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A pair of colonoscopies that included a screaming patient and a surgical tech without a medical license handling scope insertion put a Tampa doctor on probation last week by the state’s Board of Medicine.

Dr. Ishwari Prasad also was fined $7,500, must pay $6,301 in Florida Department of Health case costs and has to take a five-hour continuing medical education course in laws, rules and ethics before Aug. 7, 2025. But the probation provides the meat of Prasad’s punishment.

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Prasad has never been disciplined by the Board of Medicine previously, but state records show some insurance payouts to patients of $250,000 in 2017 to the estate of a patient, who alleged a mistake caused a year-long delay in diagnosing colon cancer; $115,000 in 2008 to a patient who suffered “a spontaneous perforation of a diverticula in the third portion of the duodenum” and died after a long hospital stay; and $250,000 in 2004 to a patient who “sustained a colon perforation following the colonoscopy.”

Prasad’s current problems started on June 5, 2023, at the Ambulatory Surgery Center, 4500 E. Fletcher Ave. in the Tampa area.

According to the Florida Department of Health administrative complaint, Prasad uses hearing aids, but wasn’t wearing them during the two colonoscopies he was in charge of that day.

“During one or both procedures, the surgical team was unable to effectively communicate” with Prasad, the complaint said.

During the first colonoscopy, the complaint said, Prasad “improperly delegated” to a surgical tech, someone without a medical license, at least one of the following tasks: scope insertion, scope manipulation, manipulating the snare over polyps or tissue or removing polyps or tissue.

(During the second colonoscopy, the complaint said, Prasad “began inserting the scope before the patient was fully sedated. The patient began yelling.

Prasad “did not immediately stop the procedure when it became apparent that the patient was not fully sedated. [Prasad] failed to realize that the patient was not fully sedated due to [Prasad’s] failure to wear” his hearing aids.

Lying that he was a volunteer at a student-care centre and that he needed to complete a game challenge to get back his slippers, Tan Boon Hwee convinced a woman to let him draw smiley faces on her toes.

After drawing on her toes, he touched her feet so that he could adjust their positioning for picture-taking.

For this, Tan, 35, was sentenced on Thursday (Aug 15) to eight months' jail for outrage of modesty.

On top of that, there was another penalty of 36 days' jail because he committed the offence while on a remission order, which is typically issued to prisoners who show good conduct and are then allowed to be released after serving two-thirds of their sentence.

Tan, who has a sexual interest in feet, was convicted before for similar offences from 2019.

He has chronic adjustment disorder with depressed mood and paraphilic disorder (related to atypical sexual interests), but the latest assessment by the Institute of Mental Health, dated May 3 this year, found that these disorders had no contributory link to his offending.

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In April 2022, TODAY reported that Tan was sentenced to two weeks and five days' jail after being convicted of two charges of outrage of modesty.

In one of these offences, he had claimed to be a member of a non-existent charity called the "Barefoot Walking Society" when he molested a woman by caressing the soles of her feet. They had met through dating application Tinder.

In 2019, he was fined S$8,000 for five molestation offences.

A Tasmanian paramedic who was fired after he was accused of improperly removing a ping pong ball from a woman’s body has failed in his bid to be reinstated.

The incident occurred in the early hours of December 14, 2020, when a woman called ‘000’ from Old Beach just before 11pm on December 13.

The woman told the operator a ping pong ball was stuck in her vagina, but she was “pretty good” and “just laying there”.

The ambulance arrived at the woman’s house around 4:30am, almost six hours after the initial call for help.

The woman reportedly undressed and lay on the couch, where a female ambulance officer parted her labia.

The male paramedic, who is based out of New Norfolk, then inserted medical forceps into the patient’s vagina “to a sufficient depth to make contact with the ping pong ball”.

He then determined the ping pong ball could not be easily removed and the woman was transported to the Royal Hobart Hospital.

The paramedic was fired in June 2022, almost two years after the incident.

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The Commission found the officer was attempting to remove the object, without appropriate training and with an inappropriate instrument, which was outside his scope of practice.

A Pennsylvania groundhog is making a name for himself for something other than predicting an early or late spring.

An intrepid varmint dubbed Colonel Custard – so named for the frozen custard shop and mini-golf outlet where he was discovered – was found stowed away with a passel of stuffed animals prizes in an arcade game two weeks ago. Players were maneuvering a mechanical claw to pluck toys from the glass game case when they suddenly realized a real live groundhog was blinking back at them.

