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Grandparenting Is Wonderful; It’s Also Complicated

Grandparenting Is Wonderful; It’s Also Complicated

Published by Jenni Sidey

When you became a grandparent, you probably heard some version of the same question: “Isn’t it the best?” “Don’t you just love being a grandparent?” In my 40 years as a psychologist, I’ve worked with many grandparents, and I’ve noticed something striking: Those questions leave very little room for any answer other than an enthusiastic “Absolutely.” There is rarely any space for feelings that don’t fit the cultural narrative that grandparenting is purely joyful. As a grandparent myself, I understand why. When my older grandson calls my name or runs into my arms, there is no greater joy. However, for many families, becoming a grandparent can also stir up old family wounds, unresolved tensions with adult children, challenges with the physical demands of caring for young children, and sometimes increased financial burdens on grandparents as they help their adult children. This paradox of being a grandparent is often not discussed, since the only response people feel they can give when talking about it is positive and full of joy. The joy is real. So are …

Gillian Anderson Lays Out Her Complicated Feelings About Intimacy Co-Ordinators

Gillian Anderson Lays Out Her Complicated Feelings About Intimacy Co-Ordinators

Published by Sam Flores

Gillian Anderson at the premiere of her new film, Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma last month Gillian Anderson has admitted that the increased prevalence of intimacy co-ordinators on TV and film sets is something she has complicated feelings about. In recent years, the Emmy winner has appeared in numerous projects that have made use of intimacy co-ordinators – industry professionals employed to help actors and directors more comfortable while shooting sex scenes or on-screen nudity – perhaps most notably the Netflix series Sex Education. While promoting her new movie Teenage Sex And Death In Camp Miasma, which contains graphic scenes of both sex and violence, Gillian told The Times that she has mixed feelings about these behind-the-scenes roles. “It depends on the co-ordinator,” she explained, with the outlet suggesting she is “not a particular fan” of them. She continued: “I did a Netflix show where one wanted a Zoom because I was tucking my son’s shirt into his trousers.” “Did I want to meet with him so that we could talk it through, …

Docker looks complicated until you learn these 7 terminal commands

Docker looks complicated until you learn these 7 terminal commands

Published by Miika Tikkanen

When I first attempted to build with Docker, it was pretty overwhelming. As it was my first time encountering containers, images, volumes, ports, Compose files, and a terminal full of commands, I wondered whether I needed to be a developer to use it. However, once I got my head around the principles behind Docker and started using it to install and run several self-hosted applications, I realized I was using the same handful of terminal commands to achieve the same results. Learn these seven, and Docker will feel far less intimidating. docker pull The command to download an image I was initially confused by this Docker terminology, as an “image” in this context is essentially a packaged version of an application that Docker can use to create a container. These can be downloaded from a registry using: docker pull nginx This command downloads the Nginx image to your computer. While you haven’t started things rolling yet, you will have all the ingredients necessary to create a container. Docker will sometimes download a missing image automatically, …

Could a Shirt Fool Facial Recognition? The Answer Is Complicated

Could a Shirt Fool Facial Recognition? The Answer Is Complicated

Published by Miika Tikkanen

A camera and its software labeled Bill Swearingen as a person. Then it suddenly wasn’t sure — all because of some weird pattern that he held up to disguise himself. I watched it happen from my seat at annual hacker convention Defcon. Swearingen, a longtime cybersecurity professional and founder of the Kansas City security community SecKC, stood onstage in front of a live camera feed as a person-detection system analyzed him. On the giant screen behind him, the software’s confidence score cleared 0.75, the threshold it needed to declare that, yes, there was a human being in the frame. Then Swearingen raised a flat panel covered in a bizarre black-and-white pattern. The score started falling. It slipped below the threshold, eventually landing at 0.21. “No person detected,” the screen announced in bright green letters. It felt like a low-budget magic trick. Swearingen was still standing there, plainly visible to everyone in the room. The software was still receiving the camera image, but it no longer detected a person above the configured confidence threshold. Swearingen has …

Zoe Saldaña Boards Short Film ‘It’s Complicated’ as EP (Exclusive)

Zoe Saldaña Boards Short Film ‘It’s Complicated’ as EP (Exclusive)

