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“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius
AIRSTRIKES
Though British Prime Minister David Cameron nor US Secretary of State John Kerry can confirm it yet, coalition airstrikes overnight may have killed “Jihadi John” in Syria, a result of the UK working with the United States. Jihadi John who was identified as Mohammed Emwazi took part in the murders of U.S. journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, and a number of other hostages. [CNN]
SNIPPETS
An episode of OITNB playing out in real life when Charles Hanson, a chef at the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility, was charged with trying to bring more than $67,000 worth of drugs into the prison; he faces 3 ½ to seven years in prison if convicted…The Cleveland Clinic will perform its first uterus transplant in the next few months and they are screening for candidates suffering from uterine factor fertility which prevents women from becoming pregnant because they were born without a uterus, have lost their uterus or have one that no longer functions…Sweden began imposing its first large-scale border controls in two decades checking trains for migrants in an effort to curb migrant flow that has strained the European Union though the move by the “humanitarian superpower” …Embarrassment might be an understatement after the revelation that uniformed Secret Service officer, 37-year-old Lee Robert Moore, was arrested on charges that he tried to solicit a teenage girl for sex and sent obscene images and texts online. Moore often engaged in online chats while on duty at the White House, once asking an undercover officer who he thought was a 14-year-old girl to send him something “exciting” on a day when he was checking IDs for a building entrance and complained that “work sucks today.” Paging Chris Hansen.
ENTERTAINMENT
After her keynote address at the Chicago House luncheon Thursday in Chicago, Caitlyn Jenner was confronted by protesters in the trans community who was “dubbed ‘a clueless rich white woman,’ was being held up as a representative of their community.” …On The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, Oak Park native Shonda Rhimes revealed she killed off a character on one of her shows simply because she did not like the actor portraying the character though she did not reveal the actor’s name, no fun.
FASHION
Layoffs before the holidays is the theme over at Conde Nast. Beginning with GQ which saw the departure of seven staffers including Digital editor John Januzzi, now reports indicate that Teen Vogue’s Publisher and chief revenue officer Jason Wagenheim is out after he was given the option to either report to Vogue publisher Susan Plagemann or leave the company.Teen Vogue will now fall funder the purview of Vogue EIC and Condé Nast’s artistic director Anna Wintour. Condé Nast is evolving its business to be more digitally nimble…Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa has acquired in-office beauty startup manicube for an undisclosed sum.
LOOK OF THE DAY
Ryan Gosling
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