Balloon Breath by Amanda Given Amanda Given, an author, speech language pathologist, yogi, mother, mental health advocate, and child at heart, has given us a charming story with colorful and playful illustrations that will help any child, young or old, open up and learn to deal with their feelings, all by learning about Balloon Breath. This obviously is an important topic for children and their parents or guardians. So much has been written about the difficulty of young children to understand and control their emotions, with strategies from learned scholars and therapists on how to cope. Yet sometimes, it’s the…
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Tammy Wynette famously sang “Stand By Your Man,” but her husband George Jones didn’t always make that easy, as Showtime viewers will see in George & Tammy. The biopic series — which premieres on Sunday, December 4, at 9/8c with a simulcast on Paramount Network — will show how the couple’s “complicated but enduring relationship inspired some of the most iconic music of all time,” as Showtime says. “With over 30 No. 1 country songs between them, including duets ‘We’re Gonna Hold On,’ ‘Golden Ring’ and ‘Near You,’ George and Tammy’s legacy, both musically and romantically, remains one of the…
Of more than 140,000 Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon, just 1.6 per cent have actually quit Elon Musk’s social media platform Technology 2 December 2022 By Chris Stokel-Walker How many people are really moving from Twitter to Mastodon?Andreas Prott/Alamy Only a handful of Twitter users who have threatened to leave the social network for open-source alternative Mastodon have actually deleted their Twitter accounts. An analysis of more than 140,000 Twitter users shows that although plenty of people have said they are leaving the site, only 1.6 per cent have wholly abandoned the platform, which was bought…
There’s no denying Ugg continues to churn out amazing footwear, with its more recent Fluff Yeah slippers being no exception. We saw countless A-listers like Hailey Bieber, Gigi Hadid, Megan Fox, and Selena Gomez sport the cute, cozy shoes practically everywhere last summer, and it seems these days you can’t run to the store or hit up a yoga class without spotting at least one pair on the sidewalk. Lucky for us and any other fans of the cult-loved style, select colorways of the pillowy slides are currently up to 64% off for Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale.Spotted among the…
Realme 10 4G will be launched sometime in November, but ahead of its release, India price details, renders and key specifications of the phone have been tipped online. The Realme 10 4G is said to feature a 6.5-inch full-HD+ IPS LCD display and is expected to be powered by the MediaTek Helio G99 SoC. The upcoming phone could pack a dual rear camera unit led by a 50-megapixel primary sensor. The 4G smartphone is said to pack a 5,000mAh battery with support for 33W fast charging. Realme 10 4G is expected to debut alongside Realme 10 Pro+. The Realme 10…
New York rappers MIKE and Wiki have come together for three new songs produced by the Alchemist. One of the new tracks, “One More,” also comes with a music video directed and edited by Nicholas Stafford Briggs. Check out the songs below.The new music arrives as part of a new campaign from Tommy Hilfiger and Amsterdam-based streetwear brand Patta. The Patta x Tommy collection drops Friday, December 2.MIKE is readying the release of his new album Beware of the Monkey. The follow-up to last year’s Disco! is out December 21 and will include the singles “What Do I Do?” and…
As production continues on Ballerina, Lionsgate has announced that another John Wick alum has signed on to join the Ana de Armas-led action spin-off.RELATED: John Wick 4 Teaser Trailer Shows First Footage From Upcoming SequelFollowing the confirmation of Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, and Anjelica Huston’s involvement, it has now been revealed that Lance Reddick will also be reprising his role as Charon, the reliable concierge of the Continental Hotel.“Charon is an indispensable part of the world of Wick,” producer Erica Lee said in a statement. “It’s great to know that Lance will continue to make his mark on this franchise.”The project was…
For some reason, I’ve interpreted the umbrella of popular science books to mean speculative books with only a whisper of science in them. A better term, I thought, would be accessible science because these books aren’t fluff, but they aren’t hefty science journals, either. Popular science books are written for the average person. They are usually written by scientists who study the topic, but can also be written by science journalists or other writers who find themselves drawn to a particular facet of the world. I’ve come to love popular science books over the last few years, and it’s given…
Your favorite bard from The Witcher is coming to the prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origin. At the CCXP convention in São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday, December 3, Netflix unveiled its trailer and key art for Blood Origin, revealing that fan-favorite Joey Batey will star as Jaskier in the four-part event series. (Jaskier is the traveling bard behind The Witcher’s viral song “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher.”) “Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time — the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the…
University research has a legacy of doing harm to Indigenous communities. However, a new collaborative project is showing how research can be done in a better and inclusive way. Credit: Shutterstock A recent disclosure from Harvard’s Peabody Museum has brought attention, yet again, to the need to rethink the relationships between universities and Indigenous communities. Recently, the Peabody Museum announced that it has been holding locks of hair collected throughout the 1930s from more than 700 Indigenous children forced into residential boarding schools in the U.S. The museum has apologized, vowing to return the hair clippings to Indigenous communities. In…
