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The holidays have always been important to me and my family. Growing up, my grandparents and foster mother made sure that November and December were filled with parties and events that both exhausted our family and filled us with joy. I still think fondly of these times and draw on them for inspiration as I'm working to , ages 19, 18, 13, and 11. In addition to being fun, passing along and sharing memories has helped me as I've grieved the shrinking of the family I grew up with. Telling cherished stories helps keep memories alive. For example, my foster mother, Esther, and her three biological children, who I came to know as my sisters and brother, had a fake cardboard fireplace we'd line with stockings every year. I now relay this story to my kids in front of our real fireplace as we decorate our tree. It helps them to get to know a bit about my humble beginnings and about the creativity of a woman they never had the chance to meet. Here are other ways I help keep holiday traditions and the spirit of the past alive each year. Curating a home full of history I decorate our home with many holiday items my to me. There are the marshmallow-white snowball people, a favorite of hers, that I now display on my bookshelf. My Christmas tree is covered with ornaments from the 1960s through today. When my children and I unwrap these mementos each year, I recall moments from when I was a kid and share those stories with them. Now, I buy each of my children their own special ornament each year to remind them of our family and this time we're spending together. One day, they will have their own collection of ornaments and stories to pass down. Photos help keep memories top-of-mind The holidays have always been about family. But many of the people who made my holiday celebrations so magical are gone now. To remember them, I share pictures with my kids. I have five albums filled with memories of Christmases past, and we look at them every year. One favorite snapshot shows our family singing along with Mitch Miller, the famous composer we listened to every Christmas on the old record player. This annual gathering was organized by my aunt, who dressed in silly holiday hats and sweaters. Another image shows one of the last Christmases we'd celebrate with Gram and Gramps. There are also pictures of me visiting Santa at the mall. I share these images to connect my children to people they knew briefly or not at all. These people are a part of who I am and are woven into the fabric of who my children will become. Coming together over food is a favorite pastime My Italian family treasured food, and the time we shared creating meals — especially around the holidays. I fondly recall my aunts and grandmother gathered in the kitchen and exchanging stories, while preparing our favorite dishes. For big holidays, we now set the dining room table, which I inherited from my grandparents, with the Noritake china my grandmother also passed down to me. The delicate flowers dancing along the dishes' edges remind me of holiday dinners with her. Even more of her cherished trinkets decorate the dining room, helping to make it feel like she is there with us as we eat our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. In the kitchen on Christmas Eve, we have a tradition of baking Italian cookies like the ones my great-grandmother used to make. They never taste exactly like Grams. But what they lack in authenticity, they make up for with the memories they bring. A party brings it all together For years we have hosted our own Christmas party, a homage to the parties of my youth. Now, they have become a tradition I've created with and for my family. We invite friends and family — sometimes as many as 100 people. We cook too much food and have even welcomed special visitors like Santa through the years. I play music by Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Burl Ives, Bing Crosby, and Johnny Mathis, making sure my kids know these classic carols were my grandmother's favorites. Sharing these traditions allows me to give my kids a glimpse of my past. I have transitioned from one family to another, but I still remember where I came from and make sure my kids will do the same one day. I have fostered relationships that would have otherwise disappeared, making the holidays a time we look forward to each year and reminding my kids that the true meaning of these special days is family. Read the original article onrich777 casino 。

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — On a damp Wednesday night with temperatures dipping into the 30s, fans in sparsely filled stands bundled up to watch Buffalo beat Eastern Michigan 37-30 on gray turf. The lopsided game was not particularly notable, but it was played on one of the nights the Mid-American Conference has made its own: A weeknight. “A lot of the general public thinks we play all of our games on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, not just some of them in November,” MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said in a telephone interview this week. “What it has done is help take what was a pretty darned good regional conference and has given it a national brand and made it a national conference.” When the conference has played football games on ESPN or ESPN2 over the last two seasons, the linear television audience