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Al Vallorz, the creative co-owner of Tony & Alba's Pizza & Pasta, is always looking for an edge, something fun to keep diners interested and coming back for more.For years, the San Jose chef-restaurateur has designed a pizza of the month - like October's popular bratwurst and gouda; figs and blue cheese in August; and turkey, brie and cranberry sauce for November.

The UK's post-Brexit trade deals with Australia and New Zealand came into force on Wednesday.Here is what it means for travellers, shoppers, farmers and exporters.Why has the UK got its own trade deals with Australia and New Zealand?The UK's exit from the European Union, following on from the majority vote to leave the bloc during the 2016 referendum, means Britain can strike its own trade deals and no longer has to wait for Brussels to negotiate trading terms on its behalf.

Losing a spouse forces people into what is often one of the most vulnerable parts of their lives.The negative health consequences of widowhood can stretch years down the line, but in some cases, they don't get a chance to.The phenomenon in which both halves of a couple die in short succession is so common that it even has a name: the widowhood effect.

Editor's Note: Sign up for CNN's Fitness, But Better newsletter series.Our seven-part guide will help you ease into a healthy routine, backed by experts.Americans took fewer steps during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and they still haven't gotten their mojo back, a new study found.On average, people are taking about 600 fewer steps per day than before the pandemic began, said study author Dr. Evan Brittain, associate professor of cardiovascular medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

As we age, the mind tends to wander forward in time, considering myriad hypotheticals of increasingly philosophical tone: Will we live a long life?And if we do, will it be a life well lived?What does living well mean, exactly?For some, living well suggests contentment and happiness.But it is also a potential prescription against atypical brain aging and diseases like dementia.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the 81-year-old Senate minority leader, received treatment for a concussion at a Washington hospital on Wednesday night.According to a spokesman, he was injured when he fell at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.Concussion is the most common form of traumatic brain injury, and, while attention often focuses more on effects in young athletes, older adults are at higher risk for severe outcomes following one, neurologists and health experts said.

Farmers, undertakers and elected politicians are among the occupations most dependent on older workers, new figures suggest.Some 42% of farmers in England and Wales said they were aged 60 years or over at the time of the 2021 census, along with 28% of people working as undertakers or mortuary and crematorium assistants.

Northern Ireland was created to secure an in-built Protestant and unionist majority.When, in the early 1930s, the Ulster Unionist MP Basil Brooke told his constituents not to employ Catholics, Northern Ireland's prime minister, James Craig, commented: I would not ask him to withdraw one word he said.

Sean Winterbottom does not like politics.But like all people who do not like politics, once he starts talking about it, he has a lot to say.Last general election I voted Conservative, but I don't know for this one.They all just spin you whatever they want to spin you, he said, leaning over the counter in the plumber's merchant on the high street in Glossop where he works.

Concern about immigration has risen sharply in the past month but the cost of living remains the public's overwhelming priority, according to a monthly poll.One in five people told pollster Ipsos that they thought immigration was one of the biggest issues facing the country in a survey carried out in the first week of March, as the Government was preparing to introduce its Illegal Migration Bill.

Image The town hall in Herouxville, Quebec.Credit...Nasuna Stuart-Ulin for The New York Times For such a small town, Herouxville, with a population of 1,336, has played a big role in Quebec's history.In 2007, the town council passed a code of conduct for immigrants that warned against certain activities, like stoning women in public, burning them alive or treating them as slaves.

Rishi Sunak's Conservatives may yet find electoral salvation in the shy capitalist millennial generation, according to a new report.A new study from centre-right think tank Onward, after a survey of 8,000 people across Great Britain, suggests millennials those aged between 25 and 40 have a dim view of the Government.

A polling guru has said Labour scoring a victory of more than 10% over the Conservatives in the local elections could suggest that Sir Keir Starmer is on course to be the next prime minister.Professor Sir John Curtice said those wanting a clue as to who could win the next general election should be focused on the projected national vote share as the results of Thursday's poll roll in, rather than on the number of council seats gained.

Ministers are facing mounting pressure to impose an outright ban on single-use vapes, amid concern about their rising popularity among children and wider worries that officials have minimal grip over a fast-moving sector.While it is illegal to sell e-cigarettes to under-18s, some experts suggest as many as 15% of 11- to 15-year-olds use vapes, with Rishi Sunak saying this week he was worried that his daughters could be seduced by a heavily flavoured product often packaged in bright colours.

