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☆ Man who sat next to a plane passenger accused of opening a door mid-flight says it reminded him of a disaster movie
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A video captured the moment an Asiana Airlines passenger opened the emergency exit door mid-flight. The man sitting next to the passenger told CNN that he thought he was going to die. A man who sat next to an Asiana Airlines passenger accused of opening a plane door mid-flight last month said it reminded him of a disaster movie. Lee also said that the man sitting next to him "seemed tense" and that both of them were "trembling with fear." Lee told CNN that he feels like he's "been born again" after the incident.

Persons: Lee Yoon, Lee Organizations: Airlines, CNN, Asiana, Airbus, Daegu International Airport, Associated Press, AP Locations: Jeju, Daegu

☆ Asiana Airlines: 'I wondered what I'd done wrong in life,' says man next to passenger who opened plane door
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Paula Hancocks | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The passenger he was sat next to on a recent Asiana Airlines flight allegedly opened the plane’s emergency door – while it was still in the air. He’d been watching YouTube on his mobile phone when the door opened and an intense wind hit him, blowing away his hat and headphones and making it hard to breathe. Glancing across at the man sat next to him, Lee noticed that he “seemed tense” and both men were “trembling with fear.”Footage taken from inside the Asiana Airlines plane shows the terrifying moment the door opened midair. Injured Asiana Airlines passengers are taken to Daegu hospital after a door on the plane opened mid-air. Aircraft doors can usually only be opened upon touchdown.”Lee says he hasn’t heard from Asiana Airlines since the incident.

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CNN —Four young children have been found alive after more than a month wandering the Amazon where they survived like “children of the jungle,” according to Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro. Petro said the children were all together when they were found, adding they had demonstrated an example of “total survival that will be remembered in history.”“They are children of the jungle and now they are children of Colombia,” he added. The children, who appear gaunt in the photos, are being evaluated by doctors and will be taken to the town of San Jose del Guaviare. When we found the children we felt joy, we don’t know what to do, but we are grateful to God,” he said. During a press conference Friday evening, Petro said he hoped to speak with the children on Saturday.

Persons: Gustavo Petro, “, ” Petro, Petro, ”, María Fátima Valencia, “ I’m, gaunt, San Jose del Guaviare, Ivan Velasquez, Jacobombaire, Tien Ranoque Mucutuy, Cristin Ranoque, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, Hernando Murcia Morales, Herman Mendoza Hernández, they’d, Fidencio Valencia, Narcizo Mucutuy, Villavicencio, Lucho Acosta Organizations: CNN, Twitter, Colombian, Colombian Defense Ministry Locations: Colombia, Villavicencio, San Jose, Bogota, Colombian, ”

Rome CNN —Venetian authorities are investigating after a patch of fluorescent green water appeared in the famed Grand Canal on Sunday morning. “This morning a patch of phosphorescent green liquid appeared in the Grand Canal of Venice, reported by some residents near the Rialto Bridge. Luigii Costantini/APPeople observe Venice's historical Grand Canal as a patch of phosphorescent green liquid spreads in it,. This is not the first time Venice’s Grand Canal has experienced a color alteration. In 1968 Argentine artist Nicolás García Uriburu dyed the waters of the canal green with a fluorescent dye called Fluorescein, during the annual Venice Biennale.

☆ Opinion | If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably ‘WEIRD’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +83 min

You’re probably very weird, and not just for all the obvious reasons you’re thinking of. Because, obviously, there’s going to be some overlap in the curve here. How you’re going to behave with your professor is quite different than how you’re going to behave with your friends. But it’s really kind of faceless, and you’re not really helping anybody you know. I think things are dynamic, and directions are changing, and that sort of thing.

