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IsoRay Announces Participation at the American Urological Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting, May 18-21, 2018
Key Presentation on Prostate Cancer: “Survivor Debate: Low-Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer” will Feature Noted Brachytherapist, Dr. Ron Benoit, UPMC, as Panelist
RICHLAND, Wash., May 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IsoRay, Inc. (NYSE American: ISR), a medical technology company and innovator in seed brachytherapy and medical radioisotope applications for the treatment of prostate, brain, lung, head and neck and gynecological cancers, today announced the Company’s participation at the upcoming American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting, taking place on May 18-21, 2018 in San Francisco, CA.“The AUA is one of our biggest opportunities each year to share the latest information about brachytherapy with the urological community,” said Thomas LaVoy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IsoRay, Inc. “We believe that Cesium-131, with its unique fast energy delivery and quick patient recovery, provides urologists with a better option for their prostate cancer patients. Dr. Benoit is a long-time researcher and advocate of Cesium-131 and we’re pleased that his participation on the prostate cancer panel will ensure that this important information is correctly presented to the urological community. We are excited to give attending urologists an opportunity to revisit their brachytherapy experiences and learn about the next generation isotope, Cesium-131.”
The AUA annual meeting is a key opportunity to interact with the urological community and continue to raise awareness about brachytherapy and IsoRay’s Cesium-131 (Cesium-Blu™) treatment option for localized prostate cancer. One of the key presentations will be the Survivor Debate: Low-Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer, which will feature noted brachytherapist Dr. Ronald Benoit, associate professor of urology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, as a panel member. Dr. Benoit is a primary author on several recent publications based on his research and experiences with Cesium-131, including papers on the long-term quality of life following treatment as well as 5-year outcomes. The inclusion of brachytherapy as an additional option for the treatment of localized prostate cancer is now a critical component of presenting the full slate of options to patients in order to assist them in determining the most appropriate treatment option for their disease.
IsoRay Medical will be exhibiting at the AUA, exhibit space #6445.
*About IsoRay, Inc.*
IsoRay, Inc., through its subsidiary, IsoRay Medical, Inc., is the sole producer of Cesium-131 brachytherapy seeds, which are expanding brachytherapy options throughout the body. Learn more about this innovative Richland, Washington company and explore the many benefits and uses of Cesium-131 by visiting www.isoray.com. Join us on Facebook/IsoRay. Follow us on Twitter @IsoRay.
*Safe Harbor Statement*
Statements in this news release about IsoRay’s future expectations, including: the advantages of attending the American Urological Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting and of Cesium-131 and its delivery systems, including the Build-Blu™ delivery system, whether demand for and use of the Build-Blu™ delivery system will occur as anticipated, the viability and efficacy of the Build-Blu™ delivery system, the timing of product launch of the Build-Blu™ delivery system, continued positive industry data fueling renewed interest in brachytherapy patient results from use of the Build-Blu™ delivery system, and all other statements in this release, other than historical facts, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“PSLRA”). This statement is included for the express purpose of availing IsoRay, Inc. of the protections of the safe harbor provisions of the PSLRA. It is important to note that actual results and ultimate corporate actions could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements based on such factors as physician acceptance, training and use of our products, including the Build-Blu™ delivery system, our ability to manufacture the Build-Blu™ delivery system in sufficient quantities to meet demand within required delivery time periods while meeting our quality control standards, whether ongoing patient results with our products and with the Build-Blu™ delivery system are favorable, whether we, our distributors and our customers will successfully obtain and maintain all required regulatory approvals and licenses to market, sell and use our products in its various forms, changes in laws and regulations applicable to our products, the use of competitors’ delivery systems in lieu of our Build-Blu™ delivery system, and other risks detailed from time to time in IsoRay’s reports filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission. Unless required to do so by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
CONTACT: Contacts:
IsoRay, Inc.
info@isoray.com
(509) 375-1202
Investors:
Stephanie Prince, Managing Director
PCG Advisory Group
sprince@pcgadvisory.com
(646) 762-4518
Reported by GlobeNewswire 5 hours ago.
RICHLAND, Wash., May 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IsoRay, Inc. (NYSE American: ISR), a medical technology company and innovator in seed brachytherapy and medical radioisotope applications for the treatment of prostate, brain, lung, head and neck and gynecological cancers, today announced the Company’s participation at the upcoming American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting, taking place on May 18-21, 2018 in San Francisco, CA.“The AUA is one of our biggest opportunities each year to share the latest information about brachytherapy with the urological community,” said Thomas LaVoy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IsoRay, Inc. “We believe that Cesium-131, with its unique fast energy delivery and quick patient recovery, provides urologists with a better option for their prostate cancer patients. Dr. Benoit is a long-time researcher and advocate of Cesium-131 and we’re pleased that his participation on the prostate cancer panel will ensure that this important information is correctly presented to the urological community. We are excited to give attending urologists an opportunity to revisit their brachytherapy experiences and learn about the next generation isotope, Cesium-131.”
The AUA annual meeting is a key opportunity to interact with the urological community and continue to raise awareness about brachytherapy and IsoRay’s Cesium-131 (Cesium-Blu™) treatment option for localized prostate cancer. One of the key presentations will be the Survivor Debate: Low-Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer, which will feature noted brachytherapist Dr. Ronald Benoit, associate professor of urology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, as a panel member. Dr. Benoit is a primary author on several recent publications based on his research and experiences with Cesium-131, including papers on the long-term quality of life following treatment as well as 5-year outcomes. The inclusion of brachytherapy as an additional option for the treatment of localized prostate cancer is now a critical component of presenting the full slate of options to patients in order to assist them in determining the most appropriate treatment option for their disease.
IsoRay Medical will be exhibiting at the AUA, exhibit space #6445.
*About IsoRay, Inc.*
IsoRay, Inc., through its subsidiary, IsoRay Medical, Inc., is the sole producer of Cesium-131 brachytherapy seeds, which are expanding brachytherapy options throughout the body. Learn more about this innovative Richland, Washington company and explore the many benefits and uses of Cesium-131 by visiting www.isoray.com. Join us on Facebook/IsoRay. Follow us on Twitter @IsoRay.
*Safe Harbor Statement*
Statements in this news release about IsoRay’s future expectations, including: the advantages of attending the American Urological Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting and of Cesium-131 and its delivery systems, including the Build-Blu™ delivery system, whether demand for and use of the Build-Blu™ delivery system will occur as anticipated, the viability and efficacy of the Build-Blu™ delivery system, the timing of product launch of the Build-Blu™ delivery system, continued positive industry data fueling renewed interest in brachytherapy patient results from use of the Build-Blu™ delivery system, and all other statements in this release, other than historical facts, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“PSLRA”). This statement is included for the express purpose of availing IsoRay, Inc. of the protections of the safe harbor provisions of the PSLRA. It is important to note that actual results and ultimate corporate actions could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements based on such factors as physician acceptance, training and use of our products, including the Build-Blu™ delivery system, our ability to manufacture the Build-Blu™ delivery system in sufficient quantities to meet demand within required delivery time periods while meeting our quality control standards, whether ongoing patient results with our products and with the Build-Blu™ delivery system are favorable, whether we, our distributors and our customers will successfully obtain and maintain all required regulatory approvals and licenses to market, sell and use our products in its various forms, changes in laws and regulations applicable to our products, the use of competitors’ delivery systems in lieu of our Build-Blu™ delivery system, and other risks detailed from time to time in IsoRay’s reports filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission. Unless required to do so by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
CONTACT: Contacts:
IsoRay, Inc.
info@isoray.com
(509) 375-1202
Investors:
Stephanie Prince, Managing Director
PCG Advisory Group
sprince@pcgadvisory.com
(646) 762-4518
Reported by GlobeNewswire 5 hours ago.
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CBS Fall Schedule: ‘Murphy Brown’ Booked for Thursdays, ‘Magnum PI’ on Mondays
CBS unveiled its Fall 2018 TV schedule early Wednesday morning, which is packed with premieres for the Eye’s newly-ordered revivals and reboots, like “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.,” and longtime network hits, like “NCIS,” “Big Bang Theory” and “Young Sheldon.”
