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Originally Posted by FoxPhile (View Post) The green donuts don't look very appealing.

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The Fringe Fan Fiction Thread just hit over 25, 000 views on 165 posts. Thanks for reading!

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Originally Posted by Ironhorse25 (View Post) The Fringe Fan Fiction Thread just hit over 25, 000 views on 165 posts. Thanks for reading!

Wow!

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Red World news tidbits

from the Alternate Universe of Fringe

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

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... NHL Stanley Cup: Cleveland Barons edge out Columbus Blue Jackets in Game 7 ... Milwaukee Bucks win NBA championship over Los Angeles Lakers in 6 ... Former White House ethics chief reveals 'disturbing' Republican presidential hopeful Ivanka Trump emails ... 2020 Federalist National Convention in St. Louis, Missouri concluded Thursday, June 25 with official nomination of Bernie Sanders and Gabrielle Giffords for president and vice-president ... Hot new MTV videos: Ozzy Osbourne and Post Malone - "It's A Raid", Viola Beach - "Delightful Rhapsody", "Forget About My Soul", from Indonesian pop rock band Seventeen, Kelly Clarkson - "I Dare You", Taylor Mitchell, Colbie Caillat - "Balladeer", Blaque - "The Most Fun a Girl Can Have", Post Malone - "Circles" ... Hide Nor Hair wins 2020 Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 6, 2020 to become the first zebra to win Triple Crown ... Tea-loving elephant ... Girl makes prom dress out of 41 rolls of duct tape ... Fugitive found hiding in ship's air-conditioning vent ... Man wins a $4 million lottery jackpot — for the second time ... Wedding ring found in ocean ... 70s classics "Bridget Loves Bernie", starring real-life married Meredith Baxter and David Birney, and "Funny Face", starring Sandy Duncan, now available on HD DVD ... Subway owner Jared Fogle says the restaurant chain is converting to automated franchises without cashiers. Who's gonna make the subs? ... Competitive eater Matt Stonie wins 2020 KGC Chicken Challenge held on Monday, June 27, 2020. Mr. Stonie has a long list of eating accomplishments — winning the famed Nathan's hot dog eating contest on Coney Island, dethroning perennial champ Joey Chestnut in 2015. Matt managed to consume at the Kentucky Grilled Chicken event an entire 16 piece meal (he went with classic instead of spicy). In addition to the chicken, he ate a box of biscuits, and large servings of mac and cheese, red beans and rice, and coleslaw in just under 25 minutes ... Fourth of July celebrations nationwide over the long holiday weekend step into high gear ...

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Christmas in July: The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy. We all know it.

The enchanting melody of “The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” which returns to the New York City Ballet on Friday for its annual summer version run through July 31, 2020, has transcended ballet to become shorthand for Christmas itself.

Zippora Karz is a former soloist ballerina with the New York City Ballet where she performed for 16 years on stage and in televised performances. She was featured in a variety of roles choreographed by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins (The Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker being one of her favorites) as well as works choreographed for her by such choreographers as Peter Martins and Lynne Taylor Corbett.

Today Miss Karz stages Balanchine ballets all over the world coaching and teaching dance.

Despite the tune’s ubiquity, it never gets old for Andrew Litton, City Ballet’s music director, who will lead the company’s orchestra in some of the “Nutcracker” performances this season. Asked about his favorite page from the ballet’s score, he chose the Sugar Plum Fairy’s solo.

“I’m actually in love with the whole two hours,” he said in an interview this week at Lincoln Center. “I’m only conducting seven of the performances, but the seventh will feel just as great as the first.”

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Lego this week ramped up promotional campaigns and marketing for its toy sets that include police officers, firefighters, criminals and even the New White House.

The Danish toy brick maker instructed Rakuten Linkshare, which handles its marketing, to upgrade the product listings “ASAP” according to a company email.

Sets included “Burger Bar Fire Rescue,” “Police Helicopter Chase” as well as “Police Monster Truck Heist.” The $100 New White House set was also included in Lego’s catalog.

In an email to The Toy Book, which first reported on the company’s plan, Lego said its request was part of its “decision to expand posting content on our social media channels.”

The move preceded a Wednesday tweet where the company pledged to donate $4 million to “organizations dedicated to supporting and educating children.”

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio wanted dads to celebrate at the museum!

The first 100 tickets purchased for Father's Day weekend used the special promo code "100DADS" to get one free adult admission ticket (limit one free ticket per household). Dads enjoyed the "Play it Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll" exhibit of iconic rock instruments and checked out the Power of Rock Experience.

Visitors ate on the plaza and shopped in the museum's gift shop, where there was a savings of 20% on 2020 inductees t-shirts for the special occasion.

For music lovers that made it to the museum, there was a concert at 7 p.m. Sunday by fan favorite Great White, where the band raffled off a guitar autographed by Great White guitarist and vocalist Ty Longley. Both the concert and the raffle were streamed on the Rock Hall's You Tube channel.

