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Catherine Cryan – Emmy-nominated director – passes away at 59 years of age after battling cancer
Catherine Cryan – Emmy-nominated director – passes away at 59 years of age after battling cancer
The filmmaking world is in mourning with news that Emmy-nominated filmmaker Catherine Cryan passing away.
The writer and director passed on December 24 at 59 years of age, after a battle with cancer, according to Variety.
She passed away in Vancouver, British Columbia after a career that spanned three decades.
R.I.P.: The filmmaking world is in mourning with news that Emmy-nominated filmmaker Catherine Cryan passing away
Cryan was born in Brooklyn and attended Harvard University, graduating from the prestigious institution in 1985.
She then spent the next two years working for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London.
After returning to the United States, she started working as an executive assistant for prolific filmmaker Roger Corman.
Early years: Cryan was born in Brooklyn and attended Harvard University, graduating from the prestigious institution in 1985
She started her writing career with a trio of films released in 1990 – A Cry in the Wild, Slumber Party Massacre III and Bloodfist III.
She wrote 1991’s Dead Space starring Bryan Cranston and Uncaged starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan for Roger Corman’s company, along with 1993’s Fire on the Amazon starring Sandra Bullock, a year before her breakthrough hit Speed.
Cryan also started her directing career in 1993 with White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, which earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Children’s Special.
Writing: She started her writing career with a trio of films released in 1990 – A Cry in the Wild, Slumber Party Massacre III and Bloodfist III
After working with Corman, she started working with Fox Family Television Studios, writing and directing 1995’s Dangerous Waters and 1999’s Hostile Intensions.
She then started working for ABC Family, directing a number of Christmas films including Christmas Do-Over, Homecoming for the Holidays, Christmas Duet and Cross Country Christmas.
Cryan also co-wrote 2012’s Werewolf: The Beast Among Us and 2016’s Honey 3: Dare to Dance.
After: After working with Corman, she started working with Fox Family Television Studios, writing and directing 1995’s Dangerous Waters and 1999’s Hostile Intensions
Her other directorial efforts are 1999’s True Heart, 2006’s The Prince & Me II: The Royal Wedding, 2008’s The Prince & Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon, 2010’s The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure, 2019’s Victoria Gotti: My Father’s Daughter and Our Italian Christmas Memories, which debuted on Hallmark in November.
She also published the novel The Island of the Last Great Auk, which debuted in November 2015 by White Steed Press.
Her screenplay The Last Story received the Canadian International Film Festival Award for excellence in writing.
Director: Her other directorial efforts are 1999’s True Heart, 2006’s The Prince & Me II: The Royal Wedding, 2008’s The Prince & Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon, 2010’s The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure, 2019’s Victoria Gotti: My Father’s Daughter and Our Italian Christmas Memories, which debuted on Hallmark in November
Jackass star Bam Margera ‘is battling pneumonia and on a ventilator’
Jackass star Bam Margera is reportedly battling pneumonia and on a ventilator in hospital.
TMZ reports that the former professional skateboarder, 43, was admitted to hospital in San Diego earlier this week and then tested positive for Covid-19 while at the facility.
The publication claims that since testing positive doctors decided to put him on a ventilator in the ICU.
Tough times: Jackass star Bam Margera is reportedly battling pneumonia and on a ventilator in hospital
He is reportedly in a stable condition and being looked after by health care professionals.
MailOnline has contacted representatives for Bam for more information.
It comes after a difficult year for Bam who has been treating drug and alcohol abuse issues in rehab on and off.
Health: TMZ reports that the former professional skateboarder, 43, was admitted to hospital in San Diego earlier this week and then tested positive for Covid-19 while at the facility
In September Bam returned to his court-ordered rehab program with significant changes to his treatment plan to avoid another escape attempt.
According to TMZ, a Judge restructured Bam’s treatment to no longer require him to reside at an in-patient facility, as he has been doing this past year.
However, he will reportedly still have to see a psychiatrist regularly, and he will be required to remain sober and continue taking classes.
