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The Friends of Zack Reed will sponsor its 22nd Annual 2018 Toys for Tots Holiday Party & Celebrity Fashion Show with the goal to collect 1,000 toys for the needy children of Northeast Ohio. Beverages will be pro-vided with admission. Celebrities invited include: Alec Blackmon, Andrea Vecchio, Tiffany Tarpley, and Vanessa Whiting, Esq. Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10 at the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 without a toy).

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The Friends of Zack Reed will sponsor its 22nd Annual 2018 Toys for Tots Holiday Party & Celebrity Fashion Show with the goal to collect 1,000 toys for the needy children of Northeast Ohio. Beverages will be pro-vided with admission. Celebrities invited include: Alec Blackmon, Andrea Vecchio, Tiffany Tarpley, and Vanessa Whiting, Esq. Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10 at the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 without a toy).

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The Harvard Community Service Center will hold a Kiddie Trick or Treat event on Saturday, October 31 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the par-king lot of Archbishop Lyke School, 18230 Harvard Road. Goodie bags will be presented to all youth under 18. Costumes are optional. Extra prizes for those dressed as Black Panthers. Everyone must wear a mask.

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Even during a time when the economy was notably strong, Ohio lost ground in en-suring children have access to health covera-ge.An annual report released today by the Ge-orgetown University Center for Children and Families reveals there were 27,000 more un-insured Ohio children in 2019 than in 2016.

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tial gas price increases in-cluding Florida (+9 cents), Delaware (+6 cents), New Jersey (+6 cents), Washing-ton, D.C. (+5 cents), West Virginia (+4 cents) and Maryland (+3 cents). At the close of Fri-day’s formal trading ses-sion, West Texas Interme-diate decreased by $1.67 to settle at $37.05. Crude prices dropped due to mar-ket concern about increas-ing coronavirus infections worldwide, which could lower crude demand. For this week, crude prices could decline further if demand concerns continue to worry the mar-ket.

At $2.18, the nation-al gas price average is at the cheapest start to the month of October since 2016. That average is the same as a week ago, four cents cheaper than the start of this past September, and nearly 50 cents cheaper than last year. The national average held on the week as demand was mostly stable at 8.5 million b/d, despite gasoline stocks increasing by 700,000 barrels. On the week, 41 state gas price averages fluc-tuated by no more than two cents. Of those, 38 states only saw a penny increase or decrease. A handful of states saw more substan-

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Cleveland matched its homicide total from 2019 with two daytime killings on Tuesday. According to homicide reports, Cleveland is on track to a record of homicides not recorded since the crack epidemic of the 1990s. The 133 slaying this year in Cleveland is tied for the third-highest number of homicides in a single year since 1994. The number of young people killed is on the rise. Ten children under age 18 have died in homicides this year, matching last year’s total, and 47 victims were under age 25, already seven more than 2019. According to a report from the Ohio Department of Health, between 2008 -2017, ho-micide was the leading cause of death in children under the age of

Cleveland on target for highest homicide rate in 25 years25. According to records from the Cleveland Division of Police and the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office, 16 homicides have been reported in Cleveland the last 17 days, pushing the total number of homicides in 2020 to 62. In 2019, there were 40 ho-micides recorded between January 1 and June 8, according to police records. The Cleveland Police Department has records which re-flect much lower numbers. The record of Cleveland Police solving a homicide is sta-tisitically nil. Saronty Williams, 21, was died after being shot in the head outside Zelma George Recreation Center, 3155 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. on September 19, 2019. According to the police, the shoot-

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A Celebration of Life Ser-vice for Malcolm McLeod Brown will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Octo-ber 10 at Calhoun Funeral Home, 23000 Rockside Road, Bedford. Brown, a confident, state-ly, and beloved educator, museum collected painter and art-dealer, died on October 1 at the age of 89. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia August 19, 1931, in a his-toric region on the south side of Freetown, with his parents Franklin and Dorothy Brown, and maternal grandparents, Jesse and Lucy Jack-son. Freetown was settled by ex-slaves after 1863. They owned the land and thoughtfully and methodi-cally created a community with businesses, schools and churches. Grandpa Jesse purchased the land and co-founded Piedmont Baptist Church—which is still a vibrant part of the community. Family names of those who made Freetown were Winston, Washington, Mills, Jack-son, Brown, Wood and Tucker. This robust community and its history bore the legacy of Malcolm Brown. Brown graduated from Albemarle Training School and then earned his bachelor’s degree at Vir-ginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia as a ROTC scholarship student. There he joined the distin-guished fraternity, Omega Psi Phi in 1953 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in fine arts education in 1955. Brown was called to serve his active-duty commitment in the Army, during the Vietnam War sta-tioned in Hannover, Germany. While in Europe, he trav-eled throughout France, Austria, and Switzerland to experience the history of art and architecture first-hand. Upon completion of his ser-vice, Brown returned to the U.S. as faculty at Woodson High School

Renown local artist Malcolm Brown dies

in Hopewell, Virginia. During sum-mer study at Boston University he met his intended, Ernestine T. Turner of Youngstown, Ohio. They married in November 1964 and moved to Cleve-land where he earned his master’s de-gree in arts education from Case West-ern Reserve University. Brown was a member of the esteemed American Watercolor Society, created a celebrated Jazz and Sisters series—shown in feature films, and received numerous prestigious art awards. His paintings are part of sev-eral permanent museum and corporate collections and was invited to group exhibitions across the country; taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art and ultimately retired after 32 years as ten-ured faculty at Shaker Heights High School. Though teaching and paint-

ing were his passion, he and his wife, had a vision—that was to expand the conversation and active support for African American and Diasporan art-ists by mid-west collectors. In 1980, they opened Malcolm Brown Gallery, the first Black-owned fine art gallery in the country, which featured Brown’s work alongside Black artists of inter-national prominence including Eliza-beth Catlett, Romare Bearden, Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Selma Burke, Moe Brooker, Lamar Briggs, Ed Dwight and oth-ers. In 1994, Malcolm and his wife received a special citation from the Cleveland Arts Prize for distinguished service to the arts. Brown is survived by his wife Ernestine T. Brown, children Malcolm, Jeffrey and Rhonda, and four grandchildren.

Thomas Jefferson Byrd murdered in Atlanta Thomas Jefferson Byrd, a Tony-nominated ac-tor who was best known for his many roles in Spike Lee’s films was fatally shot in Atlan-ta last weekend. He was 70. According to media reports, Byrd was found unre-sponsive early Sunday morn-ing with multiple gunshot wounds in his back. Paramed-ics pronounced him dead at the scene. The Atlanta Po-lice Department is offering a $10,000 reward. Detectives are asking anyone with per-tinent information to contact the Atlanta Police Homicide Unit, Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477 or online at www.

Jude is almost in preschool. He turns 3 in a few weeks. He likes dinosaurs, dragons and trucks. He can count to 30 and knows the ABC’s, shapes and colors. His favorite TV show is Paw Patrol. Vegetables, noodles and strawberries are his favorite foods. He loves reading Eric Carle books and he is very excited to see his teachers again soon. Jude is also very talkative and enjoys chasing his big sister, Emmy, all over

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ing happened at about 6:41 p.m.. Sa-rontay’s parents, Robert and Kenya Williams asked the public’s help in bring his killer to justice. SaRontay left behind two children, Keontaee, 4, and Sa’yonna, 2. According to his father, SaRontay, was a wonderful, loving son and father. He had set-up a recording studio in the house to pursue his music. He was beloved by his siblings and friends. Despite numerous witness-es and forensic evidence, no one has been arrested for the crime. The family of Williams, along with the families of so many young Clevelanders whose lives were cut short by gun violence, de-serve answers. They deserve justice. In 2018, then Deputy Chief Harold Pretel said the department’shope was to hire more full time ho-micide detectives. The homicide rate is rising while families grieve with-out answers.

films including Clockers, Get on the Bus, Girl 6, He Got Game, Bamboozled, Red Hook Sum-mer, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus and Chi-Raq. He also appeared in the Netflix series adaptation of Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It. His film credits also include the 1996 crime drama Set It Off as well as the Oscar-winning pic Ray. Byrd was a graduate of Morris Brown College in Atlan-ta, and he made his Broadway de-but in the revival of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, starring alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Carl Gordon, Charles S. Dutton and Stephen McKinley Henderson. He earned a Tony nomination for his perfor-mance in the play.

Renown artist and teacher Malcolm Brown died recently. Brown was a member of the esteemed American Watercolor Society, created a celebrated Jazz and Sisters series—shown in feature films,

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Ricky Williams, four years old, is the son of Shequila and Dan Williams. He attends prechool. He has a hearty appetite and his favorite food is pizza. Being an active kid, Ricky likes to ride his bike which is his favorite toy.

