Exclusive:Schitt’s Creek Star Emily Hampshire and Frasier‘S Jess Salgueiro Are Among The Lead Cast of Crane Softball Comedy Series Slo Pitchwe’ve learned.
Karen Knox, Gwenlyn Cumyn, Emma Hunter, Chelsea Muirhead, Lane Webber, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Amanda Cordner Also Star, with Softball Legend Ayami Maching A Guest Appearance. Other Guests Include Varun Saranga, Laura de Carteret, Don Maclean Jr., Comedians Carolyn Taylor, Chris Locke and Chris Sandiford, and Nadine Bhabha, who is also a writer on the series.
The Series is Centered Around a Queer, Underdog, Slo Pitch Softball Team and Their Dedicated and Determined Coach, Played by Salguiero, WHO Starred in paramount+’s Frasier Reboot. We’ve got a first-look image above.
The 10-Episode Show, for Bell Media’s Canadian Network CTV and Streamer Cra, Comes From Murdo Mysteries Maker Shaftesbury in Association with Knox, Cumyn and Michael Schram’s Boss & Co and Elliot Page’s Pageboy Productions. IT’S BASED ON A Web Series of the Same Name That Played on Outtv and in the US On IFC.
J Stevens, Knox and Cumyn Are The Creators of the Crass Show, with Katie Ford and Jane Cooper Ford Developing it for TV. The series is the first to come out of Bell’s Co-Development with Pageboy, and was unveiled Earlier this year at an upfront in canada.
More details on the full have Also Been Unveiled Today. To the Synopsis, “Welcome to the World of Beer League Sports, where Joanne Pico (Salgueiro) is to Coach Six-Time League Lers, the Public Lass Brovaries. Girlfriend and Co-Founder of the Team. Joanne’s got a lot to test this season.
The series will be available to Both English- and French-Language Viewers, with Shaftesbury Handling International Distribution.
Slo Pitch Was made with participation of the Bell Media Fund and Ontario Creates. Hampshire, Known for Playing Stevie Budd in CBC Comedy Schitt’s Creekis an Executive Producer Alongside Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie and Paige Haight for Shaftesbury. Knox and Cumyn Are Executive Producers, Writers and Stars, while Ford, Cooper Ford and Schram Are Executive Producers. Stevens is Executive Producer and Director.
For Bell Media, Alexis McLaren is Production Executive; Sarah Fowlie is Head of Production, Original Programming; Rachel Goldstein-Couto is Head of Development, Original Programming; Carlyn Klebuc is General Manager, Original Programming; and Justin Stockman is Vice President, Content Development & Programming.
Guest Star Sato Recently Made History by Becoming the First Woman to Play in a Canadian Men’s Professional Baseball League, when she tourned out for the Toronto leafs in an intercounty basal league game.
Exclusive: With his series Stranger Things Coming to end Later this year, david Harbor is setting up his fule slate as source deadline that the emmy-nominated actor is in negotiations to join Pascal in the searchlight Behemoth! From Tony Gilroy. Searchlight Recently Came ABOARD The Project, Which Gilroy Will Write and Direct.
Full of details are vague at this time, but gilroy has said in interviews that the film revolves Around a Cellist. Gilroy Waled Also Produce With Sanne Wohlenberg. The film is set to be begged principal photography this fall in los angeles, with retaining plans to be announed at a latert.
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Harbour is set to bring a close to his hopper character, which has earned Him a pair of emmy nominations and a golden globe nom, as the final season Stranger Things Bows late this year. He recently Wrapped Production on the HBO Limited Series DTF St. Louis. Next up, he has the sequel to the universal action pic Violent Night.
The tony nominee was was also recently seen in the marvel pic Thunderbolts*, Which Bowed in May. He is repped by wme and sloan offfer weber.
IT’s the end of an era in starz’s Power Book IV: Force‘S Third and Final Season, Premiering on November 7, and Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) Won’t be Going Out with A Fight. The Official Trailer was just released this morning and can be bewed above.
The action-packed two-minute preview is setting up for Tommy’s solo ride against the world, well, the chicago underworld at the Very Least. And while he may be going at it solo, he is far from alone. Chaos, break name is thomas patrick Egan.
“This is gonna be the battle of my f ** king life,” Tommy Shares in the trailer.
