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☆ World War II veteran, 100, marries 96-year-old fiancée near Normandy’s D-Day beaches
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Story The Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But World War II veteran Harold Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin proved that love is eternal as they tied the knot Saturday inland of the D-Day beaches in Normandy, France. Their respective ages — he’s 100, she’s a youngster of just 96 — made their nuptials an almost double-century celebration. “(The town of) Carentan was happy to host your wedding, and us, your wedding dinner,” he told the couple. Harold Terens and his 96-year-old bride, Jeanne Swerlin Terens, wave to a crowd following their wedding. On D-Day, Terens helped repair planes returning from France so they could rejoin the battle.

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☆ Like Nora Ephron, With a British Twist
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Katie J. M. Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

GOOD MATERIAL, by Dolly AldertonAndy, the 35-year-old struggling comedian who narrates most of Dolly Alderton’s new novel, “Good Material,” has been freshly dumped by his ex, Jen, for mysterious reasons. Like Rob in Nick Hornby’s “High Fidelity,” an obvious inspiration, Andy knows his relationship had its problems. In the process, maybe he can get to the bottom of why the rest of his life has derailed, too. His friends won’t meet for impromptu drinks because they have to get up early to take care of their children. In “Good Material,” as in all of her writing, Alderton excels at portraying nonromantic intimate relationships with tenderness and authenticity.

Persons: Dolly Alderton Andy, Dolly Alderton’s, ”, Jen, Rob, Nick Hornby’s “, Andy, “, ” can’t, he’s, Julian Assange, won’t, there’s Jen, Sophie, Alderton Organizations: New York Times Locations: ”, U.S, London

☆ The brilliantly bizarre world of ‘Candy, Andy and the Bearandas’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( Zoe Whitfield | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —To immerse yourself in the pages of new book “Candy, Andy & The Bearandas” is to delve into a surreal world that riffs on the peculiar while invoking the familiar. Alan Dein/Anderson Entertainment/Courtesy Four Corners Books“It’s very strange, dad never once mentioned ‘Candy’,” Jamie Anderson, the creator’s son, told CNN in an interview. But it was only after he died (in 2012), somebody sent me an eBay listing (of a “Candy” comic) and said, ‘did you know this is one of your dad’s as well?’. “They look like a parody in a way, when you (compare) ‘Candy and Andy’ and ‘Thunderbirds,’ you can scarcely believe they were by the same company.”Some scenes feature the Candy and Andy mannequins with real people. Alan Dein/Anderson Entertainment/Courtesy Four Corners BooksIndeed, the two are worlds apart.

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☆ America’s favorite Halloween candy is chocolate
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Christopher Hickey | Will Mullery | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Americans can’t get enough of Halloween candy. Halloween candy sales grew 14% between 2021 and 2022 and this year is on track to be the same. And in the world of chocolate, milk chocolate is king: more people bought milk chocolate last Halloween season than all other non-chocolate candy combined. But while per unit sales of chocolate candy have remained largely stable compared with five years ago, non-chocolate candy is the growth market. Americans bought roughly 7.8% more packages of non-chocolate candy last Halloween season compared to 2018, while package sales of chocolate shrank by 2.5%.

Persons: “ It’s, Beth Kimmerle, “, ”, ” Kimmerle, Susan Benjamin, it’s, Albanese, Kimmerle, Candy, Benjamin, don’t Organizations: Bear Cubs Locations: West Virginia

☆ Two strangers moved into an apartment in Prague. Then they fell in love
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

Marcus was studying in his bedroom in the Prague apartment when Mandy’s message popped up on his laptop. “It was a super-nice apartment in one of the coolest neighborhoods in Prague,” Marcus tells CNN Travel. Arriving in PragueMandy moved into Marcus' apartment in Prague's vibrant Vinohrady area. Here's one of Marcus and Mandy's first photos together, taken in their Prague apartment in 2020. “The night before he left, I’m crying and I’m like, ‘Oh, gosh, you’re leaving and I’m so sad,’” recalls Mandy.

