The Juvenile Curfew Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 gives the police chief the authority to order a Juvenile Curfew Zone in an area where large groups of youths are gathering or intending to gather in a manner that poses a risk to public safety.

The Juvenile Curfew Zone, prohibits teens 17 and under from gathering in a group of nine or more in any public place, or on the premises of any establishment unless part of an exempted activity.

The curfew began Sunday at 8 p.m. and dovetails into the citywide curfew from 11 p.m. through 6 a.m. all summer.

Any adult who violates the Juvenile Curfew Act is subject to a fine not to exceed $500 or community service, and a minor who violates curfew may be ordered to perform up to 25 hours of community service.

Minors are exempt from the curfew if they fall under one of the following:

• Accompany a parent or guardian
• Complete an errand at the direction of a parent or guardian, without detour or stop
• Ride in a motor vehicle involved in interstate travel
• Work or return home from a job, without detour or stop
• Become involved in an emergency
• Stand on a sidewalk that joins their residence or the residence of a next-door neighbor, if the neighbor did not complain to police
• Attend an official school, religious, or other recreational activity sponsored by the District of Columbia, a civic organization, or other similar group that takes responsibility for the juvenile (this includes traveling to and from the activity)
• Exercise their First Amendment rights protected by the , including the free exercise of speech, religion, and right of assembly

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Families who give birth at the hospital can immediately enroll their newborn child in the library system’s Books from Birth program. For a limited time, there will be an extra incentive, too — parents will receive a baby bundle tote as a thank-you. The totes include early literacy resources, library information, a board book, rattle and finger puppet.

The Books from Birth program sends enrollees a free book by mail every month until they turn 5, with the goal of bolstering basic reading skills from a young age so kids are well prepared for kindergarten.

To date, more than 23,700 children in Prince George’s County have received free books by mail to help jump start their home library.

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“The staff of PGCMLS are thrilled to be able to work with the UMD Capital Region Health Center to reach new families with our Books from Birth program,” Pam Hamlin, a family literacy specialist at the library system. “We hope that the materials inside of the Baby Bundle totes will encourage parents in their role as their child’s first and best teacher.”

Families will be given the opportunity to register before leaving the hospital, or can .

The program started in July 2017, with support from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and the county government.

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The had already secured a $900 million grant for startup costs and planned to serve middle and high school students with a business-oriented curriculum. It also had the support of School Superintendent Dr. Monifa McKnight.

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Before the vote, McKnight spoke about how the school’s administrators had satisfied earlier concerns. The board also rejected plans by MBLI last year, citing concerns about enrollment, transportation and the charter school’s ability to maintain funding.

“There was an articulated educational philosophy that was shared with us, we also talked about the founders’ experience around school leadership,” McKnight said.

Montgomery County Public School staff members supported conditional approval of the school, requiring more information by July 2023. However, board member Judith Docca indicated there were too many uncertainties, including the possibility future admissions would be too low, which would impact funding based on student enrollment numbers.

“I still have a concern over the enrollment,” Docca said. “In my mind, it means a lot of transportation is going to be involved because of the location.”

Docca also noted that a lot of Gaithersburg residents walk. However, the school’s location presented concerns about how students would be able to arrive to class.

“It is a walking community for the most part, but I’m not sure how many could really walk to your program,” Docca said.

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Niko was the subject of the Facebook group Save NIKO, and the subject of court battles for the last seven years.

In August 2015, Niko’s owner, Toni Sue Stacey, was convicted in Albemarle County Circuit Court for owning a dangerous dog after Niko killed a neighborhood cat.

The judge sentenced Stacey to 90 days in jail, but suspended all of it, with the conditions that Stacey be on good behavior, and that Niko would be euthanized.

Since then, the owner has been advocating for other options. Her attorney Elliot Harding told WINA radio Charlottesville that they identified several other options.

