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Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Nutrishop Co-Founder & 75-Year-Old Father Team Up for 24th Race This Father's Day
Father-daughter duo turns shared finish lines into a living testament that age is no barrier to wellness OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif., June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, June 14, Nutrishop Co-Founder Tania McLendon, 51, of Incline Village, Nev., and her 75-year-old father, Anthony Nahale, of Ladera Ranch, Calif., will mark their 24th race together by taking on the Big Blue Adventures Olympic Valley 8-Miler—just one more chapter in a story that began more than a decade ago. The father-daughter duo, who often place in the top five for their age groups, crossed their first finish line in 2013 after McLendon persuaded her dad to join her for the Los Angeles New Year's Race. Since then, their racing journey has taken them from Disneyland, Kauai, and Alaska to Wyoming's Grand Tetons and Rome's Colosseum. In October, the pair will travel to Nahale's ancestral roots in Japan for the Tokyo Legacy Half Marathon. "What started as a way to share my passion for running with my dad has turned into a lifelong adventure filled with unforgettable moments," said McLendon. "Our story proves that age is not a barrier; it's never too late to start healthy habits." Building a Legacy of HealthMcLendon ran cross country in high school and later for Cal State Fullerton on a partial scholarship. Today, she still moves daily—walking or hiking 5–7 miles at Tahoe's altitude and lifting weights three times a week—but the miles shared with her dad have given her training new meaning. "The memories we've made together are priceless," she said. Nahale didn't begin running until his mid-40s. At 50, he started weekly runs on Saturdays with some friends at Dana Point Harbor. Encouraged by his daughter, he added weight training in his mid-50s. Today, he logs about 1,000 miles annually, including a mix of 5Ks, 10Ks, and half marathon races. One of Nahale's proudest and most unforgettable accomplishments so far was finishing his third marathon in Los Angeles just five days before turning 65. Another came when he and McLendon completed their first international half marathon in Rome last October. Nahale's top tips: start small, build gradually, and invest in quality shoes (he replaces his every six months). McLendon's advice: enjoy the journey, give yourself grace, and remember that consistency beats perfection, so find an approach that works for you. Fueling Their Finish LinesMcLendon credits her consistent cross-training and nutrition regimen for staying fit, healthy and injury-free. Her go-to supplements range from high-quality protein to targeted recovery blends available exclusively through On race days, she never competes without Stance Supplements Power ATP, XP2 Crossover, BCAA Complex, and XP2 Salthead Electrolyte Formula. Nahale's diet focuses on lean proteins like fish and chicken, limited sugar, whole grains, and hydration with electrolytes. He supplements daily with Forza Pro Protein, calcium, magnesium, Trailhead Collagen, and BCAA Complex, and fuels race days with energy gels and pH Labs Glumatic for recovery. A Father's Day Call to ActionWith Father's Day approaching, McLendon and Nahale hope their story inspires others to start their own wellness traditions—whether it's running, hiking, biking, cooking nutritious meals, or just spending more intentional time together. "Shared activities build memories," said Nahale. "Find your healthy adventure, whatever it is, and make it a lifelong habit." Need help starting a family fitness tradition? Visit your local Nutrishop for personalized tips and supplement guidance. About NutrishopFounded in 2003, Nutrishop has become a trusted name in health and wellness, helping individuals reach their fitness and nutrition goals. With franchisee-owned stores nationwide, the brand offers exclusive dietary supplements, body composition assessments, one-on-one support, and nutritional guidance—all backed by a low-price guarantee. Committed to exceptional customer service and community support, Nutrishop empowers customers to live healthier, happier lives. For more information, visit and follow @NutrishopUSA on Instagram. Interested in franchise opportunities? Visit to learn more. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Nutrishop Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
New York Times
27-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Dick Barnett, Champion Knick With a Singular Jump Shot, Dies at 88
Dick Barnett, who helped propel the Knicks to their glory days in the 1970s with his strange jump-shooting style, and who played on the only two N.B.A. championship teams in the Knicks' history, died in his sleep last night in Largo, Fla. He was 88. The Knicks announced the death, at an assisted living facility, on social media on Sunday, soon after a dramatic victory in a first-round playoff series against the Detroit Pistons. Danielle Naassana, a producer of 'The Dream Whisperer,' a PBS documentary about Barnett and his college career that came out last year, said he had become increasingly frail in recent years but did not appear to have a fatal illness. Barnett was voted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in its men's veterans category in April 2024. Playing for 14 seasons in the N.B.A., his last nine with the Knicks, Barnett teamed with Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe at guard, Willis Reed at center and Bill Bradley and Dave DeBusschere at forward under Coach Red Holzman. The Knicks won N.B.A. championships in 1970 and 1973 with smart, unselfish play and tenacious defense that complemented their scoring power. Barnett displayed all-around court skills but was