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"Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington admitted it was "really odd" to kiss his "best friend" Emilia Clarke on screen in the Season 8 premiere that aired Sunday, in part because Clarke is so close to his wife, former "GoT" actress Rose Leslie.
"Emilia and I had been best friends over a seven-year period and by the time we had to kiss it seemed really odd,” Harington, 32, told The Daily Mirror.
“Emilia, Rose and I are good friends, so even though you’re actors and it’s your job, there’s an element of weirdness when the three of us are having dinner and we had a kissing scene that day."
"Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington said kissing co-star Emilia Clarke was "odd" because she's close with his wife, former "Game of Thrones" actress Rose Leslie.
Harington confessed that playing Jon Snow changed his life entirely.
“I look back at who I was when I started Thrones and it’s emotional because that Kit is so different from me today," he said. “That Kit was just amazed at everything but now when I’m on a red carpet and there are flashbulbs, I take it for granted."
“But I remember the first time I went to an awards and it was just extraordinary," he said of his early days of notoriety. "It was dreamlike. Fame is a really odd situation. There are times when I’ve been a p—k and been ­egotistical. But I have always had people around who have been truthful with me and put me right."
Still, it doesn't mean Harington would necessarily jump at the chance to do TV ever again.
Addis Ababa, 20 February 2019 (ECA) – According to the Economic Commission for Africa, the United States and other foreign investors potentially have a very important role to play in accelerating the emergence of regional value chains and in increasing volumes of intra-regional trade on the continent.
Andrew Mold, Acting Director of ECA in Eastern Africa, told the U.S.-Africa Trade and Investment Forum that the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) could help strengthen regional production systems, and support the integration of Regional Economic Communities like the East African Community.
Mold stressed that this was a role that US firms played very well in the European Union, by integrating their operations across borders even in anticipation of the Single Market Programme in the 1990s. It is a role that they could also play in the African continent, he argued.
The U.S.-Africa Trade and Investment Forum was held in Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the February 2019 African Union summit. The forum brought together African and U.S. private sector officials to engage in conversations related to what is to succeed AGOA – the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act – which expires in 2025.
The suspension of Rwanda from certain provisions of the AGOA because of a disagreement over its policy designed to reduce imports of second-hand clothing was discussed at the forum. Participants stated the threat of suspension made it difficult to make long-term plans to invest in a beneficiary sector when it was uncertain whether preferential market access will still exist in the future or not.
Mold explained that the AfCFTA is different.
“It is fundamentally putting trading relations among African countries on a much firmer footing, especially during the time of increased trade protectionism in some developed countries” he said.
The AfCFTA, as an integrated continental market, could provide Africa with a strengthened voice of 1.2 billion people in future negotiations with other countries and regional blocks.
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, leader of the Golden Eagles, a Mardi Gras Indian tribe in New Orleans, has been given one of the United States' highest honors for folk and traditional arts. The National Endowment for the Arts last week named him one of its 2016 National Heritage Fellows, which comes with a $25,000 cash prize.
The 74-year-old chief, whose given name is Joseph Pierre Boudreaux, has traveled the world as an ambassador of the Mardi Gras Indian culture but "remains deeply rooted in the traditions of place and family. Today, he focuses his artistic energies on his children and grandchildren, who now form the members of the Golden Eagles," the endowment's citation reads.
"As Boudreaux completes his sixth decade of masking, he grows ever more dedicated to maintaining, and indeed perpetuating, the foundations of this vibrant American vernacular culture."
West Islander Benoit Langevin is on the short list for the national Everyday Political Citizen of the Year Award for his tireless work with youth.
When West Islander Benoit Langevin was 26 years old he was a skateboarder whose only contact with his municipality was through public security and officers telling him to follow the rules of the road.
Seven years later, and Langevin is on the short list for the Everyday Political Citizen of the Year award — the EPCitizen for short.
The national award is managed by Samara Canada and honours excellence in civic engagement. Samara Canada is a charitable organization dedicated to promoting citizen engagement through a variety of initiatives.
Twenty nominees were selected by 17 jurors from a pool of 350 submissions. This year’s jurors include CBC satirist Rick Mercer, Winnipeg Jets defenceman Grant Clitsome and former mayor of Iqaluit Madeleine Redfern.
Langevin is an energetic 33-year-old who grew up in Pierrefonds and now lives near Cap-St-Jacques with his wife and one-year-old daughter.
For the last seven years, he has worked tirelessly as director of the youth-outreach initiative Action jeunesse de l’Ouest-de-l’Île (AJOI) along with a 22-member staff and a board of directors.