“He could have been given to a sanctuary; he could have been given to an individual; he could have been put into behavioral rehabilitation aspects so we would have less dog aggression,” Harding said, adding that at the end of the day, the county did not want to consider the other options.

The SPCA did not support the decision to euthanize and issued the following statement:

“Unfortunately, the decision was made by Albemarle County to euthanize Niko. On Thursday, July 14, Niko was taken from the SPCA to another location and euthanized. The SPCA opposed the decision to euthanize Niko, played no role in that decision, and did not participate in the euthanasia itself.”

The society said that it considered housing Niko permanently, since he was doing well in its care, but it was determined that under Virginia law, the SPCA is required to find permanent homes for the animal and not permitted to own or house animals permanently. The SPCA cared for Niko for more than seven years while the court cases were ongoing.

Harding said that a facility in New York that deals with dangerous dogs turned Niko away because he was not dangerous enough. “He’s just a regular dog,” Harding said the facility told him.

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Albemarle County issued a statement listing the altercations Nico had with other animals, in addition to killing a cat in 2014. Niko was accused of injuring a dog in 2013. One year later, Niko was declared a “dangerous dog” by the Albemarle General District Court after injuring a second dog. Lastly in 2016, while impounded at the SPCA, Niko escaped and hurt a third dog.

Harding said it was the first he has heard of the 2013 attack. He said he spoke with Stacy about it and said “she has no idea where that’s coming from.”

Despite what Harding said was late notice about the county’s decision to euthanize Niko, his client was able to say goodbye to the dog.

“She was able to rush over there and have some last moments with him,” Harding said.

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A total of four victims reported being held up at gunpoint. The first reported robbery was on Thayer Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland, around 3 p.m. on Sunday. Another was blocks away on Fenton Street. The victims reported that three young men jumped out of a white car and robbed them.

Police said the three then moved towards the area of Silver Spring Avenue and Grove Street, where they brandished a weapon and demanded the victim empty his pockets. Instead, he ran — with the three chasing him. When bystanders called for police, the three fled in a white Honda.

Police caught up with the white Honda HR-V near Eastern Avenue and 14th Street. But police say it sped away. The pursuit ended with a crash in D.C., and all three were arrested.

The suspects have been identified as 16-year-old Diego Ramos of Silver Spring, 18-year-old Michael Miller of Silver Spring and 19-year-old Deon Dickey of D.C.

Ramos will be charged as an adult. Dickey is facing additional charges in connection with last week’s carjacking of the Honda involved.

Detectives believe that there may be additional victims who have not contacted the police.

Any other victims — or anyone who has surveillance footage of the suspects with the vehicle near the crime scenes — are asked to call Montgomery County police at 240-773-6870. Anonymous tips can also be provided through Crime Solvers of Montgomery County at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477).

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Gov. Larry Hogan and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources said Friday that the awards are going to 77 unique sites that will be restored using best management practices,  including reforestation plantings, stream restoration, stormwater management and wetland creation.

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“Our administration’s commitment to environmental stewardship has included making record investments in Chesapeake Bay restoration, including fully funding the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund,” . “Each of these projects plays a critical role in improving the quality of the bay, and making our ecosystem more resilient.”

Montgomery County was awarded grant money for two major restoration projects. The City of Rockville has been allocated $2 million to restore 3,800 linear feet of Croydon Creek.

The county was awarded an additional $555,000 for retrofit projects of several ponds, including the Longmead Crossing Pond, Plumgar Pond, Clearspring Manor Pond and Watkins Mill Pond.

The rest of the $18.8 million will be spread across the state. Other counties awarded funding include Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Queen Anne, Carroll, Cecil, Harford and Garrett counties.

Grants are made possible with funding through the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund

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The asks accusers to include the name of the police officer, a description of facts on which the complaint is based, and the accuser’s contact information for investigative follow-up.

Complaints will initially go to the newly formed Police Accountability Board for investigation. The board will then move complaints forward to an administrative charging committee (ACC), which will determine whether disciplinary measures should be taken.