has been 10 times larger than when conference schools meet on Saturdays and get lost in the shuffle when viewers have many more choices. The most-watched MAC game over the last two years was earlier this month on a Wednesday night when Northern Illinois won at Western Michigan and there were 441,600 viewers, a total that doesn’t include streaming that isn’t captured by Nielsen company. During the same span, the linear TV audience has been no larger than 46,100 to watch two MAC teams play on Saturdays. “Having the whole nation watching on Tuesday and Wednesday night is a huge deal for the MAC,” Eastern Michigan tight end Jere Getzinger said. “Everybody wants to watch football so if you put it on TV on a Tuesday or Wednesday, people are going to watch.” ESPN has carried midweek MAC football games since the start of the century. ESPN and the conference signed a 13-year extension a decade ago that extends their relationship through at least the 2026-27 season. The conference has made the most of the opportunities, using MACtion as a tag on social media for more than a decade and it has become a catchy marketing term for the Group of Five football programs that usually operate under the radar in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and New York. Attendance does tend to go down with weeknight games, keeping some students out of stadiums because they have class or homework and leading to adults staying away home because they have to work the next morning. “The tradeoff is the national exposure,” Buffalo coach Pete Lembo said. “You know November nights midweek the average fan is going to park on the couch, have a bowl of chips and salsa out in front, and watch the game from there." When the Bulls beat Ball State 51-48 in an overtime thriller on a Tuesday night earlier this month, the announced attendance was 12,708 and that appeared to be generous. There were many empty seats after halftime. “You watch the games on TV, the stadiums all look like this,” Buffalo fan Jeff Wojcicki said. “They are not packed, but it’s the only game on, and you know where to find it.” Sleep and practice schedules take a hit as well, creating another wave of challenges for students to attend class and coaches to prepare without the usual rhythm of preparing all week to play on Saturday. “Last week when we played at Ohio in Athens, we had a 4-four bus ride home and got home at about 3:30 a.m.,” Eastern Michigan center Broderick Roman said. “We still had to go to class and that was tough, but it's part of what you commit to as an athlete.” That happens a lot in November when the MAC shifts its unique schedule. During the first two weeks of the month, the conference had 10 games on Tuesdays and Wednesdays exclusively. This week, there were five games on Tuesday and Wednesday while only one was left in the traditional Saturday slot with Ball State hosting Bowling Green. Next week, Toledo plays at Akron and Kent State visits Buffalo on Tuesday night before the MAC schedule wraps up with games next Friday and Saturday to determine which teams will meet in the conference title game on Dec. 7 in Detroit. In all, MAC teams will end up playing about 75% of their games on a Saturday and the rest on November weeknights. When the Eagles wrapped up practice earlier this week, two days before they played the Bulls, tight end Jere Getzinger provided some insight into the effects of the scheduling quirk. “It's Monday, but for us it's like a Thursday,” he said. Bowling Green coach Scot Loeffler said he frankly has a hard time remembering what day it is when the schedule shift hits in November. “The entire week gets turned upside down,” Loeffler said. “It’s wild, but it’s great for the league because there’s two days a week this time of year that people around the country will watch MAC games.” AP freelance writer Jonah Bronstein contributed to this report. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballYoung men swung to the right for Trump after a campaign dominated by masculine appeals

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at an event in Mount Stewart, P.E.I., Friday. Ron Ward/Canadian Press via AP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had dinner Friday evening with Donald Trump at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. The sudden visit to Florida came days after Trump threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on Canadian and Mexican goods, along with an additional 10 percent on Chinese merchandise. The president-elect has said the tariffs would be aimed at halting an “invasion” of drugs and migrants into the United States. Trump and Trudeau were joined for dinner by some of Trump’s Cabinet picks and their spouses. The group included North Dakota’s Republican governor, Doug Burgum; Trump’s choice for interior secretary; Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., whom Trump tapped for national security adviser; and transition co-chair Howard Lutnick, Trump’s pick for commerce secretary. Dave McCormick, the Republican winner of Pennsylvania’s Senate race, was also in attendance, according to a photo he shared on social media. Trudeau’s entourage, meanwhile, included Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Katie Telford, Trudeau’s chief of staff. Trudeau told reporters on Saturday morning that he had “an excellent conversation” with Trump during his dinner at