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According to Vice News, the #PaintballsUpGunsDown movement first gained traction in early April. “Everywhere you go you would see a gun, but now when we started paintballing, everywhere we went we’d see a paintball,” Quinton Kisor, a founder of the movement, told VICE News. Tonight. “I’d rather get hit with a paintball than a bullet.” Residents who participate in #PaintballsUpGunsDown believe that the game provides a much-needed opportunity for certain at-risk residents to build stronger relationships with each other in a way that can tangibly curb gun violence....

Here four methods to consider, all of which involve spending very little money. And if you use method number one in combination with method number two, you’ll probably find it will change your marriage in infinite ways. And, if you’re a single or unmarried parent, date night at home just got a whole lot easier. Ready? Let’s watch TV and not wake up the baby. (Ever) 1. Get a Headphone Splitter The silver bullet to watching TV when you have a tiny baby or a toddler is this: Get your headphone game straightened out!...

RELATED: The Best Back-to-School Tech and Gadgets of 2018 To that end, we’ve put together 12 of the coolest and most comfortable, hippest, and high-tech best backpacks for school on the market for all ages. Kid book bags that can go in the washing machine. Backpacks emblazoned with their favorite baseball teams. Even backpacks with built-in art tubes so their unflattering drawings of you can arrive home unscathed. Best yet, they’re all built to last, so you don’t have to go through the selection process again next year....

Beats Sale These wireless headphones are comfortable, won’t move or shift around when you’re exercising, and are sweat-resistant. These headphones block out external noise, while giving you a pristine listening experience. Oh, and you get 22 hours of battery life. With the Beats Solo3 headphones, you get 40 hours of battery life. The acoustics are pristine. The fit is fully adjustable. And five minutes of charging gives you three hours of playback....

When most people think of all-inclusive resorts, they think of free food and booze ⏤ and that’s about it. All inclusive resorts targeted toward kids and families, however, take the experience to another level. Sure, unlimited food and drink are part of the deal, but it’s more about entertaining and occupying kids ⏤ both with and without mom and dad. From water parks and swim-up soda bars to organized arts and breakfast with their favorite TV characters, there’s usually a non-stop lineup of activities to ensure everybody is having a good time....

Potential Endgame Spoilers Ahead. These may not be accurate but in case they are, stop reading if you want to watch the movie without any idea of what might happen. Ant-Man and Captain Marvel Will Team Up to Save the Day For those that don’t remember, Infinity War ended with half of the earth’s population disappearing thanks to Thanos’ super snap. So how the hell are we going to get Spider-Man, Black Panther, and the rest of our beloved heroes back in time to defeat Thanos and his alien cronies?...

Mira Beer Growler The growler is a totally badass-sounding yet wholly impractical way to bring enough beer to the party to share with everyone — until now. Mira’s stainless steel, double walled, vacuum insulated bottle will keep your suds cold and won’t break when your buddy accidentally knocks it over while shrugging confusedly and asking, “Where the hell are all the bottles?” Buy Now $15 Pico Bottle Opener You still might need a bottle opener in a pinch, but your days of impressing the ladies at the frat house with that monstrosity on your keychain are over....

Here are five fantasy books for kids, each of which is part of a series, but doesn’t have to be read as part of that series. Some of these are obviously first installments in the series, while others are smack dab in the middle of a series. In all cases, if your kid wants to read these installments without fear of being confused or left-hanging, these individual volumes are ideal....

They’re ideal for those of us who work outdoors and every parent has had to suffer through sitting on the sidelines during a cold sporting event, or wear winter boots to see them play hockey on a frozen rink. The following heated gear keeps all your most important areas nice and toasty so you can enjoy the bounties of winter. Pros: Cold? What cold? This jacket heats up your back, chest, and pockets....

New York City has the largest public school system in the country with 1.1 million students for 1,800 schools. It shut down on Thursday, November 19 after the city came above a 3 percent positivity rate in COVID-19 for seven days. While schools are closed — and it’s not clear when they will reopen — for the time being, indoor dining, gyms, and other places of businesses are still operating at a reduced capacity in the city....

