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The first professional basketball player to be infected with the COVID-19 virus is giving back to the Utah community by contributing $500,000 to part-time Utah Jazz employees and making a donation toward COVID-19-related social services relief, according to NBA.com.
The Utah Jazz announced over the weekend that Rudy Gobert is donating more than $500,000 to support both the employee relief fund at Vivint Smart Home Arena and COVID-related social services relief in Utah, Oklahoma City, as well as within the French healthcare system.
The generous donation will provide $200,000 in salary aid to the part-time employees who are unable to work at the home arena of the Utah Jazz due to the postponement of NBA games and entertainment events at the venue. This will take place in conjunction with employee assistance efforts already being undertaken by Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment.
“I am humbled by the tireless efforts and care of people around the globe for those affected by COVID-19, especially my own communities of Utah and France, in addition to my appreciation for the state of Oklahoma and my care there, and of course, my Utah Jazz family,” Gobert said in a written statement.
Gobert has also pledged that he will contribute $100,000 each to assist families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Utah and nearby Oklahoma City plus an additional 100,000 euros for his native country of France. Emerging areas of pressing need include childcare assistance to healthcare workers as well as for caregivers to the elderly.
“I know there are countless ways that people have been impacted. These donations are a small token that reflect my appreciation and support for all those impacted and are the first of many steps I will take to try and make a positive difference while continuing to learn more about COVID-19 and educate others. Much gratitude, RG.”
There are more than 800 part-time employees who work events at Vivint Smart Home Arena in many different areas, which include food service, security, guest services, custodial, and more. Because of the pandemic, four upcoming concerts have been postponed through the end of April, in addition to the remaining 10 home games that were scheduled before the suspension of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The first professional basketball player to be infected with the COVID-19 virus is giving back to the Utah community by contributing $500,000 to part-time Utah Jazz employees and making a donation toward COVID-19-related social services relief, according to NBA.com.
The Utah Jazz announced over the weekend that Rudy Gobert is donating more than $500,000 to support both the employee relief fund at Vivint Smart Home Arena and COVID-related social services relief in Utah, Oklahoma City, as well as within the French healthcare system.
The generous donation will provide $200,000 in salary aid to the part-time employees who are unable to work at the home arena of the Utah Jazz due to the postponement of NBA games and entertainment events at the venue. This will take place in conjunction with employee assistance efforts already being undertaken by Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment.
“I am humbled by the tireless efforts and care of people around the globe for those affected by COVID-19, especially my own communities of Utah and France, in addition to my appreciation for the state of Oklahoma and my care there, and of course, my Utah Jazz family,” Gobert said in a written statement.
Gobert has also pledged that he will contribute $100,000 each to assist families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Utah and nearby Oklahoma City plus an additional 100,000 euros for his native country of France. Emerging areas of pressing need include childcare assistance to healthcare workers as well as for caregivers to the elderly.
“I know there are countless ways that people have been impacted. These donations are a small token that reflect my appreciation and support for all those impacted and are the first of many steps I will take to try and make a positive difference while continuing to learn more about COVID-19 and educate others. Much gratitude, RG.”
There are more than 800 part-time employees who work events at Vivint Smart Home Arena in many different areas, which include food service, security, guest services, custodial, and more. Because of the pandemic, four upcoming concerts have been postponed through the end of April, in addition to the remaining 10 home games that were scheduled before the suspension of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Any time you hear relationship advice, you have to ask yourself if that’s right for you. Only you know what goes on inside your relationship. Only you really knows how you and your partner work. You’re also the only one who understands your tolerance for certain dynamics, or fully understands your partner’s intentions and values. Not every piece of relationship advice is for everyone, even some advice that would generally seem good.
That being said, there is some antiquated relationship advice that has just got to go. I can’t believe anyone is still slinging it. It’s left over from some era when men didn’t view women as equals, women didn’t demand to be treated as equals, and, generally speaking, romantic partners weren’t friends. They were two people who were sexually attracted to each other and then engaged after months of game-playing, each trying to get the upper hand, until they got married too quickly to the wrong person because that’s what ya did.