While the new iteration of the ’80s detective drama is landing a Monday time slot, the return of Candice Bergen’s ’90s sitcom grabbed a spot on Thursday’s primetime block behind “Mom.”
Ahead of the Jay Hernandez-led “Magnum P.I.,” are new comedies “The Neighborhood” and “Happy Together” airing between 8-9 p.m. “Magnum” will drive in at 9 p.m. and be followed by “Bull,” moving over from its old spot on the following weeknight.
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Now taking over Tuesdays is Dick Wolf-backed “FBI” will hit on Tuesdays at 9, to get a huge lead-in from “NCIS” at 8 and be followed by its spinoff “NCIS: New Orleans” at 10.
“Survivor,” “SEAL Team,” and “Criminal Minds” will keep Wednesdays sticking to the status quo.
Thursdays will also be similar to the 2017-18 slate, with the exception of “Murphy” at 9:30, which will follow sitcoms “The Big Bang Theory,” “Young Sheldon” and “Mom.” “SWAT”s Season 2 will follow the revival.
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Friday and Saturday’s primetime blocks are untouched, with Sundays seeing the addition of freshman drama “God Friended Me” at 8.
Newly-ordered series “Fam,” “The Red Line,” “The Code” and the Untitled Damon Wayans, Jr. Project do not yet have premiere dates.
Here’s CBS’ full fall schedule:
*MONDAY*
8-8:30 P.M. — “THE NEIGHBORHOOD”
8:30-9 P.M. — “HAPPY TOGETHER”
9-10 P.M. — “MAGNUM P.I.”
10-11 P.M. — “Bull”
*TUESDAY*
8-9 P.M. — “NCIS”
9-10 P.M. — “FBI”
10-11 P.M. — “NCIS: New Orleans”
*WEDNESDAY*
8-9 P.M. — “Survivor”
9-10 P.M. — “SEAL Team”
10-11 P.M. — “Criminal Minds”
*THURSDAY*
8-8:30 P.M. — “The Big Bang Theory”
8:30-9 P.M. — “Young Sheldon”
9-9:30 P.M. — “Mom”
9:30-10 P.M. — “MURPHY BROWN”
10-11 P.M. — “S.W.A.T.”
*FRIDAY*
8-9 P.M. — “Macgyver”
9-10 P.M. — “Hawaii Five-0”
10-11 P.M. — “Blue Bloods”
*SATURDAY*
8-9 P.M. — “Crimetime Saturday”
9-10 P.M. — “Crimetime Saturday”
10-11 P.M. — “48 Hours”
*SUNDAY*
7-8 P.M. — “60 Minutes”
8-9 P.M. — “GOD FRIENDED ME”
9-10 P.M. — “NCIS: Los Angeles”
10-11 PM — “Madam Secretary”
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And here are all the official descriptions for Fox’s new series, with each in the network’s own words:
*“F.B.I.”*
Explores the inner-workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The cast includes Missy Peregrym, Jeremy Sisto, Zeeko Zaki, Connie Nielsen and Ebonee Noel.
Craig Turk will write and executive produce. Niels Arden Oplev will direct and executive produce. Dick Wolf, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski are also executive producers. “F.B.I.” is produced by Universal Television and CBS Television Studios.
*“Murphy Brown”*
In a revival of the 1988 sitcom, Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) returns to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.
The cast includes Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto, Grant Shaud, Jake McDorman and Nik Dodani
Original series creator Diane English will write and executive produce. Pam Fryman will direct and executive produce. Bergen also executive produces. “Murphy Brown” is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Bend in the Road Productions.
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*Untitled Damon Wayans, Jr. Project*
A 30-something couple, tired of their mundane life, start to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when a young pop star who is drawn to their super normal suburban life, moves in.
The cast includes Damon Wayans, Jr., Amber Stevens West, Felix Mallard, Stephnie Weir and Chris Parnell.
Tim McAuliffe and Austen Earl penned the script for the series, which hails from CBS TV Studios. They will both executive produce along with Harry Styles, Ben Winston via Fulwell 73 and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Michael Rotenberg and Jonathan Berry. Phill Lewis directed the pilot.
From CBS Studio:
“The series is inspired by a time when Executive Producers Ben Winston and Harry Styles lived together. However, that’s where the reality ends. The show is not based on real life experiences or characters.”
*“The Neighborhood”*
The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness.
The cast includes Cedric The Entertainer, Max Greenfield (recast for Josh Lawson), Sheaun McKinney, Tichina Arnold, Dreama Walker, Marcel Spears and Hank Greenspan.
Jim Reynolds will write and executive produce the CBS Television Studios series. Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, and Wendi Trilling are also executive produce, along with Cedric and Eric Rhone under their A Bird and A Bear Entertainment banner. James Burrows is directing and grabbing an EP credit as well.
*Also Read:* Inside CBS CEO Les Moonves' 'Nuclear Option' Court Battle Today With Shari Redstone
*“Fam”*
A woman’s dreams of an upstanding life with her new fiancé and his upstanding family are dashed when her younger train wreck half-sister comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father.
Cast includes Nina Dobrev, Tone Bell, Odessa Adlon, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Corinne Kingsbury is writer and executive producer, with Scott Ellis directing the pilot. Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor and Wendi Trilling are also executive producers. The multi-camera comedy is produced by CBS Television Studios and Kapital Entertainment.
*“God Friended Me”
*Questions of faith, existence and science are explored in this humorous, uplifting series about an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he is “friended” by God on social media. Unwittingly, he becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.*
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Cast includes Brandon Micheal Hall, Violett Beane, Suraj Sharma, Javicia Leslie and Joe Morton.
Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt are writers and executive producers. Marcos Siega will direct and executive produce. Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter are also executive producers. The hour-long drama is produced by Warner Bros. Television.
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*“Magnum P.I.”*
An update of the classic television series set in Hawaii, MAGNUM P.I. follows Thomas Magnum, a decorated ex-Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator.
Cast includes Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton and Stephen Hill.
Peter Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim are co-writers and executive producers. Justin Lin will direct and executive produce. John Davis, John Fox and Danielle Woodrow are also executive producers. The hour-long drama is produced by CBS Television Studios and Universal Television.
*“The Code”
*The military’s brightest minds take on our country’s toughest challenges – inside the courtroom and out – where each attorney is trained as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, an investigator – and a Marine.*
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Cast includes Anna Wood, Ato Essandoh, Phillipa Soo and Raffi Barsoumian.
Craig Sweeny is executive producer and showrunner. Pilot is based on a story by Sweeny and Craig Turk. Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman also executive produce, alongside director Marc Webb. The drama is produced by CBS Television Studios.
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*“The Red Line”
*After a white cop in Chicago mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor, we follow three vastly different families that all have connections with the case as the story is told from each perspective.
Cast includes Noah Wyle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Aliyah Royale, Noel Fisher, Michael Patrick Thornton, Vinny Chhibber, Howard Charles and Elizabeth Laidlaw.
Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss are writers and co-executive producers. Ava DuVernay, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter will also executive prodcue. Victoria Mahoney is director on the drama from Warner Bros. Television.
CBS’ upfront presentation to advertisers will take place at 4 p.m. ET inside New York City’s Carnegie Hall.
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While the new iteration of the ’80s detective drama is landing a Monday time slot, the return of Candice Bergen’s ’90s sitcom grabbed a spot on Thursday’s primetime block behind “Mom.”
Ahead of the Jay Hernandez-led “Magnum P.I.,” are new comedies “The Neighborhood” and “Happy Together” airing between 8-9 p.m. “Magnum” will drive in at 9 p.m. and be followed by “Bull,” moving over from its old spot on the following weeknight.
