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Local officials are putting one of the main streets to the University of Houston athletic facilities on a road diet, in the hopes that cutting down room for cars on Cullen Boulevard is better for campus and commuter life.

Harris County, Houston and UH are contributing to the project along Cullen from Interstate 45 to North MacGregor, narrowing the street to one lane in each direction south of Holman with a continual center turn lane. Along with drainage improvements that come from widening pipes below the street, crews will add 12-foot shared-use paths on each side of the street for pedestrians and bicyclists.

I think this makes it a really walkable street, Harris County Precinct One Commissioner Rodney Ellis said.

The total cost of the project, built in two phases, will be more than $22 million. Final details on when work will start and finish and exact costs will come after a contractor is chosen for the project and work can begin, officials said.

Work on Cullen follows other so-called road diets in the area where the space for vehicles is reduced to make room for pedestrians, bicyclists and others. In dense places where walking is more common, such as around the university campuses, more space for walkers is easy to justify. Traffic counts for Cullen south of Holman also showed it could be a one-lane street with a shared turn lane.

Why build over-sized infrastructure when it is not needed, said Amar Mohite, director of planning and infrastructure for Ellis county office.

Cullen, along with Cleburne near the Texas Southern University campus, are being reformed with $15 million each from Ellis office, part of a partnership with city and university officials to address issues with safer access to cycling paths and flooding woes.

In a lot of ways, Third Ward, which I consider this part of, was overlooked, Ellis said of previous efforts to upgrade streets and drainage.

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Along with Ellis commitment, Houston will fund $4 million and the university will contribute $3.5 million, officials said.

These kinds of projects are difficult to put together, UH Chancellor Renu Khator said, noting it is among the most significant projects undertaken cooperatively with local governments.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner credited Ellis with spurring many of the needed improvements with his $30 million offering.

But for their investment this project would not be taking place, Turner said.

Cooperating on Cullen, however, requires some complex coordination. The street must be open at all times because of the bustling campus around it. During high-traffic activities, notably sporting events, work will wait or grind to a halt to handle the surge in travelers to football and basketball games.

When the project is completed, Ellis said he expects the street to be a showpiece for the campus, setting it apart,

You will think when youre going down Cullen Boulevard that you are in a park, Ellis said.

Students, busily moving around the campus, had less lofty aims. Many said an end to the large puddles that can collect for days would be welcome, along with wider sidewalks and more room for cyclists.

We dont need all the space for cars, Henry Wallings said, acknowledging the streets can jam as students flood out of the garages.

Day-to-day, many students said their needs were simpler.

I just want to cross the street without waiting two minutes after I press the button, Marco Gehlot said.

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"Edison," Random House, by Edmund Morris

The late Edmund Morris, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer known for his willingness to brush aside the norms of his genre if it suited his narrative ends, does it again in his final book: a fresh look at Thomas Alva Edison, perhaps America's most prolific and consequential inventor.

Morris, who died in May at age 78, opens "Edison" conventionally enough with a prologue highlighting the inventor's world-changing accomplishments. Starting in his teens as a precocious telegraph operator, the man known as "the Wizard of Menlo Park" invented and patented nearly 1,100 machines, systems and electrical devices until his death in 1931 at the age of 84. Beginning with lower Manhattan in 1882, Edison lit up entire cities using long-burning incandescent lightbulbs and electrical dynamos. He invented the phonograph and a host of other sound devices that brought recorded voices and music into living rooms and cinemas. Besides those signature accomplishments, Edison was responsible for, among many other things, the first universal stock ticker, movie camera, alkaline reversible battery, the first industrial research and development laboratory (at Menlo Park, New Jersey), even the world's biggest rock crusher, invented while spending years on one of his least successful ventures trying to mine iron ore from a western New Jersey mountain.

He did all this on a lifelong diet consisting mainly of plain milk and a brutal work regimen of 18 hours a day, often at the expense of his personal life with his two wives and six children. Nearly deaf since age 12, Edison found a blessing in the silence as a way to shut out distractions. And while he relished and promoted his worldwide fame, he never cared for labels like "genius" or "wizard."