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Meadows manager Lynn Castle said no one is sure how the groundhog got in the building, but he must have clambered up the game chute into the machine.

“They were just staring at the stuffed animals in there getting ready to decide what to pick and saw the groundhog’s eyes blinking and realized there was something alive in there,” Castle said.

It took a village to set the varmint free. Employees first called the claw machine owners, who were too skittish to take the colonel on. Next came the police, who called the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Game wardens opened up the claw machine and released the groundhog into a nearby field, Castle said.

“It’s a good story that ended well,” Castle said. “He got set free. No one got bit.”

A Burlington man is accused of shooting his father in the face after an argument about “stinky feet.”

According to an arrest affidavit, David Carpenter, 48, called the police late Sunday night and said he shot his father.

When Burlington police officers arrived at the home on the 2700 block of Monarch Drive they took Carpenter into custody in the front yard.

Officers then found Carpenter’s father inside the home with a gunshot wound to the face.

Carpenter’s father was taken to a hospital; the injury was not considered life-threatening.

According to the arrest affidavit:

At the hospital, the father told police the two were arguing about “David’s stinky feet” before the shooting.

During an interview at the Burlington Police Department, Carpenter told detectives he was in the living room with his father, who was in a motorized scooter, when his father said Carpenter’s feet stank.

He claimed there was a heated argument between the two of them over family issues, and his father made a comment about shooting him.

Carpenter then walked back to his bedroom and grabbed his gun.

When he returned, he had the gun behind his back while yelling at his father about “guns.” He then pointed it at his father’s face, “accidentally pulling the trigger.”

In other news: Philadelphia man pleads guilty to stabbing neighbor to death over snoring

A kangaroo that escaped from a Czech prison last week has hopped back to the facility on its own, abandoning its newfound freedom in a bizarre turn of events.

Despite being underfed, the kangaroo, which had escaped from an open prison in Jiřice, southeast of Prague, is otherwise in good health.

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Interestingly, the second kangaroo had also escaped at the same time as its counterpart, but decided to forgo its newfound freedom, quickly returning to the prison grounds.

Kangaroos, and other animals such as roosters, rabbits and llamas, have been kept at the prison since 2018.

They were introduced as part of a pilot project aimed at helping inmates approaching the end of their term deal with anger issues.

One Scottish council area will be seeing double this school term, as an astonishing ten sets of twins are due to start primary school.

Dubbed "Twinverclyde", this marks the fourth consecutive year that twin counts in Inverclyde has reached double figures.

The record for twins was set in 2015, when 19 pairs began schools in the area. In the last 12 years, 10 of them saw more than 10 sets of twins begin school.

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The class of 2024 will take the Inverclyde twin count to 157 sets since 2013, which is an average of 13 sets each year.

A mammoth 27 per cent of Britons think that they could qualify for a sport at the next Olympics if they started training today, according to new research by YouGov.

Shooting came out on top as the sport that most people thought they could represent their country in at Los Angeles 2028, no doubt inspired by the memes of Turkish shooter Yusuf Dikec.

He arrived in Paris minus the traditional eye and ear protection and shot his way to a silver medal with one hand in his pocket.

Of those questioned, 15 per cent thought they could qualify in the 10m air rifle event, while 13 per cent fancied their chances in archery.

Most shocking was that six per cent believed they could qualify for the 100m in just four years, and seeing as the qualifying time is 10 seconds for men and 11.07 seconds for women, we should apparently have high hopes for 2028...

At the bottom of the scale, only three per cent of Britons think they could qualify in rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, diving, rugby sevens or skateboarding – which is surprising when you consider Team GB’s only entrant in men’s skateboarding at Paris 2024 was 51-year-old Andy Macdonald, who could have inspired a generation.

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Maybe most surprising is that 15 per cent of the over-65s think they could compete at an Olympic level in four years if they put their mind to it.

The brouhaha over the so-called "Bed-Stuy Goldfish Pond," a sidewalk puddle near a leaky hydrant in Brooklyn where someone keeps dumping fish, just kicked up a notch.

Advocates want the habitat made permanent. And they launched a GoFundMe campaign to help make it happen.

