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Ruth Westheimer  
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Bruce Dern  
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Angeline Jolie  
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Today’s Birthdays: Sex therapist and media personality Dr.  
Ruth Westheimer is 96. Actor Bruce Dern is 88. Musician  
Roger Ball is 80. Actor-singer Michelle Phillips is 80. Jazz  
musician Anthony Braxton is 79. Rock musician Danny  
Brown (The Fixx) is 73. Actor Parker Stevenson is 72. Actor  
Keith David is 68. Blues singer-musician Tinsley Ellis is 67.  
Actor Eddie Velez is 66. Singer-musician El DeBarge is 63.  
Actor Julie White is 63. Actor Lindsay Frost is 62. Actor Sean  
Pertwee is 60. Former tennis player Andrea Jaeger is 59. Opera  
singer Cecilia Bartoli is 58. R&B singer Al B. Sure! is 56.  
Actor Scott Wolf is 56. Actor-comedian Rob Huebel is 55.  
Comedian Horatio Sanz is 55. Actor James Callis is 53. Actor  
Noah Wyle is 53. Rock musician Stefan Lessard (The Dave  
Matthews Band) is 50. Actor-comedian Russell Brand is 49.  
Actor Angelina Jolie is 49. Actor Theo Rossi is 49. Alt-country  
singer Kasey Chambers is 48. Actor Robin Lord Taylor is 46.  
Rock musician JoJo Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 44. Model  
Bar Refaeli (ruh-FEHL’-lee) is 39. Olympic gold medal figure  
skater Evan Lysacek is 39. Americana singer Shakey Graves is  
37. Rock musician Zac Farro is 34.  
AP photo  
Gilbert Clarke a D-Day veteran smiles as he is interviewed near his home in east London, Wednesday, May 15,  
2024. Clarke, now 98, is one of more than 3 million men and women from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean  
who served in the British military during World War II.  
Remembering D-Day, RAF veteran Gilbert Clarke  
recalls the thrill of planes overhead  
LONDON (AP) — Gilbert port the war effort after the after war broke out and it Montego Bay when he heard  
Clarke leans back on the seat Nazis occupied Europe and started recruiting in the Carib- reports of German subma-  
of his mobility scooter, cranes threatened to invade Britain, bean in 1940. By the end of rines attacking ships in the  
his neck and gazes into the said George Hay, a historian the war, around 6,000 West Caribbean and figured the  
bright blue skies over East for the Commonwealth War Indian men had enlisted in the war was coming to Jamaica.  
London, remembering the Graves Commission. Those RAF, with 450 assigned to Rather than wait for that to  
moment 80 years ago when contributions should be air crews and another 5,500 happen, he decided to enlist.  
he knew the invasion of remembered along with the serving on the ground. Eighty  
France was under way. sacrifices of those who fought women joined the Women’s where someone’s gotta do  
Clarke, then an 18-year-old and died on the Normandy Auxiliary Air Force. something to end what was  
Royal Air Force volunteer beaches, he said. Many of the recruits faced going on,” Clarke said,  
from Jamaica, was still a “It’s incredibly important, racism, despite an official ban speaking softly, with a Jamai-  
trainee learning about the what those men managed to on discrimination. Still, many can lilt still in his voice. “And  
“We were all in a situation  
intricacies of radar systems do on the beaches on that one thrived.  
when the roar of aircraft day,” Hay said. “But what  
engines forced him to look to gets them there and what decorated West Indian vol-  
(I’m) proud to know I did my  
One of the most highly little bit.”  
Today  
Still, there was a “flood  
the heavens on June 6, 1944. keeps them there and what unteers was navigator Philip of tears” when Clarke went  
“You couldn’t have seen allows them to fight on from Louis Ulric Cross, a native home to say goodbye. He  
thebluesky,”Clarkerecalled, that point is far bigger than of Trinidad and Tobago who soon found himself on board  
his voice tinged with awe those who actually put their flew 80 missions over Ger- a troop ship that was part  
Tuesday  
Showers  
eight decades later. “Was all feet on the sand.”  
many and occupied Europe. of a convoy being attacked  
planes. Hundreds and thou- That includes ground crew Cross, who died in 2013, was by U-boats, but he made it  
70°/55°  
sands of them — all shapes members like Clarke, who awarded the Distinguished safely to Liverpool and was  
and sizes. All different type had the unglamorous but Flying Cross and was pro- assigned to a base in northern  
of plane. The instructor (said) vital job of maintaining the moted to squadron leader England for training.  
‘Hmm. Well, boys, it’s start- aircraft that were crucial to before he left the RAF.  
Life in the RAF proved to  
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8am,  
then a slight chance of showers between 8am and 9am. Most  
ly cloudy with a high near 70. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with  
gusts as high as 15 mph.  
ed.’’’  
“We all shouted, `Give campaign.  
them hell,’ or probably some-  
thing a lot stronger than that.’’ destination for Black volun- high commissioner for Trini- a semi-circular frame and  
Clarke got to make his teers because the air force dad and Tobago in 1990. heated with a single wood- or  
Clarke was a teenager in coal-burning stove.  
the success of the Normandy  
He later served as a high be a series of Nissen huts,  
court judge in Trinidad and prefabricated structures made  
The RAF was a popular returned to London as the of corrugated iron bent over  
Tuesday night - Chance of showers and thunderstorms.  
own contribution after he lifted the “color bar” soon  
finished his training a few  
3-day outlook  
weeks later and was posted  
MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY  
MICHIGAN GAMING CONTROL BOARD  
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING  
to a series of air bases where  
he serviced the radio and  
radar systems of British and  
American aircraft for the rest  
of the war. He plans to travel  
to northern France later this  
wee k, joining other veterans  
of the Battle of Normandy for  
ceremonies marking the 80th  
anniversary of the D-Day  
landings that started the cam-  
paign to liberate Europe from  
Nazi rule.  