"I never had an idea in my life," he once told a reporter. "I've got no imagination. ... My so-called inventions already existed in the environment I took them out. ... The industrious one coaxes it from the environment; the drone lets it lie there while he goes off to the baseball game. The 'genius' hangs around his laboratory day and night."

After this introductory section, Morris' narrative takes a highly unorthodox turn by describing the inventor's later years in the opening chapters. He then proceeds backward, decade by decade, culminating with Edison's younger years when many of his most familiar and consequential inventions in electricity and sound replication occurred.

Morris' willingness to breach the organizational norms of biography may not surprise readers familiar with his even bolder previous work, "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan," in which Morris included himself as a made-up Zelig-like character who "knew" the former president back to his youthful days. He claimed this device gave him a way to share insights he had gained about the hard-to-penetrate former president. But the resulting blend of fact and fiction in such a high- profile biography caused a ruckus among many critics and historians.

Morris never directly addresses why he presents Edison's life in reverse chronological order. But he drops a possible clue in his endnotes by asserting that previous Edison biographies offered only scant details about his later life. Whatever the reason, Morris' decision to begin his book with lesser known details about the aging Edison's inventions and exploits makes for a rousing start. Edison tried during the 1920s to help free America from its dependency on foreign rubber in the early auto age by trying to identify plants capable of producing enough commercially viable rubber that would thrive in American soil (he never did). We also learn about Edison's many inventions in support of the Allied cause during World War I despite his personal pacificism.

There were episodes, miscalculations and loose-tongued pronouncements, especially late in life, that further humanize Edison's story. He made a losing bet (at least at the time) on battery-operated cars versus the internal combustion engine as the automobile age dawned. He caused international shock waves by questioning the existence of God or an afterlife. The ultimate empiricist, Edison didn't hide his contempt for academic scientists whom he considered impractical "the bungleheaded fraternity," as he called them.

Morris' genre-bending biography of Edison is a briskly written, fact-packed work that, like its subject, is also highly illuminating.

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Researchers believe that stress and cardiovascular health are linked in some way, but the association is not yet fully clear. A large-scale new study has recently delved into the effects of a unique kind of stress.

According to the American Heart Association (AHA), stress may affect factors that increase the risk of heart disease, including blood pressure and cholesterol level.

One major source of stress is the workplace.

In fact, a 2015 review of 27 studies that appeared in the journal Current Cardiology Reports found an association between work stress and a "moderately elevated risk of incident coronary heart disease and stroke."

However, one type of stress that researchers often leave out of studies is that felt by a person who needs to simultaneously balance the demands of work and family life.

Examining this in more depth may eventually help health professionals better identify and treat cardiovascular issues. This is according to the authors of the new study, which now appears in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Cardiovascular diseases are currently the leading cause of death worldwide, say the World Health Organization (WHO).

Health professionals can determine people's cardiovascular health score. Based on seven metrics including diet, blood pressure, and physical activity levels, the researchers who conducted the new study used this score to investigate how work and family stress can impact heart health.

According to the study paper, work-family conflict refers to "a form of inter-role conflict in which the role pressures from the work and family domains are mutually incompatible in some respect."

More than 11,000 workers ages 3574, from six state capitals in Brazil, made up the study's sample. The participants came from a variety of educational and work backgrounds, and the study included a slightly higher number of women.

Each participant filled out a questionnaire to determine how their job affected their family life, and how their family life impacted their work.

The researchers calculated the participants' cardiovascular health scores using a combination of clinical examinations, laboratory test results, and self-reported questionnaires.

The analysis showed a distinct sex difference. Men reported less work interference with family and more time for personal care and leisure. Both sexes reported a similar amount of family interference with work.

However, women appeared to be worse off. Those who reported a number of frequent work-family conflicts had lower cardiovascular health scores.

"This was interesting because in our previous study, job stress alone affected men and women almost equally," says senior study author Dr. Itamar Santos, a professor at the University of So Paulo in Brazil.