In May, the skateboarder celebrated ‘one year of treatment’ for drug and alcohol abuse at a Boca Raton facility and planned on attending outpatient treatment classes for the next two months.
Illness: The publication claims that since testing positive doctors decided to put him on a ventilator in the ICU
Just weeks later, he was reported missing by his rehab facility on June 13 after he fled the facility for the second time.
Sheriff’s deputies and a crisis intervention team found the troubled TV star days later at a hotel in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and took him back to a different rehab facility.
The reality star claimed that he left the treatment center because he was worried that he was being kept from seeing his son and he was concerned he wouldn’t be able to raise him if he was in rehab.
He has reportedly been estranged from his wife Nikki Boyd, who hasn’t made attempts to contact him since he has been in rehab.
Recovery: He is reportedly in a stable condition and being looked after by health care professionals
In May, the Jackass alum broke his right wrist ‘for the 10th time’ and dislocated his right elbow while skateboarding, but he refused pain medication due to his sobriety.
Margera has been residing in rehab for a year in the wake of a September 2021 incident in which authorities answered an emotional disturbance call.
In February of last year, the former Jackass star shared a troubling video admitting he had been dealing with suicidal thoughts.
The MTV personality, who has long struggled with substance abuse, talked about considering suicide, revealing he went so far as to look up how to tie a noose online.
In June, Margera privately settled his wrongful termination lawsuit against the Jackass creators over his firing (due to testing positive for Adderall) from the successful fourth film, Jackass Forever.
Also, in June, Jackass director Jeff Tremaine said Bam threatened him and his family in a successful petition to obtain a temporary restraining order against the one-time MTV star.
In a text message, Bam vowed to Tremaine, ‘I’m gonna kill you in one mother f****** punch.’ The bad blood stems from Bam’s removal from Jackass 4 in February amid concerns from producers about his dependability and sobriety.
Insiders told TMZ that Margera failed to meet stipulations of an agreement from producers that included drug testing, breathalyzer testing, taking his prescribed medications, and visits with a mental health professional.
In May, Jackass staple Steve-O took to Instagram to defend Tremaine and Knoxville for helping organize a life-saving intervention when he had severe substance abuse issues.
‘Everyone bent over backward to get you in the movie, and all you had to do was not get loaded,’ Steve-O said. ‘You’ve continued to get loaded; it’s that simple. We all love you as much as we all say we do, but nobody who loves you can enable or encourage you to stay sick.’
Complicated: It comes after a difficult year for Bam who has been treating drug and alcohol abuse issues in rehab on and off (pictured – in May, the skateboarder celebrated ‘one year of treatment’)
Exclusive: Behind FTX’s fall, battling billionaires and a failed bid to save crypto
Nov 10 (Reuters) – (This story contains language some readers may find offensive in paragraph 2)
On Tuesday morning, Sam Bankman-Fried, owner of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, caught his employees off-guard with a somber message.
“I’m sorry,” he told them. “I fucked up.”
The reason for the mea culpa: His announcement half an hour earlier that FTX’s arch-rival, Binance, planned to mount a shock takeover of its main trading platform to save it from a “liquidity crunch.” Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, whom the billionaire had accused of sabotage, would now be his White Knight.
The seeds of FTX’s downfall were sown months earlier, stemming from mistakes Bankman-Fried made after he stepped in to save other crypto firms as the crypto market collapsed amid rising interest rates, according to interviews with several people close to Bankman-Fried and communications from both companies that have not been previously reported.
Some of those deals involving Bankman-Fried’s trading firm, Alameda Research, led to a series of losses that eventually became his undoing, according to three people familiar with the company’s operations.
The interviews and messages also shine new light on the bitter rivalry between the two billionaires, who in recent months competed for market share and publicly accused each other of seeking to hurt the one another’s businesses. It culminated on Wednesday, with Binance pulling out of its deal and throwing FTX’s future into uncertainty.