Langevin was nominated by Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe, the NDP MP for Pierrefonds-Dollard.
According to Statistics Canada, 32.9 per cent of the West Island population in 2006 was under 25 years old. Many of these young people were jobless and directionless. Every year, AJOI helps thousands of young people at risk of dropping out of school or getting in trouble with the law.
Langevin’s goal is to get young people engaged in the community. He said so many young people are cynical about the political process or just don’t care.
Langevin was diagnosed with AHDD when he was a youngster. His marks in school were horrible.
He remembers a high school teacher telling him he could never be a social outreach worker because he tended to react too quickly to situations.
Langevin went on to complete a bachelor’s degree in communications at Université de Québec à Montréal and a diploma in social advocacy administration at Université de Montréal.
AJOI manages 42 initiatives, including running open-gym programs in schools and community and church halls that get young people off the streets to interact in a monitored, respectful environment.
AJOI was recognized by the West Island Chamber of Commerce in 2010 and 2013. In 2012, Langevin won Centraide’s Prix Solidaire for his management skills.
“It nice to be recognized, but mostly I love the visibility it gives to what we are doing at AJOI,” Langevin said.
So what’s next for the civic-minded Langevin?
An alleged attempted robbery resulted in three indictments after drug-related items found on property.
CHILLICOTHE — An alleged attempted robbery that led to the discovery of materials commonly used to make methamphetamine resulted in three indictments handed down Friday by a Ross County grand jury.
According to Ross County Prosecutor's Office investigator Rick Hannan, Ross County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to 2276 Stone Road, Lot 10, on a call of a robbery with possible shots fired. When they arrived, the home's residents, Wesley A. Brown, 35, and Corey P. Brown, 35, reportedly said that Michael A. Williams, 42, of 3462 Pennyroyal Road, had come to the home to give them a ride to look at a used car that was for sale.
As he was calling out to them to leave, Wesley Brown reported he heard a noise at the back door and that two men entered with hand guns, ordering the Browns to the floor.
Wesley Brown refused, and one of the armed men grabbed his wallet by snapping a chain on Wesley Brown's belt and fled back out the door, officials reported. While Wesley Brown was shoving the other man out the door, he said he noticed Williams standing there.
"Witnesses say that Williams pulls up in his vehicle, two black men get out of the trunk and go into the house, exit the house, and then Williams drives them away," Hannan said.
Williams is charged with complicity to aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony carrying a possible penalty of three to 11 years in prison and a $20,000 fine if convicted. The two men who reportedly came in the back door have not been located, Hannan said.
The story doesn't end there, however. Hannan said when deputies were securing the scene, they reported they discovered numerous items believed to be used in the manufacture of methamphetamine. Witnesses told authorities they had seen Wesley Brown carrying a box across the street and hiding in the weeds.
When deputies recovered the box, they reported they found several items inside commonly used to manufacture the drug and were able to secure a warrant to search the home. Inside, they reported finding a suitcase in the bedroom containing more items used to make meth, and around the rear of the home they reported finding a bottle containing residue that tested as 96.6 grams of methamphetamine, 32 times what is considered bulk, Hannan said.
Wesley Brown was indicted on a second-degree felony charge of illegal manufacture of drugs and second-degree felony count of aggravated possession of drugs, as well as a third-degree felony count of illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs. Corey Brown was indicted on a third-degree felony charge of illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs.
The second degree counts carry penalties of two to eight years in prison and a $15,000 fine and the third-degree carries one to five years and a $10,000 fine.
►Pamela D. Woods, 30, of 383 Shady Glen Road, on two counts of first-degree felony aggravated burglary. Woods is accused of forcing her way into the home of an 82-year-old woman the night of Sept. 24 on Black Run Road when the elderly woman opened the door.
Authorities say she brandished a knife; pushed the woman down; and took money, blood pressure pills and the victim's car, which was later found abandoned. Each count carries between thee and 11 years in prison and a $20,000 fine if convicted.
►Julio A. Gutierrez, 32, of 161 W. Fifth St., on a fifth-degree felony charge of possession of heroin. On July 25 while serving a warrant, detectives reported they discovered a small bag in the defendant's pants containing a powdery substance that tested as 0.13 grams of heroin. The charge carries a possible penalty of six to 12 months and a $2,500 fine.
