COVID-19 testing begins Saturday at Tacoma Dome for at-risk population, healthcare workers
PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — People at higher risk at COVID-19, health care workers and community members on the frontlines of the crisis can be tested for the virus starting Saturday morning at the Tacoma Dome.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is holding five-day drive-thru testing starting Saturday morning.
In addition to healthcare workers, the department said people working in “critical infrastructure” will be eligible for COVID-19 tests, including grocery store workers, people in homeless shelters, restaurant workers, gas station clerks and public utilities employees.
“Healthcare workers, first responders and people who provide critical infrastructure are on the frontlines of helping residents in need during this public health emergency,” said Jessica Gehle, incident commander for the Health Department’s COVID-19 response. “It’s vital we prioritize this testing for them to ensure they are able to protect the health of our communities.”
Health officials said people over 60, people with underlying health conditions and pregnant woman can be tested at the Tacoma Dome. Testing is intended for people who have symptoms—fever, cough and shortness of breath.
“We want to continue to ensure we do what we can to slow the disease spread in our community,” Pierce County Executive Bruce Dammeier said. “We are pleased to work with the City of Tacoma, the Health Department, and our state and federal partners to make more testing available for our residents.”
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, which is operating the site, requires people to complete an online survey to find out if they’re eligible for testing and to register.
Qualifying people will receive a testing identifier number to present at the site. All people must arrive in a vehicle and provide a valid government-issued photo identification. The test is completed using a nasal swab while participants remain in their vehicles. People who arrive without proper testing identification will not get tested.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency provided 8,000 test kits to Washington state earlier this week. A limited number of COVID-19 tests will be available for the five-day event
The health department said more options for COVID-19 testing continue to become available.
Joseline Hernandez Gets really Emotional As She Learns That Stevie J Won Custody Of Bonnie Bella On ‘Marriage Boot Camp’
Joseline Hernandez and Stevie J have had a really hard time as parents. The Shade Room reveals the video, which shows an episode of Marriage Boot Camp.
In the emotional clip, Joseline learns that Stevie won custody of their daughter, Bonnie Bella. Check it out below.
Someone said: ‘Stevie didn’t even want the baby now he’s trying to make her life a living hell cause she doesn’t want him anymore! She was a good mother, that baby changed her for the better.. so sad ?’
A follower said: ‘you can’t deny she is a better woman because her daughter his her purpose, Joseline really leveled up when she became a mum.’
Someone else posted this: ‘this is what most do so they don’t have to pay child support!!! Or they will try to file for joint custody,’ and a follower wrote: ‘why is it sad that a father has custody of his child…. y’all sound bitter.’
One commenter posted this: ‘so a good mother would lie and say her father was touching her,’ and a person posted: ‘Okay but this made me tear up a little hearing the hurt in her voice was sad.?’
One commenter said: ‘Poor Joseline, Stevie is so weird. He is obsessive over these women. Move on with faith.’
Another follower of TSR wrote: ‘I love Joseline, but this season she’s more self-reflecting & we get to see more of HER rather than her & STEVIE. Without him, I see why his concerns were towards her as a mother, but that doesn’t make her a BAD MOTHER.’
Someone else had this to say: ‘FYI: This was taped a while ago, they currently have joint custody.’
A fan responded with: ‘That man still has full custody he said joint not to make her look bad she can’t have full custody she is going a lot with her shows and clubbing still you can see that how many times do you see her with Bonnie, Stevie always have Bonnie and posting her she dies see her but he still has full custody with him she is with siblings and a better environment for now maybe when Jose settle down more she can get her baby back full custody and I’m not about to argue with nobody because it is what it is.’
What do you think about the situation between these two?
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Why there will soon be tons of toilet paper, and what food may be scarce, according to supply chain experts
Stuck rationing toilet paper because you didn’t stockpile during the coronavirus panic over the last few days? Don’t worry, according to supply chain experts.
“All the grocery stores are going to have pallets of toilet paper sitting in the aisles, and nobody is going to buy it, because who needs to buy toilet paper when you’ve got a year’s worth sitting in your garage?” Daniel Stanton, a supply chain expert and author of “Supply Chain Management for Dummies,” tells CNBC Make It.
