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Federal Moguls Branch Manager, Q-Ball (DJ for Multi Platinum act The Bloodhound Gang), and Shift Supervisor Troy Walsh (MTV.com, Mr. Unlikely), work alongside the Senior Sales Associate, J. J. Sinatra and the Resources and Development, Dave Vegas at Sunset Recordings Where We Stand For Artistry & Artist Development!

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Federal Moguls Branch Manager, Q-Ball (DJ for Multi Platinum act The Bloodhound Gang), and Shift Supervisor Troy Walsh (MTV.com, Mr. Unlikely), work alongside the Senior Sales Associate, J. J. Sinatra and the Resources and Development, Dave Vegas. Uniquely modern with a dash of hip-hop, the Federal Moguls are here to represent for all home owning upper middle class college graduates building their financial portfolios.

Investing money means putting money to work across a wide range of assets, establishing financial comfort and securing future wealth. Federal Moguls provide a number of investment solutions specifically designed for your individual needs. Their service allows you to invest on your own schedule and conduct business from the comfort of your own home.

When asked about the Federal Moguls, High Risk Investment Planning, the head of Sunset Records, Don Lichterman says “this is all self explanatory for people and tough times take measures so everyone better listen closely to these guys.” Lichterman then ends the conversation by saying that everyone should look for this to be in stores before all holidays this year.

In a notice released by Federal Moguls agent, Q-Ball, his advice is always based on everyone’s personal objectives or financial situation and is on a case by case basis. There are also never any specific fees or revenues given to the Federal Moguls company. There are many reasons for everyone to become an investor. It may be time to save for the overseas holiday for the family, the down payment on your next home, your child’s future education or to get that nest egg for retirement.

We Stand For Artistry & Artist Development

The collaboration between Mista Latex and Bre-Z, a renowned artist from the hit TV Show, Empire, is a testament to the label’s ability to bring together talented acts to create a masterpiece.

With Original Black Pantah also part of the roster, Sunset Recordings is a force to reckon with in the music industry, consistently churning out hit after hit to the delight of its fans.

The Federal Moguls is the DJ Q-Ball (Bloodhound Gang) side project released at Sunset.

Our Artists

With a diverse and talented roster of artists, such as Joe Atman, Mister Sir, Han Drabur, Mista Latex, and Richtaste.

The collaboration between Mista Latex and Bre-Z, a renowned artist from the hit TV Show, Empire, is a testament to the label’s ability to bring together talented acts to create a masterpiece.

With Original Black Pantah also part of the roster, Sunset Recordings is a force to reckon with in the music industry, consistently churning out hit after hit to the delight of its fans.

The Federal Moguls is the DJ Q-Ball (Bloodhound Gang) side project released at Sunset.

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Sunset Recordings, We Stand For Artistry & Artist Development, ‘Moonriser’ by Han Drabur from Delta Rezuwreckshan (Sunset Recordings)(2014) is the Featured GoPro Music Video!

We Stand For Artistry & Artist Development

The collaboration between Mista Latex and Bre-Z, a renowned artist from the hit TV Show, Empire, is a testament to the label’s ability to bring together talented acts to create a masterpiece.

With Original Black Pantah also part of the roster, Sunset Recordings is a force to reckon with in the music industry, consistently churning out hit after hit to the delight of its fans.

The Federal Moguls is the DJ Q-Ball (Bloodhound Gang) side project released at Sunset.

Our Artists

With a diverse and talented roster of artists, such as Joe Atman, Mister Sir, Han Drabur, Mista Latex, and Richtaste.

The collaboration between Mista Latex and Bre-Z, a renowned artist from the hit TV Show, Empire, is a testament to the label’s ability to bring together talented acts to create a masterpiece.

With Original Black Pantah also part of the roster, Sunset Recordings is a force to reckon with in the music industry, consistently churning out hit after hit to the delight of its fans.

The Federal Moguls is the DJ Q-Ball (Bloodhound Gang) side project released at Sunset.

