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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after a park employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park, officials said Thursday.
Tuesday's discovery at Abyss Pool led to the temporary closure of the West Thumb Geyser Basin and its parking lot. The area has since reopened.
The park did not have any other information about the investigation to make public on Thursday, park spokesperson Morgan Warthin said.
Abyss Pool, located west of the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake, is 53 feet (16 meters) deep and the temperature is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 Celsius), park officials said. It is on the south side of the southern loop through the park.
In such hot springs, superheated water cools as it reaches the surface, sinks and is replaced by hotter water from below. The circulation prevents the water from reaching the temperature needed to set off an eruption like happens with geysers in the park, according to the park's website.
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Former NFL star Brady Quinn said New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson is so overhyped that he has “not seen a quarterback get more love for doing less.”
Quinn, the ex-Notre Dame quarterback and first-round pick who started just 20 games over several NFL seasons a decade ago, minced no words in blasting Wilson, a second-year starter now out with a knee injury. The Jets player is expected to miss two to four weeks after tearing his meniscus while scrambling on a noncontact play during New York’s preseason victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday.
The Jets chose Wilson second overall in last year’s draft. The ex-Brigham Young University star, who missed four games last season to a knee injury, threw just nine touchdown passes and 11 interceptions while going 3-10 as the starter.
On Fox Sports Radio’s “2 Pros and a Cup of Joe” show this week, Quinn called Wilson “awful” in the Jets’ exhibition against the Eagles. He chided him for staring down a receiver before throwing an interception, calling it a “day one ... game one, year one” blunder.
“Can we acknowledge, once again, the media just continually tries to make it something?” Quinn said of Wilson. “They want so badly for this to work out, and it’s kind of tough, honestly, to listen to.”
“I’ve not seen a quarterback get more love for doing less from the media than Zach Wilson in a long time,” he continued. “It’s really weird.”
The name of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo emerged during the chat as a possible replacement for Wilson, but Quinn said the Jets have too much invested in Wilson to make that kind of move.
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Business in the front, party in the back and a $2,500 prize on their minds.
The USA Mullet Championship has selected 25 achy-breaky heartbreakers with truly majestic manes to compete for the year’s title of best mullet in its children’s online category.
According to the organizers, the competition began in 2020 as a Michigan event but has expanded to locations in Texas, New York and Indiana. It also includes a few online competitions, including the women’s “Femullet” division, and competitions for kids and teens.
The finalists in the kids’ division this year offer quite a variety of ’Merica mops ranging from tidy cuts with cascading curls to classic ’80s beaver tails and one fellow who shaved his patriotic pride into the side of his ’do.
The father of one contestant told CBS News that there’s a $10 entree fee, but says “all donations are going to the Michigan Wig Foundation for kids.”
TMZ reports that the winner gets a $2,500 prize.
This year’s finalists were selected earlier this week, and those who are fans of the signature shag have a chance to mull-et over and vote for their favorite here by this Friday.
Check them out below!
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The premiere of “Fakt Mahilao Maate”(only for women), Amitabh Bachchan’s first Gujarati film in a cameo role, was held in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
Speaking at a press conference, Anand Pandit, producer of the film, said, “The whole narration done by Bachchan in Gujarati is one of the highlights of the film. The plot revolves around a 28-year-old character Chintan Parikh (played by Gujarati actor Yash Soni) who is granted the wish to read the minds of women around him.”
“We were looking for a dubbing artist for Bachchan… as he is not a native Gujarati speaker. But he surprised us by learning and grasping the nuances of the language in the limited time,” said Pandit.
Asked about the absence of a woman screen writer in a film which is titled as being “for women”, writer and director Jay Bodas said, “I thought probably I should take a female writer on board. But then, it is not necessary, and I did my research to bring in the perspective of a woman, and actually have over 100 hours of recordings on how and what women think and act… The audience will definitely relate to it.”
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The cast of the film, Yash Soni, Deeksha Joshi, Tarjanee Bhadla and Kalpana Gagdekar, alongwith producers Anand Pandit and Vaishal Shah, and director Jay Bodas addressed the media before the premiere. The film will release Friday across theatres in Gujarat.
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A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that Starbucks must offer reinstatement to seven workers in Memphis who were fired amid a union organizing drive at their store earlier this year.
The “Memphis Seven,” as the workers came to be known, lost their jobs after taking part in an in-store interview with a local television station about their union effort. Starbucks maintained it fired the workers because they violated store policy by letting nonemployees into the shop after hours, but the baristas’ union, Workers United, said the terminations were retaliatory.
The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board agreed with the union and pursued reinstatement for the workers, on the grounds that their firings were illegal and could irreparably harm their organizing. U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman granted the injunction on Thursday, saying there was “reasonable cause” to believe the firings were anti-union, and clear evidence they had a chilling effect on the campaign.
What ultimately matters in such a case is not whether a worker violated company policy, but whether the company has a history of routinely enforcing that policy in comparable situations. Lipman didn’t buy that Starbucks had such a track record.
The labor board provided “evidence consistent with the theory that Starbucks discriminatorily applied its policies to the Memphis Seven when terminating them,” she wrote. “Specifically, the evidence offered supports inconsistent enforcement of the policies at issue.”
Starbucks must offer workers their jobs back within five days of the order, Lipman wrote. Starbucks said it plans to appeal the ruling and seek a stay, which, if successful, could delay the workers’ reinstatement.
The reinstatement is technically temporary while the underlying case regarding the firings is litigated at the labor board. But the injunction amounts to a legal and public-relations setback for Starbucks. The company has insisted it hasn’t broken the law despite labor board officials filing at least 20 complaints alleging a litany of violations.
The granting of the injunction also serves as a morale boost to the union campaign as it battles the coffee chain in both stores and labor board hearings around the country. Members of the Memphis Seven, including worker Beto Sanchez, posted on Twitter on Thursday to celebrate the judge’s decision and thank supporters for standing with them:
Starbucks said in a statement posted to its website that it “strongly disagree[s]” with Lipman’s ruling.
“These individuals violated numerous policies and failed to maintain a secure work environment and safety standards,” the company wrote. “Interest in a union does not exempt partners from following policies that are in place to protect partners, our customers and the communities we serve.”
A federal judge previously turned down a similar effort by the board’s general counsel seeking reinstatement for Starbucks workers who lost their jobs in Arizona.
Workers United has unionized more than 200 Starbucks stores since December in a remarkable burst of organizing. None of the chain’s roughly 9,000 corporate-owned shops previously had union representation. The campaign that began in Buffalo, New York, has since spread to states across the country, while company managers have descended on stores to discourage them from unionizing.
Workers at the Memphis store ultimately voted in favor of unionizing in June.
The labor board’s general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, has alleged that Starbucks has run afoul of the law by firing certain workers, closing stores and offering benefits to workers if they opt not to unionize, all of which the company denies. Abruzzo said in a statement Thursday that Lipman’s ruling was a “crucial step in ensuring that these workers, and all Starbucks workers, can freely exercise their right to join together to improve their working conditions and form a union.”
She also urged other employers to “take note” that the board would vigorously enforce the law to protect workers’ rights.
Nabretta Hardin, another member of the Memphis Seven, said the reinstatement order “goes to show that Starbucks will do everything in their power to silence us.”
“We remain the only store to have organized in Memphis for fear of workers being fired like we were,” Hardin said in a statement through the campaign. “We hope this ruling brings comfort to our partners in the Memphis area and shows them the power they can have in a union.”
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The decision to release the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case, as part of the state government’s remission policy, was a “unanimous decision” of the nine-member Jail Advisory Committee (JAC), according to BJP MLA from Godhra, C K Raulji, a member of the JAC.
The committee met four times after the Supreme Court directed Gujarat government in May to take a decision based on the remission policy of 1992, as convict Radheshyam Bhagwandas Shah had prayed before the apex court.
Besides Raulji, the JAC had three BJP members: Murlidhar Mulchandani, former president of Godhra municipality who was a witness in the Sabarmati Express train burning case of February 2002; Kalol MLA Suman Chauhan; and Sneha Bhatia, secretary of the party’s Godhra city unit.
Headed by Panchmahal District Magistrate/Collector Sujal Mayatra, the committee also comprised the Principal District Sessions Judge of Godhra, District Social Welfare Officer, Panchmahal Superintendent of Police, and Superintendent of Godhra sub-jail.
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“Everyone was in agreement with this decision (to release them), as the convicts were eligible for remission as per the process and guidelines of the state government,” Raulji told The Indian Express on Thursday. “Whatever decision we took, it was under the policy of the state government.”
The decision, he maintained, was taken in “one voice”, after considering “good behaviour” of the convicts during their jail term — “18 years in case of some of the convicts”.
One of the two women members on the committee, who declined to be identified, said, “The decision was taken by the majority. We felt 14 or 18 years in jail is a long time for someone to be punished. As women, we have sympathy for the victim, but it is also true that there are women in families of the convicts as well, who have suffered without any fault of theirs.”
She said, “The victim has got her compensation from the government and has a family now…. She can live peacefully; so can the 11 other families…. Moreover, these men do not have any criminal history.”
Citing the case of Jaswant Nai, 71 — “he is the oldest (among the 11 convicts) but served his sentence with sincerity” — Raulji also emphasised the point that “none of them has a criminal record”.
Asked if the decision to release the men, convicted of gangrape and massacre, could send out a wrong message to the society, Raulji said, “Yes, that is possible. But none of the committee members felt so. We took a decision as per the process and guideline of the state government.”
He said: “What happened back then was in the heat of a communal riot — they are not hardened criminals. This was the only remission petition placed before the JAC for review, and we had four meetings since June. All members unanimously decided to recommend this remission.”
Raulji, who began his political career with Janata Dal, joined BJP in 1991. A loyalist of Shankersinh Vaghela, he left when the former CM floated Rashtriya Janta Party (RJP) in 1995. After Vaghela merged RJP with Congress, Raulji contested and won 2007 and 2012 Assembly polls on a Congress ticket from Godhra. He returned to BJP in August 2017.
Kalol MLA Chauhan, daughter-in-law of former Panchmahal MP Prabhatsinh Chauhan, is a first-time BJP MLA.
Mulchandani was one of the witnesses to testify on the roles of politicians — Godhra municipality president, late Mohammad Husain Kalota; and councillors Bilal Ismail Abdul Majid Sujela, alias Haji Bilal; Abdurehman Kankatta; and Salim Sheikh — in the Sabarmati train burning case.
Bilal, who died last year, was among 11 people sentenced to death in the case. In 2017, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
A JAC member, who declined to be identified, said remission to the convicts in the Bilkis case cannot be compared with similar applications pending from convicts of Sabarmati train carnage at Godhra station. “What happened in Godhra was a premeditated conspiracy by certain banned organisations. What happened in Dahod or other places was an aftermath of the train carnage and a reaction in rage. One has to see the circumstances under which the crimes were committed,” the member said.
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Your child comes home from school upset. A friend said something mean to them, compared them to someone else in a negative light, or made them feel like they don’t measure up in some way.
As a parent, you’re wired to protect your child. You may have to restrain yourself from running down to the schoolyard, getting right in that kid’s face, and warning them to think before they speak next time.
But you’re also an adult, and you understand that it’s not a good idea to act on impulse. Here’s what experts say parents can do to help kids recognize and deal with toxic behavior from a friend.
First, what makes a child’s behavior toxic?
Toxic might seem like a harsh way to describe one kid as being not so nice to another, but it’s an accurate description of a pattern of behavior that some children exhibit.
A toxic friend isn’t someone who says something malicious one time, feels remorse and apologizes.
“Is it something that’s a repetitive, ongoing, consistent thing?” Ann-Louise Lockhart, a pediatric psychologist practicing in Texas, told HuffPost this is a question to ask yourself when deciding if a child may or may not be displaying toxic behaviors.
There may be an apology, but this sort of friend will repeat this behavior in what can become a vicious cycle. Or they may act kindly when adults are present, but exhibit cruelty behind closed doors.
“If your friend is consistently belittling you and insulting you and saying mean things about you and throwing you under the bus, is that really a friend?” said Lockhart.
The answer may be obvious to an adult, but not so clear to your child.
There are a couple of reasons that a child might act out in a bad manner. These children “lack some emotional regulation and emotional intelligence,” Erin Leonard, a psychologist who has written widely on the topic, explained to HuffPost. Some of them, she said, may have an undiagnosed oppositional defiant disorder, a behavior disorder that can make them hostile to anyone they’re interacting with, not just other children.
Others might display hostile and unkind behavior because of insecure attachment. A toxic friend is “a child who does not know they’re insecure,” said Leonard, “a child who feels profoundly insecure and compensates with narcissism.”
This type of child may act out as a way of overcompensating for that insecurity.
“In order to feel secure in the friendship, they have to tear the other kid down,” Leonard explained. “The hallmark of a toxic kid is they are completely unaware and they do not care how their actions and words impact someone else.”
How can one child respond to another’s toxic behavior?
You’re probably not going to be standing within earshot when your child’s friend says something ugly, or cruelly excludes them. And it’s hard to come up with the right thing to say at the moment — not just for kids, but for anyone.
While it’s understandable for your child to feel defensive and want to respond with a snide retort, this escalates the conflict and makes it seem as though both children are equally responsible for wrongdoing. This may be exactly what the friend wants.
Help your child devise a couple of ways they can respond that will more likely shut the behavior down. They can have the security of keeping these helpful tools in their back pocket for when they need them. Here are a few tactics your child can try:
1) Ignore the behavior or walk away. It deescalates the conflict when your child refuses to participate in the exchange.
2) Set a boundary. Your child can simply say, “You need to stop saying mean things/teasing/leaving me out,” said Leonard.
3) Name the dynamic. If the friend crosses the boundary that’s been set, “they need to talk about the dynamic,” said Leonard. “They actually need to say ‘You’re being mean,’ ‘You’re being hurtful,’ ‘You’re being rude.’” By naming what’s happening, your child is refusing to be provoked to respond with more viciousness.
4) Agree with them, or say something unexpected. It may sound odd, but this can be an option for kids who are older and have a more sophisticated sense of humor. “When someone says something that you don’t like, sometimes saying and doing things that are unexpected really throws people off,” said Lockhart. If a child says, “Why are you reading that book? It’s for babies,” your child could say, “Waa, waa, I’m a baby.” The kid who made the nasty comment probably won’t know how to respond to that!
Finally, warn your child that things may get worse before they get better.
“When the toxic friend can’t get a rise out of that kid, they up the ante — and that is when they get caught,” explained Leonard.
How can a parent support a kid dealing with a toxic friend?
“The most important thing for a parent to do is to honor how bad it hurts,” said Leonard. If you do this, “that child will continue to talk to you and that child will open up.”
Rather than jumping in with suggestions, listen to your child and make space for their pain.
Leonard also believes that there’s no reason to wait in getting your child in to see a counselor if you feel it’s needed. “That counselor is safe and confidential,” she said. Your child may be able to tell them things that they are uncomfortable telling you.
After listening and validating their feelings — and providing some space from the latest incident — talk to your child about strategies, like the above, that they might use to deflect the malicious behavior.
You can role play with your child to help them figure out which responses might work for them.
“It’s about walking our kid through the different ways you can do it so that they could find out what feels best for them in the moment,” said Lockhart. They can also debrief with you after an incident and share how they felt saying what they did, or what they might have said instead.
If your child is having a hard time understanding that a friend’s behaviors are toxic, Lockhart suggests discussing what makes a good friend. She even recommends bringing out markers and paper or a whiteboard to make a list. You can then reference this, pointing out when someone doesn’t meet the friendship criteria.
If they continue to want to be around this person, she suggests asking open-ended questions about why they want this person in their life.
Maybe it’s “because they’re popular, or because they’re pretty or because they’re well-liked,” said Lockhart.
“Their answer will help you to help you see what is it that they think they’re missing,” she added.
Movies and television are another good way to engage kids on the topic of friendship. They may be more open to talking about the interactions of imaginary characters than the people in their own life.
“Based on what they’re telling you, you can find out a lot about what they view as positive and what they view is not so positive when it comes to interactions with potential friends,” said Lockhart.
What should parents not do?
When talking with your child about a friend, it may be tempting for you to say reductive, unhelpful things about that person or their behavior. But, if you want to inspire your child to be a bigger person, you need to resist this urge.
“We [make] so many assumptions about people’s behaviors, and we label them as a bully and toxic when maybe that person is hurting,” said Lockhart. “Maybe they didn’t even realize they’re being insensitive. So I think we have to really allow our kids not to jump to conclusions and judge other people for their behaviors when we don’t know what’s driving their behavior.”
That other thing you’re tempted to do, to head straight for the schoolyard? Or perhaps get on the phone immediately with the teacher or the other child’s parent? You should hold back there, too.
“By intervening and trying to fix the problem, the parent is going to make it worse,” said Leonard.
“It’s humiliating and embarrassing for kids,” said Lockhart. “And it also communicates to them that I don’t trust that you know how to solve your problem.”
Rather than leaping in to rescue them, we can help kids “advocate for themselves and find their voice,” explained Lockhart.
Your goal isn’t, at least primarily, to get the other child in trouble. You want to help your child develop tools that they can use when they encounter this kind of behavior from anyone, in any setting.