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☆ In 1960s New York City, a Lost Young Woman Longs to Be Known
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Alice Carrière | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

NOTHING SPECIAL, by Nicole FlatteryIn the Irish writer Nicole Flattery’s exquisitely disorienting debut novel, “Nothing Special,” Mae, the daughter of an alcoholic waitress, spends her youth in 1960s New York City riding up and down department store escalators, getting nowhere except deeper into her own dissatisfaction. What she does do is observe, and the one thing that is clear is the rapacity of her speculation. She subjects her world and the people who populate it to a ravenous metamorphosing, a proxy for the closeness she craves and fears. As she listens, she grows closer to the disembodied voices, and to the revealing silences in between, than to anyone else around her. “It felt like my life had been reduced to nothing but the tapes, that I no longer recognized the sound of my own voice,” Mae narrates.

Persons: Nicole, Nicole Flattery’s, ” Mae, ”, Mae, “, —, Andy Warhol’s, she’s Locations: New York City

☆ Kit Kat Cereal is hitting US shelves
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

General Mills is betting a lot of people do, as it is launching Kit Kat Cereal nationwide beginning this month at $5.69 for a standard-size box. A limited edition Spider-Verse Cereal – red “spiderberry” puffs with blue and white marshmallows – will be selling for a less expensive $2.99 in stores. General Mills is also launching miniature Lucky Charms and Cocoa Puffs, adding to its miniature Trix, both of which are priced at $5.69. They could either be eaten dry or be mixed in with cold water to create instant milk and cereal. Cereal sales surged to over $9 billion in 2020 or up 9% from 2019, as millions worked from home, according to data from NielsenIQ.

☆ How M&M’s is making the most of its spokescandies controversy
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Given the outsize attention, some think M&M’s announcement is a PR stunt to hype its upcoming Super Bowl commercial. M&M’s relatively subtle changes aimed at inclusivity didn’t seem like they were designed to spark much controversy, if any. At the Washington Post, for example, an opinion piece declared “the M&M’S changes aren’t progressive. “In the last year, we’ve made some changes to our beloved spokescandies,” M&M’s said. “The original colorful cast of M&M’s spokescandies are, at present, pursuing other personal passions,” Wesley said.

☆ M&M’s Ditches ‘Spokescandies’ for Maya Rudolph After Backlash Over New Look
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The brand said it believes Maya Rudolph will ‘champion the power of fun to create a world where everyone feels they belong.’The M&M characters are taking a break a year after their new looks sparked controversy. The Mars Inc. brand said Monday that its candy characters—known as “spokescandies”—will begin an “indefinite pause” from their duties. Comedian Maya Rudolph will take their place as the brand’s spokesperson and will star in the candy’s upcoming advertisement at Super Bowl LVII in February, the brand said.

After controversy following its mascot refresh last year, M&M's announced Monday it is taking an "indefinite pause" from using its candy-coated mascots, saying the "last thing M&M’s wanted" was to be "polarizing." M&M’s said in a tweet that it is instead tapping actor Maya Rudolph as its spokesperson, someone the brand said "America can agree on." He made similar complaints about the candies last January after M&M’s announced a new, inclusive look. “But now we get it — even a candy’s shoes can be polarizing," the brand wrote. Others speculated the announcement could be a publicity stunt made ahead of the Super Bowl, which takes place on Feb. 12.

☆ Analysis: This guy made $150,000 a day, because Corporate America is out of control
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

I’m seeing the words “recession,” “crypto,” “debt ceiling,” the “M&M’s spokescandy scandals…”And yet, I am bound my duty as a journalist not to shy away from the hard candy shell news. I know, I know, you’re all tired of the media’s relentless coverage of the M&M Spokescandy Saga, aka the Culture War Battle that is shaping social discourse in the Year of Our Lord 2023. The company claims it didn’t think anyone would notice when it released the changes to the characters’ appearance. “We definitely didn’t think it would break the internet,” it said in a press release that frankly reeked of champagne and high fives. Oh you didn’t think anyone would notice, M&M marketing wizards?

☆ M&M’S says its taking a ‘pause’ from polarizing spokescandies
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“In the last year, we’ve made some changes to our beloved spokescandies,” the chocolate candy brand said in a statement Monday. The Green M&M, pre-makeover, is seen here in her go-go boots. Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/AP“[Rudolph] will serve as the brand’s new spokesperson, allowing the colorful cast of M&M’S spokescandies to step away and embrace a new path to pursue other passions,” An M&M’S spokesperson told CNN in an email. A petition to “keep the green M&M sexy” garnered over 20,000 signatures. Purple was recently deployed as part of a limited-edition pack of purple, brown and green M&M’S — the colors of the female spokescandies — in honor of International Women’s Day.

