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Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. In 2024 it will be celebrated on Tuesday, December 3. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Since then, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. Whether it’s making someone smile, helping a neighbor or stranger out, showing up for an issue or people we care about, or giving some of what we have to those who need our help, every act of generosity counts – and everyone has something to give. Give Time By volunteering, you can give something back, make a difference to the people around you, develop new skills, and learn more about issues affecting your community. The right volunteer opportunity can help you reduce stress, find friends, and even advance your career. Connect with nonprofits in your community or check out VolunteerMatch, Points of Light, or Idealist. Give Voice You’ve got the power and the passion to transform your community. By lending our voice to advocate for the causes and issues we care about, we can all be activists who affect the kind of change that makes our world a better place. Don’t forget that you can make some of the most meaningful change within your own local community. Give Dollars Throughout our communities, nonprofit organizations are working tirelessly every day to make a difference. Donate to a nonprofit in honor of GivingTuesday. Find a nonprofit online or through your local U.S. community or global GivingTuesday movements. Or start a giving circle with your friends and family! Learn more about nonprofits and the social sector with these resources. Give Goods Organize a donation drive – they’re a great way to rally a group around a cause you all care about, whether that’s your weekend crew, your family, your neighbors, or your officemates. Collect toiletries, books, clothes, food – just about anything can be the focus of a donation drive. Be sure the check in with the nonprofit you’re collecting for before you begin. And don’t forget to take lots of photos along the way – everyone loves to see a big pile of donated goods as a reward for their work and generosity. Give Talent Many nonprofits are understaffed or operating on a small budget and can’t afford the marketing, HR, technology, or planning resources that their missions deserve. Consider giving your skills to help a nonprofit – get connected with Taproot+. Give Together GivingTuesday is an opportunity to do more than just raise money – it’s a chance to unite and inspire communities around the world. “Chalk” your neighborhood, build a kindness wall, or host community conversations to discuss local issues. Get involved with your local GivingTuesday Community Campaign. Share Why You Give When we share our generosity, we inspire others to give back too. Share how and why you’re giving back on GivingTuesday by posting your #UNselfie on social media. Share your story on social media about why you give and inspire others. Source: https://www.givingtuesday.org
Kasper Schmeichel refused to blame Cameron Carter-Vickers as he brushed off the nightmare own goal conceded in the Champions League draw against Club Brugge. The Celtic No1 revealed he had screamed at the centre-back to warn him but, unaware, Carter-Vickers rolled the ball into his own goal. It was a calamitous start for Celtic but the Denmark internationalist insisted there will be no dwelling on the mistake. "It's one of those things," he said. "I'm showing for Nicolas, I think Nicolas is going to pass to me. "I think Nicolas does well to get the pass to Cam but I think he is surprised by it and obviously, he is getting pressed. "It's so loud in here that he hasn't heard me that I'm screaming that I'm not in. "It's one of those things, we just move on. It happens." In the aftermath, Schmeichel gathered his team-mates - with the help of captain Callum McGregor - for a mental reset after a sluggish start to the league phase contest. Read more: Celtic quickfire crisis meeting explained after CCV howler Celtic starlet hits five goals in five Euro games He explained: "I think it is important when things aren't going [well], any time there is a chance in the game to just mentally reset to say, 'Listen, we are getting caught too many times in a mid-block. Either we go and we press high or we stay and defend'. "They were having a little bit too much time on the ball, a little bit too much joy so it was important for us just to shore things up a little bit and get to halftime so we could restructure." Asked whether a point was a fair result, the Celtic shot-stopper said: "Probably on reflection, We weren't ourselves in the first half, we didn't get up to the tempo of the game or get to the intensity that we know we can. "Luckily we had half-time to change that, changed our press a little bit and things got better in the second half." The result takes Celtic to eight points in the league phase after five matches with the club still in the qualification spots for the knockout rounds in 20th. Schmeichel, though, reckons the points haul could have been higher. "I think there were chances for us to win tonight," he said. "Reasonably happy."