*Also Read:* Fall TV 2018: Every Broadcast Show Canceled, Renewed and Ordered So Far (Updating)
Now taking over Tuesdays is Dick Wolf-backed “FBI” will hit on Tuesdays at 9, to get a huge lead-in from “NCIS” at 8 and be followed by its spinoff “NCIS: New Orleans” at 10.
“Survivor,” “SEAL Team,” and “Criminal Minds” will keep Wednesdays sticking to the status quo.
Thursdays will also be similar to the 2017-18 slate, with the exception of “Murphy” at 9:30, which will follow sitcoms “The Big Bang Theory,” “Young Sheldon” and “Mom.” “SWAT”s Season 2 will follow the revival.
*Also Read:* CBS Exec on 'Murphy Brown' Reboot Ratings: 'I'm Not Sure We'll Get 'Roseanne' Numbers'
Friday and Saturday’s primetime blocks are untouched, with Sundays seeing the addition of freshman drama “God Friended Me” at 8.
Newly-ordered series “Fam,” “The Red Line,” “The Code” and the Untitled Damon Wayans, Jr. Project do not yet have premiere dates.
Here’s CBS’ full fall schedule:
*MONDAY*
8-8:30 P.M. — “THE NEIGHBORHOOD”
8:30-9 P.M. — “HAPPY TOGETHER”
9-10 P.M. — “MAGNUM P.I.”
10-11 P.M. — “Bull”
*TUESDAY*
8-9 P.M. — “NCIS”
9-10 P.M. — “FBI”
10-11 P.M. — “NCIS: New Orleans”
*WEDNESDAY*
8-9 P.M. — “Survivor”
9-10 P.M. — “SEAL Team”
10-11 P.M. — “Criminal Minds”
*THURSDAY*
8-8:30 P.M. — “The Big Bang Theory”
8:30-9 P.M. — “Young Sheldon”
9-9:30 P.M. — “Mom”
9:30-10 P.M. — “MURPHY BROWN”
10-11 P.M. — “S.W.A.T.”
*FRIDAY*
8-9 P.M. — “Macgyver”
9-10 P.M. — “Hawaii Five-0”
10-11 P.M. — “Blue Bloods”
*SATURDAY*
8-9 P.M. — “Crimetime Saturday”
9-10 P.M. — “Crimetime Saturday”
10-11 P.M. — “48 Hours”
*SUNDAY*
7-8 P.M. — “60 Minutes”
8-9 P.M. — “GOD FRIENDED ME”
9-10 P.M. — “NCIS: Los Angeles”
10-11 PM — “Madam Secretary”
*Also Read:* Max Greenfield to Replace Josh Lawson in CBS' 'The Neighborhood' Recasting
And here are all the official descriptions for Fox’s new series, with each in the network’s own words:
*“F.B.I.”*
Explores the inner-workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The cast includes Missy Peregrym, Jeremy Sisto, Zeeko Zaki, Connie Nielsen and Ebonee Noel.
Craig Turk will write and executive produce. Niels Arden Oplev will direct and executive produce. Dick Wolf, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski are also executive producers. “F.B.I.” is produced by Universal Television and CBS Television Studios.
*“Murphy Brown”*
In a revival of the 1988 sitcom, Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) returns to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.
The cast includes Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto, Grant Shaud, Jake McDorman and Nik Dodani
Original series creator Diane English will write and executive produce. Pam Fryman will direct and executive produce. Bergen also executive produces. “Murphy Brown” is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Bend in the Road Productions.
*Also Read:* Why CBS Killed the Comma for Its 'Magnum PI' Reboot
*Untitled Damon Wayans, Jr. Project*
A 30-something couple, tired of their mundane life, start to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when a young pop star who is drawn to their super normal suburban life, moves in.
The cast includes Damon Wayans, Jr., Amber Stevens West, Felix Mallard, Stephnie Weir and Chris Parnell.
Tim McAuliffe and Austen Earl penned the script for the series, which hails from CBS TV Studios. They will both executive produce along with Harry Styles, Ben Winston via Fulwell 73 and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Michael Rotenberg and Jonathan Berry. Phill Lewis directed the pilot.
From CBS Studio:
“The series is inspired by a time when Executive Producers Ben Winston and Harry Styles lived together. However, that’s where the reality ends. The show is not based on real life experiences or characters.”
*“The Neighborhood”*
The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness.
The cast includes Cedric The Entertainer, Max Greenfield (recast for Josh Lawson), Sheaun McKinney, Tichina Arnold, Dreama Walker, Marcel Spears and Hank Greenspan.
Jim Reynolds will write and executive produce the CBS Television Studios series. Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, and Wendi Trilling are also executive produce, along with Cedric and Eric Rhone under their A Bird and A Bear Entertainment banner. James Burrows is directing and grabbing an EP credit as well.
*Also Read:* Inside CBS CEO Les Moonves' 'Nuclear Option' Court Battle Today With Shari Redstone
*“Fam”*
A woman’s dreams of an upstanding life with her new fiancé and his upstanding family are dashed when her younger train wreck half-sister comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father.
Cast includes Nina Dobrev, Tone Bell, Odessa Adlon, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Corinne Kingsbury is writer and executive producer, with Scott Ellis directing the pilot. Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor and Wendi Trilling are also executive producers. The multi-camera comedy is produced by CBS Television Studios and Kapital Entertainment.
*“God Friended Me”
*Questions of faith, existence and science are explored in this humorous, uplifting series about an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he is “friended” by God on social media. Unwittingly, he becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.*
*
Cast includes Brandon Micheal Hall, Violett Beane, Suraj Sharma, Javicia Leslie and Joe Morton.
Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt are writers and executive producers. Marcos Siega will direct and executive produce. Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter are also executive producers. The hour-long drama is produced by Warner Bros. Television.
*Also Read:* Pauley Perrette Thanks CBS for Response to Her Assault Accusations: Network 'Always Had My Back'
*“Magnum P.I.”*
An update of the classic television series set in Hawaii, MAGNUM P.I. follows Thomas Magnum, a decorated ex-Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator.
Cast includes Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton and Stephen Hill.
Peter Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim are co-writers and executive producers. Justin Lin will direct and executive produce. John Davis, John Fox and Danielle Woodrow are also executive producers. The hour-long drama is produced by CBS Television Studios and Universal Television.
*“The Code”
*The military’s brightest minds take on our country’s toughest challenges – inside the courtroom and out – where each attorney is trained as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, an investigator – and a Marine.*
*
Cast includes Anna Wood, Ato Essandoh, Phillipa Soo and Raffi Barsoumian.
Craig Sweeny is executive producer and showrunner. Pilot is based on a story by Sweeny and Craig Turk. Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman also executive produce, alongside director Marc Webb. The drama is produced by CBS Television Studios.
*Also Read:* Max Greenfield to Replace Josh Lawson in CBS' 'The Neighborhood' Recasting
*“The Red Line”
*After a white cop in Chicago mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor, we follow three vastly different families that all have connections with the case as the story is told from each perspective.
Cast includes Noah Wyle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Aliyah Royale, Noel Fisher, Michael Patrick Thornton, Vinny Chhibber, Howard Charles and Elizabeth Laidlaw.
Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss are writers and co-executive producers. Ava DuVernay, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter will also executive prodcue. Victoria Mahoney is director on the drama from Warner Bros. Television.
CBS’ upfront presentation to advertisers will take place at 4 p.m. ET inside New York City’s Carnegie Hall.
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Tucker Carlson Cuts Short Grilling of Anti-NRA, Ex-Cop Candidate: ‘Interview Over!’ (Video)
Tucker Carlson got nasty Wednesday evening with Pat Davis, a former cop and tough critic of the NRA. Things got so ugly that the Fox News host shut the interview down early.
“Interview over! Yeah because you don’t know what you’re talking about!” shrieked Carlson, before cutting off Davis, who is running for Congress as a Democrat in New Mexico’s first congressional district.
The spat began with Carlson griping over an ad Davis was running saying “f– the NRA,” but devolved into a debate about how many rounds an AR-15 could feasibly fire within 15 seconds. Davis, in another ad which Carlson played, asserted that the weapon could unload 150 bullets in 15 seconds.