Jeremy Hunt has said the British economy will avoid a technical recession this year while announcing an extension in financial support for households struggling with the cost of living crisis.In a statement to the Commons aiming to reboot Britain's faltering economy, the chancellor said he would prioritise support for parents with childcare costs alongside a multibillion-pound package of tax breaks for business to encourage investment.

Suella Braverman should step down for putting forward cruel and heartless immigration policies that discriminate against war refugees of colour, a former Home Office adviser has said.Nimco Ali, a one-time Conservative campaigner who in December left her job as an adviser on violence against women, said the home secretary was the wrong person not just for the Conservative party but for the country.

The Welsh government is tackling the blight of derelict homes in villages, towns and cities across the country by ploughing 50m into an empty homes scheme.Up to 2,000 long-term empty properties could be brought back into use in a move partly designed to help younger people get back into the places where they grew up.

In this summer's most anticipated new work, the story of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's rollercoaster romance gets a creative treatment by Boonville-based composer Gabriela Lena Frank and librettist Nilo Cruz.Set three years after Kahlo's death, and weeks before Rivera's own, the opera imagines Rivera (Alfredo Daza) pining to see his wife Frida (Daniela Mack) one last time.

S adiq Khan has been urged by a think tank to cut Tube fares on Mondays and Fridays, to boost office attendance in central London.A new report by the Centre for Cities has found that on average, central London workers are coming into the office 2.3 days per week - which it said is having an uncertain economic impact on the capital.

Just under half of Londoners have taken a trip on the Elizabeth line since it opened, and not just because they want to have a look at London's shiny new train service.A survey by YouGov found that 45% of Londoners say that they have travelled on the Elizabeth line, although more interestingly, 7% of Londoners are unsure if they have.

Y oung people are behind a boom in low or zero-alcohol beers, wines and spirits over Christmas because they don't want to be caught on social media embarrassing themselves.Half of Londoners say they plan to go alcohol-free this year, a rise of eight per cent in 12 months.Generation Z and Millennials aged 18 to 34 are most likely to forgo drinks during the festive period, according to new sales data from Ocado.

Attention, parents with screenagers: The U.S. government has issued a public warning that scrolling through apps like TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat may pose serious risks to your child's mental health.In a 19-page report, Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy said on Tuesday that while social media offered some benefits to younger people, including the ability to connect with communities, it also exposed them to potential harms, such as cyberbullying and content that promotes eating disorders, self-harm and other destructive behavior.

Now that U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has returned to Congress, we should all agree on the obvious: Any younger person who wants power will have to claw for it or simply wait for the current politicians to pass away from old age.Feinstein got attention a few years ago for belittling young climate change activists, telling them that she's been doing politics a lot longer than they have and that she knows what she's doing.

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Well, as annual swimsuit editions go, this is certainly a departure for Sports Illustrated.The latest cover model served time in federal prison.And she's 81.Martha Stewart seems to have reinvented herself yet again, and it can't be long before she's hawking a new line of perfect bathing suits, if she isn't already, in addition to the perfect cookware, pruning shears and window treatments.

Last spring, Liar's Saloon, one of the last no-frills watering holes left in Montauk, the rapidly developing beach town at the tip of Long Island's East End, looked like it was gone for good.The family-owned business had just closed, its longtime owners ready for a change.When it was closed, locals saw it almost as a lost way of life, said Jennifer Fowkes, the executive director of the Montauk Chamber of Commerce.

I shuffled into the lobby of my New York City wedding venue, holding my gown.I was excited and anxious, but Rena hugged me and calmed my nerves.In the way that the best mothers are, she'd been a huge support to me.But she wasn't my mother - she was her best friend.She had been there to help me pick out my dress months earlier - and she was also there a few years later, to help soothe my grief when I mourned my difficult pregnancy loss.

A new generation of younger volunteers stepping forward next year could reverse a trend in falling numbers and be hugely positive for struggling charities, research suggests.One in six people aged 18-34 plan to start volunteering in 2023, according to a survey for Pro Bono Economics which has revealed surprising enthusiasm from the younger generation.

