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“The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference” — Elie Wiesel Quiet quitting—the now ubiquitous expression that refers to doing the bare minimum at work—can also happen in relationships. When people quietly quit their job, they phone it in. They can’t be bothered with putting in extra time, energy, or effort. They have no plans to leave but they aren’t showing up in a meaningful way. When people quiet quit their relationship, they similarly disconnect.

When I was a kid, one of my most agonizing frustrations was about how rare it was that anybody would take me seriously. It doesn’t bother me as much anymore, largely because I’ve since achieved some level of success at the things I care about. I now have some people who have my back – people who see me for who I am and what I’m doing – and I’ve also learned to be more patient with other people’s misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and so on.

Tell me one more time just so's I'll understand What is country? It’s a question that country music often seems to ask itself. As with any genre or tribe, it’s easier to define yourself by what you’re not. The Grand Ole Opry forbade drumkits for decades, for example, until Bob Wills’s popularity forced the issue in 1944. When the Opry hired a staff drummer in Buddy Harman in 1959, audible drums officially became permissible on country records.

When people find out that I was a writer at heat magazine for six years in the noughties, there’s a predictable series of questions.  Who’s the most famous person you met? I’ve met lots of people who were among the most famous people in the country for brief periods of time (think Jade Goody, Katie Price, Simon Cowell, and pretty much everyone who went on X Factor and Big Brother when they were worth watching) but this was heat, not Vanity Fair, and I was pretty junior, so I didn’t get to meet many legit international superstars, sorry.

When longtime journalist Frank Lockwood broke a child sex abuse cover-up story at one of Little Rock’s largest churches, he exposed the ugly underbelly of abuse cover-up patterns in the Southern Baptist Convention. At Immanuel Baptist Church, Patrick Miller was accused of sexually abusing an elementary school-aged child in a dark closet. Miller was the church’s assistant director of children’s ministry and was responsible for teaching the children while the adults worshipped.

The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland ) Act is barely a day old and already JK Rowling has tested it to destruction.  In one mega tweet in which she repeatedly misgenders transwomen and showcases a succession rapists and sexual offenders who’ve been placed in Scottish women’s jails, the Harry Potter author has done exactly what this Act was supposed to prevent. She has - a reasonable person might judge - expressed malice and ill will toward people with the “protected characteristic”of transgender identity”.

Earlier in November, Arrow Video began releasing standalone regular Bluray editions of several Bruce Lee movies that it had previously included in the extensive 10-disc 4K UHD Box Set called Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest, which collected all five of Bruce Lee’s feature films alongside five discs of special features.  In this article, I will critique boutique video label Arrow Video’s Blu-Ray release strategy for the last Bruce Lee-starring movie, Game of Death (1978, dir.

Hi Tim, I hope you’ve recovered from the emotional rollercoaster of that Conti Cup Final! I have a question about our coaching setup. I can’t help but feel as though our set pieces have been absolutely rubbish this season. I can only recall 3 goals from corners in the WSL, and all of them benefited from defensive mistakes (this is obviously a huge contrast to our Men’s Team). Who coaches our set pieces now, and would it be possible for Nicolas Jover to ‘double shift’ and impart some of his set-piece knowledge onto the coaches and players?

First, the trailer: Okay, for any lover of murder and of comedy this movie is required viewing. If you have not watched it before, do yourself a favor and stop reading this and go do it then come back here and share with me in singing its praises. Director: Frank Capra Writers: Julius & Philip Epstein and Joseph Kesselring Starring: Carry Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, and Edward Everett Horton