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Famous names in the New Year Honours

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More than 1,000 people have been recognised in the New Year Honours list. The majority of recipients are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities. But here are some of the better-known names. Image copyright Getty Images Occupation: Actress and singer, star of Grease Honour: Damehood for services to charity, cancer research and entertainment Quote: “I am extremely excited, honoured and grateful beyond words to be included with such an esteemed group of women who have received this distinguished award before me. Nadiya Hussain Ben Stokes Sir Elton…

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This is Probably the Closest Most of Us Will Get to Swimming with Great Whites

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On Jan. 15th 2019, Ocean Ramsey and her team encountered what is possibly the largest great white shark ever recorded. Read below for Ocean’s statement about the event. Location: “Offshore Oahuâ€-We are not disclosing the location for public safety Size: Approximately 20ft Long X 8ft Wide Myself (Ocean Ramsey) and my team @OneOceanDiving /@OneOceanResearch: ** @JuanSharks (Juan Oliphant) @Mermaid_Kayleigh (Kayeligh Burns) and @Forrest_in_focus (Forrest Thomas) and @camgrantphotography (Cam Grant) headed out before sunrise to survey shark populations offshore Oahu. Shark populations around Hawaii are unfortunately declining and there are currently…

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When Can I Start Drinking? Your Holiday Horoscopes December 23-27 | Betches

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The holidays are finally here, and the world has been hit with a Christmas/Hannukah double whammy. Even if you don’t have a celebration this week, chances are your workload has slowed way, wayyy down while the rest of the world opens presents and eats their bodyweight in food. On top of all that, Uranus in Taurus is forming a trine with the Sun, meaning we’re all going to be feeling something come Tuesday. Whether that’s the holiday spirit or just indigestion is up to you. Taurus Walkin’ in a winter…

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Yogurtland Will Let You Top Your Fro-Yo With Flamin Hot Cheetos

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Courtesy of Yogurtland/Cheetos Yogurtland’s New Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Topping Will Heat Up Your Fro-Yo By Cianna Garrison Dec 7, 2019 Just in time for the holidays, you can grab a sweet-and-spicy treat thanks to a collaboration from Yogurtland and Cheetos. If you’ve ever dreamt of crumbling Hot Cheetos on your dessert or love potato chips and ice cream, Yogurtland’s new Flamin’ Hot Cheetos topping is going to heat up your fro-yo in the best way possible. The new promotional flavor and topping combination became available on Dec. 2 and will…

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The FBI didn’t learn from its disastrous Richard Jewell mistake

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(CNN)With a highly anticipated pre-holiday release, Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial turn, “Richard Jewell,” hasn’t exactly turned out to be a commercial box-office success. But the staunchly conservative director — an outlier in Hollywood — has earned some deserved Oscar buzz for his depiction of a wholly flawed investigation, possibly beset by confirmation bias, brought by the FBI against the titular subject, 1996 Atlanta Olympics security guard Richard Jewell. A type of cognitive bias, confirmation bias is considered a systematic error of inductive reasoning. At its most destructive, when applied in…

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FBI Treating Pensacola Navy Shooting as Terrorism

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The FBI said Sunday that it is treating the Alshamrani screened mass shooting videos for fellow Saudi trainees at a dinner party before the attack, that he and other students visited New York City recently, and that some of the Saudi students were videotaping as the shooting took place. Rojas declined to comment on all those reports. She said several Saudi students who were close to Alshamrani have been restricted to base by their commanding officer and are cooperating with investigators. No other arrests have been made. Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/pensacola-navy-base-shooting-fbi-treating-attack-by-saudi-mohammed-alshamrani-as-terrorism

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Hundreds donate toys for boy to leave on graves

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‘Unsure’ of reaction His father Damian said was concerned they would not have Christmas gifts, and collected some of his own toys to leave at the graves. “The first year we weren’t sure how people would react,” Mr Osborne-Williams said. “But someone shared it on Facebook and it took off. There were thousands of comments, it was really touching. [Owen] is happy he makes people smile.” As time has gone on, people have begun donating teddies for Owen to distribute, which has allowed him to leave gifts on more graves.…

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Victorian England’s anti-vaccination movement

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Image copyright Global Freedom Movement Image caption One anti-vax website cites “The City of Leicester: Sanitation Trumps Vaccination” as one of its “5 Historical Vaccine Scandals” The story starts in 1798 with Gloucestershire doctor Edward Jenner successfully testing the country-lore that a dose of relatively mild cowpox infection gave protection from smallpox. Within five years, Jenner’s discovery was being used across Europe and a decade later it had gone global. But opposition was swift and savage. Why? Image caption There were many and varied ways to die in London in…

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‘The Mandalorian’ ups the ante in its penultimate episode

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episode 7. for last weeks recap. Baby YodaThe MandalorianThe Mandalorianrecanonized Force abilityStar WarsAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.Star WarsThat potential information, however, is just one part of The Reckoning, s best episode to dateand one, under the direction of Deborah Chow (), that one that features reunions and heightened stakes before leaving us with a hell of a cliffhanger that makes us wonder what the hell is going to happen to Baby Yoda. Lucasfilm Ltd. simplicityThe MandalorianThat job comes courtesy of Greef Carga, who proposes that he and Mando team up to get…

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Miami Heats Chris Silva breaks down after seeing mom for first time in years

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Chris Silva, of the Miami Heat, received a heartwarming surprise by the NBA for the holidays this year. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) In the seven years since, he had only seen his parents and siblings once, when he returned to the African country for two weeks to renew his visa as a sophomore at the University of South Carolina. ALEX TREBEK APPEARS AT NBA GAME AMID STAGE 4 PANCREATIC CANCER BATTLE The Heat, the NBA and NBA Africa teamed up this holiday season to surprise Silva, flying in his mother,…

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From renewables to Netflix: the 15 super-trends that defined the 2010s

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It was the decade of austerity, fracking, populism and internet lies. But not everything about the 2010s was terrible The plastics backlash Garbage, including plastic waste, is seen at the beach in Costa del Este, Panama City. Photograph: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images It was once the height of metropolitan chic: the dash into Starbucks for a skinny decaf caramel latte en route for work, the takeaway cup a mark of upward mobility. Those were the days of Sex and the City, when the culture of doing everything on the…

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