More than $1,100 had been raised toward a $2,500 goal as of Tuesday afternoon. The purpose?

According to the organizers: "Trying to help build a better habitat for the fishes to thrive and also funds for food and an outside ventilation system for them so they can survive through the seasons, so the community can continue to enjoy the beauty of nature. We appreciate all and any support we can get to help the fire hydrant goldfish."

The page says all proceeds will go to "help better the pond." The fact this is being treated like a "pond" alone has generated neighborhood buzz -- some calling it "stupid," some enamored -- and people are stepping up.

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Je-Quan Irving and his friends are responsible for turning what would normally be a forgettable patch of wet dirt into the fish home and sidewalk attraction, as first reported by Hell Gate.

Irving said the idea came to him about a week ago; $16 at the local pet store scored him about 100 goldfish.

"It's a novelty, it makes people feel good. What harm can come of it?" Dexter added.

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A News 4 camera was rolling as Department of Environmental Protection crews arrived Thursday evening to shut off the trickling fire hydrant. Irving said at least one person has already scooped up dozens of goldfish as word spread online amongst residents worried about the well-being of the fish.

"There is a possibility they will survive, although it's certainly not an ideal habitat," Dr. Tepper said.

Irving backed up his community pet project.

"One-hundred percent this is not animal abuse," he said.

About an hour after the DEP crews left, the ground was quickly soaking up the water – leaving the goldfish with little space to swim. Irving returned to unseal the valve and keep the goldfish alive. Irving says the so-called Bed-Stuy Aquarium has a Plan B.

"Once the temperature and everything starts changing, we are going to take them out and give them to kids in the community," he said.

A spokesperson on Friday said the agency had continued safety concerns about tampering with hydrants.

"We love goldfish also, but we know there is a better home for them than on a sidewalk," the DEP said.

A sandwich business in St Andrews looking to bring in a £1 'seagull insurance' on all purchases - as the birds steal food from up to 30 customers a day.

The owners of the Cheesy Toast Shack say they currently give free replacements to dozens of customers each day - due to seagulls swooping in, attacking people and stealing their newly-purchased food.

The business says this costs them hundreds of pounds a day - and are 'desperate' for a solution. The owners are now 'seriously considering' adding the gull insurance on every purchase to try to cover the losses caused by the winged menaces.

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Kate and her husband, Sam, 39, have made various attempts to deter the gulls. From playing birds of prey noises, to buying a bird of prey kite on Amazon - the couple say they have exhausted almost every option, 'apart from shooting them'.

Kate admitted: "The bird noises were not the vibe we ideally wanted down at the beach, and the bird kite we bought didn't do anything - people will sit under them and the gulls will still keep attacking, we have been lost for what else we can do."

A climber scaled the north face of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday, the last day of the Olympics, but was intercepted by police midway up, police said. “At 2.45 pm, an individual was seen climbing the Eiffel Tower,” a police spokesman said. “The police immediately intervened and arrested the individual.”

Videos showed the bare-chested man skirting the Olympic rings as he made his way up without ropes.

In one video, the grinning climber can be heard saying to bystanders in English: “Bloody warm, innit?” as he is escorted off the viewing platform by police.

He's since been named as Louis Davis, a climber and stuntman who previously climbed the Cheesegrater in London.

Mujur delivered a baby orangutan, as yet unnamed, on July 31st at the zoo after her pregnancy had initially taken staff by surprise.

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Mujur had previously given birth to two other infants, but she seemed to lack a maternal instinct and staff at the zoo had also been unable to get her to latch on for breastfeeding.

Mr McClure said they decided to bring in midwife and lactation specialist Lizzie Reeves, a midwife employed on the breastfeeding team at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin.

Ms Reeves organised for 30 breastfeeding mothers to work in rosters prior to the birth of the baby orangutan for an hour or two each morning. The hope was that they could teach Mujur how to get her baby to latch on as apes are highly intelligent and “mirror behaviour”.

Ms Reeves said she didn’t hesitate to help when the call came in from the zoo and instantly had a group of 30 women volunteering to take part.

She said the keepers closed off the orangutan house every morning for the mothers.

“We had a maximum of four women a day. The chairs were all set up and there was safety glass between Mujur and the women who were breastfeeding,” she said.