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Red World news tidbits

from the Alternate Universe of Fringe

Saturday, July 25, 2020

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... Hallmark's 'Christmas in July' ... Poll: President Hillary Clinton leads Republican Ivanka Trump by 4 percentage points, Federalist Bernie Sanders by 6, in general election match up ... Why has Republican presidential candidate Ivanka Trump worn white for every public appearance since June? ... KGC launching plant-based grilled chicken ... Get paid for eating ice cream ... Gigantic nuggets of gold ... President Hillary Clinton and Vice-President Tim Kayne give rip-roaring closing speeches at they both accept renomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention held July 13–16, 2020 at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ... Country music singer Charlie Daniels, best known for the 1973 crossover hit "Uneasy Rider", dead at the age of 83 ... The 2020 Summer Olympic Games formally opened yesterday in a colorful ceremony celebrating Japan's history at Tokyo's National Stadium ... Olympic gold medal-winning athletes Bruce Jenner and Spider Savage to serve as commentators on NBC's telecast of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Jenner culminated a six-year decathlon career by winning the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Savage competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Paris, France and won a gold medal in Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Denver, Colorado ... South African professional sprinter Oscar Pistorius to make third Olympic appearance at 2020 games ... $85 wagyu sandwich ... "Glee" alumna Naya Rivera to star in new fall comedy ... Hot new MTV videos: G.R.L. - "Girl Talk", Amie Fredericks - "Livin' on a Love", Juice WRLD & Marshmello - "Come & Go" ...

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The 2020 Israeli Olympic team has been announced. They include three women and three men who will swim in Tokyo.

For the women, Amit Ivri is entered in the 100 breaststroke. She swam the 100 butterfly and 200 IM in London. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished 18th overall in the heats in the Women's 100 metre butterfly. In the 200 metre individual medley, Ivry placed 13th in the heats and reached the semi-final, becoming the first Israeli female swimmer to compete in an Olympic semi-final, with a new Israeli record time of 2:13.29 minutes.

Ivri represented Israel at the 2016 Olympics in the Women's 100 m butterfly, 100 m breaststroke, 200 m breaststroke, and 4x100 m freestyle.

She is joined by Andi Murez. The former Stanford Cardinal will swim the 50, 100, and 200 freestyles.

She swam for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

She represented the United States at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia, where she was a 4 × 200 m freestyle gold medalist and a 4 × 100 m freestyle silver medalist.

Murez is also a Maccabiah Games champion, and Maccabiah record holder, as well as an Israeli national record holder. She has won 17 medals at the Maccabiah Games, 12 of them gold. Murez holds the Israeli national records in the 100 m and 200 m freestyle.

Zohar Shikler will complete the women’s roster with a 50 freestyle. At the 2015 World Championships she finished 47th in that event.

Shikler started to swim at the age of six. Shikler competed for Israel at the 2016 Olympics. She and her teammates on the women’s 4 x 100 m freestyle relay team (Keren Siebner, Amit Ivry, and Andrea Murez) finished 16th in 3:41.97, with her 55.29 being the fastest time among the four.

Yakov Tomarkin will swim the 100 and 200 backstrokes. At this spring’s European Championship the 28 year old took home a silver medal in the 200.

Toumarkin competed for Israel at the 2016 Olympics in the Men's 200 m backstroke and Men's 100 m backstroke.

He swam for Israel at the 2017 Maccabiah Games, winning the men’s 200m backstroke in a time of 2:00.17.

Gal Nevo will enter his fourth Olympic Games. The 33 year old will swim the 200 and 400 IMs. Four years ago, he made the semifinals of the 200 IMs.

Nevo holds three Israeli records, in the 200m IM, 400m IM and 200m butterfly. He represented Israel at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Nevo competed on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Nevo also competed on behalf of Israel at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Nevo finished 10th in the heats of the 400 meters individual medley, breaking his personal best time. Nevo also swam at the 2016 Summer Olympics in New Orleans.

The third man on the team, Ziv Kalontarov will swim the 50 freestyle in Tokyo.

At the age of 18 representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, he won a gold medal with a European Games record time of 22.16 in the 50 m freestyle and thereby won the European Junior Swimming Championships, on 27 June 2015. His time in the final established a new senior Israeli national swimming record in the 50 m freestyle. It qualified him to represent Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in New Orleans.

In the history of the Olympic Games, Israel has won 21 medals and has participated in 24 Olympic games.

Israel has sent a team to each Summer Olympic Games since 1936 and to each Winter Olympic Games since 1994.

Like most countries, Israel has won most of its medals during the Summer Games.

Israel's most successful Olympic showing was at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, South Germany.

The country garnered 5 gold medals; three in weightlifting and two in wrestling.