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Sunset Recordings New Worldwide Distribution Deal is the Best of Every World for the Indy Label!

Sunset Recordings is a reputable and well-established American-based record label that has been a key player in the music industry for several years. With a diverse and talented roster of artists, such as Joe Atman, Mister Sir, Han Drabur, Mista Latex, and Richtaste, Sunset Recordings has something to offer with its new Distribution Deal and Platform.

Sunset, the front-line record label at SCA Sunset, is now distributed to more than 70 retail outlets and DSPs around the world, and the catalog of sound recordings is now in over 60 DSPs in China. Not only is the label continuing its presence at major outlets like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube, Qobuz, Tidal, Anghami, Boomplay, and more, but the stand-alone platform also includes distribution straight to major outlets like TME (QQ, Kuwo, and Kugou) and Netease, along with 60 additional boutique services, internet radio, and short video libraries throughout China.

Furthermore, in the same deal with the same platform, the Indy Label has direct opportunities for music synchronization licensing in China with various visual media, such as movies, TV series, advertisements, and video games.

“We’re thrilled to offer our music to so many outlets and to potentially reach tons of new fans worldwide,” said SCA Sunset Chairman, Don Lichterman. “It’s a testament to our hardworking team. Given the quality of our music, we’re able to reach so many people in so many different ways and at the drop of a dime, so to speak, with one press of a button (again, so to speak).” Lichterman also states that “any sync licensing in that new marketplace will help boost our artists and label profile, not to mention increase everyone’s income to an entirely new level.”

Sunset was founded in 2009 with the mission of providing quality music to the world. Since then, the label has released music from various genres, including pop, rock, hip-hop, and blues. The label has also worked with a number of different artists, including both established and up-and-coming talent. The ‘Lights and Shades’ CD by Richtaste is produced by Pat Aeby (Krokus), the Mista Latex hit single, ‘One Night,’ recorded with Bre-Z (from the TV Show, ‘Empire’) and Chivas Kimble and then of course DJ Q-Ball’s (Bloodhound Gang) side project, the Federal Moguls.

“We believe that music should be accessible to everyone, no matter where they are in the world,” said Lichterman. “Our goal is to continue to reach new audiences and help our artists grow their careers.” The label’s recent expansion into China is a testament to its commitment to global reach. With distribution in over 100 outlets and DSPs worldwide, SCA Sunset is among the most widely-available labels in the business. “We’re very excited about our expansion into China,” said Don Lichterman. “It’s a huge market with a lot of potential for our up-and-coming artists, and considering how hard it is to break new music artists today, I welcomed this deal big time. We look forward to continued success in this important territory and the work done on behalf of the label by our new partners and its staff.”

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Entertainment News | Urvashi Rautela, Elvish

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 9 (ANI): Actor Urvashi Rautela and Big Boss OTT 2 winner Elvish Yadav collaborate for the first time for a new music video titled ‘Hum toh Deewane.’

Urvashi took to Instagram to unveil the first poster look of the music video. She captioned the post, “‘Hum Toh Deewane.’ Releasing on 14th September at 11 a.m only on @playdmfofficial YouTube Channel StayTuned!!”

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In the poster, Urvashi looked beautiful in a red Anarkali dress. On the other hand, Elvish wore a check shirt with a leather jacket and black pants. The song was shot in Rajasthan.

Also Read | Must Watch Action-Thriller Movies of Shah Rukh Khan.

As soon as the poster was uploaded on the social media site, it created a frenzy among fans, who couldn’t contain their excitement for this fresh and unexpected pairing.

“Excellent job, waiting until 14th September,” a fan commented.

Another wrote, “Elvish and Urvashi.”

A social media user wrote, “Urvashi Yadav.”

Sharing her excitement on doing the song with Elvish, Urvashi said, “Elvish Yadav has truly delivered an incredible performance in “Hum Toh Deewane,” leaving everyone pleasantly surprised. I strongly feel that Bollywood is in need of heroes like Elvish. This song is a sincere ode to romance, catering to all the passionate couples out there, and it’s undeniably a beautiful composition.”

