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Jilly_in_VA's JournalThe Mississippi police officer who shot an 11-year-old is now suspended without pay
The Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an 11-year-old boy in his home after he called authorities for help was suspended without pay — effective immediately, according to officials.
In a Monday night board meeting, the Indianola Board of Aldermen voted 4-1 to suspend Sgt. Greg Capers without pay "effective immediately," Alderman Marvin Elder told The Associated Press.
Both the Indianola Police Department and the attorney representing Capers did not respond to NPR's immediate request for comment. Capers' attorney, Michael Carr, told the AP that the board's vote took place in a "closed-door, unnoticed" meeting without either him or Capers being notified.
"This is very disturbing to Sgt. Capers, and he should have been allowed due process," Carr said. "They have no evidence Sgt. Capers intentionally shot this young man, which he didn't. Everything that happened was a total and complete accident."
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1182259584/aderrien-murry-mississippi-police-officer-suspended-without-pay
Accident, my sainted Aunt Matilda!
All OB-GYNs need abortion care training. A new bill aims to help them get it
Sami Stroebel, an aspiring obstetrician-gynecologist, started medical school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison last summer within weeks of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
"I sat there and was like, 'How is this going to change the education that I'm going to get and how is this going to change my experience wanting to provide this care to patients in the future?'"
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the Democrat from Wisconsin, has an answer to that question.
Today, she and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the chair of the powerful Senate appropriations committee, are introducing the Reproductive Health Care Training Act. It establishes a grant program, to provide $25 million each year – for the next five years – to fund medical students who leave their states to learn abortion care, and programs that train them. It's especially important in states like Wisconsin that have near total bans on abortion.
"Students and their supervising clinicians have to travel out of state to get that component of their training," Baldwin tells NPR. "Meanwhile, neighboring states — and this is happening across the United States, are accepting an influx of students."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/06/15/1182385919/all-ob-gyns-need-abortion-care-training-new-bill-aims-to-help-them-get-it
I don't think this has the proverbial snowball's chance of getting through, but God bless Sens. Tammy and Patty for trying!
All OB-GYNs need abortion care training. A new bill aims to help them get it
Sami Stroebel, an aspiring obstetrician-gynecologist, started medical school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison last summer within weeks of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
"I sat there and was like, 'How is this going to change the education that I'm going to get and how is this going to change my experience wanting to provide this care to patients in the future?'"
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the Democrat from Wisconsin, has an answer to that question.
Today, she and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the chair of the powerful Senate appropriations committee, are introducing the Reproductive Health Care Training Act. It establishes a grant program, to provide $25 million each year – for the next five years – to fund medical students who leave their states to learn abortion care, and programs that train them. It's especially important in states like Wisconsin that have near total bans on abortion.
"Students and their supervising clinicians have to travel out of state to get that component of their training," Baldwin tells NPR. "Meanwhile, neighboring states — and this is happening across the United States, are accepting an influx of students."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/06/15/1182385919/all-ob-gyns-need-abortion-care-training-new-bill-aims-to-help-them-get-it
I don't think this has the proverbial snowball's chance of getting through, but God bless Sens. Tammy and Patty for trying!
Russian Troops Now Accused of Terrorizing Their Own People
Russian troops sent to the Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine to “protect” local residents are now accused of looting and taking over people’s homes, repeating a practice they gained notoriety for in Ukraine on their own people.
Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov got an earful about the “outrageous” behavior of troops Thursday in response to an update about everything local authorities are doing to help those who’ve fled certain villages in the region as the war spilled over into Russian territory, the independent media outlet Govorit NeMoskva reports.
“Soldiers of the Russian Federation are finding their way into many homes (even though an emergency regime has not been introduced and they have no right to enter private homes),” one woman who identified herself as a resident of Novaya Tavolzhanka wrote in response to Gladkov's post on social media. Independent media outlets report that they verified the woman as a local resident.
“They are living in our homes, leading an outrageous lifestyle, with alcohol and other things leaving behind garbage and filth, bathrooms and houses are fouled up, personal belongings and property are stolen,” she said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-troops-accused-of-terrorizing-their-own-people-in-border-region?ref=home
Anyone surprised? They did the same thing after WWII to the people they "liberated".
Tori Bowie, eclampsia and pregnancy complications
Tori Bowie was a world champion sprinter and three-time Olympic medalist. The 32-year-old was also about to be a mother and died recently due to complications during childbirth. Officials have cited respiratory distress and eclampsia as potential complications.
If "eclampsia" sounds familiar, that's because you might be thinking about "preeclampsia," which is what precipitates eclampsia. These conditions are possibly deadly for mother and baby in extreme cases.
