#early-years

#early-years

Patriots Robinson set a record for most yards from scrimmage (1,414) for an undrafted rookie during the 2020 season.The Patriots reportedly added another intriguing option to their backfield in free agency on Wednesday.According to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler, New England signed running back James Robinson to a two-year contract worth a maximum value of $8 million.

NFL Allow me to venture out on an extremely sturdy limb here and declare that Tom Brady won't be as successful in his pending NFL-adjacent career as he was as a player.Bold take, right?OK, fine, maybe not.After all, Brady, who announced his retirement from the NFL Wednesday - this second time presumably for good - is the most accomplished player in football history and arguably in modern American team sports.

One of the catchiest chants in the N.B.A. is an acknowledgment of one of the game's most thankless tasks: De-fense!Clap.Clap.De-fense!It rained down this week as the Miami Heat coped with the nearly impossible challenge of slowing two of the league's most fearsome players the Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray during the N.B.A. finals in front of their home crowd.

Summer's typically a slower season for restaurant openings, but there are a few notable projects worth getting excited about around Chicago.A pair of brewpubs, one from a band of independent industry members and another from Diageo - one of the biggest alcohol companies in the world - headline this summer's new offerings.

One day, during a game of hide-and-seek, my 5-year-old called out with concern from the master bedroom: "Mom!There is a skeleton in your closet!"
"Those are Ziggy's tusks, sweetheart!"I called back, preoccupied with folding laundry.Ziggy was an Indian elephant who spent most of his life chained indoors at the Brookfield Zoo after a near-fatal attack on his keeper in 1941.

The former CEO of the once lauded Chicago tech start-up Outcome Health did not commit fraud but rather trusted the wrong person, a defense attorney argued Wednesday morning, as closing arguments continued in the trial of three former company executives.After more than seven hours of closing arguments from a government prosecutor, the defense began its turn Wednesday giving closing arguments in the criminal trial against former Outcome CEO Rishi Shah, former President Shradha Agarwal and former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Brad Purdy.

Just hours before the start of the preliminary rounds of the Golden Gloves centennial tournament, the back room of Cicero Stadium is a crowded jumble of ambition and nerves.At the center of the rectangular cement room full of folding tables and chairs stands one of the most revered figures in the tournament who has never taken a punch.

After the recent extraordinary show of force defending changes to LLPAs by federal regulators and their friends, the forest through the trees risk remains in focus to me.One of the great concerns I have, as both a former regulator and the former head of a major industry trade association, is the downside risk of keeping the GSEs in conservatorship any longer.

The fifth Jessie Ware album, That! Feels Good!, is a robust, richly sung neo-disco manifesto, among the most vibrant music the singer has released.It marks a solidification of Ware's second phase, following her early years making restrained club-soul and adult-contemporary R&B.This second phase was made possible at least in part by the success of Table Manners, the podcast she hosts with her mother, which has become central to Ware's public flowering as a relatable celebrity.

Rita Lee, a convention-flouting titan of Brazilian music who emerged with the seminal experimental band Os Mutantes and went on to become a solo star known widely as her country's Queen of Rock, died on Monday at her home in Sao Paulo.She was 75.Her death was announced in a statement posted on her Instagram account.

1. Mental health should be taken seriously and should be addressed with professional help if needed. Receiving a diagnosis can be the first step towards recovery and can provide clarity on how to manage your condition.
2. Keeping track of your mental health and taking the time to recognize any changes in your mood

Naomi Eisenstadt remembers her excitement as she started as the first director of the government's Sure Start unit in 1999.I felt like Lyndon Johnson had run up and asked me to set up Head Start, she says, referring to the US president's key 1965 policy to fight the war on poverty.For decades many women had been arguing with the government about what to do about early years.

Steven Spielberg's new film The Fabelmans attracted more cinema-goers than any other film in France on its release on Wednesday after an unprecedented number of five-star reviews from the country's critics.French media gave the film, a semi-autobiographical story based loosely on the director's childhood and his early years behind the camera, an average score of 4.9, one of the best scores for any film in more than two decades.

CLIMATEWIRE | EPA will release its most stringent power plant standards in history Thursday, but it won't be enough on its own to deliver President Joe Biden's near-future climate goals.Biden has built his commitment to the Paris Agreement around a U.S. power grid that runs on 80 percent clean energy by 2030 and that has net-zero emissions five years later.

Watchmaker Joshua Shapiro gripped the machine's worn handle with his left hand and exhaled.Standing at the helm of the 100-year-old "rose engine," he peered through a microscope at a small, square slab of German silver illuminated by a gooseneck lamp.Shapiro turned the handle.The rose engine came alive.

Opening a deli was the last thing Karine Hajian expected to do after retiring from a 40-year nursing career at the age of 73.But boredom, a desire to meet new people, and an empty storefront next to her husband George's Los Alamitos antique shop led her to begin a new career right after finishing up the last.

