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The Ultimate Corporate Gifts: Why Chocolate-Shipped Cookies are Changing the Game in Business Giving

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:37:56 GMT

The world of gifting is evolving, be it for family or friends or at the place of work. People are always exploring new ways to make people around them smile on special occasions and holidays. With Christmas around the corner, the gifting tradition takes a swift shift to the tried and tested idea, cookies, chocolates, and more. As we all know nothing can go wrong with a box full of happiness that has the power to pamper anyone’s taste buds.Chocolate Shipped Cookies is at the forefront of this delicious tradition. For over two decades, this family-owned business in Utah has been delighting taste buds and warming hearts with its mouth-watering creations. It all started with a small shop that quickly gained recognition for its delectable cookies. Thankfully, Matt Cutler decided to share the sweetness of this long-time local cookie shop globally and launched their online platform. For those tired of the same old uninspired corporate gifts or Christmas gifts, it’s time to discover t...

Meet Geologic Sensation Painter Nancy Evans

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:37:56 GMT

Painter Nancy Evans’ terrestrial abstractions reference the elusive qualities of time and other phenomenological sensations—geological, celestial, psychical, botanical—creating elusive images with hefty physical presence. In directed pours and gently directed poolings, Evans both allows her materials to find their own ultimate form and texture, white also infusing their evolutions on the canvas with a mixture of memory and meaning. Her perennial interest in the alchemical qualities of the California landscape stretches from its ancestral and agricultural potencies, to its relationship to the elements and the planets, to its holding of her own memories. And like memories, Evans’ images are built from accumulations, accelerations, accidents of physics, and intentions to cultivate. Her work is featured as part of the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A.: Acts of Living, where it speaks to the biennial’s investigation of deep materiality and expression of place—specifically this California plac...

Attack suspect pleads not guilty to hate crime, murder charges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:37:56 GMT

By Sophia Tareen | Associated PressJOLIET, Ill. — A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American woman and her young son pleaded not guilty Monday following his indictment by an Illinois grand jury.Joseph Czuba, 71, is charged in the fatal stabbing of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and the wounding of Hanaan Shahin on Oct. 14. Authorities said the victims were targeted because of their Muslim faith and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas.Shahin told police that Czuba, her landlord in Plainfield in Will County, was upset over the war and attacked them after she had urged him to “pray for peace.”Czuba appeared in court Monday wearing a red jail uniform, socks and yellow rubber slippers.His attorney George Lenard entered the not guilty plea after the judge read the 8-count indictment. Czuba did not speak, looking down at the podium with his hands folded behind his back as he stood before the judge in the court ...

Israel says Shani Louk, 23, taken from music festival, found dead

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:37:56 GMT

By Rob Picheta | CNNA 23-year-old German-Israeli woman who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival by Hamas militants on October 7 has been found dead, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.“We are devastated to share that the body of 23 year old German-Israeli Shani (Louk) was found and identified,” the ministry posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.Louk was attending the festival in southern Israel on October 7 when Hamas breached the border between Gaza and Israel.Louk was kidnapped at the festival and “tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists,” the foreign ministry statement said, adding that she “experienced unfathomable horrors.”“May her memory be a blessing,” the statement said.Militants blocked off the road to the festival from the north and the south during their October 7 attack, before swarming the sprawling site on foot, videos from the site showed.They then encircled the crowds on three sides, gunning them down and forcing them to f...

How to claim a prize in Taco Bell’s 2023 ‘Steal a Base, Steal a Taco’ giveaway

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:37:56 GMT

Taco Bell’s annual “Steal a Base, Steal a Taco” giveaway is underway, triggered by the first stolen base in the 2023 World Series.That feat was achieved Friday by Ketel Marte, second baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks, in Game 1 against the Texas Rangers. He stole second base in the third inning. The Rangers won 6-5 in Arlington, Texas. Related ArticlesRestaurants, Food and Drink | Saratoga restaurateurs causing a stir in Santa Cruz Mountains Restaurants, Food and Drink | A first look (and first taste) at Copita rooftop restaurant and bar Restaurants, Food and Drink | California officials delay start of 2023 Dungeness crab season to protect whales Restaurants, Food and Drink | Hi Felicia in Oakland owes more than $100,000 to former workers, says city Restaurants, Food and Drink | Here are special foods and deals at restaurants for Halloween 2023 This year’s promotion is for one free Nacho Cheese Dorito...