TV personality Kelly Ripa is stirring up more than just Thanksgiving sides this year. The Live with Kelly and Mark host, 54, found herself at the center of a heated debate after Monday’s show. She sparked controversy when she asked viewers a seemingly innocent question: “Do you call it stuffing or dressing?” While Ripa explained the terms vary by region, viewers were quick to school her online, arguing that “ stuffing ” and “dressing” are two entirely different dishes. The backlash spilled into Tuesday’s episode, and Ripa didn’t hold back when addressing the Thanksgiving controversy. A post shared by LIVE with Kelly and Mark (@livekellyandmark) “I mean, forget any political discourse ,” she said, clearly unimpressed. “The real discourse are the people arguing about stuffing and dressing .” Ripa then turned her frustration directly on her critics. DON'T MISS: Two huge Thanksgiving Day storms to ruin Macy's parade and cause travel chaos [INSIGHT] Diddy's terrible Thanksgiving Day dinner if bail denied again - with sandwiches [REVEALED] Meghan breaks silence on 'new adventure' after professional change with Harry [LATEST] “You clearly don’t have actual problems,” she declared. “Get a life.” The side-dish spat has left fans divided, with some defending Ripa’s lighthearted comment and others doubling down on the difference between the two terms. One fan wrote: "Stuffing is made from bread. Dressing is made from corn bread . They’re not the same." "Neither. It's called filling," another claimed. A third noted: "Stuffing. That's the only answer."Quanex Building Products Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 ResultsInside Celtic on-field crisis meeting as Schmeichel explains CCV own goalTheir ages vary. But a conspicuous handful of filmmaking lions in winter, or let’s say late autumn, have given us new reasons to be grateful for their work over the decades — even for the work that didn’t quite work. Which, yes, sounds like ingratitude. But do we even want more conventional or better-behaved work from talents such as Francis Ford Coppola? Even if we’re talking about “Megalopolis” ? If Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” gave audiences a less morally complicated courtroom drama, would that have mattered, given Warner Bros.’ butt-headed decision to plop it in less than three dozen movie theaters in the U.S.? Coppola is 85. Eastwood is 94. Paul Schrader, whose latest film “Oh, Canada” arrives this week and is well worth seeking out, is a mere 78. Based on the 2021 Russell Banks novel “Foregone,” “Oh, Canada” is the story of a documentary filmmaker, played by Richard Gere, being interviewed near the end of his cancer-shrouded final days. In the Montreal home he shares with his wife and creative partner, played by Uma Thurman, he consents to the interview by two former students of his. Gere’s character, Leonard Fife, has no little contempt for these two, whom he calls “Mr. and Mrs. Ken Burns of Canada” with subtle disdain. As we learn over the artful dodges and layers of past and present, events imagined and/or real, Fife treats the interview as a final confession from a guarded and deceptive soul. He’s also a hero to everyone in the room, famous for his anti-Vietnam war political activism, and for the Frederick Wiseman-like inflection of his own films’ interview techniques. The real-life filmmaker name-checked in “Oh, Canada” is documentarian Errol Morris, whose straight-to-the-lens framing of interview subjects was made possible by his Interrotron device. In Schrader’s adaptation, Fife doesn’t want the nominal director (Michael Imperioli, a nicely finessed embodiment of a second-rate talent with first-rate airs) in his eyeline. Rather, as he struggles with hazy, self-incriminating memories of affairs, marriages, one-offs with a friend’s wife and a tense, brief reunion with the son he never knew, Fife wants only his wife, Emma — his former Goddard College student — in this metaphoric confessional. Schrader and his editor Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. treat the memories as on-screen flashbacks spanning from 1968 to 2023. At times, Gere and Thurman appear as their decades-young selves, without any attempt to de-age them, digitally or otherwise. (Thank god, I kind of hate that stuff in any circumstance.) In other sequences from Fife’s past, Jacob Elordi portrays Fife, with sly and convincing behavioral details linking his performance to Gere’s persona. We hear frequent voiceovers spoken by Gere about having ruined his life by age 24, at least spiritually or morally. Banks’ novel is no less devoted to a dying man’s addled but ardent attempt to come clean and own up to what has terrified him the most in the mess and joy of living: Honesty. Love. Commitment. There are elements of “Oh, Canada” that soften Banks’ conception of Fife, from the parentage of Fife’s abandoned son to the specific qualities of Gere’s performance. It has been 44 years since Gere teamed with Schrader on “American Gigolo,” a movie made by a very different filmmaker with very different preoccupations of hetero male hollowness. It’s also clearly the same director at work, I think. And Gere remains a unique camera object, with a stunning mastery of filling a close-up with an unblinking stillness conveying feelings easier left behind. The musical score is pretty watery, and with Schrader you always get a few lines of tortured rhetoric interrupting the good stuff. In the end, “Oh, Canada” has an extraordinarily simple idea at its core: That of a man with a movie camera, most of his life, now on the other side of the lens. Not easy. “I can’t tell the truth unless that camera’s on!” he barks at one point. I don’t think the line from the novel made it into Schrader’s script, but it too sums up this lion-in-winter feeling of truth without triumphal Hollywood catharsis. The interview, Banks wrote, is one’s man’s “last chance to stop lying.” It’s also a “final prayer,” dramatized by the Calvinist-to-the-bone filmmaker who made sure to include that phrase in his latest devotion to final prayers and missions of redemption. “Oh, Canada” — 3 stars (out of 4) No MPA rating (some language and sexual material) Running time: 1:34 How to watch: Opens in theaters Dec. 13, running 1in Chicago Dec. 13-19 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.; siskelfilmcenter.org Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.
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