One of the board’s first tasks will be rounding out an ACC, which — in addition to evaluating complaints — will also hold hearings on complaints they find credible. In addition, the ACC will work with law enforcement agencies to review and report on disciplinary matters stemming from public complaints.

The Police Accountability Board is expected to regularly update and provide guidance to the Montgomery County Council on policing.

The portal can be used to file complaints against Montgomery County police, Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies, Gaithersburg police, Takoma Park police, Rockville police and Chevy Chase police.

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According to court documents, Candie Marie Calix, 40, of Front Royal, illegally sold 49,000 oxycodone pills to the general public between from 2012 to 2022.

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The former office worker got the drugs from an Arlington physician.

The evidence indicated that Calix functioned as the gatekeeper to the doctor, . She did this by recruiting Front Royal residents to become “patients” of the doctor, and obtain large quantities of oxycodone. These “patients,” in turn, typically kicked back the oxycodone 30-milligram pills they were prescribed to Calix to redistribute, and kept the oxycodone 15-milligram pills for their own use.

Calix and her co-conspirators used coded language to refer to the pills they distributed, for example, referring to oxycodone 30-milligram pills as “tickets,” “blueberries” or “muffins.” The co-conspirators typically sold oxycodone 30-milligram pills at a cost of $25 per pill, and over the course of the conspiracy, generated at least $5,000 per month in profits.

Two of Calix’s co-conspirators, Kendall Sovereign, 56, and Jessica Talbott, 35, both of Front Royal, also pleaded guilty to their involvement in the conspiracy. Sovereign and Talbott are both scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 21.

Calix is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 28. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

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While many of the D.C. region’s public school systems are turning to a virtual start for the new academic year, learning from home comes with its own, unique challenges parents should prepare for.

Ann Dolin with the is urging parents to take action to help their students succeed in a nontraditional classroom environment.

Dolin said the first thing parents should do is set up an organized school work space for their child. Ideally, the space would include a desk and a chair, and minimize distractions.

Television, video games, phones and other similar devices should be a good distance away, even during short breaks, because they could make it difficult for some students to disconnect.

She also recommends sprinkling in some online social downtime.

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The results suggest 68% of Americans who suffered wage cuts or lost jobs as a result of the pandemic, along with 69% of Americans whose wages have not seen cuts, still back relatively strict mitigation efforts including shuttered nonessential businesses.

The study also indicated people who suffered wage losses as a result of the coronavirus were more likely than not to say their areas should embrace stronger restrictions.

One in five blamed the virus for their job loss.

The most agreement came on the subject of overall U.S. economy. Nine in 10 Americans surveyed believe the outbreak is a major threat to the country’s economy.

The Pew results came as the U.S. unemployment rate is 14.7%, the highest since the Great Depression.

People were surveyed from April 29 to May 5. The and has a margin of error of 1.4 percentage points.

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With treatment costs for an eating disorder ranging from $100,000 a year for outpatient care to up to $1,500 a night for in-patient residential treatment centers, paying for treatment can become another challenge in the process of recovering from an eating disorder.

, with the law firm Kantor and Kantor, said some of her clients have mortgaged their homes and cashed in their life savings after insurance cut off their child or loved one.

“Over the last 10 years I’ve probably represented close to 1,000 patients; some of my clients have died because they didn’t get the care they needed,” Kantor said.

Insurance providers recognize eating disorders are serious and can be life-threatening, said Cathryn Donaldson. Donaldson is with , the largest advocacy organization representing health insurance companies nationwide. She said there are some systemic barriers to mental health care.

“We need more mental health specialists, and more mental health specialists that are willing to be in health plan networks. We need to ensure that doctors work together as they treat the same patients. We need reliable, consistent ways to measure quality in mental health care.”

Survivors say the disagreement between experts and insurance companies tends to center around how long a patient needs to be in costly residential in-patient treatment centers. , who finally overcame anorexia after a 10-year battle only to lose her best friend to anorexia last year, is an advocate of insurance reform.

