April 11 (Reuters) – Colombia striker Radamel Falcao sustained a serious head injury during training with Galatasaray, the Turkish club said in a statement on Sunday.
Falcao, 35, clashed heads with a team mate during Sunday’s session and was taken to hospital, where he was diagnosed with a facial bone fracture and underwent surgery.
Falcao joined the Istanbul side in 2019 from AS Monaco, having previously played for Porto, Atletico Madrid, Manchester United and 광주 성형외과 Chelsea.
He has scored eight goals this season in Turkey’s Super Lig for Galatasaray, who are third in the standings.
(Reporting by Richard Martin, 광주 성형외과 editing by Ed Osmond)
Heavy-duty duct tape may hold a Google Home Mini against the wall, but it’s hardly the neatest way to mount your smart speaker.
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Most people unbox their new Google Home Mini or Nest Mini smart speaker and immediately set it on a tabletop or counter, where it will forever play music aimed at the ceiling. But you can get way better sound (and 광주 성형외과 a conversation piece when friends come over) by mounting it on the wall instead. It will help your Mini sound better, most likely hear you better and probably won’t collect as much <a website and grime now that it’s not cluttering your kitchen countertop, end table or night stand.
I should know — I spent eight days drilling, tacking and, in one case, even duct-taping five Google Home and Nest Minis to my walls to figure out which are the easiest, sturdiest and best-looking techniques to mount your Mini on your wall.
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The new Nest Mini has a built-in notch on its base, which makes Google’s latest entry-level smart speaker a little simpler to hang than the previous-gen Google Home Mini. That said, there are still a bunch of other good, bad and (most definitely) ugly ways to get your Mini up off the tabletop.
CNET’s Molly Price has a terrific guide to wall-mounting the Nest Mini, which served as my starting point. From there I let imagination and good-old-fashioned DIY spirit lead the way. Read on to see how you should absolutely not try to mount your Mini to the wall, as well as what worked great for me, including some aftermarket adapters you can get for $15 or less.
Absolutely do not mount your Google Home Mini or Nest Mini like this
Not only does a thumbtack not feel sturdy holding a Nest Mini, it pushes the speaker away from the wall and looks MacGyvered, in a bad way.
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No matter which version of the Mini you’ve got, there are some wall-mounting methods that seem obvious and easy, but which failed when I tried them. Save yourself the grief of a falling speaker and a useless hole in the wall and don’t try any of these.
Thumbtack: Yes, it’ll technically work, but after an annoying afternoon of closing doors extra gently and not playing my music loudly enough to enjoy it for the fear of the Mini vibrating off the wall, I took it down. Plus the Mini just sort of dangles from the wall — all shabby and no chic.
Nail: Same deal as with a thumbtack, only it leaves a bigger hole. If you’re going to put real hardware in your wall, go with one of the methods detailed below.
Command Hooks: Although Command Hooks ($7 for eight hooks with 1-pound maximum capacity on Amazon) technically do the trick, they’re a little clumsy and the speaker doesn’t really feel secure on them. The base of the hook sticks out above the speaker, and the hook pushes the Mini so far away from the wall it doesn’t even touch.
A Command Hook with a 1-pound maximum capacity can do the trick, if you don’t mind more of a utility room-style aesthetic.
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Double-sided foam tape: I actually thought this would be the best hack for wall-mounting a Mini on my kitchen’s tiled backsplash, 광주 성형외과 but the 3M mounting tape I used simply refused to stick to the Minis’ nonslip base. I even tried covering the entire base in tape, 광주 성형외과 hoping extra surface area would solve the problem, but no dice.
Duct tape: Unless you’re going for a sort of post-apocalyptic survivalist aesthetic, heavy-duty black Gorilla duct tape ($8 at Amazon) simply looks hideous, no matter how you stick it. Check out the photo above if you’re not convinced.
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The most secure and best-looking ways to mount your Google Home Mini speaker
Mounting this sky blue Nest Mini behind the couch concealed most of the smart speaker’s power cable.
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Google included a built-in notch for wall-mounting the Nest Mini, so you won’t need any extra hardware if you’ve got Google’s latest generation smart speaker.