She added, “Throughout the entire shoot, my focus was solely on him because I believe that if my hero is looking best, as an onscreen couple, we can deliver our very best.”

The song is going to be released on the Official Youtube channel of ‘Play DM’ on Elvish’s birthday which is on 14th September.

Meanwhile, Urvashi was last seen in the web series ‘Inspector Avinash’ opposite actor Randeep Hooda. The show is streaming on the OTT platform JioCinema.

Elvish, on the other hand, has emerged as the winner of Salman Khan-hosted ‘Bigg Boss OTT 2’. Elvish’s journey in ‘Bigg Boss OTT 2’ would definitely be remembered for his hilarious one-liners, especially ‘Systumm hang’. Even though he entered the house late, he managed to steal the limelight and hold the attention of the viewers.

He took home the Bigg Boss OTT 2 trophy and a cash prize of Rs 25 Lakh. (ANI)

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New Music From Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion,

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It’s Friday, which means we have some new music coming your way. From Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s new collab “Bongos” to Olivia Rodrigo and V dropping new albums, there’s a ton of new music to listen to. Producers Breyan Isaac & WeGood (Donny “Dizzy” Flores) share how they collaborated on Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s new track together. Billboard staffers were on site for all the big shows this week. And more!

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V, Cardi B, Olivia Rodrigo and more drop new music. Billboard takes you to Erykah Badu, Karol G, Beyoncé and more. We sit down with Reneé Rapp and learn more about Nelly Furtado. Happy Friday, music lovers, it’s September 8th and this is Billboard News. Today we have a fun show and we’re kicking it off with new music. Already obsessed with this song: Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion team up again after topping the chart with “WAP.” This time they’re giving us “Bongos.” And I get to talk with the producers behind the track. Hey fellas, thanks for joining us. I got to start right away by asking you — you’ve never worked together, I think this is your first time working together. So how did this even start? How did you end up on a track with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion?

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I know Breyan, you know we from Miami — like we was all coming up you know, splitting sandwiches and going through the struggle. He went his way with Mike Ken, did a lot of crazy hits for Flo Rida and everything. I mean, I’ll let him tell you about that. And I you know, I moved on with DJ Snake and everything else that was. You know, the pandemic, we just caught back up again. It was like God put us in each other’s life for a reason. So it’s like, let’s just start working on building some more stuff together. And this was just, you know, one of them we did and here we are now.

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PROFILE: Musical theater lecturer Jeanine Tesori

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Courtesy of the Yale Department of Music

In the mid 1990s, Jeanine Tesori decided to live temporarily in an empty lighthouse on Lake Champlain, completely alone. The lighthouse was fully functioning, but its lamp had been moved to the edge of a nearby jetty. When she finally emerged from the lighthouse after 10 months, she left with a near-complete score of her first musical, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” 

Since then, Tesori, a lecturer of musical theater composition at Yale’s Department of Music, has written four Tony-nominated Broadway scores — “Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “Caroline” and “Shrek the Musical” — in addition to two Tony-winning scores — “Fun Home” and, most recently, “Kimberly Akimbo,” a musical about a lonely teenage girl who suffers from a condition that gives her the appearance of an elderly woman.

Tesori’s initial encounter with music began with her family piano. The piano was a world that “just made sense” to her. 

“It occurs to me when I work with young people in music, that there is an innate wisdom that every young person has. They just do. I don’t think it can always be expressed in language, but it can be expressed in intention or directionality,” Tesori said. “There’s just this natural impulse and natural matching. Sometimes when we teach people, we almost take the saran wrapping of their natural abilities away and put something on top of them.” 

Instead, Tesori encourages her students to embrace their inherited musical gifts, a lesson inspired by the oral music traditions of folk music. On the first day of classes, Tesori always poses a question to her students: “Who are you bringing into the room with you?” 