But what about food?
Even if the COVID-19 pandemic stretches over months (President Donald Trump said it could last until August), there will be no big food shortages, especially on staples like milk, eggs, cheese, bread and meat, according to three supply chain experts who spoke to Make It.
But your favorite brand or the exact kind of fruit you want could be scarce.
“The brand that you normally want may not be available. But, hey, there’s some other kind of pasta. Or instead of rice, we’re going to have potatoes for dinner,” Stanton says.
“The U.S. produces a huge amount of food. We’re also an exporter of food, so we’re going to be okay,” he adds.
Many food manufacturers have been adjusting their production lines for social distancing and have increased cleaning to ensure workers’ safety in recent weeks, experts say.
With that in mind, here are the few kinds of products that might actually be harder to find.
Specialty items
Specialty items like imported pastas and wines from Italy, cheeses from France or other niche food products from countries overseas or smaller businesses may be impacted, says Anantha Iyer, senior associate dean in supply chain and operations management at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management.
These kinds of items may not go out of stock permanently, but it could “get a little tricky,” Iyer tells Make It.
“Some ingredients for nearshore specialty things could get shut off because they can’t come across the border,” Stanton says.
Brandon Hernandez, a supply chain expert and partner at Whole Brain Consulting, who works with specialty brands in the U.S., agrees.
“I think the major items of concern are more tied towards raw materials or packaging coming out of China that support the broader food chain,” Hernandez tells Make It, explaining that China is an important exporter to the U.S. and provides things like quinoa and spices.
Because the pandemic may encourage higher scrutiny of exports, that “could potentially slow down the supply chain,” he says.
As for U.S. specialty products, Hernandez doesn’t foresee a “complete collapse in things like [protein] bars or all the [specialty] chips are going to be gone or anything like that,” but the items may not restock as quickly.
Certain fruits and vegetables
Iyer says Americans may just have to be “a little flexible” on certain types of fruits and vegetables they want to buy in the coming months.
“If you don’t see one type of fruit, you may have to buy another type of fruit,” he says.
That’s because some kinds of produce are imported from other countries, so there may be delays in shipping if ports begin to close.
Hernandez agrees it is possible that Americans could see gaps in availability.
“I’m not saying that it’s impossible that you won’t see bananas become scarce or strawberries in the back half of the year, because they shift from California production to Mexico production.”
“Maybe it’s possible, but it really depends on what they decide to impose at the borders from the [Food and Drug Administration] and the [United States Department of Agriculture] standpoint,” Hernandez says.
Overall, however, Stanton believes many domestic farmers and ranchers, who have been struggling in recent years, could actually see a boost amid the pandemic, as the U.S. may look to local suppliers for produce instead of international suppliers.
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Fetty Wap Ordered To Pay Ex-Employee $1.1M & Help Restore Her Reputation
Fetty Wap has been ordered to pay a former tour staffer over $1.1 million for defamation and breach of contract.
According to Bossip, Shawna Morgan sued the rapper and his Goodfella4life Entertainment company for not reimbursing her thousands of dollars in touring costs after 2017. While Morgan was supposed to be paid between five and 10 percent of Fetty’s performance profits, she was regularly expected to cover up-front touring expenses, which Fetty was supposed to reimburse.
Besides owing Morgan upwards of $242,000, Fetty also publicly claimed that she had stolen money from him and was double-dipping by charging both Goodfella4life Entertainment and their clients. Morgan fired back against his alleged slander with her lawsuit, claiming that Fetty had damaged her business reputation.
A judge initially sided with Morgan because Fetty didn’t respond to the suit. However, he appealed to have the case reinstated, and he and Morgan went to arbitration, where he was ordered to pay her $160,000. Rather than pay the ordered amount, Fetty demanded that the suit be taken to trial, where the jury ultimately sided with Morgan and added over $800,000 to his tab.
Along with paying $1.1 million for defamation and breach of contract, Fetty is also required to issue retractions for press outlets that reported his false claims, post public retractions on his social media accounts and take out ad space in “prominent entertainment publications” to restore Morgan’s name.
