Elaborate duct tape dress wins Los Angeles teen a national scholarship contest
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Elaborate duct tape dress wins Los Angeles teen a national scholarship contest

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 07: Karla (cq) Torres (cq), 18, of Los Angeles, is a finalist in the Stuck At Prom, a duct tape scholarship contest, on Friday, July 7, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA.  The contest awards scholarships to high schoolers who make the best prom attire out of Duck Brand Duct tape.  Torres will be attending California State University Fullerton pursuing a degree in business marketing starting Aug.  2023. Karla spent 120 hours making the dress.  (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)

Eighteen-year-old Karla Torres of Los Angeles is the winner of Stuck At Prom, a duct tape scholarship contest. The contest awards scholarships to high schoolers who make the best prom attire out of Duck brand duct tape. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)

A Los Angeles teen who designed and made a Marie Antoinette-style prom dress completely out of duct tape was named Wednesday as the winner of a national scholarship contest.

Karla Torres, who graduated this spring from Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School in Boyle Heights, won a $10,000 scholarship after amassing the most votes for her dress in the

How Can We Stop Overthinking?
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How Can We Stop Overthinking?


How many evenings have seemed endless due to the constant over-analyzing we do in our minds? If you belong to the category of “overthinkers”, you understand exactly what we mean. A simple and innocent thought can very easily become inflated and end up being a torture of our psychology. Most problems are created by ourselves in the first place, due to the fact that we often allow them to creep into us, focusing on the worst case scenario and not on their solution. This is how a person who analyzes everything functions. Except that in this case even an insignificant

Athlete Endorsements What are the FTC Rules?
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Athlete Endorsements What are the FTC Rules?

The first article in this series explained the requirements under the FTC’s current Endorsement Guides that athletes must have “clear and conspicuous” disclosures to endorse a product or promote a business.

But what happens if an athlete does not disclose their relationship in their online advertisements? And what is the business’s responsibility for disclosing relationships in its own advertising business?

This second article presents various scenarios exploring disclosure requirements and detailing important considerations for businesses as they approach endorsement deal negotiation and enforcement.

Scenario 1: You —a business owner —signed an endorsement deal with a student-athlete. They post on their

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)


In our daily lives, each of us can have an experience that is overwhelming, frightening, and beyond our control. We may be involved in a car accident, be the victim of an assault or witness an accident. These experiences are more likely to happen to police officers, firefighters, ambulance crews – who are often faced with gruesome scenes. Also, military personnel may be shot or injured by explosions, or see friends killed or injured.

Most people, in time, get over such experiences without needing help. However, for some, traumatic experiences trigger a reaction that can last for many months or