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Evidence suggests there are 5 steps you can take to improve your mental health and wellbeing. Trying these things could help you feel more positive and able to get the most out of life!

1. Connect with others - good relationships are important to your mental wellbeing.

2. Be physically active - being active is not only good for your physical health and fitness, but it can also improve your mental wellbeing.

3. Learn new skills - learning new skills can boost self-confidence, build a sense of purpose, and help you connect with others.

4. Give to others - acts of giving and kindness can help you feel more positive.

5. Pay attention to the present moment - be mindful in mind and body.

La evidencia sugiere que hay 5 pasos que puede seguir para mejorar su salud mental y bienestar. ¡Probar estas cosas podría ayudarlo a sentirse más positivo y capaz de aprovechar al máximo la vida!

1. Conéctese con los demás: las buenas relaciones son importantes para su bienestar mental.

2. Sea físicamente activo: estar activo no solo es bueno para su salud física y su estado físico, sino que también puede mejorar su bienestar mental.

3. Aprende nuevas habilidades: aprender nuevas habilidades puede aumentar la confianza en ti mismo, generar un sentido de propósito y ayudarte a conectarte con los demás.

4. Da a los demás: los actos de generosidad y bondad pueden ayudarte a sentirte más positivo.

5. Presta atención al momento presente: sé consciente de su mente y su cuerpo.

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The focus of the two-day event was at the Loch Ness Centre, which organized the proceedings in partnership with Loch Ness Exploration, a voluntary research team. The recently renovated center is housed in a former hotel where Aldie Mackay, a hotel employee, sighted a "beast" or "whale-like fish" in 1933, the first modern "sighting" of the monster that set off the global phenomenon.

But the legend dates back to writings from the seventh century in which an Irish monk reported having encountered a "water beast" that had mauled a swimmer.

Nessie has been so popular for so long, her myth can sometimes feed herself (if, like Alba, you imagine the monster as female).

Alistair Matheson, the skipper of the Loch Ness Centre's Deepscan search boat that trolled the lake with volunteer searchers like Alba, showed how the boat's sonar technology had recently spotted a perfect outline of a huge Nessie-shaped monster.

But the shape on Matheson's radar screen turned out to be a sunken Nessie model that had been made for a movie about the monster and then abandoned at the bottom of the lake.

Even the Loch Ness Centre's logo - the instantly recognizable picture of a sort of humped eel cruising through waves on the lake's surface - comes from a fuzzy 1934 black-and-white photo that was later proven to be fake.

Still, Matheson describes himself as a "believer," though he imagines the monster as "something from this earth or something a bit more realistic" than some kind of ancient, alien or supernatural being. Scientists have speculated that the sightings could be huge catfish or giant eels.

But short of emptying the entire lake, Matheson said nothing will ever truly disprove a legend that has become a matter of faith for so many.

"People come here, they're desperate, they're looking, they're searching," he said. "And they really, really want to be able to hope that there is something that us humans, you know, we think we can know everything, to an extent."

The weekend in the Scottish Highlands attracted some for whom Nessie is more of a vocation than a hobby.

Ken Gerhard, an American cryptozoologist who researches and writes about "animals" like bigfoot, Chupacabra and Mothman that live on the fringes of our known reality, traveled to Scotland from the states just for the event.

"I'm 90% convinced she exists," said Gerhard, who also seemed to believe in the monster's femininity. "I've never had a sighting or an observation, but if you immerse yourself in the evidence, you have over a thousand good sightings that are very consistent."

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NEW YORK -- Artificial intelligence has been the buzzword of 2023 ever since ChatGPT made its public debut earlier this year, with businesses, schools, universities and even non-profits looking for ways to integrate AI in their operations.

John Kim, chief product officer for PayPal, spoke with The Associated Press about how the company is using the early proliferation of artificial intelligence technologies in its business, as well as PayPal's future in payments when there's so much competition. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Q: How have security issues changed since you've been in this role or similar roles? How much more complicated or sophisticated are threats or opportunities to protect customer data?

A: One way you you can put it is that the fraud is a pretty big business, it's growing and getting more sophisticated by the day. It used to be that you would get, let's say, an email sent to you and you'd find something off about it, right? Like there's a misspelling and you think "Gosh, I don't see this person misspelling this common thing" or the email seems to imply that it doesn't have a deep understanding of who I am. Then it became voices over the phone trying to convince you to do something. Now people can create whole identities using AI.

Q: How are you integrating AI into the work you're doing? Where do you see the most promise for AI in payments?

A: We're planning on launching three new products with ties to AI in the next 120 days. For example, we have a checkout feature we are rolling out that uses AI to keep track of all the permutations of your addresses and personal information that you might use, and use AI to predict the right one to use with the right merchant. We currently try to detect unusual patterns - for example, patterns where fraudsters are trying to test your stolen card out to see if it's good or not - and alert you through the PayPal wallet so you can get that card shut down with your bank quickly. But detecting these patterns can get really complicated, and the patterns can change on the fly, so AI we believe will help us anticipate these changes and keep us ahead.

Q: But on that same point, where do you think AI is being oversold in some ways, or where do you think that the use case in your industry isn't really there quite yet?

A: I think AI has captured a lot of people's imaginations this year. It's made its way to boardrooms, into stores, every product conversation. Some people have been skeptical, and I think some skepticism is healthy. For example, we want to use AI to increase our chatbots' capability to engage with customers, but how much do we invest in such technology - which can be expensive to develop and run - when a customer service agent could do it better? Cost is going to be a massive issue. But in this short timetable since ChatGPT launched in March, I think you can't dismiss any claim you hear about AI at the moment because it's moving so fast.

Q: A lot of competition has entered into the payments space in the last several years. Apple Pay. Google Pay. Buy now, pay later. PayPal is the oldest company in the online payments industry. What challenges have there been in trying to differentiate PayPal from the competition?

A: PayPal really was a one-of-a-kind company for much of the early part of its life. So back then it was really about just getting scale. You didn't really have to sell the value proposition. But now we really have to focus on the value proposition. Customers every day choose how they wish to pay for things, so you need to provide value above just being a method to pay, like security and fraud protection, or letting people now they are fully protected while at the same time making us the easiest way to pay.