Women’s March Cleve-land will host a rally and march on Saturday, October 17 as part of a national march this day for justice and equality for women and Black lives, the event of which will be held in Ward 1 outside at the Har-vard Community Services Center at 18240 Harvard Avenue on the city’s largely Black east side. The Harvard Commnity Services Center is led by Elaine Gohlstin, its president and CEO, Gohlstin also the leader of the Black Women’s Political Ac-tion Committee of greater Cleve-land. For more information call Women’s March Cleveland at (216) 659-0473. The event will commence with a 1pm rally with speakers and entertainment, followed by a 2:15 pm march, one of several wom-en’s marches in respective cities throughout the country on Oct. 17, including in Washington D.C, the

nation’s capital. Face masks are required per city ordinance. Women in Cleveland and at marches across the country on Oct 17, led by Women’s March, will also remember the late U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and take on the rush by the White House and Senate Re-publicans in scheduling confirma-tion hearings to replace Ginsburg before the inauguration in 2021 of a president, either President Trump, or his rival, Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The president, who now has the coronavirus, has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee and is adamant, alongside of Senate Ma-jority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, about holding early con-firmation hearings, which are set to initiate on Oct. 12. He has promised that Bar-rett will likely be confirmed by the

Republican controlled Senate by the presidential election. The lives of women, Black women in particular, will be at the forefront too of Cleveland’ Oct 17 march, from the shooting death by Louisville Metro police of Breon-na Taylor, to disparities across the board of Black women in compari-son to their White male and female counterparts. Typically held at Public Square or elsewhere in downtown Cleveland, Women’s March Cleve-land will be taken to Ward 1 in the heart of the Black community, Cleve-land a largely Black major American city of some 385,000 people that is led by four-term mayor Frank Jack-son, the city’s third Black mayor. A largely Black ward, Ward 1 is the largest voting bloc of Black voters in the city and the second largest voting bloc of all of the city’s wards Speakers include local ac-tivists, Black clergy and elected offi-cials, including Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones, Rev Benjamin Gohlstin, state Rep Juanita Brent of Cleve-land, state Sens. Sandra Williams of Cleveland and Nickie Antonio of Lakewood, Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley, and activists Kimberly Brown, Cheryl Lessin of Refusefacism Ohio, Shae Maresco, Pam Mason, Ruth Gray of the Na-tional Congress of Women Greater Cleveland Chapter and Avery Mc-Cauley of the Black Women’s PAC of Greater Cleveland. Special guest speakers are Domestic Violence and Child Ad-vocacy Center Executive Director Melissa Graves and Carrie Joseph, a manger and manager of the agency, which is located in Cleveland. In addition to Women’s March Cleveland, which is led by Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Cole-man, other affiliated community groups include International Wom-en’s Day March Cleveland, Black Women’s PAC of greater Cleveland, National Congress of Black Women Greater Cleveland Chapter, Imperial Women Coalition, Black on Black Crime Inc., CCDWC, Greater Cleve-land Immigrant Support Network, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, Imperial Women Coalition, Black Voters Matter Cleveland, Re-fusefacism Ohio, Peace in the Hood, Finding Our Children-The Missing-Ebony Alert, Black on Black Crime Inc., and BEMAD

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Most people have at least one bad financial habit. Whether it's impulse shopping, forgetting to pay bills on time or putting off building that emergency fund, balancing what you want to do and what you "should" do is never easy. The new year is the perfect time to identify potential financial weak points and replace bad hab-its with productive ones.Resolve to Replace Your Bad Financial Habits Start by identify-ing your bad habits. Some-times a bad financial habit is easy to identify. For ex-ample, there might be a growing stack of bills in the kitchen that you willfully ignore. Others may be sub-tler, or perhaps they've be-come so ingrained that you do them without thinking twice. Not sure where to start? Looking through your previous months' ex-penses can help you identi-fy expensive trends or one-

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Last week the Gra-cious Mistress of the Parson-age came up with a brilliant idea. At least, at the time, it seemed brilliant. “Why don’t we,” she began, “take Monday off and just chill?” Since it’s been a long time since I did any chillin, I had to ask her, “What do we chill about?” She looked at me with one of those looks and said, “Oh, silly boy. Don’t you know what it means to just chill for a day?” It’s been so long since I did any of that I’m not sure if I remember what the rules are for chilling for a day. I can’t remember the last time we did that. I’m sure be-ing sick in bed does not qual-ify. “Don’t you worry about a thing,” she said with a huge smile on her face, “I’ll take care of everything.” That’s what got me to worry. When the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage is in charge of planning, noth-ing is off the table. I queried her throughout the week about what she had in mind for Monday, and she would smile and say, “Don’t you worry about a thing.” That’s all she would tell me, which led me to worry about everything. Whenever anybody, especially my wife, tells me not to worry, it is a red flag to begin worrying as best I can. If anybody can worry with dignity, it is Yours Truly. I began worrying when I was very young. My parents would tell me, don’t worry about anything, “We’ll take care of everything, and you don’t have to worry about anything.” Every time that hap-pened, nothing really good came out of it, especially for me. My parents always planned around what they liked without any regard to what I liked. According to them, I was to like what they liked and appreciate what

they were doing. To an extent, I ap-preciated that, but to another extent, it made me worry quite a bit. After years of practicing my worrying, I think I have it down to a sci-ence. So, when my wife says I’m not to worry and she’ll take care of things, I then begin to worry like I haven’t worried for a long time. I feared for the dawn of the coming Monday. As we went to bed Sunday night, my wife said, “Are you as excited about our chillin day tomorrow as I am?” Not knowing ex-actly what she had planned, I wasn’t as excited as she was. We had a light breakfast and chattered a lit-tle while watching the news on TV. “There’s a new res-taurant in our area. Let’s go there for lunch.” That was okay with me, then she said, “We should leave a little before lunch, I need to stop to pick up something.” I really wasn’t lis-tening to what she said be-cause I was trying to figure out what this chillin would be like today. “And then,” she continued, “I need to go over to Lowe’s and pick up some material for the room we’re remodeling. Of course, that room we are remodeling is my home office. How could I say no to that? Finally, we did get to the new restaurant and had a wonderful lunch. Af-ter lunch, we headed over to Lowe’s and picked up the material she had ordered. I still was trying to figure out what we were go-ing to be doing to chill out today. While I was thinking about it, she suddenly said, “Look, there’s a thrift store I haven’t been to in a month. Let’s stop and see what they got.” Coming out of the

thrift store with a shopping cart full of stuff, “I sure am grateful that we stopped here today. Look at all the won-derful stuff I got and look at how much money I saved.” Driving out of the parking lot and onto the main highway, we went for just a few minutes, and then my wife said, “Oh, look over there. They have some mate-rial I need to get to finish the project I’m working on. Let’s stop there for a minute.” We brought out an-other shopping cart full of “stuff” she needed for her project. I glanced at her as we got into the van, and she was smiling. I made the mistake of asking her, “Why are you smiling?” “Oh,” she said, chuckling, “this is the best chillin day I’ve had, in, I can’t remember how long. Aren’t you glad we took this day off to chill?” It was about sup-pertime, so I suggested we stop at a local restaurant for supper. While we were en-joying our supper together, she entertained me with all of the wonderful stuff she got and all the money she saved by shopping at these thrift stores. We got home and sat down in the living room after we had unloaded her van, and she said, “This has been a wonderful time together. We should do this more often.” And she looked at me and smiled, and I returned her smile thinking, I don’t think so. As she talked, I couldn’t help but think of one of my favorite Old Tes-tament passages. “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3). I still haven’t fig-ured out what a chillin day is, but I have learned, if I want what she wants, that makes it all the more wonderful. Call him at 1-866-552-2543 or e-mail james-snyder2@att.net. Visit www.jamessnyderministries.com.

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Saudi eases restrictions on Mecca and pligrims returning A very small, lim-ited number of people on Sunday donned the white terrycloth garment symbol-ic of the Muslim pilgrimage and circled Islam’s holiest site in Mecca, after Saudi Arabia lifted coronavirus restrictions that had been in place for months. The kingdom had taken the rare step in early March of suspending the smaller “umrah” pilgrim-age, which can be taken at any time of the year and draws millions from across the world, as the coronavi-rus morphed into a global pandemic and prompted countries to impose lock-downs and curfews to slow down transmission. But as nations be-gin to ease those restric-tions, the Saudi government on Sunday started allow-ing a maximum of 6,000 pilgrims a day to enter the sprawling Grand Mosque in Mecca. Only Saudi citizens and residents will be per-mitted to enter the mosque during this first phase of reopening, and each per-son has up to three hours to complete the pilgrimage. The Grand Mosque, which is being sterilized and cleaned mul-

tiple times a day, houses the cube-shaped Kaaba that observant Muslims pray to-ward five times a day. Before visitors can enter the mosque to pray or perform the umrah, they have to apply and reserve a specific time and date through an online applica-tion to avoid crowding and maintain social distancing. Visitors can also select their means of transportation and meeting points via the app . State TV showed on Sunday what appeared to be fewer than 50 people cir-cling the Kaaba at the same time and walking several meters (feet) apart. Typi-cally, the mosque would be packed with worship-pers from around the world crowded shoulder-to-shoul-der at all times of the day and night. The second phase for loosening restrictions at the Grand Mosque comes into effect on Oct. 18, al-lowing a maximum of 15,000 pilgrims and 40,000 for prayer from among resi-dents and citizens based on allocated times via the app. Muslim travelers from outside Saudi Arabia could be allowed to per-form the umrah pilgrim-

age as early as Nov. 1, the Interior Ministry has said. Saudi Arabia recently began easing some restrictions on international flights for the first time since March. The kingdom held a dramatically downsized, symbolic hajj pilgrimage in July due to concerns that it could easily have become a global super-spreader event for the virus. Pilgrims were selected after applying through an online portal and all were residents or citizens of Saudi Arabia. Rather than the more than 2 million pil-grims the kingdom hosts for the annual event, as little as 1,000 took part after be-ing tested for the virus and quarantined. Despite taking ear-ly and sweeping measures to contain the virus, Saudi Arabia has recorded nearly 336,000 cases, including 4,850 deaths. Mecca is the holiest of Muslim cities. Muham-mad, the founder of Islam, was born in Mecca, and it is toward this religious centre that Muslims turn five times daily in prayer. All devout and able Muslims attempt a hajj (pil-grimage) to Mecca at least once in their lifetime. Be-

cause it is sacred, only Mus-lims are allowed to enter the city. In the 20th and 21st centuries the city underwent vast improvements. The area around the religious shrines was cleared, the mosque enlarged, housing and sanitation improved, and transportation facilities enhanced. As a result, Mec-ca can accommodate the continually increasing num-ber of pilgrims, or hajjis. Mecca is situated at an elevation of 909 feet (277 metres) above sea level in the dry beds of the Wadi Ibrāhīm and several of its short tributaries. It is surrounded by the Ṣirāt Mountains, the peaks of which include Mount (Jabal) Ajyad, which rises to 1,332 feet, and Mount Abū Qubays, which attains 1,220 feet, to the east and Mount Quʿayqʿān, which reaches 1,401 feet, to the west. Mount Hirāʾ rises to 2,080 feet on the north-east and contains a cave in which Muhammad sought isolation and visions before he became a prophet. It was also in this cave that he re-ceived the first verse (āyah) of the holy Qurʾān. South of the city, Mount Thawr (2,490 feet) contains the cave in which the prophet secreted himself from his Meccan enemies during the Hijrah to Medina, the event that marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar. Entrance to the city is gained through four gaps in the surrounding mountains. The passes lead from the northeast to Minā, ʿArafāt, and Al-Ṭāʾif; from the northwest to Medina; from the west to Jiddah; and from the south to Yemen. The gaps have also defined

