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Prince William makes unexpected confession about Christmas tradition he doesn’t take part in

Prince William makes unexpected confession about Christmas tradition he doesn’t take part in

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Whilst the royal family uphold many Christmas traditions, there is one the Prince of Wales has revealed he is yet to take part in. During a visit to Wiltshire on Tuesday, the future King confessed that he doesn’t have a Christmas jumper whilst handing out Christmas presents to children and families at a festive party for the 1st Battalion Mercian Regiment. © GettyPrince William made the confession o Tuesday After Dylan Potter, 14, made William laugh by revealing he was wearing two Christmas jumpers, William was heard saying, while pointing at himself: “Some people don’t own one.” When asked why he wasn’t wearing a jumper, he pointed across the room at his new equerry, Squadron Leader Mike Reynolds, and said jokingly: “I didn’t know, you see that guy in the jacket, it’s his fault and I will be having a word.” © Samir HusseinWilliam is preparing for Christmas with 45 of his royal family members During the festive visit, William revealed what his Christmas plans with his family looked like this year at Sandringham. He …

A Popular Decongestant Doesn’t Work. The FDA Is Finally Doing Something About It

A Popular Decongestant Doesn’t Work. The FDA Is Finally Doing Something About It

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In a long-sought move, the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday formally began the process of abandoning oral doses of a common over-the-counter decongestant that the agency concluded last year is not effective at relieving stuffy noses. Specifically, the FDA issued a proposed order to remove oral phenylephrine from the list of drugs that drugmakers can include in over-the-counter products—also known as the OTC monograph. Once removed, drugmakers will no longer be able to include phenylephrine in products for the temporary relief of nasal congestion. “It is the FDA’s role to ensure that drugs are safe and effective,” Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a statement. “Based on our review of available data and consistent with the advice of the advisory committee, we are taking this next step in the process to propose removing oral phenylephrine because it is not effective as a nasal decongestant.” For now, the order is just a proposal. The FDA will open up a public comment period, and if no comments …

Recruiting the world’s first disabled astronaut doesn’t mean space travel is inclusive – here’s how to change that

Recruiting the world’s first disabled astronaut doesn’t mean space travel is inclusive – here’s how to change that

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In the past, spaceflight was the preserve of government-funded astronauts who had to meet stringent physical, cognitive, psychological and social requirements for selection. But in recent years, that has all been changing. In September 2024, two non-professional astronauts completed the first privately funded spacewalk, using the Crew Dragon spacecraft built by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. Meanwhile, Houston-based private company Axiom Space is conducting regular flights to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying a mixture of government-funded astronauts and paying customers. In the last few years, nearly 100 people have become private astronauts through the space tourism companies Blue Origin, operated by Jeff Bezos and Virgin Galactic, by Sir Richard Branson. While the price of a seat on these vehicles remains out of reach for most of us, prices are expected to drop as more players enter the market. Despite the rapid growth in the number of space travellers, underrepresented population groups are still left behind, particularly those with disabilities. So how can space agencies and “space tourism” companies make spaceflight more inclusive for disabled astronauts? …

Scotland’s approach to special needs education is more inclusive than the rest of the UK – but it doesn’t always work in practice

Scotland’s approach to special needs education is more inclusive than the rest of the UK – but it doesn’t always work in practice

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Across the UK, how children are identified with special educational needs, and how they are then supported, differs according to where they live. There are broad similarities in the approaches in Wales, England and Northern Ireland. But in Scotland things are done differently. Northern Ireland, Wales and England define children with learning needs as those who have significantly greater difficulty in learning than their peers. Scotland takes a more distinctive approach, using the term “Additional Support Needs” (ASN). A child or young person has ASN if they are unable, without the provision of additional support, to benefit from the school education provided. This much broader definition means that there is a wide range of reasons a learner could have ASN. These could be permanent or temporary in nature: they could be, for instance, experiencing family bereavement or bullying. Unsurprisingly, Scotland’s broader definition has meant that it has a significant proportion of learners identified with ASN – 37% in 2023. Across a wide range of policy documentation, inclusive education in Scotland is understood broadly to encompass …

He doesn’t have a personality”: Yang shares his struggles with playing Vance on “SNL

He doesn’t have a personality”: Yang shares his struggles with playing Vance on “SNL

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“Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang Yang has embodied Charli XCX, viral pygmy hippo Moo Deng, and Ariana Grande’s future son-in-law so far in the show’s 50th season, but taking on vice presidential candidate JD Vance has been his toughest role. In an interview with Them, the show’s first Asian cast member said he was vocal that he might not be the best fit. Outside of current “SNL” cast member James Austin Johnson and his uncanny Donald Trump impersonation, the series has largely used stunt casting to cover the election. In sketches, he faces off against show alums Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, and Andy Samberg as Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Doug Emhoff. “Up until the show, I tapped [“SNL” creator Lorne Michaels] on the shoulder and I was in the full beard and the full geish and I was like, ‘You can do a buyback if you want,’” the comic joked. Yang said his biggest hurdle in embodying the Ohio senator was finding a personality in Vance, whose core belief system shifts with the tides. Cracking Vance for Yang …