Teen arrested in connection to San Jose hit-and-run that killed pregnant woman, baby

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:37:56 GMT

SAN JOSE — A 15-year-old boy was arrested Saturday in connection to last week’s South San Jose hit-and-run that left a pregnant woman and her baby dead, police said.The crash occurred around 8:42 p.m. on Tuesday in the area of Blossom Hill Road and Winfield Boulevard. According to police, the woman, later identified as 21-year-old San Jose resident April Zoglauer, was driving a 2008 Nissan sedan eastbound on Blossom Hill when she was hit by a person driving a 2013 white Hyundai sedan south on Winfield.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Stanford says it is investigating after hacker group threatens to release confidential information Crashes and Disasters | Deputies arrest car thieves in Saratoga Crashes and Disasters | Baby Phoenix died of a fentanyl overdose in San Jose. Neighbors insist they tried to raise the alarm Crashes and Disasters | Motorhome recovered, suspect arrested in Palo Alto carjacking Crashe...

X starts subscription tiers that cost up to $16 a month

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:37:56 GMT

Shiyin Chen | Bloomberg News (TNS)Elon Musk’s X began offering new subscription tiers for users on Friday in an attempt to shore up revenue at the social media company.Subscribers have the option of paying $3 a month for the basic tier, which provides features such as the ability to edit posts and upload longer videos, according to the company formerly known as Twitter Inc.Related ArticlesTechnology | How a single year of Elon Musk turned Twitter into a husk of its former self Technology | Walters: How California social media regulation compares to red states Technology | Misinformation floods social media, none more than Musk’s X Technology | EU warns Musk about penalties for misinformation on X Technology | Israel-Hamas conflict was a test for Elon Musk’s X, and it failed Web users can opt to pay $8 a month for the premium tier or $16 a month for premium+, to get additional benefits including the...

Review: Rock legend delivers brilliant concert with symphony orchestra

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:37:56 GMT

Bobby Weir has been playing in bands for some 60 years.Yet, the Grateful Dead legend has probably never played in one in the Bay Area quite like the one on Sunday night at the Frost Amphitheater on the Stanford University Campus.The 76-year-old San Francisco native, who was raised in Atherton and has long called Marin County home, was joined onstage by an enormous number of people for this two-set show that drew a full house to one of the most beautiful concert settings in all of California.First off, he was accompanied by his regular Wolf Bros band — with the supersized lineup of Don Was on double bass, Jay Lane on drums, Jeff Chimenti on keyboard and Barry Sless on pedal steel guitar. There was also the Wolfpack, the string and brass quintet of violinist Mads Tolling, cellist Alex Kelly, trumpeter Brian Switzer, trombonist Adam Theis and multi-instrumentalist Sheldon Brown.Yet, surrounding Weir and his Wolf men on three sides was the mammoth Stanford Symphony Orchestra, the ...

15-year-old arrested in fatal San Jose hit and run that killed pregnant mother and her child

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:37:56 GMT

(KRON) – A 15-year-old who was allegedly driving a stolen car was arrested in connection to a hit-and-run crash last week that resulted in the death of a pregnant woman and her child, the San Jose Police Department announced Monday.On Oct. 24, a 2008 black Nissan sedan occupied by a pregnant adult female driver was traveling eastbound on Blossom Hill Road when a 2013 white Hyundai sedan traveling southbound on Winfield Boulevard ran a red light and collided with the pregnant woman’s car. Pregnant woman, baby killed in San Jose hit-and-run crash According to police, the white Hyundai sedan was occupied by two unknown males who fled on foot from the vehicle immediately after the collision. According to the police investigation, the Hyundai was an unreported stolen vehicle. The pregnant woman was pronounced deceased at the local hospital, she was transported to. SJPD was notified that the infant succumbed to sustained injuries and was pronounced deceased on Oct. 25. Special...

Power outages impact about 2,500 customers in SF, Brisbane

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:37:56 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Power outages in San Francisco and Brisbane are impacting about 2,500 customers Monday morning, according to PG&E. PG&E's outage map shows the outage centered around SF's Bayview District and in neighboring Brisbane. Cruise to pull all of its driverless vehicles off streets nationwide Earlier Monday, about 4,500 customers are without power in San Francisco in addition to another 1,000 in Brisbane. Power for some customers has since been restored, according to PG&E. There is no word on what caused the outage or when power might be restored to all customers.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.