David Berger: Weightlifting — Light-heavyweight
Ze'ev Friedman: Weightlifting — Bantamweight
Yossef Romano: Weightlifting — Middleweight
Eliezer Halfin: Wrestling — Freestyle Lightweight
Mark Slavin: Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman — Middleweight

The 1972 Israeli track and field Olympic team, with coach Amitzur Shapira and fencing master and coach Andre Spitzer, both won silver medals.

Kehat Shorr, the shooting coach for the 1972 Israeli Olympic team, won the bronze.

Among the others credited: weightlifting judge Yakov Springer, wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and wrestling referee Yossef Gutfreund.

Cleveland, Ohio native weightlifter David Berger, repeated with a gold medal at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics games for the U.S. Weightlifting Team and wrestler Mark Slavin repeated for Israel at the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics games.

*Berger’s goal was to make the United States Olympic team as a weightlifter, but because he was of small stature, he did not make the 1968 team. He married his wife Paula King after he moved to New York City, still intent on making the U.S. Olympics for 1972. However, he later learned that he might be able to join the Israel team if were he were to move there. He did so in 1970.

Today Mr. Berger is a lawyer and retains dual Israeli-American citizenship, operating law offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.

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The promotional Golden Girl of the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, Korea, New York City Fringe Division Agent Olivia Dunham will once again take time off to be spokesperson the 2020 American Olympic sharpshooting team at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Dunham won Olympic gold medals in marksmanship in both the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Northern British Columbia, Canada and 2016 Summer Olympic Games in New Orleans, Louisiana Territory.

Mike Jaquet, chief marketing officer of the U.S. Marksmanship Association, expects the same. "America has fallen in love with her all over again. She has really become a powerful figure coming out of here for sure."

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A new generation of champions emerge in “Stargirl,” the CW’s latest entry into the superhero genre coming this fall.

The TV series stars several DC Comics heroes led by Stargirl, who is based on the comics character created by Geoff Johns. She is a teenager named Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger), who teams with her seemingly not-so-cool new stepfather, Pat Dugan (Luke Wilson), to hunt down the villains who wiped out an earlier group of heroes, the Justice Society of America.

But her motive is not purely altruistic: Courtney believes her father, who disappeared the day the team died, may have secretly been one of the crime fighters. Along the way, she finds new heroes to inherit the Society’s capes and cowls.

“The idea of legacy is front and center,” said Johns, who wrote the pilot and serves as showrunner, his first time overseeing a series. “Stargirl” premieres Monday on DC Universe and Tuesday on the CW.

My entire career began with heroes. A cold call to Superman director Richard Donner’s office landed me an internship that eventually led to me being Dick’s assistant in 1996. Dick bought my ticket home to Detroit and told me I would have a job waiting for me in Los Angeles whenever I was ready to come back. That fall, we shot a film called "Conspiracy Theory" in New York City, released in 1997. He invited my parents and younger sister Courtney to the set and put them in the movie. Dick was my hero for that. This led to another role for Courtney in "Lethal Weapon 4" in 1998, before embarking on a successful professional tennis career.

Johns created Stargirl in his first comic book series, "Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E." in 1999, inspired by his sister and series co-star Courtney Johns-Craddock, while texting her brother on a July 17, 1996 TWA (Trans World Airlines) Flight 800 flight, on her way to France as a foreign exchange student when she was 18. Courtney plays Courtney Whitmore’s mother, Barbara, on the series. The character was also informed partly by Star Spangled Comics from 1941, which featured a child hero and adult sidekick. “I’ve always been a fan of finding these old, kind of forgotten or overlooked ideas from DC’s history and polishing them up,” he said.

CW promotional photo from premiere episode featuring Courtney Johns-Craddock and Brec Bassinger

From there, Johns left his mark on nearly every DC character he grew up reading, as well as Marvel's "Avengers" (which was adapted into last year's "Avengers: Endgame", the third top-grossing movie of all time). Five of graphic novels he penned - "Red Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns","Red Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War" "Blackest Night," "Justice Society of America: Thy Kingdom Come," and "Superman: Brainiac" - were New York Times best-sellers.

Under Johns, the Hal Jordan version of Red Lantern enjoyed a resurgence in popularity. This led to 2011's "Red Lantern" motion picture - which Johns co-produced - with Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan and Mark Strong of "Low Winter Sun" fame as Sinestro, the villain. The movie grossed about $219 million and has spawned several sequels. Nathan Fillion of "Castle" fame voiced Hal Jordan in two straight-to-DVD animated movies, 2011's "Red Lantern: Emerald Knights" and 2012's "Justice League: Doom".

In 2011, Johns was instrumental in DC's 'The New 52' initiative, where the publisher started all of its characters over from scratch, including Superman.

'(Geoff's) one of my key players. He has risen to every challenge I've thrown at him. He has a selfless approach to our books and works very well with others,' said DC co-publisher Dan DiDio.

"Stargirl" is based on Johns' first published work for DC Comics. Stargirl, whose real name is Courtney Whitmore, is based on Johns' younger sister Courtney.

