tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56424931821381378962024-03-05T14:00:44.207+05:00News PointLatest Daily News Source, Its all about news, Latest News, world, celebrity, entertainment, sports, tech, science, business, Hollywood, Bollywood, Us news, android and all news around the worldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16396125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-56948913862317013332022-07-21T17:11:00.002+05:002022-07-23T13:04:33.892+05:00The Shortest Marriages In The Star System <div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Shortest Marriages In The Star System</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The Shortest Marriages In The Star System, According to Zeleb.es wat to explain the hotest stars short Marriage, So Be Carry On And ....</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Bradley Cooper is now a happy single dad, but his list of exes is quite impressive. The actor's marriage to Jennifer Esposito only lasted four months.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Jennifer Lopez and Chris Judd</b></div><div><br /></div><div>This couple seemed to be really in love, but after seven months of marriage, the spark faded.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The actor claimed to be madly in love with Elvis Presley's daughter, but their marriage in 2002 only lasted three months. As Cage later said: "We shouldn't have gotten married. It was a big mistake."</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Drew Barrymore and Tom Green</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Drew Barrymore has not been as lucky in love as in acting, and 2001 was no exception. She and Tom Green secretly married and then stayed together for about five months.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Britney Spears and Jason Alexander</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Britney Spears may hold the shortest-marriage trophy of all celebrities. Her marriage to Jason Alexander lasted only 55 hours.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Cher and Gregg Allman</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Cher and Gregg Allman were in a hurry, as the couple stayed married for only nine days.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds</b></div><div><br /></div><div>It took Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds two weeks to know for sure they weren't cut out for each other.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney were married for four months.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Their names were so great together, but the couple could not make a marriage work. Nine days after the wedding, they began the divorce proceedings.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Shannen Doherty and Ashley Hamilton</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The actors said 'yes I do' with only 22 and 19 years respectively, and that may have been one of the causes that the marriage lasted only five months.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Although it seemed that they fit together perfectly, the couple lasted only four months after going to the chapel.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Famous and talented actors, but unlucky in love. They got married in 1999 and yes, they got divorced before they could make it to their first anniversary.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray</b></div><div><br /></div><div>They met while filming 'One Tree Hill', but their marriage lasted much less than the series. It was only five months.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries</b></div><div><br /></div><div>A marriage that came and went within months. Two and a half, to be precise.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Nicky Hilton and Todd Andrew Meister</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Paris Hilton's younger sister walked down the aisle in 2004, but 85 days later she decided that (this) marriage was not for her after all.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Chad Johnson and Evelyn Lozada</b></div><div><br /></div><div>They say that the reason for their separation was Chad hitting Evelyn. If that's true, she dodged a bullet with only 41 days of marriage.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Francesca Eastwood and Jordan Feldstein</b></div><div><br /></div><div>She's known for being the daughter of Clint Eastwood and for having one of the shortest marriages in history. After a while night of partying and... oh, yes, getting married, the couple asked for the annulment of the marriage eight days later.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Charlie Sheen and Donna Peele</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Believe it or not, Charlie Sheen has said 'I do' three times. However, his love for Donna Peele only kept him married for four months.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Colin Farrell and Amelia Warner</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The couple decided to get married in a ceremony in Tahiti in 2001. But neither the charm of the ceremony nor the paradisiacal beaches helped the couple to exceed four months of marriage.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Katy Perry and Russell Brand</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The singer and the actor had a marriage that managed to overcome its first anniversary by two months.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Janet Jackson and James Debarge</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The couple managed to exceed two months of marriage, but three months isn't great either. Some say that his bad relationship with the singer's family was the cause of the breakup.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Mario Lopez and Ali Landry</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Despite the charm of Mario Lopez, the couple failed to make the marriage work. They stayed together for two weeks.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Sinead O'Connor and Barry Herridge</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Like many, they had an express wedding in Las Vegas. In the same way, their divorce came 16 days later.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-16946141025959426152022-01-07T21:11:00.004+05:002022-01-07T21:11:35.657+05:007 Sad Details About Donald Trump's Relationship With His Daughter Tiffany<p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">7 Sad Details About Donald Trump's Relationship With His Daughter Tiffany</span></b></p><p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">7 Sad Details About Donald Trump's Relationship With His Daughter Tiffany, We all know about Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka. It’s hard not to when he talks about her all the time; in fact, according to Factbase, Trump has mentioned her name over 650 times in public, most of which is spent praising her. </p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">We also know about Trump’s sons Don Jr., Eric, and little <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.yourtango.com/2020336395/how-tall-barron-trump-facts-about-donald-trumps-youngest-son" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Barron</a>.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">However, it's easy to forget about Tiffany Trump. And although Tiffany made a few appearances during Trump's campaign for President, it seems her place in his life is insignificant to that of her other siblings. </p><h2 class="article-sub-heading" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">Who is Tiffany Trump's mom?</h2><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Tiffany’s mother is <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="http://www.newsweek.com/how-many-times-trump-cheated-wives-780550" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Marla Maples, who was Donald’s mistress</a> during his marriage to Ivana Trump. The two married in December of 1993, a couple months after Tiffany’s birth.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">But according to Donald himself, his heart was never really in either relationship. He <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://people.com/celebrity/inside-donald-trumps-apology-to-people-reporter-after-posing-as-spokesperson/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">once said</a> that he had other girlfriends while dating Maples.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">What’s more, in a now-infamous <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tiffany-trump-ivanka-trump-tapes-howard-sterm-671826" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">2004 interview with Howard Stern</a>, Donald revealed his rather awkward reaction to Maples telling him she was pregnant with Tiffany.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">“At the time it was like, ‘Excuse me, what happened?’ And then I said, ‘Well, what are we going to do about this?’” he re-lived for Stern.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">“She [Maples] said, ‘Are you serious? It’s the most beautiful day of our lives.’ I said, ‘Oh, great.’”</p><div class="field-item even" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif;"><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Of course, for Donald Trump, the family name is everything, so it’s doubtful he’d ever purposely insult one of his own.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">When asked to describe <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/fashion/tiffany-the-other-trump.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">his youngest daughter in 2016</a>, Donald replied via email: “Tiffany is a tremendous young woman with a big and beautiful heart. She was always a great student and a very popular person no matter where she went. I am incredibly proud of Tiffany and how well she has done.”</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">However, because of the following, we’re not quite sure how truthful that is.</p><h2 class="article-sub-heading" style="font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">Here are some odd details about Donald Trump's relationship with his youngest daughter Tiffany Trump: </h2><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">1. Donald Trump wasn’t around when Tiffany Trump was growing up.</h3><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">As a real estate mogul and businessman and now President, Trump has always been a busy guy, so it’s not shocking that he’d have less time with his children. However, Tiffany’s relationship with her father had more strikes against it than just her father’s job.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">When Trump and Maples divorced in 1999, Maples settled in California in an attempt to keep Tiffany out of the public eye. Of course, this meant Tiffany was on the complete other side of the country than her father.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">“I would bring her into New York a couple times a year and let her go see her dad in the office,” <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://people.com/celebrity/donald-trump-ex-marla-maples-talks-raising-tiffany-trump-as-a-single-mother/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Maples had said</a>, but otherwise, Tiffany and Donald had little contact.</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">2. Donald Trump didn’t treat Tiffany Trump the same way he treated his other children.</h3><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/inside-ivanka-trump-and-tiffany-trump-complicated-sister-act" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">A Vanity Fair profile</a> of the relationship between Ivanka and Tiffany revealed that Tiffany didn’t receive the same treatment as Trump’s three oldest kids.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">“All she wanted, really, was a way to enjoy some of the privileges her friends got to enjoy, in the same way she would have enjoyed them if she’d lived under our father’s roof,” Ivanka wrote in her book, <em>The Trump Card</em>. But according to Ivanka, that had more to do with distance than negative feelings.</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">3. Trump favors Ivanka over Tiffany.</h3><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Trump has never been shy about his love for Ivanka (in fact, at times, <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-creepiest-most-unsettling-comments-a-roundup-a7353876.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">it’s been rather creepy</a>). He’s even gone so far as to <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://nymag.com/nymag/features/10610/index4.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">outright call her his favorite child</a>.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="http://www.elitedaily.com/p/tiffany-ivanka-donald-trumps-body-language-in-ohio-reveals-a-lot-8652795" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">According to body language expert Dr. Lillian Glass</a> in an interview, Trump’s apathetic feelings toward Tiffany are blatant.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"It's obvious that [Donald's] negative feelings towards Tiffany's mother has leaked over to Tiffany, as she is clearly not his favorite," Glass said about the body language between Trump and his daughters at a 2018 appearance. "It seems he doesn't respect her as much as he does Ivanka."</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">4. Donald Trump and Tiffany Trump go months without speaking.</h3><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">You can imagine that the President of The United States has quite a bit on his hands. However, you’d also imagine that most parents would do their best to make time for their children, no matter what job they held.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">But thanks in part to Trump’s position as President, <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="http://people.com/politics/tiffany-trump-strained-relationship-dad-donald/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">he and Tiffany’s relationship is worse than ever</a>.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">“Since the inauguration, Tiffany and her father have sometimes gone for months without speaking and she went a very long time without seeing him,” a source close to Tiffany said. “The last time she was at a family function with him, it was awkward for her and she didn’t feel totally welcome.”</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">5. Tiffany Trump is known as “The Other Trump.”</h3><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">While Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. were all very present during Trump’s campaign and presidency, Tiffany has taken more of a backseat and has, therefore, become known as the “other” or “forgotten” Trump.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Even Trump himself seems to put her last.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">During a 2018 appearance alongside Tiffany and Ivanka, whenever Trump mentioned the two, Ivanka always came first.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">He also <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-proud-tiffany-lesser-extent-article-1.2864804" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">told Fox and Friends</a> that he’s proud of Tiffany to “a lesser extent” than his other children.</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">6. Tiffany's siblings reportedly thought about “bumping her” from their inheritance.</h3><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="http://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-and-don-jr-tried-bump-tiffany-out-her-inheritance-according-newly-670841?amp=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">According to some reports</a>, Trump told Stern in a series of old interviews that Ivanka and Don Jr. considered “bumping” Tiffany out of the inheritance package.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">“It does cut up the pie as you keep producing," he said.</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">7. Tiffany Trump wishes she knew her dad better, according to her mom.</h3><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">While Tiffany herself hasn’t spoken ill of Trump, Maples revealed in a 2016 phone interview with the <em>Times</em> that she wishes she’d get to spend more time with him.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">“She’d like to get to know her father better and spend time with him like his other children did: by going to his office and watching him work,” Maples said.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In 2018, a source said, “They do see each other and Tiffany goes to the White House for holidays.”</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="margin: 0px;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/7-sad-details-about-donald-trumps-relationship-with-his-daughter-tiffany/ar-AASvKG1?li=BBnbfcL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></span></b></i></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-7773428959831198212022-01-07T19:50:00.001+05:002022-01-07T19:50:05.998+05:00US government sues Georgia auto-repair shop that dumped more than 91,000 pennies in a former employee's driveway<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">US government sues Georgia auto-repair shop that dumped more than 91,000 pennies in a former employee's driveway, When Andreas Flaten didn't receive his final paycheck from a former employer last January, he complained about it, calling up the US Department of Labor to lodge an accusation of wage theft. That employer responded by leaving <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.insider.com/georgia-90000-oily-pennies-dumped-in-mans-driveway-as-pay-check-2021-3" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">more than 91,000 pennies</a> on his driveway in Fayetteville, Georgia. </p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Now the US government is suing that company, arguing the act constituted illegal retaliation.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21174082-us-department-of-labor-legal-complaint?responsive=1&title=1" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">a complaint</a> filed with a federal court in Georgia, the Department of Labor accuses A OK Walker Autoworks and its owner, Miles Walker, of more than just pettiness.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The lawsuit claims the auto-repair shop bilked its workers out of money they were owed. The lawsuit accuses the company of "repeatedly and willfully" failing to pay time and a half for overtime, instead relying on a flat rate of pay regardless of whether someone worked more than 40 hours in a week.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">A OK Walker Autoworks did not respond to a message seeking comment.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The March 2021 penny stunt — along with the complaint that preceded it — appears to have prompted investigators to take a closer look at the shop's books.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"I honestly didn't think anything would be done," Flaten, 27, said in a phone interview with Insider. He didn't expect much when he first argued his wages had been stolen. What's happened since has restored some of his faith in government, and he thinks it should be a lesson to other workers who find themselves in a similar position.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"They definitely should not be scared to reach out," he said. "Speak up. Don't be quiet about it. Because if you're quiet about it, it's just going to continue to happen to you and everybody else."</p><h2 class="article-sub-heading" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;"><strong>Oily pennies</strong></h2><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The saga began in January 2021, when Flaten called the Department of Labor to say he was missing $915, per the complaint. Soon after, on January 27, 2021, a representative from the department's Wage and Hour Division called the company to find out what happened. The lawsuit says Flaten's former employers were defiant at first, saying they wouldn't give him a penny.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">It says that hours later, however, Walker, the owner, decided he would pay after all — one cent at a time.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"How can you make this guy realize what a disgusting example of a human being he is," the lawsuit quotes Walker as saying before adding: "You know what? I've got plenty of pennies; I'll use them."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The court documents say that "on top of the pile of pennies, Defendants left a copy of Mr. Flaten's last paycheck with an expletive written on the outside."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The only point of contention is how the pennies came to be coated in oil. The company says it did not do that; Flaten says he still has a stain in his driveway.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The company dedicated a page <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210822161735/https://aokwalker.com/pennies" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">on its website</a> to the penny stunt, in which it pushes back against "cancel culture" — after the incident went viral, the company's online reviews tanked — and urges readers to "take a stand against the tyranny of an overbearing government." It also appears to complain about Flaten in a series of questions.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Flaten said he wasn't too bothered by any of that. As with an "angry toddler," he said, "you just got to kind of ignore it."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/us-government-sues-georgia-auto-repair-shop-that-dumped-more-than-91000-pennies-in-a-former-employees-driveway/ar-AASw5Ci?li=BBnbfcL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-12592020010636923602022-01-07T18:11:00.002+05:002022-01-07T18:11:26.471+05:00If you caught Covid this holiday here's what you need to know<div><br /></div><div><p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">If you caught Covid this holiday here's what you need to know</span></b></p><p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">If you caught Covid this holiday here's what you need to know, If you caught Covid-19 over the holidays -- and with the highly contagious Omicron variant in circulation, record numbers of people did -- you may be wondering what your next steps should be.