USA Basketball announced on Wednesday morning that Kawhi Leonard is not heading to Paris. Leonard, the star wing for the Los Angeles Clippers who has been dealing with knee issues on and off for the last few years, will spend the offseason preparing his body for the upcoming NBA season, and as a result, a roster spot opened up for the defending gold medalists.
Reports indicated that the early favorite to fill that spot was Derrick White of the Boston Celtics, and soon after word of Leonard’s departure hit the internet, Marc Spears of Andscape reported that White would get on the team.
Celtics guard Derrick White will be replacing Kawhi Leonard with USA Basketball, a source told @andscape.
While there are a number of players who would have done a good job in this role, White makes a ton of sense as a player who can thrive in the international game, as he’s a low-usage player who makes winning plays and doesn’t need to play big minutes to make an impact. He also has some familiarity with the USA Basketball apparatus, as he was a member of the World Cup team in 2019.
It’s unclear if White will be able to join the team in time for its first pre-Olympic exhibition game on Wednesday night against Canada.
Ciara’s setlist for Missy Elliott’s Out Of This World tour includes classic hits like “Goodies,” “1, 2 Step,” and “Promise,” but also debuts a few new potential fan favorites like “Wind It Up” and “Run It Up.” The surprise star of The Color Purple musical film seems to be working on a new project, and might be giving it a test drive as she opens for her fellow legend, Missy Elliott.
Parenting is the most important job that most people will ever have in life. Your decisions as a parent will be some of the most important determining factors in whether your child becomes a happy and productive adult or not. It’s a huge responsibility.
Parenting is a difficult and important undertaking, but many parents simply repeat the same strategies used by their parents. How often do we hear people rationalize their decisions by saying, “That’s what my parents did and I came out OK.”
This approach to raising children negates the fact that with every generation there are countless studies done on child development, many of which run counter to popular parenting wisdom from the past.
Dr. Kristyn Sommer, who has a PhD in child development, has received a lot of attention on social media because of her dedication to teaching “evidence-based parenting.” This expertise has made her an advocate for strategies that run counter to conventional parenting wisdom and have stirred up a bit of controversy.
Here are five TikTok videos where Sommer shares some of her evidence-based parenting strategies.
Three Things I Do Differently as a Mum with a PhD in Child Development
In Dr. Sommer’s first video where she references her degree she admits she refuses to sleep train, co-sleeps with her daughter, and never calls her “naughty” or “bad.” She delves deeper into her thoughts on discipline in the next video.
How To Discipline Your Child So They Actually Learn
Dr. Sommer uses positive reinforcement to discipline her child and as she said in the previous video, avoids the use of terms such as “naughty” or “bad.” If her daughter is doing something wrong she asks her to contemplate whether she’s making a good or a bad decision.
How to Handle Tantrums
Most people tend to think of a tantrum as naughty behavior. However, they are actually a combination of a bunch of little stresses that the child has experienced throughout the day that eventually overwhelm them. Once they hit the tipping point, all of their big feelings bubble up to the surface, resulting in a healthy expression of emotion.
Should You Spank Your Child?
Dr. Sommer is passionately against “spanking, corporal punishment, physical punishment, what ever you want to call it.” She says it needs to stop because it has little effect on behavior and can lead to antisocial tendencies in the future.
She Doesn’t Teach ABCs and 1,2,3s
Dr. Sommer isn’t worried about teaching her child her toddler alphabet or how to count. She says that it “doesn’t really help them with anything” but they should spend that time playing because that’s where they learn best.
Traveling with preteens and teens is a breeze in comparison to traveling with little ones but as a parent you still want to sit near your kiddos in case they need you for anything. If you’ve traveled on an airline in the last several years, you know it’s much cheaper to chose the basic seats in the main cabin.
There’s nothing different about these particular seats other than the airline sort of randomly selects your seat and if you’re traveling alone, that’s really not a bad deal. The risk gets to be a little higher if you’re traveling with a party that you’d like to keep together – like your children. One mom took the risk and banked on a stranger accommodating…that’s not quite how it played out.
