign petition demanding an Asian actor is cast in the live action remake of the anime classic

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Campaigners angered at the paucity of roles for east Asian actors in Hollywood have launched a petition calling for Scarlett Johansson to be dismissed from the forthcoming US remake of classic anime Ghost in the Shell.

The campaign on thepetitionsite.com, which has picked up more than 15,000 signatures, calls for studio DreamWorks to replace her with an actor of Asian origin, and accuses Hollywood of "whitewashing".

"The original film is set in Japan, and the major cast members are Japanese," reads the petition.

"So why would the American remake star a white actress?

The industry is already unfriendly to Asian actors without roles in major films being changed to exclude them.

"DreamWorks could be using this film to help provide opportunities for Asian-American actors in a market with few opportunities for them to shine.

Please sign the petition asking them to reconsider casting Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell and select actors who are truer to the cast of the original film!"

Petition organiser Julie Rodriguez also cites a recent survey that suggests in 2013, Asian characters made up only 4.4% of speaking roles in top-grossing Hollywood films.

Johansson looks likely to play a character based on the cyborg detective, Major Motoko Kusanagi, a key figure in the original 1995 Ghost in the Shell film and the comic book series on which it is based.

The US actor, whose star has risen following standout turns in Lucy and Marvel Studios' Avengers series of superhero films, was reportedly offered $10m to take the role.

The original Ghost in the Shell anime film

It is not yet clear how far DreamWorks plans to alter the original, Japanese-set storyline of Ghost in the Shell, though Johansson's inclusion hints that the action could be transferred to North America.

Hollywood has been criticised in the past for casting white actors in east Asian roles, with M Night Shyamalan's misfiring 2010 film The Last Airbender a notable recent example.

The dubious tradition runs all the way back to 1956 epic The Conqueror, in which John Wayne starred as a suspiciously midwestern accented Genghis Khan, and 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's, with a bucktoothed Mickey Rooney as the shamefully offensive Japanese caricature, IY Yunioshi.

More recently, Ridley Scott biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings was accused of whitewashing following the decision to cast famous white actors such as Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton in the lead roles, despite depicting events taking place in the Middle East and north Africa.

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# Petition Calls For Recast Of Scarlett Johansson's Role In 'Ghost In The Shell'

Actress Scarlett Johansson attends the 24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on December 1, 2014 in New York City.

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A recent petition is calling for Scarlett Johansson's role in "Ghost in the Shell" to be recast on the grounds of whitewashing.

Earlier this month, Variety reported that Johansson had signed on to star in DreamWorks' big-screen adaptation of the anime adventure, focusing on the story of a covert operations unit in the Japanese National Public Safety Commission and following the lead protagonist, Major Motoko Kusanagi.

While the 30-year-old certainly has had box office success starring in action films, like Marvel's "Avengers" series and "Lucy," after the announcement was made critics called the casting "whitewashing" due to the comic's Japanese origins.

Now, there is a Care2 petition requesting DreamWorks consider recasting the role.

"What concerns me is the fact that minority actors are so rarely given opportunities in big-budget leading roles," petition author Julie Rodriguez said in a press release sent to The Huffington Post.

"It's a self-defeating cycle: Hollywood insists viewers won't be drawn unknown minority actors, but they're never given the chance to break out of a narrow set of background roles to prove themselves.

'Ghost in the Shell' could have been a perfect opportunity to buck this trend, but instead promising actresses are being passed over."

The petition has a goal of 14,000 signatures and has already collected more than 13,000.

Others have voiced issue with the fact that an Asian-American actress was not chosen.

Marissa Lee, co-founder of the entertainment equality group Racebending, wrote a blog post in response to DreamWorks' decision, explaining that it's a missed opportunity for inclusive representation.

"Ultimately, 'Ghost in the Shell' is a story about what makes us human.

Having access to powerful media representation is key for minorities to be seen as human.

As a successful white actress, Scarlett Johansson has been privileged to play powerful women characters in action films.

'Ghost in the Shell' was a chance for an actress of Asian descent to have that same opportunity."

DreamWorks had no comment when contacted by The Huffington Post.

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Acting career.:Action and superhero films (2014–present).

In 2015 and 2016, Johansson again played Black Widow in the MCU films "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and "Captain America: Civil War". During filming of the former, a mixture of close-ups, concealing costumes, stunt doubles and visual effects were used to hide her pregnancy. Both films earned more than $1.1 billion, ranking among the highest-grossing films of all time. For "Captain America: Civil War", Johansson earned her second nomination for Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie and her fourth for Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. Earlier in 2016, Johansson had featured in the Coen brothers' well-received comedy film "Hail, Caesar!" about a "fixer" working in the classical Hollywood cinema, trying to discover what happened to a cast member who vanished during the filming of a biblical epic; Johansson plays an actress who becomes pregnant while her film is in production. She also voiced the character Kaa in Disney's live-action remake of "The Jungle Book", and Ash in the animated musical comedy film "Sing" (both 2016). Johansson played Motoko Kusanagi in Rupert Sanders's 2017 film adaptation of the "Ghost in the Shell" franchise.


However, there is another Torah commandment known as "onah" (Heb: עונה) which obligates a man to provide sexual intercourse to his wife on a regular basis, regardless of whether they have already had children.

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In Judaism, sexuality is viewed as having both positive and negative potential, depending on the context in which it is expressed. According to medieval Rabbinical enumerations of the 613 commandments, the commandment to procreate is the first mitzvah in the Torah: "And God blessed them; and God said unto them: Be fruitful, and multiply ["peru urevu" (פרו ורבו)], and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth" (Genesis, 1:28). This commandment was understood by the early rabbis to be only binding on men; women are exempt because childbirth puts them in physical danger, though a dissenting opinion is recorded in the mishnah Yevamot 6:6. This commandment was originally binding on all of humanity, as it was given to Adam, the progenitor of all mankind. However, after the giving of the Torah, it became obligatory on Jews only.
 There are many passages in the Babylonian Talmud that relate to the Jewish attitude toward sexuality. In one passage (BT Berakhot 62a), a rabbi named Kahana hides underneath the bed of his teacher Rav as Rav was having sex. Rav scolded Kahana for his behavior, but Kahana countered that sex is part of the Torah, and therefore he must learn about it from his teacher.
 According to the Sefer haChinnuch, the central nature of this mitzvah is due to the fact that God desires for the world to be populated.


In 2014, McCord and Mikael Jorgensen (pianist/keyboardist for Wilco) formed the duo Prism Break, inspired by early 1970s German experimental rock.

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2014 was a monumental year for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, both collectively and individually — culminating this month in the recording of the band's fourth studio album in Alex Ebert's new recording studio in New Orleans.

Ebert told Rolling Stone Magazine that new album would be a collaborative effort, much different than ESMZ's three previous albums.