So far, the rapper hasn’t posted any redacting statements on his social media profiles. This past Valentine’s Day (February 14), he released his seven-track Trap & B EP.
Article via HipHopDX
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Netflix, director sued over Central Park 5 series
Former Manhattan prosecutor was portrayed by Felicity Huffman in ‘When They See Us’
Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein has sued Netflix and film director Ava DuVernay over her portrayal in the streaming service’s miniseries about the Central Park Five case, which sent five black and Latino teenagers to prison for a crime they were later absolved of committing.
Fairstein claims in the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Fort Myers, Florida, that the four-part series “When They See Us” defamed her by portraying her as a “racist, unethical villain.”
“Most glaringly, the film series falsely portrays Ms. Fairstein as in charge of the investigation and prosecution of the case against the five, including the development of the prosecution’s theory of the case,” Fairstein’s lawyer, Andrew Miltenberg, said in a statement. “In truth, and as detailed in the lawsuit, Ms. Fairstein was responsible for neither aspect of the case.”
Fairstein was the top Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor in 1989 when the five teenagers were charged with a vicious attack on a jogger in Central Park. The convictions were overturned in 2002 after convicted murderer and serial rapist Matias Reyes confessed to committing the crime alone. DNA linked him to it.
Fairstein, who became a best-selling crime author after retiring from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, observed the boys’ interrogation but didn’t personally try the case.
Fairstein was dropped by her publisher and resigned from several boards she served on after “When They See Us,” which dramatizes the events surrounding the trial, debuted last year.
Netflix called Fairstein’s lawsuit “frivolous” and said in a statement, “We intend to vigorously defend ‘When They See Us’ and Ava DuVernay and Attica Locke, the incredible team behind the series.”
Emails seeking comment were sent to a representative for DuVernay and to Locke, a writer and producer of the series who was named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
Article via FoxBusiness
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Who Was Madam C.J. Walker’s Daughter A’Lelia And What Happened To Her?
She played a huge role in her mother’s success
If you’ve seen Netflix’s Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, then you know all about Sarah Breedlove (a.k.a. Madam C.J Walker), one of America’s first self-made female millionaires. The film follows Madam C.J., played by Octavia Spencer, on her journey to developing a black haircare empire. But she didn’t do it alone.
Her daughter, A’Lelia Walker, played by Tiffany Haddish, also had a significant role in the success of her mother’s company and eventually took over the business. Unfortunately, A’Lelia passed away in 1931 in the same way her mother did—from hypertension, according to a blog run by Madam C.J. Walker’s great-great granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles.
But before she died, A’Lelia Walker accomplished a lot, not just for her mother’s company but for the black community at the time. Here’s everything we know about Madame C.J. Walker’s daughter, A’Lelia Walker.
A’Lelia was born Lelia McWilliams.
A’Lelia Walker was born as Lelia, according to Bundles. At 2-years-old, her father, Moses McWilliams died and Madam C.J.raised her as a single mother. The two moved to St. Louis to live with three of Madam C.J.’s brothers. Eventually, the mogul remarried to a man named Charles Walker (hence the name Madam C.J. Walker). A’Lelia took the Walker name to identify more closely with her mother’s business, according to Bundles’ blog. Here’s a photo of the real A’lelia Walker getting her nails done at one of Madam C.J.’s salons:
She moved to New York to expand the business.
In 1913, Madam C.J. purchased two townhouses on 136th Street in Harlem, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She and A’Lelia hired an architect to combine the properties into one unit. Once complete, the first floor was used as the Walker Hair Parlor, the basement was the Lelia College of Beauty Culture, where new hires were trained, and the top three floors were used by A’Lelia to live and entertain.
A’Lelia was married three times.
Although
the Netflix docuseries hints that A’Lelia might have been interested in
women, she never admitted to it. In fact, A’Lelia was married three
times—all of her partners men, according to Bundles. You meet A’Lelia’s first husband in Self-Made—John
Robinson, the hotel worker who dreamed of opening a juke joint. Well,
you saw how that turned out. In 1919, A’Lelia reportedly married Dr.