People sit in the wrong seats on planes all the time, usually because they read their ticket wrong or accidentally sit one row ahead. Takes no time to double check your ticket and move along, but when Tammy Nelson did a double take at her ticket after seeing the mom in her window seat, she realized she wasn’t mistakenly staring at the wrong row.
This mom boarded the plane with her older children and had taken it upon herself to sit in the same row as her children, essentially commandeering a stranger’s seat. Nelson assumed it was a mistake and informed the woman that the seat was in fact hers but the response she received was surprising.
“She said, ‘Oh, you want to sit here?’,” Nelson tells Good Morning America. “She said, ‘Oh, well I just thought I could switch with you because these are my kids.'”
That’s an interesting assumption when seats are assigned and many people, like Nelson, pay extra to have the seat they prefer. Now, there’s no telling if funds were tight and this was an unplanned trip for the mom and kids which caused her to buy the more budget friendly tickets or if she was simply being frugal and was banking on the kindness of a stranger.
Either way, Nelson specifically paid for a window seat due to motion sickness and though she paid extra, she was willing to sit in the other row if that seat was also a window seat. But it turns out, it was a middle seat.
Surely there’s someone out there that loves the middle seat. Maybe a cold natured person that enjoys the body heat of two strangers sitting uncomfortably close. Or perhaps someone that doesn’t mind accidentally sleeping on an unsuspecting passenger’s shoulder. But that person isn’t Nelson, so when the middle seat was offered in exchange for her bought and paid for window seat, she politely but sternly declined.
Having had only 90 minutes of sleep the night before and knowing I had to give a presentation to 500 people, I desperately needed some sleep, so I did not agree to switch seats. 🤷♀️ Before anyone comes after me… the kids looked like they were about 11 and 15 years old. And the mom was in arms-reach of both of them from the middle seat in the row behind us. The mom proceeded to complain for at least 15 minutes to the person next to her loud enough for me to hear. But the woman actually defended me – several times. It was so kind and I appreciated it so much because I was feeling really guilty. 🤦♀️ ##airplaneseat##seatswitching##airplanekarens
Her refusal to give in to the mom’s seemingly entitled request for Nelson’s seat has resulted in parents and child-fee people cheering her on after she posted the details on her TikTok page, MyCONQUERing. The video has over 3.4 million views.
“Nope. If it’s not an upgrade it’s a sacrifice,” a commenter writes.
“You did the RIGHT thing. Folks need to plan their travel together. Lack of planning on their part does not constitute an inconvenience on yours,” one person says.
“I have 3 kids and have sat in different rows when they were passed toddler age. I agree, book your flight earlier,” another writes.
“You were right. As a woman with 3 children, I always pay extra so we’re sat together,” another mom says.
Nelson is also a mom so she knows how important it is to sit next to kids on flights. But since airlines have made that a luxury, as the parent, you have to plan to pay extra or accept that you likely won’t be seated next to your children. Hopefully in the future, this unnamed mom is seated next to her children or pays extra to make sure it happens. In the meantime, people continue to support Nelson standing her ground.
Spooky season can be a fun time of year for people. There are folks that wait all year for the official start of fall just to decorate for Halloween. Costumes are bought in advance and bags of candy are purchased and stored, but not everyone buys their costume. Some spooky season lovers get really creative with their Halloween costumes out of household items.
There are some homemade costumes that are so funny and realistic that you have to do a double take. Two sisters are going viral for their ultra realistic roller coaster costume made out of cardboard and foam noodles. But it’s not just their costumes that are stealing the attention of millions, it’s their acting skills.
In the video uploaded to TikTok by Laurie Dabbs-Gayton, the sisters stand side-by-side, though it looks like their sitting. They begin to shake and jostle as if they’re on a track before screaming like they’ve just rounded a bend or flew down a hill quickly.
The pair is in total sync with each other adding to the realistic vibe of their costume for their employer’s costume party. It was so convincing that people watching the video were confused at first thinking it was a coin operated ride. Commenters didn’t realize it was a costume until the women stood up fully.