Tesori’s teaching philosophy is then to give direction to these parts of the students’ musical identities. The key is to help students’ ambition meet their skill level, said Tesori. 

“What’s your ancestral pull? What is the culture that you’re from, that you want to explore, if you want to explore that? Who is here with you? Because you are not here alone, you are many, many things that create your point of view — you’re writing from a specific place,” Tesori said.  

For Tesori herself, she brings her own specific combination of inspirations into the room: her Italian heritage and storytelling, musical styles of neo-traditionalism and directors with whom she’s worked — namely, American playwright and director, George C Wolfe. 

According to Tesori, Wolfe has warned her not to be deceived or trapped in musical beauty, teaching her that beauty is a product of music and not a source. 

Instead, Wolfe encouraged her to be aware of the intentionality and politics of her musical choices. 

“When we were first working together, he would say, ‘What are you doing with your left hand?’ And because I had been trained as a pianist, you can easily smoke people by just sort of being fancy with your hands,” Tesori said. “And I thought, ‘No director ever asked me what I’m doing with my left hand.’ But what he was saying was, nothing is neutral. Nothing is neutral: every prop, every measure, every left hand, bass note. Of course, you’re free to choose anything. But if you start listening to the piece, it starts telling you what it wants.”

When Tesori writes dramatic music, there are two things that interest her: a compelling storyline and characters who have yet to take center stage in the canon of musical theater. “Fun Home” centers around the voice of a queer female protagonist — the first of its kind on Broadway. In the opera “Blue,” an African American family faces tension as the son confronts his police officer father for upholding an oppressive police system. 

Fellow Musical Theater lecturer Joshua Rosenblum ’83 MUS ’85 applauded Tesori’s ability to create “three-dimensional, fully-fleshed” characters on stage. As a fellow lecturer who teaches part-time and works professionally in the musical theater industry, Rosenblum has emphasized how lecturers’ professional work outside of the classroom can influence their teaching inside the classroom. 

“When you’re at Yale, you assume that your teachers have a certain amount of experience and a certain amount of expertise. And I think you’re all sort of programmed to accept what they say, almost by habit,” Rosenblum said. “But if you see that they are out in the field and actually practicing the art and being successful enough to get shows produced, then you’re even more inclined to say, ‘Oh, this person actually is a so-called ‘expert,’ and so maybe I better pay attention to what they have to say.’” 

To Natalie Brown ’25 and many other students, Tesori is a “fairy godmother” of sorts. Brown, who is a singer-songwriter in addition to being a full-time student, first encountered Tesori while taking “Advanced Composition for Musical Theater.” 

When Brown wrote an adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide,” Tesori helped Brown contact the estate of Shange and put her in touch with WME, Brown’s current agency. 

Brown particularly emphasized Tesori’s generosity and excitement to help young students as something rare and rather unexpected in the world of commercial musical theater. Furthermore, she stated that Tesori’s confidence in her students’ artistic abilities manifests in the way that she teaches them. 

“She really tailored the class to meet us where we were at, instead of having a prescribed curriculum and kind of forcing us to focus on specific things that might not have fit as well with what the class needed at the time,” Brown said. 

Over the course of Tesori’s career, some things have changed and others have not. She told the News that her thought process and the way she dresses hasn’t changed since age nine. 

What has changed over the years is her approach to taking criticism: she’s learned to generally give “less of a fuck,” while taking constructive blows when she needs to. 

“Sometimes I read something, and I think, ‘Wow, I did do that. That is a party trick. I have to stop doing that.’ [I learned] the humility to just say, ‘I don’t do that well.’ That’s why I like doing dumb stuff that I’m not good at, because it’s good to not be good at something,” Tesori said. “Especially at higher institutions of learning, it’s good to feel not in the know all the time. It’s good to play, it’s good to do something that you’re a complete beginner at, including what you’ve mastered.”

Tesori’s future may find direction in her own history.

She has always been interested in telling an “Italian story” — particularly one that embodies the lived and diverse experiences of Italian American communities. 

