Actor Brad William Henke, best known for his role as villain Desi Piscatella in Orange Is the New Black, died on Tuesday (29) at the age of 56. The information was passed on to the Deadline website by the family.
According to family members, the artist died in his sleep, but a cause was not disclosed.
Henke, born in 1966, began his football career with the New York Giants and later with the Denver Broncos. He played with the Colorado State team in the 1989 Super Bowl and lost the NFL title to the San Francisco 49ers.
After retiring from the sport in 1994 due to consecutive injuries, he took up the acting profession, initially motivated by a general call for a commercial seeking “great men”. Over the years, Henke has had occasional roles in shows like Medical Call and Chicago Hope.
Though he had bigger roles in Dexter and Lost, it wasn’t until Orange Is The New Black that the actor was discovered by audiences. He played a major role in the Netflix series as Officer Desi Piscatella, garnering guest appearances in 26 episodes and a SAG Award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast.
The artist also appeared in the films As Torres Gêmeas, Corações de Ferro and Fragmented.
Brad William Henke is survived by his mother, a sister and his wife.
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Art Basel party by Saint Laurent. Photo: Brock Coylar
Last night, just before midnight, I was watching Madonna looking like a non-binary alien in pigtails, combat boots, and an oversized dinner jacket over an iridescent bustier, and doing a very weird dance with a champagne flute in her right hand. Honey Dijon, her “favourite DJ in the whole world,” was DJing at an Art Basel party, and all of Madonna’s stomping and ass-shaking looked like a bird mating ritual you’d see on National Geographic. Her security did their best to beat away anyone who took pictures of her, but how could you resist? It was wild and weird, but that’s Miami.
I’d never been to Art Basel or Miami itself, but based on what people in the fashion and art world were telling me about it, I expected it to be something like Fashion Week, but bigger and weirder, maybe with Florida ability big multimillion dollar art deals going on somewhere in the background. And while I was unfamiliar with very expensive hotels and beach clubs and endless traffic jams, I apparently knew everyone here from New York. As I pulled up to my beachfront hotel on Wednesday, a member of Air Mail’s so-called “downtown set” list of New Yorkers was smoking a cigarette on the corner. I met an east villain down the road. But the weather was warm and the margaritas were flowing, so I didn’t care. The townsfolk here all seem nicer than usual, grateful to be in summer looks and living out the fantasy of hotness, money, and leisure that Miami can offer — especially when there’s an open bar and you’re on the list. Here, Uber drivers sing to you Jennifer Lopez and bartenders pull out ashtrays whenever you light up a cigarette, and at least people tell you you’re beautiful before asking to have one. “There’s no need to be nervous in Miami,” my concierge told me. “This is the only week that Miami people are nice,” countered a local.
“It’s all big publicity,” a veteran of the scene told me when I arrived, which is an apt way of describing the vibe at all the brand parties and dinners for every brand of spirits from Belvedere to Don Julio and assorted champagnes. One minute you’re walking down the street and the next you’re stumbling upon Serena Williams recording videos for a Lincoln-sponsored perfume “activation.” It was very windy so her assistant had her hands in Serena’s hair the whole time trying to fix it. “Somebody get her a hairpin, damn it,” said a bystander holding a glass of wine. “Are you an influencer? I deal with a lot of influencers,” one distracted woman asked me. I don’t, as you know, but of course there’s plenty of that here too. The night before I’d met Bryce Hall at the bar at the Edition Hotel, who for some reason had tried out an Australian accent. Outside, influencer Tinx ordered a car and attempted to leave Farfetch’s party at the Faena Hotel next door. Her friend Diplo was about a dozen yards away. In many ways, the Edition has become the center of the scene with multiple parties each night due to its size and location; It’s the kind of place where you pass Evan Mock and Kehinde Wiley in the lobby, going to different events without knowing anything about each other. The hierarchy here is who pays for their room and who doesn’t. The art collectors are paying, and the brands are paying for the celebrities to be here, and it’s clearly just a silly amount of money being spent. A fashion photographer clapped to me, “Lindsay Lohan is staying here… and she’s paying for it herself.”
A note on the doors at these Miami parties: They’re a lot messier than the ones in New York, and apparently on purpose. At Farfetch’s party, I watched security turn away a tall magazine editor and even Cuba Gooding Jr., although the party inside was surprisingly thin when I walked in. The cluster fuck outside was just for show. “It’s a bit more aggressive here,” said a publicist I met the following evening. The advice she got from a publicist who lives here? “In New York they want things to be seamless. In Miami, you just want an audience.” Another publicist called me before a party just to fill me in on the shit show: “You know how Miami is.” If you can’t come in? Well then just go to the gay club Twist (for years friends have been complaining that the super hot go-go dancers – an Art Basel tradition – are no longer at home).
