California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the details of the gas rebate proposal which includes $400 direct payments for people who have vehicles registered in the state. They would also get three months of free public transit. The program would cost an estimated $11 billion, with $9 billion being used for rebates, according to KTLA News. federal Democrats released a planAAA
The Gift Time Machine lets you toggle between 6 decades of toys and choose four that “changed your life.” (Like when Stretch Armstrong inspired you to stop swimming in a shirt.) Once you identify your top picks, you can share them on Facebook. Then, they can either shame you or buy you them (or both). Unless you already received those Rock’ Em Sock’ Em Robots as a wedding present. If anything, browsing through a half-century of kid’s gifts is an important reminder of how much toy trends are recycled over time....
While memorable, my journey still felt incomplete. I still hadn’t done the one thing I set out to do. Now, three hours away from home, I knew it was time. I picked through the detritus and dirty clothes in my car and found my phone. My hand quivered as I thumbed across the screen to“Voice Memos.” I rolled my window up, sealing myself in silence, and pressed play. It was December 15th, 2016, exactly 390 days since my dad passed away....
Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk welcomed a brand spanking new baby boy with girlfriend Grimes on Monday, making his new infant son his sixth child and first for 32-year-old girlfriend Grimes. Grimes confirmed her pregnancy in January by posting a photo of a baby bump with a photoshopped fetus laying on top of her belly. The baby, X Æ A-12 Musk, was born without complication and Musk confirmed the birth by tweeting that “Mom and baby are all good,” and posted a photo of him with his infant son wearing a t-shirt that says “Occupy Mars....
Studiocanal, the production company behind the first two Paddington movies, confirmed to Variety that a third film in the universally-beloved franchise is definitely happening. “We can confirm Studiocanal is working very hard on film 3 with the utmost craft and care — as with film 1 and 2,” representatives from the studio announced. This news is just the bit of boundless optimism we could all use right about now, as the idea of getting to see Paddington politely navigate his way through whatever new shenanigans are thrown his way is enough to make you want to perform a random act of kindness or call up a friend and tell them how much you love them....
What’s in the bill will undoubtedly change by the time it arrives in the Senate, where the votes of all 50 Democratic senators are needed to allow Vice President Harris to cast the tie-breaking vote. But the current proposal is fairly close to the package Biden proposed as a candidate with one dramatic exception: no federal mandate for paid family medical or sick leave. Still, there’s a lot to like about the current proposal, which is likely going to be very close to the package Biden eventually signs into law—ideally before additional federal unemployment benefits expire next month....
The charges, brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), allege that Epic collected personal information on users under the age of 13 without parental consent in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and also used so-called “dark patterns” to lure kids into making in-game purchases. For reportedly violating COPPA, the FTC levied a $275 million fine, the highest in FTC history, while hitting Epic with an additional $245 million fine for the use of manipulative “dark patterns” on its gaming platforms, for a total of $520 million....
Beyond the pseudoscience and anecdotes, there’s mixed evidence on whether birth order matters. German researchers studied over 20,000 family panels for psychometric intelligence (that’s “IQ” to non-German researchers) and the Big 5 personality traits: extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. And science says … firstborns really are smarter – marginally. Firstborns average one-and-a-half IQ points higher than their younger siblings, so really, not by much. As for the Big 5, the researchers couldn’t find any support for birth order-related personality effects of any stripe....
I’m in a helluva bind. My brother died from a brain aneurysm at the age of 45 and it has crushed me. We were close and I don’t even know how to start to grapple with it. My kids feel the same way. He was a man we all looked up to, someone who was successful and kind and who went out of his way to bring my three boys in as one of his own (he never had kids because he always said mine were more than enough for him)....
An unopened copy of Super Mario 64 sold at Heritage Auctions in Dallas on Sunday for $1.56 million, breaking the previous record to become the highest price for a single video game in history. Super Mario 64 was the first game ever to sell for over a million, as an unopened copy of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda held the previous record for a grand total of two days, selling for $870,000 on Friday....