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Here's what the experts say you should know. </p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">I tested positive, but I feel fine. Should I still isolate?</h3><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The simple answer, said <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.upmc.com/media/experts/graham-snyder" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Dr. Graham Snyder</a>, medical director of infection prevention and hospital epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is to follow the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1227-isolation-quarantine-guidance.html" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">guidelines</a>.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"They base those guidelines on, now, two years of observations about what it means to be contagious," Snyder said.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">That CDC guidance changed in the last days of December. It now says people who test positive for Covid-19 should isolate for five days. After that, if they don't have symptoms or if their symptoms are resolving -- they are without fever for 24 hours without taking fever-reducing medication -- they should follow that with five days of wearing a mask around others. The CDC says it's optional to take an antigen test on day 5; if it's positive, you should stay in isolation until day 10.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">That should minimize the risk of spreading the virus. The likelihood that someone is contagious after 10 days is small if their symptoms have improved and their fever is gone, the experts say.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"If you've had the infection and you're feeling well and several days have gone by, the chances are very great you're not contagious," said <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/directory/myron-cohen-md/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Dr. Myron Cohen</a>, director of global health and infectious diseases at the UNC School of Medicine.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">If you and the people around you wear masks, you're taking the precautions that are appropriate regardless, he said.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"You don't know who in your universe is infectious," Cohen said. Just because someone had Covid five days ago doesn't mean they should be considered more dangerous. "What about the guy next to you that never got tested that's asymptomatic and has more copies than I do? We should act like we assume everybody has Covid."</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">Am I now less likely to get Covid-19 again?</h3><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Infection provides some natural immunity from the coronavirus, but it's not that simple.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"We often talk about immunity to this virus as if it's a yes or no thing. You're either immune or you're not. But Mother Nature rarely operates like that," said</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Immunity is on a continuum. It can change over time.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Covid-19 is not the chickenpox, for example. "In chickenpox, you're not going to get chickenpox again, but that's, you know, a high bar," said Cohen.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Dr. David Wohl, <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/directory/david-wohl-md/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">professor of medicine</a> in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine, said your body will be able to fight the coronavirus better after an infection, but that's no guarantee you won't get it again.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"I wish you can say, once you catch Covid, you never catch it again. This is not that kind of virus," he said. "So we know with reinfection data, you don't get immune to it just because you had in previous infection. There are some things you catch then never catch again, but this is one of those things where, yeah, you're gonna keep getting it."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In some ways, a person could be "safer" after getting Covid-19 because they are less likely to get seriously ill from a subsequent infection, said <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/sten_vermund/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Dr. Sten Vermund</a>, dean and Anna M.R. Lauder professor of public health at Yale School of Medicine. "They are also less likely to have a high viral load if they do get a subsequent infection. So in that sense, they are a bit safer."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">But, the experts say, don't go wild. Take precautions.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"I wouldn't say anybody should feel comfortable, if they've had an infection, that they can go run around feeling like you're immune from a reinfection or complications," Snyder said. "It does offer some protection. I wouldn't rely on it for 100% protection."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">At some point down the road, Wohl said, this coronavirus could be more like the common cold -- another coronavirus -- and people will get it every few years, but it may not be as serious, and there will be treatments that are easy to access. But those days are not here yet.</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">Does getting sick with one variant offer protection from another?</h3><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">After any Covid-19 illness, your body is generally able to spot the coronavirus.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"No matter which variant, your body now is better able to recognize that virus in the future. It's stronger; it's better prepared," Snyder said. But exactly how prepared isn't quite clear.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The Delta and Omicron variants were in circulation around the holidays. Catching one of them could possibly still leave you vulnerable to the other.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"The degree of cross-protection from Delta and Omicron is not very well-known yet," Cohen said. "It's a complicated answer generally, but for a simplistic one, the answer is, having natural infection provides some immunity and probably provides some cross-immunity, but the magnitude of the cross-immunity is not known."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Last month,<a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.70/1mx.c5c.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MEDRXIV-2021-268439v1-Sigal.pdf" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"> a small study</a> looking at blood taken from people infected with Omicron in South Africa showed they have strong immune responses to Omicron -- but also strengthened immune responses to the Delta variant, the researchers reported. The study is limited and has not been peer-reviewed, and it's not certain it was the Omicron infection that enhanced the immunity in the volunteers' blood, the researchers noted.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">If Omicron infection does make people less susceptible to Delta infections, that could be a good thing, the researchers noted. "If so, then the incidence of Covid-19 severe disease would be reduced and the infection may shift to become less disruptive to individuals and society," Alex Sigal and Khadija Khan of the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, and colleagues wrote in their report.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">But remember, there's no telling what other variants may crop up after these, or how different they might be from Delta or Omicron.</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">What if I got sick but hadn't been vaccinated or boosted? Do I still need a shot?</h3><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The experts say yes.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">With this particular coronavirus, your immune response is better with a vaccine than with a natural infection, Vermund said. It's not totally clear why.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Studies on Covid-19 reinfection show this to be true. Reinfection was more common in someone who had natural immunity than in someone who was vaccinated.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"The odds are much lower if you've had a vaccine -- not even boosted, just vaccinated -- of getting reinfected compared to if you had not been vaccinated and been infected before," Wohl said.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Wohl points to <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://inside.charlotte.edu/news-features/2021-10-04/unvaccinated-reinfection-sars-cov-2-likely" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">a study</a> done in September by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services that documented about 11,000 reinfections. Of those, only 200 cases were in people who were vaccinated.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"We encourage anybody who's had infection to still get vaccinated because vaccination helps the body prepare by making a more robust set of antibodies," Snyder said. "They bind more strongly, and especially the boosters are broader. They're able to recognize differences in the virus."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">After a vaccine, any reinfection would probably produce a much less serious illness.</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">What if I was boosted and then got Covid? Can I throw caution to the wind afterward?</h3><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">If you've had a breakthrough infection, your immune system is well-primed and ready to fight the coronavirus when it encounters it again, Wohl said. Your body should be better prepared if you encounter Omicron again, but there's no absolute guarantee that you'd be protected if, for example, you waded into an unmasked crowd at a concert.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"We are in the middle of the surge of surges. This is the worst time to be out there unmasked and around other people's noses and throats," Wohl said.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Plus, again, you can't be sure that the virus you come into contact with will be the same variant you caught before.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"The reason why the person who's had Covid and boosted still wants to use common sense is because we don't understand yet what other variants will be out there and how they will react to them," Cohen said.</p><h3 class="article-sub-heading" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 48px; position: relative;">Can I get long Covid after Omicron? Or could my kids get MIS-C?</h3><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The Omicron variant is too new for experts to know anything about its long-term effects.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"We don't know yet," Snyder said. "It's too soon to know."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/if-you-caught-covid-this-holiday-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ar-AASvGMR?li=BBnb7Kz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></span></b></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-25456049684135124142022-01-07T18:02:00.000+05:002022-01-07T18:02:11.432+05:00Lady Gaga Tried to Investigate Jan. 6 Herself—'I Looked For Evidence'<p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Lady Gaga Tried to Investigate Jan. 6 Herself—'I Looked For Evidence'</span></b></p><p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Lady Gaga Tried to Investigate Jan. 6 Herself—'I Looked For Evidence', Lady Gaga visited the U.S. Capitol days after the January 6 riot seeking "evidence of the truth", she revealed in an interview that has resurfaced on the anniversary of the attack.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">A violent mob of <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/donald-trump" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> supporters stormed the building in Washington D.C. in an attempt to stop <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/congress" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Congress</a> certifying the result of the 2020 election and the victory of <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.newsweek.com/biden-references-trump-13-times-speech-about-capitol-riot-never-mentions-his-name-1666335" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">President Joe Biden</a>.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The singer and actress—real name Stefani Germanotta—visited the site ahead of performing the national anthem at Biden's inauguration on January 20—and took the opportunity to launch a small investigation of her own. </p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">During an interview with Bernice King on the web series <em>Beloved Community Talks —The Power of Unlearning</em>, Gaga, 35, discussed her experience at the Capitol, saying she "saw the white rage" as she looked at a broken window.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The hour-long interview originally aired in June 2021 and resurfaced on the riot's one-year anniversary this week.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Gaga told King: "The day before [the inauguration], I went to see where I was going to be standing, and I walked in with a bulletproof vest on, because we were nervous about being in the Capitol.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"Somebody said to me, 'Would you like to see the Capitol today?' I said no, because I wanted to get in and get out. And then I went in and saw where I was going to stand and sing and I was finished with the walkthrough of the show, which was a beautiful day.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"But as I was leaving, I stopped myself and I said, 'Why did you say no, that you don't want to see the Capitol today?' And it was because I didn't want to see the place where the insurrection had taken place. I went back to that woman that asked me and I said, 'My apologies, I'd like to see the Capitol.'"</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Gaga's change of heart led to the singer and actress seeking out her own clues about the unrest on January 6.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"I walked through the Capitol like a detective," she said, "and I looked for evidence of the truth, because we see these things on screens. We witness these things on the news. But to be there in person, I was afraid."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Gaga, <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.newsweek.com/lady-gaga-donald-trump-impeach-twitter-25-amendment-1560082" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">who called for Trump to be impeached after the riot</a>, went on: "I knew in that moment I was avoiding this issue and I stopped myself and I said, 'Don't avoid it, go look at it and go be with it.'</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"And guess what I did? I just walked through and I searched until I found... They told me, 'You won't find much, we've cleaned up most of it.' But I found a window that had blunt force, that was cracked. And I went to that window and I stared at it and I saw the white rage. And I stared at it and I reflected and I thought about what I was about to do the next day.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"I thought about what a gift this unlearning was also to myself that I would take that moment to go there and see it for myself, because that day to me was not about Donald Trump. That day to me was about white supremacy and it was a day that we could all take our hands and point right at it, where it was crystal clear."</p><div class="twitter-slot" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-twitter-extracted-i1641560295043679376="true"><p style="margin: 0px;">The only thing worth talking about today is how Lady Gaga tried to hold her own investigation of the insurrection pic.twitter.com/mCttqx7IRn</p>— Daniel Kaluuya If You Are Reading This I Swallow (@WrittenByHanna) January 6, 2022</blockquote></div><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In an interview with British<em> Vogue </em>published in November, Gaga said the Schiaparelli gown she wore to Biden's inauguration was bulletproof.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Describing her participation in the event as "one of the proudest days of my whole life," the star told the magazine: "Like many people in America, I felt a deep fear when Trump was president, and ushering 45 out and 46 in is something I'll be able to tell my children all about.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"Singing in a Schiaparelli bulletproof dress. I don't know if people know this about me, but if I weren't who I am today, I would have been a combat journalist. That was one of my dreams. When I was at the Capitol, the day before the inauguration, I remember walking around and looking for evidence of the insurrection."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">However, a representative for the fashion brand said in a statement: "The dress was not actually bulletproof. We cannot comment on what she may have worn underneath."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lady-gaga-tried-to-investigate-jan-6-herself%e2%80%94i-looked-for-evidence/ar-AASwIxj?li=BBnb7Kz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-62943750533861269862022-01-07T17:52:00.000+05:002022-01-07T17:52:31.409+05:004 Types of Near-Retirees Who Quit Their Jobs During the Pandemic<h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-56 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-14" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;"><b>4 Types of Older Workers Who Quit During the Pandemic</b></h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-54" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segeo UI", Arial, Sans-sarif; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The Great Resignation remains in full force, with a record <a data-t="{"n":"partnerLink","b":1}" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/04/jolts-november-2021-record-4point5-million-workers-quit-their-jobs.html" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">4.5 million</a> workers quitting their jobs in November, according to the latest data from the U.S. Labor Department.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Statistics show that older workers make up a surprising number of those who have left their jobs during the pandemic. Overall, among workers ages 55 and older, the likelihood of leaving work over the course of one year jumped 7.6%, according to an <a data-t="{"n":"partnerLink","b":1}" href="https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/wp_2021-13.pdf" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">analysis of data</a> by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. That marked a 50% increase over the pre-pandemic rate.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">While some workers quit their jobs to take on another role elsewhere, others are leaving the workforce for good.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The following are four types of older workers who were more likely to leave their jobs during the pandemic, according to the Center for Retirement Research.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-61 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-15" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">1. Women</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-59" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Older women were slightly more likely than men to leave work during the pandemic. Compared with the pre-pandemic trend, there was an 8% increase in the number of older women who left their jobs over the course of a year.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">That edged out the 7% increase in older men who have left the workforce during the COVID-19 era.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">The fact that older women are quitting more frequently than older men mirrors a larger trend in which women of all ages are leaving jobs at a higher rate than their male counterparts, <a data-t="{"n":"partnerLink","b":1}" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-job-market-economy-jolts/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">according to data</a>.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-66 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-16" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">2. Asian Americans</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-64" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Most racial groups have seen an increase of around 7 percentage points in the number of older workers leaving the workforce compared to pre-pandemic era norms. But the increase among senior Asian Americans has been much larger, around 12%.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a data-t="{"n":"partnerLink","b":1}" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/07/covid-19-asian-americans-joblessness-has-lasted-longer-pandemic/4823285001/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">In April</a>, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that nearly half — 48% — of the Asian-American community’s 615,000 unemployed workers had been without jobs for at least six months, significantly higher than the percentage for workers of other racial groups.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Experts attributed the trend to the fact that low-wage industries populated by disproportionate numbers of workers of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage did not bounce back as quickly as other parts of the economy. It’s possible that a fair number of these workers who were older simply decided to leave the workforce for good.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-71 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-17" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">3. High school graduates</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-69" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Among older college graduates, the rate of workers leaving the workforce rose 6% compared with pre-pandemic rates. However, the rate was much higher among those with only a high school diploma: 11%.