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Recently born at Blanchard Valley Hospital , Findlay, as reported by their parents:

• Wyatt James Russell, boy, Logan Russell and Kayla Farr, Find-lay, Oct. 3.

• LaRayah Nicole Myers, girl, Donald Myers and Shelbi Duryea, Fostoria, Oct. 10.

• Aubrey Ann Garn, girl, Devin Andrew Garn and Kayla Marie Flugga, Bettsville, Oct. 10.

• Galilee Raine Kidwell, girl, Peter and Rachel Kidwell, Findlay, Oct. 10.

• Winifred Hallow Green, girl, Kal and Jasmine Green, Findlay, Oct. 10.

• Blake Ryan Hoker II, boy, Blake Hoker and Toriy Cooper, Fostoria, Oct. 11.

• Ryan Matthew McConnell, boy, Michael and Holly McConnell, Findlay, Oct. 11.

• Jaxon David Kundrat, boy, Eric David Kundrat and Chelsea Beatrice Kundrat, Findlay, Oct. 11.

• Karlee Kay-Lynn Trumbull, girl, Tyler Trumbull and Kalie Hoff-man, North Baltimore, Oct. 11.

• Grayson Kai Galvin, boy, Ken-drick and Krystyen Galvin, Lima, Oct. 11.

• Anakhin Kayse Grove, boy, David Grove and Chi-enne Bennett, Forest, Oct. 12.

• Gwenyth and Natalie Hinkle, girls, Charles Hinkle and Tyanna Parks, Alger, Oct. 12.

• Marlana Amarianna Cook, girl, Travis Jonathan Cook and Adrienne Ranelle Trice, Findlay, Oct. 13.

• Ellie Joan Posh, girl, Travis Posh and Paige Diller, Arcadia, Oct. 13.

• Sloane Ailill McCarty, boy, Wesley McCarty and Skyler Rice, Findlay, Oct. 14.

• Landon Joseph Hollis, boy, Sam Clayton Hollis and Jenna Lynne Smith, Findlay, Oct. 14.

• Kennedy Sue Patten, girl, Isiah Patten and Sara Patten, Findlay, Oct. 15.

• Amaya Nicole Krupp, girl, Melaina Krupp, Findlay, Oct. 15.

• Scarlett Elizabeth Bahr, girl, Brian Joseph Bahr and Brittni Nicole Bahr, Bloomdale, Oct. 15.

• Riggs Mikel Bowen, boy, Bran-don and Kelsey Bowen, Rockford, Oct. 15.

• Harlem Jewel LeeAnn Luck, girl, Anthony Luck and Sarah Veres, Findlay, Oct. 15.

• Victoria Zarazua Perez, girl, Roman Zarazua Rubio and Ana Maria Perez Ledesma, Findlay, Oct. 16.

• Melissa April-Jean Anderson, girl, Jason Scott Anderson and Patience Renee Emahiser, Arcadia, Oct. 17.

• Adelyn Grace Borkosky, girl, Austin and Emily Borkosky, Arling-ton, Oct. 17.

• Nora Nhu Clagg, girl, Jacob and Donna Clagg, Findlay, Oct. 17.

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A Findlay resident is one of three recipients of the Joe Leiser Memorial Scholarship awarded annually by the AgCredit, Agricultural Credit Asso-ciation.

Megan Ritter, of Findlay, has received a $2,000 scholarship for the 2018-2019 school year. She is a senior at Ohio State University majoring in agribusiness and applied economics with a minor in agronomy.

Joe Leiser served as the first pres-ident and chief executive officer for AgCredit, which is one of northern Ohio’s largest lenders, serving farm-ers, agribusiness and rural homeown-ers

Ritter awarded $2,000 scholarship

Today in historyBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2018. There are 69 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Oct. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. service

members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Leba-non; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

On this date: In 1707, the first Parliament of

Great Britain, created by the Acts of Union between England and Scotland, held its first meeting.

In 1915, tens of thousands of women paraded up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the right to vote.

In 1942, during World War II, Brit-ain launched a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt, resulting in an Allied victory.

In 1944, the World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf began, resulting in a major Allied victory against Japanese forces.

