Women share safety concerns, tips after death of Memphis jogger - CBS News

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By Raymond Strickland
September 8, 2022 / 4:28 PM / CW50 Detroit
(CBS DETROIT) - The death of a Memphis woman who was kidnapped during a morning run is raising concerns for women.
It was an incident that happened hundreds of miles away from Detroit, but it hit close to home for women who live in the area.
"When I first heard about it, it was kind of scary," said Tonia Gladney.
Gladney was with her sister for her morning walk at the Riverwalk in Detroit Thursday and it wasn't by accident.
The murder in Memphis has safety top of mind.
"We just never know. We just never know," she said.
Eliza Fletcher, 34, was kidnapped during a morning run last week, according to police,  
She was found dead days later on Tuesday.
The suspect is in custody and facing charges for what police believe was a random, isolated attack.
"I can walk next to you and you might not be in the right state of mind," Gladney said. "And who's to say that you may do something to me or you may not?
Gladney and her sister chose the Riverwalk because it's a public area and has cameras.
They also made sure to walk during daylight.
Both said those are important tips to help women stay safe while walking or running.
Gladney's sister shared other tips as well.
"Don't always have a scheduled routine," she said. "Try to change things up. Being more aware. Just having some protection. Letting anyone know family friends, this is the location I'm at. Always being connected, maybe on your cellphone as you're walking [and] talking to a friend."
Gladney added, "We can't blame our women to wanting to exercise before they go to work, but now we just have to be aware. Is it safe for us to do that?"
First published on September 8, 2022 / 4:28 PM
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Tabitha Brown Hosts Food Network’s First Vegan Cooking Show - VegNews

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A vegan cooking competition show is finally hitting Food Network and its host, Tabitha Brown, is everyone’s favorite vegan foodie. Called It’s CompliPlated, the show is built around the premise that cooking should be inclusive of everyone at the table. As such, each episode will feature four chefs who will be tasked with creating plant-based dishes for celebrity chef Maneet Chauhan and rotating guest judges who have various dietary restrictions. 
“It’s CompliPlated reflects what it’s actually like to make a meal the whole family will love—it’s not easy to make one dish for everyone and this series makes it fun,” Jane Latman, President, Home & Food Content and Streaming, Warner Bros. Discovery (Food Network’s parent company), said in a statement. “Tabitha Brown’s energy, sense of humor and real-life journey to becoming vegan make her the perfect host to take us on this adventure.”
Some concepts featured on the series will include a feast with Southern hospitality, gluten-free noodles, and an Instagram-worthy fruit-and-vegetable feast. “Becoming vegan changed my life and the way I cook—and I know folks can relate to the daily challenge of making the whole family happy with one meal, so we decided to make a game of it,” Brown said in a statement. “These chefs cook from the heart and their food is mind-blowing—viewers are sure to have a blast and be inspired for their next family dinner.”
Brown took to social media to share the news of Food Network’s first vegan cooking show with her millions of fans. “This show is about to change the way we all see food,” Brown posted on Instagram. “It’s for everyone and I can’t wait to take you all on the journey with me.” It’s CompliPlated is slated to air on the Food Network on August 11, 2022 at 10pm ET. 
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While Brown found social media fame from a video she posted in 2018 of herself enjoying a TTLA (tempeh bacon, tomato, lettuce, and avocado) sandwich in her car, the North Carolina–born influencer has been working in the entertainment industry as an actress and comedian for years. Brown has parlayed her newfound social media fame into multiple projects, including several television shows. 
In 2020, Brown’s All Love web series debuted on the Ellen Digital Network. While it ran for two seasons, All Love gave viewers a taste of Brown’s advice on cooking, parenting, social media, and self-care. The vegan star is also part of the The Chi family and made her debut appearance in the fourth season of the Lena Waithe-produced Showtime series. 
On top of all of these shows, Brown is becoming a major influencer for younger audiences, as well, through her popular Tab Time YouTube Original show. This show is currently in its second season which includes 10 episodes, released every week on the Tabitha Brown YouTube page and YouTube Kids App. Each 22-minute-long episode follows Brown as she interacts with various characters and engages in activities with kids, all to help young audiences learn about important life lessons such as self-care and healthy eating habits. 
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With her soothing voice, sage advice, and hilarious catchphrases, Brown is quickly winning the hearts and minds of the nation with a steady stream of projects that speak to her audiences on different levels while fulfilling her own passions. 
This month, Brown shared her lifelong dream of designing a fashion line with the world through a Target collaboration that found instant success both in-store and online. The first collection dropped with 75 summer items such as towels, beach bags, coverups, swimsuits, t-shirts, and dresses, all made in vibrant patterns and prints. Target will release three additional Tabitha Brown collections this year. 
Brown also worked with seasoning brand McCormick to develop her Sunshine Seasoning. The limited launch of this seasoning sold out immediately last year, inspiring McCormick to bring Sunshine Seasoning to stores in a wider rollout this month to fill demand. She is also incorporating the seasoning into specials at Kale My Name, a restaurant she brought to the Los Angeles area after visiting its flagship in Chicago, IL. 