Perhaps even harder than talking to the influencers, the crypto folks are here. Because despite – well, everything – there are still crypto people here. My friend even started asking people, “Are you here for Krypto or Basel?” before committing to speak to them. My most notable experience with one was at a party for Jean Paul Gaultier. He was a soft-spoken redhead named Gary, holding a laptop case and looking very out of place in the fashion-forward crowd in which Lizzo’s stylist was dancing and Ladyfag sipping a drink. “What’s your superpower?” he asked me out of nowhere, before adding flirtatious, “You have really nice energy.” Coming from something called Crypties – “like the Oscars for crypto” – he told me that he even doesn’t feel out of place because he once saw the Kardashians on TV. Anyway, as another art lover told me, it makes sense that they happened together since crypto and the art world basically work in the same way: they are asset classes traded primarily by very few people, solely on the basis of price increases.
But that’s boring. Back to Madonna. The dance took place at a party that Yves Saint Laurent threw to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her book Sex. Incidentally, the “Sex by Madonna” exhibition with photos from the pop star’s book Sex from 1992, photographed by Steven Meisel, is a lot of fun. If you’re young like me and haven’t heard of the book before, it reminds you how much she helped create our culture by pushing boundaries – so a few photos of Madonna kissing ass, masturbating in front of a mirror and hanging naked sliding bush out (Security around the exhibit is intense, consisting of two police cars and no fewer than two dozen guards in black). One artist told me it was a “cornerstone of my ideology”; another told me they’ve been obsessed with it since they saw VH1.
It was one of the glitziest parties yet (“the party that will make people jealous,” as one editor put it to me) at a lavish pop-up club on the beach — climate change aside, Miami Beach still is surprisingly wide – surrounded by palm trees and centered around a pool lit by floating candles. There the crowd struggled to ignite as the wind blew, though they looked fabulous nonetheless, dressed mostly in black because it’s Saint Laurent, after all. (One curious thing: New Yorkers here seem less stylish than around town, everyone struggling to dress like they do in Miami, wearing Pucci and bright oranges; the natives, “although they have no taste,” as a fashion person said to me, “Look good.”) It couldn’t be easier to set off the firecrackers on a three-tiered white birthday cake for Zoë Kravitz, who, upon seeing it, cupped her hands to her cheeks — Home Alone style kissed the man next to her (I couldn’t tell if it was Channing Tatum or not). It was really glamorous, although a woman slicking her hair back in the bathroom said, “It’s not glamorous. It’s just beach.”
“I want to be what she makes,” said a Chelsea gallery owner in a leopard-print tube top as she watched Madonna dance the dance. Shamelessness seems to be in the DNA of this place. Outside the door of my next party for Casablanca Paris, a striking young woman in a bright yellow corset farted, dispersing a small crowd. “Well, yes. This is Miami,” she said. Inside, I met two Afro women from Bed-Stuy, who took me on a “hot girl walk” — looping around the party to see if we could find suitors “We need to be admired,” they said, “because nothing matters here.”
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USC star quarterback Caleb Williams “cracked his hamstring” in the first quarter of the No. 4 Trojans’ 47-24 loss to No. 11 Utah in the 2022 Pac-12 championship game Friday night, according to USC coach Lincoln Riley the game . Williams never left the field for more than a game but was clearly limping, unable to escape the pocket with his normal speed and agility while being sacked seven times as he struggled to dodge defenders.
Riley said Williams “wasn’t even 50%” for the last three quarters, and while he wanted to remove the runner-up from the game, Williams “won’t let me.”
“In terms of the guys I’ve coached at that position, it was perhaps the bravest performance I’ve ever seen,” Riley said. “Most of the guys wouldn’t have even played and he still gave us a chance.”
Williams completed 28 of 41 passes for 363 yards with three touchdowns and one interception. By the end of the game, he had only rushed for 21 yards, as most of the yards he gained on the floor in the first quarter had been eaten up by lost yards on sacks. Despite his injuries – Williams also injured the little finger on his throwing hand, which bled profusely – he still made a number of impressive plays on the course.
Riley stated that Williams suffered the injury on a spectacular 59-yard rush in the first quarter that helped set up a touchdown that gave the Trojans a 14-3 lead. USC eventually went up 17-3 before being outplayed the rest of the way 44-7.
Williams’ injuries and loss to Utah marked a crushing end to USC’s college football playoff aspirations, but there’s no doubt that Williams’ Heisman hopes are still alive.