The Best of Show winner, a deep-blue 1937 Delahaye 135M Roadster Cabriolet, puttered up the horseshoe drive and past the judges' stand to fanfare typical of a classic car expo.Such a meticulously restored, and rakish, car was to be expected at a vintage-vehicle show.The location, however, was anything but typical  the Concours d'Elegance was held for the first time at the Detroit Institute of Arts, a Beaux-Arts museum in the heart of America's Motor City.

Winfield's, a new family-friendly, diner-style restaurant, has opened on Bed Stuy's Patchen Avenue offering breakfast and lunch at affordable prices, with plans to extend to dinner and brunch service.Currently the restaurant, open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., serves bagels, breakfast, burgers, sandwiches, salads, and an array of sides with prices ranging from $2 to $15. Owner Winfield Harrell Jr. said he wanted to keep everything affordable to ensure the space is accessible to everyone in the neighborhood.

"It's a massive responsibility," casting director Debbie McWilliams said.James Bond won't be a young chap anytime soon.Franchise casting director Debbie McWilliams detailed the criteria to play 007, citing that younger stars lack the "mental capacity" to transform into 007, in a recent Radio Times interview.

Russia is to blame for the war in Ukraine.That's the opinion of just under 40% of Russian speakers in Germany surveyed by the dimap research institute on behalf of DW; 15% believe Ukraine is to blame, while 27% think both are responsible.For the purposes of the survey, "Russian speakers" refers to native speakers with a migration history in Russia or another former republic of the Soviet Union.

LONDON  When Clint Dyer was an aspiring actor in the mid-1980s, he made his first visit to the National Theater, the revered London playhouse whose productions are a showcase for the great and good of British drama.I'd never seen a stage that size, Dyer recalled recently.I'd never seen actors of that level.

Head coach Gareth Murray is determined to secure a tangible step in his ambition to make Caledonia Gladiators Britain's biggest basketball club when they compete in Sunday's BBL Trophy final.The final against Cheshire Phoenix at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow offers the chance to bring major silverware to Scotland for the first time since the Scottish Rocks won the BBL play-offs 20 years ago.

Health Cases of colorectal cancer are on the rise among younger people.Doctors believe diet may play a role.Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor.

Wanda Irving holds her granddaughter, Soleil, in front of a portrait of Soleil's mother, Shalon Irving, at her home in Sandy Springs, Ga., in 2017.Wanda is raising Soleil since Shalon died of complications due to hypertension a few weeks after giving birth.Becky Harlan/NPR In 2021, the U.S. had one of the worst rates of maternal mortality in the country's history, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It's been six months since the launch of the national 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.We check in on how many people are using it and whether it's connecting them to help.AILSA CHANG, HOST: It's been nearly six months since the launch of 988.That's the newest number to reach the national Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

In 2021, the three leading causes of death were heart disease, cancer and COVID-19.Andy Ryan/Getty Images The average life expectancy for Americans shortened by over seven months last year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.That decrease follows an already big decline of 1.8 years in 2020.

Last year saw more vinyl records than CDs sold for the first time since 1987.That was back when it was the end of the world as REM knew it, Jennifer Grey's Baby was breaking out of her corner and having the time of her life and George Michael was urging everyone to have "Faith."While physical music comprised only 11% of 2022′s market, which was dominated by streaming services at 84%, vinyl saw its 16th straight year of growth, with 41 million albums sold as opposed to the 33 million CDs that listeners snapped up, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said in a recent report.

A total of 7.2% of adults in the United States identified as LGBTQ in 2022 a Gallup poll released Wednesday shows.While that's just a small increase from 2021 numbers - 7.1% - the 2022 Gallup data reflects an overall upward trend.In 2012, when the analytics giant began measuring LGBTQ identification, only about 3.5% of adults self-identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or something other than heterosexual and cisgender (meaning they identify with the sex they were assigned at birth).

Police are investigating the death of a star swimmer from New Hampshire on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.Jamie Cail, 42, was found unresponsive in the early morning hours of Feb. 21.Cail's boyfriend, whose identity has not been released, left a local bar at about 12:08 a.m. to check on Cail at their residence, according to a statement from the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department.

