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Phone Arena
2 days ago
- Business
- Phone Arena
Save 19% on the high-end Pixel Buds Pro 2 in this exclusive Amazon sale
Pixel Buds Pro 2: $44 off at Amazon $44 off (19%) Amazon is currently selling the Pixel Buds Pro 2 for 19% off in Hazel. This is an exclusive sale you won't find at Best Buy or Walmart. However, it might not last long. So, if you want to grab these ~$230 earbuds for less than $185, don't wait too long. Buy at Amazon Receive the latest mobile news By subscribing you agree to our terms and conditions and privacy policy Prime Day knocked the Pixel Buds Pro 2 down to their best price, but let's face it: that 30% markdown may not return any time soon. If you missed out this July 8-11 but still want a tempting discount, consider Amazon's latest deal on the Hazel now, you can get this particular color for 19% off — a promo rival merchants like Best Buy and Walmart don't match. Since it's limited to just one option, however, we can't tell how long the sale will last. So, if you're looking to save the most, don't wait too long.A solid upgrade over the first-gen Pixel Buds Pro, these wireless earbuds offer the whole package. To begin with, they have a compact design that fits comfortably and doesn't cause ear fatigue. Plus, they support two wearing modes to suit more the stellar design, you get top-tier sound quality. Out of the box, the audio is balanced, with sparkly highs and well-tuned mids. There's no overwhelming bass, either, which is always a nice bonus. Still, if you're a bass lover, you can choose from multiple EQ presets to match your far, so good. But how do they handle noise cancellation? As we mentioned in our Pixel Buds Pro 2 review , active noise cancellation isn't half bad here. Sure, the Google earbuds can't rival the AirPods Pro 2 on this front, but they still get the job done. On top of that, they feature a superb transparency in the long battery life of up to eight hours per charge with ANC on, and you get a well-rounded pair of earbuds you should definitely have on your radar. Granted, they were a no-brainer during Prime Day, but they're still attractive at 19% off. Get yours in Hazel and save $44 with this Amazon sale.
The Spinoff
4 days ago
- The Spinoff
The Spinoff essay: The Odessa Steps
Bob Kerr remembers his trip to Ukraine in 2004. 'Do not travel to Ukraine due to Russia's invasion and ongoing military aggression. There is a real risk to life.' – The New Zealand Safe Travel website, 2025. It wasn't always like this. Our 2004 copy of Lonely Planet told us that it was 'possible to travel across the Black Sea from Istanbul to Odessa by ferry, but don't bother, it's too difficult'. It gave the phone number of one travel agent in Odessa. We rang. 'Yes, I can make a booking for you.' said Galina, 'I will fax you the details.' The fax said we should pick up our tickets from the shipping office in Istanbul then report to the vessel, the MV. Gloriya, an hour before departure. It seemed simple enough. Two months later in Istanbul we climbed three flights of stairs to the shipping company's office. The floor was dusty, walls unpainted. A man in a blue shirt glanced at the faxes Galina had sent us. 'I'll ring the captain,' he said. Indicating two wooden chairs, he disappeared into the next office. Thirty minutes later Hazel knocked on the office door. 'I haven't heard back from the captain,' said the man in the blue shirt. 'The ship will be leaving in an hour.''said Hazel. The man shrugged. There was a phone number on the bottom of Galina's fax. Hazel rang, Galina answered. 'Let me speak to him,' Galina said. 'Eminonu Pier,' sighed the man in the blue shirt as he handed the phone back. 