There’s also a cute little nod to the motherhood series in a conversation between tommy and d-maac (Lucien Cambric) that will get fans excited for the Newly Greenlit Spinoff Power: Origins. Although as Yet Unconfirmed, Sikora is Said to Be Leading a Spinoff Set in the Present Day, in Development and Tentatively Called Power: LegacyAlongside Felow Franchise Star Michael Rainey Jr. Not even Tariq St. Patrick, if it goes to series. Howver, Its Anyone’s Game at this point.
In season 1 of strengthTommy Left New York AFter Ling James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick), Lakeisha Grant (La La Anthony), and the Only City He’s Ever Known. He made a quick detour to Close an Old Wound’s Been Haunting Him for Decades. What was supposed to be a quick stop tourned into a labyrinth of family Secrets and Lies Tommy Thought were long bureed.
In the final Season, Tommy is Back with an Ever-Growing List of Enemies and With A Relevation to Dominate Chicago’s Drug Game, Which Comes at A High Cost. With the Feds on his tail and street gangs trying to take Him down, he is strategic in his queue to take over chicago’s druug game.
Tommy Must Poach Customers from rival factions if he has any chance at Becoming Kingpin, All while Battling Miguel’s (Manuel Eduardo Ramirez) Growing Power and Navigating An Increasingly Complex of Threats in the Streets. With a deepenting divide with his coalition and his personal life under threat, tommy must balance and defensive to survive and protest and work.
To CLAIM the throne, he must navigate an ever-evolving dynamic with his business partner, diamond, and a Contentious Relationship with Diamond’s Brother, Jenard. As Pressure Mounts from the Coalition, The Feds, Miguel’s Crew, and the Marquez Cartel, Tommy Must Find a Way to Protect HIS Family and Those and Loves, Including Good (Carmela Zumbado).
Adrienne Walker Also Stars As Shanti ‘Showstopper’ Page. Additional Cast Members Include: Miriam A. Hyman as us Atorney Stacy Marks, and Anthony Fleming III As JP.
Although we’re still a month out before the show returns, sikora is currently killing it on the nelessx collctive for hulu legal drama Reasonable DoubtStarring Alongside Emayatzy Corinealdi. While His Character Bill Sterling is Different in Mary Ways From Tommy Egan, One Gets the Feeling There’s Still More to Be Revealed Him as Season 3 Continuing Dropping Every Thicksday.
As Taylor Swift Launches Her Showgirl Era, she’s paying tribute to another great musician Also Known for Pushing Boundaries in His Career.
George Michael’s Estate Recently Teassed Swift’s Update of the Late Artist’s 1987 Hit ‘Father Figure’ AS ‘SUCH A SPECIAL MOMENT, ”Appearing on the 14x Grammy-Winning Artist’s 12th Studio Album The Life of a ShowgirlWhich Friday debuts.
“We were delight delight so Taylor Swift and Her Team Approached US Earlier This Year About Incorporating An Interpolation of George Michael’s Classic Song ‘Father’ Into a Brand Song of the Title to Her ForthComing album,” George Michael ENTERTAID INTERTAID a stherent on Facebook.
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“We have been heard the track we had no hesitation in aggregation to this Association BetWeen Two Great Artists and We Know George Wauld have felt the Same,” The Estate Continued. “George Michel Entertainment Wishes Taylor Every Success with The Life of a Showgirl and ‘Father Figure’. ”
In august, swift announedd The Life of a Showgirl Not even Next album. Deadline late Exclusively Reported that amc Had Secured An Oct. 3-5 Release for the Album’s Accompanying Film of the Same Name.
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Michael Died at Age 53 on Christmas Morning in 2016 of Natural Causes, Sufofering From An Enlarged Heart and Fatty Liver Disease.
A 4-YEAR-OLD WHO WAS HIT HUT BY A MINIVAN IN WEST RIDGE WEDNESDAY NIGHT OUTSIDE HER HOME HAS DED, ACCING TO CHICAGO Poli.
Juslene Akaza was Crossing the Street in the 6200 Block of North Talman Avenue at 5:43 pm when a 72-Yaar-Old Driver Going North Her, Police and the County Medical Examine Said. Juslene was taken to St. Francis Hospital Where She Was Pronounced Dead at 6:15 PM, The Medical Examinar’s Office Said.
The Driver was cited for failure to reduce speed to avoid an Accident and failure to enact duen to avoid a peedesrian, policy Said. The Crash Remains Under Investigation.
Here’s how yushell alejandro yin del Toro Sums up the three miserable days he recently spent at the federal facility in suburban broadView, where federal officers hold implicants after arrest.
