GAC Family will have plenty of Christmas movies this summer. The cable network, described as “America’s family-friendly destination for holiday movies and seasonal rom-coms,” today announced Jen Lilley (Royally Wrapped for Christmas, Days of Our Lives) is set to host the network’s first-ever Great American Christmas in July programming event. The exciting event kicks off July 2 and features 24/7 Christmas movies throughout Independence Day weekend. Fans of holiday romantic comedies will be able to celebrate Christmas early with encore presentations of GAC Family’s original Christmas movies, as well as first-look previews of all-new holiday films planned for Great American…
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In America, we’re made to believe that the opposite of abortion is motherhood. We’re told that people who have abortions do so to avoid becoming mothers, and that people who are mothers clearly didn’t have abortions—our “minds blown” when we learn otherwise. We’re taught that if motherhood represents a kind of fundamental unselfishness, a self-sacrificing surrender in the name of the greater good, then abortion—a basic exercise in autonomy—is its antithesis.And yet nothing has made me more pro-choice than becoming a mother. The author with her sons, Shaan, far left, and Sai, far right. Courtesy of author Bringing my son…
[Thread] A look at Kraken’s announcement of a culture overhaul, eschewing “stereotypical team diversity measurements”, as the crypto exchange touts hiring plans — Kraken, a U.S.-based crypto exchange, has announced they’ll be continuing to hire, and have announced a culture overhaul that promotes “diversity of thought” over “stereotypical team diversity measurements” and prohibits describing another’s words as “racist” or “x-phobic”. 🧵 Read The Full Article Here
Have you heard the one about the ’90s rock singer and the failed presidential assassin? It may sound like the set-up of a bad joke, but it’s exactly what happened when Eve 6 frontman Max Collins connected with John Hinckley, Jr. for an interview earlier this month. Collins and Hinckley spoke during a three-way call organized by Input Mag that focused on Hinckley’s music career, which he has been publicly pursuing since 2020. Collins, who reached out to Hinckley on Twitter about working together in October 2021, explained how Hinckley’s songs were “deeply resonant to me.” “They’re simple songs. It’s language-of-the-heart…
During the pre-Omicron phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, regions of the U.S. had markedly different mortality rates, primarily due to differences in mask use, school attendance, social distancing, and other behaviors. Had the entire country reacted to the pandemic as the Northeast region, more than 316,000 deaths might have been avoided, 62% of those avoidable deaths being in the South. The study, by Georgetown University’s School of Nursing & Health Studies researchers, appeared April 28, 2022, in PLOS ONE. Excess mortality, which helps account for avoidable deaths from a new disease or situation, is defined by the difference between total…
Smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo have become a staple in many homes, where they listen to their owners’ requests and help them accomplish tasks like set alarms, look up recipes, or play music. The voice most people hear from their Echo is Alexa — although other options are available. (You can make Alexa sound like Samuel L. Jackson, for example, if you’re up for a more intense, profane experience when you ask an A.I. what the weather is going to be like tomorrow.)But the latest advance that Amazon is touting for its smart speakers and Alexa takes the concept a step father…
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Dark Winds is off to a strong launch at AMC. The cabler today announced that it has ordered a second season of the Western noir crime thriller Dark Winds. Produced by AMC Studios, the six-episode second season will arrive on AMC+ and AMC next year. The series premiere on June 12 attracted an audience of 2.2 million viewers on AMC in Nielsen live+3 ratings, becoming the #5 cable drama premiere of the current broadcast TV season. Dark Winds is also the #1 new series launch in AMC+ history. The series has a rare 100-point score on Rotten Tomatoes. “Set in…
By Christa Lesté-Lasserre Ishikari plain and Ishikari river on Hokkaido, Japan – a region that has lost many birds in 150 yearsMasayuki Yamashita / Alamy More than 70 per cent of birds – and a similar proportion of bird species – have disappeared in a region of Japan once occupied by hunter-gatherers and converted into farmland only a century and a half ago. The Ishikari Lowland in north-west Japan was still inhabited by hunter-gatherer communities until the 19th century. Using old and new maps to trace changes in the landscape since wide-scale farming began there in 1869, researchers have discovered…
Whether you want a playfully embellished basket or a wide-brim bag to take with you on your weekly shop, we’ve found the stand-out styles of the year. So if you’re on the hunt for the perfect basket bag, look no further. When it comes to an investment, you really can’t beat the Loewe basket bag. The classic shape with the tan leather logo panel and straps is still as popular as it was when it launched in summer 2017, and five years later, it now comes in lots of colours and print variations.Scroll to shop our edit of the best…
But we’ve been telling the same story about Arpanet and the web for 25 years, and it isn’t satisfying anymore. It doesn’t help us understand the social internet we have now: It doesn’t explain the emergence of commercial social media, it can’t solve the problems of platformization, and it won’t help us to imagine what comes after.Today’s social media ecosystem functions more like the modem world of the late 1980s and early 1990s than like the open social web of the early 21st century. It is an archipelago of proprietary platforms, imperfectly connected at their borders. Any gateways that do…