'You'll have to run.' As we arrived at Eminonu Pier, five taxis pulled up and women in black high heels and tight pink miniskirts spilled out. The officer at the bottom of the gangplank smiled and removed the rope, the women walked up the gangway towing huge plastic suitcases. A group of men in vinyl jackets arrived. One handed the officer a magazine. The officer opened the magazine, took out some notes and handed the magazine back. The rope was removed; the men walked up on to the ship. The rope was hooked back. We followed. The officer glanced at our tickets and looked out over the Bosphorus. The rope remained in place. Mooring lines were untied. We waved our tickets and pointed at the ship. The officer waited, two sailors arrived to remove the gangplank, reluctantly he unhooked the rope. As we walked up the gangplank an older woman in black tights pushed past, she had an armful of toasters in boxes and was carrying a huge bag of electric kettles. There was a toot on the ship's hooter as it swung out into the straits. Dinner was served in the Gloriya's dining room. Every diner was poured a glass of vodka. One of the men at our table jumped up to help the waiters carry the empty plates back to the kitchen. As he collected the plates he drained the last drops of vodka from every diner's glass. Outside the dining room a staircase with gold painted handrails led down to a bar. In the stairwell were black and white photographs of the Gloriya in its glory days in the 1960s when it was the research vessel Akademik Vernadskiy. In the bar the businessmen sat smoking, their vinyl jackets on the back of their chairs. The older woman who had pushed past us up the gangplank sat at the bar watching over women dancing in their tight pink miniskirts. We retreated back up the stairs to our cabin. On our way to breakfast the next morning we passed the voluntary waiter from dinner stumbling along the corridor dressed only in his underpants. None of the businessmen turned up for breakfast. We lay on deck in the sun, the sea was flat, the Ukrainian women smoked. One of them asked for a light. 'Have you done this trip before?' I asked. 'Many times,' she said. 'To work in Istanbul, I have to return every two months to renew my visa.' 'What do you work at in Istanbul?' I asked. She didn't answer. On the morning of the third day, the Gloriya berthed at the bottom of the Odessa Steps. The grand stone stairs that lead from the port up to the city. Sergey Eisenstein's 1925 film The Battleship Potemkin is regarded as a masterpiece of world cinema. Its most famous scene takes place on the Odessa steps. Czarist troops march down the steps firing on the citizens of Odessa who have come to greet the sailors who have mutinied and taken over the battleship. A mother pushing a baby in a pram is shot, she lets go of the pram, it bounces to the bottom of the steps. We walked up the steps, students sat in the morning sun. Tourists took photographs, Hazel took out her phone, ' I'll ring Galina and tell her we've arrived.' 'Where are you?' asked Galina. 'At the top of the steps,' said Hazel. 'I'm two blocks away in Katerynyns'ka Street, you must come for a cup of tea.' In Galina's office, fine china teacups were set out on a gold and red tablecloth. 'Welcome to Odessa,' Galina said. She explained how she used to work for Intourist, the Soviet travel agency, and how in the new market economy she had set up her own travel agency. 'When I was a young tourist guide,' she told us, 'I met an old man who had been a sailor on the battleship Potemkin. I shook his hand.' 'So, if we shake your hand,' said Hazel, 'we will have shaken the hand that shook the hand of one of the revolutionary sailors.' 'Yes,' said Galina, she held her hand out across the teacups. 'I have booked a hotel for you to stay in, it's an old Soviet hotel, you will like it.' And then she added, 'to understand Odessa you need a guide, I have arranged Yulia. You meet her tomorrow at nine o-clock at the top of the steps.' Yulia was waiting by the Richelieu statue on Primorsky Boulevard at the top of the steps, she was wearing a long red coat. She spoke English, Ukrainian, Russian and French. 