For Sleeping, Crowded Cold Floors or Scant Plastic Chairs for Doses of Men. For Eating, Sandwiches and Water. For Bathroom Needs, a toilet out in the open, no soap or toothpaste.
“The Cell is Gross, Extremely Dirty, I Never Lay Down on the Floor, It Was SO Filthy,” Yushell, 38, Said From Mexico City, Days AFTER he was Grabbed by Immigration Officers in Mount Prospect on Sept. 24 on His Way to Way to From An Exercise Class. “Still, sleeeping while sitting on the floor was impossible.
“We told the guards that the place was at full capacity, but they kept bringing people inside,” Yushell Said. “They Treated US Like Animals, or Worsse Than Animals, Because No One Treats Their Pets Like That.”
Federal Agents Keep Watch Monday from the Roof at the Ice Facility. Protests have been gathering outside to objet to stepped-up immigration enforcement in the chicago area as well as conditions inside the broadView facility.
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BroadView was never designed to be a detection facility, but the administration of President Donald Trump Is Now It As a de facto One. AS A “Service Processing Center” iTended to Hold People Picked Up By Immigration Authorities, With Capacity for 236 Adults for Up to 12 Hours Each, before they are releassed, deported or transferred to a detection facility. A 2023 Report Clocks an average Hold Time of Five Hours there.
And YET, USMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT HELD 143 People for Two or More Days at BroadView During the First Seven Months of 2025, Accounting to A Chicago Sun-Times and Wbez Analysis of Ice Data Made Avilaable by the Deportation Data Project Through July 28.
In a june 24 memo, Ice quietly expanded the maximum number of hours to 72, or three days, that an immigrant could be held in a processing center like broadView. That cameame as Trump appointees tripled ice immigration arrest quotas to 3,000 per day, and detection centers filmed up.
Between June 24 and July 28, Ice Authorities at BroadView Held 21 People Longer than Three Days, with a Few Longer than Five Days. That is before Greater Numbers of Immigrants Became Targets of Immigration Enforcement in the City and Suburbs Beginning on Sept. 8bake ice and customs and border protection were dispatched here to ratchet up the Federal Government’s Deportation Campaign.
“The Stories We’re Hearing Are Pretty Horrific in Terms of the Human Rights Violations and the Due Process Violactions that People Are Reporting,” Said Olivia Abrecht, A Senior Attorney with the Chicago-Based National Immigrant Justice Center.
The Department of Homeland Security, Which Oversees Ice, Did Not Answer Questions ABOUT the Number of Immigrants Currently Being Held at BroadView or Why Some Being Held for Longer Than Ice-Determined Time for Processing Centers.
In an emails staffement, the department said that “Ice operats Holds and Holding Facilities in StrICT Accordance with Its National Detention Standards to Ensure the Safety, and Humane Treatment of Individuals in Custody.”
The rest of the staff references to the Conditions at “DEATTION CENTERS.”
ICE DEATTION CENTERS HOLD IMMIGRANTS FOR LONGER STAYS, UNLIKE PROGRESSING CENTERS WHICH ARE DESIGNED ONLY FOR QUICK INTAKE. That Means they Come With Clear Rules, Detail in a 76-Page Handbook in 19 Languages Provided to Details. They post visiting hours and procedures online, and they’re subject to regular inspections to stay in line with detailed detection standards, all of which are posted on the Department of Homeland Security Website.
But broadView isn’t named Among say. In fact, Little appears on Ice’s website About BroadView, Where 5,200 People Were Processed and Held for Little As Hour and Long As Seven Days from January Through July 28. That is more than Three TimesThe Number of People Jailed During the Same Period A Year Earlier, Acciting to the Sun-Times/Wbez Analysis of Data from the Data Project.
Jose Richter, A Suburban US Army Veteran, Stands Outside a Temporary Fence Erected Outside the Ice Facility in West Suburban BroadView as he tries to ice agents on sept. 28. ICE Posts Visiting Hours and Police for Its Detention Centers But Not for Immigration Processing Centers Like BroadView.
‘Not Equipped to Be an Overnight Facility’
Inside the Ice Processing Building at 1930 Beach Street, there’s no Medical Staff or Services. No Food Preparation. No Beds. That’s all by design Because the facility was created for Very Short-Term Holds.