Preeclampsia refers to "a sudden spike in blood pressure," according to the National Institutes of Health. Eclampsia, the more severe version, may lead to seizures or put someone in a coma. Preeclampsia usually starts after 20 weeks of pregnancy, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Millennials and Gen Z in particular should be paying attention: These generations, according to a recent study, are more than twice as likely to develop hypertensive disorders such as preeclampsia compared to people born in the 1950s.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2023/06/14/preeclampsia-eclampsia-pregnancy-complications/70318043007/
For those of you who STiLL have questions.
Canadian grandfather attempts to shame 9-year-old girl as 'trans,' fails
A Canadian mom wants to press charges against a man who verbally attacked her 9-year-old daughter at a track-and-field event, angrily questioning the girl’s gender and calling her mothers “genital-mutilators" in an incident has drawn national attention and the condemnation of the premier of British Columbia.
Heidi Starr of Kelowna, about 80 miles north of Canada's border with Washington, told USA TODAY on Tuesday that she was attending the school district-sponsored event along with her ex-wife and their daughter, whose name she didn’t want shared.
All the 4th-grade girls at Thursday’s event were taking turns at shotput when a grandfather in the crowd interrupted, standing in front of them and confronting one of the organizers, loudly saying: “This is a girl's event. Why are you letting boys throw?"
“He pointed at my daughter and another girl with short hair and said, ‘Why are you letting boys throw?’” Starr said.
That’s when Starr pounced to defend her child, telling the man that her daughter is a girl.
“And he said, ‘Oh yeah, a girl,’ and he put finger quotes up in the air and said ‘a girl,’ and he looked at them and he said, ‘If they’re not boys, they’re trans,’” Starr said.
That’s when the man’s wife joined in, attacking Starr and her ex-wife, she said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/06/13/canadian-girl-gender-attack-track-event/70319816007/
Disgusting POS.
Egypt Has Banned All Dogs Except These 10 Breeds
Egypt has banned the majority of dog breeds after issuing a controversial edict that allows only 10 types of dogs to be kept as pets and imposing heavy fines for people who keep any of the banned breeds.
The new “Regulation of the Possession of Dangerous Animals and Dogs” bill was introduced on the 29th of May, and sparked concerns for dog enthusiasts and animal rights advocates in the country. It was imposed after a man died after being attacked by a pit bull.
The law means that most dog breeds are effectively deemed “dangerous” and unsuitable for ownership without thorough “safety” inspections.
A copy of the new laws published in the Egyptian Official Gazette will require all pet owners including the banned dog breeds, tigers, and lions to register their animals with the authorities for inspection.
The law will allow ownership of only 10 select breeds without “safety” inspection – the cocker spaniel, labrador, poodle, Malinois, Pomeranian, Jack Russell, Great Dane, white shepherd, Maltese dog, and Samoyed – and imposes stringent regulations on breeds like the pitbull, rottweiler, German Shepherd, boxer, husky, Caucasian shepherd, and bullmastiff. These breeds will be subjected to a thorough government safety licensing process.
The law says that dogs deemed unsafe will be “confiscated” by public veterinarians without providing any further details.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bbxa/egypt-dog-breeds-banned
While many Muslim countries consider dogs "unclean" for various reasons, this is extreme. And what about mutts and street dogs, which are legion, even there? Also, some of the "permitted" breeds are known biters. Shows a lack of understanding by lawmakers.
Shiny Happy People is a great reminder of why cult documentaries should exist
I grew up adjacent to the fundamentalist Christian cult that Shiny Happy People, the four-part docuseries ostensibly about the reality TV-famous Duggar family, was really about. The Institute for Basic Life Principles (IBLP), founded and led by a man named Bill Gothard, had many arms: a series of seminars and workshops, copious curricula on “successful living,” and a large homeschool organization.
It didn’t present as a cult; it looked like an ordinary Christian ministry, but with several possible levels of involvement, all of which strongly advocated radical patriarchy and a series of stringent fundamentalist views. Though I was homeschooled, my family never joined the homeschool organization that catered to the most hard-core members (in part because they required men to be clean-shaven, and my bearded father refused), but the rest of the leader’s teachings pervaded my life through most of my teens.