Edgewood Avenue bar Joystick Gamebar has been a hub for geeky gameplay since opening more than a decade ago.Owners Johnny Martinez and Brandon Ley see the bar as an homage to the arcades of their youth - swapping out soda and fountain drinks for cocktails and beer.Joystick hosts a variety of social events throughout the week, but added regular Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) meetups to the roster after noticing an uptick in its popularity with Millennial and Gen Z patrons who assemble at tables for rounds of the fantasy role-playing game.

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People who are 50 and older are divorcing more often than they were in the past.Some people just don't want to get remarried or cohabit.Women are less likely than men to remarry after middle age.Overall, the rate of divorce in the U.S. is no longer increasing.There's an important exception, though.

People have probably always loved their pets, but over the past several decades, the place of pets in the lives of Americans has grown more and more significant.Among the evidence reported in a recent article in the Washington Post:

In just about every demographic group, the percentage of pet owners has grown.

Susan Tilton's husband, Mike, was actually in good health.But after a friend's husband developed terminal cancer, she began to worry that Mike would soon die, too.At night, I'd lie down and start thinking about it, recalled Ms. Tilton, 72, who lives in Clayton, Mo.What would I do?What would I do?The thought of life without her husband they'd married at 17 and 18 left her sleepless and dragging through the next day.

A new book came across my desk recently, with an irresistible title: The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You.I was already familiar with the astringent humor of the author, Margareta Magnusson, having read her previous book, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning a surprise international best seller and a call to, as she put it, not leave a mountain of crap behind for our loved ones to clean up after we die.

Ah yes, negative growth trends.That explains it.Poor reporting again: The New York Times, which seems to dislike drinking as much as I dislike 15 percent chardonnay, has a mostly well-written piece about soft drink companies making booze, such as Hard Mtn Dew.But the story wrecks its premise at the beginning, when it notes that younger people the target demographic for these products are drinking less.

Image When the summer tourist season ends in Put-in-Bay, an island on Lake Erie, the residents turn to the ice for fun and to earn a living.What happens when the lake refuses to freeze?Girl Scouts unload boxes of Girl Scout Cookies at the Put-in-Bay Airport.An aerial view of an iceless Put-In-Bay.Shanties, which are usually on a frozen Lake Erie, are stored on a lot.

Fifty-seven percent of the school administrators surveyed by VBE stated that at least one of the available positions at their school was currently vacant.Of the schools affected, a quarter said that six to ten percent of the positions were not filled.At a fifth of the schools, more than 15 percent of all positions were vacant.

Shekeila Scarlett first met the board of governors at her secondary school when she was appealing her own exclusion.Facing a group of adults who would decide the 12-year-old's future was intimidating, especially because they looked nothing like her.She won the appeal but the experience never left her and now she chairs the board of governors at an east London school.

Unions have pledged to continue protesting against proposed changes, including raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.New strikes and protests from some of France's leading unions are under way against a highly controversial pensions reform plan that has seen millions come out on the streets against it.

The middle of the week is prime commuting time in New Jersey and it reflects what the Partnership for New York City and New Jersey Chamber of Commerce called the new workplace normal of hybrid work schedules, dividing the work week between home and office.And mid-week is the preferred time for employees to be in the workplace, as shown by the most recent NJ Transit customer survey data.

Everyrealm, an a16z-backed infrastructure immersive media company, claims the habits of young users are changing, favoring immersive game-like experiences taking place in virtual worlds over social media.Everyrealm is behind popular virtual-community-driven projects such as The Row and Fantasy Islands and other upcoming social video games with fully-formed digital environments.

Biden has accused members of the Republican Party of threatening to cut programmes like Medicare and Social Security.United States President Joe Biden has pitched himself as a defender of retirement and healthcare programmes during a speech in the southern state of Florida, promising to protect Medicare and Social Security against any proposed cuts by Republicans.

The latest Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, out Sunday, offered nothing but bad news for President Joe Biden, who pundits would think would still be riding high after his party's far-better-than-expected midterm election results.However, the latest AP-NORC poll shows that only 1 in 5 U.S. adults want Biden to seek reelection and, even worse for the president, only 37 percent of his own party voters are included in that number.

Labour will put health and wellbeing at the heart of its employment strategy by embedding career advisers in health services, including addiction clinics, rehab centres and primary care, the party has said.In an interview with the Guardian, Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said the strategy would help people who had been written off to access work.

