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Demovictory9's Journaleditor of JAMA medical journal "No physician is racist", put on administrative leave
Howard Bauchner, the editor in chief of JAMA, was placed on administrative leave yesterday (March 25) amid continued criticism of the way the top medical journal has discussed racism in medicine.
Earlier this month, Twitter erupted with criticism of a podcast episode and attendant tweet published by JAMA. The tweet, since deleted, read in part, “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care? An explanation of the idea by doctors for doctors . . .” In the February 23 podcast episode, also since taken down, host Ed Livingston, then JAMA’s deputy editor for clinical reviews and education, said, “Structural racism is an unfortunate term,” according to MedPage Today. “Personally, I think taking racism out of the conversation will help. Many of us are offended by the concept that we are racist.”
Among JAMA’s critics was Aletha Maybank, the chief equity officer of the American Medical Association, which publishes JAMA (the journal has editorial independence). In a series of tweets, Maybank called the tweet and the episode “absolutely appalling” and “a demonstration of structural & institutional racism.” The AMA also put out a statement on March 4 condemning the tweet and episode, and Bauchner posted his own statement the same day apologizing for both. Bauchner also stated that the journal would put out one or more additional podcast episodes discussing structural racism and health.
A petition launched following the statements and so far signed by nearly 7,000 people states in part, “The delivery of messages suggesting that racism is non-existent and therefore non-problematic within the medical field is harmful to both our underrepresented minoritized physicians and the marginalized communities served in this country.” The petition calls on JAMA to do more to address racism, including conducting a “Formal review of the leadership displayed by Dr. Howard Bauchner as editor-in-chief,” and hiring a deputy editor focused on antiracism and health equity.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/top-jama-editor-on-leave-in-fallout-over-racism-podcast-68607
Abandoned $1.6 billion Missouri resort community goes viral - abandoned during construction in 2008
https://nypost.com/2021/04/01/abandoned-1-6-billion-missouri-resort-community-goes-viral/
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It’s scarier than a haunted house — and way more expensive!
A spine-tingling ghost town of mansions in Missouri, which was supposed to become a $1.6 billion resort community, went viral on social media this week.
Spooky footage shows the large, crumbling abodes abandoned among overgrown plants at the Indian Ridge Resort in Branson — more than a decade after the housing market crisis, TikTok user @carriejernigan1 posted over the weekend.
“Have you ever seen a subdivision full of abandoned mansions?” she asks in the video, which had raked in more than 2.1 million “likes” on Thursday.
“This was supposed to be a 1.6 billion dollar resort community. It was going to have one of the country’s largest water parks, golf courses, hotels conference centers and shopping,” she said.
“But instead it turned into a ghost town when the 2008 housing crisis hit. Five people had ended up in federal prison. And 13 years later the houses just sit here.”
Inside the Last Men's Hotel in Chicago
Inside the Last Men’s Hotel in ChicagoFor those who live there, Chicago’s Ewing Annex Hotel is a refuge, an artifact, and a last chance. The man who’s been holding it together for more than 20 years is about to retire.
Mike has lived in the Ewing Annex Hotel, located in the South Loop, for the last 24 years, working as the manager for 22. It’s the last of Chicago’s men’s-only hotels, leftover from an earlier era in an earlier century when meatpacking and manufacturing were the city’s golden coin of promise, and hotels like this were a common way for men, single and attached alike, to live on the cheap as they saved up for an apartment of their own or sent their wages back to their country families. In this century, it’s the final refuge for many of the 200-plus men who live there now, between themselves and homelessness, where small rooms—sometimes called cubicles and sometimes called cages—rent for $19 a night and where many, like Mike, live for decades of their lives.
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To the right of the stairs are the private rooms, many of them offices until the 1980s, when this wing was purchased and renovated by Wayne and Randy Cohen, two brothers who own the hotel, the pawnshop, and four other businesses on the same block. These rooms range in size from space enough to host a small fridge, a desk, and a guest to just a couple inches wider than the twin bed. In the room of one man I meet, a 66-year-old artist named Louie Albarron, there is no bed–only art he’s made with what he’s found in dumpsters: paintings of the lakefront and La Madonna, jean jackets he’s embroidered with explosive reds and golds, earrings of twisted copper and small spoons that dangle from his ears. A single window shines clear sunlight on his guitar and photos of his ex-wife, her blonde hair piled dreamily on top of her head.