That’s probably why, when Shiny Happy People dropped on June 2, I couldn’t tell if the show was immensely popular, or if the many tweets about IBLP, Gothard, and the emotional and sexual abuse stories in the docuseries I saw were just Twitter’s algorithm knowing what to put in front of me. I’d felt connections to many of the dozens of recently released religious abuse docuseries — everything from God Forbid (about Jerry Falwell Jr.) to Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (about Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) to both seasons of The Vow (about upstate “sex cult” NXIVM) to two recent series about Hillsong and its disgraced former pastor, Carl Lentz. But this was the one I’d been waiting for, the one I felt was narrating my life. Judging from what I saw online, I wasn’t the only one.
I follow a lot of people, many around 40 like myself, who grew up with serious exposure to IBLP, the related homeschool organizations called the Advanced Training Institute (ATI), and the man behind them all, Gothard, a soft-spoken fundamentalist minister with a predilection for giving “chalk talks.” (He’d explain some principle of living a “successful” life drawn from some textual snippet of the Bible and, simultaneously, draw a landscape or something on a chalkboard. Gothard is honestly a pretty talented artist; the big reveal — when you finally saw what he’d been drawing all along — was a real wow moment.)
Those of us who grew up in or around Gothard’s world can feel estranged from contemporary discussions of American evangelical culture because we frequently felt locked outside of it, noses pressed to the glass. There’s an often-blurry boundary between fundamentalism and evangelicalism, opaque to most people; to generalize, evangelicals like Billy Graham are more engaged with mainstream culture, whether through copying it, criticizing it, or trying to influence it. Fundamentalists tend to cut “the world” a wider berth and create elaborate lifestyle rules to keep themselves separate, which is part of what made the Duggars’ appearance on a TLC reality show so unusual. To us, though, this boundary was vibrantly alive. Not only was most secular culture off-limits, but most Christian culture was, too.
https://www.vox.com/culture/23759377/shiny-happy-people-gothard-duggar-family-iblp-ati-keep-sweet
I am watching this now. It's just full of WOW moments in the first two segments alone--and I thought I knew a few things about these people!
Virginia 1st-grade teacher who was shot by student was fired, attorney says
First-grade teacher Abby Zwerner who was shot by her 6-year-old student in January no longer works for Newport News Public Schools.
WAVY obtained a copy of an email sent to Zwerner on May 22 that states, “NNPS has processed a separation of employment for you effective the close of business 06/12/2023.”
The one-page email from the Human Resources Department explains exiting information, per standard NNPS policy.
Zwerner’s attorney Jeffrey Breit on Tuesday called this a firing.
“I don’t think you can read this any other way than you’ve been fired. And that’s what she thinks. She doesn’t understand it; there’s no other communication,” Breit said told WAVY.
https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/virginia-1st-grade-teacher-who-was-shot-by-student-was-fired-attorney-says/
This is outrageous!
Stuff that just burns my fern (does that expression date me?)
Please excuse me while I vent a little. Friday while I was working in the stray cat hail & hotel, one of the front desk ladies came in and said there was a cat on the property and a lady in the drive said she would help catch it but she didn't think she could catch it alone, so Natalie, who's in charge of strays, and Marly, who runs adoptables, went out to see about it, prepared for a chase. Kitty came right to Marly and allowed herself to be scooped up, rail-thin and eaten up with fleas and ticks. I went down to see her in Intake later and she came right up to the bars, curious and friendly.
Today I went in for my regular shift and there in the top corner kennel was another sad case, this one an adult tabby boy who had obviously been on the streets for awhile. He, too came right up to me, wanting to be petted, purring for all he was worth, tucking ihis head under my chin and burrowing into my shoulder as if he was trying to tell me something. He, too, was skinny as a rake handle, fur rough and dull, but he's obviously had people at some time. What happened to them? His ear's not tipped, so he's not a community cat, and he's not fixed; got some amazing "stud jowls".
Two doors down was the lovely gray lady who came in Friday, still rail-thin, but happier. They had to give her a "slow feeder" dish because she was eating too fast and then throwing up. She is a glutton for pets and ear skritches and obviously has had people, but she's been on her own for awhile. She has parasites of all varieties of course, and while cleaning her kennel I found two dead ticks so we know the medication is working.
What pisses me off is that we are pretty sure that the gray kitty, at least, was dumped. Someone had reported seeing her around the dog park, which is about a half mile from the shelter, but she could have been let out at the shelter and found her way over there and back, who knows? Not sure where our boy was picked up, but he, too, had been on his own for quite awhile, and the stud jowls indicate to those of us in the know that he'd been giving away a few kittens while he was out there. Was he a cute kitten who did what kittens do and became a cat, and people didn't think he was so cute then and just let him go, or did they just let him out and he didn't come home and they said Oh well? They sure didn't bother to get him fixed so he wouldn't wander! GRRR.
OK. /rant mode off/ stepping off my soapbox now
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