☆ M&M’s new packaging sparks ‘culture war’ outrage
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —M&M’S is making a statement with its latest candy pack, which features an all-female set of characters — including Purple, its newest addition. Purple, the “spokescandy” announced last year (and the first new M&M’S character in a decade), is a purple peanut M&M. An all-female M&M pack is now on sale. The all-female pack quickly sparked “culture wars” outrage on right-wing media, notably at Fox News. “Now we know for certain that M&M’S is a cultural icon.”M&M’S has no plans to restore Green’s look.

☆ U.S. blacklists Chinese firm selling video surveillance tech to Iran
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Dan De Luce | Dan De Luce Is A Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

“The Chinese Communist Party is weaponizing technology companies to further its geopolitical goals,” Rubio said in an email. Human rights advocates and lawmakers are concerned Iranian authorities could use Tiandy’s video surveillance technology to help squelch a wave of anti-regime protests in the country. The Biden administration last month effectively banned the sale or import of new equipment from a number of Chinese surveillance firms. China has strongly rejected U.S. criticism of Chinese tech companies and of its treatment of Uyghurs or other Muslim minorities in the country. But he said it was “absurd” to portray Chinese technology as a security threat.

So on a Saturday night in February he stood in his Aunt Brandy’s doorway, rocking on his heels, telling her he was heading out. Sincere lived with his aunt in a second-floor apartment on the city’s South Side, in a neighborhood of small single-family homes and brick two-flats. “I didn’t do anything to anybody.”Every day, Sincere went on odysseys, roaming the surrounding blocks. He rang bells and knocked on doors, asking to do odd jobs. But he and Anyah grew up together on the same block, and Sincere sometimes spent the night there.

☆ Chinese firm selling surveillance tech to Iran comes under scrutiny
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Dan De Luce | Dan De Luce Is A Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Tiandy is one of several Chinese companies at the center of China’s vast domestic surveillance network, experts and human rights advocates say. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, said the embassy could not speak on behalf of Chinese private companies. Last week, the Biden administration effectively banned the sale or import of new equipment from a number of Chinese surveillance firms but Tiandy Technologies was not named. Maya Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch, said Chinese surveillance technology tends to be less expensive and more attractive for some authoritarian governments. Like other video technology companies in China, Tiandy’s software includes an ethnicity tracking tool that supposedly can digitally identify someone’s race.

☆ 5 tips for taming travel tension over the holidays
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Dana Santas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

So, whether you’re driving to Grandma’s for Thanksgiving or flying to see family in another country, try the five tips below to reduce stress and tension so you can enjoy the holidays. Holiday travel can cause tension, but you can ease stress with strategies like mindful breathing and walking breaks. Stretch out the tensionLots of sitting during travel also means compressed side waist muscles, overused hip flexors and tight low-back muscles. In addition to changing your relationship with gravity to relieve tension, it’s important to get enough sleep. Using the five tips above will help keep travel tension at bay and your holiday spirits high.

☆ 'A Christmas Story Christmas': Ralphie returns in first teaser for HBO Max sequel
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

On Monday, the first teaser for upcoming sequel, “A Christmas Story Christmas,” was released, and it promises to be a nostalgic trip down memory lane. The new film follows a now-grown Ralphie Parker, the blond protagonist again played by actor Peter Billingsley. The teaser ends with a closeup of the adult Ralphie, still blue-eyed and bespectacled, as he smiles for the camera. “A Christmas Story Christmas” premieres on HBO Max on November 17. (CNN and HBO Max are both part of the same parent company, Warner Bros.

☆ Brandy says she’s ‘following doctors’ orders’ amid report of a health scare
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Ariana Brockington | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Brandy is speaking out after reports that she suffered a health scare. On Oct. 12, TMZ, citing anonymous law enforcement sources, reported that the 43-year-old musician had been taken to a Los Angeles hospital after emergency medical services responded to a call at her home. A few hours after the news broke, Brandy posted an update about her health on her Instagram story. “To my beloved fam, friends, and starz thank you for sending love and light my way,” the statement said. Earlier this year, Brandy channeled the late legendary singer during the NFC championship game between the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers.

