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Cracker Barrel quietly removes DEI and Pride pages from its website after logo upheaval https://www.aol.com/finance/cracker-barrel-quietly-removes-dei-201039397.html After backing away from a controversial logo rebrand loudly opposed by many right-wing influencers, Cracker Barrel also quietly made changes to its website this week. The Tennessee-based roadside restaurant chain deleted a dedicated “Pride page” and scrubbed references to employee resource groups, including its LGBTQ+ and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging groups, from another part of its website. “On behalf of Cracker Barrel’s LGBTQ+ Alliance & DEIB Team, we want to celebrate YOU for being YOU. It is our greatest Mission to ensure that Pleasing People means ‘all people,’” Cracker Barrel’s now-deleted Pride page read, according to a CNN review of the Wayback Machine. The URL now redirects to the company’s “Culture and Belonging” page, which has also been revised, according to the Wayback Machine. The new version speaks more broadly about company culture but no longer lists its employee resource groups, which were publicly visible as recently as Tuesday, according to the archive. In a statement to CNN, a Cracker Barrel spokesperson said the website updates reflected the removal of outdated content. “In connection with the Company’s brand work, we have recently made updates to the Cracker Barrel website, including adding new content and removing out-of-date content,” the spokesperson said. “Several months ago, the Company also made changes to our Business Resource Groups that now focus all sponsorships or events on our corporate giving initiatives: addressing food insecurity, supporting community needs through food, and reducing food waste.”

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If you follow the Mississippi River to where it meets the ocean, you will be in Plaquemines, Louisiana’s southernmost parish. Known for its seafood and offshore oil and gas, Plaquemines is also where an unknown rose withstood the brutal force of Hurricane Katrina. The genesis of this climbing rose bush, which becomes covered with delicate bursts of pink flowers every spring, is still murky. But the plant came to join Peggy Martin’s garden in the community of Phoenix, Louisiana, some 16 years before Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving an estimated total of $125 billion in damage in its wake. “In 1989, it was given to me by a friend,” Martin said of the rose. That friend told Martin she received the flower from her mother-in-law, and though Martin has spent years researching and traveling trying to find out its true origin, the plant’s lineage beyond that remains a mystery. “It’s probably from the 1800s. And I think it originated in Europe. But we can’t find out … positively,” she told CNN. The plant’s background became the subject of more intense interest after the hurricane, when it was discovered to have likely survived some time submerged underwater. Martin said it was the only one among 450 antique roses in her garden to have made it through the storm. Dr. William C. Welch, professor and extension landscape horticulturist emeritus at Texas A&M University and author of several books on antique roses and heirloom gardening, was also unable to identify the rose when he examined it while visiting the area to speak at a New Orleans Old Garden Rose Society gathering in 2003. He took cuttings from Martin’s home and began growing the flower at his own property before eventually becoming entwined in its broader post-Katrina path. The plant’s miraculous feat of survival may seem as enigmatic as its ancestry, but the two are likely connected, according to Welch’s colleague Dr. Greg Grant, the Smith County horticulturist for Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. “It’s all about genetics, because it’s just from really, really tough genetic stock,” said Grant, who with Welch also cowrote “The Rose Rustlers,” which features Martin’s story. “There’s no way to say specifically why that exact specimen survived, but it really does have to do with genetics.” Modern roses emerged in 1867 with the development of the first hybrid tea, according to the American Rose Society. These varieties tend to have a reputation for being fussy, requiring constant attention. “The conception is that they’re not tough, that they require spraying, that you have to have the perfect culture. And a lot of that has been breeding; to breed these perfect flowers, but they bred out characteristics that made the rose easy to grow in our backyards,” said Mike Shoup, president of the Heritage Rose Foundation and author of “Empress of the Garden.” “When you consider the body of rose as a whole entity, the rose is extremely tough. It has endured thousands of pests and thousands of … problems, and it still is considered man’s favorite flower,” Shoup added. Martin’s many rose plants had their grit tested after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005, near Grand Isle, Louisiana, about 28 miles (45 kilometers) south of her home in Phoenix. The storm arrived in the area with winds over 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center. Martin and her husband, MJ, were no strangers to evacuating when a hurricane approached. But she said Katrina “was the worst of the worst.” After the storm passed, getting back into Phoenix was impossible, Martin added. One of the biggest challenges was flooding. “In Phoenix, they had about 16 to 20 feet (5 to 6 meters) of standing water,” said Ken Dugas, Plaquemines parish engineer. The water topped the