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From deep inside your audio device of choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, this was a noteworthy week in a lot of ways. Most notably, I think, for the guidance. We got guided by the CDC this week that said people who had been fully vaccinated no longer had to wear masks. And so we were, we, the vaccinated, were invited to join the previously reviled, unvaccinated, in being maskless. And now we lost our, our, our, our ability to feel superior to them. Because now you couldn't tell us apart before it was like, well, yeah, we're vaccinated, but we're masking and you would. So it was an opportunity to sort of rewire the psychological aspect of masking and vaccine. And so it was I was in my physical therapy session. I have a little elbow thing.

And, uh, it was Friday morning and my therapist came in and she said, uh, that's you. I didn't recognize you because I've never seen you without your mask. I never knew who you were. I never knew how you looked. And I said, well, yeah. And I never knew how you looked. It's an adjustment. Our faces have bottom halves for the first time in a year. Welcome to the adjustment and hello, welcome to the show. I've just seen a face. I can't forget the time or place where we just met. She's just a girl for me. And I want all the world to see we've met. Had it been another day, I might have looked the other way and I'd have never been a word. But I said, is I'll dream of her tonight.

Falling, yes, I'm falling. And she keeps calling. Be back again. I have never known the light of this. I've been alone and I have missed things and kept out of sight. One of the girls will never quite like this. Falling, yes, I'm falling. And she keeps calling. Be back again. I've just seen a face. I can't forget the time or place where we just met. She's just a girl for me. And I want all the world to see we've met. Falling, yes, I'm falling. And she keeps calling. Be back again.

Falling, yes, I'm falling. And she keeps calling. Be back again. From the home of the homeless, I'm Harry Sheerer. Welcome you to this faceful edition of Lesho. And now, ladies and gentlemen. News of the Olympic Movement. Produced by Jim Eversal III. Well, Rafael Nadal has raised out about his participation. In this year's Tokyo Olympics amid the pandemic, he said this week he has to be flexible and cannot give a clear answer. Until he organizes his schedule for the year. This is what may.

Japan has extended its state of emergency in Tokyo in three other areas until the end of May. Country battles, a surge in COVID cases. Racing questions about whether the games should go ahead. Nadal, he won a singles gold and Beijing 2008 at a double title in Rio eight years later, said he's yet to firm up his plans on traveling to Tokyo. The Olympic torch relay is being pulled off the streets in Hiroshima Prefecture. As the cases rise in Japan, Hiroshima Governor Hideko Yuzaki said that a ceremony this coming week without the relay will still take place. This is the sixth change to the relay from rerouting to cancellation in the last several weeks. Certain there will be no relay on public streets in Hiroshima since we're all trying to reduce going out. And how to do the ceremony without the relay on the streets is still being discussed with the organizers. The Hiroshima Governor said. The relay is heavily sponsored by Toyota and Coca-Cola as proceeded despite some calls a year ago to cancel it to save money.

The President of the IOC Thomas Bach was forced this week to call off a trip to Hiroshima to greet the torch. Hello, torch. That was possibly an embarrassing move since the IOC and local organizers are still saying the Olympics will be safe and secure for fans and athletes. Yuzaki, the Governor Hiroshima, said the cases were rising at such a rapid pace that it could become an emergency situation unless people curbed their activities. And Hugo and Okayama Prefectors are also taking the torch relay off the public streets. Has there been a torch relay if it wasn't in the streets? Did a tree fall? Serena Williams is facing a difficult decision after the announcement that overseas spectators would not be able to attend the Olympics. Speaking to reporters in Rome, where she's preparing for the Italian Open, Williams said she might not compete in Tokyo if she's unable to bring her daughter. A three-year-old named Olympia!

Japan's Kodo News Agency, citing an unnamed government source, reported this week's 31 so-called host towns have called off plans to host visiting Olympic athletes. This came as governors of Kushigawa and Ibaraki provinces, Prefectors, sorry, their near Tokyo, they were reported saying their hospitals would not be able to treat Olympic athletes who fall ill. Public frustration is targeted Japanese swimming star Rikagako Ikai, who won a spot at the Tokyo Olympics after recovery from leukemia, Ikai traveled recently, she has received messages that pained her heart by urging her to oppose the Olympics and not attend. And the billionaire founder and chief executive of Japanese online retailer Rakuten Group called the Tokyo Olympics a suicide mission in an interview with CNN. The fact that we're so late for vaccinations is really dangerous to host a big international event.