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Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday announced in the state Assembly that Dahi Handi will now be considered an adventure sport.
Dahi Handi – organised to celebrate the birth of Lord Krishna – is a popular festival in which a human pyramid is formed to break an earthen pot, hanging mid-air, filled with curd. The adventure sport tag will allow young participants (govindas) in Dahi Handi events to apply for government jobs under the sports quota.
Speaking in the Assembly, Shinde said, “The Maharashtra government has decided to recognise the formation of human towers, a part of Dahi Handi celebration, as an adventure game. With this recognition, the players will become eligible for government jobs under 5 per cent sports quota.”
Also, the state will organise pro-Govinda games to popularise it, he added. Prize money for the same will be paid by the government.
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Govindas or their families will be provided with compensation in case of fatal or other injuries suffered by the players during the formation of human pyramids, Shinde said on the eve of the festival, which will be celebrated without any restriction this year.
He added that for this year’s festival, if a govinda dies during the formation of a human pyramid, the kin would get Rs 10 lakh as compensation from the state. While those who sustain serious injuries would get Rs 7 lakh, one who fractures a body part would receive Rs 5 lakh as compensation.
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Shinde further said the state would bear the cost of treatment of govindas. The money will be paid from the Chief Minister Relief Fund, according to a government resolution issued on Thursday evening. This is, however, applicable only for this year.
Sources said the government is considering bringing in an insurance scheme for the purpose. The scheme will, however, come with a number of conditions, including that the Dahi Handi event should have adequate permissions and the participants must be trained. Moreover, while no aid will be made available for reasons other than forming a human tower, no minor will be compensated, sources added.
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A federal judge on Thursday told prosecutors investigating Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents to redact sensitive portions of the affidavit justifying the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home so that the judge can release it to the public without jeopardizing the ongoing investigation.
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart had been asked by media organizations to unseal the affidavit in its entirely, which, according to prosecutors, names key witnesses and other information outlining their case against the former president.
Reinhart, in a courtroom in West Palm Beach, Florida — across the Intracoastal Waterway from Trump’s tennis and croquet social club — did agree to release his order to seal the affidavit, prosecutors’ request to seal it, and other related documents.
The Department of Justice had said in a filing that releasing the affidavit would do serious damage to its investigation, but Reinhart said he wanted prosecutors to provide him a redacted version of the affidavit by next week. That would remain under seal until he can review it to decide if he is satisfied with the redactions — which would appear on the document as blacked-out text — or whether he would make his own.
The court Thursday afternoon released the cover page for the search warrant application, which stated that the basis for the search warrant was both “evidence of a crime” as well as “contraband, fruits of crime, or other times illegally possessed.”
The name of the FBI agent who wrote the supporting affidavit was blacked out.
Prosecutors’ request to seal the warrant and accompanying documents stated “there is good cause because the integrity of the ongoing investigation might be compromised, and evidence might be destroyed.”
That application, the motion to seal and Reinhart’s order granting that request were all dated Aug. 5, a Friday, with the search taking place on Monday, three days later.
News organizations and other groups are asking for the release of the supporting affidavit behind the search warrant that led to the removal of 11 packets of documents from Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8.
Trump, while demanding on social media that the affidavit be released, chose not to make any such request in court, although at least one of his lawyers, former OAN anchor and election theft conspiracy theorist Christina Bobb, was in attendance.
Earlier this week, prosecutors argued in a filing that releasing the affidavit would “cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation.”
“As the court is aware from its review of the affidavit, it contains, among other critically important and detailed investigative facts: highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government; specific investigative techniques; and information required by law to be kept under seal,” the filing stated.
It was signed by Jay Bratt, DOJ’s counterintelligence chief, and Juan Gonzalez, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
Bratt and Gonzalez also wrote that revealing the names of witnesses now could hurt prosecutors’ efforts of getting them and others to cooperate. In a footnote, they pointed to the violence that Trump and his allies have already incited: “This is not merely a hypothetical concern, given the widely reported threats made against law enforcement personnel in the wake of the August 8 search.”
They added that the affidavit lays out the direction of their case, which would jeopardize the probe. “If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” the filing said.
As is normal in criminal cases, the DOJ executed its search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8 without public notice. It was Trump’s complaints about it and attacks by him and his GOP allies on the department and the FBI that led Attorney General Merrick Garland to ask the court to make public the search warrant itself as well as the inventory of what was found, which took place last week.
Monday’s filing was in response to a continuing request by a number of news organizations and others, such as the pro-Trump Judicial Watch, for all the material related to the search, including the probable cause affidavit, which is typically a synopsis of evidence already collected that explains why prosecutors believe a search warrant is justified.
Bratt and Gonzalez wrote that while the department is prepared to redact the affidavit to protect its witnesses and safeguard the investigation, doing so would be counterproductive. “The affidavit cannot responsibly be unsealed in a redacted form absent redactions that would be so extensive as to render the document devoid of content that would meaningfully enhance the public’s understanding of these events beyond the information already now in the public record,” they wrote.
Trump is also under investigation by the DOJ for his attempted coup to remain in power, including the plan to create fraudulent slates of electoral votes from states he had lost. A Georgia prosecutor is separately investigating his and his allies’ attempts to coerce state officials into falsely declaring him the winner in that state.
Trump, despite losing the election by 7 million votes nationally and 306-232 in the Electoral College, became the first president in more than two centuries of elections to refuse to hand over power peacefully. His incitement of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol — his last-ditch attempt to remain in office ― killed five, including one police officer, injured another 140 officers and led to four police suicides.
Nevertheless, Trump remains the dominant figure in the Republican Party and is openly speaking about running for the presidency again in 2024.
In statements on his personal social media platform, Trump has continued to lie about the election and the Jan. 6 House committee’s work, calling it a “hoax” similar to previous investigations into his 2016 campaign’s acceptance of Russian assistance and his attempted extortion of Ukraine into helping his 2020 campaign.
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The Bombay High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and a developer who constructed a building at Ghatkopar and secured “part” Occupancy Certificate ( OC) for it without ensuring proper water connection, calling the state of affairs “symptomatic” of real estate projects across Mumbai.
The petitioner claimed that he along with others were given possession of the flats in Integrated Arya at Narayan Nagar Ghatkopar (W) without municipal water supply.
“It is entirely possible that the state of affairs reflected in this writ petition is symptomatic of all development and redevelopment in this city,” noted a division bench of Justice Gautam S Patel and Justice Gauri V Godse.
Petitioner Subodh M Joshi, through advocate A M Saraogi, submitted that the developer, Integrated Spaces Limited, was trying to get him to take up allotted flat in a rehabilitation building on the pretext of it being “ready” to ensure he would give up the temporary accommodation provided by the same developer.
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The building owner/developer claimed that five of the six buildings in the said project, including the building where petitioner’s flat is, are “complete” and “ready for occupation” and 30 persons had already occupied their respective tenements.
The court perused photographs attached with the plea, noting that “reality is entirely different” and that the building is “in no sense ready for occupation, at least not by human beings.”
The bench was “reluctantly” informed that there is no municipal potable water supply and the developer is providing tanker water and “apparently as some gesture of goodwill or generosity,” 20-litre Bisleri drinking water jars.
It noted, “That is not our understanding of ‘water supply’ to a residential building. This is not what we understand when we are told that ‘everything is in readiness’.”
The BMC lawyer submitted that “part” OC was issued on May 19 to at least five buildings of the project. The developer submitted that he could not provide drinking water due to “trenching policy” of BMC, which disallows digging of any road for pipelines during monsoon period after April 30 of every year.
The bench expressed wonder at why the arrangements were not made in advance for municipal water connection. “We find this absolutely astonishing. On the one hand, this developer claims to be an accomplished and renowned builder and expects us to believe that it is acceptable that residents should manage without a proper water supply…”
It added, “We fail to understand how an ‘occupancy’ certificate can ever be issued to a structure that is totally unfit for human habitation. It is indeed alarming that the BMC seems to take it for granted that a building without a regular water supply can be considered habitable and eligible for an ‘occupancy’ certificate. This is no way to run the public administration of civic affairs.”
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The court said the civic body must come up with the policy to protect the interest of residents and not merely “subserve profit motives of builders.”
The bench suspended the “part” OC until the developer makes a provision for laying pipelines for water connection. The court said it intended to pass direction in future that no OC be issued until the developer shows pipelines connecting municipal main lines, and all lifts are in full working order in high-rise buildings so that lives of residents, including senior citizens and children, are not put at risk.
The court, as an interim measure, appointed a receiver to take physical possession of the flat concerned and asked for a report on the readiness of the same. It also sought the civic body’s explanation through an affidavit as to how “part” OC was granted and due procedure and inspection was done for the same.
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As “Everything Everywhere All at Once” clearly demonstrated, Michelle Yeoh makes just about anything ― even a hot-dog-fingered love story with Jamie Lee Curtis ― feel believable.
But according to Quentin Tarantino, there’s one scenario that even the global superstar couldn’t pull off, specifically when it came to his “Kill Bill” films starring Uma Thurman.
Speaking with Town & Country in a cover interview published on Wednesday, Yeoh revealed that she once asked the director why he didn’t cast her in the films, given that they were partly inspired by her own performance in 1992’s “Police Story 3.”
“He’s very smart,” Yeoh recalled to the outlet. “He said, ‘Who would believe that Uma Thurman could kick your ass?’”
Tarantino’s decision stems from a deep appreciation for Yeoh, who is best known for her many martial arts-infused performances in Hong Kong action films, in addition to projects like “Tomorrow Never Dies” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
“I was just a huge, huge fan of hers,” the director told Town & Country about Yeoh. “There was always a twinkle in her eye.”
The two developed a deep friendship when Tarantino helped inspire Yeoh to keep acting after she suffered an injury on the set of the 1996 movie “The Stunt Woman.”
“I thought I broke my back. I thought I was paralyzed,” Yeoh said, revealing that Tarantino begged to visit her in the hospital while he was in Hong Kong for a screening of “Pulp Fiction. “I must say, Quentin, he’s persistent.”
She agreed to speak with him for only five minutes, which quickly turned into a much longer meeting, as Tarantino began describing his favorite action sequences in detail.
“He is who he is today because he’s full of passion and love, so he wore me down,” Yeoh added. “Suddenly we became animated. So then I thought, ‘Maybe I’m not ready to give up on this.’”
The two have yet to collaborate onscreen, but Tarantino has teased that he only has plans to make 10 films, leaving room for one final production. Fans have long hoped that the director would make a third installment of his “Kill Bill” series, which could once again star Thurman as The Bride and her real-life daughter, “Stranger Things” star Maya Hawke, as Bebe.
“I think it’s just revisiting the characters 20 years later and just imagining the Bride and her daughter having 20 years of peace, and then that peace is shattered,” Tarantino said in an interview last year. “And now The Bride and Bebe are on the run and just the idea of being able to cast Uma [Thurman] and cast her daughter Maya [Hawke] in the thing would be fucking exciting.”
And if there still isn’t a role for Yeoh in the rumored film, at least she’ll be plenty busy in the coming years with series like “American Born Chinese” and “The Witcher: Blood Origin,” as well as “Avatar” sequels galore on the horizon.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who has been central to R. Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades testified Thursday that the R&B singer sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 years old, starting when she was 15.
Jane — the pseudonym for the now 37-year-old woman at Kelly’s trial on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges — told jurors that in the late 1990s when she was 13, she asked the Grammy award-winning singer to be her godfather because she saw him as an inspiration and mentor.
She said within weeks, Kelly would call her and say sexual things. She said he first touched her breasts and other parts of her body when she was around 14 at a Chicago recording studio, and that around that time, he “started penetration” at his home at his North Side Chicago home. She told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse. Kelly, 55, would have been around 30 years old at the time.
Asked by a prosecutor how she would know what to do sexually, Jane answered, “He would tell me what to do.” Asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: “Uncountable times. … Hundreds.”
Kelly, who is serving a 30-year prison sentence for his conviction in a New York this year on federal charges alleging he used his fame to sexually abuse fans, is standing trial in his hometown of Chicago on several other federal charges. Among the most serious is conspiracy to obstruct justice by allegedly rigging a 2008 trial on state child pornography charges stemming from a purported video of him and Jane having sex when she was underage.
Prosecutors say Kelly paid off and threatened Jane to ensure that she didn’t testify at that trial. She didn’t, and he was ultimately acquitted.
Kelly is also standing trial on charges of producing child pornography and enticing minors for sex.
Unlike at the 2008 trial, Jane cooperated with prosecutors leading up to the current trial and is a pivotal witness.
During opening statements Wednesday, prosecutor Jason Julien sought to prepare jurors for the testimony of accusers including Jane, reminding them that a core issue at trial remained the exploitation of often scared and confused children — even though the accusers who would speak to jurors are now grown adults.
Speaking softly and tentatively when she first took the stand Thursday, Jane described her upbringing in a musical family in a Chicago suburb, including that she was home-schooled because she was in a touring musical group that she joined when she was about 12.
Jane first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer who worked with Kelly. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents that Kelly was going to be her godfather.
As her testimony continued, Jane sounded calmer and steadier, answering questions matter-of-factly.
Prosecutors have said Kelly shot the video of Jane in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home between 1998 and 2000. In it, the girl is heard calling the man “daddy.” Federal prosecutors say that she and Kelly had sex hundreds of times over the years in his homes, recording studios and tour buses.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it, and so prosecutors say he conspired to fix that trial.
According to prosecutors, Kelly told the parents and Jane to leave Chicago, paying for them to travel to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. When they returned, prosecutors say Kelly sought to isolate Jane, moving her around to different hotels. When called before a state grand jury looking into the video, Jane, her father and mother denied it was her in it.
Tears streamed down his faced on June 13, 2008, when he was acquitted on all counts of child pornography. Some of the jurors told reporters after the trial that they weren’t convinced that the female in the video was who state prosecutors said she was.
Before the 2008 trial, Kelly carried a duffle bag full of sex tapes everywhere he went for years, but some tapes later went missing, according to court filings. In the 2000s, bootleg copies of some videos appeared on street corners throughout the U.S.
In the early 2000s, the aunt showed the parents a copy of a video she said depicted their daughter having sex with Kelly. When they confronted Kelly, he told them, “You’re with me or against me,” a government filing says.
The parents took it as a threat.
Kelly, who has denied any wrongdoing, has been trailed for decades by complaints and allegations about his sexual behavior. The scrutiny intensified after the #MeToo era and the 2019 six-part documentary “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Kelly also faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
Prosecutors told jurors that the evidence includes at least three videos showing Kelly having sex with underage girls.
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the R. Kelly trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/r-kelly
Need help? Visit RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Online Hotline or the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s website.
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At 1,201 cases, Mumbai on Thursday recorded the highest single-day Covid surge since June 30. The tally over the last 24 hours saw a 23 per cent jump from 975 cases logged the previous day.
Along with the surge in fresh infections, the financial capital also saw two Covid-related deaths over the last 24 hours. One of the deceased patients was 87 years of age and was suffering from an ischemic heart disease. The other was a 72-year-old man who had several comorbidities such as ischemic heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney ailment and hypertension.
While the fresh cases saw a sharp upturn from Wednesday, the city’s test positivity rate (TPR) — the number of positive cases out of the total tests conducted — dropped to 10.30 percent on Thursday from 12 per cent the previous day. A total of 11,253 samples were tested for Covid on Thursday.
Doctors attributed the surge in cases to people not following Covid appropriate behaviour, overcrowding during ongoing festivities and emergence of new subtypes of the Omicron variant of the virus.
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“It is too early to comment if the city is experiencing another spike. We will be keeping a close eye over the next one week,” Dr Mangala Gomare, executive health officer, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), said.
Doctors said the rise in the number of infections could also, in part, be attributed to more testing among patients with influenza-like symptoms in the ongoing monsoon season.
“Most of the recent cases are ‘incidental’ where patients were diagnosed with Covid-19 while undergoing non-Covid related treatment. Patients suspected to be afflicted with monsoon-related ailments such as dengue, malaria or swine flu are also being tested for Covid-19,”
Dr Rahul Pandit, member of the state’s Covid-19 task force, said.
Despite the rise in cases, the rate of hospitalisation in the city remains low as the strain currently in circulation is less virulent. Of the newly detected patients in the city on Thursday, only 56 patients needed to be hospitalised.
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The state, meanwhile, also saw a 24 per cent surge in cases in the last 24 hours, with the daily caseload rising from 1,800 to 2,246. Other than Mumbai, 2 fatalities were also reported in Pune and 1 each in Amravati and Nagpur.
Officials believe that the new Omicron variant — BA.2.75 — is the driving force behind the recent surge in Covid-19 cases. “The latest genome sequencing of samples has shown that BA.2.75 is dominating other variants in the state. Thankfully, however, it is not causing any severe infection as the death rate is low,” Dr Pradeep Awate, state surveillance officer, said.
“Although masks are not mandatory anymore, people are advised to wear them while stepping out or in crowded indoor gatherings,” he added.
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I met my now-fiancé on Tinder in 2013, back when dating apps were a new phenomenon. In his bio, he mentioned something about a frozen yogurt chain that I happened to frequent. After we matched, I dashed off a quick message asking what his go-to order was.
