Contemporary off an Olympic bronze medal, basketball star Dearica Hamby has filed a federal lawsuit towards the WNBA and her former workforce, the Las Vegas Aces.

The three-time WNBA All-Star and two-time Sixth Ladies of the 12 months winner is accusing the league and her former workforce of discriminating and retaliating towards her whereas she was pregnant, culminating in her commerce to the Los Angeles Sparks in January 2023.

“Defendant’s determination to commerce [Hamby] was motivated by [Hamby’s] announcement that she was pregnant after signing her contract extension,” reads the 18-page grievance, filed in U.S. district court docket in Nevada on Monday.

Hamby’s legal professionals allege that being traded brought on Hamby hurt, together with “misplaced promotional and/or endorsement alternatives, relocation to a extra unfavorable tax surroundings, and the denial of an opportunity to take part for a back-to-back WNBA championship.”

They’re asking for compensatory and punitive damages, “to be decided at trial.”

The WNBA didn’t reply to NPR’s request for remark, however a spokesperson for the league has instructed a number of media retailers that officers are “reviewing the grievance.”

Aces coach Becky Hammon has denied Hamby’s allegations prior to now, saying in Might 2023 that the commerce “got here right down to math and enterprise.”

“We made the choice to maneuver Hamby as a result of we may get three our bodies in for her one contract,” Hammon instructed reporters. “[Her pregnancy] was by no means a problem, and it was by no means the rationale she was traded. It simply wasn’t.”

The WNBA launched a proper investigation into Hamby’s discrimination claims in early 2023 — across the time that her second youngster was born — and concluded that the Aces had violated league guidelines “concerning impermissible participant advantages.”

It consequently rescinded the Aces’ 2025 first-round draft decide, and in addition suspended Hammon for 2 video games with out pay “for violating league and workforce Respect within the Office insurance policies.”

The Aces stated in an announcement on the time that they have been “deeply disenchanted” with the result of the investigation, including that the WNBA’s “determinations about Becky Hammon are inconsistent with what we all know and love about her.” A spokesperson for the Aces instructed NPR on Tuesday that it stands behind that assertion and has no additional remark in regards to the ongoing litigation.

This month’s lawsuit argues that the WNBA’s response didn’t go far sufficient to right the violation of Hamby’s rights or present her with any significant redress. Her legal professionals say the WNBA “had the ability to, however didn’t, rescind the commerce.”

“The [WNBA] didn’t impose satisfactory punishment or penalties on the [Las Vegas Aces] for the discriminatory remedy skilled by [Hamby] nor for her illegal commerce to the Los Angeles Sparks such that it will deter any future related conduct,” the grievance says.

Hamby gave beginning to her son, Legend, in March 2023 and reported to coaching camp for the Sparks the next month. The lawsuit says she didn’t miss any required time with the workforce on account of her being pregnant, and went on to play in all 40 of their common season video games. On the finish of the season, the Aces gained their second consecutive championship, with out her.

Hamby filed a discrimination declare towards the WNBA and the Aces with the Equal Employment Alternative Fee within the fall of 2023, and the federal company dominated in Might 2024 that she had the fitting to sue.

Hamby’s attorneys — with the nationwide agency HKM Employment Attorneys — stated in an announcement that the Aces had “exiled” Hamby for changing into pregnant and “the WNBA responded with a light-weight faucet on the wrist.”

“Each potential mom within the league is now on discover that childbirth may change their profession prospects in a single day,” they added. “That may’t be proper in some of the affluent and dynamic ladies’s skilled sports activities leagues in America.”

‘You’re buying and selling me as a result of I’m pregnant?’

Hamby has performed within the WNBA since 2015, beginning with the San Antonio Stars — who started working because the Las Vegas Aces in 2018. She helped lead the Aces to their first-ever WNBA championship within the fall of 2022.

In keeping with the lawsuit, Hamby signed a two-year contract extension with the workforce within the spring of 2022, which might have carried her by the 2024 enjoying season.

To seal the deal, the lawsuit says, the workforce provided Hamby extra “advantages and inducements” like an settlement to cowl personal college tuition prices for her daughter and permit her to occupy team-provided housing.

