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Sarah Hylands changing appearance has gotten the attention of fans lately. Most recently though, people have been speculating that the Modern Family actress might be pregnant!
On Thursday, March 16, a Twitter troll took to the social media site to suggest that the 26-year-old is knocked up.
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Based off your facial structure in recent episodes of Modern Family I think you are pregnant, the fan wrote in his tweet.
Many fans sprung to her defense. Nothing like a random person telling you that you"re pregnant when it"s your body and you"d know, one follower wrote. You are beautiful. Dont even give that guy a second thought, another one added.
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Were sure Sarahs nonchalant response to the haters is like a reflex for the brunette beauty, as fans and critics have been speculating for years about the possible plastic surgery procedures shes undergone. Since she landed the role of Haley Dunphy on the hit show Modern Family back in 2009, the young starlet has been accused of getting everything from breast implants to a nose job.
The sitcom star, who"s been acting since 1999, has spoken openly about her struggle with self-esteem.
"Every woman has issues with her body... its just how women are," she told Cosmopolitan. "Its one of those things where you have to love yourself for who you are; as long as youre healthy, thats all that matters. Girls deal with pressure differently. Some days Im depressed, and other days Im completely fine. The only advice I have for young women is to cherish the body you have now; when I was 18, I dont think I did."
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Sears Holdings recentlyindicated that substantial doubt exists about its ability to continue operations. Years of selling off valuable sub-brands like Crafstman and Lands End, as well asits best real-estate locations, have left the company struggling. So what should Sears do now? Its number-one priority should be to protect and restore its brand. Sears still owns a number of valuable sub-brands, such as Diehard batteries and Kenmore appliances. By looking at successful turnarounds(Ford, Marvel) and unsuccessful ones (Radio Shack), Sears might just be able to leverage those sub-brands to stage a comeback.
Sears Holdings has indicated that substantial doubt exists about its ability to continue operations. While the announcement, made in the companys recent annual report, seems to beawhite flag of surrender, it could just be a yellow warning light. Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. The company says it is taking action to ensure its future viability. So what should Sears do now? Its number one priority should be to protect and restore its brand.
Some of the companys moves in recent years have generated cash and kept the business afloat at the long-term expense of its brand.Strong brands like Lands End gave customers a reason to shop at Sears and cast a positive halo on the Sears brand. Selling off those brands may have had short-term benefits, but it eroded the brand in the long term. The company also sold off many of its best store locations, which means brand perceptions are now being shaped only by the customer experiences in older, shabbier, and poorly located stores.
Sears needs to reverse this trend. Its brand still has clout; its name is as steeped in American culture as Coke and Levis. Once a lifeline for customers in rural areas with few shopping options, Sears has played an important role in many peoples lives. The company can tap into this goodwill if it insulates its brand from further hits and invests in restoring it to prominence.
It should start with its internal culture. CEO Eddie Lamperts alienating management style and lack of retail prowess has prompted a mass exodus of executives and has left the company with few leaders who really care about the brand. At the store level, the company has fired employees, cut worker hours, and failed to make investments to improve the store environment. As a result, store employees are bitter, embarrassed, and unmotivated.
The company must restore brand pride, alignment, and engagement throughout its ranks. Alan Mulally led the turnaround at Ford by restoring a One Ford mentality throughout his company and championing pride in the Ford name. Lampert and his executive team should adopt a similar effort. It would encourage managers to make strategic decisions that build the Sears brand and frontline employees to provide exceptional customer service and restore customers esteem of the brand.
Sears should then turn its attention to improving the customer experience. Perhaps most at risk is vendor support. Suppliers that are already under tremendous pressure from the changing demands of the retail industry are probably especiallyleery of extending themselves with Sears. As vendorsstart shipping smaller quantities and being less responsive, the inventory and selection at Sears stores is going to get even worse than it already is. To ensure that a strong product assortment can draw people into its stores, Sears should work on buttressing relationships with the vendors of its top brands. Of course, there are many other aspects of the customer experience that need to improve, but Sears would be wise to start with what made its brand great in the first place: a great selection of products.