“A lot of women said: ‘Look, an orangutan doesn’t wear a T-shirt.’ So they whipped off their T-shirts and theirs bras so Mujur could literally see everything.

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It was looking promising but Mr McClure said that unfortunately when Mujur gave birth she didn’t manage to breastfeed.

“She was doing fantastic. She had the baby in the right place but she just didn’t get there. It was a matter of positioning and she just didn’t have it, unfortunately.

The skipper of a Royal Navy 'bomber boat' submarine that carries nuclear missiles has been given the boot. Top brass saw an X-rated video he made while on duty, according to reports.

The Sun reported that he was in command of a Vanguard-class nuclear submarine, armed with Trident Two missiles, when he shared the graphic vid with a junior sailor on the sub. It is not clear which of the four Vanguard subs – HMS Vanguard, Vengeance, Victorious and Vigilant – he skippered.

Colleagues alleged that the pair had an illicit physical relationship when the bomber boat was at sea, but a Royal Navy source reportedly told the aforementioned title that sex on board did not form part of the investigation.

A gold medal gymnast from the Philippines has been receiving more than just bragging rights for his accomplishment.

Carlos E Yulo, 24, made history on Saturday, August 3 as the first male Olympic gold medalist in the history of the Philippines after winning the floor exercise event in men’s gymnastics. Yulo went on to receive another gold medal one day later for his vault routine. Since completing these difficult achievements, various companies have chimed in to make Yulo’s victory even more special.

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One prize gifted to the Olympian was a two-bedroom condo in McKinley Hill township near the country’s capital of Manila. The Filipino real estate company Megaworld announced earlier this month that they would give away these condos to Olympians from the country that specifically retired with a gold medal. Yulo is the only person to have done so.

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The gold medalist was also offered various cash prizes including 10 million Philippine pesos, which is the equivalent of $173,300 while the country’s House of Representatives pledged to give Yulo an additional six million pesos for his achievements.

Various chain restaurants throughout the country have also decided to participate in celebrating Yulo’s gold medals by offering lifetime supplies of ramen, macaroni and cheese, and grilled chicken.

One gastroenterologist gave Yulo free consultations and colonoscopies for life while the University of Mindanao has offered him free college credits if he decides that he wants to go back to school.

Spanish authorities are investigating a man who allegedly damaged cave paintings that are thousands of years old by pouring water on them in order to take better photos for social media.

A 39-year-old man from Los Villares, in Jaén province in Andalucia, southern Spain, uploaded photos of the wet paintings to Facebook, according to a statement from the Guardia Civil published on Saturday.

The paintings affected, which are in various locations in the Sierra Sur de Jaén mountain range, are protected on the country’s heritage register, and the man is under investigation for a crime against historical heritage, said the statement.

Officers from the Guardia Civil’s nature protection service (Seprona) launched an investigation in May after seeing the photos online.

“The photographs show that water has been poured onto the cave paintings, wetting them in order to see them better and capture a clearer image,” the statement reads.

The cave paintings were made on limestone, which contains water-soluble salts. When water is poured on the paintings, these salts dissolve and then come to the surface when the water evaporates, leaving a crust that causes “irreparable damage” to the paintings, according to the Guardia Civil.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16021002

Vasile Gorgos was 63 years old when he left his home in eastern Romania to go on a short business trip.

As a cattle farmer and trader, Vasile often made such excursions and, this time, had bought his train ticket in advance.

The difference here was that on this fateful day in 1991, he didn’t return home.

Knowing that he was due to come back the same day, his family immediately called the police who launched a search effort.

But after days turned into weeks, then months, then years, with neither sight or sign of Vasile, his loved ones were forced to assume the worst.

With no leads or traces to follow, they suspected foul play, but endless questions were left unanswered.

But then, on 29 August, 2021, three decades after Vasile’s disappearance, his family was faced with the ultimate plot twist.

A car stopped in front of their home – the same one they’d had for the past 30 years – and out stepped an old man, looking confused.

That man was none other than 93-year-old Vasile, wearing the same clothes he left in all those years ago. His pocket even contained the same train ticket he was due to travel with.

The car allegedly raced off before anyone had a chance to question the driver, but when asked where he’d been, a baffled Vasile replied that he’d been “at home”, Medium reports.

He subsequently underwent a thorough medical examination but doctors concluded that he was in remarkably good health.