RELATED: How to Deal With a Depressed Wife While Being Fair to Yourself First of all, it’s crucial to not get ahead of yourself in the parenting game — you can’t plan your new family’s life together before you even have the chance to be together. So focus on the here and now. “During pregnancy, I’ll get a couple who is trying to prepare for birth — and especially birth of a first child — and there’s a romanticism and a heightened sense of the ‘ideal,’ and that it will all go a certain way,” Barthmare says....
Dr. Lynelle Schneeberg is a licensed clinical psychologist, a clinical professor at Yale School of Medicine, and the director of the Behavioral Sleep Program at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. In her experience, leaving babies to drift off to the wrong kind of music, or even any music, can work against parents. “I actually think that music is not so useful to help a baby sleep,” explains Schneeberg. “Music, if used every night, will become a ‘sleep onset association’ for the baby, and then the baby comes to depend on this music for the transition into sleep....
Forgiving others is, without a doubt, humbling. You have to consciously decide to be the bigger person to work through an offense. (Add an extra dose of humility when the offender is someone you’re supposed to trust.) That step is necessary and hard, but what happens after you make a decision to show mercy? How do you truly forgive someone? More so, how do you let that person know you’ve truly forgiven them and move forward in a healthier and, hopefully, happier way?...
The key is to ease back into it. That’s the advice of Ryan Charles Stec, a Certified Functional Strength Coach and Pain-free Performance Specialist who owns True Grit Strength gym in Austin, Texas. “Easing into it can be hard when you haven’t worked out in a while and now you have the motivation to work out every single day,” he says. “But that can lead to injury and burnout.” Stec recommends starting with two to three strength training sessions a week and listening to your body before adding more....
Find the Right Location According to an internet survey of over 1,500 adults, having sex in an unusual place is among our top sexual fantasies. Having sex in a romantic place is also up there on the list. A separate survey conducted by Sleep Cupid, a mattress retailer, finds that sex on the beach is a major turn on among most women. The ocean, it appears, is where romance and exhibitionism combines....
It’s important to note that there’s an important developmental reason kids might be reckless and adventurous. It’s a product of their curiosity, and curiosity is an incredibly good thing, according to Dr. Kathryn Smerling, a New York child and family therapist specializing in developmental issues. “Curiosity is the hallmark of early childhood and a curious child is one who’s going to be very bright and very interested in the world and ask questions,” Smerling says....
These enormous changes are enough to make parents take things personally. And the desire to withdraw from daughters can be strong. But this is when teenage girls need them the most. So what’s a parent to do? Here are 33 ways parents can keep their cool and help their teen daughters discuss everything from body image to rules and boundaries and help them grow into well-adjusted young-women. To Help Her With Body Image Do not talk about dieting or about how fat you are....
“You can’t give your dog as much attention as you could before the baby,” explains Merritt Kennedy, Certified Professional Dog Trainer and owner of Lucky Dog Farm in Vermont. She has helped many couples transition from dog-parents to dog-and-human parents and notes anticipating future problems and getting a pooch prepped for the transition can help stem problems later. “Your dog needs some time to get used to this,” she explains....
“Sometimes parents will make the bottle’s nipple hole wider, so they can feed the baby faster, which can overwhelm babies and make them briefly full,” says Linda Palmer, a Doctor of Chiropractic and author of the book Baby Poop. This temporary fullness leaves babies hungry shortly after. As a rule, Palmer says, parents should feed their babies regular amounts of milk or formula once every two hours. Less could leave them hungry, while more could lead to overfeeding....
Making pizza at home is challenging in part because there are so many hidden ingredients, including time, temperature, and the pizza-maker’s technique. What takes a minute to order for delivery can take days of patient effort to cook at home. In Naples, where pizza was invented and perfected, pizzaiolos have dedicated lifetimes to mastering this simplest of dishes, transforming cheap, abundant ingredients into something transcendent and sustaining. So why bother?...