The mother of two is also a New York Times best-selling author with her first inspirational book Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business). In October, fans will be able to purchase Brown’s first cookbook Cooking from the Spirit, which captures Brown’s shoot-from-the-hip cooking style and plant-based recipes fans grew to love during the Facebook Live videos she made earlier in her career. 
As Facebook Live fans know, Brown’s hair has a name, Donna, and Donna has a business called Donna’s Recipe, a haircare brand Brown crafted to help others achieve their hair goals.
This business is personal to Brown, who often straightened her naturally curly hair and suppressed her Southern accent to fit into a certain mold as a Hollywood actress. To advocate for equality for others who have experienced discrimination due to their natural hair, Brown is a spokesperson for The CROWN Act—legislation aimed at ending this type of discrimination on a national level—which she promoted in a Dove campaign that aired at the recent BET Awards.   
Now, Brown is living a life that is true to herself and sharing it with others through her myriad projects, including the first vegan Food Network show where her veganism, hair, and distinct Southern accent will help a wider audience understand the importance of authenticity. 
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Little-Used Fitness Measure Could Be Key to Exercise Results - WebMD

Jan. 6, 2022 – There's been a push in recent years encouraging doctors to prescribe exercise as medicine, telling their patients how often, how long, and how hard to work out to improve health.
A new Brigham Young University study suggests doctors could take that initiative to the next level, prescribing exercise plans that result in a  specific health outcome; say, lowering your blood pressure or losing weight. 
“The findings of this study, and others, suggest that we should be able to more consistently and accurately prescribe exercise like medicine,” says senior study author Jayson Gifford, PhD, an exercise sciences professor at BYU. 
These exercise prescriptions would be tailored to patients based on a largely ignored fitness measure called critical power, or maximum steady state – the fastest you can go while maintaining a pace you can sustain for a long time. 
By crafting workouts around critical power instead of the more frequently used VO2 max (maximum effort), we could more accurately predict health outcomes, just as we can with medicine, the researchers say in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
“We’ve known for centuries that exercise is part of the way to develop a healthy and long life,” says Jordan Metzl, MD, a sports medicine doctor at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and author of The Exercise Cure. “But it’s only in the past 70 years that we’ve recognized the medicinal value of exercise.”
Metzl, who was not involved in the study, helped develop an annual seminar at Cornell Medical School teaching medical students ways to prescribe exercise that go beyond the “30 minutes per day” cookie-cutter advice. Still, doctors and other health care professionals often struggle to prescribe exercise to prevent or treat disease. And a recent study from Oxford found that when doctors do give weight loss advice, it’s often vague and hard for patients to use. 
“The drug of movement is one of the safest and most effective forms of preventive health,” says Metzl. “We need to get the medical community fully engaged in prescribing exercise for their patients.” 
This study suggests that a focus on critical power could be key in making that happen. 
What the Research Found
In the study, 22 adults completed 8 weeks of either moderate-intensity training or high-intensity interval training, or HIIT.  The intensity levels specified in both plans were based on VO2 max. So, the people in the study trained at given percentages of their VO2 max.
Both groups saw improvements in endurance, but results varied greatly from person to person. Those mixed results could be explained by individual differences in critical power. 
“Improvement was much more correlated with the percentage of critical powers the individuals worked at rather than the percentage of their VO2max, like exercise physiologists have thought for years,” says lead study author Jessica Collins, a researcher at Brigham Young University. 
Not only that, but several subjects who did not improve their VO2 max did see an increase in critical power and endurance. 
“People tend to only focus on VO2 max,” Gifford says. “Many might see the lack of increase in VO2 max for some people and conclude that the training was ineffective. I personally believe that a lot of potentially useful therapies have been ruled out because of an almost exclusive focus on VO2 max.”
Turns out, critical power varies a lot from person to person, even among those with similar VO2 maxes.
“Let’s say you and Jessica had the same VO2 max,” explains Gifford. “If we had you both going at 70% of [your VO2 max], it could be above your maximum steady state, which would make it really hard for you. And it could be below her maximum steady state, which would make it easy for her.” 
This means you are each stressing your body differently, and that stress is what triggers improvements in fitness and endurance. 
“Below critical power, the metabolic stressors are well-managed and maintained at elevated-but-steady levels,” Gifford says. “Above critical power, the metabolic stressors are produced so fast that they cannot be controlled, and consistently accrue until reaching very high levels that cause failure.” 
Knowing your critical power means you can predict how those stressors will build up, and you can tailor an exercise program that provides just the right stressor “dose” for you, Gifford says. 
Such programs could be used for rehab patients recovering from a heart attack or from lung disease, Gifford suggests. Or they could help older adults improve endurance and physical function, Collins notes. 
But first, researchers must confirm these results by programming workouts based on people’s critical power and seeing how much different measures improve.
How to Find Your Critical Power
Critical power is not new, but exercise physiologists and medical professionals have largely ignored it because it’s not easy to measure. 
“People generally train off VO2 max or maximum heart rate, which is even less precise,” Gifford says. 
Finding people's critical power in the study involved multiple timed trials and calculating the relationship between speed/power and time, Gifford explains. 
But for a rough measure of your critical power, you could use an app that measures functional threshold power (FTP), something Gifford refers to as the “Walmart version” of critical power. “It’s not exactly the same, but it’s close,” he says. (The app Strava features FTP as well as a pretty sophisticated power analysis.) 
Or skip the tech and go by feel. If you’re below your critical power, “it’s going to be challenging, but you'll feel under control,” Gifford says. Above your critical power, “your breathing and heart rate will continuously climb until you fail in about 2 to 15 minutes, depending on how far above you are.” 
Still, you don’t need to know your critical power to start exercising, Collins notes. 
“The beauty of exercise is that it is such a powerful drug that you can see benefits without fine-tuning the workout this way,” he says. “I would hate for this to become a barrier to exercising. The important thing is to do something.”
SOURCES:
Jayson Gifford, PhD, exercise sciences professor, Brigham Young University. 
Jessica Collins, researcher, Brigham Young University.
Journal of Applied Physiology: "Critical power and work-prime account for variability in endurance training adaptations not captured by VO2 max."
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The annual Holiday Sing-Along, tree lighting and Downtown Stroll are Saturday, Dec. 3 - KUT