The upside to this method is that you can get it done in under five minutes without buying additional hardware. The downside is it’s difficult to hide the rather obvious power cord that protrudes from the bottom. Google’s official instructions for wall-mounting your Mini break it down into three basic steps:
1. Choose a location close to a power outlet.
2. Drill a screw into the wall, 광주 성형외과 using a wall anchor if necessary.
3. Hang it up.
You can avoid using a wall anchor by locating a wooden stud behind the drywall and drilling a screw directly into it. I used the CH Hanson Magnetic Stud Finder ($7 on Amazon) to hang my new sky-blue Nest Mini in my living room, with the back of my couch covering most of the power cord.
The Dot Genie Backpack adapter for Google Home Mini uses a power outlet to mount the speaker on the wall, which works particularly well in the kitchen where there are usually outlets right above the countertop.
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Buy brackets, wall mounts or other types of aftermarket accessories
This Google Home Mini wall-mounting clip from FStop Labs costs $10 for a two-pack on Amazon and is just about the lowest profile clip available for the Mini.
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There are dozens of third-party accessories you can use to wall-mount your notchless Google Home Mini (as well as the Nest Mini, if you want an alternative to the included notch), costing anywhere from about $5 to $15. The Google Store has just one option for $15, the Incipio Wall Mount for Google Home Mini, but Amazon is littered with choices, as is eBay. Most mounts fit into one of three categories:
Clip-on brackets: These are small plastic brackets that attach to the wall with screws and grip the Mini to hold it in place. The Incipio Wall Mount ($15 at the Google Store) is one example, but I went with a cheaper, nearly identical clip from FStop Labs ($10 for two at Amazon). Same pros and cons as mounting with Nest Mini’s notch.
Outlet adapters: My favorite outlet adapter is the Dot Genie Google Home Mini Backpack ($13 on Amazon). Unlike other similar products that wind the Mini speaker’s regular power cable into an unsightly spool, the Dot Genie comes with its own adapter, allowing the speaker to sit more flush against the wall. That means no cable in view.
Wall mounts with cable management: Basically you run the power cable behind the drywall, bringing it out again beside an outlet. The Mount Genie ($14 at Amazon) is a perfect example. My lease is up soon and I’d rather not have to patch walls before I move, but if you own your home and aren’t afraid of performing some minor surgery on it, this is the cleanest, most professional way to go — especially if you don’t want to use a couch or other furniture to hide the cord.
Tap control of volume will be reversed on your wall-mounted Mini unless you toggle on this setting to fix it.
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Just one last step: Change this setting
Congratulations — you’ve gotten your Mini speaker up on the wall where it belongs! There’s just one more step to making it perfect.
After you wall-mount your Mini, the touch volume controls on the speaker itself will be the opposite of what you’re used to, so you’ll want to go in and change them to the more natural orientation of volume down on the left, up on the right. Here’s how:
1. Open the Google Home app and tap the Mini icon.
2. Tap Settings (the cog icon) in the upper-right corner.
3. Scroll down to the Reverse device controls option and toggle it on.
Around 40 percent of America’s plastic surgery clinics are filled with people seeking work to give them a ‘natural filter’ so they look better on selfies posted on social media
Instagram selfies are the biggest incentive for plastic surgery, US surgeons claim in a new report.
Around half the patients clinics see today are seeking a ‘natural filter’ so they look better on social media, according to interviews with medics nationwide.
The survey also revealed a sharp rise in the number of Millennials getting nips and tucks.
The majority of facial plastic surgeons saw a rise in patients under 30. Many of them report a surge in patients as young as 18 – the youngest legal age for nips and tucks.
Why?
There are two main reasons that jump out from the report, which surveyed all members of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS).
First, a yearning to look good on social media or look like a celebrity.
Second, a sway towards gradual age-defying tweaks, rather than waiting to do one major operation later.
Experts say this underscores something that has been looming for a long time: plastic surgery is becoming the new normal for teenagers.
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Ninety-nine percent of US surgeons involved in the AAFPRS survey agree that celebrity and social media influence plays a big role.
