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Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) has issued the nationwide recall for some 256,185 pounds of Dinty Moore Beef Stew, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). Here’s what you need to know. Whats happened? On Wednesday, the USDA announced the Tucker Georgia-based company’s canned beef stew products may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically wood. These items were shipped to retail locations nationwide. The problem was discovered after Hormel Foods notified the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) that they had received three consumer complaints reporting pieces of wood in the beef stew product. There have been no confirmed reports of injury due to consumption of this product. What product is being recalled? The recalled products include Dinty Moore Beef Stew 20-oz. produced on February 4, 2025 [view labels], which can be identified with the following details: Best by date: February 2028 Impacted lot code: T02045 (the lot code may have an additional number at the end) Establishment Number: EST 199G What should I do if I have the recalled Hormel Foods Dinty Moore product? First, do not eat the recalled food product, according to Foodsafety.gov. Consumers who have purchased this product are urged not to consume it, and should throw it away or return it to the place of purchase. Anyone concerned about an injury should contact a healthcare provider. FSIS is concerned that some Dinty Moore Beef Stew 20-oz. cans may be in consumers pantries. (FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers.) Consumers with questions about the recall can contact Hormel Foods Corporation at 800-523-4635. More information about food recalls is available at the FSIS website. Hormel Foods earnings On Thursday, Hormel Foods Corporation reported earnings results for the second quarter of 2025 ending in April. The company met expectations for earnings per share (EPS) but slightly missed on revenue with $2.9 billion, just under the forecasted $2.92 billion. That represents a year-over-year increase of 0.4%, and earnings per share (EPS) of $0.35 for the same period, compared to $0.38 a year ago. Shares of the stock were down about 1% in midday trading on Thursday. The company had a market cap of $16.32 billion at the time of this writing.
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Grab your finest Manolo Blahnik heels and pour yourself a cosmo: The season three premiere of the Sex and the City revival series And Just Like That is upon us. Episode one of 10 drops today (Thursday, May 29) on HBO Max, with the rest following on a weekly basis. This fashion-filled series follows the lives of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte (Kristin Davis)who are now in their mid-50sas they navigate motherhood, aging, grief, and so much more. Lets look at how the show handles mature women, the series critical reception, and cast updates. ‘And Just Like That’ serves a bigger purpose Its no secret that the entertainment industry isnt kind to experienced women. The older an actress gets, the less prevalent the meaty roles become. According to a 2021 Nielsen Gracenote Inclusion Analytics, women over 50 make up 20% of the population but get just 8% of screen time. Further complicating matters, when women do see themselves on screen, they are more often than not stereotyped into maternal, caregiver rolesor spinster detectivesand not allowed to be complex individuals. When And Just Like That first premiered in December 2021, it sought to rectify this underrepresentation. What the critics and fans thought of the first two seasons Fans were eager to see their favorite New Yorkers back on the small screen. According to Deadline, the first two episodes of season one were the most watched series premiere of a new HBO or HBO Max series on the streaming service until House of the Dragon took the title. After watching, however, critics and fans had some notes for the cable network. New York Times critic James Poniewozik quipped that it all went wrong and even asked, Was this really necessary? He pointed out many awkward attempts to make the series more diverse, but gave the creators credit for trying. Entertainment Weeklys Darren Franich agreed, celebrating the series for being better than the movies in certain regards, but also pointing out it tries too hard to bring its cultural brand into a new era. Fans echoed these sentiments, and the internet went wild. For a while, it was trendy to hate watch the series and criticize it online. Season 1 was probably the worst season of television ive ever seen and I was excited for every episode, explained one Reddit user. The show is baaaad but I’m ultimately having a good time. Thankfully And Just Like That only improved with age. Vanity Fairs Richard Lawson wrote that the series found its footing in its second season. It is only right to hope that season three will continue this trend, especially since the creatives had a two-year break to get things right. What happened at the end of the last season? At the end of season two, Carrie held a goodbye dinner for her iconic brownstone apartment. She and Aiden (John Corbet) purchased a place together in Gramercy Park. When his son gets into a car accident, he asks to take a five-year pause on their relationship until his kids are older. Miranda and Che (Sara Ramirez) are officially over but she flirts with a BBC producer named Joy (Dolly Wells). Charlotte, meanwhile, has returned to the workforce and asks her husband to get more involved in domestic affairs. What is expected for season three? Cast announcements may give fans a clue about potential plotlines in the new season. Sara Ramirez will not return, but Dolly Wells has been made a series regular. This could signal that Miranda might have a new love interest. Karen Pittman, who played Dr. Nya Wallace, is also not returning to the series because of scheduling conflicts. This could instead mean that Joy takes her place as Mirandas friend. Sebastiano Pigazzi, who plays Giuseppe, a love interest for Anthony, has also been promoted to a series regular. New iconic faces will also be joining the series this season. While exact details are being held close to the vest, Rosie ODonnell has confirmed that she will play a character named Mary. Broadway diva Patti LuPone will also have a significant role. Male actors are getting in on the action as well. Logan Marshall-Green, Mehcad Brooks, and Jonathan Cake will steam up season three. As the wider Sex and the City universe continues to evolve, we cant help but wonder what new trails (and fashion trends) these fictional characters will blaze.