the direction of the con-temporary expansion of the city. Plants and animals are scarce and consist of species that can withstand the high degree of aridity and heat. Natural vegeta-tion includes tamarisks and various types of acacia. Wild animals include wild cats, wolves, hyenas, foxes, mongooses, and kangaroo rats (jerboas). The city centres on the Ḥaram Mosque, also called the Great Mosque, in which are situated the Kaʿbah and the sacred well of Zamzam. The compact built-up area around the mosque comprises the old city, which stretches to the north and southwest but is lim-ited on the east and west by the nearby mountains. The main avenues are al-Muddaʿah and Sūq al-Layl to the north of the mosque and al-Sūq al-Ṣaghīr to the south. Since World War II, Mecca has expanded along the roads through the moun-tain gaps to the north, north-west, and west. Among the mod-ern residential areas are al-ʿAzīziyyah and al-Faysali-yyah along the road to Minā and al-Ẓāhir, al-Zahraʿā, and Shāriʿ al-Manṣūr along the roads to Jiddah and Me-dina. Expansion has been accompanied by the con-struction of new streets in the old city. In the 21st cen-tury a number of skyscraper hotels were built in the area around the mosque. The Ḥaram Mosque is magnificent in its size and architecture and has been embellished and enlarged on numerous occa-sions through the centuries, most recently in a series of massive expansions by the

government of Saudi Ara-bia in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The state-of-the-art complex, now multi-level, includes an advanced communication network, air-conditioning, escalators, and a complex network of pedestrian routes and tun-nels, in addition to numer-ous aesthetic and artistic ac-companiments. The mosque can accommodate one mil-lion worshippers at a time. Houses near the mosque have been razed, and it is now surrounded by open spaces and wide streets, which can be crossed through underground walk-ways built to ease traffic. To the south of the Ḥaram Mosque, the Saudi government built the Abrāj al-Bayt skyscraper com-plex, one of the world’s largest and tallest buildings, to house hotels, shopping centres, and prayer areas near the holy sites. Mecca’s houses are more compacted in the old city than in the modern resi-

dential areas. Traditional build-ings of two or three stories are built of local rock. The villas in the modern areas are constructed of concrete. Slum conditions can still be found in various parts of the city; the slum inhabitants are mainly poor pilgrims who, unable to finance their return home, remained in Mecca after arriving either for the hajj or for a lesser pilgrimage known as the ʿumrah. Industry is limited and includes the manufac-ture of textiles, furniture, and utensils. The overall ur-ban economy is commercial and service-oriented.

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NCAA school has canceled its football program. Other schools may follow. The risk of spreading COVID-19 during team activities is simply too great. It would be chal-lenging — if not impossible.

Zips coach Tom Arth radio guest Tuesday, October 6, 2020- Friday, October 9, 2020

University of Akron head football coach Tom Arth will be the guest on Thursday’s Zips LIVE, presented by Spaghetti Warehouse (510 South Main Street). David Skoczen hosts the weekly hour-long radio show every Thursday at 6 p.m. covering Zips Athletics, which airs locally on Akron Sports Network flag-ship 640 WHLO. The broadcast can also be heard via the 640 WHLO channel on iHeartRadio. To listen on Amazon Echo or Google home devices, say “Play 640 WHLO on iHeartRadio.” The Zips LIVE podcast is available on demand on the iHeartRadio app following each show.

Cahalane named head diving coach The University of Akron swimming and div-ing program named Marc Cahalane as head diving coach, Zips’ head coach Brian Peresie announced on Monday. Cahalane comes to Akron as the head diving coach and owner of the American Flyers Diving Club in Hudson, Ohio. Since taking over the American Fly-ers in 2007, the club has grown to become a nationally ranked and internationally recognized entity in the div-ing world.

Browns victorious over Cowboys, 49-38By KARL BRYANT

Coming off their Week 4 victory, 49-38, over the Cow-boys, the Browns look legit. They began the year with a horrible loss to the Ravens, but now have put together back-to-back-to-back games in which they’ve scored at least 30 points.

MLB Central Division’s crash and burn

Last time that’s hap-pened it was 1968. Bill Nel-son, who used to toil for the Steelers, was anointed Cleve-land’s starting QB when Frank Ryan, who led the Browns to their last NFL Championship in 1964 (the clock is still run-ning), was growing older and getting injured. Nelson & CLE clicked in ’68 as the Browns

scored over 30 points in seven straight games. Current QB Baker Mayfield has been very good protecting the ball over the last couple of games – throwing no interceptions, while passing just enough to be successful, and letting the Browns superla-tive running game do its job. Mayfield was work-

ing on his third straight week of having 16 completions in 23 attempts, when the Browns, who had a 41-14 lead, kept letting the Cowboys and Dak Prescott move up and down the field to get back into the game. So Mayfield had to throw a few more times, which boosted his final stats to 19 of 30 for 165 yards and two TDs.

By KARL BRYANT

A little over month ago, the AL Central Division looked like it might send four teams to the Post-Season due of its dominance of the NL Cen-tral in Interleague Play. During the pandemic-shortened, travel-restricted season, each division in the Majors played the com-mensurate division in the other league. AL Central teams took advantage of the plan by piling up wins against the NL Central. Yet by season’s end, the NL Central in fact had four playoff teams and the AL, three. But, by the end of the Wild Card, none

remained. The Twins finished as AL Central Champs for the second straight year. The Tribe, thanks to an eight-game losing streak, fell out of 1st Place, but with a last week surge, finished in 2nd Place, a game behind. The White Sox finished with the same re-cord as CLE, but thanks to the Tribe’s 8-2 head-to-head advan-tage, the White Sox placed 3rd as a Wild Card. The Tigers, who had been challenging for a play-off spot, completely fell apart and finished in last place, two games behind 4th Place K.C. Even though the NL Central accumulatively lost 12 more games than they won vs. AL

When it suddenly became a three-point game, the Browns got the ball back and the ques-tion was, “Would Mayfield have to throw any more in or-der to run out the clock?” Instead, on the first play, Odell Beckham, Jr., who had his best day as a Cleveland Brown, got the handoff on the End Around, escaped an at-tempted backfield tackler, used his blockers down the sideline, then cut upfield and in his own words, “I turned on the jets and found the End Zone,” as he outran everyone to paydirt, 50 yards, to solidify the win. Dallas QB Dak Prescott threw for over 500 yards as he went 41 of 58 for 502 yards and four TDs, but suffered a game-clinching INT by Denzel Ward. The Cowboys ran for just 85 yards, and former OSU star Ezekiel Elliot coughed the ball up in a game-turning-point fumble. Since the Browns ran out to a big lead, the Dallas rushing game had to take a back seat anyway. But giving up 502 yards through the air is way too much. Fortunately, the Browns offensive line and its stable of running backs dashed out to 307 yards rush-ing. That’s the most the Cow-boys have ever given up in a game. It’s especially notewor-thy because Browns star RB Nick Chubb went out with an injury in the 1st Quarter after gaining 43 yards and will miss at least three weeks on Injured Reserve. Everybody else stepped up: D’Ernest Johnson led CLE with 95 yards; Beck-ham had 73 yards; Hunt, 71; Dontrell Hilliard, 19, and May-field, 6. The Browns averaged

a whopping 7.7 yards per carry. Cleveland had many big plays. Besides the End Around TD run, Beckham also caught two TD passes – the first one from his old LSU teammate WR Jarvis Landry on a trick play and the second one the conventional way from Mayfield. Harrison Bryant also caught a TD Pass from May-field. Kareem Hunt ran for two TDs. Myles Garrett, who was named AFC Defensive Player of the Week, registered a strip sack of Prescott. It was the third straight week that he has forced a fumble when sacking the opposing QB. Browns Coach Kevin Stefanski especially was able to chortle after the game about Landry’s pass to Beckham for the opening TD, saying, “Just always looking for ways to be explosive early in ball games. That was something that I have had on the tip of my tongue a few other games, and I just did not get it called. I told the guys we were not going to go through another game without that one getting called.” The Browns are now tied with Baltimore at 3-1 in 2nd Place in the AFC North. The Steelers, who had their game postponed until later in the year because their opponent, Tennessee, had a COVID-19 outbreak, are 3-0. The Browns host Indianapo-lis this Sunday in a late after-noon 4:25 p.m. game. Their Offense seems to be clicking. Now if their “D” could just do a little bit better job so that the club and the fans don’t have to sweat things out until the very end.

Central teams, they managed to get four teams into the playoffs. The Cubs locked things up in taking the title. In a furious final week battle, the Reds took 2nd Place, the Cardinals – facing a day-after-the-season, make-up double-header against the Tigers – instead beat the Brewers on the last day, to take 3rd Place and a Wild Card. Then, when all their other challengers also lost, Mil-waukee still secured a Wild Card spot as the final seed. Laughably, all seven of those Central teams in the two leagues that made it to the Post-Season, lost in the Wild Card Round. In total, those seven teams won two games – one by the AL White Sox and one by the NL Cardi-nals. Everyone else got swept. The Tribe and Shane Bieber were annihilated by the Yankees in Game 1, 12-3. Yet, in Game 2, they fought an epic battle until the final out before succumbing, 10-9, thus being eliminated and once again making it, “Wait ‘til next year.” As every NE Ohio denizen has ingrained in their psyche, the Indians last won a World Series in 1948. Sadly, it also was the 8th straight play-off game loss for the Tribe – all since 2017. The rest of the AL Central also bit the dust. The Twins predict-ably were eliminated as they

embarrassingly lost their 18th straight Post-Season game. T hey thought they dodged a bullet as they finished one game ahead of the Tribe, so wouldn’t draw their perpetual nemesis, the Yankees. Unfortu-nately for them, it didn’t matter as they were swept by the Astros – the team with the worst record to make the playoffs in the AL (29-31). The White Sox at least put up some fight before losing to Oakland, two games to one. In the NL, the Cubs scored one run in two games to lose to the Marlins. Reds pitching – led by Old Friend Trevor Bauer – did the job, but Cincinnati’s non-ex-istent offense did them in as they were shut out in both their losses to the Braves. A 13-inning, 1-0 loss in Game 1 probably took a lot out of them. The Cards won their first game vs. the Padres, lost an 11-9 slugfest, and finally were ousted in a Game 3 Shutout. Milwaukee, who like Houston, slipped into the playoffs with a losing 29-31 mark, were swept by the Dodgers. Now, it’s time to cheer lust-ily for the team that you hate the most (that’s still in con-tention) to lose. In CLE, it’s a time-honored tradition.