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By day, Louis uses the room as his studio; by night, he blows up an air mattress and sleeps on the floor. Other rooms contain other wonders: pothos vines trailing out of water-filled jam jars; carefully constructed miniature trains lined up on tiny tracks; a family of black and brown belts, still pinned with their security tags, that slink over the backs of chairs like snakes. Some of the rooms on this side have windows; some do not. The price ranges from $400 a month to $450, with the higher end providing air conditioners and, perhaps, a sink. It’s quieter in this wing, where only five men live on each floor and where all the rooms have ceilings.
To the left of the stairwell is the original hotel, the part that began as The Workingman’s Exchange. On this side you find wood floors, not tile, and narrow hallways, not wide. Two men can’t pass each other without at least one turning sideways. Each floor holds 54 of the famous cubicles; each cubicle, for $19 a night, $120 a week, or $360 a month, provides a door that locks, an outlet that works, a twin-sized bed with a sheet, and a ceiling of chicken wire that lets your neighbor’s conversations, odors, and dust drift through—hence the “cage” nickname.
https://newrepublic.com/article/161808/ewing-annex-hotel-housing-crisis-chicago
Navajo woman becomes viral sensation with skateboarding videos
https://twitter.com/dbaker71852/status/1378077063358382082"Gaetz's arrest is imminent"
EXCLUSIVE: 'His friend has been singing to the feds - that's why Matt is so freaked out.' Gaetz's arrest is imminent as jailed tax collector Joel Greenberg faces charges of having sex with same 17-year-old and 'making fake ID's with the congressman'
'Rest assured that Greenberg has been singing to the feds about his friend Matt Gaetz. That's why Matt is so freaked out.'
Gaetz's arrest is said to be imminent after the alleged victim, who has not been named, testified before a Florida grand jury this week saying she had sex with the conservative Republican before she turned 18, DailyMail.com has learned.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9430921/Matt-Gaetzs-arrest-imminent-sources-say-Joel-Greenberg-singing-feds.html
Texas GOP candidate bashes Chinese immigrants over coronavirus: 'I don't want them here at all'
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Texas-GOP-candidate-bashes-Chinese-immigrants-16071973.phpAt a political forum on Wednesday, GOP congressional candidate Sery Kim falsely suggested that Chinese immigrants bring the coronavirus to the United States - and suggested that she opposes their entry to the country.
"I don't want them here at all," Kim, who is Korean American, told attendees, speaking of Chinese immigrants and China in general, the Dallas Morning News reported. "They steal our intellectual property, they give us coronavirus, they don't hold themselves accountable."
Kim, 42, also argued that a rising surge in violence and threats against Asian Americans has been trumped up by the media, saying that "Asians have always faced violence. It's not worse than before."
Warehouse owning couple left with cost of $250K to dispose of bankrupt Brooks brothers stuff
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The Ghosts of Brooks Brothers
After the retailer filed for bankruptcy one couple was left with a warehouse full of abandoned mannequins and a price tag of nearly $250,000 to dispose of it.
The bones of Brooks Brothers stores are scattered across 100,000 square feet here in a warehouse near the Massachusetts border, mixed in with a sea of cardboard boxes and junk.
There are legions of mannequins, empty circular tables that once displayed neckties, posters of horseback-riding gentlemen from a bygone era. There is a whole section of Christmas trees and countless gold-painted ornaments of sheep suspended by ribbon — a Brooks Brothers symbol since 1850 known as the Golden Fleece. Blank order forms for tailors are strewn about. A neon sign that apparently still works. There is no apparel, but there are rows of heavy sewing machines that most likely came from one of the brand’s recently shuttered factories. And in the bathroom, a welcome carpet with Brooks Brothers written in cursive sits next to a toilet.
