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Former pro-wrestler Mick Foley has paid an emotional tribute to the city of Orlando following a chance encounter with a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shootings.
In a heartfelt Facebook post, the semi-retired sportsman — now a best-selling author, actor and comedian — revealed he hadn’t been sure what to expect when visiting the city on business this week.
“I wondered if I could ever find joy in the theme park capital of the world again,” he wrote on Saturday.
Read his full tribute here:
But Foley ended up attending a memorial for the victims after randomly bumping into Christopher Hansen, a survivor of the massacre, at his hotel.
“And in doing so instantly connected to something bigger than myself; a sense of community and spirit of healing,” he wrote.
Foley, who went by a slew of aliases during his decades-long career in the ring — including “Catcus Jack” and “Mankind” — admitted that the horrific shooting dead of 49 people by Omar Mateen on June 12 meant he “won’t ever be able to look at Orlando the same way again.”
To him, it will never now simply be “the theme park capital of the world.”
“Instead, I will look at Orlando as the place that took the very worst that hate could dish out — and bested it through the sheer force of love,” he wrote. “It’s a city that refused to be defined by the formidable forces of intolerance, ignorance and fear – and instead chose a path of acceptance, inclusion and understanding.”
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To be in the European Union, or not to be? That was the question.
After the United Kingdom voted on Thursday to leave the EU, many of its citizens are now turning to poetry to deal with the uncertain aftermath.
As a petition calling for a second referendum gained momentum and #regrexit officially became a thing, the #WriteAPoemAboutBrexit hashtag also started to trend on Twitter.
Hundreds of people have now penned rhymes to express their feelings on the Brexit, with the majority (but not all) lamenting the vote to leave. Here are some of the best:
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Jimmy Kimmel asked Trump supporters what The Donald would have to do to lose their votes. And as it turns out, it’s quite a bit.
For some of his followers, not even murder, smoking crack or punching the Pope would be enough to make them step off the Trump Train.
“It doesn’t matter if Donald Trump embellished his relationship with Ronald Reagan, his supporters don’t care,” said the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!“
Claiming Trump voters were “passionate to the point” that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee could say or do absolutely anything and they’d still stick with him, Kimmel decided to test his hypothesis out.
He sent a reporter out onto the street to ask Trump supporters what it would take for the real estate magnate to lose their vote.
Warning; some of their answers may alarm you.
Check out their responses in the clip above.
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
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It’s one thing to look at your face in the mirror and see wrinkles, age spots and white hair. It’s quite another to see your favorite musician staring at you from a screen resembling an old man or woman.
It’s unbelievable to me that Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart and Joni Mitchell, to name just a few, are in their seventies. Yes, their seventies! It drives home the fact that we are no longer the younger generation and haven’t been for quite some time.
But it doesn’t take away from the powerful feelings and emotions evoked from their music. Nothing takes you back like a song from the past.
So, having recently been given a record player by a good friend, I decided it was time to pull out the albums and revisit those days, as well as surmise the condition of the vinyl which hadn’t seen the light of day for many decades.
The first cover I pulled out was the Rolling Stones’ Out of Our Heads. I carefully retrieved the record from its sleeve and placed it on the turn table. Then I lowered the needle, oh so gingerly onto the vinyl so as not to make a scratch. Within seconds, Mick was singing, “I can’t get no, satisfaction….” And I was propelled into my parents’ backyard, at a high school party where we guzzled forbidden beer and got totally wasted, or pretended to be so and danced until our feet blistered. I was right there in my yard. In black jeans and French beret. Not a 60-something woman, wondering where all the years had gone.
“That really doesn’t sound too good.” A voice broke into my memory.
“What?” I opened my eyes, shocked for a brief moment to see this grey-haired man talking to me.
“It’s all scratched up,” my husband said.
“A little.” I hadn’t even noticed. But I did notice that within minutes, my husband was moving his body to the music.
Without asking, he moved the coffee table off to the side, picked up my hand and began swinging me around.
Back in the day, we had moves. He would twirl and spin me. Slide me through his legs and lift me over his head. Today, our bodies are decades from being that agile. But the mind is a powerful muscle. And if Mick can still strut around, so could we.
About 15 minutes into our routine, the needle got stuck in a groove. That wasn’t the only thing that became stuck. My husband was having trouble lifting me up from a dip. Instead, he lowered me to the ground, very carefully. I removed the needle from the groove, silencing the music. And just like that, we returned to our current, 60-something selves.
“How did we get here?” My husband asked. He pulled Blonde on Blonde from the stack of albums. “God, look how young Dylan was when this came out.”
“So, were we,” I said, twisting my waist right and then left. The parts all still worked. But they weren’t used to moving around so quickly. “How do you think Mick feels now after a night on stage?”
“Exhausted. Exhilarated. Lucky.”
“We’re lucky, too.” I kissed my husband on the cheek.
And I don’t doubt that for a second. I feel lucky to have grown up during the sixties and seventies, when music had melodies and relevant lyrics. Not that every generation doesn’t think so, but I know ours was the best.
