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“Wow!” she said, “I was amazed this week. Instead of raising my voice, I tried taking a deep breath and calming myself down. I can’t believe how well this worked. The kids actually began to calm down too.” Over the past three years, I’d heard similar stories from teachers applying CARE to their interactions with their students. CARE, a federally-funded research project being conducted by the Pennsylvania State University, in collaboration with the Garrison Institute, couldn’t have come at a better time....

“Release your diabetics to trauma!” This is prison’s wake-up song—the deafening, metallic squawk of the PA—and, for many women here, it signals a trip to medical for a morning insulin shot. I’m at MCI Framingham, a medium-security prison twenty miles from Boston that’s a catchall for female offenders: homicidal lifers, sex workers ravaged by crack and meth, check-kiting welfare moms, scared high-school kids caught with a joint during a crackdown. “Court trips!...

Oppo VP Henry Duan has revealed that the company will debut the new MediaTek SoC with its next Find X flagship. That would presumably be the Oppo Find X4 series. However, the Chinese firm has already confirmed that the Find X4 Pro will use Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. So the Vanilla Find X4 will likely get the Dimensity 9000. Or maybe the company will go Samsung’s controversial way of using different chipsets in the same phone in different markets....

A few months ago, TikTok and its parent company ByteDance were accused of sending the US data abroad and allowing China-based employees to access US users’ data. Now, the Chinese video-sharing app is making the headlines again for its misinformation materials in the search results. Internet trust researchers at NewsGuard have sampled TikTok search results and found that almost 20 percent of them contain misinformation. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, school shootings, COVID vaccines, and attacks on the US Capitol are the most prominent examples of misinformation on TikTok....

** 1. Rinse with Water Only Before Shampooing Have you ever noticed that when you go to a salon they saturate your hair with water before applying shampoo to your hair? (It’s okay if you didn’t notice, we’re all guilty of just living in the moment and having someone pamper us while we relax.) Rinsing your hair with water before applying shampoo is a very important step. The water rinse (warm water only) will help loosen up any dirt in the hair before the shampoo process....