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Waking me at dawn is no easy task. A night owl through and through, I am far more likely to see the dawn by just not going to bed. So when my husband announced that he was headed to Old San Juan for some dawn photography, I was inclined to sleep in and join him several hours later at a more civilized hour.

Then my husband dropped the bomb: "I heard there were cats."

He had named the only phenomenon on Earth that could lure me out of bed before sunrise. That's because cats are crepuscular or most active at dawn and dusk. The only spare time we had to glimpse the fabled street cats of Old San Juan in all their furry glory meant that I needed to get my ass out of bed.

Bolstered by my giant travel mug chock full of coffee, I was rewarded with a breezy tropical morning. We arrived at the Paseo del Morro just as the sun was peeking through the clouds, but the mile-long walkway that wove between Spanish city walls and turquoise waters sat nearly empty. As a landscape photographer, my husband was thrilled. As a cat lover, I was not. After 20 minutes of wandering and seeing a solitary tabby flick a disdainful tail in my direction, I began to wonder whether my husband had played a practical joke on me.

Then I heard the electric hum of a small golf cart puttering in my direction. It stopped 10 feet away from me. The motor generated a far more effective version of the pspspspsps that I had been trying for the last quarter-hour. Within seconds, the golf cart was swarmed by voracious, yodeling felines. Cats seemed to melt out of the rocks. I felt like I had been dropped into a scene that resulted from a Vulcan mind-meld of Salvador Dalí and T.S. Eliot.

After filling bowls with kibble and water, the volunteer from Save a Gato, a local nonprofit helping the Paseo's cats, tootled several hundred yards down the path, and the spectacle repeated itself. Some visitors had dubbed the mile-long trail the San Juan catwalk, and a quick perusal of the trail's reviews revealed that I wasn't the only one who enjoyed the feline spectacle.

So three years later, in October 2022, when I read an announcement by the National Park Service that they wanted community input on a cat management plan for the Paseo del Morro, I was confused. The cats almost seemed like they were part of the landscape. But it took only a few seconds for me to realize that no, they aren't. Not really. I gulped hard. Was the spectacle I so enjoyed actually destroying our planet?

San Juan is filled with street cats, many of which are strays and dependent on resident ailurophiles for food. Yet to ecologists, these kitties are one of the world's most dangerous invasive species. Félix López, cultural resources program manager at the San Juan National Historic Site, which includes the Paseo, told me the ongoing presence of more than 100 feral cats along the walkway prevents the park from conserving wildlife and the natural habitat there as it's mandated to do.

"We should not be feeding animals in any national park site," López says. "This is not right for the animal, not right for the environment and this is not right for us."

For nearly 20 years, Save a Gato has been trying to reduce the Paseo's cat population through the trap-neuter-return method, or TNR, as it's known by the feline cognoscenti. This includes spaying and neutering feral and unowned cats, and returning them to their outdoor homes. Cat numbers will decline naturally, and the remaining felines will prevent other cats from elbowing their way into the colony's land.

But López says the presence of Save a Gato also leads locals to abandon their unwanted kittens and cats at the Paseo. Many assume that the combination of kitty's natural independence, and the extra food and water the nonprofit provides, will be adequate for their erstwhile pets. As a result, the Paseo's cat population remains massive. Something, López says, must be done.

"This is an area where cats should not have been present from the beginning," he says. "The cats just basically made the site their home."

At community meetings in San Juan, the Park Service ran head-first into local cat lovers who objected to any efforts to manage the Paseo's cats. Management, they knew, meant euthanasia for the animals they had come to cherish. (NPS said they will make their final decision based on public comments.)

Many environmentalists disagree, however.

Forget the Hatfields and McCoys, or the Jets and the Sharks. One of the most vehement conflicts in modern America is between the Cat People and the Bird People. When Dara Wald held focus groups with various feline- and avian-focused nonprofits as part of her doctoral dissertation research at the University of Florida, she had to keep the wildlife organizations separate from the cat groups.

Those in cat rescue saw conservation groups as cat haters advocating for modern-day feline pogroms. Conservationists, in turn, painted rescue groups as full of crazy cat ladies whose brains were addled by Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite found in some cat feces. Addressing the cat's impact on the environment, however, requires the two sides to work together.

"It's not black and white," says Lynette McLeod, an environmental psychologist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. "It's about sitting down with people and not demonizing the other. It's trying to find solutions that can cater to all parties. There's no easy answer."

So what's a cat lover to do? Until I stuck a tentative toe into this debate, I didn't see an inherent conflict between my love of cats and my deep-seated beliefs in conservation. To a large extent, I still don't. But with an estimated 3o to 80 million unowned cats roaming the outdoors in the United States plus an additional 30% of the country's 60-80 million pet cats allowed outside and global bird numbers in free fall, we must all ask ourselves, which animals do we value, why, and are our cat problems instead human ones.

Sweet Kitty As Predator

I have shared my life with cats for 20 years. I love their sandpaper tongues, their commitment to the belief that they are starving and wasting away to nuffinks as soon as the bottom of their food bowl is visible. I love their conviction that not only are cats the best species, but they are also the epitome of what a cat should be. I love how my current cat - a mischievous six-year-old former mama cat named Ophelia - insists that her habit of following me from room to room like a brown- and orange-striped shadow, and curling up between my husband and me on the couch every evening is pure coincidence and most definitely not an indication that she loves us. Not at all.

I also know that Ophelia is a predator. As an indoor cat, her prey is limited to toes, pens and my hair. If she were outside, though, there would be carnage. But then this is why humans started keeping cats around. When humans began farming in the Middle East some 10,000 years ago, they found themselves storing grain surpluses. Lots of grain meant lots of rodents. Just as mice and rats were drawn to the smorgasbord of ready carbs, cats were drawn to the rodent buffet.

More courageous cats, who were able to cope with sharing space with other cats, benefitted from the easy access to rodents and whatever food scraps they could scavenge. As a bonus, they got shelter, some protection from predators and the occasional scratch behind the ears. Humans, for their part, got mobile rodent control and an adorable companion. While we encouraged this process, even helped facilitate it, it wasn't done with the same deliberation and care of, say, dogs and livestock. Instead, in an on-brand move for the species, cats domesticated themselves. Well, mostly.