Sears can take a cue from Marvel. After it filed for bankruptcy, back in 1996, Marvel leveraged its portfolio of popular brands, includingCaptain America and Iron Man, to stage a comeback. By tapping into the fan basesof individual character brands and producing movies that used a tried-and-true formula of superheroes being pitted against evil forces while dealing with real-world issues, the company was able to restore the Marvel brand to popularity. In the same way, Sears should draw on the equity of product brands such asKenmore Appliances, DieHard batteries, and Sesame Street products. The company should also void the recent deal to sell off the Craftsman brand, if possible. Sears needs to promote these brands more strongly than ever before, and draft off the demand and appeal they enjoy.
Most important, to restore its brand value and power, Sears needs to make some sort of big, bold, visible move. It cant simply tweak a few things and set its sights on surviving. Thats what happened at RadioShack. After that company declared bankruptcy, its new owners promised to reinvigorate the brand. It signed up hip celebrities as endorsers, closed some stores, and adjusted its assortment strategy. But to most people, RadioShack didnt seem all that different.
Sears must make a substantive change that not only gets peoples attention but also dramatically improves the customer experience. Consider Delta Air Liness merger with Northwest Airlines. After declaring bankruptcy, Delta was looking for a way to emerge as a leader in the industry to get ahead, not just level the playing field. So it made what was a foresighted decision at the time and significantly expanded its routes by merging with another airline. CEO Richard Anderson has described the move as a deliberate choice to break away from the fray: Our company decided that we would be different.
Lampert and his colleagues must make a similarly calculated and courageous move, whether thats to merge with another retailer, integrate vertically, change the searsstore format, slash its apparel offering, or something else. Whatever it is, the objective should be to strengthen the Sears brand (i.e., dont acquire another retailer and operate it separately) and to create more value for its core customers.
It might be too late to save Sears. The company has drained the brand of so much equity that its difficult to envision a recovery. But if the company remains committed to reviving the business, its brand should be the top priority.
Obama Aide Evelyn Farkas Squeals Live On MSNBC: "I Helped Spy On Trump For Obama"(VIDEO)!!!
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus joins Hugh Hewitt for a Thursday morning interview.
One of the subjects touched on is the story of Evelyn Farkas, formerly the Defense Department"s top Russia expert under President Obama who is now calling for an independent investigation of the president"s ties to Moscow.
This week, conservative media has noticed an interview she did on MSNBC"s "Morning Joe" on March 2nd, 2017 where Farkas appears to happily admit that she was repsonsible for leaking sensitive information about what parts of the government might have spied on President-elect Trump and his Trump Tower. Fox News ran a story on this titled: Former Obama official discloses rush to get intelligence on Trump team
The Farkas statement in question: "I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people who left, so it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy ... that the Trump folks if they found out how we knew what we knew about their ... the Trump staff dealing with Russians that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we no longer have access to that intelligence."
Note: The Farkas clip originally aired on March 2. President Trump"s infamous "wiretap" tweet came two days later:
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus responded Thursday morning: "Thats incredible."
"It certainly is an incredible comment, although I dont want to add too much into it right now until I have an opportunity to sort of dig into it and figure out the scope of such a statement... Its just an incredible statement, you know, and how, what it means and what she meant by that, and whether that has anything to do with the issues in regard to surveillance of Trump transition team members is something that we need to figure out this morning and throughout the day."
"I hope that the intelligence committees and agencies are interested," he also said.
Radio hosts Sean Hannity...
...and Mark Levin both mentioned the story Wednesday afternoon...
The original clip from MSNBC"s "Morning Joe":
"That"s why you have the leaking!" farkas says in the clip.
"a personal reaction is its, its almost, its so cavalier and unbelievable that I just wonder whether this person knows what the heck shes talking about. I mean, you know what Im saying?" Priebus added.
