“Reasons Why You Should Binge-Watch Amazon Prime's 'The Boys' A New Superhero Series You Cant Afford To Skip

“Reasons Why You Should Binge-Watch Amazon Prime's 'The Boys' A New Superhero Series You Cant Afford To Skip - The Digital Wise” plus 3 more

Reasons Why You Should Binge-Watch Amazon Prime's 'The Boys' A New Superhero Series You Cant Afford To Skip - The Digital Wise
Just Before the Eagle Landed, an Alien Arrived in Our Living Room - The New York Times
Reedsburg man gets 1 year in jail, seven years' probation for child sexual assault - Portage Daily Register
Pampers is making a ‘smart’ diaper - PIX11 New York

Reasons Why You Should Binge-Watch Amazon Prime's 'The Boys' A New Superhero Series You Cant Afford To Skip - The Digital Wise

Posted: 20 Jul 2019 09:34 PM PDT

Well, this new superhero series looks very promising and has apparently got pretty good reviews too, this show will basically deal with superheroes who exploit their powers, even after being as powerful as a politician they abuse their powers rather than using them for good, this show will give us a view of the powerful superheroes against the powerless people.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have worked very hard for the series to look the way it does, the series is the adaption from Garth Ennis books and you definitely cannot miss on to the show because it is one hell of a show, sets apart from any of the regular superhero shows.

The trailer of the show is brilliant and shows the seven superheroes and the common people against each other and well you can't miss on the drama and action this series brings to the table.

Here is the trailer for everyone who isn't already intrigued by the series!

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The boys will release on 26th July on amazon prime and we would request everyone to go ahead and watch the series because it will totally be worth it, Karl Urban who has also been seen earlier in movies like Star Trek will be seen in the series. We will see some of the amazing actors in the series like Antony Starr, Dominique McElligott, Chace Crawford, Jessie T. Usher, and Nathan Mitchell and Erin Moriarty.

Do let us know if you're also excited for this series and if you're going to watch it too!

Just Before the Eagle Landed, an Alien Arrived in Our Living Room - The New York Times

Posted: 20 Jul 2019 02:02 AM PDT

No one who was alive then can forget the sights and sounds of that weekend in 1969.

The drawling voices of "Houston" guiding the lunar module gingerly into its assigned parking place on the face of the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin floating with each step, like kids in one of those aptly named Moonwalk bounce houses now ubiquitous at children's birthday parties. And the instantly iconic utterances: "The Eagle has landed," and "That's one small step for man…."

This life-altering technological event was unfolding on screens in living rooms across the land. In my family's living room, there was something extra: The television had landed.

In my home, the weekend of the moon landing was forever known as the weekend we rented a television. Yes. Rented a television.

We had no television of our own. We were perhaps not rich enough to afford color TV at the time, but we at least could have had a small black-and-white like everyone else. But our parents, like some technological Bartleby the Scrivener, simply folded their arms at the onslaught of the television age and said: "I would prefer not to."

So there we were in suburban New Jersey, feeling like the Beverly Hillbillies before they struck oil, able only to dream of Jeannie. Before there even was a grid, we were living off it.

The idea was that my sister, my brother and I, protected from the temptations of Hollywood and Madison Avenue, would spend our childhood reading. And read my sister did. My mother tried valiantly — O.K., annoyingly — to turn me into a young reader, and I can only imagine her embarrassment as a founder of the local library, forced to slink around with a literarily delinquent son.

My father, an amateur poet with an impeccable memory for verse, posted poems on the refrigerator door that we were supposed to memorize. After several years, I did commit to memory a large percentage of that Robert Frost poem about a snowy evening, a horse and a long commute home. Or maybe that was a metaphor.

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Our mother may have been strict, but she was creative. One rainy day, with her children likely driving her up a wall with pleas for a television, she sat us down in front of the oven and turned on the light inside. She told us to imagine the little oven window as a television and to tell her what we saw.

I think I said, "Pot roast."

But then came the moon landing, and suddenly it felt like my family was living on Planet Earth just like the rest of America. We had a television. Well, we had one for a weekend.

It arrived one afternoon, an intruder to be viewed warily. Books and newspapers were displaced from the coffee table to make space for the television. And there it sat, rabbit ears erect, its small convex screen a window onto the forbidden world.

Of course, there were restrictions. The television was there to watch the moon landing, we were told. Period. Inevitably, we watched everything, all day and night, proving in just a few hours the addictive influence of television.

My father was particularly adept at the complex operation of the alien mechanism. Perhaps surprisingly, he had briefly earned a living as a Zenith salesman when he needed a job after getting married.

As the events of the mission unfolded, we did as the rest of our neighbors did: We pointed our antenna skyward and watched in amazement. By the time of the actual moonwalk, my brother was asleep on the couch and missing history.