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-77 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-18" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">4. Those who cannot work remotely</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-74" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Among older workers, the ability to work remotely was the biggest factor dividing workers who quit from those who stayed at their jobs.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Workers who had the ability to perform their jobs remotely quit at rates that were just 4% higher compared to the pre-pandemic era. By contrast, that number jumped to 10% for those whose occupation did not lend itself well to remote work.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/4-types-of-near-retirees-who-quit-their-jobs-during-the-pandemic/ss-AASwPyL#image=5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></span></b></p></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-57263057326356265222022-01-07T17:39:00.003+05:002022-01-07T17:39:37.870+05:00Fell Behind on Retirement Savings in 2021? 15 Ways to Catch Up in 2022<h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-41 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Fell Behind on Retirement Savings in 2021? 15 Ways to Catch Up in 2022</h2><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-41 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Grow your savings this year</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-40" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segeo UI", Arial, Sans-sarif; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">You'll need personal savings to enjoy a financially comfortable retirement. If you've fallen behind in that regard, here's some good news -- you can make 2022 the year you get back on track. Here's how.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter;">1. Get on a strict budget</span></p><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-45" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Following a budget will help you manage your money more carefully. And that could open the door to more generous <a data-t="{"n":"partnerLink","b":1}" href="https://www.fool.com/retirement/plans/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">IRA or 401(k) plan</a> contributions. You can set up a budget using a basic spreadsheet, or go old school and create one on paper. There are also different apps you can use to track your spending.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-51 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-14" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">2. Slash one large expense</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-50" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Cutting back on one big expense category could make it easier to ramp up your 401(k) or IRA contributions. Think about the things you spend the most money on and figure out a way to cut back in a single area, whether it's housing, transportation, or food.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-56 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-15" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">3. Cut a series of smaller expenses</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-55" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">You may not be able to easily slash one of your largest expenses. But cutting back on smaller bills will help free up money for your retirement savings, too. Once you have your budget set up, you can more easily identify smaller expenses to reduce.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-67 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-17" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">4. Consolidate your credit card debt</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-65" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">The lower your monthly debt payments, the more money you'll be able to pump into your IRA or 401(k). If you owe money on a number of credit cards, see if you can consolidate that debt -- and make it more affordable -- by doing a <a data-t="{"n":"partnerLink","b":1}" href="https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/credit-cards/best-balance-transfer-credit-cards/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">balance transfer</a>. It especially pays to go this route if you qualify for a 0% introductory APR.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-72 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-18" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">5. Refinance your mortgage</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-70" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The less you spend on housing payments, the more money you'll have available to fund your 401(k) or IRA. If your credit score is in good shape, it pays to apply to <a data-t="{"n":"partnerLink","b":1}" href="https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/mortgages/best-refinance-lenders/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">refinance your mortgage</a>. Getting a more affordable home loan could also help your overall financial picture improve.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter;">6. Automate your savings</span></p><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-75" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The great thing about 401(k)s is that contributions are deducted directly from your earnings. IRAs don't always work the same way -- but they can. All you need to do is find one with an automatic savings feature. From there, you can arrange to have money from each paycheck land in your retirement plan so you're socking money away off the bat.</p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-82 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-20" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">7. Bank your 2022 raise</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-80" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">If your pay is getting boosted in 2022, you have a prime opportunity to save more for retirement. Simply send your entire raise into savings since it's not money you were used to spending anyway.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-87 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-21" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">8. Send any bonus cash you get into your retirement account</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-85" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">You may come across extra money in the course of 2022, whether it's a tax refund or a reward for doing well at work. If you don't have pressing bills to pay, send that bonus cash into your long-term savings.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-98 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-23" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">9. Get a side hustle</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-95" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Boosting your income with a second job could be your ticket to growing your IRA or 401(k) this year. It pays to explore different side hustle options, whether it's walking dogs, doing data entry from home, or utilizing a specific skill you have to make extra money, like writing content or designing websites.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-103 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-24" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">10. Snag your full 401(k) match</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-100" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Many companies that sponsor 401(k) plans also match worker contributions to some degree. Be sure to take advantage of your full employer match this year so you can sneak as much extra money into your retirement plan as possible.</p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-108 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-25" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">11. Invest aggressively for added growth in your retirement plan</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-105" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="margin: 0px;">If retirement is many years away, it pays to load up on stocks in your retirement account. That way, you'll give your savings a chance to generate substantial growth -- enough growth, perhaps, to make up for years when you didn't contribute as much as you would've liked to.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-113 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-26" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">12. Take advantage of catch-up contributions</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-110" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="margin: 0px;">If you're 50 or older, you're entitled to catch-up contributions in your retirement plan. If you have an IRA, you can put in an extra $1,000 this year. With a 401(k) plan, your catch-up maxes out at $6,500. Either way, that extra money could go a long way toward helping you meet your goals.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-118 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-27" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">13. Think outside of an IRA or 401(k)</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-115" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px;">While it makes sense to save for retirement in an IRA or 401(k), you're not limited to these plans alone. A health savings account, or HSA, for example, can also help you build savings for retirement. You can even put money into a traditional brokerage account and earmark it for retirement if you've maxed out your IRA or 401(k) and have extra cash available.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-129 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-29" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">14. Set a specific goal</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-125" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="margin: 0px;">Sometimes, having a savings goal in mind makes it easier to stay on track. Think about the amount of money you want to put into retirement savings this year and then map out a plan to get there.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 class="typography-DS-EntryPoint2-5 typography-DS-EntryPoint2-134 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-1 typography__5-DS-EntryPoint2-30" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 40px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">15. Remind yourself of the consequences of not catching up</h2><div class="slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-4 slideMetadata_content-DS-EntryPoint2-130" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 12px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Closing out your career with a subpar retirement plan balance could have negative consequences, like having to <a data-t="{"n":"partnerLink","b":1}" href="https://www.fool.com/retirement/2021/12/27/what-to-do-if-you-want-to-delay-retirement-but-can/" style="color: #0078d4;" target="_blank">delay retirement</a> and enduring financial struggles during your senior years. It wouldn't hurt to occasionally remind yourself of those repercussions, because that might motivate you to increase your savings efforts.</p></div></div></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/fell-behind-on-retirement-savings-in-2021-15-ways-to-catch-up-in-2022/ss-AASx6HT#image=16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></span></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-9152923811719285162022-01-07T17:11:00.003+05:002022-01-07T17:11:39.817+05:00Baby Pronounced Dead Starts to Cry on Way to Cemetery<p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Baby Pronounced Dead Starts to Cry on Way to Cemetery</span></b></p><p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Baby Pronounced Dead Starts to Cry on Way to Cemetery, A mother and father in Turkey were left shocked after their son, who was pronounced stillborn by doctors, began crying on his way to the cemetery. </p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Melek Sert, 32, and her husband Hasan Sert, 34, have told local media about the shocking incident.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Melek Sert was five months pregnant when she was told by doctors her baby son was stillborn on January 2.She was was given a death certificate and small funeral bag by the Seyhan State Hospital.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">According to a report by Anadolu Agency, the father then took the baby to the Herekli Neighborhood Cemetery to bury him.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Hasan Sert said as he drove to the cemetery he began to hear the baby cry. He then unzipped the bag and called emergency services immediately.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">He took off his jacket, wrap[ed it around the baby and turn the car heater all the way up.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The baby was taken to Adana City Training and Research Hospital and treated in the intensive care unit.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The couple feared for a miscarriage after Melek Sert went into the hospital with severe pain.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">She said: "My bleeding was stopped at the hospital and I was discharged. I came home.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"But the day after, we went to the hospital again on New Year's Eve with the same complaint. They kept me under surveillance because there was a risk of miscarriage. Then miscarriage occurred."</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">She asked her husband to check with the nurse whether their baby was alive after she gave birth. He was told the baby had died.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The mother and father have visited the prosecutor's office to investigate whether there had been negligence on the part of the hospital.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The mother told reporters how happy she was to finally see her baby's face.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">She said: "His hands are fidgety, his feet are moving. His heart is beating.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"I saw him, at least I felt relieved. Thank God, I saw that he was fine, but the doctor said, 'his condition is critical.'</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"He said that his blood pressure had dropped. He didn't say anything else. He didn't give much information about his condition we wait."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">She continued to say that she was happy and praised God.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">She said: "We do not despair of God, we pray. I saw the back of the baby's face and the back of his head during the last birth.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"I am happy, his hands and feet were fidgeting. I am very happy, I saw my child alive. What else can I ask of God? I hope he gets better and regains his health."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/baby-pronounced-dead-starts-to-cry-on-way-to-cemetery/ar-AASvqPT?ocid=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-23646963973922627022022-01-07T17:04:00.003+05:002022-01-07T17:04:35.199+05:00Psaki says maybe Trump 'learned something' from watching Biden's January 6 anniversary speech<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Psaki says maybe Trump 'learned something' from watching Biden's January 6 anniversary speech, White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday commented on former President Donald Trump's reaction to President Joe Biden's speech on the anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riot. </p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"Well, it looks like he saw the speech. I guess that's good news. Maybe he learned something about what it looks like to meet the moment in the country," Psaki told reporters during a press briefing.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"To meet the moment where people are hurting, they are thinking of the pain, all of the people who worked in that Capitol who were there a year ago. Whether they were members of Congress, their staff, janitors or journalists. And to speak to who we can be and call for people's higher powers to reach that. Maybe he learned something from that. I guess we'll see," she continued.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Shortly after Biden's speech, Trump released a statement calling the president's remarks "political theater" and "just a distraction for the fact Biden has completely and totally failed."</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Biden spoke from the Capitol on Thursday as he reflected on the violence that erupted in the building a year ago and commemorated the deaths of law enforcement officials.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In his speech, the president criticized Trump, though he did not mention him by name, instead reffing to him as the " defeated former president." Biden blamed Trump for the January 6 riot and emphasized his refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 election.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"For the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent a peaceful transition of power as a violent mob reached the Capitol," Biden said. "But they failed. They failed. And on this day of remembrance, we must make sure that such an attack never, never happens again."</p><div class="twitter-slot" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe __idm_id__="57345" allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1479164070733434885" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1479164070733434885&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fpsaki-maybe-trump-learned-something-from-watching-bidens-speech-2022-1&sessionId=2b68071d5adc34c0682b870be5dcaa1e8ceb76f4&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9fd78d5%3A1638479056965&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 659px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"> </p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">NBC News' Kristen Welker asked Psaki during Thursday's press briefing about Biden's decision not to call out Trump by name.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"There's only one president in the history of this country who fomented an insurrection and which prompted the seizing of our nation's Capitol," Psaki said. "I think everybody knew who he was referring to. But as the president said today, this day and the work that we need to do moving forward, is not about one person. It is about the country, reflecting on who we are in this moment, who we want to be moving forward, and what steps we need to take to protect our own democracy."</p><div class="read-original" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px;">Read the original article on <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/psaki-maybe-trump-learned-something-from-watching-bidens-speech-2022-1" style="color: #0078d4; outline: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Business Insider</a><br /><br /></div><div class="read-original" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/psaki-says-maybe-trump-learned-something-from-watching-biden-s-january-6-anniversary-speech/ar-AASvJ5C?ocid=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-47380384845316456762022-01-06T23:33:00.000+05:002022-01-06T23:33:00.305+05:00Trump turns on Hannity over Capitol-riot texts advising him to stop claiming the election was stolen<p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b>Trump turns on Hannity over Capitol-riot texts advising him to stop claiming the election was stolen</b></p><p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Trump turns on Hannity over Capitol-riot texts advising him to stop claiming the election was stolen, Donald Trump hit out at Fox News Sean Hannity on Wednesday for suggesting days after the Capitol riot that the former president should stop claiming the election was rigged.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot on Tuesday released the texts sent by Hannity — a prominent supporter of Trump — to his former aides including Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">They were part of a letter to Hannity requesting that he cooperate with the committee's investigation.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The letter quoted a text sent by Hannity to Meadows and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan four days after the Capitol riot which said: "[Trump] can't mention the election again. Ever. I did not have a good call with him today. And worse, I'm not sure what is left to do or say, and I don't like not knowing if it's truly understood. Ideas?" </p><div class="twitter-slot" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1478489150357651458" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1478489150357651458&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Ftrump-turns-on-hannity-over-his-capitol-riots-texts-2022-1&sessionId=f89920558772eddf8db534bf8706f765d5db603d&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9fd78d5%3A1638479056965&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 707px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/politics/january-6-committee-sean-hannity/index.html" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Trump told CNN</a> on Wednesday, through a spokesperson: "I disagree with Sean on that statement and the facts are proving me right."</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The spokesperson did not specify which facts they were referring to or how they were being proven right.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Since leaving office, Trump <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fixated-overturning-2020-election-cant-focus-other-things-axios-2021-12?r=US&IR=T" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">continued to push the baseless claim that he lost the election to Joe Biden</a> as a result of widespread voter fraud. Multiple lawsuits and election audits have failed to produce any evidence to back up his claims.