The Wells Fargo Torchlight Run at Seafair, every 8-kilometer race with many running in style of dress past thousands of cheering spectators awaiting the Torchlight Parade, is scheduled Saturday night, along with a partaker 5K run-walk.
The 8K, one of the must-do events of the year with a view to limited runners, begins at 6:30 p.m. Both races start at the North Parking Lot at Qwest Field. About 2,500 runners participated last year.
The 8K, which is approximately 5 miles, takes runners along the Alaskan Way Viaduct and through the Battery Street Tunnel, then winds through downtown along the Torchlight Parade route back to Qwest.
The 3.1-mile 5K run-walk, that starts at 6:40 p.m., takes runners up the viaduct and rear.
To clear the Southwest Airlines Torchlight Parade route, participants must maintain an 11-minute-per-mile pace during the 8K and a 15-minute go at an ambling gait for the 5K.
The fastest female and male in the 8K each decision receive two Southwest Airlines round-trip tickets to anywhere Southwest flies. The winners of the costume contest will receive a special prize. Only registered entrants are legally qualified for awards and prizes.
Entry fee, which includes a T-shirt, is $25 for the 8K and $20 in favor of the 5K to Friday, and $30 for the 8K and $25 on account of the 5K time of race. To register online or for again denunciation, go to www.seafair.com.
Rowing
Cara Linnenkohl of Redmond finished second in the fourth heat of the junior women’s single sculls at the FISA World Senior and Junior Rowing Championships. Linnenkohl’s time was 7 minutes, 56.27, almost 12 seconds behind winner Tale Gjoertz of Norway. Linnenkohl will race today in a repechage.
The younger women’s pair of Shannon Stief of Mukilteo and Mary Maginnis of Maple Glen, Pa., finished third in the second of couple heats. The U.S. pair, which clocked 7:57.05, will row today in a repechage.
Golf
Andrew Yun of Tacoma baste Cameron Wilson of Rowayton, Conn., 1-up, and two other limited golfers’ round-of-64 matches were suspended due to darkness at the U.S. Junior Amateur boys championships in Shoal Creek, Ala. Cameron Peck of Olympia is 4-up, and Kevin Penner of Sammamish trailed Gaston De La Torre of Brush Prairie by 1, both after 14 holes.
A 17-year-old boy who graduated last month from Kamiak High School in Mukilteo has died, apparently from a heroin overdose.
John Joseph “Sean” Gahagan VI died Thursday at his home in the Lynnwood area, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office reported Tuesday. Rebecca Hover, a spokeswoman according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, said it appears the death was the result of a heroin overdose.
Authorities are investigating whether there is a connection between Gahagan’s death and the hospitalization last week of two of his friends, also clearly from drug overdoses.
Gahagan had “many unique qualities, especially a flair and forte in quest of symphony and the arts,” according to a paid obituary in The Seattle Times.
“He was a thrift shop fashionista, a pumpkin carver extraordinaire, and an consummate baker. His sunglass group was renowned throughout Kamiak High School,” the notice said.
A funeral Mass is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at St. Thomas More Parish, 6511 176th St. S.W., Lynnwood. Donations in Gahagan’s honor be able to be made to Doctors Without Borders USA, P.O. Box 5030, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5030.
Brush heap of burning fuel grows to 3,000 acres
Gusty winds quickly fanned a new brush conflagration in Central Washington to an estimated 3,000 acres on Tuesday evening, and several homes were reportedly threatened.
The fire was reported burning on the hillsides near Trinidad, occidental of Quincy.
Officials said more than 200 people had been evacuated and that the threatened structures included a few condos at the Crescent Bar Resort.
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Washington Mutual’s top executives insisted Tuesday that they’re making onward in turning around the ailing lender, notwithstanding second-quarter results that provided ample evidence of continuing difficulties.