“I haven’t found the story yet. I have ideas that are running — my roots are in Sicily, the small towns around Palermo and Stromboli. [But] I just haven’t found it yet,” Tesori said. “I hope that I get to do that.” 

In her early career, Jeanine Tesori was known as Jeanine Levenson.



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Nelson news in brief: Nelson bands rock judges,

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The winners of the Nelson Rockshop Bandquest competition, Tempo, from Waimea Intermediate.

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The winners of the Nelson Rockshop Bandquest competition, Tempo, from Waimea Intermediate.

Tempo’s time

Waimea Intermediate band Tempo won the Nelson edition of the Rockshop Bandquest, the nationwide live music competition for intermediate and primary students. In second place was Ahurei from Broadgreen Intermediate with Obsidian from St Joseph’s School third. Princess from Ngatimoti School won the best original song, and Tiahomairangi Manawa-Pounamu Tawha from Ahurei won best vocalist. A total of 15 bands performed at the Theatre Royal on Monday night. Judge Reece Milton said there were so many talented bands that made it challenging as a judge. “It’s great to see so many young people still passionate and performing music. Everyone that performed last night has a bright future in New Zealand music.” Almost 300 bands took part in events around the country, with the results of the online final to be announced on September 21.

Infrastructure funding

Three Nelson City Council projects have received a combined $1.6 million in the most recent round of grants from the Government’s Tourism Infrastructure Fund. The fund recognised the impact extreme weather events, such as in August 2022, had on local infrastructure and visitor numbers, and prioritised funding to help support communities to restore and upgrade tourism infrastructure to assist in their recovery. The three council projects that received funding are the Marina Promenade, receiving $1,130,066, the Montgomery Square Toilet Renewal, receiving $295,412 and Marsden Valley Trailhead Facilities, receiving $235,370. Mayor Nick Smith said the Marina Promenade fitted well with planned developments for additional boat berths and a new sea sports facility in Akersten St, and Nelson gaining port of entry status for international recreational vessels. “The visitor industry is vital to Nelson’s economy and has taken a huge hit through Covid. These investments in tourism infrastructure help in the recovery,” he said.

Business awards

Twenty-four businesses have entered this year’s Nelson Pine Industries Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce Business Awards. Chamber chief executive, Ali Boswijk said the number of award submissions was heartening. “I’d like to think we can see this as somewhat of a business barometer. Reflecting that despite ongoing challenges that are squeezing New Zealand businesses, locally there are still plenty who are navigating their way around and through these things, and are finding strength and confidence in the process.” The entries are: Apex Accounting, Boost Your Learning, Dancing Sands Distillery, Digitella Marketing, Esolar, Harvest Kitchen, Hybrid Bikes, Golden Bay Solar Farm/JB Hills, Keetrax, Kimer Med, Milestone Homes, Move Good Now, NZAW Ltd, OneFortyOne, Pete’s Natural, School Strike4 Climate Whakatu, Smart Business Centre, TBI Health, The Barden Party, The Cooper Group, The Food Factory Charitable Trust, Tim’s Garden, Transform Your Life Within, Under the Hood BBQ. The black-tie awards dinner will be held on Friday March 1 next year.

A massive project to repair the badly damaged highway between Nelson and Blenheim after the August 2022 rain event has won a national award.

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A massive project to repair the badly damaged highway between Nelson and Blenheim after the August 2022 rain event has won a national award.

Construction awards

Two civil construction projects in Nelson have won national recognition. At the 44th Civil Contractors New Zealand Hirepool Construction Excellence Awards in Auckland, Fulton Hogan’s repair and upgrade of State Highway 6 between Nelson and Blenheim won the national award for projects with a value of between $5m and $20m. The highway was damaged by intense rainfall in August 2022. A 120-strong labour force completed the project in record time,- just ahead of the Christmas holiday period. Judges congratulated Fulton Hogan, noting the meticulous planning and rapid completion of a project that would normally take 18 months. Water and pipeline business Interflow were highly commended in the category for projects with a value up to $2m for their project to reline an abandoned 1.1km sewage pipe through the Waimea Estuary. The project ensured the obsolete pipe could be reused and increasing Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit’s (NRSBU) sewerage handling capacity. Judges praised Interflow for their smart thinking and innovative approach, which they said saved NRSBU over $4m.