Despite his apparent mobility issues against the Utes, he still put in a statistically impressive performance. Voters may also have been impressed with the way he’s struggled through injuries, despite USC coming up short. Not to mention his performance in the regular-season finals against UCLA last week likely helped voters decide on championship weekend.
Russian fighters decided to desert and fight alongside Ukrainian troops. In particular, they condemn Vladimir Putin, who is considered a despot.
They decided to switch sides. Russian soldiers of a renegade “Freedom for Russia” legion decided to join and fight alongside Ukrainian soldiers, particularly in the Bakhmout region of Ukraine. A way to fight Vladimir Putin, who is considered a despot. They trust that they will desert Russian fighters.
They are present in the Bakhmout region, fighting in particular the Wagner Group, that private militia that defends Vladimir Putin’s interests.
“Where are the bad Russians? One and a half kilometers? Two?” a soldier throws at his forehead. These soldiers are often on the front line, only two kilometers away from the Moscow troops.
Get involved against Putin
These soldiers want to show journalists from all over the world that, despite all the risks, you can be Russian and take action against Vladimir Putin.
“I’m worried, but even the cost of my family’s life will not make me take a step back,” said one of them, wearing khaki jumpsuits.
Another says he went to Ukraine before the war started. From Kyiv he then witnessed the Boutcha and Irpin massacres.
“What I saw there shocked me a lot. I thought the Russian army was made up of men of honor,” says Tikhiy.
These images decide him to join a foreign legion. Among them were many Russians, but also Georgians and Chechens.
“I fight for the freedom of the Russian people”
But this mission is not without consequences for some soldiers. Tikhiy acknowledges a misunderstanding of his relatives who stayed in Russia, to the point of a rift between them.
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“In the beginning I told them, ‘It’s very difficult what’s going on here’. They answered me: ‘It doesn’t matter, we’ll come and free you soon’. After that, I stop talking to them,” he said.
Some Russians point out that these soldiers who defected to the enemy camp are viewed by some as traitors and by others as objects of Ukrainian propaganda. However, these fighters make sure that they do not forget their country.
“I fight not only for Ukraine, but also for the freedom of the Russian people. So I’m a patriot, I’m not Putin’s henchman,” affirmed one of them.
They would be more than 500 Russians who want to fight against their own country or at least against its leader Vladimir Putin.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
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*** Former Minister Fernando Haddad, the progressive leader’s political godson, assured it. The Labor Party’s most senior adviser will take office on January 1st.
Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will meet with US President Joe Biden before next Jan. 1 when he begins his third term as head of state, former minister Fernando Haddad, political godchild, said on Wednesday progressive leader.
“The president needs to meet with President Biden in the United States before he takes office,” Haddad, one of the leaders of the incoming administration’s transition team, told the press after holding a series of meetings with Lula and the other members of the government United States had completed splicing group.
According to the former minister and former presidential candidate, who dreams of becoming commerce minister in Lula’s government, the progressive leader has received “many invitations” from major power leaders who want to meet with him in person or at least virtually.
The former minister also indicated that another possible destination for Lula before the end of the year will be Argentina, a visit confirmed by that country’s President Alberto Fernández after meeting the progressive leader in Sao Paulo. a day after his victory in the second round of the presidential election.
China is also on the list, but Haddad said he doubted it would be possible due to lack of time.
“There’s an invitation, but I don’t think there’s time for two trips abroad of that magnitude. Maybe the United States and Argentina are two possible trips,” he said.
The United States was quick to legitimize the outcome of Brazil’s Oct. 30 election, which President Joe Biden described as a “free, fair, and reliable” election.
After his election after the second round of the presidency, in a phone call with Lula, Biden praised “the strength of Brazil’s democratic institutions” and both pledged to continue working in partnership in the face of common challenges such as fighting climate change and promoting democracy.
The day before, the United States government confirmed that White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will travel to Brazil on December 5 to meet with the teams of the country’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro and the elect.
This is the second visit to Brazil for Sullivan, who was in the country in August 2021 to strengthen bilateral ties. Infobae/Honduario
(Quebec) Even if air quality in schools “improves,” estimates incoming education minister Bernard Drainville, hundreds of classes in Quebec will have to open their windows again this winter, despite the cold, to bring down levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) to meet those required by the public health prescribed standards.
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Mr Drainville presented the results of action taken on air quality in schools this autumn in Parliament on Friday. Between September 5 and October 28, 724 of Quebec’s 68,548 classes exceeded the ministerial standard of 1,500 parts per million (PPM) as measured by CO2 readers. Of that number, 72 broke the 2000 PPM. Good air quality in an enclosed space reduces the risk of transmitting diseases like COVID-19.
