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Jilly_in_VA's JournalCompany that received COVID-19 relief money for closed hospital says DOJ is investigating
The troubled hospital company that received $121,000 in federal COVID-19 relief money for a closed hospital said last week the Department of Justice inquired about the money.
The Jamestown Regional Medical Center closed in June 2019 but received $121,722 in provider relief funds in 2020, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
According to its annual financial filing last week, Rennova Health said the Justice Department sent it questions about the provider relief money — and additional funding it received through PPP loans — in the form of a civil investigation inquiry.
"There is no allegation of wrongdoing and no indication that any liability will materialize," the company's filing said. "The company is confident that all PPP notes and HHS Provider Relief funds monies were appropriately utilized and accounted for and believes that provision of the details and records will provide satisfactory answers to the inquiry."
Following 10News reporting on the funds for the closed hospital in 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services said it would "force repayment," but provided no details on how it would do so.
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/investigations/rennova-health-covid-19-relief-money-closed-hospital-doj-investigating/51-35233a61-ea91-4183-9d2e-ca13a4d1a83d
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Rennova's CEO, Seamus Lagan, is crookeder than six corkscrews. His company buys rural hospitals, runs them into the ground, and closes them. He pockets the $$ and stashes it offshore.
The end of the suit: has Covid finished off the menswear staple?
Simon Cundey’s family have been tailor-making men’s suits for seven generations, taking 37 measurements from every customer through the Great Depression and two world wars. The tailor’s arsenal of chalk, scissors and thread were put to work every weekday since the company was founded in 1806, until March 2020 when the government ordered almost everyone to work from home.
“If there’s one thing you can’t do at home, it’s measure people for suits,” says Cundey, who has worked for his family firm, Henry Poole & Co, tailors on Savile Row in London since his early 20s. “The pandemic is, by far, the worst crisis the business has ever faced. It is far worse than the Great Depression or the wars ever were.
“In wartime, the allied forces were here so we made uniforms for Americans and Canadians, and we could still see customers face-to-face,” he says, as we chat on leather sofas in front of a roaring log fire in the shop, surrounded by 48 framed warrants from the royal family and other world leaders.
Post lockdown, Cundey and his team of cutters, undercutters, trouser-, jacket- and waistcoat-makers are back at work at 15 Savile Row – the street known the world over as the home of the finest bespoke menswear – and customers are coming back through the doors. But there are not as many as before the pandemic, and fewer than before the 2008 financial crisis. It’s a story repeated up and down “the row”, and at other tailors across the country, as well as high street retailers from Marks & Spencer to Reiss, and online companies from Mr Porter to Asos.
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/apr/18/the-end-of-the-suit-has-covid-finished-off-the-menswear-staple
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This old lady thinks suits are dumb. But you know what's even dumber? TIES!
Images appear to show sinking Russian warship
Dramatic pictures - and a credible video - allegedly showing the Russian warship Moskva before it sank last week have appeared online.
The video and images match the shape and design of the missile cruiser.
Russia says a fire onboard caused ammunitions to explode and the vessel sank as it was being towed in a storm. Ukraine says it hit it with missiles.
The new images do not immediately back the claims of either side - but there is no sign of a storm at the time.
The images were allegedly taken on 14 April, a day after Ukraine claimed to have struck the warship.
The three-second video clip - likely taken from a rescue boat - shows the Moskva in the distance listing heavily on her port side.
A tug, likely a Russian Shakhter, is on its right.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61141118
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This is no "fire", people, and the seas were FLAT. Tell us another one, Vlad.
Queer student targeted in political ad speaks out
She helped him with his costume. Her classmates did, too. Stitch by stitch, the senior at Magic City Acceptance Academy helped her history teacher become a Mardi Gras queen.
The occasion was a drag show fundraiser to help the school’s history quiz bowl team attend a competition in Washington, D.C. The fundraiser was a student idea, the school’s principal said, and was successful. The quiz bowl team will head to D.C. next week.
“It was a fun thing,” the senior at MCAA said, although it’s hard for her to remember it that way now.
Because now, in the shadow of an Alabama election, she said that the fun event has been “weaponized” in a television advertisement by Tim James, a Republican candidate for governor. The advertisement, which incorrectly labels MCAA as “the first transgender public school in the South,” includes images of the fundraiser the senior had worked to make a success. The images showed staff and students, including the senior, their faces visible.
https://www.wate.com/news/student-mother-object-to-her-photo-appearing-in-alabama-political-ad/
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Tim James is using pictures of minor students in his ads without their permission? Um, I believe that's against the law...even Alabama law.
Queer student targeted in political ad speaks out
She helped him with his costume. Her classmates did, too. Stitch by stitch, the senior at Magic City Acceptance Academy helped her history teacher become a Mardi Gras queen.
The occasion was a drag show fundraiser to help the school’s history quiz bowl team attend a competition in Washington, D.C. The fundraiser was a student idea, the school’s principal said, and was successful. The quiz bowl team will head to D.C. next week.
“It was a fun thing,” the senior at MCAA said, although it’s hard for her to remember it that way now.
Because now, in the shadow of an Alabama election, she said that the fun event has been “weaponized” in a television advertisement by Tim James, a Republican candidate for governor. The advertisement, which incorrectly labels MCAA as “the first transgender public school in the South,” includes images of the fundraiser the senior had worked to make a success. The images showed staff and students, including the senior, their faces visible.
https://www.wate.com/news/student-mother-object-to-her-photo-appearing-in-alabama-political-ad/
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Tim James is using pictures of minor students in his ads without their permission? Um, I believe that's against the law...even Alabama law.