“I don’t think there is really anyone I know who can afford it out of pocket,” Baker said.

is a fellow with , a trauma addiction treatment center. Schaefer has written several books on eating disorders, including the best-selling book “Life Without Ed.” Schaefer encourages sufferers of eating disorders to reach out early for help. She said she quietly suffered for years and finally, through therapy, was able to challenge the obsessive negative self- talk typical of the disorder. She did this by thinking of her eating disorder as an enemy named “Ed.”

“Ed said, ‘You need me; I am you.’ My therapist helped me to understand that voice was a lie,” Schaefer said.

Both Schaefer and Baker say when they started to see friends moving on, yet they felt stuck in the same place as when they were teens, they got serious about wanting to move past the illness. Baker says it was hard to divorce herself from the negative obsessions of her disorder. But with nutrition and expert help, she was able to deal with some of her underlying problems. She then, finally, was able to turn her back on her disorder.

“I still hear the voice of my eating disorder. But now I hear other voices too: The voice of my mom. The voice of my therapist. And that critical, eating disorder voice is not so important,” she said.

The National Eating Disorder Association has a for navigating legal and insurance issues.

Part 1: Starving for perfection: Va. woman’s struggle with eating disorder highlights problems that often go undiagnosed

Part 2: Starving for perfection: Parents walk tightrope when dealing with kids’ eating disorders, social media use

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Maya Ewart, now a junior at the University of Virginia, knew something was wrong when she turned 14. She was spending too much time in front of the mirror, tearing apart her appearance.

“Meals became snacks. I think I played it off as, ‘Oh, you can have it. Oh, I’m not hungry’ 
 but gradually no meal was complete.”

Ewart confided in a friend, who urged her to tell her parents. She took her friend’s advice.

“I am crying downstairs; my mom came downstairs. She said, ‘What’s wrong?’, I said, ‘Mom, I need treatment.’ I came to them.”

But many parents are completely surprised by a diagnosis, because the disease can be hidden for months to years.

Rick Deise was surprised when he found out his daughter had anorexia. In 2000, when Kristen Deise was 14, he took her to doctors to investigate sports injuries. She was referred to an eating disorders specialist by a pediatric gynecologist.

Looking back, he said, there were some warning signs.

“She did not have her period for three or four months; she had injuries from sports — volleyball, soccer and tennis — that were becoming chronic and reoccurring, and she started having rituals with her eating. There was a huge shift in her behavior. That was the third sign that alerted me,” he said.

Yet, he said, he was not prepared for the diagnosis.

“I wouldn’t say shocked; I was more dumbfounded. I was like, ‘What is that?’ No way did we expect to hear ‘Yes, she has anorexia nervosa, and she needs to be admitted 
 now.’”

Parents of children with eating disorder walk a tightrope.

The National Eating Disorders Association suggests parents not become overly combative with their children in the face of starvation. But there is no specific rule book for parents to follow.

“If you’re worried, it is important to reach out, so family-based therapy is a critical piece of the puzzle,” said , with the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt, in Baltimore.

At the height of his daughter’s illness, Deise said, meals were incredibly stressful.

“I am a dad who fixes thing — anything that was broken. My daughter was broken, and I had no way to fix it,” he said.

It took three years of treatment, and three inpatient stays in Baltimore and in Philadelphia, for his daughter to overcome her eating disorder.

“There wasn’t a script of what to say. I think the theme, more than others, if I can find a common thread that they shared, is ‘Food is medicine.’ If you want to get better, you are going to have to eat food.”

During that ordeal, Deise learned that while he was part of the solution, he wasn’t the answer.

“It was overwhelming; it was so vast. It took about a year, but I had to back off and let the professionals guide the treatment.”

How social media, dieting culture reinforce eating disorders — and how parents can help

Social media can be a great way to share and connect with people — but there is a dark side to image-based platforms and their impact on people trying to recover from eating disorders.