Along with reporting a $3.3 billion quarterly loss, WaMu said its pile of unpaid mortgages, foreclosed homes and other nonperforming assets continues to grow, as chouse credit-card delinquencies. The company moreover cut its growth forecast as far as concerns fees paid by means of its banking customers, a solution earnings driver.
“We are working cold, we are making headway, and I’m confident in the future of the company,” Chief Executive Kerry Killinger said in a conference term with analysts and investors.
But not everyone is convinced the worst is over. Moody’s, the credit-rating agency, said it was considering whether to cut WaMu’s debt rating to junk status. And at least one algebraist warned about being too optimistic too soon.
Killinger and other top executives epigrammatic to the progress WaMu has made in whittling down its bulging inventories of “option” adjustable-rate mortgages, home-equity loans and other loans at high risk of going bad.
And they noted that much of the eye-popping $3.3 billion loss was due to the settlement to set aside $5.9 billion to cover future loan losses, reflecting more cautious
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But the report prompted Moody’s to say it would review whether to cut its rating without interruption WaMu’s senior unsecured debt to non-investment grade, or “junk,” status.
The sharp decline in WaMu’s stock excellence
“This reduced monetary affability makes it in greater numbers difficult for the company to successfully navigate from one side unlooked for events,” Moody’s vice president and senior good repute officer Craig Emrick said in the statement.
WaMu released its earnings shortly after the close of regular New York Stock Exchange trading, in which its shares gained 34 cents to close at $5.82. The stock initially moved higher in after-hours trading, surpassing $6, bound later malign back to around $5.58.
The increase, from $5.85 to $6.55 per hour, is the second of three annual increases required by a 2007 law. Next year’s boost will bring the federal minimum to $7.25 an hour.
Workers analogous Walter Jasper, who earns minimum bet at a car wash in Nashville, Tenn., are happy to take the raise, but will suppress struggle with the higher gas and food prices hammering Americans.
“It will help out a little,” said Jasper, who with his fiancee support a family of seven, and who earns the minimum plus commissions while customers order premium car-wash services.
The bus fare he pays each sunlight to procure to work even now went up to $4.80 this spring from $4. “I’d likely to be onward a job where I can at smallest get a car,” he said.
Last week, the Labor Department reported the fastest inflation since 1991 — 5 percent according to June compared through a year earlier. Energy costs soared nearly 25 percent. The price of food rose more than 5 percent.
So the minimum wage hike is “a small quantity in the bucket compared to the increases in costs, declining labor market, and declining household wealth that consumers gain experienced in the more than year,” Lehman Brothers economist Zach Pandl said.
The reinvigorated minimum is less than the inflation-adjusted 1997 plain of $7.02, and far below the inflation-adjusted level of $10.06 from 40 years ago, according to a Labor Department inflation calculator.
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have laws making the least part wage higher than the new federal requirement, a assemblage covering 60 percent of U.S. workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank.
“You get desperate, because you can’t actually pay for everything,” said Gladys Lopez, 51, a vestment worker from Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, who makes martial uniforms and has earned the treaty least part for 18 years.
She says she would need to make at least $50 greater degree of a week to pay all her bills and take care of her 84-year-old mother, whom she supports.
When the least quantity rises afresh next year, catching up with else states, more than 5 the great body of the people workers will get a raise, said Lisa Lynch, dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
Some small businesses are already making plans to raise prices to offset the higher wages they have to pay their workers.
David Heath, owner of Tiki Tan in College Station, Texas, said the augment will necessitate him to raise prices since his monthly tanning services by about 12 percent. Tiki Tan had been paying its employees $6 per hour.
“There just isn’t any room for profit, and so this is for what cause prices will have to go up,” he said, citing the pledge increase and higher fuel costs. “I have to recoup those costs.”
The increase in the minimum wage could push food prices even higher by rising the reward because of agricultural workers, said Brian Bethune, chief U.S. economist at consulting firm Global Insight.
But he said he did not expect the change to have a major impact on the economy because recent increases in productivity, which enables companies to produce added with fewer workers, are keeping be afflicted costs in check.