"I'm always writing a bunch, and yet I've made a resolution to not write any more for Edward Sharpe when I'm alone, to only make it a group effort," Ebert told Rolling Stone in June.

"Usually it's been a solo process and I've written most of everything, so it'll be really nice to just go around in a circle and do it together."

The recording wrapped up in mid December, with Ebert taking his excitement to Facebook:

"I love Songwriting as celestial archaeology – each song a starry animal to be uncovered, arranged, and reintroduced to the world, alive."

Here's a look back at some of the top ESMZ stories of 2014.

On Jan. 13, ESMZ frontman Alex Ebert shocked the world when he captured his first Golden Globe for his score in the J.C. Chandor film, "All is Lost."

Sean Combs and Usher presented the award to Ebert, who thanked Chandor for "having the faith to see into what I had done before and thought I could do this."

"Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool, and yet we still try for magic," Ebert said.

"Thanks for letting me try — all over the movie."

(Read more about his award-winning score)

Chandor's latest film, "A Most Violent Year," premieres in select theatres on Dec. 31, and Ebert once again wrote and composed the score.

The soundtrack was released through Community Music on Dec. 16, and features nine original tracks, including two different versions of the song "Garden Shadows," as well as the movie's closing song, America For Me.

When ESMZ kicked off their summer tour in June, it was their first without vocalist Jade Castrinos.

"Jade has spoken out about not being on this tour.

Her statement left a lot of things to the imagination," Ebert wrote on Facebook.

"Out of respect for Jade, I will keep it that way. …

We must now explain that simply and sadly, we did not feel right doing this tour with Jade.

That fact breaks my heart in ways I don't want to describe.

With hope with all of ourselves that we reunite with Jade again, free-spirited, and with that daring love that is our only foundation."

(For the record, the forthcoming ESMZ album will be the first without Jade.)

Crash hit the road this summer and fall to promote the release of his debut solo album, "Hardly Criminal," including a performance on CBS' Late Show With David Letterman in late July and a return to his native New Orleans in November for the city's "This is NOLA" event.

"Hardly Criminal" also features fellow ESMZ bandmates Seth Ford-Young, Josh Collazo, Stewart Cole, Orpheo McCord and Nosewsorthy, as well as former ESMZ member Tay Strathairn.

BestNewsBand.com described the solo album as "a tidal wave of emotion that appropriately crashes with a perfect balance of groove, shake, heartache, and soul."

"I can't help but draw from my own life experiences," Crash told Janglin Souls, before a performance in Kansas City, Mo. "

A lot of the material is about something that I feel, or maybe only thought I had, or of something that someone else feels.

In the case of "High Wall," it's a pretty brief explanation of how I ended up in L.A.

What I don't say in the song is that move was responsible for so many other things — me getting more involved in music and pursuing that, and me meeting the guys that would form Deadly Syndrome and me meeting all the Magnetic Zeros at the time of the "Up From Below" album coming together.

It was one of those remarkably pivotal moments in my life."

(Read Janglin Souls' full interview with Crash)

Crash wasn't the only Magnetic Zero working on a solo project.

London-born guitarist Christian Letts released two singles (Charles de Gaulle and Matches) from first LP.

"Hold Fast" will be released on Feb. 17, via Community Music/Vagrant Records, and is produced by his friend Marcus Mumford.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros performed a series of European gigs in January and February that culminated in an appearance at London's Brixton Academy on Feb. 11.

The tour also included stops in Brussels, Den Haag, Cologne, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Glasgow and Dublin.

ESMZ percussionist Orpheo McCord and Rachel Kolar (of the band He's My Brother She's My Sister) welcomed their first child, Mateus McCord, to the world on March 14.

"He was born on Einstein's birthday – that is a good sign," said Joe McCord, Orpheo's father.

In addition to being a new father, Orpheo joined forces with Mikael Jorgenson of Wilco in a new project called "Prism Break."

Their music is described as an "inspiration in early 70s German experimental music."

ESMZ opened for Jack Johnson for four summer shows in 2014 – in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Toronto; Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; and Chicago.

The shows ended with both bands sharing the stage, covering the Beatles' Rocky Raccoon and Bob Dylan's I Shall Be Released.

(Read more about ESMZ's tour with Jack Johnson)

In July, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros announced that they were in "deep in the process of assembling a live record compiled from songs we've played all over the world these past few years."

Joe McCord, father of ESMZ percussionist Orpheo McCord, wrote a short film called "Butterfuly, The Harp & The Timepiece," which stars Academy Award winner Melissa Leo and ESMZ members Alex Ebert, Stewart Cole and Orpheo McCord.

The film was directed by Rodney Vance and scored by Grammy winner Alex Geringas.

The film is described by IMDB as "three stories about treasured objects and their impact on the people who use them to connect to their inmost desires."

The film has been entered into the Palm Springs Short Festival, one of the most prestigious short festivals in the United States and a prerequisite to the Academy awards.

(Read more about Joe McCord, also known as Joe Daddy.)

starred in the TV Land sitcom "Jennifer Falls," which debuted in 2014 and stars Jaime Pressley and Ethan Suplee.

Kirkpatrick played the role Stephanie Doyle, the passive aggressive, know-it-all sister-in-law of Jennifer Doyle (Pressley), a former high-powered executive who loses her job and hits rock bottom.

2014 was also a big year for former ESMZ pianist Aaron Embry, who released new music via SoundCloud.

(Check out this video of one Embry's Wannabe King).

Embry's Raven Song (off of the 2012 ablum "Tiny Prayers") was featured at the end of Zach Braff's 2014 comedy-drama, "Wish I Was Here."

Braff said to Entertainment Weekly: "I knew the second I heard that it was the song for the end of the movie.

I actually, the second I heard it I almost started restructuring the end of the movie around it.

I just though it was elegant and beautiful and it was short.

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McCord was a member of Cass McCombs' band starting in 2007 and has played on four of his albums. He was formerly the drummer and percussion leader in Fool's Gold, an LA pop band whose music incorporates African rhythms. In 2010, he played with Harper Simon as a duo at the Festival au Désert in Mali, outside of Timbuktu. They also performed there with the Tuareg band Tinariwen.


The diving beetle swims by thrusting its hind legs simultaneously, and can remain underwater for extended periods of time by storing an air bubble beneath its wings.

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Animal's BehaviorWhen swimming, sunburst diving beetles (Thermonectus marmoratus) and other members of the family (predaceous diving beetles) kick their hind legs simultaneously.

Eating HabitsThey require at least a temporary water source.

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Range Ponds and lakes from California to Texas

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In addition to scripted content, Basch produced the documentary film "Life Itself", for which he won the Producers Guild of America Award in 2015.

