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☆ Ben Feigin, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ executive producer, dies at 47
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Ben Feigin, an award-winning producer on “Schitt’s Creek” and founder and CEO of Equation Unlimited, LLC, died Monday of pancreatic cancer. Feigin served as executive producer on “Schitt’s Creek,” serving as a key force in the series’ development and launch. For the final season of “Schitt’s Creek,” Feigin received an Emmy for outstanding comedy series, a Producers Guild Awards for outstanding producer of episodic television for a comedy and a Golden Globe for best musical or comedy television series. Feigin also received a GLAAD Media Award for best comedy series in 2020 and 2021. Feigin joined Anonymous Content in 2006, founding their comedy and enterprise divisions, in addition to continuing work as a producer.

Oz, Fetterman disagree on student debt cancelation Both candidates were asked how they would address the cost of higher education, but neither provided a concrete plan. Instead, Fetterman and Oz made clear their differing views on President Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student debt. Share this -Link copiedFetterman calls Oz a liar and talks up stroke recovery Fetterman was asked about his qualifications for office to open the debate. Share this -Link copiedMeanwhile in N.Y.: Hochul, Zeldin clash in feisty governor's debate As the Pennsylvania Senate candidates get ready for debate, the New York gubernatorial debate is already well underway. Share this -Link copiedPa. Senate independent candidate drops out, endorses Fetterman Everett Stern, an independent write-in candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate race, announced Tuesday that he’s dropping out and endorsing Democrat John Fetterman.

ET in the state's Senate race, followed by a gubernatorial debate between Democratic Gov. Share this -Link copiedPa. Senate independent candidate drops out, endorses Fetterman Everett Stern, an independent write-in candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate race, announced Tuesday that he’s dropping out and endorsing Democrat John Fetterman. And 38% of those surveyed had favorable views of Oz, while 50% had unfavorable views of him. Republican nominee Mehmet Oz is a former cardiothoracic surgeon and TV host endorsed by former President Donald Trump. John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s Democratic lieutenant governor, will face Republican Mehmet Oz, a celebrity TV doctor, in the only debate of the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey.

☆ Ted Cruz claimed on 'The View' that his wife Heidi laughed when Trump insulted her looks back in 2016
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ted Cruz said his wife, Heidi Cruz, laughed off Donald Trump's insult about her looks. On "The View" on Monday, host Ana Navarro asked Cruz about Trump's 2016 insult. In response to Trump's 2016 insult, Cruz hit back at Trump on Twitter, writing: "Donald, real men don't attack women. In July 2016, Cruz said he would not back Trump "like a servile puppy dog" after insults to his family. In October 2018, Trump called Cruz "Beautiful Ted," a sharp turn from his campaign trail nickname for the senator, "Lying Ted."

☆ Beware of fad stocks. Truly owner, Snap & Zoom have plunged
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The Sam Adams brewer, which also owns the hard seltzer brand Truly, is struggling as the popularity of alcoholic seltzer appears to be fading fast. “The continuing decline of the hard seltzer segment … is deeper than previously expected,” said Boston Beer founder and chairman Jim Koch on the company’s earnings call in July. Sam Adams owner Boston Beer made a big bet on Truly Hard Seltzer. Sales have slowed, the company is still losing money, its founders have left, and the stock has plunged nearly 80% this year. E-signature software company DocuSign (DOCU) and virtual health company Teladoc (TDOC) have also plunged this year after getting huge boosts from Covid in 2020.

☆ Blackstone is betting big on lending out money in the private markets, and the PE giant has $182 billion to do it
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Blackstone has some money to lendBlackstone, the world's largest private-equity firm and a big fan of warehouses, reported earnings on Thursday. By comparison, back in the good ole days (see: Q3 2021), Blackstone reported a profit of $1.4 billion. Blackstone reported its private credit unit was up 3% in the third quarter and 9.3% over the past 12 months. To read more about Blackstone's push into private credit, click here. A Fed president spoke somewhere that a Fed president shouldn't really be speaking, The New York Times reported.