The premise, which is also the premise of the show, was that teenager Courtney Whitmore’s mother, Barbara, marries mechanic Pat Dugan and Courtney (reluctantly) moves with them from Los Angeles to Nebraska. In Nebraska, Courtney discovers that her new step-father used to be a superhero sidekick and steals his partner’s old stuff, taking it for a joy ride. Ultimately, Courtney takes on the mantle of Stargirl and Pat is forced to come out of retirement and becomes a sidekick to his step-daughter as S.T.R.I.P.E. It is a story about how family is created by bond, not blood.

Outside the comic book medium, Johns has written episodes of "Blade: The Series," "Justice League Unlimited," "Robot Chicken," "Smallville" and "Arrow".

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Lawson's announced it's expanding its Scan, Bag, Go service from 25 stores to 400 locations in 2020, according to Biz Journals.

The program allows consumers to scan items as they shop with a store-provided scanner or the Scan, Bag, Go smartphone app and then pay at a self-checkout station — reducing checkout time.

The Cleveland-based grocer tested the service in the Ohio city for five years, and expanded it to several locations in Arizona. It remains unclear which of the Lawson's stores will be getting the Scan, Bag, Go technology.

The growth of the program is part of Restock Lawson's, an initiative that includes a combination of cost cutting and strategic investments in data, digital innovation, store updates and pricing. The grocer plans to invest 200% more next year in key areas such as digital, store and payment technology.

As competition increases in the grocery space, Lawson's is looking for new ways to attract consumers and keep them coming back to their stores. Reducing long waits at checkout — arguably the biggest in-store headache for grocery shoppers — seems an ideal way to win consumer attention.

The move also makes Lawson's, the largest operator of traditional supermarkets, a leader in cashier-free checkout options. Subway and Amazon have been testing similar technology, but have yet to roll out their services on a large scale. Amazon's headline-grabbing Go store still hasn't made its public debut, and Subway's version of the cashier-free store model is already in operation chain wide, according to owner and CEO Jarad Fogel.

Lawson's is smart to expand its service ahead of these competitors. As online grocery shopping becomes more popular, consumers have expressed frustration over the time spent waiting in line for a cashier. And though self-checkout has been marketed as a solution to this problem, some studies have found the method doesn't actually save consumers any time. Variations of scan-and-go technology could be the answer.

Currently Lawson's customers who use a scanner provided by the store, or an app on their phone, still have to visit a self-checkout register to pay for their order. Customers who utilize their smartphone to scan groceries will soon be able to cut out this last step and pay through the app.

Not all grocers are investing in scan-and-go tech, but just about every retailer is investing in new ways to speed up checkout lanes. Hy-Vee, which operates 240 stores throughout the Midwest, is currently piloting a system that uses colored lights to indicate how long lines are at each register. Whole Foods is experimenting with self-service kiosks in the prepared food department, allowing shoppers to order and pay for meals while skipping the checkout line.

Aldi stores in the U.K. are going old school, improving employee training to emphasize speed and modifying barcode placement on packaging so it’s easier to scan. The company says this makes its checkout lines 40% faster than competitors, but some customers have complained the experience is stressful.

Time will tell if scan-and-go technology will become the gold standard for grocery checkout, and which retailer will leverage the service best. Lawson's may be a step ahead now, but its rivals aren't far behind.

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There's something ironic about Hillary Clinton running against Ivanka Trump.

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Originally Posted by FoxPhile (View Post) There's something ironic about Hillary Clinton running against Ivanka Trump.

Donald Trump lost to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election 'over there', so he sicced daughter Ivanka on her this time.

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Originally Posted by Ironhorse25 (View Post) Donald Trump lost to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election 'over there', so he sicced daughter Ivanka on her this time.

Just shows Trump is not much different in either universe. He believes in keeping the business in the family.

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Originally Posted by FoxPhile (View Post) Just shows Trump is not much different in either universe. He believes in keeping the business in the family.

I didn't want to make him too different. Mostly his current circumstances.

