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Vancouver Sun
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
5 versatile beach bags to tote around this summer
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. For the last few seasons, designer wicker totes and raffia beach bags have given new meaning to the term 'beach to boardwalk'. Indeed, styles that move effortlessly from sand to city are key to ensuring your summer includes as many beach visits as possible, without sacrificing any of the essentials: SPF, a good read, a snack or two and the all-important sunnies. Rebecca Tay presents five beach bags that prove that practicality and polish can go hand in hand. TONI FIFI X REITMANS STRAW BAG Discover the best of B.C.'s recipes, restaurants and wine. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of West Coast Table will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Toronto-based stylist, influencer and on-air fashion expert Toni Fifi — @tonififi — has created a limited-edition collection with Canadian brand Reitmans, and we're loving the printed, bold pieces, as well as this straw tote. Not too big, not too small, the all-black, adjustable straps and hardware give it a streamlined, sleek look that's perfect for days out and dinner alike. Reitmans, | $59.90 STRIPED TOTE WITH LEATHERETTE TOP HANDLES We've all seen a striped summer tote before, but this one feels slightly different as it merges a market bag and a beach bag to feel suitable for, well, both. With a large compartment that will fit everything from your fresh produce to magazines and a sarong, it's a chic, Hamptons-inspired take on a style that will definitely see you through the season — and beyond. Joe Fresh, | $29 ALL SEASON GEAR TOTE True to its B.C. roots, Herschel knows that a Canadian summer is just as likely to include trips to the cabin, complete with a ferry ride and pebble beach walk, as it is days on the sand. Enter this All Season Gear Tote, which comes in two sizes: 63L and 33L. Part of the brand's Outdoor Equipment performance line, it's made from custom All Season fabric, has a double-layer base and nylon handles for sturdiness and durability, and a roomy main compartment for wine, extra clothing, swimming flippers, a portable speaker and more — basically everything you need for a great summer's day out. Herschel, | $95 (small) and $125 (large) BEACH CLUB CANVAS TOTE Is there anything more iconic than a printed canvas tote? Sure, we'd all love to find a good vintage one at a charity shop, but barring that, there's this SENN House Beach Club version by Oak and Fort. Laid-back and cool, it has double shoulder straps for comfort and strength and a structured base for extra stability, meaning you can stuff it to overflowing and it won't — or at least it shouldn't — tip over. Oak and Fort, | $48 SANS-ARCIDET PARIS OVERSIZED BRAIDED RAFFIA TOTE Founded 25 years ago in Madagascar by three sisters, Sans-Arcidet Paris is a relatively under-the-radar brand known for its elegance and craftsmanship. Case in point: this oversized, braided raffia bag, which features drawstring cords that knot at the bottoms and tie-dyed fastenings for a sense of modernity. Wear with cropped trousers for weekend errands, with a bikini at the beach, and with a black dress for an evening out. Simons, | $275
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Herschel Segal, founder of DavidsTea and Le Château, has died
Herschel Segal, the founder of DavidsTea and the fashion retail brand Le Château, has died. DavidsTea sells tea online as well as in grocery stores and convenience stores in Canada and the United States. The company also has 20 stores across Canada. The Montreal-based company announced Segal's death in a news release on Saturday. It says he died on Tuesday. Segal retired from DavidsTea's board of directors in 2021. His wife, Jane Silverstone, is the board's president and his daughter, Sarah Segal, is listed on the company's website as its director as well as chief executive and chief brand officer. Herschel launched Le Château in the late 1950s. The clothing brand was a major success with young consumers and a staple in shopping malls in the 1980s and 1990s, before companies like H&M and Zara entered the Canadian market. Le Château filed a request for creditor protection in 2020 and its stores were ultimately liquidated. Saturday's news release from DavidsTea highlights how Segal "always led his companies with vision, determination and a strong belief in the importance of customer relations." The company describes him as a strong advocate for innovation, accessibility and community spirit. "Herschel's legacy lives on through DavidsTea and I am committed to continuing his vision," said Silverstone, his wife, in the news release. Rainy Day Investments, Segal's investment company and the largest shareholder of DavidsTea, plans to remain a shareholder in the long term, the news release reads.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Vast swarms of hidden galaxies may be secretly bathing the universe in a soft glow