There could be a simple explanation as to why this is the case, and it has to do with traditional gender roles. "You feel the stress to fulfill the gender roles, and I think women still feel more of a need to have that nurturing home life," says Dr. Gina Price Lundberg, clinical director of the Emory Women's Heart Center in Atlanta, GA.

"Men are helping more than ever, but I think working women still feel the stress of trying to do it all." She goes on to describe the study as "well-designed," due to its large sample size, the diverse background of the participants, and the balance of men and women.

However, certain elements of the study relied on the participants' own thoughts and feelings, which may have biased the results.

What this study has dipped into is the need for a good work-life balance. However, this is easier said than done in many cases.

Dr. Santos hopes that the new findings will encourage workplaces to introduce stress reducing initiatives and encourage doctors to look for signs of stress when examining people.

"We're not going to eliminate stress," Dr. Santos says. "But we should learn how to live with it to not have so many bad consequences."

Whether that would be through measures such as at-home meditation or employer-led strategies is yet to be determined.

Dr. Santos and team are now planning to follow the same participants for up to a decade to gain further insight.

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At 39, Venus Williams has now been a professional athlete for 25 years. During that time, she's won Wimbledon five times and the U.S. Open twice, as she and her sister, Serena, have redefined the sport of women's tennis.

Meanwhile, Williams is also an entrepreneur who serves as the CEO of her own interior design firm as well as the athletic apparel line EleVen. Williams and her sister are also part-owners of the Miami Dolphins, having bought a minority stake in 2009.

Despite being one of the oldest players on the Women's Tennis Association tour in 2019, Williams has said she's not yet thinking about retirement. That means the tennis icon's daily schedule is a juggling act packed with business meetings scheduled around her grueling tennis practice and workouts.

Here are the main takeaways from the daily wellness routine that Williams relies on to keep her at a peak performance level.

"My daily wellness routine involves a ton of tennis, a ton of gym [time]," Williams recently told CNBC Make It at an event to promote her partnership with Clorox for cold and flu season. In 2017, Williams said she spends up to three hours a day practicing on the tennis court, plus another two hours in the gym.

In order to keep up with that schedule, Williams aims to get eight hours of sleep every night, she tells CNBC Make It. "Especially after you train, you need those hours," she says.

Ideally, Williams hits the hay by 11:30 p.m., she says, which would allow her to start her day around 7:30 a.m. Williams says she tries to never stay up past 1 a.m.

"Anytime before 1 a.m., then I'm winning," she says of her sleep schedule.

Sleep is essential for Williams to have the energy to get through day after day of spending a few hours on the tennis court, followed by a couple of hours in the gym.

"It's like 'Groundhog Day,'" Williams says of her in-season workout schedule. "The alarm rings again, you're like 'I'm back on the court!'"

Eating healthy may sound simple, but Williams can attest it's easier said than done.

"I just got off tour and the week after, for like four or five days, I ate so bad," Williams tells CNBC Make It. "I felt so sick from eating badly, eating stuff I'm not supposed to eat."

Her junk foods of choice when she's on a break from training? Pancakes and honey buns, Williams says.

When she's sticking to her healthy diet, though, Williams has tried to follow a raw vegan diet for the past few years after her doctor told her it could help relieve some of the symptoms of Sjgren's syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that can lead to fatigue and joint pain. Williams told Insider this week that she now sometimes eats cooked foods like potatoes, rice and lentils to supplement her typical training diet of fresh, raw produce.

"I do a lot of recovery, as well. Physiotherapy and massage," Williams says of the recovery portion of her daily routine.

But her favorite recovery exercise involves a lot of stretching, which she says is "actually quite rejuvenating."

"I like to take a lot of time to stretch It feels amazing [and] I actually think it produces really great endorphins," Williams says.

Typically, she stretches for up to 10 minutes after tennis practice, "depending on how much time I have." After working out at the gym, she stretches another "hopefully, 20 minutes, 30 minutes."

In fact, when The New York Times asked Williams in August about how she's adapted her routine at this stage in her career, she replied "maybe I just stretch more."

"If I could, I would stretch, like 30-45 minutes," Williams says. "But, sometimes I don't have as much time as I'd like."