Hiroshi Mikitani said of the Olympics, it's a movement as well as a suicide mission and we all need one every day. Well, ladies, gentlemen, on this program, I've discussed with you the class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids for their effect on bees, birds, birds, sorry, and other living things. We've also, I think, shared on this program some news of the marked reduction in the population of monarch iconic, I think they're called, officially, iconic monarch butterflies. Well, this is the week, those two stories came together. In an embrace, recently published study suggests that one of the world's most common pesticides may be contributing to the decline of the most loved butterflies. University of Guelph, researcher Ryan Norris, is there a university of jibbling?

Conducted one of the first real world studies on monarch butterflies and so-called neonic pesticides, he says the chemical seems to reduce the number of eggs that successfully hatch. It's from the Canadian press. Who's building in Gaza wasn't blown up this week? It's the first field evidence that neonics can have a negative impact on larval survival of monarchs. Researcher Norris said in interview, monarchs undergo one of the one of nature's most remarkable migrations, migrating all the way from Canada to Mexico and back. What does that suggest? But their numbers have declined more than 80% over the past two decades scientists are trying to find out why. Before it's too late, I guess, neonics pesticides are widely applied to common crops such as corn, but they often drift onto other plants, including milkweed. That's what monarchs depend on.

Just for nesting in food is all. Monarchs actually prefer milkweed that grows alongside or within cultivated fields, says Norris. We don't know why, but that's where they get hit the hardest with the neonics. The research was published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Norris and his colleagues worked with a farmer. In Ontario, the farmer planted one half of a small plot with corn seed that had only been treated with a fungus side. And the other half of the corn had been treated with clothlendin. Clothlendin. Clothlendin. Clothlendin. I'm going to try this again. Clothlendin. That's common neonic. It's so common I don't know how to say it. Milkweed was deliberately planted along with the corn to attract monarchs over two years. The scientists found that the monarch eggs on the neonic plot had a 3% less chance of successfully hatching. Norris says that sounds small, but with the large number of eggs monarchs lay, it adds up to big numbers.

It could easily mean millions of larvae that are dying each year, he says, because of the neonics. Three years ago, Health Canada proposed to tightly restrict the use of neonics, including a ban on all outdoor applications of clothlendin. There you go. It is currently re-evaluating that stance and is expected to announce an updated decision next spring. So monarchs hang, just hang there, hang loose. Millions of monarchs migrated to winter to a small area of mountain top forest in central Mexico. Scientists estimate their population there by measuring the area of trees turned orange by the clustering butterflies. That area has shrunk to just over two hectares, down 25% from last year, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. Monarchs are considered a species of special concern in both Canada and Mexico. I guess they just fly over the United States, so you know, just regular concern.

And now, it's time for me to read the trades for you. In case you're wondering, what's happening to the news networks in the wake of the relative silencing of Donald Trump? Fox News leans on uplifting content to woo skeptical advertisers from at age. I'll read it for you. Fox News is looking to clear up any misperceptions advertisers have around news, as it emerges from a news cycle dominated by politics during its current upfront pitch to the marketplace. Quote, we had five years of a news cycle that was dominated in many ways by politics. We were all covering every tweet that came out of the White House.

We're all feeling very good about heading into a news cycle that has room for other topics. Like sports, news, and entertainment says Jeff Collins, executive VP of ad sales at Fox News. With more uplifting content like stories of people getting vaccinated returning to work in school and reuniting with their families, Collins says it will create a more positive environment for our advertisers. The hope is, as the news becomes a more positive environment, that there will be areas that are more contextually relevant and desirable for brands, he says. To be sure, the entire news space has always been a dicey one for some brands who have been concerned with their marketing or messaging, appearing next to tragedy or anything controversial.

Fox News is leaning into some of its more uplifting content like America Together, a program designed to feature inspiring stories, and its Patriot Awards. The cable news space enters a very different upfront marketplace than last year, which took place during the early once-of-the-coronavirus pandemic and ahead of a monumental presidential election. The three major cable news channels have seen viewership retract, post-election, in April Fox News averaged 2.2 million viewers total in prime time, down 39% from the prior year. In the 25-54 demographic, Fox News was down 45%, CNN had a 52% drop in the same demographic, and MSNBC had a 32% decline. Fox News saw an influx of younger skewing brands buying into the network at the height of the political cycle.