In 1956, a student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule began; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces started entering the country, and the uprising was put down within

weeks. In 1958, Boris Pasternak was

named winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. (However, Soviet authori-ties pressured Pasternak into relin-quishing the award.)

In 1973, President Richard Nixon agreed to turn over White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Water-gate special prosecutor to Judge John J. Sirica.

In 1987, the U.S. Senate rejected, 58-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.

In 1991, Cambodia’s warring fac-tions and representatives of 18 other nations signed a peace treaty in Paris.

In 1995, a jury in Houston con-victed Yolanda Saldivar of murdering Tejano singing star Selena. (Saldivar is serving a life prison sentence.)

In 2001, the nation’s anthrax scare hit the White House with the discov-ery of a small concentration of spores at an offsite mail processing center.

In 2006, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to 24 years, four months for his role in the company’s collapse. Eventually 10 years was cut off Skilling’s prison sentence, and he was released to a halfway house in Aug. 2018.

Ten years ago: Badgered by lawmakers on the

House Oversight Committee, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan denied the nation’s eco-nomic crisis was his fault but conceded the meltdown had revealed a flaw in a lifetime of economic thinking and left him in a “state of shocked disbelief.”

The Tampa Bay Rays evened the World Series at one game apiece by beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-2.

Five years ago: A defensive Obama administration

acknowledged its problem-plagued health insurance website didn’t get enough testing before going live; it said technicians were deep into the job of fixing major computer snags, but provided no timetable.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called President Barack Obama to complain about allegations U.S. intel-ligence had targeted her cellphone. (The White House said it wasn’t moni-toring and wouldn’t monitor Merkel’s communications, but conspicuously didn’t say they had never been moni-tored.)

The Boston Red Sox took the World Series opener, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 8-1.

One year ago: New York State Attorney General

Eric Schneiderman announced a civil rights investigation into the Weinstein

See HISTORY, Page T3

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This week’s celebrity birthdays include:

Sunday: Actress Joyce Randolph (“The

Honeymooners”) is 94. Keyboard-ist Manfred Mann is 78. Guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG’s is 77. Singer Elvin Bishop is 76. TV judge Judy Sheindlin (“Judge Judy”) is 76. Actor Everett McGill (“Twin Peaks”) is 73. Trumpeter Lee Loughnane of Chicago is 72. Actor Dick Christie (“The Bold and the Beautiful”) is 70. Guitarist Char-lotte Caffey of The Go-Go’s is 65. Singer Julian Cope is 61. Guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto is 61. Actor Ken Watanabe (“Letters from Iwo Jima,” “The Last Samurai”) is 59. Actress Melora Walters (TV’s “Big Love,” film’s “The Butterfly Effect”) is 58. Singer-bassist Nick Oliveri (Queens Of The Stone Age) is 47. Keyboardist Charlie Lowell of Jars of Clay is 45. Actor Jeremy Miller (“Growing Pains”) is 42. Singer Matthew Ramsey of Old Dominion is 41. Actor Will Estes (“American Dreams”) is 40. Actor Michael McMillian (“True Blood”) is 40. Reality TV star Kim Kar-dashian is 38. Actor Glenn Powell (“Hidden Figures”) is 30. Country singer Kane Brown is 25.

Yesterday: Actor Christopher Lloyd is 80.

Actor Derek Jacobi is 80. Actor Tony Roberts is 79. Actress Catherine

Deneuve is 75. Guitarist Leslie West of Mountain is 73. Actor Jeff Goldblum is 66. Keyboardist Greg Hawkes of The Cars is 66. Actor Luis Guzman (“Code Black”) is 62. Bassist Cris Kirkwood of Meat Pup-pets is 58. Actor Bob Odenkirk is 56. Christian singer TobyMac (DC Talk) is 54. Singer-songwriter Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding) is 53. Comedian Carlos Mencia is 51. Country singer Shelby Lynne is 50. Reggae rapper Shaggy is 50. Director Spike Jonze is 49. Rapper Tracey Lee is 48. Actress Saffron Burrows (“Boston Legal”) is 46. Actress Carmen Ejogo (“Selma”) is 45. Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson (“Modern Family”) is 43. Guitarist Jon Foreman of Switchfoot is 42. Actor Michael Fishman (“Rose-anne”) is 37. Guitarist Rickard Goransson of Carolina Liar is 35. Drummer Zac Hanson of Hanson is 33. Actor Jonathan Lipnicki (“Stuart Little,” “Jerry Maguire”) is 28.