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Netflix is one of the largest streaming services in the world, with a wealth of original content as well as popular movies and TV shows from other studios and production companies.

While fans flock to Netflix to see shows such as Stranger Things and Orange Is the New Black, Netflix has also ruffled a few feathers at the decision to cancel certain shows. Read on to see which cancellations hit fans the hardest and how Netflix decides which shows to cancel.

Santa Clarita Diet premiered on Netflix in early 2017 and was an immediate hit with critics and fans. The show featured Drew Barrymore in a career-boosting role, and Timothy Olyphant, a longtime television favorite.

For two years, the show drew in fans left and right, the unique storyline and characters setting it apart from everything else. Still, the show was ultimately to be short-lived.

In April 2019, showrunners for Santa Clarita Diet revealed that the show had gotten canceled. The backlash was swift, with fans of the show starting a Twitter campaign to try and bring it back, or at least get some clarity as to why the show had gotten the ax.

After all, the Santa Clarita Diet had received excellent reviews from critics as well as fans during the three seasons that were released on Netflix. Producers of the show thanked fans for their vocal outpouring of support after the cancellation notice, saying that it meant so much to them, but Netflix didnt crack, and it seems as though the Santa Clarita Diet has really gone away for good.

One show that didnt quite last as long as Santa Clarita Diet, but that definitely made a huge impact, was Sense8. The show, which debuted in 2015, followed a group of strangers who start to experience a bizarre emotional link.

Sense8 was hailed as a masterpiece by fans, who loved the diverse casting and complex storylines. Still, it was unceremoniously canceled after two seasons, sending fans into an outrage.

The OA also lasted a mere two seasons, when fans believed that it deserved much more. The OA was an original series that follows the story of a blind woman who disappeared seven years ago only to have her sight restored miraculously.

Unique and compelling, The OA earned a devoted audience of fans during the first two seasons which only made it that much harder when Netflix canceled the series in the summer of 2019.

Fans are still holding out hope for these, and a few other original shows to possibly make a comeback sometime in the future.

While Netflix doesnt reveal the specific reasons as to why they cancel certain shows, there are some factors to consider. If the number of viewers drops dramatically from season to season for a show, its a pretty strong contender for cancellation.

Theres also the matter of cost if it costs more money to produce a series and the numbers and buzz over it just arent totaling up, Netflix could decide to drop the ax.

Regardless of the reasoning, fans arent taking the recent string of cancellations lying down.

The hashtag #CancelNetflix has been trending, with fans voicing their outrage over all of the original shows that Netflix has canceled. Many fans even stated that they reached out directly to Netflix for clarification over the cancellations, but so far, no response.

With several new streaming services entering the market over the next several months, including the highly-anticipated Disney service, Netflix might have to step up its game and work harder to keep all their viewers happy.

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When a 46-year-old man was pulled over for erratic driving and found to have a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, neither police nor doctors believed him when he said he hadn't been drinking.

But it turns out he was telling the truth he was later diagnosed with a rare disorder called auto-brewery syndrome or gut fermentation syndrome, in which yeast inside the gut converts carbs into alcohol, according to the recent case study in BMJ Open Gastroenterology.

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The patient's journey to the diagnosis took about six years, tracing back to 2011, when he took a course of antibiotics for a hand injury. Afterwards, which he started to experience "brain fog," depression, unusual moodiness, and memory problems. He didn't see a doctor for treatment of those symptoms until 2014, when he was prescribed antidepressants, which didn't help.

His symptoms became increasingly dangerous, including a fall that caused bleeding inside his brain, and the apparent drunk driving incident.

The man finally underwent medical testing that revealed his gut was home to a colony of fungi, including Saccharomyces cerevisiae,more commonly known as brewer's yeast.These microscopic critters consume carbohydrates for energy instead of oxygen, producing ethanol, or the type of alcohol we drink, as a byproduct.

Although drunkenness is easy to spot at a bar, symptoms of alcohol intoxication can be much more subtle in people who haven't been drinking. It can appear as moodiness, confusion, difficulty focusing, lack of physical coordination, and memory problems.

Currently, there are no standard criteria to diagnose or treat auto-brewery syndrome, according to the authors of the case study, making it even harder to tell when patients have the disorder.