Photography by Elaine Fancy For 50 years, Buffalo David Bitton has been helping people find their perfect pair of jeans. On one unpredictable outing in Utah, I learned how valuable that really is. By Natalie Michie Date October 24, 2022 As I struggled to keep my balance atop a bareback horse on a rustic ranch in Utah, I realized I had a problem. For starters, I was uncoordinated and nervous — a hazardous combination on its own. And it didn’t help that the horse I was on, Cricket, could sense my angst. At that moment, I felt particularly grateful for…
Sex tech has come a long way in the past 10 years—not only in terms of cultural acceptance and awareness, but also technology. Gone are the days of clunky, pink plastic rabbit vibrators and sex toys that feel like knockoff action figures. Today’s toys are designed by sex educators, medical professionals, and some of the world’s greatest sexperts. They feature ultra-premium, surgical-grade silicone, robust Bluetooth connectivity, programmable vibration patterns, and multiple motors all designed to help you have a good time. There’s never a bad time to invest in a little extra self-care. These are some of our favorite sex toys,…
Kris Wu has been sentenced to 13 years in prison by a Beijing court for charges that include the rape of three women, The Associated Press reports. The Chaoyang District court ruled that the Chinese Canadian pop star and actor, as well as others implicated in the case, supplied three women with alcohol in 2020 and raped them when they could no longer consent. Most of the 13-year sentence stems from that incident, but he also received one year and 10 months for a 2018 event where he “assembled a crowd” and assaulted two women they got drunk.Wu will be…
Disney first announced plans to close one of its signature Disneyland and Walt Disney World attractions, Splash Mountain, back in the summer of 2020. The plan all along has been to not so much replace it as update it — to maintain the basic layout and structure but to replace the characters and theming that had been from Disney’s controversial 1946 film Song of the South with ones from the popular 2009 film The Princess and the Frog.There have been occasional updates since then; the announcement of the new ride’s name (Tiana’s Bayou Adventure) and a tentative opening date of 2024. But…
People’s diet quality improved and their abdominal obesity and insulin resistance decreased in a one-year lifestyle intervention, new findings from the Finnish StopDia study show. Looking at 2,907 Finnish adults with an elevated risk for type 2 diabetes, the study is the first to examine the effects of a group-based lifestyle intervention implemented in primary health care on risk factors for type 2 diabetes. The lifestyle intervention made use of a digital app and multiple behaviour change theories. The findings were published in The Lancet Regional Health — Europe. The StopDia approach was developed in collaboration with multiple stakeholders In…
Apsara by Willard Thurston What’s it About? Twins separated at birth, the subject of clandestine study. Two cells of jihadi terrorists whose anti-Western activities range from the satiric to the downright deadly. Two Russian mafia brothers, one a patron of the arts and the other behind bars for brutally murdering a rival. An enraged Muslim exotic club patron with a vendetta or two to settle. These are just a few of the colorful characters and mirror plots populating Willard Thurston’s illustrated novel, Apsara. Like many of Thurston’s novels, Apsara defies ready summation. It’s a sprawling, interconnected web of hidden agendas,…
Owen Hendricks, Noah Centineo’s character in The Recruit, is thrown into the deep end in his first days as a lawyer for the CIA, as a new clip from the action-paced Netflix series reveals. The 40-second clip — which Centineo screened at the CCXP convention in São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday, December 3 — shows Owen going head to head with a former CIA asset named Max Meladze, played by Laura Haddock (Da Vinci’s Demons). “You know that making threats against the agency is a crime, right?” he says, visiting Max in prison. But Max says she knows “many things.”…
Seasons shifting: Tasmanias southern beech is Australias only native temperate deciduous tree. Credit: Shutterstock There’s a piece of gardening lore in my hometown which has been passed down for generations: never plant your tomatoes before Show Day, which, in Tasmania, is the fourth Saturday in October. If you’re foolhardy enough to plant them earlier, your tomato seedlings will suffer during the cold nights and won’t grow. But does this kind of seasonal wisdom still work as the climate warps? We often talk about climate change in large-scale ways—how much the global average surface temperature will increase. Nations are trying to…
I’ve spent most of my time as a beauty journalist working directly with hairdressers covering trends, news and advice. And for the most part, I treat the hair advice I’ve received as gospel, and I drill home the importance of listening to pro hairdressers about at-home maintenance. However, there is one point, in particular, where I veer from hairdressers’ advice: cheap shampoo. I use it all the time.Professional and salon-quality haircare and styling products are really important for healthy hair. I just needed to say that before we continue. For the most part, you’ll find that they have fewer filler ingredients and synthetics that cheat the feeling of smooth…