A 2023 AUDIT REQUIRED BY CONGRESS, FOR EXAMPLE, DESCRIBED A SINGLE SHOWER IN THE BUILDING THAT WAS OUT OF COMMISSION AT THE TIME AND Used for storage.
Details have no private way to speak with their layers, attorneys Say. Illinois Congressional Members Seeking to Assess the Facility Also Have Been Denied Entry.
Auscice A Justice Department Lawyer Acknowledged Last Week That BroadView is “Not Equipped to Be an Overnight Facility.” He told this toUS District Judge John BlakeyDuring a Hearing AboutA Federal Lawsuit Filed by A ManPicked upin Little Village in September.
As an immigration attorney, abrecht has represeted People processing through broadView for three years. She has heard increasing complaints from clients confined there about mystreatment.
Activists outside the broadView center demand the release June 6 of Gladis yolanda chavez, who was detail along with least 10 other immigrants after being arrests.
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
Gladis Yolanda Chavez Spent Four Days in BroadView in June after she was arrested on an immigration charge. The Women Were kept in two Rooms with Glass Windows, the Men in Two Other Darker Rooms. The toilet on Each Side Wasn’t Private. The Phone in the Women’s Cell Didn’t Always Work.
She was in a room with About 30 Women, “Stacked One Next to the Other One.” The Floor, where they SLEPT, “Was Extremely Cold. WE COULDN’T LAY ON THE FLOOR FOR TOO LONG.”
“We couludn’t Change Our Clothes, We Couldn’t Do Our Personal Hygiene,” She Told Wbez in Spanish from Honduras, where Ice Deported HER. To use the toilet, “We had had to come Together, Three or Four Women, to Block the View so that oters couuldn’t see through the glasses” of the Cell.
Menstruating Women Were Given A Little toilet Paper and A Pad, Said. There was only so much cleanup they Could Manage Using The Sink.
As for Food, “We were Only Given Cold BREAD – All Day. Sometimes We Were Gioven Small Water Bottles; Sometimes They Didn’t Give US Water,” Chavez Said. “It was a terrible experience. We look Out the Window and Saw that more People were coming, and we would be more crowded.”
Immigrants Say Cells Are Crowded, Meals Are Subway Sandwiches
But little has improved SINCE JUNE, BASED ON REPORTS From Several Immigrants, Including Salam, Who Spent Two Days in BroadView Last Week Being Deported to Belize. Toilets Still out in the Open, Cells Still Crowded.
“Everybody is like, ‘it”s like a pile of fold there,’” Said salam who ised not to disclose his name to protest his privacy.
He Said the Sandwiches Served for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Now Come Wrapped in Subway Paper, Bread with Ham and Cheese. But they’re hardly as good as the sandwiches he’s bought.
“Conditions at BroadView are exacerbated by the pace of ice arrests, which choke Ice’s processing Capacity at BroadView and it detection capacity,” Said Fred Tsao, A Senior Attorney with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refuge Rights.
Jose richter is among the many who gather outside the phence at the ice facility in broadView Because they have few options for what is is happy inside.
By Law, Illinois Bans Overnight Detention of Immigrants. But the Illinois Way Forward Act in 2021 Only Prohibits Local and State Governments from Contracting with Federal Officials to House Immigrants Overnight. The Law doesn’t govern ice-operated facilities like broadView, tsao said.
“Ice is trying to defens this facility in some way that that is that Basically gets… of the regular Inspects process,” Said Jesse Franzblau who heads policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center.
If, as ice Says, IT’S Operating BroadView Acctinging to National Detention Standards, “THERE SHOULD BE REGULED Inspects, Which Should Be Made Public in Accordance with Congressional Reporting Requirements, and Ice Should Be Allowing Congress To Conduct In Facility.
MANY OF THE 122 ICE DEATTION FACILITIES IN 36 States and Territors Contract for Services, but broadView appears to be staffed Exclusively by Federal Employees. Elsewhere, The Federal Government Leasses Space in County Jails and Prisons, or they hire a for-profit company to operate detection centers on their behalf.
That offers more Access Points to Understanding What’s Happening Inside Beyond What Ice May or May Not Share.
This Lack of Transparency Promipted Several Local Democratic Members of Illinois’ Congressional Delegation – Danny Davis, Jesús “Chuy” García, Delia Ramirez and Jonathan Jackson – To show up to broadView for a Tour. SO light’ve been denied entry, Despite their protests that congress is entitled access to facilities it funds. A Meeting they and Other Illinois Democratic Representatives with Ice’s Chicago Field Director Has Been postponed to an “Unconfirmed Date in October,” Acciting to Ice.