Lower than a month after Hamby signed the contract extension, she found she was pregnant once more. She instructed Hammon and different Aces employees throughout the summer season, and publicly introduced her being pregnant at their championship victory parade that fall.

Hamby’s legal professionals say that when her being pregnant was public, she “skilled notable adjustments in the way in which she was handled by Las Vegas Aces employees.”

She couldn’t get a transparent reply on when her daughter’s tuition can be paid, and was knowledgeable that she needed to vacate team-provided housing, in response to the swimsuit.

The lawsuit additionally recounts a January 2023 cellphone name between Hammon and Hamby by which the coach allegedly questioned her dedication to the workforce, falsely accused her of signing her contract extension whereas pregnant and advised she wasn’t taking her low season exercises significantly. The lawsuit says Hamby, then seven months pregnant, was “understanding often as permitted by her medical medical doctors.”

Hammon allegedly instructed Hamby that nobody anticipated her to get pregnant once more, “implying that by signing the contract extension, Hamby implicitly agreed she wouldn’t get pregnant throughout the two-year extension interval.”

Hamby’s legal professionals say she twice requested, “You’re buying and selling me as a result of I’m pregnant?” Hammon allegedly responded, “What would you like me to do?”

In keeping with the lawsuit, Hammon instructed Hamby the following day that her “time with the Aces is up,” and that she may “decide a spot like Los Angeles or Atlanta.” Inside every week, the workforce publicly introduced that Hamby had been traded to the Los Angeles Sparks.

Hamby says she was punished after she spoke out

Hamby responded to the commerce announcement with a public social media submit expressing her gratitude and pleasure, but additionally admitting that she was “heartbroken.”

“Being traded is part of the enterprise. Being lied to, bullied, manipulated and discriminated towards is just not,” she wrote, earlier than outlining a number of the forwards and backwards over her being pregnant. “The unprofessional and unethical means that I’ve been handled has been traumatizing. To be handled this fashion by a company, BY WOMEN who’re moms, who’ve claimed to ‘be in these sneakers,’ who preach household, chemistry and ladies’s empowerment is disappointing and leaves me sick to my abdomen.”

Shortly after, the chief director of the Ladies’s Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation emailed the WNBA’s basic counsel on Hamby’s behalf, requesting they open an investigation, which they did.

The lawsuit alleges that the Aces “engaged in plenty of retaliatory acts” towards Hamby after she went public together with her complaints.

A number of the examples listed together with telling gamers and employees to stop communication with Hamby, refusing to increase her an invite to attend the White Home ceremony celebrating their first championship win, and directing video personnel at a 2023 playoff recreation to not present Hamby’s daughter on display even though she was “a fan favourite.”

The lawsuit says Hamby’s commerce resulted in extra tax burdens, lack of sponsorship alternatives, reputational hurt and different monetary losses, along with emotional misery and anxiousness.

Terri Carmichael Jackson, the chief director of the participant’s union, reiterated in an announcement this week that the 2020 collective bargaining settlement granted mother and father protections that ensured being pregnant wouldn’t imply the top of their profession. These embrace paying gamers their full wage whereas on maternity go away and offering an annual youngster care stipend of $5,000.

“Clearly, these protections didn’t change the character of this enterprise,” she added. “Any workforce can commerce any participant for any respectable purpose or no purpose in any respect. However that purpose can by no means be on the premise of race, gender, sexual orientation, parental standing or being pregnant standing.”

Historically, girls thought-about “demure” behave in a means that’s modest, reserved and inoffensive to the purpose that they’re barely seen.

Jools Lebron, a make-up artist and prolific TikTok consumer, has appointed herself because the app’s new authority on “demure.” However her model of the time period is much extra expansive than the standard definition –– being demure to Lebron extends to the make-up you put on, the way you fashion your wig and the way shortly you stand up and stand within the aisle when a airplane lands.

“You see how I do my make-up for work? Very demure. Very aware,” she says in a single TikTok. “The best way I got here to the interview is the best way I am going to the job. A whole lot of you women go to the interview wanting like Marge Simpson and go to the job wanting like Patty and Selma. Not demure.

Be aware of why they employed you,” she goes on. “Right here’s your actuality examine, diva. What’s the title you’d like me to make it out to?”

