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'''Harry Kenneth Berg''' (December 9, 1943 – May 8, 2020) was an American educator and politician.

Berg lived on a ranch 17 miles south from [[Shawmut, Montana]]. He went to high school in [[Big Timber, Montana]]. Berg then served in the [[United States Army]] Reserve and was discharged in 1968. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from [[Montana State University]]. He taught in the public schools in [[Great Falls, Montana]] and worked for H&R Block. Berg served in the [[Montana Senate]] from 1981 to 1985. Berg died at Peace Hospice in Great Falls, Montana.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2yPlhYR Harry Berg-obituary]</ref>

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May 16, 2020 at 01:29AM

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May 16, 2020 at 01:10AM

Swedish Prime Minister Defends COVID-19 Response

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Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven defended his country's strategy in fighting the spread of COVID-19, pushing back on the notion Sweden has taken a "business as usual" attitude toward the pandemic.

Speaking to foreign correspondents Friday in the capital, Stockholm, Lofven insisted life is not carrying on as normal in Sweden, as he said its international reputation would suggest.

Other European nations have expressed concern about Sweden's relatively "soft approach" to fighting the coronavirus. While they did ban large gatherings, restaurants and schools for younger children have stayed open. The government has urged social distancing, and Swedes have largely complied.

A woman sits respecting social distancing at the Gallerian shopping center, as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues, in Stockholm, Sweden, May 12, 2020.

Lofven said many people have been staying home, which he says has had a positive effect. He did acknowledge Sweden's 3,500 deaths, which was far higher, per capita, than its Scandanavian neighbors Finland, Norway and Denmark, all which took a stricter approach.

Lovgren said most of Sweden's casualties were among the elderly, which, he says had little to do with people "walking around" the streets.

He said Sweden, like several other countries, did not manage to protect the most vulnerable people, including the elderly, despite best intentions.

Swedish media in recent weeks have reported cases where retirement homes have seen a large death toll, with staff continuing to work despite a lack of protective gear or despite exhibiting symptoms and potentially infecting residents.

Some retirement homes also have seen a shortage of staff because employees either have refused to work or have been encouraged to stay home even with mild symptoms. 
 

May 15, 2020 at 11:13PM

Yemen's COVID-19 Fight: 'We've Only Just Begun'

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Outside the gates of the Old City in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, crowds of people gathered to buy clothes and food last week as they fasted for Ramadan, the Islamic holy month.

It was also crowded inside the ancient walled city, where 23-year-old Mohammed Ali Al-Khawlani made clay pots for cooking traditional Yemeni food. Like many people in Sanaa, he was not attempting "social distancing" because of the coronavirus.

Mohammed Ali Al-Khawlani, 23, makes clay pots for cooking in Sanaa's ancient Old City where most people are not practicing social distancing, May 7, 2020. (VOA/Naseh Shaker)

"We break our fast each evening in the mosques," Al-Khawlani said. "Or sometimes groups of 15 or 20 people meet in the streets to eat."

Yemen has closed airports and schools and restricted some travel by land, but people in Sanaa were still shopping, riding in crowded buses and gathering for religious services as COVID-19 cases spiked to 85 on May 14, more than doubling their number of cases in just five days.

The World Health Organization says a mass outbreak in Yemen would be an unmitigated disaster amid war, famine and floods already plaguing the country.

The Houthi government that runs Yemen's north says Sanaa has had only two cases, but the government that controls Yemen's south has called its regional capital, Aden, "infested" with the virus and accuses the Houthis of under-reporting cases.

Health workers are seen in Hadramout province, where Yemen recorded its first COVID-19 case last month, on May 1, 2020. (Courtesy of Hadramout's health department)

The WHO also assumes there are many more cases than they know of in Sanaa, said Altaf Musani, the organization's Yemen representative, in an email to VOA on Wednesday. Roughly half the population of Yemen is at risk for starvation or diseases like cholera and 80 percent of the people rely on humanitarian aid. A widespread outbreak in Yemen would be a "potential catastrophe," he said.