But he was well rested the next morning and ready to participate in another historic event in our family: watching cartoons in our pajamas. Clearly shaped by the experiences of that weekend, my brother has had a successful career not as an astronaut but as a writer for children's television. (For example, he wrote for "Hey Arnold!" — not "Hey Armstrong!")

We got more history than we bargained for that weekend. In a precursor to our era of news overload, the moon landing coincided with the slowly unfolding scandal of Chappaquiddick — the drowning death of a young congressional staffer, Mary Jo Kopechne, in a car driven by Sen. Ted Kennedy, who later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of the accident.

It was a riveting drama of another sort. The brother of a murdered president and a presidential candidate caught in a web of evasion, if not lying, about the death of a young woman.

Would Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Aldrin actually walk on the moon? Would Kennedy, facing criminal charges, possibly walk? It was three days of split-screen human feats and failings, all playing out right there in our house — on a television!

Then suddenly it was gone. The Eagle returned to the Apollo spacecraft, and our television returned to the rental store.

My father lived another 48 years in that house, to age 94, and my mother still lives there, a month shy of 93. Never again has a television appeared.

My sister, the reader, also has no television, despite her work in technology as a software administrator. My brother, the television writer, has found profit in his rebellion.

I have a television, but have been known to watch sporting events with the sound off and an open book in my lap so I can reasonably argue that I'm actually reading.

The other day, sitting with my mother in that very same living room where human and family history played out 50 years ago, I asked why we never had a television. My mother looked up from her pile of newspapers and said: "You had peculiar parents."

And why did they break the rules for the moon landing? "We thought, 'Oh my god, they're going to the moon,'" she said. "We were excited. We thought it was important."

"And you could actually see it," she added.

Just not through your oven window.

Reedsburg man gets 1 year in jail, seven years' probation for child sexual assault - Portage Daily Register

Posted: 17 Jul 2019 06:00 PM PDT

Emotional testimony was delivered during a plea hearing Wednesday morning in Sauk County Circuit Court, where Riley M. Roth, 18, of Reedsburg, was given seven years of probation for child sexual assault.

The mother of an 8-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted in November said the child is afraid of her own shadow. She can't sleep, shower, eat or even use the bathroom without her mother being there.

She said her 10-year-old son is angry and only just beginning to open up about his own experience being sexually assaulted by the same defendant.

The 8-year-old girl's 28-year-old brother said his sister shrinks away and clings tightly to her mother's legs any time a man approaches.

The girl's mother asked the judge to impose a long prison sentence.

"I need you to be their savior. Their angel. Their voice. We need to send a message of encouragement," she said.

Roth pleaded no contest to a single count of second-degree sexual assault of a child. Numerous other felony and misdemeanor charges against Roth were read-in but dismissed as part of a plea agreement.

Roth, who had babysat the children, waived his constitutional right to speak in court.

Judge Wendy Klicko found Roth guilty, withheld sentencing and adopted a joint recommendation from the state and defense attorneys. The maximum sentence on the charge would have been 25 years initial prison confinement with 15 years of extended supervision.

"You failed my children," the mother told Klicko, then left the courtroom.

As part of the joint recommendation, Klicko ordered Roth to serve a one-year conditional jail term with work release privileges.

Klicko also ordered Roth to immediately register as a sex offender for life, submit a DNA sample, undergo counseling, maintain full-time employment or education, pay $1,807.73 in restitution and $518 in legal fees.

Roth is not allowed to have any contact with the victims or any girls under the age of 18 while on probation for the next seven years. If his probation were to be revoked for any reason, Roth would be granted 229 days of jail credit.

Assistant District Attorney Rick Spoentgen said by taking a plea agreement, both the state and defense avoided "a dice roll" on whether jurors would believe victims' testimony and avoided re-victimizing the children.

Spoentgen said he saw a "glimmer of hope" that Roth could use this "one last shot" to rehabilitate and change his behavior so that he might still become a productive member of society.

But if Roth does reoffend, Spoentgen said, the possibility of a maximum prison sentence still hangs over his head as further punishment.

The girl's mother said Spoentgen was supposed to represent citizens, not criminals.

"Shame on you for advocating for someone who has done something so heinous," the mother told Spoentgen. "It is a slap to my face ... to sit here and listen to the (assistant) district attorney advocate for him."

Defense attorney Andrew Martinez said it was not his intention to anger victims' family members nor anyone else seated in the gallery. Martinez said child sexual assault cases inflame emotions, with good reason, but the public rarely learns all the facts or gets a clear picture, even when hearings are reported on publicly and in good faith.

"The goal of today's sentence is rehabilitation," Martinez said. "Prison does not make people better."

Martinez also told Klicko that one of his staff members used a reverse phone lookup tool to learn one of the victims' family members had sent a text message stating Martinez should "watch his back." While he didn't feel in danger, he said the message was unsettling for his family.

The girl's mother said Roth immediately texted her after sexually assaulting her children and tried to cast doubt on whether they should be believed.

She said she knelt down before her daughter and promised to believe every word, because without total love and support, child sex assault survivors will "wilt away like a dying flower."

