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Time of India
5 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Time of India
Move over Hollywood! The Mar-a-Lago face is now the gold standard in plastic surgery, doctors say
The 'Mar-a-Lago face' is becoming popular as many people are now getting plastic surgery to look like Ivanka Trump . Dr. Norman Rowe is a plastic surgeon with clinics in New York, the Hamptons, and Palm Beach. He says the trend really blew up around 6 months ago, as per reports. Earlier, people wanted to look like celebrities. Now they want to look like politicians. In rich areas like Palm Beach and parties at Mar-a-Lago, many people are starting to look the same. Dr. Rowe says places like Everglades Club and Breakers have a crowd that cares a lot about looks, because it's always hot, they can't hide under clothes, as mentioned in the report by Daily Mail. The 'Mar-a-Lago face' means full lips, sharp cheekbones, big eyes, and smooth foreheads that don't wrinkle. As per reports, on a daily basis Dr. Rowe sees up to 15 people and most of them want Ivanka Trump's face. But he tells patients that not everyone can get that exact look, it depends on their body and features. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Click Here To Read More - micro segmentation software Expertinspector Click Here Undo Popular treatments include Botox , fillers, jaw or chin implants. Thread lifts are less intense than regular facelifts and need less recovery time. These treatments are expensive. Around $500 to $3,000 is what Rowe charges for a Botox. Fillers cost $500 to $5,000, and it can go out to six figures for a full face-lift. And the treatments aren't one-time. Botox lasts 3 to 4 months. Lip fillers need touch-ups every 6 to12 months. Some women in their late 50s and 60s are now getting second face-lifts. Dr. Alemi says these second facelifts have gone up by 30% compared to last year, as per the report by The Post. Live Events FAQs: Q1. What is the " Mar-a-Lago face "? It's a plastic surgery look in which the lips are big, cheekbones are high, bigger eyes, and smooth soft skin on the forehead. Q2. Why is Ivanka Trump's new face becoming famous? She's seen as stylish and polished, and many admire her facial features.
Business Standard
26-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Board of Schneider Electric Infrastructure approve capacity enhancement at its Vadodara and Kolkata plants
At meeting held on 26 May 2025 The Board of Schneider Electric Infrastructure at its meeting held on 26 May 2025 has approved enhancing the existing capacity of Switchgears at Vadodara Plant and Breakers at Kolkata plant at an investment of Rs 200.8 crore. The company plans to add 6000 panels to the existing capacity of 8000 panels at Switchgear Plant, Vadodara while adding 5000 breakers to the existing capacity of 40000 breakers at Kolkata Plant.
Los Angeles Times
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Laguna Beach baseball sees remarkable season draw to a close against Norco
The Laguna Beach High baseball team had, by all accounts, one of the best seasons in the 88-year history of the program. One swing certainly does not change that. That one swing, a fifth-inning grand slam by Norco sophomore Dylan Seward, was still enough to lift the visiting Cougars to a 4-2 win over the host Breakers on Tuesday afternoon in the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs. Norco moved on to host its Big VIII League rival, top-seeded defending Division 1 champion Corona, in the quarterfinals on Friday. Laguna Beach, competing in the top postseason division for the first time, finished its season 25-4 after falling to the No. 7-ranked team in the state of California by The Breakers, who earned an impressive win at Summit in the first round of the Division 1 playoffs, certainly proved that they belonged there. 'We had a team that could compete with anybody,' first-year Laguna Beach head coach Ryan Belanto said. 'I thought we had four or five arms that I trusted every single time out … We were where we were supposed to be, in Division 1. We were able to beat another top 10 team in CIF in the first round, and there's no easy draws. You've got to be perfect for five straight games to win this thing.' Breakers senior right-handed pitcher Thomas Gonzales, a transfer from JSerra, drew the start on the bump Tuesday. He struck out seven Norco batters in 4 ⅔ innings, running into adversity in the fifth inning of what was a tie game. With one out, Norco's Wyatt Fiedler and Elijah Alvarez were both hit by pitches. Gonzales recovered to strikeout leadoff hitter Marcus Blanton, but Zion Martinez drew a full-count walk to load the bases. Seward then unloaded them, launching a 2-and-0 changeup over the fence in right-center field, just to the right of the scoreboard at Skipper Carrillo Field. It was his fifth home run of the year for the Cougars (22-8). 