Transcript of the Priebus interview, courtesy of the Hugh Hewitt Show:
HUGH HEWITT: A news story came up last night, Mr. Priebus. Evelyn Farkas, former assistant deputy secretary of Defense a few days ago was on with Morning Joe, and talking to Mika about the end game during the Obama years. She said this, the 30 second clip:
EVELYN FARKAS: that the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about their, the staff, the Trump staffs dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence. So I became very worried, because not enough was coming out into the open, and I knew that there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia. So then I had talked to some of my former colleagues, and I knew that they were trying to also help get information to the Hill.
HH: So Mr. Priebus, I put two clips together.
REINCE PRIEBUS, TRUMP ADMIN: Thats incredible.
HH: React to that for me, would you?
RP: Well, I mean, I heard it late last night, so I mean I honestly, I talked to Sean a little bit about it late last night, Spicer, and then were going to be meeting on it this morning. Its just an incredible statement, you know, and how, what it means and what she meant by that, and whether that has anything to do with the issues in regard to surveillance of Trump transition team members is something that we need to figure out this morning and throughout the day. But it certainly is an incredible comment, although I dont want to add too much into it right now until I have an opportunity to sort of dig into it and figure out the scope of such a statement.
HH: Now I want to ask you about a personal reaction to it, though. It suggests that incidental collection of American conversation in intelligence, perhaps even in Russian to Russian conversation, was pushed out by Team Obama for the purposes of cornering you guys? I dont know what, but
RP: Yeah, I mean, a personal reaction is its, its almost, its so cavalier and unbelievable that I just wonder whether this person knows what the heck shes talking about. I mean, you know what Im saying?
HH: Yeah.
RP: Its sort of like one of these things its so much in your face that it makes you wonder what she means.
HH: Now do you think Director Comey will be interested in that statement?
RP: (laughing) Well, I hope that the intelligence committees and agencies are interested in all of these things. And the one thing I will tell you is that we want, we want this thing done thoroughly, and I will tell you that because we have got nothing to hide. I mean, theres just nothing there. Ive said it many times on television and elsewhere. There is no collusion. The issues in regard to contacts with Russia as outlined in the New York Times article about a month ago is total garbage, and we just, we would rather this move forward and be thorough and get on with it, because weve got nothing to hide. Its ridiculous.
April Ryan Discuss About Spicer Gets Into Tense Exchange With Her. @AprilDRyan @PressSec
White house correspondent april ryan was patronized while doing her job yet again, this time by Sean Spicer. First Edition host Sean Yoes discusses the ongoing, open attack on Black women by the right wing media with Lisa Snowden-McCray of City Paper, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt of UMBC, and multimedia journalist Nicki Mayo.
Then, the Mod Squad, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of The Real News Network, follow up on the conversation about Mayor Pugh"s decision to veto the $15 minimum wage for Baltimore City.
Kenyatta Moon, co-host of Holistic Living, discusses self care rituals that are essential to surviving lifes daily grind. And LaMonte Summers, assistant professor of Media Law and Ethics at Morgan State University, is back with the Media Report.
Golden State Warriors vs San Antonio Spurs - Full Highlights | March 29, 2017 | 2016-17 NBA Season
SAN ANTONIO -- The "L" word reverberated throughout the locker room Wednesday after a fast start morphed into slow death for the San Antonio Spurs, which saw a 22-point first quarter lead disintegrate into a 110-98 loss to the Golden State Warriors.
Nearly every Spur interviewed said they"d "learn" from this, or characterized the game"s outcome as a "learning experience."
"I think it"s a great learning experience," Spurs guard Manu Ginobili said. "Reality check? We knew who we were playing. One of the best teams of the last few years ... . It was not going to be easy. We knew it was going to be tough."
The Spurs also now understand their road through the postseason probably will track a little more adversely as most likely the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference. San Antonio probably knocked itself out of a shot at securing the top seed, as it fell 3 games back of Golden State with eight games left in the regular season.