“I thought it was a mini roller coaster,” one person writes followed by multiple rolling crying laughing emojis.
“Took my brain a few extra seconds to process what my eyes were seeing,” a commenter says.
“I thought for a second it was like the pony ride machines outside a grocery store,” someone admits.
“It took me far longer to figure out than it should have,” one woman writes.
Watch the fantastic combination of acting skill and costume design below:
Everybody wants to see themselves in a positive light. That’s the key to understanding Jonah Berger’s simple tactic that makes people 30% more likely to do what you ask. Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the bestselling author of “Magic Words: What to Say to Get Your Way.”
Berger explained the technique using a Stanford University study involving preschoolers. The researchers messed up a classroom and made two similar requests to groups of 5-year-olds to help clean up.
One group was asked, “Can you help clean?” The other was asked, “Can you be a helper and clean up?” The kids who were asked if they wanted to be a “helper” were 30% more likely to want to clean the classroom. The children weren’t interested in cleaning but wanted to be known as “helpers.”
Berger calls the reframing of the question as turning actions into identities.
“It comes down to the difference between actions and identities. We all want to see ourselves as smart and competent and intelligent in a variety of different things,” Berger told Big Think. “But rather than describing someone as hardworking, describing them as a hard worker will make that trait seem more persistent and more likely to last. Rather than asking people to lead more, tell them, ‘Can you be a leader?’ Rather than asking them to innovate, can you ask them to ‘Be an innovator’? By turning actions into identities, you can make people a lot more likely to engage in those desired actions.”
Berger says that learning to reframe requests to appeal to people’s identities will make you more persuasive.
“Framing actions as opportunities to claim desired identities will make people more likely to do them,” Berger tells CNBC Make It. “If voting becomes an opportunity to show myself and others that I am a voter, I’m more likely to do it.”
This technique doesn’t just work because people want to see themselves in a positive light. It also works for the opposite. People also want to avoid seeing themselves being portrayed negatively.
“Cheating is bad, but being a cheater is worse. Losing is bad, being a loser is worse,” Berger says.
The same tactic can also be used to persuade ourselves to change our self-concept. Saying you like to cook is one thing, but calling yourself a chef is an identity. “I’m a runner. I’m a straight-A student. We tell little kids, ‘You don’t just read, you’re a reader,’” Berger says. “You do these things because that’s the identity you hold.”
Berger’s work shows how important it is to hone our communication skills. By simply changing one word, we can get people to comply with our requests more effectively. But, as Berger says, words are magic and we have to use thgem skillfully. “We think individual words don’t really matter that much. That’s a mistake,” says Berger. “You could have excellent ideas, but excellent ideas aren’t necessarily going to get people to listen to you.”
Marriage is a big step in a relationship. It’s something that people think about from the time they can grasp the concept of relationships. When you factor that in with the high divorce rate, it makes sense that people want to make sure they’re getting it right before they take the leap.
Typically people ask their close inner circle relationship advice. Leaning on people like their parents, siblings or friends who have been married to fill in the gaps of knowledge. But with the world being smaller than ever due to social media, it takes little effort to gather more collective knowledge from thousands of people from your target audience.
Surprisingly, people are pretty forthcoming to strangers on the internet looking for support and help. One man who goes by the name King Boiza decided to ask his internet advisors, “married men what is your greatest regret about marriage? Advise the single boys. It could be about anything.” They married men didn’t hesitate to answer the call in the most genuinely wholesome way.
Gleaning collective wisdom from those more experienced than you is a common practice, but being able to do it in such a large way is relatively new. Different life experiences lead to different perspectives that can be invaluable to someone still learning.
“Your wife becomes the words you speak upon her, I regret not speaking life and good upon her,” one man shares.
“In times of trouble, remember…It’s not you against her but the both of you, against the problem…,” someone writes.
“Listen when she speaks from the heart, once she feels unheard, she will be closed off for a long time if not forever,” another advises.
“Not all women age gracefully with all their good looks and physique. Marry her for more reasons beyond her body and beauty. Seek a FOREVER,” one commenter says.
