Olivia Newton-John’s daughter is following in her mother’s footsteps. The British and Australian singer and actress passed after a long battle with breast cancer, but her legacy lives on. Her daughter, Chloe Lattanzi decided to honor her mom in a special way. She released a new song, Phoenix, and dedicated it to her mother. Olivia Newton-John’s Daughter Releases New Song “Phoenix” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chloe Lattanzi (@chloelattanziofficial) Chloe released her new song this past Thursday, which would have been Olivia’s 75th birthday. Good Morning America shared that Olivia Newton-John’s daughter used to sing the song for her mother all the time. Chloe said, “This song is so special to me on so many levels.” She continued, “My momma believed in me, loved the song, and I hope that when people listen to it, they will feel uplifted and fly — like a phoenix.” Then, Olivia Newton-John’s daughter shared a snippet of her song on Instagram. In the caption, she wrote that the song would be available on September 26th. “Happy birthday mama!!! This song is for you,” she wrote. Heartfelt Promises And Reactions Chloe also made a heartfelt promise to her mother. She wrote, “My promise to you. I am flying and sharing my heart.” The fans of the internet already love this song and its meaning just from the snippet shared online. One user commented, “AHH THIS IS SOOO EXCITING !! sooo excited to finally hear Phoenix and you picked the most perfect day to release the song ???. Another added, “ Chloe. The Phoenix ‍ is amazing. Jamming to it all morning getting ready for work. I LOVE It. Freaking awesome It’s been on repeat all morning blaring on my speakers at home.” A third chimed in, “Oh my Gosh, Your Voice is adorable… More music from Chloe. Yay, Chloe xX.” While Chloe admits in her bio that she is “carrying on an angel’s legacy” she is also very clearly making her own. Best wishes to her and all of her future endeavors. The source of this story’s featured image can be found here. The post Olivia Newton-John’s Daughter Follows In Mother’s Footsteps With New Single appeared first on InspireMore.

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Eighteen years ago tonight, ABC News revealed that Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley had sent lewd text messages to several underage congressional pages. Confronted with the evidence, Foley resigned from office that very day. “In a statement, he said he was deeply sorry and apologized for letting down his family and the people of Florida,” ABC’s Brian Ross relayed on the September 29, 2006 World News. The quick resignation of a Congressman who had not previously been a national figure should have pretty much ended the national media’s interest in the story. But ABC, CBS and NBC spent a huge amount of airtime over the following weeks trumpeting the scandal, the idea being that Foley’s bad behavior could bring down Republican candidates all across the country. On October 1, World News Sunday anchor Dan Harris led off his newscast with what he called “a potentially massive metastasizing scandal just five weeks before Election Day.” “It could be a major blow to the Republican Party, desperately trying to hold on to control of Congress in the coming midterm elections,” NBC’s Matt Lauer argued on Today the next morning. “Could the Foley scandal cost Republicans the House?” wondered Robin Roberts over on ABC’s Good Morning America. “Over the weekend, this issue became the number one issue in every congressional race in the country, and both Republicans and Democrats say it has the potential to cost Republicans the Congress,” George Stephanopoulos pushed that night on the October 2 World News. “There’s no getting around it: The unraveling of the page scandal could be the undoing of some House Republican leaders, if not their hold on Congress,” CBS’s Gloria Borger touted on that night’s CBS Evening News. “One senior House Republican tells CBS News that this scandal ‘could be the congressional equivalent of Katrina.’” On the October 3 Nightly News, NBC’s Tim Russert kept the drumbeat going, telling anchor Brian Williams: “Rank and file Republican members back home in their districts are in a high state of anxiety. One said to me today, ‘we came in as the guardians of family values. Unless our leaders fix this and fix it quickly, a lot of us could get taken down five weeks from today.’” To be clear, this wasn’t a case of “fake news.” This was a real story about real wrongdoing by a high-ranking official in a position of trust, and there’s no question that it deserved national attention. But as the days wore on, it also became apparent the networks were