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Axios
5 days ago
- Business
- Axios
Too Good To Go app aims to cut food waste in Utah with cheap groceries
The global anti-food waste app Too Good To Go is expanding to Salt Lake City, the company announced last week. Why it matters: About one-third of all food in the U.S. is thrown away, per the USDA, even as food insecurity rises. The big picture: Too Good To Go connects local restaurants, bakeries and grocery stores to consumers eager to buy surplus food at a fraction of the original price, says Allie Denburg, U.S. strategy and planning lead at Too Good To Go. Zoom in: Consumers typically pay half or one-third of the retail value for leftover food that's still fresh and safe to eat. Businesses pay an annual fee (typically $89) and $1.79 per bag sold. The app tracks each user's lifetime savings and offers at-home waste-cutting tips. How it works: Download the app and create a profile.
Gizmodo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Oh Dear, Wizkids' Baldur's Gate 3 Miniatures Rolled a Natural 1
As Larian winds down its extensive post-launch support plans for Baldur's Gate 3, Hasbro has been keen to remind Baldur's Gate 3 fans that they have That Game You Like, Too as often as possible. Karlach and Astarion became the big digital faces of D&D's ambitiously gamified virtual tabletop Project Sigil, before it was effectively scrapped earlier this year. Not to worry though, Wizkids were getting ready to offer a Baldur's Gate 3 experience for the physical tabletop. Things should be good, right? … right? Last year Wizkids unveiled a series of pre-painted miniatures inspired by the character designs of Baldur's Gate 3, set to release this year. The 40-miniature-strong collection, alongside a box of just the main characters of the game, was set to bring a veritable host of both named characters and generic minions and creatures from Larian's vision of Faerun to your desk or your next gaming night for everyone who wanted to drag themselves away from their PC or console and imagine if the game behind Baldur's Gate 3 was real. What a concept! But now those miniatures have started getting in people's hands and, oh no. Alarm was sparked this week by, funnily enough, a Larian employee, when Baldur's Gate 3 senior cinematic artist Elodie Ceselli shared pictures of the horrifying paint applications on the final minis they received. Shadowheart has seen things not even Shar would have put her through. Withers is more withered than usual. Gale looks like he's about to tell someone they're the most devious bahstard in nyew waterdeep citaaaaaay. Frustrated gamers likewise chimed in Ceselli's thread with their own examples of dodgy paint apps and damaged minis. Not even samples sent out to press are faring better–GamesRadar's gallery of miniature mishaps is just as worthy of a Vicious Mockery or two, as well. To be fair to Wizkids, mass-marked pre-painted miniatures are not going to exactly be at the standard of seasoned miniature painters. $50 for a box of seven miniatures is a hefty price tag, but experienced hobbyists would know that that kind of money pales in comparison to what someone spending dozens of hours hand-painting their own models might spend in supplies or labor, or what you might pay getting a custom miniature made of your character. But that's a tough argument to make especially when what's getting out to gamers in-hand doesn't even match up with the samples being used to promote these miniatures–which themselves are a significant downgrade from the early renders shown to announce the miniatures last September. Baldur's Gate 3 is going out on a high note as a video game with its last patch bringing a ton of new subclasses and enhancements, but it seems like Hasbro's own handling of the franchise needed to make some better perception checks so far.
News.com.au
22-04-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Trainers have faith filly All Kinds Of Folk could have what it takes to win Group 1 Australasian Oaks
A spark provided in a Group 2 race in the spring has developed into a serious chance at a Group 1 win for a Wangaratta filly in Saturday's Australasian Oaks in Adelaide. Trainers John and Chris Ledger threw All Kinds Of Folk into top company at only her third start when testing the three-year-old on the Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington last October. Too Darn Discreet won the race from Delichy Boulevard but All Kinds Of Folk belied her massive starting price when running hard into fourth despite being beaten in a Ballarat maiden at her previous outing. 'I think she had the fastest last 200m of that day at Flemington and was really hitting the line,' Chris Ledger said. 'That gave us plenty of confidence to keep pushing through. 'Pretty much from her first jumpout, she's shown us that she had something there and she has just kept improving her whole life.' Many observers would have ignored the run but the Ledgers kept All Kinds Of Folk progressing to the VRC Oaks to give her a grounding for what they believed would be a richer autumn preparation. Too Darn Discreet in the pouring rain gets it done in the TAB Edward Manifold Stakes. Well done Matt Hill on calling that one â˜' ðŸ'½ @7HorseRacing — Victoria Racing Club (@FlemingtonVRC) October 5, 2024 'We went into the Oaks knowing that she could run well but probably couldn't beat Treasurethe Moment,' Ledger said. 'We thought she would improve during her spell and come back and we think she has done that.' The duo refused the temptation to make a crucial gear change on the daughter of D'Argento until she had further matured ahead of her autumn campaign. All Kinds Of Folk wore blinkers for her first-up fourth at Sandown in February before breaking her maiden in emphatic style at Benalla second-up. 'Sometimes you just question yourself but we've just believed in her and every time we've asked her to do something, she's just stepped up,' Ledger said. 