Until the invention of kitty litter after World War II, even the most pampered of pussycats were often let outside to do their business. Whether it's due to less time living alongside humans or some other factor, cats retained a wildness that other house pets and so-called 'domestic' animals didn't have. And they still do.

Many municipalities in the U.S. have leash laws for dogs, requiring them when off the owner's property. Cat owners, however, often let their pets out by opening the door or installing a cat flap. Finding out where kitty spends their off-hours typically requires reconnaissance with neighbors or attaching a camera to their pet.

This autonomy is much of what makes cats so endearing, says researcher Lee Niel at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. The freedom to roam and ready access to the great outdoors is tied up in what many cat owners believe is fundamental to the very nature of cats. To have a good life - to reach the highest rung of cat-ness - cats need to go outside.

In a 2021 study of more than 5,100 cat owners from Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, researchers from the United Kingdom's Nottingham Trent University and the University of Edinburgh found that nearly two-thirds of cat owners let their cat outside for the cat's benefit. Kitty's benefit, however, comes at a cost to nature.

One study found that within a one-week period, although 44% of cats successfully hunted outdoors, they only returned with 23% of their prey.

"Because cats only bring a small proportion of their prey home, owners don't really see that impact," Niel says.

Arie Trouwborst, a nature conservation attorney at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, sees this issue as a major problem. Take, for example, many endangered species laws, which institute fines and other penalties for killing protected plants and animals. If you or your child did so, you would be fined. Same goes for your dog. But your cat? There, owners are often let off the hook.

"Many authorities will take the position that these rules do not actually apply, and that that it is okay to let these cats outdoors," he says.

Many cat owners shrug off the issue, Trouwborst says. For some, it's the same disconnect that Niel described in Guelph, a divide between what's known about cat behavior and what some cat owners think about their own, specific cats. To Trouwborst, the bigger issue is our tolerance of unrestrained roaming. The idea of unfettered, al fresco freedom is so elemental to felines - it's what makes a cat, a cat - that we don't question it.

When we see an unleashed dog running free, many of us call the owner or animal control. There's a tacit understanding that a dog must always be restrained, confined or supervised. A wandering kitty, on the other hand, typically elicits a shrug or a pspspspsps. It's reflected in how we hold dog owners responsible for the actions of their pets but more frequently let cat owners off the hook, Trouwborst says. What results, he writes in a 2020 paper in the journal People and Nature, is a giant loophole in endangered species legislation.

"We didn't come up with anything that might constitute a valid justification for not applying the law. So the hypothesis that's left is that this is just politically unattractive for government bodies to engage with," Trouborst says. Their solution? They simply ignore it, he says.

The problem, however, isn't just the occasional feline snacking on one of our feathered friends. Most parts of the environment are so disturbed by humans that a one-off predation wouldn't even be a blip on the radar. The problem is the sheer number of cats roaming the outdoors. Collectively, these house pets have an impact even if each individual cat isn't always a lean, mean, furry killing machine. Although I can't quantify the positive impact my cats have had on my life, their impact on the environment can be. And it's not pretty.

Each year, cats collectively kill billions of birds, rodents, insects, reptiles and amphibians. They routinely make lists of the world's worst invasive species. Free-ranging cats have been implicated in the extinction of Lyall's wren in New Zealand and contributed to the extinction of 33 other species , and are considered a major threat to others, especially on an island like New Zealand - where birds, otherwise, have no natural land predators. To conservationists, it's a major crisis.

What's In A Name?

Pet cats aren't the only ones causing this murder and mayhem. A major issue that's far more challenging than merely deciding to keep Fluffy inside is the large number of unowned cats roaming our streets and wilderness. One of the biggest challenges is figuring out what the heck to call them.

The most common term is feral cat. Unlike a stray cat that may be fearful but has had some contact with humans, feral cats have limited to no contact with humans and remain highly fearful. Even the friendliest housecat can have kittens that grow up to be feral if they don't become comfortable around humans in their early development, between three to 12 weeks.

"It's not a descriptor with positive connotations," says Kris Hill, a doctoral student in anthrozoology at England's University of Exeter. "It's not an endearment or a good word."

The definition of feral has life-or-death implications. Being labeled as "feral" is often grounds for being euthanized at many animal shelters. Even so-called "no-kill" shelters can euthanize animals with "severe or untreatable illnesses or behavior issues," according to the American Humane Society. In Australia, legislation classifies feral cats as pests and permits communities to poison, trap and shoot the cats under certain circumstances. Some U.S. municipalities have laws banning people from feeding feral cats while simultaneously requiring owners of pet cats to provide them with adequate food and shelter. Same animal, different rules.

Using the word "feral" is a way for us to mentally distance ourselves from the cat - to "other" it, Hill says. As I speak with Hill, I realize that many of us have a disconnect about feral cats that's the flip side of our attitude toward outdoor cats. We think of the feral cat as a cold-blooded killer unlike the beloved sweet kitty - as capable of similar assault - that curls up on our cat tree at home and later, purrs us into a deep slumber.

Feral cats have gained the reputation of being disease-ridden, aggressive and anti-social. There's some truth to this. Unfixed cats fight and yowl at all hours of the day. Cats spray urine to mark their territory, tomcats to signal their reproductive availability, which can leave a musky, pungent smell. Cat intestines are also required for the single-celled parasite Toxoplasma to complete its life cycle, and can cause disease in humans and other mammals. Scientists have identified devastating Toxoplasma outbreaks in marine mammals, infected when contaminated water made its way to the sea. But this doesn't mean that feral cats don't have rich social lives with other cats or that they should be universally reviled, Hill says.

It's a view that's shared by many who advocate for TNR as a humane, compassionate way to reduce the number of unowned cats. Hard evidence on whether TNR works is scarce and inconclusive. So, for that matter, is evidence of the efficacy of euthanizing feral cats. But not everyone believes that TNR is humane or appropriate.

Bird conservation organizations like the National Audubon Society and the American Bird Conservancy condemn TNR as ineffective and inappropriate. Spayed and neutered cats still hunt, after all. Even People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals objects, arguing that "although altering feral cats prevents future generations from suffering, it does not protect cats from the litany of other problems that they may encounter.

