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TAYLOR Swift has revealed massive news regarding what she’ll do for the conclusion of her iconic Eras Tour.
The 14-time Grammy winner revealed her next career move as part of an exclusive announcement on Good Morning America last week.
Swift shared that she will be become an author to the surprise of fans.
The So Long, London singer will officially release her career’s very first book.
Swift’s book will be about the Eras Tour, which she calls “the most wonderous tour of her life.
It will feature 256 pages of never-before-seen photos from the tour and “stories and memories from Taylor herself.”
Swift will also release physical copies of the complete anthology of her popular album The Torture Poets Department.
The two products will be Target exclusives and available for fans to order beginning on Black Friday.
The ABC morning program broadcast GMA gave Swifties the excitement on Tuesday morning as they teased “the announcement from the popstar turning the page on a new era.”
The news comes after years in which fans begged the musician to release a book.
The Eras Tour is reported as the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, garnering more than $1 billion in ticket sales.
Swift has been performing the Eras Tour for the last year across the globe.
Early this year, she performed in Japan and quickly flew to Las Vegas to watch her boyfriend and NFL star Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl.
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end has returned the favor and has appeared at numerous Swift concerts, including a London leg during the summer.
She appeared at 13 Chiefs games last year after her relationship with Kelce started last summer.
Swift has been to three Chiefs games this season.
Over the weekend, Swift performed her Eras Tour in Miami.
She will perform in New Orleans, Indianapolis, Toronto, and Vancouver before ending the tour on December 8.
Kelce, meanwhile, played in the Chiefs’ Week 7 game versus the San Francisco 49ers.
Kansas City won the rematch of February’s Super Bowl as they remain undefeated at 6-0.
Kelce posted just four receptions for 17 yards in the contest.
His underwhelming performance comes after recording nine receptions for 70 in the Chiefs’ Week 5 victory over the New Orleans Saints
Swift was in attendance at the Monday Night Football Matchup.
SONIC X Shadow Generations felt like a game that was created specifically with me in mind.
The original Sonic Generations is my favourite 3D Sonic game, and one of the few that managed to capture the innovation and joy of the 2D Mega Drive games.
Each stage in Sonic Generations is based on a fan-favourite level from another Sonic game, such as Green Hill Zone, Chemical Plant Zone, and City Escape.
They each have a ‘classic’ and ‘modern’ reimagining as well as eight challenge levels providing plenty of variety.
Challenges are very diverse, and you can grab special power ups, have one of Sonic’s friends to help out, take part in a no-hit challenge, among many more types.
There were also great upgrades for going above and beyond, including new abilities and skills you could equip for fully completing levels and challenges.
I say all of this because Shadow Generations has none of these things, and it feels like the developers fundamentally misunderstood what made the original Sonic game so good.
Firstly, there is no ‘classic’ Shadow. All of the levels are in the ‘modern’ style and there are only six of them.
During the main story there are also only two challenge levels per stage, and you have to beat all of them to complete the game.
The hub world is also in 3D instead of the original’s 2D, I assume in an effort to capture the magic from Sonic Frontiers.
However, there is a lot of verticality in the level and Shadow is far more unpredictable than Sonic to control.
Add to that his new powers which are equally unwieldy, and the buggy nature where you clip through the floor, and it’s intensely frustrating to navigate.
There is no real reward for pushing yourself to fully complete levels. You can unlock some art and music tracks, but it doesn’t give you any skills to make Shadow easier to control.
Compared to Sonic, his movement is very slippery, and you’ll often overshoot your mark or skid over platforms.
This wouldn’t be so much of a problem if the levels were well designed, but unlike Sonic Generations, there are few fail safes if you fall off the edge.
Sonic levels are built with verticality and alternate paths, but if Shadow falls off, it’s usually back to the last checkpoint.
In Sonic Generations you face Shadow a few times, and in Shadow Generations it makes you think you’ll face off against Sonic too.
However, these are just fake outs, as you simply watch those levels play out with no control over Shadow.
Shadow Generations takes just three to four hours to complete and feels completely underwhelming.
There are also no levels from Shadow’s main game, Shadow the Hedgehog, to unlock. There aren’t even any levels based on levels from Shadow the Hedgehog.
In the original Generations you could unlock the entirety of Sonic the Hedgehog, which was a delightful bonus for your hard work.
This has been stripped from the remaster, removing one of the things that made Sonic Generations so special.