'We started off a little bit slow swinging the bat this year, and we've just been getting better and better,' Norco coach Gary Parcell said. 'Dylan is going to be a big-time player, no doubt about it.' Laguna Beach tried to rally against Norco junior left-handed pitcher Landon Hovermale, who went the whole way. Otis Boultinghouse roped a one-out double in the bottom of the sixth, and a single by Becker Sybirski put runners at the corners. Lincoln Adams grounded into a fielder's choice to the pitcher, with Sybirski out at second, but a double to center by cleanup hitter Lucien Reed scored two and halved the hosts' deficit. 'We came out and we proved that we should be in the Division 1 playoffs,' Sybirski said. 'Against Summit, against this team, we proved that we could beat any team. I'm just super glad that I got to come out here and spend my time with my brothers … Laguna's not known for their hitting, but I think this year, we proved [we could hit]. Especially this playoffs, we faced four D1 arms and we've hit good against all of them.' Dane Jenal drew a one-out walk in the bottom of the seventh, bringing the potential tying run to the plate, but Hovermale got Jackson Arrasin to fly out to deep center before striking out Gonzales to end the game. It was just the fourth loss of the season for the Pacific Coast League champion Breakers, who started the year by rattling off 12 straight wins. On the mound, junior Branson Wade was 10-1 and Sybirski was 7-1, both with microscopic earned-run averages under one. 'I think people doubt us,' said Sybirski, bound for the New Jersey Institute of Technology, who also led the team by hitting .424. 'They have all year because of our size, but we went out and were dogs on the mound and hitting-wise. We proved that we should be a D1 team. 'It's not the nine guys on the field. The entire year, our dugout, everyone was in 100%. I think that was one of the biggest reasons [we won]. We had guys who really wanted to come out here, practice, work their [behind] off. Then they wouldn't play in a game, but they didn't care. They were true teammates. That was a big thing for me.'
Boston Globe
01-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Meet the team of soccer ‘grannies' from Mass. who took a world tournament by storm
Four days ago, there were 19 squads from seven countries in the running. Now it's down to the Breakers and a French team called Les Z'amies Foot, the Football Friends, with a penalty shootout to determine the champion. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up None of this seems real for these New England athletes, who, not long ago, were whacking chunks of ice off a field at Needham's Memorial Park so they could play pickup games no one watched, whose scores no one would remember. Advertisement Since arriving in Tzaneen, they've been treated like professionals, marching onto the pitch to the chords of the FIFA anthem, an American flag held high in the air in front of them. The stands have been packed. 'She's the USA's Messi,' the commentator exclaims during one game as Breakers forward Pam Woodworth shoots past three opponents with quick, tight dribbles. The difference — one of them anyway — between the Argentine legend and the American, formerly of Newton and now living in New York, is more than three decades. Woodworth, who pulls her bright white hair in a ponytail, is 72. One-third of the Breakers lineup is over 70, and none is younger than 50. And this is not the FIFA World Cup — it's the Advertisement France's kicker walks slowly to a spot 12 yards from Breakers goalkeeper Chris Matson, a 68-year-old from Belmont. The referee sets the ball on the grass; Matson drops into a crouch, palms outstretched. The whistle blows. The New England Breakers arrived in Tzaneen four days earlier, after some 20 hours on a plane from Logan International Airport and five hours on a bus from Johannesburg. Traveling with them were the Soccer Sisters, another Massachusetts team. Though technically opponents, the teams are, in reality, one entangled group of women who play together in local leagues and pickup games. They've bonded over the years, sometimes while getting thrashed by teams half their age. On the way to Tzaneen, they