Allowing feral cats to continue their daily struggle for survival in a hostile environment is rarely a humane option." Often the best option, PETA says, is euthanizing the cats. What's more, the presence of cared-for feral cat colonies encourages people to dump their unwanted cats. The TNR challenges faced by Save a Gato in San Juan are echoed across the United States and around the world.

If humans can't agree on what a feral cat is and what it means to live your life as a feral animal, then it's probably not surprising that we also can't agree on how to approach the problem of feral cats. As Wald spoke to wildlife advocates and cat rescues across Florida, she found that nearly everyone recognized that the state had far too many unowned cats and that communities needed to bring those numbers down. But even this agreement on the fundamentals of an issue isn't enough to convince both sides to work together. Different values and priorities make that seemingly impossible.

Both sides, Wald says, value animal life. Cat advocates told her that their beloved four-legged felines have as much right to life as other animals, and are only one of many species that kill birds and rodents. (After all, bird populations are in decline for many reasons, including habitat loss largely from agriculture, climate change, pesticides and toxins, other invasive species, and their deaths from collisions with glass and other industrial infrastructure.)

Birders and wildlife lovers say that the value of a wild species far outweighs that of feral and pet cats. Whereas nearly half of all global bird species are in decline, according to a 2022 State of the Birds report by the North American Bird Conservation Initiative, Felis catus isn't going anywhere.

The point of Wald's research isn't to tell communities what species to value, but to figure out how they can come together to address the problem. Officials in Canberra, Australia, for example, created a rule that all newly-adopted cats must be kept indoors, allowing older cats to continue to roam in most neighborhoods. Within a few years, the city's cat population will be exclusively inside-only (or leashed when outside). Miami-Dade Animal Services in Florida has started paying volunteers $15 for every adult feral cat that they trap and spay or neuter.

What made these programs work is the recognition that the problem with cats has nothing to do with cats at all. The issue is a fundamentally human problem. Even basic veterinary care can be inaccessible to some pet owners. We let our cats roam instead of keeping them inside or taking a page from the social media hashtag, #adventurecats, and walking them on a leash. We provide food but don't spay and neuter them. And when we move, we don't or can't always take our cats with us.

Even I, knowing all this, played a part by relishing the presence of the cats along Old San Juan's walkway. While the chances that I will ever turn down the chance to pet a cat are minimal, I also can't deny that everyone - residents, tourists, local wildlife, even the cats themselves - would be better off if all cats had indoor homes and the Paseo was magically feline-free. The presence of so many unowned felines is a human failing, and we owe it to ourselves and the animals we love to do better.

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here are, littered throughout the history of video games, certain years of radical, fundamental change. We can look at the major crashes in the US games industry in 1977 and 1983, where bloated software libraries and hardware gluts destroyed confidence in the medium and cleared out dozens of companies. We can also look at the arrival of the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1994, which made 32-bit processors and rendered 3D visuals the entire focus of the industry, expunging a generation of competing products, from the Philips CD-i to the Atari Jaguar. I think 2023 could be one of those years of radical change, not because of some major new technical landmark, but because the structure of the games industry is now dissolving and remaking itself.

First, we're going to see a lot more consolidation this year, as major corporations bet on continued growth in the gaming sector. The big precursors were Microsoft's 2021 purchase of Bethesda and Take-Two's acquisition of Zynga last year, but that was just the beginning. Tech giants Amazon, Alphabet and Meta are circling the industry eyeing up legacy publishers such as Square Enix and Electronic Arts to get a foothold in the industry, and a neat leg up toward what they all think is the next big thing: the metaverse. But it's Microsoft's ongoing attempt to take over Activision, currently being investigated by competition regulators in the US, Europe and the UK, that will be a major focus during 2023.

Whatever way this plays out, there will be vast ramifications. Jon Shiring, co-founder of new studio Gravity Well, is an industry veteran who previously worked on Call of Duty at Infinity Ward and Apex Legends at Respawn Entertainment. He is sceptical about Microsoft's chances. "Can you find any examples of a company successfully beating the FTC? I can't ... Plus, will Activision shareholders sit around for years waiting to find out?"

Call of Duty is set to play a vital role in Microsoft's attempt to purchase Activision. Photograph: Activision Blizzard

But Shiring is also clear why the deal is vital to Xbox. "Microsoft wants to get Game Pass on other platforms," he says - Game Pass being Xbox's game subscription service, offering a library of titles for a monthly fee. "Making hardware sucks [as a business]: they just want to offer a subscription. Sony is absolutely terrified of allowing Game Pass on PlayStation - this has been going on for a while behind the scenes ... If Microsoft can get a good chunk of gamers paying a monthly sub on their competitor's boxes, they will have taken a page from the old MS playbook. Embrace and Extend is back. Let the other folks lose money on hardware, you take the profit every month."

This is only part of a broader economic vibe shift set to hit the industry this year. "The global games market declined in 2022, so how it's going to respond in 2023 is one of the key questions at the start of the year," says Piers Harding-Rolls, research director at industry analysis firm, Ampere Games. "The market is less predictable than it has been for many years due to the difficult macroeconomic backdrop, the post-pandemic consumer cool-off, the Ukraine war, changes to mobile privacy, delays in game development, China market disruption, market and competition regulation, and less than optimum availability of console hardware."

Harding-Rolls says he expects the console market to stabilise in 2023, but there are underlying issues caused in part by the Covid crisis, and things are going to be especially tough for new or small studios. "Finances in 2023 are bleak," says Shiring. "Some publishing deals were signed with a fixed budget in 2021 or earlier, and 10% inflation has eaten a big hole in that money. Studios have to figure out how to do more with less." He also says that many studios that acquired venture capital support in 2022, but not enough to actually ship a game, may find that their next investment rounds won't raise as much as expected due to the shaky economy; so now they're potentially over-valued and under-funded.

It's not just an economic shift that developers are going to have to deal with. Cultural changes are happening fast, and audiences and game types once considered niche are likely to become much more important going forward. "In recent years, we've seen an increase in video game genres diversifying and appealing to completely new audiences," says award-winning game developer Lucy Blundell. " Wholesome Games, for example, has tapped into a thirsty market for cosy games, so I believe we'll start to see more of this in 2023, with specialised curation and streams coming from all corners of the industry. Like books and movies, video games now have something for everyone, and 'Game of the Year' lists will become much more tailored to the individual."