☆ Old trailer parks are being torn down, driving up homelessness as one of the last options for low-income renters fades away
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Anita Snow | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Residents of mobile home parks in Arizona are being asked to leave, so student housing can be built. Mobile homes, not always mobile, are hard to repair so they're being razed. "We are in the deepest affordable housing crisis we've ever experienced," said Joanna Carr, acting head of the Arizona Housing Coalition. Efforts under way to revitalize old mobile homes have limits. Many park residents are Spanish-speaking immigrants earning minimum wage as landscapers or restaurant workers.

The caller was an Israeli officer who ordered them to evacuate the house five minutes before they bombed it. The cousin, Hussam Nabhan, 45, tried to stall with the officer, telling him the house included disabled people, but it was all in vain, he said. "The house was the girls' shelter, they had got a disabled toilet, wheelchairs, a bed to sleep. "How am I going to carry her after the wheeler was gone, also the (healthy) mattresses were gone," she added. Its borders are sealed off by neighbouring Israel and Egypt, citing security concerns with Hamas, which runs the territory.

☆ He smelled something strange in his Tibetan hotel room. It was a dead body under his bed
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —When a tourist at a Tibetan hotel noticed a foul smell in his room and asked to move, little could he have guessed he would get caught up in a murder investigation. The traveler spent half a day in the room wondering where the smell was coming from and initially suspected either the bakery downstairs or perhaps his own feet. But he was later informed it came from a dead body under the bed. So I asked them where,” he told Shangyou News. Recounting his experience to Shangyou News, Zhang said he had left Tibet as soon as he helped the police with their investigation.

☆ The most effective ways to manage an employee who is unmotivated and mentally checked out
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Laura Pavin | Kellogg Insight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Turn the lens inwardIf you suspect someone in your ranks is quitting quietly, Thompson recommends that you first consider the possibility that you could be misreading their behavior. Managers set the tone for their teams, Thompson says. In fact, that's why it's not a bad idea to ask your team to work on this document before any new issues arise. And if your efforts to reenergized a disengaged employee fail, Thompson says, the issue may end up correcting itself. "If you have an engaged workplace, whoever is quietly checked out probably won't want to be around.

☆ Why Do Apes Like to Spin? Maybe for the Same Reasons as People.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Rachel Nuwer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 2011, a gorilla named Zola gained internet fame when the Calgary Zoo posted a video that showed him spinning in circles on his knuckles and heels with what appeared to be a huge grin on his face. Humans’ love of spinning around in circles, especially during childhood, is evidenced by the enduring popularity of playground merry-go-rounds, revolving fun park rides and the irresistible draw of somersaulting down a hill. But new research suggests that humans are not alone in their pursuit of spin-induced buzzes. According to findings published last month in the journal Primates, other great ape species also seem to regularly enjoy stimulating their senses through spinning, possibly even in pursuit of altered mental states. “So it’s really cool to find that other primates do this, too, and that they seem to do it for the same reason that children do: because it’s fun and exhilarating.”

CNN —The 2-year-old boy found last month in an alligator’s mouth in a St. Petersburg, Florida, lake died of drowning, police say. The boy was put in the lake by his father, who is charged in both deaths, according to a St. Petersburg police affidavit. The Pinellas County medical examiner confirmed Monday that the cause of death was drowning, St. Petersburg police told CNN. Thomas Mosley St. Petersburg PoliceThe toddler’s father, Thomas Mosley, 21, is facing two counts of first-degree murder. They found Jeffery inside with “apparent cuts and stabs in excess of 100 wounds,” according to the affidavit.

☆ Employee surveillance is on the rise — and that could backfire on employers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Goh Chiew Tong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

[Employee surveillance] has increased excessively over the last few years … largely under the guise of ensuring workplace safety and confidentiality and protecting the business. It therefore comes as no surprise that demand for employee monitoring software has skyrocketed since the pandemic. Veriato is one of many employee monitoring software companies worldwide whose sales boomed because of the pandemic. When you're looking at your contract, you're not looking for those clauses — you're looking at how much am I going to get paid? "When you're looking at your contract, you're not looking for those clauses — you're looking at how much am I going to get paid?