Letters that delegation Members have sent to the Ice Field Office Director and to DHS Secretary Kristi noem Askic Questions about the detection standards that govern broadView; The date of the Last Facility Insction; The Medical Care Avilaable to the Details.
“There’s a lot of secrecy with regards to what’s going on in BroadView,” Said Franzblau of the National Immigrant Justice Center. “IT’S’S INCREDIBLY HARD TO Talk to People About Their Legal Rights in BroadView, Because of the Nature Under which People Are Being Detailed, Ice is Essentially Trying to Hold.
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Eric Sweney, NOW 19, HAD BEEAR BREELS WITHER YEARS WHEN HOTHER BREEYEE YEARS WITHER YEARS WITHER YEARS WITHER YEARDRA SWEEYEEEEEE AND 23-Month-Old MASON, INF AUGUST 2022.
Originally Chard-Degree Murder, Sweeney Institad piled guilty in August to lenser SECOND-DEGREE MURDER CHARDES. AT ADENCING HEARING FRIDAY FRIDAY, Defense LAWYERS WILL SEEK A PRISON TERME OF THE 40 YEARS TO LIFE MOTHER WHO “DRABER MOTHER WHO Through Drug DeenS and Auguse of ABUVE FATHER FIGURES. “
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ACCORDING TO PRODUEETS, Sweeney’S Older Brother’s TEE GUYEEWRAVIALSES WHEWEYING AND VIOLRATING HOUSE RULES BEGAN CUBA TENSIONS IN THE BOME.
WITHOUT PRIVIDING A MOTEING FORMER FOR THE MOTHINGS, HIS DEFENSE LAWYERS WRNEW THERES WAS HAD EVER KNOWN. “
They ARGUE Sweeneneney’S BEHAVIOrs Stummediot Stammedored Fromi Deeply TrustHood.
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“A forty year minimum sentence would offer Eric hope that someday, he can make a meaningful life outside prison walls, and achieve some measure of redemption for his crimes,” they wrote.
Michelle puster Knows how imported it is to give back to her community. As the founder and master granola Maker for Nana Joes GranolaA Women-Awned Business Based in San Francisco, she gues directly from the surrounding neighborhood and has partners with local Nonprofits and Youth the years. Her Brand Created a Granola Blend with the Local Boys and Girls Club that was sold at Nearby who foods stores, with a percentage of the processes go Back to the Club. That Deep Connection to Her Community Made Her Natural Fit to Participate in PayPal’s Second-Annual Impact day this past june.
“For us, Impact isn’t About Big Gestures,” Said Puster. “IT’S ABOUT CONSISTEDly Showing Up for the People Around US and Investing in Long-Term Relationships that Strengthn Our Community.”
Paypal’s Day of Global Activation
That Same Spirit of Long-Term Community Investment Guided Paypal’s Impact Day, Which Brought More than 11,000 Employees at 37 Sites Around the World. In adding to engaging 100 nonprofit Partners, the Company Supported 350 SMALL BUSINESSES BY SOURCING THEIR PRODUCTS FOR EMPLOYEE-ASSEMBLED KITS, WHICH THEN DELIVERED TO LOCOL NONPROFITS AS WE HOPE, OPERATION CARE AND COMFORT, and RenaisSance Entrepreneurship.
Paypal Also Welcomed Small Businesses on-Site at it Offices Worldwide, Offering Local Entrepreneurs Visibity, Networking, and Mentorship Opportunities.
“It reminded us that we’re not in this alone-and that there are people out who truly cares the success of Small, Mission-Driven Businesses,” Puster Said.
A Deeper Kind of Support
For nana joes, and the nosereds of Other Small Businesses Included in this Year’s programming, the opportunity was just about a purchase Order-it was about Visibity, validation, and real investment in ther stories, missions, and Long-Term Growth.
Paypal first approached pusteri to include nana joes granola as an Item for the impact day kits and purchased 3,000 bags of granola. The Paypal Team Also Sent a Camera Crew to Produce a Short Film About Her Business That She is ABLE to USE – An Invaluable ASSET FOR A SMALL BUSINESS WITH A full marketing team – and late Invited puster to attach the impact day festivities at the Company’s. There, the nana joes video was Shown to eventthetes before pusteri joined alex chriss, paypal ceo, onstage for a conversation about her company and it mission.