Collins says those advertisers are embracing programming like its late-night show Gutfeld, which debuted last year. You probably didn't know about that. Oh, sorry, last month. The network also highlighted the upcoming launch of Fox Weather as a place for brands to be able to do integrations that isn't a hard news environment. Hannity and Tucker doing weather? Fox News has spent the past year building out its streaming service, Fox Nation. Brands can't buy commercial inventory on the platform. The network will learn to partner with markets for integrations into the content for the first time. That's even better than ads, don't you think? Just integrating into content.

A blifting content led his gentleman. I think that actually was a blifting content. Me reading the trades for you. Copyrighted feature of this broadcast. And now another chink in the musk. Federal safety regulators are sending a team to California to investigate a fatal freeway crash involving a Tesla. This is just after authorities near Oakland, the rest of the man in another Tesla rolling down a freeway with no one behind the steering wheel. Experts, according to the Associated Press, say both cases raise pressure on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

to take action on Tesla's partially automated driving system called somewhat misleadingly autopilot, which has been involved in multiple crashes that have resulted in at least three US deaths. Probe of the May 5 crash in Fontana, east of LA, is the 29th case involving a Tesla that the agency is responded to. The Tesla driver, 35-year-old man whose name has not been released, was killed and another man was seriously injured when the electric car struck an overturned semi on a freeway. The injured man, a 30-year-old passing motorist, was struck by the Tesla and he was helping the semi's driver out of the wreck. The investigation comes just after the California Highway Patrol arrested another man who authorities say was in the backseat of a Tesla, riding down Interstate 80 with no one behind the wheel. Param Sharma, 25-years-old, accused of reckless driving and disobeying a peace officer, said the Highway Patrol.

Stamma didn't say if officials have determined whether the Tesla was operating on autopilot, but it's likely either autopilot or full self-driving were an operation for the driver to be in the backseat. I've heard of a backseat driver, but this is ridiculous. Tesla is allowing a limited number of owners to test its self-driving system, allowing. Yeah, you can do that. Tesla has disbanded its public relations department, so it didn't respond to messages seeking comment. That's convenient. You know, if you've got Elon Musk, you don't need a PR department. The Fontan investigation in addition to probes of two crashes in Michigan from earlier this year show that the NHTSA is taking a closer look at the Tesla systems experts say the agency needs to rain in such systems because people tend to trust them too much when they cannot drive themselves. People tend to trust something called autopilot too much.

I think they're very likely getting serious about this. We may actually start to see some action in the not-too-distant future, said a mobility analyst for Guide House Insights, they follow automated systems. I definitely think the increasing number of incidents is adding more fuel to the fire for NHTSA to do more, said an electrical and computer engineering professor at Duke who studies automated vehicles. I do think they're going to be stronger about this. Tesla says on its website and in owner's manuals that for both driver systems, drivers must be ready to intervene at any time. But drivers have repeatedly zoned out with autopilot in use, resulting in crashes in which neither the system nor the driver stopped for obstacles in the road. The federal agency could declare autopilot defective and require it to be recalled or it could force Tesla to limit areas where autopilot can be used to limited access freeways. It could also make the company install a stronger system to ensure drivers are paying attention. Hey you, driver!

Hello, driver. The auto industry except for Tesla already does a good job of limiting where such systems can operate, moving to self-regulate. Tesla seems to be heading that way it's now installing driver-facing cameras on recent models, said one of the experts. Tesla has a system to monitor drivers to make sure they're paying attention by detecting force from hands on the steering wheel. I'm seeing fake hands being sold. You can attach them from the back seat. The system will issue warnings and eventually shut the car down if it doesn't detect hands. Critics have said Tesla system is easy to fool and can take as long as a minute to shut down. Consumer reports said last month it was able to trick a Tesla into driving in autopilot mode with no one at the wheel. In March a Tesla official told California regulators that full self-driving was a system that requires monitoring by humans.