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"Birdman" has won the Producers Guild of America's Darryl F. Zanuck Award for best movie — elevating its status as an awards-season front-runner since the last seven PGA winners have gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Fox Searchlight's dark comedy, starring Michael Keaton as a washed-up film star, topped "American Sniper,' "Boyhood," "Foxcatcher," "Gone Girl," "Grand Budapest Hotel," "The Imitation Game," "Nightcrawler," "The Theory of Everything" and "Whiplash."

"Boyhood" had been the consensus favorite to win the PGA trophy — based on voting by more than 6,700 PGA members — with "American Sniper," "Birdman" and "Imitation Game" pegged as the most likely to score an upset.

See More: Analysis: 'Birdman' Adds Plot Twist at PGA Awards

The award went to director Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole.

"They want me to talk so that I make you laugh with my bad English," Inarritu said.

"On behalf of all of us, our only ambition was to make a risky and experimental exploration of the cinematic language, of an artist's complexity played by the incredible Michael Keaton."

"I feel humbled by this," Inarritu added.

"All the films that are nominated have such an individual voice, the expression behind them, only the people who made them, could have made them."

"Gravity" and "12 Years a Slave" wound up in a dead heat last year as both won the Zanuck award — the first tie in the PGA's 25-year history for the trophy.

The PGA uses the preferential balloting system employed for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the Oscars.

The PGA's Zanuck award has become a strong indicator of Oscar sentiment in recent years, matching the Oscar for best picture in 18 of its 25 years — including the last seven, with "12 Years a Slave," "Argo," "The Artist," "The King's Speech," "The Hurt Locker," "Slumdog Millionaire" and "No Country for Old Men."

The PGA winner last diverged from the Oscar best picture in 2006, when "Little Miss Sunshine" won the Zanuck while the Academy opted for "The Departed."

The producers branch of AMPAS constitutes about 8% of the AMPAS membership.

When the Academy expanded the best-picture Oscar category to 10 nominations in 2010, the PGA followed suit with an expansion of the Zanuck nominations to 10.

The top TV awards went to the final season of AMC's "Breaking Bad," Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" and FX's "Fargo."

"Breaking Bad" won the Norman Felton Award for top drama series for the second year in a row, topping "Downton Abbey," "Game of Thrones," "House of Cards" and "True Detective."

"You only know that your show is a big hit when the location signs are stolen," Bryan Cranston said.

"Life Itself," the biographical film about the late Roger Ebert, won the PGA documentary award for director Steve James, Zak Piper and Garrett Basch.

Magnolia's "Life Itself," based on Ebert's 2011 autobiography, topped "The Green Prince," "Merchants of Doubt," "Particle Fever" and "Virunga" — which was the only PGA nominee to also receive an Oscar nod

FX's "Fargo" won the David L. Wolper Award for longform TV.

The drama — based on the 1996 film of the same name by the Coen brothers — topped "American Horror Story," "The Normal Heart," "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History " and "Sherlock."

Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" won the Danny Thomas award for top comedy series.

The win by the groundbreaking prison-set series denied ABC's "Modern Family" its fifth consecutive award in the category.

"Orange is the New Black" also topped "The Big Bang Theory," "Louis" and "Veep."

Earlier, "The Lego Movie" took the PGA's top animated movie award — nine days after it was overlooked in the Oscar nominations.

"Lego" producer Dan Lin accepted the trophy from Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea.

He gave extensive thanks, concluding with co-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller and his family, and made no mention of the Oscar snub.

Warner Bros.' "Lego" topped "Big Hero 6," "The Book of Life," "The Boxtrolls" and "How to Train Your Dragon 2″ in the first award of the evening ceremonies for the 26th Annual PGA Awards at the Century Plaza.

"Frozen" won the PGA award and the Oscar last year.

"The Tonght Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" won the Live Entertainment and Talk Television award.

NBC's "The Voice" took the competition TV award.

Previously announced awards included HBO's AIDS drama "The Normal Heart" as recipient of the Stanley Kramer Award, which honors raising awareness of important social issues; Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer for the Milestone Award, and "The Walking Dead" producer Gale Ann Hurd for the David O. Selznick Achievement Award.

Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner's Plan B Entertainment received the Visionary Award presented by Norman Lear.

Mark Gordon, producer of "Criminal Minds," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Ray Donovan," received the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television.

Jennifer Lawrence received the biggest laughs of the night with her intro of Feltheimer.

"Jon has been in this business for longer than I've been alive – I love saying that," she said at one point.

The nominations list (winners are boldfaced):

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:

Producers: Bradley Cooper, p.g.a., Clint Eastwood, p.g.a., Andrew Lazar, p.g.a., Robert Lorenz, p.g.a., Peter Morgan, p.g.a.

Producers: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole WINNER

Producers: Richard Linklater, p.g.a., Cathleen Sutherland, p.g.a. WINNER

Producers: Megan Ellison, p.g.a., Jon Kilik, p.g.a., Bennett Miller, p.g.a.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Producers: Wes Anderson & Scott Rudin, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales

The Imitation Game (The Weinstein Company)

Producers: Nora Grossman, p.g.a., Ido Ostrowsky, p.g.a., Teddy Schwarzman, p.g.a.

The Theory of Everything (Focus Features)

Producers: Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten

Producers: Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:

Big Hero 6 (Walt Disney Animation Studios)

Producers: Brad Booker, p.g.a., Guillermo del Toro, p.g.a.

Producers: David Bleiman Ichioka, p.g.a., Travis Knight, p.g.a.

How To Train Your Dragon 2 (20th Century Fox)

The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television:

The Long-Form Television category encompasses both movies of the week and mini-series.

American Horror Story: Coven & Freak Show (FX)

Producers: Brad Buecker, Dante Di Loreto, Brad Falchuk, Joseph Incaprera, Alexis Martin Woodall, Tim Minear, Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Salt, Robert M. Williams Jr., James Wong

Producers: Adam Bernstein, John Cameron, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Michael Frislev, Noah Hawley, Warren Littlefield, Chad Oakes, Kim Todd WINNER

Producers: Jason Blum, Dante Di Loreto, Scott Ferguson, Dede Gardner, Alexis Martin Woodall, Ryan Murphy, Brad Pitt, Mark Ruffalo

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (PBS)

Producers: Paul Barnes, Pam Baucom, Ken Burns

Producers: Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Beryl Vertue, Sue Vertue

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:

Producers: John Battsek, Simon Chinn, Nadav Schirman

Producers: Garrett Basch, Steve James, Zak Piper WINNER

Merchants of Doubt (Sony Pictures Classics)

Producers: Robert Kenner, Melissa Robledo

Producers: David E. Kaplan, Mark A. Levinson, Andrea Miller, Carla Solomon

Producers: Joanna Natasegara, Orlando von Einsiedel

The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama:

Producers: Melissa Bernstein, Sam Catlin, Bryan Cranston, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Mark Johnson, Stewart Lyons, Michelle MacLaren, George Mastras, Diane Mercer, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett WINNER

