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Culture Fortnite Gaming Addiction A 9-year-old girl in the United Kingdom was sent to rehab after she became so addicted to Fortnite that she wet herself rather than take bathroom breaks, her parents say. In January, Carol and Richard, who have withheld their last names to protect the identity of their child, bought their daughter an Xbox. Soon after, she downloaded Fortnite, a popular survival game developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly, reported Scottishpaper the Daily Record. According to Carol, her daughter was so addicted to the game, she hit Richard in the face when he attempted to confiscate it from her. “We got called in by her head teacher asking if everything was okay. She had fallen asleep twice in lessons and her grades were slipping," she said. “When we asked our daughter what the problem was, she became unusually argumentative and aggressive, which we just put down to her hormones.” A female gamer uses an XBox One game controller to play "Need … [Read more...] about ‘Fortnite’ Gaming Addict, 9, Sent to Rehab After She Wet Herself Rather Than Take Bathroom Breaks

Blake Shelton reached a settlement with entertainment magazine In Touch and its publisher, putting an end to Shelton’s 2015 defamation lawsuit against the publication. The case centered around an In Touch cover that featured Shelton and the headline, “Rehab for Blake.” Shelton insisted that it wasn’t true, that he had never been to rehab, and did not have a drinking problem, despite having lyrics about drinking in his songs.The magazine’s publisher tried to get the case tossed last year, but a California judge ruled against them, allowing the case to move ahead towards a trial. Shelton had said in a sworn statement that the image of being a drinker was “part of my act, part of my performance, but in no way indicates that I have an actual problem with alcohol.”The singer was looking for $2 million in his lawsuit, but the terms of the settlement agreement are still unknown.[Image via DFree/Shutterstock] … [Read more...] about Blake Shelton, In Touch Magazine Settle Defamation Case Over ‘Rehab’ Cover

upheld a U.S. District Court ruling that made Wayne State University pay out to former social work student Tina Varlesi.Varlesi said she was discriminated against while interning at a Salvation Army rehab center for college credit.She was at the pregnant at the time. She says this got her supervisor, another woman, focused on her baby bump. This lady “addressed her obvious pregnancy immediately, ordering her not to drive after dark or in bad weather, questioning her marital status [Varlesi’s fiancé had just left her] and living arrangements and announcing that though she had ‘had relations’ with someone, the men at the rehab ‘can look but they cannot touch,’” the court ruling stated.The supervisor kept going on about it, even after Varlesi complained to Wayne State. The supervisor admitted during a meeting she told her “repeatedly to stop ‘rubbing her belly’ and to wear looser clothing, and said that the men at the … [Read more...] about Woman Won Lawsuit After Being Told Her Pregnant Belly ‘Turned on’ Rehab Patients

Nursing  Home Failed to Provide Certified Nursing Assistant with Reasonable  Accommodation and Discharged Her Because of Her Disability, Federal Agency  ChargesCamden Place Health & Rehab, LLC, a  North Carolina limited liability company that operates a nursing home in  Greensboro, N.C., unlawfully refused to accommodate a disabled employee and  subsequently discharged her because of her disability, the U.S. Equal  Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. According to the lawsuit, Yvonne Quaynor worked for Camden  Place as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).   Quaynor has asthma, a condition which affects her ability to breathe.  The complaint  alleges that around January 2010 Camden Place began requiring all of its CNAs  to supervise residents during scheduled smoking breaks.  Quaynor found that the secondhand cigarette smoke  that she inhaled while supervising these … [Read more...] about EEOC Sues Camden Place Health & Rehab, LLC for Disability Discrimination

A Hollywood producer and entertainment lawyer and a Tulane University Law School graduate who is also an actor and producer have been federally indicted, accused of submitting fraudulent documentation to obtain Louisiana tax credits under a program that is intended to encourage the film industry in the state.Peter M. Hoffman, a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer and producer, and Michael P. Arata, a New Orleans lawyer, actor and production company operator, face conspiracy and wire fraud charges concerning their rehabilitation of a historic New Orleans mansion in which movie editors reside while doing post-production work after filming, reports the New Orleans Times-Picayune in a lengthy article today.Until the indictment last month, Hoffman was chief executive officer of Seven Arts Entertainment Inc.,an independent movie company he founded whose stock is traded over the counter. He has produced major movies, as president of the now-shuttered Carolco Pictures, which was behind Total … [Read more...] about Actor and Hollywood producer, both lawyers, indicted over tax credits for film house rehab