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Hannity was <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hannity-friendship-falling-out-2020-election-fox-news-book-2021-6?r=US&IR=T" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">frequently a cheerleader of Trump's agenda during his administration, and appeared at his rallies</a>.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">But their relationship soured after the Fox News host became "disgusted" by Trump's conspiracy theories about the election, <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hannity-friendship-falling-out-2020-election-fox-news-book-2021-6?r=US&IR=T" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">according to a book published last year by CNN's Brian Stelter</a>.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The former president remains fixated on overturning his election loss, <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-80394aaf-e0a3-4ef5-b7cb-1b73ff22ccea.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Axios reported</a>, citing sources who said it was difficult to dissuade him from repeatedly turning to the topic in personal conversations.</p><div class="read-original" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px;">Read the original article on <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-turns-on-hannity-over-his-capitol-riots-texts-2022-1" style="color: #0078d4; outline: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Business Insider</a></div><div class="read-original" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div class="read-original" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-turns-on-hannity-over-capitol-riot-texts-advising-him-to-stop-claiming-the-election-was-stolen/ar-AASuDqT?ocid=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-65148662135414665602022-01-06T03:48:00.003+05:002022-01-06T03:48:36.019+05:00The Biggest Women’s Health Myths <h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Biggest Women’s Health Myths</h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The biggest women’s health myths, </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Segoe UI Semilight, Segoe WP Semilight, Segoe WP, Segoe UI, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ladies, find out the truth once and for all! </span></span></h2><figure style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Women have been getting <a data-id="83" data-m="{"i":83,"p":46,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":36}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.starsinsider.com/health/488624/ways-to-improve-your-health-in-less-than-a-minute" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">health</a> advice since childhood, and, shockingly, much of it is pure nonsense! Unfortunately, many women can go their entire lives still believing these falsehoods, so it’s time to debunk some of these myths.</span></p></div></div></figcaption></figure><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif;">Check out this gallery to see some of the biggest women's health myths out there. Maybe you'll recognize some of these from your own experience...</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Doing ab exercises will get you a six-pack</span></h2><figure style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, this is indeed only a myth. Even if you do all the ab <a data-id="84" data-m="{"i":84,"p":46,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":37}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.starsinsider.com/health/384829/skip-the-gym-and-do-these-exercises-at-home-instead" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">exercises</a> out there, it won't naturally give you a six-pack. It will only truly show if you’re watching your nutrition and focus on reducing body fat to 20% or less. So unless you’re a fitness model, there's no point in obsessing over abs!</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Women's bladders are smaller than men's</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Women might have to pee more because their bladders push up against the uterus and fill a little faster, but it doesn't have anything to do with size.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Certain foods will help you get pregnant</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s believed that eating certain foods, like yams or goji berries, will help struggling women conceive. However, there are no miracle foods for this.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You'll gain a ton of weight after menopause</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One of the scariest myths about menopause is the weight gain due to hormonal changes. The truth is that menopause is different for every woman, but actual weight gain is not relatable.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can drink cranberry juice to cure a UTI</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Urinary tract infections, better known as UTIs, are the worst and tricky to get rid of. Sadly, the cranberry juice hack is just a myth with no proof of actually being a cure.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Too much intercourse causes the vagina to get bigger</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Having regular intercourse doesn't cause your vagina to become ‘loose’ or stretch out. It’s natural when turned on that the vaginal muscles relax and loosen, so nothing to worry about.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Skipping breakfast will make you gain weight</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This myth has been around forever, and many people believe skipping breakfast will make you overeat during the day, thus gaining weight. This has been proven not to be true, so don't worry if you skip breakfast once in a while.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you wear face makeup, there's no need for sunscreen</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Your foundation and powder isn't going to protect your skin from the sun’s harmful rays, so don't skip on the sunscreen.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You shouldn't work out during your period</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You might lose a little motivation during that time of the month, but there is nothing unhealthy about working out during your menstrual cycle. In fact, exercise has been shown to reduce cramp pains!</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Using a yogurt-covered tampon can help with yeast infections</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please don’t put a yogurt-covered tampon anywhere in your body! The myth goes that the good bacteria can cure the yeast infection, but it’s not the same bacteria that will keep your vagina healthy.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's harder to get pregnant after 35</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you’re worried that the chances of getting pregnant after 35 plummet immediately, don’t. Fertility does decline with age, but multiple studies have found that women 35 and up can still easily get pregnant.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Using birth control makes it harder to get pregnant later on</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many women believe years of using birth control will make it less likely they'll get pregnant when going off it. But the truth is you can get pregnant just as easily as if you hadn't been on birth control in the first place. The difficulty might just be caused to being closer to menopause, not from the actual pill.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Reading in dim lights will mess up your eyesight</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is something you probably heard your mom say, but there’s really nothing to worry about. Reading in dim lights might simply make your eyes hurt due to tiredness, but it doesn’t cause any actual damage.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Your s e x drive decreases as you get older</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While menopause can affect your s e x drive, it’s not a guarantee. There have even been studies that show an increase in sexual satisfaction post-menopause, maybe as a result of not having to worry about accidentally getting pregnant!</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You don't need sunscreen in the winter</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, sun rays can still cause damage to your skin, even more so when they reflect light on the snow. So don’t skip on your SPF!</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can't get pregnant while you're breastfeeding</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The chances are low, but i</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">t’s not impossible, as your ability to ovulate can return during this period.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Deodorant causes breast cancer</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The link between breast cancer and deodorant has been highly debated, and some scientists believe there’s a connection due to the potentially harmful ingredients applied near the breasts. However, no actual evidence has been found.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can't get pregnant if you're on your period</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You might think you can have unprotected sex during your period without any worries of getting pregnant, but the truth is it’s not impossible. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The sperm can stay alive in your body for up to five days, so there's still a chance that it can reach your egg while ovulating post-period.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Breastfeeding causes saggy breasts</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some women fear breastfeeding simply because they think it will result in saggy breasts. In reality, it has more to do with other factors like age or number of pregnancies.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's dangerous to exercise during pregnancy</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This was an old notion so that pregnant women would take it easy. But today it’s recommended for women to get 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise during pregnancy. Of course, always check with your doctor first.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bladder leakage only happens to old people</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You might think bladder leakage is something that only happens to the elderly, but it’s super common in younger women, too.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Missing your period means you're pregnant</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">While it’s a common reason, there are also plenty of other explanations for missing your period. Other factors might be </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">high levels of stress, excessive exercise, or extreme weight loss. But it’s best to always check with a gynecologist.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Shaving will make your hair grow back quicker and thicker</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shaving doesn't change anything when it comes to your hair, be it color, growth rate, or </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">coarseness. It might look a little darker, but this is only when it starts growing out.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's possible for your period to sync up with your BFF</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You’ve probably heard that all the hours spent with your bestie can sync up your flows. The truth is, however, that this has nothing to do with hormones, but rather numbers. Over time, if a woman has a three-week cycle and another a five-week cycle, they will eventually see their periods go in and out of sync.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lying on your back during intercourse will make it easier to get pregnant</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It has been believed for a long time that gravity makes it easier to get pregnant. However, this </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">technique isn't as reliable as it seems.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You don't have to worry about heart disease if you're a woman</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even though heart diseases are more common with men, women have to be attentive, too, as it’s unfortunately the number one cause of death.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wearing bras causes breast cancer</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The myth goes that bras can cause breast cancer because of how they restrict the lymphatic system. However, there’s absolutely no evidence that backs that up, so wear a bra or don’t—you choose!</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Green mucus means you're sick</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This just sounds yucky, but the truth is you can’t rely on the color or consistency of your mucus as a sign of infection or not. In fact, green mucus might mean it’s doing its job and protecting your body.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You're supposed to gain a bunch of weight during pregnancy</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's not actually fact that you have to gain tons of weight during pregnancy. Make sure to talk to your doctor to figure out how much weight gain is healthy for your body.</span></span></p><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="gallery-title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You have to drink eight glasses of water every day</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gallery-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This myth has been around for ages, but when it comes to hydrating, you don’t have to necessarily focus on that number. The amount you drink has more to do with how active you are, your health, and where you live. Plus, it doesn’t have to all come from water, but also the foods you eat.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/familyhealth/the-biggest-women-s-health-myths/ss-AASrXE1?ocid=BingHp01#image=31" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></b></span></span></p></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></figcaption></figure>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-34376183044769694942022-01-06T03:04:00.005+05:002022-01-06T03:04:33.427+05:00General Hospital Just Killed off Iconic Character Luke Spencer After 44 Years — Here's How!<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">General Hospital Just Killed off Iconic Character Luke Spencer After 44 Years — Here's How!, The iconic <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://people.com/tv/general-hospital-airs-tribute-jay-pickett-weeks-after-actor-sudden-death/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><em>General Hospital</em></a> character previously portrayed by actor Anthony Geary was killed off on the Jan. 3 episode of the longest-running soap opera in the United States.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">On Monday's episode of the ABC daytime drama, Tracy Quartermaine, played by Jane Elliott, revealed in a conversation with Spencer's ex-wife Laura Collins, portrayed by Genie Francis, that the famed Port Charles resident had died in a cable car accident in Austria.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Later in the episode, the show hinted that Victor Cassadine, portrayed by Charles Shaughnessy (who starred as Mr. Sheffield on <em>The Nanny), </em>may have been responsible for Spencer's death.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Geary retired from the role in 2015 after 44 years on <em>General Hospital</em>. He first joined the cast in 1978 and became well-known as one half of the Luke and Laura power couple, going on to win a record eight Emmy awards for the role. 2021 marked the 40th anniversary of the <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://people.com/tv/general-hospital-genie-francis-luke-and-laura-story-of-soaps/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">controversial couple's</a> onscreen wedding, which drew a record-shattering 30 million viewers when it aired in 1981, per <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=236498" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">ABC News</a>. The episode went down as the "highest-rated hour in American soap opera history," <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.newsweek.com/longest-running-soap-operas-television-history-general-hospital-coronation-street-1628264" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Newsweek</a> reported.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">At the time of this retirement from <em>General Hospital</em>, an emotional Geary told <em><a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://ew.com/article/2015/06/23/anthony-geary-general-hospital-goodbye/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Entertainment Weekly</a> </em>that he was looking forward to the next chapter of his career.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"I'm excited to raise the curtain on act 3, to reinvent myself in my new home to pursue whatever opportunity there may be. It's an exciting prospect to me," Geary told the outlet. "They've done a wonderful job of wrapping up the character. So this seems like the ideal time to go."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Shortly after his departure from <em>General Hospital</em>, Geary told the outlet that he wasn't opposed to returning to the show, albeit briefly. "If the story is interesting to me and it works out, I may come back to the show for six weeks or so," he said at the time.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Geary played Spencer for the last time on the show in 2017. Ahead of the appearance, he spoke with <em><a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://ew.com/article/2015/06/29/general-hospital-check-out-luke-and-lauras-last-moment/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">EW</a></em> about the emotions he experienced around no longer being a regular on the show after four decades onscreen.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"It was once very difficult for me to realize that more than likely my obituary in the paper will read, 'Luke of Luke and Laura fame died today.' It was very upsetting when I came to that realization," Geary said.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"It's been a <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://ew.com/tv/general-hospital-killed-off-luke-spencer/" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">really exciting ride</a>," he later added. "In the end, it's been well worth it."</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><em>General Hospital</em> celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2023.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/general-hospital-just-killed-off-iconic-character-luke-spencer-after-44-years-here-s-how/ar-AASsDtE?ocid=uxbndlbing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-75506144445633894952022-01-06T02:53:00.002+05:002022-01-06T02:53:08.110+05:00Gal Gadot says 'Imagine' video was in 'poor taste'<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Gal Gadot says 'Imagine' video was in 'poor taste'</span></b></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Gal Gadot says 'Imagine' video was in 'poor taste', Gal Gadot has kicked off 2022 by thoroughly addressing the controversial, <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/celebrities/gal-gadot-celebrities-imagine-coronavirus-scli-intl/index.html" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">star-studded "Imagine" video</a> that went viral for all the wrong reasons at the start of the global pandemic.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In an <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/gal-gadot/february-2022-cover" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">interview with InStyle</a> for the magazine's February issue, the "Wonder Woman" actress said the video -- which also featured the likes of Kristen Wiig, Jamie Dornan and Natalie Portman singing the classic John Lennon song -- had "all pure intentions," but she acknowledged that it was "in poor taste."</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Gadot organized the video in March 2020 -- just as countries across the globe entered lockdown for the first time -- and posted it on Instagram with the caption: "We are in this together, we will get through it together."</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The clip met with an immediate backlash, as many took to social media to call it "tone-deaf," and it was widely mocked in the months that followed.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The former Miss Israel told InStyle that she now finds the controversy "funny" and said that, as the pandemic had hit Europe and Israel before it came to the US, she was "seeing where everything was headed. But (the video) was premature. It wasn't the right timing and it wasn't the right thing. It was in poor taste."</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Gadot admitted that "sometimes you don't hit the bullseye," despite the infamous video's good intentions.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In October 2021, the star showed that she wasn't afraid to poke fun at the clip or herself when she received an honor at Elle's Women in Hollywood awards and used the opportunity to jokingly perform a few of the lines from "Imagine" on stage.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In the same interview, she spoke about the <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/entertainment/colorblind-casting-plc/index.html" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">upcoming Cleopatra biopic</a> in which she's set to star, told InStyle that the film will "celebrate" the story of the Egyptian queen and won't just show "how sexy and appealing she was, but how strategic and smart, and how much impact she had and still has on the world we're living in today."</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Before Cleopatra is released, however, Gadot will play a leading role in another classic tale set in Egypt -- as Kenneth Branagh's version of "Death on the Nile" is finally set to hit theaters in February after multiple delays caused by the pandemic.