Wiley Wilson after her mom died. And her third husband was another
doctor and World War I captain, James Kennedy.
Madam C.J. Walker’s Irvington, NY mansion was named after A’Lelia.
When Madam C.J moved to New York to be closer to her daughter she purchased a mansion in Irvington, New York for $250,000 (which was $$ back then!), according to the NY Post. The home was 20,000 square-feet, had a swimming pool, marble floor, and was in the same neighborhood as the Rockefeller family, which was shown in Self Made.
The mansion came to be called the Villa Lewaro, after Leila Walker Robinson (remember Robinson, her first husband?), according to NPR. Take the first two letters of her first, middle, and last name: Le-Wa-Ro.
She was played a major role in the Harlem Renaissance for the black and queer community.
Although the film paints A’Lelia as having her head in the clouds, she was a serious businesswoman. Before taking over the company when her mother died, A’Lelia ran the east coast operations of the business, according to Bundles’ blog. And when A’lelia moved to Harlem, she made a name for herself fundraising for charities and founding the Harlem Debutantes Club.
She
was also known for her lavish parties at both her home in Irvington and
at her Manhattan salon, known as The Dark Tower. “They provided a safe,
welcoming environment for queer people at a time when there were few
other social options available. While she herself was not known to be
lesbian or bisexual, Walker’s parties were places where anyone could
express their sexuality however they pleased,” NPR reported.
Many of Harlem Renaissance’s finest came to A’Lelia’s parties, including Langtson Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Carl Van Vechten. Hughes called her “the joy goddess of Harlem’s 1920s,” according to NPR.
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RuPaul’s Drag Race queens launch digital concert festival amid coronavirus pandemic
All-Stars 4 winner Trinity The Tuck tells EW about the online drag festival featuring Alaska, Monét X Change, Manila Luzon, Peppermint, Nina West, and more: ‘I have a hazmat suit. Trust, I’m pulling out all the stops!
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage glowing screen in the comfort of your own home: All of the RuPaul’s Drag Race icons you can’t see at the club this weekend because you’re in coronavirus quarantine!
As the world’s population locks down amid the spread of COVID-19, EW can exclusively reveal powerhouse drag management company Producer Entertainment Group has partnered with webcast site Stageit to bring performances from some of the biggest names in contemporary drag directly to you, as bars, restaurants, and live entertainment venues continue to close around the world.
With tickets starting at $10 per show, the PEG Presents: Digital Drag Fest! online festival will unite drag superstars Alaska, Divina De Campo, Ginger Minj, Jackie Beat, Jiggly Caliente, Jinkx Monsoon, Jujubee, Manila Luzon, Miz Cracker, Monét X Change, Nina West, Peppermint, Sharon Needles, Sherry Vine, Trinity The Tuck, and country singer Brandon Stansell for a week-long slate of web-based concerts.
Each 30-minute, all-ages installment will be a unique experience, as Stageit does not record or re-release its content. Tickets are limited (beginning at 100 per show) to keep audience sizes intimate, though attendees will have opportunities to interact with the artists, tip them, and potentially win prizes during the broadcast.
As drag artists around the world continue to lose money with the coronavirus pandemic forcing performance venues into closure, Trinity tells EW the show is meant to serve as “a distraction from what’s going on in the world,” recalling the “escape from reality” provided by a typical night out at a drag show (outings that aren’t currently possible amid government-mandated closings of public gathering spaces).
“[Drag artists] give an experience to give people. It’s relief mentally, emotionally, or comically, and when you’re not able to do that while sequestered in your house, you can watch this online streaming show from home and, for 30 minutes, have fun with whoever they’re watching,” the All-Stars 4 winner says, adding that it also stands to forge new ground for drag queens and kings as they lose work around the country, offering an alternative to live performances that could provide supplemental income for gig-to-gig workers even after the pandemic ends.
“This might be something we want to put on [regularly] because certain areas of the country or the world can’t get to a show or it might be too expensive to get there,” Trinity explains. “People of drag and the LGBTQ community are extremely resilient. We have to be. We’ve always been that way, and this is going to show one of the ways we can take a bad situation and turn it around and make something positive out of it.”