So by full they mean in notes released by the State Department of Motor Vehicles the company wouldn't say whether Tesla's technology would improve to fully as in fully self-driving by the end of the year. Contrary to statements that had been made by Elon Musk that it would be fully fully fully fully full of full by the end of the year. This is the same Elon Musk who announced this week that Tesla will not be accepting Bitcoin because he just discovered apparently how much energy Bitcoin mining takes after announcing earlier this year the Tesla would accept Bitcoin for purchases. And the same Elon Musk who had been promoting a new crypto coin called Dogecoin who announced last week on Saturday Night Live the Dogecoin was a hustle. So you can boot in the back seat driving case authorities got multiple 911 calls sorry 911 calls that a person was in the back of the Tesla Model 3.

While the vehicle traveled across the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge well maybe he was thinking of jumping easier to jump from the back a motorcycle officer spotted the Tesla confirmed the solo occupant in the back seat took action to stop the car and saw the occupant move to the driver's seat before the car stopped. Authorities said they cited the same guy late April for similar behavior in an interview with the Associated Press Sharma that driver said he did nothing wrong and he'll keep riding in the back seat with no one behind the steering wheel. Musk wants him to keep doing this he said it was actually designed to be written in the back seat Sharma said I feel safer in the back seat than I do in the driver's seat and I feel safer with my car on autopilot I trust my car autopilot more than I trust everyone on the road. He believes his Model 3 can drive itself and he doesn't understand why he had to spend a night in jail.

He said he's gone about 40,000 miles in Teslas without being in the driver's seat. Duke's Cummings expert on automated system says his comments suggest he's among the number of Tesla drivers who rely too much on the company's driving systems. It is showing people the thought process behind people who have way too much trust in a very unproven technology she said. Maybe Tesla needs to set up its PR department again just to clean up the stuff that's being said by its current PR department. I love you, yes I do.

And when you give me that pretty little pout it turns me inside out there's something about your baby I don't know. Isn't it amazing men like me can feel this way? Tell me how much longer it would grow stronger every day. How much longer? I thought I was in love a couple of times before with the girl next door. But that was long before the nature. Now I'm sure that I won't forget you. And I'm back my lucky stars. You choose who you are. And I'll test another level of lady. Send down to break my heart. Isn't it amazing men like me can feel this way? Tell me how much longer it can grow stronger every day. How much longer?

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today. Whenever I see you smile at me. No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today. Whenever I see you smile at me smile away. No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today. No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today. No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today. No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today. I'm back my lucky stars. From the home of the homeless, this is Lew Show. And now?

I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Yes, sir? I hear a listening. Yes, sir, you. Microplastics. Think about it. What do you think about it? Yes, I will. Love said. New place to have found microplastics this week? Instant rice. I said instant rice. Packs of instant rice contain up to 13 milligrams, about 5, 10,000 of an ounce of microplastics. This highlights the need for more to be done to limit plastic content and food, as the Brisbane Times of Brisbane, Australia, best place for it. Researchers from the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Queensland, best place for it, said out to look at how much microplastic was in all forms of rice available to consumers. Lee author said they found regular uncooked rice at about 3 to 4 milligrams, for every 100 grams, for about 13 parts per million of rice in the samples

they tested while it jumped to 13 milligrams, about 5, 10,000 of an ounce for instant rice, about 130 parts per million. That's 10 times more in the instant rice. We looked at a consumer star bought rice, so we sourced all our samples from stores in the same way consumers would buy them. Lee author said, rice is a staple food around the world, so it's important we understand the quantity of microplastics we could be consuming. He said, researchers looked for a number of plastics. Your polyethylene is as well as plastics used in clothing and food production. He said they suspected the plastics came from a range of sources from the packaging to the harvesting process. In the case of instant rice, the researcher theorized that it underwent more processes before appearing on shelves. The big trouble here is, he says, we still don't actually know what a safe level of microplastics is. There's no standard point to, but this is the first time we can prove exposure

to microplastics by rice consumption. In a recent article in Sustainability, that's a publication, not a way of life, scientists from Reykjavik University, of Gothenburg, and the Icelandic meteorological office described they're finding a microplastic in a remote and pristine area of Vatnajokol glacier in Iceland. It's Europe's largest ice cap. You're welcome, you can use that on jeopardy. Microplastics may affect the melting and remember to say what is, microplastics may affect the melting and rheological behavior of glaciers. That's influencing the future meltwater contribution to the oceans and rising sea levels. This is the first time that the finding of microplastics in that glacier is described, the group visualized and identified microplastic particles of various sizes and materials by optical microscopy and micro-raiman spectroscopy. Discussion about microplastics has mainly been focused