Stuck without a buyer, Bankman-Fried was now searching for alternative backers, two people close to him said. After Binance pulled out, he told FTX staff in a message that Binance had not previously told them of any reservations about the deal and he was “exploring all options.”
Neither Binance nor FTX responded to requests for comment. Bankman-Fried told Reuters on Tuesday that “I’ll probably be too swamped” to do interviews. He didn’t respond to further messages.
Binance earlier said it decided to pull out of the deal as a result of its due diligence on FTX and news reports about U.S. investigations into the company.
Zhao’s unveiling of the planned takeover capped a stunning reversal for Bankman-Fried. The 30-year-old had set up Bahamas-based FTX in 2019 and led it to become one of the largest exchanges, accumulating a near $17 billion fortune.
News of the liquidity crunch at FTX – valued in January at $32 billion with investors including SoftBank and BlackRock – sent reverberations through the crypto world.
The price of major coins plummeted, with bitcoin slumping to its lowest in almost two years, heaping further pain on a sector whose value has fallen about two-thirds this year as central banks tightened credit.
By ditching the deal, Binance had also avoided the regulatory scrutiny that would likely have accompanied the takeover, which Zhao had flagged as a likelihood in a memo to employees that he posted on Twitter.
Financial regulators around the world have issued warnings about Binance for operating without a license or violating money laundering laws. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Binance for possible money laundering and criminal sanctions violations. Reuters reported last month that Binance had helped Iranian firms trade $8 billion since 2018 despite U.S. sanctions, part of a series of articles this year by the news agency on the exchange’s financial crime compliance.
RELATIONSHIP SOURS
Zhao and Bankman-Fried’s relationship began in 2019. Six months after FTX’s launch, Zhao bought 20% of the exchange for about $100 million, a person with direct knowledge of the deal said. At the time, Binance said the investment was “aimed to grow the crypto economy together.”
Within 18 months, however, their relationship had soured.
FTX had grown rapidly and Zhao now viewed it as a genuine competitor with global aspirations, former Binance employees said.
When FTX in May 2021 applied for a license in Gibraltar for a subsidiary, it had to submit information about its major shareholders, but Binance stonewalled FTX’s requests for help, according to messages and emails between the exchanges seen by Reuters.
Between May and July, FTX lawyers and advisors wrote to Binance at least 20 times for details on Zhao’s sources of wealth, banking relationships, and ownership of Binance, the messages show.
In June 2021, however, an FTX lawyer told Binance’s chief financial officer that Binance wasn’t “engaging with us properly” and they risked “severely disrupting an important project for us.” A Binance legal officer responded to FTX to say she was trying to get a response from Zhao’s personal assistant, but the requested information was “too general” and they may not provide everything.
By July of that year, Bankman-Fried had tired of waiting. He bought back Zhao’s stake in FTX for about $2 billion, the person with direct knowledge of the deal said. Two months later, with Binance no longer involved, Gibraltar’s regulator granted FTX a license.
That sum was paid to Binance, in part, in FTX’s own coin, FTT, Zhao said last Sunday – a holding he would later order Binance to sell, precipitating the crisis at FTX.
“TRYING TO GO AFTER US”
This May and June, Bankman-Fried’s trading firm, Alameda Research, suffered a series of losses from deals, according to three people familiar with its operations. These included a $500-million loan agreement with failed crypto lender Voyager Digital, two of the people said. Voyager filed for bankruptcy protection the following month, with FTX’s U.S. arm paying $1.4 billion for its assets in a September auction. Reuters could not determine the full extent of losses Alameda suffered.
Seeking to prop up Alameda, which held almost $15 billion in assets, Bankman-Fried transferred at least $4 billion in FTX funds, secured by assets including FTT and shares in trading platform Robinhood Markets Inc, the people said. Alameda had disclosed a 7.6% share in Robinhood that May.
A portion of these FTX funds were customer deposits, two of the people said, though Reuters could not determine their value.
Bankman-Fried did not tell other FTX executives about the move to prop up Alameda, the people said, adding he was afraid that it could leak.
