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Daily Mirror
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
PS Plus Essential May 2025 games release time and every PS4 and PS5 title leaving
More games are coming to PS Plus Essential subscribers, but more games will have to leave in order to make way for them very soon. It's time for another bout of PS Plus Essential games (the best all year, might we add), which will arrive in your library incredibly soon. PS Plus came out swinging with its latest reveal, and if you've been following the gaming world for the last few years, you'll know just how good it is for Essential subscribers. The tier of the gaming service has been living it large for the last couple of months, especially after the PS Plus Essential April 2025 reveal delivered a nostalgic package featuring RoboCop and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for players. It got far better this month, though, with the PS Plus Essential May 2025 announcement revealing the arrival of Balatro, the Game Awards GOTY-nominated card game that has won over players across the world, especially after the arrival of Balatro on Xbox Game Pass only a couple of months ago. The service also comes packaged with Warhammer 40K: Boltgun, an exemplary Boomer Shooter that will no doubt fill the bloody, pulpy, tongue-in-cheek hole left between now and the launch of the similarly aggressive and throwback-inducing Doom: The Dark Ages. Capped off with Ark: Survival Ascended, it's a big month for players, and thankfully for us, there isn't long for us to wait before the PS Plus Essential May 2025 games release time. Here's what you need to know about when the new games will debut. PS Plus Essential May 2025 games release time The PS Plus Essential May 2025 release time is set for 2am PDT / 5am EDT / 10am BST on Tuesday, May 6. We know this because the PS Plus games of any tier always drop on the Tuesday following their announcement, an hour after the previous games leave. That means you have only a short period of time to add RoboCop: Rogue City, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker's Memory to your library before they stop being free downloads, meaning you'll have to pay for them if you want them. It's a pretty big month of games to be looking forward to, but don't let that distract you from picking up the older games before they officially arrive. Brace yourself, because Balatro has the ability to get really infectious.
Daily Mirror
22-04-2025
- Daily Mirror
Woman who cut off mum's head locked in chilling prison feud with another twisted killer
Jessica Camilleri and Rebecca Jane Butterfield, regarded as two of the most dangerous prisoners in Australia, are understood to be sworn enemies - and have allegedly even been given a strict non-association order Two twisted killers in one of the most notorious prisons in Australia are said to be locked in a feud so bitter, they're under strict orders never to see each other ever again. In July 2019, Jessica Camilleri decapitated her own mother, Rita Camilleri, 57, before allegedly asking whether she could be brought back to life if her head was reattached to her body and her heart restarted. The horror film obsessive, whose favourite movie is believed to be The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, already "had a lengthy history of assaulting people" before stabbing full-time carer Rita more than 100 times. The NSW Supreme Court also heard Camilleri, now 37, would threaten people during random prank calls, including ones where she claimed she would cut off their heads with a knife. Following her 2020 murder trial in Sydney, jurors found Camilleri guilty of manslaughter due to substantial impairment. Now, Camilleri is serving out a reduced sentence of 16 years and six months, with a non-parole period of 12 years, at the infamous Silverwater Maximum Security Correctional Complex. She's reportedly continued to carry out vicious attacks on prison guards and fellow inmates alike, allegedly ripping out "clumps of hair" during violent altercations. Behind the grim prison walls, Camilleri is also reportedly at war with a woman regarded as Australia's most dangerous female criminal, Rebecca Jane Butterfield. Butterfield, 50, first started her sentence as a low-risk inmate in 2000, after she assaulted a neighbour who had attempted to help her with injuries following an incident of self-harming. Her behaviour then escalated in 2003, when she murdered her fellow inmate and only friend, Bluce Lim Ward, who had been nearing the end of her fraud