Game developer Lucy Blundell sees cosy games as an increasingly important genre. Her next project Videoverse is an exploration of teen lives on old-school gaming networks. Photograph: Lucy Blundell

Blundell expects to see a new generation of player-creators using cheap development tools to make games that explore Gen Z hot topics such as gender, sexuality and mental health. And while autobiographical and issue-based games have been a feature of the indie sector for years, the sheer power and influence of this generation could have a much more profound effect from now on. Look at how Netflix, currently the major entertainment source for young adults, is now being seriously threatened by TikTok with its emphasis on user-generated, meme-based, hyper-aware content. Gen Z's progressive voice, and its ability to rally support - and condemnation - for major brands is a very big deal. It will be interesting to see how Harry Potter tie-in Hogwarts Legacy fares this year, considering the backlash against JK Rowling's gender critical stance from Harry Potter's core millennial fanbase.

In a febrile atmosphere of economic uncertainty, generational change and platform diversity, the old certainties of game design are likely to collapse - including the whole concept of genre. "The notion of genre can be considered as a way of grouping works within a medium to market to people, so that they are buying things that are similar to something they already like," says game designer and consultant Will Luton. "But as access to content is now so cheap and easy in music, movies, TV and games, the need for genres starts break down. This is exacerbated by influencers and algorithmic delivery that can more accurately uncover good content that you like."

Titles such as Vampire Survivors represent the merging of genres into uncategorisable gaming forms

Luton thinks games are behind the curve when it comes to the era of genre entropy, but the success of difficult-to-categorise titles such as Fall Guys and Vampire Survivors hints that we're catching up. "Musicians such as Lil Nas X, who combines rap, hip-hop, country and pop, or directors like Bong Joon-ho, who combines drama, comedy, horror, crime and sci-fi themes in his movies, are decidedly post-genre ... This year and beyond we're going to see less strict adherence to genre, as a new generation of designers who cut teeth across lots of platforms and game types, begin to get works to market."

The concept of genre is dissolving, but so is the very divide between passive screen entertainment (movies, TV) and interactive media (video games). Look at how television is now exploring fresh forms of game-like content with the arrival of explorative new shows such as The Traitors, The Rehearsal and Kaleidoscope, which blur the boundaries between role-play, interactivity and narrative. Look at the success of Sam Barlow's game Immortality, a modern reinterpretation of the interactive movie concept.

The forces at work in 2023 are affecting every facet of the video games industry, from production to funding to player culture. It's the sort of perfect storm that has led to seismic change in the past. And 2023 may just be the maelstrom from which the modern video game industry truly emerges.

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Young people have high levels of distress about climate change, and a new study argues that their anguish could be key to fighting it.

"People of all ages are being affected by the climate crisis. Young people in particular, though, will live through more of the unfolding hazards of the climate crisis than older generations," said researcher Emma Lawrance, mental health innovations fellow at Imperial College London's Institute of Global Health Innovation.

"Children born today will experience seven times the number of heat waves of their grandparents, for instance," she noted. "At the same time, they are not yet in traditional positions of power to make the changes they know are urgently needed to safeguard their future."

For the research, Lawrance and her colleagues surveyed 539 people in the United Kingdom between 16 and 24 years of age.

In all, 64.3% had moderate or high levels of climate distress. Those with diagnosed mental health conditions were significantly more likely to be among this group.

Those who were more well-to-do had significantly higher odds for experiencing moderate as opposed to low climate distress.

And guys were less likely to have high levels of climate distress.

A child psychiatrist in New York hears the alarm coming from young people all the time.

"If you speak to many young people today they will often say, 'I'm worried about the notion of bringing a baby into the world. Why would we want to bring a baby into the world given the state of the planet?'" said Dr. Victor Fornari of Northwell Health in Glen Oaks, N.Y., who reviewed the findings.

"I think there is a great deal of concern we hear about on a daily basis," he added, "Some of the serious impact of climate change, whether it's fires in North America, fires in Hawaii, a recent hurricane in Southern California that hadn't happened for almost 90 years, concerns about flooding, what will the sea level be like, what coastline cities are at most vulnerable risk."

In the survey, climate distress was associated with several social/psychological impacts, including frustration over inaction; lack of control/agency, and feelings of guilt or shame about one's own contributions.

But here's the good news: 86% of comments left by survey participants expressed hope about the future of climate change action.

"I hope that world leaders will take the issue of climate change more seriously," one respondent wrote.

Respondents who had higher levels of climate distress were more likely to see positives in taking action -- especially the perceived improvement of health and well-being from adopting eco-friendly practices; gaining a sense of purpose and identity through climate action, and being able to set an example for others.

The authors said this hope can promote personal resilience as well as a way to form community, which could, in turn, help respondents better manage stress, live longer and want to fight climate change.

The researchers also found that respondents with higher levels of climate distress were more likely to engage in climate activism, especially if they had externally focused emotions, versus withdrawing.

Pro-environmental behavior included activities like cycling instead of driving to see friends; recycling or reducing single-use plastic; and, less often, civic participation or political activism.

But while young people are not yet the ones in power, Lawrance argued, governments and corporations need to step up.

"The main action legislators need to take is to ... phase out fossil fuels." she said. "Taking sufficient and visible climate action will reduce the direct impacts of climate change on mental health, while also reducing the anxiety that largely comes from seeing insufficient action in the face of known and growing threats."

Also vital, in Lawrance's view: Creating opportunities for young people's voices to be meaningfully included in climate decision-making.

Doing so, she argued, will not only help the planet, but also the next generation's stress level.

"There are many win-win opportunities or co-benefits to taking climate action for mental health and wellbeing of children," Lawrance said. "[By taking] actions needed to slow climate change and cope with its effects, such as reducing air pollution and access to green space, strengthening social connection in communities, decreasing inequalities, properly insulating buildings and improving active transport [better options for walking and cycling], for instance, legislators can create conditions that better foster good mental health and safeguard from mental illness."