Mosque in Henrico vandalized during Ramadan
The Henrico County Police Department is investigating vandalism that occurred in Glen Allen at the West End Islamic Center — in the middle of Ramadan.
Ramadan is a month of fasting, prayer, community and reflection for the Muslim faithful. The West End Islamic Center said, “it is with great sadness that in just six months, the West End Islamic Center has experienced two incidents of vandalism.”
“We feel compelled to speak out against these expressions of hatred,” WEIC said in a Facebook post. “An attack on any house of worship certainly feels like an assault on the community.”
According to police, officers were called to the mosque at around 4:45 p.m. Saturday afternoon. When they arrived, officers spoke to a representative who said they believe a group of people entered the building between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/henrico-county/mosque-in-henrico-vandalized-during-ramadan-islamic-faithful-speak-out-against-expressions-of-hatred/
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File under "People are shitty" department
Follow up: Woman who said deputy coerced her into baptism found dead
The woman suing Hamilton County sheriff’s deputies over an alleged coerced baptism is dead.
Shandle Marie Riley, 42, was found dead at a home in Soddy-Daisy Wednesday.
Riley made headlines in 2019 after claiming deputies baptized her in Soddy Lake after a traffic stop.
“I think the history of it in the media will show that a baptism by a police officer in the line of duty, in exchange for leniency in a criminal case is beyond the pale,” said Robin Flores, Riley’s attorney.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Riley was found dead at a residence in Soddy-Daisy.
“All I can tell you is that I learned late last night, or late yesterday afternoon, that she had apparently been found deceased,” Flores said.
Riley is one of several people suing Hamilton County Deputy Daniel Wilkey.
She claimed he stripped down to his underwear and baptized her in Soddy Lake after a traffic stop, offering a citation instead of an arrest if she agreed.
https://www.wvlt.tv/2022/04/18/woman-who-said-deputy-coerced-her-into-baptism-found-dead/
Judge OKs lawsuit against ex-Hamilton County deputy accused of baptizing woman after traffic stop
A U.S. District Court judge gave the go-ahead Thursday to a lawsuit against a former Hamilton County deputy accused of baptizing a woman against her will after a 2019 traffic stop.
In addition to ruling that the suit against Daniel Wilkey, 28, may proceed, Tennessee Eastern District Court Judge Travis R. McDonough ruled that several aspects of the complaint against former deputy Jacob Goforth could not continue. Wilkey allegedly called Goforth to witness the baptism and Goforth recorded the incident on his cellphone.
While excluding Goforth from most complaints in the lawsuit, the judge did say the former deputy had failed to protect the woman from Wilkey's use of excessive force.
"Goforth is qualified for reasonable immunity and summary judgment on this claim," the judgment said. However, the ruling also found that Goforth had ample time to stop Wilkey from committing an unreasonable seizure.
"And, if anything, the truly bizarre nature of these facts should have put Goforth further on notice that the seizure was inappropriate," the judge wrote.
Goforth had said he believed the woman to not be under police custody because she arrived at Soddy Lake in her own vehicle, but the judge stressed in his ruling that the woman might not have thought she was free to go until she was baptized by Wilkey.
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2022/apr/08/judge-gives-go-ahead-lawsuit-against-former-deputy/566677/
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In a shocking twist to this story, the woman was found deceased just a few days ago. Cause of death has not been released.
23% Of Spending By Pro-Trump Super PAC Reportedly Paid For Single Mar-a-Lago Event
Nearly a quarter of all expenditures this year by a Donald Trump-supporting super PAC reportedly paid for a single lavish event at — wait for it — his golf resort Mar-a-Lago.
New York Times reporters Kenneth Vogel and Shane Goldmacher wrote about the February event earlier this year, describing it as an “elaborate forum” for candidates endorsed by Trump and donors who gave as much as $125,000 per person to the super PAC Make America Great Again, Again! Inc. — which bankrolled the event.
Now Goldmacher has the receipts. The get-together cost an eye-popping $318,000, which was nearly a fourth of the PAC’s total expenditures so far this year, he noted.
The super PAC’s single largest line item for the first quarter of the year was the money to Mar-a-Lago for “event expense: facility rental and catering services,” Politico noted.
Other funding groups also paid tribute to Trump via Mar-a-Lago. Documents show controversial GOP Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, endorsed by Trump, paid $81,000 to Mar-a-Lago in late February.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pac-23-percent-expenditures-mar-a-lago_n_625b575ce4b052d2bd628c8a
Family words and expressions
I know every family has its own words and expressions for different things, and being the inveterate word collector that I am, I'm genuinely interested in sharing mine and collecting yours. I find them fascinating, both the expressions and, if known, their origins. Here are a few from my family, both my family of origin and my um, created family. Please feel free to submit yours! I want to see them!
swoofer-- a wet wipe. Might be derived from "Swiffer". 
geibitz--a speck of floating debris, usually in a beverage, though it can be anything. Originally from my college lab partner about a speck on a slide.
staring time-- the amount of time required to come to oneself, i.e. stare at nothing, after a nap or in the morning. From my uncle.
glenguzzle-- the iced tea and lemonade recipe peculiar to my family. From my paternal grandfather, origin unknown.
bandag skin-- piece of tire retread lying alongside a highway. From my late ex, references a commercial
bemoses-- acceptable (to my parents) substitute for "bejesus". From a Jewish friend.
busterfeathers-- family cuss word. Invented by my 4 year old when told he couldn't use the word he'd picked up from another child. Still in use by younger grandchildren.
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