Producers: Julian Fellowes, Nigel Marchant, Gareth Neame, Liz Trubridge

Producers: David Benioff, Bernadette Caulfield, Frank Doelger, Chris Newman, Greg Spence, Carolyn Strauss, D.B. Weiss

Producers: Dana Brunetti, Joshua Donen, David Fincher, David Manson, Iain Paterson, Eric Roth, Kevin Spacey, Beau Willimon

Producers: Richard Brown, Carol Cuddy, Steve Golin, Woody Harrelson, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Matthew McConaughey, Nic Pizzolatto, Scott Stephens

The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy:

Producers: Faye Oshima Belyeu, Chuck Lorre, Steve Molaro, Bill Prady

Producers: Pamela Adlon, Dave Becky, M. Blair Breard, Louis C.K., Vernon Chatman, Adam Escott, Steven Wright

Producers: Paul Corrigan, Megan Ganz, Abraham Higginbotham, Ben Karlin, Elaine Ko, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Morton, Dan O'Shannon, Jeffrey Richman, Chris Smirnoff, Brad Walsh, Bill Wrubel, Sally Young, Danny Zuker

Producers: Mark A. Burley, Sara Hess, Jenji Kohan, Gary Lennon, Neri Tannenbaum, Michael Trim, Lisa I. Vinnecour WINNER

Producers: Chris Addison, Simon Blackwell, Christopher Godsick, Armando Iannucci, Stephanie Laing, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Frank Rich, Tony Roche

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television:

Producers: Andy Billman, John Dahl, Erin Leyden, Connor Schell, Bill Simmons

Producers: Susan Lacy, Julie Sacks, Junko Tsunashima

Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig

COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey (FOX/NatGeo) Producers: Brannon Braga, Mitchell Cannold, Jason Clark, Ann Druyan, Livia Hanich, Steve Holtzman, Seth MacFarlane WINNER

Producers: Becky Blitz, Mark Burnett, Bill Gaudsmith, Phil Gurin, Yun Lingner, Clay Newbill, Jim Roush, Laura Roush, Max Swedlow

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Competition Television:

Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, Elise Doganieri, Jonathan Littman, Bertram van Munster, Mark Vertullo

Producers: Ashley Edens Shaffer, Conrad Green, Joe Sungkur

Producers: Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Tim Gunn, Heidi Klum, Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Teri Weideman

Producers: Doneen Arquines, Daniel Cutforth, Casey Kriley, Jane Lipsitz, Hillary Olsen, Erica Ross, Tara Siener, Shealan Spencer

Producers: Stijn Bakkers, Mark Burnett, John De Mol, Chad Hines, Lee Metzger, Audrey Morrissey, Jim Roush, Kyra Thompson, Mike Yurchuk, Amanda Zucker WINNER

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television:

Producers: Meredith Bennett, Tanya Michnevich Bracco, Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Barry Julien, Matt Lappin, Emily Lazar, Tom Purcell, Jon Stewart

Producers: David Craig, Ken Crosby, Doug DeLuca, Gary Greenberg, Erin Irwin, Jimmy Kimmel, Jill Leiderman, Molly McNearney, Tony Romero, Jason Schrift, Jennifer Sharron, Seth Weidner, Josh Weintraub

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

Producers: Tim Carvell, John Oliver, Liz Stanton

Producers: Scott Carter, Sheila Griffiths, Marc Gurvitz, Dean Johnsen, Bill Maher, Billy Martin, Matt Wood

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC)

Producers: Rob Crabbe, Jamie Granet Bederman, Katie Hockmeyer, Jim Juvonen, Josh Lieb, Brian McDonald, Lorne Michaels, Gavin Purcell WINNER

The Award for Outstanding Sports Program:

Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The Atlanta Falcons (HBO)

Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The Cincinnati Bengals (HBO)

Inside: U.S. Soccer's March To Brazil (ESPN)

Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (HBO) WINNER

The Award for Outstanding Children's Program:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Nickelodeon)

Wynton Marsalis: A YoungArts Masterclass (HBO)

The Award for Outstanding Digital Series:

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UFC matches will return to FX – but not on a permanent basis.

ESPN has been showing preliminary bouts to UFC pay-per-view events for the last while on ESPN and ESPN2, and then showing the main card on its ESPN+ subscription video service.

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# Bus service resumes in downtown tunnel

The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel will reopen for bus service this morning, after computer problems caused a shutdown last week.

The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel reopened for bus service this morning, after computer problems caused a shutdown last week.

The tunnel has returned to its regular 5 a.m.-to-7 p.m. weekday schedule, serving 17 King County Metro bus routes and one Sound Transit route to Bellevue.

Since the closure last Wednesday, those buses have run on the street while contractors replaced and tested some allegedly defective circuit boards.

The glitch disrupted the tunnel's emergency-control systems, including backup power, signals, elevators and ventilation equipment.

Police say man who shot intruder had gun permit

A Kent man who shot and killed an intruder inside his condominium Saturday had a concealed-weapons permit, police said.

The 28-year-old homeowner, whose name hasn't been released, shot the unidentified suspect when he returned home about 6 p.m. and saw the man inside, according to Kent police.

The dead man, believed to be in his mid-20s, has been identified by the King County Medical Examiner's Office, but officials are still trying to reach his family, police spokesman Paul Petersen said.

Neighbors reported hearing four to five gunshots, but there were no witnesses other than the homeowner and his girlfriend, Petersen said.

After the man was shot, he ran through a broken sliding-glass door and died in the backyard.

The glass door was broken before the confrontation, and it's possible that's how the man entered the locked home, Petersen said.

The man who was killed was carrying a satchel-type bag that contained some stolen property from the couple's home, Petersen said.

State "super license" to ease Canada travel

Next month the state will offer an enhanced driver's license that eases travel to Canada.

You'll need to make an appointment to apply for the license at one of only 11 Department of Licensing offices equipped to provide the special features.

The new license with enhanced features will cost $40, or $15 more than the standard fee.

The "super license" will be an accepted form of identification for Washington residents returning from Canada by land or sea.

That means it will get you across the border at Blaine or into Seattle on a cruise ship.

But if you're returning to Washington by airplane from any country, including Canada, you'll still need a U.S. passport to satisfy federal Homeland Security workers at airports.

The passport requirement for air travel from outside the United States is already in effect.

The federal requirement for proof of citizenship and identity at land and sea ports of entry takes effect Jan. 31.

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The Umatilla facility incinerating chemical weaponry to satisfy treaty obligations says it destroyed the last of the nation's VX-filled spray tanks on Christmas Eve.

VX is an oily, clear liquid that can cause seizures, paralysis and suffocation.

The Army said Wednesday it had 1,018 spray tanks stockpiled.

Of those, it says, a Utah facility destroyed 862, and the Umatilla facility 156.

The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility is also destroying rockets containing VX.

Next on its list are shells and land mines containing VX, with that work expected to end in 2009.