sentence, by stabbing her 33 times using industrial scissors. Like Camilleri, Butterfield has a reputation at Silverwater for being aggressive. There are currently reports on more than 110 disciplinary matters in her file, including 40 incidents of assault. And it's understood that Butterfield has a particularly strong dislike of Camilleri, with the two women having been enemies since the moment they met. Now, a prison insider has told the Daily Mail Australia that the pair have been given a non-association order, which means they are prohibited from associating with each other or communicating under any circumstances. The source explained: "They hate each other and Butterfield even claims that when Camilleri talks about chopping her mum's head off, which she frequently does, it sets her off on violent outbursts." They added: "Butterfield spirals with any mention of her stepmum, which is probably why Camilleri talking about her mum triggers her." Discussing Camilleri's outbursts, another insider told the publication: "She has become an ongoing problem. She has to be monitored at all times because she will use any opportunity to cause harm. There has already been time added to her sentence for attacks involving extreme hair-pulling. She has scalped people with her bare hands, and anything can set her off." In 2024, Butterfield was reportedly transferred from Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre, in Sydney's west, to Long Bay prison 2024. However, in May of that same year, she was quietly released from prison and admitted to a secure forensic hospital as an involuntary patient, where she receives ongoing treatment for various severe mental health disorders. Although Butterfield's full-term sentence ended almost eight years ago, the question remains as to what will happen next, with facility doctors left to face the decision as to whether she can ever be permitted to rejoin the community. Meanwhile, Camilleri is currently serving her sentence at Dillwynia Correctional Centre in Sydney's west, where she allegedly pulled "clumps of hair" from the scalp of a fellow prisoner back in February - allegedly the sixth incident of this nature.
Fox News
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Jessica Biel almost hit her brother with parents' car on the set of '7th Heaven'
Jessica Biel nearly hit her brother while attempting to drive her parents' car on the set of "7th Heaven." Biel recalled the memory when she joined her TV sitcom cast for their podcast, "Catching Up with the Camdens." The show is hosted by Biel's "7th Heaven" siblings – Beverly Mitchell, David Gallagher and Mackenzie Rosman. The group was chatting about their favorite memories from filming when Biel was prompted to talk about the time she crashed her parents' car. "Honestly, I was just waiting," Biel said, while laughing. "I was going to say, 'Oh, yeah. The camaraderie between us all and how we just had such a nice warm place to go to work as kids.' No. All right, you can hear the real dirt about what happened." "I popped the clutch in my parents' Subaru when I had my learner's permit, not my real license," Biel recalled. "And I flew backwards and reversed into Mackenzie's school trailer and busted it off its supports. Broke the computer." "The computer got smashed, my parents' car got smashed, and I almost hit my brother." "I just remember you came screaming into the studio, because we were shooting, and you were just so shook up," Mitchell remembered. "And I was like, 'What happened?'" The actress, who starred as Lucy in the sitcom, noted that it was raining at the time of the crash. "Let's not pretend that we all haven't had really terrible driving mishaps," Rosman, who portrayed Ruthie, added. Biel starred in "7th Heaven" as Mary Camden for five seasons. The show ran from 1996 until 2007 for a total of 11 seasons. The now-43-year-old actress went on to star in films such as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "The Illusionist," "Next" and "Total Recall." She said what she learned during her time on "7th Heaven" set her up for success as an actress. "What I remember more than anything is this was live training on how to be an actor and how to work with the camera, how to deal with lighting," she told her former co-stars. "It was such a warm, loving environment that I think I really had that opportunity to mess up," Biel continued. "Maybe let's do it this way next time, or whatever the advice was. But I was never meant to feel stupid or like I didn't know what I was doing. It was super duper supportive."