on contamination of the sea, either too little research has been conducted on plastic in the Earth's ice caps. To date, microplastics have been found in the Italian Alps and the Ecuadorian Andes and icebergs at Svalbard. Finding's confirmed microplastic particles are distributed through the atmosphere. We do not understand well enough the pathways for microplastic particles on our environment is the plastic carried by snow and rain. We need to know more about the causes, the samples we took are from a very remote and pristine location in this glacier with no easy access. So direct pollution from human activity is unlikely, say the researchers, but the good news ladies and gentlemen is microplastics will find a way. Hey, remember a couple weeks ago, maybe, maybe last week? Recently, story featured on this program about TePco, the operator of the FUC meltdown plant in Japan.

TePco not enforcing its own ID rules, letting somebody access the plant with someone else's ID. Remember that? Seemed anomalous, didn't it? Another such case has come to light this week. Improper use of an ID card to gain access to a key area at a nuclear power plant. This time in Negata, prefecture. But same company, TePco, Tokyo Electric Power, says a partner firm's worker mistakenly showed a guard his father's ID card to enter a zone surrounding a protected area at its Kashiwazaki nuclear plant. This is some time ago. August 2015, his father was also working for the firm. Identity verification is, of course, required to access certain areas to prevent terrorist acts

and for other security reasons. TePco officials say this is now. How are they by are they only? TePco officials say the security guard who saw the pass had a strange feeling about the photo. But he still allowed the worker to enter. The worker was later about to enter a more strictly controlled area. When a alarm rang at a gate, it was then discovered that he was carrying mistakenly his father's pass, like you do. TePco did report the incident to the Nuclear Regulation Authority, similar case in which an ID card was improperly used occurred last September at the same plant. When a TePco employee used a colleague's ID card to enter the plant's control room, that case and other security breaches at the plant led the nuclear regulator to give TePco an administrative penalty last month. The utility is now examining how security checks were managed. They have to be managed, ladies and gentlemen,

to prevent a recurrence. Not just have them be conducted, but have them be managed properly, you see. And when you can't meet a deadline, what do you do? You extend the deadline. The U.S. Department of Energy and its regulators have proposed extending the deadline to ship waste contaminated with plutonium off the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state. Proposal moves the deadline back 20 years from 2030 to 2050 to ship the waste to a national repository in New Mexico for permanent disposal. It's according to the Tri-City Herald. We realize that the existing milestone dates were unachievable. Said John Price, a manager with the State Department of Ecology, which is a regulator for the nuclear site. Realized in 2021, they couldn't make 2030. So what do you think they'll realize they can't make 2050?

I think we got plenty of time. And now news of the godly Pope Francis you've heard of him, has accepted the resignation of Bishop John Tyrava. It's in Poland, in an area of Poland with too many consonants. He's the latest bishop accused of covering up sexual abuse by the clergy. The bishop's conference said the Vatican had conducted proceedings on reported negligence in line with the Pontiffs. Vos Estis Luke's Mundi, and it also taken account of, quote, other difficulties, unquote, facing Bishop Tyrava. The bi-monthly Catholic magazine in Poland said that Bishop Tyrava had reappointed Father Pavel Kanya to this particular province, a parish. And this province with too many consonants to pronounce.

After the priest had been detained by police and suspended from another diocese for propositioning boys and storing child pornography on his computer. This is Father Kanya. It added Father Kanya had cared for older boys and taught religious classes to children at his new parish from 2006 to 2009 before being jailed in 2015 for a bunch of years. Last February, last year ago, a court ordered the diocese to pay $40,000 in damages to whether one of Father Kanya's victims, that order was upheld on appeal last December. The Bishop's lawyer told a Polish newspaper the bishop had intended to resign for some time after facing dismissal calls from Polish legislators following a court cross-examination in October of 2019. That is some time. He's right about that. So now, finally, he waived spy pie.