For Trinity, that means decking out her home for a jaw-dropping performance full of vignettes “poking fun at being quarantined in your house.” And, yes, she will serve hazmat suit eleganza. Literally.
“I’m going to do songs that [feel right] on a coronavirus playlist, like MC Hammer’s ‘U Can’t Touch This,'” the queen says. “I ordered drop cloths from Amazon. I’m going to make a section of my house to look like a quarantine zone. I have a hazmat suit. Trust, I’m pulling out all the stops for this little show I’m putting on in my house!”
Drag Race ladies aren’t the only celebrities continuing to entertain fans in quarantine, with Miley Cyrus, who recently launched her Bright Minded: Live daily web series featuring celebrity guest interviews, and actor Ben Platt, who mounted a digital dance party with his followers, launching their own online-only events as well.
Amid the increasingly competitive digital performance space, Trinity assures fans her show will be one of the safest around: “Come see my show! Log in for $10.00!” she pleads with a laugh. “Stay six feet away from your screens!”
See the full Digital Drag Fest! performance schedule below. Individual show descriptions and tickets are available now on the Stageit website.
Drag Race ladies aren’t the only celebrities continuing to entertain fans in quarantine, with Miley Cyrus, who recently launched her Bright Minded: Live daily web series featuring celebrity guest interviews, and actor Ben Platt, who mounted a digital dance party with his followers, launching their own online-only events as well.
Amid the increasingly competitive digital performance space, Trinity assures fans her show will be one of the safest around: “Come see my show! Log in for $10.00!” she pleads with a laugh. “Stay six feet away from your screens!”
See the full Digital Drag Fest! performance schedule below. Individual show descriptions and tickets are available now on the Stageit website.
Article via EW
Miley Cyrus Tells Hailey Bieber Why She Left Her Church
Miley Cyrus and Hailey Bieber not only grew up as friends, but also both grew up in the Christian church, a major topic they discussed ahead of their beauty tutorial on Cyrus’ latest Bright Minded Instagram Live episode Friday (March 20).
When the two landed on the R of the Instagram Live series title — which stands for Reliable sources — Bieber listed family members, friends, therapists, random strangers, pets and church parishioners, which shifted the conversation to another important R in both of their lives: religion. Bieber, who shares the same fervor for her spirituality as husband Justin Bieber, explained to Cyrus, “I think there’s a difference between being raised in church and then being an adult and having your own relationship with God…. I feel like I’ve found my footing with spirituality and faith and church. I’ve found a church community that works for me where I feel supported and loved and accepted.”
But that core group wasn’t a dependable source of comfort for Cyrus during her young adult years.
“I was raised going to church as a believer, and that was a really important part of my life. And I kind of fell off that path a little bit because I think I had a hard time finding a relationship with God that worked for me as an adult,” Cyrus confirmed. “I think what I just took away from you is I’m allowed to decide what my relationship is with spirituality as an adult that doesn’t have to be aligned with the way it was when I was brought up.”
She continued, “I was also brought up in the church in Tennessee at a time in the ’90s, so it was a less accepting time with all that. I had some gay friends in school that the reason why I left my church is that they weren’t being accepted. They were being sent to conversion therapies. And I had a really hard time with that and I had a hard time with me finding my sexuality too. So I think you now telling me that I’m allowed to redesign my relationship with God as an adult and make it how it feels most accepting to me would make me feel so less turned off by spirituality.”
Cyrus came out as pansexual in 2015 and disclosed in a 2016 interview with Variety that her upbringing in “a very religious Southern family” encumbered her development as a middle school girl figuring out her sexual identity and entering her first relationship with another girl. “The universe has always given me the power to know I’ll be OK,” she said at the time. “Even at that time, when my parents didn’t understand, I just felt that one day they are going to understand.”
And the “Slide Away” singer confessed she still feels like her parents have a major presence in her spiritual life.
“I think that I’m in this quadruple-thruple relationship with God where it’s me and my parents and God,” she said during the live show. “If I could remove them and it can become my relationship with the higher power… now that feels way less intimidating and I can just talk to God directly rather than it being me and my parents having a conversation.”
Article via Billboard