☆ Jankto to stop playing for Sparta Prague this season over health concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 20 (Reuters) - Czech Republic international Jakub Jankto, who received widespread support earlier this year after coming out as gay, has announced he will not play for Sparta Prague anymore this season due to concerns over his health. His announcement was met with support from Brazil's Neymar, the English Premier League, LaLiga and European soccer's governing body UEFA. The midfielder has played 16 games in all competitions for Sparta this term, having joined on loan from Spanish side Getafe. Sparta lead the Czech top flight with 61 points after 27 games, two points above second-placed Slavia Prague. The two Prague teams are due to meet in the Czech Cup final in May.

Dominion asserts that Fox's top brass approved of the coverage, but the network says the evidence of high-level involvement is threadbare. The jury pool will be drawn from New Castle County, Delaware, where Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two-to-one, according to the state's Department of Elections. The network says scattered doubts about the claims among certain individuals cannot be attributed to the organization as a whole. "I think (Fox is) trying to argue that the employees themselves did not have that necessary mental state," said UNC's Papandrea. "But it's tricky when the organization itself has relevant information that would cast doubt on the veracity of the statements about Dominion."

☆ South Africa's Pistorius seeks early release 10 years after killing girlfriend
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JOHANNESBURG, March 31 (Reuters) - Former South Africa paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, jailed in 2016 for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, will ask a parole board on Friday to release him early from prison, lawyers and prison officials said. Pistorius, behind bars for almost seven years, became eligible for parole after serving half of his 13-year prison sentence. The closed-door parole board meeting is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) at the Atteridgeville prison near capital Pretoria. The independent parole board must determine, among other issues, whether Pistorius is at risk of committing similar crimes in the future, prison spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo said. Pistorius' lawyer, Julian Knight, told Reuters he was not in a "position to comment until such time as the Parole Board has made a decision".

☆ Morocco coach Regragui in dreamland after win over Brazil
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Osama Khairy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

March 26 (Reuters) - Morocco coach Walid Regragui has hailed his team as history makers after they followed up their giant-killing feats of last year's World Cup with their first win over Brazil in a friendly in Tangier on Saturday. The Atlas Lions became the first Arab team to defeat the five-times world champions, with goals from Sofiane Boufal and substitute Abdelhamid Sabiri earning Morocco a 2-1 victory. We beat Brazil, who are number one in the FIFA rankings and the country of football." "To make the celebration beautiful, we had to win this match and that's what we did," Morocco centre back Romain Saiss said. The result was further proof of the strides Morocco have made under Regragui.

☆ Gun Violence Has Changed Us
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Christina Caron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

On a hot day in July, he got into an argument with a man at the bike store. The man eventually left, but later returned — this time with a gun. Fear was a unifying thread, regardless of whether someone had directly encountered gun violence. Mass shootings, though only a fraction of the number of gun murders nationwide, are also on the rise. One survey, conducted by the Harris Poll for the American Psychological Association, found that more than seven in 10 adults cited gun violence as a significant source of stress.

☆ A US veteran joined Ukraine's International Legion, then made a shock defection to Russia. Ex-comrades say he was incompetent and left behind a trail of chaos.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Alia Shoaib | Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Those who fought with him in Ukraine told Insider he was unstable and erratic on the battlefield. "Bama is a highly unstable character," Nance told Insider. The warning signs continued, as McIntyre told Smith that he was wanted by the FBI for threatening to kill personnel at the White House, Smith. "As time went on, he confided to me that he had converted to Islam and that he was planning to do a jihad," Smith told Insider. "When you screw up, a company gets rid of you, pulls you off the line, and sends you back to the battalion," Nance told Insider.

☆ Suspect accused of fatally shooting 2 Mississippi officers died from return fire during shootout, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Authorities now say that a Mississippi woman who fatally shot two police officers was killed by one of the officers who returned fire during a shootout. But on Friday, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety released additional details. As Estorffe approached the vehicle, Anderson and Estorffe exchanged rounds resulting in fatal injuries to both individuals," the release stated. Anderson told the officers that she thought she was being followed by a person in a white pick-up truck. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety has not said what sparked the shooting.