Today: Singer Barbara Ann Hawkins of

The Dixie Cups is 75. Director Ang Lee is 64. Jazz singer Dianne Reeves is 62. Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 62. Singer “Weird Al” Yankovic is 59. Bassist Robert Tru-jillo of Metallica is 54. Singer David Thomas of Take 6 is 52. Drummer Brian Nevin of Big Head Todd and The Monsters is 52. Singer Junior Bryant of Ricochet is 50. Actor John Huertas (“Castle”) is 49. Country singer Jimmy Wayne is 46. Bassist Eric Bass of Shinedown is 44. “So You Think You Can Dance” host Cat Deeley is 42. Actor Ryan Reyn-olds is 42. Singer Matthew Shultz of Cage The Elephant is 35. “The View” host Meghan McCain is 34. Actress Masiela Lusha (“George Lopez”) is 33. Singer Miguel is 33.

Actress Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) is 32. Actress Inbar Lavi (“Imposters,” “Prison Break”) is 32. Actress Jessica Stroup (“90210”) is 32. Trumpeter Allen Branstetter of St. Paul and the Broken Bones is 28. Actor Taylor Spreitler (“Kevin Can Wait”) is 25. Actress Amandla Stenberg (“The Hunger Games”) is 20.

Tomorrow: Former Rolling Stones bassist

Bill Wyman is 82. Actor F. Murray Abraham is 79. Actor Kevin Kline is 71. Actor Doug Davidson (“The Young and the Restless”) is 64. Actor B.D. Wong is 58. Drummer Ben Gillies of Silverchair is 39. Singer Monica is 38. Singer-actress Adri-enne Bailon of 3LW (“The Cheetah Girls”) is 35. Rapper Drake is 32. Actress Shenae Grimes (“90210”) is 29. Actor Ashton Sanders (“Moon-light”) is 23. Actor Hudson Yang (“Fresh Off The Boat”) is 15.

Thursday: Actress Marion Ross is 90.

Singer Helen Reddy is 77. Singer Jon Anderson (Yes) is 74. Singer Taffy Danoff of Starland Vocal Band is 74. Guitarist Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest is 71. Actor Brian Kerwin is 69. Guitarist Matthias Jabs of Scorpions is 62. Actress Nancy Cartwright (“The Simpsons”) is 61. Country singer Mark Miller of Sawyer Brown is 60. Drummer Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers and of Chickenfoot is 57. Actress Tracy Nelson (“Father Dowling Myster-ies”) is 55. Actor Michael Boatman (“The Good Wife,” “Spin City”) is 54. Actor Kevin Michael Richard-son (“The Cleveland Show”) is 54. Singer Speech (Arrested Develop-ment) is 50. Comedian Samantha Bee (“Full Frontal with Saman-tha Bee,” “The Daily Show”) is

49. Actor Adam Goldberg (“Saving Private Ryan”) is 48. Guitarist Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies is 48. Actress Persia White (“Girlfriends”) is 48. Country singer Chely Wright is 48. Actor Craig Robinson (“The Office”) is 47. Actor Mehcad Brooks (“Supergirl,” “Desperate House-wives”) is 38. Singer Jerome Jones (Romeo) of Immature is 37. Singer Katy Perry is 34. Singer Austin Winkler (Hinder) is 34. Singer Ciara is 33. Actress Krista Marie Yu (“Dr. Ken”) is 30.