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LL Cool J, Ziggy Marley, more perform at

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LL Cool J, who just headlined a terrific hip-hop concert at Chase Center in San Francisco last week, is one of the many stars set to perform at the #MauiStrong benefit on Sept. 8.

The YouTube livestream event also inclues Gretchen Rhodes featuring Mick Fleetwood and Friends, Ziggy Marley, Lukas Nelson, Nathaniel Rateliff, Fred Armisen, Sarah McLachlan, Ryan Bingham, Stewart Copeland, Kai Lenny and more.

The 120-minute event takes place on will air on Ziggy Marley’s official YouTube Channel on September 8th, 2023, at 2PM HST / 5PM PST / 8PM EST on Sept. 8 at https://yt.be/mauistrong.

“Funds raised will support two crucial causes: the Maui Strong Fund, which provides immediate and long-term recovery aid for the people and areas devastated by the Maui wildfires; this can be done directly on the livestream watch page by clicking the DONATE button. And MusiCares, a charity supporting the health and welfare of the music community through preventive, emergency, and recovery programs. Additional proceeds from the soundtrack inspired by this event will be delivered to #MauiStrongFund and MusiCares,” according to a news release.

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News of the Weird: Week of September 7, 2023

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Bright Idea

Officials in New Delhi, India, are preparing for the G20 summit next week, and no detail has been left unaddressed, Reuters reported. For example: Rhesus monkeys are a menace on many of the city’s streets, often attacking pedestrians. The monkeys cannot be harmed or removed by law, so the government has installed life-size cutouts of langurs — bigger primates with black faces — around the city to scare the monkeys away. The New Delhi Municipal Council has also employed “30 to 40” people who mock the langurs’ sounds so that the monkeys will believe they are real. “We … are already seeing a positive impact,” said Satish Upadhyay, the vice-chairman of the NDMC.

It’s Come to This

New Yorkers have become accustomed (some grudgingly) to the ubiquitous odor of cannabis on city streets and in parks, the Associated Press reported. In fact, as spectator Diane Patrizio of Southampton, New York, stood in line at Court 17 at the U.S. Open, she remarked, “It’s everywhere. But what are you going to do?” Court 17, which is situated on the periphery of the Flushing Meadows complex, lies right next to Corona Park, and on Aug. 29, the court “definitely (smelled) like Snoop Dogg’s living room,” said player Alexander Zverev. “The whole court smells like weed.” In fact, eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari complained to the chair umpire. However, the USTA found no evidence that anyone inside the facility was smoking, and Sakkari said the odor didn’t affect her loss to Rebeka Masarova. “I mean, it’s something we cannot control because we’re in an open space,” Sakkari said.


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Barbara Haverly, 62, of Mount Dora, Florida, was running a routine errand this summer when things suddenly got out of hand, The Washington Post reported on Aug. 23. Haverly had stopped at the city library to return a book, but the line was rather long, so she dropped it into a drop box as she’d done many times before. But as she pulled out her hand, she felt a sharp pain in her left middle finger. The top of the finger, starting just below her fingernail, had been torn off. “I was in shock,” she said. Library staff called 911, and one employee got into the book box to retrieve the top of her finger. Doctors performed surgery but were unable to reattach the fingertip. Haverly is still dealing with the aftermath of the incident; she said she is depressed and can no longer do yoga or play the ukulele. Meanwhile, the library has placed a sign over the box that reads, “Please do not place your hand inside this book drop.”