“Strawberry yogurt with Cap’n Crunch,” he told me. Deeming this a trash order (I’m a cookies and cream with Reese’s person myself) I wrote back: “That’s offensive.”
It was, perhaps, an overly sassy reply to diverging fro-yo preferences, but he found it charming and the conversation unfolded from there.
Truthfully, I didn’t put much thought into my opener, but it turned out to be a good one. We went on our first date soon after and have now been together for almost a decade.
Even though my approach was successful, I’ve been out of the game a long time now, and I’m no expert. So, I turned to actual experts for their best tips for striking up a conversation with a match.
Open with a question
Keeping a list of fun and interesting questions in mind can make initiating a conversation less intimidating. You want them to be open-ended questions, rather than “yes or no” ones, said dating expert and matchmaker Jasmine Diaz of the Diaz Dating Group.
“Consider topics that correlate with your interests: Where is your favorite place to travel? Who is at the top of your Spotify playlist? What is the most adventurous thing you’ve ever done?” Diaz said, advising against bringing up touchy subjects like politics or religion right off the bat.
Pull inspiration from their profile
A quick scroll through their profile offers insight into interests you may share and creates a gateway to quality conversation.
“Don’t be afraid to reference that cool hiking photo or silly prompt that made you swipe right to begin with,” Diaz said.
If they posted a picture from Mexico City, you could say, “I’ve always wanted to go! What was the best thing you ate there?” If they mentioned that “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is their top show, you could ask about their favorite character or episode. And if something in their profile cracked you up, say so, Diaz suggested.
Play ‘this or that’
Another good opener that often gets a response is a simple “this or that” question, said OkCupid dating coach Damona Hoffman, host of the “Dates and Mates” podcast.
“Chocolate chip or Oreo? Beer or wine? Dogs or cats? East Coast or West Coast rap? Pick something that you have a strong opinion about and whether or not you agree, you’ll almost always start an interesting conversation,” Hoffman told HuffPost.
Avoid boring, dead-end questions
Stale openers like, “How was your week?” or “What are you up to this weekend?” often lead to conversations that fizzle quicky, said dating coach Lily Womble, founder of Date Brazen — if they get a response at all.
“Opt for something a little deeper to cultivate a more intentional connection from the start,” Brazen said. “You want your opening question to qualify the right people and disqualify the wrong ones.”
Womble prefers more intentional conversation starters that go past the surface-level stuff. If that’s more your style, too, you could ask something like: “What’s brought you joy this week?” or “What’s your favorite controversial opinion?” or “What’s made you laugh hardest this week?” she suggested. “Don’t be afraid of sounding too intense.”
“Remember: the right person for you is also looking to find the right person to get off the dating app,” Womble added.
Be playful
Anyone who’s been on dating apps a while has had the same ho-hum exchanges over and over. Break up the monotony and set yourself apart by being a little playful, said online dating coach Joshua Pompey of Next Evolution Matchmaking.
“If I saw a picture of a women with a dog, instead of saying, ‘That’s a really cute dog, what breed is he?’ I might say, ‘Is your dog currently accepting new members to the pack? If you want to put a good word in for me, I happen to be a pro at sneaking treats under the dinner table.’”
The latter taps into their love of dogs, while also showing you’re fun and don’t take yourself too seriously.
It “relieves the person you’re messaging from the same boring questions he or she is used to receiving,” Pompey added.
Ignore traditional gender norms
If you’re a heterosexual woman on a dating app, you don’t need to wait around for the guy to make the first move. According to OKCupid data, during the pandemic, women have been increasingly more likely to be the first to send likes and messages — a trend that continues today, Hoffman said.
And it pays off: “Conversations actually last longer when women initiate,” she added.
Don’t lead with sex
When you start talking about sex right out of the gate, you’re sending the message that you’re more interested in finding a hookup than making a genuine connection. You can be flirty without being vulgar, Diaz said.
“Frame your questions about their interests, but don’t skimp on the charm,” she said. “For example, if a profile mentions that they’re a foodie, ‘I’d love to cook for you’ or ‘If I could make you any dish, what would it be?’ is a beautiful start to a flirty conversation.”
Be authentic — it’s your superpower
Don’t downplay the things that make you you: your witty sense of humor, your breakfast burrito obsession or your passion for fostering dogs. Lean into these things, rather than trying to project what you think your match wants to see.
“The pressure to become a newer, improved version of yourself online is real, especially when we equate right swipes and matches with personal value,” Diaz said. “But authenticity is your superpower.”
Diaz believes much of the discontent around online dating these days stems from a lack of authenticity in the space — the rise of romance scams and catfishing have all made singles more cautious.
“Showing your true self is more desirable than ever,” Diaz said.
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A festival celebrated with much fervour on Janmashtami, Dahi Handi will return to Maharashtra on Friday after a pandemic-induced gap of two years. The state’s Govinda mandals said they are very excited for this year and have prepared for a new world record of raising a human pyramid to bust the earthen pot.
The organisers said they have received an overwhelming response this year, which even surpassed the pre-pandemic year of 2019. Adding to the happiness and excitement of the mandals this year, the new government of the rebel Shiv Sena faction and the BJP has come out in support of them, with several leaders of the ruling parties organising Dahi Handi events in Mumbai and Thane.
The Jai Jawan Govinda Pathak from Mumbai, which holds the Guinness world record for forming a 43.79 feet tall human pyramid in 2012, said it hopes to set a new record while participating in the Dahi Handi event organised by Sanskriti Yuva Pratishantan mandal in Thane. David Fernandez (44), the vice-captain of the mandal, said, “Due to the pandemic, some Govindas had gained weight and have been repositioned after a fitness test. We have set sights on breaking our record and will try to make a 10-tier human pyramid this year. All safety measures have been taken and our 600 players are ready.”
Purvesh Sarnaik, son of MLA Pratap Sarnaik, from Sanskriti Yuva Pratishantan mandal which will organise another Dahi Handi event, said, “The response is overwhelming. Over 234 mandals have registered and the figure will cross 300. At least 8 mandals will try to form a nine-tier human pyramid. We are taking all safety measures.” Another person from the mandal said they have set aside a prize money Rs 21 lakh for the mandal as it aims to create a new record of a 10-tier human pyramid.
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Santosh Pandey, a BJP worker and organiser of a Dahi Handi event in Worli’s Jambori Maidan, said, “Over 200 mandals will be participating in the Dahi Handi. We have kept Rs 1 lakh as the prize money.”
Mithun Sardal from Prem Nagar Chunabhatti sports mandal, a group of 300 Govindas, said, “Some of our Govindas were left out due to weight issues because of the two-year gap. But we are well prepared.” Apart from Worli, an eight-tier human pyramid will be attempted by mandals near Sena Bhavan in Dadar (West) and in Naigaon at Dadar (east).
The mandals have requested the organisers to help them participate in more Dahi Handis. Vivek Nakti (38), the coach of Yash Govinda Pathak in Wadala which forms an eight-tier human pyramid, said, “Weight gain is the only issue we faced due to the pandemic but we did a lot of social activities in these two years and bonded well. My only request is that the organisers treat us with respect and do not keep us waiting.”
Nakti said the money earned from Dahi Handi events is used by the mandal for social activities and involves months of practice and hard work.
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Arun Patil (55), a senior leader of the Dahi Handi Samanvay Samiti, Maharashtra, which was formed to fight a court case against restrictions imposed on the event a few years ago, said he is very happy that the government has declared Dahi Handi as a sport. Patil said, “I am distributing 70,000 T-shirts we got through CM Eknath Shinde sir to Govindas.” Patil, who coaches the Mazgaon Dakshin Vibhag Sarvajanik Ganesh Utsav Mandal, which has 500 members, said, “We have prepared over the last 45 days. We will try to break our record of an eight-tier pyramid and will break as many dahi handis as possible.”
Sushil Diwakar, organiser of another event on Mira Road, near Bhaktivedanta hospital, said, “About 50 mandals are participating in the Dahi Handi that we have organised. Ours has a prize money of Rs 5 lakh. There are two to three more mandals in Mira- Bhayandar and the response has been good.”
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Burlington inmate found dead in cell, unknown cause of death, officers say
An unresponsive inmate was found dead in the detention center Thursday morning.
At 5:30 a.m., detention officers were making routine rounds when an inmate asked to speak with an officer.
Officers then unlocked and entered the cell to find the other inmate of the cell unresponsive and not breathing.
CPR was performed and officers used a defibrillator to attempt to revive them.
EMS arrived and continued lifesaving efforts before pronouncing the inmate dead.
He was later identified as Demarius Montreal Wheeler, 28.
Wheeler was booked at the detention center on Aug. 10 on charges of second degree trespassing, and resist, delay, and obstruction of a law officer.
The SBI was called and is now handling the investigation along with the medical examiner to determine a cause of death.
This is a developing story, check back with WXII for more updates.
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If you’ve ever tried to deep clean your house, you know that housecleaning is a profession that takes specialized knowledge, attention to detail and physical strength to tackle high or difficult spots.
It’s also a profession that does not get enough respect for how hard it can be. A significant number of domestic workers in the U.S., including housecleaners, are paid “under the table” in informal arrangements, working without federal anti-discrimination and health and safety protections. And on TikTok, cleaners have been sharing some of the misconceptions about and boundaries they have around their work with hashtags like #thingsiwontdo #housecleaner.
To separate general fact from fiction, we grabbed a few of these videos and also turned to the experts and asked other housecleaners about what they won’t or wouldn’t do after years of experience in the field:
1. Expect A Cleaner To Do A Pile Of Dishes Or Clean Up After A Pet
“Cleaning litter boxes or cleaning up after pets who have accidents. I’ve had people expect that, and that is just something I can’t do. I’ve been in houses where you’re constantly stepping in urine and I just have to walk away from that type of situation.
“When it comes to feces or anything, that’s where it hits off-limits. It’s not super common, but I have run into it where people think that is a thing, and I’m just saying, ‘That’s your pet, that’s your baby, I’ll leave that to you, and then I’ll take care of everything else for you.’
“Dishes are a big one, too. I don’t mind at all doing them for clients who need them done once in a while. But there have been people who try to take advantage and they’ll leave you a huge pile of dishes and expect you to do them, which is time-consuming and not something normal housecleaners usually do. It’s more housekeeping instead of housecleaning.” –– Amber Elise, owner of Bubbles and Buckets in Otsego, Minnesota
2. Hover In The House While A Housecleaner Is Working
“I would not stay at home while they are cleaning. A lot of my clients think they need to stay at home and help me clean. This couldn’t be further from the truth, and it is very frustrating. Housecleaners do not need your help. I’ve said this until I am blue in the face. You hire us for a service, and most of us are very good at what we do, so get out of the way and let us do our jobs.
“Most of us clean two, three houses a day and are on a tight schedule. Clients that want to help usually slow us down. I cannot clean the kitchen while you are trying to rearrange your Tupperware.
“I understand the trust issue, and if you have a new cleaning crew come in, or if you can’t physically leave, by all means, stay at home. Just seclude yourself in one part of the house, like a bedroom, so they can clean the rest of the house. When it is time to clean that room, move on to another part of the house they have already done. Once you build trust with your cleaners, you can give them a key or stash it outside somewhere.
“The best jobs that I go to are the ones where I know no one will be home. I can zip through the job while I crank my Beastie Boys Pandora. I can’t do that with my little old ladies at home.” — Sara San Angelo, The Cleaning Lady in Charleston, South Carolina
3. Leave The Thermostat Cranked High, Regardless Of A Housecleaner’s Comfort
Housecleaner Sharel Moore posted a TikTok saying clients should turn down the thermostat for housecleaners. “We’re HOT!!!” her caption said.
A critic in the comments replied, “Their house, their temperature choice. You don’t have to work there.”
“You are right!” Moore shot back in a reply. “Being my own boss I choose to work for people that treat me like a human! And not just hired help.”
4. Befriend A Client
“After being a housecleaner, the main thing that I would not do is cross the line from treating a client like friends or even family.
“I have had some really bad experiences before that. Because they treated me like family or friends, they felt that they were entitled to certain benefits, almost as if my work was no longer valued the same because I had to give them a deal.
“Also respect was no longer there, which led to several occasions where because those boundaries were crossed ... there was no clear line of ‘This is the list of things I do and no more,’ it was like ‘Can you also do ... ? Etc.’ The list can go on and on. I feel that it can be like this in many jobs, but I feel more so in a housecleaner situation as it is very personal as you are in their home.” — Ileana Cabrera, a Los Angeles-based housecleaner
5. Have Blinds And Carpeted Stairs
Lisa Sosa of Clean Happy Company posted a TikTok explaining what she would not want in her own home after working as a professional cleaner for nine years:
“I am not going to have blinds in my future home. Those things just collect dust and they are a pain in the ass to wipe, so I’m going either to have the Roman shades or no blinds at all, just really good curtains,” she said, adding later that carpeted stairs are her other big no-no because they are a “pain in the butt.”
6. Use Chemical Or Strongly Scented Cleaners
“I won’t use strongly scented cleaning products, even if they are marketed as natural, because they give me headaches for two or three days after the job.” —Gail, a New York City-based housecleaner and member of We Dream in Black, an initiative of the National Domestic Workers Alliance that centers the voices of Black, Afro-Latina and Afro-descendant domestic workers
“After working as a housecleaner for so many years, the main thing I do not do anymore is use cleaners with chemicals in my own home. Many of my clients insists on using toxic cleaners in their homes and as I get older, I am getting very concerned about breathing all those chemicals in as well as them absorbing through my skin.
“I now wear gloves at those clients’ houses if I use anything with bleach in it or other harsh ingredients, and make sure to use them in a ventilated area.
“In my own home, I basically make my own cleaners using vinegar, baking soda and maybe a little Dawn dish detergent. You really don’t need cleaners that can take the chrome off a bumper to keep your house clean.” –– San Angelo
7. Stay At A Privately Owned Vacation Rental Like Airbnb
Tiffany Williams, a Granger, Indiana-based housecleaner, said on TikTok that one of the biggest things she will not do after working as a housecleaner is to stay at a privately owned vacation rental, like an Airbnb.
“I’ve been in a lot of Airbnbs over my sixteen years of doing this. I’ve seen a lot of neglected Airbnbs, I’ve seen a lot of mold in dishwashers, coated ceiling fans, vent fans barely functioning, gross stuff on walls, boogers on bed skirts,” Williams said. “I’ve seen it all, and I personally would never stay at a vacation rental.”
8. Have Grout With Small Tiles In The Backsplash Of My Kitchen
Housecleaner Alyssa, who works in the Oakland, California, and Macomb County, Michigan, area, shared that after working as a housecleaner, she would not have many small tiles with a lot of grout in her ideal kitchen backsplash, because of how hard they are to clean.
“Grout is annoying, it requires maintenance, and it’s in your kitchen. It’s going to get a lot of buildup and grease,” Alyssa said, “I would opt for a slab ... There’s no grout and you could match it with your countertops. That’s what I would opt for.”
9. Get Paid Unfairly
“I won’t accept a job without agreeing on a minimum of five hours per cleaning and receiving a clear statement of the client’s housecleaning needs in order to quote a fair hourly rate. I won’t work for less than $25 per hour.” –– Gail
10. Get Paid Later Instead Of Upfront
“I’ve had people say, ‘I get paid on Friday, so I’ll pay you on Friday.’ And that’s just not how it works. When your cleaner gets there, have the payment ready to go.
“It baffles me because I know I wouldn’t be able to tell a cleaner, ‘Hey, I’ll pay you when I get paid in two weeks,’ and I’ve experienced that, and that’s not the way it works when you’re cleaning someone’s house. Especially when you are self-employed and you might need that money by the end of the week for a certain bill.” –– Elise
11. Assume That Housecleaners Do Their Job Because They Have No Other Choice
“If I were to ever hire a housecleaner I would 100% make sure I treat them with the utmost respect and never assume that they do not speak English or that they do not have an education.
“I have a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and speak perfect English and if I am cleaning houses, it is not because I have no other choice. It is because it is my choice. I earn more now than I ever did working in any office job I ever had, but never had the flexibility I now have and need for my family.” — Cabrera
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HDIL promoters Rakesh, and Sarang Wadhawan were granted anticipatory bail by a sessions court Thursday in connection with the fire at a Bhandup mall which spread to a Covid-19 hospital facility on the premises, killing 11 in 2021.
Owners of the mall, the Wadhawan father-son duo, were booked under sections including 304 (culpable homicide) and 34 (common intent) of the Indian Penal Code along with other accused. In their pleas, they had cited relief granted to other co-accused.
The sessions court said that in the event of their arrest by the Bhandup police, the duo would be released on bail by executing a personal bond of Rs 50,000. The two are already in custody in the PMC bank alleged fraud case.
A fire broke out at the mall on March 25 last year which spread to Sunrise Hospital on the mall’s premises.
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Instagram and Facebook suspended Children’s Health Defense this week after the anti-vaccine group led by Robert Kennedy Jr. repeatedly violated rules prohibiting misinformation about COVID-19.
A nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense is one of the most influential anti-vaccine organizations active on social media, where it has spread misleading claims about vaccines and other public health measures designed to control the pandemic.
In a statement, Kennedy compared Facebook’s actions to government censorship, even though Facebook is a private company that can set and enforce its own rules about misinformation.
“Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the federal government’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies,” Kennedy said.
Children’s Health Defense had hundreds of thousands of followers at the time of the suspension, according to a statement from the organization, which also noted that it has sued Facebook over its moderation policies.
Public health advocates and misinformation experts have criticized Facebook for not acting more swiftly to contain potentially harmful misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.
Karen Kornbluh, director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund, said too many groups like Children’s Health Defense have been allowed to flourish on social media for too long. She noted that the group remains on Twitter.
“Today’s step is too late and too little,” Kornbluh said, adding that tech companies must address the reasons misinformation spreads so readily on social media.
Facebook and Instagram confirmed the company action on Thursday in a statement to The Associated Press.
“We removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our policies,” a spokesman for Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, told the AP. Under the platforms’ policies, suspensions are typically only enforced after multiple violations.
Several state affiliates of Children’s Health Defense remain on Facebook and Instagram despite the ban of the national organization. Kennedy was kicked off Instagram last year but continues to keep an active account on Facebook.
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FDA targets illegal nicotine gummies in new warning letter
Federal regulators on Thursday issued a first-of-a-kind warning to the maker of nicotine gummies, saying the illegal candies pose a growing risk to teenagers and younger children.
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The Food and Drug Administration said the fruit-flavored gummies from Florida manufacturer VPR Brands could cause nicotine poisoning or even death if eaten by small children. Regulators also cited recent research suggesting nicotine candies and similar products are becoming more popular among high school students.
“Nicotine gummies are a public health crisis just waiting to happen among our nation’s youth, particularly as we head into a new school year,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement.
In March, Congress passed a law granting the FDA authority over all forms of nicotine, regardless of whether from tobacco plants or manufactured in a laboratory. That closed a loophole in FDA’s oversight, which until then only included nicotine from plants.
Manufacturer VPR Brands markets its square-shaped gummies as containing “tobacco-free nicotine.” In recent years, many vaping companies have similarly claimed that they’ve switched to synthetic nicotine.
An employee at VPR Brands reached by phone Thursday declined to comment. The FDA’s warning letter gives the company 15 days to remove or address the violations. The agency said VPR Brands has not applied for permission to market the gummies. FDA warnings are not legally binding, but the agency can take companies to court if they are ignored.
The FDA has been working for years to reverse a rise in electronic cigarette use among U.S. teenagers, with mixed results. Last month the agency announced plans to ban e-cigarettes from Juul, only to put the order on hold after facing legal pushback from the popular vaping company.
A recent FDA-funded study found nicotine candies were the second-most popular tobacco product used by high school students in Southern California, behind only e-cigarettes. The FDA said Thursday's action is the first warning to a maker of nicotine gummies.
The FDA has come under intense congressional pressure after announcing last month it would miss a deadline to remove thousands of unauthorized synthetic nicotine products from the market. The agency said it is working as quickly as possible to review nearly 1 million marketing applications it received from 200 companies.
The lack of action has sparked frustration from lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who called the delay “deeply disappointing and unacceptable," in a letter last month.
FDA's Califf subsequently announced plans for an outside review of FDA's tobacco division, a rare step that followed recent criticism of the program.
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LEADER OF Opposition in state Assembly Ajit Pawar came down heavily on the government on Thursday, saying that while 137 farmers died by suicide in the last 45 days, since the new government took over, and despite the state facing flood, ministers were busy at felicitation programmes.
“On an average, three farmers are committing suicides in the state every day. Why is it that the farmers feel no confidence in this government? The government must implement policies that will prevent farmers from committing suicide,” Pawar said while initiating a debate on the condition of farmers in the wake of recent floods in many parts of Vidarbha and Marathwada.
Pawar demanded compensation of Rs 75,000 per hectare for farmers and Rs 1.5 lakh per hectare for horticulture. “The state witnessed heavy rainfall in the last two months which hasn’t yet stopped. Majority of dams in the state are full and there is a threat of overflow of water if this continues. This will endanger the villages on river banks so an official of the irrigation department should be deployed on dams even at night.”
Pointing out that the amount granted under NDRF is too small, Pawar said that the issue was discussed in a meeting of then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, himself and former minister Ashok Chavan with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, last year. “He was positive when we requested that the norms be changed. I expect that the present government should follow up on the issue,” he said.
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The Maharashtra GST Department arrested Atul Ahire, a businessman, after chasing him for 10 days.
Ahire was arrested after the department unearthed suspicious business activity of M/s. Ahire Enterprise amounting to a net turnover of Rs.40.95 crore.
A GST press note said investigation visits were conducted at various business premises of this taxpayer at Borivali and Vile Parle by teams of Maharashtra GST Department and Investigation-A, Mumbai. Since the arrest of the proprietor of one of the beneficiary firms, Shah Enterprises, in this network on August 5 by the State GST team, Ahire, who is the director of Ahire Enterprises, had been hiding from the department. However, the officers nabbed him on August 17 after being on his trail for days.
During an investigation visit, it was found that Ahire circulated bogus invoices of net taxable value at 40.95 crore without supplying any goods or services.
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Former Lexington police officer arrested after suspicious interactions with inmate, sheriff says
Felicia Biddix was placed on paid suspension on Aug. 16, but has since formally resigned.
Felicia Biddix was placed on paid suspension on Aug. 16, but has since formally resigned.
Felicia Biddix was placed on paid suspension on Aug. 16, but has since formally resigned.
A former Lexington police officer was arrested for obstruction of justice, according to the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office.
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The sheriff’s office said they received information through text messages about Felicia Biddix and possible interactions with an inmate at the Davidson County Detention Center.
Investigators said Biddix brought in two different prescription drugs and then gave them to an inmate.
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Biddix was placed on paid suspension on Aug. 16, but has since formally resigned.
“I’d like to apologize to the community for the decisions of one of our officers that wasn't consistent of our core values, nor that of a professional law enforcement agency,” Robby Rummage, Lexington chief of police said.
“I hate this for the profession, for the men and women that wear badges every single day. This is not representative of the many, many decisions that are made by officers and deputies day in and day out,” he said.
Davidson County Sheriff Richie Simmons also spoke about the incident while conducting the joint investigation.
“We know that there’s a very small percentage that officers do go bad but when they do, it’s for sure that one thing is in common is that good officers won’t tolerate with bad officers. We will police our own and is in fact what we did today,” Simmons said.
Rummage originally released a statement early Thursday morning following the arrest.
"The fact that an investigation into one of our officers reveals evidence of a criminal act and a substantial breach of the Lexington Police Department core values is extremely disappointing.
"At this point, it is the responsibility of the courts to determine if that level of evidence is
sufficient to prove guilt. Felicia Biddix is considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.”
The sheriff’s office said they’re still investigating.
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Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari, while batting for alternative fuels, said on Thursday that soon the government will come up with a proposal to replace the blaring vehicle horns with melodious Indian tunes.
In Mumbai to launch Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST)’s new air-conditioned double-decker electric buses which are also the country’s first, Gadkari said, “Steps will be taken soon by the Ministry of Roads and Transport in this regard so that noise pollution on the roads will be reduced and instead of blaring horns there will be melodious music by Indian instruments coming from the vehicles.” He said e-vehicles are cost-effective when compared to diesel ones.
Gadkari, along with Shinde, Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar, BMC commissioner I S Chahal, and BEST general manager Lokesh Chandra, inaugurated BEST’s new buses, BEST premium bus services, and a mobile application for street light management system on the 75th anniversary of BEST.
Gadkari also advised BEST to electrify all buses so that its losses are covered soon. “The government should think about using hydrogen. Flex engine trains have started. Also, the car on ethanol will be launched next week. Most of these cars are manufactured in Maharashtra. If taxis and auto-rickshaws in Mumbai run on electricity or flex engines, it will help reduce pollution. This will also bring travel cost down,” he said, adding that Maharashtra should take the initiative for electricity, ethanol, methanol, bio-diesel, bioCNG and green hydrogen.
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“Maharashtra should send proposals for ropeway, cable car, funicular railway. As many as 165 such schemes have been approved across the country. A double-decker bus that runs on water and in the air can be started in Mumbai by putting a ropeway peeler from Nariman Point in Mumbai, like in the Philippines.
“When I was a minister in Maharashtra, I built more than 55 flyovers in Mumbai but today, they are falling short. I feel I made a mistake then, I should have built double- or triple-layer flyovers. I request Shinde ji to build a three-storey flyover in Mumbai,” he said.
Gadkari also said that just as all types of bus facilities are being provided in the city, BEST should also work on a water taxi that can reach the new airport by sea in 17 minutes. “Necessary approval will be taken from the government,” he said. While speaking about the under-construction Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, Gadkari said he wanted to enable motorists to reach Delhi in just 12 hours from Nariman Point. He said that 70 per cent of the highway work has been completed.
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The Union Minister also requested the Maharashtra government give exemption to GST on cement and iron used for the construction of Versova-Virar sealink in Maharashtra that will connect the expressway enabling the traffic to cross go out of the northern suburbs of the city. Shinde assured Gadkari that his government will do the needful.
He also instructed BEST that discounted bus passes, which are currently given only to SSC and HSC students, be extended to college students as well.
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To reinforce the plastic ban in Mumbai, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to take action against hotels and restaurants still using single-use plastic for home delivery of food. The civic body first plans to meet hotel owners’ associations to explore other options for use, and chart a road map to eliminate use of plastic. It will also propose options such as using steel containers for delivery.
A senior civic official said, “The BMC is discussing proposing alternatives to restaurant owners, such as steel tiffin boxes, Alternatives for cutlery will also be proposed.”
Polythene bags, single-use plastic tiffins, and aluminium foils used for packaging food for delivery lands up in household garbage or clogs drains on the streets, said the official. The Maharashtra government banned usage of single-use plastics in 2018 but the rules were relaxed amid the pandemic. However, the state announced that the ban will be reinforced from July 1, 2022, and added a few more items to the list, such as paper cups and plates that are coated with plastic or aluminium.
Presently, plastic packaging polythene bags, plastic containers, spoons, cups, straws, are banned for use in Maharashtra. Last month, BMC started taking action against shops and small establishments. Gurbaxis Singh, president of Hotel and Restaurants association of Western India, said, “Unlike other times where BMC starts taking action against restaurants, it is a welcome change if they are inviting us for a discussion. Most of our restaurants and hotels do not use plastic anymore. Some small eateries give sides in plastic bags which needs to stop.”
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Hundreds of Google workers petition company to expand abortion protections for users, contractors
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Hundreds of workers at Google-parent Alphabet are calling on the company to take steps to expand abortion protections for users and contractors in a post-Roe world, according to a statement Thursday from a union representing the workers.
In the petition, which was signed by more than 650 workers at the company and addressed to several executives including Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, members of the Alphabet Workers Union called on the company to stop collecting data on abortion seekers and to ensure such data isn't shared with law enforcement. The workers also demanded Google fix misleading search results that show users anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers when they are searching for clinics that perform the procedure.
The petition, which was sent to Google executives this week, comes as the tech giant has found itself under fire from lawmakers, privacy advocates and some of its own employees for its handling of sensitive abortion data and abortion clinic search results in the wake of Roe's demise. It also comes a week after news that police obtained Facebook messages between a Nebraska mother and her teenage daughter that authorities allege show evidence of an illegal self-managed medication abortion.
"Recently I read about Facebook handing over information that was used to arrest a user seeking abortion access and it became clear that tech companies are not going far enough to protect workers and users in a post-Roe America," Bambi Okugawa, a data center technician at Google and member of AWU, said in a statement Thursday. "If tech companies ... truly want to be an ally to those looking to get an abortion, they need to refuse to share [users'] information regarding abortion searches and do their due diligence to make sure false information that could make users unsafe isn't circulating the site."
The petitioners also demanded the tech giant extend all abortion benefits offered to full-time employees to contractors, including relocation support for those looking to move to states with protected abortion access and health care coverage for out-of-state abortion procedures. Google announced it would offer these benefits to employees in the immediate aftermath of the Roe v Wade decision.
Google did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
The petition builds on pressure Google has faced on the issue. In May, amid reports Roe would be overturned, dozens of Democratic lawmakers wrote to Google saying that the company's practice of collecting and storing vast troves of geolocation data from cellphones "will allow it to become a tool for far-right extremists looking to crack down on people seeking reproductive health care." A June note to Google from congressional Democrats called on Google to prevent searches for abortion clinics from returning results and ads that direct users to facilities that oppose the procedure, saying misleading search results on where to get an abortion could put women's health at risk.
In response to the outcry, Google announced in July that it would start deleting user location history for visits to abortion clinics and fertility clinics, among other destinations. Google also said it would add an option for Fitbit users to bulk delete their menstruation data. The Google-owned fitness tracker previously gave users the option to delete period-tracking data on a record-by-record basis.
But employees don't think the company is doing enough. "Google can and should do better," Alejandra Beatty, the Southwest Chapter Lead of AWU and a technical program manager at Alphabet-owned Verily, said in a statement.
To meet demands, AWU wants the company to create a dedicated abortion information task force with 50% employee representation, similar to its COVID-19 pandemic approach.
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Independent MLA Bachchu Kadu from Vidarbha’s Achalpur constituency, who supports Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, wants the anti-defection law scrapped as he claimed it prohibits legislators from voicing opposition to their parties when they take anti-people decisions.
“I can’t speak against the policies of my party even if it goes against the interests of my region…What is this? Aren’t we accountable to the people who voted for us?” Kadu asked while participating in a discussion on a resolution moved by the Opposition on plight of farmers in the wake of recent floods.
As legislators from other parties told him that one needs a party flag, Kadu said, “I don’t require anyone’s flag.”
A minister of state in the previous Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, Kadu switched sides following the revolt orchestrated by Shinde. Though named as one of the ministers from the Shinde camp, he was not included in the first cabinet expansion of the current government of the rebel Shiv Sena faction and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is said to be sulking ever since.
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Kadu said regardless of which party is in power, farmers and the poor are always left to fend for themselves.
Taking a dig at the Shinde camp and BJP MLAs, Kadu said despite wrong policies being implemented, he couldn’t speak up against them. “We cannot speak because we want cabinet berths. But if we can’t speak up then where will people, who voted for us, go?” he asked.
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A day after a married couple died after the bike they were riding while navigating through potholes, skidded on a flyover on the Western Express Highway (WEH), resulting in the two being run over by a truck, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) on Thursday claimed that there were no potholes on the spot.
The Kasturba Marg police, which is investigating the case, and Mumbai Traffic Police also told The Indian Express that while the flyover has potholes, but there were none at the spot where the accident took place.
However, photographs of the accident, which have gone viral on social media, show the couple lying unconscious near a pothole with uneven road around them.
The incident took place at 1.26 pm, when Nazir Shah (43) and his wife Chaya Khilare (43) were on the northbound stretch of the WEH.
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On Wednesday, an officer from the Kasturba Marg police had said, “While on the flyover next to SGNP, Shah, while navigating through potholes, lost control over the bike… the bike skidded, making both fall on the road. At the same time, a speeding truck’s driver, coming from behind, could not apply the brakes in time and ran them over.”
However, on Thursday, an officer from the police station said, “The deceased were wearing helmets but the helmets were not tied properly. We suspect the driver may have lost control as his helmet may have blocked his vision. The exact spot where the accident occurred did not have a pothole. We clicked photos of the spot. But further probe is on to ascertain what caused the accident.”
Anil Kumar Gaikwad, Joint Managing Director of MSRDC — the flyover falls under the corporation’s jurisdiction — said: “Our team of engineers had visited the spot. However, they found no pothole at the accident site. There are some shallow potholes but not at the spot where the accident took place.”
The MSRDC said private company MEP is responsible for maintaining roads and flyovers under the corporation as well as repairing potholes.
An official said that just ahead of monsoon, the MSRDC had sent a notice to MEP, instructing it to repair potholes on 27 flyovers along with the road. However, the company did not do so. “Since the company did not carry out the repairs, we have appointed another agency,” said another official.
When contacted, a traffic police officer said, “I did not see a pothole at the accident spot. But there are several potholes and uneven roads on this flyover…”
Meanwhile, Khilare’s mother, along with MNS workers, staged a protest at Kasturba Marg police station demanding action against those responsible for filling potholes.
Shah’s brother Nizamuddin Shah said, “My brother has left behind a six-year-old son. He also has a 14-year-old daughter from his previous marriage. If something can be done for their future, it will be of great help to us.”
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The Webb telescope will closely observe 20 exoplanets and their stars. Here's how you can name them
The James Webb Space Telescope is using infrared light to reveal otherwise invisible aspects of the universe — and capturing stunning imagery in the process.
Among the wonders it's discovering and observing are exoplanetary systems, which each consist of a planet outside of our solar system and its host star, and many of them are in need of a name.
The International Astronomical Union, the organization in charge of naming celestial objects, is launching the NameExoWorlds 2022 Competition to give the public a chance to christen some of the first exoplanetary systems to be seen by the telescope.
The IAU wants this to be a collaborative affair, so participants must create a team composed of teachers, students, astronomy enthusiasts, or professional or amateur astronomists.
Once the team selects its favorite names for one exoplanet and its host star, they are required to host a community outreach event that teaches the public about exoplanets. Only then can the team submit a written and video proposal that includes the names and justifications for their choices.
