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Here's how trustworthy your Zoom background makes you look, according to study

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:40 GMT

(NEXSTAR) -- If you want to make a great first impression during a Zoom meeting, you might want to check what's in your background. Some experts are calling it the new business suit. A group of researchers at Durham University in the UK examined how gender, facial expressions, and video backdrops influence first impressions online.Their study, published Sept. 27 in the journal Plos One, noted that the way people meet in professional settings is changing as digital platforms like Zoom and Teams grow in popularity thanks, in part, to the COVID-19 pandemic. While you should still dress appropriately during these virtual calls, your clothes are not the only thing colleagues might be looking at. What's on your screen also matters. Nearly 1 in 5 couples include ‘home fund’ in wedding registry: Study “It gives off information about all sorts of stuff -- about how you live, your socioeconomic status, your confidence, your cleanliness levels. These are all things you’re presentin...

Candy corn once had a much different name

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:40 GMT

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) -- Candy corn: you either hate it or love it. Regardless of your opinions toward it, you're likely seeing it on grocery store shelves ahead of Halloween and Thanksgiving. Before it became the candy corn you've come to love (or hate), the controversial candy had a different reputation. The beginning of candy cornGeorge Renniger at Wunderlee Candy Co. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been thought to be the original creator of the treat. While it's said Renniger created the candy in the 1880s, there is no physical proof of it. Around 1898, Jelly Belly, then known as Goelitz Confectionery Company, began making candy corn inside of their factory in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jelly Belly is said to be the company that has been making the treat the longest. Here’s the ‘most popular’ Halloween candy in your state The company still uses the original recipe to create the tri-color candy.The name was...what?Candy corn was originally called "chicken feed," and its target audience ...

49ers at Vikings picks: Christian McCaffrey’s return would make the difference

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:40 GMT

Pioneer Press staffers who cover the Vikings forecast Monday night’s game against the San Francisco 49ers at U.S. Bank Stadium:DANE MIZUTANI49ers 31, Vikings 17It sounds like San Francisco will have Christian McCaffrey, while Minnesota will be without Justin Jefferson. It’s hard to imagine the Vikings pulling the upset without their best player.JOHN SHIPLEYVikings 27, 49ers 24In a league where anything can happen, the locals upset San Francisco after Raymond McCloud has his game-winning punt return for a touchdown called back because, upon video review, the NFL determines he thought briefly about just running out of bounds.CHARLEY WALTERS49ers 31, Vikings 17Despite their upset loss to the Browns last week, the 49ers remain the NFL’s best team. The Vikings are among the NFL’s worst teams. Easy pick.Related ArticlesMinnesota Vikings | The Loop Fantasy Football Update Week 7: Last-minute moves Minnesota Vikings | Vikings could activate receiver Jalen Na...

Five Weeknight Dishes: These pizza-flavored dinner ideas could make you a hero

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:40 GMT

By Emily Fleischaker, The New York TimesI want new adventures in melty mozzarella. I want infinite pools of caramelized tomato sauce. More than anything, I want my children to get on board with what we call “eating food for dinner.”Enter this pizza collection. It’s quick and extremely family-friendly, and I’m guessing no one is mad at a bunch of nutritious ways to (sort of) eat pizza. If you want to live dangerously, you could even make one giant vat of tomato sauce to use for two or three of them in one week.1. Pizza Beans (aka Cheesy White Bean-Tomato Bake)For those of you who love lasagna’s edges, where sticky tomato meets crisp cheese, this whole dish is for you — even the middle. A tube of tomato paste here mimics the deep flavors of sun-dried tomato. Frying a few generous squeezes caramelizes the tomato’s sugars and saturates the olive oil, making a mixture that’s ready to glom onto anything you stir through it. Here, it’s white beans, though you could add in kale, noodl...

Residents in Denver’s Baker neighborhood fed up with crime after recent shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:40 GMT

Homeowners living in Denver’s Baker neighborhood say they’re concerned about rising crime and the safety of their families after a shooting early Saturday morning at the corner of West Alameda Avenue and South Bannock Street.“I’ve called the police every single day for probably a month,” said Dawn McNulty, who’s been a resident of the historic neighborhood for more than two decades.McNulty told us she’s noticed an uptick in everything from illicit drug use and distribution to violence in that area.“It’s now infiltrating our community like it’s never infiltrated before,” said McNulty.Read the full story at Denver7.com.Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.