Dr. Steven Crawford, a co-director of the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt, said social media may be tied to an increase in body dissatisfaction and disordered eating.

Specialists such as Crawford say eating disorders mask an underlying problem, and the starving brain can then propel the eating disorder into a downward spiral. But the constant comparison opportunities through social media don’t help, he said. Several studies, including a , have found the more time people spend on social media, the more dissatisfied they tend to be with their own bodies.

The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt recommends parents monitor and limit the amount of negative media their child is exposed to.

Nutritionist Rebecca Hart said a lot of teens are going to social media and getting bad nutritional information, as well as seeing unrealistic images they may want to emulate.

“We live in a society that makes recovery from an eating disorder so difficult because it is so focused on weight and diet,” Hart said.

Hart added that it’s not uncommon for sufferers to completely eliminate whole groups of food from their diet. But the quicker patients are able to eat a variety of foods, the better the outcomes.

She encourages parents not to make comments on their children’s appearance and to model eating a variety of foods.

“It’s tough for an adolescent when I say, ‘You know what? You need to eat cake. Cake is OK in moderation,’ when the parent is saying this is bad. That is a mixed message,” Hart said.

Christie Dondero Bettwy, who has recovered from bulimia, said the positive feedback she got when she lost weight helped fuel her disorder. Bettwy, now the executive director of which has programs for people suffering with eating disorders, said it took her years to recognize she had a problem.

“I feel like so many women are taught to hate our bodies. We are taught that you should be on a diet and shouldn’t look this way, so I didn’t realize I had a problem because a lot of people around me didn’t like their bodies,” Bettwy said.

Hart said labeling food as “bad” can contribute to overeating and undereating. People should listen to their body cues for hunger and think of food as fuel. That’s helped Bettwy in her own recovery.

“Once I realized I had an eating disorder and the light bulb went on in my head, I thought, ‘I don’t want to live this way.’ I realized I had been living this way for so long. So I was all in to the recovery process,” Bettwy said.

Tips for parents on spotting, coping with child’s eating disorders

The on how to recognize and cope with eating disorder.

Here are some tips for parents on dealing with a child’s eating disorder, , the nation’s first residential eating disorder facility:

Do

• Learn about eating disorders so you will recognize the signs.
• Listen to the individual with understanding, respect and sensitivity.
• Discuss things other than food, weight and exercise. Talk about feelings instead.
• Share your own vulnerabilities and struggles.

Don’t

• Don’t take any action alone.
• Don’t try to solve the problem for your child. He or she needs a qualified professional.
• Don’t blame your child for doing something wrong.
• Don’t focus on weight, the number of calories being consumed or particular eating habits.
• Don’t make comments about your child’s appearance. Concern about weight loss may be interpreted as a compliment and comments about weight gain may be seen as criticism.
• Don’t get involved in a power struggle around eating or other behaviors.
• Don’t be deceived by your child’s excuses.

Part 1: Va. woman’s struggle with eating disorder highlights problems that often go undiagnosed

Part 3: Insurance coverage can become second battleground with eating disorders

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Kendall Baker, of Virginia, was in middle school when she started to become obsessed with her weight. The blue-eyed blond, who had been born with an eye disease, was being taunted for having a prosthetic eye. She was always thin, but found herself becoming more and more obsessed with dieting and losing weight.

“There was a lot of bullying, and that was the turning point for me — as part of my physical image, I had something to compensate for,” she said.

Baker did not know at 13 she was developing a psychiatric disease that is the toughest to fight, with .

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By 15, her secret was out; she was diagnosed with bulimia after taking diet pills.

“I had a cardiac episode on Thanksgiving Day, collapsed and was shaking, and they took me to the emergency room,” Baker said. Yet her binging and purging continued.

