Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown and two others will be suspended for three games for misrepresenting their Covid-19 vaccination status, the National Football League announced Thursday, following an investigation into a November report that Brown provided a fake vaccination card to the Buccaneers. Key Facts The NFL and its players’ union launched a review into Brown’s vaccination status after his former chef accused the former All-Pro of showing him a fake vaccination card and the investigation “supported those allegations,” the NFL said Thursday. Buccaneers safety Mike Edwards and free agent John Franklin III, who was with the team in the preseason, were also given a three-game suspension following the probe. All three players will waive their right of appeal and serve their suspensions immediately, according to the NFL. Key Background Brown’s former employee Steven Ruiz …
NFL Star Antonio Brown Accused Of Using Fake Covid Vaccination Card
Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown gave the team a fake vaccination card this summer to prove he’d been vaccinated against Covid-19, his former personal chef told the Tampa Bay Times , though Brown’s lawyer Sean Burstyn says the former All-Pro is vaccinated and the Buccaneers said they found “no irregularities” in any vaccine cards. Key Facts Brown’s girlfriend Cydney Moreau asked the couple’s former live-in chef, Steven Ruiz, to obtain “JNJ...Covid Cards” in exchange for a $500 payment from Brown, according to text messages viewed by the Times . Ruiz, who claims he is owed $10,000 by the NFL player, told the Times that although he was unable to find the forged proof of vaccination, Brown later showed the chef two fake cards for him and his girlfriend. Ruiz alleges it was this card he provided to the team in order to qualify for the NFL’s relaxed Covid protocols for the …
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Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani says he ‘believes’ in blockchain technology
- A + A (Dec 3): Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest person, said he sees the benefits of the blockchain technology and expects India to soon have one of the world’s most-advanced digital infrastructures — a tool that can generate equitable prosperity across the society. “Blockchain is the technology I believe in and it is different from crypto,” Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd said at a forum Friday, organized by India’s International Financial Services Centres Authority and Bloomberg . He added that digital technologies will reinvent sectors from financial services to manufacturing, agriculture to education and health care, making them more affordable and more accessible to all Indians. “Digital technology, I believe, is a great leveler, a great democratizer,” he said, adding that data was the new oil but with a vital difference. “The new oil, i.e. data, can be generated and consumed everywhere and by everybody. It has the potential to create value …
Tulsa paid people $10k to move there and work remotely. Here’s how it worked out
Bee Law has called many corners of the United States home. Born in Rochester, and raised and educated in North Carolina, she’s also lived in Atlanta, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles. So when the 29-year-old entrepreneur was deciding where to launch her video-based social network for anime and geek fandom, QuirkChat, she had a lot of options to consider. advertisement advertisement “After the pandemic I knew I wasn’t going to go back to California, so I was in limbo looking for that next place to call a home base,” she says. Last year, while researching the Tulsa Massacre , Law came across an ad for a program called Tulsa Remote , which enticed remote workers and entrepreneurs to the mid-sized Oklahoman city with a $10,000 relocation stipend. In exchange, successful applicants are required to call the city home for at least 12 months. “It was intriguing to see how Black entrepreneurs were building back up Tulsa, as a Black …
4 reasons why museums are steering clear of the NFT craze
The eye-popping sale price of $69 million on March 11, 2021, for a non-fungible token (aka NFT) created by the digital artist Beeple sent shock waves through the art world. More multimillion-dollar sales of these digital assets, which exist on a blockchain and are maintained on networked computers, soon followed. advertisement advertisement At the same time, art museums have faced substantial financial shortfalls accelerated by a decline in visitors and donations , courtesy of COVID-19. Many have considered taking drastic measures , such as selling treasured artworks, to plug budget gaps. Can NFTs generate the revenue many museums sorely need ? Some are issuing their own tokens, including the British Museum and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures . The Miami Institute of Contemporary Art accepted an early NFT from a donor. There’s even an NFT of entire museum called the Museum of Digital Life . Yet, more than six months into …
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6 Keys to Transforming Your Business From Dog-Eat-Dog to We-All-Win
