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spin ph logo If 2024 gave us anything, it is the simple . Sure, they have long existed. A gaggle of little girls with curls participated in a in 1934. But as we close out the year, there has been a flurry of these types of celebrity-inspired events. There has also been the surprise bonus of the star — who people are trying to emulate — making contest cameos and sending fans into a frenzy. On Nov. 24, there was a in his hometown of Austin, Texas, which drew hundreds of people. The star called into the event, at which his mother and aunt were judges. One day earlier, there was a 2.0 event in Las Vegas — and the chef popped in to award the winner a signed frying pan “trophy.” Over the weekend, there were , Jack Schlossberg, and even contests too. This all blew up after the contest in New York City in October drew such a crowd — including the star himself — that . One of Chalamet’s doppelgängers was even arrested. While not every winner has been a mirror image, it’s been in fun. Here are all the celebrity twinning contests as of late. Nov. 24. Auditorium Shores park in Powell’s hometown, Austin, Texas. The star’s mom, Cyndy Powell, and aunt Kathleen Fish. Max Braunstein, a local physician’s assistant, who rocked a flight suit. Kate Carpenter, a University of Texas grad student. In addition to bragging rights, Braunstein was awarded $5, a cowboy hat, a year's supply of Torchy's queso and — drumroll — a cameo in Powell's next film for the winner’s parents (or another relative) because in his films. Yes, but virtually. In a prerecorded message, Powell welcomed guests to the “Justin Hartley look-alike contest” — a joke about his own celebrity twin. He also called the winner directly, but Braunstein said he could barely hear him because there were so many people in attendance. Nov. 24. Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C. Daniel Bonomo, a Georgetown University grad student, won the tiara. Georgia Parolski and Ruchika Sharma, who thought the celebrity look-alike contest trend needed a political twist with the late President Kennedy’s grandson as the subject. Contestants answered trivia questions and dressed in button-down shirts and ties to channel the Vogue political correspondent. $50 cash, a $100 Zipcar gift card and a $100 gift card to the restaurant Salazar. Nope, even after Schlossberg teased he may attend. “I am a little disappointed,” Parolski . “But he has a certain mystique to maintain.” Schlossberg did say that the winner “has 1) great teeth 2) great nose 3) great skin 4) great hair.” There was in New York City on Nov. 17 that didn’t draw as much of a crowd. That winner, Danny, won a $50 Chipotle gift card. Nov. 24. Parkman Bandstand in the Boston Common in Boston. Nick Anderson from Melrose, Mass., after reciting lines like the actor and showing off dance moves like . Katherine Gehring and Dilce Oliveira. Gehring the British actor, who had been in Boston in recent weeks where his girlfriend Zendaya is filming, is “a nerdy, lovable sweetheart and I think he deserves more credit.” $50 and a bag of British candy. Nope. Gehring "considering he went to Caffe Nero last week and I saw four TikToks about it, I wouldn't be shocked if this man was too afraid to come outside.” Nov. 23. Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen in Caesars Palace Las Vegas. Keith White from Ontario, Canada, who rocked a chef coat, won. One of the runners-up was a woman, showing the all-in-good-fun nature of the contest. There were fliers posted two days before the event on the Vegas Strip and online. The winner received a HexClad 8” Hybrid Pan signed by Ramsay in addition to a larger bundle of cookware from the brand called the Everything But the Kitchen Sink Bundle (retail price: $2,799). Yes, after spectators picked the final three, the British chef came out to crown a winner. He called the whole thing “slightly weird but a little bit of fun.” Nov. 23. Sydney, Australia. Jude Bailey, but runner-up Samuel Preston has gotten a lot of attention for his resemblance to the star. Josh Khoury and Luca Trovato organized it as a tribute to the Australian actor, who died in 2008. An attendee said it was a surprisingly event. Fans recited the star’s most iconic lines and sang songs, like Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” $51 (in the form of a $50 bill and a $1 coin). Nov. 23. Melbourne, Australia. Maxie Oliver, who told , “I don’t look like him at all, I’m just tall.” Alicia Liang-Morgan, who said . So she approached five random people to ask them to compete. Of the five, Maxie was the closest. $50 No, the contestants didn’t even want to show up. Elordi wisely stayed away. Nov. 20. Wilma Chan Park in Oakland, Calif., the actress’s hometown. Zainab Bansfield, who danced and did a catwalk during the competition. Cassi Simms, who wanted to see women “have fun and have a space” at one of these look-alike events, which have been male-centric, she NBC Bay Area. $40 prize and hair care products No such luck. She’s been in Boston filming. Nov. 17. Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn, N.Y. Shiv Patel of Queens, N.Y., whose friends had long told him he looked like the One Direction singer. He Brooklyn Magazine that winning was “the ego boost I did not need!” Malik superfans Jazmine Arnold and Savannah Neely. Contestants got onstage while Malik’s music was played and took part in a trivia contest. A free tattoo — Malik has many — from Hel Heart. No word of if he’ll get it. No, Malik has been keeping a low profile amid the and postponed the start of his tour. Nov. 16. Humboldt Park in Chicago, where is set. Ben Shabad, who wore a white T-shirt and blue apron like Carmy. Roommates Kelsey Cassaro and Taylor Vask, who started the contest as a joke, but it took on a life of its own. Hundreds of people showed up at the “definitely chaotic” event, Cassaro told Yahoo Entertainment. $50 and a pack of Marlboro Red cigarettes that Allen’s TV counterpart would enjoy. No, sadly the Calvin Klein model wasn’t there. Nov. 10. Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco. Jaipreet Hundal, who Yahoo Entertainment that his girlfriend has long been telling him he looked like the star. Friends Sitara Bellam, Tasnim Khandakar and Sahana Rangarajan after noticing that the other contests centered around white celebrities. They promoted the event on social media and approximately 500 people showed up to watch. Hundal took home $50, flowers and a small monkey statue, a nod to Patel’s directorial debut, . No. Nov. 9. Soho Square in London, one of the two places where the singer lives. Oscar Journeaux, an aspiring singer in the London band . Journalist Katrina Mirpuri, who a “joyous day filled with chaos, fun and laughter.” £50 (approximately $62). Nope — for the same reason as Malik. The prize was presented by former contestant Eyal Booker. Nov. 7. Smithfield Square in Dublin, where the Irish actor attended college. Aspiring screenwriter Jack Wall O’Reilly, who rocked some short-shorts. There were posted in the area. “€20” — around $20 dollars — or “3 pints” and a pack of Denny sausages. Mescal’s first acting job was a commercial for the brand. No, the actor was in the middle of promoting . The men later connected on the though. “You captured the spirit of me very well,” Mescal told O’Reilly. Oct. 27. Washington Square Park in the star’s hometown of New York City. Miles Mitchell, a 21-year-old from Staten Island, N.Y., who wore a costume, including a briefcase, and tossed candy to the crowd. YouTuber Anthony Po who had a team post fliers around the city and many more people than anticipated showed up, estimated by NBC News to be in the thousands. Police made four arrests at the unpermitted event, including one of the contestants. Mitchell Yahoo, “It was the craziest environment I’ve been in.” $50 Yes, amid the chaos — and adding more — Chalamet arrived and posed with his doubles.

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( ) stock retreated Tuesday after the company reported third quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street consensus estimates. The enterprise software maker's updated fiscal 2025 revenue outlook fell short of views. Pleasanton, Calif.-based Workday reported financial results after the market close. For the quarter ending Oct. 31, Workday earnings rose 21% to $1.89 per share from a year earlier on an adjusted basis. Revenue climbed 16% to $2.16 billion, including acquisitions, slightly above views. Analysts expected Workday earnings of $1.76 a share on revenue of $2.13 billion. Workday Stock: Updated Fiscal 2025 Guidance On the , Workday stock retreated more than 7% to 249.90 in extended trading. Also, the software maker updated fiscal 2025 guidance. Workday forecast subscription revenue of $7.703 billion at the midpoint of guidance versus estimates of $7.714 billion. The company sells software for human resources management, such as payroll tools. About 70% of revenue comes from human capital management products. Also, it has expanded into financial software. Heading into the Workday earnings report, shares were down 3% in 2024. Also, WDAY stock holds a Relative Strength Rating of 54 out of a best-possible 99, according to .By Clarissa-Jan Lim President-elect Donald Trump has often marked national holidays by attacking his political rivals and airing his grievances against them on social media. This Thanksgiving, on the cusp of his return to the White House, Trump again criticized Democrats, accusing them of trying to “destroy” the country while touting his “landslide victory.” “Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday. “Don’t worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!” Vice President-elect JD Vance followed suit, posting a bizarre image on X of him and Trump serving the 2024 electoral map at a dinner table. Vance’s post, which has Trump’s head pasted on the body of the patriarch and Vance’s on the body of the housewife in Norman Rockwell’s painting “ Freedom F rom Want ,” was widely mocked on social media . Trump has claimed that his victory in the 2024 election was “ an unprecedented and powerful mandate .” And while it is true that unlike in 2016 and 2020, Trump won the popular vote this election, he did so by one of the smallest margins since the 19th century, as The New York Times noted. Still, he has brandished his claim of a “mandate ” as a justification to make controversial choices for his Cabinet , testing Senate Republicans’ appetite for challenging their party leader . Clarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking/trending news blogger for MSNBC Digital. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. , Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced it has granted equity awards under its 2023 Inducement Equity Incentive Plan to new employees who joined Couchbase. On November 21, 2024 , Couchbase granted 9 non-executive employees equity awards in the form of service-based restricted stock units ("RSU Awards"), representing the right to receive up to 19,905 shares of Couchbase, Inc. common stock in the aggregate, with fifty percent (50%) of the shares subject to such RSU Awards vesting on the first quarterly vesting date following the one (1) year anniversary of the vesting commencement date, and twelve and one-half percent (12.5%) of the shares subject to such RSU Awards vesting on each quarterly vesting date thereafter conditioned upon each employee's continued employment on the vesting date(s). The inducement grants were approved by Couchbase's Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, as required by Nasdaq Rule 5635(c)(4), and were granted as a material inducement to employment in accordance with Nasdaq Rule 5635(c)(4). About Couchbase Modern customer experiences need a flexible database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase's mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and run modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers– all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications. For more information, visit www.couchbase.com and follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @couchbase . Couchbase ® , the Couchbase logo and the names and marks associated with Couchbase's products are trademarks of Couchbase, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/couchbase-announces-new-employee-inducement-grants-302316431.html SOURCE Couchbase, Inc.PENG (NASDAQ:PENG) Shares Down 0.8% – What’s Next?

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — What’s stoking the Denver Broncos’ surprising surge is the growing connection between rookie quarterback Bo Nix and veteran wide receiver Courtland Sutton. Whenever the Broncos (7-5) need a clutch catch, a key flag or a timely touchdown, Sutton is usually the one delivering it like he did Sunday when he caught eight passes on 10 targets for 97 yards and a pair of touchdowns that sparked the Broncos’ come-from-behind 29-19 win at Las Vegas. “Courtland played tremendous,” coach Sean Payton said. Again. “He’s just reliable,” Nix said. “He’s just always there when you need him.” Sutton’s size (6-foot-4 and 216 pounds) and experience (he’s in his seventh NFL season) make him an ideal target and safety valve for the rookie QB whose confidence is growing by the week. “He’s smart. He’s savvy. He makes plays when the ball’s in the air,” Nix said. “You can trust him. When it’s up in the air, it’s his or nobody’s. It’s not going to be a pick.” Nix’s first touchdown toss to Sutton was an 18-yarder that allowed the QB to break Marlin Briscoe’s 1968 Denver rookie record of 14 TD passes, and the two connected again with 5:30 left to make it a two-score game. RELATED COVERAGE Rams WR Demarcus Robinson arrested on suspicion of DUI after loss to Eagles Jackson accounts for 3 TDs, John Harbaugh moves to 3-0 vs. brother as Ravens beat Chargers 30-23 Chargers struggle to score after RB J.K. Dobbins hurts his knee in his reunion game with Ravens The Broncos trailed 13-9 at halftime and Nix said they knew they had to get the ball into Sutton’s hands more in the second half after he had caught the only pass thrown his way in the first half (for 17 yards). “Didn’t target him (much) in the first half,” Nix said. “We come out and say, ‘Look, Courtland, this is your half.’ We take over the game. He goes for two touchdowns. That just kind of speaks for what he means to our team.” The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here . Sutton has been on a tear after since he wasn’t targeted a single time in Denver’s 33-10 win at New Orleans on Oct. 17. (Payton mentioned as recently as last week what an anomaly that game was because there was a heavy diet of plays for Sutton that just didn’t pan out for various reasons.) In his six games before that goose egg, Sutton had 21 catches on 49 targets for 277 yards and a touchdown. In the five games since, he’s caught 36 of the 48 balls thrown his way for 467 yards and three TDs. Plus, he threw a touchdown pass to Nix on a “Philly Special” at Baltimore in Week 9. “I think we’re just scratching the surface,” Sutton said. Thanks in part to the chemistry between Nix and Sutton, the Broncos are in position for the seventh and final playoff spot entering December. What’s working The passing game, thanks to the Nix-Sutton connection. What needs help The running game. Javonte Williams had just 2 yards on eight carries and Audric Estime ran three times for 15 yards against the Raiders’ run-heavy fronts and a steady diet of blitzes. Jaleel McLaughlin saved the day with seven carries for 44 yards. Stock up OLB Nik Bonitto. His 10 sacks make him the first Denver defender with double-digit sacks since 2018, when Von Miller did it. Stock down Once again, the Broncos’ special teams, with the exception of K Wil Lutz, who hasn’t missed a field goal attempt or extra point since his protection unit cratered at Kansas City three weeks ago and allowed the Chiefs to block what would have been the game-winning kick as time expired. On Sunday, the Raiders had a successful fake punt and a 59-yard kickoff return. Injuries Payton isn’t saying much about the injuries to DE Zach Allen (heel) and CB Riley Moss (knee) except that to him they’re not serious setbacks for either player. Key number 2 — The Broncos are two games above .500 for the first time since starting the 2021 season with three wins. Next steps The Broncos host Cleveland (3-8) on Monday night ahead of their bye week. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflThe National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) withheld photographs of then-Vice President Joe Biden meeting business associates of his son, Hunter Biden, in China until after the 2024 election — but pursued then-former President Donald Trump over records that eventually became the subject of a major federal prosecution. As Breitbart News reported last week, NARA was forced to release some of the photographs after a lawsuit by the America First Legal foundation: The photos — only a partial archive — were released in response to a lawsuit filed by Stephen Miller’s America First Legal foundation against the National Archives and Records Administration in 2022. They shed new light on the Biden family’s history of influence-peddling, which dates back to the Obama administration, and which Democrats denied as they impeached President Donald Trump and claimed Hunter’s laptop was Russian “disinformation.” America First noted in a statement : “Lawyers and representatives for President Biden and President [Barack] Obama delayed NARA’s release of these photographs, as they did with other records, until after Election Day.” But NARA was quite willing to threaten former President Trump with prosecution in 2021, simply for holding onto records that he believed were his. From the New York Times timeline of the “documents” case, in “late 2021”: Officials at the archives warn Mr. Trump’s representatives that there could be a referral to the Justice Department or an alert to Congress if the former president continues to refuse to comply with the Presidential Records Act. ... The archives informs the Justice Department, which asks President Biden to request that the archives provide the F.B.I. with access to the boxes for examination. Later, when the Justice Department reviews the materials, investigators come to believe they have not recovered everything that Mr. Trump must return. NARA’s intervention was key to the launch of the case against Trump, complete with an FBI raid of his private home at Mar-a-Lago.For veteran educator Wilma Fuentes, “Teachers are not only guides but also learners in this new digital age.” Fuentes, like other veteran educators in Cebu, said that teaching has evolved alongside the advancement of technology. The 59-year-old kindergarten teacher, who has taught for over 20 years at the Nazarene Christian Learning Center, shared that technology has transformed how lessons are prepared and delivered. “Traditionally the teachers write everything they want to teach to the pupils or learners; they do it in a manual way, but in modern education, everything is on the internet,” she said. However, she also acknowledged the challenges that come with adapting to new methods. “It’s not just difficult for students but also teachers. But we must adapt to new ways of learning approaches,” she said. Likewise, Edna Eyac, 52, a Grade 3 teacher with 26 years of experience at Banawa Elementary School, shared a similar perspective. “Seasoned teachers like me must continuously upgrade our skills to keep up with 21st-century learners,” Eyac remarked. She highlighted how technology has made lesson preparation more efficient for them and the students. Eyac specifically mentioned tools like PowerPoint and Canva for creating visual aids and platforms like Kahoot and Google Forms for assessments. However, she also acknowledged the strain these changes bring. “(The) challenges I encountered were slow internet connection, not to mention the money for the load, physical changes because of eye strain over time,” she said. “Sometimes I forget the processes because of old age,” Eyac added with a laugh. She also pointed out that not all students have access to technology, which can create a digital divide in learning. For Melisa Retes Pelendingue, a 53-year-old Grade 6 teacher at Banawa Elementary School, incorporating modern tools is crucial in enhancing classroom participation. She said nteractive whiteboards and gamification make learning more engaging and simplify complex concepts. “Continuous learning is key to staying relevant and effective,” Pelendingue said, adding that adapting to change is essential for educators and students. Speaking for all the teachers who have committed to embracing new teaching methods despite the hurdles they face, Fuentes echoed this sentiment saying, “We must grow alongside our learners to make education meaningful.” Fuentes, Eyac, and Pelendingue show how veteran educators balance experience and adaptability. As Pelendingue aptly summarized, “Teaching is a lifelong learning process, and it’s through growth that we truly educate.” Armi Isola Juliana J. Ilumba, / Southwestern University

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