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Kuki Gallman, the Italian-born author and nature conservationist, was shot and injured in an ambush at her Kenyan ranch on Sunday morning.
The 73-year-old was surveying her Laikipia property when herders reportedly shot her in the hip and stomach. The herders were searching for pasture as Kenya suffers an intense drought, local police chief Ezekiel Chepkowny said, according to The Associated Press.
She was airlifted to a hospital in Nairobi and emerged from surgery in stable but critical condition, Gallman’s friends and family say.
Herders have said they need land from Gallman’s 139-square-mile conservancy to graze their livestock. Authorities believe some of them recently set fire to a retreat on Gallman’s property favored by her late son.
“Fear not,” she wrote on her Facebook page after the alleged arson. “I am alive my spirit holds and I shall never give up.”
A Kenyan citizen and author of bestseller I Dreamed of Africa, Gallman has been raising funds to rebuild the retreat and improve security on her land.
Sveva Gallman, Gallman’s daughter, told NPR earlier this month that while they’ve always allowed herders to graze their animals on the land, more herders from far away have showed up with thousands of cattle and increased tensions. She suspects that some of the livestock is owned by wealthy politicians.
Gallman hasn’t been the only target of violence in the Laikipia region. Herders are suspected of killing British rancher and safari company founder Tristan Voorspuy, who was shot to death while inspecting his lodges.
At least four police officers have been shot and injured during confrontations with herders in the region, Kenyan outlet Daily Nation reported.
In February, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta declared the country’s drought a national disaster. The Red Cross says 2.7 million people risk starvation.
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President Donald Trump will sit down for dinner with the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday evening, according to the White House.
It’s not clear whether all members of the court will attend, but newly confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch, whom Trump nominated, is expected to join the president, the White House said on Sunday.
While such a gathering between the members of the executive and the judicial branch may seem unusual, it’s not unprecedented. President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden paid a visit to the Supreme Court in January 2008, just days before assuming office.
Presidents have also regularly hosted members of the high court for dinner. According to Julie Silverbrook, the executive director of the Constitutional Sources Project, “the practice appears to be quite common.”
This particular dinner may be more awkward than others, however. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was sharply critical of Trump during the presidential campaign, calling him a “faker” with a big ego who ought to release his tax returns. Trump responded by saying her mind was “shot” and urging her to resign.
On Sunday, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) noted the meeting could present potential conflicts of interest, since the Trump administration is involved in several legal battles concerning presidential power and immigration this year ― including a challenge to Trump’s travel ban from a federal judge in Hawaii.
The court has heard a number of immigration and border-related cases this term. The cases concerning the president’s blocked travel ban, which will be heard next month in California and Virginia, could also conceivably reach the high court before the end of the term.
HuffPost’s Cristian Farias notes, however, that the dinner is scheduled to take place one day after the last day of this term’s oral arguments.
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Anna Faris has been live-tweeting her life away this week, so maybe she noticed that her husband’s comments about diversity in Hollywood didn’t exactly go over well on social media.
Earlier in the week, Chris Pratt told Men’s Fitness that Hollywood has a representation problem when it comes to blue-collar Americans, despite an Oscar season that highlighted the experience of working-class people (see: “Moonlight, “Manchester By The Sea” or “Fences”).
“I don’t see personal stories that necessarily resonate with me, because they’re not my stories,” he said. “I think there’s room for me to tell mine, and probably an audience that would be hungry for them. The voice of the average, blue-collar American isn’t necessarily represented in Hollywood.”
His comments immediately elicited a passionate response from tweeters who were quick to remind Pratt that not only are there a tons of movies about working-class white men, there are other and more pressing representational issues to focus on in Hollywood.
Pratt apparently realized the error of his ways and took to social media on Friday to walk back his statements after the backlash.
“That was actually a pretty stupid thing to say. I’ll own that,” he wrote on Friday. “There’s a ton of movies about blue-collar America.”
Celebrities, take note. Now this is how to take responsibility and apologize publicly.
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No one can deny the power of a good quote. They motivate and inspire us to be our best.
Here are 38 of my absolute favorites:
1. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” -Mother Teresa
2. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou
3. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford
4. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” -Vince Lombardi
5. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” -Charles Swindoll
6. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” -Oprah Winfrey
7. “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
8. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean
9. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” -Audrey Hepburn
10. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown
12. “Do or do not. There is no try.” -Yoda
13. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill
14. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain
15. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan
16. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” -Albert Einstein
17. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” -Stephen Covey
18. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” -Henry Ford
19. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker
20. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart
21. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle Onassis
22. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
23. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” -Ayn Rand
24. “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh
25. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -Farrah Gray
26. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” -Dalai Lama
27. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
28. “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” -Bob Dylan
29. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” -Leonardo da Vinci
30. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller
31. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -John Lennon
32. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair
34. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” -Plato
35. “Nothing will work unless you do.” -Maya Angelou
36. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt
37. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” -Plutarch
38. “Control your own destiny or someone else will.” – Jack Welch
Did I miss any? Please share your favorite quotes for others to enjoy in the comments section, and be sure to check out my book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0.
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