The whole mass was abandoned here in the fallout of Brooks Brothers’ bankruptcy filing and sale last year, the scraps of a retailer that made nearly $1 billion in sales in 2019. Ever since, the couple that owns the warehouse, Chip and Rosanna LaBonte, has been scrambling to figure out how to get rid of it all. Junk removal companies have told them it will cost at least $240,000 to clear the space, which Brooks Brothers had rented through November. In order to pay the bill, the LaBontes are going to have to sell their home.
The couple’s plight illustrates the far-reaching consequences of retail bankruptcies, which cascaded during the pandemic and affected everyone from factory workers to executives. Smaller vendors and landlords have often been left holding the short end of the stick during lengthy byzantine bankruptcy proceedings, particularly with limits on what they can spend on legal bills compared with larger corporations. And once bankrupt brands are sold, people like the LaBontes are typically left in the dust.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/business/brooks-brothers-retail-bankruptcy.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Jeff Tiedrich has a way with words 🙂
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1377781942272323592?s=19..Barr made sure he was never seen with Gaetz in public.
BILL BARR CANCELED AN APPEARANCE TO APPEAR WITH GAETZ BECAUSE OF PROBE
Bill Barr was aware of the ongoing sex trafficking investigation into Gaetz and took no objection to it when he was the Attorney General.
Instead, he made sure he was never seen with him in public.
According to Politico, Barr canceled an event where he was due to appear with Gaetz in the summer of 2020.
He had been scheduled to appear at a meet-and-greet with Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee but when he saw that Gaetz was also attending, he pulled out of it.
Barr has not commented on the investigation into sex trafficking that
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9429409/Rep-Matt-Gaetz-paid-women-Apple-Pay-ecstasy-fueled-sex-Florida-hotels.html
fallout after Asian American Actress is misidentified at awards show
GLENDALE, Calif. — It was supposed to be a night of celebration. Jully Lee and her boyfriend Howard Ho were eagerly watching Tuesday night’s Ovation Awards. It was Lee’s first nomination and she was being recognized for her performance in Hannah and the Dread Gazebo — a play that featured an entirely Asian American company.
But when her category came around, she stared at the screen, stunned, as her name was mispronounced and her castmate’s face appeared in place of her own.
Nominated actress Jully Lee's name was mispronounced and her photo replaced by another Asian American actress
East West Players revoked their membership, followed by Center Theatre Group and A Noise Within
LA Stage Alliance apologized to Lee on social media and in a private email
LASA person responsible for the error is no longer with the company
“Two different people,” Ho pointed out. “Two different people who look nothing alike,” Lee added.
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And not just for her. The aftershocks of that error were felt throughout the community.
People immediately began posting on social media and flooding Lee’s phone with messages of support. She stayed up most of the night responding to each message, from friends, actors, and complete strangers alike. It made her realize, this wasn’t really about her. This was something bigger.
“That mistake, that blunder, represented the pain of all of us that we experience when our faces are switched, our names are mispronounced,” she said, sitting in a park near her Glendale home. “People just don’t take the care and consideration to see us as human beings that have feelings and lives and opinions and thoughts.”
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/entertainment/2021/04/01/several-companies-exit-la-stage-alliance-after-asian-american-nominee-is-misidentified
An Asian actor got disrespected at L.A. theater awards. What happened next was swift and powerful
When it happened, those watching couldn't quite believe what they had just seen and heard. During the Ovation Awards for local theater Tuesday night, a nominee in the category of featured actress in a play had her name mispronounced — and when her face was supposed to appear onscreen, the photo of a fellow Asian American cast member popped up instead.
Jully Lee saw a picture of a woman who was not her, and she was stunned. Her first response was to laugh. She didn't even realize her name had been mispronounced too until the incident began boiling over on social media. "Oh no, that too?" thought Lee, who was nominated for her work in "Hannah and the Dread Gazebo," a co-presentation of East West Players and the Fountain Theatre.
Lee's first name has been mispronounced for much of her life, so this was not new, she said in an interview. But she knew in her heart that this was a sign of a bigger problem.
https://news.yahoo.com/asian-actor-got-disrespected-l-003931222.html
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