"At present we do not even have enough gloves, masks or other personal protective equipment for all doctors and nurses," explained Musani. "No one is safe until everyone is safe — Yemen was one of the last country's to declare — we've only just begun."

Economic grief

At a bus station in Sanaa last week, Omar Ali, 56, waited for hours to get to the front of the queue and collect passengers.

Omar Ali, 56, a bus driver, says he keeps his bus as clean as possible, but doesn't think the virus will spread in Sanaa, Yemen, May 4, 2020. (VOA/Naseh Shaker)

Since the pandemic began, he has lost more than half of his business, he said, but still, he is getting by.

"My sons are also working," he explained as the sun started to set ahead of the end of the day's fast. "But other people are not as lucky."

He had a mask in his hands, but he wasn't wearing it.

Like other countries, Yemen's economy has declined rapidly in recent months. But unlike other countries, Yemen started off with very little to lose. At least three out of four people in Yemen live under the poverty line and the United Nations Development Fund says Yemen may become the poorest country in the world by 2022.

The Houthis, officially known as Ansar al-Allah, have been battling the United Nations-recognized southern government for nearly six years in a war that has killed more than 100,000 people.  Both sides have powerful international allies, like Saudi Arabia, which regularly hurls airstrikes into Sanaa.

"We are already oppressed by bombs and battles," said Ali, the bus driver. "God would not send us the virus."

Growing fear and failing health system

Other locals say they are increasingly afraid of the virus, saying the psychological stress is already hard to bear.

Mohammed Abdullah Hezam, 28, manages a restaurant in Sanaa, May 4, 2020. (VOA/Naseh Shaker)

At a restaurant serving traditional food last week, 28-year-old Mohammed Abdullah Hezam, the manager, wore a mask and gloves, unlike most people in the streets.

"The virus worries me more than the war because wars have solutions," he said. "There are a thousand solutions for war, but so far none for this virus."

In another nearby restaurant, Ahmed Mohammed, 35, sold Yemeni food, sandwiches and smoothies. He said the virus is particularly upsetting because Yemen's health care system is in shambles.

"They can try to fight the pandemic if it spreads here," he said. "But they will never win."

Hospitals in Yemen need ventilators, monitors, beds, ambulances, protective clothing, X-rays, medicine, lab materials and scanners, according to Riyadh Al-Jaridi, the Health Director of Hadramout province, where Yemen recorded its first COVID-19 case last month.

Riyadh Al-Jaridi, the Health Director of Hadramout province, gives instructions to aid workers, May 1, 2020. (Courtesy of Hadramout's health department)

Individual preventative measures, like sanitizing items and wearing masks and gloves, are widely known, but most people cannot afford them, Al-Jaridi said. Even extra cleaning is difficult, with more than half the country lacking enough clean water for drinking or bathing.

Workers cannot afford to stay home, and many people simply do not care about social distancing, Al-Jaridi added.

"Yemenis have gone through so many tragedies," he explained. "The wars and poverty have made people indifferent to threats." 
 

May 15, 2020 at 03:40AM

In Russia, Rumblings of Discontent Grow as Oligarchs Move to Plug Gaps

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Once they scrambled to grab what they could from a disintegrating Soviet state, exploiting the political and economic chaos of the post-communist Boris Yeltsin era to secure state enterprises, oilfields and mineral deposits at knockdown prices. But now Russia's uber-wealthy oligarchs are rushing to shore up a failing state effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
 
Rumblings of discontent are growing in Russia over Vladimir Putin's handling of the pandemic. His approval ratings fell to an historic low for him — down to 59 % last month from 63 % the previous month, according to the independent pollster Levada Center.
 