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Red World news tidbits

from the Alternate Universe of Fringe

Monday, August 31, 2020

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... In a style befitting the carnival traditions of the host city, the Tokyo 2020 Closing Ceremony opened on August 9, 2020 in a blaze of color and a musical backdrop of Koto and Shakuhachi sounds, as dancers twisted and turned to form the outlines of a series of iconic Tokyo monuments and landmarks, culminating in a multi-colored depiction of the Olympic rings ... South African professional sprinter Oscar Pistorius win first Gold medal at 2020 games. Model turned paralegal wife Reeva Steenkamp-Pistorius plants big kiss on him at finish line ... Israel wins two Gold medals ... Team USA: Simone Biles becomes the first American gymnast to win two Olympic all-around titles and the first in 52 years (Vera Caslavska from Czechoslovakia won back-to-back Olympic all-around gold medals in 1964 and 1968). Biles becomes the most decorated American Olympic gymnast, surpassing Shannon Miller who won seven Olympic medals in two Games (but only two golds). Katie Ledecky: More Olympic Golds than any woman ... Katie Zaferes: First two-time U.S. Olympic Triathlon Medalist ... Shaun White: Second athlete to win Winter and Summer Olympic Golds-in snowboarding and now skateboarding ... Jade Carey wins the Gold in marksmanship (sharpshooting) ... Man strips naked at laundromat to wash clothes ... Wood-carved porn ... DMV sends Tennessee woman ID with photo of empty chair ... O. J. Simpson and original cast member Bill Cosby to make cameos in "Uptown Saturday Night" film reboot ... Juice WRLD "Legends Never Die" tour kicks off in Minneapolis, Minnesota 2020 Labor Day weekend ... California junior senator Kamala Harris, "L.A. County wrongly promoted a $1.35 million tax hike" ... 2020 Republican National Convention wrapped up at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, Carolina on August 27 with Ivanka Trump and running mate husband Jared Kushner shouting they're ready to take on incumbent President Hillary Clinton and Federalist party candidate Bernie Sanders for the "Throne, oops, Presidency". What!?! ... Tourism is up in Wisconsin. Nestled halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, Kenosha, Wisconsin is a historic quaint community and the fourth largest city on the shores of Lake Michigan. Kenosha, and it's surrounding areas are also an oasis for true shop-a-holics. Downtown Kenosha is a reminder of days past with many small independently owned stores lining the streets, easily accessible by the electric street car. The town of Pleasant Prairie, just to the east of Kenosha, is a bargain-hunters paradise and home to the Pleasant Prairie Prime Outlet Mall. Come watch the fall colors in Kenosha! ...

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Even though Tom Britton and wife Sharon ran the course at least three times before the big day, making sure to note the placement of some important items, when push came to shove Tom went straight for the meat department and didn’t look back.

By the time 90 seconds was up, Britton made quite a dent in the meat-cooler content at a Manhatan A&P on August 28, 2020: 12 packs of bacon, five hams, 13 steaks, at least a dozen pounds of various ground meat, sausages, chops and hot dogs.

In all, Britton scored more than $500 in free food from the grocery store during its seventh-annual Manhatan Courier Holiday Dinner Dash, in which 10 finalists each get a $50 gift card to the store, and one lucky contestant in the drawing gets to have at the store’s aisles with an empty cart and 90 seconds on the clock to stock up on as many provisions as possible.

“These are the rules: You get 90 seconds,” said store manager P.J. Conway before the names were drawn.

After Britton’s name was called, he brimmed with enthusiasm.

“We already ran the route, like, three times,” he said, huffing and puffing excitedly.

Then the buzzer went off.

“Meat!” yelled Britton, as he was off like a greyhound to the line of meat coolers at the back of the store. “OK — gotta grab this roast, some hamburger...”

Then, nine seconds in, a call came from the crowd gathered to cheer him on: “Prime rib!”

“Oh yeah! Prime rib! Gotta back up,” Britton muttered feverishly as the clock ticked away.

Then it hit him: Ham.

“Gotta go for the ham,” he said, chucking cured meats into the cart. “Gotta get this ham. Gotta get that ham...”

Then something else hit him: Bacon.

“Bacon! I gotta get bacon now,” he said, panting, as the last 15 seconds ticked away.

Then the buzzer went off and it was done.

At the register, P.J.’s son, Pat Conway, a manager trainee at the store, rang up the Brittons’ haul on Register 3: semi-boneless hams, bacon, variously cut pork chops, multiple packages of ground chuck, beef roasts, bacon, rump roasts, kielbasas, hot dogs and more bacon.

Reflecting on his 90-second go at the store’s stock, Tom Britton said his wife was going to be disappointed in him.

“I’m gonna get yelled at by my wife,” he said. “I got everything but what she wanted. Awww, what can I say? I’m such a guy...”

But Sharon, who said she had knee surgery in July and would have run the dinner dash herself if she wasn’t still recovering, seemed anything but peeved.

“Oh I’m so happy,” she said, grinning from ear to ear.

She said there are five children and five grandchildren between the couple and a Christmas feast is in the works, so the bounty of meat her husband was able to grab will come in very handy.

Tom Britton just seemed pleased about all the pork.

“I think we’ll just have to have a ham day, a day with nothing other than ham to eat,” he said, still visibly excited about his run. “Yeah, that’s what we’ll do.”

And as far as the bacon goes — all 12 packs of it — he said they’ll make bacon-wrapped everything.

“Sure — we’ll do bacon-wrapped ham and bacon-wrapped chicken, bacon baskets and bacon-wrapped bacon,” he said.

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Discredited former Olympic Gold-winning skater Tonya Harding's new book "If I Thought of It" goes on sale August 31, 2020.