He uses godly, so copyrighted, so very copyrighted. Now, word not used in this program recently, Trump. He's in the news this week for a couple of reasons. First, of course, is newly loyal deputy in the House, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader, succeeded in his campaign to oust Wyoming, Congresswoman Liz Cheney from her role as the number three Republican leader in the House that happened this week. And all of a sudden, a Cheney is admired by people in the center and on the left. Here's the old switcheroo, and toward the end of the week, those who hadn't noticed that Donald Trump deep-platformed by Twitter and Facebook now has his own blog, which his fans could try to quote from on Twitter and Facebook,

try to get him some of that also wonderful public attention again. And I don't think this was his first blog post, but it was the one that I noticed where he referred to the 2020 presidential election. And I think for the first time, as, quote, the crime of the century, unquote. This week, for the first time, it's Trump won, changed zero, and for the ex-president, turned still president, job one is getting the Senate on the same page as the House, and not just the Senate pages. So, Mitch, have you ever seen so much marble on one floor? Well, sir, the Senate isn't long. Well, I mean in a private home, which this isn't, of course, such a club.

I don't want the local Palm Beach mafia getting the wrong idea, but my permit, but they're impressive, sir. This is all real Italian marble, too, right? Interesting. You notice anything right here? Well, it's a slight change in color, and I'm not wearing my color perception glasses. Totally different marble starts here. When we wired this room for mood lighting, we had to tear everything out. Interesting. Every different little vein of Italian marble. It's a slight, a different hue. Yeah, but this here is Mexican marble. After price, and with the mood lighting, no one can tell. But if they can, we double down on the mood lighting. Interesting thing about this room, sir, doesn't seem to be a place to sit. It's the drinks and canapace lounge for the big dinners through that door. Nobody sits for drinks and canapace. I can tell you've never run our five-star resort. No, sir, I seem to have my hands full running the United States Senate.

At least I did before we lost the Senate. I can't seem to remember why that happened. Hey, Mitch, earth to total town. Maybe voters thought with all those anti-Trump Republicans in the Senate, why vote for another Republican? Maybe the way we get the Senate back is for you to take a hint from your friend Kevin in the house and start doing like my son does in Africa. Shoot some rhinos, Republicans in name only. Mr. former president, maybe we could move to a room with some actual furniture in it, the one on the left, look. Listen, it's okay if you don't agree that the 2020 election was stolen from me. Ignoring the crime of the century is your business. But calling me Mr. former president is an insult to a bunch of great Americans who do believe that. That's the great room. There's steam cleaning the books today. Sure, the Senate is not like the house. Yeah, but it could be if you did a chainy on mid-Romney's ass. Ever think of that?

Ever think of telling that stuffed piece of shirt that the only committee he's gonna be a member of for now on is a committee of one. Don't work that way. Senators are very proud individuals. I didn't get there, me, their leader by trading them like congressmen and women. Nice inclusivism. Look Mitch, you and I, unlike our friend Kevin in the house, we got something in common. He wants something he never had, the speakership. Mm-hmm, you and I both want back what we used to have. It was taken from us. Your task this week is to get me a Republican party in the Senate as united behind me as I am. Can you do it? Well, sure, I have to spend a few days seeing what I can do for you. Okay, and the next time you come down here, I'll get us a room with my chairs. New team, new tasks, same mission. We're gonna make the crime of the century great again.

Now, Florida is his boardroom. The Mara Prentice, this week, all his favorite dishes are best served cold. Now, the apologies the week. It's so sorry. A 16-year-old American Iowa contestant has dropped out of the singing competition after a video circulated of him sitting next to someone wearing what appears to be a Ku Klux Klan Hood, Caleb Kennedy, who advanced into the top five, apologized for the video on Twitter, saying it displayed actions that were not meant to be taken in that way. His mother Anita Guy. Anita Guy told local newspaper that the video was filmed when Kennedy was 12 and it had been taken out of context. She said Kennedy had been imitating characters from the film The Strangers Pray At Night. The University of South Carolina

has accepted the resignation of Bob Castlin after the embattled former leader of the school admitted he plagiarized part of a commencement speech. The chairman of the Board of Trustees had accepted his resignation. Castlin said he was truly sorry for sharing a quote from Admiral William McRaven, who oversaw the successful raid that targeted and killed Osama Bin Laden. The quote from McRaven comes from his, now famous speech to grads at the University of Texas, in 2014. Castlin acknowledged he delivered two paragraphs without attribution. I was searching for words about resilience and adversity when they were transcribed to the speech I failed to ensure its attribution. I take full responsibility for his oversight, he wrote. That isn't all I did wrong. During the same address, he congratulated graduates of the University of California. Instead of the school, he was president of South Carolina. The University Board had refused his verbal offer