The spray tanks were designed to be mounted on planes.

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The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 opened in style on the most famous street in the world with a host of cricket legends, alongside global dignitaries, celebrities and pop stars.

Hosted by ex-England star Freddie Flintoff, actress/singer Shibani Dandekar and presenter Paddy McGuinness, the event was watched by millions around the world, with a live broadcast on Sky TV, in addition to the 5,000 fans that joined in the free ticketed party on The Mall.

All competing nations were represented in a ten-team celebrity street Cricket World Cup challenge, with appearances from some of the very best cricket legends in the game.

Kevin Pietersen, Sir Vivian Richards, Jacques Kallis and Anil Kumble partnered with cricket fan celebrities including Pakistani activist and youngest-ever Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai, Wimbledon winner Pat Cash, champion sprinter Johan Blake, acclaimed Indian actor and director Farhan Akhtar, All Black Sean Fitzpatrick, reality TV star Chris Hughes and footballer Steven Pienaar.

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The ten #CWC19 captains greeted the ticket ballot-winning fans in the crowd after meeting the Queen at Buckingham Palace earlier in the day.

The 100-day Trophy Tour finale saw CWC15-winning Australian captain Michael Clarke, with the support of #CWCTrophyTour ambassador Graeme Swann, hand the trophy over to commence the tournament.

The show closed with a live performance of the Official Tournament Song, 'Stand by', with LORYN and Rudimental, alongside the Cricket World Cup trophy with Buckingham Palace creating an unforgettable backdrop.

ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 Managing Director Steve Elworthy said: "Today we saw a remarkable party to open this World Cup in style.

Across the last two years, we have continually reached out to new audiences to grow the game; women, children, sport-loving families, big event fans, while engaging with the diverse and passionate cricket fans already in this country.

"The tournament is shaping up to be the greatest ever cricket celebration and a record-breaking World Cup and we want to inspire future generations of fans in this country and around the world.

This party encapsulates the atmosphere that we know the fans will bring to the World Cup.

Now we look forward to the party continuing for six weeks as the best ten teams in the world battle for the ultimate prize in one-day cricket!"

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She has been nominated for four Golden Globes Awards, two British Academy Film Awards winning one for each and by earning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress honor for "Fences", Davis became the first black actor to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting: winning a competitive Oscar, Emmy and Tony in acting categories.

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When Viola Davis won the Best Supporting Actress prize at the Academy Awards, she became the 23rd person to achieve the triple crown of acting: a competitive Oscar, Emmy and Tony (two Tonys, in her case).

She is the first African American to join the club.

Receiving an award is a fickle honor — a function of timing, campaigning and momentum as much as talent — but winning the triple crown is a meaningful Hollywood achievement.

Club members are all deeply respected in their field; there's not a stowaway in the bunch.

Acting's triple crown is a rare distinction.

Not even Davis's idol, Meryl Streep, has achieved it.

There are indeed more than 22 actors who've received all three awards, but they did so for reasons other than just acting — or the awards were non-competitive in nature, such as an honorary Oscar.

For example, John Gielgud and Whoopi Goldberg received all three, but his Tony came for directing a play and hers came for producing a musical

Audrey Hepburn, with an Oscar and Tony on her mantel, received an Emmy in 1993 for a TV special about gardens, but she wasn't playing a role.

Liza Minnelli's Emmy for "Liza With a Z," in which she starred, was — alas — for a non-acting category.

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Viola Davis joined the club on Oscar night.

Caption There are now 23 actors who have received the rare distinction of winning a competitive Oscar, Emmy and Tony.

Viola Davis joined the club on Oscar night. Feb. 27, 2017 Viola Davis accepts the best supporting actress Oscar for "Fences" during the 89th Annual Academy Awards.

She has two Emmys, for "How to Get Away with Murder" (2015 and 2016), and two Tonys, for "Fences" (2010) and "King Hedley II" (2001).

Much is made of the "EGOT," which adds a Grammy Award to the mix, but that's a distinction that doesn't solely honor acting.

In fact, there's just one person who's competitively achieved an EGOT entirely through performance (we don't count the "spoken word" Grammy category as acting).

That person is No. 8 on this list of triple-crowners, presented here in reverse chronology from when they joined the club.

Viola Davis accepts the Best Supporting Actress prize for "Fences" on Sunday, Feb. 26.

23. Viola Davis won her Oscar, after two prior nominations, for "Fences," the film adaptation of the August Wilson play, for which she also won the second of her two Tonys.

1 Emmy: "How to Get Away with Murder" (2015)

2 Tonys: "King Hedley II" (2001), "Fences" (2010)

22. Jessica Lange is the most recent joiner, courtesy of one of the great stage roles: Mary Tyrone, the drug-addled matriarch of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night," which closed on Broadway last June.

2 Oscars: "Tootsie" (1983), "Blue Sky" (1995)

3 Emmys: "Grey Gardens" (2009), "American Horror Story" (2012, 2014)

1 Tony: "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (2016)

21. Frances McDormand is a quintessential triple-crowner — lacking physical vanity, trained as a classic theater actor and versatile over a long period of time.

"I have done both Stella and Blanche in 'Streetcar,' " she said, holding her Tony, wearing a jean jacket, "and I've played all three of Chekhov's sisters."

Helen Mirren, who didn't start her awards streak until she turned 50, can thank British royalty for her triple crown.

She has one of each award for playing Elizabeth I or Elizabeth II.

4 Emmys: "The Passion of Ayn Rand" (1999), "Elizabeth I" (2006), the "Prime Suspect" franchise (1996 and 2007)

Christopher Plummer, Capt. Von Trapp himself, finally worked his way to an Oscar at age 82 (making him the oldest acting winner).

"You're only two years older than me, darling," he said to his Oscar.

2 Tonys: "Cyrano" (1974), "Barrymore" (1997)

2 Emmys: "Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers" (1977) and for his voice-over work in the animated series "Madeline" (1994).

Ellen Burstyn, already a household name because of "The Exorcist," had quite a year in 1975.

In the span of 12 days, she won an Oscar and a Tony.

She skipped the former's ceremony because she was performing in the play that won her the latter.

1 Oscar: "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1975)

2 Emmys: "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (2009), "Political Animals" (2013)

17. Geoffrey Rush, the only Australian member of the club, completed the first two legs of the triple crown by playing real-life misfits: piano prodigy David Helfgott and British comic actor Peter Sellers.

1 Emmy: "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" (2005)

Al Pacino accepted his first Tony less than a week before his 29th birthday.

He would have to wait over 20 years, through eight Oscar nominations, before completing the second leg.

When Jodie Foster called his name at the Oscars, triple-crowner Vanessa Redgrave — sitting behind him — throttled his shoulders with excitement.