The summer before college, she worked as a lifeguard, “Yet all I remember is, my parents have a finished basement in their home, and I spent the entire summer in that basement binging and purging back to back-to-back.”

“Looking back now I can see it was depression, and I think I was an anxious kid,” she said.

Baker continued a downward spiral for 10 years, spending time in six residential treatment centers. It took her eight years to graduate college. Eventually, she said, when she saw her friends moving on in life and felt herself circling the same ground as when she was a teen, she opened herself up to change.

She said she realizes now, after all those years, that her eating disorder was a way for her to find control: “Feeling so out of control of everything else there is one thing you can control, and that is what you put in your mouth.”

Baker is far from alone in suffering for years from an eating disorder. At least 30 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder in the U.S., according to the

The disease is considered a mask for patients who suffer from underlying problems. Many sufferers are extreme perfectionists, highly anxious and/or suffer from post-traumatic stress or psychiatric issues. Many experts believe the disease is under-diagnosed, with people suffering for years in silence, and only people on the extreme ends getting help.

“Chances are someone you know has an eating disorder,” said , the psychology coordinator at the in Baltimore. “You’re basically trying to heal an internal issue with an external solution. It is like your car needs a new transmission and you take it in for a paint job.”

Author Jenni Schaefer and researcher Jennifer Thomas, a Harvard Ph.D., write in their book, “” that research indicates many people float undiagnosed in and out of disordered behavior for years to a lifetime.

“One in 10 teenage girls and one in 20 Americans struggle in key symptoms of an eating disorder, and most often they are not getting help because they don’t meet diagnostic criteria,” Schaefer said.

“It doesn’t matter what size you are. Most eating disorders look like [they are] a normal size. You cannot tell an eating disorder by looking.”

Baker, now recovered at 30, didn’t think she would make it this far. She lost her best friend, whom she met in an in-patient treatment center, to complications from anorexia in November 2018.

Anorexia can be characterized by extreme emaciation. Sufferers who lose a large percentage of their body weight can see a range of problems, from osteoporosis to anemia to organ failure. She says her friend wanted people to know no one would willingly choose that path in life.

“She said over and over and over again, ‘I want to live. I don’t want to die; I want to fight.’”

The starving brain

Abdominal pain, constipation and growth of fine hair covering the body are all signs of anorexia, but it turns out the root of the problem is what experts call the starving brain.

“[People] get into kind of an out-of-control spiral. The more they starve, the more they want to starve,” says , of the UC San Diego Eating Disorder Treatment and Research Program.

Kaye has conducted brain imaging and genetic studies on sufferers of extreme eating disorders. His findings indicate the brains of people suffering from anorexia directs them to feel anxiety, as opposed to pleasure, when eating.

“There are probably some wiring differences that create a vulnerability, and there are also some changes that occur secondary to starvation,” Kaye said.

Kaye’s research also points to alterations in the brain’s neurons and circuitry, which helps explain why the hunger drive, even in extremely emaciated patients, may not be activated.

“These are people who can diet themselves to death. Normally people feel irritable when they don’t eat. But people with anorexia the wiring seems to be backwards. What happens is they feel better when they don’t eat,” Kaye said.

Dr. Steven Crawford is co-director of the , in Baltimore, which includes a 34-bed in-patient residential treatment center.

“[It’s] hard for people to understand: ‘Why don’t you just eat?’ It is not as easy as it sounds, because the brain is trained to behave in certain ways,” Crawford said.

Even after patients re-feed and regain lost weight, it can take months for the starved brain to heal. The brain, in a sense, is fighting recovery.

“With anorexia, as you start doing better you start feeling worse. And if you just go back to your eating disorder, you are going to feel even better. So it’s like a constant calling to go back to the disease,” Crawford said.

Even before developing anorexia, sufferers tend to share some common traits, including social anxiety and extreme perfectionism. Kaye said before onset, children tend to be super achievers who do well in school, so parents are surprised when the psychiatric disorder surfaces.