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Kick off your holiday season with KUT and KUTX at our annual Sing-Along and Tree Lighting, followed by the Downtown Austin Alliance’s Holiday Stroll.
The carols begin at 6 p.m. when crowds gather on the Capitol grounds to sing songs of the season, led by some of the women of KUT News and KUTX Music: Elizabeth McQueen, Miles Bloxson, Diedre Gott, Susan Castle, Laurie Gallardo, Jacquie Fuller and Taylor Wallace.
Complimentary keepsake song books will be available to attendees while supplies last.
At 7 p.m., we’ll countdown to the lighting of the downtown holiday tree at 11th St. and Congress Ave. After the tree lighting, stroll Congress Avenue between 9th and 11th streets for shopping, and free live music and entertainment for all ages.
Schedule of Events
Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022
5 p.m. Holiday stroll begins
6 p.m. Holiday Sing-Along with the women of KUT and KUTX
7 p.m. Holiday stroll continues until 10 p.m.
The Downtown Austin Alliance’s Holiday Stroll has something for everyone including photos with Santa, holiday arts and crafts, local food trucks, artisan vendors and more. Plus, enjoy a full night of live music performances. Visit the Downtown Austin Alliance for announcements and additional details on the Holiday Stroll.


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Kramer announces high-performance Striker electric guitar collection - Guitar.com

The Striker HSS, Striker Figured HSS Floyd Rose and Striker Figured HSS Stoptail have been added to Kramer's store.
Kramer has announced its high-performance Striker electric guitar collection, featuring three different configurations for guitarists to choose from.
The Striker HSS, Striker Figured HSS Floyd Rose and Striker Figured HSS Stoptail feature a satin-finished maple neck with a Kramer K-Speed SlimTaper C profile, with an optional hardshell case available on purchase.
The Striker HSS comes in left and right-handed configurations, with three Alnico 5 pickups including a zebra-coil bridge humbucker and two single coils. The guitar also features a licensed Floyd-Rose locking vibrato and is available in Jumper Red, Ebony, and Majestic Purple colourways.
The Striker Figured HSS Floyd Rose boasts two single coil pickups in a set-up Kramer says is designed for a wide range of styles. The guitar comes with a licensed Floyd-Rose locking vibrato, while the Striker Figured HSS Stoptail features an Epiphone LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge and Stop Bar tailpiece.
Kramer has also released a video introducing the Striker collection. Watch it below.

The Striker collection is available via Kramer’s website and at authorised dealers nationwide in the US. The Striker HSS retails at $349, the Striker Figured HSS Floyd Rose at $399 and the Striker Figured HSS Stoptail at $379.
Guitar.com previously featured Kramer’s Custom Graphics Series Baretta ‘Feral Cat’ & The 84 ‘The Illusionist’ on The Big Review, giving the 1980s-inspired guitars an 8/10 overall score for their “outrageous” sound. Reviewer Darran Charles called the guitars “two of the best-sounding and most immediate rock guitars we’ve played”, praising the grunt, power, definition and clarity offered in the tone of both guitars.
In other recent guitar news, Squier has released a selection of new Vintage Edition models as part of its wide-ranging 40th anniversary celebration. The collection includes a Tele, Strat and a Jazzmaster, as well as Precision and Jazz bass models, featuring aged chrome hardware, paired with satin urethane finishes to project subtle Road Worn vibes. The limited edition selection retails for a slightly higher price than what we normally get with Squier at an RRP of £499.
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