Sonic Generations is still a great game, but the changes made in the remaster feel all over the place.
The removal of Sonic the Hedgehog is the worst of these, but others feel like no thought went into them.
There are cute Chao hidden in every level, and fans have begged for the return of Chao Garden.
But the Chao just float around near the levels and you can’t really interact with them.
The removal of lives would have been a great change, but then they couldn’t even be bothered to remove the extra lives skills from the Skill Shop.
This makes the balancing of the points you receive completely uneven, and you can unlock all the other skills as soon as you get them.
Overall, Shadow Generations is a huge disappointment, with Shadow’s new story being short, frustrating, and completely missing the point of the original.
Sonic Generations is still a great game, but if you’ve played the original, then you can definitely skip this release.
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A MUM claims to have crossed the gates of heaven after she slipped into a coma following a horrifying near-death experience.
Amber Cavanagh loved her moment on the “other side” so much that she no longer fears death.
“I looked like the best version of myself and had everyone I had ever loved that was no longer with us around me – including my childhood dogs,” she said.
The 43-year-old was watching a film with her family when she suddenly developed an “excruciating” migraine.
She had taken herself to bed before she woke up a few hours later completely paralysed and blind in one eye.
Terrified, she banged on the wall to alert her husband, Michael, 41, who immediately called for an ambulance, rushing her to hospital.
At first, she thought the whole ordeal in December 2021 was a “dream”.
But as she arrived at the hospital, reality set in.
The mum-of-two, who was semi-conscious, was suffering from a double stroke and intense brain bleed.
A stroke is a very serious condition where the blood supply to part of your brain is cut off.
To stop the bleeding, she was given a blood-clotting drug with a 50 per cent survival rate due to its intense effects on the body.
Sadly, this didn’t work and she was life-flighted to another hospital nearby for emergency brain surgery.
But throughout all of this, her family assumed she couldn’t hear them – but she could, leaving Amber “petrified”.
She said: “It was horrific.
“It was looking more than likely that I was going to die.
“I heard the nurses tell my kids: ‘Say everything you want now to your mum, as you probably won’t see her again.’
“I was literally scared to death, and I was non-verbal, everyone thought I was just mumbling in a state of unconsciousness.
“When really, I was trying to talk to them to find out what was going on.
A near death experience (NDE) is classified as a life-transforming experience that can occur under extreme conditions in which no sensory experiences should be possible, medics at the University of Virginia state.
These conditions could include trauma, ceasing of brain activity, deep general anaesthesia or cardiac arrest, they said.
These experiences can differ from one person to another and in many cases, the experts said patients having an NDE will feel very comfortable and free of pain.
You might also experience a sensation of leaving the body, with some being able to see their physical body while floating above it.
Others may experience their mind functioning more clearly and rapidly than usual
“I heard everyone saying their goodbyes and crying, not knowing I was still in there.
“It’s still, to this day, one of the most terrifying things I have ever experienced.”
While in the helicopter, she recalls taking one last glimpse at the sun before shutting her eyes.
When opening them again, she was in another dimension.
Amber said: “I could see my physical body beneath me, but I could also see my kids being driven by their grandparents to the hospital.
“I could see my husband weeping over my body.
“There was no going toward the light, or people calling me – I was just watching over everything and everyone.
“It sounds bad, but I wasn’t scared for my family, as I knew everything was going to be OK.
“There was no who, what, why, when or where to answer anymore, I just knew everything.
“Around me was an incredible garden, where I could really feel the grass beneath my feet.
“Then, I saw all my loved ones to the right, every version of me; past, present and future to the left and my guides stood right in front of me.
“I spoke telepathically to everyone, including my nan and grandma.
“Even my dogs from childhood surrounded me. I could touch them, but I didn’t as that wasn’t why I was there.
“But there was such a deep-rooted feeling of pure comfort.
“Knowing I had to leave this place that had an overwhelming glow of loving light was so difficult.”
A WOMAN claims to have gone to heaven and met God as she slipped in a coma following a horrifying near-death experience.
Mariandree Cárdenas was working from home one day when she felt her throat start to close up and began choking.
Her hands began twitching and she felt like her face was “falling asleep”.
Mariandree realised she could no longer speak.
She managed to text her mother and brother for help, who rushed over and found her unconscious.
The 24-year-old – who was diagnosed with severe asthma as a child – was taken to hospital, where doctors were forced to intubate her and later place her in a coma.