Still fresh off the release of her new album Big Time, Angel Olsen is honoring one of her newfound idols. Today, the indie-folk singer-songwriter has released her cover of Lucinda Williams’ “Greenville” as part of the Amazon Originals Program. “Greenville” originally appeared on Williams’ 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Given the twangy, country flair of Big Time, it makes sense that Olsen would look up to the blues icon, and her version — available only on Apple Music — stays authentic to Williams’ original. Olsen recorded the cover in Los Angeles with Kyle Thomas, aka garage rocker King Tuff. “Before I wrote…
The first official teaser trailer for the upcoming HBO comedy series Rap Sh!t has been released, alongside the premiere date for the series, which is set to land on July 21, 2022.RELATED: HBO Max Schedule Additions: New TV & Movies Arriving June 13-19The new series comes from Issa Rae (Insecure) and follows two estranged high school friends from Miami who reunite to form a rap group. The series stars Aida Osman, real-life artist KaMillion, Jonica Booth, Devon Terrell, and RJ Cyler, and will run for eight episodes, with two premiering on July 21, 2022, before the series concludes on September 1,…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Her Name is Hazel? The characters of Killian and Hazel came to me while driving my kids to school one day. Their story takes place in my hometown, and each day a little bit more of their story would play out in my head. I actually was going to wait to write Her Name is Hazel until I had finished the 3rd book in my Confession series, but Killian and Hazel were very determined for me to work on theirs. I’m extremely glad I did. The entire story was…
June 19, 2002: The date when Impact Wrestling hosted its first event, from the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Then known as NWA-TNA (Total Nonstop Action), the new promotion was formed in hopes of satisfying a fanbase looking for an alternative product after WWE absorbed ECW and WCW the year prior. Since that inaugural weekly pay-per-view production, the company evolved beyond its humble beginnings into a global brand. There was a time when Impact would be drawing more than a million viewers each episode on Spike TV. Today, the flagship show is enjoying a creative renaissance heading into Slammiversary…
The 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to Marjan Minnesma, who sued the Dutch government over its carbon emissions plans Environment 25 May 2022 By Adam Vaughan Marjan MinnesmaRobin Utrecht/Shutterstock From Australia to Pakistan, a growing wave of lawsuits is forcing governments and companies to take bolder action on climate change. There are now about 60 under way globally, up from 43 last year. Many owe their existence to one woman, Marjan Minnesma. After graduating in international law on climate change, she co–founded the Dutch non-profit foundation Urgenda. There, she met lawyer Roger Cox and read his book on…
Precious Lee walks the Versace Spring/Summer 2021 show in Milan. Photography courtesy of Getty Images The harmful marketing tactic turns size diversity into a fantasy. By Natalie Michie Date June 8, 2022 Are we really in the age of size inclusivity? As more curvy models appear on catwalks, magazine covers and brand campaigns, it would seem the answer to that question is “yes.” But when we see the marketing tactics at play behind such progress, it becomes performative at best, and fatphobic at worst. The sad truth is, the promise to cater to all shapes and sizes is merely a…
Camping might mean roughing it, at least a little, but you don’t have to subsist on biscuits and beans. Unless that’s your thing, but even then you might want an easy way to heat up your biscuits and beans, which is where the camp stove comes in.You can buy camping stoves that might be nicer than the stove in the average American apartment, though the wealth of options available can be overwhelming. No sweat! We’ve tested more than a dozen of the best portable propane gas stoves, then narrowed the field based on cooking ability, clean up, transportability, and power.There’s…
It took me a second to process, but I said, “Dad, that’s the best song title I ever heard. You better write the rest of it quick.” He said, “Why don’t you write it?” So I did. That night I wrote it for him, about him. It’s really just a love letter to him. A tribute.At the same time I realized it’s also a sort of “fuck you” to anyone who ever thought of me as some lost prodigal son who doesn’t understand him or respect his legacy just because I’ve never imitated his style or pandered to his audience.…
Modern day Patagonian sheepdogs are the closest living relative to now-extinct varieties of herding dogs of Victorian era Britain, according to a study publishing April 28 in the open-access journal PLOS Genetics by Natasha Barrios at the Universidad Austral de Chile, Elaine Ostrander at the National Institutes of Health, US, and colleagues. European settlers colonizing new lands often took their working dogs with them, and this shared history is reflected in the genome of modern dog breeds. The Patagonian sheepdog is a distinct variety from southern Chile and Argentina, thought to have been introduced by European colonists in the late…