Even the normally loyal state-owned broadcaster Russia Today ran a report last week warning that the country risks a double-digit unemployment rate and a "return to the pain of the economic miasma of the Yeltsin years [that] would have unpredictable consequences for President Putin."
 
The Russian leader is facing the biggest test of his presidency, but has passed on most of the responsibility for battling the deadly virus to the country's regional governors.
 
Tasking regional governors with the main responsibility for tackling the coronavirus reverses the policy Putin has pursued since coming to power, say analysts and Russian media commentators. The Kremlin has over the years curbed the powers of the governors, insisting Russia needs a strong a central government.
 
"It is in the interest of all of us for the economy to return to normal quickly," Putin said Monday when announcing the end of the non-working period. But a return to normality seems a long way away. On Tuesday his own spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, checked himself into a hospital after testing positive, the fifth senior official to have to do so.

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during a teleconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, May 11, 2020.

Putin is being accused of wanting to distance himself from the pandemic, fearing the political fallout, say some analysts. Earlier this week the Russian leader announced the end of a nationwide "non-working period," leaving to the governors to decide whether to ease lockdowns in their regions or not. His announcement draw derision from many Muscovites, who pointed out that just hours before his announcement, health authorities reported the biggest one-day increase so far in infections.
 
"Despite having created a highly centralized political system, he is not going to be the commander-in-chief of this war. Instead, he would rather force local leaders to take the tough decisions, demanding they both save lives and save the economy, while sniping at them from the sidelines," according to Mark Galeotti, an analyst at Britain's Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and a columnist for the Moscow Times.

"He is retaining real power, but handing his boyars the burden of coronavirus," he adds.  
 

FILE - Russian steel magnate Alexei Mordashov speaks during an interview at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 25, 2018.

In their turn the governors have found Russia's oligarchs ready to try to help them to plug the holes left by the state in the struggle to curb the virus.  The embrace of social responsibility by some of Russia's prominent high-rollers — including steel magnate Alexei Mordashov, who instructed four regional governors to lock down their cities where he has mills, and mining magnate Vladimir Potanin, who has spent more than a hundred million dollars on testing kits, protective masks and ventilators — has surprised some.  
 
When the virus was bearing down on Russia, some independent news outlets reported wealthy Russians were rushing to buy ventilators, adding to shortages. Moscow-based medical pulmonologist Vasiliy Shtabnitskiy, told reporters he was aware of rich Muscovites hoarding ventilators. Although he added that might not do them any good without plenty of supplies of pressured oxygen and other crucial equipment as well as trained staff. But for the super wealthy — especially the mega-rich oligarchs — bespoke medical teams would not be beyond their reach.

FILE - Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska is seen outsite his GAZ car production plant in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, April 16, 2019.

But in recent weeks as cases have mounted — Russia has the second fastest rate of new infections globally — and discontent increased with a smattering of protests, the oligarchs started to intervene. Metals magnate Oleg Deripaska is funding three COVID-19 clinics in Siberia. The oligarchs have presented their involvement as being motivated by patriotism, avoiding overt criticism of the state strategy, although Deripaska publicly urged in March the Kremlin to seal shut all borders and to impose a 60-day quarantine on the country.
 
Analysts say oligarchs need to be mindful of the unwritten deal between them and Putin of not getting involved in politics. They have examples to warn them of the danger of breaking the deal, including the case of oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was the world's 16th richest man when arrested in 2003 on charges of fraud and embezzlement and sentenced to a nine-year prison stretch.   
 
Patriotism or not, some analysts hazard that the oligarchs are moving now to try to fill in the holes for fear that the system Putin presides over — which also protects their wealth — is facing serious risks.  
 
The Russian president has had to put on hold his plans to rewrite the Russian constitution, which would allow him another 12 years in office, "while the Kremlin tries to deal with both the virus and a new economic crisis," says Tatiana Stanovaya, an analyst with the Carnegie Moscow Center, a think tank. "These twin challenges represent the biggest shock the Putin regime has ever faced and are likely to feed popular dissatisfaction," she adds.  
 
