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If you’ve forgotten all about Jennifer Aniston and Warwick Davis in this charmingly strange 1990s film, here’s why it’s still watchable. And for those of us who are still having nightmares, did you forget about all the dad jokes? At first, Leprechaun was supposed to be a horror movie intended to be direct-to-VHS but instead released in cinemas two weeks after Christmas. Instead of the fairytale and rainbow leprechaun who repped for children’s breakfast cereal, this creature — played by legendary actor Warwick Davis — is a monster who could literally tear your guts out if he wanted to get down to business, but instead scampers around in a bright green three-piece suit and takes time to crack a dad joke about how he’ll desecrate your body....

Here’s everything you need to know about how to get rid of your old Halloween pumpkin — besides throwing it in the garbage. Getting rid of your Halloween pumpkin should not involve garbage. “One big misconception we hear a lot in the community is that people think that all organic material, like pumpkins, just break down in the landfill. Landfills are actually designed to not allow things to break down in a way that composting allows,” said Udara Abeysekera, ReThink Waste manager at The Environmental Center, according to Source Weekly....

But not all drills are created equal. Many commonly used Little League drills have little efficacy. Others frustrate players. The key, it turns out, is to find one that let kids practice not only specific skills, but success itself. This is how Craig Ahrens, the author of No Bad Team: Management Techniques Honed from Coaching Youth Sports and a 15-year veteran coach thinks about developing athletic strengths and how Robert Herbst is a 19-time world champion powerlifter who has trained youth baseball players for more than 30 years, develops pure strength....

Big Shoulders Are More Important Than Waist-To-Hip Ratio A person’s waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) has been shown to accurately predict health, fitness, and attractiveness for both men and women. And although there is an optimal WHR for male attractiveness (it’s 0.8, if you’re curious) another study found that women don’t care much about a man’s hip-to-waist ratio — they care about waist-to-chest ratio. Guys with bodies shaped like an inverted triangle, or bigger shoulders and smaller waists, are considered more attractive across the board....

“Kids needs to transition from cribs when they’re close to being able to fall out. A lot of cribs transition to toddler beds,” says Dr. Benjamin D. Hoffman, the chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention. Hoffman’s guidelines for toddler bed-buying are simple: At around 18 months, most kids are ready for their own bed.At that point, make sure it’s close to the ground, to minimize any injury risk if they fall out....

“Thanks to the glut of industrial examples that have transformed it into a billion-dollar industry, most consumers think of Prosecco as something cheap and simple to pour into a Bellini or Mimosa,” says Zachary Sussman, author of the new book, Sparkling Wines for Modern Times. According to Sussman, these “pop wine” stereotypes come from the fact that to keep up with surging demand, Prosecco’s area of production has rapidly expanded, and its prestige has been hindered by high-yield chemical farming....

Majority of Parents Say They Are Struggling Financially Now Despite the overwhelming success, the opportunity to continue monthly payments and provide financial stability to millions of families stalled in the Senate in late December, leaving many families reeling. And the pain of those payments ceasing couldn’t be clearer. According to a recent poll by Morning Consult, 75% of those polled who received CTC payments say they have less financial security now that the payments have ended....

1. You Know You’re a Work in Progress (And You’re Willing to Do the Work) It’s easy to look at other couples and think Why aren’t we more like them? or to list out all the ways your relationship could be better. While comparison is the thief of joy, it’s good to have goals and keep in mind some points of improvement so forward progress can be made. Healthy couples understand that they haven’t reached perfection, and that they probably never will....

And with the high prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer’s in the U.S. — more than 1 in 3 seniors has at least one at their time of death — and the number of seniors in the country with Alzheimer’s expected to rise from 6 million to 13 million by 2050, it’s crucial to keep your brain healthy. Luckily, doing so isn’t all that hard. Little changes like taking a 30-minute walk each day or limiting the amount of processed foods in your diet are simple and, new research shows, astoundingly effective....

Their Understanding of Time “Here’s a regular interaction between me and my son. “Mommy, mommy, mommy” “You want mommy?”“Yeah.”“Okay she’ll come down in two minutes. Can you wait two minutes?”“Yeah” Four seconds goes by. Crying starts. I know he doesn’t grasp time but in the moment it’s never not frustrating. In retrospect, it is pretty adorable.” — Kevin M., Chicago That They Make a Mess Out of Everything “At any given moment, our family room always look like a homemade grenade full of clothes and toys was recently detonated....

The thought was a rare point of hope in what has otherwise been a month of stress over what the hell I’m going to do with my kids when the school year ends. Because the thing is, I’m a parent who works from home. So after Memorial Day, my life becomes way more complicated and my options more limited. Camps are expensive and logistically tricky. Nannies and babysitters are also pricey....

The County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control shared a photo to its Instagram page featuring the absolutely adorable letter from 6-year-old Madeline. “Dear LA County, I would like your approval if I can have a unicorn in my backyard if I can find one,” Madeline shared in her handwritten letter marked November 14. “Please send me a letter in response.” In the caption of the Instagram photo, the department said Madeline’s letter “brought us so much JOY” that they wanted to share the letter on Instagram....

Because of the merger, HBO Max seems to be pulling out of the family space – notably Sesame Street – that many considered its niche. “As we work toward bringing our content catalogs together under one platform,” HBO Max said in a statement, “we will be making changes to the content offering available on both” platforms. In fairness, children’s programming isn’t the only Warner Bros. property taking a hit. Batgirl, for example, will likely never see the light of day – after a $90 million investment that now is nothing more than a tax write-off....

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1. It’s believed to be from the Bronze Age. The archaeological site is called Kemune and it’s thought to be one of the major cities of the Mittani Empire. Mittani was an “Indo-Iranian empire centered in northern Mesopotamia that flourished from about 1500 to about 1360 BC,” according to Britannica. Ivana Puljiz, a junior professor in the department of near eastern archaeology and assyriology at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany, said via CNN, that the city was from the Bronze Age and was also known as the city of Zakhiku....

Just the other day, the Bard beckoned, so Mackie “went upstairs and I looked at my bookshelf and I was like, ‘I haven’t cracked my Shakespeare in a minute,” he says, gathering steam. “This is the nerdiest thing you’ll ever hear me say. My friends come over and we all went to acting high school or acted in college and we would read scenes from Shakespeare’s plays. Imagine this group of Black dudes, drinking whiskey, smoking cigars, reading Shakespeare....

“This poses a pretty big privacy problem as you can essentially listen in on any iOS user,” said Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac in the article that first exposed the glitch on Monday. “There is no indication on the recipient’s side that you could hear any of their audio. There’s a second part to this which can expose video too…” The bug can run on any iPhone or iPad currently using iOS 12....

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