2 Tonys: "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?" (1969), "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" (1977)

2 Emmys: "Angels in America" (2003), "You Don't Know Jack" (2010)

15. Maggie Smith has a habit of not attending the Emmys ceremony.

"If we call your name and you're not here to accept," Jimmy Kimmel said at last year's show, "the Emmy goes to the next name on the list.

"We're not mailing this to her," he said.

2 Oscars: "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1970), "California Suite" (1979)

4 Emmys: "My House in Umbria" (2003), "Downton Abbey" (2011, 2012, 2016)

14. Vanessa Redgrave was heckled during her Oscar speech for referring to "Zionist hoodlums" riling the Middle East, but by the end of the speech the audience was mostly applauding.

Like Lange, she got her Tony for playing Mary Tyrone.

2 Emmys: "Playing for Time" (1981), "If These Walls Could Talk 2" (2000)

1 Tony: "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (2003)

The role of Annie Sullivan in "The Miracle Worker" earned Anne Bancroft accolades on stage and screen.

Anne Bancroft, up against Bette Davis for the Oscar in 1963, didn't attend the ceremony.

Joan Crawford, Davis's rival and un-nominated co-star in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?," had offered all the non-Davis nominees who wouldn't be there that she'd go up to accept the Oscar on their behalf.

Crawford followed Bancroft's written instructions, which were identical to her Tony speech for the same role, as Annie Sullivan.

She simply thanked her director, writer and producer.

2 Tonys: "Two for the Seesaw" (1958), "The Miracle Worker" (1960)

12. Jeremy Irons, after beginning his career in the West End, won a Tony for his Broadway debut and, seven years later, accepted an Oscar from Jessica Tandy, who had just attained the triple crown herself.

3 Emmys: "Elizabeth I" (2006) and two for voice-over work: "Big Cat Week" (2014), "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century" (1997)

11. Jessica Tandy took the longest to complete her triple crown.

There were 42 years between her first Tony, for originating the role of Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," and her first Oscar, for bringing the titular stage character in "Driving Miss Daisy" to the screen.

3 Tonys: "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1948), "The Gin Game" (1978), "Foxfire" (1983)

10. Jason Robards racked up 16 nominations across the triple-crown board and is one of only five actors to win consecutive Oscars for acting (the others are Tom Hanks, Katharine Hepburn, Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy).

2 Oscars: "All the President's Men" (1977), "Julia" (1978)

9. Maureen Stapleton wore her Oscar dress the following night on "The Tonight Show," explaining that she was repeating the outfit because "it cost a lot of money."

She then admitted to Johnny Carson that she hadn't even seen the movie for which she'd won.

2 Tonys: "The Rose Tattoo" (1951), "The Gingerbread Lady" (1971)

1 Emmy: "Among the Paths to Eden" (1968)

8. Rita Moreno not only attained the triple crown of acting — she has a competitive Grammy Award as well.

Moreno also gave one of the best (and shortest) Oscar acceptance speeches: "I can't believe it!

2 Emmys: "The Muppet Show" (1977), "The Rockford Files" (1978)

7. Jack Albertson, a former pool shark and vaudevillian, would gain immortality by playing Grandpa Joe in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" in 1971, but first he parlayed a part written by playwright Frank Gilroy through the first two legs of the triple crown.

2 Emmys: "Cher" (1975), "Chico and the Man" (1976)

Paul Scofield in the 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons."

6. Paul Scofield, a British actor known for his interpretations of Shakespeare, achieved the triple crown in the shortest span of time of anyone in the club: seven years.

Two of the awards came for playing Sir Thomas More in the stage and film versions of Robert Bolt's "A Man for All Seasons."

5. Melvyn Douglas made a name for himself 20 years before he started winning awards, opposite Greta Garbo in the classic "Ninotchka."

He accepted only his Tony Award, for best lead actor in a play, in person.

2 Oscars: "Hud" (1964) and "Being There" (1980)

4. Shirley Booth, like Marisa Tomei and Jennifer Lawrence decades later, tripped on the stairs when accepting her Oscar, during the first televised Academy Awards — which was held in Hollywood and New York simultaneously.

"I guess this is the peak," she said from the stage in New York, though her starring role in the NBC sitcom "Hazel" would come within a decade.

3 Tonys: "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1949), "Come Back, Little Sheba" (1950), "The Time of the Cuckoo" (1953)

1 Oscar: "Come Back, Little Sheba" (1953)

3. Ingrid Bergman uttered one of the best humblebrags in the history of the Academy Awards when she nabbed her third statuette: "It's always very nice to get an Oscar."

She then conceded that the award really belonged to Italian actress Valentina Cortese, nominated for "Day for Night."

3 Oscars: "Gaslight" (1945), "Anastasia" (1957), "Murder on the Orient Express" (1975)

2 Emmys: "Startime" (1960), "A Woman Called Golda" (1982)

Thomas Mitchell and British actress Beatrice Lillie horse around with their Tonys backstage at the 1953 ceremony.

2. Thomas Mitchell, one of cinema's great character actors, had a sterling year in 1939: He was Scarlett O'Hara's father in "Gone With the Wind," a reporter covering Jimmy Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and the comic relief in "Stagecoach," which began his run at the triple crown.

Mitchell won his best-actor Emmy over the likes of Charlton Heston and Jack Webb, back when the prize wasn't tied to a particular show.

In the year prior, he appeared in multiple TV series, including "Suspense" and "The Gulf Playhouse."

Helen Hayes at her home in Nyack, N.Y., in 1955.

1. Helen Hayes, the D.C.-born first lady of the American theater, won her Emmy over Peggy Wood and June Lockhart, among others, in the same year and manner as Mitchell did.

In the three years preceding the award, Hayes mostly played royalty, such as Queen Victoria in "Robert Montgomery Presents" and Mary Stuart in "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse."

2 Oscars: "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" (1932), "Airport" (1971)

2 Tonys: "Happy Birthday" (1947), "Time Remembered" (1958)

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the name of the Helen Hayes movie "The Sin of Madelon Claudet."

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According to Rotten Tomatoes and The Numbers, Davis's most commercially successful and critically acclaimed films include "Traffic" (2000), "Doubt" (2008), "Law Abiding Citizen" (2009), "Knight and Day" and "Eat Pray Love" (2010); "The Help" (2011), "Suicide Squad" and "Fences" (2016).
 Throughout her career, Davis is a recipient of many films, critics and societies awards. For her stage work, she has won two Tony Awards, three Drama Desk Awards, a Obie Award and Theater World Award. She holds the distinction of becoming the first and only actress of color to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and is the first African-American to win five Screen Actors Guild Awards.


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# Which Are The World's Cleanest Cities?

In the world, as a rule of thumb, the North is clean and the South is dirty.

Indeed only two of the top-25 cleanest cities in the world are below the Equator--Auckland, New Zealand, and Wellington, New Zealand.

The cleanest cities are largely located in countries noted for their democracy and their industrialization.

The only Asian cities represented are in Japan.

