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Billie Jean King defeating Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes marked a historic moment for women's tennis, and sport. It’s their job now to step up, lead and shape the future.”Billie Jean King worked with fashion designer Tory Burch on the Billie Jean King Cup's 'winner's jacket.' Magazine IAnd inside the jacket, to remind the champions of the Billie Jean King Cup of the ‘fight’ and their place in it, is a message from King herself. “Congratulations on winning the 2022 Billie Jean King Cup,” King reads aloud. Billie Jean King, be bold.”

☆ Astros edge Phillies for 3-2 World Series lead
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Nov 3, 2022; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Jean Segura (2) hits a single against the Houston Astros during the eighth inning in game five of the 2022 World Series at Citizens Bank Park. Mandatory Credit: John Geliebter-USA TODAY SportsNov 3 (Reuters) - Houston rookie shortstop Jeremy Pena delivered two key early RBIs and the Astros emerged with a gritty 3-2 road victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday to move one win away from a World Series championship. The Phillies, who were no-hit for just the second time in World Series history the day before, immediately responded with a solo shot from Kyle Schwarber to tie the game. Astros veteran starter Justin Verlander pitched his way out of a bases-loaded jam in the second inning by striking out Rhys Hoskins and would go on to tally his first World Series victory. The Astros now lead the best-of-seven series 3-2 as it shifts back to Houston for Game Six on Saturday and, if necessary, a Game Seven on Sunday.

☆ IMF backs Latam progressive taxes, fiscal discipline
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Rodrigo Campos | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

For most of the region "the story there is actually they have pretty good fiscal and monetary frameworks," said Nigel Chalk, acting director of the Western Hemisphere Department at the IMF. "So it's more a question of letting the frameworks work and do their job as they were designed." The fund said last month tightening global financial conditions and high inflation clouded the outlook for Latam and Caribbean economies. Carbon taxes, which have been discussed across the region, are also on the IMF menu for increasing revenues. Reuters GraphicsReporting by Rodrigo Campos and David Lawder; Editing by Chizu NomiyamaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ China investors desperately seek market bottom
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Pete Sweeney | Thomson Reuters | Asia Economics Editor Pete Sweeney Joined Reuters Breakingviews In Hong Kong In September Previously He Served As Reuters' Chief Correspondent For China Economy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

HONG KONG, Nov 2 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Tuesday’s rally in China shares may have been based on rumour. But in offshore markets, the value discount on offer is so extreme it makes gambling on false hopes less risky than it might otherwise be. Buying based on online scuttlebutt might seem reckless, but less so considering how beaten up offshore shares in some Chinese companies are. The average constituent of the S&P 500 (.SP500) trades at 15 times its estimated forward earnings, while the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (.HSCE) ratio is 5 times, Datastream shows. The question, though, is at what point investors see value in beleaguered Chinese technology companies and real estate developers.

☆ Vatican confirms renewal of contested accord with China on bishops' appointments
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Philip Pullella | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

VATICAN CITY, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Saturday said that it and China had renewed a secret and contested agreement on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in the communist country. The deal was a bid to ease a longstanding divide across mainland China between an underground flock loyal to the pope and a state-backed official church. The Vatican-China deal centres on cooperation over the appointment of bishops, giving the pope the final and decisive say. They also point to increasing restrictions on religious freedoms in China for Christians and other minorities. Last month, the Vatican tried to arrange a meeting between Xi, 69, and the pope, 85, while both leaders were in Kazakhstan, but China declined.

☆ Lettuce 1, Liz Truss 0
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Henry Austin | Henry Austin Is A London-Based Editor For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON — Liz Truss lost to a head of lettuce. The leafy vegetable's decay was more gradual than Truss' crumbling tenure as British prime minister, which ended with her resignation Thursday. Her decision provided an unlikely victory for the lettuce, which had been pitted against her by a tabloid newspaper last Friday. Amer Ghazzal / Shutterstock“The lettuce outlasted Liz Truss,” the caption declared as a remix of “Celebration” by Kool & the Gang kicked in, lights flashed in the background and bottles of alcohol were added to the scene. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tweeted “congrats to lettuce” shortly after Truss’ speech.

☆ How the filmmakers behind ‘Till’ depicted Black trauma without showing violence
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The problem with ‘Black trauma porn’“Black trauma porn” – much like “disaster porn” or “poverty porn” – generally refers to graphic depictions of violence against Black people that are intended to elicit strong emotional responses. The implication is that these images can be needlessly traumatizing to Black viewers for whom violence is an inescapable fact of life. “There’s a difference between telling a story of Black trauma and telling a story that is ‘Black trauma porn.’”How Till avoids the trap of ‘trauma porn’What, then, is the line between a story of Black trauma and “Black trauma porn?”For Young, the distinguishing factor is context. Put bluntly, is that depiction of Black trauma intended to appeal to the sympathies of White people? It’s notable that many of the recent projects deemed to be “Black trauma porn” have been the work of Black creatives – an obvious reminder that Black people are not a monolith.

☆ Milwaukee set to designate site of 1961 LGBTQ uprising a historical landmark
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Jo Yurcaba | Jo Yurcaba Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Wisconsin LGBTQ History ProjectOn Oct. 5, the Milwaukee County Landmarks Committee held a public hearing to discuss four landmark nominations, including the site of the Black Nite. “A group of Navy trainees went to the Black Nite on a dare, they knew it was a gay bar. The Black Nite was targeted because it was a gay bar,” Buck said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “I’ll never forget that as long as I live,” Carter told Takach. The Black Nite event, in addition to its effects on the state, may be the first recorded LGBTQ uprising in history, Takach said.