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“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” Carlson said to Davis. “No AR-15 can fire 150 rounds in 15 seconds! That’s untrue, and if you believe it is true, then you are not qualified to have a conversation about guns. People are laughing at you because you are ignorant. You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Davis asserted that an AR-15 with modifications like the one used in the Las Vegas massacre last year would be capable of producing the fusillade.
“Exactly like the magazines that Las Vegas police officers pulled out of that hotel room,” said Davis. “We take exactly the word of the police officers in Las Vegas who I trust who ran into that room to save people down below and found a weapon modified with bump stocks.”
Watch above.
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“Interview over! Yeah because you don’t know what you’re talking about!” shrieked Carlson, before cutting off Davis, who is running for Congress as a Democrat in New Mexico’s first congressional district.
The spat began with Carlson griping over an ad Davis was running saying “f– the NRA,” but devolved into a debate about how many rounds an AR-15 could feasibly fire within 15 seconds. Davis, in another ad which Carlson played, asserted that the weapon could unload 150 bullets in 15 seconds.
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“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” Carlson said to Davis. “No AR-15 can fire 150 rounds in 15 seconds! That’s untrue, and if you believe it is true, then you are not qualified to have a conversation about guns. People are laughing at you because you are ignorant. You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Davis asserted that an AR-15 with modifications like the one used in the Las Vegas massacre last year would be capable of producing the fusillade.
“Exactly like the magazines that Las Vegas police officers pulled out of that hotel room,” said Davis. “We take exactly the word of the police officers in Las Vegas who I trust who ran into that room to save people down below and found a weapon modified with bump stocks.”
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Holocaust Survivor Relives Anti-Semitism From Childhood
Watch VideoHolocaust survivor Irving Roth experienced anti-Semitism throughout his childhood. Before being kicked out of his school for being Jewish, he endured systematic discrimination from children his own age.
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6 recently canceled TV shows that Netflix should save, including 'The Expanse' and 'Great News'
In the past week, networks canceled dozens of TV shows.And some cancellations were quite shocking, like Fox's decision to cut "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," a comedy that has such a devoted cult following that NBC saved it 31 hours later.
But not all canceled shows have been so lucky — so far.
But there's still hope. Netflix has saved shows in the past, like AMC's "The Killing" and "Longmire." And Hulu is also no stranger to saving a Fox comedy: It brought "The Mindy Project" back for three additional seasons.
*Here, we selected a few shows that were just canceled by networks that Netflix could — or more accurately, should — bring back, and why.*
*SEE ALSO: The median audience age of the 10 biggest TV shows signals how few young people are tuning in*
-"Designated Survivor"— canceled by ABC-
"Designated Survivor" is much messier than you'd expect a straight-forward and short-lived political thriller to be. In its two-season run, the show had four different showrunners, and lost its female lead when Natascha McElhone left for a Hulu show. But it is kind of a good time, which might be why Netflix is reportedly looking at saving it with a third season (and a fifth showrunner). -"The Mick"— canceled by Fox-
"The Mick" is wild. Every episode takes things further than you can imagine for network TV, and it had the best physical comedy on TV, and one of the best child actors. If Netflix can't save "The Mick," it should at least give Jack Stanton, who played the youngest Pemberton, his own show. -"The Expanse"— canceled by SyFy-
Netflix has shown interest in sci-fi this with shows including "Altered Carbon" and "Lost in Space," and with movies like "Mute.""The Expanse" is one of the best sci-fi shows since "Battlestar Galactica," and it, at the very least, deserves to wrap things up with a short fourth and final season (or a movie). People are already campaigning for a streaming service like Netflix to save the show, and we hope they're listening.
See the rest of the story at Business Insider Reported by Business Insider 2 hours ago.
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Here’s Everything You Can Watch With Your Amazon Prime Membership in June
Before we get to your Amazon Prime June updates, the streaming service has a special surprise for its members: every season of “Dawson’s Creek” is available now, and you don’t even have to wait until next month.Starting June 1, stream “All or Nothing” which follows the New Zealand rugby team the All Blacks throughout their 2017 season. On June 3, you can stream the Oscar-nominated “Lady Bird,” followed by Amazon Original series “Goliath” Season 2 on June 15.
See below for the complete list of titles hitting Amazon next month.
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*Available June 1 *
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
2 Days in the Valley (1996)
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)
As Good As Dead (2010)
August Rush (2007)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Beer for My Horses (2008)
Beowulf (2007)
Black Widow (AKA: Before It Had a Name) (2005)
Blitz (2011)
Blood and Glory (2016)
Blue Like Jazz (2012)
Breakdown (1997)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Cavedweller (2004)
Chinese Box (1997)
Clown at Midnight (1999)
Command Performance (2009)
Danger Zone (1996)
Day of the Dead (2008)
Disaster Artist (2017)
Doctor Zhivago (2002)
Dog Watch (1997)
Double Identity (2009)
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Dreams and Memories of Where the Red Fern Grows (2018)
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Drop Zone (1994)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Event Horizon (1997)
Flickers (1980)
Forces of Nature (1999)
Flood (2007)
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale (2003)
Hard Rain (1998)
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
House of D (2005)
I Am David (2004)
Ladies Man (2000)
Leprechaun (1993)
Leprechaun 2 (1994)
Leprechaun 3 (2001)
Leprechaun 4: In Space (2004)
Leprechaun 5: In the Hood (2000)
Leprechaun 6: Back 2 Tha Hood (2003)
Leprechaun: Origins (2014)
Mousehunt (1997)
Mutant Species (1995)
Nacho Libre (2006)
Nurse 3D (2014)
Panic (2000)
Rare Birds (2002)
Religulous (2008)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
Space Jam (1996)
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Tamara (2006)
Tears of the Sun (2003)
The 4th Floor (1999)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Ant Bully (2006)
The Ashram (2018)
The Burbs (1989)
The Care Bears Movie (1985)
The Eye 2 (2005)
The Frozen Ground (2013)
The Natural (1984)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
The Running Man (1987)
The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Tilt (2017)
Universal Soldier (1992)
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Ring of Fire (2012)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Serving Sara (2002)
Survivor (2015)
The Iceman (2012)
War, Inc. (2008)
Wonder Wheel (Prime Original movie) (2017)
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*TV Series: *
All or Nothing: New Zealand All Blacks (Prime Original series), Season 1
Babylon 5, Seasons 1-5
Rescue Me Seasons 1-9
The Waltons, Seasons 1-9
*Available June 3 *
*Movies:*
Lady Bird (2017)
Max 2: White House Hero (2017)
Stargate (1994)
*Available June 5*
*Movies:*
Lions for Lambs (2007)
*Available June 8*
*TV Series:*
**Lost in Oz (Prime Original series), Season 1B*
*Available June 9*
*Movies:*
Braven (2018)
Precious (2018)
Simon Says (2006)
*Available June 15*
*TV Series: *
**Goliath (Prime Original series), Season 2*
*Available June 16*
*Movies:*
Nostalgia (2018)
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
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*Available June 18*
*TV Series: *
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*Available June 26*
*Movies:*
Shutter Island (2009)
*TV Series: *
*If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Prime Original series), Season 1B*
*New in June- Available to Rent on Prime Video*
*Available June 5*
*Movies:*
Delirium (2018) – Rent
The Dating Project (2018) – Rent
Thoroughbreds (2017) – Rent
Flower (2017) – Purchase
Sherlock Gnomes (2018) – Purchase
*Available June 12*
Flower (2017) – Rent
Sherlock Gnomes (2018) – Rent
Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) – Rent
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Stephen Hawking's last book to be out in October
The final book by Stephen Hawking will be out in October and will cover his perspectives on everything from the creation of the universe, black holes, alien intelligence, and the existence of God to space colonisation and artificial intelligence.
The Stephen Hawking Estate announced today that rights to the final book by the world-famous theoretical physicist were sold to Nick Davies at John Murray (Hachette) for the UK and the Commonwealth including India; and to Bantam for North America.