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Its incredibly hard to find a starter home in Los Angeles, where the median house price is now around $1.2 million. But in a new project, the city is working with architects and developers to build prototypes of more affordable homes that make use of small vacant lots scattered throughout the city. L.A. has around 24,000 privately owned residential lots that are a quarter-acre or less and havent yet been developed. The city also owns this type of small vacant lot, and now plans to use up to a dozen of them to demonstrate new models for housing. Instead of single-family homes, each development will include multiple small units that make better use of a lot, while leaving room for outdoor space and ample light. We thought that there might be a way to unlock the lots the city owns, but also use that to actually spur private development on the many similar lots that are across the city, says Emmanuel Proussaloglou, codirector of CityLab-UCLA, a think tank based in UCLAs architecture department. 2BUY4 by Garrett Ricciardi Office. [Rendering: courtesy CityLab-UCLA] The group partnered with the city on a design competition called Small Lots, Big Impacts, focused on rethinking homeownership on urban infill lots. Twenty-one winning designs were announced today, along with another 20 projects that received special recognition. Architects looked at new ways to divide small lots. Shared Steps, a design from the California-based firms Word and s_sk, is an example of what CityLab calls stealth density. From the front, it looks like it could be a single-family home. But its actually nine units: three main buildings that each have a larger unit plus an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) and a junior accessory dwelling unit. The ADUs could be used as rentals for the larger units, help a family expand when they need more space, or be sold as homes of their own. The front yard, meanwhile connects to a pocket park for the neighborhood. 4X4X4 by Light and Air. [Rendering: courtesy CityLab-UCLA] A project called 4x4x4, from the Brooklyn-based firm Light and Air, uses a single 50-by-150-foot lot for four two-story houses. Each home has a ground-floor accessory dwelling unit. The homes, which are each around 1,600 square feet, fit together like Tetris blocks. The L-shaped plan has the ability to frame outdoor space, and also provide views in multiple directions, says Shane Neufeld, who leads Light and Air. There are courtyards on the ground floor. On the second floor, residents can walk out sliding doors to a balcony on the roof of each ADU. From the street, again, it looks like it might be a single-family home. California and local laws allow housing development by right, without the need for discretionary approval, as long as buildings meet certain zoning and design criteria and include some affordable housing. That means that neighbors shouldn’t be able to block the projects. Still, the buildings were designed to fit into existing neighborhoods, and appease neighbors as much as possible. Physically building some of the new designs could help create more support. “The whole point of what we’re doing here is to try to build a couple so that you can go and actually look at them and say, ‘That doesn’t look as scary as I thought it might,'” says Proussaloglou. “That’s the hope, at least.” Lotful by Studio One Eleven. [Rendering: courtesy CityLab-UCLA] A design called Lotful, from Long Beach-based Studio One Eleven, proposes six individually owned buildings that each have owner-occupied units and two ground-level ADUs. The rental income can help owners qualify for a mortgage. The design is also modular, using a standard size that can make it faster and potentially less expensive to build. It’s also easier to replicate. “If we create these modules, these could be used on different sites in different areas, so you actually could get economies of scale,” says Alan Pullman, a partner at Studio One Eleven. A design called Ladderblock, from L.A.-based West of West, proposes creating a community land trust to lower the cost of each home. One- and two-bedroom units are designed with flexibility, so owners can change their homes over time, if needed. By adding a partition wall, the spaces can be split further to create a rental or another unit to sell. A 41-unit design from the New York-based firm Only If is one example of building with future density in mind. (Buildings on larger streets near transit can be taller and include more units.) The terraced floors create outdoor space on several levels. On the ground floor, a potential parking lot is “reversible,” meaning that it could later be used to build another seven units. Living Together in the Plains of Id by Only If. [Rendering: CityLab-UCLA] In the past, small lots might have been used for single-family homes, or sometimes stayed vacant because development didn’t seem like it would pencil out. The competition aims to help clearly illustrate what else is possible. Echo Yards by Shin Shin [Rendering: CityLab-UCLA] The need to build more is acute: Under state law, the city is required to build more than 450,000 homes by 2029 to deal with the housing shortage, and it isn’t on track, with only around 17,000 new homes permitted last year. The devastating fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena earlier this year, which destroyed thousands of homes, added even more to the challenge. In the next stage of the project, the Los Angeles Housing Department will choose development teams, including architects, contractors, and financial institutions, to build on specific city-owned lots in different neighborhoods. The city will be selling the lots, but will use the proceeds to help provide down-payment assistance for low-income buyers to live in the new developments. (The developments, which will be privately financed by the development teams, will target residents at various income levels.) The winning designs from the first stage won’t necessarily be built, though each team will have an opportunity to apply again with the designs they’ve created. Growing Together by Outpost Office [Rendering: courtesy CityLab-UCLA] UCLA also plans to share all of the submissions online, including proposals that didn’t win. “There are only going to be a handful of sites available in the next stage, so not all 356 ideas are going to get built,” says Proussaloglou. “But we’re hoping that people with private lots look to the database of architectural ingenuity from the Small Lots competition, and say, ‘okay, I love that submission. I want to work with that architect.'” The ideas could also be useful beyond L.A. “So many cities are struggling with a housing crisis of affordability and a lack of the kind of units that families want,” says Studio One Eleven’s Pullman. “I’m hoping that we can show, through this demonstration project, the ability to really think beyond the standard ways that we’ve been building cities, either single-family or large multifamily, into what everyone’s talking aboutthis missing middle. The ability to build family housing, but in a way that isn’t just the single-family house.”
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