drove past orange groves and baboons galloping across the road. Some were seeing South Africa for the first time. Others had been to Tzaneen for the first Grannies International back in 2023. And a few had a history with their Related : The tournament is the brainchild of Beka Ntsanwisi, a 57-year-old Tzaneen gospel radio host who, in the mid-2000s, started a team for 'grannies' as a response to the stress, poor health, and loneliness she saw plaguing older women in her community. Many of them were raising grandchildren orphaned by AIDS, or who were left at home when their parents went to work in big cities. Advertisement The squad became a Tournament founder Beka Ntsanwisi at her home in Tzaneen. Ilan Godfrey for The Boston Globe By that time, Duffy — an engineer from Somerville — had been playing for a few years in what she and her teammates half-jokingly called 'soccer for soccer moms.' Indeed, many of them had coached and watched their kids in youth leagues. But now, they were getting off the sidelines and onto the field. Inspired by the news coverage, Duffy and her teammates extended an invite to Ntsanwisi. Five months later, a team of South Africans — many of whom had traveled farther on the bus ride to the Johannesburg airport than they ever had before — arrived in Massachusetts for the Veterans Cup, a national tournament for older players. Though Ntsanwisi doesn't play herself, she made a promise to herself on that 2010 trip, which Duffy recounts in her book, Ntsanwisi's players were now seeing the world. One day, she wanted to bring the world to them. Thirteen years later, when Ntsanwisi hosted the first Grannies International in her hometown, teams from six countries showed up, including the women from Massachusetts. When the doors of their bus hiss open at the start of the 2025 tournament's parade, the New Englanders step into a veritable United Nations of knee braces, artificial hips, and boisterous national pride. There are the Togolese in elegant, floor-length dresses. The Kenyan squad looks like a group of retired marathoners, lanky and fit. The French don red scarves and tapered track pants. The South African teams arrive in bright three-piece suits or beaded skirts or huge Afro wigs in the colors of their national flag. Advertisement The Americans know their circumstances are starkly different from many of their opponents. When the South Africa grannies began to play some 20 years ago, it Jean Duffy competing in her second Grannies International. Ilan Godfrey for The Boston Globe Duffy, 66, and her teammates haven't lived through that, exactly, but they too know what it's like to move through a world that asks them to swallow their ambitions. She had spent her working life as one of a few female engineers in a pack of guys, moving up the career ladder but at the same time, 'always questioning, just being careful what I said,' she recalls. Her teammate Elaine McCabe, 57, describes being treated by her colleagues in a paper mill 'like a porcelain doll.' And so, the Westborough resident says, 'I had to pretend to be that.' In Tzaneen, the teams mill around the starting area, taking photos and singing their team songs. Veterans from the Massachusetts squads know the routine from their last trip here, and have come prepared with a song of their own. 'We've traveled a long, long way to South Africa,' they sing loudly as the parade begins to move. 'We're finding it beautiful, the people and the place.' Advertisement Later, the Soccer Sisters square up in the sticky heat against the Dikgoshigadi Grannies of South Africa. Just before half-time, Lee Ann LaRue takes a free kick. It ricochets hard off the post. Kari Anderson neatly slots it away. 'GOOOAAALLLLLL!' screams the commentator. On Day 2 of the tournament, the Breakers take the field against an inexperienced squad from the West African country of Togo. The players' shoulders seem to slump lower and lower with every American goal. But as soon as the final whistle blows, players break into smiles and sweep one another into hugs, giggling as they chatter back and forth, despite their different languages. They bunch together for selfies and swap souvenirs they've brought along from home: floppy sun hats with an American flag pin attached in exchange for keychains with the Togolese flag. Meanwhile, the local teams introduce their visitors to the art of South African soccer spectating. Frequently, and without warning, someone breaks into song — that soon has the entire crowd on their feet, stomping and clapping along. Pam Woodworth of the New England Breakers dribbles past players from Togo in the Grannies International Football Tournament. Ilan Godfrey for The Boston Globe 'Soccer is a very addicting sport and part of it is this social aspect,' says Breakers captain Deb Keohan of Bedford. 