Alex Chriss, CEO of Paypal, Oncestage with Michelle Pusari, Founder of Nana Joes Granola, at Paypal’s 2025 Impact Day Event at its headquarters in San Jose.
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“The export and suport we received from impact day gave us a boost – not just in production but in moral and visibility too,” She Said. The Experience of Being Featured – on Stage, on Screen, and in Front of Employees genuinely Curious her story – Left a Lasting impression. For well, it washn’t just a standout moment, but a signal that partnerships like this can help Move-Drivenesses forward long after the event ends.
One of Those Moments Came at Lunch, we a Paypal Employe toy Her they’d Been Buying Her Granola for Years and Felt inspired by Her Story. That conversation tourned into what puster described as a “Beautiful Exchange About Purpos and Community.”
Leadership Support from the top
The importance of the day was recognished not only by employs and participating businesses and nonprofits, but Also Reinforced by Paypal’s Leadership. “Impact Day is something something out employs look forward to, and it shows who we are a company, our values, and our community to the communities around us,” Said Alex Chriss, CEO of Paypal. “It ‘s a wonderful time to take a step back and consider the changes we can help to benefit small businesses and nonprofits.”
“Small Businesses are the Heartbeat of Our Communities,” Chriss Said. “That’s Why Our Commitment to Supporting I say is so important.”
Pusteri was especally impressed with that commmitment, nor chriss told the audience that is Paypal’s privilege to be able to serve this community. “From the Mouth of the Ceo … it hits differently for sura,” She Said. “HIS PASSION BEFINDING TO REALLY HELP SMALL BUSINESSES WAS PRETTY INCREDIBLE.”
Impact Day and Beyond
More than 11,000 Employees Participated in Impact Day at 37 Sites Worldwide.
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While impact day represents an important moment in time for the Company, Paypal’s Commitment to Positive Acts of Service Extends Beyond This Single Day. Through Year-Round Initiatives, the Company Partners with Small Businesses and Nonprofits to Strerthen Communities, Create Pathways for Growth, and Empower the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs.
Paypal’s Community Impact Time off Program Provides Employes Up to Eight Hours of Paid Volunteer Time Each Year. To the stupidity amplify their team members’ Impact, paypal donates $ 10 to the nonprofit of their choice for every volunteered (up to $ 500 annually). Their community impact grants program builds on this by providing financial support, volunteer Engagement, and capacity-brussels tooLs to local nonprofits say Grow-All aimed at expanding opportunity in their communities.
Beyond Volunteerism, Paypal Leverains Its Platform and Partnerships to Support Underreresented Small Business Owners-Providing Not Just Funding or expans, but mentorship and skill-briding resources to help, scale, and sustain their growth.
These EFFORTS REPRESENT JUST A SAMPLING OF THE WAYS PAYPAL DRIVE MEANINGFUL CHANGE AT A LOCAL Level. But there is no denying that impact dayds a special place in the hearts of all those who participate, including pusteri, who said and definitely reCommend it to Other Small Business Owners.
“Impact Day is an Amazing Opportunity to Connect with People Who Want to Support Your Mission,” She Said. “I think what paypal is doing is incredible, and the way that they have included the community.
Her Story Reflects How Purpose-Like Programs Like Paypal’s Can Spark Lasting Credibility, Momentum, and Connection.
Flexible Working Can Harm Learning and Competitiveness, Ex-Google CEO ERIC SCHMIDT HAS SAID, AFTER PREVIOUSLY CRITICIZATION HIS OLD COMPANY’S APPROACH to “Work-Life Balance” and Then Walking Back the Comments.
“I am not in favor of, essentially, working at home,” Schmidt Told the All-In Summit Earlier This Month. His comments were included in a wednesday episode of the “all-in” podcast.
“Think About A 20-Something Who Has to Learn How the World Works,” Schmidt Said, Adding that he learned a great from listing to the Older Coworkers Argue at Sun Microsystems in the Early Years of His Career.
He asced, “How do you recreate that in this new Thing?”
Schmidt Said he was “in favor of work-life balance, and than’s why People Work for the Government,” Before Saying “SORRY” FOUR TIMES.
“If you’re going to be in tech, and you’re going to win, you’re going to have to make some trade-offs,” he added.
