The guy who raised that guy was not a master brewer or the scion of St. Louis family — he was actually an oral surgeon — but he was still a tremendous inspiration to his son. “He was a home wine maker,” says Calagione, “I got to watch him in the cellar with his friends making wine, and subconsciously that helped give me confidence I could make beer,” It was father, along with mother Mary, who helped secure the loans Sam needed to launch the business in 1995....

Above is episode one. I recorded this in my unborn child’s nursery a few months ago. I miss the guy in this video. He is me, but I am no longer him. This guy looks well rested. He checks on his pregnant wife, panics about changing diapers. He knows his life is about to change… but he has no fucking idea. I’m making this series to showcase the realities of fatherhood, the big and little things that occur when you say goodbye to your old life in order to start a new one....

Why The First Tuesday of November? That election day is held on the first Tuesday in November was actually in accordance with what made sense for most working people at the time. At that time, most people worked in the agricultural sector and traveled by horse and buggy. Sundays wouldn’t work because most people went to church, and Wednesdays were busy because that’s when farmers went to the marketplace to sell their goods, per Huffington Post....

Here are more numbers behind these conclusions. The U.S. Divorce Rate Is On The Decline The CDC has been keeping tabs on the marriage and divorce rate in the United States since 2000. Across nearly two decades, the number of marriages in the U.S. has declined from about 8.2 to 6.9 per 1,000 citizens and, with that decline, the divorce rate has dropped off as well. In the year 2000, there were 944,000 divorces out of about 233 million American citizens....

So it shouldn’t be surprising that nearly a month after Disney World in Orlando reopened, higher than expected numbers of guests are canceling their vacations, sobered by the very real risk to their family’s health that a trip to Disney World is. Disney CEO Bob Chapek shared the news on a call with analysts, acknowledging the hard truth that, as The Cut puts it, “just because the American economy is more open doesn’t mean it’s any safer for those who elect (or are forced) to participate in it....

Why has Family Dollar temporarily closed stores? On Saturday, February 19, Family Dollar announced it had temporarily closed more than 400 stores. The store closures happened across six states after discovering the distribution center had been infested with live and dead rodents and birds. The statement released by the FDA explained the animals were “in various states of decay,” and the investigation also found evidence of gnawing and nesting, plus droppings....

Dr, Joshua Coleman has an intimate knowledge of the particulars of parent/child estrangement. After reconciling with his own formerly estranged child, the Northern California psychologist made estrangement his focus, reaching out to estranged parents across the world through his books and practice. His newly published “The Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict” is his second book on the topic, following 2007’s When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don’t Get Along....

J. Cruz didn’t plan on being a bannerman in the battle for children’s literacy. The Los Angeles DJ, who holds down the morning shift at Power 106 (“#1 for Hip Hop”), simply needed some fun on-air material. When the 36-year-old learned that he and his fiancée were expecting their first child, he realized he would need a clever and creative way to make the big change in his life part of his show....

I keep hearing all of this stuff about screen time being damaging for kids. But I feel like my 5-year-old learns a lot from TV, and his tablet is the only thing that can keep him quiet enough for my wife and I to have an adult conversation. How bad is screen time, really? Lloyd, Spokane, Washington The amazing baby researcher Dr. Celeste Kidd, from the University of Rochester Kid Lab, once told me something about screen time that has since eased my mind....

“The FDA’s expansion of the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to include adolescents 12 through 15 years of age is a significant step in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic,” said acting FDA commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock. “Today’s action allows for a younger population to be protected from COVID-19, bringing us closer to returning to a sense of normalcy and to ending the pandemic. Parents and guardians can rest assured that the agency undertook a rigorous and thorough review of all available data, as we have with all of our COVID-19 vaccine emergency use authorizations....

Steven Van Soeren was a product designer at Disney Streaming Services, the division of the company that handles tech for streaming services including Disney+ and ESPN+. He says that a “pattern and practice of discrimination” began prior to his wife’s pregnancy and included being paid less than he was promised, insults from multiple coworkers, and his home computer being hacked. Unfortunately for Van Soeren, U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, Clinton appointee, agreed with Disney, which argued that pregnancy discrimination laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act “only provide protection to a pregnant employee....

Launched in 1897, Filson has been on the scene longer than Popeye himself, who E. C. Segar spun up in 1929, well before the legendary Robert Altman, Robin Williams collab that sunk into the see off Malta. So why is a menswear brand getting in bed with an Olive Oyl chasing brawler? Well, there’s some overlap there. These are American originals. These are gritty classics. These are names that hold a little weight down at the docks....

In this trailer, we get… .a little kid version of Luke Skywalker right away, evil Inquisitors hunting for Obi-Wan Kenobi, red lightsabers getting busted out suddenly, that stirring John Williams “Duel of the Fates” music that everyone loved in 1999, and of course, Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi looking meditative, solemn, worried, and cool as hell. The trailer stops short of showing us Darth Vader (reminder: Hayden Christensen is back for this series) and we also don’t see Obi-Wan ignite that blue lightsaber of his....

Now, when he talks about his workout, diet, and parenting philosophies, he speaks with an almost superhuman level of personal accountability. His hard-nosed inspirational attitude has been tempered by a realization that no human, let alone a parent of 5, should be discouraged by a B+ average when it comes to health and fitness. And if he think’s he’s only an above average student, you must be failing summer school....

Very early the next morning, when we were called to the hospital as his blood pressure crashed, I realized that these would be the last conversations I would have with him. He was unconscious, but I told him that I hoped I could be half the father he was when I had kids. My wife and I had only been married for a few years so kids were in the plan, but not the immediate plan....

At its most basic, the Garmin Vivofit Jr. is another in the recent wave of glorified pedometers for kids that gamify exercise and track how much they’re exploring the studio space. In addition to counting steps, it notes how much Junior sleeps (or pretends to sleep) and tallies the number of minutes they spend each day not playing Super Smash Brothers. It then reports that “activity” data directly to the NFL....

Targeted to 4-to-9-years olds, Get Qurious is a new augmented-reality kit designed to “foster thinking, reading, building, and discovering.” It uses the Qurious App on your iPad/iPhone (unfortunately, no Android app yet) and physical game pieces to let kids engage in four fun activities ⏤ everything from building and bringing a puzzle to life in 3D, to reading/interacting with the Three Little Pigs while wearing a paper swine mask. They can even use the sticker book to create and animate their own stories....

Here’s the official synopsis: “Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Liz’s pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world. Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited....

According to the Goop, the “Smells Like My Vagina” candle is described as, “funny, gorgeous, sexy, and beautifully unexpected scent, this candle is made with geranium, citrusy bergamot, and cedar absolutes juxtaposed with Damask rose and ambrette seed to put us in mind of fantasy, seduction, and a sophisticated warmth.” Sounds pretty, and OK, the name is insane, but just like so many other products from Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand, the price is crazy for most people....

Then the fun begins in earnest. You spread out the Halloween winnings and remove the lame, like office supplies and recycled Happy Meal toys. You double-check grandma’s stuff to make sure it’s from this decade. Finally, you identify the candy you want, need, and deserve. That’s the “treat.” You can’t steal all the good stuff, like the Kit-Kats – even a four-year-old can detect that kind of thievery. You use your better-developed cortex to systematically thin out the sugar herd and make sure the kid doesn’t discover that daddy is a crook....