Abuse
Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?
In 1979, the feminist writer and activist Pearl Cleage was thirty, newly divorced, and dating for the first time in more than a decade. After a late introduction to Miles Davis’s famous album “Kind of Blue,” she started playing the record on dates. She was “in need of a current vision of who and what …
Fifa to use technology to detect and block online abuse of players at World Cup – The Irish Times
Football chiefs are to use technology to detect and block online abuse aimed at players during the World Cup finals in Qatar and beyond. Governing body Fifa and Fifpro, the worldwide representative organisation for professional footballers, published an independent report on Saturday to coincide with the United Nations International Day for Countering Hate Speech in …
How Technology is Preventing Market Abuse in Fintech
When it comes to detecting and stopping misconduct or non-compliant behavior, surveillance teams have to act as detectives – organizing large volumes of amounts of data, discovering the truth within it and acting on what they find. Teams have the difficult task of essentially finding the needle in the haystack, just to ensure the few …
Jerry O’Connell Apologizes to Wil Wheaton for Stand by Me Child Abuse
Jerry O’Connell apologized to his “Stand by Me” co-star Wil Wheaton on the Thursday’s episode of “The Talk” for being unaware that he was suffering from child abuse while making the classic 1986 coming-of-age classic. Wheaton told Yahoo Entertainment in May 2021 that his parents “forced” him to become a child actor, adding the he …
Technology-facilitated abuse is creating ‘terror’ in women, and it’s on the rise in Australia
A seemingly innocent tracking app on *Rose’s phone was the secret weapon her abuser used to keep her in a constant state of fear. Key points: Rose was constantly monitored by her ex-partner but now has a watch that can contact a monitoring company in case of an emergency Abuse facilitated by technology is mostly perpetrated by men …
NH to receive $9.4M for mental health, substance abuse issues
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire will receive more than $9.4 million in federal grants to help fight substance use disorder and bolster access to mental health services under the coronavirus relief package signed into law in December, the state’s congressional delegation said Friday. “The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a tremendous toll on Granite Staters’ …
Others detail allegations of abuse by officer who knelt on George Floyd
In November 2013, Minneapolis police pulled over LaSean Braddock shortly after midnight as he drove home from a double shift as a mental health worker at Hennepin County Medical Center. Braddock, 48, said he had grown somewhat accustomed to being stopped by police because his identity had been stolen and he was sometimes mistaken for …
Oakland Group Offers Non-Police Hotline for Mental Health or Substance Abuse Emergencies – NBC Bay Area
Chances are 911 is the first phone number you memorized, but now a group in Oakland wants people to dial a different number when there’s a mental health crisis or a substance abuse emergency. It’s a non-police emergency hotline manned by trained volunteers who want to offer an alternative to people who don’t trust police. …
Teenagers who allegedly broke into Townsville crash victim Jennifer Board’s home face court, one screams abuse after bail denied
A teenager accused of breaking into the home of 22-year-old Townsville crash victim Jennifer Board after she was killed has beaten the windows of a courtroom dock and yelled abuse during his bail hearing. Key points: One of the two teens accused of the burglary was denied bail He said he had “no idea” he …
Public Health Crisis: How the COVID-19 pandemic plays a role in Midstate opioid abuse
YORK, Pa. (WHTM) — The COVID-19 pandemic has consumed the attention of the healthcare industry and the media. But while COVID cases were surging in emergency rooms, so were opioid overdose cases in almost a third of the state, including one Midstate county. Overdose deaths in Pennsylvania are now almost at the level of their …