Gotham Knights is getting a series of patches. In a Twitter thread, developer WB Games Montréal has laid out problems it is looking to address via future updates, starting with the performance issues across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S/X. A patch for the former is now live, aimed at fixing general keyboard input issues, co-op matchmaking invites, and stability, which resulted in game crashes for several players on PC. Those on PS5 and Series S/X will receive a patch later in the week, though the studio doesn’t offer many details.“For our console players, the next Gotham Knights patch is…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for horror fanatic Kirk Hammett. Ahead of Halloween weekend, the Metallica guitarist is sharing his go-to movies and more in a new interview with Gibson TV’s “Metal and Monsters” series (Oct. 26) where he explains his love for all things spooky.Hammett admitted he was “totally and completely” a Halloween kid, and fondly remembers his first costumes as being an attempt to replicate Frankenstein (cardboard across his forehead eventually did the trick). “Even to this day I love Halloween,” he added. And of course that extends to horror movies.When asked by the show’s host…
As the title suggests, Sr. is a documentary about Robert Downey Sr., the provocative filmmaker who gave the world such cult classics as Putney Swope and Greaser’s Palace. But the film was also produced and features Downey’s son, a working actor you might be familiar with named Robert Downey Jr. In fact, the film is as much about the relationship between the two Roberts Downey than it is about Sr.’s life and career.As such, it offers a pretty interesting glimpse into the private life of one of the biggest movie stars in the world. Sr., directed by Chris Smith, includes scenes of the Downeys at home on Long Island…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Symbiotech: An Eerden Novel (Ellinor Book 3)? Since Symbiotech is the third book in the Ellinor series, I’ll speak more generally to the reasons why this series was one I really wanted to write. After I finished writing my YA series, I really wanted to explore a twist on the kind of revenge and redemption arc that was/is so popular for a lot of fantasy main characters, especially female MC’s. I wanted to tie those themes in with the grief that so often gets ignored for the pure revenge…
What happens when an actress’ home is broken into, and the team is forced to work with an old nemesis? On S.W.A.T. Season 6 Episode 7, 20-Squad finds themselves having to work with Sanchez once again when his security job is directly tied to the victim. Meanwhile, Tan struggles to find the perfect anniversary gift for Bonnie, but it may not matter anyhow. It’s always a treat when an actor’s family member makes an appearance on said actor’s project and it’s even more of a treat when it’s recurring. This episode saw the return of Kenny Johnson’s daughter, Jellie, and…
Hundreds of cement pillars with hooks have been deployed in the Gulf of California to snag fishing nets that threaten endangered porpoises, but these could also trap sea life and pollute the waters Life 2 December 2022 By Corryn Wetzel A pair of vaquitas sighted during 2008 survey in Gulf of CaliforniaNOAA Fisheries In a last-ditch attempt to save a critically endangered porpoise, Mexican officials began dropping weighted metal hooks in the Gulf of California in July. The goal is to snag illegal gill nets, thereby discouraging and thwarting the fishing practice that is largely responsible for winnowing the population…
Photography by Getty Images I test drove the vampire facial, an IV drip, and laser hair removal to see if these non-invasive procedures really work wonders. By Amanda Demeku Date October 26, 2022 Some people like to play classical music in their homes to feel at peace. I, on the other hand, prefer a soothing loop of Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe talking over one another and vigorously shaking their salads while their taut skin glistens through the screen. What can I say? To quote the late, great André Leon Talley, “It’s a famine of beauty honey!” And my eyes, they…
Emphasising on the need to create awareness against fake news, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that social media cannot be underestimated and that a small piece of fake news generated by it can create chaos. The Prime Minister appealed for people to check facts before sharing messages on social media.Addressing a ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Haryana of home ministers of states via video conferencing, Prime Minister Modi said, “For the safety and rights of law-abiding citizens, stringent action against negative forces is our responsibility. A small piece of fake news can kick up a storm across the nation. We…
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Strange but true: The guy in charge of the world of DC movies (along with producer Peter Safran) is James Gunn, the writer and director of such movies as Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad. Gunn and Safran are now the CEOs of DC Studios — and the first men to hold those titles — and so they are beginning the process of reshaping the DC Cinematic Universe.So what are they going to do? It will take years for any of their plans to come to fruition, but Gunn is already tweeting about being on the job. In a thread he posted…
An ongoing Ebola outbreak has infected and killed dozens of people in Uganda. Health authorities in the country and the World Health Organization (WHO) have announced plans to begin a clinical trial for three Ebola vaccine candidates. Licensed vaccines for Ebola exist, but they are not effective against Sudan ebolavirus, the species responsible for the outbreak. Doses of the vaccine candidates are expected to be delivered to Uganda this week. The clinical trial is the latest effort to stem an outbreak that has already spread to nine districts, including three densely populated areas, according to the WHO. The candidates for the…