This week’s Ms. Marvel has one of the least surprising surprises in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (In other words: spoilers ahead, should you care about such a thing.)Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) just acquired super powers, but doesn’t quite know where they came from. Her origin is explained in full by Najma (played by Nimra Bucha), a warm and friendly woman who helped Kamala avoid arrest after a rescue mission gone wrong. Najma reveals that Kamala’s magic bangle serves as a conduit for her powers, which are drawn from her ancestors — one of whom was a member of an ancient interdimensional race known as the Clandestines.Najma goes on…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I still have an entire shelf in my office with picture books from my childhood. Some I can still vividly remember every detail of the illustrations from how many times I stared at the pages as a child. I can also still recall many of the feelings associated with me sprawled out on the floor intensely looking at the picture book’s illustrations and creating all the stories that were continuing to happen off the page. For something that has such a strong, positive…
After four seasons, 68 episodes, and plenty of twists and turns, Legacies is over. As a show set in the same universe as The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, it largely failed to live up to its predecessors. It’s time to take a deep dive into what didn’t work. The Mythology Was All Over the Place The Vampire Diaries and The Originals ran with tightly-woven mythology that kept the drama flowing. Legacies opted for a monster-of-the-week format initially as the creatives vowed to set Legacies apart from its predecessors. While that format worked initially, the creativity surrounding the monsters fell…
Chinese scientists’ claims that their “Sky Eye” telescope could have picked up signals from intelligent aliens have been met with skepticism by an American colleague. Dan Werthimer, a Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researcher at the University of Berkeley, California and a coauthor on the research project (opens in new tab) which first spotted the signals, told Live Science that the narrow-band radio signals he and his fellow researchers found “are from [human] radio interference, and not from extraterrestrials.”Natural sources don’t typically produce narrow-band radio signals. Scientists picked up three of these signals, seemingly from space, in 2019 and 2022 using…
Navigating identities, high school, and self-expression, Myles Sexton and Mina Gerges had different experiences that led them to the same safe space For many members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, prom is either a runway or a place to hide. Navigating identities, high school and self-expression, Myles Sexton and Mina Gerges had different experiences that led them the same safe space—where shame ceased to exist, and self-love and self-acceptance could bloom. They/Them, 31, Content Creator and HIV/AIDS & Sobriety Advocate Myles’ OGX Favourites: Prom is like the last chapter of a really good book series, but the author, who happens to…
Pixel 6 owners are set to receive an update to resolve Wi-Fi issues affecting Google’s latest smartphones, according to the company. Users have been affected by Wi-Fi connectivity issues that reportedly occurred after updating to the February 2022 monthly update, and resetting the smartphone or the network settings was reportedly a temporary workaround for the issue. While Google states that a small number of users are affected, those affected will have to wait until the next monthly update for the fix to roll out, according to Google.Google recently responded to a user on Reddit reporting the constant shutting off of…
The long-rumored legend that Michael Jackson composed music for the soundtrack to the 1994 Sega game Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has been settled once and for all by none other than the creator of Sonic, Yuji Naka. The video game series’ original lead programmer confirmed the news in a sequence of tweets celebrating the 31st anniversary of the first installment’s debut. The reveal seems to have been directly prompted by the arrival of Sonic Origins, a remastered compilation of the first four Sonic games, which was released on the June 23rd anniversary. Naka took to Twitter to ask “Does Sonic…
After a couple of episodes centered around the Forger parents and their secrets, we get a Spy x Family episode that is all about Anya. This time around, Anya tries to earn a Stella Star to become an imperial scholar. How does she do aim to do it? By playing dodgeball, of course.A rumor is going around Eden Academy that the MVP of the upcoming dodgeball game will receive a Stella Star, which will get the student closer to being an imperial scholar. Anya strives to get the star to progress Loid’s mission, but Damian, the prestigious boy she punched,…
A new analysis of data from the Veterans Affairs Million Veteran Program has uncovered genetic links between COVID-19 severity and certain medical conditions that are known risk factors for severe COVID-19. Anurag Verma of the Corporal Michael Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, and colleagues present these findings on April 28 in the open-access journal PLOS Genetics. Some people with COVID-19 experience the disease more severely than others. Previous research has identified certain variants in specific human genes that are associated with a person experiencing more severe COVID-19. Some of these variants may also be associated with other…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In the mood for a little suspense? There’s nothing like the best mystery thrillers to keep you captivated for hours and put your amateur detective skills to work. These gripping picks will not only get your heart pumping, but they also make for excellent reads at any time of the year. Whether you’re laying on a sunny beach at the height of summer or curled up on the couch under a blanket on a rainy day, these engrossing works will keep you hooked…