Friday: Actress Shelley Morrison (“Will

and Grace”) is 82. Actress Jaclyn Smith (“Charlie’s Angels”) is 73. “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak is 72. Musician Bootsy Col-lins is 67. Actor James Pickens Jr. (“Grey’s Anatomy”) is 66. Guitarist Keith Strickland of The B-52’s is 65. Actress Rita Wilson is 62. Actor Patrick Breen (“Madam Secretary”) is 58. Actor Dylan McDermott (“The Practice”) is 57. Actor Cary Elwes is 56. Singer Natalie Mer-chant is 55. Actor Steve Valentine (“Crossing Jordan”) is 52. Country singer Keith Urban is 51. Actor Tom Cavanagh (“The Flash,” “Ed”) is 50. Actress Rosemarie DeWitt (“The United States of Tara”) is 47. Writer-actor Seth McFarlane (“Family Guy”) is 45. TV host

Paula Faris (“The View”) is 43. Actress Florence Kasumba (“Black Panther”) is 42. Actor Jon Heder (“Blades of Glory,” “Napoleon Dynamite”) is 41. Singer Mark Barry of BBMak is 40. Rapper Schoolboy Q is 32. Actor Beulah Koale (“Hawaii Five-0”) is 27.

Saturday: Actor-comedian John Cleese

is 79. Country singer Lee Green-wood is 76. Director Ivan Reitman is 72. Country singer-guitarist Jack Daniels (Highway 101) is 69. Bassist Garry Tallent of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is 69. Author Fran Lebowitz is 68. Guitarist K.K. Downing (Judas Priest) is 67. TV personality Jayne Kennedy is 67. Actor-director Roberto Benigni (“Life Is Beautiful”) is 66. Actor Peter Firth (“That’s Life”) is 65. Actor Robert Picardo (“The Wonder Years,” “China Beach”) is 65. Singer Simon LeBon of Duran Duran is 60. Keyboardist J.D. McFadden (Six-pence None The Richer, The Mav-ericks) is 54. Drummer Jason Finn of Presidents of the United States of America is 51. Actress Sheeri Rap-paport (“CSI,” “NYPD Blue”) is 41. TV personality Kelly Osbourne is 34. Actor Troy Gentile (“The Gold-bergs”) is 25.

Happy birthday to all

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Co., amid sexual harassment and assault allegations against its founder, Harvey Weinstein.

As Republicans searched for ways to finance tax cuts, President Donald Trump promised that the popular 401(k) retirement savings program would not be touched.

Sen. John McCain said he didn’t consider Donald Trump to be a draft-dodger, but told ABC’s “The View” that the system that allowed Trump and other wealthy Americans to use medical deferments to avoid military service during the Vietnam War was wrong.

Thought for today: “Be content with what you are,

and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.” — Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (CE 121-CE 180).

HistoryContinued from page T2

Randy & Marlene SnokeRandy and Marlene Snoke,

Findlay, OH will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on October 25, 2018. The family will host a celebration.

Harry Randall Snoke and the former Mary Marlene Owen were married October 25, 1958 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Mr. Snoke is retired as a pilot from Marathon Oil Co. He is the owner of George House Coffee & Tea Co. Mrs. Snoke is a homemaker.

The couple has four children: Linda Connor, Findlay; Karen Arnold, Findlay; Tim and Mary Snoke, Rawson; and Dave and Wendy Snoke, Findlay. They have eighteen grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.

They attend St. Michael Parish.

ANNIVERSARY

Richard and Shirley (Gillespie) Lee of Findlay (formerly of Vanlue) celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on October 18, 2018. The couple was married on October 18, 1953 at Good Hope Lutheran Church, Arlington, OH.

Richard is the son of the late Evert & Avonell Lee. Shirley is the daughter of the late Lee & Cleo Gillespie.

The couple has four children: Thomas (Debra) Lee, Vanlue,

OH; Debra (Russ) Lindsey, Washington Court House, OH; Diane (Jeff) Hannah, West Salem, OH; Andrew (Erika) Lee, Westerville, OH. They also have 6 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

Richard is retired from farming. Shirley retired from Vanlue Local School. The couple was honored with a family celebration at the couple’s home.

Richard & Shirley Lee

65TH ANNIVERSARY

Jack and Diane Warren are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.

The couple was married on Oct. 26, 1968. She was the girl next door and he was her high school sweetheart.

They have three daughters: Glenda Renz (Rick), Kristin Landolt (Aaron), and Sharla Cline (Brian).

They also have six grandchildren:Clay, Karly, Parker, Preston, Ethan,and Aiden.

Their daughters are honoringtheir parents’ Golden Anniversarywith a family and friends open houseon Oct. 27, 2018, at the Upper RoomChurch of God in Findlay from1-4pm.