B.B. King Changes a Broken Guitar String Mid-Song at Farm Aid, and Doesn’t Miss a Beat (1985)

B.B. King Changes a Broken Guitar String Mid-Song at Farm Aid, and Doesn’t Miss a Beat (1985)

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The scene is Farm Aid, 1985, attend­ed by a crowd of 80,000 peo­ple. The song is “How Blue Can You Get.” And the key moment comes at the 3:10 mark, when the blues leg­end B.B. King breaks a gui­tar string, then man­ages to replace it before the song fin­ish­es min­utes lat­er. All the while, he keeps the song going, nev­er miss­ing a beat and singing the blues. Enjoy. If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. Or fol­low our posts on Threads, Face­book, BlueSky or Mastodon. If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als to learn­ers every­where. You can con­tribute through Pay­Pal, Patre­on, and Ven­mo (@openculture). Thanks! Relat­ed Con­tent: B.B. King Plays Live at Sing Sing Prison in One of His Great­est Per­for­mances (1972) The Thrill is Gone: See B.B. King Play in Two Elec­tric Live …

What Al Pacino’s Memoir Doesn’t Tell Us

What Al Pacino’s Memoir Doesn’t Tell Us

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The huge solemnity of his eyes, grave and sober as a child’s but with a spark of ancient, euphoric irony back in there somewhere. The gangster-ish heaviness of his hands, dynastic hands, Godfather hands. The too-big head. The carved, impassive face that suddenly droops, drags, goes baggy with the weight of being alive. The voice, New York nasal as a young man, roaring and combusted as he ages, the lungs working like bellows, the larynx shooting flames. The timing—the beat, the lag, the throb of the void—between stimulus and reaction. And the energy, Jesus, that barely-inside-the-body Dog Day Afternoon energy, as if 30 seconds ago he disintegrated utterly into tics and ravings, splinters of self, and then 10 seconds ago—via some act of Looney Tunes reversal—he was whooshingly put back together. Explore the November 2024 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More It’s 1973. Al Pacino and Frank Serpico are sitting on the deck of a rented seaside house in Montauk, two men staring at the …

Melania Really Doesn’t Care – The Atlantic

Melania Really Doesn’t Care – The Atlantic

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A little over 12 years ago, Melania Trump logged on to Twitter, uploaded a picture of a cheery-looking beluga whale, and added the caption, “What is she thinking?” The tweet was classic Melania, which is to say that it was cryptic, minimalist, and only lightly in focus. Unlike her husband, Melania Trump undershares on social media—if she isn’t there to hawk baffling NFT collectibles or patriotic Christmas ornaments, she doesn’t typically have much to say. But over the past few weeks, as she’s soft-launched her new memoir, Melania has been posting a series of short videos, each one its own inscrutable puzzle. Mistily obscured through what seems to be a Vaseline-smeared camera lens, she gives brief statements on subjects including cancel culture, her immediate attraction to “Donald,” and her apparent belief in a woman’s right to choose. Her head is stiffly tilted, her gaze steadfast. As she talks, a string section in the background pulses with momentum, as though these clips are actually trailers for the climactic final season of a show called America! What …

Netanyahu Doesn’t Care About His Friendship With Biden

Netanyahu Doesn’t Care About His Friendship With Biden

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President Joe Biden’s actions over many months suggest that Israel can determine when and where the United States goes to war in the Middle East. That is unacceptable, and the next American president must change this dynamic. In one framing, the past 12 months have witnessed a remarkable display of America’s might and resolve in the Middle East—especially relative to our principal adversary in the region, Iran. Since October of last year, Israel has severely degraded Iran’s two most important affiliates in the area, Hezbollah and Hamas. Iran has lashed out directly only twice, with one ballistic-missile assault in April and another this month—both largely neutralized by U.S., Israeli, and allied air and missile defenses. The United States, in contrast with Iran, has backed its principal affiliate in the region, Israel, to the fullest extent. It has shipped billions of dollars of military equipment and munitions to Israel over the past 12 months, on top of the roughly $3.8 billion it already provides annually; shared sensitive intelligence to allow Israel to target Hamas’s senior leaders …

Pelosi: Trump Doesn’t Have the ‘Sanity’ to Be President

Pelosi: Trump Doesn’t Have the ‘Sanity’ to Be President

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“His thinking is not straight,” the former House speaker said. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Jemal Countess / Getty for The Atlantic September 19, 2024, 8:39 PM ET Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Donald Trump lacks the “sanity” to be president of the United States. “It takes vision, knowledge, judgment, strategic thinking, a heart full of love for the American people, and sanity to be president of the United States,” the Democrat told The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, in an interview today at The Atlantic Festival. “To be sane is probably an important characteristic to have if you’re going to have control over our nuclear weapons. Don’t you think? I don’t think he’s on the level,” Pelosi said. “His thinking is not straight. Not on the level.” Pelosi also criticized Trump for being unable to recognize reality (though she avoided using his name, repeatedly referring to the former president as “what’s-his-name”). She noted that he frequently claims that he sought to send the National Guard to the Capitol on January 6, …