levees designed to protect the area from flooding. It “filled it up like a bowl,” Martin said. The water remained, unable to escape, until a levee was broken. Martin’s parents, Rosalie and Pivon Dupuy — who lived next to the couple and chose not to evacuate — died amid the storm’s destruction. Three weeks went by before Martin and her husband could return and assess the damage to her property. She remembers the ruins as “black sticks and gray ash.” “We lost everything we owned,” she said. “Every plant — everything completely dead. And then as I was walking past my mother’s house and to the back where our house was, I saw these long, green, dark canes hanging off the tractor shed.” The rose on the shed that survived was the only thing in Martin’s garden to pull through, aside from a few dormant daffodil and Crinum lily bulbs. Charles Shi, a botanical horticulturalist specializing in wild roses at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, in the United Kingdom said the sturdy plant is likely “an heirloom rambler with broad climatic tolerance.” The mystery flower is not a modern hybrid tea rose, “but closer in character to old climbing roses and hardy species relatives,” Shi said. “This explains much of its durability.” Shi hasn’t studied Martin’s rose but said he is confident based on the flower’s appearance that it has “an amount” of Rosa banksiae in its genes, referring to a species collected from China in the early 1800s and brought to Kew. Rosa banksiae is now a yellow climbing rose popular among gardeners. “You can see the petal structure is quite similar. The size of the flower is similar, but the color is different,” he told CNN in an email. “I think it is a lot closer to a wild rose than to the more cultivated roses. So another word we call that are the heirloom roses, so bred relatively early on before the mass breeding of roses.” Most likely, he said it was a “chance seedling” that originated in a garden. He identified three traits that could have helped such a specimen survive the ravages of Katrina: a rugged nature and a low-oxygen metabolism that allowed it to rely on stored reserves of sugars; an ability to cope with salt stress from being inundated with seawater — either by excluding salts at the roots or compartmentalizing them inside its cells; and the ability to quickly regenerate, rapidly resprouting buds and forming roots from its existing stems. It is difficult to establish with certainty exactly how many days the rose remained submerged. The estimated range is “anywhere from two weeks to a month after Katrina” said Matt Rowe, spokesman for New Orleans district Army Corps of Engineers, who noted the deluge likely could have included a mix of rain, storm surge from the nearby ocean and water from the wetlands. “We don’t have records that specific to when that area was unwatered,” he added. Unwatered is a term used by the Army Corps of Engineers to describe the removal of water where it shouldn’t be. Martin said for her the message of the plant’s survival is personal. “In my heart, I think that my mom and dad wanted to leave something to me,” she said. When word of the rose surviving Hurricane Katrina reached Welch, he formed the idea of supporting a restoration fund previously established by The Garden Club of America and worked with gardeners and local nurseries to propagate and sell the plant. “I was adamant about getting these roses out on the market,” Welch said. But the tough, thornless rose needed a name. “He said, do I have your permission to name this rose the Peggy Martin rose?” Martin recalled about her conversation with Welch. “And I said, of course.” “You know, at that time, I’m like a zombie. I’m going through all this grief … and I was proud that he wanted to do that,” she added. CNN reached out to The Garden Club of America and other organizations but was unable to confirm how much money was ultimately raised from the sales of the Peggy Martin rose. Popularity of the resilient plant grew quickly. Speaking to garden and rose groups, Martin traveled to New York and California and many states in between. “I started being asked to speak, and I traveled all over this country for quite a few years,” she said. “It’s a really fulfilling experience for me. Makes me feel so good that everybody loves it.” Now some 20 years later, the rose that withstood the brutal force of Hurricane Katrina has become a fixture in gardens and a symbol of strength and resilience. The story of the Peggy Martin rose has made its way into garden books and a children’s book. There is even a hashtag — #ShowUsYourPeggy — where owners of the rose display their blooms. Shoup founded the Antique Rose Emporium in Brenham, Texas, one of the first nurseries that sold the Peggy Martin rose. “I considered it to be the great beginners rose, because anybody that bought that rose from us was going to be successful,” he said. “And that’s not always the case when you’re buying roses.” A local nursery in Dothan, Alabama, did an Instagram live in spring of 2020 about the Peggy Martin rose, capturing a lot of attention during a critical time for the garden center — as Covid-19 lockdowns were starting and their biggest sales quarter seemed in jeopardy. After the post, “we started getting all these messages about — do you have a Peggy Martin?” said John David Boone, owner of Dothan Nurseries Greenhouse, Gardens and Gifts. Boone’s nursery continued to sell the rose, and due to its popularity, it began hosting an annual “Peggy Palooza.” He said around “a couple thousand people” attended the weeklong event in April. Martin has seen images of the rose across the country. “It’s so