'This time in, winning by 12 lengths at Benalla was just in a maiden but you don't see that every day. '(Jockey) Blaike (McDougall) kept her going to the line at Benalla because we wanted her to have a good workout as we had planned to target Adelaide if she won there.' All Kinds Of Folk showed she would be competitive in the Australasian Oaks when running on well to finish a narrow second to Cinch in the Group 3 Auraria Stakes (1800m). Cinch finds the front early & clings on to take out the G3 Auraria Stakes for her third win in a row ðŸ'° @LindsayParkRace — (@Racing) April 12, 2025 • Bookies rated All Kinds Of Folk as a $9 chance in early Australasian Oaks betting. Winning the Group 1 feature would end a long chase for John Ledger, who has raced some outstanding horses such as Group winners Brave Chief, Soleil and Mind Your Head without saluting at the highest level. Ledger said the family was determined to change that status. 'Brave Chief won a Group 2 and John has won 16 Listed and black-type races like Group 2 and Group 3 races,' Ledger said. 'The best we've done in a Group 1 race is when Largo Lad ran fourth in a (Australian) Guineas. 'John's brother George won a Galaxy with Rich Fields Lad in 1985 so we've been chasing pretty hard for many years to get to that level. 'It's definitely a dream for all of us'
Boston Globe
09-04-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
A noble endeavor for a Great Society is being abandoned
Get The Gavel A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Enter Email Sign Up Last week, those words rang hollow. Following a visit by Advertisement At 12:39 a.m. on April 3, I received two emails from an account unknown to me, one I later learned was DOGE-related. After being notified of the emails by a colleague in another state, I found them in the junk mail folder. The emails were duplicates, each attached to a letter from the acting chair of NEH informing me that the agency's two grants to Mass Humanities were being terminated. The termination was 'an urgent priority' and therefore 'the traditional notification process is not possible.' NEH would be repurposing the funds to follow 'a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda.' Advertisement Similar messages were received by many other NEH grantees around the nation in the middle of the night. Many reported that they, too, had to search for the emails, the contents of which could trigger layoffs and even the closure of some organizations. Where once the federal government took pride in its investment in the humanities, today it breaks its word with little more than a form letter full of vague excuses. Given the history of the NEH, its midnight missive last week was akin to a parent suddenly texting a child not to come home anymore. While the National Endowment for the Arts supports the creation of visual and performing arts and arts education, the NEH supports interpretation, research, and public history. If the NEA is the painting on the wall, NEH is the text that accompanies it telling you about the artist, their history, and where and when the painting was made. Several years after the NEH launched, Congress was concerned that its funds weren't reaching local communities. So it amended the legislation to establish state councils that could disperse the funds. In 1974, a committee formed at UMass Amherst gave rise to Mass Humanities as our state's NEH affiliate. Advertisement Mass Humanities, like our sibling councils in other states, is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization. Each council receives an annual grant from NEH through an allocation based largely on population. In 2024, $65 million was distributed among all the state councils, roughly 30 percent of NEH's annual budget of $207 million. You might even say this public-private partnership is efficient. The $1.3 million Mass Humanities receives in annual funding is minuscule in the federal budget, so there's not much of a case for these cuts eliminating wasteful government spending. A portion of our NEH grant goes to the Clemente Course in the Humanities, an adult education program that offers free college-level classes in six of Massachusetts' 'gateway cities.' Along with books, transportation vouchers, and graduation certificates, NEH dollars helped us provide free laptops for student writers who contributed to two anthologies, 'We, Too, Are America,' and 'This Is Your Democracy,' during the pandemic. Our annual NEH grant also supports our team's work with rural communities on 'Voices & Votes: Democracy in America,' a Smithsonian traveling exhibition set to kick off this month. Staff from local museums receive training on serving hearing-impaired audiences, partnering with immigrant communities, and marketing. One now-canceled NEH grant to Mass Humanities was supposed to cover supplies and travel to Boston for a workshop for more than 60 organizations that host public readings of Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' The organizations we support are not bastions of the elite. From historical societies in Lawrence to human service centers in Springfield, our partners are beloved by their audiences, but none of them can fall back on billion-dollar endowments. Advertisement Still, we are lucky to live in Massachusetts. We may still find private funders to help us fill the NEH gap. For many humanities councils in other states, last week's emails will serve as death sentences. In cash-strapped states or states with political climates hostile to cultural funding, the annual NEH grant can represent as much as 80 percent of the council's budget. Layoffs, cancellation of grant-making, and the end of public programs are already underway in red and blue states alike. There is still hope of stopping the NEH cuts. Humanities councils enjoy bipartisan support. But we live in a historically dangerous moment. In 1965, federal funding for the humanities began with a clear statement, made publicly in the presence of great artists and enshrined in legislation declaring that our democracy 'cannot rest solely upon superior power, wealth, and technology.' In 2025, the people running our government tell us that the humanities are nothing more than spam. Though clumsy and callous, that message was clear.