I valued Zoe Williams' insightful article (In the war between snowflakes and boomers, I'm with the kids.If only it wasn't so easy to laugh at them..., 22 November).As a 49-year-old, it seems to me that the younger generation are far more sensitive and naturally empathic than we are, leading them to experience what we would call the normal ups and downs of life much more intensely than we ever did.

RuPaul's Drag Race UK star Nick Collier, better known as Ella Vaday, said he hopes to inspire fellow drag queens to be passionate about charity work as he prepares to take part in a 100km (62-mile) trek with breast cancer charity CoppaFeel!.This year's CoppaTrek!will see famous faces, including Collier and 2020 I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! winner Giovanna Fletcher, lead teams of up to 30 people for five days across Northumberland from June 10-16 with the aim of increasing awareness and raising 1 million.

India's highest court will hear arguments on whether to legalize same-sex marriage on March 13, a landmark for the country of 1.4 billion people and for the global movement for LGBTQ rights.A ruling that finds gay marriages are allowed under India's constitution would run counter to the socially conservative sentiment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as wide swaths of the country's Muslim community.

Covid-19 antibody levels among older age groups have jumped in recent months and are now well above levels for under-50s, new figures suggest.Some 96.3% of people aged 80 and over in England were likely to have antibodies at the start of December 2022, up from 89.2% in early September.For 75 to 79-year-olds, the proportion stands at 95.8%, up from 87.4%.

Former Conservative deputy prime minister Damian Green has called for care workers to be paid more, intensifying pressure on Rishi Sunak as the government tries to hold firm on public sector wages.The prime minister is already facing demands from a number of Tory MPs to increase nurses' salaries and bring an increasingly bitter strike to a halt.

It's the job posting that would catch the attention of any adventure seeker.A bed-and-breakfast, with a working lighthouse, has openings for two skilled innkeepers who can cook, clean and operate a ferry boat.The catch: The job is on a one-acre island in the San Francisco Bay, separated from the city by about about 10 miles of choppy ocean.

The Tory government has failed my generation  millennials  who have come of age and entered the labour market under 12 years of Tory rule, with punishing housing and childcare costs, combined with stagnant wages, preventing the building blocks of what Conservatives believe make the good life.These were not the words of a young Labour supporter but a Tory, Ryan Shorthouse, on leaving the liberal conservative thinktank Bright Blue, which he founded.

A significant majority of people in the UK think the country has a responsibility to pay for climate action in poorer and vulnerable countries, an opinion poll shows.The issue of rich, polluting countries providing substantial funding to developing countries is central to the UN's Cop27 climate summit in Egypt.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Angela Chung reigns over her San Francisco wig empire with an elegant flair.Her makeup is meticulous, she favors dresses over pants and on a recent Sunday, immense, globular earrings gave the impression of a woman in her fifties.

French President Emmanuel Macron is in Washington this week to meet with his US counterpart, have a state dinner and accept an award on behalf of the baguette.But France isn't just about food and wine.It has real lessons to offer the US in general and President Joe Biden in particular.One of the most surprising of these is France's employment rate.

Millennials saw the largest increases in homeownership of their lifetimes between 2019 and 2021, according to a Washington Post analysis of new Census Bureau data.Pandemic relief and historically low mortgage rates helped millions of millennials buy homes for the first time.As droves of younger people entered the housing market, the median age of home buyers dropped for the first time in nearly a decade.

A female truckers association is accusing Meta Platforms of algorithmic bias, alleging its Facebook platform selectively shows job  advertisements based on users' gender and age, with older workers far less likely to see ads and women far less likely to see ads for blue-collar positions, especially in industries that historically exclude women.

Deaths related to drug misuse and alcohol abuse appear to be on the rise among older adults in the United States, similar to the recent increases seen among younger adults, according to two new reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Rates of deaths from drug overdoses among seniors have more than tripled in the past two decades, according to one report published Wednesday by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

More than seven in 10 people say it is acceptable for nurses to go on strike over pay and better patient care, according to a new poll.The Ipsos survey for the PA news agency found 74% of British adults felt it was acceptable for nurses to strike for better patient care, while 71% said it was acceptable for them to take industrial action for a pay rise.

There have been recent reports that younger people are now leaving - or at least threatening to leave - Twitter following Elon Musk's purchase of the social media platform last month.However, it's not just happening in the United States.Fair Betting Sites conducted a survey and found that 41% would abandon the platform.