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For Tory Burch, a 20-year fashion career is a sport driven by endurance, discipline and grit

For Tory Burch, a 20-year fashion career is a sport driven by endurance, discipline and grit

Published by Sam Flores

Clarke wears Tory Burch multi screw heeled sandals and Gemini Link pendant necklaces. This story is part of Image’s May Momentum issue, which looks at art as a sport and sport as an art. It’s 2 p.m. on a quintessentially balmy Los Angeles afternoon when I spot fashion designer Tory Burch in the lobby of the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel. She’s wearing oversize sunglasses, a crisp collared shirt, an even crisper pleated navy skirt and leopard-print pumps. I start walking over to introduce myself, but a fan gets there first. This would happen several times during our meeting at the hotel — wherever Burch goes, a small flock of admirers form. Burch is in town for the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards, where she was recognized with the designer of the year award. Ever since she took back creative control of her brand about six years ago, Tory Burch is back at the center of the American fashion zeitgeist. Compared to the resort-ready tunics and preppy Reva flats that embodied Tory 1.0 in the 2000s, Tory …

Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait

Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait

Published by skeptic

The popular Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, following a successful open-source community port of the original Windows codebase. The Notepad replacement runs as a universal binary, so it works on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Notepad++ has been one of the most popular text editors on Windows for more than 20 years. Until now, Mac users who switched from Windows, or who worked across both platforms, had to choose between giving up the editor and running it through a Wine or CrossOver compatibility layer. Now those users have no such dilemma. The editing experience is identical to the Windows version, right down to the Scintilla engine, tabbed editing, syntax highlighting for 80+ languages, search and replace, macro recording, and plugin support. The only difference is that the menus, dialogs, file pickers, keyboard shortcuts, and windowing all use native macOS Cocoa APIs. Notepad++ for macOS is maintained by Andrey Letov, who wrote the Objective-C++ Cocoa UI that replaces Notepad++’s Win32 front-end. The app is available to download from the …

‘Door Is Not Closed’: Mediators Still Press For Iran Deal After US Demanded 20-Year Halt To Nuclear Program

‘Door Is Not Closed’: Mediators Still Press For Iran Deal After US Demanded 20-Year Halt To Nuclear Program

Published by Jenni Sidey

There’s currently some consensus among international reports that the weekend US-Iran peace talks in Pakistan fundamentally broke down over the nuclear issue. The question of Iran’s enriched uranium has at times over the course of the war taken a front seat and at other times a back seat when it comes to Washington’s evolving justifications and war aims in launching Operation Epic Fury. On Monday a US official has been cited in Axios as saying Iran must halt its nuclear enrichment program for 20 years to end the war, scaling back from an earlier White House demand for a permanent end to enrichment. And that’s when sources say the Iranians countered with a shorter “single digit” period. via Al Jazeera The unnamed sources explained that during talks in Islamabad the Iranian mediators countered with a proposal to halt enrichment for less than ten years. Multiple Middle Eastern countries are still working to mediate a resolution, as both Washington and Tehran moved away from maximalist positions on enrichment. Before the talks, Trump demanded a permanent halt, …

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal conviction, 20-year term, lawyer says

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal conviction, 20-year term, lawyer says

Published by Sam Flores

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal against his conviction and 20-year jail term for collusion with foreign forces and sedition, his lawyer said on Friday (Mar 6), in a landmark case that has sparked international criticism. The founder of the now-shuttered pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, Lai, 78, was one of the most outspoken critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party. A nearly five-year legal saga ended with his sentencing in February following a December conviction on two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one count of publishing seditious materials. A member of Lai’s domestic legal team told Reuters his client would not appeal the conviction and sentencing, which drew criticism from countries such as Britain and the United States. “We can confirm we have clear and definitive instructions not to lodge an appeal against conviction or sentence,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity, but gave no reason for the decision. Separately, Fung Wai-kong, the former editor-in-chief of the paper’s English news section, launched an appeal on Monday against …

Specific brain training regimen linked to lower dementia risk in 20-year study

Specific brain training regimen linked to lower dementia risk in 20-year study

Published by José Betancourt

A specific regimen of computer-based brain exercises focused on visual processing speed may lower the long-term risk of receiving a dementia diagnosis. A new analysis of data spanning two decades suggests that older adults who engaged in this adaptive training, provided they participated in follow-up sessions, were approximately 25 percent less likely to be diagnosed with dementia compared to a control group. These results were published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions. The search for effective ways to prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias is a primary focus of modern medical research. While physical exercise and diet are frequently cited as potential protective factors, the role of specific cognitive training remains a subject of intense debate. Many commercial products promise to sharpen the mind, yet scientific evidence supporting their ability to prevent disease has been inconsistent. To address this uncertainty, researchers revisited data from a gold-standard clinical trial to see if specific interventions had lasting effects on brain health. The research was led by Norma B. Coe, a …

Petronas signs 20-year LNG supply deal with QatarEnergy

Petronas signs 20-year LNG supply deal with QatarEnergy

Published by Sam Flores

DOHA: QatarEnergy will supply Petronas 2 million metric tons a year (mtpa) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a 20-year deal, the Malaysian state-run firm said on Wednesday (Feb 4), helping address the country’s rising gas demand amid dwindling reserves. The deal, signed at the LNG2026 conference in Doha, is the first long-term supply arrangement between the two countries and follows Qatar’s 27-year LNG supply deal with Japan last week. Petroliam Nasional, or Petronas, is actively pursuing investments in new natural gas fields abroad and seeking partnerships with foreign firms to boost extraction, while seeking LNG import deals amid falling local reserves. “The long-term volumes secured through this agreement will play a critical role in reinforcing Malaysia’s energy supply security, ensuring stable and reliable LNG availability to meet growing demand in Malaysia,” Petronas said in a statement. Malaysia, the world’s fifth-largest LNG exporter, expects to significantly boost its imports to address rising power demand from data centres. Petronas has signed LNG import deals with Woodside Energy, Commonwealth LNG, Venture Global and ADNOC in recent years, …