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/gal-gadot-says-imagine-video-was-in-poor-taste/ar-AASsjM2?ocid=uxbndlbing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-27121514699851628712022-01-05T03:58:00.002+05:002022-01-05T03:58:18.429+05:00Dear Care and Feeding: My Husband Wants to Motivate Our Daughter in the Most Bizarre Way<img elementtiming="TTVR.ArticleContent" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute;" /><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Dear Care and Feeding: My Husband Wants to Motivate Our Daughter in the Most Bizarre Way</span></b></em></em></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear Care and Feeding: My Husband Wants to Motivate Our Daughter in the Most Bizarre Way, </em>Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? </em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear Care and Feeding,</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">My husband is a high-ranking executive at a Fortune 50 company and I’m a stay-at-home mom with a 12-year-old daughter. Our daughter turns 13 next week, and because of that my husband believes she can be eligible for “performance bonuses” for getting good grades, completing chores, and putting in her best effort in her extracurricular activities. My biggest issue is the bonus she can earn at the end of 2022 could be $5,000. Doesn’t that seem like an absurd amount of money for a 13-year-old? My husband laughs it off by saying we have the disposable income, so let’s use it to help motivate our kid. Who’s right?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">—Too Much Money</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear Too Much,</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Are we really out here giving teenagers corporate-sized yearly bonuses for doing the bare minimum? What’s next — giving out prizes for brushing her teeth every morning? Nobody pays me to wash the dishes, take out the trash, or clean up my dog’s poop — so why should I pay my kids to do the same? That’s the very least they can do for living under my roof rent-free. Heck, I’d venture to say that a sizable percentage of the grownups reading this didn’t receive a year-end bonus at their jobs that approached $5,000.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In fairness, the easiest money to spend is someone else’s, because maybe $5,000 to your family is comparable to $50 to someone like me. Either way, I believe if you’re going to pay a kid (regardless of the amount), it should be done for going above and beyond the call of duty. What that looks like will differ in each family, but I hope we can all agree that simple housework ain’t it.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">One of the main goals in raising children is to ensure they become valuable members of society. Do you think having a child believe she’s entitled to compensation or rewards for basically showing up accomplishes that? We have to do better, or else the next generation of kids will grow up expecting handouts.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear Care and Feeding,</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">My in-laws have developed a pattern of concealing when anyone in their household is sick. When I was pregnant with my first, they hid that they were all suffering from a nasty stomach bug. When we inevitably caught it too, we received an explanation that they didn’t want us to cancel our visit. I recently had my second baby, and asked them to please delay their visit to see the newborn. They did not take my request kindly. I felt pretty guilty until I found out that one of their children had been sent home from school with a fever earlier that week. After Thanksgiving, both my toddler and newborn came home sick. One of their cousins had had a high fever during the family get-together. We’re in a global pandemic, for crying out loud! Surely hiding that one is ill where a newborn is concerned was bad behavior before too, right? I know they would be very offended if we prefaced every visit with a call to make sure everyone is healthy. Is there a way to put an end to this, short of never visiting on the chance somebody is sick? Can you give me a script to politely but firmly tell them I can no longer trust them with my and my children’s health?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">—Paranoid Pandemic Parent</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear Paranoid,</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Let’s be clear about something—contrary to what your signoff indicates, there’s nothing paranoid about wanting to protect your family. Also, based on what we’re experiencing right now with COVID, the behavior of your in-laws is downright selfish and reckless. Heck, I can’t even take my kids to basketball practice without ensuring they pass health and safety screenings. Sure, that’s annoying for me and them, but that’s the world we live in now. The absolute bare minimum your in-laws should do is be forthright about their family’s health.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">You asked for a script, which I’ll gladly give you—but why should <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you</em> be the one to deliver the news to them? Shouldn’t it be your partner’s job? If I was in your shoes, I would expect my wife to deal with her parents’ behavior, not me. However, that’s all under the assumption that your partner feels the same way you do. If that’s the case, then demand (not ask) that your partner deals with your in-laws accordingly.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">If it requires you to deal with the in-laws yourself for whatever reason, then you can say something like this, “Before we come by, I need to have assurances that everyone is healthy. The last few times we saw each other, my family became ill due to one of your family members being sick. We’re in the middle of a global pandemic, and I simply cannot risk the health of my children again. In order for us to visit, I’ll need for your family to get tested for COVID and provide me with negative test results. My children are too young to be vaccinated. I love you and I want to see you, but this is the way it must be going forward.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">You mentioned that your in-laws will be “very offended” if you approached them like this. Do you want to know what my response is? Oh well.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">You’re not being a jerk for standing up for your family. I’ve done something similar with extended family and friends who wanted to visit, and like well-adjusted adults, they were all completely fine with it. I’m tired of grownups like your in-laws who believe the world revolves around them and their feelings. If they want to see you, they’ll need to grow up and play by your rules. Not to mention, you’ve been burned in the past multiple times by them! You should feel more than justified to draw a line in the sand.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear Care and Feeding,</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">My family has a history of mental health issues. My grandfather, my mother, one of my brothers, and I have all suffered mental breakdowns at least once in our lives. I have always strived not to stigmatize mental health issues, particularly since my loved ones and I have had them. But when my partner and I recently tried having children, it triggered another mental breakdown for me, and issues I hadn’t dealt with from my childhood came up to the surface. Since then, I’ve decided I no longer want to have children. I reflected and determined it would not be fair to risk having a child who would suffer as I had. While I have always tried to manage my mental health, I have found there are no guarantees. I also worry the stress of trying to parent might be more than I can manage.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">This has led my partner and me to divorce, as he desperately wants his own kids and did not expect me to change my stance on the issue. We’d been together for over ten years so the loss of my marriage hurts deeply, but I understand that my change of heart was unfair and my partner deserves someone with the same life goals. I’m trying to separate amicably, but understandably there is pain and hurt involved. My partner has accused me of abandoning him, of not pushing myself towards further self-growth by overcoming my insecurities around parenthood, etc. His charge that I am placing too much worry on potential mental health issues bothers me since anxiety is a perpetual part of my life. Am I perpetuating the same stigma against mental health issues by not wanting to have a child possibly impacted by them? I know many women make the decision not to have kids for various reasons, but walking away from a marriage of so many years makes me feel like maybe he’s right and I just couldn’t beat my issues and used this as an excuse to run away.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">—Cowardly or Conscientious</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear C or C,</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">As a fellow mental illness sufferer (clinical depression), I had similar concerns before I became a dad. Would I damage them emotionally if they saw me depressed? Would they be more prone to becoming clinically depressed since I am? It weighed on me for years even after my daughters arrived, but I made the decision to not let my mental demons rule me. I went to regular therapy and did my part to address everything that held me back, and I feel as if I’m a pretty damn good dad today.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">I wouldn’t go as far as calling you cowardly, because I’d be the last person to shame someone with mental illness—but I think we can both agree that pulling the bait and switch on your husband must be really hard on him, and he has every reason to be upset. Why not go to therapy to address your issues before pulling the plug on your marriage? That seems like the very least you could do to save a decade-long marriage.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">From my vantage point, it seems as if you used your mental illness as an excuse to get out of your marriage. If it was important to you, I think you would have done more to try to save it. You’ve also automatically assumed the worst-case outcome for having kids, when it’s possible you’d surprise yourself by becoming a great mom. I’m so thankful that I didn’t listen to the voices in my head that said I wouldn’t be a good dad, because I couldn’t imagine my life without my children. I feel sad that you won’t allow yourself the same opportunity to try.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Technically you’re not asking for any advice here, but I’m going to give you some anyway. If you want to experience any semblance of joy in your life, you have to stop living in fear. We have no idea what tomorrow will bring, but if we’re constantly scared of what it will bring, it’s safe to say it won’t be a good day. Get the mental health help that you need as soon as possible, because it will only get worse from here if you don’t.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear Care and Feeding,</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">My 18-year-old niece, “Megan,” regularly babysits my 6-year-old daughter, “Olivia.” Recently, Megan came to me after taking care of Olivia one night and said that she was concerned about Olivia’s well-being. I was surprised, because Olivia is generally a happy, well-behaved child. I asked Megan why she was worried, and Megan pointed to some drawings Olivia had made. I thought that they were normal, cute drawings for a little girl to make (self-portraits, animals, houses), but Megan said that she thought the trees in the pictures looked phallic. Then Megan proceeded to ask me if anyone had exposed themselves to Olivia, which really took me aback. I have no reason to believe that anyone has exposed themselves to, let alone abused Olivia, and I told Megan that. Olivia is 6, she isn’t going to draw in a photorealistic style, and just because some trees look vaguely like penises in drawings, it doesn’t mean she is being abused. Megan warned me to keep an eye on my husband to make sure that he isn’t doing anything inappropriate. I told Megan that if anyone harms Olivia, I will deal with it, and she should mind her own business. I’m shaken up. I don’t know if I want Megan to continue babysitting Olivia. That Megan would read something so sinister into a child’s crude drawings and baselessly accuse my husband of violating his own daughter bothers me. However, she IS my niece. Do I allow Megan to keep babysitting Olivia?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">—Babysitter Blues</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear Babysitter Blues,</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Even though her accusations are extremely inflammatory, I think it’s important to note that your niece is likely coming from a good place. She wants your daughter to be safe, and honestly, I commend her for speaking up if something concerned her. How would you feel if your daughter <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">was</em> being abused and your niece knew about it and said nothing? “See something, say something,” right? So, even if you believe there is a 99.9 percent chance your husband wouldn’t do anything inappropriate, you should investigate it for all of the reasons I mentioned above. Stranger things have happened in life, right?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">However, I also think there’s something else to be aware of. You know how some people accuse others of things that they’ve done or experienced? Maybe your niece is projecting some abuse that she experienced in her life on your daughter. This is purely conjecture on my part, of course—but I think it’s more likely your daughter could have experienced abuse (whether by your husband, or someone else). How you choose to handle that is up to you, as you could investigate it on your own or do nothing—but it could warrant a deep dive on your part if you plan to keep using Megan as a babysitter.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Based on the tone of your letter, it seems to me that you’ve already made up your mind that you don’t want Megan to babysit your young daughter anymore, and that’s totally fine. If that’s the case, you don’t have to make a scene in front of Megan and/or her parents—just say that you found another babysitter that you plan to use going forward and leave it at that. However, in this COVID world that we’re stuck in now, finding babysitters is a little more challenging than it was before the pandemic. Hiring a stranger to watch over a child is nerve-wracking since you have very little idea how they spend their time when they’re not at your house. At least Megan is a part of your family and there should be a level of trust there.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Now that I’ve laid out every side of this, presuming your own research into Megan’s accusations doesn’t amount to anything, I would advise you to stick it out with Megan for the time being. You already created boundaries by telling her not to bring this up again, and as long as she follows through, everything should be fine. If she accuses your husband of something again and you have a conversation with Megan to make sure that she is safe and isn’t experiencing abuse herself, then I would move on from her for good.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">—Doyin</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">We have a very smart, creative 13-year-old daughter. I recently read the texts between her and her first boyfriend—something she knows I do—and was surprised. She tells him that her life is screwed up and that she feels unworthy and unloved. This does not seem to describe our relationship.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/dear-care-and-feeding-my-husband-wants-to-motivate-our-daughter-in-the-most-bizarre-way/ar-AASpSXW?ocid=BingHp01&li=BBnb7Kz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-61951882193603075582022-01-05T03:44:00.005+05:002022-01-05T03:44:44.470+05:00What We Get Wrong About Emotions<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Segoe UI, Segoe WP, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What We Get Wrong About Emotions</b></span></span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Segoe UI, Segoe WP, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">What We Get Wrong About Emotions, Paul Dirac was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. A pioneer in quantum theory, which shaped our modern world, Dirac was a genius when it came to analytical thinking. But when his colleagues asked him for advice, his secret to success had nothing to do with the traditional scientific method: Be guided, Dirac told them, “by your emotions.”</span></span></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Why would the cold logic of theoretical physics benefit from emotion? Physics’ theories are expressed in mathematics, which is governed by a set of rules. But physicists don’t just study existing theories—they invent new ones. In order to make discoveries, they have to pursue roads that feel exciting and avoid those that they fear will lead nowhere. They have to be brave enough to question assumptions and confident enough to present their conclusions to their skeptical colleagues. Dirac recognized that the best physicists are comfortable letting emotion guide their decisions.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Dirac’s advice—like his physics—ran against the common assumption of psychology in his day: that rational thought primarily drives our behavior, and that when emotions play a role, they are likely to deflect us from our best judgment.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Today researchers have gained a deeper understanding of emotion and how it can positively influence <a data-id="60" data-m="{"i":60,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":4}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/moral-psychology-rationality/500219/?utm_source=msn" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">logical choices</a>. Consider <a data-id="61" data-m="{"i":61,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":5}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/job.720" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">a study</a> led by Mark Fenton-O’Creevy, a professor at the Open University Business School, in England. Fenton-O’Creevy and his colleagues conducted interviews with 118 professional traders and 10 senior managers at four investment banks. The experimenters found that even among the most-experienced traders, the lower-performing ones seemed less likely to effectively engage with the emotions guiding their choices—whether to buy or sell a set of securities, for example, with millions of dollars at stake. The most-successful traders, however, were particularly likely to acknowledge their emotions, and followed their intuitive feelings about stock options when they had limited information to draw on. They also understood that when emotions become too intense, toning them down can be necessary. The issue for the successful traders was not how to avoid emotion but how to harness it.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">One way emotions aid decision making is by steering attention to both threats and opportunities. Consider the role that disgust plays in encoding your experience of foods that could sicken you. If you’re about to slurp down an oyster and you notice worms crawling all over it, you don’t stop and consciously analyze the details of that situation; you just gag and throw it down. The traders, similarly, have to know what to prioritize and when to act—and they have to do it quickly. “People think if you have a Ph.D. you will be very good, because you have an understanding of options theory, but this is not always the case,” said one of the investment-bank managers the researchers interviewed. You have to also have good gut instincts, and those gut instincts are largely rooted in emotion.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In the past decade, scientists have begun to understand precisely how emotions and rationality act together. The key insight is that before your rational mind processes any information, the information must be selected and evaluated. That’s where emotion plays a dominant role. Each emotion—fear, disgust, anger—causes certain sensory data, memories, knowledge, and beliefs to be emphasized, and others downplayed, in your thought processes.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Imagine you’re walking up a dark street in a relaxed state, looking forward to dinner and a concert later that evening. You may be aware of being hungry and may not register small movements in the shadows ahead, or the sound of footsteps behind you. Most of the time, ignoring those things is fine; the footsteps behind you are probably other pedestrians traveling to their own evening plans, and the movements in the shadows could just be leaves blowing in the wind. But if something triggers your fear, those sights and sounds will dominate your thinking; your sense of hunger will vanish, and the concert will suddenly seem unimportant. That’s because when you are in a “fear mode” of processing, you focus on sensory input; your planning shifts to the present, and your goals and priorities change. You might adjust your route to one that takes longer but is better lit, sacrificing time for safety.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In one <a data-id="63" data-m="{"i":63,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232587095_Affect_Generalization_and_the_Perception_of_Risk" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">illustrative study</a>, researchers induced fear in their subjects by sharing a grisly account of a fatal stabbing. They then asked these participants to estimate the probability of various calamities, including other violent acts and natural disasters. Compared with subjects whose fear had not been activated, these subjects had an inflated sense of the probability of those misfortunes—not only related incidents, such as murder, but also the unrelated, such as tornadoes and floods. The gruesome stories affected the subjects’ mental calculus on a fundamental level, making them generally warier of environmental threats. In the world outside the laboratory, that wariness pushes you to avoid dangerous situations.