providing massive coverage to Foley as a means of tainting the broader GOP. By October 11, 2006, an MRC analysis showed NBC had churned out an astounding 56 stories on its morning and evening broadcasts. ABC, the network that broke the story, wasn’t far behind with 50, followed by CBS with 46 stories — all focused on a single Representative who had resigned his office and quit his re-election campaign on the very first day. “Tonight, it’s still the talk of the town,” CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric chirped on October 6, a full week after the story broke. “Election day is about a month away now, and Republicans are worried about the fallout from the Foley page scandal. It is not going away.” Five days later (October 11), ABC’s Chris Cuomo was still hammering. “Less than a month before the elections, and the Mark Foley scandal just keeps growing,” he insisted on Good Morning America. Reporter Jake Tapper quickly agreed: “This is the scandal that will not go away.” Foley was guilty of sending sexually suggestive messages to teen boys. But in 1994 — another election year — Democratic Congressman Mel Reynolds was indicted for having sex with a 16-year-old girl, and asking her to get pictures of a 15-year-old Catholic high school girl he was hoping to recruit for a threesome. MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham computed that Reynolds’ indictment drew only three stories on the national networks: two on CBS, one on NBC, and none on ABC. The evidently shameless Reynolds didn’t resign; he ran and won re-election that year. He was still in office during his 1995 trial, when he was convicted on 12 counts, including sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. Total evening news coverage of Reynolds’ conviction: a meager 10 stories on NBC, five on CBS, and just one on ABC. “There are obviously some differences in the two sex scandals. Foley’s Web interactions were with a congressional page, while Mel Reynolds was dealing with a minor in private. But Foley’s scandal is based on sex talk, while Reynolds not only had an active sex life with one teen, he was trying to add more teen sex partners,” Graham wrote in 2006. Republicans lost the 2006 midterms, including Foley’s previously safe seat. Two years later, the new Democratic Representative from Florida’s 16th Congressional District, Tim Mahoney, was enmeshed in his own scandal, coughing up $121,000 to win the silence of Patricia Allen, a former mistress who was threatening to sue him. ABC’s Brian Ross, whose coverage of Foley’s scandal won him a Peabody Award, broke the story online on October 9, 2008: “The affair between Mahoney and Allen began, according to the current and former staffers, in 2006 when Mahoney was campaigning for Congress against Foley, promising ‘a world that is safer, more moral.’” Yet the same networks that cranked out more than 150 stories about Mahoney’s predecessor had no interest in a Democrat’s scandal. Total network coverage of Mahoney’s mistress pay-off: zero stories on NBC, zero on CBS and a couple of harmless sentences on a weekend edition of ABC’s Good Morning America. A truly independent news media serve an invaluable function when they bring to light the wrongdoing of those in power. But when news organizations’ reporting varies wildly depending on the party of the offender — oceans of airtime for Republican wrongdoing, virtual silence for Democrats — even this basic function of journalism can be corrupted for the sake of election interference. For more examples from our flashback series, which we call the NewsBusters Time Machine, go here.                          

When Rick Salewske appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2002, he had an incredible story to tell. Once weighing in at 538 pounds, the Dallas man had managed to shed some 300 pounds in just two years. What Salewske did not know at the time was that his story was far from finished. A full 20 years later, he would work with writer Cindy Woods on a book that tells a story he believes is far more impactful than the story of his weight loss. 