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The Hindu
23-06-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Seattle Sounders vs PSG LIVE streaming info: Where to watch FIFA Club World Cup 2025? Predicted lineups
European champion Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) will look to secure a spot in the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 knockout stage when it takes on Seattle Sounders in their Group B match at the Lumen Field Stadium on Monday (June 24 in IST). PSG, sitting second in the group, will seek to bounce back from its shock defeat against Brazilian club Botafogo in its previous group stage fixture, while Seattle is looking for its first points of the campaign. The top two teams from each group will qualify for the round of 16. LIVESTREAM AND TELECAST INFO When will the Seattle Sounders vs PSG FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Group B match kick off? The Seattle Sounders vs PSG FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Group B match will kick off at 12:30 AM IST on Tuesday, June 24 at the Lumen Field Stadium. Where to watch Seattle Sounders vs PSG FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Group B match? The Seattle Sounders vs PSG FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Group B match will not be telecast in India. The match will be livestreamed on the DAZN app and website. PREDICTED LINEUPS Seattle Sounders: Frei (gk), Roldan, Bell, Ragen, Baker-Whiting, Roldan, Vargas, De La Vega, Rusnak, Kent, Ferreira PSG: Donnarumma (gk), Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Mendes, Ruiz, Vitinha, Neves, Lee, Barcola, Kvaratskhelia
Morocco World
23-06-2025
- Sport
- Morocco World
PSG vs Seattle Sounders: When, Where, How to watch, & Score Prediction
Rabat – Seattle Sounders are set to face PSG tonight in a decisive FIFA Club World Cup clash. This game will determine Seattle's chances of staying in the tournament. The match will take place at Lumen Field Stadium in Seattle, Washington, marking a crucial moment for the home team – Seattle Sounders – as they're trying to move forward in the tournament. The game begins at 8 p.m. Moroccan time (GMT+1), and fans can watch the action on DAZN, TNT, TBS, and TruTV. In Group B, PSG currently sits in second place, sharing the podium with Atletico Madrid with 3 points, behind Botafogo, which leads the group with 6 points. Meanwhile, the Seattle Sounders are at the bottom of the group with no points so far. Predicted lineups PSG: Donnarumma; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Beraldo, Mendes; Vitinha, Neves, Fabián; Doué, Barcola, Kvaratskhelia Seattle Sounders: Frei; Roldan, Bell, Ragen, Baker-Whiting; Roldan, Vargas; De La Vega, Rusnák, Kent; Ferreira Predicted score Considering the performance of both teams during this championship, MWN says PSG will win with a 3-1 Tags: Hakimi and PSGMessi on bench for Barcelona against PSG
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Protest curfews wallop downtown restaurants: 'Just stay open, make money where we can.'
The Mermaid hasn't turned a profit since Saturday. The aquatic-themed Little Tokyo bar is typically open daily and a hub for regulars, community events and off-duty workers of the hospitality industry, all bathed in soft blue lighting meant to replicate the ocean's waves. But these fixtures hadn't been found there for days, because the Mermaid — like many restaurants and bars spread through downtown's hot zones for anti-ICE protests and an 8 p.m. curfew — is closing, pivoting to other business models and trying new hours of operation to weather fallout from ongoing unrest spurred by widespread immigration raids. 'It's devastating,' said co-owner Arlene Roldan. 'It's ultimately going to impact us dramatically. With all the work that we've already put into this, it's like a whole new bar at this point, and a whole new marketing strategy that we're going to have to come up with.' Little Tokyo, she said, is often the epicenter of community activism and marches. After seeing how many protesters were gathering downtown on Sunday, she and her business partner, Katie Kildow, decided not to open that evening. Read more: Federal prosecutors 'coming after' L.A. protesters. Do some charges encroach on 1st Amendment? They tried to reopen their bar on Monday but only made it an hour before the protests pushed almost to their door, which is located three blocks from the Metropolitan Detention Center. LAPD then closed nearby streets, and no one could access the cocktail bar. On Tuesday night Roldan heard a rumor that Mayor Karen Bass could issue a curfew, and told her staff to stay home until further notice. About an hour later, the order came. The Mermaid remained closed. On Wednesday, the team tried something different: Reopen at noon, and close at 7 p.m. in accordance with the curfew. Now they're trying to reach an entirely new demographic of those able to stop by for a drink during the daytime, while also communicating to regulars that the bar will only be open through 7 p.m. until the curfew lifts. Roldan said that as an owner-operator, she feels fortunate to be in a position to make business decisions that can help staff and keep the doors open, even if it means taking on bartending shifts herself. It's been consolation during a trying week. 