Wail Alselwi (born May 20, 1989), also known as Island Ock, is a deli owner and social media personality based in Staten Island, New York. He co-founded and manages Zack's Finest Deli & Grocery in the Port Richmond section of the borough. He created Grades for Grabs, a program that rewards students with groceries or small cash amounts for strong academic performance. Videos of the initiative have been widely viewed on TikTok and reported by national and local media.
Gary Joseph Knipfing (born November 22, 1961), known professionally as Gary Valentine, is an American actor. He is the older brother of actor Kevin James. Valentine starred as Kevin James' (Doug Heffernan's) cousin Danny Heffernan in The King of Queens (1998–2007) and as Kevin James' (Kevin Gable's) older brother Kyle Gable in Kevin Can Wait (2016-2018). Valentine has appeared in numerous Happy Madison Productions.
Human-wildlife coexistence involves agreement between consenting individuals representing the human communities sharing a landscape with wildlife, to live so that the wildlife can persist, within the limits required by the land and its non-human inhabitants in order to flourish, and within what is acceptable (regarding actual and perceived negative impacts caused by wildlife) and desirable for the human communities.
It emerged from human-wildlife conflict studies, and involves more than tolerance or acceptance of wildlife, implying a positive choice to coexist with wildlife despite the occasional costs. Various accounts are given to explain its emergence into the conservation mainstream in the late 2010s, including a desire for a more positive framing of human-wildlife interactions, advances in understanding animal behaviour and capacities for relationships, and the perception that as humans and wild animals increasingly share landscapes in the Anthropocene, conservation strategies focusing on separation of humans and wildlife, lethal control or removal of problem animals, and policing human behaviour, are proving inadequate.
Marissa Josiah, NCC, LCPC, LPC, ACS, CTT, is an American licensed clinical professional counselor and therapist. She is the founder and owner of the Relationship Resilience Center, a private practice based in Columbia, Maryland, specializing in culturally affirming relationship therapy, trauma-informed care, and systemic approaches to interpersonal and workplace dynamics.
She holds the highest clinical licensure in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia, and has more than two decades of clinical experience working with individuals, couples, and families.