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It was confirmed earlier this year that Babs Thore, who regularly appears on her daughter’s TLC reality show, had suffered a second stroke after recovering from her first back in 2017. My Big Fat Fabulous Life returned to TLC in August for Season 10 and in the season premiere, Thore and family were seen dealing with the aftermath of Babs’ stroke. In emotional scenes Thore cried while on the phone to her father Glenn, saying: “I just don’t want her to suffer,” to which he responded: “I can’t believe she’s taken a turn for the worse....

He was really straightforward. His message said that he knew I hadn’t heard from him in a while, but that life was short and he’d always had a thing for me. He asked if I wanted to give it a shot. I was on vacation at the time, so I suggested that we meet up for lunch when I returned. We met up a few days later and talked for so long that the restaurant we were in eventually closed and had to kick us out....

I had always worked long hours behind a desk, which meant that I spent very little time with my family. Since graduating college 10 years ago, I had spent a lot of my time chasing money instead, thinking that it would somehow buy me happiness at some point, or get my family and me to a point of happiness. I soon realized that this was not the case. On the road trip to Utah, I was rushing to drive back to my job in Texas....

Why does this work? Active listening is not only about paying attention to another person, but showing them that you’re paying attention. When you and your partner take steps to improve your active listening skills, you’ll each feel heard, respected, and more thoroughly understood. Let the other person speak uninterrupted. Nod, lean toward them, and maintain eye contact to indicate engagement in what they’re saying. Listen without judgment to what they say....

Ronaldo scored a brace to help Madrid to a 3-1 win over Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League on Tuesday. Ronaldo 5/2 to be CL top scorer The Portuguese star’s domestic return has not gone to plan, unable to net in two La Liga games since coming back from suspension. But Ronaldo, 32, is growing tired of the constant criticism, saying he had already proven himself. “It seems that I have to keep showing exactly who I am in every match,” he told Atresmedia after his 400th Madrid appearance....

In the process, Neeraj Chopra broke his own national record of 88.07m, set at the Indian Grand Prix in Patiala last year. The 89.30m effort was marginally less than Finland’s Oliver Helander, who won the gold medal with a throw of 89.83m. Neeraj won the silver medal. Reigning world champion Anderson Peters finished third with a throw of 86.60m. The young athlete said he was happy to start the season on a high and added that the performance was a confidence booster....

Recently, a new update for Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition was rolled out to players, and contains the same features as version 1.8.2 for PC, like Creative Mode and a hunger system. While a little behind its PC counterpart, Minecraft 360 is still leaps and bounds ahead of its previous version, incorporating Endermen and other mobs; biomes and generated structures like NPC villages and ravines; and a plethora of new items and building components to play with....

The film, which is the fifth in the Despicable Me franchise, follows a 12-year-old Gru (Steve Carell) as he tries to become worthy of joining the supervillain group the Vicious 6—but is then forced to go on the run with the help of his Minion friends (voiced by Pierre Coffin). Here is everything you need to know about the forthcoming release. Minions: The Rise of Gru Digital Release With Bonus Content Confirmed The collector’s edition of Minions: The Rise of Gru will have over 60 minutes of bonus content for viewers to enjoy....

President of J Records Clive Davis figured he’d found something pretty special when he signed the 20-year-old away from Columbia Records and onto his upstart label last year, following his ouster from Arista Records after 25 years. Anxious to show that he still had the touch, Davis, 68, put his hands-on approach into overdrive with his new find. He wrote a two-page letter to Oprah, asking that she let the singer perform on her show....

DICE is well aware that their breakaway title is both well-received by critics, and the subject of a sizeable cult following. Now it seems a sequel is not only a possibility, but inevitable. With EA ramping up to show off Battlefield 4 and Need for Speed: Rivals at E3 2013 in just a few short weeks, could Mirror’s Edge 2 be another title revealed at the annual trade show? It would certainly make a splash, drawing much-needed positive attention to EA after a few recent missteps with the likes of the SimCity reboot....

Posting to Reddit’s “Tinder” forum on Friday under the username u/NuttyMuffin69, the man shared a screenshot of the text conversation he’d had with the woman the night of their date, which revealed she had actually fled the scene of their date shortly after arriving. She later returned, however, once she realized her mistake. The post has amassed more than 62,000 upvotes, and while a majority of the post’s 600 commenters thought the story was hilarious, some used it as an opportunity to dole out safety tips to online daters concerned about catfishing....