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Warren celebrate 50 years

ANNIVERSARY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Best-selling books the week ended Oct. 14, according to the Wall Street Journal.

FICTION 1. “The Next Person You Meet in

Heaven” by Mitch Albom (Harper) 2. “Holy Ghost” by John Sandford

(G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 3. “Ambush” by James Patterson &

James O. Born (Little, Brown) 4. “Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas” by

Dav Pilkey (Graphix) 5. “The Witch Elm” by Tana French

(Viking) 6. “The Hate U Give” by Angie

Thomas (Balzer & Bray Harperteen) 7. “A Spark of Light” by Jodi Picoult

(Ballantine Books) 8. “Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel” by

Val Emmich w/ Levenson, Pasek, Paul (Poppy Books)

9. “Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami (Knopf Publishing Group)

10. “Red War” by Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills (Atria)

NONFICTION 1. “Dare to Lead” by Brené Brown

(Random House) 2. “Ship of Fools” by Tucker Carlson

(Free Press) 3. “Killing the SS” by Bill O’Reilly &

Martin Dugard (Henry Holt) 4. “Girl, Wash Your Face” by Rachel

Hollis (Thomas Nelson) 5. “Skinnytaste One and Done” by

Gina Homolka & Heather K. Jones (Clarkson N Potter)

6. “Presidents of War” by Michael Beschloss (Crown)

7. “Fear: Trump in the White House” by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)

8. “The Fifth Risk” by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton & Company)

9. “Whiskey in a Teacup” by Reese Witherspoon (Touchstone)

10. “Spygate” by Dan Bongino & D.C. McAllister w/ M. Palumbo (Post Hill)

FICTION E-BOOKS 1. “Holy Ghost” by John Sandford

(G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 2. “Ambush” by James Patterson &

James O. Born (Little, Brown) 3. “The Witch Elm” by Tana French

(Viking) 4. “Winter in Paradise” by Elin

Hilderbrand (Little, Brown) 5. “The Christmas Scorpion” by Lee

Child (Delacorte Press) 6. “The Clockmaker’s Daughter” by

Kate Morton (Atria) 7. “A Spark of Light” by Jodi Picoult

(Ballantine Books) 8. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by

Delia Owens (Penguin Publishing) 9. “Red War” by Vince Flynn and Kyle

Mills (Atria) 10. “Swamp Spook” by Jana DeLeon

(J&R Publishing)

NONFICTION E-BOOKS 1. “Killing the SS” by Bill O’Reilly &

Martin Dugard (Henry Holt) 2. “Killers of the Flower Moon” by

David Grann (Knopf Doubleday Publish-ing Groups)

3. “Ship of Fools” by Tucker Carlson (Free Press)

4. “Dare to Lead” by Brené Brown (Random House)

5. “Educated” by Tara Westover (Random House)

6. “Girl, Wash Your Face” by Rachel Hollis (Thomas Nelson)

7. “The Fifth Risk” by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton & Company)

8. “Spygate” Dan Bongino & D.C. McAllister w/ M. Palumbo (Post Hill)

9. “Fear: Trump in the White House” by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)

10. “Everybody, Always” by Bob Goff (Zondervan)

NPD BookScan gathers point-of-sale book data from about 16,000 locations across the U.S., representing about 85 percent of the nation’s book sales. Print-book data providers include all major booksellers and web retailers, and food stores. Free e-books and those sold for less than 99 cents are excluded. The fic-tion and nonfiction lists in all formats include both adult and juvenile titles; the business list includes only adult titles. The combined lists track sales by title across all print and e-book for-mats; audio books are excluded. Refer questions to Michael.Boone@wsj.com

The best-sellers list

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Orlando’s newest police chief is already making a name for himself. His name? Orlando.

Mayor Buddy Dyer announced Orlando’s newest police chief during a cer-emony. Orlando Rolon will also be the city’s first Hispanic police chief.

The Orlando Sentinel reports Rolon previously was a deputy chief oversee-ing the agency’s patrol services bureau.

Naming Rights: Orlando’s new police chief is named Orlando

HIGHLAND, Calif. (AP) — Deputies in California have used Doritos to lure a pig “the size of a mini horse” back home.