►Wallace L. Coleman, 32, of 163 1/2 Mulberry St., who was arrested Aug. 7 on a fifth-degree felony charge of possession of cocaine when the Chillicothe Police Department served a warrant and reported finding $315 cash in one pants pocket and a plastic sandwich bag in another containing material that tested as 0.11 grams of cocaine. The charge carries a possible penalty of six to 12 months and a $2,500 fine.
►Jeremiah S. Lewis, 22, of 570 N. High St., Apt. 2, on a fourth-degree felony charge of possession of cocaine. Lewis was arrested during service of a warrant after authorities reported finding a clear plastic bag containing a rock-like substance stuffed into his crotch. The substance tested as 8 grams of cocaine, according to Hannan. The charge carries a possible penalty of six to 18 months and a $5,000 fine.
►Marvan D. Woodfork, 21, of 595 1/2 Church St., and his mother, Norma J. Lytle, 43, of Canal Winchester, both on a third-degree felony count of illegal conveyance of prohibited items onto the grounds of a specified governmental facility.
According to Hannan, a Chillicothe Correctional Institution investigative team had been monitoring calls from an inmate who called for Lytle to drive her son on U.S. 35 near Pleasant Valley Road where drugs would be dropped over the fence near the dairy farm where Level 1 inmates would be able to convey it into the prison.
The calls reportedly specified an Aug. 27 date, so a traffic stop was conducted on the vehicle, and when questioned, Lytle allegedly produced five wrapped plugs of marijuana and pills. Analysis showed 115.49 grams of marijuana and 12 whole and one half Suboxone strips, officials reported. The charge carries a possible penalty of one to five years and a $10,000 fine.
An indictment is not a determination of guilt or innocence, only that the grand jury feels there is enough evidence for the case to go to trial.
When she breaks out in song, her angelic voice fills every corner of the room and leaves her audience covered in goosebumps.
Bianca Solomons is the fresh-faced 16-year-old behind the powerful voice. Her love for music – opera, specifically – is inexplicable, she says.
"I started music because it’s a talent I have and there are many people in the world who have a talent they’re not aware of," Bianca tell us.
"That is why I’m doing music – not for fame or to show off. But to show people what they can do with their talent."
Equally as touching as her voice is the story of her upbringing.
Bianca, who lives in Bellville in Cape Town’s northern suburbs with her adoptive mother, Ellen Fouché (56), was abandoned at birth.
"She told me she ... has no home"
On February 5, 2003 an unknown woman came knocking on Ellen’s door. In her arms she cradled a newborn. The petite woman, covered in dirt, asked for a glass of water and painkillers as she had a terrible headache.
When Ellen asked about the baby, who was still partially covered in blood, the woman explained she’d just given birth to the little girl in a public bathroom in nearby Kraaifontein. According to the woman, a friend had helped her to a day hospital where nurses had attended to her and the baby before releasing them.
"I was worried about her," Ellen admits. "She told me she doesn’t know what she’s going to do because she has no home."
Ellen offered to accompany her and the baby to a welfare centre but the woman insisted she had to run an errand. She asked if the baby could stay with Ellen in the meanwhile; she’d return shortly.
After three days Ellen took the baby to a welfare centre. A court ordered that the child stay with her until the matter could be investigated. Bianca’s biological mother was never found and Ellen eventually formally adopted her.
Bianca was a Grade 4 learner at Bellville-Noord primary school when her choir conductor, Mrs Denecker, noticed something special about the little girl’s voice and started using her in competitions.
Six years later, Bianca’s gone on to achieve her provincial and national colours in singing.
The teen says opera isn’t the only genre she enjoys. Her eyes light up when she speaks of a few of her favourite pop, gospel and Afrikaans songs.
"But opera is my focus because it has a musical story in it," she quickly adds.
And what a story she tells every time she starts singing.
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3rd Annual Rainbow Lecture Tonight!
We are looking forward to this evening’s Rainbow Lecture with Kristen Renn, PhD, Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University. Dr. Renn will present “Creating Environments for LGBTQ College Student Success”. The lecture will take place at 5:00 pm in the Welles-Brown Room of the Rush Rhees Library. For information on parking at the University, please visit the visitor parking page of the University website.
Dr. Renn’s research centers on identity in higher education, with current projects focusing on bi and multiracial college students, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender college students, a national study of new professionals in student affairs, and a study of women’s higher education institutions around the world. We are so pleased to have her with us today and hope that you will join us for the 3rd annual Rainbow Lecture!
The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies would like to acknowledge the generous support of the LGBT Fund for Greater Rochester for the 2014 Rainbow Lecture.
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