Still, not everyone is willing to pay up-front for the game’s nine month Content Season. Those gamers who have taken a “wait and see” stance on Modern Warfare 3’s DLC are about to get their chance: the first Content Collection for the game will be available on Xbox Live March 20, 2012. No price has been revealed. While the first Modern Warfare 3 Content Drop just became available on PlayStation 3, premium Call of Duty: ELITE subscribers on Xbox 360 already have access to three Content Drops, the most recent of which (Overwatch) arrived last week....

The Croatia international spent three years with the highly-rated 48-year-old at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan prior to moving to Camp Nou. He was impressed by him then and remains a loyal admirer of his talents now. Monchi not committed to Roma Monchi is being heavily linked with a post at Serie A outfit Roma, while admitting to also generating interest from the English Premier League, and Rakitic expects him to be successful wherever he ends up....

Series co-creator Ed Boon is no stranger to teasing fans desperate for new Mortal Kombat X information on Twitter, and yesterday he once again took to social media to begin a 22-hour countdown. Previously we’ve seen character trailers for series stalwarts like Kano and Raiden, and today was the turn of Quan Chi. Introduced in animated TV spinoff Defenders of the Realm and playable for the first time in Mortal Kombat 4, early appearances of Quan Chi came at a middling time for the series, and left some fans cold....

In a viral tweet shared by the popular Twitter account @depopdrama, a customer asking about their order was told they had to wait because the seller didn’t want to see the queen’s face on money at the post office. Grief and Celebration After the announcement of the queen’s death on Thursday afternoon, many went online to share their remorse and grief while others shared “inappropriate” words online. At 96, Queen Elizabeth II was the longest reigning monarch in British history....

Kudlow, a financial analyst who serves as the director of Trump’s National Economic Council, lauded Ocasio-Cortez during a Fox News segment, saying he “gave her high marks” for pressing Powell over the Phillips Curve theory, which posits that there is a tradeoff between low prices and low unemployment. During the hearing, Ocasio-Cortez pointed out that many economists have grown concerned that this “is no longer describing what is happening in today’s economy....

All this while, after Woo-yeo had removed the yeowu guseol (fox bead) from Dam’s body, Woo-yeo had believed that her memories would be erased. He has been collecting human energy for nearly 1000 years now, so he is certain about his memory wiping capablity. Surprisingly though, Dam’s memory was not wiped. The people around her who had seen Woo-yeo before though - such as her best friend Soo-kyeong or the boy who has been hitting on her, Jung Seok - forgot ever having seen him....

The Norway-based studio has officially posted the Minecraft Pre-Release on their website (download it here), meaning gamers willing to beta-test can try out the new update before it officially comes to all clients next week. This gives Mojang a chance to interpret feedback and potentially create some fixes before the update goes gold. Here’s the official changelist as posted by Jens Bergensten, the head honcho for Minecraft itself: Added Redstone Comparator (used in Redstone logic) Added Hopper (collects items and moves them to containers) Added Dropper (similar to Dispensers, but always drops the item) Added Activator Rail (activates TNT Minecarts) Added Daylight Sensor Added Trapped Chest Added Weighed Pressure Plate Added Block of Redstone Added Nether Brick (item) Added Nether Quartz and ore Added Block of Quartz, with half blocks and chiseled variants New command: /scoreboard New command: /effect Containers and mobs can have custom names Inventory management has been changed, for example you can drag-place items over slots Texture packs now have separate images for each block and item, and can have animations Nether Quartz Ore now spawns in the Nether Smooth lighting now has three settings (none, minimal, maximum) More detailed death messages Some hostile mobs now are harder in Hard difficulty Many, many, bug fixes Removed Herobrine...

The study, which has not been peer reviewed, was published online Thursday by researchers at Cornell University. It examined some 38 million traditional English-language media from around the world to find some 1.1 million mentions of COVID-19 misinformation. Of these, reports about “miracle cures” were represented nearly 300,000 times—more than a quarter (26.4 percent) of the total. Findings from the study were first reported by The New York Times....

A former Wimbledon quarterfinalist and World No. 55, Andre Sa now acts as the bridge between the players and Tennis Australia. He is one of the key figures responsible for communicating the Australian Open’s quarantine-related guidelines to the players. In a recent interview with Ace Bandsports, Andre Sa revealed that he had had a telephonic conversation with Roger Federer a few days before the 39-year-old announced his decision to pull out of the event....