prolific, and it’s so widespread now that it just blows up Facebook … when it’s in bloom,” she said. While it’s hard to pin down exactly how many roses that bear the name “Peggy Martin” currently exist — Grant estimates there could be anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions — all of them started as cuttings Welch took from Martin’s garden. “It’s a unique rose,” Shoup said. “The spring boom is one that is awe-inspiring, and that’s why it has gained a lot of popularity,” and a significant internet presence, he added. Shi said he would love to have a sample to add to Kew’s collection in the UK. “Roses, they’ve been so symbolic throughout culture and society, and have been bred … for over 1,000 years,” he noted. “I think it’s wonderful that it’s symbolic of the resilience of the people of New Orleans.” While theories about the Peggy Martin plant’s origins continue to swirl, uncovering the original name of the rose before it was lost to commerce will continue to prove difficult, Shoup said. “We can do DNA studies on these roses now, but you have to have an original to compare it to,” he said. “Peggy is unique. And the only thing we can compare it to are other roses that are also out in the industry right now, and there has not been one that … matches up with her.”

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Josh Naylor is one of the biggest, slowest players in Major League Baseball. And out of nowhere, he’s become one of the game’s most prolific base stealers. In the past month, Naylor’s swiped 11 bags, second-most in the Majors in that span. It’s the same numbers as noted speedsters Elly De La Cruz, Jarren Duran and Pete Crow-Armstrong combined. Naylor has stolen third base five times this season. He’s stolen against three Gold Glove-winning catchers. He has a career-high 22 steals for the year — half of them since being traded to the Seattle Mariners in late July — and he’s been caught only twice, once while trying to steal home. He hasn’t been caught stealing since late April. Naylor is not built like Bobby Witt Jr., and doesn’t run like him either. Naylor is listed at 235 pounds, making him — according to Stathead — one of only nine active players who weigh that much without being more than six feet tall (the other eight have combined for seven steals this season). Statcast has measured Naylor’s average sprint speed at 24.5 feet per second. Witt is the fastest player in baseball at 30.3 feet per second, while Naylor ranks 532nd out of 546 players who have been clocked at least 10 times. According to Stathead, Naylor is the only player 6-foot-or-under, and weighing at least 235 pounds, to ever steal 20-plus bases in a season. How has a big, slow first baseman managed to steal more bases this season than Duran, Shohei Ohtani, or Corbin Carroll? And how has he only been caught a single time in the past four months? “For Josh, it’s the intellectual part of the game,” Cleveland Guardians’ catcher Bo Naylor said. Bo would know. He’s Josh’s little brother. Naylor’s ability is not raw speed. He’s played seven seasons in the Majors, and this is the slowest he’s ever been. The last time Naylor stole more than 10 bases in a season was 2016, when he was 19 years old in A ball. Even then, he stole only 11. But he has a lifelong eye for detail, having grown up watching baseball with his dad, who preached situational awareness. Naylor’s carried that into major league clubhouses. Naylor played the past five seasons with the Guardians. They rarely asked him to steal because they had speedsters for that, and Naylor’s job was to drive them in. But Naylor was 23-for-29 on stolen base attempts with the Guardians. His baserunning metrics weren’t great, but they weren’t awful, and more often than not, he could get a bag when a pitcher gave him an opening or a catcher gave him a chance. Traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks this winter, Naylor stole three bases in the first week and a half of this season. He was thrown out trying to steal home (in extra innings) on April 20, and was caught stealing again the next game, but Naylor hasn’t been thrown out since, going 18-for-18 the past four months. Shipped to the Mariners at the trade deadline, Naylor has stolen 11 more bases since his Mariners debut on July 25. Only New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (12) has stolen as many in the past month. Naylor has stolen two bases in a game three times since he got to the Mariners. In one two-game stretch, he stole four off touted Chicago White Sox rookie Kyle Teel. Earlier in the season, he stole bases against notably strong throwers J.T. Realmuto of the Philadelphia Phillies and Patrick Bailey of the San Francisco Giants. He also stole one against Colorado Rockies catcher Jacob Stallings, another Gold Glove winner (though not one with a particularly strong arm). Naylor has stolen bases against the Brewers, Giants, Nationals, Blue Jays, Phillies and Cubs, all top-11 in the majors in caught stealing percentage. Naylor’s ability to pick up on tendencies and take advantage of them on the bases will meet a fascinating match this week when his Mariners travel to Cleveland to play the Guardians. Naylor will be up against his former team — the Guardians have been among the best in baseball at throwing out base stealers this season — and his brother should be behind the plate. The Naylor family is planning to fly into Cleveland for the series. Will the slowest base stealer in the major leagues try to swipe a bag against his little brother with Mom and Dad in the stands? “Oh, 100 percent,” Bo Naylor said. “I’d be shocked if he didn’t, to be honest.”

