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Fomer MTV VJ Ananda Lewis has been living with breast cancer for nearly six years and has taken holistic and traditional approaches to treating the disease, Some of her tumors, she says, are undetectable now.“If you extended your life, you won,” Lewis said this week in a roundtable conversation with CNN’s Stephanie Elam, who is one of her best friends, and fellow breast cancer survivor Sara Sidner, also a CNN journalist. “Nobody gets out of here alive. That is just going to happen. Your ability and your responsibility is how you’re going to thrive. My quality of life is very…

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This review contains full spoilers for Agatha All Along Season 1, Episode 6.With last week’s not-so-shocking reveal that Joe Locke’s Teen is actually Billy Maximoff, son of the Scarlet Witch, it was on this followup episode to provide a logical explanation as to how that can be, what with Billy (and Tommy) disappearing into nothingness at the end of WandaVision. Episode six, titled “Familiar by Thy Side,” sticks the landing, offering new insight into Billy’s character and revealing his true motivations. Best of all, this episode feels the most focused since the premiere, largely because it’s squarely centered on one…

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…     This video explores the extraordinary Sibiu Manuscript, discovered in Romania in 1961. Written by 16th century Austrian military engineer Conrad Haas, the manuscript contains detailed descriptions of rocketry concepts long before their time. Conrad Haas’ Flying Javelin: Yes, It Is 16th Century Rocket Science 8 Ancient Chinese Inventions the West Had Not Imagined Haas, who lived between 1509 and 1576, is credited as the first to document ideas like multi-stage rockets, spacecraft designs, and even liquid fuel propulsion. The 450-page manuscript includes technical data on artillery, ballistics, and a mysterious potential rocket…

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This is a programming note that Thursday and Friday are Sukkot and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline on Thursday and Friday, October 17th and October 18th.There will be stories posted each day, all of them were pre-written before the holiday and scheduled to be posted. I will be completely offline, so any social media posts or anything coming from this site, or my social channels are all scheduled beforehand.I apologize for any spammy comments that slip through while should note while I am offline, I will do my best to catch up late…

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Shrinking Jimmying Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Photo: Apple TV+ Early in the first season of Shrinking, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of the show’s premise. It’s one thing to follow a therapist with unconventional methods, but Jimmy’s way of doing things was clearly unethical, and the show knew it. How sustainable could that be as a plot engine for a comedy like this one? By the halfway point of the season, though, the show had moved away a bit from that central hook, transforming (like so many of Bill Lawrence’s other shows) into…

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Adobe showed off features-in-development that all use the power of AI to help creatives do more. Finding the good in AI can be difficult when you’re worried about what it means for your future, but Adobe showed off some potential future features that aren’t designed to take jobs from creatives, but to help them be more creative. Adobe Max, the company’s annual creative conference has a session called Adobe Sneaks. It’s a presentation of some of the features that Adobe designers are working on. What’s shared may or may not ever become available to users, but they still tell a…

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Passengers on an Air Canada flight experienced turbulence on Friday that was severe enough to send their meals flying off tray tables and into the air, leaving the cabin of the aircraft looking like the scene of mid-air food fight. According to a reddit post from Morrell Andrews, a few hours into the flight from Vancouver to Singapore, Flight AC19 hit “some major bumps and everything went flying (including a few people!).” Andrews said nobody was hurt, but his photos show food in the aisle and splattered all over the ceiling of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.Air Canada told CBS News the flight encountered…

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The Menendez brothers are facing an upcoming court hearing in light of new evidence that has emerged. Find the latest updates on their case below. Image Credit: Sygma via Getty Images The Menendez brothers’ case has gained renewed attention recently due to new shows telling their story and new evidence coming to light. Lyle and Erik Menendez are currently incarcerated at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California, serving life sentences without the possibility of parole after being convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home. The…

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The expression cyclisme à deux vitesses – “two-speed cycling” – was used by some French teams as shorthand to allege a tolerance for doping in other nations or teams. The same phrase could well be employed now to highlight the differences between France’s stringent fiscal and employment legislation that concerns teams and their international rivals.French employment law requires that athletes and staff are registered as company employees and this reportedly cost around 40% more than riders for other teams who work under contractor status.The imminent exit from French squads to foreign teams of high-profile French riders such as Lenny Martinez, Axel…

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