Ellis

Boxing NostalgiaBy JIM AMATO

In April of 1967, Jimmy Ellis pounded out a 15 round decision against Jerry Quarry to win the vacant W.B.A. heavyweight champi-onship. In March of 1968, Joe Frazier halted Buster Mathis to win the heavyweight title recognition in New York State. Two months later Bob Foster knocked out the great Dick Tiger to capture the light heavyweight crown. Foster felt the big money was in the heavyweight division and he began to challenge the cham-pions. Frazier actively de-fended his title turning back Manuel Ramos, Jerry Quarry, Oscar Bonevena, and Dave Zyglewicz. Ellis on the other hand made only one defense, a disputed verdict over ex-champion Floyd Patterson. Proposed matches for Ellis against Henry Cooper, Gre-gorio Peralta and Robert Cler-oux never materialized. By the time Ellis met Frazier in February of 1970 to unify the crown the ring rust had settled in. After Frazier destroyed Ellis he would go on to meet Foster later on that year with disastrous results for Foster. What if during his period of idleness before the Frazier debate had Ellis en-tertained Foster’s challenge? Foster as we would find out could not handle Frazier’s power, strength and aggres-sion. How would he have fared against a master boxer like Ellis? It may have gone something like this. The 198 pound El-lis strides out to meet the

What if ? Jimmy Ellis fought Bob Foster in 1969

181-pound Foster to begin round one. Quickly they began to trade jabs. Ellis is quicker but Foster is harder and more accurate. By the middle of the round it is apparent that this is becoming a chess match. Then out of nowhere Ellis connects with a whistling overhand right and Foster is shaken. Fos-ter stumbles back against the ropes and Ellis is right on him. Ellis just misses with another right and then connects with a hard left hook to the head and Foster’s in serious trouble. El-lis is winging at Foster who can’t seem to get away from the ropes. Then in a wild ex-change Foster hurts Ellis with a short left hook. Momentarily stunned Ellis takes a few steps back and now Foster is jab-bing his way off the ropes. Ellis comes in and connects with another overhand right but this one lands high on Fos-ter’s head. In another heated exchange they both land left hooks but Foster’s does more damage. Ellis now has a small cut on his right eyelid as the bell sounds ending the round.

Angelo Dundee the manager-trainer of Ellis is giving him a tongue lashing in the corner. Ellis comes out fast for round two and takes a couple of hard jabs. In return he lands a hard left hook to the body that makes Foster wince. Foster’s trying to slow down the pace but Ellis, his ears still ringing from Dundee’s tirade continues to press. Foster is landing more punches but El-lis’s body punches are both-ering Bob. As Ellis moves in Foster catches him with a jab and then he slams in a short chopping right flush on the jaw and Ellis sinks to one knee.El-lis takes an eight count shaking his head as he’s trying to clear the cobwebs. As Foster comes in Ellis clinches. On the inside Ellis is much stronger and he lands some effective punches to Foster’s lean rib cage. Ellis appears to be all right now but he’s staying close to smother Fosters punches. Dundee is livid in the corner between rounds while Foster has a smug look. He knows he can hurt Ellis now.

Ellis is still trying to stay close in round three. Foster is using his jab to good effect and El-lis’s cut has been re-opened. Foster is trying to shorten up his left hook hoping that will discourage Ellis from coming inside. Ellis’s making the fight but Foster’s landing the more effective blows. As Foster dips down to throw a short left hook Ellis lets go of a vicious over-hand right that catches Foster flush on the jaw and he goes down flat on his back. He be-gins to get up at “6” and just barely beats the count. The referee asks Foster if he’s all right. Foster says yes but his eyes are unfocused. The ref-eree lets it continue and Ellis is on him in a flash. Another overhand right lands but it’s a little off target. Still it wobbled Bob who makes a feeble at-tempt to jab. Ellis slips inside and lands a tremendous left hook to Foster’s chin and he crumbles to the canvas. There will be no count as Foster’s cornermen come to his aid. At 175 pounds Fos-ter was possibly the best light heavyweight of all time. He just did not have the strength to battle the big boys. Doug Jones, Zora Folley and Ernie Terrell all handled Bob easily in his pre-championship days. Ellis earned his title by beating Leotis Martin, Os-car Bonevena and Jerry Quar-ry. No easy task. Ellis was a de-ceptively hard puncher. He had the granite chinned Bonevena down twice. Also he nearly had Leotis Martin out in the first round of their fight.

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Tampa wins Stanley CupBy KARL BRYANT

The Tampa Bay Lightning struck a year after suffering a historic fizzle. The Lightning successfully com-pleted a season of redemption by winning the Stanley Cup one year after enduring an em-barrassing collapse that was the first of its kind in NHL history. By quirk of fate, that fete du-plicated the deliverance from humiliation that the Univer-sity of Virginia, just one year earlier, achieved in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. In 2018, the Virginia Cava-liers won the ACC Champion-ship and were awarded a No. 1 Seed for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament and were set against University of Maryland, Baltimore County – a No.16 Seed. UMBC shock-ingly clobbered Virginia by 20 points to become the first 16 Seed ever to defeat a No. 1 Seed in NCAA Tournament history. The next year, the Cavaliers again won the ACC regular season, made the tour-ney, and ended beating Texas Tech in OT to win the 2018-19 NCAA Championship. In the 2018-19 NHL season, while winning the Presidents Trophy for having the best regular season mark, Tampa

Bay tied league record for most wins in a season at 62. In Round 1, they drew the Colum-bus Blue Jackets, who barely made the playoffs, and never had won a playoff series since joining the league in 2000. Co-lumbus surprised the hockey world by sweeping Tampa Bay in four straight games as they won their first-ever playoff se-ries. It was the first time the team with the best NHL record was swept in the 1st Round. This year, after a five-month postponement due to the pan-demic, the 2019-20 season was resumed. As luck would have it, Tampa Bay had to face the Blue Jackets to open their playoffs. Columbus first had to survive a Qualifying Round against Toronto, 3 to 2, while the Lightning – with one the four-best Eastern Conference marks - had a BYE until the 1st Round. This time, Tampa Bay beat Columbus, 4 to 1. They kept on advancing and ended up getting to hoist the Stanley Cup after defeating the Dallas Stars, 4 games to 2. The moral to take from this is that even if one endures a crushing defeat, that person or team should keep trying, be-cause there’s an opportunity to recover and ultimately perse-vere.

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The Cleveland International Film Festival will be held virtually The Cleveland In-ternational Film Festival has announced that its 2021 event will go virtual due to concerns surrounding the ongoing coronavirus pan-demic. The fest is set to take place April 7-20. The decision fol-lows a challenging year for CIFF; its 2020 event was canceled in March due to the pandemic, and the fest later opened up virtual stream-ing options for many of its films. CIFF Streams offered hundreds of films and shorts to view at home this year. This spring, when CIFF 2020 was canceled, festival leaders still hoped and planned to host CIFF 2021 in-person. The 2021 festival was scheduled to be the first CIFF held at Play-house Square in its entirety. But those plans changed after a Sept. 29

CIFF team meeting, when or-ganizers determined a virtual festival would be the safest option due to the pandemic, ac-cording to a press release. Now, CIFF plans to host its 2021 events virtually, and to put off in-person festivi-ties until 2022. “We are very much looking forward to building on the success of [CIFF] Streams, during which our audience proved that an online Festival is not only an option, but also the newest component to mak-ing CIFF the best and most accessible experience for our incredible patrons,” said CIFF Board President Chris Blake in a press release. The festival will in-clude hundreds of films and other virtual events over its 14-day 2021 run, such as viewer conversations and Q&A ses-sions with filmmakers, ac-cording to a press release. The

“CIFF Speaks" podcast will return to discuss films pre-sented in 2021, too. CIFF expects to an-nounce its lineup in March 2021. The announcement comes in a time of change for CIFF’s leadership. The organization announced that Mallory Martin was promoted from director of programming and projection, to artistic di-rector. “At a time when the entire film industry is facing a transformation, I am both honored and eager to help lead CIFF into its new chap-ters and towards new possibil-ities," Martin said in a press release. “No matter where the CIFF will live in the future – be it our own living rooms or Playhouse Square – we remain dedicated to bringing the best of independent cin-ema home to Cleveland for many years to come.” Martin replaces former artistic director Bill

Guentzler, who stepped down after 22 years of work with the festival. “I couldn’t be more grateful to have spent half my life at CIFF," Guentzler said in the press release. "While I will no longer be the artis-tic director, I will always be part of the heart and soul of what CIFF is and stands for — and CIFF will always be a

huge part of me,” noted Bill Guentzler. CIFF has a variety of fall 2020 programming planned, including a stream-ing series that marks the half-way point between the 2020 and 2021 events. Read more about CIFF’s fall programs here, and find more infor-mation about the festival at clevelandfilm.org.