☆ Fact Check-Statue of Liberty photos do not prove sea level rise is insignificant
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-04 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

However, sea level rise to date has already been shown to have contributed to catastrophic damage done by storms and flooding, and accelerating sea level rise projected over the next century is expected to worsen the problem. “No one is calling the sea level rise experienced so far catastrophic, but global sea level rise has accelerated since about 1970 and will continue to accelerate until global temperatures are stabilized. Sea level rise is computed using monthly or annual averages to avoid this confusion,” he said (here). The analyses forecast accelerating sea level rise in the region, with a possible rise of about 2 feet to as much as 9 feet by 2100. Two side-by-side images of the Statue of Liberty are not evidence of the degree of sea level rise, or that sea level rise to date has had no catastrophic impact.

☆ Campania de imunizare mobilă continuă. Unde vor staționa troleibuzul și autobuzul în zilele de sâmbătă și duminică
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-12 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Unde vor staționa troleibuzul și autobuzul în zilele de sâmbătă și duminicăAutoritățile municipale au emis o notă informativă prin care informează chișinăuienii despre activitatea celor două centre mobile de vaccinare, troleibuzul și autobuzul, în zilele de sâmbătă și duminică curent. În ziua de sâmbătă, 12 iunie, troleibuzul se va afla în sectorul Botanica pe bulevardul Dacia 44, lângă „Andy’s Pizza”. Autobuzul va merge în comuna Trușeni pe strada Ştefan cel Mare 1, lângă centrul comercial „Zurzulea”. Amintim că la punctele mobile de imunizare oricine își poate administra vaccinul, indiferent de viza de reședință și locul de trai. Cetățenii au posibilitatea de a se imuniza la cele două puncte de vaccinare mobile, până la sfârșitul lunii iunie.

Persons: Ştefan, Mare, Tudor Busuioc, . Locations: Republica Moldova

Joburi vacante pentru adolescenți și studenți fără experiență. Echipa #diez a selectat câteva posturi vacante pentru tineri și le-a clasificat după specificul jobului. Magazin Orange or. Magazin Orange or. Magazin Orange or.

Persons: MolTrend, Darwin, Andy’s, Călcător, jobs Organizations: Studio Moderna, Simplex, Orange, . Locations: Edineț, Dondușeni, . Bălți, Nisporeni, Leova, Orhei

☆ Lunch Box Delivery: Andy’s începe livrarea prânzurilor acasă și la birou
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-29 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Pentru toți cei care lucrează de acasă, dar și pentru cei care merg deja la birou, Andy’s lansează un nou serviciu pe 28 aprilie – livrarea lunch box-urilor. Avem și supă de pui, și bowl, și carne cu cartofi, și poke cu somon. Wrap-urile sățioase și apetisante sunt alegerea milenialilor și un exemplu de prânz perfect în sens modern. Livrarea rapidă și comodăLunch Box Delivery – numai pentru livrare între orele 12:00 și 16:00. Poți comanda prânzul oriunde – indiferent că te afli la birou sau acasă și indiferent că ai decis să iei masa în aer liber, în parc, sau să iei prânzul cu tine și să îl savurezi într-un loc convenabil pentru tine.

☆ (foto) Localul din Chișinău unde puteți gusta bere craft și sandviciuri, dar și vedea un tractor Lamborghini din anul 1959
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-20 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +4 min

(foto) Localul din Chișinău unde puteți gusta bere craft și sandviciuri, dar și vedea un tractor Lamborghini din anul 1959Tomm Blanaru este autorul blogului Tomm Reviews . Am început cu Litra Brewing Company Oktoberfest (0,5 l – 60 MDL). Nu mă consider un expert în bere, însă pot deosebi berea bună de cea rea. Chicken Sandwich (410 g – 60 MDL)Între două felii de pâine din malț avem pui, cașcaval topit și ceapă caramelizată. În meniu se mai regăsește sandviciul cu cașcaval (300 g – 60 MDL) și scrambel sandwich (340 g – 50 MDL).

Persons: Reviews, Merkel, Putin, Obama, Trump, Joe Biden, Hops, Bernard, Litra, Lumen Craft Porter Locations: Chișinău, sandviciuri, Macron, Labrewtory, Budweiser, Moldova

☆ Unde poți gusta preparate din dovleac în Chișinău. Localurile care îți propun gustări și băuturi tomnatice
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-01 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: 1 min

Localurile care îți propun gustări și băuturi tomnaticeȚi-e poftă de ceva gustos specific toamnei? În articolul de mai jos îți prezentăm localurile din Chișinău care au inclus în meniurile lor gustări sau băuturi din dovleac. # BiorganicComanda o poți face aici. Detalii găsești aici! Detalii găsești aici!

Organizations: Black, Craft Locations: Chișinău

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