The video cannot be more than three minutes long, and the essay should not exceed 300 words. The team is also required to write a report no longer than 300 words on their public outreach initiative, which could be a talk by a scientist on exoplanet discoveries, and submit photos or video of the event.
Submissions can be made through this form.
Naming guidelines
If you were hoping to name a planet after yourself, you're out of luck.
Naming an exoplanetary system is a huge responsibility, so the IAU set forth a list of guidelines to follow.
To begin with, the names should have long-standing cultural, geographic or historical significance. Indigenous names are encouraged, but any team proposing one must be led by a member of an Indigenous community.
Additionally, the name of the exoplanet and its host star need to follow the same theme, meaning they must be related in some way.
Teams cannot submit names of people, pets or organizations. Any terms related to political, military or religious activities are also not allowed.
The public can submit their names through Nov. 11, 2022.
National vetting processes will take place between Nov. 15 and Dec. 15, 2022, and each country will select one proposal along with two backups. Afterward, an international committee will review the submissions and choose one for each exoplanet between Dec. 16, 2022, and March 16, 2023.
The winning names will be announced on March 20, 2023.
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Following an uproar in the Legislative Council over the rape of a 35-year-old woman from Bhandara in Gondia, Neelam Gorhe, Deputy Chairman of the Council, on Thursday directed the government to ensure the survivor receives free medical aid and is provided security.
The second day of the Monsoon Session witnessed drama as soon as the House convened, with the Opposition demanding that the case be discussed and all other businesses planned for the day be adjourned.
Two men have been arrested for gangraping the woman on August 1 and a third accused is wanted for raping her in Gondia on July 30 and 31. The government had on Monday suspended two police personnel from Bhandara district for dereliction of duty.
Gorhe directed that the police personnel against whom action has been taken should not be posted in the same area.
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Woman testifies that R. Kelly had frequent sex with her before she was 18
Video above: R. Kelly's previous case revisited
A woman who has been central to R. Kelly's legal troubles for more than two decades testified Thursday that the R&B singer had sex with her "hundreds" of times before she turned 18 years old, starting when she was just 15.
Jane — the pseudonym for the now 37-year-old woman at Kelly's trial on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges — told jurors that in the late 1990s when she was 13, she asked the Grammy award-winning singer to be her godfather because she saw him as an inspiration and mentor.
She said within weeks, Kelly would call her and say sexual things. She said he first touched her breasts and other parts of her body when she was around 14 at a Chicago recording studio, and that around that time, he "started penetration" at his home at his North Side Chicago home. She told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse.
Asked by a prosecutor how she would know what to do sexually, Jane answered, "He would tell me what to do." Asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: "Uncountable times… hundreds."
Speaking softly and tentatively at first, Jane described her upbringing in a musical family in a Chicago suburb, including that she was home-schooled because she was in a touring musical group that she joined when she was about 12.
Among the most serious charges the Grammy Award winner faces at the federal trial is conspiracy to obstruct justice by allegedly rigging a 2008 trial on state child pornography charges stemming from the purported video of him and Jane having sex. Among other things, prosecutors say Kelly paid off and threatened Jane to ensure that she didn't testify at that trial. She didn't, and he was ultimately acquitted.
Kelly is also standing trial on charges of producing child pornography and enticing minors for sex.
Unlike at the 2008 trial, Jane cooperated with prosecutors leading up to the current trial and is a pivotal witness.
A conviction in Chicago could add decades to a 30-year prison sentence he already received from a New York federal judge this year for convictions on charges that he used his fame to sexually abuse other young fans. Different accusers testified at that trial.
Jane first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly's Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer working with Kelly. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents that Kelly was going to be her godfather.
Prosecutors have said Kelly shot the video of Jane in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home between 1998 and 2000, when she was as young as 13. In it, the girl is heard calling the man "daddy." Federal prosecutors say that she and Kelly had sex hundreds of times over the years in his homes, recording studios and tour buses.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago's South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it, and so prosecutors say he conspired to fix that trial.
According to prosecutors, Kelly told the parents and Jane to leave Chicago, paying for them to travel to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. When they returned, prosecutors say Kelly sought to isolate Jane, moving her around to different hotels. When called before a state grand jury looking into the video, Jane, her father and mother denied it was her in it.
Tears streamed down his face on June 13, 2008, when he was acquitted on all counts of child pornography. Some of the jurors told reporters after the trial that they weren't convinced that the female in the video was who state prosecutors said she was.
Before the 2008 trial, Kelly carried a duffle bag full of sex tapes everywhere he went for years, but some tapes later went missing, according to court filings. In the 2000s, bootleg copies of some videos appeared on street corners throughout the U.S.
In the early 2000s, the aunt showed the parents a copy of a video she said depicted their daughter having sex with Kelly. When they confronted Kelly, he told them, "You're with me or against me," a government filing says.
The parents took it as a threat.
Kelly, who has denied any wrongdoing, has been trailed for decades by complaints and allegations about his sexual behavior. The scrutiny intensified after the #MeToo era and the 2019 six-part documentary "Surviving R. Kelly."
Kelly also faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
Prosecutors told jurors that the evidence includes at least three videos showing Kelly having sex with underage girls.
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
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A 20-year-old sales executive of a private bank allegedly died by suicide by hanging herself at her house in Chembur on July 26. Based on an alleged suicide note found from Yukta Dargade’s cellphone, the RCF police on Wednesday booked her husband Harshad Sankpal (23), in-laws Shaileja Sankpal and Bharat Sankpal as well as sister-in-law Roshni. The five were booked on charges of abetment to suicide under IPC as well as under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for allegedly harassing her over her caste and pushing her to death.
The police said Yukta was in a relationship with Harshad, who stayed in the neighbourhood and worked at a Ghatkopar bar. “As Yukta belonged to the Mahar community and Harshad was a Maratha, his family was against their relationship,” an officer said. On March 14, Yukta’s family lodged a complaint with the Chembur police station after Harshad’s mother allegedly abused her.
In her statement to the police, Yukta’s mother Malti said, “On March 11, Sankpal’s mother Shaileja came to know about their affair. She came home and abused my daughter. She said that a Maharadin (Mahar community member) like my daughter does not deserve her son.”
However, Harshad and Yukta went ahead with their wedding and started staying at Chembur camp in a rented apartment. The woman’s family came to know about the wedding on April 12, said police.
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On Wednesday, a day before the suicide, the family filed another police complaint. The complaint by Malti said, “Harshad’s sister called to inform my husband that they got married on March 28 at Bandra court under Hindu marriage Act.”
She added, “Sankpal would go to work at 4 pm and return at 4 am (the next day). On July 25, when my son Darshan had gone to meet Yukta, he saw injury marks all over her body… Yukta told him that Sankpal had assaulted her when she inquired about his working hours.”
The police said that at 7.30 pm on July 26, when Darshan went to give Yukta a tiffin box, she did not open the door. “He later found out that she had hanged herself from an iron ceiling fan with a rope… She was was rushed to Rajawadi hospital where she was declared brought dead,” said the officer.
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During inquiry, the police found a letter written with pink nail polish saying “check my phone, check my notes”.
“When we checked her phone, we saw she had written that her husband, his parents and his sister were torturing her physically and mentally. She mentioned that they pushed her to end her life,” said Senior Inspector Balasaheb Shrihari Ghavate of RCF police station.
Following Yukta’s death, the family again approached the police and an Accidental Death Report was lodged on July 26. However, after the family submitted a complaint application alleging foul play and on the basis of the suicide note, the police booked Harshad, his parents and his sister on Wednesday.
Ghavate said the police are yet to arrest anyone.
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Nine years after rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar was shot dead in Pune, rules under the anti- superstition legislation — originally drafted by him and passed by the then government months after his murder — have not been framed, said members of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS) and his family members on Thursday.
Dr Dabholkar was shot dead on the morning of August 20 in 2013 on Maharshi Vitthal Ramji Shinde Bridge, also known as Omkareshwar Bridge, in Pune when he was out for a walk. Following the framing of charges against the five accused arraigned by the Central Bureau of Investigation, the trial in the case is currently on in a special court for the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) cases in Pune.
After the murder of Dr Dabholkar, the ‘Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act’ was passed by the state legislature in December 2013.
In a statement issued by MANS on Thursday, Dr Dabholkar’s daughter Mukta and son Dr Hamid have said, “This August 20, it will be nine years since the brutal murder Dr Dabholkar. The then government had promulgated anti-superstition legislation in Maharashtra. Since then, the government has changed three times. All major parties have been in power.
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However, none of these governments could find time to formulate the rules that are required for the effective implementation of this legislation. This is really sad. Will the new government take steps to formulate the rules?”
The press statement further states that in the last few months, Maharashtra has seen several serious cases in which police are investigating superstitious practices, including the killing of nine members of a family in Sangli and other cases in Pune, Satara and Nagpur. For the effective implementation of the Act and to ensure its stringent enforcement, formulation of rules is very necessary. The press statement also stresses on the requirement to appoint a nodal police officer for each district for the enforcement of the law.
“While the government is not taking enough efforts for the enforcement of the law, with efforts from organisations like the MANS and also many conscientious citizens, over 1,000 offences have been registered across the state over the last nine years and in some cases perpetrators, self proclaimed godmen — belonging to all religious communities — have been convicted,” the press statement quoted MANS office-bearers Nandini Jadhav and Milind Deshmukh as saying.
A number of events have been organised in Pune and across Maharashtra to mark the ninth death anniversary of Dr Dabholkar on August 20. These include an exhibition of articles and news items on Dr Dabholkar, organised at Nehru Sanskrutik Bhavan on Ghole Road on August 20 from 10.30 am.
The same venue will also host the Dr Narendra Dabholkar Memorial Lecture at 6 pm by noted writer-scholar Dr Sadanand More.
The CBI had taken over the murder investigation from Pune City Police in 2014 and it has chargesheeted five accused till now, all of them allegedly linked to radical outfit Sanatan Sanstha. The accused include ENT surgeon Dr Virendrasinh Tawade, the two alleged assailants Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar, Mumbai-based lawyer Sanjeev Punalekar and his aide Vikram Bhave.
On September 15 last year, the special UAPA court had framed charges in the murder case against four of the accused — Tawade, Andure, Kalaskar and Bhave — for murder and conspiracy to commit murder, along with Section 16 of the UAPA pertaining to terrorist acts, and various provisions of the Arms Act for the use of firearms. The court charged Punalekar with destruction of evidence in the case.
All five accused have pleaded not guilty.
The CBI had, on October 14 last year, submitted before the court a list of 32 witnesses who are currently being examined by the prosecution and the defence in the ongoing trial.
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A fraudster, who posed as a clerk at the office of Additional Director General (ADG) of prisons, called a guard at the Yerwada Central Jail saying that she has been transferred and then cheated her of Rs 10,000 by assuring her to stop the transfer order.
A first information report (FIR) in this case was lodged at the Yerwada police station. According to a press release issued on Wednesday, the woman got a call on her mobile on August 6 evening from the accused.
The man claimed that the guard has been transferred following multiple complaints against her for poor performance while on duty. He also said that five women on duty were already suspended.
The accused then assured the guard that he would help her by speaking to the ADG. He then asked her to transfer Rs 10,000 to his account through Google Pay. When she refused to do so, he said that he was typing her transfer order and had already typed the transfer order of four more women.
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The woman then transferred Rs 10,000 through Google Pay as asked by the accused. Later, she found the man was a fraudster and had attempted to cheat more women guards in the jail. Police have booked the unidentified accused under Sections 420, 511 of the IPC and an investigation is on to identify and arrest him.
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr. 20)
Spare a little time for pleasure and self-indulgence, if only as a break from worldly stress. A cultural outing could prove a useful distraction, but low-brow diversions will do the job just as well. What you really need is to be taken out of yourself.
TAURUS (Apr. 21 – May 21)
‘Home is where the heart is’ is a saying particularly applicable to you. You are going to have to realise, though, that, as much as you wish everything could be perfect, partners may have other ideas. They might also have some useful criticisms to make!
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GEMINI (May 22 – June 21)
Remarkable opportunities to enhance your reputation are still in the air, although you may have more trouble bringing them to fulfilment. The key to the present time is never to force delicate issues. Instead you should wait until partners are ready to speak.
CANCER (June 22 – July 23)
There will be a time when you will be able to look back on current developments and laugh. In fact, you would do yourself some good if you could smile at whatever is happening now. A good sense of humour could save your life! And it will certainly save you money!
LEO (July 24 – Aug. 23)
Not everything has been revealed. Although you may say that you have come to terms with alterations and personal adjustments, I doubt whether you are in possession of the full facts. At this stage of the week you deserve a good break, but you may have to wait a little longer.
VIRGO (Aug. 24 – Sept. 23)
On no account should you get involved in any sort of intrigue, especially if it means going behind a relation’s back. It must be stressed that this is not a time to settle old scores, not unless you are prepared to take on much more than you can handle.
LIBRA (Sept. 24 – Oct. 23)
You seem to go to pieces when your emotional life becomes complicated, but it will help to consider the issues carefully and logically. For a start, you could seriously consider the virtues of boosting your self-confidence in countless little ways.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24 – Nov. 22)
Yet another tough planetary alignment is on its way, so the emotional temperature is likely to remain high. Still, perhaps you prefer it like that. Remember that your sign has powerful healing qualities, which means that you can bring peace where before there was war.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 – Dec. 22)
Planetary influences indicate that you are still experiencing uncertainty; but look deeper and you’ll see that your spiritual and mystical self is stirring. It’s time to renew your quest for personal meaning, looking within for the answers to questions you’ve always ignored.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23 – Jan. 20)
It’s not difficult for you to cut a dash. You may be inclined to complain about your lot but, to be perfectly honest, the amount you have gone through over the past few years has given you more maturity than you may recognise. Perhaps other people should listen to you for a change.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 – Feb. 19)
There is probably no let-up in the arguments over joint financial arrangements, but it is useful to clear the air. Career changes are looking very auspicious, so do press ahead. It seems likely that an old social contact may provide the quickest route to a new job or responsibility.
PISCES (Feb. 20 – Mar 20)
Travel stars are still strong and it seems inevitable that an overseas contact will be strengthened or transformed. Develop your mystical tendencies as well, and make the quality of life your priority. After all, what is the good of getting your way if you don’t enjoy it?
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These days, it seems most cricket fans are split into two camps: those who love the ‘Bazball’ England and those who use it as a taunt, waiting for England to trip. And so, England’s Test against South Africa whipped up extreme sentiments before the game and during the first two enthralling days. South Africa ended up the second day with 124 runs ahead with three wickets intact. Will that be a potentially match-winning lead or will the Bazballers whack a huge total in their second innings to flip the South African omelette back on the frying pan?
The thing is a couple of months back, it could have been said for sure that South Africa are truly on top especially when the stats show that England have won only two of their last 25 tests where they have scored below 200 when batting first. But now, one has to wait and watch – and that in itself is a tribute to England’s new approach.
If not for a freak dismissal to their dogged fighter of a captain Dean Elgar, South Africa could well and truly have cooked the English goose. He had moved to 47, nudging, punching, nurdling his away as ever, and had already ticked his father’s checklist when watching the son. “When Dean plays the ball off his pads then I know all is well. It’s a bit strange but somehow that tells me he is focused, his balance is fine, and he is going to be okay,” his father Richard had once told this newspaper, and Dean Elgar was rolling along fine this day just fine. Until bad luck gatecrashed his party. It was a delivery that was angling down leg, just right for his tuck to the on side but somehow, the ball popped off the body to his arm, then rebound back to the stumps. He could just watch in dismay. As he would do in the second session as England roared back into the game.
Matthew Potts took out the talented Keagan Peterson with a lovely away-shaper that took the edge. Jack Leach got one to loop and dip on Aidan Markram who poked lamely at it for a catch to the keeper. The left-handed opener Sarel Erwee, who had got to a fine 73 on his first appearance at Lord’s, was shocked by a brute of a bouncer from the bouncer-happy Ben Stokes, gloving a simple catch to Ben Foakes.
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But what a comeback story its been for Erwee in recent times. Couple of years ago, he had nearly quit the game after getting depressed over selection issues. “When I sat down with my family, with my parents, they picked me up. I saw a sports psychologist. We worked through it daily. It was a hard slog to try and get motivated again; to give my best after wanting to give up. All the years of hard work, all the hard slogging I had to do at semi-professional level and franchise level felt pointless and worthless at one stage. I am very fortunate to have worked with a sports psychologist and to have the support of my parents,” he has said in the past. “As a man, it’s frowned upon to show mental weakness or softness. There’s a lot of work still to be done. I’m in that process every day, every week, every month, where I am trying to better my mental health and wellbeing. It’s a big part of my life and probably will be for a long time.” Something for everyone to ponder there but at his debut at Lord’s he oozed solidity until Stokes shook him up.
Rassie van der Dussen was taken out by a nip-backer that Stokes often slips in and suddenly South Africa were wobbling at 210 for 6 from 85 for no loss.
But England would make the same mistake they had committed against India in the Test series. Resorting to bowling short at the lower order and in a London minute, South Africa had slipped away from their hands. Marco Jansen (41*) and Keshav Maharaj (41) added 72 runs, after showing no discomfort through the bumper phase that helped them to settle down.