"Brief Answers to the Big Questions" will be organised into four parts: Why Are We Here? Will We Survive? Will Technology Save Us or Destroy Us? How Can We Thrive? The book was in discussion at the time of Hawking's death in March, and his Estate decided to go forward with the project, which is a selection of his most profound, accessible, and timely reflections from his personal archive, the publishers said.
Daughter Lucy Hawking on behalf of the Estate said, "Communication was so important to our father in his lifetime and we see this book as part of his legacy, bringing together his thoughts, humour, theories and writing into one beautiful edition.
"We are very pleased to support 'Brief Answers to the Big Questions' and happy to have the opportunity to finalise a project our father loved." According to Hawking's agent Robert Kirby, the idea for the book rose out of the thousands of requests Hawking received from people for answers to some big questions of our time.
"With his characteristic wit and brilliant mind, he began writing and collating his responses and I'm delighted his Estate has agreed to support publication of the last book he was working on before he died," he said.
Nick Davies, managing director of John Murray Press said Hawking did more in his lifetime to deepen our understanding of gravity, space and time than anyone since Einstein.
Thomas Abraham, managing director of Hachette India said, "We are delighted that we will be publishing Hawking's last work in India, particularly in the year of our two big anniversaries - our tenth year and John Murray's 250th year." Hawking, who is known for his work in cosmology and theoretical physics, notably for Hawking radiation and his work on black holes, was the director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
At the age of 20, he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) and was given two years to live. His abilities to move and communicate were increasingly limited, as he was confined to a wheelchair and eventually forced to speak through a voice synthesiser.
When he died in March, at the age of 76, he was the longest living MND survivor. His battle with the disease was featured in the film "The Theory of Everything" for which actor Eddie Redmayne, who played Hawking, received 2015's Best Actor Oscar.
Hawking was the author of "A Brief History of Time", which has sold over 13 million copies worldwide and shot back to the top of bestseller lists after his death, and many other books.
A percentage of the royalties of the new book will go to the Motor Neuron Disease Association and the Stephen Hawking Foundation.
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The Stephen Hawking Estate announced today that rights to the final book by the world-famous theoretical physicist were sold to Nick Davies at John Murray (Hachette) for the UK and the Commonwealth including India; and to Bantam for North America.
"Brief Answers to the Big Questions" will be organised into four parts: Why Are We Here? Will We Survive? Will Technology Save Us or Destroy Us? How Can We Thrive? The book was in discussion at the time of Hawking's death in March, and his Estate decided to go forward with the project, which is a selection of his most profound, accessible, and timely reflections from his personal archive, the publishers said.
Daughter Lucy Hawking on behalf of the Estate said, "Communication was so important to our father in his lifetime and we see this book as part of his legacy, bringing together his thoughts, humour, theories and writing into one beautiful edition.
"We are very pleased to support 'Brief Answers to the Big Questions' and happy to have the opportunity to finalise a project our father loved." According to Hawking's agent Robert Kirby, the idea for the book rose out of the thousands of requests Hawking received from people for answers to some big questions of our time.
"With his characteristic wit and brilliant mind, he began writing and collating his responses and I'm delighted his Estate has agreed to support publication of the last book he was working on before he died," he said.
Nick Davies, managing director of John Murray Press said Hawking did more in his lifetime to deepen our understanding of gravity, space and time than anyone since Einstein.
Thomas Abraham, managing director of Hachette India said, "We are delighted that we will be publishing Hawking's last work in India, particularly in the year of our two big anniversaries - our tenth year and John Murray's 250th year." Hawking, who is known for his work in cosmology and theoretical physics, notably for Hawking radiation and his work on black holes, was the director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
At the age of 20, he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) and was given two years to live. His abilities to move and communicate were increasingly limited, as he was confined to a wheelchair and eventually forced to speak through a voice synthesiser.
When he died in March, at the age of 76, he was the longest living MND survivor. His battle with the disease was featured in the film "The Theory of Everything" for which actor Eddie Redmayne, who played Hawking, received 2015's Best Actor Oscar.
Hawking was the author of "A Brief History of Time", which has sold over 13 million copies worldwide and shot back to the top of bestseller lists after his death, and many other books.
A percentage of the royalties of the new book will go to the Motor Neuron Disease Association and the Stephen Hawking Foundation.
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Nassar survivor reacts to MSU's lawsuit settlement
Michigan State settled a lawsuit from survivors of Nassar's abuse.
Reported by USATODAY.com 15 hours ago.
Reported by USATODAY.com 15 hours ago.
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How much money will Larry Nassar survivors get? Grim process will determine settlement
An independent arbitrator will assign a dollar amount to each survivor, based on extent of abuse and 'psychological, physical and emotional' impact.
Reported by USATODAY.com 15 hours ago.
Reported by USATODAY.com 15 hours ago.
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'Never Forget And Never Forgive': A Holocaust Survivor's Mantra
Watch VideoEd Mosberg, 92, has never forgotten the atrocities of the Holocaust. That's because he saw them up close. Nazis tore apart his entire family, sending everyone to their deaths, except for him. He's spent decades telling his story so they will never be forgotten.
Reported by Newsy 13 hours ago.
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How much money will Larry Nassar survivors get? Grim process will determine settlements
An independent arbitrator will assign a dollar amount to each survivor, based on extent of abuse and 'psychological, physical and emotional' impact.
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Gambia: Ex-President Tied To 2005 Murders Of Ghanaian And Nigerian Migrants, Says HRW
A paramilitary unit controlled by then-Gambian president Yahya Jammeh summarily executed more than 50 Ghanaian, Nigerian, and other West African migrants in July 2005, Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International said.
Interviews with 30 former Gambian officials, including 11 officers directly involved in the incident, reveal that the migrants, who were bound for Europe but were suspected of being mercenaries intent on overthrowing Jammeh, were murdered after having been detained by Jammeh’s closest deputies in the army, navy, and police forces. The witnesses identified the “Junglers,” a notorious unit that took its orders directly from Jammeh, as those who carried out the killings.
“The West African migrants weren’t murdered by rogue elements, but by a paramilitary death squad taking orders from President Jammeh,” said Reed Brody, counsel at Human Rights Watch. “Jammeh’s subordinates then destroyed key evidence to prevent international investigators from learning the truth.”
Martin Kyere, the sole known Ghanaian survivor; the families of the disappeared; the family of Saul N’dow, another Ghanaian killed under Jammeh; and Ghanaian human rights organizations on May 16, 2018, called on the Ghanaian government to investigate the new evidence and potentially seek Jammeh’s extradition and prosecution in Ghana.
Jammeh’s 22-year rule was marked by widespread abuses, including forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and arbitrary detention. He sought exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after losing the December 2016 presidential election to Adama Barrow.
The insiders interviewed by TRIAL International and Human Rights Watch include some of the highest-ranking security commanders in the Gambian government at the time, as well as several officials present at the arrest, detention, and transfer of the migrants, a Jungler who witnessed the killings, and two who participated in a subsequent cover-up. Another Jungler who witnessed the killings was interviewed on the radio.
They said that the migrants – including some 44 Ghanaians and several Nigerians – were arrested in July 2005 at a beach where they had landed, then transferred to the Gambian Naval Headquarters in Banjul, the capital. They were detained there in the presence of the inspector general of police, the director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the chief of the defense staff, and the commander of the National Guards. At least two of them were in telephone contact with Jammeh during the operation. The head and several members of the paramilitary Junglers were also there.
The officials divided the migrants into groups and then turned them over to the Junglers. Over one week, the Junglers summarily executed them near Banjul and along the Senegal-Gambia border near Jammeh’s hometown of Kanilai.
Kyere was detained in a Banjul police station, then driven into the forest. In February 2018, he explained to Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International how he escaped, just before other migrants were apparently killed.