Published by Daniella Wilson

Oscar-winning actress Zoe Saldaña has boarded the narrative short It’s Complicated as an executive producer ahead of its world premiere at the HollyShorts Film Festival in August. Written, produced by and starring Iman Karram, It’s Complicated follows Yara, a Palestinian-American screenwriter in Los Angeles, whose online Arabic lessons with Hana (Dina Shuhaiber), a poet and teacher living in Gaza, blossom into a profound friendship built on shared ambition, humor, and sisterhood. “When war suddenly tears them apart, Yara must confront grief, diasporic guilt, and the responsibility of using her voice to ensure Hana’s story is not forgotten,” reads a plot synopsis. The film is directed by Darine Hotait and produced by Karram, Alana Duqum, Zoe Marie Jimenez, and Matt Van Tine, with Kais Karram and Zane Karram of Malibu Mutt Studios among the producing team. Eli Zavala of Splinter Pictures also serves as an executive producer. “Iman has made a deeply personal film about identity, grief, sisterhood, and the responsibility artists feel to carry the stories of their communities forward,” said Saldaña, who won an …

IOC official says charter changes on sports neutrality vital in ‘complicated’ world

IOC official says charter changes on sports neutrality vital in ‘complicated’ world

Published by Sam Flores

LAUSANNE, June 25 : A senior International Olympic Committee official said on Thursday that Olympic Charter changes aimed at reinforcing sport’s political neutrality were vital for maintaining IOC independence in what he called an increasingly complicated world. The IOC approved amendments on Wednesday strengthening language emphasising that sport should be free from political interference. Critics say the reforms could ease Russia’s return to international sport. “It is more necessary than ever that the charter give us the power to maintain our independence. We have to keep the independence, it’s more difficult every day. It’s more complicated.
We are subject to more pressures. The world is getting more and more complicated,” Vice-President Juan Antonio Samaranch told reporters on the sidelines of the two-day extraordinary meeting in Lausanne. “We need to arm ourselves and protect ourselves through the charter, to be able to take the right decisions,” he added.  Samaranch said IOC changes to its sports programme which would evaluate Olympic inclusion by discipline rather than by sport were fair. “Small sports are going to have their fair …

Farewell to Maddy Perez, Euphoria’s complicated Latina baddie

Farewell to Maddy Perez, Euphoria’s complicated Latina baddie

Published by Sam Flores

It was the summer of 2019, and HBO’s new gritty teen drama was everywhere. Love it or hate it, “Euphoria” was unavoidable, and everything from its soon-to-be megastars to the clothes, makeup and overall aesthetic of its neon-lit universe was seeping out from the confines of the screen and into the real world. And at the center of this vibe shift, with raven-black hair and eyeliner as razor-sharp as her comebacks, was Mexican American actor Alexa Demie as Maddy Perez. On paper, Maddy shouldn’t have been a particularly remarkable character. How often have we seen the popular high school cheerleader navigate a toxic relationship with the school’s hot jock? And how routinely have we seen a Latina relegated to the background, or sidelined once she’s fulfilled her role as a foil — the temptress, the toxic girlfriend, the temperamental best friend — for the blonder, whiter characters onscreen to “overcome” as they replace her in the spotlight? Make no mistake: Maddy was a foil. In a show built around characters who fought to obscure nearly …

Beyond Paradise’s Humphrey stunned as dilemma grows more complicated

Beyond Paradise’s Humphrey stunned as dilemma grows more complicated

Published by Daniella Wilson

Humphrey’s relationship with his mother-in-law Anne mostly consists of her chiding him for getting under her feet as they navigate living under the same roof in Beyond Paradise. After the detective and Martha moved back onto the boat, having paused their fostering journey, the small matter of them drifting out to sea while they were tucked up in bed in the season 4 premiere saw them swiftly move back into Anne’s house. But as close as Martha and her mum are – and there is also love between Humphrey and Anne, given how important each of them are to Martha – it has become increasingly clear that the newly married couple need their own space, regardless of whether it’s just the two of them, or if they welcome another child into their lives. So, they committed to house hunting and after a fairly breezy search and some gentle deliberation, they’ve landed themselves a fixer-upper. But as they were toasting the next chapter of their lives in their new backyard – which looks out onto a …

Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters after Taylor Hawkins: ‘Continuing was complicated’

Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters after Taylor Hawkins: ‘Continuing was complicated’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has shared a poignant tribute to the band’s late drummer, Taylor Hawkins, describing him as an “incredible human being” and lamenting that the “world is not the same” without him. Hawkins, who was 50 when he died suddenly in 2022, had been a pivotal member of the American rock group for over two decades. Speaking to Zane Lowe on his Apple Music show, Grohl, 57, revealed the profound challenges the band faced in continuing after Hawkins’ death, stating they “talk about him every day”. He reflected on their long history, saying: “We had Taylor Hawkins as our drummer for 25 years and, beyond being an amazing drummer, he was this incredible spirit.” Grohl continued, emphasising the personal loss: “He was this incredible human being and he was our brother. He was our best friend. So continuing on after Taylor was really complicated, not just for us, but for any drummer that was going to come in to like, you know, fill his shoes.” The interview took place on what would …