remembered most for unleashing jumpers with a form that had not been seen before or since. When he launched his signature left-handed shot from his 6-foot-4-inch frame, his legs flew backward. Resembling a shot-putter, he put up high-arcing shots off his left ear, while telling the player guarding him 'too late' and directing his teammates to 'fall back' since there would no need for an offensive rebound. When Barnett was playing with the Los Angeles Lakers, before he became a Knick, their longtime broadcaster Chick Hearn would shout, 'Fall back, baby,' when Barnett went up for his shot. Barnett led the historically black Tennessee A&I University (now Tennessee State) to three consecutive National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national championships, from 1957 to 1959, playing for the future Hall of Fame coach John McLendon. McLendon recalled in an interview with The New York Times in 1991 how Barnett 'would go up and back at a 40-degree angle' on his jumpers. 'It was an undefendable shot,' McLendon said. 'When he'd hit the floor, he was often off balance; sometimes he'd exaggerate it. One time, he fell clear up in the second row after the shot.' That style was developed 'without rhyme or reason, something that came naturally and worked for me,' Barnett told the Times sportswriter Harvey Araton for his book 'When the Garden Was Eden' (2011). 'It was in the playground before I even got to high school that I learned how to execute that shot without really knowing what I was doing.' The Syracuse Nationals selected Barnett in the first round of the 1959 N.B.A. draft. He played two seasons for them and then one season for George Steinbrenner's Cleveland Pipers of the short-lived American Basketball League, coached by McLendon at the season's outset. After that he spent three seasons with the Lakers, playing with Jerry West and Elgin Baylor. They traded him to the Knicks for forward Bob Boozer in October 1965. Barnett joined with Reed, who was in his second season, as the first major building blocks for a Knick franchise that had been floundering for years. He averaged a career-high 23.1 points a game in his first season with New York and made the All-Star team for the only time in his career in 1968. He teamed with Frazier in the backcourt when the Knicks won the 1970 N.B.A. championship, defeating the Lakers in a seven-game final. Reed, who died in 2023, provided a memorable emotional lift for the Knicks in Game 7, playing against Wilt Chamberlain on a badly injured leg, while Frazier hit for 37 points and Barnett had 21. When the Knicks won the championship again in 1973, defeating the Lakers in five games, Barnett was in his final full season, playing as a reserve behind Frazier, Monroe and Dean Meminger. He became an assistant coach to Holzman the next season, returned to play in five games as an injury fill-in, then retired for good with 15,358 career points for an average of 15.8 points a game. Barnett was stylish off the court as well as on it. Holzman told of the time, when he was scouting for the Knicks, when he saw Barnett, who was with the Nationals. enter the old Madison Square Garden for the first time. 'He walked in with a Chesterfield coat, homburg, striped pants, spats and an umbrella hooked on his arm,' he recalled in his memoir, 'The Knicks' (1971, with Leonard Lewin). Richard Barnett was born on Oct. 2, 1936, in Gary, Ind., where his father was a steelworker. He starred on his high school basketball team before attending Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State University (now known as Tennessee State University), one of the South's historically Black colleges and universities. From 1957 to 1959, his team won back-to-back-back championships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, a separate conference smaller than the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It was the first Black college basketball team to win any national championship. The recent documentary focused on Barnett's efforts to win greater recognition for that team, which culminated in their collective induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019. Barnett did not graduate, but while he was a Laker he received a bachelor's degree in physical education from Cal Poly. He obtained a master's degree in public administration from New York University while a Knick and a doctorate in education from Fordham University in 1991. He taught sports management at St. John's University and established a publishing imprint, Fall Back Baby Productions, for which he wrote poetry and commented on athletes and race. His survivors include a sister, Jean Tibbs. He lived mostly in New York in recent decades and moved to Florida last year. In March 1990, the Knicks raised a banner with Barnett's No. 12 and another one reading '613,' representing Holzman's victories as the Knicks' coach. In February 2023, Barnett joined some of his surviving former teammates from the 1972-73 championship squad for a 50th-anniversary celebration of that title during halftime of a game at the Garden. Bradley pushed a frail Barnett in a wheelchair onto the court to accept the applause of fans. The Knicks have not won a championship since 1973. In his 1971 memoir, Holzman praised Barnett for more than his shooting. 'He has such great basketball instinct,' Holzman said. 'He grasps things faster than anyone.' The night before Barnett and Holzman were honored, Barnett recalled a long-ago road trip. 'Some of the players felt it would improve our eyesight if we went to the burlesque show at the hotel, even though we might miss curfew,'' he said. 'When we mentioned it to Red, he told us not to go because we might see something there that we shouldn't see. But we went to the burlesque show anyway. And we did see something there that we shouldn't have seen. We saw Red.''