Forbes reports that 43% of first marriages end in divorce with the number significantly increasing with each subsequent marriage. Finding out the regrets, struggles and triumphs of other marriages may help others feel more prepared to commit to marriage with a bit of a roadmap laid in front of them.
It’s clear from the comments under the post that marriage takes work and while some of the men admittedly misstepped, they seem eager to share with others so they avoid the same mistakes.
“My biggest regret in marriage was to cheat and I’m telling you…my wife was never the same…so my advice is never cheat never ever,” one guy confesses.
“We tend to take our spouse for granted once we get married. Continue to invest your time in her. You won’t regret it and she’ll know that you really see her,” one man shares.
But it wasn’t only men who dropped by the comment section. Women stopped to share their appreciation for the wisdom being left for all to see.
“After reading this comment section, my faith in the institution of marriage is restored. Relationships are not perfect, but we gotta try with people who want to try,” one woman writes.
“I don’t know why I’m crying…I guess I never knew men like these existed…Your wives must be blessed,” another woman shares.
If you need a dose of healthy masculinity and wholesome advice for lasting partnerships, look no further than that comment section. They’re saving some future couple from heartache by simply showing up to answer a stranger’s question on the internet.
At Upworthy, we are always looking for stories that show the “best of humanity,” and a recent article published by PEOPLE does just that. It tells the story of a couple who were born for one another, and at least one of them knew it from the beginning.
Cade Wessell and Sarah Dill became friends on the first day of 6th grade and stayed close until they were seniors in high school, when they took things up a notch and began dating. A few weeks after their relationship took a romantic turn, Cade had to come up with something clever for his senior quote in the school yearbook.
Your senior quote can follow you throughout life, so he knew it had to be good.
“Some were trying to think of funny things to say. Others were attempting to be profound,” Cade, 24, told PEOPLE. “But I sat there, isolated myself and thought, ‘I’m going to do something legendary.’”
Cade’s “legendary” move? He called his shot and put money on it. “Twenty bucks, I marry Sarah Dill,” he wrote. Sarah later learned about the bold prediction when a friend sent her a photo of the yearbook after it was published.
Six years later, Cade collected on that bet when the couple were married in Sarasota, Florida, at the Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium.
Sarah told PEOPLE that she was impressed that Cade knew they were meant for each other so early in their relationship. “It’s literally right out of a rom-com,” Sarah, also 24, said. “Now, as we reflect, we realize senior quotes were due at the end of January, so we had only been dating for a few weeks when he submitted it. When you know, you know!”
Cade isn’t the only person to go viral for making a prediction in their senior quote that came true.
In 1993, Michael Lee, a senior at Mission Viejo High School in California, made an unlikely and super specific prediction in his quote that came true. He predicted that in 2016, the Chicago Cubs would win the World Series.
“Chicago Cubs. 2016 World Champions. You heard it here first,” he wrote in his senior quote.
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Lo and behold, in 2016, the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series since 1908 when they defeated the Cleveland Indians (now the Guardians), 4 games to 3, clinching the title at home in Chicago’s Wrigley Field. The win was massive news for long-suffering Cubs fans who felt their team had been cursed for over 60 years.
Lee had been a lifelong Cubs fan and told Lids that he had a “vivid” dream when he was in the 3rd grade of the Cubs winning the World Series. The dream ended with the victory announced on the iconic red sign outside Wrigley Field with legendary Cubs announcer Harry Carrey proclaiming, “Cubs win!” on the radio.
“Everybody calls it a prediction, but it’s really not. It’s just something that I dreamt about when I was a kid and I just was having a little fun when I pulled out my quote thing for the yearbook,” he admitted.
Unfortunately, unlike Caden, Michael didn’t bet any money on his prediction.
Busta Rhymes has decades of hits and pulls from all of them in his 15-song setlist for Missy Elliott’s Out Of This World tour.
Although Busta was forced to cancel his own Blockbusta tour, he makes a great addition to the lineup of fellow rap pioneer Missy’s tour. He still puts on one hell of a show, as you can see from his setlist. The selections include both his signature hits — “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See,” “Touch It,” “What’s It Gonna Be?!” — and fan favorite deep cuts like his verses from M.O.P.’s “Ante Up (Remix)” and Lumidee’s “Uh Oooh (Remix).”