There are no top-25 clean cities in South or Central America, Africa and Australia.

The U.S. has five of the top 25; Canada, a strong five, with the top spot its city of Calgary; Europe has 11 of the top 25; and Japan has three.

The 25 cleanest cities are located in 13 countries.

It may not be accidental that these countries are among the highest in purchasing power parity according to the World Development Indicator database of the World Bank.

Twelve are in the top 20, and only New Zealand lags in wealth, at No. 37 on the list of world's wealthiest.

#### In Pictures: The World's Cleanest Cities

To be clean a city has to face and solve many problems that otherwise lead to unsanitary conditions and poor health as well as possible economic stagnation.

Producing energy for industry, homes and transportation has to be planned and executed reasonably, and this means some form of regulation and control.

To be clean means organizing what is done with waste.

Landfills are being closed or filled up.

Recycling is the only long-range answer, but this takes civic discipline, a system and preferably a system that turns a profit.

Green only works well when it results in greenbacks.

In addition a city has to look closely at its transportation infrastructure (roads, rail, air, subways) and their impact upon being clean or going dirty or staying dirty.

The logistics infrastructure is also critical in terms of efficiency that can translate into money and fuel savings that in turn affect cleanliness (air quality, water quality and ground quality).

Taken all together as with clean energy generation, waste control, recycling and various levels of infrastructure reorganization, the challenge is formidable.

Some will recommend taking on one challenge at a time, and this may be what President Bush has in mind with ethanol.

Bush's advocacy of ethanol is a step towards cleaner fuel and in turn cleaner cities.

The idea is also controversial as the resources available for ethanol are directly related to the food supply chain.

There can be great friction over sharing such resources.

Some are advocating inputs beyond corn grain.

"One of the most abundant potential resources we have is the nonfood parts of the corn plant, including the stalks, leaves and husks," says Dr. Michael Pacheco, director of the National Bioenergy Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The figures for the cleanest cities are derived from studies by the Mercer Human Resources Consulting that cull from 300 cities, identifying overall quality of living as well as special reports on regions.

It is interesting to note that size does not appear to be a factor either in terms of size of population or physical size of the city.

The most common trait in common to each is a focus on high tech, education and headquartering of national and international companies along with an extensive public transit system.

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About 5.1% used all other forms of transportation, including taxicab, motorcycle, and bicycle. About 5.9% of working city of Minneapolis residents worked at home. In 2015, 18.2% of city of Minneapolis households were without a car, which decreased to 17.1% in 2016. The national average was 8.7 percent in 2016. Minneapolis averaged 1.35 cars per household in 2016, compared to a national average of 1.8 per household.
 Minneapolis ranked 27th in the nation for the highest percentage of commuters by bicycle in 2011, and was editorialized as the top bicycling city in "Bicycling's Top 50" ranking in 2010. Ten thousand cyclists use the bike lanes in the city each day, and many ride in the winter. The Public Works Department expanded the bicycle trail system from the Grand Rounds to 56 mi (90 km) of off-street commuter trails including the Midtown Greenway, the Light Rail Trail, Kenilworth Trail, Cedar Lake Trail and the West River Parkway Trail along the Mississippi. Minneapolis also has 40 miles (64 km) of dedicated bike lanes on city streets and encourages cycling by equipping transit buses with bike racks and by providing online bicycle maps. Many of these trails and bridges, such as the Stone Arch Bridge, were former railroad lines that have now been converted for bicycles and pedestrians.


A certification and assurance was announced by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stating that maximum efforts are being taken by the Saudi-led coalition to avoid civilian casualties in order to legally authorize American military to refuel coalition military aircraft and has affirmed to continued its support.

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# Yemen Civilians Keep Dying, but Pompeo Says Saudis Are Doing Enough

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Despite attacks that have killed dozens of civilians at a time, the Trump administration on Wednesday certified that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are doing enough to minimize the deadly impact of their military campaign in Yemen.

The certification, announced by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was legally required to allow American military aircraft to continue refueling warplanes belonging to the two Gulf nations, the dominant members of an Arab coalition fighting a brutal war in Yemen that has helped create the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Mr. Pompeo's move came amid rising concern in Washington about the coalition's prosecution of the war and worries among some lawmakers that American weapons were being used to commit war crimes and that American officials could be held liable.

In its efforts to oust Yemen's Houthi rebels from the capital, Sana, the coalition has bombed weddings, funerals, factories and other civilian infrastructure, often with munitions acquired from the United States.

The aerial assaults have elicited harsh criticisms from United Nations investigators and human rights groups, who have also accused the Houthis of violating the laws of war.

Last month, the coalition launched an airstrike near a bus full of students on a religious outing, killing dozens in an attack that Human Rights Watch called "an apparent war crime."

In response to similar assaults, Congress included in a defense bill signed by Mr. Trump last month a clause that required Mr. Pompeo to certify that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were doing enough to avoid harming civilians.

Without that certification, they would lose the aerial refueling services provided by the United States.

In his statement on Wednesday, Mr. Pompeo said they were doing enough.

"The governments of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure resulting from military operations of these governments," Mr. Pompeo said.

He also said that ending the war in Yemen was "a national security priority" and that the United States would continue working with Gulf allies to pursue peace talks and ensure delivery of humanitarian aid.

ImageHouthi demonstrators denouncing an offer by the Saudi-led coalition to pay compensation for victims of an airstrike in Yemen in early September.

The charity Oxfam, a longtime provider of assistance to Yemeni civilians, denounced the decision as having enabled the continuation of a horrific war.

"The State Department demonstrated that it is blindly supporting military operations in Yemen without any allegiance to facts, moral code or humanitarian law," Scott Paul, a policy advocate for the group, said in a statement.

"This administration is doubling down on its failed policy of literally fueling the world's largest humanitarian crisis."

The war in Yemen began in 2014, when the Houthis, who are aligned with Iran, Saudi Arabia's regional rival, seized control of the country's northwest, including the capital, sending the government into exile.

In March 2015, a military coalition of Arab nations led by Saudi Arabia launched a bombing campaign aimed at ousting the Houthis and restoring the government.

It has so far failed to achieve either objective, and the war has led to widespread hunger and the spread of dangerous diseases, like cholera.

The intervention has been a dilemma to officials in both the Obama and Trump administrations, who had to choose between supporting close Gulf allies who have spent many billions of dollars on American weapons and holding them accountable for waging war in a way that rights groups and others say has caused egregious harm to civilians.

The United States has offered some assistance in the campaign, sharing intelligence, helping Saudi Arabia protect its southern border and refueling coalition jets in midair, but United States officials say they play no role in target selection.

Much of the debate has revolved around the best way for the United States to influence the coalition's actions.

Some have argued for punitive steps, like curtailing military aid.

Others have counter-argued that American disengagement could worsen matters.