However by utilizing “demure” to explain her trivial each day habits (and sometimes instantly refuting her personal steerage), Lebron, who’s additionally a trans girl, is poking enjoyable at gender norms and traits related to womanhood.

Within the aforementioned TikTok, she avows that she would by no means go to work with a “inexperienced lower crease,” a dramatic fashion of eyeshadow, as a result of the look is “not demure.” In one other video, she reveals that she arrived on her first day of labor at Texas Roadhouse with that very fashion of make-up.

“Each video is me simply referencing me,” she says in one other clip explaining the joke after customers criticized her for “judging” the best way individuals present as much as work. “That’s the joke!”

The satire is clearest in a clip by which she asserts that she’s going to behave in a demure, aware means whereas going out on the Las Vegas Strip. Her sober assertions that she’ll be again in mattress by 10 p.m. are intercut with scenes of Lebron from later that evening, guffawing at a membership and struggling to seek out her resort room.

Different methods to be demure, in accordance with Lebron: Consuming just a little packet of StarKist tuna as a midnight snack. Complimenting somebody’s new haircut even when it’s not your fashion. Tying a shawl across the lace entrance of your wig when there are Taco Bell refried beans caught in it so that you don’t offend the workers of CVS Pharmacy after you’ve had a giant evening out.

She’s impressed many ladies to movie themselves behaving demurely as outlined by Lebron: Making an attempt on make-up at Sephora with out making a multitude, consuming a Chipotle bowl one half at a time, utilizing an actual bookmark whereas studying as a substitute of a receipt or one other unfastened merchandise.

One account even used the format to reward Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign as “very demure, very aware” when in comparison with the marketing campaign of former President Donald Trump and his working mate, Ohio GOP Sen. JD Vance. (The Lincoln Mission additionally made its personal “demure” video making enjoyable of Vance and his look.)

Lebron jokingly guarantees in her movies that she’s making herself dainty and modest. However in a brand new video from this week, she drops the act and says that her frequent chorus of being “aware” additionally means contemplating one’s objectives and pursuing them with confidence.

“One factor you could study being demurity, about being demure –– being demure is being aware, and being aware contains your f**king self,” she says. “Chase these goals. Be accountable. Be aware, be demure and don’t ever let no b*tch boring your shine.”

WNBA star Dearica Hamby sued her former crew in federal courtroom Monday, alleging the Las Vegas Aces discriminated towards her after she revealed she was pregnant.

Hamby, the three-time All Star and Olympian, additionally named the league as a defendant within the swimsuit, filed in federal district courtroom in Nevada, which alleges WNBA officers didn’t meaningfully punish the crew after it investigated her claims final 12 months, in response to a replica of the grievance.

In an electronic mail, a spokesman for the Aces stated he couldn’t touch upon ongoing litigation. He pointed to a press release launched final 12 months after the WNBA investigated Hamby’s claims that stated the crew is dedicated to supporting its gamers.

“Our actions have all the time been according to our duty to carry ourselves to the best skilled requirements,” the assertion stated.

The WNBA didn’t responded to a request for remark. An emailed request for remark despatched to an deal with listed on the web site of Aces head coach Becky Hammon — who is known as within the swimsuit however not listed as a defendant — was not instantly returned Monday evening.

Hamby, 30, now a ahead with the Los Angeles Sparks, stated she alerted the Aces’ workers to her being pregnant in August 2022, days after she discovered she was pregnant along with her son, Legend, and within the weeks after she signed a two-year contract extension with the crew, in response to the grievance.

After Hamby publicly introduced the being pregnant throughout a championship parade that September, the swimsuit alleges, crew workers members started treating her in another way, together with failing to pay for her daughter’s faculty tuition and instructing her to go away team-provided housing with out clarification.

The crew had agreed to supply each as a part of her contract extension, the swimsuit says.

In a dialog the next January, the swimsuit alleges, Hammon questioned Hamby’s dedication to the crew. The swimsuit says Hammon accused Hamby of getting signed the extension when she knew she was pregnant — a declare it says is fake — and failing to take correct precautions to keep away from getting pregnant.