'I learnt when I worked for Intourist,' she said. She began by telling us about Duke of Richelieu, the Frenchman appointed governor of Odessa in 1803. She took us to the Opera House and then to the Odessa Fine Arts Museum to see the Kandinsky paintings. Wassily Kandinsky grew up in Odessa. He invented the word abstractionism to describe how his painting was moving away from landscape towards painting sound and feeling. In the afternoon she showed us the city underneath the city, the vast network of tunnels in the limestone beneath Odessa where partisans lived during the Nazi occupation. We ended the day in the afternoon sun in a leafy park. Families picnicked on the grass. A band played. I got out my sketchbook and drew the conductor. A mother and daughter danced in front of the bandstand. Wassily Kandinsky would have drawn the soundscape. I was happy to be scribbling down the park scape and the dancing child.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
HGTV star Jasmine Roth shares major health update after daughter's severe sleep apnea diagnosis
HGTV star Jasmine Roth is known for transforming homes on her show Help! I Wrecked My House, but she recently opened up about a different transformation - her daughter's health. In a heartfelt update shared through an interview with Future of Personal Health, Roth revealed that five-year-old Hazel underwent tonsil and adenoid reduction surgery in November 2023. And now, Hazel is doing much better. 'Hazel is sleeping like a champ!' Roth shared. 'She has no issues, just goes to sleep, sleeps through the night, and wakes up in the morning, which anybody with a child knows is a big deal.' Jasmine admitted she had no idea children could even experience sleep apnea. Hazel showed signs as early as six months old, but the condition remained undiagnosed until she was three. The diagnosis came years after going undetected, despite heavily affecting the entire family's sleep and wellbeing. In an Instagram post from November 2023, Roth spoke about her daughter Hazel's journey after she was first diagnosed of pediatric sleep apnea. It happened after a sleep study confirmed she had borderline severe sleep apnea, which caused her to wake up more than seven times per hour and experience drops in oxygen levels. Before her diagnosis, Jasmine and her husband Brett noticed something was off. 'A few months ago, we noticed a weird breathing/snorting thing happening,' Roth shared on Instagram at the time. Despite Hazel seeming to sleep fine at times, a visit to a pediatric ENT specialist and a follow-up sleep study revealed the severity of her condition. Jasmine recalled, 'Her tonsils were touching… and the x-rays showed her adenoids were also enlarged.' Choosing surgery wasn't a decision they made lightly. 'We opted to do a sleep study instead of jumping right into surgery,' she wrote. But after the results came in, it became clear that surgical intervention was the best path forward. It was found that Hazel's tonsils were touching and that her adenoids were enlarged She praised the care Hazel received at CHOC Children's Hospital and the compassion shown by the medical staff. 'If I ever need surgery, I want to go there,' she said, giving a special shoutout to Dr. Bhatt and the team. The surgery was a success. Just weeks later, Hazel began sleeping soundly through the night - for the first time in her life. 'Like most parents, we wish we'd caught it sooner,' Roth said. 'But once we understood what was going on, everything moved quickly.' In the midst of this health scare, the Roth family also experienced a joyful - though intense - milestone. In September 2024, Jasmine gave birth to their second daughter, Darla, one month early in what she described as a dramatic, near-roadside delivery. Roth shared that the surgery was a success and that Hazel was sleeping through the night for the first time in her life Thankfully, the new addition arrived as Hazel's health was already improving drastically. After spending 15 days in the NICU, Darla is now healthy and bonding with her big sister. With so many personal developments, it's no surprise Jasmine took a step back from filming Help! I Wrecked My House over the past year. But fans won't have to wait much longer as a new season, filmed in the Roths' new home state of Utah, is set to premiere sometime in Fall 2025.
