How to Pay a Credit Card Bill: 5 Ways
2024-08-12
Using a credit card means you are borrowing money for purchases, whether it’s your latest Amazon or Target haul or covering a recent visit to the dentist. Having a credit card also entails paying back the money you borrowed. Staying on top of credit card payments is essential for building or maintaining a positive credit history. Knowing how and when to pay your bill can help you avoid costly late fees and higher interest rates.
I remember the moment I got the call to audition for The Band’s Visit. Within minutes, I was on my living room floor, covered in my own panic-induced sweat. As a Middle Eastern actor struggling to break through in New York City, opportunities like these never happened. Typically, I’d either audition for a one-dimensional “terrorist’ role or try to fill the “any ethnicity” network call that seemed to fill a diversity quotient.
A celebrity feud has ignited debate over the popular — but somewhat controversial — ketogenic diet.
It all started last week, when trainer Jillian Michaels told Women’s Health that the high-fat, low-carb keto diet is “a bad plan, for a million reasons.”
“I don’t understand. Like, why would anybody think this is a good idea?” Michaels asked.
It quickly became clear that many people, famous and otherwise, think the trendy plan is a good idea.
Julia Stiles (Actress) - On This Day
2024-08-12
Profession: Actress
Biography: Julia Stiles is an American actress who came to fame as a teen icon with leading roles in films like "10 Things I Hate About You" (1999), "Down to You" (2000), and "Save the Last Dance" (2001), winning several MTV Movie Awards. She has also received critical acclaim for her performances in Shakespearean adaptations like "Hamlet" (2000) and "O" (2001).
Stiles went on to become part of the Bourne movie franchise, playing Nicky Parsons in "
Full Name: Lamar Demeatrice Jackson Jr.
Profession: NFL Quarterback
Biography: Lamar Jackson is an American football player, best known as quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens. He began his career in college football, during which time he won the Heisman Trophy. Jackson was selected by the Ravens during the 2018 NFL Draft, and became their starting quarterback in his rookie year after Joe Flacco suffered an injury. This meant Jackson, then age 21, would ultimately become the youngest NFL quarterback to start a playoff game.
If you’ve been watching movies for a while, David Fincher’s The Killer—playing in competition at the Venice Film Festival—might be your 100th movie about a contract killer, or maybe even your 500th. It’s a genre that springs eternal, but rarely do modern directors stick to the basics; they think they need to make these stories more elaborate and convoluted to keep an audience engaged, when maybe the opposite is true. That’s what makes Fincher’s movie a cut above.
Boy and girl in love, good intentions and the hope of marriage sometime in the future [at least in the beginning]. You know, all that good stuff that we ideally relate with courting - damn, using that word makes me feel 15 years older - dating and being exclusive in the manner that we all think about when our folks tell us about how they loved properly in their time… the good old days.
Medicine: Evipan | TIME
2024-08-12
TIME
April 2, 1934 12:00 AM GMT-5
Stretched on an operating table in Baltimore’s Sinai Hospital one morning last week lay a patient waiting to have his prostate gland removed. Instead of clapping an ether cone over his face, the anesthetist slipped a hypodermic needle into a vein in the crook of his elbow. In 20 seconds he lay unconscious, utterly limp. Six minutes after the operation was over he hoisted himself off the table, drank a glass of water, called for a “good big breakfast.
Music Streaming Hits Major Milestone as 100,000 Songs are Uploaded Daily to Spotify and Other
2024-08-12
The number cited by Universal and Warner chiefs represents a huge leap, since the figure for songs being added on a daily basis was reported to be 70,000 just 18 months ago.
Feeling like you’re having a hard time keeping up with all the new music that’s coming out?