Back when there were fewer UK television channels than non-red balls on a snooker table, Steve Davis was king of the green baize.

He was the player many loved to hate, with his emotionless, robotic style making him a household name who won six world titles during the 80s.

That same "uninteresting" persona was even lampooned by notorious ITV puppet show Spitting Image - a dubious honour usually reserved for heads of state, top ranking politicians and Hollywood celebrities.

Who then would have foreseen Davis eventually rebrand as one of the country's top DJs, performing everywhere from the Glastonbury Festival to supporting Britpop giants Blur at Wembley Stadium?

Not only that, the 66-year-old Londoner will also be appearing at the 40th Brecon Jazz Festival this weekend., external

There he will be joined by long-time musical collaborator Gaz Williams, the duo promising an "utterly unique" immersive sound and light experience at the town's cathedral on Saturday, 10 August.

But rather than a set of turntables, both will be playing a modular synthesizer - to the uninitiated, a baffling box of switches, dials, sliders and wires - to create hypnotic soundscapes of loops, samples drones and textures.

"What we do isn't jazz as such, but we are improvising and that's very jazz-like," said Davis, who now lives just the other side of the Severn Bridge.

A fisherman from Devon has landed the first shark of its kind - one made of Lego lost at sea off a cargo ship 27 years ago.

Richard West, a 35-year-old fisherman living in Plymouth, found the plastic toy on the top of his fishing nets 20 miles (32km) south of Penzance on Tuesday.

He contacted the project Lego Lost at Sea, whose founder Tracey Williams confirmed the piece to be the first-ever reported shark from the 51,800 Lego sharks lost off the Tokio Express cargo ship on 13 February 1997.

A freak wave in a severe gale swept 62 shipping containers into the sea 20 miles (32km) off Land's End, one of which held 4,756,940 pieces of Lego, much of it sea-themed.

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Mr West said: "I was so excited. I was more happy about finding the shark that anything else I caught this week.

"It's priceless - it's treasure!"

Ms Williams said: "This Lego shark is one of 51,800 lost overboard from the Tokio Express and the only one we’ve ever seen.

"Richard and I now have joint custody of the shark."

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Recently Lego from the container lost overboard has been found not just in Cornwall but in the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, Wales and Ireland, she added.

Previously: Boy, 13, finds 'holy grail' Lego octopus piece from sea spillage in 1997

The Museum of Ice Cream’s TikTok trendy “Sprinkle Pool” is seriously lacking in filling — so much so that one visitor was left maimed after he went for a sweet splash, he claims in a new lawsuit.

The pool’s poor design and “inadequate and insufficient” level of rainbow-colored toppings left Jeremy Shorr, who visited the SoHo attraction with his daughter last March, with an ankle fracture so serious that it required surgery and internal hardware installed, according to court documents.

But the biggest issue might be how the museum presents the pool on social media, where multiple posts encourage visitors to “jump in” and “plunge,” claims the suit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

“We believe this sprinkle pool poses a risk of serious personal injury to members of the public, who are encouraged to jump and plunge into it, despite these actions having caused injuries to those who have fallen victim to this viral trend,” said Shorr’s attorney, Daniel Perrone.

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And Shorr isn’t alone. Others shared their Museum of Ice Cream mishaps on social media, where injuries in the sprinkle pool seem to prosper.

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Doctors told Shorr that alleged injuries from his March 31, 2023 sprinkle pool plunge will likely result in future surgeries, osteoarthritis and arthritis, according to the lawsuit.

Shorr suffered “severe and permanent personal injuries” when he jumped into the pool “in the manner advertised, encouraged, marketed and promoted” by the museum, the filing states.

Perrone opined that “discouraging that activity would eliminate a key attraction.”

Unless the museum is willing to “properly calculate and determine the amount and dimensions of the sprinkles required to render the Sprinkle Pool fit and safe for jumping and/or plunging,” the pool area should be festooned with ample and abundant warnings, he added.

In a post on Facebook on Tuesday (6 August) which was also cross-posted to X/Twitter, someone named Rob Anderson shared a photo of Tate in what appeared to be a pair of Speedos, also nicknamed budgie smugglers in Australia, and zoomed-in close on his crotch area.

“I guess she forgot to wear her fake,” Anderson captioned the photos, alongside an aubergine emoji, misgendering Tate – who identifies as a cisgender man – and implying that there was no male genitalia present, thus making the controversial figure trans.