SOURCES: Emma Lawrance, DPhil, MSc, faculty of medicine, Institute of Global Health Innovation, lead policy fellow for mental health, Imperial College London, U.K.; Victor Fornari, MD, child/adolescent psychiatry, Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, N.Y.; PLOS Global Public Health, Aug. 23, 2023

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Grammy-winning singer Shakira will become the first South American artist to receive MTV 's Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the channel's Video Music Awards on Sept. 12. The singer will also perform at the ceremony, which is presented by Toyota and will air live from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

The four-time VMA winner received four nods this year for "Best Collaboration," "Best Latin" (twice) and "Artist of the Year."

"Shakira is a true global force who continues to inspire & influence the masses with her unique, musical prowess. She's a trailblazer for women around the world & one of the first artists to lead the globalization of Latin music," said Bruce Gillmer, President of Music, Music Talent, Programming & Events, Paramount and Chief Content Officer, Music, Paramount+. "Her massive impact across the musical landscape will be long lasting as she continues to create and entertain at the highest level."

Previous Michael Jackson Vanguard Award recipients include Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Janet Jackson, LL Cool J, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake and Missy Elliott. David Bowie, The Beatles and director Richard Lester shared the honor at the first-ever VMAs (1984).

PERFORMERS: Demi Lovato, Karol G, Måneskin and Stray Kids, with more to be announced.

NOMINATIONS: Taylor Swift (8) leads, closely followed by SZA (6), Doja Cat, Kim Petras, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Olivia Rodrigo and Sam Smith (5 each), and BLACKPINK, Diddy and Shakira (4 each).

VOTING: Fans can vote for their favorites across 15 gender-neutral categories, including the highly-coveted "Video of the Year," presented by Burger King®, by visiting vote.mtv.com through Friday, September 1st; voting for "Best New Artist" will remain active into the show on Tuesday, September 12th. Nominations for social categories including "Group of the Year" and "Song of Summer" presented by M&M'S®, will be announced at a later date.

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NORTHRIDGE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a man who allegedly charged at them with a knife on Sunday in Northridge, the LAPD says.

The incident happened around 11:18 a.m. Sunday in the area of Malden Street and Canby Avenue.

The LAPD says patrol officers with the Devonshire division were speaking to a man who was standing near the exterior stairwell of an apartment complex.

The department says while the officers were talking with the man he armed himself with a knife and charged at them. They shot and struck him.

They began rendering aid and requested an ambulance but Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics declared the man dead at the scene.

No other injuries to officers or bystanders were reported. The knife was recovered. The incident remains under investigation.

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On Wednesday, Aug. 30, you'll no doubt hear the mainstream media proclaiming that on that night we will have an opportunity to witness a "supermoon." It's a term, or more specifically, a branding, of relatively recent origin. It originated not from astronomy, but astrology; first coined by an astrologer, who arbitrarily defined it as "a full moon which occurs with the moon at or near (within 90-percent of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit (perigee)."

Indeed, at 12 noon ET on that fifth Wednesday of August, the moon will arrive at perigee, its closest point in its orbit relative to Earth at 221,942 miles (357,181 km) away. And 9 hours and 36 minutes later, the moon will officially turn full. Although a full moon theoretically lasts just a moment, that moment is imperceptible to ordinary observation, and for a day or so before and after, most will speak of seeing the nearly full moon as "full": The shaded strip is so narrow, and changing in apparent width so slowly, that it is hard for the naked eye to tell whether it's present or which side it is.

And in addition to its " supermoon" status, this particular full moon will be the second to occur in the month of August, the first having occurred on Aug. 1. As a result, the second full moon of August on the 30th, will be also branded as a "Blue" moon. So, for what it's worth, what we'll have will be a "Super ."

However, unless there is some unusual atmospheric condition present such as airborne dust, ash or smoke, the moon will not appear blue but its normal yellow-white self. Nonetheless, thanks to mainstream media hyperbole, many will likely look forward to getting a view of this big late summer moon.
Related: August Super Blue Moon guide 2023
If you are hoping to catch a look at the full moon, our guide to the best binoculars could help you find some nice wide-angle optics for taking in larger areas of the lunar surface. Or, if you want to take a closer look at the features of the moon, our guide to the best telescopes can help you find the gear you need.

And if you're looking to take photos of our natural satellite or the night sky in general, check out our guide on how to photograph the moon, as well as our best cameras for astrophotography and best lenses for astrophotography.

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But there is also a drawback: A full moon nearly coinciding with perigee means that for several days around Aug. 30, the range of tides will be much larger than normal; low tides will be unusually low while high tides will run unusually high, perhaps even resulting in minor coastal flooding.

Such an extreme tide is known as a perigean spring tide, the word spring being derived from the German springen - to "spring up," and is not - as is often mistaken - a reference to the spring season. Every month, spring tides occur when the moon is full and new. At these times the moon and the sun form a line with the Earth, so their tidal effects add together. (The sun exerts a little less than half the tidal force of the moon.) "Neap tides," on the other hand, occur when the moon is at first and last quarter and works at cross-purposes with the sun. At these times tides are weak.

Tidal force varies as the inverse cube of an object's distance. On Wednesday the moon is 14 percent closer at perigee than at apogee. Therefore, it exerts 48 percent more tidal force during the spring tides of Aug. 30 than the spring tides near apogee two weeks earlier on Aug. 16.

And if a significant storm or a hurricane is offshore, working in concert with the already high-water levels, the consequences could lead to rough seas, beach erosion and major flooding.

We can only hope that such meteorological conditions do not materialize this year, though it should be pointed out that the traditional peak of the Atlantic hurricane season comes less than two weeks later, on Sept. 10.

Supermoon branding "watered down"

For years, astronomers classified a full moon that coincided with perigee as a "perigean full moon." A term that received little or no fanfare.

Now, it seems that every time a full moon coincides with perigee, it is referred to as a "supermoon." Some newscasters - in an apparent effort to hold your attention - refer to this occurrence as "rare," even though, in actuality, the moon turning full within hours of it arriving at perigee is not really such a rare occurrence.

In fact, on average, it occurs at an interval of once about every 413 days.

After next Wednesday, the next time this will happen will be on Oct. 17, 2024.

And yet the full moon of Aug. 1, which occurred about 11 and a half hours before perigee, as well as next month's full moon on Sept. 29 which comes nearly 33 hours after perigee, are also being branded as supermoons, seemingly because they fall within 90-percent of moon's closest approach to Earth. Or in other words, within the top 10-percent of the closest full moons for a given year.