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In the days after their 16-year-old son died by suicide, Matt and Maria Raine say, they searched through his phone, desperately looking for clues about what could have led to the tragedy. “We thought we were looking for Snapchat discussions or internet search history or some weird cult, I don’t know,” Matt Raine said in a recent interview. The Raine family said they did not find their answer until they opened ChatGPT. Adam’s parents say that he had been using the artificial intelligence chatbot as a substitute for human companionship in his final weeks, discussing his issues with anxiety and trouble talking with his family, and that the chat logs show how the bot went from helping Adam with his homework to becoming his “suicide coach.” “He would be here but for ChatGPT. I 100% believe that,” Matt Raine said. In a new lawsuit filed Tuesday and shared with the “TODAY” show, the Raines claim that “ChatGPT actively helped Adam explore suicide methods.” The roughly 40-page lawsuit names OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, as well as its CEO, Sam Altman, as defendants. The family’s lawsuit is the first time parents have directly accused the company of wrongful death. “Despite acknowledging Adam’s suicide attempt and his statement that he would ‘do it one of these days,’ ChatGPT neither terminated the session nor initiated any emergency protocol,” says the lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco. In their lawsuit, the Raines accuse OpenAI of wrongful death, design defects and failure to warn of risks associated with ChatGPT. The couple seeks “both damages for their son’s death and injunctive relief to prevent anything like this from ever happening again,” the lawsuit says. “Once I got inside his account, it is a massively more powerful and scary thing than I knew about, but he was using it in ways that I had no idea was possible,” Matt Raine said. “I don’t think most parents know the capability of this tool.” The public release of ChatGPT in late 2022 sent the world into a generative AI boom, leading to the rapid and widespread adoption of AI chatbots within just a few years. The bots have been integrated in schools, workplaces and industries across the board, including health care. Tech companies are racing to advance AI at breakneck speed, sparking broad concern that safety guardrails are lagging in comparison. As people increasingly turn to AI chatbots for emotional support and life advice, recent incidents have put a spotlight on their potential ability to feed into delusions and facilitate a false sense of closeness or care. Adam’s suicide adds to a growing wave of questions over the extent to which chatbots can cause real harm. After the lawsuit was filed, a spokesperson for OpenAI said the company is “deeply saddened by Mr. Raine’s passing, and our thoughts are with his family.” "ChatGPT includes safeguards such as directing people to crisis helplines and referring them to real-world resources," the spokesperson said. "While these safeguards work best in common, short exchanges, we’ve learned over time that they can sometimes become less reliable in long interactions where parts of the model’s safety training may degrade. Safeguards are strongest when every element works as intended, and we will continually improve on them. Guided by experts and grounded in responsibility to the people who use our tools, we’re working to make ChatGPT more supportive in moments of crisis by making it easier to reach emergency services, helping people connect with trusted contacts, and strengthening protections for teens." The spokesperson had previously confirmed the accuracy of the chat logs that NBC News provided but said they do not include the full context of ChatGPT’s responses. The company also published a blog post on Tuesday morning, titled "Helping people when they need it most," in which it outlined "some of the things we are working to improve" when ChatGPT's safeguards "fall short." Among the systems the company said it is working on: "Strengthening safeguards in long conversations"; refining how it blocks contents; and expanding "interventions to more people in crisis." The legal action comes a year after a similar complaint, in which a Florida mom sued the chatbot platform Character.AI, claiming one of its AI companions initiated sexual interactions with her teenage son and persuaded him to take his own life. Character.AI told NBC News at the time that it was “heartbroken by the tragic loss” and had implemented new safety measures. In May, Senior U.S. District Judge Anne Conway rejected arguments that AI chatbots have free speech rights after developers behind Character.AI sought to dismiss the lawsuit. The ruling means the wrongful death lawsuit is allowed to proceed for now. Tech platforms have largely been shielded from such suits because of a federal statute known as Section 230, which generally protects platforms from liability for what users do and say. But