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| School Supplies Drive, Trappe Man Drowns, NFL Concussion Case |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 09/01/16 1:13 am | updated: 09/01/16 1:13 am |
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Horror stories about lack of supplies at Philadelphia public schools have hit home among education advocates. Now, there's a citywide effort to fill the supplies gap. Todd Bernstein, founder of Global Citizen is also the organizer behind the Philadelphia School Supplies Drive in partnership with other groups. Their goal - fill the supplies gap caused by lack of funding for Philadelphia public schools by collecting what teachers and kids need in the classroom in the most underserved schools. Donors can drop off school supplies at locations across the city through September 2. From ballpoint pens to copy paper to calculators to erasers, tape, even things like tissues and hand sanitizer.
The National Park Service says a Montgomery County man has drowned off the Maryland coast of Assateague Island National Seashore. 45-year-old Charles Poole of Trappe, Pennsylvania, was swimming with his teenage son at an unguarded part of the beach on Tuesday afternoon. Surfers found Poole unresponsive in the water and brought him ashore. Lifeguards performed CPR, but Poole was pronounced dead at a hospital in Berlin, Maryland. His son was not injured.
A last-minute appeal in the NFL concussion case, filed by the son of an all-star and civil rights activist, has sent the proposed settlement to the U.S. Supreme Court and delays payouts for at least several months. The family of the late Buffalo Bills fullback Carlton “Cookie†Gilchrist asked the high court Tuesday to review whether the judge should have approved the potential $1 billion settlement without a full challenge to the scientific evidence presented jointly by both sides. The appeal, for instance, questions why more money is awarded for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, than for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, which some researchers link more closely with football concussions. At least two sets of other plaintiffs were granted extensions of the Tuesday deadline and can appeal through next month. Players’ lawyers who support the 2013 settlement negotiated with the league on behalf of 21,000 retirees insist their clients need financial and medical help now. Lawyer Jim Acho of Detroit, who sent a letter to clients Tuesday that said no further appeals had been filed and the payouts were imminent, called the Gilchrist appeal “unbelievable.†The player lawsuits had initially accused the NFL of hiding what it knew about the link between concussions and CTE. The settlement awards up to $5 million for those with ALS; $4 million for past CTE deaths; and $3.5 million for advanced Alzheimer’s disease. The average payouts would be closer to $190,000. Critics complain the settlement, approved by Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody in Philadelphia, does not cover future CTE cases even though it may be able to be diagnosed in the living within 10 years. The lead negotiators said they instead set aside compensation or treatment for some CTE symptoms. That does not include the depression, aggression and mood swings reported by some former players who experienced repeated concussions. Gilchrist’s attorney said the lead lawyers are simply eager to divide fees expected to top $112 million. Cookie Gilchrist, an early civil rights activist, led a 1965 boycott that moved the American Football League’s All-Star game to Houston after black players were denied restaurant and taxi service in New Orleans. His 2011 death was attributed to cancer, but he was posthumously found to have CTE, Beck said. Gilchrist died penniless in a Pittsburgh-area nursing home after battling psychological, emotional and personal problems that Beck linked to CTE.
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