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JCPenney's holiday stretch wasn't as bad as some feared, an encouraging sign for the troubled retailer.Sales at stores open at least a year fell only 4 percent during the holiday quarter compared with a year earlier. Investors had expected worse.JCPenney said it got a boost from its women's clothing business and toys during the holidays. It posted a million profit for the quarter. JCPenney's stock jumped 27 percent Thursday. Its stock rebounded somewhat this year after falling under for the first time in the company's 90-year history in December, because of uncertainty about its long term future. It's currently trading around .57."This is not business as usual," CEO Jill Soltau told analysts on Thursday. "We are taking deliberate actions to improve."Soltau, who took over last year, previously pledged "quick action" to put JCPenney on the path to profitability. She installed a new management team and on Thursday brought in a new chief merchant from Target.But the picture for JCPenney remains grim: The company said it lost 5 million for the full year.The company plans to close 18 under-performing department stores in 2019, as well as nine home and furniture stores. But it still has more than 800 stores around the country.In a strategy shift, JCPenney recently said it would 1316

It's known as one of the hardest exams in the world: the test to become a master sommelier, something only 262 people in the world have achieved. 158

In a suburb nestled outside of Denver, Colorado, sits a mental health clinic practicing psychedelic psychotherapy."I wanted to live my life without the veil of fear in front of everything that I did, and up until coming here, that's how I was living," Aime¨¦ Kahl said.Kahl started attending psychotherapy sessions to relieve herself from living in a constant state of anxiety. She says she lived in fear that her husband might take his own life after his time in the military."Talk therapy can be helpful and useful... but only to a point. to truly heal, you have to move through it," Aime¨¦ said.Psychedelic psychotherapy is a means of help for people living with anxiety, depression or PTSD.Instead of covering up symptoms of mental health, Clinical Director Jen Fiser says the idea is for patients to face those symptoms and learn from them.In Colorado, cannabis and prescribed ketamine are the legal drugs used in psychedelic psychotherapy to access the subconscious.Fiser says the subconscious is where we often store trauma from our childhood, and we may not be able to overcome issues related to that trauma unless it's brought forward."We have responses that feel like little kids even though we're adults. That's because those responses are actually held in us as children, but when we have access to them through the subconscious, they can get new information," Fiser said.New information like how strong we are as humans, what defenses we have, how healthy relationships work, and assurances that we aren't in danger anymore."The symptoms go away on their own, because they're no longer necessary," Fiser said."It's been totally life-changing for me coming here," Aime¨¦ said.Aime¨¦ says she's able to reach the complex depths of her brain by tuning into her physical body as a guide.In this type of therapy, it's known as ¡®a wave¡¯, and patients can experience multiple waves in one sitting."You have like a cold, coldness that comes over you. Usually that signifies some kind of trauma is bubbling to the surface. Then there's a surge of emotion, and that for me is usually followed by remembering where maybe I had felt that emotion before and was not able to process it. And then after that happens, it's like this ¡®aha¡¯ moment and then you get warm," Aime¨¦ said.Aime¨¦ says what she felt in the first session is completely different from the last. But it's not over from there."It's not like a magic thing. You have to work through still what that was for you. You have to create new patterns of how you live without that control or without those things getting in the way," Aime¨¦ said.Though she claims the process is transformational, Aimee says she's thankful she has Fiser as her therapist to move through that space with her. Especially when dealing with an altered state of consciousness."If it's done in a therapeutic and a safe setting, it's actually something beneficial, but if it's done in a way that [the body] doesn't know what to do with that kind of emerging emotion or emerging memory, then people can get very scared and it can be destabilizing," Fiser said.Medical experts say potential side effects of psychedelics include dizziness, blurred vision, weakness and tremors while the drugs are active. They can also raise blood pressure. As Fiser mentioned, the main concern is not being able to handle distorted perceptions of time and space.Someone using a psychedelic should not drive for at least 24 hours."We require clients to get a ride home," Fiser said.Most importantly, recent research shows cannabis and ketamine aren't chemically addictive. That's one reason why the mental health practice is becoming more common.Currently, more than half of states across the country offer psychedelic therapy. Fiser believes that number will continue to grow, and there is even a possibility more hallucinogenic drugs like psilocybin, which comes from mushrooms, could be added to the mix."Oregon has an initiative where they're trying to allow psilocybin to be used therapeutically, and if that were to happen, we would be very interested in opening a clinic in Oregon because we would love to be able to use that," Fiser said.When it comes down to it, Aime¨¦ says if psychedelic therapy is saving lives like hers, she thinks it's proven its worth."We need more research. We need all of that, absolutely. But the fact is that these things are helping people... they are. And so of course it needs to be available everywhere," Aime¨¦ said.*************************************If you'd like to contact the journalist for this story, please email elizabeth.ruiz@scripps.com 4606

It is not news that Bugatti makes very expensive automobiles. A Bugatti Chiron, the brand's basic model, costs about million. Bugatti's latest creation, though, sets a new bar in price and exclusivity. Bugatti's La Voiture Noire cost €16.7 million, or almost million, including taxes. Before taxes, the car cost .5 million.According to Bugatti, La Voiture Noire is the most expensive new car ever sold and only one will be made. Bugatti did not reveal the identity of the buyer. It is someone with an enormous attachment to the Bugatti brand, the automaker said. It's also clearly someone with immense financial resources.Bugatti's new La Voiture Noire is designed to recall the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic of the 1930s. Only four of those cars were made and, today, they're among the most valuable cars in the world. They can be worth more than million, according to Hagerty Insurance, a company that tracks collector car values. One of those cars became known as "La Voiture Noire" which means simply, the black car. Only three are known to survive. The fourth seems to have disappeared shortly before the German invasion of France during World War II. Its whereabouts remain unknown.The Type 57 SC Atlantic was designed by Jean Bugatti, son of Bugatti founder Ettore Bugatti, at a time when the bodies for most high-end cars were created by separate body makers rather than by the automobile companies themselves. 1443

JACKSON, Miss. ¡ª A federal appeals court is keeping a block on a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions as early as six weeks ¡ª when many women may not even know they are pregnant. A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the decision Thursday. The appeals judges agreed with a district court judge who blocked the six-week ban from taking effect in 2019. The only abortion clinic in Mississippi sued the state soon after the law was signed by then-Gov. Phil Bryant. In December, the same appeals court kept a block on a separate Mississippi law to ban most abortions at 15 weeks.The decision comes as states with conservative-majority legislature race to place limits on abortions in the hopes that the Supreme Court with a newly-conservative majority will uphold the new laws.According to 823

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