Classes that exceed the standard are closely monitored by the Department of Education, Bernard Drainville said, either by installing air exchangers or by taking other measures such as replacing windows. Until a remedy is found, parents do not have to worry about their children, since a significantly higher CO2 concentration in a room would be harmful to their health.
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Bernard Drainville, Minister of Education
” [On va] Make sure we go below 1500 PPM in all Quebec classes, which is not an ideal standard. The ideal standard is 1000, but at 1500 we are making sure the air quality is appropriate for Quebec students,” said Mr. Drainville. He has not committed to the time it will take Quebec to change the situation.
Data collected from schools during the fall shows that between 76% and 85% of classes had CO2 levels below 1000ppm depending on the week.
Derelict premises
The new education secretary says he has made classroom air quality the first dossier he has focused on since he took office. While touring schools in Quebec in recent weeks, he attributes the poor air quality in some classrooms to the ailing state of several schools.
The vast majority of problem classes are classes in schools that originated before 1980. When you talk about ventilation, you also have to talk about the fact that our school stock is aging and we must continue to make large investments to rejuvenate it.
Bernard Drainville, Minister of Education
Until schools are renovated or new facilities built, teachers in problematic classes will have to decide to open the windows of their classrooms again this winter. Mr Drainville also expects the Department’s next data to indicate the situation is getting worse as winter makes it harder for air to circulate in classrooms without mechanical ventilation.
A difficult to manage solution
Autonomous Federation of Education (FAE) President Mélanie Hubert wants Quebec to install an air exchanger in classes that exceed 1000 PPM with more than one CO2 reading per day. She points out that the ministry’s figures are averages and that she believes it’s common for the air quality in a classroom to fall below the norm more than once a day.
Ms. Hubert also says that opening the windows in the middle of winter is a solution that often causes problems in the classroom. In some cases reported to him, the teacher had to argue with students who sat near the windows and refused to open them even though the CO2 reading recommended ventilating the room.
“We will have to take our time to renovate the schools, we agree we cannot do it in six months, but we cannot rely on the 1500 PPM [avant] install an air exchanger,” she said.
Kyiv (Portal) – A group of people tried to take a mural by graffiti artist Banksy in Ukraine on Friday by clipping it from a battle-worn wall where it was painted, the governor of the Kyiv region said.
The group managed to cut off a piece of cardboard and plaster bearing an image of a woman in a gas mask and dressing gown holding a fire extinguisher on the side of a burned building.
But they were sighted at the scene in the town of Hostomel, near Kyiv, and the mural was found, Oleksiy Kuleba said in a statement.
The picture is still intact and the police are protecting it, he added.
“After all, these images are symbols of our fight against the enemy… We will do everything we can to preserve these street art works as a symbol of our victory,” he said.
Banksy, whose work can sell for millions of dollars on the art market, confirmed he had painted the mural and six others over the past month in locations hit by heavy fighting after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.
One of the other murals shows a gymnast doing a handstand on a small pile of concrete rubble. Another shows an old man taking a bath.
Police released images of the yellow wall at Hostomel with a large patch cut back to the brickwork. Several people were arrested at the scene, it said.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is now entering its tenth month. Moscow’s forces were pushed back from the Kyiv area in the first phase of the war, but fighting continues in the east and south.
(Reporting by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Activists in Iran have called for new protests across the country. The strikes and protests are expected to last from Monday to Wednesday, according to numerous messages on the internet. Large sectors of society were invited to participate.
Calls circulated on the Telegram news channel for attacks targeting paramilitary units on motorcycles, which are key to quelling the protests. In recent weeks, protesters have poured oil onto roads or erected roadblocks to make it difficult for security forces to advance.
Due to massive violence by police and security forces, peaceful protests in Iran are severely restricted. Protesters are therefore increasingly organizing spontaneous meetings to express their discontent with the Islamic Republic. Internet blocks also make it difficult to organize.
Hundreds killed in protests
Around 470 protesters have been killed since the protests began, according to human rights activists. According to official information, 200 people have died in the protests since mid-September, according to the Misan portal operated by the Iranian judiciary, citing information from the Security Council. In addition, 60 members of the security forces were killed.
Uprisings critical of the system were triggered by the death of Iranian Kurd Jina Mahsa Amini in mid-September. The young woman died in police custody after being arrested by the moral guards for violating the Islamic dress code.
Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will meet with US President Joe Biden before next Jan. 1 when he begins his third term as head of state, former minister Fernando Haddad, political godchild, said on Wednesday progressive leader.
China is also on the list, but Haddad said he doubted it would be possible due to lack of time.