The economic fallout is mounting. A quarter of working-age Russians say they have lost their jobs or expect they will soon. Six out of ten Russians have no savings. There have been isolated protests and analysts say there's a real prospect of much wider unrest, once the pandemic starts to accelerate beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg, where hospitals and local health services have been neglected for years.  

FILE - Medical personnel wearing protective gear move what appears to be a bag containing a human body, outside a hospital for coronavirus patients, on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia May 12, 2020.

On Monday, the Kremlin appeared to understand the danger. Putin made his fifth address to the nation since the coronavirus outbreak, announcing new measures for supporting ordinary Russians as well as small businesses. Among the measures — bonuses for doctors and social workers, benefits for families with children, preferential credit terms for company owners and tax exemptions for small businesses. There had been mounting public criticism of the neglect of small business with preferential treatment going to much bigger concerns previously.
 
The measures received praise from economists. "For the first time during the crisis we are seeing that the size of payments is at least somewhat in line with what economists wrote about, and what opposition leaders suggested," Konstantin Sonin, a professor at the University of Chicago and Russia's Higher School of Economics, told Meduza, an independent news site.
 
Evsey Gurvich, an economist, agrees, but told Meduza it would have been better "if there had been a large-scale, anti-crisis program announced at the very beginning of the crisis — this would have helped many to decide not to close their businesses."
 
Whether the new measures will dampen political frustration is unclear. For working-class Russians the new payments will cover their grocery costs for one month.
 
And few believe the coronavirus death toll the Kremlin has been publishing. In Moscow alone, the country's coronavirus hotspot where 52 % of the officially registered confirmed cases have occurred, analysts as well as the city's mayor say coronavirus-related cases and fatalities are being seriously under-reported.  
 
Russia confirmed 9,974 new coronavirus infections Thursday, bringing the country's official tally of cases to 252,245. The total nationwide death toll is put at 2,305 — a mortality rate much lower than other European countries with better reserved and rated health-care systems. The Kremlin says Russia was able to learn lessons from the experiences of western Europe.
 
Trust in the mortality rate officially given is low. Russia's first recorded virus-related fatality — an elderly woman who died on March 19 — was reclassified as having died from a blood clot.
 

May 15, 2020 at 03:28AM

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NYC coronavirus deaths may be underreported by more than 5,000, CDC says

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May 13, 2020 at 02:37AM

US COVID Death Toll 'Almost Certainly Higher' Than Reported, Fauci Tells Senate

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said Tuesday that the coronavirus death toll in the United States is "almost certainly higher" than the reported 80,000 figure and warned of serious consequences if cities and states reopen too quickly.  

He told a Senate panel investigating the U.S. response to the pandemic that unaccounted numbers of coronavirus victims, especially in the New York City, have died at home without being officially counted in the national death toll, but declined to speculate how many more.

Fauci warned that it is "entirely possible" that the pandemic "could become worse" in the U.S. in the fall months from September to November, but hoped that by then the country "could deal with it" better than it has so far.  

President Donald Trump has been prodding businesses and state governors to reopen the world's biggest economy and all but a few of the country's 50 governors have issued orders in recent days to allow some stores, restaurants and offices to resume operations on a limited basis if precautions are taken.

But Fauci, testifying remotely from his home outside Washington, said there "is a real risk you will trigger an outbreak that you will not be able to control" if government guidelines calling for a steady decline in the number of cases over a two-week period are ignored before there is a return to normal life in the U.S.   

"The consequences could be dire," he said.

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Fauci said eight coronavirus vaccines are being developed in the U.S.  

"If we are successful," he said, "we hope to know that in late fall, early winter."

But he said it was "a bit of a bridge too far" for millions of students returning to colleges and schools across the country in August and September to be vaccinated ahead of attending classes again.