“Hammon additional said that the Las Vegas Aces ‘wanted our bodies,’ and that Hamby wouldn’t be able to play in time for the beginning of the following season,” the swimsuit says, alleging that Hamby assured Hammon she’d give delivery within the offseason and be able to play by preseason that April.

The subsequent day, on Jan. 16, Hammon instructed Hamby her time with the crew was up, the swimsuit says. 5 days later, the Aces introduced that Hamby had been traded to the Sparks. 

The swimsuit, which doesn’t specify damages and seeks a jury trial, additionally accuses the Aces of retaliation. The crew sought to wrongfully get hold of Hamby’s medical information, the swimsuit says, and refused to increase a White Home invitation to her after she helped the crew win its first WNBA championship.

In response to the swimsuit, the league took no steps to deal with what the grievance describes as a “clear-cut” violation of federal and state anti-discrimination regulation.

After Hamby spoke out on social media on Jan. 21, 2023, about a few of the allegations in her grievance, the WNBA stated it had launched an investigation.

On Could 16 final 12 months, the league stated in a press release that the Aces had violated league guidelines in reference to Hamby’s contract. The WNBA rescinded the crew’s first-round draft choose for 2024 and suspended Hammon for 2 video games with out pay, in response to the grievance.

In its assertion final 12 months, the crew stated it was “deeply dissatisfied” by the investigation’s end result. The assertion described Hammon as a “caring human being who forges shut relationships along with her gamers” and who the crew continued to face behind.

Vince Vaughn first met Invoice Lawrence greater than 25 years in the past, so when cop comedy “Unhealthy Monkey” got here round, the actor jumped on the alternative to lastly work collectively.

“We simply laughed quite a bit,” Vaughn informed Selection on the Apple TV+ present’s premiere on Monday night time. About collaborating with the “Spin Metropolis” and “Ted Lasso” hitmaker, Vaughn added: “He’s acquired such good concepts. He welcomes concepts. It was straightforward.”

It’s hardly a shock issues labored out so effectively, since Lawrence has made a little bit of a behavior of working with family and friends. At this stage in his profession, “it’s simply so enjoyable to work with the individuals you wish to spend time with,” he stated, as his daughter, singer-songwriter Charlotte Lawrence, walked previous him on the sand-colored carpet exterior the Hammer Museum in Westwood.

Lawrence was initially apprehensive about casting her within the present, although he knew she had the chops.

“She’s a really assured younger girl, however then I began to panic and I used to be like ‘If I put her in that place…’” he defined. “Social media is hard; it’s tough. However she’s dealt with that stuff so typically and with an open coronary heart. And I imply she was good. She was superior. I’d do it once more. I’m telling you this — when you get to a degree in any job the place you possibly can rent your folks or your loved ones, do it instantly.”

Lawrence additionally reunited along with his “Scrubs” star Zach Braff for the brand new collection. “I didn’t even forged him. I simply stated, ‘Yo, you wish to play a health care provider once more, however this time it’s a little bit extra graphically darkish?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, okay,’” the creator recalled. “I acquired so lonely in Florida, it was good to have him.”

“Unhealthy Monkey” follows Andrew Yancy (Vaughn), who has been kicked out of Miami Police Division and turns into is a well being inspector within the Florida Keys. When vacationers fish a human arm out of the water, Yancy realizes that by fixing this homicide thriller, he may discover his manner again onto the power.

The Apple TV+ present is predicated on Carl Hiaasen’s novel of the identical title, which piqued Vaughn’s curiosity due to its unconventional tone. “I used to be actually searching for one thing that had enjoyable personalities, that had cool twists and turns, that had individuals going via these experiences,” he defined.

Natalie Martinez, who performs Yancy’s former co-worker on the police division, signed onto the challenge as a result of she had admired Vaughn for a few years. “He’s undoubtedly one in every of our residing legends on this style. He’s so sensible in what he does. The truth that I’m capable of go face to face with him is actually an honor,” Martinez stated.

The function additionally offered an thrilling alternative to showcase her Cuban American heritage and South Florida roots.

“I used to be really in a position to make use of my accent, use a whole lot of issues which are so true to me, that I usually need to type of suppress, or cover a little bit bit, or simply change as a result of the roles don’t name for it,” Martinez stated. “I used to be actually excited to play somebody that was so near house. I relate a lot with the Cuban tradition, but I wasn’t born there. I really feel like we’d like a voice too.”