“We were in the back of a pickup truck,” he said. “One man complained that the wires binding us were too tight and a soldier with a cutlass sliced him on the shoulder, cutting his arm, which bled profusely. It was then that I thought, ‘We’re going to die.’ But as the truck went deeper into the forest, I was able to get my hands free. I jumped out from the pickup and started to run into the forest. The soldiers shot toward me but I was able to hide. I then heard shots from the pickup and the cry, in Twi [Ghanaian language], ‘God save us!’”
Kyere helped the Ghanaian authorities identify many of the dead and travelled around Ghana to locate their families and promote efforts to seek justice.
Despite measures in ensuing years by Ghana as well as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations (UN) to investigate the case, no arrests have ever been made.
The Bulletin of the UN Department of Public Affairs said that an ECOWAS/UN report, never made public, concluded that the Gambian government was not “directly or indirectly complicit” in the deaths and disappearances but rather that “rogue elements” in Gambia’s security services “acting on their own” were probably responsible.
The new evidence makes clear, however, that those responsible for the killings were the Junglers, who were not rogue elements, but a disciplined unit operating under Jammeh.
In October 2017, Gambian and international rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, and TRIAL International, launched the “Campaign to Bring Yahya Jammeh and his Accomplices to Justice” (#Jammeh2Justice), which calls for prosecuting Jammeh and others who bear the greatest responsibility for his government’s crimes under international fair trial standards.
President Barrow of The Gambia has suggested that he would seek Jammeh’s extradition from Equatorial Guinea if his prosecution was recommended by the country’s Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, which is expected to begin work in the next few months with an initial two-year mandate. The government and international activists and academics have said that the political, institutional and security conditions do not yet exist in The Gambia for a fair trial of Yahya Jammeh which would contribute to Gambia’s stability.
President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea said in January that he would “analyze [any extradition request] with [his] lawyers.” A week later, however, he said “we have to protect him [Jammeh], we have to respect him as a former African head of state, because that is what is going to ensure that the other heads of state of Africa who have to leave power do not fear for subsequent harassment.”
Ghanaian groups noted that the UN Convention against Torture, which Equatorial Guinea has ratified, requires a country in whose territory a torture suspect is found to refer the case for investigation or extradite that person.
“Our investigation has enabled us to get closer to the truth about this horrible massacre,” said Benedict De Moerloose, head of Criminal Law and Investigations for TRIAL International. “The time has now come to deliver justice for the victims and their families.” Reported by Eurasia Review 12 hours ago.
Interviews with 30 former Gambian officials, including 11 officers directly involved in the incident, reveal that the migrants, who were bound for Europe but were suspected of being mercenaries intent on overthrowing Jammeh, were murdered after having been detained by Jammeh’s closest deputies in the army, navy, and police forces. The witnesses identified the “Junglers,” a notorious unit that took its orders directly from Jammeh, as those who carried out the killings.
“The West African migrants weren’t murdered by rogue elements, but by a paramilitary death squad taking orders from President Jammeh,” said Reed Brody, counsel at Human Rights Watch. “Jammeh’s subordinates then destroyed key evidence to prevent international investigators from learning the truth.”
Martin Kyere, the sole known Ghanaian survivor; the families of the disappeared; the family of Saul N’dow, another Ghanaian killed under Jammeh; and Ghanaian human rights organizations on May 16, 2018, called on the Ghanaian government to investigate the new evidence and potentially seek Jammeh’s extradition and prosecution in Ghana.
Jammeh’s 22-year rule was marked by widespread abuses, including forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and arbitrary detention. He sought exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after losing the December 2016 presidential election to Adama Barrow.
The insiders interviewed by TRIAL International and Human Rights Watch include some of the highest-ranking security commanders in the Gambian government at the time, as well as several officials present at the arrest, detention, and transfer of the migrants, a Jungler who witnessed the killings, and two who participated in a subsequent cover-up. Another Jungler who witnessed the killings was interviewed on the radio.
They said that the migrants – including some 44 Ghanaians and several Nigerians – were arrested in July 2005 at a beach where they had landed, then transferred to the Gambian Naval Headquarters in Banjul, the capital. They were detained there in the presence of the inspector general of police, the director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the chief of the defense staff, and the commander of the National Guards. At least two of them were in telephone contact with Jammeh during the operation. The head and several members of the paramilitary Junglers were also there.
The officials divided the migrants into groups and then turned them over to the Junglers. Over one week, the Junglers summarily executed them near Banjul and along the Senegal-Gambia border near Jammeh’s hometown of Kanilai.
Kyere was detained in a Banjul police station, then driven into the forest. In February 2018, he explained to Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International how he escaped, just before other migrants were apparently killed.
“We were in the back of a pickup truck,” he said. “One man complained that the wires binding us were too tight and a soldier with a cutlass sliced him on the shoulder, cutting his arm, which bled profusely. It was then that I thought, ‘We’re going to die.’ But as the truck went deeper into the forest, I was able to get my hands free. I jumped out from the pickup and started to run into the forest. The soldiers shot toward me but I was able to hide. I then heard shots from the pickup and the cry, in Twi [Ghanaian language], ‘God save us!’”
Kyere helped the Ghanaian authorities identify many of the dead and travelled around Ghana to locate their families and promote efforts to seek justice.
Despite measures in ensuing years by Ghana as well as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations (UN) to investigate the case, no arrests have ever been made.
The Bulletin of the UN Department of Public Affairs said that an ECOWAS/UN report, never made public, concluded that the Gambian government was not “directly or indirectly complicit” in the deaths and disappearances but rather that “rogue elements” in Gambia’s security services “acting on their own” were probably responsible.
The new evidence makes clear, however, that those responsible for the killings were the Junglers, who were not rogue elements, but a disciplined unit operating under Jammeh.
In October 2017, Gambian and international rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, and TRIAL International, launched the “Campaign to Bring Yahya Jammeh and his Accomplices to Justice” (#Jammeh2Justice), which calls for prosecuting Jammeh and others who bear the greatest responsibility for his government’s crimes under international fair trial standards.
President Barrow of The Gambia has suggested that he would seek Jammeh’s extradition from Equatorial Guinea if his prosecution was recommended by the country’s Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, which is expected to begin work in the next few months with an initial two-year mandate. The government and international activists and academics have said that the political, institutional and security conditions do not yet exist in The Gambia for a fair trial of Yahya Jammeh which would contribute to Gambia’s stability.
President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea said in January that he would “analyze [any extradition request] with [his] lawyers.” A week later, however, he said “we have to protect him [Jammeh], we have to respect him as a former African head of state, because that is what is going to ensure that the other heads of state of Africa who have to leave power do not fear for subsequent harassment.”
Ghanaian groups noted that the UN Convention against Torture, which Equatorial Guinea has ratified, requires a country in whose territory a torture suspect is found to refer the case for investigation or extradite that person.
“Our investigation has enabled us to get closer to the truth about this horrible massacre,” said Benedict De Moerloose, head of Criminal Law and Investigations for TRIAL International. “The time has now come to deliver justice for the victims and their families.” Reported by Eurasia Review 12 hours ago.
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The Decency Of Violence: Massacre In Gaza – OpEd
It has the makings of another Intifada: appalling timing in terms of commemoration (the founding of the state of Israel; the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem in all-Trumpistan affair); popular protest with all its untidy trimmings; then a massacre clinically inflicted by forces with superior fire power.
On Monday, the use of force by Israeli forces supposedly designed to quell riots and prevent an incursion by Palestinians from Gaza initially resulted in 58 deaths. The numbers duly grew, and it did not take long for a packaged, ribboned narrative to appear.
For one thing, who were the dead? Hamas official Salah Al-Bardawil offered a morsel to the Israeli forces by telling the Palestinian Baladna news outlet that of the 62 who perished over Monday and Tuesday, “fifty of the martyrs were Hamas and 12 from the people.” This made the moral computation for the Times of Israel simple: the bulk of deaths were “known members of terror groups”.