Juveniles arrested for robbery, weapons possession at L.A. County mall

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:40 GMT

Two teenagers were arrested on robbery and weapons charges at a local shopping center on Saturday night. According to a social media post from the Arcadia Police Department, one of the juveniles was carrying a replica handgun while their accomplice was in possession of a real firearm at the Shops at Santa Anita. Police arrested two juveniles accused of robbery and weapons possession in Arcadia, CA on Oct. 21, 2023. (Twitter/@arcadiapd)Photos posted to X, formerly Twitter, by the police department show the firearm alongside several credit cards and hundreds of dollars in cash. The two suspects were arrested for strong arm robbery and possession of a firearm. 

Man asks California clerk to pick scratchers, wins $10M

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:40 GMT

VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A man in Visalia, California has won $10,000,000 after asking the clerk for help after unsure which scratchers game he wanted to buy, KTLA sister station KSEE/KGPE said.According to the California Lottery, Brent Young looked at the selection of scratchers inside Prince Food and Gas in Visalia. Young asked the clerk which game to buy.“I was like just pick whichever one; I didn’t care,” said Young. The clerk reached across the counter and handed Young a California 200X game. FivePoint Amphitheatre abruptly closes permanently after Saturday night concert Lottery officials say Young's scratcher uncovered the top prize amount of $10,000,000."When I saw all those zeros, I was like ‘no way, this doesn’t happen to people like me,’” Young told the California Lottery. “It’s crazy. Out of all those options, the clerk could have picked a different game. But he didn’t. He grabbed a winner.”Lottery officials say Young decided to take the lump sum prize amount...

16-year-old killed, three others wounded in Oakley party shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:40 GMT

OAKLEY — A 16-year-old was shot and killed and three others were wounded outside a house party in Oakley on Saturday night, police Chief Paul Beard said.Officers first arrived at the home on the 400 block of Shannon Way at about 10:45 p.m. to investigate a noise complaint. An 18-year-old woman who lived there told police she was trying to shut down the party, but teens kept showing up. Officers left after she declined their offer to help break up the party, Beard said.About a half hour later, about 20 to 30 young people showed up at the house, witnesses later told police. With the front door locked, the group entered a side gate to gain entrance to the house’s backyard. Soon after, screams could be heard from inside the home, and several teens began running out the front door, police said.Five to six shots were then fired in front of the home, killing the 16-year-old and wounding three others, who were taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek. They were being treated ...

Authorities are searching for the son of the Nashville Police chief, suspected of shooting two suburban police officers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:40 GMT

(CNN) — Authorities in Tennessee are searching for the son of Nashville’s police chief as a suspect in the Saturday shooting of two suburban police officers.The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued a statewide blue alert late Saturday in an effort to locate the suspect, John Drake Jr., warning that the 38-year-old, who is now wanted on two counts of attempted first-degree murder, should be considered “armed and very dangerous.”Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake confirmed that the suspect is his son.“I am shocked and deeply saddened to learn that my estranged son, with whom I have had very minimal contact over many years, is the suspect in this afternoon’s shooting of the two La Vergne police officers,” Chief Drake said Saturday, adding that his thoughts are with the wounded officers.“Despite my efforts and guidance in the early and teenage years, my son, John Drake Jr., now 38-years-old, resorted to years of criminal activity and is a convicted felon,” the chief said.“He ha...

Former UC Berkeley basketball player injured after 'brutal beating' in Poland

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:40 GMT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An American basketball player at a professional Polish women's club was beaten and left with a head injury midweek with the attacker later detained, according to officials and reports in Polish media on Sunday.Mikayla Cowling, who plays for VBW Arka Gdynia, was attacked late Wednesday in a music club in Gdansk, a city in northern Poland, according to the RMF FM broadcaster, which also quoted the club saying the “brutal beating” left her with a fractured eye socket, among other injuries. 16-year-old killed, 3 injured at Oakley house party shooting Gdansk is a neighboring city to Gdynia on the Baltic coast.“I am outraged that such a shameful situation has occurred. Violence and aggression are unacceptable and must be opposed,” Gdynia Mayor Wojciech Szczurek said Sunday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Fortunately, the police quickly caught the attacker. We wish the player good health!”The attack happened after a EuroCup women’s match where the Gdy...