So now in most years we have not just one but four "supermoons." In some years, there might be as few as two while in other years there could be as many as five!

(Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night)

But just how "rare" or "super" is that?

Unrealistic expectations: Bigger?

And while Wednesday's moon will be - as the Observer's Handbook of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada suggests - the "largest full moon of 2023," (14% larger in apparent size compared to a full moon at apogee - its farthest from Earth) the variation of the moon's distance is not readily apparent to observers viewing the moon directly.

So, if you step outside and look at the moon on Wednesday night and expect to see something special, you'll likely be disappointed. There are always many images published on the internet in advance of a "Supermoon," displaying exceedingly large full moons, all taken with telephoto lenses, all implying that the moon is going to look amazingly large in the sky.

In fact, with no advance knowledge of the closeness of the full moon, it's likely most people would not notice any difference between Wednesday's full moon and any other full moon. However, once the "supermoon" concept is suggested, these same people will step outside, look up and declare that the moon does look much larger than normal; similar to the way the phrase "emperor's new clothes" has become an idiom about logical fallacies.

Brighter?

Then there is the issue regarding the moon's brightness. Websites speak of the "supermoon" appearing "30 percent brighter than other full moons." But that actually corresponds to a minuscule increase of less than three tenths of a magnitude; so, the moonlight on Wednesday night will not be exceptionally bright.

Yet, there are likely those who think that they will be seeing an exceptionally dazzling full moon that night. In June 2013, a friend of mine told me that she was expecting that year's version of the "supermoon" to look 'radically brighter,' "Like with those 3-way light bulbs; I thought it was going to be like turning the moonlight up a notch."

(Image credit: Gordon Gillet/ESO)

Instead, the moon's brightness looked no different compared to previous nights.

The moon illusion

Wednesday's moon might still appear enormous, but for a different reason.

When the perigee moon lies close to the horizon it can appear absolutely enormous. That is when the famous "moon illusion" combines with reality to produce a truly stunning view. For reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, a low-hanging moon looks incredibly large when hovering near to trees, buildings and other foreground objects.

The fact that the moon will be much closer than usual on Wednesday will only serve to amplify this strange effect.

So, a perigee moon, either rising in the east at sunset or dropping down in the west at sunrise might seem to make the moon appear so close that it almost appears that you could touch it. You can check out this out for yourself by first noting the times for moonrise and moonset for your area by going to this U.S. Naval Observatory website.

Don't overlook Saturn!

A full moon is positioned opposite to the sun in the sky. As it turns out, three days before the moon reaches this point in the sky, the planet Saturn will arrive at opposition to the sun, when it too is opposite to the sun in the sky. So, on Wednesday night, Saturn will "photobomb" the moon, being situated about 5 and a half degrees to its upper right.

Saturn of course is much farther than our nearest neighbor; it will be situated 814.6 million miles (1.31 billion km) or 73 light minutes from Earth. The ringed wonder will shine like a sedate yellow-white "star." The famous rings will be tilted 9-degrees toward Earth and are visible in high powered binoculars or small spotting scopes magnifying at least 25-power.
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmers' Almanac and other publications.
And so, regardless of exactly how you perceive Wednesday's full moon, we here at Space.com wish all of you clear, moonlit skies.

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When a Mississippi alligator hunter set out on the opening day of the season Aug. 25, he had no idea he would meet up with the largest alligator ever officially recorded in the state.

He also didn't know it would take him and three other men in his party seven hours to land him.

"We got on the water right at dark," said Donald Woods of Oxford, Mississippi. "We were seeing a lot of alligators. It was a calm night. We saw a lot of 8-footers, 10-footers, but that's not what we were after."

Woods, the tag-holder, was hunting on the Yazoo River with Joey Clark of Jackson, Will Thomas of Madison and Tanner White of Flora. He said they've harvested plenty of big alligators in the past, so they weren't going to settle for something smaller the first night.

"We've been hunting these things a long time," Woods said. "We've killed a lot of 12-footers."

However, it wasn't long before they saw one that caught their attention.

Huge alligator trashes equipment

"We knew he was wide," Woods said. "His back was humongous. It was like we were following a jon boat."

At 9 p.m., Woods got a hook on the alligator and the next seven hours resulted in broken lines, broken tackle and a broken state record.

"We held onto him a while - until 10 or so," Woods said. "He broke my rod at that point.

"We hooked him eight or nine times and he kept breaking off. He would go down, sit and then take off. He kept going under logs. He knew what he was doing. The crazy thing is he stayed in that same spot."

At that point the hunters were getting an idea of how large the alligator was.
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"There was no moving him," Woods said. "We couldn't do anything with him.

"He dictated everything we did. It was exhausting, but you're adrenaline is going so you don't notice it. It was more mentally exhausting than anything because he kept getting off."

After fighting through the night and well into the next morning, Woods said the alligator finally starting tiring. And it couldn't have happened at a better time. Wood said almost all of their rods and reels were unusable.

"We were down to pretty much down to those two rods and reels at that point," Woods said.

Hunters begin to realize how big the alligator was

Woods said at 3:30 a.m. they were able to get the alligator to the boat, secure it and dispatch it. They had him in the boat at 4 a.m.. Again, they were getting a better understanding of its size, but not fully.

"We just knew we had a big alligator," Woods said. "We were just amazed at how wide his back was and how big the head was. It was surreal, to tell you the truth."
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Once on land, they measured the alligator and it was in the 14-foot range. When officially measured by Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Alligator Program coordinator Andrew Arnett, the alligator came in at 14 feet, 3 inches and weighed 802.5 pounds. It bested the previous record set in 2017 of 14 feet, 3/4 inches.
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So, what does Woods plan to do after catching an alligator like that?

"We're done with chasing big ones this year," Woods said. "I might even call it a career after that, honestly."

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Simone Biles has done it again.

Arguably the greatest gymnast of all time added to her already legendary resume by clinching the all-around title at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships on Sunday for the eighth time in her career, setting a new record for most all-time.
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Janna Clinton was sitting on her back porch watching her son Charlie, 11, fish in a pond behind their house in Oklahoma this past weekend when he suddenly started yelling for her.