Newsweek
7 days ago
- Science
- Newsweek
Man Gets Doorbell Notification, 'Couldn't Believe' What He Saw Dog Doing
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A pet owner "couldn't believe" what he caught his dog doing on the doorbell cam outside his home in Oklahoma. In a video shared with Newsweek by Ring, a German shepherd-boxer mix by the name of Hazel can be seen defying her canine status to do something a little more humanlike. When Hazel's owner Patrick got a notification on his phone informing him motion had been detected on the porch outside his home in Lawton, he wasn't entirely surprised. However, when the owner opened the Ring app, he was surprised to see Hazel letting herself back into their home. That was the moment he discovered his dog had worked out how to open and close doors. "I got a Ring notification and watched the video back," Patrick told Ring. "We couldn't believe it—our dog Hazel, a German shepherd-boxer mix under 1 year old, let herself out through the screen door!" Psychologist and canine researcher Stanley Coren said that dogs boast mental capabilities on a par with a 2-year-old child. However, each dog's intelligence differs, depending on breed. Coren told the American Psychological Association: "There are three types of dog intelligence: instinctive (what the dog is bred to do), adaptive (how well the dog learns from its environment to solve problems) and working and obedience (the equivalent of 'school learning')." Coren added that dogs are capable of learning where valued items such as treats are stored, the fastest way to get to a desired location, and even how to operate certain mechanisms like doors and latches. Hazel appears to have picked up these skills in next to no time. Now, going in and out of the house of her own accord has become second nature to her. "She's been opening doors on her own for about three weeks now, and we didn't teach her a thing," Patrick said. Even so, while he is very impressed at what she has picked up, Hazel's new set of skills have left Patrick feeling a little uneasy about leaving her unattended. "Turns out, I've got a very clever pup and now need to start locking the doors," Patrick said. That hasn't stopped the owner from sharing the clip far and wide. "We shared the clip because it gave us (and our friends) a good laugh," Patrick said. Hazel isn't the first dog to pick up this particular set of skills, of course. In November 2024, a woman learned the hard way that her dog had figured out how to open the front door. Then there is the adorable pup who has helpfully learned to open the door for her owner while she brings firewood in. Then there was the family dog who ended up getting "busted" putting his new skill set to good use. The message to dog owners is clear: lock your doors.
CairoScene
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
This Loft Hotel Puts You at the Heart of Cairo's Indie Arts Scene
This Loft Hotel Puts You at the Heart of Cairo's Indie Arts Scene With Zawya Cinema downstairs, rooftops in every direction, and Talaat Harb down the block, Hazel keeps you in the middle of Cairo's constant motion. Hazel Spaces sits above Cairo's Emad El-Deen Street, a short walk from the iconic Talaat Harb Square and a few blocks from the Egyptian Museum. The building—an old stone structure with pressed iron balconies and French windows—blends into the layered streetscape of Downtown Cairo. The hotel occupies the upper floors, its units split across two levels, with beds on a mezzanine and seating areas below. Each room has its own small balcony facing the street, where the sounds of the city drift in from below but never quite overwhelm. What makes Hazel Spaces unusual is less about the interiors—pared down, calm, straightforward—than where it puts you. From here, nearly everything in central Cairo fans out within walking distance. South along Emad El-Deen Street, one reaches the Opera Garage complex, where art galleries, coffee bars, and workshops have taken over the skeleton of a mid-century parking structure. West, along Sherif Street, lies Café Riche, the city's oldest surviving café, still dimly lit and holding onto its own version of Cairo's past. Around the corner, antique dealers and secondhand bookstores line the ground floors of old department stores, most of them unchanged in decades. The hotel sits directly above Zawya Cinema, one of Egypt's few independent art-house venues. Guests descending the narrow stairwell into the lobby are met not by concierge desks, but by black-and-white posters of films that have shown below—some international, some local, many hard to find elsewhere. Further up, Hazel's rooftop terrace opens toward the Greek consulate, a view framed by early 20th-century buildings in soft pastels and ochre, their facades weathered but intact. Hazel doesn't function like a full-service hotel. There's no restaurant, no breakfast bar, and no reception in the usual sense. What it does provide is a kind of minimal base camp—spare and quiet—for exploring one of Cairo's most lived-in districts. Nearby food stalls serve fried liver sandwiches and sugar-dusted feteer until the early morning. Five minutes away on foot, Mohamed Bassiouny Street leads toward Falaki Theatre and Townhouse Gallery, two mainstays of the independent arts scene. Walk north instead, and you hit Ramses Street, Cairo's loudest transit artery, where minibus drivers lean out the window and shout their routes over traffic. Hazel Spaces keeps a low profile, but its location places it at the centre of things: art spaces, bookstores, street food, film, music, and the long, winding legacy of Khedival Cairo. It's a quiet room in the middle of something much louder—and for many, that's the appeal.