Trump has said there has been widespread coronavirus testing in the U.S., more than in any other country, although some reports say that the U.S. is not among the top 20 countries in the number of tests administered on a per capita basis.

Navy Admiral Brett Giroir, a deputy secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, told the lawmakers that nine million tests for the COVID-19 disease have been administered in the U.S., with more than 1.3 million people testing positively.

He said 240 testing sites are now open in the U.S. and that another 12.9 million people will be tested over the next four weeks. He said there will be a marked increase in the number of tests administered in the coming months, possibly 40 million to 50 million per month by September.

Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., shown on a monitor, right, speaks during virtual Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing, May 12, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Modified quarantine

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is in a "modified quarantine" after he came in contact last week with Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary, Katie Miller, who has tested positive for COVID-19.

Three other top U.S. health officials, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration; Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Giroir all also testified via videoconferencing. The hearing was led by Sen. Lamar Alexander, himself quarantining from his home in Tennessee, halfway across the country from Washington.

Redfield said, "We need to stay vigilant. Social distancing (staying two meters apart from other people) remains imperative."

Democrats attack Trump response

The hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee was billed as "COVID-19: Safely Getting Back to Work and Back to School." But minority Democrats on the Republican-led panel used it as opportunity to attack the Trump administration's failures to quickly and adequately deal with the spread of the disease as it advanced from China earlier this year.  

Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from the western state of Washington, said, "President Trump has been trying to ignore the facts and experts."

At one point early on this year, Trump assured Americans the disease would soon be gone. Now, more than 80,000 coronavirus deaths have officially been recorded in the U.S. and health experts at the University of Washington are predicting more than 137,000 Americans will die by August.
 
Fauci has often appeared at White House coronavirus briefings alongside Trump, where he has been in the awkward position of having to contradict the chief executive's rosy projections that the pandemic was under control in the U.S. and that the country could safely resume normal life, with stores, restaurants and businesses reopening.

May 13, 2020 at 02:05AM

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AP-NORC poll: Majority Disapprove of Coronavirus Protests

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A majority of Americans disapprove of protests against restrictions aimed at preventing the spread the coronavirus, according to a new poll that also finds the still-expansive support for such limits — including restaurant closures and stay-at-home orders — has dipped in recent weeks.

The new survey from the University of Chicago Divinity School and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 55% of Americans disapprove of the protests that have popped up in some states as some Americans begin chafing at public health measures that have decimated the global economy. Thirty-one percent approve of the demonstrations.  

Texas hair salon owner Shelley Luther was sentenced to seven days in jail last week after refusing to apologize to a judge for opening her salon in defiance of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's emergency orders. She was released less than 48 hours later after Abbott removed jail as a punishment for defying virus safeguards.

In Michigan, thousands of people rallied outside the state capitol last month to protest Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's restrictions. Hundreds returned two weeks later, some of them armed, to demonstrate inside the statehouse.

An empty street leads toward Dupont Circle, a popular neighborhood with lively dining and nightlife in Washington, DC, April 4, 2020. (Photo by Diaa Bekheet). DC is under a stay-at-home order due to coronavirus pandemic..

Democrats are more likely than Republicans to disapprove of such protests, 67% to 51%. Thirty-two percent of Republicans and 25% of Democrats say they approve. Only 8% said public protests, marches and rallies should be unrestricted during the outbreak, while 41% think they should be allowed only with restrictions and 50% think they should not be allowed at all.  

Dee Miner, 71, of Fremont, California, said she disapproves of the protests, but also feels people have the right to express themselves.

"We have to have the right to protest, but I have to tell you, seeing those people with those weapons at the statehouse in Michigan was pretty disturbing," said Miner, a Democrat and retired dental office manager. "I felt sorry for the legislators having to work with that angry mob in the lobby. It seemed like it was just pure intimidation."

Adam Blann, 37, of Carson City, Nevada, said he does not personally favor the protests, but does not believe they should be restricted.