The primary two (of 10) episodes of “Unhealthy Monkey” start streaming Aug. 14 on Apple TV+, adopted by new episodes each Wednesday via Oct. 9.

Aujourd’hui, le premier ministre Justin Trudeau s’est entretenu avec le président du Brésil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Les deux dirigeants ont discuté de la scenario au Venezuela après l’élection du mois dernier. Le premier ministre a insisté sur la nécessité de tenir un processus neutral afin de vérifier de manière crédible les résultats et en assurer la légitimité. Il a remercié le président Lula du management qu’il exerce dans la région pour soutenir la démocratie. Les deux dirigeants ont exprimé leurs préoccupations concernant les actes de violence qui ont suivi les élections. Ils ont mis en reduction l’significance de la transparence et de l’obtention d’un résultat qui reflète la volonté du peuple vénézuélien.

Le premier ministre et le président ont souligné leur volonté de faire avancer les priorités que le Canada et le Brésil ont en commun, y compris la défense de la démocratie et des droits de la personne dans le monde entier.

Le premier ministre Trudeau et le président Lula ont convenu de rester en contact étroit et se sont dits impatients de poursuivre leur collaboration.

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CLEVELAND — Cleveland Browns rookie defensive sort out Mike Corridor Jr. was arrested Tuesday and charged with home violence after police mentioned he threatened his fiancee with a gun throughout a struggle.

Corridor was booked and arraigned at Avon Lake Municipal Courtroom, mentioned James M. Drozdowski, a public info officer with Avon Police. He posted bond and was launched, the officer instructed The Related Press.

Corridor appeared in court docket together with his legal professional, Kevin Spellacy, who didn’t instantly return a message looking for remark.

The Browns mentioned in a press release they had been conscious of the incident involving Corridor, a second-round choose from Ohio State.

“Mike and his representatives have been in contact with the suitable authorities,” the workforce mentioned. “We’re within the means of gathering extra info and could have no additional remark on the time.”

The workforce didn’t observe Tuesday as gamers had been solely getting therapy and understanding at Cleveland’s coaching facility in Berea, Ohio. The Browns are internet hosting the Minnesota Vikings for joint practices on Wednesday and Thursday earlier than taking part in an exhibition sport on Saturday.

An in depth incident report obtained by the AP mentioned officers responded to a name at 10 p.m. Monday night time from a lady who claimed that Corridor had pushed her daughter and struck her with a child bottle.

In keeping with the report, the girl instructed police she is engaged to Corridor and so they share an 11-month-old daughter. The lady mentioned their struggle escalated after the couple had been discussing monetary wants for the kid. The lady instructed police Corridor is just not the organic father.

The lady mentioned Corridor, 21, grew to become “more and more agitated,” threw her belongings exterior and dragged her on her again alongside a porch and driveway. At one level, the girl mentioned Corridor put a gun to her temple and mentioned, “I’ll (expletive) finish all of it. I do not care.”

The lady didn’t search medical therapy.

Corridor locked the girl out of the home and left in a pickup truck, in response to the report.

Police mentioned they discovered proof together with a broken door body and a gap in a door the girl mentioned Corridor had punched. Officers additionally seized two handguns — a .40-caliber Glock and a 9mm Smith & Wesson.

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In the present day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The 2 leaders mentioned the state of affairs in Venezuela following final month’s election. The Prime Minister emphasised the necessity for an neutral course of to credibly confirm the outcomes and guarantee their legitimacy. He thanked President Lula for his management within the area in assist of democracy. The 2 leaders underscored their considerations over post-election violence, and so they underlined the significance of transparency and an final result that displays the desire of the Venezuelan individuals.  

The Prime Minister and the President underscored their dedication to advancing shared priorities between Canada and Brazil, similar to standing up for democracy and defending human rights all over the world.

Prime Minister Trudeau and President Lula agreed to remain in shut contact and regarded ahead to persevering with their collaboration.

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Cleveland Browns rookie defensive deal with Mike Corridor Jr. was charged with home violence in Avon, Ohio, after allegedly threatening a girl with a gun Monday evening, in keeping with a police report.