But diagnosing it correctly is critical because brushing it off as intoxication via beer, wine, or liquor can can lead to dangerous consequences. For example, people with it can get behind the wheel or put themselves in other hazardous situations, not realizing they're drunk.

The syndrome can also cause a lethal level of drunkenness:When reintroducing carbs to his diet as a part of treatment, the patient in the case study had several recurring episodes of the disorder, including one with a life-threatening blood alcohol level of .40, or more than four times the legal limit. That amount of alcohol in your system can cause vomiting, inability to walk, loss of consciousness, and even death due to respiratory arrest.

"Any patient with an elevated blood alcohol level who denies alcohol ingestion should be treated with empathy and compassion," one reporturged.

Previous cases of auto-brewery syndrome have reportedly been caused by Saccharomyces, as well as a species of Candida fungus and at least two different types of bacteria. But it's not clear exactly what allows these microbes to take hold inside a healthy digestive system.

Other reports of auto-brewery syndrome have been linked to other illnesses like Crohn's disease and diabetes.

Researchers believe the cause of the current case study can be traced back to the man's antibiotic course in 2011. They suspect the drugs somehow interfered with the man's healthy gut bacteria, allowing an overgrowth of fungus in his gut. The case study also noted he worked in construction, and was potentially exposed to mold while working on water-damaged buildings.

Once diagnosed, the man was treated several times with anti-fungal medication and orders to maintain a strict no-carb diet until the problem resolved. Doctors also administered probiotics to improve his gut bacteria, which worked, further confirming that the body's microbiome is somehow involved in protecting from fungal invaders.

The disorder finally abated and the man was able to gradually reintroduce carbs into his diet. He has been symptom-free for over a year, the case study reported.

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Few things make us happier than seeing our favorite celebs in mom mode on social media, especially when they share family photos of themselves posing with their little ones. So we truly squealed when Jessica Simpson shared a selfie with her daughter, Birdie, showing off their adorable matching dimples.

On October 17th, Simpson posted a black-and-white Instagram selfie of herself and Birdie hanging out in their comfy clothes. (We kind of cant deal with Birdies pineapple onesiehow cute is this child!?) Simpson pointed out that Birdie is her dimple double, thanks to the identical dimples theyre both sporting on their cheeks.

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The mom-daughter duo look so much alike, were seeing double. Okay, not really, but we do love how they share the exact same smile, and that Birdie has mastered the art of the selfie before turning 7 months old.

Birdie was born in March, but shes already a social media superstar, with Simpson frequently posting photos of her along with pics of her elder children, Maxwell and Ace, and her husband, Eric Johnson.

It certainly looks like theyre loving life as a family of five, as evidenced by Simpsons Instagram feed, which is chock full of sweet group shots. Here are a few of our favorites since Birdie made her big debut into the world back in the spring:

Ugh, we love these photos so much. Keep em coming, Jess! Were ready to double-tap away.

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My father, Bert Hooper, who has died aged 102, was a self-educated working-class intellectual and a conscientious objector during the second world war.

In that conflict, serving in the Non-Combatant Corps (NCC), he threw incendiary bombs off the roofs of Liverpool factories and pumped smoke on to Cumbrias beaches at night to deceive German planes. At the same time he took up the opportunity of higher education that would never have been available to him otherwise.

Berts father, Albert Hooper, a London cab driver, was fighting in Belgium during the first world war when his son was born in Mitcham, south-west London, to his wife, Ellen (nee Elliott), a chocolate factory worker.

Leaving Western Road secondary school at 13, Bert learned most of what he knew from the books in Mitcham library, and as a teenager became interested in yoga, vegetarianism and HG Wells.

He began his working life as an office boy at a local builders merchants, Hall & Co, in 1931, and was promoted to transport manager there in 1939, based in Romford, east London.

When he was called up that same year, he found that he could not join the Royal Army Medical Corps as he had wished, as bearing arms was a requirement. Instead, he signed up with the NCC, where he was surrounded by those with strong religious and secular philosophical beliefs.