On Nov. 2, however, a report by news outlet CoinDesk detailed a leaked balance sheet that allegedly showed that much of Alameda’s $14.6 billion in assets were held in FTT. Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison tweeted that the balance sheet was merely for a “subset of our corporate entities,” with over $10 billion of assets not reflected. Ellison did not return requests for comment.
That failed to douse growing speculation over what Alameda’s financial health might mean for FTX.
Then Zhao said Binance would sell its entire share in the token, FTT, worth at least $580 million, “due to recent revelations that have come to light.” The token’s price collapsed 80% over the next two days and a torrent of outflows from the exchange gathered pace, blockchain data show.
WITHDRAWAL SURGE
In his message to staff this week, Bankman-Fried said the firm saw a “giant withdrawal surge” as users rushed to withdraw $6 billion in crypto tokens from FTX in just 72 hours. Daily withdrawals normally totaled tens of millions of dollars, Bankman-Fried told his employees.
After Zhao’s tweet that Binance would sell its FTT holding, Bankman-Fried projected confidence that FTX would weather its rival’s attacks. He told staff on Slack that withdrawals were “not shockingly, way up,” but they were able to process the requests.
“We’re chugging along,” he wrote. “Obviously, Binance is trying to go after us. So be it.”
But by Monday the situation became dire. Unable to quickly find a backer, or sell other illiquid assets short-notice, Bankman-Fried contacted Zhao, according to a person familiar with the call. Zhao later confirmed that Bankman-Fried had called him.
Bankman-Fried signed a non-binding letter of intent for Binance to buy FTX’s non-U.S. assets. This valued FTX at several billion dollars, two people familiar with the letter said – enough for the exchange to cover all withdrawal requests but a fraction of its January valuation.
Zhao announced the potential deal several hours later, with Bankman-Fried tweeting “a huge thank you to CZ.”
“Let’s live to fight another day,” Bankman-Fried told staff on Slack.
His employees were shocked. Even executives had been in the dark about the Alameda shortfall and takeover plan until Bankman-Fried informed them that morning, two people working with him said. Both people said they had been unaware that the withdrawal situation was so serious.
Then came Binance’s announcement on Wednesday scrapping the takeover. “The issues are beyond our control or ability to help,” Binance said. Zhao tweeted “Sad day. Tried,” with a crying emoji.
Reporting by Angus Berwick in New York and Tom Wilson in London; additional reporting by Hannah Lang in Washington and Elizabeth Howcroft in London; Editing by Paritosh Bansal and Chris Sanders
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Putin battling pancreatic cancer, Parkinsons disease: report
Russian President Vladimir Putin is battling both pancreatic cancer and Parkinson’s disease, according to a new report citing leaked Kremlin emails.
A Russian intelligence source appeared to confirm in messages viewed by The Sun what has long been rumored about the 70-year-old strongman.
“I can confirm he has been diagnosed with early stage Parkinson’s disease, but it’s already progressing,” the security services insider reportedly claimed.
“This fact will be denied in every possible way and hidden,” the source said, according to The Sun.
“Putin is regularly stuffed with all kinds of heavy steroids and innovative painkilling injections to stop the spread of pancreatic cancer he was recently diagnosed with,” the person said.
“It not only causes a lot of pain, Putin has a state of puffiness of the face and other side effects — including memory lapses,” the source continued.
“In his close circle, there are rumors that in addition to pancreatic cancer, which is gradually spreading, Putin also has prostate cancer,” the insider added.
Rumors about Putin’s supposedly poor health have been circulating for months, with several unconfirmed reports saying the president is battling cancer.
The Kremlin has always denied that Putin, who likes to project an image of strength, suffers from any illnesses.
The bombshell report comes after Putin was recently captured on video with what appeared to be IV track marks on the back of his hand as he was grasping a soldier’s arm while visiting a boot camp in the Ryazan region.