The Guardian
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
School Swap: UK to USA review – full of beautiful moments that make you cry big, blobby tears
'There are still pockets of liberals in the community,' says David Maxwell, principal of Mena high school, Mena, Arkansas, USA. He's in a contemplative, serious mood – you can tell because he's not wearing his cowboy hat. 'But that's fine, you have to have that. You don't want everybody one way.' Mr Maxwell is on British telly as part of School Swap: UK to USA, a documentary that sets up a good old-fashioned exchange trip. At first, it seems it might be a cheap, even dangerous stunt: teenagers from the racially diverse Elmgreen school in Tulse Hill, south London, are sent deep into the American south, Trump country. It's five hours to the nearest airport, everyone has a gun and Confederate flags are proudly flown. And the south London kids are coming here… But Mena high school and Elmgreen, and their teens and parents, have been cleverly chosen for a social experiment that will make you laugh, cry – big, blobby tears that fall when you're not ready for them – and repeatedly change your mind. You're appalled at Arkansas and proud of south London; later, it's the other way around. Then you flip back a couple more times before thinking: maybe it's time to be less appalled and less proud. Episode one tackles the question of racism in Mena head-on, but before that, we have arrivals and introductions. Dae-Jaun leaves London, travels 4,500 miles to Mena, and is shown into the bedroom of his absent opposite number Waylon, who owns six guns, a crossbow and a drawer full of knives – although Waylon's mum and dad, Stephanie and Justin, stress that all the above have been locked away for Dae-Jaun's safety. 'We had to go behind each door, make sure there wasn't a gun back there!' Waylon's room is a woody, scratchy mess with skulls of deer the boy has shot mounted on the wall. Dae-Jaun, missing his mum and visibly wondering if he's walked on to the set of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, waits for Stephanie and Justin to leave, then stands there and cries. Meanwhile, in London, Waylon is confidently regaling his host family – he's not at Dae-Jaun's place; the pairs don't match up that way – with tales of his love of hunting, which is all fun and games until he talks about killing a raccoon, and refers to it using only the second syllable of the word. That unfortunate linguistic bump having been negotiated, Waylon gets on with becoming the show's main character, and is utterly fascinating. He has a practical wisdom that makes him seem 10 years older than the British kids, not in spite of but because of the narrowness of his upbringing. He has no time for schoolwork ('I've learned how to build a fence and work cows. That's going to help me way more in life than whatever the heck geometry is.') and isn't interested in exploring other countries, apart from Canada, where he hopes one day to shoot a moose. When the Elmgreen kids go to the park after school, Waylon gets bored sitting around on the grass, shins up a tall tree, and enjoys a view across London that nobody at the school has ever seen. Back in Mena, his dad, Justin, is introducing Dae-Jaun to fishing and hunting in the stunning Arkansas lakes and forests. Soon, the serenity of the infinite outdoors and Justin's immense kindness – which becomes overwhelmingly moving when we learn that Dae-Jaun lost his dad at the age of four – have brought lovely, thoughtful, nervous 'DJ', as Justin insists on calling him, out of himself. In the UK, another beautiful relationship develops, but it's one that speaks to what is rotten in Arkansas. Jayla, who is mixed-race, is a pupil at Mena high school and she is quiet and cautious, not because she is naturally that way, but as a direct result of the bigotry of her peers. Jayla's descriptions of her everyday experiences in Mena are hauntingly melancholic – on her trip to London, in a place where the colour of her skin attracts no interest, she lights up. Her travelling companion is her Mena classmate Sailor, a blond, God-fearing, popular girl who now understands the effects of racism more starkly through witnessing how Jayla thrives when that constant hum of hatred is taken away. Jayla tells a tearful, rueful Sailor that they mustn't write Mena off entirely and, in case we hadn't grasped that point by watching Dae-Jaun find his smile, next week's second episode offers a shaming look at how healthy the Arkansas teenagers' use of smartphones is compared with young Londoners. School Swap: UK to USA confirms some of our prejudices while upending others; in both cases, there are valuable lessons to learn. School Swap: UK to USA is on Channel 4 now.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The higher your degree, the longer you'll be unemployed