"Dancing with the Stars" season 31 is now streaming on Disney Plus. How to watch 'Dancing with the Stars'You can watch "Dancing with the Stars' season 31 exclusively on Disney Plus. Disney Plus is available to stream on mobile devices, media players, and smart TVs from most major brands. "Dancing with the Stars" received a two-season pickup when it was announced for Disney Plus, so the show will return for at least one more season after season 31 concludes. The following celebrities and dancers are all vying for the Mirrorball trophy in season 31 of "Dancing with the Stars.

☆ ‘SNL’ takes on the January 6 Committee and Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Frank Pallotta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Kenan Thompson, who played Rep. Bennie Thompson, opened the NBC variety show by introducing the crowd to the committee’s ninth and final hearing. 'SNL' opened its show this week with a recap of a January 6 committee hearing. NBCAfter this introduction, Rep, Liz Cheney, played by Heidi Gardner, took the floor. “I’ll go to jail, but I’ll be happy.”Thompson’s Bennie Thompson then asked Gardner’s Cheney for any final thoughts. “Alright, I can already see that this is a complete zero,” Thompson’s Bennie Thompson said.

There is no evidence that any school has deployed litter boxes for students to use because they identify as cats. The rumor of litter boxes in schools appears to have begun among parents on social media, and one of the first schools to confront the falsehood was in Canada last fall. Catalina Lauf, a Republican congressional nominee in Illinois, tweeted this month that schoolchildren were using litter boxes in her state. Some say litter boxes are located in “transgender bathrooms” in schools. Meanwhile on TikTok, one video claiming “kids are now requesting litter boxes at school” collected 3 million views on the platform.

☆ Indiana woman gets 115 years for poisoning man's oatmeal and strangling him with his favorite tie
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

An Indiana woman who poisoned the oatmeal of her child's father and strangled him with his favorite tie has been sentenced to more than 100 years in prison. They found Kelley unresponsive at his home, and Littlefield '"grabbed Fran’s 'favorite tie'" and strangled him, the affidavit states. When Littlefield was convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, her daughter provided some of the most damaging witness testimony The Indianapolis Star reported in August. Littlefield's daughter pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to 26 years in prison. Her boyfriend pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to commit murder.

☆ Democrats need an economic message for swing voters, says former Sen. Heitkamp
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDemocrats need an economic message for swing voters, says former Sen. HeitkampFormer U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, Tomas Philipson, former acting CEA chair and a University of Chicago professor, and CNBC's Rick Santelli and Steve Liesman join 'Squawk Box' to react to September's retail sales data.

☆ Where to watch Yankees slugger Aaron Judge chase the AL home run record
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Frank Pallotta | Cnn Business | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York (CNN Business) Slugger Aaron Judge is chasing baseball history. The New York Yankees outfielder is on the brink of hitting the most home runs in American League history as he sits on 60 for the season . The current record is 61, which was set in 1961 by another Yankees outfielder, Roger Maris. (The overall record for a season is 73 by San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds. That game, which is the second of the doubleheader, could see Cardinals outfielder Albert Pujols hit his 700th home run of his career.

The observatory's views, released Wednesday, include rare looks at Neptune's rings, providing some of the sharpest images of these ghostly features seen in more than 30 years, according to NASA. I ugly-cried when I saw THE FIRST JWST NEPTUNE IMAGES!" The images are the first that have been taken of Neptune's rings at infrared wavelengths, which can pierce through dust and gas that might otherwise obscure celestial targets. The Webb telescope's infrared instruments allow it to see planets, stars and galaxies beyond the range of human sight and other telescopes that see primarily in visible light. Along with its bright rings, the Webb observatory spied Neptune's fainter dust bands and seven of the planet's 14 known moons.

☆ Smoke From Mosquito Fire Shrouds Lake Tahoe Despite California’s Mild Fire Season
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Andri Tambunan For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TAHOE VISTA, Calif.—Like many local residents in this shorefront community, Heidi Hill Drum cherishes the breathtaking views of Lake Tahoe. But one evening earlier this month, she saw something ominous rolling across the cobalt blue waters. “It was Armageddon-like, this massive plume of black smoke,” said Ms. Hill Drum, chief executive officer of the Tahoe Prosperity Center, an economic development group for this region on the California-Nevada border.