'Little Tokyo was definitely hit very hard on Monday with opportunists that were looting,' Roldan said. 'Some of this graffiti is a little daunting, and here people today are now boarding up their businesses. So it's just becoming a little bit more and more bleak each day.' Read more: 330 immigrants detained in Southern California since Friday, White House spokesperson says Roldan is still standing with the protests, personally participating in marches during the day and offering drinks to customers who might need an escape from the disarray beyond the Mermaid's doors. 'It seems like we're always part of the path [of protests], so we're offering water and a place for people to recharge and to revive,' she said. 'We're also offering a welcome drink to anyone who just needs to calm their nerves as well, because it is a very intense environment out here.' Sampa, a nearby restaurant in the Arts District, is also toying with new daytime hours to offset business losses from the evening curfew. Since Friday, its owners saw reservations canceled first in a trickle, then by roughly 20%. On Sunday, the modern Filipino restaurant lost at least 50% of its business, with reservations canceled. Brunch walk-ins slowed to a halt. 'I think most of our diners travel to us and they get spooked,' said co-owner Jenny Valles. 'They get really scared like, 'Well, I don't know if I'm going to get caught up in the protests or the street closures, so we're just going to stay away.' While 99% of L.A. is doing fine and living their lives, people don't realize that 1% is greatly affected by this. We are one square mile where the curfew is, and it's really difficult.' On Tuesday evening when Valles and her business partners — husband Peter Rosenberg and chef Josh Espinosa — learned of downtown's 8 p.m. curfew, they canceled most of the night's reservations and closed early to allow staff to return home safely. Now they're pivoting their business hours, hoping that running the weekend brunch menu on weekdays and starting dinner at 3 p.m. can help them sustain. 'We're a small business, we can't afford to close,' Valles said. 'Our strategy is just: stay open, make money where we can, make sure we keep our lights on, make sure we keep our staff on.' Espinosa estimates that the restaurant makes 80% of its revenue between the hours of 6 and 10 p.m.; with a multi-day curfew in place, they're concerned that they cannot afford to close for even one hour between brunch and dinner service. 'We're dealt cards and it's on us to make the most of it and make the best of it,' Espinosa said. Valles said that restaurateurs she knows also carry 'emotional stress' concerning the well-being of immigrant staff. 'It's really emotionally difficult,' she said. 'They are the ones that wash the dishes, they are the ones that cook, they are the ones that put food on our plates across L.A.' Nearer to City Hall, Indian mainstay Badmaash closed due to street closures, the curfew and fallout from protests. 'We're taking it day by day,' co-owner Nakul Mahendro said in an email. 'Our main concern is the safety and well being of our staff.' 'No one wants to come downtown,' he added. 'We don't have any reservations…The business impact is tough, especially after all we've been through, but we're encouraging guests to visit our Fairfax location instead.' Camélia, one of the L.A. Times' 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles, is closed tonight. It barely began its dinner service on Tuesday before receiving word of the curfew, whose square-mile zone also included the French-Japanese bistro's corner of the Arts District. 'It was a huge scramble and very stressful for the staff to try to figure out what to do in the moment,' said co-owner Courney Kaplan. 'We decided today, let's just take a day, regroup and get a sense of what our next steps are going to be.' Via a large group text between the restaurant's owners, chefs and managers, the team solidified their game plan. They will pivot to a new lunch service and happy hour while under curfew, operating from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. and offering a streamlined menu of some of their most popular items: a croque Madame, the dry-aged burger, salads and beyond, with nightly happy hour specials that could include oysters and sparkling drinks. Read more: An Arts District hub redefines the bistro for Los Angeles They toyed with the idea of selling bottled cocktails or flipping part of the space to a wine shop. To Kaplan and her business partner, chef-owner Charles Namba — who also own and operate Echo Park restaurants Tsubaki and Ototo — these pivots are all too familiar. 