As her body lay unconscious in her hospital bed, Mariandree claimed her mind was far from quiet.
“I couldn’t hear almost anything anymore and my body no longer responded,” Mariandree, a graphic designer, told What’s The Jam.
“The last thing I heard was a nurse or doctor say the phrase ‘she left us’.
“And in the blink of an eye I stopped being on Earth and appeared somewhere else.”
Amber says her guides told her about the two outcomes.
If she stayed, her family would suffer and they would have to overcome the intense grief of losing her so soon.
But if she returned to her physical body, she would face a gruelling recovery journey – and would regret the decision.
However, she knew her time wasn’t up yet.
Amber closed her eyes and suddenly, she was back in her own body again.
For the next two weeks, she remained in hospital, but medics were adamant she would need to be in care for the rest of her life.
Miraculously, the mum was talking and moving within hours.
She said: “They still don’t understand it.
“My doctor says I’m his ‘miraculous patient’ as I didn’t even need the surgery as they planned.
“Yes, there was a lot of damage to my body and brain, but I was alive – and that was the main thing.”
Over the course of 10 weeks, she had to relearn all her basic functions, including how to walk, talk and eat.
Now, while she’s still numb in the right side of her body, life has gone back to somewhat normal again.
However, her experience has taught her a valuable lesson and it’s changed her outlook on life.
Amber hopes her story will help people feel less afraid of dying and help us realise that we’re never truly alone.
“On the other side, there’s a squad of loved ones cheering us on every day,” she said.
Since the experience, Amber and her family re “much closer” and don’t take life “as seriously.”
She said: “It’s made me appreciate the beauty of life and has given me a new perspective.
“I am human, so I’m fearful I will have another stroke again, but I’m not afraid of dying anymore.
“I do worry I’ll leave my kids too soon, as they’ve been through enough and I want to see them grow up.
“But it’s something I’ll never regret going through, it’s given me a chance to grieve the old me and welcome this new chapter.
“I’ve found that life is school, but that place is home – I’ve been given the gift of seeing my life from a completely different view point.
“Sometimes, when I’m having a tough day, I’ll close my eyes and remember feeling the grass under my feet.
“I question then if I made the right decision, but I know I was given the choice to spread the message that we’re all here for a reason.”
NOA-LYNN VAN LEUVEN has hit out at “toxic bitches” on the women’s darts tour.
The Dutch star will become the first transgender player to compete at the PDC World Championship this year.
Van Leuven, 28, has won four titles this year, including the 21st PDC Women’s Series in Leicester on Saturday.
At the WDF World Cup, she won gold with the Dutch team and in the pairs tournament.
However, in a meeting before the competition, a members’ meeting took place and decided that trans women would no longer be welcome at WDF events.
It is not yet known when the rule will come into effect.
Van Leuven hit out at the decision and claimed that the sport has moved backwards.
She wrote on social media: “I thought the world should know.
“This is discrimination. We have been thrown back 40 years with the sport of darts.”
The darts ace has insisted that she gets positive reactions from younger players on the tour.
However, she has claimed that some are threatened by her.
She told Dutch media NU: “They secretly tell me that they don’t understand the commotion.
“But there are a lot of conservative, toxic bitches on the women’s tour.
“They see me as a threat.”
They see me as a threat
Noa-Lynn Van Leuven
She was criticised for enjoying more success in the women’s circuit compared to when she competed on the men’s.
However, Van Leuren has claimed that this is because she is now “more comfortable” when throwing and that she is putting in more effort.
She said: “I throw well now because I feel more comfortable.
“It’s a matter of putting money and hours into it.
“Not many women do that, but I do. I’ve proven I can win over men, too.”
Van Leuven has been on the receiving end of online abuse from people.
Toxic bitches on the women’s tour
Noa-Lynn Van Leuven
This has had an effect on her as it led to being afraid to go outside and panic attacks.
She said: “People send the most terrible messages and then go on preparing their pasta.
“They have no idea the impact it has on my life.
“I didn’t dare go out on the street for several weeks and had panic attacks. It did take a while for that fear to go away.”
Van Leuven will become the first Dutch woman to appear in the PDC World Darts Championship and is not afraid of being criticised.
She added: “We’ll see. I don’t care.
“Standing there as the first Dutch woman is already the ultimate middle finger for me.”