Kyiv Post journalist Jason Jay Smart tweeted screenshots from the video, with the mystery blemish clearly visible on the Kremlin leader’s hand.
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Smart wrote that the Kremlin released two versions of the video from Putin’s trip: one with numerous watermarks obscuring the view of the hand, and another without the image of the hand.
Another theory, put forth by former Ukraine correspondent Tom Warner, suggested that what looks to be an IV mark could be “just a weird angle of bulgey [sic] veins.”
Rumors about Putin’s supposedly poor health have been swirling for months, fueled in large part by unsubstantiated reports from the Telegram channel General SVR, which claimed that he suffers from cancer, Parkinson’s and a schizoaffective disorder.
The Russian independent outlet Proekt claimed that Putin is always accompanied by medical personnel, including top oncologists, whenever he goes on official visits.
After Putin canceled a trip to Kazakhstan in July, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov made a rare statement about the leader’s physical state, telling reporters that “everything is fine with his heath.”
Putin and his cronies have repeatedly said recently that Russia could use nuclear weapons weapons to protect its territorial integrity — — remarks interpreted in the West as implicit threats to use them to defend the four regions of Ukraine that Russia claims to have annexed.
Game theory specialist Georgy Egorov has warned that a nuke attack “makes sense” for Putin if he only has a few months to live, The Sun reported.
“It makes sense to use nuclear weapons for Putin in only one situation – if the rumors about his health problems are true — if he has a few months left to live — he does not want to go down in history as a loser,” Egorov told Novaya Gazeta.
Putin said at a conference of international foreign policy experts that it was unnecessary for Russia to strike Ukraine with atomic weapons.
Former NBA guard, Knicks star Nate Robinson battling kidney failure
Three-time NBA slam dunk champion and former guard Nate Robinson has announced he is battling kidney failure.
“I am currently undergoing treatment for Renal Kidney Failure and have been privately dealing with it for the last four years,” Robinson said through a statement Saturday evening.
Robinson, who spent the first five years of his career with the Knicks, said the reason for coming public with his battle was to shine a light on the disease.
“I’m sharing this now because I want to be the voice for all those who are having trouble speaking about this illness and come together for a greater cause – our health,” he added.
Known for his short stature on the court, the 5-9 University of Washington graduate, said he was never one to speak out. But he hopes to lead a united fight over kidney failure.
“I was never a vocal leader on the court,” Robinson admitted. “I preferred to lead by example, but now it’s time for me to speak up and help all those affected by or dealing with Kidney Disease.”
Robinson, 38, also expressed his gratitude for the medical care that he has been receiving over the last four years. “I am grateful for the care I’ve received and continue to receive during this process and hope through this announcement that I can help others like me.
Robinson holds the league record with three NBA Slam Dunk Contest titles, the last coming in 2010.
He suited up for eight teams over the course of his 11 seasons and last appeared in the NBA during the 2015-16 season, where he played two games for the New Orleans Pelicans.
After his basketball career, Robinson tested out boxing, making his professional debut against Jake Paul in an undercard bout for Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr. Paul won the fight in a second-round knock-out.
From back pain to allergies, the average adult is battling at least 4 health issues
LONDON — The average person is currently battling four ailments and health gripes – including back pain, headaches, and seasonal allergies, according to research. In fact, the poll of 2,000 British adults reveals that 82 percent have a minor health condition, with 59 percent of them in “significant” discomfort or pain.
More than a quarter of sufferers have had specific ailments for several years or more, with nearly one in 10 (8%) having been forced to cope for more than a decade! The impact is wide-ranging. Among those with health issues, 46 percent struggle to sleep, 28 percent have developed mental health conditions, and 18 percent can’t work.
The research, conducted by OnePoll and commissioned by Perrigo, shows that 7 in 10 sufferers try to adopt a “keep calm and carry on” mindset as a coping mechanism for their ailment.
Sadly, another 28 percent do so because they feel like their doctor doesn’t “seem interested.” A similar number — 27 percent — claim they can’t seem to get an appointment with their doctor, while 22 percent simply don’t like going. About half of respondents (52%) admit it’s never crossed their mind to visit a pharmacy for advice.