Anderson also said Tate was among a number of people who are notable for being “part of the inverted show”.

Several of Anderson’s followers commented that they believed in the conspiracy too, with only a number of people pushing back, leading Anderson to say: “Don’t like what I post, think it’s crazy, get off my page. I don’t care, it’s the truth.”

Anderson further claimed that Tate is transgender in order to “blaspheme the Father”, referring to God.

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When asked if he supports transgender people, Tate said he “supports individual liberty” because he is “a libertarian”.

However, he has also said that YouTuber Mr Beast and trans influencer Kris Tyson were part of a “psyop” to normalise transgender people among children.

They are coming for your children, everybody at home. Your children are the future which they want to control,” he claimed.

Tate is also a self-proclaimed misogynist and claims to be the “pinnacle of masculinity.”

A man from Des Moines has been arrested after allegedly hitting a man with his own car while attempting to hijack the vehicle while completely naked.

Tyler Jonsson was spotted sprinting in the nude on Court Avenue in the heart of Des Moines just before 3.30am on Tuesday, according to Des Moines police. A man, who looks to be Jonsson, can be seen running back and forth on the streets of downtown in video obtained by KCCI.

The footage then captures him heading towards a car while women can be heard screaming in the background. The man comes to a stop at a parked black car where a man is sitting in the driver seat with the door open.

The naked man suddenly jumps over the driver and into the passenger seat while a witness yells "No!" The confused driver exits the car as the two appear to begin arguing as the naked man attempts to close the door.

As the driver throws a punch at the naked man things take an even more dangerous turn as the hijacker then quickly puts the car in reverse, knocking the other man to the ground and dragging him as the still open driver-side door hits him.

"Oh my god," a terrified woman can be heard screaming as the driver hits the ground. The suspect then speeds away in the car, with the tires squealing.

According to Des Moines police, the driver of the vehicle only sustained minor wounds and is anticipated to recover. Later on, the automobile and Jonsson were discovered by the police after hitting a tree close to East Sixth and Court Avenue.

A Texas middle school is banning students from wearing all-black clothing because school officials say it’s associated with mental health issues.

Students at Charles Middle School in El Paso, Texas, headed back to school Monday, days after a letter from Principal Nick DeSantis outlined the school’s new dress code policy. The letter says the school is eliminating all-black clothing because it is “associated with depression and mental health issues and/or criminality.”

Norma De La Rosa, the president of El Paso Teachers Association, explained in more detail why the policy is in place and what clothing is allowed. She says teachers see a sudden change in students going from dressing with color to all black when they are depressed or stressed.

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Many parents and community members disagree with the policy, commenting online that clothing color doesn’t define a person’s mental state.

“The color of clothing has nothing to do with your ability to do anything or feel any emotion,” Alex Lucero said.

“Making students wear a different color isn’t going to magically make them a completely different person,” Alexis Contreras said.

A 20-year-old man used an explosive device to blow up a porta potty at a Cicero beach earlier this year, police said.

Officers found the exploded portable restroom around 5:20 a.m. on May 19 at Williams Beach, according to a Wednesday news release from Steve Rotunno, the Cicero police chief. Debris was scattered more than 40 feet away, police said in court papers.

The man, Angelo M. Antonello, of Liverpool, was charged Tuesday with first-degree criminal mischief. He was arraigned the same day and released on his own recognizance, according to Thomas Newton, a spokesperson for the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office.

Antonello drove to the beach with another person who police have yet to identify, police said in court papers. The duo recorded themselves blowing up the porta potty on the social media platform Snapchat, police said.

Officers were not able to identify the explosive device because it was destroyed in the explosion, Rotunno said.

Previously: Texas Man Booby-Traps Car Wash Toilets With Fireworks, Injures 3

Researchers at Lehigh University are experimenting with mayonnaise to unlock the secrets of nuclear fusion, a potential source of limitless, clean energy.

This research builds on their previous work, published in 2019, which also utilized mayonnaise to understand the physics behind fusion.

“We use mayonnaise because it behaves like a solid, but when subjected to a pressure gradient, it starts to flow,” said Arindam Banerjee, the Paul B. Reinhold Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh University.

This characteristic of mayonnaise mimics the behavior of plasma under similar conditions.