Growing old is inevitable. Doing it with some of the greatest musicians ever born, makes it that much better.
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At 55, Julianne Moore bucks the idea that women of a certain age need to have short hair. Her long locks help keep her waves in check. She told Redbook in 2014, “One of the reasons I wear my hair long now is that the weight helps keep it smooth.” As for her equally smooth skin? “Sunscreen is my number-one thing,” she said. “I’ve worn it every day since I was 23.”
The 53-year-old actress and model attributes her youthful skin to one thing: moisturizer. “I moisturize, moisturize, moisturize,” Moore told Marie Claire. “No matter how late it is, when I get home, I take the time to clean and moisturize my face. I’m a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won’t need a lot of makeup.”
Although former supermodel Iman claims that genetics are responsible for her aging so beautifully, her attention to her skincare and exercise regimen certainly help. Iman makes sure to clean and moisturize her face twice a day and never skips sunscreen. She uses SK-II Facial Treatment Cleanser, according to Harper’s Bazaar, and does yoga and Pilates. “Cardio is the most important thing,” she told The Telegraph.
Award-winning actress and How to Get Away With Murder star Viola Davis shared her secret to smooth skin on The Ellen DeGeneres show. She rubs her skin with Crisco, the white vegetable shortening, to combat dry skin and reduce friction from bunions. She massaged Crisco onto her toes before the SAG Awards just in case, she told DeGeneres.
Rita Moreno is best known for playing Anita in West Side Story, and the 84-year-old actress is the only Latina to win an Emmy, a Tony, a Grammy, and an Oscar. Moreno told Fox News Magazineshe keeps her skin healthy thanks to exfoliating every day for years. She also shared some makeup tips: She recommends applying foundation with a brush and finishing with a sponge if you need to. And remember to blend well. “You always see the foundation end at the chin. It has to go further down. The decolleté area,” she said.
Age-defying singer Tina Turner has kept her famous legs looking fabulous over the years. The 76-year-old told the Mirror in 2009 that her not-so-secret secret to looking great – “The main reason I’ve stayed looking good is that I’ve spent 40 years doing the most intensive stage workouts ever,” she said. Her best tip to looking and feeling great at any age, however, is self-confidence. “My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself,” she told Woman & Home magazine. “I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
Fifty-eight-year-old singer Gloria Estefan’s beauty secret starts with happiness and love, but her dedication to exercise and skincare also help her look her best, she says. She never sleeps with makeup on and exfoliates and exercises religiously, according to Healthy Living Made Simple. She recommends using a magnifying mirror when applying makeup so you can “see all that is going on with your skin.”
Model Cindy Crawford turned 50 this year, and although she’s genetically blessed, she dished on some beauty secrets that have helped keep her looking half her age to Allure magazine. “You can get any plastic surgery in the world, but hair color is what enables women to look younger longer,” she said. She gives herself hair treatments to keep it conditioned. She also takes aging in stride, however, saying “I don’t care how much you work out or how much cream you put on – things change.”
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British voters’ decision to leave the European Union has reduced the chance that three countries in the former Soviet Union will be able to get out from under Russia’s thumb.
Without the support of Britain, which was the most vocal EU opponent of the Kremlin’s aggression against countries on Russia’s borders, Ukraine and Georgia will find it more difficult to realize their dream of becoming part of the EU and NATO.
And Armenia, much of whose population wanted to join the EU before Russia bullied Yerevan into joining the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union, will have to continue swallowing Russian dominance of its affairs.
European and American leaders said even before the Brexit vote that Ukrainian and Georgian membership in the EU and NATO was a long way off.
One reason for this assessment applied to both Ukraine and Georgia. The other reason was Ukraine-specific.
The first reason was fear of Russia’s reaction to either Ukraine, Georgia — or both — becoming part of the main political, economic and military force that is arrayed against Moscow in Europe.
A specific worry was that Russia would try to destabilize — or even send hybrid-war forces into — the Baltics in retaliation.
The other reason why Western leaders have said that Ukraine’s membership in the EU and NATO is a long way off is Kiev’s sandbagging on two goals the West has deemed important.
The first goal is for Ukraine to eliminate corruption. The second goal is for Kiev to make the Minsk peace process work by passing legislation that gives a lot of autonomy to the separatist strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk provinces in eastern Ukraine. That legislation includes how voting for leaders of the two provinces would occur.
The Minsk process is an ongoing attempt involving Ukraine, the separatists, Russia, the EU, the United States and others to forge a peace agreement in the east.
A number of political analysts have noted that Britain’s departure from the European Union will make Ukraine and Georgia’s membership in the EU and NATO even more of a long shot.
That departure is likely to lead to years of post-Britain adjustment in the EU.
The last thing the European Union needs during this tumult is to add countries whose membership would be fraught with geopolitical risk.
Although a country doesn’t have to be an EU member to be a NATO member, the military alliance would be as reluctant as the EU to add Ukraine or Georgia out of fear of provoking the Russians.