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“There is a powerful biology driving this. Parents shouldn’t blame themselves or feel guilty. Nor should they blame the person with anorexia nervosa,” Kaye said.

Yet even though extreme eating disorders are the deadliest of all psychiatric diseases, researchers say there is a lot they don’t know, and recommendations from eating treatment centers vary and are dependent on the experts employed. Kaye said researchers lack large studies on eating disorders to draw on, and are basically borrowing treatments from other psychiatric disorders.

“We don’t really have powerful treatments; there [are] no FDA-approved treatments. Schizophrenia and bipolar disease get much, much more funding,” Kaye said.

Signs of eating disorders

It’s important to notice the signs and symptoms of anorexia and bulimia. These are some of them, according to :

Anorexia

• Extremely restricted eating
• Extreme thinness (emaciation)
• A relentless pursuit of thinness and unwillingness to maintain a normal or healthy weight
• Intense fear of gaining weight
• Distorted body image, a self-esteem that is heavily influenced by perceptions of body weight and shape, or a denial of the seriousness of low body weight

Other symptoms may develop over time, including:

• Thinning of the bones (osteopenia or osteoporosis)
• Mild anemia and muscle wasting and weakness
• Brittle hair and nails
• Dry and yellowish skin
• Growth of fine hair all over the body (lanugo)
• Severe constipation
• Low blood pressure slowed breathing and pulse
• Damage to the structure and function of the heart
• Brain damage
• Multi-organ failure
• Drop in internal body temperature, causing a person to feel cold all the time
• Lethargy, sluggishness, or feeling tired all the time
• Infertility

Bulimia

• Chronically inflamed and sore throat
• Swollen salivary glands in the neck and jaw area
• Worn tooth enamel and increasingly sensitive and decaying teeth (the result of exposure to stomach acid)
• Acid reflux disorder and other gastrointestinal problems
• Intestinal distress and irritation from laxative abuse
• Severe dehydration from purging of fluids
• Electrolyte imbalance (too low or too high levels of sodium, calcium, potassium and other minerals), which can lead to stroke or heart attack

Part 2: Parents walk tightrope when dealing with kids’ eating disorders, social media use

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Riding the carousel is a yearly tradition for generations of Washington area families. It’s on the National Register of Historic Places for its hand woodcarvings popular during the early 1900s.

Between 1983 and 2003, each hand carved animal on the carousel was fully restored.

The local community stepped in to save the carousel when threatened with a sale to
another park community in the early 1970s.

It was also the site of civil rights protests that took place in the 1960s during the era of the privately owned amusement park.

The carousel is scheduled to reopen in the spring of 2020 with a new roof, an updated fire suppression system and a new band organ room.

The cost of the repair work has been priced at more than $1 million

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Through Sept. 6, the District will be unveiling 15 new Department of Public Works trucks wrapped in artists’ murals.

The “” initiative originally launched in 2010 with 10 trucks wrapped in artists’ murals. The project is part of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s mission to expand the creative economy and encourage residents to recycle.

One of the new trucks is wrapped in pink, yellow and blue with the words “Waste Not” on the side. Another shows a monarch butterfly cruising over the bay, and a third has the words “I heart DC” on the side.

“Through the Design to Recycle project, we are able to support and showcase the talent of our local artists, further enhance the visibility of the city’s recycling efforts and add to the creative landscape of the District in all eight wards,” said Angie Gates in a news release.

Gates is interim director for the Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

DPW has also partnered with the city’s Murals DC project, which replaces graffiti-tagged walls on buildings with original works of art.

“Art has been a powerful tool in engaging residents with our agency’s work,” DPW Director Chris Shorter said in a news release.

“The wrapped trucks forge a connection between our sanitation teams and the neighborhoods we serve and our drivers are excited to drive them. We hope these moving pieces of art inspire citizens to remember the vital role they play in the city’s sustainability efforts.”

The Commission on the Arts and Humanities provided funding for this project.

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