The Spurs admit their offense became stagnant as the game progressed.Soobum Im/USA TODAY Sports
It"s a fate the veteran Spurs can accept, but not without critical self-evaluation to prevent a another meltdown should the teams meet again in the Western Conference finals. Surrendering a 22-point lead to a Golden State team playing without an injured Kevin Durant even led Spurs guard Danny Green to consider what they"re missing given the retirement of franchise icon Tim Duncan.
"It"s the NBA. You can"t dwell on any of them," Green said. "You learn from it and move forward, be more professional, and try to get better. In the past that"s where Timmy was good for us, or teams in the past just collectively. We wouldn"t let things like that happen. It might happen, but rarely. But I think it"s happened more often than it should here at this time and this year.
"I wouldn"t say it was a wake-up call. We knew what was at stake. We knew what we had to do. We did it. We just didn"t do it for 48 minutes."
Having posted a 34-1 record over the Warriors at home over the past 20 years, San Antonio appeared to be well on the way to gobbling up win No. 35 after storming to a 15-0 lead on the strength of Green"s third 3-pointer just a little more than four minutes into the game.
With 5:01 left in the opening quarter, the Spurs extended the lead to 20 points (23-3) on a LaMarcus Aldridge fadeaway jumper. A minute and 32 seconds later, Aldridge knocked down a 3 on an assist from Kawhi Leonard to put the Spurs up by 22 points.
"we made shots," spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "I thought they were a little sloppy defensively. But they got it back, certainly."
The Warriors started off hitting 1-of-4 from 3-point range uncontested in the opening quarter, but by the 11:02 mark of the fourth quarter, the team had drained 7-of-10 on such shots for 19 points. The Warriors connected on 27 percent (3-of-11) when shooting off of a teammate"s pass in the first quarter, before draining 72 percent for the rest of the game on those shots (28-of-39).
San Antonio compounded Golden State"s hot shooting late by missing assignments and not communicating on defense.
"Yeah, [if] you don"t communicate defensively, they"re going to get a bucket, and a lot of times it"s going to be a 3, which hurts," Green said. "We"ve got to do a better job of scrambling, talking, communicating. As veterans, we"ve got to do a better job of leading, and learn how to finish teams off, learn how to continue to stay professional and play 48 minutes, and not let teams back in it and not let them get any light. We"ve gotten some leads and blown them a couple of times just by sloppy play."
Golden State fell behind 29-7 with 3:29 remaining in the opening quarter. From there, the Warriors outscored the Spurs 103-69, while shooting 56.9 percent, including 12-of-22 from deep with 30 assists and only nine turnovers. San Antonio, on the flip side, scored just 69 points, shot 38.1 percent, recorded 15 assists and turned it over 13 times.
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In all, Golden State scored 23 points off Spurs turnovers, and in the process locked down Leonard, who shot 7-of-20 for 19 points with five turnovers.
The last time the Spurs led by at least 15 points after the first quarter, and then lost by double-digits was April 8, 2009 when they took a 33-16 lead over the Portland Trail Blazers only to fall 95-83.
"Just the same that I"ve been seeing for probably about the past few weeks," Leonard said when asked how the Warriors defended him. "Just double screening the ball, pick and roll, coming help side on my isolations. They did a great job showing hands and crowding."
The Warriors disrupted the Spurs with all their switching. In those instances, San Antonio "settled" according to Aldridge, and played one-on-one ball too often, as opposed to continuing to move the ball to find better shots.
"They just took us out of a lot of things," Aldridge told ESPN.com. "I thought we got passive, and kind of settled a little bit. The Game 1 versus them was so long ago, but I felt like we didn"t settle as much. I thought we still attacked and tried to make things happen. I thought tonight we kind of settled a little bit.