“Even minor issues and ailments can impact our quality of life and the way we want to live, when they really don’t have to,” suggests Farah Ali, superintendent pharmacist at London’s Warman-Freed, in a statement. “Don’t ignore your body by putting up with discomfort and suffering in silence. There are ways to manage conditions early through self-care so that problems don’t build up and disrupt everyday activity.”
The study also found a tendency to suffer in silence is very much a nationwide problem – 57 percent of everyone polled say they usually keep quiet when they develop health conditions. Yet 54 percent admit they are “better” at looking at other people’s health status than their own.
This approach appears to extend to self-care, as 56 percent agree this isn’t one of their strong points. Worse still, 43 percent don’t consider it to be a priority. However, the same percentage thinks they have improved at paying mind to self-care during the last two or three years. About 7 in 10 respondents claim to be “good” at listening to their body and understanding its needs.
When it comes to calling out sick, the research finds the typical adult has taken seven days off work during the past year. But this figure should perhaps be higher as three in five individuals say they’ve worked despite feeling too ill to do so. Why put themselves through such misery? The most common reason is that they just don’t like taking time off (37 percent). Others blame having “too much work to do” (31 percent), and not wanting to acknowledge they had a problem to begin with (20 percent).
“You must always seek the advice of a healthcare professional for any prolonged condition. Your community pharmacist is an accessible and great first point of call if you’re struggling to get an appointment with your doctor,” says Ali. “Pharmacists are experts in minor health conditions, able to provide self-care solutions. They can offer clinical advice and over-the-counter medicines for a range of minor illnesses. And they’ll [guide] you if you need to see a [doctor], nurse or other healthcare professional to treat your condition.”
72Point writer Rob Knight contributed to this report.
Florida’s Caleb Ziegelbauer battling deadly brain-eating amoeba
The Florida teen fighting for his life after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba has already beaten the odds by surviving for a month.
The median time for survival with an infection with Naegleria fowleri, the scientific name for the amoeba, is just five days, and the disease it causes, primary amebic meningoencephalitis, is fatal 97 percent of the time, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control.
“Only four people out of 154 known infected individuals in the United States from 1962 to 2021 have survived,” the agency says.
It’s believed Caleb Ziegelbauer, 13, was infected with the amoeba when he went swimming July 1 at Port Charlotte Beach about 100 miles south of Tampa, Florida.
The amoeba is found worldwide but the CDC says it thrives in higher water temperatures and lower water levels. While still a rare infection, those are exactly the conditions found across the US this summer, with heat waves and droughts hitting many states.
It is found in warm fresh water, like lakes and rivers and hot springs, and can even show up in poorly maintained swimming pools. It cannot survive in salt water and cannot spread from one person to another.
Infections mainly occur in July, August and September, and while more likely in the South — Florida saw 36 cases between 1962 and 2021 and Texas 40 — some northern states have seen them, notably Minnesota, famous for its lakes, which has had two reported cases. No cases have been reported in New York or surrounding states in the Northeast.
Caleb has been taken off of blood pressure medication and other drugs and while still on a ventilator, his breathing is gaining strength, his aunt Katie Chiet posted on a GoFundMe page raising money for the teen’s treatment.
Initial samples of his spinal fluid sent to the federal Centers for Disease Control were negative for Naegleria fowleri, but doctors at Golisano Children’s Hospital in Fort Myers, where he is being treated said, that was the likely cause of his infection, according to local reports.
Caleb’s progress came as a second person, a Missouri resident who was infected after swimming at an Iowa lake, died from the bug earlier this month. Last year, at least two children in the US died from these infections, one in North Carolina and one in Texas.
A big challenge in amoeba cases is getting the right diagnosis – it can take weeks before the amoeba is identified, and that’s often too late for the victim who’s infected. But even then, there’s no specific treatment for the infection, according to the CDC.