England were bowled out for 165 in the morning, having resumed at the start of the second day on 116 for six. Only 32 overs of play were possible on the first day due to rain.
The wonderful pacer Kagiso Rabada would have a moment to roar after yet another five-for (5-52). Rabada removed innings top-scorer Ollie Pope (73) who dragged the away-shaper from well outside off on to his stumps. His fifth victim was James Anderson who was trapped lbw. But Rabada, and then Erwee and the lower-order jugalbandi from Jansen and Maharaj have pushed South Africa ahead.
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People come from all over the world to experience the art right here in South Florida from beautiful art installations to incredible murals everywhere The sights are spectacular.
If you're from the Broward County area and follow the Fort Lauderdale arts and culture scene, then you may have heard of Maxence Doytier.
With his down to Earth personality and awesome hairstyle.
Maxence is the creative director of 26 North productions.
The three tier production company highlights facilitates and promotes the arts. By working alongside up and coming artists.
"We work with those South Florida, the local artists, we feel that these are the emerging up and coming artists to know we have a personal relationship with a lot of these artists are giving them the opportunity to go from painting a canvas to now painting the side of a building much larger canvas," says Doytier.
Maxence's role is to be a liaison to clients, such as real estate companies, commercial builders and even nonprofits.
He connects them with artists to create masterpieces that bring life to their buildings. More so, it's important for Maxence to work with organizations that give back to the community,
"Abandoned Pet Rescue, BBX and BFA (Business for the Arts), we've worked with Handy. There's nothing more important than giving back to our local community and connecting the dots between the locals that live here. As well as those that those that appreciate the arts," says Doytier.
Twenty6North hires creatives for live events and activations. Most importantly, they're also hired to create murals.
"The beautiful thing about painting murals and working with artists is that with a canvas, an art piece gets purchased that day of and they get stored, so to speak at a collectors house. With murals is you work hand in hand with the community, providing them as a landmark, something that's beautiful that stay there for the test of time. It's a beautification process with murals, as well as an opportunity for the community to represent itself through the arts," says Doytier.
One of the best parts of all of this is when the clients let the artists have creative freedom with the projects.
"The building behind me was painted as a collaborative effort. Native relative reached out and said, hey, 26 doors can you provide us different artists that are on brand. Their company is called native their South Florida commercial real estate agency, and they wanted something with a natural landscape. So we provided them over a dozen artists for them to choose from, that could paint this natural, beautiful South Florida landscape," says Doytier.
Artists Carlos Diaz De Arce feels blessed to have partnered with 26 North and Maxim's as doors opened for him, thanks to the opportunities.
"It's fun, you know, you get to meet other artists, we get to be a part of something that's in the community somewhere that you you've been. It's cool to just be a part of something that's like bigger than you, it's really a part of the community," says De Arce
"There's nothing better than bringing everyone together. We truly feel that together. Let's paint this world a little more vivid," says Doytier.
For more information head on over to Twenty6north.com
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Buying and leasing a car can be a stressful situation. Elite Auto Lease saves you time, hassle and money by encouraging customers to skip the process of going to a dealership. Owner, Michael Libraty, joined Inside South Florida to show us how.
“White glove service is taking care of everything from beginning to end,” says Libraty. “Someone who is looking to purchase or lease a new car doesn’t have to go into a dealership and spend all day there.”
Elite Auto Lease takes the credit application over the phone and submits everything that the dealership needs to put your deal together.
“Everything is put together while you're at home or at work,” says Libraty. “The car is going to be detailed, cleaned as if you were sitting in a dealership waiting for your new car.”
Many people walk into a dealership and can be overcharged for their car. They don’t know how much they should be paying for a new lease says Libraty.
“They don't know the interest rates or the residuals that these manufacturers set in order to set the prices,” says Libraty. “We have been working with our dealerships for the past eight years and have access to all the programs of the leasing programs. We know what our customers should and should not pay.”
For more information, visit EliteAutoLease.com
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The newest installment of the Teen Mom franchise, Teem Mom: The Next Chapter, premieres on September 6th at 8pm ET/PT on MTV. For the first time, all the moms and their stories will be brought to the small screen. One of the stars of the show, Cheyenne Floyd, joined Inside South Florida to share what fans have to look forward to this season.
“I'm so excited for this season. We are finally all on one show,” says Floyd. “We've truly had to lean on each other this season. We've had to come together.”
Floyd talks about how the moms have been supporting each other through this time on the show.
“I feel like I can honestly call or text Kaitlyn at any time of the day and she will answer the phone. That goes for a lot of the moms,” says Floyd. “We do have a very long group chat with all of us in it, and it helps.”
She shares what she has learned about herself, becoming a young mother, and coming out on the other side of being a mom at such a young age.
“When I found out I was pregnant, I thought that life was going to be over. I just didn't know how to begin motherhood,” says Floyd. “Seeing myself now, I just love the strong woman that I have evolved to be. I love that becoming Ryder’s mom made me strong.”
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High School is back in session and Tech Life Expert, Jennifer Jolly, joined Inside South Florida to help you find the latest hidden gems.
“This VAIO FE 14.1” FE Series Notebook comes with 12th Generation Intel Core Processor, Windows 11, Thx Spatial Audio, front facing camera with a privacy shutter, fingerprint scanner and precision touchpad,” says Jolly. Find this item at Walmart.com or Sam's Club.com
For smartphones, the best one on the market right now is the OnePlus 10Pro.
“This is a top contender for best handset of the year because the camera package is amazing,” says Jolly. “The three cameras on the back and its color solution allows for more clarity, color range and vivid pop right off the screen shots.” Find this item at OnePlus.com
It's really important that kids have access to safe maximum volume levels, which is why the LeapPods Max over ear headphones are a great choice.
“They're great for playing music, podcasts and audiobooks via Bluetooth,” says Jolly. “They're also a top pick because they come preloaded with hours of activities to help keep young minds engaged and entertained.” Find this product at Leapfrog.com
For more information, visit Techish.com
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Cleaning tile can be hard if you don't have the right supplies. Zerorez of Miami's Office Manager, Juliet Martin, joined Inside South Florida to share the best way to clean tile and stone floors.
“It's the very same thing we use on carpet. When we use it to clean it doesn't leave any residue behind,” says Martin. “It's physically and energetically changed. It works like soap or detergent, but it is not.”
The way Zerorez is used is the same for carpet and tile. Martin explains there are still some differences between the two when cleaning.
“Regarding tile, you want to make sure that you seal the grout after you clean it because grout is really porous,” says Martin. “If you're going to spill a salad dressing or oil, it's going to seep down into the grout.”
She also shares how often you should be cleaning your tiles.
“You should clean your tile every 18 to 22 months,” says Martin. “That's once every two years.”
For more information, visit Zerorezmiami.com
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — A group of seniors in Kentucky, known as the Prime Time Dancers, has returned to the dance floor.
"We have such a great group of women, and they're just fun to be with," said Cindy Hougland.
"I'll be 70 in September and I feel like I can still move pretty good," said Roslyn Young.
The studio at the Lexington Senior Center is more than just a place for an activity. Led by coach Jode Rose, it has been a lifestyle and routine for seniors.
"If you just sit down, you just waste away," said Young. "Most of my time is either dancing or an exercise group."
The team brings Roslyn back to the days of dance recitals and after-school lessons.
"When I was a child, I used to take dancing classes," she said. "And then I've always loved to dance. I'm from Motown, so you have to dance."
Now, back in stride since the beginning of the pandemic, it's like singing a familiar tune, except this is dancing to a familiar rhythm.
"I'm always moving, whether it's in the grocery store, a doctor's office, I just love music so I'm always dancing," said Hougland.
The Prime Time Dancers aren't just participating for exercise. They have performed at various sporting events and roller derby competitions.
This story was originally reported by Austin Pollack on lex18.com.
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COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia elderly woman who went missing for four days is back home with her family, all thanks to a toddler.
The Coweta County Sheriff's Office issued a missing person's report on Wednesday for 82-year-old Nina Lipscomb, who went missing on Aug. 9. According to the report, deputies searched the area Lipscomb, who has Alzheimer's, was last seen, but she wasn't located.
That's where a toddler named Ethan comes in.
On Friday, the almost 2-year-old was outside with his mom, Brittany Moore, chasing bubbles around. When his mom noticed that something in the nearby woods was catching his attention when he ran towards their fence, CBS affiliate WGCL-TV reported.
At first, she couldn't see what Ethan was looking at, who had pointed to and said, "feet," Moore told the news outlet. But when she crouched down, she noticed a pair of feet.
Moore called for help, and when first responders arrived, they realized the person Ethan had found was Lipscomb, the news outlet reported.
On Aug. 12, the sheriff's office announced that Lipscomb had been found alive. The authorities said she was "conscious and alert" and was transported to a hospital for evaluation.
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NBC News correspondent Richard Engel revealed Thursday that his six-year-old son has died.
"Our beloved son Henry passed away. He had the softest blue eyes, an easy smile and a contagious giggle," Engel posted on Twitter. "We always surrounded him with love and he returned it, and so much more."
Engel documented his son's journey with Rett syndrome, a genetic neurological disorder that causes developmental delays. In March, he posted that his son had "taken a turn for the worse."
Months later, however, Engel posted a video of his son appearing to make progress.
"Henry was able to briefly support himself in a seated position during physio for the first time in a long time," Engel said. "Go Henry!"
Texas Children's Hospital, where Henry was being treated, posted a tribute to the six-year-old on Thursday.
"His loving and endearing smile, and the way he connected with his eyes, stole my heart from the time I met him," said Dr. Huda Zoghbi. "His quiet fight against this terrible disease was incredible."
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A Rhode Island man vacationing in Wisconsin has died after he fell more than 70 feet while attempting to walk across a rising drawbridge in Milwaukee.
According to a Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office report, 77-year-old Richard Dujardin of Providence, Rhode Island, was walking across the Kilbourn Avenue Bridge with his wife Monday afternoon when it began to rise, NBC affiliate TMJ4 reported.
The report said his wife, Rose-Marie Dujardin, made it across the bridge. However, Richard Dujardin, who was looking at an iPad while walking, was still in the middle when it began rising, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
"The lights, bells, and arms came down at each end of the bridge," the report said according to the news outlets. "However, Richard was hard of hearing, and it is thought that he didn't notice them."
The report states that the 77-year-old tried to catch up to his wife, but couldn't, so he grabbed onto the side railing but lost his grip and fell 71 feet to the pavement below, the news outlets reported.
According to the report, the news outlets reported that Richard Dujardin suffered head trauma and died from his injuries at the scene.
The bridge is controlled by the city's Department of Public Works, the Associated Press reported.
In a statement to the news outlets, Interim Commissioner of Public Works Jerrel Kruschke said the operator was "fully trained," and is in his fourth year as a bridge operator and had opened bridges hundreds of times.
Kruschke added that the bridge operator was on leave and that he "was connected with the City’s Employee Assistance Program for counseling," the newspaper reported.
Milwaukee Police said in a statement that there is no suspicion of a criminal act, but the investigation was ongoing, the Associated Press reported.
Rose-Marie Dujardin told TMJ4 that her husband of 54 years was a reporter at the Providence Journal.
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Flying this summer has been challenging with delays, cancellations, and crowds. Those challenges have been "compounded" for people with disabilities who are traveling.
Corey Lee shares his experiences on social media as a resource to help other wheelchair-users when they're traveling.
"I've been nearly dropped this year. I've had my wheelchair damaged during flying a couple of times this year already and luckily, there haven't been any like major damages this year; where I got to my destination and then I couldn't drive my wheelchair, but that has happened to me in the past few times," Lee said.
A recently announced, first-of-its-kind bill of rights for travelers with disabilities aims to help. The document from the Department of Transportation doesn't establish any new rules, but it's meant to help people understand and assert their rights under the Air Carrier Access Act.
Under the law, it's illegal for airlines to discriminate against passengers because of their disabilities. Wheelchair users, like Lee, said it's a good first step.
"Access would be tremendously better if wheelchair users could just stay in their wheelchair on the plane. That's something that I am constantly fighting for," Lee said.
Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently announced he's working toward making that a reality. Past studies have shown it would be technically feasible, but more crash testing is needed.
Lee recommends immediately notifying a complaint resolution officer at the airport if you have a disability and something goes wrong when you're traveling.
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U.S. officials say there has been a noticeable surge in high-powered firearms being illegally trafficked from the United States to Haiti, with gangs from the Caribbean nation purchasing firearms and bringing them into Haiti from Florida, in recent months.
Haiti has been further destabilized by violent, armed gangs engaging in brutal warfare, which has seen hundreds killed in recent weeks, the BBC reported in July.
Anthony Salisbury, a special agent with U.S. Homeland Security in Miami, said, “Not only have we seen a marked uptick in the number of weapons, but a serious increase in the caliber and type of firearm being illegally trafficked,” according to Bloomberg.
The UN Security Council voted in June to ban sales of small firearms along with ammunition to those in Haiti considered to be "non-state actors." Despite the move by the world governing body, the flow of firearms into Haiti has appeared to remain a major issue.
At a Wednesday press conference in South Florida, agents stood before tables covered in high-powered firearms and handguns that federal agents said they have seized in recent weeks and months.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), are the federal law enforcement entities primarily responsible for investigating international smuggling operations.
In July, a New York Times report detailed how armed gangs have increased their power in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince — sometimes using cruel tactics such as using bulldozers to raze entire neighborhoods.
In just one nine-day period in July, over 470 people were killed, went missing, or were injured because of gang warfare in Cité Soleil, the largest poverty-stricken community in the capital.
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Many people enjoy the thrill and exhilaration of riding a motorcycle. However, it can be very dangerous if proper precautions are not taken. WSFL-TV Trusted Advisors, Victor Demesmin Jr. and Jeremy Dover, stopped by Inside South Florida with helpful tips to keep you safe.
“It's very important for the motorcyclist and the riders to take their time when it’s raining because there are other people on the road,” says Demesmin. “The most important thing is to take proper precautions when motorcyclists are going in and out of lanes and it's wet and rainy.”
There is a safe distance that a driver should maintain when close to a motorcyclist says Dover.
“You always need to think from the perspective of the car and the motorcyclist,” says Dover. “In Florida, the motorcycle test tell you that a safe distance is three seconds. In my opinion, that’s a minimum and you should always be farther away.”
Demesmin also shares other tips people should know regarding motorcyclists.
“As a motorcyclist, I would be on the defense because sometimes people just don't see you. That's very important,” says Demesmin. “It's important to wear a helmet. I know it's not required, but I think it's a must down here.”
For more information, visit youraccidentattorneys.com
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Patients with the most severe post-Covid smell and taste disorders are likely to perform worst in cognitive tests, especially when these involve memory, finds a study strengthens the hypothesis that loss of smell could be an early sign of the impending onset of Alzheimer's disease.
In the study, a group of Brazilian researchers analyzed clinical data from 701 patients hospitalized for moderate or severe Covid-19.
The results, reported in the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, showed a moderate or severe reduced sense of taste was the most frequently reported sensory complication (20 percent), followed by a moderate or severe olfactory deficit (18 percent), a moderate or severe deficit of both smell and taste (11 percent), and parosmia (9 percent) or distortion of olfactory perception, so that a previously enjoyed smell becomes unpleasant, for example.
Olfactory hallucinations (perceiving smells of which others were unaware) were reported by 12 of the participants, and gustatory hallucinations (perceiving tastes without eating anything) by nine. In both cases, most said the hallucinations occurred only post-Covid.
People reporting parosmia (smell loss associated with Covid) were found to have more memory problems than the rest, while those with a moderate or severe loss of taste performed significantly worse. Those who reported a moderate or severe loss of both smell and taste were also found to have significantly impaired episodic memory.
"We didn't find any psychiatric symptoms (such as anxiety or depression) to be associated with loss of smell and taste, but as expected we observed that attention and episodic memory were more impaired in patients with more chemosensory alterations," said Rodolfo Damiano, a doctoral candidate at from the University of Sao Paulo's Medical School (FM-USP) in Brazil.
"This finding corroborates the hypothesis that Covid affects cognition, and that damage in this area doesn't only have psychosocial or environmental causes."
Covid-related loss of smell derives from the inflammation triggered by SARS-CoV-2 in the olfactory mucosa, the team said.
The cognitive losses observed in Alzheimer's and post-Covid syndromes derive from different pathogenic processes, but these may overlap, explained psychogeriatrician Orestes Forlenza, Professor in FM-USP's Psychiatry Department.
"This is particularly the case in older people who already have primary cognitive symptoms and contract Covid. There is preliminary evidence that this overlapping of pathogenic factors may accelerate or intensify the progression of cognitive losses," he said.
However, the exact mechanism leading to cognitive damage in Covid patients is unknown.