Associated Press
06-03-2025
- Politics
- Associated Press
New Mississippi legislative maps head to court for approval despite DeSoto lawmakers' objections
Voters from 15 Mississippi legislative districts will decide special elections this November, if a federal court approves two redistricting maps that lawmakers approved on Wednesday. The Legislature passed House and Senate redistricting maps, over the objections of some Democrats and DeSoto County lawmakers. The map creates a majority-Black House district in Chickasaw County and creates two new majority-Black Senate districts in DeSoto and Lamar counties. 'What I did was fair and something we all thought the courts would approve,' Senate President Pro Tempore Dean Kirby told Mississippi Today on the Senate plan. Even though legislative elections were held in 2023, lawmakers have to tweak some districts because a three-judge federal panel determined last year that the Legislature violated federal law by not creating enough Black-majority districts when it redrew districts in 2022. The Senate plan creates one new majority-Black district each in DeSoto County and the Hattiesburg area, with no incumbent senator in either district. To account for this, the plan also pits two incumbents against each other in northwest Mississippi. The proposal puts Sen. Michael McLendon, a Republican from Hernando, who is white, and Sen. Reginald Jackson, a Democrat from Marks, who is Black, in the same district. The redrawn district contains a Black voting-age population of 52.4% and includes portions of DeSoto, Tunica, Quitman and Coahoma counties. McLendon has vehemently opposed the plan, said the process for drawing a new map wasn't transparent and said Senate leaders selectively drew certain districts to protect senators who are key allies. McLendon proposed an alternative map for the DeSoto County area and is frustrated that Senate leaders did not run analytical tests on it like they did on the plan the Senate leadership proposed. 'I would love to have my map vetted along with the other map to compare apples to apples,' McLendon said. 'I would love for someone to say, 'No, it's not good' or 'Yes, it passes muster.'' Kirby said McLendon's assertions are not factual and he only tried to 'protect all the senators' he could. The Senate plan has also drawn criticism from some House members and from DeSoto County leaders. Rep. Dan Eubanks, a Republican from Walls, said he was concerned with the large geographical size of the revised northwest district and believes a Senator would be unable to represent the area adequately. 'Let's say somebody down further into that district gets elected, DeSoto County is worried it won't get the representation it wants,' Eubanks said. 'And if somebody gets elected in DeSoto County, the Delta is worried that it won't get the representation it wants and needs.' The DeSoto County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday published a statement on social media saying it had hired outside counsel to pursue legal options related to the Senate redistricting plan. Robert Foster, a former House member and current DeSoto County supervisor, declined comment on what the board intended to do. Still, he said several citizens and business leaders in DeSoto County were unhappy with the Senate plan. House Elections Chairman Noah Sanford, a Republican from Collins, presented the Senate plan on the House floor and said he opposed it because Senate leaders did not listen to his concerns over how it redrew Senate districts in Covington County, his home district. 'They had no interest in talking to me, they had no interest in hearing my concerns about my county whatsoever, and I'm the one expected to present it,' Sanford said. 'Now that is a lack of professional courtesy, and it's a lack of personal respect to me.' Kirby said House leaders were responsible for redrawing the House plan and Senate leaders were responsible for redrawing the Senate districts, which has historically been the custom. 'I had to do what was best for the Senate and what I thought was pass the court,' Kirby said. The court ordered the Legislature to tweak only one House district, so it had fewer objections among lawmakers. Legislators voted to redraw five districts in north Mississippi and made the House district in Chickasaw County a majority-Black district. Under the legislation, the qualifying period for new elections would run from May 19 to May 30. The primaries would be held on August 5, with a potential primary runoff on Sept. 2 and the general election on Nov, 4. It's unclear when the federal panel will review the maps, but it ordered attorneys representing the state to notify them once the lawmakers had proposed a new map. ___
Associated Press
27-02-2025
- Politics
- Associated Press
Mississippi Senate passes redistricting that calls for 10 new elections
Voters from 10 Senate districts in Mississippi will have to re-decide in November special elections who should represent them in Jackson, pending court approval, under a resolution the Senate approved on Wednesday. The chamber passed the plan 33-16. Two Democrats joined with the GOP majority to support the plan, while three Republicans joined with the Democratic minority to oppose it. Even though voters just elected members of the Legislature in 2023, the 10 races will be held again because a three-judge federal panel determined last year that the Legislature did not create enough Black-majority districts when it redrew its districts. The panel ordered the state to redraw the districts and create a new majority-Black district in the DeSoto County area in the Forrest County area. Senate Rules Committee Chairman Dean Kirby, a Republican from Pearl, told senators that the newly redrawn map complies with federal law and will allow Black voters in the two areas to elect a candidate of their choice. 'It's not a partisan ordeal,' Kirby said. 