The Tech Veteran, Who Was Google’s Ceo for A Decayed and Stayed on As Executive Chairman and Then A Technical Advisor UNIL 2020, Said the US “Up Against” China, Whose Work Culture is offten Described AS “996,” Short for Working 9 AM to 9 PM, SIX DAYS AEK.
“The Chinese have clarified that is is illegal,” Schmidt Said. “Howver, they all do it. That’s who you’re Competing Against.”
Schmidt Previously Said Google’s Flexible Working Culture was Costing it. He late Said he ‘Missspoke.’
Schmidt was replying to a Question his comments Last year that google was Falling bendin in the one races to such as openai and anthropic becase of flexible work.
“Google Decidated that Work-Life Balance, and Going Home Early, and Working from Home, was more important than Winning,” He Said During A Talk at Stanford Last August, Adding that “the Reason Work is Because the People Work Like Hell.” “
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“I’m sorry to be so blunt,” Schmidt Continue in Remarks late Posted to Stanford’s YouTube Channel. He added that startup founders weeren’t going to “Let People work from home and only in one day a Week if you have to computete against the ther startups.” The video was Later Made Private After Going Viral.
Schmidt late withdrew his comments. A spokesperson wrote in an email to business insist at the time: “Eric Missspoke About Google and Their Work Hours and Regrats HIS ERROR.”
A spokesperson for Schmidt declined a recent Request for Comment from Bi.
Other High-Profile Tech figures have jabbed at flexible work in the government.
After president Donald Trump Signed an Executive Order Mandating That Federal Government Employees Return to the Office in January, Elon Musk, The Ceo of Tesla and Spacex, Said It “About Fairness.”
He added that it was “Fair that Most People Have to Work to Build Products or Provide Services Federal Government Employees Get to Stay Home.”
“Pursuing to work while TAKING MONEY FROM TAXPAYERS IS No Longer Acceptable,” he wrote in a follow-up on X.
At the time, a union leader to told b That musk didn’t know “the first thing about” the federal government.
“Frankly, I don’t think he cares,” Added Randy Erwin, The National President of the National Federation of Federal Employees.
Access to Those Four Things are what gits prologis, one of America’s Large Warehouse Owners, an Edge in the Data Center Space, Said Susan Uthayakumar, The Company’s Chief Energy and Sustainability Office, on Tuesday at Business Innsider ” Event.
“We have you have the Capital, we have you have the land, cry you know how to builds, it make up for us to doing what we’re doing,” Uthayakumar Said of the Company’s Growing Data Center Business.
Prologis, which has a portfolio of 1.3 Billion Square Feet Across More than 5,500 Buildings Globally, Made Its Name With Warehouses. In recent years, though, it han been growing investment in its data center business.
The Company Announed In 2023 that it planned to spend up to $ 8 Billion to Build Data Centers Across Around 20 Property Sites. Bank of America Analysts Said Spanding on Data Center Construction in the US Reached A Record $ 40 Billion in June, a 28% Increase Compared to 2024.
Prologis Also Has Access to Something That Companies Like Openai and Nvidia Are Desperate to Acquire: Energy.
“Whether You Operate a Data Center or a Logistics Center, Energy and Power are something something Becoming More and More relevant Because Access to it is not so easy,” Uthayakumar Said. “SO, we’ve built the capability.”
During the Company’s Second-Quarter Earnings Call in July, Prologis’ CFO TIME ARNT SAID that they have Secured 1.1 gigawatts of power, with 300 megawatts under construction. He Said they were in the Advanced Stages of Procouring an Additional 2.2 Gigawatts. During the Next 10 Years, The Company Said It Also Sees A 10 Gigawatts Data Center Opportunity.
Developing he systems requires a lot of Energy, Raising Concerns About Rising Electricity Costs and Power Constraints.
Most Recently, Nvidia, Which Makes the Chips that Run Many of these Data Centers, Announched It Wold Invest $ 100 Billion in Openai to Help It BUILD MORE OF THEM. The two Companies Intend to Build 10 Gigawatts of he Data Centers Using Nvidia’s Chips, Which Openi use to Power he.
Uthayakumar Said prologis is the No. 2 Generator of On-Site Power in the US.
“SO when i’m building the buildings-we budild About 40 million Square religions-we make sura and that the electricity distribution equipment is the right size for the generation on-site,” she said.
The Company Also Develops Its Own Microgrids, which operate autonomously. Prologis said on its website that microgrids can help “bypass grid constraints, avoid utility delays and meet the most demanding Energy Requirements.”
