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You may witness more fist-bumps instead of the customary high-fives that NBA players usually give their fans at games. According to the Associated Press, the National Basketball Association (NBA) is advising players to avoid high-fiving their fans due to the current coronavirus outbreak.

In wake of the spread of the COVID-19 virus, NBA officials have advised players to restrict physical contact with fans to limit potential exposure to coronavirus, according to a league memo sent to the players. The NBA has also advised their players to limit signing autographs as well. There are currently 102 cases of the novel coronavirus nationwide, according to federal and state health officials.

“The coronavirus remains a situation with the potential to change rapidly—the NBA and the Players Association will continue to work with leading experts and team physicians to provide up-to-date information and recommended practices that should be followed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus,” the league said in the memo.

The NBA and National Basketball Players Association have been consulting with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and infectious-disease experts, including a renowned researcher at Columbia University, the memo said.

“We are also in regular communication with each other, NBA teams including team physicians and athletic trainers, other professional sports leagues, and of course, many of you,” the league also wrote in its memo to teams, their physicians and athletic training staffs.

Portland guard CJ McCollum has already taken the advice.

The Corona Virus has officially hit Oregon. More specifically Lake Oswego…Make sure y’all washing y’all hands with soap for 20 or more seconds & covering ya mouths when you cough. I am officially taking a break from signing autographs until further notice.

Sincerely,

CJ

— CJ McCollum (@CJMcCollum) February 29, 2020

“You just have to be careful,” McCollum said Monday night in Orlando. “Obviously it’s affecting people, especially people who are displaying weaker immune systems and people over 60. You’ve got to check yourself and wash your hands, try to reduce contact with outsiders and outside germs.”

Season: 4 / Episode: 20

Given that everyone in Class 1-A has had to deal with at least villain attacks (some certainly more often than others) and have done so with a fair degree of confidence and levelheadedness, it’s easy to forget that they are still just a bunch of teenagers. “Gold Tips Imperial” continues the School Festival by reminding us of this simple fact: that despite the maturity they have constantly shown in life-threatening situations, they’re still kids.

It’s Saturday at UA, and Jiro is leading the Band Team, the effects teams are expanding their vision for the performance, and Ashido is trying to get the dance team to pop and lock. Of course, nothing ever goes according to plan because there are some unexpected guests.

Mirio and Eri!

Yeah, out of list of images I imagined seeing in My Hero Academia, Mirio posturing while presenting a school girl Eri certainly was not one of them. Unexpected bodily representations of fruit aside, it turns out that Principle Nezuku has approved Eri’s visitation to the school, but he wants to get her acclimated to the place before the full sensory overload of the School Festival. All of the work study students are ecstatic to see Eri out and about, and the rest of Class 1-A welcomes her with open arms. Everyone decides to take five so Deku and Mirio can show Eri around the school.

Mirio explains the festival and dorm system to Eri, while also getting stopped by some of his former classmates who see Eri and immediately ask if she’s his daughter (a question Mirio awkwardly does not answer). Seeing all of the students prep for the festival brings back [insert adjective of your choice] memories of high school, with all the construction and planning. Our touring trio runs into Class 1-B who are also putting on a show: Romeo and Juliet and the Prisoner of Azakaban: The Return of the King.

There is something very appropriate about the hero’s whose quirk is copying other quirks straight up throwing three different stories into a blender and calling it completely original.

Up next is a visit to fellow Big Three Member, Nejire Hado, who is currently preparing for the Beauty Pageant that Aizawa did not inform Class 1-A about. Nejire Hado was last year’s runner up, and she’s looking to take the title her senior year. Both Midoriya and Eri are impressed for drastically different reasons. Tamaki’s also there for emotional support and some self-deprecating comedy.

Next up is the Development Studio with the Support Class and our favorite inventor, Mei Hatsume. She is very much working on so many different projects and said projects are also still prone to unexpected, inexplicable explosions

The trio gets lunch and Midoriya learns that Principle Nezuku had to use a lot of their clout to hold the school festival since UA is a high-profile villain target and Japan is without its Number 1 Hero. This only motivates Midoriya even more to make sure Eri has a great experience at the festival, and he goes off to meet up with the dance team only to find that he’s been co-opted by the special effects team who need something strong to carry Aoyama. Midoriya’s disappointed at first, but realizes that Eri will still see him dance at the beginning and making sure the show is memorable is the goal of the entire group.

Afterwards, he heads to train with All Might to try and utilize his air blasts more effectively which ends up just mirroring their first interactions with All Might’s intuitive grasp of All for One making him a less than ideal teacher for Midoriya. Still, neither is discouraged. Mei then crashes the party as she’s testing out another one of her babies and lets Midoriya know that she’s also found the time to work on some new equipment. This also unearths some expected news for the fanboy in Midoriya as he discovers that his idol used support items.