of resignation last weekend. He faced criticism when he was hired. Some students and faculty said the retired general and U.S. military academy lacked qualifications for the top university job, such as research credentials, a doctoral degree, and an ability to name the schooly range. deadline London, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized this week for the deaths of tens of millions during military operations. Half a century ago in West Bell fast, Northern Ireland, a day after a coroner's court determined they were innocent victims. He told the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland in a phone call the events of August 1971 in the Bell fast neighborhood of Ballet Murphy, were tragic. Quote, the Prime Minister apologized unreservedly. Unreservedly, on behalf of the UK government for the events that took place in Ballet Murphy, and the huge anguish that the lengthy pursuit of truth has caused the families of those killed. Unquote, the Prime Minister's office. The killing occurred as the British Army confronted protesters

during the early days of the sectarian conflict that became known as the Troubles. I court just as Sean Keegan ruled this week all of the victims were entirely innocent and weren't engaged in paramilitary activity. At the time they were shot. Did I include in a mother survey to Catholic priest in a World War II veteran? It's been your priests. Two years after priest pleaded guilty to molesting an altar boy. The diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, has formally apologized to the victim in his family. Michael Gidry, who was a priest in St. Landry parish, pleaded guilty to molesting a minor with sentenced to seven years' hard labor. A couple of years ago, the diocese this week sent in a statement that, quote, after careful examination, unquote, I'll say, the church found the allegations were credible. The diocese further denounces the actions of Michael Gidry towards the victim and here by formally and publicly apologize to the victim in his family. Gidry was a former long-time leader

of St. Peter Church in Morrow, Louisiana. Activities said they opened the investigation after the victim reported even given alcohol before being sexually molested by Gidry at the priest's home. Gidry appealed a sentence arguing it represented an unconstitutionally excessive and disproportionate term that needlessly imposed pain and suffering. Unquote, the Third Secret Court of Appeals upheld his sentence last year. The Supreme Court of Louisiana declined to take up his appeal. The victim in his family also pursuing a civil suit against Gidry and the diocese, seeking damages for pain and suffering. The suit alleges that although the diocese had paid for counseling since the allegations came to light, a senior church official threatened to halt the payments if the family sued. Chicago Plakhox, play-by-play and answer pat fully, apologized this week for making an on-air remark about, quote, putting a bullet in my head. Unquote, during the team's season finale,

against the Dallas stars. Fully has been calling away games remotely this season. During the Third Period, he praised the players for playing through difficult COVID-19 protocols on the road, without needing to have a game rescheduled. He mentioned the players were limited at their hotel room and the rink couldn't go out to dinner or visit family, had a lot to deal with, a lot of boredom. Had I been traveling with the team this year, I might have put a bullet in my head. He said during the stars, five to four overtime win, I would have had to access to the player lounge. He apologized on-air during overtime for the imagery. I wish I didn't say that. I'm sorry if I offended from folks. Apparently I did, so I apologize. That's an apparent apology. Joshua Wolf Schenk, Editor-in-Chief of Believer magazine and Executive Director of the Black Mountain Institute, resigned after exposed himself to staff during a Zoom meeting in February. This came out, sorry, this was reported in Los Angeles Times this week, so they still have one.

According to the Times, Schenk was soaking in a bath to relieve nerve pain related to fibromyalgia during a Zoom call with about a dozen staffers from the magazine and the Black Mountain Institute. Though Schenk was wearing a mesh shirt on top, he stood up during the call to go change, to go charge his computer from the bathtub. Always a good idea. It's a bunch of good ideas, actually. And without turning off the camera or covering the lower half of his body, thus exposing himself to the people on the call. He pulled a tubing by late March, the publisher of the magazine, a literature arts and culture publication from a literary arts center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, had been informed that Schenk resigned due to the incident, according to the Times. Spokesperson for the Institute confirmed that Schenk had resigned, but declined to comment further on personnel matters. In a good by letter, a staff Schenk apologized for making, quote, a dumb reckless choice to disregard appropriate setting and attire