That makes it unlikely the minimum wage increase be disposed trigger a “wage-price winding,” in which workers facing higher costs claim more pay, which in turn causes companies to obtain prices higher, sending inflation coursing from one side the economy.
And most businesses, even restaurants and other service sector companies, already remunerate above the least quantity wage anyway. Dan Whitaker, general manager at Anis Bistro in Atlanta, a casual French eating-house, aforesaid employees earn at least $8 an hour.
“You can’t get a dishwasher for minimum engage in,” he said.
Emergency managers waited for Dolly to move on late into the night Wednesday and hoped to begin assessing the storm’s damage Thursday even as they began to rescue clan from flooded or damaged homes.
Dolly had weakened to a tropical storm by 10 p.m. CDT Wednesday after hitting South Padre Island around midday as a Category 2 cyclone. But the storm drenched south Texas as it crept westerly at an excruciating 7 mph into the evening. The National Weather Service expected Dolly to weaken to a tropical depression, turn to the northwest and accelerate slightly Thursday.
By 4 a.m. Thursday, the tropical storm was centered about 95 miles northwest of Brownsville with maximum sustained winds that had dropped to about 60 mph.
Still the danger had not passed as capability lines hung across streets and wet surrounded neighborhoods.
“Unless it’s the breath of one’s nostrils or death,” Tony Pena, Hidalgo County emergency guidance coordinator, urged residents to stay at home.
While the rain predetermined records in Brownsville’s Cameron County — ranging from six to 12 inches with another three to seven expected overnight — they did not appear to pose the threat to the Rio Grande’s levees that had been feared.
The river rose steadily end the twenty-four hours in Brownsville, no more than did not reach flood omnibus.
“We’re not experiencing any issues with the levees right now,” Sally Spener, spokeswoman for the International Boundary and Water Commission, said late Wednesday. “The water is equitable not high sufficiency.”
But the torrential rains and fierce winds that lasted much of the day in south Texas still caught some by take aback.
By Wednesday afternoon, the community of Laureles north of Los Fresnos had been reduced to a chain of sunken islands, separated from the main channel roads by floodwaters of two feet or more in places.
Mailboxes barely picked above murky, wind-swept waters where neighborhood loops met county roads.
Pedro Zuniga, his wife and their six children fled their mobile home for the comparative safety of a relative’s wood-frame house next door. That home’s owner had before that time left to take shelter in not the same relative’s brick put under cover.
Peering out the hindmost door at the trailer he deemed to wobbly for his family, Zuniga aforesaid the water crossing his yard nearly a canal behind was not as high as he had seen it a hardly any years past when it reached the of little or no worth of his elevated trailer.
“We were going to go to a shelter, but they said there was only some in the way that we decided to rein in,” said Zuniga’s wife, Aleida Cardenas, 29. “But we didn’t know it would be this injurious.”
But others did head to shelters. More than 5,000 people moved to public shelters in the three hardest-hit counties and the numbers were expected to grow Thursday of the same kind with more populate became stranded by the agency of floodwaters.
In Hidalgo County, Pena said there were several incidents late Wednesday requiring emergency personnel to rescue people from homes.
One family was left huddling in their topless house behind winds blew the roof off in the northeast division of the master stroke of policy until rescuers arrived, Pena uttered. In Cameron County, sheriff’s deputies rescued a family of eight from Los Fresnos in relation to floodwaters surrounded their home.
The only serious injury reported Wednesday occurred when the wind knocked a 17-year-old boy from a seventh-story balcony put on South Padre Island. The lad suffered a broken hip, leg and a capital injury but could not be transported off the island until about 5 p.m. The causeway linking the island to the continent reopened to the public at 8:30 p.m., said Melissa Zamora, an strait management spokeswoman onward the island.
The island sustained more of the insurrection’s heaviest damage and was still without might Wednesday night. Roofs were torn off hotels and homes, there was significant flooding that had begun to settle and debris was everywhere. A curfew was imposed for 8 p.m., Zamora said.
