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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home Saturday after his meeting with Donald Trump without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks “productive” but signaled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States. After the leaders’ hastily arranged dinner Friday night at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trudeau spoke of “an excellent conversation” but offered no details. Trump said in a Truth Social post later Saturday that they discussed “many important topics that will require both Countries to work together to address.” Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.Former Tulane quarterback Darian Mensah has already found a new program in Duke, while Mississippi State's Michael Van Buren Jr., Wisconsin's Braedyn Locke and Cal’s Fernando Mendoza are exploring changes of their own in the transfer portal . Mensah, a redshirt freshman with three years of eligibility remaining, told ESPN on Wednesday he has transferred to Duke. He attended the Blue Devils men's basketball game against Incarnate Word on Tuesday night. The Blue Devils (9-3) will face Mississippi in the Gator Bowl, but without 2024 starting quarterback Maalik Murphy and backup Grayson Loftis, who also entered the portal. Mensah, viewed as one of the top players in the portal, threw for 2,723 yards and 22 touchdowns and completed 65.9% of his passes. He led the Green Wave to a 9-4 record and the American Athletic Conference championship game, where they lost 35-14 to Army. Tulane will play Florida in the Gasparilla Bowl on Sunday. Van Buren, Mendoza and Locke announced on social media they had entered the portal. Van Buren started eight games as a true freshmen for the Bulldogs. He threw for 1,886 yards on 55% passing with 16 total touchdowns and seven interceptions for the Bulldogs (2-10, 0-8 Southeastern Conference). He took over as the starter when Blake Shapen suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in a 45-28 loss to Florida on Sept. 21. Shapen has said he plans to return next season. Van Buren, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound passer from St. Frances Academy in Maryland, had two 300-yard performances for the Bulldogs, including 306 yards and three touchdown passes in a 41-31 road loss against Georgia. Mendoza threw for 3,004 yards in 2024 with 16 TDs, six interceptions and a 68.7 completion percentage. “For the sake of my football future this is the decision I have reached,” he posted. Locke passed for 1,936 yards with 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions for Wisconsin this season. He said he will have two years of eligibility remaining at his next school. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football
Developed by a team of talented creators, PIONER promises to deliver a groundbreaking gaming experience that combines elements of survival, exploration, and combat in a post-apocalyptic world. Set in a desolate landscape where players must navigate through challenges and dangers to survive, PIONER offers an open-world environment with endless possibilities for adventure.What Did Drew Barrymore Say About Being ‘Touchy’ During Interviews?
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For many men, there is a cognitive dissonance that comes with turning on mainstream TV. After days at a time of watching online or streaming content calibrated by preference and algorithm to our tastes, it is jarring to switch on terrestrial television and assess the portrayal of masculinity in advertising. In ad after ad, the men are teeming with dopey enthusiasm, emotionally incontinent, strutting and prancing about with harebrained schemes, no self-awareness, in a passive relation to the sophisticated people around them, and so unrelatable to mainstream men as to scarcely register as men at all. Chorus’ ‘New Zealand Runs On Fibre’ ad showcases a stream of benignly befuddled blokes interacting with tentative conviviality, the kind of men wider swathes of mainstream men go out of their way to avoid. In an Audible ad, a manchild cavorts around a neighbourhood, making a succession of fantastical pronouncements, cutting to him in bed, saying, “I’m riding an emotional rollercoaster”, to which his fondly exasperated wife, presumably needing a decent amount of sleep to win the bread on behalf of them both, gives him ‘the look’: a levelling gaze and chastising wrinkle of the brow, before saying, “Can you ride more quietly?” There is a commercial for Haier washing machines that features a benign and chubby husband who gazes at the camera in a rapture of niceness, while music in the cheerful mode of a preschool-show tootles in the background. While the ladies exude equanimity, poise and good judgement, the blokes are docile larrikins, who prompt a kind of droll affection from their abiding better halves. For every redoubtable male stroking