The Israel Defence Forces, in an attempt at wholesale unmasking, were quick to release selected footage of the interview with Al-Bardawil turning his words against him and emptying them of moral suasion: “Hamas official, Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil,” came one tweet “is clear about terrorist involvement in the riots.”
Since then, the IDF has been busy constructing an oasis of certitude with one central point: Hamas did it, and the deaths were less from Israel’s weapons than Hamas’ remorseless calculation, much of it centred on attempts to breach the fence in the northern Gaza strip. “Hamas,” went another statement, “is solely responsible for the events transpiring in and out of Gaza, and is accountable for all terrorist activity emanating from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians and Israeli sovereignty.”
Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman was even more colourful in his description of these barbarians at the border. The leaders of Hamas were “a bunch of cannibals who also treat their own children as ammunition”.
The Israeli position, stated by Danny Danon as UN envoy, is to refocus attention on Hamas as wicked instigator and hostage taker. Israel thereby becomes legitimate defender, a force of security facing agents of a barbarian project led by Lieberman’s cannibals. “They incite people to violence, place as many civilians as possible in the line of fire to maximise civilian casualties, then they blame Israel and come to the UN to complain. It is a deadly game they play at the expense of innocent children.”
Positions are stated as absolutes, with compromise being seen as an enemy of promise. Terminology here is everything: a “right of return” is turned on its head as redemptive cause and a righting of wrongs that could only mean the destruction of the Jewish state. Danon, again, emphasises these extremes with ideological certitude: “When [Hamas] say day of rage they mean day of terrorism; right of return means the destruction of Israel; peaceful protest means incitement and violence.”
Violence, restraint, calm – all variables of relative worth where cruelty and brutality reign, and where humanitarian shocks sanctioned by Israel and Egypt function with ritual consistency. Gaza is a picture of enforced debility; options to behave decently are not to be found. But this is not a context that finds its way into assessments of IDF conduct. To the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, Israel was a paragon of propriety, its operations on Monday and Tuesday compelling. “No country in this chamber could act with more restraint than Israel has.”
Those outside the traditional US-Israel compass resort to the desk clerk’s alternative, a clip-board response with pen at the ready. Establish, goes this line of thinking, a committee, an investigation, an inquiry with findings that are bound to be shelved and ignored, redundancies even before the first question is asked.
UK ambassador to the UN Karen Pierce took issue with the ammunition being used. “The volume of live fire used in Gaza [on Monday] and the consequent number of deaths is distressing and cannot be ignored by the council”.
Activists are considering how to bolster the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, though the recent massacre is bound to provide ample grist. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s Mustafa Barghouti used Monday’s violence to tell the BBC’s Newshour that BDS and popular nonviolent resistance are by far “the best two instruments to force Israel to change its policies.”
On one level this is unsurprising: Palestinian leaders, wrangling, divided and weak, have had to rely on other high profile movements to do their work. BDS has certainly developed enough momentum to draw calls from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deem the movement anti-Semitic. “The boycotters,” he claimed in justification to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in 2014, “should be boycotted.”
Central to the denunciation of Palestinian protest, and specifically Hamas in its violent visage, is the notion that such behaviour is not only futile but indecent. Stay at home, simper and whimper; forget the realm of the political, the value of the activist enraged by historical wrongs. That the catastrophe – the annual nightmare or revisitation known as the Nakba – be a point of reminder drives Israel’s forces to further insist upon acceptance and subjugation.
To dare counter such forces of suffocation is to not abide by a fictional code of etiquette that never took root in those blood soaked soils. As long as this is sold to powerful sponsors, Israel will remain condemned in some circles but praised in others as survivor and defender. The Palestinians will simply be the remaindered peoples of a cause sliding into amnesiac sunset, steered by leaders of very mixed blessings buttressed by token support. Reported by Eurasia Review 11 hours ago.
On Monday, the use of force by Israeli forces supposedly designed to quell riots and prevent an incursion by Palestinians from Gaza initially resulted in 58 deaths. The numbers duly grew, and it did not take long for a packaged, ribboned narrative to appear.
For one thing, who were the dead? Hamas official Salah Al-Bardawil offered a morsel to the Israeli forces by telling the Palestinian Baladna news outlet that of the 62 who perished over Monday and Tuesday, “fifty of the martyrs were Hamas and 12 from the people.” This made the moral computation for the Times of Israel simple: the bulk of deaths were “known members of terror groups”.
The Israel Defence Forces, in an attempt at wholesale unmasking, were quick to release selected footage of the interview with Al-Bardawil turning his words against him and emptying them of moral suasion: “Hamas official, Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil,” came one tweet “is clear about terrorist involvement in the riots.”
Since then, the IDF has been busy constructing an oasis of certitude with one central point: Hamas did it, and the deaths were less from Israel’s weapons than Hamas’ remorseless calculation, much of it centred on attempts to breach the fence in the northern Gaza strip. “Hamas,” went another statement, “is solely responsible for the events transpiring in and out of Gaza, and is accountable for all terrorist activity emanating from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians and Israeli sovereignty.”
Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman was even more colourful in his description of these barbarians at the border. The leaders of Hamas were “a bunch of cannibals who also treat their own children as ammunition”.
The Israeli position, stated by Danny Danon as UN envoy, is to refocus attention on Hamas as wicked instigator and hostage taker. Israel thereby becomes legitimate defender, a force of security facing agents of a barbarian project led by Lieberman’s cannibals. “They incite people to violence, place as many civilians as possible in the line of fire to maximise civilian casualties, then they blame Israel and come to the UN to complain. It is a deadly game they play at the expense of innocent children.”
Positions are stated as absolutes, with compromise being seen as an enemy of promise. Terminology here is everything: a “right of return” is turned on its head as redemptive cause and a righting of wrongs that could only mean the destruction of the Jewish state. Danon, again, emphasises these extremes with ideological certitude: “When [Hamas] say day of rage they mean day of terrorism; right of return means the destruction of Israel; peaceful protest means incitement and violence.”
Violence, restraint, calm – all variables of relative worth where cruelty and brutality reign, and where humanitarian shocks sanctioned by Israel and Egypt function with ritual consistency. Gaza is a picture of enforced debility; options to behave decently are not to be found. But this is not a context that finds its way into assessments of IDF conduct. To the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, Israel was a paragon of propriety, its operations on Monday and Tuesday compelling. “No country in this chamber could act with more restraint than Israel has.”
Those outside the traditional US-Israel compass resort to the desk clerk’s alternative, a clip-board response with pen at the ready. Establish, goes this line of thinking, a committee, an investigation, an inquiry with findings that are bound to be shelved and ignored, redundancies even before the first question is asked.
UK ambassador to the UN Karen Pierce took issue with the ammunition being used. “The volume of live fire used in Gaza [on Monday] and the consequent number of deaths is distressing and cannot be ignored by the council”.
Activists are considering how to bolster the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, though the recent massacre is bound to provide ample grist. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s Mustafa Barghouti used Monday’s violence to tell the BBC’s Newshour that BDS and popular nonviolent resistance are by far “the best two instruments to force Israel to change its policies.”
On one level this is unsurprising: Palestinian leaders, wrangling, divided and weak, have had to rely on other high profile movements to do their work. BDS has certainly developed enough momentum to draw calls from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deem the movement anti-Semitic. “The boycotters,” he claimed in justification to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in 2014, “should be boycotted.”
Central to the denunciation of Palestinian protest, and specifically Hamas in its violent visage, is the notion that such behaviour is not only futile but indecent. Stay at home, simper and whimper; forget the realm of the political, the value of the activist enraged by historical wrongs. That the catastrophe – the annual nightmare or revisitation known as the Nakba – be a point of reminder drives Israel’s forces to further insist upon acceptance and subjugation.
To dare counter such forces of suffocation is to not abide by a fictional code of etiquette that never took root in those blood soaked soils. As long as this is sold to powerful sponsors, Israel will remain condemned in some circles but praised in others as survivor and defender. The Palestinians will simply be the remaindered peoples of a cause sliding into amnesiac sunset, steered by leaders of very mixed blessings buttressed by token support. Reported by Eurasia Review 11 hours ago.