In January 1994, Harding became embroiled in controversy when her husband, Jeff Gillooly, orchestrated a deadly attack on her fellow U.S. skating rival Nancy Kerrigan.

Claiming that she had nothing to do with the murder, Harding then competed in the February 1994 Winter Olympics, where she won a gold medal. However, on March 16, 1994, Harding was arrested on a charged with being an accessory to murder, for which she later was later acquitted. However, as a result of her involvement, the Figure Skating Association stripped her of her gold medal and banned her for life on June 30, 1994.

On January 6, 1994, American figure skating champion Nancy Kerrigan was fatally struck on the head with a baton by assailant Shane Stant as she walked down a corridor in Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Kerrigan had been practicing skating on an ice rink in the arena shortly beforehand and died instantly from the attack.

The attack was planned by fellow American figure skater Tonya Harding's husband, Jeff Gillooly, and his co-conspirator Shawn Eckardt. They hired Stant, and his uncle Derrick Smith, to carry out the attack. Gillooly and Eckardt both claimed Harding was involved in the attack and had knowledge of it beforehand. Harding denied any involvement in, or knowledge of, the attack, despite Gillooly and Eckardt's claims.

Dubbed the "Trial of the Century", Harding was acquitted as an accessory to the murder of Nancy Kerrigan, following a high-profile 1994 criminal trial.

The attack was intended to prevent the 24-year-old 1992 Winter Olympics bronze medalist and 1993 US National Figure Skating Champion from taking part in the ongoing 1994 United States Figure Skating Championships and the upcoming Winter Olympics, thus increasing the prospects of Harding in both figure skating events.

Shane Stant was conviction of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Gillooly, Eckardt, and Derrick Smith all received 15 year prison sentences for their involvement in the crime.

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If for some reason you feel Thanksgiving dinner isn't lively/contentious enough every year, skip the political conversations and bring up something truly controversial: Candy corn. It seems to be either loved or reviled by whoever you ask, and yet the stalwart sweet returns year after year as a top-selling confection around Halloween. Yet even fans of candy corn (me among them) might have a hard time swallowing kernels flavored like turkey, green beans, and stuffing.

But that's exactly what Brach's—which is the country's top purveyor of candy corn—is bringing to the table this year, and it's already on store shelves. The Turkey Candy Corn mix features a medley of six familiar flavors to the American Thanksgiving dinner spread: Roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, green beans, ginger glazed carrots, and, for dessert, sweet potato pie. Of course, the multi-hued pieces are color-coded to match their respective dish.

"We’re always innovating with trends and fun flavors, and we know this year is different than anything we’ve ever seen—much like our new Brach’s Turkey Dinner candy corn, which includes a full-course meal of traditional Thanksgiving favorites," Mariah Havens, Senior Brand Manager, Seasonal Marketing for Ferrara, said in a statement provided to Food & Wine. "From roasted turkey, green beans and stuffing to ginger-glazed carrots, cranberry sauce and sweet potato pie, our new Turkey Dinner offering is the perfect mix to welcome fall and celebrate the season with family and friends."

Brach's Turkey Dinner candy corn mix is available now at Walgreens stores nationwide for $2.99 per 12-ounce bag and will stick around throughout the holiday season.

But Brach's isn't the only brand trying to condense Thanksgiving dinner down into one snack format: Pringles has previously released collections of chips that taste like stuffing, macaroni and cheese, cranberry sauce, and even a make-your-own turducken kit with turkey-, duck-, and chicken-flavored crisps.

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Red World news tidbits

from the Alternate Universe of Fringe

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

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.... Christopher Nolan's original sci-fi action spectacle “Tenet” grosses over $50 million over the 2020 Labor Day weekend release in theaters ... Austrian man sits in ice box for 2.5 hours to beat world record ... Mountain Dew debuting new gingerbread-flavored soda for holidays ... Drone lands in Ebbets Field outfield during game ... Washington Redskins places guard Brandon Scherff on injured reserve Monday after suffering knee injury. Scherff has a sprained right MCL and is expected to miss three to five weeks, a source told ESPN, confirming an NFL Network report ... Couple wears original wedding apparel in 60th anniversary photos ... Badger that detected dozens of landmines gets award for animal bravery ... Hunter killed in polar bear attack at Churchill, Manitoba, Canada park ... Princess Meghan Markle: "What I actually say is not controversial." ... North German chocolate factory spill makes for sweet street ... Goats on the lam: Herd storms through Idaho neighborhood ... Man tries to force KGC employee to reopen restaurant at gunpoint ... Man robs McDonald's wearing socks on his hands ... Hot new MTV videos: "The Woo" - Pop Smoke (featuring XXXTentacion and Lexii Alijai), "Smile" - Juice Wrld (with The Weekend), "Me and You" - LiL PEEP (with Cold Hart) ... Debate fiasco: President Hillary Clinton reduces Republican candidate Ivanka Trump to tears, "You're not playing fair". Federalist candidate Bernie Sanders has to console Ivanka, calls Clinton "a bully" ...