☆ NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just snapped the clearest image of Neptune's rings in 33 years
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope show detailed views Neptune's rings. Neptune's rings taken in infrared by the James Webb Space Telescope, right. On the left is a composite of two images of Neptune's rings taken by Voyager 2. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, wrote about Webb's Neptune images on Twitter Wednesday. The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera image of Neptune and its rings.

☆ Chris Redd is latest to exit ‘Saturday Night Live’
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Five years ago, I walked into 30 Rock knowing that this was an amazing opportunity for growth,” Redd said in a statement. From the bottom of my heart, I can’t thank you all enough.”Chris Redd as Kanye West during the "People's Kourt" sketch on Saturday Night Live, on Oct. 9, 2021, in New York. He has an HBO Max comedy special in the works ”Chris Redd: Why Am I Like This?” which will premiere later this year. Redd co-created and is set to voice a lead role in a yet-to-be titled project from Michaels’ Broadway Video and Audible. “Saturday Night Live” in the 2020-2021 season was the most-watched entertainment program on TV among viewers between 18 and 49, the demographic most preferred by advertisers.

☆ The Best Way to Brag About Your Accomplishments: Don’t Take All the Credit
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Heidi Mitchell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Want to make the best possible impression on someone to boost your career prospects? Share the credit for your accomplishments. That’s the conclusion a team of professors reached in research they wrote up for a paper currently under review for publication. It turns out that when it’s important to impress someone—say, in an interview for a new job or a promotion—simply bragging about your successes isn’t as effective as talking about both yourself and your team, the professors say.

☆ This $10 Accessory Is the Easiest-Ever Way to Prevent Identity Theft
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-24 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

While I’m not storing state secrets near my washer-dryer, the fact that more than 1.4 million reports of identity theft were received by the Federal Trade Commission last year, as The Wall Street Journal newsroom has reported, makes me more than a little concerned. Which is why I was intrigued to learn that friend-of-a-friend pro organizer Lisa Zaslow is a big fan of the tiny Miseyo Wide Roller Stamp Identity Theft Stamp. Her teen hands easily gripped the stamp, which reminded me of all those summer evenings labeling her shorts and swimsuits before camp. I enjoyed it so much, I watched the Miseyo Identity Theft Protection Roller Stamp video, which says it unfurls about 100 meters of ink, and refills are cheap (three for $10.99). Now my only concern is not misplacing this tiny security tool; I have long since lost track of that summer-camp stamp bearing my last name.

☆ Smart Thermostats Can Reduce Energy Use—but Not if You Take Away the Smart Part
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-25 | by ( Heidi Mitchell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

For smart thermostats to save energy, you have to let them use their brains. To reduce their energy bills, many Americans have been turning to energy-efficient smart thermostats. But a new study has found that households with smart thermostats wind up using, on average, the same energy as homes without them, and those with the devices may even increase their consumption of natural gas. Smart thermostats are Wi-Fi-connected devices designed to allow users to easily set up energy-efficient home heating and cooling schedules. And some provide energy-usage reports and nudge users to set temperatures at moderate levels.

There’s a lot of hype and confusion about carbon-free energy sources. Here’s a look at five of them: how much they produce, what they cost, and what obstacles they face.

Carina Hader studied aerospace engineering and dreamed of becoming CEO of Porsche. She founded Nayca, which makes a heating pad that helps with period pain, with her father Bruno. The online store has been officially open for a few weeks, and customers can now pre-order the heating pad. "That was our proof of concept and confirmation that the clientele really wants our product," said Carina Hader. The product has impressed judges in startup competitionsWith her concept, as well as her cheerful charisma and a hands-on mentality, the engineer has really impressed in startup competitions.