"He was screaming, 'Oh my God, mom! Oh my God!' " Clinton told NPR.

"I thought he was just being dramatic, to be honest," she added.

Then she got a close look at Charlie's alarmingly weird catch.

"Obviously being in a neighborhood pond, we're used to just catching a few bass or catfish," she said. "I mean, nothing with human-like teeth."

It turned out that Charlie had landed a pacu, a fish that's a cousin of the piranha - and whose outsized teeth have long struck fear in swimmers. The pacu is a native of South America, but this one was swimming in a small pond in the Clintons' suburb north of Oklahoma City.

"He said it put up a heck of a fight," Janna told NPR, saying her son reeled the fish in on his own. "He was the only one down there fishing and he did a great job."

The pacu was released back into the water

The Clintons posted a photo of the unusual fish to their neighborhood Facebook page and got in touch with a game warden. But before learning of its provenance, they returned the pacu to the water.

"It's a catch and release pond," Janna said, "so we unfortunately did release it back because we didn't know any better at the time."

People who later recognized the fish said it was invasive and shouldn't be released, she said, adding, "We made a mistake there."

Since then, Charlie has been stalking the fish.

"He did stay at the ponds pretty late that night trying to catch it again," Janna said, adding that her son has been rising early and staying at the pond late, hoping to get another bite from that pacu.

If Charlie succeeds, a neighbor has offered to eat the pacu. But Janna Clinton has other ideas.

"If he catches it again, we're going to get it mounted for him. I think that's a heck of a prize and he deserves it," she said. "I told him we'd make it look like the fish was smiling so you could see its teeth."

The wildlife agency blames a pet owner for the pacu's presence

Game wardens believe the pacu was a pet that outgrew its tank and was released into the wild.

"How dare you," the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation said, addressing the fish's previous owner via Twitter and setting off a lively exchange with surprised members of the public.

"WHY DOES IT HAVE HUMAN TEETH," a dismayed commenter asked. "IDK WE DIDN'T MAKE THEM," the wildlife agency replied.

When asked what kind of bait Charlie used to entice the pacu to bite, his mother said, "You're going to laugh. It was just a piece of bread."

Pacu have been found in Oklahoma before

Not only is this not the first pacu caught in Oklahoma - it's not the first time one's been hooked by an 11-year-old in the state. Charlie follows in the footsteps of Kennedy Smith of Lindsay, Okla., who caught a pacu five years ago.

"These fish are generally harmless to humans, but the practice of dumping unwanted pets in waterways can be incredibly harmful to native wildlife," the wildlife agency said via Facebook. It warned that pacu can grow to sizes up to 3.5 feet and 88 pounds.

As for whether the invasive pacu is becoming more common in Oklahoma, Kelly Adams, a communication and education supervisor at the agency, told NPR, "This is not an increasing trend. I'd say every couple of years we get a report."

Anyone who catches a pacu should keep the fish and contact a game warden, Adams said.

The fish also has a scary nickname

Along with its creepy appearance, the pacu has a troubling nickname: "the ball cutter," a label that stems from its purported habit of attacking men's testicles. That dubious distinction prompted warnings for skinny-dippers in Scandinavia after one of the fish was caught in the wild in 2013.

"It's not normal to get your testicles bitten off, of course, but it can happen, especially now in Sweden," fish expert Henrik Carl said at the time, although he warned that people were still more likely to die from drowning than from a pacu attack.

In reality, the red-bellied pacu and related species actually rely on nuts and seeds from fruit trees and plants as a main food source, according to Animal Diversity Web, a project by the University of Michigan's school of zoology. Still, the animals are omnivores - and their appetite grows with their size.

If one pacu is a nuisance, multiple pacus are a problem. Their feeding behavior revolves around "bite events," the Michigan website says, "with each event containing a number of individual bites, which is similar to the feeding behavior observed in true piranhas."

They're supposedly delicious

The fish is known for having a mild, slightly sweet flavor. And in some cases, rogue pacu have been suspected of reaching far-flung waters after being imported by fish farmers.

A 1997 U.S. academic study found the taste of pacu to be "comparable to that of hybrid striped bass, tilapia, and rainbow trout, but superior to catfish."

As for what it's like to catch a pacu, it's not easy. They're known to be very elusive.

Here's how British fisherman Jeremy Wade, who once caught a 40-pound pacu in Papua New Guinea, described the experience in 2011:

"When I reeled it in, it had this mouth which was surprisingly human-like, it is almost like they have teeth specially made for crushing.

"They are like human molars and the fish have powerful jaw muscles. They are very deep bodied and solid like a carp, with strong muscles."

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BOSTON - Boston Police were called in to break up large fights outside two movie theaters Sunday during National Cinema Day.

It started late in the afternoon outside the AMC theaters in the South Bay shopping center. Police said there was a "large group" involved in a fight and that officers made "multiple arrests."

People heading to the movies said AMC employees were turning customers away from the theater as crowds of teens grew too big for them to handle.

"When we went to the movie theater, AMC, they were guarding the door," said Dorchester resident Brittney, who was hoping to see Barbie. "They said they had shut down everything and that we would get an automatic refund for our tickets."

Sunday was National Cinema Day and many theaters in the country were offering $4 tickets.

Several stores in the plaza closed early because of the chaos. Target stacked shopping carts up behind the glass doors to ensure no one could get in. Dozens of officers could be seen in cell phone video trying to calm the crowds.

"Always craziness, I'm not even surprised this happened," said Dorchester resident Mayan Isabel. She and her family were on a Target run, only to be turned away. "I was trying to get the baby some diapers and Pampers for the night and I can't even go do that right here, so I have to go somewhere else now."

Less than two weeks ago, police arrested three 13-year-olds at the shopping center after they allegedly attacked a person. Another 13-year-old was arrested for allegedly interfering with a police officer and resisting arrest.

The second incident happened just before 10 p.m. Sunday at the AMC Boston Common movie theater. Police told WBZ-TV there was a report of a fight involving "a large group" and that "multiple arrests" were made.

No other information has been released about either incident at this point in the investigations.

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Nick Giovanni

First published on August 27, 2023 / 11:26 PM

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