his freshly shaven jaw in a razor commercial, there are half-a-dozen goofballs - sexless prattling beta-males staring dim-wittedly as they receive some reproach or comeuppance. According to the annual MFA (Media Federation of Australia) Industry Census, released earlier this year, 62 per cent of employees are female. The average age is just 32. Culturally, 52 per cent identify as Australian, and 9.4 per cent of industry employees belong to the LGBTQ+ community. By an astounding coincidence, the contemporary visual tropes, cues and caricatures of masculinity in advertising happen to manifest the mindset, self-inserts and disposition of metropolitan, Sapphic-sympathetic women in their late twenties and early thirties. Meanwhile, Aussies have been turning more to online sources for their viewing, a 2023 Australian Communication and Media Authority report found. It also said fewer were watching terrestrial broadcast free-to-air TV. For their television viewing they are increasingly finding content through video-on-demand services, whether provided by free-to-air and subscription broadcasting or subscription streaming platforms. The report said the advertising market for free-to-air TV has decreased eight per cent in 2022–23. Meanwhile, online subscription has grown from 59 per cent to 66 per cent. Free to air viewing declined from 56 per cent to 52 per cent. Because of the male preference for STEM subjects, (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), and the prevailing attitude that if something doesn’t feature proportionate representation it must therefore suffer from a lack of representation, it is rare for men in advertising to be depicted solely as ideal archetypes in these fields. Instead, there is usually an accompanying generic white-lab-coat-lady, in her late twenties or early thirties, wearing glasses the model almost certainly doesn’t require in real life, and who exists in a medium of diffuse lighting, slow-motion nods and handshakes in consulting rooms and airy glass atriums. I’m about to make a contentious assertion. Advertising requires a solid all round skillset encompassing instincts, awareness of trends, relatability, creativity and levity. My assertion - and I’m about to run for cover like the last waiter who has just fed Mr Creosote in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - progressive women in their late twenties who’ve grown up posturing in the vacuous realm of social media and did a marketing degree aren’t naturally good at levity and relatable humour. Their efforts in commercials, leaning recurrently on grating gender interplay, almost always at the man’s disadvantage, are anti-comedy. They are cringeworthy, and actually, quite dated. A second contentious notion: these advertisers proceed from the assumption that men have egos, and it is quite savvy to puncture such bumptiousness, to take them down a peg if there’s some dopey chauvinism in evidence. The irony here, though, is that men, in the main, are actually quite able to shrug off stuff and be wryly self-deprecating – up to a point. Does anyone think the young professional women working in funky open-plan offices making these ads can, in a comparable way, laugh at themselves, or see themselves lampooned much in ads? Who would you suppose has the thinner skin? Some late millennials and gen Z types, coming up in a social milieu steeped in identity politics, have brought with them social constructivist ideas about gender – downplaying traits we’ve traditionally associated with men. And also the traits that male audiences like and respond to, because they’re men: masculine composure, ironical distance, drolly scathing humor, deep loyalties and perhaps most of all, the unwillingness to take any nonsense – to not wilt self-deprecatingly, or be put in their place. And to give off the attitude and vibe of not being someone to contend with in the first place. Men can be compelling because they comport themselves in an undemonstrative way. They draw attention and even speculation to themselves through presence, subdued confidence that makes them the social center of gravity. In male psychology especially between potential rivals or protagonists and antagonists, dominance and assertion has a lot to do with who is controlling the pace and rhythm of an exchange. The more one man becomes overly expressive, the pace increases, the more he appeals, the more he can find himself in a passive position wilting under the quiet ironical assessment of the other. This is a world away from the fussy, prissy, hectored and theatrical men that are so annoying – and unrepresentative – in advertising. Not a world away, perhaps, but certainly a generation. Nicholas Sheppard is an accomplished journalist whose work has been featured in The Spectator, The NZ Herald and Politico. He is also a published literary author and public relations consultant
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