☆ Insider Life: Red-hot housing market — MGM's Picasso auction — Austin's 'new normal'
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-13 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kingsley CarsKingsley Cars is a UK-based company that transforms old Range Rovers into $200,000 works of art. Plus, some say Stitch Fix doesn't have enough trendy clothes for clients looking for post-pandemic, "back-to-life" outfits. Hear more from Stitch Fix stylists. See some of the art going up for auction. Marianne Ayala/InsiderAustin's hot housing market has reached what brokers are calling a "new normal."

☆ Victoria’s Secret renunță la renumiții „îngeri”: Noua imagine a mărcii vor fi femei de succes, activiste și antreprenoare
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-18 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Nu mai sunt „relevanți din punct de vedere cultural”, femei de succes, activiste și antreprenoare vor fi noua imagine a mărcii, a anunțat compania, miercuri. Victorias Secret a anunțat miercuri, 16 iunie, că a încheiat un parteneriat cu un grup de femei care inspiră. Printre acestea se află actrița și antreprenoarea indiană Priyanka Chopra Jonas și jucătoarea americană de fotbal Megan Rapinoe, care este și activistă pentru egalitatea de gen. Acestea vor deveni imaginea și vocea mărcii, a comunicat Victoria’s Secret. La sfârșitul anilor 1990 și începutul anilor 2000, show-ul de pe Victoria’s Secret a avut un rol puternic în definirea femeii „sexy”. CEO-ul Victoria’s Secret, Martin Waters a declarat pentru The Times că revizuirea mărcii a fost așteptată de mult timp.

Persons: Jonas, Megan Rapinoe, Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum, Martin Waters, libertatea.ro Organizations: The New York, Times, L Locations: The New York Times, Victoria

„La fel ca virusul, dezinformarea călătoreşte dincolo de graniţe, suferă mutaţii şi evoluează”, a declarat Stephen Powis, directorul medical al NHS Anglia, după ce actriţa a sugerat că o anumită dietă a ajutat-o să trateze „ceaţa creierului” pe care a experimentat-o după ce a avut Covid-19. Toţi influecerii care folosesc social media sunt datori să fie responsabili şi grijulii pe acest subiect”, a subliniat el. „Am observat că mulţi influenceri au plecat din ţară – mai precis, o mulţime”, a declarat el pentru CNN, scrie adevărul.ro. „Oamenii nu-şi dau seama că reţele sociale sunt un loc de muncă”, a explicat Hussain care a spus că a avut mai multe motive pentru a se deplasa la Dubai. „Sperăm că toţi influencerii şi oamenii aflaţi în atenţia publicului îşi vor face comentariile bazat pe ştiinţă şi acţiunile lor se vor încadra în limitele regulilor”, a spus el.

Persons: Gwyneth Paltrow, Stephen Powis, actriţa, Priti, Daanish, CNN, Ilan, Heidi Organizations: ITV, Statistică, University College London, London School Locations: Anglia, Emiratele Arabe Unite, Marii Britanii, Dubai, britanic, carantina

☆ Toți europenii au în corp substanțe chimice periculoase. Ce au aflat participanții la un studiu experimental
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-13 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +5 min

Toți europenii au în corp substanțe chimice periculoase despre existența cărora nici măcar nu au habar, dar care le pot crea probleme grave de sănătate, relevă rezultatele unui studiu publicat la începutul acestei luni, transmite digi24.ro. Prezența unor astfel de substanțe chimice a fost depistată în sânge și în urină și depinde foarte mult și de conjuctură, de pildă de ce am mâncat sau dacă am folosit anumite produse cosmetice. Ftalații și fenolii sunt substanțe chimice întâlnite în obiecte de uz zilnic, cum ar fi pungile de plastic sau cosmeticele. Un studiu precent a arătat că din peste 12.000 de substanțe chimice care pot fi folosite pentru a confecționa ambalaje alimentare, 5 la sută - adică nu mai puțin de 600! Un stil de viață pan-europeanParticipanții studiului făcut la Barcelona au aflat că au în corp între 18 și 23 de substanțe chimice periculoase.

Persons: Heidi Hautala, Pascal Canfin, OMS, Justine Maillot Organizations: politico.eu, Zero, Parlamentul European, Ftalații, Organizației Mondiale a Sănătății, Comisia Europeană Locations: Barcelona, Europa

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