‘People see pictures of themselves fairly routinely on Facebook,’ said Dr Fred Fedok, president of the academy.
‘Patients want to look good for their age for as long as possible, and we now have the tools to provide visible lasting results – with and without surgery.’
Despite Jenner denying plastic surgery, the internet exploded with speculation last month when the 19-year-old emerged in this outfit (pictured) – apparently displaying larger breasts
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Fueling that desire for the perfect selfie, surgeons say, is the constant churn of celebrity selfies online: images of ageless stars presented as natural.
Indeed, the newly-documented increase in Millennials seeking plastic surgery coincides with the months and years of speculation that Kylie Jenner – the youngest Kardashian – has been getting work done.
Jenner, 19, has denied anything beyond lip fillers.
However, the internet nonetheless exploded with excitement when photos emerged last month of Jenner in a low-cut silver jumpsuit – apparently displaying larger breasts.
Dr Broumand said patients do come in with images of people they would like to emulate physically, and 광주 성형외과 he works with them to achieve that.
‘Obviously, 광주 성형외과 we have to be on the same page as our patients, to achieve reasonable outcomes,’ he told Daily Mail Online.
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Gwyneth Paltrow gets a vampire facial in the fourth episode of Goop Lab.
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Netflix’s The Goop Lab follows Gwyneth Paltrow and the team that runs her wellness brand, Goop, as they experience various alternative wellness practices, from meeting with a psychic to taking a workshop about how to orgasm. In The Goop Lab’s fourth episode, The Health Span Plan, Paltrow, chief content officer Elise Loehnan and Goop’s marketing VP Wendy Lauria explore the societal obsession with antiaging and the often expensive lengths many go to avoid it.
In their quest for eternal youth, members of the Goop staff try several different diets reported to reduce the risk of age-related disease, including fasting, veganism and pescatarianism. Paltrow and her team also set out on a quest to find “more natural” alternatives to plastic surgery and fillers, like facials and acupuncture.
Aging is one of many things that medicine can’t stop, so that raises the question: Is there any validity to these diets and treatments? Can you really slow down the aging process with food? That’s what The Goop Lab sets out to determine and the results are, surprisingly, somewhat valid.
The Health Span Plan episode explores diets and skincare treatments that claim to have antiaging benefits.
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The Goop Lab Episode 4: The Health Span Plan
The Goop team chats with Valter Longo, the director of the University of Southern California’s Longevity Institute, about the practice of fasting and how it can have positive effects on health. He promotes his fasting mimicking diet in the episode (for which he has a book and a $250 diet kit that Paltrow tries). Notably, the group doesn’t talk about other forms of fasting — such as intermittent fasting or alternate-day fasting — which can have the same health benefits as Longo’s diet.
Paltrow also talks with Morgan Levine, who studies aging at the Yale Department of Pathology. Levine developed a method of calculating a person’s “biological age,” based on several factors that intend to predict how likely you are to get age-related diseases or be at risk for early death.
Paltrow, Loehnan and Lauria are tested for their biological age before starting a new diet for three weeks. Lauria followed a vegan diet and Loehnan did a pescatarian diet, while Paltrow uses Longo’s kit (which includes a nut bar, soup packets and kale crackers — appetizing, huh?) for a five-day fast.
At the end of the three weeks, all three have their “biological ages” retested. The only person whose age did not “lower” was Lauria.
To round out this antiaging episode, all of the women try three different facial treatments — acupuncture, facial threading and a vampire facial — that are supposed to be more natural than using typical dermatological treatments such as skin fillers and Botox injections.
Loehnen tries facial acupuncture, which is reported to boost collagen production. Lauria gets a “facial threading” treatment that involves sewing a plastic thread that dissolves after nine months into her face in an effort to boost collagen and 광주 성형외과 lift the face.
A Goop employee tries facial threading, a less invasive way to get the effect of a face lift.
