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☆ Documentary reveals stars including James Marsden and Alan Thicke wrote letters of support for the acting coach charged with sexually abusing a 15-year-old Drake Bell
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The "Growing Pains" star Joanna Kerns told the producers of "Quiet on Set" that her letter was based on misinformation. He appeared in minor roles in the 1980s, '90s, and early aughts, including in the sitcoms "Growing Pains" and "Boy Meets World," the film adaptation of "Holes," and the blockbuster "X-Men." AdvertisementStrong and Friedle discussed their support of Peck on a February episode of "Pod Meets World," the "Boy Meets World" rewatch podcast they cohost with their former costar Danielle Fishel. The "Boy Meets World" actors said on the podcast that Peck acknowledged he was guilty of something involving a minor. They said that when they asked him about the case, Peck "simply replied that 'the problem had been resolved.'"

Persons: Drake Bell, Brian Peck's, Peck, Bell, " Peck, Maxine, James Marsden, Alan Thicke, Friedle, Rider Strong, Taran Killam, — Rich, Beth Correll —, Zack, Cody, Joanna Kerns, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dan Schneider, Drake, Josh, Strong, Danielle Fishel, Forrest Gump, Bell's, Dylan, Cole Sprouse, Rich Correll, Beth Correll, Corrells, Disney, Jason Handy, Kate Taylor, Mary Robertson, Emma Schwartz Organizations: Service, Kids, Maxine Productions, Hollywood, Disney, Nickelodeon, Los Angeles Times, Disney XD, Nickelodeon Studios, Ezell, Sony Pictures, Business Locations: Hollywood

☆ NHS at 75: Vintage photos document the birth of free healthcare in Britain
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Published ahead of this week’s anniversary, new book “The NHS” brings together over 100 photos from the service’s early decades. A patient with a chest specialist at a Bristol health center inspect a chest X-ray in July 1948, the month the NHS launched. Popperfoto/Getty ImagesNurses cradle the first babies to be born under the new National Health Service on 5th July 1948. Had they been born a day earlier, they would have cost their families one shilling and sixpence, according to new book "The NHS." The postwar decades saw the NHS recruit heavily from Commonwealth and Caribbean countries to meet a shortfall in nursing staff.

Persons: ”, Lucy Davies, Sydney O'Meara, Frederick West, Britain's, Aneurin Bevan, Popperfoto, Chris Porsz, George W, Hales Organizations: CNN, National Health Service, Hoxton Mini Press, NHS, Getty, St Thomas ' Hospital, Heritage, Partnership, Nurses, Hulton, National Heart Hospital, Rolls Press, Brook General Hospital ,, British Drug Houses, Trinity, Walsgrave Hospital Locations: Britain, Bristol, London, Brook General Hospital , London, Commonwealth, Caribbean, Coventry

That's the question posed by certain members of the Silicon Valley elite who are attributing layoffs to a boom-time phenomenon: over-hiring and "fake" work. A particular view of 'work'This concept of fake work is rooted, at least partly, in political disagreement. Several of the tech figures pushing these ideas lean Republican, in contrast to the left-leaning tech workers they're lambasting. He and others pushing a grind culture are motivated, as tech employees commenting on the workplace app Blind noted. "I think it's a false narrative to say many people do fake work, especially when companies already deploy workplace monitoring tools."

That's the question posed by a certain members of the Silicon Valley elite who are attributing layoffs to a boom-time phenomenon: over-hiring and "fake" work. "There's nothing for these people to do — they're really — it's all fake work," he said. A particular view of 'work'This concept of fake work is rooted, at least partly, in political disagreement. Several of the tech figures pushing these ideas lean Republican, in contrast to the left-leaning tech workers they're lambasting. "I think it's a false narrative to say many people do fake work, especially when companies already deploy workplace monitoring tools."

In an interview at her home Monday afternoon, Jessica Fierro described her husband's heroic efforts to prevent greater tragedy. Richard Fierro, 45, an Army veteran who completed four tours between Iraq and Afghanistan, yelled for someone to call the police, she said. Jessica Fierro said her two best friends were shot and her daughter broke her knee as she ran for cover. Richard Fierro earned his MBA from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs last year. Deon J. Hampton reported from Colorado Springs, Janelle Griffith and Melissa Chan reported from New York.

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