Debilitating symptoms lead some to try over-the-counter medications Allegra and Pepcid due to a social media trend
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and menopause can come with debilitating symptoms, like intense emotional changes and exhaustion.
All over social media, women are claiming that a simple hack has helped enormously: a combination of two over-the-counter medications, both antihistamines – typically, the name brands Pepcid AC and Allegra.
Continue reading...Creative Assembly could strike gold again with this follow-up to their fan-favourite, film-inspired game … if you’re brave enough to venture outdoors
Alien: Isolation redefined Alien games on its release in 2014, bringing the original taut, haunted house theme of the first movie to fans who had mostly been fed action-packed shooters. Cowering under desks and inside lockers wasn’t a new thing; being hunted by an intelligent and lethal xenomorph that could spring down from a duct at any moment was.
“I was thinking about what we could do for a sequel while we were still finishing the first game,” reveals Creative Assembly’s Alistair Hope, creative lead on Alien: Isolation and its sequel. “But we didn’t actually start the project until around the time of the 10th anniversary. We’ve seen the response grow over time, watching [Alien: Isolation] continue to find new players, even though it’s a relatively old game. And they’re surprised there isn’t a sequel.”
Continue reading...A play based on the writer’s dreamlike novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is touring the world, riding a wave of interest in Japanese culture. Its creators talk about how they adapted the famously cryptic tale
Tatsuya Fujiwara is no stranger to London’s Barbican theatre. It was here nearly 30 years ago that one of Japan’s biggest film stars, now 44, made his stage debut. He was just 15, plucked out of an audition of more than 5,000 hopeful youngsters by the revered theatre director Yukio Ninagawa for his play Shintoku-Maru. It kickstarted Fujiwara’s career, and three years later he landed a role in the cult dystopian film Battle Royale, going on to star in hit TV dramas and blockbuster films, all the while continuing to perform in Ninagawa’s acclaimed productions.
Now, Fujiwara returns to where it all began, to perform in a stage adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s science fiction novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. The story alternates between two seemingly unrelated narratives: a cyberpunk thriller set in Tokyo, and a surreal fantasy that unfolds within a mysterious walled town. Directed by the French choreographer Philippe Decouflé, the play premiered in Tokyo in January, toured Japan until March, then Singapore in April. After the Barbican run this autumn, the tour will wrap up in Paris.
Continue reading...Attending a Nick Jonas show with my kids was an invitation to ‘collective effervescence’. We need these shared experiences now more than ever
Three years ago, I agreed to accompany my children to a Nick Jonas concert. The appeal of the Jonas Brothers, and in this case only one of them, was unfamiliar territory.
The concert happened to land on a particularly inconvenient day. As I sprinted out of the hospital, my mind was filled with the “what if’s” and “should haves” about our work that day.
Continue reading...What’s it like to live on the set of a soap opera? Or above Ted Lasso’s favourite pub? The residents of the homes made famous by hit TV shows tell all
Half the world recognises the apartment that Carrie Bradshaw lives in. Or the New Jersey mansion where Tony Soprano ate, slept and obsessed over the ducks in his swimming pool. In the 1990s, if you asked a good chunk of the global population where Will Smith lived, they would instantly picture a huge, white abode in Bel Air.
For the real people who call those places home, this can be an issue.
Continue reading...Mr Mikage (ミスター御影） posted a photo:
BILTHOVEN (ANP) - Het Nationaal Hitteplan is vanaf zaterdag om 08.00 uur niet langer van kracht in acht provincies, meldt het RIVM. Het plan geldt dan nog wel in Limburg, Noord-Brabant, Gelderland en Overijssel, waar een hittekracht van 7 tot 8 wordt verwacht. In die vier provincies eindigt het hitteplan zondag om 08.00 uur.
Het Nationaal Hitteplan werd woensdag geactiveerd, voor de vierde keer dit jaar. Met het hitteplan krijgen allerlei organisaties, professionals en mantelzorgers informatie over de verwachte hitte. Die kunnen dan maatregelen nemen voor kwetsbare mensen.
MADRID (ANP/AFP/RTR) - De Spaanse regering heeft de levensduur van de grootste kerncentrale van het land verlengd om zo minder blootgesteld te zijn aan onrust op de energiemarkt, mede door de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. De Almaraz-kerncentrale in de zuidwestelijke regio Extremadura blijft nu tot medio 2030 operationeel.
Het was eigenlijk de bedoeling dat volgend jaar zou worden begonnen met het stilleggen van de centrale als onderdeel van de Spaanse plannen om in 2035 helemaal af te stappen van kernenergie. Maar de energiebedrijven en eigenaren van de centrale, Iberdrola, Endesa en Naturgy, hadden vorig jaar om verlenging van de operationele levensduur gevraagd. Daar is nu mee ingestemd.
De Almaraz-centrale heeft twee reactoren en is goed voor ongeveer 7 procent van de stroomvoorziening van Spanje. In totaal heeft het land vijf actieve centrales. De discussie rond kernenergie laaide ook op na de enorme stroomstoring in Spanje en buurland Portugal in april vorig jaar.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het kabinet roept boeren op niet met tractoren op snelwegen te demonstreren. Minister Pieter Heerma (Binnenlandse Zaken, CDA), die gaat over het demonstratierecht, doet die oproep nadat er vrijdag twee doden waren gevallen op de A59. Zij kwamen om bij een botsing in de staart van een file, die het gevolg was van trekkers op de snelweg.
Boeren demonstreren in Den Bosch tegen de stikstofplannen van het kabinet, en het intrekken van vergunningen van kippenboeren. Het lokale gezag gedoogde de demonstratie op de snelweg. Donderdag verwees het ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid ook naar het lokale gezag voor het handhaven van de regels.