Mar-a-Lago, but he walked away from the press when asked if tariffs were discussed. Trump’s transition team did not reply to a request for comment. The threatened tariffs would affect large swaths of U.S. trade and are expected to raise prices on a host of goods for consumers. Some of the largest U.S. imports of Canadian goods include oil and gas, machinery and parts. Canada had been anticipating trade policies that would damage the country’s interests, sending top government officials to meetings across the United States ahead of the November election meant to stave off a turn to protectionism. Earlier on Friday, Trudeau told reporters that the tariffs would hurt consumers. “One of the things that’s really important to understand is that Donald Trump, when he makes statements like that, he plans on carrying them out. There’s no question about it,” Trudeau said to reporters in Prince Edward Island in Atlantic Canada. “Our responsibility is to point out that, in this way, he would be, actually, not just be harming Canadians, who work so well with the United States; he would actually be raising prices for American citizens as well and hurting American industry and businesses,” he added. Trump criticized the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) during his first presidential campaign, replacing it with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which took effect in 2020. Trump publicly hailed the new accord on several occasions, boasting that it represented an enormous improvement over the original trade pact. Under the USMCA, goods moving among the three North American nations cross borders on a duty-free basis. Trudeau at times had a strained relationship with Trump during his first term in the White House, particularly when it came to matters related to trade. Trump’s insults toward the Canadian leader sometimes got personal, but the two countries maintained strong ties. Trump also spoke to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum over the phone on Wednesday following the tariff threat, but the two have described dramatically different versions of what took place. 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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Aidan O'Connell might not be Mr. Right for the Raiders, but he is Mr. Right Now. He did enough in Friday's 19-17 loss at Kansas City to show that Las Vegas' quarterback job will be his for the rest of the season — barring, that is, another injury. O'Connell didn't look like a quarterback who hadn't played in nearly six weeks because of a broken thumb . Plus, the Raiders had a short week to prepare for the Chiefs, meaning O'Connell only went through a series of walk-through practices. Even so, he completed 23 of 35 passes for 340 yards, including touchdown passes of 33 yards to tight end Brock Bowers and 58 yards to wide receiver Tre Tucker. He didn't throw any interceptions. “Thought he competed,” coach Antonio Pierce said Saturday morning. “I thought for what we knew we were getting with Spags (Kansas City defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo) and that defense, that he stood in the pocket, made some tough throws, took some hits, took the shots down the field like we wanted. We had some opportunities to take shots down the field, he threw them. And I thought our skill guys did a hell of a job competing and making some really good plays for us.” O'Connell's performance would've shined even more if not for the Raiders' final offensive play. He led the Raiders from their 8-yard line to the Chiefs 32 with 15 seconds left. The plan was for O'Connell to take the snap and throw the ball away to run off a few more seconds, then send Daniel Carlson out for the potential winning field goal without giving Patrick Mahomes enough time to mount one of his signature comebacks. But rookie center Jackson Powers-Johnson snapped the ball before O'Connell was expecting it, and the Chiefs recovered to secure another close, last-minute victory. The Raiders were called for illegal shift, which Kansas City declined. But there was some question about whether officials intended to call a false start instead. Though that infraction would have cost Las Vegas 5 yards, the pre-snap penalty still would've given Carlson a shot at the field goal. Pierce said his team heard an official's whistle before the snap, and that will be included in the Raiders' report to the NFL. “We do that every game,” Pierce said. “Typically, anywhere from three to five questions, and then we’ll get a letter within 24 to 36 hours, and we’ll read it and learn from it.” Bowers had another sensational game. He was targeted 14 times, catching 10 passes for 140 yards. For the season, he has 84 receptions for 884 yards and four TDs, making him a strong contender for Offensive Rookie of the Year. “We’re seeing double-teams and them really shifting their zone to him, and I don’t really think it matters,” Pierce said. “I think we've got a really special player on our hand.” The Raiders need to do better on first and second downs to set up more favorable third-down conversions. They have faced 47 third downs from 7 to 10 yards, tied with the Dallas Cowboys for fifth most. Las Vegas' conversion rate on those plays is 36.2%, which actually is favorable compared to the rest of the league, but the Raiders are still creating too many of those situations. Las Vegas made life