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The ways in which our emotions influence our judgment aren’t always clear to us. In a <a data-id="64" data-m="{"i":64,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":8}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-07423-001" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">study on disgust</a>, for instance, scientists showed volunteers either a neutral film clip or a scene from <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trainspotting </em>in which a character reaches into the bowl of a filthy toilet. One of the characteristics of disgust is a tendency toward disposal, whether of food or other items. After playing the clips, the researchers gave the subjects the opportunity to trade away one box of unidentified office supplies for another—and found that 51 percent of those who had seen the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trainspotting</em> clip exchanged their box, compared with 32 percent of participants who’d watched the neutral clip. But when quizzed about their decision afterward, the disgusted participants tended to justify their actions with “rational” reasons.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Welcoming emotion into the decision-making process can help us be more clear-eyed about where our choices come from. Dirac knew that emotion helped him look beyond the beliefs of his contemporaries. Again and again, his controversial ideas proved correct. He invented a mathematical function that seemed to violate the basic rules of the subject—but that was eventually embraced and developed by later mathematicians. He predicted a new type of matter, called antimatter—another idea that was revolutionary at the time but is widely embraced today. And his appreciation for the role of emotion was prescient in itself. Dirac died in 1984, a couple of decades before the revolution in emotion theory began, but he’d no doubt have been happy to see that he’d been right again.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/what-we-get-wrong-about-emotions/ar-AASpYQ1?ocid=uxbndlbing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></span></b></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-57933834764663697522022-01-05T03:36:00.005+05:002022-01-05T03:36:51.972+05:00New York teacher arrested after being accused of injecting minor with Covid vaccine<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">New York teacher arrested after being accused of injecting minor with Covid vaccine, A <a data-id="57" data-m="{"i":57,"p":54,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":3}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-warning-symptoms-children-kids-hospitalized-record-numbers-rcna10741" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">New York</a> teacher has been arrested for allegedly injecting a minor with a <a data-id="58" data-m="{"i":58,"p":54,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":4}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/front-line-physicians-describe-vaccination-affects-patients-latest-cov-rcna10215" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Covid-19</a> vaccine without the consent of his parents, police have said.</p><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Laura Russo, 54, was arrested on New Year's Eve in Sea Cliff after police were informed that she had allegedly injected a 17-year-old boy with a vaccine, the Nassau County Police department said in a news release on Monday.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">According to the department, the 17-year-old boy had visited Russo's home, where she administered what was believed to be a Covid vaccine to him. It is unclear how she came to obtain the vaccine.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Police said that the boy's mother called the authorities after her son told her he had gotten the jab.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"The mother had not given permission or authority to have her son injected with a Covid vaccine," the department said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Police said Russo is not a medical professional and is not authorized to administer vaccines.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">She was placed under arrest without incident and has been charged with New York State Education Law Unauthorized Practice of a Profession, the department said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The Nassau County School District told NBC News 4 that Russo has been reassigned from the classroom pending the outcome of the investigation into the allegations against her.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The school district said that the allegations were not related to the school she worked at, however, and noted that the incident did not occur on school property.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“The individual in question is a district employee who has been removed from the classroom and reassigned pending the outcome of the investigation," the district said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Russo declined to comment when approached by NBC News 4.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-teacher-arrested-after-being-accused-of-injecting-minor-with-covid-vaccine/ar-AASpRh9?ocid=uxbndlbing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></span></b></p><span class="image" data-attrib="Provided by NBC News" data-caption="" data-id="55" data-m="{"i":55,"p":54,"n":"openModal","t":"articleImages","o":1}" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative;"></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-44919522070372479462022-01-05T03:30:00.005+05:002022-01-05T03:30:33.903+05:00What is a platonic life partnership? These couples are breaking societal relationship norms<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">What is a platonic life partnership? These couples are breaking societal relationship norms, <a data-id="88" data-m="{"i":88,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":3}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.instagram.com/aprillexilee/?hl=en" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #157fa0; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">April Lexi Lee</a> and Renee Wong have been best friends since they were 12. After supporting each other through the highs and lows of life, school and boyfriends, they took their relationship to the next level by becoming platonic life partners. What is a platonic life partnership? These couples are breaking societal relationship norms</p><div class="bingadsoneclick" data-apikey="ARAtWpCCY2FmR09cwfIi3DaLUGNXFQUaPJTgG%2bFL9c3dS8hR9Rlll89d39V4jZnMixk%3d" data-id="87" data-m="{"i":87,"p":59,"n":"bingadsoneclick","y":8,"o":2}" data-nativead-tracking="{"id": "bingad-ia", "sdk": "widget", "w": "300", "h": "250"}" data-pagetype="article" id="bingadsoneclick" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">When Lee, 24, moved from Singapore to Los Angeles for college, the best friends became long-distance but remained emotionally strong. And as the pandemic hit and they both graduated, they felt this "gravitation" towards each other. </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">"We work so well together. We're such great partners and support each other and love each other so much. We never see each other leaving each other," Lee explains, recounting their train-of-thought. "So why is this not a stable foundation to start life and start a family and all those things? Why is that not as stable, even more stable, than a traditional, romantic marriage?"</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Then it clicked. Wong moved to the United States to become Lee's platonic life partner.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"I wasn't even interested in marriage to begin with, neither of us were," Lee says. "But then with each other, we suddenly saw the future and we were like, 'This fits. I would do this with you.' "</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">She describes the partnership as "a deep platonic love and also a commitment to each other, like marriage, where we are trying to build the next step for our lives together." This includes things that "typically married couples would do" like starting a family and having a joint bank account to achieve their goals of buying a house and more.</p><h2 class="presto-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.8rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.214; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">Why people choose platonic life partnerships</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">For Jay Guercio, 24, a platonic life partnership "just made sense" after realizing how much her life goals aligned with her best friend Krystle, who she first met in 2012 and had filled her life with "companionship, love, laughter and adventure."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"We want to raise kids the same way. We have the same ideas as what finances should look like. We are already symbiotic in how we work," she said. "There's no reason to keep on waiting to hopefully find a partner who is going to align with all those things that also happens to be romantic and/or sexual in nature when it just made sense to start building the life that we wanted to live together."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Fast forward and now they raise their adopted son together after getting platonically married in November 2020. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Guercio describes a platonic partnership as "a committed relationship to someone that doesn't involve romance or sex."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a data-id="90" data-m="{"i":90,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":5}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://cyndidarnell.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Cyndi Darnell</a>, a certified clinical sexologist, therapist and couple’s counselor, says platonic partnerships can "absolutely" be as successful as a traditional marriage, because "partnership is based on shared values."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"If you want to create a partnership based on values that are meaningful to you as individuals... I actually think that that's a better model than the notion of romance, which we know is fickle," she adds. "To rely on something as unreliable as romance for a contract as heavy as co-parenting and marriage seems to be why these things seem to be diametrically opposed on some level."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Historically, marriage also hasn't been about love, she points out.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">"When we think about the origins of marriage, it was never about love. And it was certainly never about romance. It was about asset management."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Guercio agrees partnerships like her own are centered around "mutual benefit."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"It's about purposefully deciding to live the life that you want to live together because those things align. It's not just getting into a committed relationship with someone because you have sexual feelings."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Darnell doesn't view this as a bad route. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"If anything, I actually think it's a much more honest way of looking at marriage. And that's not to say that romance is dead, it's not," she says, but she feels romance ideals are "spoon-fed" to us from a young age like finding "the one" and can influence our outlook. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"It's very driven into our culture that (romance) is aspirational and friendship is considered somehow less valuable, even though for a lot of us our friendships last longer than our sexual partnerships."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">She mostly sees two groups of people embracing platonic partnerships. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"The boomer generation, who are coming out of perhaps second and third marriages, many of them are saying, 'I don't want to go back into a traditional marriage. I want companionship but I don't want to traditional values of a marriage,' " she explains. "And then a lot of youngsters who have grown up perhaps in single parent families, who don't necessarily believe the romance story because of what they've seen in their lives, they're also saying, 'I can make my own rules. I can make my own decisions about what kind of relationship structure I want to have.' "</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">And while a typical marriage may still work for some, for those who don't find it to be a fit "this revolution is great," Darnell explains, "because it gives us more freedom to reflect on our relationship values and ask ourselves, 'What matters to me? What kind of relationship do I want to be in?' And romantic love, sexual love doesn't have to be part of them."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">That's why it works for Lee and her partner.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"We feel like romantic love is not at the top of the hierarchy of love," Lee explains. "We don't feel like romantic love is the most even stable or fulfilling, to build a life upon and we feel that way for each other with this deep platonic love that we have."</p><h2 class="presto-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.8rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.214; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">No, we're 'not dating each other'</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">One of the biggest misconceptions platonic partners face is people thinking they're romantically involved or will eventually leave the other for a romantic partner. But Lee made it clear that while she and Wong "are not dating each other," that doesn't mean they'd leave each other for someone else.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">"(People's) assumptions that one of us are going to find a guy and then get married to them and leave the other someday – that itself is based on the assumption that romantic love is greater than platonic love and is more important, and that's not the way that we view love."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Lee and her partner have their own dating lives.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"People that we do date know that we are a package deal and also life partners," she explains. "I do make it known really early on that I'm not dating with the angle of marriage. And that's not to say that I don't want something long-term or consistent. I can still build deep, emotional and intimate relationships, romantic relationships, but not have to share my whole life with them."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Guercio has also experienced people thinking her marriage is going to end once she "falls in love with someone."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"That really bothers me," she says. "People think that this was a temporary solution or something I settled for, and this is absolutely not something I settled for."</p><h2 class="presto-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight", "Segoe WP Semilight", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.8rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.214; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">Stigma surrounding platonic life partnerships</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Darnell says perhaps the biggest risk in platonic partnerships is "the stigma that you have to tolerate from friends and family saying your relationship choices are not as valid."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">This may pressure partners to hide the specifics of their situation, which is the route Guercio took.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"We didn't tell anyone we were platonic when we first got married... ..because there was this fear that people wouldn't take us seriously," she says. "There was a fear that people would think that it was all gonna crash and burn. And honestly, I think our marriage is working out better than any other marriage I've seen in its first year."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Darnell says the idea of a platonic relationship being "weird" or "strange" has to do with our discomfort at the fact that relationships are living things that can change and have various meanings for different people.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">"There's a bazillion definitions of love, and there's a bazillion different ways that we can look at love," she explains. Even married or long-term couples who started off in a "hot and heavy" sexual relationship may find that it dwindles to be focused more on companionship, she adds.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">When Guercio's relationship went viral on<a data-id="93" data-m="{"i":93,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":8}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thelovelyjaybird?referer_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpresto.gannettdigital.com%2F&referer_video_id=6957847750188731654&refer=embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"> TikTok</a>, she discovered a wide range of reactions. Some have expressed confusion while others describe her videos as their "comfort account."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Seeing us live the life that they want to live gives them so much security and visibility and validation, so it's really wonderful," she says.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Lee's relationship has also gained attention on TikTok for breaking societal norms. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Your life partner and your lover don't have to be the same person," Lee adds. "You won't be the social norm but that's OK. You can still like choose whatever relationship makes you the most fulfilled or secure... Keep an open mind outside of what society has been telling you is the default next step. It doesn't have to be."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Other gender pairing partnerships like <a data-id="94" data-m="{"i":94,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":9}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@ollierose_/video/6974446813264858374?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESPgo8cuP5qdiPw%2BSlcWmTv4IWlhpMFZiBYkvc92ehnO%2B%2FxPrUffT9NXGl3%2FA0%2BE7iA659RaNFLk3Shn9sXZLOGgA%3D&checksum=e2d3234859dd015247243559c50562a37bd8afdf39155facc4f6188cc4aeafd2&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAA7Rhg-fyJ5CKwIM-8z9VeSldk5r1gk9mnY5ivuZZil-OAFLU7jua549_OJJJiez5C&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=6974446813264858374&share_link_id=E2EC3D47-DC9A-4614-B5A2-56D356101D81&source=h5_m&timestamp=1641235304&tt_from=copy&u_code=dba1ge53a3cfh2&user_id=6803133030346621958&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=copy&_r=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">@ollierose_'s platonic marriage </a>with her husband have also made waves. She has more than 1.2 million followers who tune in to learn more about her family. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Darnell sees platonic marriages gaining more traction in the future.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">"It is a new thing that's happening the platonic marriage, but my prediction is that it's going to become more popular as people start recognizing relationships are what you make of them."</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/what-is-a-platonic-life-partnership-these-couples-are-breaking-societal-relationship-norms/ar-AASpUvZ?li=BBorjTa&ocid=BingHp01" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE </a></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-2099294320702972802022-01-05T03:16:00.002+05:002022-01-05T03:16:18.699+05:00Betty White Died Natural: Betty White's touching final words revealed<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Betty White Died Natural: Betty White's touching final words revealed, </span><a data-id="61" data-m="{"i":61,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":2}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://newzpoint.blogspot.com/2022/01/legendary-star-betty-whites-cause-of.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #157fa0; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Betty White</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">'s final words were a mention of her beloved late husband Allen Ludden. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Vicki Lawrence, who appeared on <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mama’s Family</em> with White in the 1980s, told <a data-id="62" data-m="{"i":62,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":3}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://pagesix.com/2022/01/03/vicki-lawrence-reveals-betty-whites-last-word-before-death/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Page Six</a> the last thing White, who <a data-id="63" data-m="{"i":63,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":4}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/betty-white-dies-at-99-golden-girls-star-200312960.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">died</a> Dec. 31, said was "Allen." This was told to Lawrence by their co-star and friend <a data-id="64" data-m="{"i":64,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":5}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tagged/carol-burnett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Carol Burnett</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"I texted Carol and said, 'This just sucks. I hate this. It’s just horrible to see the people you love so much go away,'" Lawrence said after hearing about White's death at 99. "Carol wrote back and said, 'I know, I know. I spoke to Betty's assistant, who was with her when she passed, and she said the very last word out of her mouth was ‘Allen.'"</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Lawrence said, "How sweet is that? I said, 'That is so sweet. God, I hope that’s true. For all of us, I really hope it's true, a lovely thought.'"