'It's like a folded quilt that's been in a chest. When you take it out and you start to unfold the quilt, then you see there's the full pattern. And that's how God works too.' That book — published in January and titled “Half the Man, Twice the Faith” — tells the story of Salewske’s faith. Looking back now, Salewske says God’s hand in his life is evident — right down to the seemingly random encounter that led me to contact him and Woods to hear the full Richard Salewske story. Giving God the credit To hear Salewske tell it, however, the story is not about him at all. “I’m giving God all the credit for all of this. This isn’t about Rick Salewske. It has nothing to do with me. It’s about how powerful God is, how he puts people in your path,” said Salewske. As Salewske shares in the book, even after summoning the willpower and determination to lose those first 300 pounds, he still struggled with his weight. He developed a habit of waiting for the world to change around him, telling himself, “It will get better.” In short, Salewske says, he lost his way. It wasn’t until he met Woods — and began to understand God’ role in his life — that he found it again, ultimately losing another 100 pounds. “When I started working with Cindy on writing the book, it dawned on me,” Salewske says. "I learned that I had to partner with God to do this. And once I started partnering with God, once I started putting my faith with God, it was so easy.” “Well, I won’t say easy, but it all made sense,” Salewske quickly adds. Hands off the wheel Once he took his hands off the steering wheel to partner with God, patterns started to reveal themselves in Salewske’s life. Often, this involved people appearing at just the right moment. Salewske credits the book itself to this pattern of God working in his life. Woods tells the story this way. “Rick’s really close friend, Gary, who is mentioned in the book, is an Uber driver, and he talks to his customers. And one day, he picked up a representative from Christian Faith Publishing, and they began to talk, and he told her about Rick,” said Woods. Salewske had wanted to tell his story in a book for more than two decades. However, his previous inquiries to the publishing world led him to believe it was too expensive — until Gary’s chance encounter. Gary connected Salewske to the representative, who told him what needed to happen for him to publish his story. Salewske shared that information with a friend, and that friend connected him to Woods. “It became apparent to me very quickly that this was not to be a weight-loss book. That’s certainly a fascinating part of the story, and it’s a good hook. But what this really is about is how to partner with God in whatever challenges that you’re facing,” said Woods. After Woods told Salewske her thoughts, he said it all clicked for him. Scientifically, he knew how he lost 300 pounds. It was diet and exercise, but people often asked Salewske how he had the determination. “Then it just dawned on me,” Salewske said. “God did this.” He credits God with putting the right people on his path throughout his weight loss journey, including an influential boss, Bill, and Cooper Aerobics founder Dr. Kenneth Cooper. Since coming to this conclusion, Salewske has become determined to spread the word of God. Looking for him How do you start seeing God in your life in the first place, though? Woods says you have to look for him. “It's like a folded quilt that's been in a chest. When you take it out and you start to unfold the quilt, then you see there's the full pattern. And that's how God works too. You really have to unfold and unpack those things to see how he's working in your life,” said Woods. Salewske wants to use his story as a testimony to God’s wonders. “I was 38 years old. I was 538 pounds. 24 years later, I'm down to 200 pounds,” said Salewske. He’s been married for over 20 years and has three beautiful kids. All the people who have come into his life have been Christians, and they've led him to this. “How can you say God doesn't exist?” asks Salewske. He says his story is proof that miracles happen. Strength on the journey For those who read the book, Salewske and Woods hope they come away knowing they can rely on God. “Whatever you're going through, God will help you get through it,” says Salewske. Woods cautions against thinking everything will work out exactly as you expect it to, though. Grief, illness, and hardship still prevail in the world. Partnering with God doesn’t mean all of that will cease to exist. Rather, Woods says, “Turning those situations and those feelings over to God and letting him give you the comfort and the strength to walk whatever valley — that makes all the difference in the journey.” To that, Salewske chimes in with a cheerful amen. For Salewske, who still has to work at maintaining a disciplined daily nutrition and exercise routine, that certainly rings true. At the same time, Salewske is grateful for how far he’s come. He’s blessed with a healthy life that he shares with a wide circle of family and friends as well as a story he shares with everyone he encounters. When you hear that story in person, you can’t help but smile and be inspired. Hope abounds. “Half the Man, Twice the Faith,” is available for purchase online.