These thoughts have been weighing on my heart, and lately, I can't escape them.As close as my daughter and I are now, as much as we've been through together and as much as I know she's genuinely happy, there's this constant feeling of guilt and shame that haunts me.The guilt comes from so many different places.

Kids need adventure.It is, in fact, fundamental to their development.It's not that babies and toddlers need to be taken hang gliding over the Himalayas, but they do need to have access to new experiences, as their brains are forming and growing and changing every minute.This poses a particular challenge for parents, who naturally tend to try to keep their kid safe and who step in at the first notice of potential danger or strife.

Paris Hilton has credited Demi Lovato with inspiring her to write her tell-all book.The hotel heiress has lifted the lid on her life in 'Paris: The Memoir' which gives a brutally honest account of her early years and her career in the spotlight, and she's now insisted Demi inspired her to put pen to paper after the pop star shared her own story in 2017 documentary 'Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated'.

By Dr. Tim Seelig-
Last month's article was about our pursuit of perfection by embracing AI to write for me.It didn't work out well.The article also included our pursuit of perfection in recording and the trajectory from vinyl through 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, digital downloads, and, finally, streaming.

The Tes School awards have announced that 4 South East London schools have earned a spot on the shortlist.(Image: PA/Canva) Four schools across South East London have been shortlisted as part of a prestigious award group.The Tes School Awards recognise the best teachers and schools from UK state and independents, including early years, primary and secondary.

These days, every website we build must be responsive.With mobile web usage accounting for over half of all traffic, catering to these users is a no-brainer.Thankfully, foundational technologies like CSS and JavaScript have made this easier.Web designers no longer need nonstandard hacks or separate mobile templates.

The Oscar-winning film director Steve McQueen is to finally show his unflinching film of the burnt-out ruin of Grenfell Tower, which he hopes will help the push for justice before the sixth anniversary of the disaster.The 24-minute film, Grenfell, was shot from a helicopter in December 2017, shortly before the charred tower in west London was wrapped in white plastic.

Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue and global editorial director of Conde Nast, has been the maestro of every Met Gala since 1999.But this time, it's personal.Not just because the exhibition the party honors is devoted to the work of the much celebrated designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019, but because Mr. Lagerfeld was one of Ms. Wintour's closest friends for decades.

The first rays of morning light that illuminate a bakery are the most gratifying, shining off of the bread and pastry cases.Those rays are a simple pleasure for Copenhagen Pastry owner Karen Hansen, who opened her portal to the sweet aromas and golden loaves of Danish pastry in Culver City almost 11 years ago.

Lionel Messi became a worldwide superstar on his way to scoring a record 672 goals for Barcelona, but did you know a Scotsman scored the first competitive goal in the La Liga club's history?George 'Geordie' Girvan's name is forever etched in the La Liga club's history books for hitting the net in the newly inaugurated 1900-01 Copa Macaya, an early iteration of the Copa del Rey.

Cameron Crowe, the director of Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire, is developing a new drama film with Joni Mitchell about her life.According to a story on the entertainment site Above the Line which was subsequently reposted on Mitchell's own website the project is not a documentary and Mitchell has been collaborating with Crowe on the script for the past two years.

Conservative MP Miriam Cates has hit out at plans in the Budget to expand free childcare, saying it is the wrong policy for children and most women have jobs and not careers.The MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge told the Commons that she welcomed the additional spending to help families with young children, but suggested she wanted it to be used to give families greater choice in what if any childcare they used, including the option of staying at home with children.

Ted Lerner before a 2019 game at Nationals Park."It became very apparent: This guy's a great American," agent Scott Boras, who completed some of the most important contracts in club history with Lerner, said of the Nationals' founding owner."He started from scratch.A great family man, a great community man."

Kate Forbes was first tipped as a potential candidate to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister after the way she calmly delivered the budget just hours after she took over from the finance secretary in 2020.Following the sudden resignation of Derek Mackay, the 32-year-old was drafted in to deliver the SNP budget on February 6 2020.

"Vanderpump Rules" star Rachel Leviss has filed for a restraining order against her co-star on the Bravo reality show Scheana Shay, according to Los Angeles County Superior Court documents.The "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" spinoff, which debuted in 2013, focused in its early years on the restaurant staff at West Hollywood's SUR.

More nurseries and childminders are likely to close their doors due to cost pressures and staff shortages, childcare leaders have warned.Childminders and nursery staff are leaving the sector as the emotional demands of the job are taking their toll, MPs heard.Leaders of childcare providers told the Commons Education Select Committee that families are already missing out on childcare places due to closures of early years settings and they warned the situation could get worse in the years to come as a result of funding pressures.

At least $191 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits could have been improperly paid, with a significant portion attributable to fraud, according to a new estimate from the Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General.That's up from the office's projection last year of at least $163 billion in improper payments.