☆ Hailey Bieber clears up whether she 'stole' Justin Bieber from Selena Gomez
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Hailey Bieber is addressing a suggestions that has long had some of her husband’s fans upset. I would just never do that.”Justin Bieber and Gomez dated publicly off and on from 2010 to 2017. Bieber said she was uncomfortable even discussing it because she didn’t want to speak for her husband or Gomez. She said she respects Gomez, whom she said she has talked to since marrying Bieber. “That’s why I’m like it’s all respect,” Hailey Bieber said.

☆ Investors may soon be able to replicate stock trades by Republican and Democratic lawmakers with the NANC and CRUZ ETFs
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Carla Mozée | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Two proposed exchange-traded funds would mimic stock trades made by members of Congress and their spouses. If approved, the ETFs would track trades by Democrats and Republicans, under tickers NANC and CRUZ. The House of Representatives may vote next week on legislation to ban Congress members from trading stocks in reforming the STOCK Act. In July, the California representative denied her venture capitalist husband uses information she provides to make stock trades. 70% of likely voters want new legislation to ban stock trades by Congress members, according to a poll shared with Insider in June by Data for Progress.

☆ Wall St Week Ahead 'Uncharted' sell-off in U.S. stocks has investors wondering when the pain stops
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( David Randall | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

A specialist trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidNEW YORK, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A week of heavy selling has brought U.S. stocks and bonds to fresh bear market lows, with many investors bracing for more pain ahead. Goldman Sachs, meanwhile, cut its year-end target for the S&P 500 by 16% to 3,600 points from 4,300 points. Kevin Gordon, senior investment research manager at Charles Schwab, believes there is more downside ahead because central banks are tightening monetary policy into a global economy that already appears to be weakening. A recession would likely push the S&P 500 to trade between 3,000 and 3,500 in 2023, Jolly said.

The Hong Kong billionaire is offering $240 million to buy out minority shareholders in Caymans-registered Lifestyle International (1212.HK), his department store chain. Several Hong Kong tycoons have fallen foul of the notorious tests, which the Cayman Islands will scrap at the end of this month. Hong Kong dropped the rule in 2014, but is home to just 8% of the city’s listed companies. Lifestyle is domiciled in the Cayman Islands, which at the end of August will drop a requirement for the so-called headcount test. Almost 60% of primary-listed Hong Kong companies are domiciled in the Caribbean tax haven.

☆ Leaders from Walmart, AB InBev, Honeywell, Carlyle, and more share advice for getting started — and sticking to — sustainability goals
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-22 | by ( Julia Hood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

Sustainability leaders from Walmart, JUST Capital, Dow, Honeywell, Cognizant, Deloitte, Bank of America, AB InBev, and Carlyle participated. If you're just looking for a science partner, you're going to go and get the science. So then we started building debriefs for our portfolio companies, actually making them sit down and have a conversation with us. Because as long as you do it with integrity, you're going to probably get to the right place. I remember him saying when we talked about the idea, "what you're trying to achieve with that, is somewhere between really, really, really, really hard and impossible."

☆ Meet the GOP's biggest Hollywood donors
▼ + stars: | 2020-08-26 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

America First Action, the most notable super PAC backing President Donald Trump, has directly criticized Hollywood. Donors from Hollywood-area ZIP codes also rank among the most generous donors to key Republican senators, including Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida. 3 donor ZIP code in the nation, trailing only ZIP codes in Houston and Palm Beach, Florida, which is home to his Mar-a-Lago Club resort. Bill Pugliano/Getty ImagesTrump continues to profit from HollywoodIn messages to supporters this year, Trump has decried "liberal HOLLYWOOD donors" and "MEGA HOLLYWOOD DONORS," while his son Donald Trump Jr. has castigated the "Hollywood Elite." As president, Trump's pension earned him more than $84,000 in 2017, about $91,000 in 2018, and about $78,000 in 2019, his personal financial disclosures showed.

The survey asked all respondents how they think their finances compare to others their age — and 37% of millennials think they're doing worse than their peers. Of these respondents, 10% think they're much worse off, while 27% think they're somewhat worse off. More millennials are positive when it comes to the peer comparison — 46% think they're much better or somewhat better off than their peers (the remaining 17% said they didn't know). If millennials are overall thinking they're doing better than their peers, the situation on the ground may be better than we believe. But these results are on par with what overall respondents in the survey said — 38% think they're much or somewhat worse off than their peers, while 43% think they're somewhat or much better off.

☆ 10 Things You Always Wondered About Cannibalism
▼ + stars: | 2012-05-31 | by ( Lauren Brown | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Anthropological data shows that millions of years ago, Homo antecessor, the link between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, were cannibalistic for nutritional reasons. In 1492, when Columbus came to the Americas, he encountered the West Indies Carib tribe, who were ritually cannibalistic. From the 16th through 18th centuries, blood, ground bones and other body parts were routinely used in what is referred to as medicinal cannibalism. Through cannibalism's history there has been a persistent theme that the vitality of the human body and spirit can be ingested to bestow power and life force upon human beings. In the 20th century instances of survival cannibalism are known to have occurred in China up through the 1960s and even in North Korea more recently.

Persons: Theodor de Bry, Hans Staden's, antecessor, Columbus, Webster Organizations: West Indies, Merriam Locations: Brazil, Americas, West Indies Carib, China, North Korea

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