Women, and especially mothers, want to make America healthy again, says conservative podcaster and self-proclaimed “health and wellness girlie” Alex Clark. During a Monday American Health and Nutrition roundtable hosted by Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Clark made an emotional plea for mothers concerned about the rising incidence of physical and mental illness in children. I, like many other women concerned with fertility and life expectancy, am not paranoid. We’re just trying to minimize our exposure to carcinogens for ourselves and our future children’s sake. “Just to reiterate the war on moms in this country, today virtually everything a child eats or drinks will be served on a plastic plate or in a plastic bottle or will be eaten from a plastic container with plastic utensils,” Clark implored the room. “Human breast milk now contains thousands of microplastics. If you need formula, you can’t find it without inflammatory seed oils or soy. Parents have to order it and buy it from Europe. Does this seem overwhelming to you? Good! This is what the American mom deals with every day.” Plastic planet Are microplastics in the bloodstream really cause for alarm? Well, studies in cell cultures, marine wildlife, and animal models indicate that microplastics can cause oxidative damage, DNA damage, and changes in gene activity, known risks for cancer development, according to Harvard Medical School's Harvard Medicine magazine. And yes, microplastics have been found in human breast milk and meconium, an infant’s first stool. While the Atlantic has already dismissed the roundtable as a “woo woo caucus,” many women on both sides of the aisle seem to be sensitive to the issue. Popular mainstream podcast "The Skinny Confidential" recently hosted Clark to talk more about her health activism. The fertility crisis haunts many women. Chemicals in plastics, like bisphenol A, can potentially compromise fertility, according to a July study from Science Direct. And then once they’re moms, women would prefer not to poison their kids unknowingly if they can help it. Tupperwon't Ahead of the curve, my mom ran a mainly organic household. Even crunchier than her, I threw out my plastic Tupperware and replaced it with glass and stainless steel. I, like many other women concerned with fertility and life expectancy, am not paranoid. We’re just trying to minimize our exposure to carcinogens for ourselves and our future children’s sake. After declaring the childhood disease issue a shared policy priority with the Trump campaign, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also invited independent-minded women with whom that issue resonates to join him in advocating for more transparency on chemical additives in products we consume. Jillian Michaels, nutritionist and fitness guru formerly of the reality TV show "The Biggest Loser," also delivered a passionate speech at Johnson’s event. “I don't know about you, but I've watched my friends jabbing themselves every day with fertility drugs, praying for a pregnancy,” she said. “My friends getting up at the crack of dawn to get radiated where the lump was found in their breast.” Diverging a bit from free-market orthodoxy, I lament that the U.S. has not banned, like the European Union has, ingredients that are known endocrine disruptors, or chemical compounds that interfere with the normal functioning of the endocrine system. That includes antibacterial ingredient triclosan, five different parabens, commonly found in lotion and hair care products, and phthalates, commonly found in perfume. Skin-deep Without EU-level government interference, however, the U.S. beauty market has adapted to demand for cleaner products. Household name brands such as Procter & Gamble now explicitly advertise when their products are formulated without the aforementioned toxins. Sephora now has an entire suite of “clean” beauty products with a special green label to guide consumer choice. And women seem to be loving them. Clean makeup brand Kosas has generated a lot of buzz on TikTok, with #Kosas gathering over 200 million views. But scavenging for hours for clean alternatives is a luxury few women can afford. Organic produce, which generally means it’s made with no synthetic growth hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, or biotechnology, is expensive. All of this puts the burden of vigilance on women to find products that don’t jeopardize their or their kids’ health. Of course, there is a point at which the crunchy craze goes off the rails. There are reasons why we wear sunscreen and pasteurize milk. But at least judging by social media reels, many women have a newfound interest in what they’re consuming. Who knows, maybe there’s something in the water.

What separates mechs from robots? Typically, we think about the presence of a pilot being the key distinction, and so tactical RPG Phantom Brigade is taking a stride to make them a more “meaningful part of the game.” Launched in February 2023 after several years of early access, Brace Yourself’s mech strategy game is filled with rewarding decision-making, but the people inside the machines have never really mattered. That’s all about to change with its next update, however, which will also overhaul the overworld gameplay experience. Continue reading Tactical mech RPG Phantom Brigade is making its pilots meaningful MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best strategy games, Best tactical RPGs, Best robot games

On Tuesday evening I found myself in London’s O2 Arena, surrounded by thousands of fans eagerly awaiting the return of rock royalty and nu-metal pioneers, Linkin Park. Having last seen the band in the same venue a decade prior, it was a bittersweet moment for me to say the least - the late, great Chester Bennington sorely missed by everyone I yapped away to as we waited for the re-formed group to make their grand reintroduction. Just hours before Linkin Park graced the stage with a monstrous performance, the League of Legends Worlds 2024 anthem and accompanying music video were finally unveiled after weeks of teasing on social media. To the surprise of few, it was Heavy is the Crown - the second single from LP’s upcoming ‘From Zero’ album. Having just hopped off the train when it went live, I eagerly found a spot to perch and watch, my initial reaction being one of mild bemusement - is this a Linkin Park video or a LoL Worlds video? Continue reading League of Legends Worlds 2024 anthem video is a banger with an identity crisis MORE FROM PCGAMESN: League of Legends ranks explained, League of Legends Mythic shop rotation, League of Legends tier list