The 28-year-old man said in his own victim impact statement that his 8-year-old sister and 10-year-old brother have been harmed for life. But he has worked hard to keep his emotions in check and suggested God's judgment would be the final say.

"Riley, even though I forgive you ... no matter what happens, one day you will be punished. Not by our hands, though," he told Roth.

Several other statements by victims' family members were read in court Wednesday. The family members all asked Klicko to send Roth to prison in order for the children and their families to heal without worrying about their assailant living down the street.

Klicko reminded Roth on Wednesday that the gallery was filled with many people who assert his guilt. She said she hoped the two-hour-long plea hearing would show Roth how deeply his actions have affected the community around him.

"Mr. Roth, I sincerely hope that I do not see you again," Klicko said before striking the gavel to adjourn.

Pampers is making a ‘smart’ diaper - PIX11 New York

Posted: 19 Jul 2019 12:38 PM PDT

It's come to this: There's about to be an app for your baby's diaper.

Pampers this week announced a line of smart diapers that it says will track a child's urine — but not bowel movements — as well as sleep. Last year, rival Huggies debuted a similar concept in Korea, allowing parents to receive text alerts when a child has pooped.

The Lumi by Pampers line, which Pampers says has a waitlist ahead of its US launch this fall, includes an activity sensor that secures to a "landing" on the front of a baby's diaper. It comes with a baby monitor and a 10-day supply of diapers. The sensor works with a corresponding app to log the kid's pee and identify patterns. Additional packs of Lumi by Pamper diapers will be sold separately. Pricing has not been finalized.

The concept is part of the so-called Internet-of-Things movement, which allows consumers to track everything from who's ringing their doorbell to what's in their refrigerator and how well they're brushing your teeth. The baby industry has recently been flooded with connected products, including connected onesies that double as sleep trackers and a robotic crib that's supposed to help rock a baby to sleep.

Many pediatricians tell parents to keep track of how often they're going to the bathroom, especially in those first few months after birth.

But parents don't, strictly speaking, need an app to tell them when their baby has peed thanks to obvious ways to check — the baby's cries, of course, and one can simply feel to see how wet the diaper is. And some diapers also offer lower-tech solutions: Pampers' existing "Swaddler" line of diapers, for instance, feature a blue line that appears on the diaper when it's wet.

Parents using the Lumi diapers will in theory not have to worry about checking any of that because they'll get smartphone alerts. The app will display one of three diaper statuses: dry, wet, very wet.

"Parents didn't ask for a poo or pee alarm; they wanted something more like the smart watches of today," a Pampers spokesperson told CNN Business. "The activity sensor tracks baby's sleep and since it's there on the diaper, it can also track … if a diaper is wet."

Like other connected products, smart diapers could have issues with security and privacy. Baby monitors can be susceptible to hackers, and any app that holds personal information could potentially expose that information either to hackers or to the app's maker or its partners.

A Pampers spokesperson said the account information will include a baby's name, sex, date of birth and a 24-hour archive of video from the monitor, plus a profile photo if the parents choose to use one.

"I do want to re-iterate that we take privacy and security very seriously," the spokesperson said." Only Lumi by Pampers account holders with their valid credentials will be able to access their baby's data on the Lumi app."

Experts say the concept could be helpful to some parents but that there are some tradeoffs.

"Undoubtedly, for those parents who are concerned about their newborn's bathroom functions — to inform something like constipation or if a kid is hydrated enough when they're sick — this data could be very useful over brief periods," said David Anderson, senior director at the Child Mind Institute. "Not to mention that it may even be useful for potty-training parents."

In addition, the sleep tracking feature could be especially helpful for parents who are sleep training their baby.

"But there's that trade-off that happens with data and anxiety," he said. "There may be behavior that is completely within an acceptable range, but an anxious parent is likely to find any deviations from reliable norms a cause for concern. So while data is generally good, we're likely to see an increase in calls to pediatricians."

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, president of the International Society for Infant Studies, agreed. "The more we have analytics on babies, the more we worry that it actually matters we've calculated this," she said. "That creates a frenetic feeling when you're a parent."

For example, Hirsh-Pasek said a child might urinate more on a hot day because her water intake increased and a parent seeing only a change in pattern on an app might only see something that looked abnormal, and not the harmless reason for it.

Smart diapers could also make babies less self-reliant, she added. Children will sometimes tug at their diapers, for instance, an early form of communicating that it's time for a change.

"We see this a lot with potty training — kids needs to learn how to control and recognize what's happening to their body," she said. "We don't want our kids to grow up without knowing how to do this. Babies have a right to cry and let us know what's going on."

Hirsh-Pasek said she believes parents should focus on mastering how to understand their babies without the help of technology.

"I'm sure there will be even more digital products to analyze babies in the future, but the best thing you can do is cuddle, build a relationship and look in their eyes and see what they are trying to tell us — not what we are trying to tell them," she said.

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