'I'm having kind of intense flashbacks to March 2020, where we just need to try it and be flexible,' Kaplan said, 'and if we need to then pivot to something else, making sure that we're able to do that as well.' Kaplan and Namba began to see business drop off at Camélia as soon as the protests began, with guests canceling reservations and calling with questions about how to access the restaurant with road closures. Over the weekend, Kaplan estimates that Camélia lost roughly 40% of its revenue. As the week began the figure jumped to as much as 60%. Read more: The shocking state of the restaurant industry: 'We can't afford to be open. We can't afford to be closed.' After facing years of financial and operational setbacks marked by slow pandemic recovery, the city's economic fallout from entertainment-industry strikes, inflation and increases to minimum wage, the restaurant industry is seeing an onslaught of closures. In early 2025, the Altadena and Palisades fires wrought more fiscal trouble to restaurants throughout the city. 'The amount of stress that's brought on all of our coworkers and everybody on the team is almost unprecedented,' Kaplan said, adding, '[The industry] has just taken such a beating over the past few years that I really do hope people will come back and support small businesses,' she said. 'I'm just hoping for the best for our city and our community right now.' Sign up for our Tasting Notes newsletter for restaurant reviews, Los Angeles food-related news and more. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
11-06-2025
- Politics
- Los Angeles Times
Protest curfews wallop downtown restaurants: ‘Just stay open, make money where we can.'
The Mermaid hasn't turned a profit since Saturday. The aquatic-themed Little Tokyo bar is typically open daily and a hub for regulars, community events and off-duty workers of the hospitality industry, all bathed in soft blue lighting meant to replicate the ocean's waves. But these fixtures hadn't been found there for days, because the Mermaid — like many restaurants and bars spread through downtown's hot zones for anti-ICE protests and an 8 p.m. curfew — is closing, pivoting to other business models and trying new hours of operation to weather fallout from ongoing unrest spurred by widespread immigration raids. 'It's devastating,' said co-owner Arlene Roldan. 'It's ultimately going to impact us dramatically. With all the work that we've already put into this, it's like a whole new bar at this point, and a whole new marketing strategy that we're going to have to come up with.' Little Tokyo, she said, is often the epicenter of community activism and marches. After seeing how many protesters were gathering downtown on Sunday, she and her business partner, Katie Kildow, decided not to open that evening. They tried to reopen their bar on Monday but only made it an hour before the protests pushed almost to their door, which is located three blocks from the Metropolitan Detention Center. LAPD then closed nearby streets, and no one could access the cocktail bar. On Tuesday night Roldan heard a rumor that Mayor Karen Bass could issue a curfew, and told her staff to stay home until further notice. About an hour later, the order came. The Mermaid remained closed. On Wednesday, the team tried something different: Reopen at noon, and close at 7 p.m. in accordance with the curfew. Now they're trying to reach an entirely new demographic of those able to stop by for a drink during the daytime, while also communicating to regulars that the bar will only be open through 7 p.m. until the curfew lifts. Roldan said that as an owner-operator, she feels fortunate to be in a position to make business decisions that can help staff and keep the doors open, even if it means taking on bartending shifts herself. It's been consolation during a trying week. 'Little Tokyo was definitely hit very hard on Monday with opportunists that were looting,' Roldan said. 'Some of this graffiti is a little daunting, and here people today are now boarding up their businesses. So it's just becoming a little bit more and more bleak each day.' Roldan is still standing with the protests, personally participating in marches during the day and offering drinks to customers who might need an escape from the disarray beyond the Mermaid's doors. 'It seems like we're always part of the path [of protests], so we're offering water and a place for people to recharge and to revive,' she said. 