“Play hard to get.” That’s one of the quintessential pieces of advice from this general category of garbage advice. That’s one we’ve all heard before, and it’s so juvenile. But it’s a symbol of the type of advice I’m talking about. It’s the advice that implies that romantic partners are competitors, rather than teammates, and that a relationship is about being in control rather than helping each other out. It’s a tyranny rather than a democracy. When I hear a woman say things like, “Play hard to get,” I feel she sets the women’s liberal movement back decades. Any piece of relationship advice that sounds more like a tactical move is BS. Here is relationship advice you can feel free to ignore.
Keep him guessing
“Make him always wonder if he could lose you,” “Make him work for it.” These are in the same family—the idea that a man should never fully feel secure in the fact that he has you. But that is so unhealthy, and nobody winds up happy there. Two truly happy people are two people who say, “I’m fully yours and you’re fully mine and I want to make you feel secure in that.”
Rep. and professional sycophant Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News today to willfully share dangerous and wrong information about COVID-19. Nunes was a guest on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, and proceeded to encourage viewers to ignore recommendations for social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak.
“If you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to go out and go to a local restaurant, likely you can get in easy. Let’s not hurt the working people in this country…go to your local pub” pic.twitter.com/jXdhOfwe9R
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 15, 2020
Nunes said, “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. One of the things you can do, if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant ― likely you can get in easily. Let’s not hurt the working people in this country that are relying on wages and tips to keep their small business going. Just don’t run to the grocery store and buy $4,000 of food. Go to your local pub.”
Nunes’s advice directly contradicts what doctors and medical experts all over the world are saying, but are we honestly surprised? Nunes’s number one priority is and always has been sucking up to Donald Trump and covering his own ass. He has been embroiled in his own set of quid pro quo scandals and fake cow lawsuits.
Many took to Twitter to call Nunes out:
“Do normal things, rub your eyes after holding handrails, French kiss everybody in the big meeting, raw dog handshake the lonely coughing man at your local kidney dialysis center. Smear animal feces on your children, become blood brothers with a fruit bat, https://t.co/QaclzEA3sv
— Erin ☄️ Ryan (@morninggloria) March 15, 2020
Devin Nunes, always finding new and innovative ways to be a menace to the American public. https://t.co/L9BVeKeZBo
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 15, 2020
Dr. Fauci this morning: "I would like to see a dramatic diminution of the personal interaction that we see in restaurants and in bars."
Devin Nunes this morning: https://t.co/pZn1xVw4ok
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) March 15, 2020
Devin Nunes is going to get Americans killed. And there will be a number of real lawsuits that begin. pic.twitter.com/MpmhAupIwL
— Nabilah Islam for Congress (@NabilahforGA07) March 15, 2020
This is agitprop, not just misinformation. Republicans don’t care much about “the working people” when they’re depressing wages and busting unions. Sooner things are “normal,” the better it is for Trump. @DevinNunes is covering the president’s ass. Period. https://t.co/vS1oaFybbd
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) March 15, 2020
Just when we think republicans can sink no further here’s Nunes, putting Americans in danger just so the crisis can look a little less crisis-y. What a stain on humanity. And what an opportune time to donate to his challenger, Phil Arballo:
We’re building a movement to defeat @DevinNunes & replace him with a representative who will follow the facts, believe science, & do what’s best for the American people & his constituents.
Join us by chipping in to our grassroots campaign: https://t.co/ZLjpuEdR48
— Phil Arballo (@PhilArballo2020) March 15, 2020
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- Emerald City Comic Con may be canceled, but you can still support awesome artists online. (via Nerdist)
- Bill Gates is stepping down from Microsoft to focus on his charity work. (via AVClub)
- Bruce, is that you?
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now available to stream/anger you all over again. (via Collider)
- Toss a coin to these new characters coming to season two of The Witcher. (via CBR)
- Here’s another list of movies and shows to binge-watch. (via EW)
- Schitt’s Creek GIFs will save us all.
The latest edition of ‘things I didn’t know I desperately needed to see’: a hyena in a tub 🛁 pic.twitter.com/mfjRvAXXe8
— Kimberley Oxley (@kimberleyoxley) March 13, 2020
— New Year, Gayer Nic (@CloneNic) March 15, 2020
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