The pig was running around a neighborhood when the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office received the call Saturday.

One of the deputies had Doritos in her lunch bag. Video shows the deputy leaving a trail of the chips, which the pig followed.

Deputies had responded to previous calls about the pig and knew where to take him.

He was returned to his pen, and deputies secured the gate.

Nacho Cheese or Cool Ranch? Doritos lure rogue pig back home

Hope Blunk and Joseph Armand, both of Carmel, Indiana, exchanged wedding vows on June 22, 2018, at The Taylor Mansion in Columbus, Ohio.

The bride is the daughter of Denny and Lana Blunk of Findlay, Ohio. She is a 2010 Findlay High School graduate, and a 2014 graduate of The Ohio State University. Hope is currently employed as a Marketing

Manager in Indianapolis. The groom is the son of

Marc and Terry Armand, of Findlay, Ohio. He is a 2010 graduate of Findlay High School and a 2014 graduate of The Ohio State University. Joseph is a Biomedical Engineer in Indianapolis.

Following a honeymoon in Turks & Caicos, the couple resides in Carmel, Indiana, with their dog, Jax.

Blunk-Armand

WEDDING

NEW YORK (AP) — Harry’s has carved out a niche selling men shaving razors direct to their doors, elbowing in on an industry long dominated by names like Gil-lette and Schick.

In the process, the company says it found that 1 million women were using its products for their shaving needs.

So its logical next step was Fla-mingo, a direct-to-consumer hair removal and body-care brand for women.

Flamingo’s leaders say their aim is to make women more comfort-able talking about shaving and waxing.

“We want to normalize the fact that women might have hair here, or there, and if they choose to remove it, we want to support that,” Allie Melnick, the general manager for Flamingo says in an interview with The Associated Press.

Flamingo is the first brand to emerge from Harry’s Labs, an offshoot of the company that has chipped away at the market share of industry giant Gillette, capital-

izing on consumer frustration with pricey razors. Harry’s received $112 million in new funding earlier this year to develop new brands, with a vision to becoming a major consumer-products company to compete with the likes of Gillette parent Proctor & Gamble.

Flamingo offers a five-blade razor, waxing kits, shaving gel and body lotion for women. The products will be sold on its own direct-to -consumer website, a space where the brand’s leaders Brittania Boey and Melnick hope to open frank conversations about women and body hair.

The duo says Harry’s internal research shows nearly all U.S. women choose to shave or wax off some of their body hair. They say Flamingo wants to offer products and tips to help women do that while talking openly about furry toes, back hair and fuzzy upper lips.

Harry’s launched as a direct-to-consumer company in 2013. It has since expanded into body care for men and now sells its products in Target and Walmart. Along with rival Dollar Shave Club, the com-pany shook up the $2.8 billion U.S. men’s shaving industry, forcing Gil-

lette to slash its razor prices and revamp its marketing strategy to stem a decline in market share.

Harry’s remains a relatively small player, with 2 percent of the market, according to Euromonitor International market research firm. But its direct-to-consumer model has helped create a sense of inti-macy with its customer base that bigger brands find hard to repli-cate.

Consumers have a growing appetite for tailored offerings that make small companies appealing, according to a recent report from management consulting firm Bain & Co., which cited both Harry’s and Dollar Shave Clubs as exam-ples. Chobani’s and Noosa’s have similarly disrupted the yogurt industry, while digital upstarts like Casper’s helped drive Mattress Firm into bankruptcy.

Flamingo hopes for the same success in the $1 bil lion U.S. women’s shaving industry, where Gillette holds 50 percent of the market, according to Euromonitor. The new brand will compete in a more fractured landscape than the one Harry’s encountered for men’s shavers five years ago.

Several new online brands have

already seized attention, if not yet significant market share.

Among them are Angel Shave Club, which donates part of its sales to the Malala Fund to pro-mote education for girls abroad. The start-up Billie made a splash since launching last year with ads showing body hair — including a gif of a woman shaving her toe — while declaring war on the “pink tax,” the notion that women typi-cally pay more than men for the same product.