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'Rush Hour' is a sound comic moviefrom 5,000 years of their cultur-al heritage. Privately, Lee con-soles Han’s 10-year old daughter Soo Yung about her family’s im-pending trip to America. Two months later, in America (Los Angeles, Cali-fornia), cool but funny officer James Carter (Chris Tucker) helps arrest C-4 explosive seller Clive (Chris Penn). After she leaves her father at the Chinese Consulate in L.A., while Soo Yung is being chauffeured to school, she is kidnapped by the dyed-blond criminal Sang (Ken Leung). Han tells the F.B.I. that he wants Lee to work on his daughter’s case also. At the station, Carter is a vain braggart who enjoys being the only offi-cer without a partner. And, he tries to seduce officer Johnson (Elizabeth Pena) by saying she is attracted to him. Police Captain Del is told of Lee’s arrival at the airport. So, the Captain tricks Carter into taking the ‘special assignment’ to keep Lee out of the F.B.I.’s way in the investiga-tion. Carter picks up Lee and is disappointed that the F.B.I. has ‘stuck’ him to ‘baby-sit’ Lee. Meanwhile, Lee tries to ‘ditch’ Carter himself to report to Han. After learning that Lee speaks English, Carter begins a hilarious clash of cultures with his Chinese counterpart. At a pool hall, while Carter questions his cousin for info, Lee makes the laugh-out-loud, ethnic mis-take of greeting the black pa-trons with “Whassup, my nig-gas?.” Lee and Carter go back to the Chinese Consulate to assure that they’ll rescue his daughter. Juntao’s associate, Sang, calls and makes a ransom for $50 mil-lion dollars. The F.B.I. tracks Sang’s call to an abandoned building. But, it turns out to be a trap that detonates a bomb that kills several S.W.A.T. members. Carter interrogates Clive about the connection between the C-4 selling and the kidnapping. Clive tells him to check out the Foo Chow restaurant in China-town. Meanwhile, the kidnap-pers tell the F.B.I. to drop the money behind the same restau-

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rant. While waiting outside Foo Chow, Carter and Lee begin a friendship by dancing to the 70’s song ‘War’, practicing some martial-arts moves and eating Asian take-out like ‘Eel’ and ‘Camel’s Hump’. After enter-ing the Foo Chow and asking to meet Juntao, Griffin is exposed as the mysterious leader. Lee comes just in time to help Carter fight Sang’s men. The duo man-ages to escape the same time the F.B.I. arrives. Carter apologizes to Han and tells him that Juntao is behind it. Sang increases the ransom to $70 million dollars and tells them to drop it off at the Chinese Expo. Lee and Carter are taken off the case. Griffin convinces Han and the F.B.I. to do what Sang says. With Johnson’s help, Carter and Lee disobey their orders not to inter-fere. That evening at the Expo, Lee recognizes Griffin as ‘Juntao’. But, Grffin/Juntao threatens that Soo Yung is wired to explosives. In an outside van, Carter finds Soo Yung and John-son assists to disable the vest-bomb on the little girl. Carter kills Sang and Lee kills Griffin/Juntao. Han is reunited with Soo Yung. Boarding a plane for a vacation to China, Carter joins Lee on a trip to cement their new, ferociously-funny friend-ship. In Rush Hour 2 (2001) and Rush Hour 3 (2007), direc-tor Ratner has Tucker dance and lip-synch amusingly to Michael Jackson and Prince classics in the trilogy. And, Chan’s agility and jaw-dropping, gymnastic stunts with various, surrounding objects seems visually impos-sible. The pairing of Tucker and Chan proved to be a sound decision as their comic styles compliment each other with contrasting parallels. They continued the tradition of the interracial comedy duo and, in some scenes, Ratner man-ages to capture Tucker’s own, wide-eyed expressions that are similar to Moreland’s signature, comic look. (However, some black critics would argue that Moreland’s behavior on-screen bordered on ‘coon’-like stereo-types).

Chris' Cinema Trivia &Movie Match UpBy CHRIS APPLING

TRIVIA - (Horror) 1. Damien: Omen II (1978) was the sequel and second installment about the Antichrist, 'Damien Thorn': the Devil's own son as a 13-year-old teen at a militaryacademy, but who is the black actor who played the unlucky scientist that is killed in an elevator tragedy once he dis-covers that Damien's genes are those of a jackal, not a human? 2. Former dred-locked blue-eyed, African- American actor Gary Dour-dan was known best as 'Shaka Zulu': boyfriend of neohippie/activist 'Freddie' (Cree Sum-mer) on A Different World, but in what sci-fi horror se-quel did he star opposite Sigourney Weaver as part of a group of 'space pirates' who become the only line of defense between Earth and a hostile, extraterrestrial inva-sion? 3. Who is the R&B superstar that had a cameo role as an African-American football player whose team becomes 'possessed' by an alien intelligence that had taken control of the school's

teachers? 4. In Scream 3 (1999), the third and final installment of the scream trilogy, who is the young, dark-skinned black actor that plays an actor in the movie and once starred as 'Kenny': the childhood friend of 'Rudy Huxtable' (Kei-sha Knight-Pulliam) on the classic sitcom, The Cosby Show? 5. Actress Loretta Devine is best known for being the friend of 3 other, African-American women in Waiting To Exhale (1995), or as the history teacher on T.V.'s Boston Public, but in what horror film did she star as the Pam Grier inspired, police cop on a college cam-pusbeing stalked by a serial killer who murders victims based on city myths? ANSWERS: 1. Meshach Taylor 2. Aliens Ressurec-tion (1997) 3. Usher (Ray-mond) 4. Deon Redman 5. Urban Legend (1999)

MOVIE MATCH-UP - (Tales From The Hood)

ACTORS:1. Lamont Bentley2. Corbin Bernsen3. Brandon Hammond4. Clarence Williams III5.Tom WrightROLES:a) abused boy withmagical, drawing powerb) black, zombie politician

c) gang-banger faces guilty conscienced) mortician that condemns 3 thugs to helle) racist, white politicianhaunted by living, slave dolls

ANSWERS:

1, c; 2, e; 3, a; 4, d; 5, b

By C.M APPLING The idea of the in-terracial, comic duo in movies began with black actor Mantan Moreland who starred opposite Asian actor Charlie Chan in a series of mysteries like The Chinese Cat (1944), The Scar-let Clue (1945) and The Jade Mask (1945). Moreland’s char-acter, ‘Birmingham Brown’, was Chan’s chauffeur who, when confronted with trouble, would often bug out his eyes and say, “Feets, do yo’ stuff!,” before run-ning away. Later, black comedy genius Richard Pryor and white actor Gene Wilder would co-star as interracial buddies in a trio of movies like Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980) and See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989). And, comic ‘rockstar’ Eddie Murphy would begin his legendary career by starring opposite white actor Nick Nolte in 48 Hrs. (1982) and white actor Dan Ackroyd in Trading Places (1983). But, in 1998, Jewish music video director-turned-filmmaker Brett Ratner decided to bring the concept of the inter-racial comic duo in movies full circle again by creating a com-edy trilogy starring an African-American actor and an Asian ac-tor as the lead characters. Previously, black ac-tor Chris Tucker had found fame opposite rapper-turned-actor Ice-Cube in the urban comedy Fri-day (1995). And, in his native Chi-na, martial-arts expert and actor Jackie Chan (who once knew the late, great Bruce Lee), forged his own path in the Asian film in-dustry by appearing in martial-arts movies with a comic edge rather than a straight-forward, serious tone. So, Ratner brought to-gether Tucker and Chan to make Rush Hour: the most successful, black/Asian comic team duo since Charlie Chan and Mantan Moreland. In Hong Kong, China, British ambassador Thomas Griffin (Tom Wilkinson) is pres-ent to celebrate Counsel Han’s (Tzi Ma) announcement that Detective Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) has defeated the mysteri-ous ‘Juntao’ organization to help retrieve priceless, art artifacts

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Pumpkin flan is a healthy holiday dessert (NAPSI)-A health-ier take on holiday dishes can benefit the whole fam-ily, especially considering that type 2 diabetes affects at least 24 million American adults and children. People with dia-betes are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease, the number one cause of death in the U.S. Cheryl Forberg, R.D., consulting dietitian to NBC's "The Biggest Loser" and a James Beard award-winning recipe developer, has created diabetes-friend-ly, heart-healthy recipes for a holiday meal makeover. These recipes use canola oil, which has the least satu-rated fat and most omega-3 fat of all cooking oils. Forberg's dessert recipe does away with pie crust and concentrates on yummy pumpkin flavor, al-lowing people to have their cake (flan) and eat it, too:

Pumpkin Flan Canola oil cooking spray 3 eggs, omega-3 enriched, if available 11/4 cups pumpkin purée 7 tablespoons (1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons) ma-ple syrup 51/2 teaspoons canola oil 11/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 3/8 teaspoon ground ginger 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1/4 teaspoon salt 11/2 cups low-fat milk, heated until very hot

Boiling water, about 1 quart Ground nutmeg (gar-nish) 1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Adjust oven rack to center position. Coat eight 6-ounce custard cups or ra-mekins with canola oil cook-ing spray and set them in 13 x 9-inch baking pan. 2. In large bowl, beat eggs slightly; add pumpkin purée, maple syrup, canola oil, vanilla, spices and salt. Beat with mixer until blended thor-oughly. Mix in hot milk until blended. There will be about 4 cups of liquid. Pour 1/2 cup flan mixture into each pre-pared ramekin. 3. Carefully pour boiling water into baking pan around ramekins. Water should come up to the level of custard inside ramekins. 4. Bake 40 to 45 min-utes or until set around the edges but still a little loose in center. When center of flan is just set, it will jiggle a little when shaken. Remove from oven and immediately remove ramekins from water bath; cool on wire rack until room temperature. Cover with plas-tic wrap and refrigerate. 5. Serve cold and gar-nish with ground nutmeg. This dessert can be made up to three days in advance. Keep refrig-erated until serving. Yield: 8 servings. Nutrient analysis per serving: 190 calories, 7 g total fat, 1.5 g saturated fat, 110 mg cholesterol, 220 mg sodium, 24 g total carbohydrate, 2 g fi-ber, 6 g protein. For information, visit www.canolainfo.org.