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'Survivor' Contestant Punished for Breaking NDA, Just the Guy Though
'Survivor' producers have dropped the hammer after a couple contestants broke their NDAs by posing together for a photo -- but only punished one of them ... TMZ has learned. Sources close to the production tell us Alec Merlino got the short end of…
Reported by TMZ.com 4 hours ago.
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Breast cancer survivor sees her mastectomy tattoo for the first time
Vicky Kayley, 47, from Haworth, West Yorkshire, hated her 'disfigured' appearance post-surgery but after suffering a major heart attack she was advised not to undergo reconstructive surgery.
Reported by MailOnline 5 hours ago.
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From Battlefield, To Boardroom, To Bedside: Rear Admiral Paul Becker, USN (Ret), Inspirational Cancer Survivor, To Keynote at Excellence In Healthcare Conference
On Monday, May 21, Rear Admiral Paul Becker, USN (Ret), a combat veteran and inspirational Stage IV Cancer Survivor, will keynote at the Excellence In Healthcare (EIH) Conference (http://www.eihconference.com) in Charleston, SC. Passionate about improving “The Patient Experience,” Paul (https://TheBeckerT3Group.com) will discuss the value of applying the military leadership lessons of “Teamwork, Tone and Tenacity” to enhance Healthcare Performance, Productivity and Quality of Care.
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) May 17, 2018
On Monday, May 21, Rear Admiral Paul Becker, USN (Ret), a combat veteran and inspirational Stage IV Cancer Survivor, will keynote at the Excellence In Healthcare (EIH) Conference (http://www.eihconference.com) in Charleston, SC. Passionate about improving “The Patient Experience,” Paul (https://TheBeckerT3Group.com) will discuss the value of applying the military leadership lessons of “Teamwork, Tone and Tenacity” to enhance Healthcare Performance, Productivity and Quality of Care. A principle theme of this year’s multi-day EIH Conference is “A Return to Purpose: Restoring Relationships in Healthcare.” Several hundred Clinicians, Administrators and medical thought leaders from across the United States will attend.
In December 2014, when he was Director of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, Rear Admiral Becker was diagnosed with advanced stage Multiple Myeloma. Following multiple surgeries, High Dose ChemoTherapy and a Stem Cell Transplant, he’s now in a complete remission and serves as the President and CEO of The Becker T3 Group, LLC (https://TheBeckerT3Group.com). With humor and humility, Paul shares how “Teamwork, Tone, Tenacity” provides a framework to help overcome extreme adversity, increase the patient-provider partnership, improve the patient experience and enhance quality of care. Dr. William Maples, the Chief Medical Officer for The Institute for Healthcare Excellence and former Mayo Clinic Physician, offered the following after one of Paul’s recent appearances, “His authentic and passionate presentation of triumphing over cancer inspired and provided a human context to approach our work. He is amazing. We’re thankful he shared his talent and wisdom.”
The EIH conference takes place at the Wild Dunes Resort on Charleston's Isle of Palms which gives attendees the chance to refresh, refocus and recharge. Events begin with a Networking Kickoff Reception on Sunday, May 20, then continue on Monday, May 21 and Tuesday, May 22. Additional conference concentration areas include: “Solutions That Humanize Healthcare,” ”Metrics that Matter,” and “Transforming Culture Through Leadership” with 16 breakout sessions, multiple networking opportunities and a Tuesday evening Award Reception & Gala. For more conference information, please visit http://www.eihconference.com
About The Becker T3 Group: Founded in 2016 and based in Alexandria, VA, The Becker T3 Group (https://TheBeckerT3Group.com) is a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Consultancy with specialization in Motivational Keynote Speaking, Executive Leadership Training and Coaching for healthcare and business audiences. Its Founder and CEO, Rear Admiral Paul Becker, USN (Ret), served for 30 years as a Naval Intelligence Officer in peace, crisis and combat. Paul is an inspirational Bone Marrow Cancer survivor dedicated to enhancing Quality of Care by applying the military leadership attributes of "Teamwork, Tone, Tenacity (T3)” to improve the Healthcare community’s pillars of Performance, Productivity and the Patient Experience. Reported by PRWeb 5 hours ago.
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) May 17, 2018
On Monday, May 21, Rear Admiral Paul Becker, USN (Ret), a combat veteran and inspirational Stage IV Cancer Survivor, will keynote at the Excellence In Healthcare (EIH) Conference (http://www.eihconference.com) in Charleston, SC. Passionate about improving “The Patient Experience,” Paul (https://TheBeckerT3Group.com) will discuss the value of applying the military leadership lessons of “Teamwork, Tone and Tenacity” to enhance Healthcare Performance, Productivity and Quality of Care. A principle theme of this year’s multi-day EIH Conference is “A Return to Purpose: Restoring Relationships in Healthcare.” Several hundred Clinicians, Administrators and medical thought leaders from across the United States will attend.
In December 2014, when he was Director of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, Rear Admiral Becker was diagnosed with advanced stage Multiple Myeloma. Following multiple surgeries, High Dose ChemoTherapy and a Stem Cell Transplant, he’s now in a complete remission and serves as the President and CEO of The Becker T3 Group, LLC (https://TheBeckerT3Group.com). With humor and humility, Paul shares how “Teamwork, Tone, Tenacity” provides a framework to help overcome extreme adversity, increase the patient-provider partnership, improve the patient experience and enhance quality of care. Dr. William Maples, the Chief Medical Officer for The Institute for Healthcare Excellence and former Mayo Clinic Physician, offered the following after one of Paul’s recent appearances, “His authentic and passionate presentation of triumphing over cancer inspired and provided a human context to approach our work. He is amazing. We’re thankful he shared his talent and wisdom.”
The EIH conference takes place at the Wild Dunes Resort on Charleston's Isle of Palms which gives attendees the chance to refresh, refocus and recharge. Events begin with a Networking Kickoff Reception on Sunday, May 20, then continue on Monday, May 21 and Tuesday, May 22. Additional conference concentration areas include: “Solutions That Humanize Healthcare,” ”Metrics that Matter,” and “Transforming Culture Through Leadership” with 16 breakout sessions, multiple networking opportunities and a Tuesday evening Award Reception & Gala. For more conference information, please visit http://www.eihconference.com
About The Becker T3 Group: Founded in 2016 and based in Alexandria, VA, The Becker T3 Group (https://TheBeckerT3Group.com) is a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Consultancy with specialization in Motivational Keynote Speaking, Executive Leadership Training and Coaching for healthcare and business audiences. Its Founder and CEO, Rear Admiral Paul Becker, USN (Ret), served for 30 years as a Naval Intelligence Officer in peace, crisis and combat. Paul is an inspirational Bone Marrow Cancer survivor dedicated to enhancing Quality of Care by applying the military leadership attributes of "Teamwork, Tone, Tenacity (T3)” to improve the Healthcare community’s pillars of Performance, Productivity and the Patient Experience. Reported by PRWeb 5 hours ago.
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Channel24.co.za | Survivor SA: The secrets behind tribal council
For the sixth season of Survivor South Africa the production wanted to do something they’ve never done before – build a tribal council area on the water.
Reported by News24 3 hours ago.
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Gay ‘cure’ therapy survivor opens up about horrific experiences in conversion camp
"I felt like they got some weird joy out of torturing children."
Reported by PinkNews 4 hours ago.
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Montel Williams’ Lenitiv Scientific And Cura Cannabis Solutions Announce Deal To Produce Williams’ Lenitiv line
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cura, a leading provider of cannabis oil, has reached an agreement to produce a hemp-derived and a cannabis-derived line for Lenitiv. Today, Lenitiv’s hemp-derived CBD Capsules are available online and can be shipped widely. The product was developed and formulated by media personality and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) survivor Montel Williams—one of the highest-profile medical cannabis patients in the United States. Shortly before his diagnosis with MS in 1999, Willi
Reported by Business Wire 1 hour ago.
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