'You get to know wonderful people who you maybe wouldn't come across any other way.' Later that day, Duffy chats in the stands with a small woman with bright blue eyes named Rossina Mathye — one of the South African players who traveled to Boston in 2010. Now 84, she has retired from competitive soccer but still loves to cheer her team on. Mathye says soccer carried her through one of her darkest moments, the death of her adult son in 2015. At home, she couldn't escape his memory. But when her teammates coaxed her out to the soccer field, she found respite from the grief, at least for the length of a game. Advertisement Her story mirrors those of other players. When your world feels like it is collapsing, your teammates are still there. Your Friday pickup game is still there. And out on the field, there's no space to think about anything else. 'You see the ball,' she says, 'not the trouble.' On the Tournament's third day, real life breaks into the fairy tale. The Massachusetts teams may have arrived in South Africa thinking of themselves as merely a bunch of older women from the Boston area, but little by little, it's become clear the situation is more complicated. 'I wasn't thinking about the fact that I was representing the US until suddenly I was,' says Mary Lou 'ML' Dymski, 70. And representing the United States, at this moment, feels fraught for some players. In February, President Donald Trump had issued an Both claims, frequently pushed by far-right groups, have been debunked. A new law allows for In Tzaneen, which is located deep in South African farming country, the US president's actions have not gone unnoticed. At the opening ceremony, a local leader thanked the Americans for coming despite the political tensions. 'I hope they will go back and tell their fellow Americans that what we hear on Twitter or wherever, it's not how the people of South Africa are,' says Phophi Ramathuba, the premier of Limpopo Province. 'It's rubbish.' Elaine McCabe, holding the American flag, and more of the Soccer Sisters team with a South African squad at the tournament's opening parade. Ilan Godfrey for The Boston Globe No one is prickly to the Americans, but a few people mention they are afraid of what the aid cuts will mean, especially for South Africa's AIDS response. Heather Broglio of Lincoln, the Soccer Sisters' goalkeeper, finds all this distressing. 'We're playing a tournament of worldwide good will with all the other grannies, and there's such a human cost for the agenda that the Trump administration has been rolling out around the world,' she says. 'I just really felt the need to do something.' Ahead of the Soccer Sisters' quarterfinal match, she tells Duffy she wants to take a knee during the US national anthem. Duffy immediately decides to join. Before the Soccer Sisters enter the tunnel to walk onto the field, Broglio asks them to circle up, and she tells them her plan. Not everyone is supportive. 'I was pissed,' teammate McCabe recalls, a message she conveys in no uncertain terms. Her father was a veteran, and she'd grown up with a reverence for the flag and the anthem that transcended politics. To her, such a display is disrespectful, pure and simple. Two more players, LaRue and Suzanne Scarlata, decide to join the protest. As the opening bars of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' crackle through the stadium speakers, the four women each drop a knee to the grass. They stay there for the rest of the song, hands on their hearts, singing loudly. The two American teams face off in the semifinal on the fourth and final morning. The field squelches from an earlier rainstorm, and possession swivels back and forth. Dymski, who plays for the Breakers, declares the match 'wicked hard.' In the end, her team breaks the 0-0 tie in a penalty shootout. A few hours later, the Breakers take the field against the French team. Their opponents are strong, fast, and mostly in their 50s and 60s. But the Breakers manage to frustrate their offense, holding the grands-mères to a 0-0 tie. The Breakers' Margot Rendall dribbles toward the goal against a team from Togo. Ilan Godfrey for The Boston Globe That leaves the game to be decided, again, on penalties. The first three Breakers players knock in their shots easily. But a save by the French keeper gives their opponents an opening. When