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Pianist-composer Her-bie Hancock was born in 1940 in Chicago. Early music studies led him to play Mozart's Piano Concerto in D major with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by age 11. But Hancock pre-ferred jazz and formed a high school ensemble. By 1960, he was per-forming in Chicago jazz clubswith Coleman Hawkins and Donald Byrd. Hancock joinedByrd's group and moved to New York. Following his first recording session with Byrd, he was signed by Blue Note and made his recording debutwith Takin Off in May 1962,gaining notice with his original tune, "Watermelon Man." Hancock joined the Miles Davis quintet in 1963 and remained for five years, creating tunes that have become standards. Leading his own sextet from 1971-73, Hancock melded elements of jazz, rock, with African and Indian themes by using electronic devices and instruments. After his Headhunters album, Hancock produced more commercialized music through-out the 1970s, occasionally re-turned to jazz with his V.S.O.P. band and piano duos with Chick Corea. By the 1980s, Han-cock was creating fascinating music using complex innovative electronic technology. Hancock recently re-leased his first acoustic record-ing in many years, The New Standard, where he and his veteran side-men reinvent nine time-honored tunes, sometimes backed by a studio orchestra.

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Milwaukee officer not held accountable in deaths More than eight months after the shoot-ing death of 17-year-old Alvin Cole in February, the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office ruled Wednesday that Wauwatosa Police Offi-cer Joseph Mensah was justified in the shooting. In the last five years, Mensah has killed three people — Cole in February, Jay Anderson Jr. in 2016 and Antonio Gonzales in 2015. Men-sah also did not face any internal discipline in those earlier two shoot-ings. “The fight con-tinues,” said Taleavia Cole, Alvin’s sister. “It doesn’t end here. We have to make sure he is fired immediately. We have to make sure he don’t ever get a job ever again as a police officer.” The family highlighted findings re-leased earlier in the day from Steven Biskupic, a former U.S. attorney hired by the Wauwatosa Police and Fire Commis-sion to investigate com-plaints against the officer who determined Mensah should be fired. “Had he not been an officer now, Al-vin Cole would be here,” said attorney Kimberley Motley, who is represent-ing the families of the three men who were shot and killed. “We are not done fighting. We are still going to fight for a con-viction of Officer Joseph Mensah.” Biskupic found that allowing Mensah to continue as a fully em-powered police officer, with the authorization to potentially use deadly force for a fourth time, “creates an extraordi-nary, unwarranted and unnecessary risk to the Wauwatosa Police De-partment and the City of Wauwatosa.” Biskupic also determined Mensah had made “inconsistent and misleading” pub-lic statements about the shootings, which could compromise his ability to testify in court, and violated a policy banning officers from discussing ongoing investigations of police shootings. Those factors led Biskupic to find “just cause,” as defined by state law, to remove Mensah

from duty as an active po-lice officer and to recom-mend he be fired. Attorneys repre-senting Mensah were not immediately available for comment. Prosecutors de-termined Mensah’s ac-tions were justified self-defense in Jay Anderson’s case as well.. The inci-dent about 3 a.m. June 23, 2016, unfolded when Mensah approached An-derson’s parked car. Mensah said he saw a gun in the car and perceived Anderson to be reaching for it when he roused him. Anderson is re-membered by his mother her as a good man who was funny, hardworking and cared for his family more than anything. He loved to travel and have fun — he loved life it-self. “If you knew my son, he’s not the type of person who would hurt anybody,” Linda Ander-son said. “And his life was taken for nothing. He’s been taken away from his child and his family, and it hurt.” Antonio Gon-zalez was killed when a neighbor called about be-cause Gonzalez was in the midst of a mental health crisis. He was fatally shot by Mensah. Criminal charg-es in police shootings are rare. It is extremely difficult under the law to prove an officer did not act in self-defense when firing shots while on duty. Of four officers in Milwaukee County charged in police-related shootings in the past 50 years, only one was con-victed and sentenced to prison. The two most re-cent police shooting cases Chisholm charged ended in an acquittal and a mis-trial. Officers typi-cally have been deemed justified in using deadly force if they reasonably believe an individual has the ability to cause death

or great bodily harm, the opportunity to do so and has put the officer or someone else in jeopardy or imminent danger. In this case, Ch-isholm determined Men-sah did have those fears and acted in self-defense. “There is suf-ficient evidence that Of-ficer Mensah had an ac-tual subjective belief that deadly force was neces-sary and that belief was objectively reasonable,” Chisholm wrote in his re-port. “I do not be-lieve that the State could disprove self-defense or defense of others in this case and therefore could not meet the burden re-quired to charge Officer Mensah,” he said. The “reason-ableness” standard is based on what a reason-able officer would do in the same situation when forced to make a split-second decision. Video shows chase and fatal shoot-ing of Alvin Cole outside Mayfair mall Officers spotted Cole, another man and a woman leaving a parking garage. Police detained

the man, but Cole kept running. Mensah arrived to see other officers and mall security guards run-ning after the teen. During the chase, Cole pulled out a handgun from a fanny pack. The teen was not legally permitted to pos-sess a gun. The weapon fired, apparently acciden-tally, shooting the teen in the arm. As Chisholm’s letter put it: A shot “was discharged from Cole’s vicinity,” and Cole “went to the ground with a fire-arm in his right hand.” Cole fell to the ground and was sur-rounded by officers, who demanded he drop the gun. What the officers, and likely Cole, did not know was that the gun had become inoperable because the magazine was not attached and the bullet in the chamber had been fired. All three officers said Cole instead pointed the gun in their direction. Mensah told investigators he heard a gunshot almost im-mediately after arriving and saw Cole was on his knees, crawling, with a

gun in his right hand. The officer said he fired his weapon “out of fear for his life” and believed the gun was real, although he did not know if Cole had fired the gunshot he’d heard earlier. Mensah was on scene less than 30 sec-onds before encounter-ing and shooting Cole. No other officers fired their guns. The case gener-ated national attention after the Milwaukee Jour-nal Sentinel first reported in June it was Mensah’s third fatal shooting. Three activist groups — rapper and mogul Jay-Z’s Team ROC, Until Free-dom and Gathering for Justice — placed ads call-ing for Mensah to be fired and prosecuted, echoing the calls of hundreds of protesters who took to the streets this summer. The sustained attention already has led to some changes. Wau-watosa, slow to embrace body-cameras for all of-ficers because of cost, has now signed off on spend-ing more than $760,000 to outfit officers with the cameras by the end of the year. Mensah has since been suspended with pay. Wauwatosa Po-lice Chief Barry Weber said his department has begun an internal review of the shooting and the conduct of all Tosa offi-cers present.

The top middle level and high school volunteer from each state and the District of Columbia will be named State Honorees in Feb-ruary. They will receive $1,000 scholarships, en-graved silver medallions and an invitation to the program’s national rec-ognition events. In May, the program will name America’s top 10 youth volunteers of 2021. Those National Hon-orees will receive ad-ditional $5,000 scholar-ships, gold medallions, crystal trophies for their nominating schools or organizations, and $5,000 Prudential grants for nonprofit charitable organizations of their choice. L o c a l - l e v e l honorees in each state will receive awards ranging from bronze medallions to certifi-

Book on parenting in screen age S c r e e n a g e r s ’ filmmaker/physician Dr. Ruston, MD released a new book: Parenting In The Screen Age: A Guide to Calm Conversations. Does every con-versation with your child or teen about screen time blow up into a fight? Or maybe you avoid bring-ing up the topic but si-lently harbor worry and frustration. How can you better understand what you’re up against — and most importantly, ensure the healthiest screen time possible? In Parenting in the Screen Age, award-winning filmmaker, and mental health advocate Dr Ruston distills more than a decade of com-munications research

into a definitive guide for today’s parents. Packed with evidence-based in-sights on screen time from researchers, input from kids and teens, and solutions drawn from Dr. Ruston’s own messy parenting struggles, this guide shows you how to start — and sustain--productive family talks about technology. You’ll learn how to:Bring up screen time

without making your child or teen defensiveTalk through difficult is-sues like online social cruelty, sexting, and men-tal health Engage your child in creating boundar-ies around Netflix, video gaming, and social media Have screen time limits that actually work — with less of the sneaking or arguing During the CO-VID pandemic or after, this book will help you lead your child to become more tech-wise and life balanced — empowering them to build a healthier relationship with our dig-ital world, now and into their future.

cates. Qualifying local honorees also receive President’s Volunteer Service Awards. The Pruden-tial Spirit of Commu-

nity Awards was created in 1995 to recognize the exemplary volun-teer work of middle level and high school students. Since then,

awards have been grant-ed to more than 140,000 middle and high school students across the country at the local, state and national level.

For complete details on the 2021 program and the stories of Ohio’s top youth volunteers from years past, visit http://spirit.prudential.com.

ideastream awarded grant for news collaboration i d e a s t r e a m , Cincinnati Public Radio and WOSU Public Me-dia have been awarded a $56,500 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in support of developing and implementing an Ohio news collaborative among the state’s public radio stations. Initially start-ed in July 2019 with a $70,000 grant from The George Gund Founda-tion, the collaborative will serve as a fully in-tegrated, statewide news and information net-work to fill the growing gaps in local journalism. A recent re-port from Policy Mat-

ters Ohio stated, “With more than 100 news-papers shuttered, Ohio has 32% fewer news-papers today than it did in 2004, according to the University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism. Total circulation in the state fell by 47%, from 5.5 million to 2.9 mil-lion. Many newspapers that remain are ghosts of their former selves, struggling to cover lo-cal news with reduced staff.” R e s e a r c h conducted by Edi-son Research as part of the statewide news collaborative project confirmed an over-whelming interest in a

statewide news service and provided insights regarding consumers’ preferences towards news topics and distri-bution platforms. An editorial vision and a detailed, scalable plan were created utilizing this research and input from NPR member sta-tions with newsrooms, large and small, across Ohio. In addition, the funding from CPB will be used to develop a business plan and a sus-tainability model. “Eco-nomic and technological shifts in the media envi-ronment have caused the closures of newspa-pers across the state,” said Richard Eiswerth,

general manager of Cin-cinnati Public Radio. “This collaboration can fill a growing need for trusted journalism, es-pecially in parts of Ohio that have been hit hard-est by the shrinking me-dia ecosystem.” When the col-laborative is imple-mented, it will be Ohio’s only daily state-wide radio and digital news service and with approximately 50 news staffers — forming, in effect, Ohio’s largest newsroom. “With Ohio’s public radio stations all working together, the collaborative will allow us to expand capacity and realize greater scale than any of us could independently,” said WOSU Public Media general manager Tom Rieland. “By doing so, we’ll also fill a growing need in underserved ru-ral areas across Ohio.”