Wednesday  
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Internet Gaming Rules  
ADMINISTRATIVE RULES 2024-4-TY  
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The Michigan Gaming Control Board will hold a public hearing at the following time  
and date to receive comments by interested persons on internet gaming rules.  
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Date: July 11, 2024  
Today’s Sun and Moon  
Wednesday’s Sun and Moon  
Clarke, now 98, is one of  
more than 3 million men and  
women from South Asia,  
Africa and the Caribbean  
who served in the British  
military during World War  
II. Citizens of what was still  
the British Empire, they  
volunteered to fight for “king  
and country” just like recruits  
from the British Isles, but  
their service is often over-  
looked.  
Sunset  
Moonset  
9:00 p.m. Sunrise  
4:52 p.m. Moonrise  
6:30 a.m.  
4:54 a.m.  
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  
The public hearing will take place at the Michigan Gaming Control Board, 3062 W.  
Grand Blvd, Suite L-700, Detroit, Michigan.  
These rules are authorized under sections 10(c) & 10(g) of the Lawful Internet  
Gaming Act, which provides the board with authority to promulgate any rules  
necessary and proper to govern internet gaming, including requirements to  
ensure responsible gaming and requirements for vendors and vendor registration.  
MCL 432.310(c) & (g).  
Today  
6/9  
6/18  
6/22  
6/28  
The U.K.’s former colonies  
were crucial to the Allied  
victory because they supplied  
money and resources, as  
well as manpower, to sup-  
Mass parachute jump kicks off  
The proposed amendments will:  
80th anniversary of D-Day  
(1) Clarify the vendor requirements and the vendor registration process  
contained in rule 629, Mich Admin Code R 432.629, consistent with the  
Lawful Internet Gaming Act, MCL 432.301 – 332. Currently, the provisions  
governing vendor requirements and registration are all in rule 629. The  
proposed amendments will keep vendor requirements in rule 629 and will  
move vendor registration to newly added rule 629a.  
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fireworks shows, parachute  
TAN-LES-MARAIS, France jumps, solemn commemo-  
(AP) — Parachutists jumping rations and ceremonies that  
from World War II-era planes world leaders will attend this  
hurled themselves Sunday week is to pass the baton of  
into now peaceful Normandy remembrance to the current  
skies where war once raged, generations now seeing war  
heralding a week of ceremo- again in Europe, in Ukraine.  
nies for the fast-disappearing U.S. President Joe Biden,  
generation of Allied troops Ukrainian President Volody-  
who fought from D-Day myr Zelenskyy and British  
beaches80yearsagotoAdolf royals are among the VIPs  
Hitler’s fall, helping free that France is expecting for  
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(2) Amend part of the responsible gaming requirement imposed in rule 654(a),  
Mich Admin Code R 432.654(a). Currently this section requires internet  
gaming operators and internet gaming platform providers to prominently  
display a specific Michigan gambling helpline on their websites. The  
proposed amendment to Rule 654(a) changes this to a more generic  
requirement for operators and platform providers to provide a toll-free  
compulsive gambling helpline.  
Europe of his tyranny.  
All along the Normandy  
the D-Day events.  
On Sunday, three C-47  
coastline — where then- transport planes, a workhorse  
young soldiers from across of the war, dropped three long  
the United States, Britain, strings of jumpers, their round  
Canada and other Allied chutes mushrooming open  
nations waded ashore through in the blue skies with puffy  
hails of fire on five beaches white clouds, to whoops  
on June 6, 1944 — French from the huge crowd that was  
officials, grateful Normandy regaled by tunes from Glenn  
survivors and other admirers Miller and Edith Piaf as they  
are saying “merci” but also waited.  
In addition to the public hearing, interested parties may submit written comments  
to Michigan Gaming Control Board, PO Box 30786, Lansing, Michigan 48909,  
Attention: John McKeown, no later than 5:00 p.m. on July 11, 2024. Written  
comments may also be sent electronically to [email protected]ov.  
The rules are published on the Michigan Government website at  
http://www.michigan.gov/adr and will appear in the July 1, 2024, issue of the  
Michigan Register. Copies of the draft rules may also be obtained by mail or  
electronic request at the address above.  
goodbye.  
The planes looped around  
The ever-dwindling num- and dropped another three  
ber of veterans in their late sticks of jumpers. Some of  
nineties and older who are the loudest applause from the  
coming back to remember crowd arose when a startled  
fallen friends and their his- deer pounced from the under-  
tory-changing exploits are growth as the jumpers were  
People with disabilities requiring additional accommodations (such as materials  
in alternative format) in order to participate in the meeting, or those that have  
questions should contact Karen Finch, Michigan Gaming Control Board,  
at 313-456-4205 at least one week prior to the meeting.  
the last. landing and sprinted across  
Part of the purpose of the landing zone.  
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