'We're also offering a welcome drink to anyone who just needs to calm their nerves as well, because it is a very intense environment out here.' Sampa, a nearby restaurant in the Arts District, is also toying with new daytime hours to offset business losses from the evening curfew. Since Friday, its owners saw reservations canceled first in a trickle, then by roughly 20%. On Sunday, the modern Filipino restaurant lost at least 50% of its business, with reservations canceled. Brunch walk-ins slowed to a halt. 'I think most of our diners travel to us and they get spooked,' said co-owner Jenny Valles. 'They get really scared like, 'Well, I don't know if I'm going to get caught up in the protests or the street closures, so we're just going to stay away.' While 99% of L.A. is doing fine and living their lives, people don't realize that 1% is greatly affected by this. We are one square mile where the curfew is, and it's really difficult.' On Tuesday evening when Valles and her business partners — husband Peter Rosenberg and chef Josh Espinosa — learned of downtown's 8 p.m. curfew, they canceled most of the night's reservations and closed early to allow staff to return home safely. Now they're pivoting their business hours, hoping that running the weekend brunch menu on weekdays and starting dinner at 3 p.m. can help them sustain. 'We're a small business, we can't afford to close,' Valles said. 'Our strategy is just: stay open, make money where we can, make sure we keep our lights on, make sure we keep our staff on.' Espinosa estimates that the restaurant makes 80% of its revenue between the hours of 6 and 10 p.m.; with a multi-day curfew in place, they're concerned that they cannot afford to close for even one hour between brunch and dinner service. 'We're dealt cards and it's on us to make the most of it and make the best of it,' Espinosa said. Valles said that restaurateurs she knows also carry 'emotional stress' concerning the well-being of immigrant staff. 'It's really emotionally difficult,' she said. 'They are the ones that wash the dishes, they are the ones that cook, they are the ones that put food on our plates across L.A.' Nearer to City Hall, Indian mainstay Badmaash closed due to street closures, the curfew and fallout from protests. 'We're taking it day by day,' co-owner Nakul Mahendro said in an email. 'Our main concern is the safety and well being of our staff.' 'No one wants to come downtown,' he added. 'We don't have any reservations…The business impact is tough, especially after all we've been through, but we're encouraging guests to visit our Fairfax location instead.' Camélia, one of the L.A. Times' 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles, is closed tonight. It barely began its dinner service on Tuesday before receiving word of the curfew, whose square-mile zone also included the French-Japanese bistro's corner of the Arts District. 'It was a huge scramble and very stressful for the staff to try to figure out what to do in the moment,' said co-owner Courney Kaplan. 'We decided today, let's just take a day, regroup and get a sense of what our next steps are going to be.' Via a large group text between the restaurant's owners, chefs and managers, the team solidified their game plan. They will pivot to a new lunch service and happy hour while under curfew, operating from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. and offering a streamlined menu of some of their most popular items: a croque Madame, the dry-aged burger, salads and beyond, with nightly happy hour specials that could include oysters and sparkling drinks. They toyed with the idea of selling bottled cocktails or flipping part of the space to a wine shop. To Kaplan and her business partner, chef-owner Charles Namba — who also own and operate Echo Park restaurants Tsubaki and Ototo — these pivots are all too familiar. 'I'm having kind of intense flashbacks to March 2020, where we just need to try it and be flexible,' Kaplan said, 'and if we need to then pivot to something else, making sure that we're able to do that as well.' Kaplan and Namba began to see business drop off at Camélia as soon as the protests began, with guests canceling reservations and calling with questions about how to access the restaurant with road closures. Over the weekend, Kaplan estimates that Camélia lost roughly 40% of its revenue. As the week began the figure jumped to as much as 60%. After facing years of financial and operational setbacks marked by slow pandemic recovery, the city's economic fallout from entertainment-industry strikes, inflation and increases to minimum wage, the restaurant industry is seeing an onslaught of closures. In early 2025, the Altadena and Palisades fires wrought more fiscal trouble to restaurants throughout the city. 'The amount of stress that's brought on all of our coworkers and everybody on the team is almost unprecedented,' Kaplan said, adding, '[The industry] has just taken such a beating over the past few years that I really do hope people will come back and support small businesses,' she said. 'I'm just hoping for the best for our city and our community right now.'
