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‘How a near-death experience changed my life – and introduced me to the violet flame’

‘How a near-death experience changed my life – and introduced me to the violet flame’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Violet Skies vividly remembers the moment she realised she was about to die. Driving home from work in her early twenties, she fell asleep at the wheel. Her car rolled across three lanes of motorway traffic, hit two trees, and was left crushed beyond recognition. Emergency services later told her it was “a miracle” she survived. And what happened next was set to change her life forever.  “There was this overwhelming feeling of, ‘Okay… I should have died. I haven’t died. What?’ It was almost like this sense that I had something to fulfil – like it wasn’t my time to go,” says Violet, whose work as an intuitive, healer and guide facilitating women’s circles and retreats all evolved from her near-death experience.

Verona ceremony looks to lift Paralympic flame above world’s fractures

Verona ceremony looks to lift Paralympic flame above world’s fractures

Published by Sam Flores

VERONA, Italy, March 6 : Less than two weeks after bidding goodbye to the Winter Olympics, Verona’s majestic Roman amphitheatre hosts the Paralympic Games opening ceremony on Friday, against a dramatically altered global backdrop. The message of diversity and inclusion that the inaugural event of the 50th Paralympics aims to project must contend with absences tied to the protests against the choice to allow Russian and Belarusian flags on the field of play, as well as to air‑travel chaos caused by the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran. Unable to travel safely due to the conflict, two-time Paralympian Aboulfazl Khatibi Mianaei and Iran’s sole athlete would not take part in the Milano Cortina Games, the International Paralympic Committee said on Friday. Dubbed “Life in Motion”, the ceremony is intended as a tribute to life as transformation and will feature performances by former The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, rising Italian-Malian soul singer Mimi Caruso and DJ Miky Bionic, who plays his music with a bionic myoelectric hand. Planes flown by acrobatic pilots, including some who use wheelchairs, will …

“MAGA Is in the Air:” Inside Waka Flocka Flame and CJ Pearson’s Horned Up, Paranoid Valentine’s Party

“MAGA Is in the Air:” Inside Waka Flocka Flame and CJ Pearson’s Horned Up, Paranoid Valentine’s Party

Published by Sam Flores

Does he think the misogyny and racism espoused by the likes of Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate risks the movement he is trying to grow? “They’re doing what they’re doing, and I don’t really pay much attention to it,” Pearson said. He added: “We are on the precipice of an entire cultural revolution. And we are killing it.” The club was visibly sweaty when the night’s headliner, Waka Flocka Flame, took the stage. People rose to the rafters in a bid to get a better view of the “O Let’s Do It” singer, who endorsed Donald Trump in the last presidential election. “MOVE!” one woman (green) shouted at me when I inadvertently bumped into the photo she was taking. Flocka himself was much more relaxed. It’s not his first time performing at a CJ Pearson-hosted event, but he said the crowd’s conservative bent had little to do with his return. “It’s the love,” he told me. “It’s organic. It’s a real free space.” How does he politically identify? “With the people,” Flocka said. Spoken like …

BIOSAFIRE advances nature-inspired flame retardants using lignin and tannins

BIOSAFIRE advances nature-inspired flame retardants using lignin and tannins

Published by skeptic

BIOSAFIRE uses lignin and tannins to improve fire resistance following the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approach. BIOSAFIRE draws inspiration from nature to enhance lignins and tannins – natural flame-retardant compounds – making them suitable for industrial applications. Building on existing pilot plants, the project scales up production and broadens to a range of biobased feedstocks, delivering flame retardants for five specific use cases across four sectors: naval, railway, home appliances, and wood coatings. With 22 partners collaborating across Europe, BIOSAFIRE represents a major collective effort to transform natural additives into innovative, high-performance materials. The project combines high performance with sustainability, achieving fire-retardancy levels comparable to conventional, toxic benchmarks while maintaining approximately 80% biobased content. Beyond demonstrating its effectiveness in multiple use cases, BIOSAFIRE is developing a comprehensive material portfolio and practical processing guidelines to help industry adopt safer, biobased flame retardants. This approach is set to unlock substantial market opportunity, estimated at €8bn by 2028, with Europe holding around a 25% share and the target sectors representing roughly 65% of the market. The …

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie Keep Their Flame Burning for the 2026 Winter Olympics

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie Keep Their Flame Burning for the 2026 Winter Olympics

Published by Sam Flores

Williams and Storrie’s triumphant walk was closely followed and applauded by the watching crowds, with the two actors posing amid smiles and nods to fans. The Olympics’ official Instagram account shared a carousel of photos from the day, borrowing a quote from the movie Mean Girls for the caption: “Get in, loser, we’re going to Milan Cortina 2026.” Comments on the post include enthusiastic fans who pointed out that the choice of the two actors as torchbearers for the Olympics is an opportunity for representation for the LGBTQ+ community in the world of sports, one that “gives hope” for the future. One user wrote, “You guys are really iconic for this. You are really changing the world and having such a positive impact on it.” Others simply celebrated their Heated Rivalry fandom, like the show’s Canadian production company, Crave, which commented, “Call it seated rivalry because we were so sat watching this” on the post. Connor Storrie, torchbearer for Milan Cortina 2026 Courtesy of Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026 Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, torchbearers for …

Brooklyn Beckham’s former flame and classmate says the ‘craziest thing about her private school’ was Victoria Beckham

Brooklyn Beckham’s former flame and classmate says the ‘craziest thing about her private school’ was Victoria Beckham

Published by Daniella Wilson

Brooklyn Beckham’s bombshell statement on Monday contained a series of allegations about his parents, from everything from his the couple encouraging him to “sign over the rights to his name” and his former Spice Girl mother “dancing inappropriately” on him at his wedding.  As fans of the famous family try to make sense of the information, on social media, videos of and about the A-list clan are going viral. One that recently sent TikTok into a spin was a clip from Brooklyn’s alleged former flame, Joy Crookes. As well as sparking relationship rumours back in 2017 when Joy and Brooklyn left his book launch party together, the pair also seemed to be classmates. When asked by interviewer Rob Colfer what the “craziest thing” about her private school was, singer-songwriter Joy replied: “Victoria Beckham.” She continued: “She told me she had my whole outfit, and I was like: ‘This is my uniform.’” The alleged romance was short-lived, and the pair haven’t been linked since.  Brooklyn’s former flames Part of the bombshell statement saw Brooklyn claim that his …

The secrets of a great sex life: how to keep the flame alive in the bedroom | Sex

The secrets of a great sex life: how to keep the flame alive in the bedroom | Sex

Published by Sam Flores

If you have sex, chances are, you’ll have a good day. But scheduling it makes it feel like a chore. And unlike any other chore or fitness enterprise, you conceive it more as self-indulgence than self-improvement, and as such, even if you’re already in a relationship, it’s hard to find that chin-out determination to get it done. Yet sex is an appetite like any other, a necessity like any other, a nourishment like any other. If you let it go dormant the effect on your relationship might be as if one or both of you are on a permanent diet – and also lonely. That might be fine for both of you, but for many of us, sex is a thing worth prioritising. At its core, before you introduce any other domestic obstacles, it’s a two-person job, so you have to be attuned to one another; you can’t just decide unilaterally. To take this in ascending order of hurdles; if you’re a childless couple, the main block is going to be each other – not …