Corridor was arrested and booked Tuesday, a police spokesperson instructed ESPN. He pleaded not responsible, in keeping with a clerk at Avon Lake Municipal Courtroom. His bond was set at $10,000 and he has a listening to scheduled for Sept. 10.

In keeping with a police report, Corridor grabbed a handgun throughout an argument, pressed it in opposition to a girl’s temple and threatened, “I’ll f—ing finish all of it. I do not care.”

The girl instructed police she is engaged to Corridor and shares an 11-month-old youngster with him. She mentioned the altercation started when she and Corridor have been discussing the monetary wants of her daughter from a unique relationship.

In keeping with the report, the lady mentioned that Corridor screamed at her to go away the home, grabbed her by the toes and dragged her on her again down the driveway.

Corridor left the home earlier than authorities arrived, in keeping with the report.

The girl’s mom corroborated particulars of her account in a written assertion, in keeping with the report, together with that on Monday evening she witnessed Corridor strike her daughter on the top with a child bottle, choke her by the neck, push her head by way of a wall and break open a bed room door to tug her out.

Authorities noticed a number of indicators of a bodily altercation throughout a walk-through of the house, in keeping with the report, and likewise noticed two handguns mendacity on a mattress.

The police acquired the report of a home dispute at roughly 10:01 p.m. on Monday.

The Browns launched the next assertion on Tuesday morning: “We’re conscious of the incident involving Mike Corridor Jr. final evening. Mike and his representatives have been in contact with the suitable authorities. We’re within the means of gathering extra info and can have no additional remark right now.”

“Now we have been in touch with the membership relating to the matter, which might be reviewed beneath the private conduct coverage,” NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy mentioned in an announcement.

The staff didn’t apply Tuesday and can maintain joint practices with the Minnesota Vikings on Wednesday and Thursday earlier than internet hosting an exhibition recreation Saturday.

The Browns chosen Corridor with the No. 54 decide within the 2024 NFL draft. Corridor, a Streetsboro native, performed school soccer at Ohio State College.

Après avoir eu peur de ne pas pouvoir performer, faute de moyen de transport, le chanteur Wilfred LeBouthillier a finalement fait une entrée remarquée, lundi soir, à l’event du dernier spectacle de Star Académie à l’Worldwide de montgolfières de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

• À lire aussi: Wilfred LeBouthillier trouve un avion privé quelques minutes avant le spectacle de Star Académie

L’artiste, qui était désespérément à la recherche d’un avion privé, lundi soir, à Moncton après que son vol en course de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu a été annulé, a finalement trouvé un bon samaritain qui l’a transporté à son spectacle.

Le second «magique» où Wilfred LeBouthillier a atterri à l’Worldwide de montgolfières a été filmé et c’est digne d’un movie.

«Oh mon dieu! Il y a un avion qui vient juste d’atterrir, a dit Math Duff, sur la scène. C’est lui! Mesdames et messieurs, Wilfred LeBouthillier est atterri», a-t-il lancé, dans une vidéo publiée par l’organisation sur Fb.

Le chanteur s’est finalement dirigé sur scène auprès de la première cohorte d’académiciens de Star Académie 2003 pour chanter Et c’est pas fini.

Wilfred a lui aussi filmé son atterrissage lorsqu’il est arrivé à Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. «Mission accomplie, merci tout le monde», a-t-il dit dans une publication Fb, quelques heures plus tard.

À bout de ressources, le gagnant de l’édition 2003 de Star Académie avait demandé l’aide de la inhabitants sur son Fb, lundi soir.

«Urgence de dernière minute. Si par miracle, vous connaissez quelqu’un qui a un hélicoptère ou un avion privé pouvant faire Moncton à Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, mon vol a été annulé et c’est le dernier spectacle de Star Académie au competition des montgolfières, ce soir», avait-il écrit dans une publication Fb.

Le pouvoir des médias sociaux lui a finalement permis de s’envoler vers Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu et livrer un spectacle «incroyable», a-t-il dit.

Plusieurs admirateurs ont d’ailleurs salué son dévouement et tous les efforts qu’il a entrepris pour se rendre à temps au spectacle.