Irony

Two employees of television outlet Univision Chicago who were filming a piece about armed robberies in the Windy City were robbed at gunpoint around 5 a.m. on Aug. 28, The Washington Post reported. The reporter and photographer were in the Wicker Park neighborhood when an SUV and a sedan pulled up and three suspects “wearing ski masks and displaying firearms” jumped out. They took the photography equipment and personal items, returned to their cars and fled. The suspects are still at large; no injuries were reported.

Unmanaged Expectations

Officials at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point hyped an event scheduled for Aug. 28, tweeting the night before and livestreaming the festivities a la Geraldo Rivera: the opening of a time capsule from the late 1820s. The Washington Post reported that the box was installed at the base of a monument to a Polish military engineer who aided the U.S. during the Revolutionary War. But when archaeologist Paul Hudson lifted the lid, his high hopes flew away like dust in the wind. “The box didn’t quite meet expectations,” he said. Hudson found … silt. However, upon further examination, Hudson uncovered a small and puzzling treasure: six silver American coins dated between 1795 and 1828 and one Erie Canal commemorative medal. “When I first found these, I thought … it would have been great to have found these on stage,” he said. Hudson said he would analyze the remaining sediment to find out whether other items inside had been destroyed by moisture.

Build the Wall!

No, not that wall. In Norway’s Arctic region, workers are rebuilding a reindeer fence along the country’s border with Russia because the animals keep wandering over the line to find better pastures for grazing. The barrier is 93 miles long; only about 4 miles require repair, the Associated Press reported. But the work is challenging because workers cannot step into Russian territory lest they be charged with illegal entry. Russia has charged Norway huge fines for the days the reindeer grazed in a natural reserve. The work is expected to be completed by Oct. 1.




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Back off that accelerator if you’re driving through Coffee City, Texas, about three hours north of Houston. Why? The town, with about 250 residents, has 50 full- and part-time police officers, KHOU-TV reported on Aug. 30. The town’s budget reveals that it collected more than $1 million in court fines in 2022, which were the result of more than 5,100 citations the officers wrote. And there’s a tantalizing twist: Most of Coffee City’s officers had been suspended, demoted, terminated or discharged from previous law enforcement jobs, for reasons including excessive force, public drunkenness and association with known criminals. “I’ve never seen anything like that in my professional career, and I’ve seen a lot,” said Greg Fremin, a retired Houston Police Department captain. But Coffee City’s police chief, JohnJay Portillo, disagrees: “There’s more to just what’s on paper,” he said. “I try to look at the good in everybody and I believe everybody deserves an opportunity.” Even so, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement has an open investigation into the tiny community’s big law presence.

The Passing Parade

Lee Meyer of Neligh, Nebraska, altered his Ford sedan a few years back, cutting out half the roof and the passenger-side door and adding a farm gate, so that he could drive his Watusi bull in the Kolach Days Parade in Verdigre. (A Watusi bull, for you non-Nebraskans, has large, long horns, similar to a Texas Longhorn.) The bull, Howdy Doody, hitched another ride with Meyer on Aug. 30 on U.S. 275, but the Norfolk police weren’t having it, People reported: “The officer performed a traffic stop and addressed some traffic violations that were occurring with that particular situation,” Capt. Chad Reiman said. “I don’t know why he was doing it that day. I can honestly say that I haven’t seen anything like that before.” Meyer was asked to leave the city and return home with Howdy Doody.

Don’t Mind Them

  • In Fairfax County, Virginia, on Aug. 22, a man entered a 7-Eleven store and displayed a knife, which was the least interesting part of the robbery, Fox5DC-TV reported. The man, who was described as Hispanic, was wearing a black cowboy hat upon which perched two parrots. Another parrot was riding on the man’s shoulder. The suspect escaped in a blue SUV with an undisclosed amount of money, police said.
  • And in northern England, an unnamed driver was issued a traffic offense report by police after he was observed motoring along the M62 with an African gray parrot on his shoulder, The Guardian reported on Aug. 30. “Animals should be in suitable carriers/restraints so that they don’t interfere with your ability to drive safely,” police posted on X.

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