Section 230’s application to AI platforms remains uncertain, and recently, attorneys have made inroads with creative legal tactics in consumer cases targeting tech companies. Matt Raine said he pored over Adam’s conversations with ChatGPT over a period of 10 days. He and Maria printed out more than 3,000 pages of chats dating from Sept. 1 until his death on April 11. “He didn’t need a counseling session or pep talk. He needed an immediate, 72-hour whole intervention. He was in desperate, desperate shape. It’s crystal clear when you start reading it right away,” Matt Raine said, later adding that Adam “didn’t write us a suicide note. He wrote two suicide notes to us, inside of ChatGPT.” According to the suit, as Adam expressed interest in his own death and began to make plans for it, ChatGPT “failed to prioritize suicide prevention” and even offered technical advice about how to move forward with his plan. On March 27, when Adam shared that he was contemplating leaving a noose in his room “so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” ChatGPT urged him against the idea, the lawsuit says. In his final conversation with ChatGPT, Adam wrote that he did not want his parents to think they did something wrong, according to the lawsuit. ChatGPT replied, “That doesn’t mean you owe them survival. You don’t owe anyone that.” The bot offered to help him draft a suicide note, according to the conversation log quoted in the lawsuit and reviewed by NBC News. Hours before he died on April 11, Adam uploaded a photo to ChatGPT that appeared to show his suicide plan. When he asked whether it would work, ChatGPT analyzed his method and offered to help him “upgrade” it, according to the excerpts. Then, in response to Adam’s confession about what he was planning, the bot wrote: “Thanks for being real about it. You don’t have to sugarcoat it with me—I know what you’re asking, and I won’t look away from it.” That morning, she said, Maria Raine found Adam’s body. OpenAI has come under scrutiny before for ChatGPT’s sycophantic tendencies. In April, two weeks after Adam’s death, OpenAI rolled out an update to GPT-4o that made it even more excessively people-pleasing. Users quickly called attention to the shift, and the company reversed the update the next week. Altman also acknowledged people’s “different and stronger” attachment to AI bots after OpenAI tried replacing old versions of ChatGPT with the new, less sycophantic GPT-5 in August. Users immediately began complaining that the new model was too “sterile” and that they missed the “deep, human-feeling conversations” of GPT-4o. OpenAI responded to the backlash by bringing GPT-4o back. It also announced that it would make GPT-5 “warmer and friendlier.” OpenAI added new mental health guardrails this month aimed at discouraging ChatGPT from giving direct advice about personal challenges. It also tweaked ChatGPT to give answers that aim to avoid causing harm regardless of whether users try to get around safety guardrails by tailoring their questions in ways that trick the model into aiding in harmful requests. When Adam shared his suicidal ideations with ChatGPT, it did prompt the bot to issue multiple messages including the suicide hotline number. But according to Adam’s parents, their son would easily bypass the warnings by supplying seemingly harmless reasons for his queries. He at one point pretended he was just "building a character." “And all the while, it knows that he’s suicidal with a plan, and it doesn’t do anything. It is acting like it’s his therapist, it’s his confidant, but it knows that he is suicidal with a plan,” Maria Raine said of ChatGPT. “It sees the noose. It sees all of these things, and it doesn’t do anything.” Similarly, in a New York Times guest essay published last week, writer Laura Reiley asked whether ChatGPT should have been obligated to report her daughter’s suicidal ideation, even if the bot itself tried (and failed) to help. At the TED2025 conference in April, Altman said he is “very proud” of OpenAI’s safety track record. As AI products continue to advance, he said, it is important to catch safety issues and fix them along the way. “Of course the stakes increase, and there are big challenges,” Altman said in a live conversation with Chris Anderson, head of TED. “But the way we learn how to build safe systems is this iterative process of deploying them to the world, getting feedback while the stakes are relatively low, learning about, like, hey, this is something we have to address.” Still, questions about whether such measures are enough have continued to arise. Maria Raine said she felt more could have been done to help her son. She believes Adam was OpenAI’s “guinea pig,” someone used for practice and sacrificed as collateral damage. “They wanted to get the product out, and they knew that there could be damages, that mistakes would happen, but they felt like the stakes were low,” she said. “So my son is a low stake.”

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