"Its a tough situation," said Blann, a Republican-leaning voter who works in the natural gas industry. "But I also think that one of the reasons we live in a great country is that we have freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom to protest."

As some states have begun to slowly ease restrictions on businesses and individuals, the poll finds that 71% of Americans favor requiring people to stay in their homes except for essential errands. Support for such measures is down slightly from 80% two weeks earlier.

Similarly, 67% of Americans now say they favor requiring bars and restaurants to close, down from 76% in the earlier poll. The poll also suggested dipping support for requiring Americans to limit gatherings to 10 people or fewer (from 82% to 75%) and requiring postponement of nonessential medical care (from 68% to 57%).

Mark Roberts, a retired transportation worker in Abingdon, Virginia, said he's going about his business despite Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam's stay-at-home order. Roberts said people in his southwestern Virginia community are driving the short distance into neighboring Bristol, Tennessee, to patronize restaurants open there.

"People from Virginia have been crossing over into Tennessee to eat and just get out, you know, and do things, and Virginia is losing out on it," said the 61-year-old Republican.

Among Republicans like Roberts, the share supporting stay-at-home orders dipped from 70% in late April to 57% in the latest poll. The share supporting other measures also dropped, from 75% to 63% for limiting gatherings to no more than 10 people and from 70% to 53% for closing bars and restaurants.

Among Democrats, 84% favor stay-at-home orders, down slightly from 91% in the earlier poll. Eighty-seven percent of Democrats favor barring gatherings of more than 10 people, and 79% support bar and restaurant closures, about the same as in the previous poll.

Blann, the Nevada resident, said he didn't mind officials imposing certain restrictions for a short period of time, but fears the potential of authorities being unwilling to roll back some of their newly declared powers.

"I do think the government should respond to allowing people to make more of their own personal choices without legal repercussions," said Blann, who said he doesn't expect to find himself in a crowded bar anytime soon, but is looking forward to being able to go back to church.

The poll found most Americans in favor of some kind of restriction on in-person worship, with 42% saying that should be allowed with restriction and 48% that it should not be allowed at all.

Marilou Grainger, a retired nurse anesthetist and registered Republican in Washington, Missouri, said she's torn between the need to take precautions against the virus while also allowing people to make their own decisions.

"I think we should still be under a bit of quarantine, especially people who are 60 or older," said Grainger, 67, who believes the jury is still out on whether lockdowns and stay-at-home orders have been effective in stemming the spread of the virus.

"Did we make a mistake? Did we totally annihilate our economy, or did we actually save some people issuing this quarantine?" she asked.

May 12, 2020 at 12:09AM

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'''James Hollan Baker''' (March 16, 1920 &ndash; February 3, 2003) was an American television producer and director, most noted for his work on [[jazz]] documentaries in the 1950s and 1960s.

==Biography==
Born in [[Muskogee, Oklahoma]], Baker appeared aged 15 as a [[tap dancer]] on [[CBS Radio]]'s ''[[Major Bowes' Amateur Hour]]'' in [[New York City]], winning a spot in a [[vaudeville]] touring company. He graduated from [[Central High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma)|Central High School]] in [[Tulsa]], and studied at [[Oklahoma State University]], where he formed an eight-piece band, named by ''[[Down Beat]]'' magazine as the best college dance band in the U.S. During [[World War II]], he led an Air Force band, Men of the Air, and prepared shows to entertain the troops,<ref name=oklahoman>[https://ift.tt/2YR3DOI "Oklahoman entertainer Baker dies", ''The Oklahoman'', February 21, 2003]. Retrieved May 10, 2020</ref><ref name=variety>[https://ift.tt/3fw17DH "James H. 'Jimmie' Baker: Television producer and director", ''Variety'', April 3, 2003]. Retrieved May 10, 2020</ref><ref name=hof>[https://ift.tt/2SN3iJi "Baker, James (Jimmie) Hollan", ''Oklahoma Hall of Fame'']. Retrieved 8 May 2020</ref><ref name=latimes/> at one time working with [[Veronica Lake]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/3dwwI69 Terry Rowan, ''World War II Goes to the Movies & Television Guide Volume II L-Z'', ''Lulu.com'', p.9]</ref>