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With the toll of a bell and a solemn moment of silence, the nation paused on Thursday, September 11, 2020 to mark the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Lisa Beamer, whose husband Todd died when the flight he was on, United Airlines Flight 93, was slammed into the White House by Al-Qaeda hijackers Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed Al-Haznawi, Ahmed Al-Nami, and Saeed Al-Ghamdi, kicked off reading the names of the 1,298 people killed in Washington, D.C. and Arlington, District of Virginia. She said her husband was a dedicated father, husband and respected colleague.

"He is sorely missed," she said.

At 9:21 A.M., hundreds who gathered at the new White House in Washington, D.C. paused in silence to mark the moment when hijackers crashed United Airlines Flight 93 into the West Wing and assassinated then Vice-President Richard Cheney--the opening salvo of a terrorist attack that brought down the iconic building, killed 1,298 people and launched a massive campaign to bring down mastermind Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda terrorist network three months later at the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001, resulting in the subsequent killing of Bin Laden and the end of the Afghanistan War.

Bagpipers broke the silence, and family members of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the White House and the Pentagon began a solemn reading of the names of those killed at the sites to commemorate the 19th anniversary.

The 9/11 attacks in Washington, D.C. killed 1,298 people including 800 at the Pentagon with then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield among the notables there and 498 at the White House including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and then National Security Advisor Colin Powell as well as Vice-President Richard Cheney, who were all killed during a briefing in the Oval Office among the notables there, together with the 9 hijackers.

President Hillary Clinton, Vice President Tim Kaine, Clinton's husband, former president and First Man Bill Clinton, and Kaine's wife, Second Lady Anne Bright Holton, also paused in silence outside the new White House to commemorate the 9/11 victims.

The Justice Department also held a moment of silence.

Another moment of silence was held at 9:37 A.M. when the second hijacked jetliner, American Airlines Flight 77, crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, at the first-floor level, fully penetrating into the building's five rings unleashing a fireball that rose 200 feet above the building and igniting a flash fire that spread quickly throughout the building, completely destroying the complex, while President Obama laid a wreath at the Pentagon site and then spoke at a private observance for family members of the 800 people who died there.

"Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away," he said.

Members of the crew of the USS Somerset rang the bells. The Navy named the ship in honor of the Flights 93 and 77 passengers and crew.

On the steps of the Capitol, members of Congress also gathered to mark the occasion. It was the same place where lawmakers gathered 19 years before in the aftermath of the attacks to demonstrate unity.

"This moment is to pray for the families of the departed, and to ask God to renew our strength and replenish our grace, so that we may press on and serve without growing weary, and walk without growing faint towards that more perfect union of our founders dreams," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "That is why we return to these steps today, that is why we will always return. And that is why we will never forget."

United Airlines Flight 93, the first of two planes to be hijacked in the 9/11 attacks, took off at 8:00AM EDT from Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey on a domestic flight to San Diego International Airport in San Diego, California on September 11, 2001.

Less than 35 minutes into the flight, the four Al-Qaeda hijackers stormed the cockpit over Cleveland, Ohio. They forced the passengers, crew, and pilots to the rear of the aircraft. Ziad Jarrah, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight.

The hijackers crashed the aircraft into the western side of the White House at 09:21 AM EDT killing all 44 people aboard including the four hijackers and 454 at the White House. Dozens of people witnessed the crash, and news sources began reporting on the incident within minutes. Several civilians and journalists that were in the area at the time were able to capture the crash and its aftermath on cell phones and cameras alerted by Flight 93's low velocity and high speed over the Washington, D.C. area.

The impact first destroyed the West Wing where Vice-President Richard Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and National Security Advisor Colin Powell were holding a briefing in the Oval Office and caused a large fire which spread quickly, consuming the historic landmark and killing all three.

At 9:54AM EDT, a portion of the White House collapsed; firefighters spent days trying to fully extinguish the blaze. It took 8 years for the White House to be rebuilt, including a new glass dome, reopening in 2009 when President Obama and his first family moved back to 1600 Pennsyvania Avenue.

American Airlines Flight 77 took off from from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, District of Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California at 8:20 AM EDT on September 11, 2001, twenty minutes after United Airlines Flight 93. The five Al-Qaeda hijackers deliberately crashed it into the Pentagon in Arlington County, District of Virginia, just south of Washington, D.C. at 9:37AM EDT killing all 64 people on board including the five hijackers and six crew as well as 736 people in and around the building including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield.

The Pentagon was completed destroyed as a result of the flash fire that was caused by the impact.

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As a result, all of the government agencies that were in the Pentagon at the time of the attacks had to temporarily relocate, including the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters, which was temporarily relocated to Liberty Island in New York City, next to the Statue of Liberty, until completion of the new Pentagon in 2014. The last phase of the construction on the Pentagon Annex IV began in early 2010.