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Finally, Paltrow gets a “vampire facial,” which is when a facialist extracts platelet rich plasma from your blood, and then microneedles it into the skin on your face. The PRP is supposed to help the skin resurface and look rejuvenated. Paltrow seems a bit weirded out by the process but notes that there’s an “overuse of that stuff,” (referring to injections, fillers and plastic surgery), and at least “this is your own blood and not a toxin, it’s a more natural way.”
Can our diets affect the aging process?
Right now, there is a lot of hype surrounding fasting, intermittent fasting and ketosis and how those diets might benefit our overall health. It’s not all hype — there’s definitely some sound science here and it’s likely to keep expanding.
During the episode, Longo presents his fasting mimicking diet, which involves “tricking” the body into a fasting state while allowing specific amounts of food for at least five days. The idea is to give your body just enough nutrients that it thinks it’s fasting, but not so few that you encounter the negative effects of prolonged fasting like a weakened immune system and nutritional deficiencies.
Fasting can help improve your overall health, some studies have shown.
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Longo says that his clinical trials on the fasting mimicking diet showed to “reduce risk factors for multiple age-related diseases.” That’s not totally bunk — science shows that when you restrict calories for certain periods of time, it does promote longevity. A study on this type of fasting did show that it can be effective in improving health markers that put you at risk for age-related diseases such as BMI, body fat percentage and blood pressure. Fasting can also lower inflammation levels in the body, improve cognitive impairment in mice and can decrease insulin-like growth factor, a hormone linked to cancer. The research is promising.
While Longo’s diet might be scientifically sound, I found it hard to wrap my mind around the idea that eating processed, packaged foods for five days could actually be better for you than eating whole, unprocessed foods. Surely you can hit the same macronutrient targets (low carb, low protein and a total of 750-1,000 calories per day) he cites is necessary to “trick your body that it’s fasting” with real food?
I’d be interested in seeing studies on groups who do the fasting mimicking diet versus groups that follow a pescatarian diet (as Loehnan did in the show). Also, I’d like to see results in a study of participants who follow the fasting mimicking diet with Longo’s food packets and bars versus the same exact macronutrients in whole food form. My guess is that the results could be pretty different.
The questionable antiaging facial treatments
The facial treatments in the episode are pretty extreme. While they are touted as “more natural” alternatives to plastic surgery or fillers, Goop did not provide much information on why these treatments are “better” for you.
When each practitioner did each treatment, it sounded more like an infomercial about why you should do it, rather than a scientifically backed procedure. The episode lacked real information or science on if these treatments are actually safe, and 광주 성형외과 how they compare to fillers or 광주 성형외과 Botox. No one (at least that we could see) challenged the practitioners about the safety or quality of what was going on.
Facial acupuncture is said to help stimulate the production of collagen in the skin.
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The science behind facial acupuncture is promising, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. As for the facial threading, 광주 성형외과 aka the noninvasive face lift, a study published in JAMA concluded that the results of the threading face lift are not effective enough to justify the patient’s risk of potential complications from the procedure.
I would describe the facial threading procedure more as a cosmetic procedure and less of a facial treatment. Even though the Goop staff say it’s more “natural” than a face lift, it seems pretty invasive to me. You see the doctor literally sew a plastic thread into her face and if that isn’t invasive plastic surgery, I don’t know what is. Nothing about this treatment says “natural alternative” to me. It just says, “here is another way to get a face lift, and it’s temporary.”
Goop has long been criticized for presenting highly inaccessible treatments, and that’s the same in this episode. The vampire facial costs over $1,000, and the facial threading pricing can start at $1,500 and go up to over $4,000. Facial acupuncture is typically less expensive, but it depends on where you go and how many treatments you get.
There’s nothing wrong with showing what these extreme treatments are like, it makes for entertaining television. But if Goop wanted to better serve its audience, perhaps it would have been more helpful to show more accessible options for natural beauty products, regimens or other useful skincare advice.
Jana Kramer is opening up about her internal debate about cosmetic surgery.
And on Monday, after battling through her fear of the reactions she would potentially face, the actress and country singer announced she has decided to get a breast augmentation and lift, in a lengthy statement on Instagram.
It turns out the bulk of her reasoning for having the surgery was based the changes to her body after having two kids, resulting in her feeling of ‘embarrassment’ when she’s undressed.