"Defensively, we just made too many mistakes. I think the hot start kind of got us going. But then they picked it up, and we should have made [fewer] mistakes. This team is good. They"re going to make shots. They"re not going to give up. I thought we made too many mistakes to let them back in the game. In the first quarter, the ball was moving, and guys were getting shots. I think as the game went on, we kind of went stagnant. When they switched stuff, we just kind of just gave into it. We didn"t move the ball and make them keep guarding."
Russell Westbrook Forces OT with CLUTCH 3-Pointer! l March 29, 2017
Russell Westbrook has been putting up a triple-double almost every night this season, but his performanceWednesday night against the Magic was probably his best one yet.
The explosive point guard finished with 57 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists in an overtime victory. His play helped his team overcome what was at one moment in the game a 21-point deficit. The win also clinched Oklahoma City a playoff berth.
But in terms of history, this triple-double was pretty impressive, so let"s break it down by the numbers.
57 points - Most in NBA history
This stat has been highly publicized, but it"s pretty remarkable. westbrook scored 57 points in his triple-double, which is the highest number of points scored in a triple-double in NBA history. The previous record was 53 set byJames Harden and Hall-of-FamerWilt Chamberlain.
In fact, only Westbrook, Harden, Chamberlainand Elgin Baylor have multiple 50-point triple-doubles in a career (two apiece).
Westbrook"s 4th quarter led Thunder over Magic
The Thunder rallied from being down 21 points in the third quarter, and it wouldn"t have been possible without Westbrook. Yes he scored 57 total points, but he scored 19 of those with7:45 remaining in the fourth quarter.
He could not be stopped as he drove to the basket and what seemed like every possession, and scored more often than not.
Closing in on most triple-doubles in a season
Oscar Robertson has the NBA record of 41 triple-doubles in a season. Westbrook recorded his 38th such performance last night, meaning he"s three away from tying and four away from breaking the record.
The Thunder have eight games left in the regular season, meaning he has to get a triple-double in half of the games left for the record. Achieving this will be difficult, but not impossible.
Westbrook"s minutes
This stat is perhaps more reflective of his season than Wednesday"s game, but it"s important to point out. ESPN"s Royce Young noted the point guard played over 40 minutes (42) for just the fifth time this season. Every 40-minute game has come in overtime.
Considering the season he"s having, it"s impressive he hasn"t had any more games of 40-minutes. For reference, MVP candidate James Harden has15 40-minute games while LeBron James has20.
Passed Kevin Durant"s Thunder franchise record
What better record than to pass your friend-turned-enemy? Westbrook passed Durant for most 40-point games in a single season in Thunder history. Durant had 14 40-point games in 2013-14 and Westbrook now has 15 with eight games left.
Westbrook"s highest combined triple-double output
This isn"ttoosurprising considering he scored 57, but Wednesday"s output was his highest overall out of any triple-double this season. What does this mean? It means if you combine his points + rebounds + assists it equals 81 total numbers.
What"s interesting is the only time he came close to that mark was his first triple-double of the season when he had a combined 74 (51 pts, 13 rebounds, 10 assists).
Turnovers
An underlooked stat from Wednesday"s game is the fact Westbrook had seven turnovers in the game, but they all came in the first quarter. He had no turnovers for the rest of the game while he was compiling one of the best triple-doubles in NBA history.
Uh-Oh! Vanna White"s Dress Gets Caught During a Taping of "Wheel of Fortune"
Vanna White of Wheel of Fortune fame is coming back to The Villages for another promotion for the florida lottery.
vanna white with an umbrella at Lake Sumter Landing in 2016.
White will be signing autographs, taking photographs, conducting interviews, and answering questions from audience members from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 1 at Spanish Springs Town Square.
The event will also feature games and giveaways.
With every $10 Wheel of Fortune Scratch-Off ticket purchase, players will receive one entry into a giveaway drawing for one of three Royal Caribbean cruises, or one of two gift certificates to The Villages Golf Cars, as well as a free spin on the spin-to-win wheel.
You can read about Whites visit to The Villages last year HERE