Following the war, he graduated from university, worked for some time as a high school teacher, and assembled a touring band, the Collegians. After the band split up, Baker moved to [[Hollywood]], and found work with [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. He initially worked in radio production, but by 1950 had started working in television. In 1956, he developed and produced the innovative show ''[[Stars of Jazz]]'' which won a local [[Emmy]] award, and in 1962 produced [[Steve Allen]]'s ''[[Jazz Scene USA]]''.<ref name=harrod>[https://ift.tt/35KMrMu James A. Harrod, ''Stars of Jazz: A Complete History of the Innovative Television Series, 1956-1958'', McFarland, 2020, pp.1-7]</ref> His other productions included a 1962 documentary profile, ''The [[Duke Ellington]] Story'', narrated by [[Raymond Burr]], as well as other jazz documentaries; a jazz series, ''Music Is My Beat'';<ref>[https://ift.tt/2SPO0Uc ''Metronome'', Volume 78, 1961, p.58]</ref> a regular talk show in the late 1960s hosted by football star [[Roosevelt Grier]];<ref name=variety/> a documentary on [[Errol Flynn]]; the pilot for ''[[Laugh-In]]''; and work on ''[[That's Entertainment!]]''.<ref name=latimes/><ref name=hof/> He won five [[Emmys]], an [[ACE Award]] for his work in [[cable television]], and several Angel Awards "for television production advancing high ethical principles and constructive behavior."<ref name=oklahoman/>

Baker co-founded the [[Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum]]. In 1978, he was elected to the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. He was active in charitable foundations, both in California and Oklahoma, and volunteered as producer of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony for ten years.<ref name=oklahoman>[https://ift.tt/2YR3DOI "Oklahoman entertainer Baker dies", ''The Oklahoman'', February 21, 2003]. Retrieved May 10, 2020</ref>

In 2003 he died in hospital in [[Santa Monica]], aged 82, from a [[heart attack]] following two earlier [[stroke]]s.<ref name=variety/><ref name=latimes>[https://ift.tt/3fBhpLk "J. Baker, 82; Got Emmys for Work in Local TV", ''LA Times'', February 15, 2003]. Retrieved May 10, 2020</ref>

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'''Max Paul Georg Willert''' (12 December 1901 – 17 June 1988) was a German [[musicologist]] and [[baritone]] singer.

== Life ==
Willert was born in 1901 as the son of a teacher and a housewife in [[Tanna]], Thuringia. He was a pupil at the elementary school and the Realgymnasium in [[Bad Frankenhausen]]. Until the first teacher's examination in 1921 he attended the teacher's seminar. Leipzig. In 1924 the second teacher's examination followed. After a short [[Volksschule]] teacher period in Chemnitz, he studied [[musicology]], music pedagogy and German literature at the [[Leipzig University]] and [[singing]] at the [[University of Music and Theatre Leipzig]] from 1926 to 1928. He also passed the [[Maturazeugnis]] for elementary school teachers at the . In 1928 he acquired the teaching qualification for singing and then worked as a music teacher at the Realgymnasium in Greiz as well as a concert and oratorio singer.