☆ 'If I committed suicide, it's not real': Elon Musk reassures the public he's not suicidal for a second time this year
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk attended a Twitter Space Q&A with more than 100,000 listeners on Saturday. This is the second time in 2022 that Musk has alluded to his mysterious death. In a Saturday Twitter Space, Musk hosted a live Q&A on the "Twitter Files" bombshell dropped on Friday. According to Twitter, 1.8 million total tuned in to the Twitter Space interview. In the Q&A, Musk also suggested Twitter favored Democrats over Republicans in its censorship.

☆ Herschel Walker's ex-girlfriend accuses the Georgia Senate candidate of attacking her after she caught him with another woman and says he shouted, 'You want to see a man? I'll show you a man'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An ex-girlfriend of Herschel Walker's told The Daily Beast he attacked her in 2005. Walker's campaign did not immediately return Insider's requests for comment. Walker's campaign did not immediately return Insider's requests for comment. Parsa told The Beast that Walker had previously admitted to having a relationship with the woman but had said he ended it. Parsa told The Beast.

☆ Late Zappos founder Tony Hsieh said he believed he was 'crystallizing' and part of 'a simulation' in month before death, court documents reveal
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Court documents filed this week provide more insight into the final weeks of the life of Zappos founder Tony Hsieh. According to the documents, the month before his death, Hsieh, who was 46 at the time, was taken to the hospital after he said he believed he was "crystallizing." The documents, which also noted that Hsieh had begun chewing on cigarettes as his health declined, state that Hsieh first began using ketamine in November 2019 before openly experimenting with nitrous oxide, KTNV reported. Per KTNV, Andrew Hsieh was offered a $1 million salary to care for his brother. According to the filings, Andrew Hsieh also requested that "vitamins and protein supplements" be added to his brother's food, as he was becoming increasingly emaciated, KTNV reported.

☆ What happened to former Chinese leader Hu Jintao?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Analysis Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

China's former leader Hu Jintao is lifted from his chair by a young aide at the closing of the Communist Party Congress on Saturday. Neither has the incident been reported in Chinese language media, or discussed on Chinese social media, where conversations around senior leaders are highly restricted. Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao is taken by the arm and escorted out. “For whatever reasons, Xi ordered Hu to be escorted out when he must have thought that Hu might not behave exactly as Xi would have wanted,” he said. Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao pats the shoulder of his protege, Premier Li Keqiang.

☆ Putin's nuclear threats are pushing people like Trump and Elon Musk to press for a Ukraine peace deal. A nuclear expert warns that's 'dangerous.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Growing fear of nuclear war has prompted calls for an immediate settlement to end the war in Ukraine. But abandoning support for Ukraine now could spur Russia and others to make more nuclear threats. "Just giving in at this point would actually be dangerous," nuclear expert Pavel Podvig told Insider. In discussions with Insider, Podvig said that Russia could decide to use nuclear weapons if its hold over Crimea were threatened. Instead of capitulation, dressed up in a universal desire for peace, he argued, "You could in effect show – demonstrate in practice — that nuclear weapons are not a useful instrument of terror and compellence."

☆ 42% of Americans say money negatively impacts their mental health. Here's what an advisor suggests for financial security
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

October 10 is World Mental Health Day, and the 2022 World Mental Health Day theme is, "Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority." 42% of U.S adults say money is negatively impacting their mental health, according to a recent survey from Bankrate and Psych Central. Gen X, ages 42 to 57, doesn't lag far behind at 46%, and 40% of those aged 18 to 25 in Gen Z say money problems cause mental health concerns for them, too. Just 30% of people who make at least $100,000 annually say money negatively affects their mental health, compared to 48% of earners making less than $50,000 a year. 3 ways to feel financially secure, maintain positive mental health

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