Open book: 광주 성형외과 Jana Kramer, 37, announced she’s decided to have a breast augmentation and lift
The One Tree Hill alum, 37, began by sharing how she wanted to open up more personally and let her two million Instagram fans and followers in on ‘a deeper level.’
‘After many years of consideration I have decided to get a breast augmentation and 광주 성형외과 lift.
I want to be open about WHY. First off, because “I” want to. That right there should be enough, but I feel like I need to explain the “I” part.’
The Michigan native went on to share that she had previously considered having a breast augmentation ‘with everything that happened’ in her marriage, which was a reference to her husband, Mike Caussin’s multiple affairs, but reconciled that it ‘was never for “me.”‘
Honest: The actress and country singer explained her decision to have cosmetic surgery and how she was afraid to be honest on social media for fear of potential backlash
The insecurities with her body intensified following the birth of her second child in November 2018.
‘Things didn’t go back to normal, and I carry a lot of embarrassment when I’m undressed.
I don’t want to feel that way anymore. That was the “click” that showed I should follow through,’ she confessed with obvious emotion.
‘Before it was what I thought someone else wanted. Now it’s simple. “I”—and that’s a very capital ‘I”‘
Kramer shared about how she has always had a small chest — and even recalled a time when she was body-shamed in the eighth grade by a boy who called her ‘flat as a board’ and literally took his binder to show me what that looked like.’
Personal decision: Kramer’s main motivation for cosmetic surgery was the changes to her body after having two kids, resulting in her feeling of ‘embarrassment’ when she’s undressed
Personal strife: The Why Ya Wanna singer said she had previously considered having a breast augmentation ‘with everything that happened’ in her marriage, which was a reference to her husband, Mike Caussin’s multiple affairs
‘Bottom line, I’m choosing myself, I’m choosing my size, I’m doing what’s right for me.
I know a woman’s body is beautiful no matter what shape or size but I want this,’ she added.
Kramer went on to share how she’s quite nervous and excited at the prospect of sharing her journey, while recognizing that her revelation comes on International Women’s Day.
‘So I just ask ya’ll to celebrate this with me.
I’m at a place where I feel empowered to do what I want. I’m being honest about what it means. If you need a push to give yourself that same grace, here it is. No one knows what’s in another woman’s head. Or, for that matter, under their shirt. So do what’s right for you, and I’ll celebrate with you, too.’
She ended with the request: ‘I just ask you [to] celebrate women instead of [a]tear down. We all need support.’
Grateful: About four hours after sharing about her decision to move forward with cosmetic surgery, Kramer thanked people for their support
Deep breath: The actress was relieved that people were being ‘so kind’ and ‘supportive’ in their comments on social media
About fours hours after her initial post about cosmetic surgery, Kramer took to her Instagram Story to thank people ‘for being supportive and so kind’ with their comments.
She also shared how she’s been doing a lot of research about the surgery for the past few months, and then posed the question to her followers if they want to take the journey with her.
‘I’m hoping to partner with a company that deals with implants because they have been very helpful with resources and data etc.’
Educating herself: The mother of two maintains she been doing a lot of research into breast augmentation over the last few months
Walk this way: The Dancing with the Stars alum posed the question of whether she should share her journey with her two million Instagram fans and followers
Kramer and Caussin, 34, began dating in August 2014 but split up weeks later when she announced on social media that he cheated on her.
They later reconciled, and got married in May 2015 in a rustic outdoor ceremony in Mike’s home state of Virginia.
After admitting he cheated again, the couple separated in 2016 when their daughter Jolie Rae was just seven months old.
But they did not give up.
Caussin sought treatment at a rehabilitation facility and the two have continued to try to rebuild their relationship, with some more bumps in the road, ever since.
The couple share two children together: daughter Jolie, five, and son Jace, two.
Looking to partner: The Michigan native is hoping to partner with a company that deals with implants to help her tell her cosmetic surgery journey
Work in progress: Kramer and Caussin have had to work through his multiple affairs before and during their marriage in May 2015