</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Just ahead of her 100th birthday, on Jan. 17, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Golden Girls</em> star died of natural causes, in her sleep, at her home in Los Angeles's Brentwood neighborhood. On Monday, her longtime agent and friend Jeff Witjas <a data-id="65" data-m="{"i":65,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":6}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/betty-white-cause-of-death-natural-causes-not-covid-booster-complications-223147269.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">denied</a> White died as a result of her COVID booster shot, a rumor started by apparent anti-vaxxers. Witjas made a public plea that White's death "not be politicized — that is not the life she lived."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">White, who had two short-lived marriages, met celebrity game show host Ludden when she was a guest on his <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Password </em>show in 1961. He was married, but his wife of 18 years, Margaret McGloin, succumbed to cancer soon after, leaving him a widowed father of three.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">One year later, White and Ludden were cast in the same play and became friends. She told the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Los Angeles Times</em>, "He brought his three kids, and they all started courting me along with Allen." He proposed several times, but she was marriage reluctant at first. However, she finally said yes and they married in 1963.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">White and Ludden missed their 18th wedding anniversary by three days, she said. In early 1980 as they built their dream house together, Ludden was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. He died the next year. White later said she would never remarried because she'd already "had the best."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In a statement announcing White's death, Witjas noted, "I don't think Betty ever feared passing because she always wanted to be with her most beloved husband Allen Ludden. She believed she would be with him again."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/betty-whites-touching-final-words-revealed/ar-AASqvay?ocid=uxbndlbing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-84461389633838169212022-01-05T02:54:00.004+05:002022-01-05T02:54:56.561+05:00France's famed Bogdanoff twins die of COVID after rejecting vaccines<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Segoe UI, Segoe WP, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">France's famed Bogdanoff twins die of COVID after rejecting vaccines, Controversial French TV stars and famous twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were inseparable in life, and in death. They had refused to be vaccinated against the </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-id="98" data-m="{"i":98,"p":54,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":34}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/feature/coronavirus/?ftag=MSF0951a18" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">coronavirus</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">, believing their good health would save them, but were admitted to a hospital on the same day last month and diagnosed with COVID-19.</span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The younger twin, Grichka, died in an intensive care unit on December 28. Igor followed him six days later on January 3. They were 72. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The Bogdanoff twins were TV stars in France in the 1980s, famous as much for their offbeat popular science shows as for their good looks, multiplied by two.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The pair were inseparable, and they were in and out of the spotlight for most of their adult lives.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In 1979, they launched the first TV show entirely about science fiction, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Temps X</em>. Accused by academics of dumbing down science, it was that approach that made the show so popular with their audience.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">They were born on August 29, 1949 in southwest France. Descended from German and Austrian nobility, they were raised by their grandmother, a countess.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The two studied applied mathematics before taking their science to television. They later went on to scrape just enough points to earn doctorates in physics, though there was huge controversy surrounding their theses on the Big Bang theory and on space-time links. There were also accusations of plagiarism.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">An internal university investigation concluded there was no scientific value to their work, but they were still awarded the doctorates. One scientist called the twins' writing, "delightfully meaningless combinations of buzzwords," but worried that their evidence had nonetheless been taken seriously.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Later the two prompted speculation that they had undergone cosmetic surgery, as their prominent cheekbones and facial features became even more pronounced. They denied ever having surgery. However, seeking as always to maintain an air of mystery, they said they had experimented with unnamed "technologies" to enhance their features.</p><div class="ec-module section-layout emsinline clearleft" data-height="350px" data-nativead-tracking="{"id": "dianomi", "sdk": "widget", "w": "300", "h": "250"}" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 2rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: auto;"></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Neither brother was vaccinated against COVID-19. Asked about it on French radio last month, Igor Bogdanoff cited the controversial French scientist Dr. Didier Raoult – the man who made hydroxychloroquine a household name. Raoult said he had more confidence in future vaccines than those available now, and Igor Bogdanoff agreed that it was better to wait.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Former French Education and Research minister Luc Ferry was a longtime friend of the brothers. He told French media he had spoken with the twins about the COVID vaccines and told them "you're crazy" not to get it. He said they were not anti-vaxxers, but did not want to have the vaccines themselves, believing that their good health and fitness would save them from the virus, but perhaps not any ill effects of the vaccines.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/frances-famed-bogdanoff-twins-die-of-covid-after-rejecting-vaccines/ar-AASqkbJ?ocid=uxbndlbing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></span></b></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-44576085768191377692022-01-05T02:46:00.004+05:002022-01-05T02:46:41.366+05:00Nunes formally resigns from Congress<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Nunes formally resigns from Congress</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nunes formally resigns from Congress, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) formally resigned from Congress on Monday, as the California Republican departs to run former President Trump's new media and technology company.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nunes's resignation letter was read aloud on the House floor during a pro forma session on Monday. It is set to take effect at 11:59 p.m. today.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"The honorable, the speaker, House of Representatives, madam, I write to inform you that I have notified California Gov. Gavin Newsom of my resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives effective today at 11:59 p.m." the letter reads.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"It has been the honor of my life to represent the people of California's San Joaquin Valley for the last 19 years," the letter adds.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px; width: 550px;"><iframe __idm_id__="2105346" allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1478044730495746052" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1478044730495746052&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fhouse%2F588000-nunes-formally-resigns-from-congress&sessionId=3d1dac16e5fa9ee1fb23baac7ca45d130124e326&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9fd78d5%3A1638479056965&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 576px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;">Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), who was presiding over the House at the time, then announced that with Nunes's resignation "the whole number of the House is 433."</span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In addition to Nunes's seat, late Rep. Alcee Hastings's (D-Fla.) remains vacant following his death in April.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1478035267403534339" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1478035267403534339&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fhouse%2F588000-nunes-formally-resigns-from-congress&sessionId=3d1dac16e5fa9ee1fb23baac7ca45d130124e326&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9fd78d5%3A1638479056965&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 273px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nunes announced last month that he was <a data-id="121" data-m="{"i":121,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":55}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/584575-nunes-to-resign-from-congress-at-end-of-month" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">resigning from Congress to become the CEO</a> of Trump's new company, the Trump Media & Technology Group. The company is advertising itself as an alternative to Big Tech.</span></p><div class="ec-module section-layout emsinline clearleft" data-height="350px" data-nativead-tracking="{"id": "dianomi", "sdk": "widget", "w": "300", "h": "250"}" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 2rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: auto;"></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nunes's plan to depart the House was a shock to many in Washington, as the California Republican was <a data-id="122" data-m="{"i":122,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":56}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://thehill.com/policy/finance/584787-nunes-resignation-sets-off-gop-scramble-on-ways-and-means" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">poised to become the chairman</a> of the powerful Ways and Means Committee if Republicans win control of the House in November's midterm elections.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The congressman in his announcement said he was "presented with a new opportunity to fight for the most important issues I believe in."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The news further <a data-id="123" data-m="{"i":123,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":57}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/584826-nunes-retirement-move-seen-as-sign-of-power-shift-in-gop" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">illustrated Trump's continued influence in the Republican Party</a>, despite his reelection defeat in 2020.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced last week that Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) will <a data-id="124" data-m="{"i":124,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":58}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/587737-rep-mike-turner-to-replace-nunes-in-top-house-intel-spot" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">replace Nunes as ranking member</a> of the House Intelligence Committee.</span></p><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;">Nunes served in Congress for 10 terms before resigning. California's redistricting process may have played a role in his decision to leave the House, as an initial proposed map had him shifting from a fairly safe Republican-leaning district to one where Democrats have the advantage.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span class="image" data-attrib="Greg Nash" data-caption="Nunes formally resigns from Congress" data-id="57" data-m="{"i":57,"p":56,"n":"openModal","t":"articleImages","o":1}" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative;"></span></span><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nunes-formally-resigns-from-congress/ar-AASoknz?ocid=BingHp01" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></b></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-781308604337276122022-01-05T02:41:00.006+05:002022-01-05T02:41:44.751+05:00Trump Family Starts Airing Dirty Laundry to Fight Off Subpoenas<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Trump Family Starts Airing Dirty Laundry to Fight Off Subpoenas, With their backs pressed against the wall by two simultaneous tax-dodging investigations in New York, the Trump dynasty is starting to hit back. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">On Monday afternoon, copies of subpoenas and details about the investigation were exposed in court documents filed by attorneys for former President Donald Trump and his adult kids—Don Jr. and Ivanka. The trio are trying to avoid being forced to testify under oath in a civil investigation, saying their statements will simply be used in a parallel criminal investigation that could threaten them with prison time.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“The [office of the attorney general] is engaged in a criminal investigation that has an active Grand Jury. It cannot issue subpoenas for testimony under the guise of a civil investigation that will immediately become available—to its own… criminal investigation,” they said in a court filing.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Earlier in the day, court documents were made public showing that New York Attorney General Letitia James had <a data-id="98" data-m="{"i":98,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":32}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-his-children-don-jr-and-ivanka-refuse-to-be-deposed-in-new-york-tax-dodging-investigation?ref=author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">set her sights on the former president and his two children</a> for refusing to cooperate with her civil probe into potential tax dodging and bank fraud. Although these kinds of investigations tend to be quiet matters until a formal lawsuit is filed—or both sides reach a settlement—this is starting to become an airing of dirty laundry.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">As such, the Trump family has used this as an opportunity to start exposing details about the AG’s investigation.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">There is another ongoing grand jury in New York looking into criminal matters related to the Trump Organization, proving that the investigation didn’t stop with the indictment of company chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg last summer. And it’s now clear that New York state investigators want the former president to turn over information about the Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago, his forested Seven Springs Estate north of New York City, and donations made to land conservation causes that could lower his tax bill.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Investigators also want copies of communications Trump had with Forbes magazine about his wealth and any financial documents he submitted to “insurance underwriters or insurance brokers” valuing his assets. The AG’s office wanted Ivanka to sit down for a deposition on Monday, followed by Don Jr. on Tuesday, and former President Trump on Friday. All these details were revealed in copies of the subpoenas, which were posted in court by the Trumps.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In response, AG James issued a statement Monday night saying, “For more than two years, members of the Trump family and the Trump Organization have continually sought to delay and impede our investigation into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization, but despite their names, they must play by the same rules as everyone else.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Attorneys for the Trumps argue that the New York attorney general is trying to get the Trumps to testify about their wildly varying real estate values in a way that would let investigators use that information in the AG’s current criminal investigation into the Trump Organization, which it’s conducting alongside the Manhattan district attorney.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">That accusation hinges on the idea that, in New York, a person who testifies before a grand jury in a criminal case receives immunity from what they reveal, so they’re protected from facing criminal charges. The Trumps say the AG is trying to get information out of them—without the benefit of immunity—by trying to “circumvent the grand jury procedural safeguards of our judicial system.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“The subpoenas are an obvious improper tend-run around the rules,” said the Trumps’ court filing, which described the AG’s actions as an attempt to “co-mingle” the investigations. “The fact is that the [attorney general’s office] is one, singular agency running a criminal investigation. It may claim to split itself into two to avoid complying with grand jury practice, but this it cannot do.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In the filing, the Trumps also accused the AG’s office of leaking to reporters that Trump was asked to show up for a deposition on Jan. 7. Last month, <a data-id="119" data-m="{"i":119,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":53}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-letitia-james-deposition/2021/12/09/01b10140-587f-11ec-a219-9b4ae96da3b7_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Washington Post</em></a> broke news that investigators wanted the former president to show up and answer questions at their office in New York City.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“To their credit, [AG] attorneys on this matter apologized to counsel for Mr. Trump. The leak was clearly made from the administration of the [attorney general’s office,”] Trump family attorneys said in one footnote.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The Trumps want the state court judge overseeing the case to eliminate the subpoenas, or at least hold off on enforcing them until the joint AG-DA criminal investigation is over.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The request in court was signed by four lawyers representing the Trumps. The former president is being represented by Ronald P. Fischetti, who made a career defending mobsters, and</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Alina Habba, who recently helped him file a federal lawsuit against James. Trump is also being represented by Michael T. van der Veen, who oddly sued Trump—and later defended him during his presidential impeachment. Don Jr. and Ivanka, who are Trump Organization executives, are being represented by company lawyer Alan S. Futerfas.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-family-starts-airing-dirty-laundry-to-fight-off-subpoenas/ar-AASoQsY?ocid=BingHp01" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></p><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span class="image" data-attrib="Provided by The Daily Beast" data-caption="Michael Zarrilli/Getty" data-id="57" data-m="{"i":57,"p":56,"n":"openModal","t":"articleImages","o":1}" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative;"></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-91172317131751006742022-01-05T02:36:00.002+05:002022-01-05T02:36:45.202+05:00Man Who Stopped Wife From Driving Drunk Charged With Manslaughter After She Died Walking Home<div class="field-item even" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Man Who Stopped Wife From Driving Drunk Charged With Manslaughter After She Died Walking Home, An Alabama man was arrested and charged with manslaughter after his wife was fatally hit by a motorist while walking home drunk.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Jason Todd, 42, allegedly refused to let his wife, Tanya Anderson, get behind the wheel of her car <a data-id="59" data-m="{"i":59,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":3}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.yourtango.com/news/are-alcohol-detection-systems-required-cars-us" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">while under the influence.</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a data-id="60" data-m="{"i":60,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":4}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.al.com/news/2021/12/man-stopped-wife-from-driving-drunk-police-charged-him-when-she-died-walking-home.html" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">According to Alabama Local News</a>, Todd and Anderson had been at Friends Steakhouse in Clanton, Alabama, where Todd’s band was playing their final set back in summer 2018. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Anderson had gotten drunk, demanding to drive herself home but Todd refused, telling her that he’d drive her home himself after he paid his tab.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Anderson reportedly refused and threatened to leave, at which point Todd told her to “walk home,” believing that she wouldn’t.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semibold", "Segoe WP Semibold", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">Anderson was tragically hit by a vehicle after her husband prevented her from drunk-driving.</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">According to court records and police reports, Anderson began walking home, although she did not make it very far before being fatally struck by an oncoming vehicle.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Authorities immediately accused Todd of causing Anderson’s death by allowing her to walk home while intoxicated.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“I loved my wife,” Todd told police. “Still do, and always will.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Alabama police insisted that he had thrown Anderson’s car keys out onto the road following their argument at the steakhouse, using the alleged incident as evidence for a manslaughter charge.