difficult for Mahomes, sacking him five times. And it wasn't just Maxx Crosby bringing the heat. Four players had at least one-half sack, including K’Lavon Chaisson, who had 1 1/2. It was a season-high total for the Raiders, and they have taken down the opposing quarterback in 30 consecutive games, the third-longest active streak. Carlson is usually money, but he missed field goals from 56, 55 and 58 yards. Hardly chip shots, but he is capable of converting from those distances. He had made 30 of 38 field goals from 50-plus yards entering the game, with a career long of 57 yards. WR DJ Turner injured his knee in the second half. 12 — The Raiders are one of three teams to fall behind double digits in each of their first 12 games of a season. The others were the 1986 Indianapolis Colts and 1972 New England Patriots. The Raiders visit Tampa Bay on Dec. 8. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl

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CrowdStrike ( NASDAQ:CRWD – Free Report ) had its price target raised by Citigroup from $300.00 to $400.00 in a research report report published on Wednesday, Benzinga reports. The brokerage currently has a buy rating on the stock. CRWD has been the topic of several other reports. Piper Sandler reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and issued a $290.00 target price on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Thursday, September 19th. Stifel Nicolaus increased their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $300.00 to $375.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 20th. Evercore ISI boosted their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $325.00 to $400.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, November 25th. Truist Financial raised their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $325.00 to $375.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, November 18th. Finally, BNP Paribas started coverage on CrowdStrike in a report on Tuesday, October 8th. They set a “neutral” rating and a $285.00 price target on the stock. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have given a hold rating, thirty have issued a buy rating and three have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $355.80. Get Our Latest Report on CRWD CrowdStrike Price Performance CrowdStrike ( NASDAQ:CRWD – Get Free Report ) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, August 28th. The company reported $1.04 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.97 by $0.07. The company had revenue of $963.87 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $958.27 million. CrowdStrike had a return on equity of 7.11% and a net margin of 3.39%. The business’s revenue was up 31.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.06 earnings per share. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that CrowdStrike will post 0.49 EPS for the current year. Insider Buying and Selling In related news, CAO Anurag Saha sold 1,683 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $297.28, for a total transaction of $500,322.24. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer now directly owns 38,962 shares in the company, valued at approximately $11,582,623.36. This trade represents a 4.14 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website . Also, insider Shawn Henry sold 4,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $260.73, for a total transaction of $1,173,285.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now owns 174,591 shares in the company, valued at approximately $45,521,111.43. This represents a 2.51 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . In the last ninety days, insiders sold 108,248 shares of company stock valued at $32,465,110. Corporate insiders own 4.34% of the company’s stock. Institutional Trading of CrowdStrike A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of CRWD. Quent Capital LLC raised its position in CrowdStrike by 59.9% during the first quarter. Quent Capital LLC now owns 235 shares of the company’s stock valued at $75,000 after acquiring an additional 88 shares in the last quarter. Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC acquired a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike in the 1st quarter valued at $218,000. Citizens Financial Group Inc. RI boosted its holdings in CrowdStrike by 6.0% in the first quarter. Citizens Financial Group Inc. 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The fourth episode of the ninth season of "Shark Tank" premiered on ABC on October 15, 2017. The fourth and final pitch featured that week was Benjilock, a padlock with a fingerprint reader. Despite only being at the prototype stage, CEO Robbie Cabral impressed the sharks with his slew of recently issued patents on his lock design, impressive charging time and battery life specs, and his overall ingenuity. Multiple sharks wanted in, and he made a deal with the investor who seemingly had the best understanding of the product and where it could go. That deal was quickly followed by an update segment a few months later, revealing that he had secured a major, life-changing partnership for Benjilock. However, more recently, the specifics of what's up with Benjilock have gotten murkier. The company website is out of date and no longer directs visitors to a functional storefront of where you can buy the