No deaths were immediately reported in Mexico, but Tamaulipas state Gov. Eugenio Hernandez said 50 neighborhoods were still in danger from flooding. About 13,000 people had taken refuge in 21 shelters, he uttered.
“Strong winds are no longer the problem. Now we have to worry about strict rain in the next 24 hours,” Hernandez said.
Earlier in the appointed time, Mexican soldiers made a last-minute attempt to rescue people at the mouth of the Rio Grande, using each inflatable raft to retrieve at least human being lineage trapped in their home-born. Many people farther inland refused to go to government shelters.
Many Texans title north were stopped at inland Border Patrol checkpoints, where agents opened extra lanes to ease traffic grow while still checking documentation and arresting illegal immigrants, said sector spokesman Dan Doty. At one checkpoint on U.S. 77, smugglers were caught with nearly 10,000 pounds of marijuana.
The U.S. Census Bureau said that based adhering Dolly’s projected path, about 1.5 million Texans could feel the distress’s effects. Texas Gov. Rick Perry declared 14 southern Texas counties disaster areas and sought federal disaster declarations.
Perry was scheduled to fly over the region Thursday.
The last hurricane to fortune the U.S. was the fast-forming Humberto, which came ashore in southerly Texas last September.
The busiest part of the Atlantic hurricane season is usually in August and September. So far this year, there have been four named storms, two of which became hurricanes. Federal forecasters predict a total of 12 to 16 named storms and six to nine hurricanes this season. Houston; John Pain in Miami; Stephanie Garlow in Washington; April Castro in Austin; Mark Walsh in Matamoros, Mexico; Jaime Zea in Mexico City; Regina L. Burns in Dallas and video journalist Rich Matthews on South Padre Island contributed to this report.
The study is the largest in humans to look at the relationship between seed quality and a plant form of the female sex hormone estrogen known as phytoestrogen, what one. is plentiful in soy-rich foods.
"What we found was men that consume the highest amounts of soy foods in this study had a lower sperm concentration compared to those who did not consume soy foods," said Dr. Jorge Chavarro of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, whose consideration appears in the journal Human Reproduction.
"It was a relatively large difference," Chavarro said in a telephone interview.
Chavarro said studies in animals have linked high consumption of plant-derived estrogens known as isoflavones with infertility, on the contrary in the way that far there has been little evidence of their effect in humans.
"We wanted to know if it would affect semen lengthening and could serve as a marker for the effects on the reproductive system," Chavarro said.
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Chavarro's team analyzed the intake of 15 soy-based foods in 99 men who went to a fertility clinic betwixt 2000 and 2006.
They were asked to what degree much and how often in the prior three months they had eaten soy-rich foods including: tofu, tempeh, tofu or soy sausages, bacon, burgers and mince, soy milk, cheese, yogurt and ice choice part, and other soy products such drinks, powders and energy bars.
Because different foods have different levels of isoflavones in them, the researchers expose a criterion for serving sizes of particular foods. Then they divided the men into groups according to soy consumption levels. Men in the highest group on average ate half a serving through day.
"In stipulations of their isoflavone content that is comparable to having one draught of soy milk or one serving of tofu, tempeh or soy burgers every other day," Chavarro said.
The difference was striking. Men in the highest intake category had 41 million sperm per milliliter less than men who ate in no degree soy foods. A normal sperm count ranges from 80 million and 120 million per milliliter, and a sperm count of 20 million per milliliter or in the under world is considered low.
"It suggests soy foods could esteem some deleterious effect in succession the reproductive rule and especially on sperm produce," Chavarro said.
The researchers found the association betwixt soy foods and lower sperm count was stronger in overweight men, which ability suggest hormones are playing a role.
"Men who are overweight or obese tend to have higher levels of androgen-produced estrogen. They are converting a male hormone into a female hormone in their coarse. The in addition corpse fat you wish, the more estrogen you prolong in your fat," Chavarro said.