01. “Respect My Conglomerate”
02. “Ante Up (Remix)” (M.O.P. cover)
03. “As I Come Back”
04. “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See”
05. “Make It Clap”
06. “Uh Oooh (Remix)” (Lumidee cover)
07. “Touch It”
08. “I Know What You Want”
09. “What’s It Gonna Be?!”
10. “Master Fard Muhammad”
11. “Look at Me Now” (Chris Brown cover)
12. “All I Do Is Win (Remix)” (DJ Khaled cover)
13. “Don’t Stop Believin’” (Journey cover)
14. “Break Ya Neck”
15. “Outta My Mind”
Missy Elliott Out Of This World 2024 Tour Dates
7/11 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
7/13 — Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
7/16 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
7/18 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
7/20 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
7/21 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
7/24 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
7/25 — Sunrise, FL @ Amerant Bank Arena
7/27 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
8/1 — Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena
8/2 — Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum
8/3 — Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena
8/5 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
8/8 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
8/9 — Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
8/10 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
8/12 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
8/15 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
8/17 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
8/19 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
8/22 — Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
Meeting at the nexus between Death Cab For Cutie’s first three albums, shoegaze greats like Swervedriver and Ride, and hook-heavy ’90s alt-rock is MILLY, the Los Angeles group fresh off their sophomore album. The album in question, Your Own Becoming, is a shrewd encapsulation of what MILLY is all about. It fuses their variegated stylings into a composite whole that’s uniquely them.
Brendan Dyer’s keen sense of melody and dense guitar tone lend themselves well to Yarden Erez’s driving basslines and Conner R. Frankel’s boisterous, dynamic drumming. Your Own Becoming, in short, is a compelling showcase for all that this band has become.
Following the record’s release in June, Dyer sat down with Uproxx to talk about his fear of flying, Polish food, and crying at a Pavement show in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Rocking, emotional, cathartic, excellent.
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
As a great example of what grade-A rock music sounded like in the 2020s. Timeless.
Where did you eat the best meal of your life and what was it?
Some Polish spot in Chicago. Podhalanka, it was out of this world. I think we spent like $150 on it and it was so worth it. Yarden the foodie hooked it up.
Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.
Pavement at the Fonda. It was their first show since 2010. We were right up front and I honestly might have cried a little bit.
What song never fails to make you emotional?
“Speed Of Sound” by Chris Bell. This song destroys me every time without fail. Don’t even listen to it if you don’t want your day ruined. It’s so lethal.
What’s the last thing you Googled?
“Honda Elite.” I Googled this because my friend and I were talking about buying scooters. Those things are badass.
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?
One time we stayed at this Motel in Mobile, Alabama and the TV was drilled on top of a cabinet slanted sideways. I don’t know if that even makes sense but if you saw it you would know.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?
I’d say LA but since we’re from here, another great one is Milwaukee. Hope to play in London soon 🙂
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Don’t be so cringe on the internet and don’t be afraid of letting go. And don’t sell your 1977 Fender Musicmaster.
What’s one of your hidden talents?
Kermit The Frog impersonation.
If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?
Anything relative to people having clean and safe drinking water.
What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?
No thoughts but some of the mashups on Youtube are so funny.
You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location it would be held.
The Smiths (reunion set), Yuck (reunion set of 2011 band), Helium (reunion set), R.E.M. (reunion set), and The Police (reunion set) live at Fenway Park.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?
Snoop Dogg or Johnny Hamcheck.
What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?
Red Sox logo on my leg which I got in Boise before our set at Treefort Fest. I love Yarden’s puppet on his leg.
What is your pre-show ritual?
Noise-cancelling headphones and coffee.
Who was your first celebrity crush?
Zooey Deschanel.
You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?
Connecticut in the summertime. No one – it’s me time.
What is your biggest fear?
Flying on airplanes but I do it anyway.
Your Own Becoming is available now via Dangerbird Records. Find more information here.
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