the Breakers' Margot Rendall steps up for her kick, the shootout is locked in a tie. The 67-year-old from Newton drives a hard ball toward the left post. The keeper dives, but it sails over her into the net. That means that if the other team misses their next shot, the Breakers win. The French player strides forward. She fiddles with the ball and sizes up Matson, the Breakers keeper, then backs up to take the kick. It goes wide. As the Breakers run down the field to embrace Matson, the French women gather themselves to shake the Americans' hands. One of their trainers kneels on the ground, sobbing. With all the tournament's bonhomie, it's easy to forget that the teams all came here to win. Losing — especially like this — is a kick in the chest to the French. The New England Breakers before a match during the Grannies International Football Tournament in April, Tzaneen, South Africa. Ilan Godfrey for The Boston Globe But a few minutes later, Breakers players begin dancing in a circle near their bench as a catchy song blares around them. Passersby join the reverie, including a woman from the French squad. Her shorts streaked with mud from a hard tackle, she dances in the center of the Americans' circle with a huge grin on her face. In this moment, she looks just like the women celebrating around her — as if she simply cannot believe her luck. Ryan Lenora Brown is a journalist based in South Africa. Send comments to magazine@
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Massive news about Ellyse Perry confirmed after leaving home for ex-husband
Ellyse Perry's move back to NSW from Victoria has been confirmed, after she switched allegiances in 2019 to be closer to ex-husband Matt Toomua. Perry confirmed on Thursday that she'll play for NSW in domestic cricket in 2025, after reports emerged in February that she was keen to come home. The Australian cricket star has spent the past six years playing for Victoria, but will be back in blue this season. 'The last six years I've spent in Melbourne and at Cricket Victoria have been extremely fond ones and I'm incredibly grateful for all the opportunities and memories that I'll cherish,' the 34-year-old said. 'I'm really looking forward to being back in Sydney and closer to my family and longtime friends.' Leah Poulton, the head of Female Elite Cricket in NSW, said Perry's return to the state is a significant boost. 'We're thrilled to welcome Ellyse back home to the Breakers," Poulton said. "She's not only one of the world's premier cricketers, but also a role model and leader whose impact extends far beyond the field. Pez' professionalism, experience, and approach to the game make her an incredible asset to any team, and we're excited to have her back in our program.' Perry played for NSW from 2007 to 2019, helping the Breakers win a staggering 10 titles in the Women's National Cricket League. Despite playing 20 games for Victoria across the last six years, Perry remains 10th on the list of all-time WNCL run-scorers for NSW, and is the state's third-highest wicket-taker. She decided to up stumps and move to Victoria in 2019 when ex-husband Toomua was based there while playing for the Melbourne Rebels. Her five-year marriage with the former Wallabies player broke down in 2020 and they went their separate ways, but Perry remained playing for Victoria. "At the end of the day, it was really very much a personal decision for family life," she said in 2019 about the move. "The opportunity to play at NSW for the last decade or so has been an absolute honour. "Going back before that, playing all my junior cricket for NSW and their pathway programs, I was lucky to do that. I am very much a NSW girl. It is definitely sad but, at the same time, having played for a fairly long period now, it's kind of invigorating to have a new opportunity and experience in a different state." RELATED: Pressure mounts on Pat Cummins as move with wife explained Detail in Alyssa Healy's outfit causes stir during Mitchell Starc match Perry is notoriously private about her personal life, and hasn't spoken much about her sad split with Toomua in the years that have followed. In 2022, he opened up on the divorce and said: 'It was tough. Not fun at all. It sucked. You can see why it breaks people. It was brutal. "I'm very fortunate that we had no kids, and of the divorces, it was a good one in the sense of the separation of those things. The one unique thing being it was public. Getting sprayed while I'm goal-kicking or getting abused on some social media platform isn't great, but they're minor things.'
