Americans' Holiday Spending Falls Short of Last Year's Spike

 Posted on September 3, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  659 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Americans' holiday spending between November 1 and December 24 surged 3.1 percent from last year, but spending for the same period in 2022 was up more than 7 percent from 2021, according to a new report from Mastercard. In September, Mastercard predicted that retail sales would increase by 3.7 percent year-over-year as a result of lowered inflation, increased product demand, savings and increasing wages. "This holiday season, the consumer showed up, spending in a deliberate manner," [Read More]

Charles Geschke Net Worth | Biography

 Posted on September 3, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  846 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Charles Geschke Net Worth – $300 million What was Charles Geschke’s net worth at the time of his death? Introduction Charles ‘Chuck’ Geschke was the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. Biography He was born on September 11, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio, as Charles Matthew Geschke. His father was a photo engraver, while his mother was a bankruptcy court paralegal. In 1962, he earned a bachelor’s degree in classics from Xavier University in Cincinnati. [Read More]

How Normal People Does Sex So Good

 Posted on September 3, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2865 words  |  Larita Shotwell

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones as Connell and Marianne. There’s a sex scene in the second episode of Normal People that lasts nine minutes and 24 seconds — or, put another way, a third of the entire episode. It begins with Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), our endearingly awkward heroine, haphazardly applying eyeliner, then wiping it off in frustration before pulling on a blazer and walking nervously over to Connell’s (Paul Mescal) house. [Read More]

Katharine McPhee's Dad Dies After Her Engagement: Read Statement

 Posted on September 3, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  283 words  |  Reinaldo Massengill

Katharine McPhee is mourning the loss of her father, Daniel McPhee, two weeks after she announced her engagement to David Foster. “I can’t believe I’m even writing this. But it is with heavy heart that I share that my sweet sweet Papa left this earth yesterday morning. We as a family are completely heartbroken and devastated,” the Smash alum, 34, revealed late Monday, July 16, via Instagram. “He was my biggest fan, my biggest champion, always telling me to ‘Give em hell kid! [Read More]

Nebraska senator blocking bill to ban trans kids' surgery serves alongside her equally woke brother

 Posted on September 3, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  802 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

The Democrat Nebraska senator blocking all legislation to defend kids' rights to transgender surgery serves alongside her brother who pulled his children out of Catholic school over a policy to expel gay students. Machaela Cavanaugh embarked on a three-week-long filibuster to oppose a bill on gender-affirming care, winning her a slew of national newspaper headlines and even a coveted profile in Vogue. Critics have slammed her for wasting time in the Legislature and delaying the passing of important bills. [Read More]

Penn Badgley on Hating His You Character Joe: Everything Hes Said

 Posted on September 3, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  445 words  |  Martina Birk

Tell Us how you really feel! Penn Badgley hates his You character, Joe Goldberg — and he can’t stop talking about it. To be fair, it’s hard to like a sadistic stalker — but a lot of viewers of the psychological thriller do, which has rubbed the Gossip Girl alum the wrong way since the series premiered on Lifetime in September 2018. “We can’t lead ourselves to believe that if Joe would simply find the right person that he would be happy — because he’s a f–king murderer,” Badgley said in an interview with Vanity Fair the following year. [Read More]

Does Filch live at Hogwarts?

 Posted on September 2, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  974 words  |  Larita Shotwell

He kept his job of caretaker after the Second Wizarding War. Filch was also the only one of the Hogwarts staff to stay at Hogwarts Castle during the summer holidays. How is Quodpot different from Quidditch? Quodpot is an American broom game variant of Quidditch invented by Abraham Peasegood. It has eleven players per side and an exploding leather ball called the Quod (QA8, Pm). … If the Quod explodes while in their possession, that player must leave the field (QA8). [Read More]

Florida boy, 3, is killed by oncoming car going 65 mph after running into traffic while his mom, 31,

 Posted on September 2, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  693 words  |  Martina Birk

A three-year-old Florida boy has died after running into traffic while his mother, who had also been hit, suffered severe injuries while trying to save the toddler.  Cayden Denny was with his mother, Cassandra Lyn Becher, 31, and another unidentified person when the incident happened on December 3.  Becher had parked her car with a trailer attached to its back in her garage while the child exited the vehicle.  Denny began to run away from his mother, went behind the trailer and started running down a car lane. [Read More]

I Got Skinny In Quarantine!

 Posted on September 2, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  364 words  |  Larita Shotwell

In the week to come, Deena Nicole Cortese’s life will likely become much more complicated. Thursday night’s episode of Jersey Shore documented the run-up to Angelina Pivarnick’s wedding, and presumably, next week we’ll get to witness the actual event. That means that after months of build-up, we’ll finally see Deena and her fellow Shore castmatesroast Angelina during their bridesmaid speech. [Read More]