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Todd <a data-id="62" data-m="{"i":62,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":6}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.yourtango.com/news/james-franco-sexual-misconduct-allegations" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">has now filed a lawsuit</a> against Officer David Hicks from the Clanton Police Department over the handling of the investigation into his wife's death.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">He has also filed a lawsuit against the restaurant for continuously serving his wife alcohol after she was visibly intoxicated, as well as the driver, Carey Roger Glenn, who fatally hit Anderson.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">According to Alabama Local News, Glenn, who is blind in one eye, came into the restaurant the day after the hit-and-run, telling people he thought he hit a deer the night before.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Alaska police initially determined that Glenn, 66, had hit a deer, and did not take any samples from his car.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">It wasn’t until months after the accident that the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences confirmed that Anderson’s blood and hair were on Glenn’s car.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In Todd’s lawsuit, it <a data-id="63" data-m="{"i":63,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.yourtango.com/news/body-cam-footage-burlington-coat-factory-shooting-reveals-officers-begged-cop-slow-down" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">states that surveillance footage</a> from the steakhouse parking lot shows both him and Anderson searching for an item in the car.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Todd claims that at no point did he throw his wife’s keys anywhere on the ground, forcing her to walk home alone.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Anderson’s keys were later found a distance away from the restaurant where Todd says he last saw his wife alive.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Todd’s suit also says investigators at the Clanton Police Department “continuously berated and screamed” at him, “trying to guilt him into confessing to something he didn’t do.” while interrogating him.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">It also included authorities forcing Todd to look at the photos taken at his wife’s crash site.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Officer David Hicks is also being accused of “lacking [a] probable cause” when charging Todd with manslaughter and is facing charges of malicious prosecution.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Todd believed that he had been initially called in for an interrogation to help identify the driver who had hit and killed his wife, but quickly learned that he was actually <a data-id="65" data-m="{"i":65,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":9}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.yourtango.com/news/what-was-in-ethan-crumbleys-journal-oxford-school-shooting" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">the main suspect in the investigation.</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“We’re telling you what happened. You got mad and threw those keys,” an investigator told Todd during the interrogation. “The weight of those keys being thrown is sitting on your shoulders. That’s why you can’t sleep at night. It’s eating you alive.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Hicks is also denying that he violated any of Todd’s constitutional rights, stating that the evidence he had for suspecting Todd of manslaughter “was taken with good faith.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Hicks had also written off Glenn’s crime in his investigative report, saying, “Roger Glenn did not comprehend nor realize what had happened, therefore his crime was not a deliberate action on his part.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">A judge has since rejected Todd’s indictment back in June 2020 for lack of evidence, and a jury selection for the trial of David Hicks is reported to start in February 2023.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nia Tipton is a writer living in Brooklyn. She covers pop culture, social justice issues, and trending topics. <a data-id="67" data-m="{"i":67,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":11}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="http://www.instagram.com/losernia/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Follow her on Instagram</a>.</em></p></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">This article originally appeared on <a data-id="68" data-m="{"i":68,"p":56,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":12}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.yourtango.com/crime/man-charged-manslaughter-after-refusing-let-wife-drive-drunk" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #157fa0; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">YourTango</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-who-stopped-wife-from-driving-drunk-charged-with-manslaughter-after-she-died-walking-home/ar-AASoQxA?ocid=BingHp01" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-73233337303283093632022-01-05T02:31:00.004+05:002022-01-05T02:31:27.852+05:00Update to CDC's Covid-19 isolation guidance is imminent, source says<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Update to CDC's Covid-19 isolation guidance is imminent, source says, The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to<a data-id="60" data-m="{"i":60,"p":57,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":3}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/politics/fauci-cdc-to-clarify-guidelines/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"> update its guidance</a> on the recommended isolation period imminently, according to a source familiar with the plan. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The agency, which could provide the update as soon as Tuesday, <a data-id="61" data-m="{"i":61,"p":57,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":4}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/27/health/cdc-covid-quarantine-isolation-shortened-recommendation/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">has faced pressure over the last week</a> from outside medical experts to include a testing component in its new shortened isolation period. But it remains to be seen what the final language from the CDC will look like.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has steadfastly defended the agency's decision not to include recommending a rapid test in the new guidance, telling CNN last week, "We opted not to have the rapid test for isolation because we actually don't know how our rapid tests perform and how well they predict whether you're transmissible during the end of disease."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">On CNN on Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease specialist, said the "likelihood of transmissibility is considerably lower" in the second half of the 10-day period following a positive result.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Walensky has also maintained that the CDC's decision to not include a testing recommendation had nothing to do with the nationwide shortage of rapid tests.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"This decision really, from an isolation standpoint, had everything to do with the fact that we wouldn't change our guidance based on the result of that rapid test. And you know that it didn't have anything to do with any shortage at all, because we recommend rapid tests for those in quarantine," Walensky said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Despite that, there has been deep frustration inside the Biden administration in the days since the CDC announced it was shortening the isolation period for those who test positive for Covid-19 from 10 days to five with no testing component, according to multiple officials.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said on CNN's "New Day" Tuesday that the CDC is working on a clarification to its guidance and that he expects it any day now.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Asked what he meant by a clarification, Murthy said, "They're going to speak to the role that testing can play in a situation like reducing isolation. What they're trying to do -- it's important to say more broadly -- is recognize and incorporate both the evolving science on Omicron and on prior variants in terms of how long somebody remains contagious, with the critical need to maintain essential services."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Murthy added that this means making ensuring there frontline workers available to treat sick people and firefighters to show up if someone's house is on fire.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"That means we have to balance those. Those are all part of public safety," he said. "That clarification, as I mentioned, will come out in the next couple of days."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Murthy also said that CDC will comment on the science behind the initial decision to not require a negative test, but he didn't want to speak for the agency.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"But we have seen that there is utility for antigen tests in a variety of situations," he said. "We recommended them to people before they get together at holiday gatherings. We've certainly seen many schools and businesses use them to screen people out. So I believe that there will be a role for antigen testing here to help reduce risk as well."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The White House on Tuesday defended the agency.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"The CDC is offering its updated guidance in real time of a fast moving and changing pandemic environment," said White House press secretary Jen Psaki. "We've seen them change guidance and update guidance on other occasions. They made this recommendation last week based on science. The vast majority of transmission infectiousness occurs in the first five days after diagnosis COVID-19 -- somewhere in the range of 85 to 90%."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">She said the CDC was slated to offer updated guidance on isolation later Tuesday, and was "continuing to assess every day, every week."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Sometimes that means changing recommendations," Psaki said. "That means adding to recommendations, but that's what happens when you lead with the data and the science and not lead with a clear communications plan."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">But last week, Walensky told CNN that the recommendations were not only based on science, but also on what they thought people "would be able to tolerate."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Pressed on how much those factors could have changed in a week and if the CDC was offering the clearest guidance, Psaki said the "objective is to provide clarity and help provide clarity on their decisions whenever we can."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><i><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/update-to-cdc-s-covid-19-isolation-guidance-is-imminent-source-says/ar-AASqbVB?ocid=BingHp01" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-43732733076776424242022-01-05T02:26:00.004+05:002022-01-05T02:26:38.280+05:00Legendary Star Betty White’s Cause Of Death Revealed<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Legendary Star Betty White’s Cause Of Death Revealed, Betty White’s cause of death has been revealed after the Hollywood legend passed away a few weeks before her 100th birthday. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“Betty died peacefully in her sleep at her home,” Jeff Witjas, the <a data-id="99" data-m="{"i":99,"p":57,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":32}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/31/report-betty-white-dead-99/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">99-year-old actress’s</a> representative, said in a statement to <a data-id="100" data-m="{"i":100,"p":57,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":33}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://people.com/tv/betty-white-died-of-natural-causes-agent-denies-rumors/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">People magazine</a> published Monday.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“People are saying her death was related to getting a booster shot three days earlier but that is not true,” Witjas said. “She died of natural causes. Her death should not be politicized — that is not the life she lived.”</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1478099869290090502" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1478099869290090502&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2022%2F01%2F03%2Fbetty-whites-cause-of-death-revealed-natural-causes%2F&sessionId=0169bad1fe1df1e4b60b4f1f54454bdaf20fbf1c&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9fd78d5%3A1638479056965&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 641px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">White’s agent previously told the <a data-id="103" data-m="{"i":103,"p":57,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":36}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-325298831235" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Associated Press</a> that the TV icon did not get a booster shot on Dec. 28 as some on social media had falsely claimed.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever,” Witjas shared last Friday with the outlet. “I will miss her terribly and so will the animal world that she loved so much. I don’t think Betty ever feared passing because she always wanted to be with her most beloved husband Allen Ludden. She believed she would be with him again.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In an <a data-id="104" data-m="{"i":104,"p":57,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":37}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://people.com/tv/betty-white-reveals-her-secrets-to-long-happy-life-at-100-exclusive/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">upcoming issue of People magazine</a> about <a data-id="105" data-m="{"i":105,"p":57,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":38}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/28/betty-white-spills-secret-long-life-turning-100/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Betty’s life</a>, the superstar spilled the secrets to living a long life.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“I try to avoid anything green,” Betty joked. “I think it’s working.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“Taste every moment,” she added about living a great life.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a data-id="106" data-m="{"i":106,"p":57,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":39}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/21/alex-trebek-betty-white-replace-him-as-host/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Betty</a> had an incredible career in Hollywood, starting back when she landed her first TV show “Life with Elizabeth,” <a data-id="107" data-m="{"i":107,"p":57,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":40}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924508/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">IMDb</a> noted. She’d been a part of Hollywood for more than seven decades and is probably best known for her roles on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” from 1973-1977 and as one of the ladies on NBC’s hit show “The Golden Girls” from 1985 to 1992.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/legendary-star-betty-white-s-cause-of-death-revealed/ar-AASoFXT?ocid=BingHp01" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642493182138137896.post-87485712537850718662022-01-04T02:30:00.001+05:002022-01-04T02:30:19.291+05:00Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from Facebook for 24 hours for covid-19 misinformation, one day after Twitter account suspension<p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from Facebook for 24 hours for covid-19 misinformation, one day after Twitter account suspension</span></b></p><p class="dropcap-parent" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from Facebook for 24 hours for covid-19 misinformation, one day after Twitter account suspension, Facebook suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for one day for spreading misinformation about covid-19, a day after Twitter permanently suspended her personal account for repeatedly violating the company’s policy.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Facebook said Greene’s post “goes against our standards on misinformation that can cause physical harm” and barred her from posting or commenting for 24 hours. Greene included the Facebook post in her criticism of Monday’s punishment. </p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Greene recently published a tweet falsely suggesting “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.” Included was a chart featuring data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which details self-reported post-vaccine health issues that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns do not imply causation.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The congresswoman, who has been repeatedly criticized for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic to her thousands of social media followers, lashed out at the two platforms in another forum.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" id="continueReadBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">“Who appointed Twitter and Facebook to be the authorities of information and misinformation,” she <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1478038022113345540?s=20" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">asked</a> on Gettr, a conservative social media platform launched by Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. “When Big Tech decides what political speech of elected Members is accepted and what’s not then they are working against our government and against the interest of our people.”</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Greene argued that her suspension is problematic because she represents more than 700,000 “US tax paying citizens.”</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">“I’m an elected Member of Congress representing over 700,000 US tax paying citizens and I represent their voices, values, defend their freedoms, and protect the Constitution,” the Republican lawmaker wrote.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In response to Greene’s tweets, Aaron Simpson, a spokesman for Meta, which owns Facebook, told The Washington Post, “A post violated our policies and we have removed it; but removing her account for this violation is beyond the scope of our policies.”</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) issued a statement claiming that opinions like Greene’s are under assault by major social media companies, which he says “have amassed more power and more control over more speech than any other institution in history.”</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">“Diversity of opinion is the lifeblood of our democracy,” McCarthy wrote. “And yet that fundamental American value is under assault by Big Tech. … Their recent decisions to silence Americans — including a sitting member of Congress and renowned physicians — who share views different from the political and media elite have real world costs.”</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">It was unclear what “renowned physicians” McCarthy was referring to. Health authorities have repeatedly emphasized that the vaccines, launched during the Trump administration, are safe and effective. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">reported</a> that more than 496 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered between December 2020 and December 2021. In that period, VAERS received 10,688 reports of death among people who had received the shots — or 0.0022 percent — though the fatalities were not necessarily tied to immunization.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Greene’s verified personal account was <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/20/marjorie-taylor-green-twitter-suspended-covid/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">temporarily suspended </a>twice during the summer of 2021. In July, she falsely claimed that the <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">coronavirus</a> was “not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65,” causing her to lose access for 12 hours. And in August, she was suspended for a week after falsely tweeting that the coronavirus vaccines were “failing.”</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Congressional leaders in both parties <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mccarthy-greene-holocaust-tweet/2021/05/25/d77bbb50-bd5f-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_21" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">condemned </a>Greene last spring for comparing face-mask policies to the Nazi practice of requiring Jews to wear Star of David badges. She apologized but has continued to attack coronavirus policies, <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" hasenterkeydown="1" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-masks-house-rules-pandemic/2021/11/01/8b2e8ace-3b46-11ec-a493-51b0252dea0c_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_21" style="color: #0078d4; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">refuse to wear a mask on the House floor</a> and share false information about the virus. She has amassed thousands of dollars in fines for violating the House policy on masks.</p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><i>Brittany Shammas contributed to this report.</i></p><p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Sans-sarif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><i><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-suspended-from-facebook-for-24-hours-for-covid-19-misinformation-one-day-after-twitter-account-suspension/ar-AASoo5i?ocid=BingHp01" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0