The recent world-wide health pandemic has highlighted again how fast things can and do change in the environment today, and it's up to you to make sure your business can survive and thrive in this new world. As the current supply chain problems illustrate, we are all interconnected , and can no longer run our businesses without consideration for all the other businesses and society. In my role as a business advisor, I still find a pervasive dog-eat-dog and 'me' mentality, rather than a more collaborative shared responsibility to work together, and improve all our futures, including business as well as health, environmental, and cultural. I was happy to see some good guidance on this business transformation in a new book, " Lead With We ," by Simon Mainwaring. From his experience as a consultant with major brands, and as a Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World, Simon outlines six key steps in moving your company to this new reality. I will paraphrase his guidance …
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Former DNC Chair Tom Perez Running For Governor In Maryland
Tom Perez, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee and former President Barack Obama’s labor secretary, launched a bid to run for governor in Maryland Wednesday. “I’ll fight for Maryland communities and families,” Perez said in a tweet. “For good jobs, affordable health care, racial equity, and quality public education – just like I’ve done throughout my life.” Perez is the most high profile candidate — Democrat or Republican — to launch a bid in the state so far. He released a five-minute video Wednesday highlight his Maryland roots and work in the Obama administration. Maryland may be Democrats’ best chance to pick up a gubernatorial seat in 2022, since Gov. Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican , is term-limited and the state has become reliably Democratic in recent years. President Joe Biden won Maryland by just over 33 points in 2020. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan speaks at a Covid-19 vaccination site at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland in …
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American Students Don’t Need Basic Algebra Because It’s TOO HARD, Liberal Arts Professor Declares
An emeritus political science professor at taxpayer-funded Queens College in New York City has a new book hot off the presses arguing that requiring American students to pass a course in basic algebra as a graduation requirement is a cruel deterrent that causes millions of students to drop out of high school. The professor is Andrew Hacker, reports the Associated Press . Hacker’s book is entitled “ The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions .” “One out of 5 young Americans does not graduate from high school. This is one of the worst records in the developed world. Why? The chief academic reason is they failed ninth-grade algebra,” Hacker told the Associated Press. The professor also claims that a measly 5 percent of all occupations — and perhaps less — require algebra or any other sort of advanced math. Instead of learning how to solve rudimentary equations, Hacker argues, American high schoolers should be presented with a math curriculum concentrating on statistics and …
Tightened Travel Rules, Reimbursed At-Home Tests: Here’s What Biden’s Covid Winter Plan Means For Americans
Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline President Joe Biden outlined new federal initiatives to combat the coronavirus pandemic Thursday, including encouraging booster shots, opening hundreds of family vaccination clinics and making at-home testing kits free, a day after the first U.S. case of the omicron variant was detected in California. Key Facts Speaking at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday afternoon, Biden said the country is “better positioned” than it was a year ago to fight Covid-19 as the winter season approaches. The measures announced Thursday include an outreach campaign to encourage 100 million eligible Americans to get booster jabs, and Medicaid coverage for the cost of vaccine counseling sessions for families. While federal employees are already given paid time off to get booster shots, Biden called on employers across the country to do the same if they don’t already. The White House …
Is Dubai Watch Week Setting The New Show Standard?
Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The watch-world exhibitions are in a state of flux during the pandemic, sometimes off, sometimes on. But thankfully the Dubai Watch Week was able to take place live and in person last week. That may be because of the warmer weather and more inviting climate and because it took place before news of the new strain of Covid-19 could put a damper on international travel. Right before Dubai Watch Week took place, though, the organizers of Watches & Wonders in Geneva took the time to announce the dates of its in-person planned exhibit (after two years of digital events) from March 30 to April 5, 2022. Also prior to the Dubai Watch Week event, the Baselworld show organizers announced the postponement (yet again) of a physical exhibit in 2022. That left the Dubai Watch Week (DWW) show, organized and hosted by Seddiqi Holding, the last bastion for 2021. Some pundits in the watch world say that the format of DWW should be the …
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