locks. The existing stock of Benjilock products is almost completely depleted, too. However, it looks like what likely happened is that the initial partnership secured for Benjilock had expired, leaving room for a slate of new licensing deals that Benjilock secured in 2023. Between the company's press releases and its relatively active social media presence, it seems like it's still relatively healthy, albeit in a confusing way since its website suggests otherwise. So let's look in detail at what happened to Benjilock on "Shark Tank" and beyond. The segment isn't available on YouTube, but it is on Hulu in the U.S. If you don't have a way to watch, don't worry, we'll catch you up. Robbie Cabral entered the tank seeking a $200,000 investment for a 10 percent equity stake in Benjilock, his fingerprint reader-equipped padlock company. The underlying concept is pretty self-explanatory, but the Benjilock also comes with a set of traditional keys in case the fingerprint reader somehow fails. At the time, it was at the prototype stage, but even then, Cabral had gotten his design fine-tuned to the point that a 30-minute charge would keep the lock's battery working for a year, and he had also just gotten various utility patents on the lock. Lori Greiner, meanwhile, was particularly impressed that Benjilock was a Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovation Award honoree, while Kevin O'Leary was intrigued by the prospects of licensing Benjilock to existing lock companies, including for household door locks. O'Leary offered $200,000 for 15 percent while pushing a focus on licensing, also arguing he had the power to make sure the licensee brought the product to market instead of burying it. Greiner matched O'Leary's deal, but felt he should make plays for both licensing and retail. Barbara Corcoran wanted to partner up with another shark at $200,000 for 20 percent, with guest shark Alex Rodriguez agreeing to join her in part because he related to Cabral as a fellow Dominican-American entrepreneur, while Mark Cuban opted out, feeling it wasn't a good fit. After the final commercial break of the episode, Cabral surprised the panel by choosing to accept O'Leary's offer of 15 percent. A little over three months later, O'Leary brought Cabral on CNBC for an emotional interview segment in November 2017 (which also aired as a segment on "Shark Tank" itself) where Cabral was offered a $450,000 licensing deal from Hampton Products International, the parent company of Brinks. Hampton CEO Kim Kelley had seen the Benjilock episode of "Shark Tank" weeks earlier, and immediately reached out to O'Leary to arrange a deal. The interview closed with unusually up-to-date footage of Cabral and O'Leary days earlier at the Benjilock booth at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where they got a $1.5 million order from Ace Hardware. "The intellectual property, the patents that you've got on this product, is really extensive," Kelley told Cabral during the CNBC segment . "We're looking forward to helping you leverage that." "It is basically the American dream for me," Cabral responded. "Hopefully, now I can actually provide for my family and bring jobs too — that is the goal for me. I'm extremely happy." As of this writing, determining the current status of Benjilock is more than a little bit tricky. At first glance, it seems like they're still thriving, with reasonably active social media and a presence at CES 2024 . Peel back some layers, though, and it gets murkier. If you go to the Benjilock website, links to buy a given lock direct you to a "Benjilock by Hampton" page on Hampton's website... which no longer exists and just redirects to the front page of the Hampton website. Feeding that URL into The Wayback Machine on The Internet Archive yields no working caches from later than September 2022. That doesn't mean that's when it got taken down, but it still helps narrow down the timeline. Looking elsewhere for Benjilock products doesn't help much. Walmart.com is sold out of the classic Benjilock, and the Benjilock brand page now redirects to search results that no longer include any Benjilock products. The bulk of the relevant, working hits on Google Shopping are for eBay listings, with the exception being a pair of SKUs (the classic Benjilock and a luggage lock) at Super Arbor, a California-based home improvement technology reseller with a reputation for carrying hard-to-find products. Going by appearances, it's possible Benjilock's license agreement with Hampton has expired, with only secondhand locks on eBay and "new old stock" at Super Arbor still available for the moment. Searching the Gale General OneFile news database (formerly InfoTrac) for "Benjilock" and "Hampton" together yields results that end with a press release in August 2022 , right before the end of the Wayback Machine caches for Hampton's Benjilock page. Benjilock and Hampton's licensing agreement ending around the fall of 2022 would fit with the two companies having a five-year contract, and sure enough, new licensing partnerships are frequently mentioned in subsequent Benjilock press releases. In 2023, Benjilock announced various new licensing partnerships, and this wider range of partnerships — as opposed to everything flowing through a single licensee like Hampton — is seemingly the strategy going forward. 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