In addition, both Ukraine and Geogia would have to have stronger militaries to be considered for membership.
Although Armenia committed to joining the Eurasian Economic Union in the fall of 2013, it did so under duress — an ultimatum from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
Until then, Yerevan had signaled its intention to be in the EU.
In fact, Armenia was on the verge of signing a partnership agreement with the European Union when Putin summoned Sargsyan to Moscow to demand that Yerevan do a 180 and join the Eurasian Economic Union.
That kind of demand is hard to walk away from when Russia is your main military protector in the region, has two bases in your country, supplies you with most of your gas, and owns your main electricity company.
Even after Armenia joined the Eurasian Economic Union, many Armenians clung to the dream that their country would join the EU some day, believing the future lay with the West.
Underscoring that hope was the fact that, even as a Eurasian Economic Union member, Armenia struck economic and trade deals with the EU.
British voters’ decision to leave the European Union dealt a crushing blow to the many Armenians who had dreamed of their country loosening Moscow’s grip and embracing the freedom the West represents.
Whether they want Armenia to look east toward Moscow or west toward Brussels, Armenians know the EU will be weaker with Britain gone.
That means it will be harder for the EU to stand up to Moscow regionally and internationally.
The bottom line is that, overnight, the British vote has prompted many pro-EU Armenians to conclude that there is a lot less reason now for their country to cast its fate with Europe.
A depressing thought, yes — but, unfortunately, a realistic one.
Armine Sahakyan is a human rights activist based in Armenia. A columnist with the Kyiv Post and a blogger with The Huffington Post, she writes on human rights and democracy in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Follow her on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/ArmineSahakyann
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The other day I was reading a political article and the author mentioned interviewing “older voters.” The first “older voter” she interviewed was 53 — my age. It stunned me. I wondered, “If I’m an older voter at 53, what about the people who are 63, 73, 83, and 93?”When does one become an “older voter?” I realized the answer probably lay with the author. If the author is a millennial, then perhaps everything appears to be one big blur of old age after 50. Surely we must all have the same political concerns that emerge from our decrepitude. Enough about that.
Suddenly, some dots connected themselves for me and I understood in that moment that when I pitch articles to editors at certain popular sites, I am usually submitting to someone named Madison or Amber or even Kylie, and the first thing they see is that my name is Lori. I was born in 1963, when the most poplar girl names are now relics of history: Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. Not far down the list were the cutesy names like Cindy, Marci, Tracy, Stacy, and yes, Lori. They all scream, “I’m a child of the ’60s! Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” That is so helpful when I am submitting writing to millennial editors named Amber or Tiffany. My name is now synonymous with cronedom and irrelevance, even though my writing is as good or better than it ever was.
So what about the guys over 50? Do their names advertise their descent into insignificance the way female names do? I began by looking up the five most popular boy names of 1963: Michael, John, David, James, and Mark. In 1980, we had Michael, Christopher, Jason, David, and James in the top five spots. Lots of overlap. And as I read further down the lists–from both 1963 and 1980–the overlap in traditional male names was remarkable, with just a few newcomers like Ryan and Derek.
My brother’s name is Michael and he is 51. His name is one of the most popular boy names of all time, still to this day. No one can form any preconceived ideas about his age or anything else about him due to his first name. It was not until recently that we have entered the era of Aidan, Dylan, Caleb and Brayden. Someday certain boy names will have the same date stamps that girl names have always carried, but not yet.
When I was younger, I used to wish that my parents had not been so desperate to find a trendy name for me. If I had been named Lorraine or Loretta, then Lori could have been my nickname, and I could have applied for jobs and signed documents with a non-hippie name. Today, if my name were Lorraine or Loretta, I’d be no better off than I am, because it would still be clear to all of the Nicoles and Crystals that I am “older.”
I’ve been thinking about changing my byline to L.M. Day. Unlike J.K. Rowling, I would not be trying to obscure my gender, just my age. My male peers with names like William and Thomas are in the clear. Even if they submit their writing to a Jason or a Justin, no flashing lights and sirens accompany their submissions as boomers. Since it’s mainly the Loris and Lindas of the freelancing and blogging world who feel the water lapping around their ankles as their essays are virtually circular-filed, what’s to be done besides gaming the system? I encounter increasing ageism each year, signaling my presumed inability to contribute meaningfully to a digital dialogue that is no longer everyone’s, as if ownership of culture rationally belongs to any particular age group over others.
F*ck that. The absurdities do not end. Ever.
So should I make the move from Lori to L.M.? I could resubmit all of my best articles that suddenly started getting turndowns in the past few years, using the new moniker. At the very least, I’d have an interesting social experiment I could blog about for an over-50 site. Good times.
Lori Day is an educational psychologist, consultant and parenting coach with Lori Day Consulting in Newburyport, MA. She is the author of Her Next Chapter: How Mother-Daughter Book Clubs Can Help Girls Navigate Malicious Media, Risky Relationships, Girl Gossip, and So Much More, and speaks on the topic of raising confident girls in a disempowering marketing and media culture. You can connect with Lori on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.
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