'We have a court order, and we're going to comply.' The map creates one new majority-Black district each in DeSoto County and Forrest County, with no incumbent senator in either district. To account for this, the plan also pits two pairs of incumbents against one another in newly redrawn districts. The proposal puts Sen. Michael McLendon, a Republican from Hernando, who is white and Sen. Reginald Jackson, a Democrat from Marks, who is Black, in the same district. The redrawn District 1 contains a Black voting-age population of 52.4%. McLendon spoke against the proposal, arguing the process was not transparent and it was not fair to the city of Hernando, his home city. 'I don't want to be pushed out of here,' McLendon said. The plan also puts Sen. Chris Johnson and Sen. John Polk, two Republicans from the Hattiesburg area, in the District 44 seat. Polk announced on the Senate floor that he would not run in the special election, making Jonson the only incumbent running in the race. The full list of the Senate districts that were redrawn are: 1. Senate District 1: Sen. Michael McLendon, R-Hernando, and Sen. Reginald Jackson, D-Marks 2. Senate District 2: David Parker, R-Olive Branch 3. Senate District 10: Neil Whaley, R-Potts Camp 4. Senate District 11: New Senate district in DeSoto County with no incumbent 5. Senate District 19: Sen. Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven 6. Senate District 34: Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelburg 7. Senate District 41: Sen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall 8. Senate District 42: Sen. Robin Robinson, R-Laurel 9. Senate District 44: Sen. John Polk, R-Hattiesburg, Sen. Chris Johnson, R-Hattiesburg 10. Senate District 45: New district in Lamar County with no incumbent McLendon and Sen. Derrick Simmons, a Democrat from Greenville, offered amendments that proposed revised maps, but both alternatives were rejected. Simmons, the Senate's Democratic leader, opposed the plan the Senate passed Thursday because he does not believe any incumbent senators should be paired in the same district. The House earlier in the session approved a plan that redrew five districts in north Mississippi and made the House district in Chickasaw County a majority-Black district. Sen. Kirby told reporters he believes the House and the Senate have a 'gentleman's agreement' to pass the other chambers' plan, which has historically been the custom. Under the legislation, the qualifying period for new elections would run from May 19 to May 30. The primary election will be held on August 5, with a potential primary runoff on September 2 and the general election on November 4. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has no direct say in legislative redistricting, so once the Legislature passes a redistricting plan, it will go back before the federal courts for approval.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI tools can help ‘fuel creativity', YouTube executive says
AI tools can help 'fuel creativity' by removing some of the 'drudgery' from work, a YouTube executive has said. Steve McLendon, podcast expert and YouTube group product lead, was speaking as the Google-owned video platform announced it had reached one billion monthly users for podcast content on the platform for the first time. Some have raised concerns about the possible impact of generative AI tools on the workforce, with fears that AI could replace humans at carrying out administrative tasks in years to come. But Mr McLendon said he believed such tools would in fact help workers, particularly those in creative roles, by freeing them from admin tasks to focus on 'the things they want to do'. 'I think as it related to podcasts and creators – really creators across YouTube – I think a lot of these AI products really are tools that will help fuel creativity,' he told the PA news agency. 'If you think of the creation process, there's a lot of drudgery in that process, and certainly from my team's perspective, we're trying to think about ways to help creators be more creative and have more time to do the things that they want to do, as opposed to some of the drudgery work. 'And that's where I think that AI tooling is actually going to unlock a tremendous amount of value for creators, so really excited to see where that goes.' Last year, Google made headlines when it added an audio feature to its AI-powered research tool, NotebookLM, which can turn large documents, such as reports, into AI-generated audio content that sounds similar to a podcast. Mr McLendon said the tool tended to use the same two voices and adopt a similar tone no matter the topic – suggesting it was unlikely to rival human podcasters – but added that the technology was something that 'people can use in their personal lives around productivity'. 'So, I have a long article, or a 50-page document, I don't have time to read it. Maybe I want to listen to a summary of it and be able to engage with it that way,' he said. On YouTube's podcast milestone, he said it highlighted the rise in popularity of podcasts as a broadcast medium in recent years, but also echoed how television had previously revolutionised broadcasting into people's homes. 'I'm not sure that people really think of how big and prevalent podcasting is – certainly, they don't think about how big and prevalent podcasting is on YouTube,' he said. 'It speaks to how podcasts have really connected with audiences all around the world. 'Broadcasting, I would say, has evolved. 'I think video has been an accelerant to podcast engagement and audience building in particular – podcasts are oftentimes really intimate – you have a relationship with the person you listen to in your ear every day, and being able to see that person I actually think really deepens that relationship. 'It's funny, I also think that television served that purpose in people's homes for a long time – televisions were like radios in people's homes – and if you think of YouTube as evolving what television is, it's unsurprising that it's also evolving what radio is, particularly in the home.'