for a Zoom meeting, according to the Times. Quote, I crossed a line, I can't walk back over. I sorely regret the harm to you, and by extension to the people we serve, I'm sorry. Unquote. In a separate statement sent to the Times, he said he decided to resign to the Institute and the magazine could, quote, best continue in their exceptionally capable hands after his, quote, laps in judgment. Unquote. The Vermont Senate has joined the House. Always a good idea. In passing a resolution, apologizing to Vermotters, their families and descendants who were harmed by state-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices that led to sterilizations. Some Vermotters of mixed French Canadian and Native American heritage, as well as poor rural white people, were placed on a state-sanctioned list of, quote, mental defectives and, quote, degenerates, unquote, and sent to state institutions. Some had surgery after Vermont in 1931, one of more than two dozen states to pass a law allowing sterilizations for, quote,

human betterment. Unquote. While sterilization plays a major part of the eugenics story, it's important to know the Vermont General Assembly created elements of eugenics by segregation and institutionalization. Senator, Republican Senator, reporting the bill, we removed children from their families involuntarily, we removed adults from their families involuntarily, we placed restrictions on marriage, and we did it on a discriminatory basis. Said another senator, it's important to publicly declare that the eugenics movement was horrific and abhorrent. Healing can only begin after a sincere apology and a commitment to do better, she said. Chrissy Tegan has publicly apologized to Courtney Staden after being accused of bullying them. There's your pronoun for you. A decade ago, including telling Staden to take their own life. 26-year-old Staden recently called out multiple celebrities in an interview with the Daily Beast

for harassing them on off social media when they were a teenager. She wouldn't just publicly tweet about wanting me to take a dirt nap but would privately DM me and tell me to kill myself. Things like I can't wait for you to die. Staden alleged of Tegan. Tegan addressed the tweets and publicly apologized on Twitter. Not a lot of people are lucky enough to be held accountable for all their past BS in front of the entire world. I'm mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure attention seeking troll. I'm ashamed and completely embarrassed at my behavior. But that's nothing compared to how I made Courtney feel. I've worked so hard to give you guys joy and be beloved and the feeling of letting you down is nearly unbearable. Truly. I'm so sorry I let you guys down. I'm so sorry, sorry, Courtney. I will forever work on being better than I was 10 years ago, one year ago, six months ago. Yes, she said that Courtney should kill themselves. I don't write them.

But I do voice them. Universal Pictures has apologized for using a male actor to dub the performance of trans actor Laverne Cox in the Italian language version of promising young woman. Promotional clip of the film posted by Universal Pictures Italy. This past week featured Cox's character talking to the lead played by Kerry Mulligan in a distinctively masculine voice. The orange is the new black star was dubbed into Italian by the deep tones of Italian voice over actor Roberto Petticini. Italian viewers took to social media in outrage, forcing the studio to change the audio. In a statement of the Guardian, which originally reported the story of spokesman for Universal said the studio was quote deeply grateful to the transgender community for quote opening our eyes to a bias that neither we nor many in our industry had recognized. While there was no malicious intent beside behind this mistake, we are working diligently to fix it.

We have begun redubbing Miss Cox's voice with female actors in our international territories and are pushing back release dates to ensure the correct version is available. U.P. said it was sorry for the pain caused, but are thankful that we can address the situation on this film and prevent similar mistakes from happening again on future projects. And they line Louisville Kentucky, a former Louisville police detective will spend one year in prison after admitting this week that his lies and improper conduct helped cause two people to be convicted for slaying they didn't commit. Mark Handy said those facts are true after the judge, Olu Stevens, read him the allegations behind charges of perjury and tampering with physical evidence. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Handy will not be able to ask for probation for his one-year prison sentence. He declined to speak to the victims, when Chandler, one of whom was there, he spent nearly a decade for a murder he didn't commit

after Handy lied to a jury in his 1995 murder trial. I'm not happy with our justice system, Chandler said in a press conference after the briefing. He said one year in prison was not enough for what Handy did. Handy acknowledged he tampered with physical evidence by a racing and interview in a separate case. He apologized before the judge ruled an August handy apologized for his actions and to Chandler. I know words are not worth much, Handy said. From the day I learned that Mr. Chandler had been wrongfully convicted, I've been sick, ill. I can only apologize to him with all my heart and hope he can find some type of forgiveness. He said he lives his life now trying to make amends, unquote. I guess that's a, let's say, hand-made form of adult diaper. The apologies of the week later is gentlemen and a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Thank you very much.

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