Breathing Technique for Calm: Tips from a Navy Seal

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  380 words  |  Patria Henriques

Breathing is a unique process in the human body. Unlike, for example, digestion, breathing has both an involuntary control mechanism as well as voluntary; it can shift between being piloted and being left on autopilot. I first learned to control my breathing while practicing martial arts during my SEAL training, and the techniques I was taught proved invaluable later during the chaos of combat. My favorite breathing practice, which I developed to continue my breath training after the SEALs, is something I call “box breathing” because there are four parts of the practice. [Read More]

Can Burma Avoid the Curse of Sex Tourism?

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1012 words  |  Billy Koelling

Alexander F. Yuan / APA man looks at female sex workers by the side of a road while a car drives by in Rangoon, Burma, on Sept. 2, 2012 On a recent evening at a popular beer hall in Rangoon, two dozen women wearing skimpy dresses and hair extensions swayed mechanically on a stage and took turns mumbling lines of high-energy pop songs into the microphone. The crowd — mostly Burmese men, but also a few groups of foreign tourists — drank mugs of Tiger beer and took videos with their phones. [Read More]

Christmas Lights: Inside the Life of Hardcore Decorators

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1405 words  |  Patria Henriques

There was a time, years ago, when Richard Holdman knew exactly which holiday song was playing outside his Pleasant Grove, Utah home without hearing a note. Was it a Christmas miracle? Nope — the lights inside his house were flickering to the music. For several years, Holdman, like many people overflowing with the holiday cheer, turned his house into an epic Christmas lighting display. Not merely content with decking the halls, these extreme revelers Griswold their houses in all manner of lights, blow-ups, animatronics, garland and holly. [Read More]

COMMAND: The Airborne Grenadier | TIME

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2860 words  |  Billy Koelling

(See Cover) As usual on a Marine jump-off, the leathernecks were not losing any time. Corporal Ardrick Hammon of Alton, Ill., radioman for an artillery observer, slogged his way north, so loaded with fighting and communications gear that he could stoop to tie the flapping lace of one combat boot. He felt a tap on his shoulder, looked into a lean face under a pile cap with three stars and a paratrooper’s silver badge on it. [Read More]

David Brenner Dies at 78, Was Tonight Show Favorite

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  157 words  |  Kelle Repass

March 16, 2014 10:27 AM EDT David Brenner, the famed stand-up comedian who was a favorite on Johnny Caron’s Tonight Show, died Saturday. He was 78 years old and at his home in Manhattan, the New York Times reports. Brenner frequently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as one of the shows most popular guests, performing more than 150 times. He gained attention through his anecdotes about daily life, but as his career went on, his comedy increasingly focused on current events. [Read More]

Dez Bryant didn't have a key clause in his Cowboys contract and it could cost him big time in free a

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  270 words  |  Billy Koelling

Bryant's contract — he was owed $12.5 million this season — along with his recent lack of production and occasional antics pushed the Cowboys into cutting him, according to ESPN's Todd Archer. However, Bryant's free agency may not come at an opportune time for the 29-year-old receiver. With free agency mostly settled this far into the spring, most teams that needed receivers have already signed other free agents, and few teams have the cap space to make Bryant a big offer. [Read More]

Disneys Bleak Box Office Streak: Wish Is the Latest Crack in the Studios Once-Invi

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1238 words  |  Martina Birk

“Wish” misfired in its opening weekend, extending Disney‘s bleak box office fortunes. The animated musical fable, about the Wishing Star that so many Disney characters have wished upon over the studio’s century-long history, failed to become the de facto choice for families around Thanksgiving. “Wish” opened in third place with a dull $31.7 million over the five-day holiday, a far cry from Disney’s past Turkey Day feasts. Perhaps King Magnifico, the movie’s villain (voiced by Chris Pine), is holding hostage the wishes of Disney executives? [Read More]

Eucharia Anunobi shades people who have the habit of sticking out their tongues

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  111 words  |  Billy Koelling

The movie star made her disgust known via her Instagram page on Thursday, September 16, 2021. ''What's all these thing about people sticking out their tongue, is that supposed to mean that you are a great kisser? Is it not dogs that stick out their tongues? Are you a dog?" she said. ADVERTISEMENT "Before you know these people have halitosis." "Have you noticed that people are ready to curse their marriages, curse their careers, curse themselves all because they want to be famous on social media," [Read More]

Ever felt sudden weakness/shakiness? These are 7 possible reasons

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  356 words  |  Kelle Repass

Sometimes a sudden wave of weakness and shakiness from inside envelopes the body to the outside and most times when 'this passes', a lot of people disregard or wave this off casually but it shouldn't. It's possible that flimsy bits like not eating as at when due or enough, lack of exercise, side effects of drugs etc can cause the body to become weak and 'shake' but there might be other underlying factors causing this that if left untreated can cause even more serious issues for the entire system. [Read More]

Game of Thrones' House of the Dragon Season 2 War Explained

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1258 words  |  Patria Henriques

Even for dedicated Game of Thrones viewers, the first season of House of the Dragon had a lot to keep straight. After several traumatic birth scenes, countless acts of betrayal, and a number of (somewhat confusing) time jumps, the show culminated with the straw that broke the proverbial dragon's back and set the Targaryen Civil War in motion: the murder of Lucerys Velaryon and his dragon, Arrax, by Aemond Targaryen and his dragon, Vhagar. [Read More]