After the war he returned to Hall & Co, where he rose to become a directors assistant. The company was eventually taken over by Ready Mixed Concrete and in 1980 he retired, just a few months short of his 50th anniversary with the business.

Thereafter he and his wife, Peggy (nee Cain), whom he had married in 1948, enjoyed 20 years of retirement involving family, friends and France until Peggy died in 2003.

Bert had strong beliefs, but he did not inflict them on others. A committed europhile until the end, he stuck to a diet of brown bread, watercress and walnuts, devoured books on history and philosophy, loved Mozart, drank red wine and walked.

After Peggys death he concentrated on pursuing his interests in art, music and playing bridge, the last of which he kept up even while in a nursing home for the last three years of his life.

He is survived by me and my brother, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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Nothing says romance duringHalloweenlike an adorable couples costume, such as Peter Pan and Wendy or Popeye and Olive Oil or a murderous clown demon and their victim.

WhilePennywisefrom It, the movie adaptation of Stephen Kings chilling classic, doesn't necessarily inspire romance to most, one horror-loving couple in Oklahoma felt appearing as the terrifying dancing clown and one of his young victims would be the perfect way to ring in the Halloween season.

Maci Ann Tate, who created the uncanny enlarged forehead, red wig, and shoes through a lot of "trial and error," started to design her Pennywise costume in January to attend horror conventions with her boyfriend, Jonathan Krell.

Maci Ann Tate dressed as Pennywise from 'It.' (Photo: Sarah Bergeron)

"The idea for the photo shoot, in particular, came from how long I have been putting this [costume] together. I figured Ive invested so much time and money into the costume and practicing [the makeup, I] might as well make lasting memories from it," Tate tells Yahoo Lifestyle. She says Krell is "definitely my match. We are both into the same things, and convincing him to play the role [of Georgie] didnt take much."

Maci Ann Tate and her boyfriend, Jonathan Krell, dressed as Pennywise and Georgie from 'It.' (Photo: Sarah Bergeron)

Tate turned to her friend, Sarah Bergeron, to help her document her vision.

"I picked Pennywise as he seemed to be the most challenging of costumes to do and looks as theatrical as possible," Tate says, adding that applying her makeup took over two hours.

"I was blown away when we met at her house before the shoot," shares Bergeron, who tells Yahoo Lifestyle that this was her first photo shoot besides the ones with her child. Bergeron added that when she arrived at Tates home on the day of the shoot, her friend ran out to her car and completely terrified her with the final look.

While frightening her friend was one thing, Tate did take precautions as to not scare any passersby.

"I contacted The Village, the small suburb of Oklahoma City that I live in, on their non-emergency line, along with citizens on the suburb's Facebook page," Tate says. "[I asked] them to not call the police."

Maci Ann Tate dressed as Pennywise from 'It.' (Photo: Sarah Bergeron)

To her surprise, the post resulted in some community members visiting the local park to watch Tate and Krell reenact a key scene from It, where Pennywise tricks his first victim, Georgie.

"The mood of the shoot was amazing, laughter from all around," Tate says. "People walking their dogs throughout the park definitely were shocked and surprised, but immediately followed with laughter. It was really cool."

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President Donald Trump and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump are helping to celebrate the launch of the Louis Vuitton Rochambeau Ranch in Keene, Texas. LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault and other senior LVMH execs, including Louis Vuitton chairman and CEO Michael Burke, are also scheduled to welcome the Trumps.

The former womens lifestyle-brand entrepreneur went business chic for the occasion. She chose a white jacket with a wide collar over cropped black trousers, all paired with a large black leather Chanel bag.

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Alongside her husband, Jared Kushner, she stepped onto the tarmac in black suede pointed-toe stilettos.

Yesterday, she shared the news of their upcoming arrival, tweeting, LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault Pledged for 1,000 NEW opportunities for local artisans & leather craftsmen.

The jobs creation is part of Trumps Pledge to Americas Workers initiative, which aims to expand education and training opportunities.

This marks the companys third workshop in the United States; the first two are located in California. LVMH aims to create 1,000 jobs at the large Texas workshop over the next five years.

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