"We hypothesize that the virus causes neuroinflammation, which leads to cognitive impairment. We don't yet know if the damage is permanent. We'll continue to follow the patients to see if these complications clear up," Damiano said. (AA/IANS)
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O'Reilly L, Elam KK, Quinn PD, Adams S, Chirica MG, Klonsky ED, Pettersson E, Lundström S, Larsson H, Lichtenstein P, D'Onofrio B. Dev. Psychopathol. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Cambridge University Press)
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10.1017/S0954579422000724
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35968852
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Sports participation, physical activity, and friendship quality are theorized to have protective effects on the developmental emergence of substance use and self-harm behavior in adolescence, but existing research has been mixed. This ambiguity could reflect, in part, the potential for confounding of observed associations by genetic and environmental factors, which previous research has been unable to rigorously rule out. We used data from the prospective, population-based Child and Adolescent Twin Study in Sweden (n = 18,234 born 1994-2001) and applied a co-twin control design to account for potential genetic and environmental confounding of sports participation, physical activity, and friendship quality (assessed at age 15) as presumed protective factors for adolescent substance use and self-harm behavior (assessed at age 18). While confidence intervals widened to include the null in numerous co-twin control analyses adjusting for childhood psychopathology, parent-reported sports participation and twin-reported positive friendship quality were associated with increased odds of alcohol problems and nicotine use. However, parent-reported sports participation, twin-reported physical activity, and twin-reported friendship quality were associated with decreased odds of self-harm behavior. The findings provide a more nuanced understanding of the risks and benefits of putative protective factors for risky behaviors that emerge during adolescence.
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longitudinal; substance use; adolescence; co-twin control; self-harm behavior
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In an unexpected development, seers in Ayodhya have begun opposing the construction of the Lata Mangeshkar Smriti Chowk that is being built in memory of the legendary singer.
At a meeting held at the Maniram Das Chhavni in the presence of Mahant Kamal Nayan Das, the saints opposed the decision to commemorate the memory of the late singer in Ayodhya.
They demanded that the upcoming chowk should be named after Acharya Ramanandacharya of the Ramanand sect.
"We are not opposing Lata Mangeshkar but her memorial can be built elsewhere. Ayodhya is the land of the Ramanand sect and the memorial should be dedicated to it," the saints said.
The saints said that they would now send letters in this regard to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
It may be recalled that the Uttar Pradesh government had announced a crossing memorial after Lata Mangeshkar passed away in February this year.
Work on the proposed memorial has already begun.
According to official sources, the chowk will have a 10-meter-high white sculpture of a 'veena' (musical instrument) at the center.
A pond with 92 lotus flowers made of stainless steel will have the platform on which the veena will be installed.
The pond will have a circulatory walkway and seven musical pillars to denote musical notes.
Lata Mangeshkar's 'bhajans' will be played through the pillars. (AA/IANS)
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Isoardi K, Learmont B, Horan B, Isbister G. Emerg. Med. Australas. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)
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10.1111/1742-6723.14056
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35970763
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OBJECTIVE: Opioid overdose is increasing and accounts for two-thirds of poisoning deaths. Opioid induced respiratory depression is life-threatening and can be under-recognised even in the hospital setting. We aimed to evaluate the effect of a care pathway on the management of opioid-poisoned patients. METHODS: This is a before-after observational study following the introduction of a nursing care pathway for opioid-poisoned patients presenting to ED. Medical records were retrospectively reviewed pre (6-month period 1 year prior) and post (9-month period following) the introduction of the pathway. The primary outcome was the proportion of documented episodes of respiratory depression (respiratory rate <10 or oxygen saturation <93% on room air) receiving naloxone. Secondary outcomes were time to naloxone, number of documented observations (first 4 h) and length of stay. RESULTS: There were 111 patients included in the study, 61 pre-intervention and 50 post-intervention (35 followed the pathway). A significantly larger proportion of patients received naloxone for respiratory depression when the pathway was used (134/200 [67%] vs 34/118 [29%], difference 38%, 95% CI 28-48%). The median time to naloxone was similar (pathway 28.5 min vs no pathway 35 min, difference -6.5 min, 95% CI -19 to 12 min). Documentation increased when the pathway was used (12.0 observations/presentation vs 7.5 observations/presentation, difference 4.5 observations/patient, 95% CI 2.1-7.0 observations/patient). Length of stay was similar (pathway 16.7 h vs no pathway 15.3 h, difference 1.4 h, 95% CI -2.4 to 5.9 h). CONCLUSIONS: Following the introduction of a dedicated opioid poisoning nursing care pathway, naloxone delivery and observation documentation increased. A care pathway may improve ED management of opioid poisoning.
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clinical pathway; naloxone; nursing care; opioid poisoning
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Skincare at any age is a vital part of our lives. As we age, the fat beneath our skin and surrounding our muscles begins to melt and alter, causing wrinkles and creases to appear on our skin. Dr. Akriti Gupta explains "Our skin's production of elastin, natural lipids, and collagen declines as we age. The result is skin that is drier and less supple. Inadequate skin care practices made while a person is young first become apparent in their late 30s or early 40s. Thus, age spots, fine lines, and wrinkles start to show up on the skin. A skincare routine that offers both curative and preventative measures will be optimal after age 40. This implies that it should take care of the issues at hand while also shielding the skin from additional harm."
Following are some skincare recommendations for people over the age of 40:
Exfoliation should be a part of your beauty routine: The scrub you use shouldn't be too abrasive and should be tailored to your skin type. Use a cream-based scrub on dry skin to both cleanse and moisturize the skin. Use a gel-based scrub on oily skin to reduce oil production and achieve spotless skin. Always wash with a mild, non-foaming product, and then moisturize well to seal in the moisture.
Sunscreen is a must: A vital component of regular skincare is sunscreen. It shields the skin from the sun's damaging UV radiation, which is to blame for the early aging of the skin. Apply sunscreen that has a PA grade of at least +++ and at least SPF 30. Zinc oxide sunscreens may be useful in reducing skin damage from artificial light produced by electronic devices.
Increase fluid consumption: Eat a balanced diet and drink enough water. Consuming fresh produce gives your skin the critical antioxidants it needs. Skin that is properly hydrated appears healthy and glowing. Adding lemon and aloe vera juice to your water can help to maintain a natural glow.
Under eye care: One of the earliest signs of aging is the development of fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes. Here, the skin is delicate and requires care. Use an effective under-eye cream or gel that will hydrate your eyes and reduce wrinkles as you sleep.
Follow a night care regime: Apply a night cream after using a gentle cleanser to wash your face. Your skin will be hydrated by the night cream, becoming softer and more radiant. Look for nighttime skincare products that contain retinol/retinoids to boost cellular regeneration, antioxidants to help your skin recover from environmental stresses, and hyaluronic acid to bind moisture to your skin.
Avoid sugar: The skin may get glycated if you consume a lot of sugar. This indicates that the sugar can bind to proteins and cause fluid retention, which can cause wrinkles.
Dr. Akriti Gupta explained "Consuming vitamin C in any form beyond a certain age is important, especially for your skin. Include a vitamin C serum with antioxidants in your morning regimen. Your skin will look more radiant and will be protected from free radicals and UV damage if you include vitamin C in your skin care regimen. This powerful antioxidant is frequently included in moisturizers, oils, serums, and face cleansers. Antioxidants found in abundance in vitamin C aid to combat free radicals (these can trigger several diseases, including cancer). While anti-aging creams with retinol, hyaluronic acid, and peptides can be used at night, serums with the same compounds can be used throughout the day.
When purchasing a vitamin C serum, look for dark bottles. Because vitamin C degrades when exposed to light or air, dark glass bottles help keep the vitamin stable and effective." (AA/IANS)
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Hundreds of Google workers petition company to expand abortion protections for users, contractors
Related video above: Planned Parenthood’s online scheduling tool could share abortion seekers’ data with big tech companies
Hundreds of workers at Google-parent Alphabet are calling on the company to take steps to expand abortion protections for users and contractors in a post-Roe world, according to a statement Thursday from a union representing the workers.
In the petition, which was signed by more than 650 workers at the company and addressed to several executives including Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, members of the Alphabet Workers Union called on the company to stop collecting data on abortion seekers and to ensure such data isn't shared with law enforcement. The workers also demanded Google fix misleading search results that show users anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers when they are searching for clinics that perform the procedure.
The petition, which was sent to Google executives this week, comes as the tech giant has found itself under fire from lawmakers, privacy advocates and some of its own employees for its handling of sensitive abortion data and abortion clinic search results in the wake of Roe's demise. It also comes a week after news that police obtained Facebook messages between a Nebraska mother and her teenage daughter that authorities allege show evidence of an illegal self-managed medication abortion.
"Recently I read about Facebook handing over information that was used to arrest a user seeking abortion access and it became clear that tech companies are not going far enough to protect workers and users in a post-Roe America," Bambi Okugawa, a data center technician at Google and member of AWU, said in a statement Thursday. "If tech companies ... truly want to be an ally to those looking to get an abortion, they need to refuse to share [users'] information regarding abortion searches and do their due diligence to make sure false information that could make users unsafe isn't circulating the site."
The petitioners also demanded the tech giant extend all abortion benefits offered to full-time employees to contractors, including relocation support for those looking to move to states with protected abortion access and health care coverage for out-of-state abortion procedures. Google announced it would offer these benefits to employees in the immediate aftermath of the Roe v Wade decision.
Google did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
The petition builds on pressure Google has faced on the issue. In May, amid reports Roe would be overturned, dozens of Democratic lawmakers wrote to Google saying that the company's practice of collecting and storing vast troves of geolocation data from cellphones "will allow it to become a tool for far-right extremists looking to crack down on people seeking reproductive health care." A June note to Google from congressional Democrats called on Google to prevent searches for abortion clinics from returning results and ads that direct users to facilities that oppose the procedure, saying misleading search results on where to get an abortion could put women's health at risk.
In response to the outcry, Google announced in July that it would start deleting user location history for visits to abortion clinics and fertility clinics, among other destinations. Google also said it would add an option for Fitbit users to bulk delete their menstruation data. The Google-owned fitness tracker previously gave users the option to delete period-tracking data on a record-by-record basis.
But employees don't think the company is doing enough. "Google can and should do better," Alejandra Beatty, the Southwest Chapter Lead of AWU and a technical program manager at Alphabet-owned Verily, said in a statement.
To meet demands, AWU wants the company to create a dedicated abortion information task force with 50% employee representation, similar to its COVID-19 pandemic approach.
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Citation
Jansen JM, Zijlmans J, Popma A, Marhe R. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 2022; 16: e895798.
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(Copyright © 2022, Frontiers Research Foundation)
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10.3389/fnbeh.2022.895798
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35967894
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PMC9365978
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Atypical white matter integrity may be one of the biological factors related to delinquency. In adults, decreased white matter integrity has been related to antisocial behavior, but findings from research in adolescent and young adult populations are either mixed or lacking. Here we investigated this association within a naturalistic sample of delinquent young adults (age 18-27). METHODS: In a sample of 95 young adult, delinquent men and 22 age and gender matched controls, we assessed white matter integrity through fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity measures. We compared white matter integrity between the groups, and within the delinquent group assessed the association between white matter integrity and aggression, psychopathic traits, and cannabis use. RESULTS: We found no differences in fractional anisotropy or mean diffusivity between delinquent young adults and non-delinquent controls. Additionally, within the group of delinquent young adults, we found no associations between white matter integrity and aggression, psychopathic traits, or cannabis use. CONCLUSION: Our null findings suggest that white matter integrity differences may be unrelated to antisocial behavior in emerging adults, and/or that white matter differences between delinquent populations and controls may only arise later in life.
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substance use; delinquency; aggression; diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); psychopathy
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Li BH, Haukoos JS, Gangidine MM, Hopkins E, McDaniel M, Williams JEJ, Morgan JLJ, Green E, Mireles AR, Palacios J, Ramirez JH, Bakes KM. Injury 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.injury.2022.08.012
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35970636
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BACKGROUND: Interpersonal violent injury is a public health crisis, disproportionately affecting young people of color. We aimed to evaluate associations between sociobehavioral predictors and first-time violent injury, and to develop a predictive risk score for violent injury. METHODS: We performed a retrospective case-cohort study of adolescents aged 12-18 years. Multivariable logistic regression was used to estimate associations between 35 candidate variables and interpersonal first-time violent injury resulting in an emergency department (ED) visit. Multiple imputation was used to account for missing values and a risk score was developed by multiplying regression coefficients by 10 to generate a composite tool to predict initial violent injury (IVI). Discrimination and calibration were assessed using 10-fold cross validation. RESULTS: 19,210 adolescents were included, 276 (1.4%) as victims of IVI. The final model, the Initial Violent Injury Risk Prediction Tool (IVI-RPT), included: age, fight within the prior year, trouble with the law, and alcohol use. IVI-RPT scores were categorized as: 0-7 (low risk), 8-16 (moderate), and 17-26 (high), and IVI prevalence was 0.8% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.6%, 0.9%), 2.5% (95% CI: 1.9%, 3.1%), and 5.3% (95% CI: 4.1%, 6.6%), respectively. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.70 (95% CI: 0.66, 0.73), while the slope of the calibration curve was 1.1 (95% CI: 0.9, 1.2). CONCLUSIONS: We developed a promising clinical prediction instrument, the IVI-RPT, that categorizes individuals into risk groups with increasing probabilities of violent injury. External validation of this tool is required prior to clinical practice implementation.
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Prevalence; Injury prevention; Social determinants of health; Emergency department; Case-cohort; Modeling; Risk prediction; Violent injury
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The Webb telescope will closely observe 20 exoplanets and their stars. Here's how you can name them
The James Webb Space Telescope is using infrared light to reveal otherwise invisible aspects of the universe — and capturing stunning imagery in the process.
Among the wonders it's discovering and observing are exoplanetary systems, which each consist of a planet outside of our solar system and its host star, and many of them are in need of a name.
The International Astronomical Union, the organization in charge of naming celestial objects, is launching the NameExoWorlds 2022 Competition to give the public a chance to christen some of the first exoplanetary systems to be seen by the telescope.
The IAU wants this to be a collaborative affair, so participants must create a team composed of teachers, students, astronomy enthusiasts, or professional or amateur astronomists.
Once the team selects its favorite names for one exoplanet and its host star, they are required to host a community outreach event that teaches the public about exoplanets. Only then can the team submit a written and video proposal that includes the names and justifications for their choices.
The video cannot be more than three minutes long, and the essay should not exceed 300 words. The team is also required to write a report no longer than 300 words on their public outreach initiative, which could be a talk by a scientist on exoplanet discoveries, and submit photos or video of the event.
Submissions can be made through this form.
Naming guidelines
If you were hoping to name a planet after yourself, you're out of luck.
Naming an exoplanetary system is a huge responsibility, so the IAU set forth a list of guidelines to follow.
To begin with, the names should have long-standing cultural, geographic or historical significance. Indigenous names are encouraged, but any team proposing one must be led by a member of an Indigenous community.
Additionally, the name of the exoplanet and its host star need to follow the same theme, meaning they must be related in some way.
Teams cannot submit names of people, pets or organizations. Any terms related to political, military or religious activities are also not allowed.
The public can submit their names through Nov. 11, 2022.
National vetting processes will take place between Nov. 15 and Dec. 15, 2022, and each country will select one proposal along with two backups. Afterward, an international committee will review the submissions and choose one for each exoplanet between Dec. 16, 2022, and March 16, 2023.
The winning names will be announced on March 20, 2023.
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Shenoi R, Rrajguru J, Sangani S, Kolte V, Bhave I, Karmarkar J, Situt N, Gajbhiye M. J. Oral Biol. Craniofac. Res. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.jobcr.2022.07.012
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35966969
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PMC9359753
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INTRODUCTION: Oral and maxillofacial injuries can be defined as injuries involving soft and hard tissue structures of the facial region and oral cavity, including the teeth and vital structures of the head and neck area as a result of trauma(.) The maxillofacial injuries are multifactorial and vary from one country to another and even from region to region. Despite, societal restrictions imposed by the government in the form of lockdowns and curfews, patients still experienced trauma and required significant healthcare services for management. METHODS: Patients of either gender reporting to the emergency department of Lata Mangeshkar Hospital with maxillofacial injuries, attended by residents of OMFS from October 2019 to August 2020 were included in the retrospective study. The demographic data about age, gender and status pertaining to under the influence of alcohol was recorded. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the changing patterns of the maxillofacial injuries during the Covid-19 pandemic. RESULTS: In the present study, the road traffic accidents were 72.50% pre-lockdown which reduced to 47.37% during the alcohol ban and nationwide lockdown and gradually increased to 63.83% post-lockdown. The second most common cause of maxillofacial injury was falls which showed a significant increase from 22.50% before the lockdown to 31.58% during the lockdown and decreased to 26.6% after lockdown during the pandemic. There was an increase in the number of assaults from 2.50% pre-lockdown to 15.79% during the lockdown and again a decrease to 6.38% post-lockdown. DISCUSSION: Our study demonstrates the impact of nationwide lockdown in the month of April and May 2020, may have an association with the significant statistical decrease in the monthly average number of trauma admissions. There was a significant decrease in the number of road traffic collisions and falls during the "lockdown period". CONCLUSION: The etiology and pattern of maxillofacial injuries reflect the trauma pattern within the community. We need more coordinated strategies of action to minimize maxillofacial injuries and its implication on physical and psychological wellbeing of patients. Keywords: CoViD-19-Road-Traffic
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COVID-19; Etiology; Changing patterns; Maxillofacial trauma
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Stray AV, Siverts H, Melhuus K, Enger M, Galteland P, Næss I, Helseth E, Ramm-Pettersen J. JAMA Netw. Open 2022; 5(8): e2226701.