In 1933 the entire teaching staff of the [[Gymnasium (Germany)|Realgymnasium]] joined the [[NSDAP]]. In 1938 he was granted leave of absence for studies at the [[Musikhochschule Weimar]]; he passed the state examinations for music, musicology and German (upper school) and was an assistant at the musicological institute of the [[University of Jena]]. In 1940 he was awarded a doctorate in German Studies by Arthur Witte and [[Bernhard Kummer]] at the Faculty of Philosophy with the [[dissertation]] ''German translations of the [[Waltharius]]: Scheffel, Winterfeld, Althof'' as [[Dr. phil.]]. From 1940 to 1942 he was music teacher at the Realgymnasium Greiz. In 1941 he passed the assessors' examination in Weimar. In 1942 he became a secondary school teacher at the Aufbauschule in Weimar and lecturer at the Music Pedagogical Institute of the Weimar Academy of Music. In February 1943 he was drafted into the [[Wehrmacht]], where he worked as [[military music|military musician]] among others. From April 1945 to March 1947 he spent time in French [[war captivity]] in Heidenheim-Kreuznach-Rennes.

From 1947 to 1949 he was choirmaster and opera singer at the theatre in Greiz and afterwards opera and concert singer (baritone) at the [[Wismar Theatre]]. In 1951 he became university [[lecturer]] and director of the Institute for Music Education at the Pedagogical Faculty of the [[University of Rostock]]. In 1952/53 he was a lecturer for music education at the Institute for Music Education at Leipzig University. In 1953 he was appointed professor with a lectureship for theory of music and singing education at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Leipzig University. From 1957 to 1959 he was [[vice dean]]. In 1965 he became professor with a full lectureship for music history, instrumentology and folk song studies at the same university, from 1965 on at the , department of music education. In 1966/67 he was head of the department of artistic practice at the institute. In addition, he was second chairman of the Senate Cultural Commission of the University. In 1967 he became [[Emeritus]].

From 1947 to 1967 Willert was member of the . From 1960 he belonged to the , the and the [[Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse]] (Urania). From 1961 to 1967 he was on the Leipzig district board of the Urania.

In 1972, Willert moved to the Federal Republic of Germany to [[Dietzenbach]]-Steinberg (Hessen), where he was the representative of the [[organist]] in the Martin Luther Protestant congregation. From 1981 to 1986 he represented the organist in the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Peter in and in the Evangelical Lutheran parish of the monastery church of St. Nicholas in Göttingen-[[Nikolausberg]]. In the FRG he published numerous introductions to works and operas.

== Awards ==
* 1963: (Bronze)
* 1965:

== External links ==
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South Korea Warns of Possible ‘Second Wave’ of COVID

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South Korea Warns of Possible 'Second Wave' of COVID 

South Korea warned Sunday of the possibility of a second wave of COVID-19 infections. 

"It's not over until it's over," President Moon Jae-in told the nation Sunday as it reported new coronavirus infections at a one-month high. 

The spike in cases comes as South Korea had begun easing some pandemic restrictions, including reopening bars and nightclubs. 

A man waring a face mask passes by the entrance of a temporary closed dance club in Seoul, South Korea, May 10, 2020.

South Korea since shut down more than 2,100 bars and other establishments in Seoul after the new cases were linked to people who frequented nightclubs last weekend. Many of the infections were traced to a 29-year-old man who went to three nightclubs before testing positive.  

Schools in South Korea were scheduled to begin reopening this week, but that may be delayed after the new outbreaks while officials say probes into the new cases would determine the next steps.   

China also reported fourteen new cases Sunday — the first double digit rise in ten days. 

Germany, which began easing social restrictions last week, has seen some regional spikes in cases, particularly in nursing homes and slaughterhouses. 

Spain, France, and the United States are among the countries that are slowly reopening parts of their economies. 

Worldwide, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has surpassed 4 million. The global death tally is nearly 280,000, according to Johns Hopkins University statistics. 

The U.S. leads the world in the number of cases and deaths from the virus.  More than 1.3 million people in the U.S. have been infected and nearly 80,000 people have died. 

Former U.S. President Barack Obama says current U.S. President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been "an absolute chaotic disaster."  

In a conference call with former staff members, Obama said, "It has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset of 'what's in it for me'  and 'to heck with everybody else' — when that mindset is operationalized in our government."  

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