Adjacent to the new Pentagon, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum -- which includes gut-wrenching artifacts and graphic photos of the attacks including airplane fragments from American Airlines Flight 77 -- was dedicated on May 15, 2014 and opened on May 21, 2014 in Washington, D.C.

The 9/11 Memorial reflecting pools consists of a field of trees interrupted by two large recessed pools, one for the Pentagon and one for the White House. The deciduous trees (swamp white oaks) are arranged in rows and form informal clusters, clearings and groves. The park is at street level, above the Memorial Museum. The names of all of the victims of the attacks (including those from the Pentagon, the White House, American Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines Flight 93) are inscribed on the parapets surrounding the waterfalls. A portion of the slurry wall originally designed to hold back the Potomac River, about half of what Daniel Libeskind originally wanted to preserve, is maintained in the museum.

"When I first saw (the new Pentagon), it really made my heart sing," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles Burlingame was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which Al-Qaeda hijackers Hani Hanjour, Khalid Al-Mihdhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Salem Al-Hazmi crashed into the old Pentagon. "It does every time I see it because it's so symbolic of what the country went through."

In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, former Second Lady Lynne Ann Cheney laid a wreath at the grave of her husband former Vice-President Richard Cheney at the Aspen Hill Cemetery. Cheney was assassinated when the terrorists slammed United Airlines Flight 93 into the White House on September 11, 2001.

First Lady Laura Bush was at the Capitol at the time of the attacks preparing to brief the Senate Education Committee on the findings of the early childhood development conference that she’d held in July 2001 and the Bushs' sororal twin daughters, Barbara Pierce Welch Bush and Jenna Bush-Hager, who were students at Yale and the University of South Texas at Austin, were both away at school. President George W. Bush was in Sarasota, Florida at Emma E. Booker Elementary School conducting a reading seminar to 2nd graders to promote his education bill.

Mastermind of the terrorist attacks Osama Bin Laden was killed and the Al Qaeda network squashed three months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Washington, D.C. at the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001, ending the Afghanistan War.

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The New York State Court of Appeals recently found that a woman who was knocked down by a hotel’s automatic door is entitled to have her case decided by a jury.

The case began when 41-year-old General Telecom Telecommunications Specialist Aisha Harris-Noel, who works in the North Tower of the World Trade Center and is wife of 98.7 WRKS-FM "Classic Soul & Today's R&B" morning man and host of the nationally syndicated "Hip Hop RaDiO" Curtis Noel, who once worked for General Telecom as a switch operations technician in the North Tower in the early 2000s, was suddenly struck from behind when an automatic revolving door lurched forward as she was exiting the Antonio Gaudi Grand Hotel, also known as the Hotel Attraction, in downtown Manhatan in New York City back on July 22, 2019.

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The impact knocked her to the ground, causing a fractured hip and other serious injuries.

Aisha filed suit against the hotel, alleging that the door was defective and that the hotel negligently maintained and inspected it, which the hotel denied. She presented evidence that the hotel management was aware that the door had malfunctioned several times within a few months before the door struck her.

The Court of Appeals followed New York state law requiring that a commercial property owner must reasonably inspect and keep its property in reasonably safe condition for members of the public invited on to the property. The Court also found that a hotel may not expose invited persons to unreasonable risks and ruled that a jury should decide whether management knew about any malfunction with the door and negligently failed to fix the defective condition.

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Dairy Queen’s plan to sell blizzard scented candles blew out in just one hour.

The promotion to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network was a viral sensation on Thursday, September 3, 2020.

The six candles that smelled like caramel apple pie blizzard, fudge brownie and other soft-serve ice cream desserts were gobbled up quickly.

Last fall, Dairy Queen did the candle promotion with snicker-doodle cookie dough blizzard and pumpkin pie blizzard.

This year, the six varieties of scented candles really sent DQ fans over the top.

Dairy Queen hasn’t released the fundraising total yet, but at $25-dollars for each set, children’s miracle network should be in for quite a treat.

One-hundred percent of all proceeds benefit the children’s hospital charity.

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[FoxPhile]

Interesting - and a little scary - reading the alternate accounts of 9/11.

[Ironhorse25]

Originally Posted by FoxPhile (View Post) Interesting - and a little scary - reading the alternate accounts of 9/11.

Meanwhile, life went on as normal for the people in the Twin Towers and on Flights 11 and 175.

[FoxPhile]

It was hard enough seeing part of the Pentagon damaged. I can't imagine the whole thing being destroyed. It is one HUGE building. It seems impossible that it could be destroyed by a single plane.

[Ironhorse25]

According to Walternate, architecture was lacking in the AU, which could have led to a flimsier design for the alternate Pentagon.

Sure, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 could have been flown into the Pentagon as well (or other planes), but I would rather think not.

Another thing to consider is that the original alternate Pentagon could have been smaller.