Back at the dorms, the students are chilling and when Uraraka’s just trying to bring him some Gold Tips Imperial Black Tea, she sees Midoriya in full goblin mode: on the intensive google search life, trying to find any visual evidence on the fifth page of results.

Of course while he’s doing this, he stumbles upon one of Gentle’s videos, and there is an unease that fills the air. Which is justified as the scene shifts to Gentle and La Brava. See Gentle is a villainous content creator with a penchant for tea, but he’s very much got a plan to infiltrate UA and make sure he has time to partake in the titular Gold Tips Imperials. He knows the path he’s gonna take, the tea shop he’s gonna stop at, the means to bypass security. And that’s gonna be a problem since if there’s even a hint of trouble the school festival’s gonna get canceled and after everyone’s hard work, that’d just crush morale and Eri’s heart, and we can’t have that…

The episodes ends in proper by giving us a little bit of insight into the back of Gentle and La Brava. They are certainly an odd couple, but you can tell they have their convictions and if nothing else, that makes them a different type of dangerous than anything we’ve seen in the My Hero Academia universe thus far.

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John Conner III, a well-known dancer and former instructor on Lifetime’s popular series Bring It, was sentenced in Tennessee to nine months in prison and four years of probation on Friday after he was found guilty of having unprotected sex with an underage dance student, exposing the teen to HIV.

In November Conner pleaded guilty to charges of criminal exposure to HIV, statutory rape by an authority figure, and solicitation of a minor, according to WREG.

As a requirement of the case Conner will have to remain on the Sex Offender Registry for life.

Conner was 26-years-old at the time of the incident, and the teen was 16-years-old. The two reportedly met online and agreed to meet one another where they partook in unprotected sex in Conner’s car. Conner was diagnosed with HIV in 2012, but failed to disclose that information to the student at the time of their sexual relationship.

The teen who housed aspirations to become a dancer later joined Conner’s team, the Infamous Dancerettes, where they continued exchanging sexual text messages and nude photos.

Conner got national attention during the first season of the Lifetime reality TV show, Bring It, following the dance leadership of Coach Dianna “Miss D” Williams and her Dollhouse Dance team in Jackson, Mississippi. Conner appeared on the first season of the show as a coach of the Dynamic Diamond Dollz. In season two he returned as the coach of the Infamous Dancerettes.

However a year after their relationship began, the teen learned that Conner was HIV positive and informed his parents who encouraged him to get tested. The test came back positive.

Conner awaits two similar cases, reports WREG — one involving a 17-year-old sexual partner and the other based on allegations from a 24-year-old victim.

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A Denny’s waitress from Memphis, Tennessee, is about $4,561.61 short to be exact, after claiming her employer failed to release the enormous tip left to her by a recent patron of the restaurant.

According to the Atlanta Black Star, Shikira Edwards is reportedly seeking legal action in an attempt to recover the money. Edwards was a three-year employee at Denny’s serving the location on Winchester and Riverdale Road in Memphis. She has since left the restaurant in the days following the back and forth between her and her employer.

Last month several local news outlets reported Edwards’ luck and elation after her manager told her she would be receiving a generous tip.

“It’s just such a blessing to have good people like that that are still here and that God did answer my prayers, because he knows what I go through,” Edwards told FOX 13 in a February interview. “For someone to look at me and bless me in that way, in that way shape or form, there’s no blessing too high or too low for God, and I appreciate her so much.”

But after three weeks, there’s been no payment. Edwards claims her manager informed her that she would have to track down the patron and verify that they intended to give the written amount on the receipt.

“I’m just hurt that they would tell me something like this as a business and as being the owner to tell me that this is the only resolution as to look at if I’m wrong to ask for something I know I deserve,” said Edwards.

Since that time, Edwards has not been able to track the person down and doesn’t rule out foul play in the matter.

“You’re going to tell me that it’s my fault that I didn’t get the information on a customer when they left and tipped me,” Edwards said. “I don’t know who tipped me.”

“I wouldn’t be surprised if because of what they’re going through already that they need it more than I do,” she continued.

According to Atlanta Black Star who interviewed the location’s owner, the transaction was voided by management because the transaction could not be verified.

Edwards hopes that another stroke of luck will culminate with the person revealing themselves.

“I just hope that at the end of the day, no matter what, that justice is served,” said Edwards. “And I just think it’s wrong to be lied to. I pray that whatever is done in the dark should come to light.”