For Ron Sliter, getting a master's degree seemed like a path to job security. After spending nearly two decades in the military, including eight tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he attended graduate school with the help of the GI Bill and landed a job in IT administration. He looked forward to climbing the corporate ladder and enjoying a long, successful career in the civilian world. Then, in January 2023, he got laid off. Since then, he's applied to thousands of roles — to no avail. After more than two years, he's still unemployed. The whole experience, he says, feels like "being caught in the middle of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.'" "It's disheartening," he tells me. "They sell you on the dream, you fight for the dream, and you come back to take advantage of the dream that you fought for. And you realize it doesn't exist." Sliter is part of a sudden spike in the number of highly educated professionals who are struggling to find a job — any job. According to government data analyzed by the economist Aaron Terrazas, professionals with advanced degrees who are looking for work find themselves stranded on the unemployment line for a median of 18 weeks — a jobless spell that has more than quadrupled over the past two years. And in a strange twist, job searches are now taking more than twice as long for educated elites than they are for workers who never went to college. At the moment, the higher your degree, the longer it will take for you to find a job. It's not news that we're in the midst of a sharp downturn in tech and finance — one that has hit highly credentialed professionals especially hard. I've been calling it a white-collar recession, assuming that it's temporary. It's normal, after all, to experience dips in the job market. There have been plenty of times over the years when Ph.D. holders faced longer job searches than high school graduates. But whatever the ups and downs, education — particularly an advanced degree — has generally provided a good buffer against financial insecurity. Lately, though, I've started to wonder if what we're seeing in the job market is a sign of something deeper. What if Sliter's protracted spell of joblessness is an early warning signal — an indication that the economy is undergoing a fundamental shift? What if, going forward, education no longer provides a path to economic security the way it once did? "For 40 years, we've been talking about how more education leads to better labor market outcomes," says Terrazas, the former chief economist for Glassdoor. "Suddenly, that feels like it's changing." And the shift, he warns, could herald a profound "moment of dislocation" for today's white-collar professionals, just as blue-collar workers faced a seismic reckoning in the wake of globalization. "What the early 2000s were for manufacturing workers, I worry that the mid-2020s are going to be for knowledge workers," Terrazas says. "American manufacturing workers were told they were highly productive until global trade opened up, and then suddenly that changed. I worry that we're in a comparable moment for knowledge workers. They were told they were the most productive workers in the world. Suddenly that's being undermined." Education has long served as a ticket to a better, more secure life. But rarely has it mattered more than in recent decades, with the rise of robots and computers and the internet. The more schooling you had, the more likely you were to survive the sudden technological disruption. Between 1980 and 2009, the economists Daron Acemoglu and David Autor found, wages increased modestly for those with a bachelor's degree, soared for those with an advanced degree, and tumbled for high school dropouts. Economists gave the phenomenon an awkward name: skill-biased technological change. In plainspeak: Get more degrees or you're screwed. Education was the one thing that kept you safe in an increasingly cutthroat economy. To secure their futures, an unprecedented number of young Americans enrolled in graduate schools, taking out big loans that they believed would yield even bigger payoffs down the road. Since 2000, the numbers of Americans with master's degrees and doctorates have more than doubled — while the ranks of those without a high school diploma shrank. But then, over the past few years, the demand for super-educated professionals suddenly took a deep dive. A variety of factors have combined to alter the white-collar landscape. The first was the pandemic-driven shift to remote work. No longer limited by the constraints of geography, American companies realized they could hire abroad, giving them access to a larger and cheaper pool of highly trained professionals. Suddenly, homegrown computer scientists, product managers, and data scientists — long treated as rare diamonds worthy of their high salaries — seemed more like overpriced commodities compared with their counterparts overseas. Another factor has been the big push among corporate recruiters to de-emphasize formal credentials in the hiring process, a trend known as "skills-based hiring." Some employers no longer list degree requirements in job postings; others have added the qualifier "or equivalent experience." That's giving people without the extra schooling a chance at landing the most coveted white-collar jobs — while undercutting the advantage long enjoyed by the advanced-degree holders. And then there's AI. As I've written before, studies show that chatbots and other AI tools are already providing a boost to those with the least skill and experience, while doing little to help high performers — the very people who likely got an advanced degree to hone their skills. What's more, early estimates suggest that in the long run, AI is most likely to displace white-collar professionals, while leaving most blue-collar jobs intact. And besides, getting