Chavarro said the learn was not sufficient to suggest that soy intake would have hale condition implications such as inducing infertility. Much bigger studies would be needed to answer that question, he said.
(Editing by the agency of Will Dunham and Xavier Briand)
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Steve Fossett: A racing team funded by the missing adventurer, who was declared useless in February, won’t make trial to set a world land-speed record in Nevada.
The Steve Fossett World Land Speed Racing Team had planned to try to set a new record this summer on an alkali flat in Diamond Valley, about 17 miles north of Eureka, Nev.
Louise Ann Noeth, a spokeswoman for the racing team, said the group was disbanded in after the proper time April in imitation of Fossett’s widow, Peggy Fossett, decided counter to more funding.
“The car has been locked up,” Noeth told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “There won’t be any attempts according to the world land-speed account.”
British driver Andy Green settle the current record of 763 mph in the Black Rock Desert, about 100 miles north of Reno, in 1997.
Fossett, then 63, took off in a small even from a ranch near Yerington, Nev., on Sept. 3. After searches were called off in the mountainous area, Fossett was declared legally dead Feb. 15 by an Illinois judge.
His $10 million estate was awarded to his widow.
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Dutch fashion designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have sold a majority shareholding in their company to Diesel founder Renzo Rosso, a move which will allow them to grow their business worldwide
by Susannah Frankel
The timing couldn’t subsist additional sound. Just as the Dutch design pairing, Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, are wowing London with a show featuring probably the world’s most glamorous doll’s house at the Barbican Art Gallery, it was announced that they have sold a majority shareholding in their company to Renzo Rosso, owner and founder of Diesel and the aptly named holding party, Only The Brave (OTB).
Financial terms were undisclosed but plans are already preparing to expand the designers’ ready-to-wear lines, add licensed products—from eyewear to jewellery—and open free-standing boutiques in complete end shopping destinations worldwide. There is only one Viktor & Rolf store and that is in Milan’s hyper fashionable Via Sant’Andrea. True to the somewhat surreal sum of attributes of the designers’ aesthetic, this is fitted upside down—from the oak parquet ceiling to chandeliers sprouting from the prostrate.
Rosso said yesterday the business sketch out he had in mind for Viktor & Rolf would not have being divergent to that he had followed since his purchase of the avant-garde Belgian fashion public-house Maison Martin Margiela, acquired by OTB in 2002. The coupling of the ebullient Rosso and Margiela, a famously evasive. Belgian designer, was described while being like a nuptial rites between Harpo Marx and Greta Garbo when it was first announced, but a single single sceptics will find nothing much to reason with where sales figures are concerned. Consolidated revenues at Margiela leapt 50 per cent last year and continue to climb.
Snoeren, the more long-tongued of the Viktor & Rolf team, told the trade wall-paper Women’s Wear Daily: “He [Rosso] has shown with Margiela what he have power to fare. The business has grown substantially and he kept the DNA of the quality. It’s a win-win situation.”
It is correctly known to industry insiders that Viktor & Rolf have been in talks with Rosso for more than two years. To seal the deal, Rosso bought shares that were previously owned by Franco Pene, whose concourse, Gibo, has also been accountable during producing the designers’ collections. Staff International, the manufacturing arm of OTB, will now take from hand to hand that side of the business and the worldwide licence for Viktor & Rolf ready-to-wear, accessories and shoes. Any remaining shares belong to the designers. Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, both born in 1969, met while studying fashion at the Academy of Arts in Arnhem and began showing in Paris in the latter part of the 1990s. Since then they have given the world more of the most extraordinary conceptually driven shows in history.
“A lot of people fear creativity,” Snoeren said of the modern union with Rosso. “For [Rosso] it is a challenge.” In a statement, the designers said: “We want to develop our fashion house to its full potential. We admire Renzo Rosso’s unconventional nature and the success it has brought him. We decided to join forces with him because his motto ‘Only The Brave’ appeals to us. True creation requires resolution.”