“It is likely that more women’s shave clubs will enter the U.S. market before one or two players emerge on top,” Kayla Villena, senior analyst at Euromonitor International, said in a recent report that preceded Flamingo’s launch.

Melnick and Boey said more than 1 million women have bought Harry’s products, making Fla-mingo a logical first choice for the company’s newest brand.

“My wife uses Harry’s now, too. She was stealing mine, so I got her one,” said Cody Chastain, a 42-year-old Roseville, California, man who likes Harry’s because of the convenience of its delivery ser-vice.

Flamingo mirrors Harry’s in pricing and the simplicity of its offerings. It has one five-blade razor with a handle that comes in three different colors, priced at $9. Cartridge replacements are $2.25 per blade. It’s a deliberate contrast to the array of women’s razors from Gillette and No. 2 player Schick, which range from disposable razors for around $1 a piece to higher-end razors at $4 or $5 per blade replacement.

One notable difference separates Flamingo from the men’s razors Harry’s offers. Flamingo will offer its products a-la-carte only because women’s shaving routines vary too widely for subscription plans, Mel-nick says. Some shave only during warm seasons. Other might not bother shaving their legs if they are not in a romantic relationship. And, she says, women are very particu-lar about which part of their body to shave or wax.

Melnick has clearly gotten com-fortable talking about her own life-long battle with body hair.

“I keep my arm hair, except when I demonstrate our wax strip. But I choose to remove my toe hair,” she says. “It’s all very per-sonal.”

After men’s razors, Harry’s launches shaving brand for women

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ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — A Vir-ginia store has had 20 right-foot shoes stolen over the course of three break-ins this year.

The Roanoke Times reports Roa-noke County police arrested 21-year-old Manuel Carlos Ramirez-Godoy in the burglary of Clean Soles, seizing seven right-foot Nike Air Jordans and a sweatshirt printed with “Call My Lawyer.”

Clean Soles operator Rob Wick-ham previously said he typically keeps right shoes on display, while their other halves rest behind the counter.

A warrant says police had found a cash register behind the store, along with a backpack containing merchan-dise worth $5,000 and Ramirez-Godoy’s student ID.

Court records show Ramirez-Godoy is charged with grand larceny, destruction of property and other counts.

Despite the sweatshirt’s instruc-tions, it’s unclear whether Ramirez-Godoy has a lawyer.

‘Call my lawyer,’ says sweater seized with stolen sneakers

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A characteristic twinkle in his eye, Ronald Reagan waves to a crowd from aboard a rail car in a hologram revealed at the late president’s namesake library in Southern California.

“We think we made a good begin-ning, but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” the digital resurrection of the nation’s 40th president says in his steady voice as a flurry of balloons falls in front of him.

Reagan, who died in 2004 at age 93, was speaking about the nation’s future during a 1984 campaign stop but easily could have been referencing the tech-nology that brought him back to life in 2018. The audio used is edited from his real remarks.

“We wanted to make President Reagan as lifelike as possible,” said John Heubusch, executive director of the Reagan Foundation. “It’s a stunning experience.”

In two other holograms, Reagan appears in a suit and tie inside the Oval Office and in horseback riding pants, carrying a lasso alongside his dog, Vic-tory, at his beloved ranch. All three holograms will be on display to visi-tors of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, west of Los Angeles.

They will be shown in a specially designed room that will be the first stop for guests. Seats are set up in front of a stage, and a curtain opens up to thun-derous applause at Reagan’s campaign stop more than three decades ago.

The computer-generated imagery for the holograms was created starting with a silicone cast of Reagan’s head that was photographed from various angles with 300 cameras. His head was then digitally “placed” on the body of an actor portraying the president with full costumes and backdrops for the three scenarios.

Reagan’s face comes to life via spe-cific movements of the mouth, nose, eyes, cheeks and hairline, all manipu-lated by computers.

The library worked with the same special-effects technicians who helped bring singers like Michael Jackson, Billie Holiday and Roy Orbison back to life on stage.

The Hollywood firm Hologram USA helped create the holograms and the stage on which they’re projected.

As a radio host, television star and movie actor, Reagan understood and appreciated new technologies, company senior vice president David Nussbaum

said. “He always thought many steps

ahead,” he said. “If he was looking down right now on this project, I think he would give us his seal of approval. I think he would totally get this and support it.”