an MBA or some other advanced degree didn't exactly prepare anyone for the sudden emergence of ChatGPT. The faster technology changes, the faster your fancy degree is likely to feel outdated. Terrazas found that the median age for those experiencing long-term unemployment is now 37 — meaning you don't have to be a boomer to feel like technology has passed you by. "What we think of as 'old' is a lot younger now," Terrazas says. "With the accelerated technical frontier, what it means to be out of date is creeping downward." That's what happened to a millennial I'll call Tara. After earning her MBA from Cornell University in 2021, she was confident that all the hard work — and expense — was going to pay off. With a job offer from Amazon in hand, she moved across the country to Seattle, excited to live on her own for the first time and begin a brand-new career as a product manager. Whatever happened with the job, she figured there would always be plenty of companies eager to hire someone with a business degree from a top school. Then Tara got laid off during the tech downturn in November 2023 — and hasn't been able to land a new role. Unemployed for 14 months and counting, she's applied to something like 650 jobs. "With every passing month, as my stress levels went up, my search criteria expanded," she tells me. "I'm stumped at just how hard it's been." The prospects for educated elites are so bleak that some have taken to hiding the credentials they worked so hard to earn. Professionals with advanced degrees aren't just mired in longer job searches — they're facing what feels like a vicious circle: The longer they're out of work, the more obsolete their skills become, which in turn makes it even harder to find a job. As they grow increasingly dejected, some opt for lower-paying roles; others give up altogether. Economists refer to this as "scarring," and it's one of the reasons they worry so much about long-term unemployment. It doesn't just hurt the people who can't find work. It also hurts the broader economy. The prospects for educated elites are so bleak that some have taken to hiding the credentials they worked so hard to earn. Scott Catey, a policy director who has both a JD and a Ph.D., says he sometimes leaves out the doctorate in job applications, to avoid being viewed as overqualified. Michael Borsellino, who has a doctorate in urban studies, started listing his degree as being in "social sciences," to make it sound applicable to a wider range of jobs. The goal, he says, is "not to pigeonhole myself." Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the modern economy has been dividing up the workforce into ever-narrower specializations. A driving force in higher education, in fact, was to cultivate the sort of hyper-niche expertise that the marketplace demanded. But Terrazas says we're now starting to see the darker side of becoming really, really good at one thing. "Specialization can create productivity-enhancing high returns," he says. "But it can also create obsolescence." Borsellino, who eventually landed a role at LinkedIn after a nine-month search, doesn't think his Ph.D. proved to be an asset. "If it did help, I feel like I wouldn't have been unemployed for as long as I was," he says. "I don't know if it was a drain, but I don't think it was the end-all, be-all that I grew up believing it would be." If he were thinking about getting a doctorate today, he's not sure he'd do it. "I think we're at this point where experience is valued so much more that it's really, really difficult to justify doing the degree." Advanced-degree holders, of course, continue to be the economy's overwhelming winners. Most of them are gainfully employed, with salaries that are typically far higher than anyone else's. And it's possible that the current hiring obstacles facing educated professionals will prove to be a temporary blip, just one more twist in a deeply strange pandemic-era economy that we've failed to understand time and time again. But if I'm right, and this turns out to be the beginning of an enduring trend, it will force us to rethink our long-standing assumptions about education and employment. If even a Ph.D. can't keep us safe from economic catastrophe, what will? That's the question that I find deeply unsettling, especially as we face the uncertainty and upheaval of the AI revolution. Yes, it's always been unfair that those who can afford to keep going to school face better prospects than their less-educated peers. But at least there was some kind of road map to financial security, a rule of thumb that told you how to get to higher ground. There was comfort in that predictability. Catey, the JD-Ph.D., counts himself among the lucky ones. While he continues his search for a full-time job, he's been able to land enough freelance work to get by. And he doesn't have to worry about paying off his student loans, because they were forgiven by the Biden administration. But being without a full-time job for almost a year wasn't exactly the life he envisioned back when he was slogging his way through grad school. "Credentialing seemed to me a very solid way to make sure I had a reliable future of employment in front of me," he says. "That's not how it turned out." Andy Kiersz contributed analysis. Aki Ito is a chief correspondent at Business Insider. Read the original article on Business Insider