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Yahoo
Massachusetts man sentenced to life in prison for 2019 murder of woman
A Springfield man has been sentenced to life in state prison after pleading guilty to the 2019 murder of 28-year-old Shanike 'Nikki' Roldan, the district attorney said Wednesday. Anthony Potito, 56, was sentenced Tuesday in Hampden Superior Court after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting death of Roldan, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said in a statement. He will be eligible for parole after 23 years. Potito was also sentenced on the following counts: Count 2: Carrying a firearm without a license — 18 months in the House of Correction Counts 3 & 4: Discharge of a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling — three months in the House of Correction Counts 5 & 6: Possession of ammunition without a Firearms Identification Card — two years in the House of Correction Counts 7 & 8: Possession of a firearm without a Firearms Identification Card — one year in the House of Correction Counts 9 & 10: Improper storage of a firearm — one year in the House of Correction Count 11: Receiving stolen property over $1,200 — one year in the House of Correction Sentences on Counts 2-11 are concurrent with the life term on Count 1 and with each other, the district attorney said. 'This case is a tragic example of how substance use can spiral into unimaginable tragedy. Shanike Roldan was a young woman whose life was taken far too soon. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones as they continue to grieve this loss,' Gulluni said. 'I'd like to thank Assistant District Attorneys Dana Parsons and Travis Lynch, and Victim Witness Advocate Stacy Martel, whose careful attention, compassion, and commitment to every detail were instrumental in guiding this case to resolution,' Gulluni said. 'I'd also like to thank the Springfield Police Department for their thorough and dedicated investigation.' On November 3, 2019, at approximately 1:37 a.m., Springfield Police responded to School Street for a report of an unconscious woman bleeding on the sidewalk. When officers arrived, they found Roldan suffering from a gunshot wound to the head, prosecutors said. She was transported to Baystate Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. Investigators quickly identified Potito as a suspect after speaking with a witness who saw the shooting and recognized Potito as the man who fired two shots from a sedan. Surveillance footage captured a vehicle approaching the victim as she walked along School Street, with a muzzle flash visible from the driver's side before Roldan collapsed. Detectives learned that Potito and Roldan had been in an on-again, off-again relationship. In the minutes before the shooting, Potito called the victim seven times in under five minutes. After Roldan was shot, communication from Potito stopped. Communication found on Roldan's phone revealed an exchange in which Potito accused the victim of infidelity and prostitution. Prosecutors said he ended the conversation by threatening, 'Well how about this, I'm going to go home and get my gun and kill you right now if I see you.' Minutes later, Roldan was shot. Through surveillance and witness interviews, police determined Potito frequently drove his mother's gray Toyota Avalon, which was consistent with the vehicle seen in surveillance footage. Gunshot residue was detected inside the Avalon after it was seized by police, prosecutors said. Potito was arrested later that day at his home. A search of the home led to the discovery of two operable firearms and ammunition. One of the recovered firearms, a revolver, contained two discharged .44 caliber cartridges. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner later determined the case of Roldan's death to be a gunshot wound to the head and neck and ruled the manner of death a homicide. This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