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A secret population of hidden galaxies suffusing the universe in a soft glow of far-infrared light have been strongly suggested to exist, based on careful detective work into some of the most unique data to come from Europe's Herschel Space Observatory. The galaxies, if they are real, are not necessarily a surprise. The cosmos is filled with light across all wavelengths — it's just that the far-infrared component seems to be stronger than can be accounted for by all the galaxies we can see in visible light. In other words, there must be something else in the universe producing its glow. Far-infrared light, associated with longer wavelengths than what even the James Webb Space Telescope can see, is emitted by cosmic dust that has absorbed starlight. Cosmic dust is produced by the cycle of star birth and death. Dust condenses around newly formed stars — it's what planets like Earth are built out of, after all — and then is produced in huge quantities when stars die. The more intense the star formation, the more rapid the cycle of star birth and death. And the more rapid the cycle, the more dust is produced. Eventually, enough dust can be produced to literally hide the stars within a galaxy. This has led astronomers to wonder whether there are countless galaxies out there shrouded in dust —- galaxies that are quietly contributing to the far-infrared background of the cosmos. The trouble is, nobody had seen them —until possibly now. "The cosmic infrared background is like a jigsaw puzzle, but there are some pieces missing," Chris Pearson, an astronomer at the U.K.'s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, told "We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those missing pieces were going to be." Pearson led a team who used archival data from the Herschel Space Observatory to search for these missing pieces. Herschel, which was capable of viewing the universe in long wavelengths of far-infrared light, ended its mission all the way back in 2013. However, as a member of Herschel's original instrumentation team, Pearson knew of some observations that hadn't been available to regular astronomers. One of Herschel's primary instruments was SPIRE, the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver. To ensure that SPIRE remained calibrated correctly, it was pointed towards a barren patch of sky just 3.5 degrees from the North Ecliptic Pole once or twice a month. "By looking at the same area of sky we always expected to get roughly the same result, and if we didn't, if we saw a systematic drift over time such as everything getting bright each month, then that would be indicative of some change in the characteristics of SPIRE, and we'd have to create a calibration correction," Pearson said. SPIRE imaged this "dark field" 141 times, but because it was only used by the instrument team to monitor the equipment itself, the dark field images were not released to the general astronomical community. However, Pearson's team realized that the images could be useful for more than just calibrating SPIRE. They stacked the 141 images — astro-imaging parlance for adding and merging the images on top of one another, which dramatically increases the signal-to-noise ratio — and threw in some data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to create the deepest far-infrared view of the cosmos ever made. In this "dark field," they identified 1,848 sources of far-infrared emission. Now, the problem with observations at long wavelengths is resolution: you just don't get sharp images like you do with the Hubble or James Webb space telescopes. Even though Herschel's mirror, was larger than Hubble's, at 3.5-meters (11.5 feet) in diameter, to Herschel, the 1,848 far-infrared sources all look like amorphous blobs. Therefore, a careful statistical analysis had to be undertaken to figure out what these blobs actually are, and whether they match typical galaxy distributions. The conclusion is that they are dusty, star-forming galaxies at a range of distances from us; they are hard to find because they are faint, probably indicating that these are not large galaxies, but rather smaller dwarf galaxies undergoing their first intense bursts of star formation. If one were to extrapolate the findings all across the sky, the result would be an awful lot of small, dusty, star-forming galaxies that collectively contribute a significant fraction of the far-infrared background, and of the overall energy budget of the universe. Still, it's not necessarily the first time that some of these galaxies have been seen; they may have turned up in deep images taken by Hubble or the JWST, for example. "But it's making the link between what you see at one wavelength and what you see at another wavelength that's the problem, and again it's down to resolution," Pearson said. For example, an optical image taken by Hubble might show a cluster of individual galaxies, but in the Herschel image they would appear as just one blob of infrared light. "You don't know how many of those galaxies that you see at optical wavelengths are actually also contributing to the emission of this blob," Pearson said. What's needed is more data to fill the gaps and confirm that this population of hidden galaxies is real. That data will not be forthcoming from Herschel, though: "We've pushed what Herschel could do right to the limit with this," Pearson said. On the bright side, there are two other possibilities. One option is to conduct observations at submillimeter radio wavelengths, which is the next waveband up from far-infrared. Although the North Ecliptic Pole is not viewable from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, Pearson's team does have some observing time coming up on the Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, which can see the dark field. Beyond that, Pearson is a member of a consortium behind a proposed NASA mission called PRIMA, the Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics. PRIMA has made it to the final shortlist for NASA's next billion-dollar Probe class mission, competing against one other mission, the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXiS). Final selection takes place in 2026. Related Stories: — Record-breaking 'dead' galaxy discovered by JWST lived fast and died young in the early universe — Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind — James Webb Space Telescope sees early galaxies defying 'cosmic rulebook' of star formation If PRIMA does go ahead, its telescope mirror will actually be quite a lot smaller than Herschel's at just 1.8-meters (6 feet). "So in terms of taking pictures, it won't help us because they're still going to be blurry," Pearson said. What PRIMA will specialize in is spectroscopy, breaking down the infrared light into individual wavelengths to learn more about the constituents of these galaxies, how much star formation is taking place and how far away they are. As Pearson said,, "If PRIMA goes ahead, it's going to be absolutely instrumental in solving this." Two papers describing the results, one with Pearson as the lead author and another led by Thomas Varnish of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were published on April 9 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The Guardian
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The moment I knew: I was snot-crying through a Disney film when he placed his head on my shoulder
In 2020, I was living in Sydney, working in real estate, attempting to finish my law degree on the side and struggling to juggle full-time work, full-time study and, admittedly, full-time partying. For a while I had been contemplating moving home to Brisbane to escape the chaos of Sydney but, at that time, chaos and I were old friends, and it was a friendship I thought would prevail my whole life. I met Herschel on 20 December 2020 at about 10pm. I remember it well as it was also the day that a once firmly held belief of mine was shattered into oblivion. As much as I cherish my straight allies, there's a familiar trope that involves them earnestly attempting to set us up with someone merely because they share our sexual orientation. No malice intended, but as most queer people know, it rarely results in a 'match made in gay heaven'. It's for this reason that I responded to my straight, rugby-loving, beer-chugging brother Nick with trepidation when he insisted in July 2020 that I meet his 'gay friend' Herschel from Brisbane because I would really 'love him'. I brushed off his eager suggestions and carried on with my life, content in the knowledge my brother couldn't possibly be on to something. Fast forward six months. I flew home to Brisbane for Christmas and headed straight from the airport to meet my family for dinner. After being bombarded with hugs and kisses, I noticed my brother wasn't there. 'Nick's at a party at Herschel's house,' my family explained. Soon, Nick began bombarding me with text messages, urging me to join the party. When I responded I was exhausted and ready for bed, Nick offered to pay for my Uber, which I politely declined: 'I cannot be bought!' However, persistence, they say, is key, and, as it turns out, the key to Nick's persistence came in the form of a video message from him and Herschel. I still remember the visceral reaction I had to the friendly face beaming at me through the screen (no it wasn't Nick's!). With brown curls rivalling a Disney prince, piercing blue eyes and a smile that was charming and enigmatic, I was mesmerised. There was something about Herschel's smile that pulled me out of exhaustion and alerted me to the possibility I was wrong about these straight allies and their match-making endeavours. I ordered a car to his house. Herschel and I hit it off immediately and chatted all night, only interrupted by the occasional 'I told you so' whispered in my ear by Nick. For the remainder of my holiday, Herschel and I hung out as often as we could under the guise that this was no more than a 'summer fling'. I was due to return to Sydney in a matter of weeks. When I returned to chaos (Sydney), I tried to put the 'summer fling' behind me. But 12 weeks later, I quit my job, packed my belongings and moved back to Brisbane to focus on finishing my studies. Herschel brought an unfamiliar tranquillity and stillness to my Brisbane life. He was at the tail end of his university degree studying wildlife science and we spent our time together studying, cooking, taking trips to South Stradbroke Island and getting to know each other's family and friends. As the months (and eventually years) in Brisbane went on, we kept joking it was the 'summer fling' that would never end. One afternoon we were sitting at home watching the Disney movie Luca. The film, a coming-of-age story about friendship, self-acceptance and finding your place in a world where you don't quite know how to fit in, reduced me to a blubbering mess on the couch. As I sat there, reflecting on my own experiences as a queer person while trying to hide the fact I was snot-crying on a Tuesday afternoon, Herschel put his head on my shoulder. A feeling of immense relief washed over me as he calmly yet compassionately listened to my heartache. I felt safe, free from judgment and drawn to this mature, centred and wise man. I knew in that moment I would do anything to ensure we outlasted infinite summers. A year ago we moved to Sydney to enjoy post-grad life together. Experiencing Sydney again with Herschel by my side makes it feel like an entirely new city. One that I view through a much less chaotic lens. As for Nick, the next time he makes a suggestion, I won't be so quick to dismiss him. Do you have a romantic realisation you'd like to share? From quiet domestic scenes to dramatic revelations, Guardian Australia wants to hear about the moment you knew you were in love. Your contact details are helpful so we can contact you for more information. They will only be seen by the Guardian. Your contact details are helpful so we can contact you for more information. They will only be seen by the Guardian.