It was the counterargument that prevailed on Wednesday, at least in part because of the strong relationships between the White House and the Gulf countries.

In Washington, some Trump administration officials tracking the war in Yemen have increasingly expressed anxieties over the civilian deaths in internal conversations, said Andrew Miller, deputy director for policy at the Project on Middle East Democracy.

Those include officials working on the issue at the State Department and Defense Department, he said.

ImageDamage to a cholera treatment center in Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders after an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition airstrike last June.

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"I do think there is growing concern, although it hasn't reached the point that has translated to a change in policy," said Mr. Miller, who worked on Middle East policy on the National Security Council in the Obama administration and was a State Department official.

Mr. Miller said there is "reticence" among some policymakers, including among political appointees, on strengthening ties with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates "because of the question of whether war crimes are being committed."

However, those officials have little or no direct access to the White House and Cabinet members.

And Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law and the top White House adviser on the Middle East, is in close touch with Saudi and Emirati officials.

"Gulf relations are impaired by the sense among Saudis and Emiratis that all they need is Trump and Kushner, and they don't need anyone else," Mr. Miller said.

Saudi officials say the coalition exerts great efforts to minimize harm to civilians and has established an internal body to investigate reported violations of the laws of war.

Early this month, the coalition admitted "mistakes" in the bombing of the school bus and said those responsible would be held accountable.

The certification signed by Mr. Pompeo said the Trump administration had recognized that "civilian casualties have occurred at rates that are far too high."

But it said the coalition had taken steps to improve, including developing a no-strike list of sensitive targets and putting Saudi pilots through American training on avoiding civilian deaths.

Rights groups have said similar efforts have been going on for years and appeared to have had little effect.

Some openly dismiss the coalition's professed interest in investigating itself.

A recent report by Human Rights Watch about the coalition's investigative body said it had failed "to provide credible, impartial and transparent investigations into alleged coalition laws-of-war violations."

Others, too, accuse the coalition of doing too little.

Larry L. Lewis, a former State Department official who visited Saudi Arabia five times in 2015 and 2016 to help the country's air force improve its targeting and investigations, said the certification showed that the administration either lacked the will to push the coalition to improve or did not know what it meant to do "everything possible" to reduce civilian casualties.

"There's more that can be done," Mr. Lewis wrote in an email.

"Whether the U.S. government is willing to do more is another matter."

Edward Wong contributed reporting from Washington.

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## 44 Small Graves Stir Questions About U.S. Policy in Yemen

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The United Arab Emirates has also spearheaded an active role against fighting AQAP and ISIL-YP presence in Yemen through a partnership with the United States. In an Op-Ed in "The Washington Post," Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the United States, described that the intervention has reduced AQAP presence in Yemen to its weakest point since 2012 with many areas previously under their control liberated. The ambassador claimed that more than 2,000 militants have been removed from the battlefield, with their controlled areas now having improved security and a better delivered humanitarian and development assistance such as to the port city of Mukalla and other liberated areas.
 An Associated Press investigation outlined that the military coalition in Yemen actively reduced AQAP in Yemen without military intervention, instead by offering them deals and even actively recruiting them in the coalition because "they are considered as exceptional fighters". UAE Brigadier General Musallam Al Rashidi responded to the accusations by stating that Al Qaeda cannot be reasoned with and cited that they killed many of his soldiers. The UAE military stated that accusations of allowing AQAP to leave with cash contradict their primary objective of depriving AQAP of its financial strength. The notion of the coalition recruiting or paying AQAP has been thoroughly denied by the United States Pentagon with Colonel Robert Manning, spokesperson of the Pentagon, calling the news source "patently false". The governor of Hadramut Faraj al-Bahsani, dismissed the accusations that Al Qaeda has joined with the coalition rank, explaining that if they did there would be sleeper cells and that he would be "the first one to be killed". According to "The Independent", AQAP activity on social media as well as the number of terror attacks conducted by them has decreased since the Emirati intervention.


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Screams and a blizzard of confetti cheered the World Cup winning U.S. women's soccer players as they rolled up New York City's 'Canyon of Heroes' on Friday, July 10, 2015 in the first ticker-tape parade honoring a women's sports team.

The team defeated Japan by a score of 5-2 in the final of World Cup competition on July 5, 2015 to earn a third title, the most for any country in women's World Cup history.

Here, Megan Rapinoe (center) flourishes the Women's World Cup trophy as Carli Lloyd (left), who scored three goals in the final, holds a selfie-stick as they ride on a float in the parade.

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Carli Lloyd, left, and Megan Rapinoe, holding the World Cup trophy, great the crowds during a ticker-tape parade for the 2015 World Cup champions in New York City, July 10, 2015.

Also in the photo are New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, First Lady Chirlaine McCray, second from right, and U.S. women's team coach Jill Ellis, far right.

Fans of the U.S. women's soccer team cheer during the ticker-tape parade to celebrate their World Cup victory over Japan on July 10, 2015.

The USWNT went undefeated during their cup run with six victories and one scoreless tie.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, Soccer players Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe, First Lady Chirlane McCray and U.S. Coach Jill Ellis wave to crowds from aboard a float in the New York City ticker- tape parade for the World Cup Champion U.S. Women's Soccer Team, July 10, 2015.

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Hope Solo waves to people along Broadway during a ticker-tape parade for the 2015 World Cup champions in New York City, July 10, 2015.

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U.S. women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe (center) holds the Wold Cup trophy as she rides a float with teammate Carli Lloyd (left) and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio during the ticker-tape parade up Broadway in lower Manhattan in New York City on July 10, 2015.

A U.S. women's soccer fan is covered in American flags during the ticker-tape parade celebrating the team's World Cup victory in New York City, July 10, 2015.

Abby Wambach (at left on float) looks up during the ticker-tape parade for the U.S. Women's World Cup soccer team in New York City, July 10, 2015.

Members of the World Cup winning U.S. women's soccer team, including Whitney Engen (right), make their way up Broadway during a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

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A popular social media hashtag #SheBelieves is referenced on signs held by soccer fans along the parade route in New York City, July 10, 2015.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrates the Champion U.S. women's soccer team at a City Hall ceremony following a ticker-tape parade, July 10, 2015.

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Megan Rapinoe shows off the key to the city she received on the steps of City Hall from Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, and First Lady Charlaine McCray, second from right, in New York City, July 10, 2015.

At left is Robin Roberts of "Good Morning America."

Abby Wambach speaks to the audience at a City Hall ceremony for th U.S. women's national soccer team in New York City, July 10, 2015.

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Abby Wambach kisses the World Cup trophy on the steps of city hall after the team was given keys to New York City, 10, 2015.

A flag-wrapped fan exits the City Hall ceremony for the U.S. women's national soccer team in New York City, July 10, 2015.

Following the United States' win at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, Harris and her teammates became the first women's sports team to be honored with a Ticker Tape Parade in New York City.