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(Copyright © 2022, American Medical Association)
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10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.26701
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35969397
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IMPORTANCE: When society introduces and accepts new transportation modes, it is important to map risks and benefits. OBJECTIVE: To compare electric scooter (e-scooter) and bicycle injuries. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This cohort study is based on prospectively collected data on Norwegian patients who sustained e-scooter or bicycle injuries and presented to an emergency department affiliated with Oslo University Hospital between January 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: e-Scooter and bicycle injuries were evaluated for associations with sex, age, time of injury, helmet use, intoxication, body region, and injury severity. Descriptive statistics are presented as mean (SD) or number with percentage, with significance set at P < .05 (2-tailed). RESULTS: During the study period, 3191 patients were included (850 e-scooter riders, 2341 bicyclists) with 3839 injuries recorded (997 e-scooter, 2842 bicycle). The mean (SD) age of those injured was 34 (17) years, 2026 riders (63.5%) were male, 1474 (46.2%) were helmeted at the time of injury, and 516 (16.2%) were intoxicated by alcohol or other drugs. The annual incidence of injuries was 120 per 100 000 inhabitants for e-scooters and 340 per 100 000 inhabitants for bicycles. Men were overrepresented in both groups (529 e-scooter riders [62.2%] and 1497 bicyclists [63.9%]). e-Scooter riders were younger than bicyclists (mean [SD] age, 31 [12] vs 35 [18] years). Most injured e-scooter riders were aged 20 to 40 years, whereas injured bicyclists had a broader age distribution. e-Scooter injuries commonly occurred on weekends (378 [46.6%]) and during evening (230 [32.3%]) or nighttime (242 [34.1%]) hours. Most bicycle injuries occurred during weekdays (1586 [69.7%]) and daytime (1762 [61.3%]). e-Scooter riders were more often intoxicated (336 [39.5%] vs 180 [7.7%]) and had a lower rate of helmet use (18 [2.1%] vs 1456 [62.2%]). During nighttime, 230 injured e-scooter riders (91.3%) and 86 bicyclists (69.4%) were intoxicated. e-Scooter riders had more head and neck (317 [31.7%] vs 636 [22.4%]) and lower-limb (285 [28.6%] vs 632 [22.2%]) injuries and fewer upper-limb (341 [34.2%] vs 1276 [44.9%]), thoracic (41 [4.1%] vs 195 [6.9%]), and abdominal, pelvic, and lumbar (13 [1.3%] vs 103 [3.6%]) injuries. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this cohort study, e-scooter riders were younger than bicyclists, did not use helmets, were more often intoxicated, and were more often injured during nighttime. The rate of intoxication among e-scooter riders injured at night was high. Preventive measures, including awareness campaigns, regulating e-scooter availability, improving infrastructure, and implementing stricter helmet and alcohol policies, may prove effective for reducing injuries.
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Sillice MA, Stein M, Battle CL, Meshesha LZ, Lindsay C, Agu E, Abrantes AM. JMIR Form. Res. 2022; 6(8): e32768.
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(Copyright © 2022, JMIR Publications)
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10.2196/32768
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35969449
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BACKGROUND: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is associated with severe chronic medical conditions and premature mortality. Expanding the reach or access to effective evidence-based treatments to help persons with AUD is a public health objective. Mobile phone or smartphone technology has the potential to increase the dissemination of clinical and behavioral interventions (mobile health interventions) that increase the initiation and maintenance of sobriety among individuals with AUD. Studies about how this group uses their mobile phone and their attitudes toward technology may have meaningful implications for participant engagement with these interventions. OBJECTIVE: This exploratory study examined the potential relationships among demographic characteristics (race, gender, age, marital status, and income), substance use characteristics (frequency of alcohol and cannabis use), and clinical variables (anxiety and depression symptoms) with indicators of mobile phone use behaviors and attitudes toward technology. METHODS: A sample of 71 adults with AUD (mean age 42.9, SD 10.9 years) engaged in an alcohol partial hospitalization program completed 4 subscales from the Media Technology Usage and Attitudes assessment: Smartphone Usage measures various mobile phone behaviors and activities, Positive Attitudes and Negative Attitudes measure attitudes toward technology, and the Technological Anxiety/Dependence measure assesses level of anxiety when individuals are separated from their phone and dependence on this device. Participants also provided demographic information and completed the Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) scale. Lastly, participants reported their frequency of alcohol use over the past 3 months using the Drug Use Frequency Scale. RESULTS: Results for the demographic factors showed a significant main effect for age, Smartphone Usage (P=.003; η(p)(2)=0.14), and Positive Attitudes (P=.01; η(p)(2)=0.07). Marital status (P=.03; η(p)(2)=0.13) and income (P=.03; η(p)(2)=0.14) were associated only with the Technological Anxiety and Dependence subscale. Moreover, a significant trend was found for alcohol use and the Technological Anxiety/Dependence subscale (P=.06; R(2)=0.02). Lastly, CES-D scores (P=.03; R(2)=0.08) and GAD symptoms (P=.004; R(2)=0.13) were significant predictors only of the Technological Anxiety/Dependence subscale. CONCLUSIONS: Findings indicate differences in mobile phone use patterns and attitudes toward technology across demographic, substance use, and clinical measures among patients with AUD. These results may help inform the development of future mHealth interventions among this population.
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alcohol; substance use; anxiety; depression; mobile phone; alcohol use disorder; demographic differences; mobile phone use patterns; patient attitude; technological attitude
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Hirose M, Kasugai D, Tajima K, Takahashi H, Yamada S, Hirakawa A. Nagoya J. Med. Sci. 2022; 84(2): 301-310.
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(Copyright © 2022, Nagoya University School of Medicine)
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10.18999/nagjms.84.2.301
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35967945
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PMC9350573
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Repeated suicide attempts through intentional overdose are not infrequent, but little is known about the risk factors associated with intentional overdose. We investigated these risk factors within 1 year of discharge from hospital and developed an index predicting recurrence. This retrospective observational study included 419 patients admitted to our hospital between 2011 and 2018 due to intentional overdose. Of these, 43 (10.0%) repeated an overdose within 1 year of discharge. The risk factors with the highest odds ratios from multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to develop an index assessing Recurrence of Overdose Suicide Attempt. The following variables were significantly associated with recurrence and were included in the index: anxiety and/or insomnia at discharge; use of five or more psychotropic medications; diagnosis of an ICD-F4 anxiety disorders; and female sex (odds ratios: 4.24; 5.52; 2.41; and 3.41, respectively). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of the index was 0.797. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values for Recurrence of Overdose Suicide Attempt >4 points (out of 6) were 72.1%, 75.8%, 25.4%, and 96.0%, respectively. Our novel index predicted the recurrence of intentional overdose with a good negative predictive value and may therefore be a useful screening tool for this high-risk population.
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suicide; anxiety; insomnia; observational study; recurrence
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Ahuja M, Awasthi M, Gim S, Records K, Cimilluca J, Al-Ksir K, Tremblay J, Doshi RP, Sathiyasaleen T, Fernandopulle P. Subst. Abuse Res. Treat. 2022; 16: e11782218221116731.
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(Copyright © 2022, Libertas Academica)
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10.1177/11782218221116731
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35966616
PMCID
PMC9373116
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BACKGROUND: Suicide rates in the U.S. have continued to rise over the last 2 decades. The increased availability and broader legalization of cannabis is a public health concern, particularly among adolescents. The objective of this study was to examine the association between the age of cannabis initiation and lifetime suicidal ideations and attempts in a sample of adults aged 18 or older. METHODS: Data are from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES), 2001 to 2003 (N = 15 238). The primary objective of the CPES was to collect data about the prevalence of mental disorders, impairments associated with these disorders, and their treatment patterns from representative samples of majority and minority adult populations in the U.S. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to test the association between cannabis initiation age (early ⩽14 years old; later >14 years old) and outcomes of lifetime suicide ideation and attempts. Cigarette use, cannabis use, gender, income, race, education, and age were controlled for the analyses. RESULTS: Overall, 12.5% of participants reported suicide ideation, while 4.2% reported attempt. Early cannabis use was associated with a higher risk of suicide ideation (AOR = 3.32, 95% CI [2.75, 3.80]) than later cannabis use (AOR = 2.15, 95% CI [1.92, 2.39]). Early cannabis use was associated with a higher risk of suicide attempt (AOR = 4.38, 95% CI [3.48, 5.52]) than later cannabis use (AOR = 2.56, 95% CI [2.14, 3.06]). Wald chi-squared tests revealed significant differences between the early and late initiation for both ideation (χ(2) = 26.99; P < .001) and attempts (χ(2) = 26.02; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: Significant associations were found between early initiation of cannabis and suicide behaviors. As suicide rates continue to rise, it is recommended that clinicians, treatment providers, and other professionals consider the use of cannabis at an early age as a risk for subsequent suicide behaviors.
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Early cannabis initiation; early cannabis onset and suicidal behaviors; early cannabis use and suicide; suicide ideation and cannabis involvement
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Bórquez-Infante I, Vasquez J, Dupré S, Undurraga EA, Crossley NA, Undurraga J. Psychiatry Res. 2022; 316: e114733.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114733
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Introduction Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increase the risk of psychotic experiences (PE), but little is known about heterogeneities of this association in different developmental stages, dimensions, or whether they are affected by substance use disorder (SUD). This study examines the association between different types of ACEs at various developmental stages and lifetime PE in patients with SUD in Chile. Methods We included 399 consenting adults in outpatient or residential SUD treatment programs. Sociodemographic data and information about PE and ACEs were obtained by trained clinical psychologists. Results Patients reporting PE experienced more ACEs compared to patients without PE (4.2 versus 3.4). They also experienced more complex adversities (41.8% versus 25.1%), had more psychiatric comorbidities (85% versus 70.4%), and reported using more substances (mean 4.5 versus 3.9). Adjusted association between ACEs and PE showed the highest OR for arrests (1.88), sexual abuse (1.81), alcohol abuse by parents (1.48), school exclusion (1.39), foster or residential care (18.3). Conclusion Early exposure to ACEs is a risk factor for later PE among patients with SUD. Type of ACE and the period when they occurred is important, suggesting the existence of critical periods where the individual is more susceptible to adverse environmental stimuli.
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Adverse childhood experiences; Cumulative risk; Psychotic experiences; Substance related disorders
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Khan H, Garg A, Yasmeen, Agarwal NB, Yadav DK, Khan MA, Hussain S. Psychiatry Res. 2022; e114777.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114777
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Introduction : Zolpidem is one of the most commonly prescribed nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic drugs for insomnia. Published epidemiological studies linked zolpidem with the risk of suicide. However, to date, no meta-analysis investigated this association. Hence, we systematically reviewed and meta-analysed the current evidence from real-world studies reporting the risk of suicide with the use of zolpidem. Methods : Medline (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), and PsycINFO databases were searched from inception till June 2021 for real-world evidence studies reporting the risk of suicide with the use of zolpidem. The quality assessment of included studies was assessed using the New-Castle Ottawa Scale (NOS). Random-effect meta-analysis was performed using a generic inverse variance method. Results : This meta-analysis was based on four studies with 344,753 participants, of which 42,279 were zolpidem users. The methodological quality of all the included studies was of high quality. A significantly increased risk of suicide or suicide attempt was found in zolpidem users compared to non-users, with a pooled relative risk of 1.88 (95% CI: 1.54 - 2.30). Furthermore, an increased risk of suicidal death was observed in zolpidem users compared to non-users, with a pooled relative risk of 1.82 (95% CI: 1.43 - 2.30). Dose-response analysis also revealed a significantly increased risk of suicide in patients receiving ≥ 180cDDD (cumulative defined daily doses) of zolpidem (124 times), followed by 90-179cDDD (113 times) and <90cDDD (93 times) of zolpidem compared to non-users. Conclusion : In conclusion, zolpidem use was associated with an increased risk of suicide or suicide attempt and suicidal death. Therefore, careful prescribing practices must be followed by computing the risk-benefit profile.
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Death; Epidemiology; Insomnia; Meta-analysis; Suicide; Systematic Review; Zolpidem
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Sampasa-Kanyinga H, Bakwa-Kanyinga F, Hamilton HA, Chaput JP. Child Abuse Negl. 2022; 133: e105830.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105830
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35973311
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BACKGROUND: Cyberbullying victimization has been associated with cannabis use among adolescents. However, it is unclear if this relationship also holds for cyberbullying perpetrators. OBJECTIVE: This cross-sectional study examined the association between cyberbullying involvement and cannabis use among adolescents and tested if parental support was associated with cyberbullying involvement and cannabis use. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: Data from 7229 students aged 11-20 years were obtained from the 2019 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey, a province-wide survey of middle and high school students across Ontario, Canada. METHODS: Participants self-reported their cannabis use frequency, their involvement in cyberbullying, and their perception of parental support. Cyberbullying involvement was operationalized as an action taking place at least two times. Multivariable logistic regression models were adjusted for age, sex, ethnoracial background, and subjective socioeconomic status. RESULTS: Overall, 8.6 % of students were cyberbullying victims only, 2 % were cyberbullying perpetrators only, and 2.8 % were both cyberbullying victims and perpetrators. RESULTS showed that experience of cyberbullying victimization only (OR: 2.17; 95 % CI: 1.64-2.88), perpetration only (OR: 2.64; 95 % CI: 1.51-4.63), or both (OR: 3.34; 95 % CI: 2.12-5.28) was associated with greater odds of cannabis use. RESULTS further indicated that higher parental support was associated with lower odds of cannabis use in a dose-response fashion. Higher parental support was also associated with a lower risk of cyberbullying involvement. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that involvement in cyberbullying in any role is associated with greater cannabis use among adolescents and that parental support is associated with less cannabis use and cyberbullying involvement.
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Keywords
Marijuana; Cannabis; Cyberbullying; Victimization; Parental support
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Reich N, Salvo G, Leong D, Wan V, Kosatsky T. CMAJ Open 2022; 10(3): E755-E761.
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(Copyright © 2022, Canadian Medical Association)
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10.9778/cmajo.20210252
PMID
35973710
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BACKGROUND: Kratom, a plant indigenous to Southeast Asia, which has been used both recreationally and in the treatment of pain and opioid dependence, has received little scrutiny in the United States and almost none in Canada. We analyzed calls to the British Columbia poison centre to describe caller-declared exposures to kratom and the acute health effects of these exposures. METHODS: For this descriptive analysis, we accessed electronic records, including transcriptions and extracted variables, of calls specifying kratom exposure managed by the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC) from 2012 to 2019. We describe changes in case numbers, reasons for exposure, concurrent drug exposures and clinical outcomes over the study period. RESULTS: We identified 32 cases during the study period. In 23 cases (72%), the DPIC was consulted by a health care worker. Case numbers increased from 0 in 2012 to 9 in 2019. Numbers were highest for males in their 20s (n = 17, 53%). A total of 27 cases (84%) involved ingestion, with online distributors and local stores named as sources of procurement. A concurrent drug exposure was identified in 13 (41%) cases. There were no deaths; in 1 case, the exposed individual was intubated to manage agitation following kratom withdrawal. INTERPRETATION: We observed a steady increase in kratom-related poison centre calls from 2012 to 2019, especially in young adult males. Rising call numbers may reflect increasing availability of kratom and may be a consequence of BC's opioid crisis, with kratom used by some to lessen symptoms of opioid withdrawal.
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Koivisto MK, Miettunen J, Levola J, Mustonen A, Alakokkare AE, Salom CL, Niemela S. Eur. J. Public Health 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Oxford University Press)
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10.1093/eurpub/ckac099
PMID
35972451
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BACKGROUND: Overdoses and poisonings are among the most common causes of death in young adults. Adolescent problem drinking has been associated with psychiatric morbidity in young adulthood as well as with elevated risk for suicide attempts. There is limited knowledge on adolescent alcohol use as a risk factor for alcohol and/or drug overdoses in later life. METHODS: Here, data from The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 study with a follow-up from adolescence to early adulthood were used to assess the associations between adolescent alcohol use and subsequent alcohol or drug overdose. Three predictors were used: age of first intoxication, self-reported alcohol tolerance and frequency of alcohol intoxication in adolescence. ICD-10-coded overdose diagnoses were obtained from nationwide registers. Use of illicit drugs or misuse of medication, Youth Self Report total score, family structure and mother's education in adolescence were used as covariates. RESULTS: In multivariate analyses, early age of first alcohol intoxication [hazard ratios (HR) 4.5, 95% confidence intervals (CI) 2.2-9.2, P < 0.001], high alcohol tolerance (HR 3.1, 95% CI 1.6-6.0, P = 0.001) and frequent alcohol intoxication (HR 1.9, 95% CI 1.0-3.4, P = 0.035) all associated with the risk of overdoses. Early age of first intoxication (HR 5.2, 95% CI 1.9-14.7, P = 0.002) and high alcohol tolerance (HR 4.4, 95% CI 1.7-11.5, P = 0.002) also associated with intentional overdoses. CONCLUSIONS: Alcohol use in adolescence associated prospectively with increased risk of overdose in later life. Early age of first intoxication, high alcohol tolerance and frequent alcohol intoxication are all predictors of overdoses.
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