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The Ohio Justice and Policy Center fighting for justice for all The Ohio Justice & Policy Cen-ter (OJPC) is a trail-blazer. Our expert staff navigates through a complex and tangled criminal justice system to create pathways to restoration for people, their families, and their communities. OJPC’s mis-sion is to create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal-justice sys-

tems through zealous client-centered advo-cacy, innovative policy reform, and cross-sector community education. In 1997, Cin-cinnati civil rights attor-ney Alphonse Gerhard-stein saw a problem. The prison population was in the middle of unprecedented and his-toric growth. People with few resources to obtain zealous legal

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Al Gerhard-stein wanted solutions for Ohio and a force to protect the people caught in the system. He created the Prison Reform Advocacy Cen-ter (PRAC) in Cincin-nati, Ohio in 1997. In 2006, PRAC would expand its mis-sion and be renamed the Ohio Justice & Policy Center (OJPC). Since our founding, OJPC has

fought in federal court to protect the basic hu-man rights and dignity of incarcerated people in Ohio. In 2002, David Singleton succeeded Al Gerhardstein as Executive Director. David brought with him a legal philosophy developed in his time as a public defender in Harlem, New York and in Washington, D.C. He

infused his values and work ethic into PRAC: attorneys must serve the client first and fore-most; they must listen with compassion; they must fight zealously for their client; and, as experience had taught him, they must never write anyone off. Under David’s leadership, OJPC saw many of the people it represented in prison

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What Mike Pence’s love of fracking means for Ohioans Vice President Mike Pence said in the debate on Tuesday that Kamala Harris and Presidential candidate Joe Biden want to limit fracking. For Ohioans, that might be good thing. Drilling for gas and oil in the Utica and Marcellus Shales is threatening Ohio’s air, land and water. But the worst part may be that Ohio is fast becoming the regional dumping ground for toxic frack-ing waste from out of state. Fracking waste is a mixture of injected chemicals, sand and wa-ter; and corrosive salts and radioactive, heavy metals from deep un-derground. As a result, waste can have radia-tion levels up to 3,600 times what is allowable in drinking water. Fracking waste generated in the region has increased 540 per-cent since 2004. F r a c k i n g produces enormous amounts of waste con-

taminated with toxic chemicals, heavy met-als, corrosive salts and radioactive material. In 2011, Ohio dumped 12.8 million barrels of toxic, radio-active waste into injec-tion wells—injecting toxic waste into the ground as a means of disposing it. Over half of Ohio’s waste is im-ported from Pennsylva-nia and West Virginia, making our state the re-gion’s dumping ground.Hazardous fracking waste can be put into municipal water treat-ment plants, dumped into landfills, left in open pits, and even spread on roads as de-

icer. From Septem-ber 2012 to January 2013, Hardrock Exca-vating LLC dumped at least 252,000 barrels of toxic fracking waste di-rectly into a tributary of Youngstown’s Mahon-ing River.The incident

highlighted the growing threats to our environ-ment as Ohio frack-ing operations create more and more frack-ing waste—and as the state imports millions of barrels more from Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

After Penn-sylvania moved to strengthen its fracking waste rules in 2010, drillers found it cheap-er and easier to dis-pose of their hazardous waste in Ohio. Industry lob-

byists got fracking waste exempt from federal hazardous waste laws, leaving Ohio even more vul-nerable. Across the region, fracking waste has increased a stag-gering 540 percent

Diversity MBA discusses a Trump win Since some of America’s most powerful corporate leaders began lending their voices and committing their compa-ny’s resources to address discrimination and other social injustices inside and outside their compa-nies earlier this year, the question has been how long will this new corpo-rate climate and generos-ity last? Pamela McEl-vane, founder and CEO of Diversity MBA, an organization that focus-es on benchmarking for diverse managers and women, learning solu-tions for top corporations, publishes a customed di-versity publication and hosts one of the nation’s largest conferences for DE&I executives, be-lieves this answer will emerge soon as compa-nies with federal con-tracts make adjustments to comply with President Donald Trump’s new ex-ecutive order. The new order bans training pro-grams and in-depth dis-cussions with employees about systemic racism and white privilege. A Trump vic-tory, McElvane said, could pose another dev-astating blow to this new corporate climate. Companies that receive federal contracts, as many of them do, will continue to make ad-justments to be in align-ment with Trump’s ban, and they will most like-ly, she said, be a new wave of corporations,

especially those that have been on the fence about diversity and in-clusion, that will retreat or simply not move for-ward with correcting the wrongs inside their companies. “It will have broad implications,” said McElvane, who has been on the front-lines for nearly three decades helping com-panies develop their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. M c E l v a n e works with several hun-dred corporations in 38 industries. Nearly half of the companies, she said, were having bold and “courageous con-versations” a year ago. This year, 76 percent of them have been engaged in dia-logue about racism, bias and understanding privilege. The corpo-rations are developing their leaders – board leadership, executive leaders, employees and shareholders for this new normal, but as they are closing out this phase of training, they are scrambling to adjust to the new executive or-der, because they have to adhere to the law, but also continue with their fiduciary responsibility. Tens of mil-lions of people in Amer-ica and abroad will be impacted because the influence of corpora-tions touch all sectors of society, McElvane said.

The training employees received is what has been moving Ameri-cans of all races, ages and religious to join in the movement to end in-justices in all sectors of society. “At the core of this decision is our civil liberties,” McEl-vane said. “In America, we have the right to choose, but then the leader of the free world takes away not only the right for you to choose but for you to learn. It is ironic the position he has placed compa-nies and individuals in. Just because they are employed in a federal agency or works for a federal contractor, they can no longer re-ceive diversity training designed to broaden awareness. As the em-ployee, the training is beneficial, because you are acknowledging what you did not ac-knowledge before, you are receiving informa-tion that makes you a better person, and helps you understand other cultures, that work side by side and in your communities. Now this train-ing has been disman-tled. This makes the order by the president, which is backed by the consistency of his dialogue and narratives about race in America, so dangerous. The exec-utive order is designed to reverse progress that

generations have sacri-ficed to advance.” And “the dam-age,” McElvane add-ed, “is done whether he stays in the White House, or if he leaves the White House, be-cause people will fol-low their belief system and say I do not be-lieve we live in a racist world.” But McElvane is confident that the companies she works with and those who have been on the front line will not retreat. “They will not abandon the cause, be-cause they have been committed to changing their corporate culture for decades,” she said. “These organizations can’t afford to lose the investment they have made into people, as they must maintain profitability at the end of the day. They do have to respond to the executive order to make sure they are in align-ment because most of them are federal con-tractors.” Those compa-nies are committed to eradicating discrimina-tion and anti- racism in the workplace, McEl-vane said, and are cur-rently completing “cou-rageous conversations” about race in their envi-ronments, but they are streamlining what they are teaching. “They are holding off on the train-ing that digs deep into

the culture, where you talk about privilege and racism, discrimina-tion and bias training,” McElvane said. “They are putting them on the shelves, and they have established task force meetings with their teams. They are figur-ing out what they will be doing, because they still do not have all of the answers.” One option be-ing considered by the savvy corporations, she said, is to make the training optional, where the employees make the choice to engage in such discussions. “You can stop doing this work,” McEl-vane said. “If you look at the risk, there is a risk in doing nothing and there is a risk with being intentional. Companies are now assessing to make sure they are com-plying. It will never hurt to assess again, but at the end of the day, you have to look at the civil liberties and the rights of the individuals. The elections will tell us a lot. For additional information on Diver-sityMBA and sister companies, visit https://diversitymbamagazine.com & https://diversi-tybusinessreview.com; To arrange an interview with Pamela McElvane, contact Jerry Thomas at jerry@jerrythomaspr.com, or (312) 414-4016.

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The U.S. De-partment of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit against Yale University challenging its admis-sions program and al-leging discrimination against Asian American and white Students. Kristen Clarke, presi-dent and executive di-rector of the director of the Lawyers’ Com-mittee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following statement in response: “It is hard not to view this litigation as part of a carefully coordinated campaign seeking to terminate racial diversity efforts across our nation’s ma-jor colleges and univer-sities. This is a Justice

Department that has fully abandoned its mis-sion when it comes to advancing equal edu-cational opportunity and promoting racial diversity. Attempting to divide communities based on such thin al-legations—allegations that have already failed in other cases—is mere-ly the Justice Depart-ment’s latest chapter to its horrid legacy on opportunity and access for America’s highly talented Black students and other underrep-resented-students of color. Race-conscious admissions programs are both lawful and indispensable for en-suring institutions are open and available to

students from all walks of life, including stu-dents of color. We will fight the Justice Depart-ment’s ill-conceived ef-fort to tear down racial diversity.” The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil

Rights Under Law is the only national civil rights organization involved in all 3 of the major pend-ing federal lawsuits challenging racial diver-sity efforts. Those cases, mounted by Students for Fair Admissions, involve

Harvard University, the University of North Car-olina (scheduled for trial in November 2020) and the University of Texas at Austin. These lawsuits seek to challenge lawful, race-conscious admis-sions programs despite clear Supreme Court

precedent recognizing the compelling interest in the educational benefits of diversity. The Justice Department’s latest suit brings the total to 4 pending challenges against race-conscious admissions efforts.