Seeing her former boss “almost in the flesh” was “a little eerie, but at the same time, very comforting,” said Joanne Drake, who served as Reagan’s chief of staff after the Republican left office following his two terms from 1981 to 1989.

“It’s fun to think that he’s standing in front of us,” said Drake, who’s now chief administration officer for the foundation. “Intellectually, you know it’s not him standing there, but you see his facial movements and his arm move-ments and his body and that twinkle in his eye and that little grin that he always got, and it makes you remember really what he brought to the office.”

Drake said future plans could include bringing the holograms on the road.

“I do think we’re going to see Ronald Reagan back in Washington, D.C.,” she said.

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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Cali-fornia-based startup has announced big plans to go small as it reaches into space, rocketing satellites the size of loaves of bread into orbit from Virginia.

The endeavor reflects increasing demand from companies and govern-ments alike to monitor ships, crops and the weather from space.

Rocket Lab said it will build its launch pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on the Eastern Shore. It’s located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, where unmanned cargo missions already are dispatched to the International Space Station.

Rocket Lab, which recently built its first launch pad in New Zealand, is set-ting up in Virginia at a time of unprec-edented growth in the use of smaller and relatively inexpensive satellites.

The devices circle the earth for a few years before burning up in the atmosphere. Atlanta-based consulting firm SpaceWorks predicted in January that up to 2,600 of these will need to be launched into orbit over the next five years.

The industry is attracting ven-ture capitalists, while firms in China and companies such as Virgin have built launch systems dedicated to the smaller devices. Dozens more are under development.

Rocket Lab has sent up two rockets so far, humorously calling those mis-sions “It’s a test” and “Still testing.” The second rocket successfully reached orbit in January.

Rocket Lab’s next commercial mis-sion, known as “It’s Business Time,” is scheduled to lift off from New Zealand in November. Launches from Virginia are set to begin as early as summer 2019.

“We’re not focused on the next flight, we’re focused on the next 100 flights,” Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck, a New Zealander, said at a news confer-ence in Virginia.

Small satellites have often hitched rides on rockets carrying bigger sat-ellites into orbit or with supplies to the space station. But more firms are

Startup plans to launch small satellites from Virginia coast

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offering small satellites their own launches, providing more control over their schedules and the orbits to which they’re delivered.

Headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, Rocket Lab plans to keep costs low by using lightweight, expendable rockets with 3D-printed engines. It’s a different plan than some other space companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which uses larger rock-ets to carry bigger payloads.

Rocket Lab said its cargo in January included an earth-imaging satellite for Planet, a company that offers clients information on anything from flooding to deforestation.

Rocket Lab said future launches will serve Luxembourg-based firm Kleos Space. That company says it can help law enforcement officials detect illegal activity, such as human trafficking or illegal fishing, by pinpointing maritime radio transmissions.

NASA also has a contract with Rocket Lab to deliver small satellites. But the firm’s most famous cargo was perhaps the “Humanity Star,” a geode-sic sphere designed to reflect the sun’s light back to Earth.

Beck said he hoped it would remind people to look past daily concerns and

face larger challenges like climate change. The “Humanity Star” fell out of orbit a couple months after the Janu-ary launch. Its life span was up to nine months.

Rocket Lab chose Virginia’s state-owned spaceport over U.S. finalists that included Alaska’s Pacific Space-port Complex and Cape Canaveral in Florida. Virginia officials said it could create 100 jobs as flights increase to once a month.

Currently, there are four companies that have developed six vehicles dedi-cated to launching small satellites, and dozens more are under development, according to Carlos Niederstrasser, an engineer with Northrop Grumman

who tracks the industry. His company also launches small satellites.

Other firms getting into this market include Virgin Orbit, a sister outfit to space-tourism company Virgin Galac-tic. It’s been testing a small rocket that is to launch satellites into space from a 747 jet flying at 35,000 feet. Chinese firms are also up and running.

Niederstrasser wrote in his 2018 industry survey that the market won’t be able to support most of the new companies. But he said it’s clear that the company’s founders and investors believe there’ll be room for at least some.

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