Because Congress can’t pass any gun control legislation without eliminating the filibuster, some of Biden’s only moves on guns can be done through executive actions, which are useful but limited in scope and not as permanent as, say, federal law. Though Biden had urged Congress to act by passing comprehensive background checks — in bills that have passed the House but stall in the Senate, where gun control is anathema to conservatives — he has decided to go several steps further and announce a series of executive actions that will curb gun violence and regulate some gun trafficking....

On A Great Metaphor For Your Baby’s Birth “The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.” On Rethinking Those Guitar Lessons “When I was growing up, there were 2 things that were unpopular in my house: One was me, and the other was my guitar.“ On 6th Grade Wisdom “I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you’re 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life — certainly by the time you’re 18....

The audition campaign was a big success last year, where people submitted photos of their beloved pets wearing bunny years. More than 1,300 animals’ pictures were shared on Instagram using the hashtag #CadburyBunnyTryouts, and we saw all kinds of pets. There were pigs, a llama, a gecko, horse, and even a chicken, all looking for their opportunity to become the Cadbury egg spokesperson in a nationwide commercial. The prize went to a bulldog named Henri, but the search is on this year....

Recently, Kristen and her husband Dax Shepard were guests on The Drew Barrymore Show and we’re guessing no one was ready for the story she was about to share with the world. She’s always been hilarious and candid. Even if it gets her a lot of pushbacks – like the time she shared her kids’ bathing schedule. “Right after we had the kids and I was going to stop breastfeeding,” Bell shared, “and I had read …” she said before pausing, covering her eyes with her hands and admitting that she “can’t even look at you when I say this....

“It’s really, really hard to poison someone with CO2 unless you’re trying to,” said Bill Carroll, an adjunct professor of chemistry at Indiana State University. Carbon dioxide becomes toxic at concentrations above 4 percent, according to the US Department of Agriculture. For context, the normal concentration in our atmosphere is around 0.04 percent. Theoretically, a tight enough face-covering could cause carbon dioxide to build up to toxic levels. “If you tie a plastic bag around your neck and inhale enough CO2, you will eventually pass out,” Carroll said....

When someone wins, making it to the gingerbread house with the “Home Sweet Home” sign, the event feels random and, as a result, anti-climactic. But winning isn’t really the point of Candy Land; no one is ever really meaningfully ahead and it often feels like no one ever will win. Players don’t compete so much as settle into a liminal state of neither-here-nor-there, floating about candy scenes until it’s time to reshuffle the deck — yet again — and pull up the same cards that they just pulled, this time in a different order....

For anyone who watched Cars, the 2006 film featuring anthropomorphic talking vehicles, the story was everything kids love. A cool character, Lightning McQueen, who went through a journey to become a better person. His funny and strange sidekick, Mater, who seemed like he didn’t know a lot but turned out to be instrumental in McQueen’s journey. And everyone in between – it was a well-rounded world where cars were essentially humans....

For those who haven’t been keeping score at home, Ashton Kutcher and partner Mila Kunis only bathe their kids when they’re dirty, which is similar to Kristen Bell and Dax Shephard’s approach to waiting until their kids get stinky before they get a bath. As with most celebrity interest stories, none of this is prescriptive. Because at the end of the day, privilege allows any bathing philosophy a celebrity employs to work for them....

Recently, the Gaines have been in the news because they’ve added to their brood a fifth child, Crew. He joins Emmie Kay, 8, Duke, 9, Ella, 11, and Drake, 13. Not only did they welcome the boy, but so too did their 11.9 million combined Instagram followers, a million plus Twitter followers, and 4 million or so Facebook fans. That’s literally more people than who welcomed Jesus when that dude was born (yes, I did the math)....

In the centuries since, Confucianism has become a dominating school of Eastern thought, winning the philosophical Battle Royale that was The Hundred Schools Of Thought and going on to live on in a book called the Analects. As it turns out, his thoughts on ethics and education aren’t just applicable to fifth-century Chinese governance, but also 21st-century parenting. These Confucius quotes contain collected wisdom (or at least loose translations, paraphrasing, and flat-out misappropriations) of one of the greatest philosophers in history....