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CLE named poorest city Cleveland and Cincinnati may not share the same opinions on football or chili, but they do have one thing in common, and it’s nothing to brag about - they’re both among the poorest cities in the United States. New Census data released yesterday

reveals Ohio is the only state to have two large cities ranked among the top 10 most impover-ished. Emily Campbell - associate director of The Center for Com-munity Solutions - said Cincinnati ranks sixth, and Cleveland takes the Number One spot. “For a number of years - really ever since we’ve been look-ing at this data - De-troit was always the worst and Cleveland was Number Two,” said Campbell. “But what it looks like is that, in 2019, things got bet-ter across the country, including in Cleveland - but Cleveland did not improve as quickly as

other places.” C l e v e l a n d ’s poverty rate actually improved slightly, from 33.1% in 2018 to 30.8% in 2019. Campbell said she believes an increas-ing share of older adults living in poverty drove the ranking change in Cleveland. C i n c i n n a t i ’s poverty rate is 23% and Columbus, which ranked 26th, has a pov-erty rate of 16%. The U.S. Cen-sus Bureau defines liv-ing in poverty as earn-ing less than $21,330 dollars a year for a family of three, and Campbell explained the state’s overall poverty rate is 13%.

“There are lots of people that live in other parts of Ohio that are also living in pov-erty and facing chal-lenges,” said Campbell. “So, the data is really about the amount of money that people are able to earn - the quality of jobs, employment, and making sure that families have enough to make ends meet.” She added there are fears about what’s to come, since these fig-ures were compiled be-fore the pandemic. For example, twice as many people are unemployed in Cuyahoga County today as one year ago.

Children need vaccines With all the national speculation about the release of a novel coronavirus vaccine, some health experts are encourag-ing Ohio parents to do what they can to prevent the spread of other diseases. The latest Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion study found that orders for regular childhood vaccines fell by 2.5 million doses between mid-March and mid-April. While safety concerns or religious reasons are cited by some parents for not immunizing their chil-dren, Stephen Roller, the chief clinical of-ficer and chief opera-tions officer for Pri-mary Health Solutions in Butler County, said worries about poten-tial exposure to CO-VID-19 seem to be be-hind the recent drop. “I think par-

ents are doing the best that they can,” said Roller. “School looks different, church looks different. Life in gen-eral looks different right now. But one of the things that needs to be a constant is get-ting those kids in for routine checkups and vaccinations.” Roller noted health-care providers are taking precaution-ary measures to pro-tect patients, including pre-visit screenings, temperature checks, extra sanitizing, and the use of gloves and masks. According to Roller, continuing to get regular immuniza-tions protects the com-munity from prevent-able outbreaks of other diseases. “COVID ob-viously is sort of top of everyone’s mind right now,” said Roller, “but there are also a lot of really serious illnesses

that are vaccine-pre-ventable -- such as po-lio, Haemophilus influ-enza, certain types of pneumonia. And that’s why we do these im-munizations.” With the arriv-al of flu season, Roller contended the seasonal flu shot is more impor-tant than ever. “So many of the symptoms of CO-VID can be similar to the flu,” said Roller. “So our hope would be that if they get the flu vaccine, that maybe if someone comes in pre-senting of symptoms, we’d have a little bit better idea of at least it’s not the flu, so it can help to faster diagnosis of what’s going on.” Roller encour-aged parents to reach out to their child’s doc-tor if they have con-cerns about medical visits during the pan-demic or immuniza-tions.

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Black Student Union at CIM to hold benefit concert The Black Stu-dent Union (BSU) of the Cleveland Institute of Music will present a live-streamed benefit concert on Sunday, October 18, at 4pm. This concert will feature CIM faculty — among them Jaime Lar-edo, Jessica Lee, Alicja Basinska, Shuai Wang, Sharon Robinson and Mark Jackobs — as well as various student artists of color currently study-ing at CIM. The program will include works by Samuel Coleridge-Tay-lor, Astor Piazzolla, Jes-sie Montgomery, William Grant Still and Florence Price. Additionally, CIM alumnus Julián Fueyo

(BM ’20, Fitch) and cur-rent composition student Nathaniel Heyder (Fitch) will each have one of their works featured. The concert livestream is free and open to the public. Do-nors of $20 or more ($5 or more for students) be-fore the concert date will receive exclusive access to pre- and post-concert activities. Learn more at cim.edu/bsu-benefit. “The CIM Black Student Union is extremely excited to present this afternoon of music to the community,” said BSU President Hol-lie Greenwood (double bass, Dixon). “Not only to celebrate the music of

black and brown com-posers and performers alike, but also, to educate the community and give them a starting point to explore the realms of di-verse classical music on their own.” In Support of the Musical Pathway Fellowship The Musical Pathway Fellowship (MPF) — sponsored by the Cleveland Founda-tion and George Gund Foundation — is de-signed for Black and Latinx students entering grades 5-10 who are in-terested in CIM’s Pre-College program and pursuing their studies and craft. Fellows receive a

full scholarship covering all areas of study. The fellowship provides exceptional artistic train-ing delivered by CIM faculty. MPF provides ongoing, multi-year sup-port to students, includ-ing comprehensive music instruction through high school, with a goal of preparing them to enter a conservatory or univer-

sity music program upon graduation. On Sunday, Oc-tober 18, at 3pm, patrons who donate at least $20 will have access to join us for a pre-concert dis-cussion that delves into the history and context of the compositions fea-tured on the program. Additionally, patrons will have the opportunity

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Options announced to return absentee ballots Secretary of State Frank LaRose is-sued Directive 2020-22, making it clear that 1) every Ohio county board of elections may install more than one se-cure receptacle at their board for the return of absentee ballots, and 2) the board may station bipartisan election offi-cials outside of county boards to accept absen-tee ballots. As a result of LaRose’s two recent di-rectives, all 88 county boards of elections are now required to accept absentee ballots 24/7 via secure receptacles at their office and elec-tion officials are able to collect completed ab-sentee ballots outside of the county board of elections at convenient drive-through ballot drop offs. Ohio voters now have more options to return absentee bal-lots than ever before. These options are in addition to the most convenient and commonly used method for voters to return ab-sentee ballots - by mail - which continues to be a safe and standard meth-od for absentee voting. Additionally, voters may cast a vote early in-person or in-person on election day. As has become all too clear in the recent litigation over secure receptacles (or “drop boxes”), what the Gen-eral Assembly meant when it required in R.C. 3509.05 -- that if not mailed, absentee ballots must be personally de-livered “to the director” and in no other manner -- must be clarified by the legislature. Secre-tary LaRose will ask the legislature to partner with him when the next General Assembly be-gins its term in January to provide the necessary clarity. On October 2nd, David Becker, a noted and respected elections expert stated the following: According to the Center for Election Innovation & Research website, Becker is the Executive Director and Founder of the Center

for Election Innovation & Research. Prior to CEIR, he served as Di-rector of the elections program at The Pew Charitable Trusts, driv-ing reforms in election administration, includ-ing using technology to provide voters with in-formation they need to cast a ballot; assessing election performance through better data; and upgrading voter regis-tration systems. Before Pew, he served for sev-en years as a senior trial attorney in the Voting Section of the Depart-ment of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, where he led numerous inves-tigations into violations of federal voting laws regarding redistricting, minority voting rights, voter intimidation, and vote dilution. “ To m o r r o w, absentee ballots will begin being mailed out to over 2 million Ohio-ans who requested them and voting starts at 88 early voting locations across the state in what will be the most acces-sible election in state history,” said LaRose. “Despite predictable partisan politics that at-tempt to create phony crises, we have kept our eye on the ball and Ohio’s election officials are ready to administer a safe, secure, and accu-rate election.“ Just as Ohio is a clear leader in early voting with 216 hours including evenings and weekends, Ohio is also a national model for absentee voting. Of the 42 states that run a tra-ditional absentee vot-ing system, a compre-hensive review by the Brookings Institute de-termined no state does it better than Ohio. S O U R C E : www.brookings.edu/re-search/voting-by-mail-in-a-pandemic-a-state-by-state-scorecard/ More than 2 million Ohioans have requested an absentee ballot – putting Ohio on pace to more than double the number of ballots cast by mail in 2016. Election mail is expected to be efficient-ly and effectively trans-

ported to county boards of elections. Ohio law allows boards of elec-tions to receive ballots up to ten days after the election as long as they are postmarked by No-vember 2nd. The Unit-ed States Postal Service has committed to imple-menting the following protocols at the urging of Secretary LaRose: USPS will in-stitute “all clear” pro-cesses at each sorting

Pablo Sánchez, violin, student artist Mark Jackobs, viola Colin Henley, viola, student artist Breanna Lang, viola, student artist Jerome McCoy, viola, student artist Marcus Steven-son, viola, student artist Sharon Robin-

son, cello Joseph Brown, cello, student artist Chad Polk, cel-lo, student artist Samantha Pow-ell, cello, student artist Hollie Green-wood, double bass, stu-dent artist Alicja Basinska, piano Shuai Wang, piano Matias Cuevas, piano, student artist As the Black Student Union of the Cleveland Institute of Music, we desire to im-prove the life of black students on campus and increase human and cul-tural relations between all student groups. Our goal is to promote diver-sity, equity and inclusion in the areas of program-ming and curriculum in the arts.

facility to ensure all election mail is pro-cessed each day.Staff will recheck col-lection bins each day to ensure late arriving bal-lots are retrieved. USPS will set up hand-to-hand deliv-ery for election mail as it makes its way through processing on the Sat-urday prior to Election Day, from the board of elections to the distribu-tion center.

Domestic Violence increasing New data is highlighting the need to strengthen programs that help prevent and respond to domestic violence. An annual report from the Ohio Domestic Violence Network reveals 109 Ohioans died as the result of domestic violence in the year ending June 30 2020 - a 35% increase from the year before. During the first few months of the CO-VID-19 pandemic, do-mestic-violence fatalities were 14% higher than during the same period in 2019. Jo Simonsen, family systems advocacy direc-

tor with ODVN, said this comes as a primary source of funding for domestic-violence programs, the federal Crime Victims Fund, was cut by one-third statewide. State funding for domestic-violence pro-grams in Ohio is $1 mil-lion annually, compared with $5 million in Indiana, $6.7 million in Kentucky and nearly $16 million in Pennsylvania. Simonsen said ODVN is calling for $5 million in general fund support to provide preven-tion services, victim advo-cacy support and perma-nent housing assistance.