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Fall intramural athletics began last week, and it promises to be a season filled with competitive fun and pride for the residential college. Aiden Zhou September 12, 2024 1:22 AM Ava Seymour, contributing photographer Get your cleats on and get your Spikeball skills ready: Intramural sports kick off on September 9th. One of the historic rivalries between Yale’s 14 residential colleges, the intramural competition takes place in three different seasons. This fall, outdoor events include cornhole, flag football, soccer and spikeball, with pickleball and table tennis matches taking place in Payne Whitney Gymnasium. These sports are more than just an…

The Stanford women’s volleyball team will travel more than 33,000 miles this season. (Grant Thomas/Yahoo Sports Illustration)The Pac-12’s collapse began with an ambush.While the Big Ten Conference was trying to close a television contract already estimated at $1 billion a year, the conference was secretly negotiating with USC and UCLA in an effort to increase its influence and extract more money from potential broadcast partners.In June 2022, USC and UCLA surprised the Pac-12 Conference by seeking the influx of funds and long-term stability that the Big Ten offered. Six more schools dropped out the following summer after the weakened Pac-12…

State and local election officials across the country warned Wednesday that problems with the U.S. mail delivery system could disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that deep-rooted flaws have not been fixed.In their letter, officials said that over the past year, including the just-concluded primary season, mail-in ballots that were postmarked on time arrived at local elections offices days after the deadline for counting.They also noticed that properly addressed election mail was being returned as undeliverable.Multiple attempts to contact USPS to resolve the issue have been unsuccessful, the official added.”We…

The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, with its moon-viewing, lantern-making and dragon boat racing, is rich in cultural symbolism and offers luxury brands an opportunity to maintain their cultural relevance in the market. This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, considered the second most important festival in China after the Lunar New Year, runs from Sunday to Tuesday. Despite expectations of a boom in tourism and spending over the three-day national holiday, the Chinese market slowdown looms large, with brands starting to adopt targeted efforts in lieu of big-budget marketing events to boost brand awareness. “Occasions such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and traditional Victorian gift-giving…

This week, we look at the popularity of luxury bag charms as customers seek personalized products, plus how NYFW brand Jonathan Cohen is using retail partners to benefit his company, and what it takes to become a luxury super shopper.In recent years, the trend for luxury bag accessories has gained momentum as playful personalization has become popular with younger consumers. The trend has its roots in Asia, specifically Japan, where the concept of “kawaii” and playful fashion accessories have long been a staple. Rachel Steed Middleton, founder of String Ting, a four-year-old cell phone chain and accessories brand, said bag…

While Donald Trump’s campaign publicly claimed victory in Tuesday night’s debate with Kamala Harris, at least some aides privately acknowledged that Trump was unlikely to have been able to persuade undecided voters to support him, according to people familiar with the matter.”Will what happened tonight be beneficial to us? No,” one of Trump’s aides said.The sentiment encapsulates the predicament of the Trump campaign, with 55 days to go until the election, as Trump still launches an attack line against Harris and seeks an opening to upend her gains in the polls in key battleground states.And it was an admission that…

RALEIGH, NC – Pacific Elm Properties and Gale Force Sports & Entertainment today announced plans for the Raleigh Sports and Entertainment District, a new $1 billion mixed-use development surrounding the arena that is home to the Carolina Hurricanes and NC State basketball teams. The redevelopment of the 80-acre site just off Interstate 40 and adjacent to Carter-Finley Stadium will create new opportunities for year-round shopping, dining and entertainment, as well as unique outdoor areas for sports tailgating and programming. The tenants and outdoor spaces will be curated to serve both Hurricanes and NC State fans, providing new ways to gather…

Unlike many of her late-night peers, Taylor Tomlinson isn’t known for delving into politics on “After Midnight.” But after last night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the comedian weighed in on the topic on his CBS show. “It’s hard to watch a debate like this where one person is spreading horrible lies and all the headlines are ‘Trump and Harris clash over issues.’ If Kamala had said, ‘I’ll give everyone $100,’ and Trump had replied, ‘I’m going to fill every home in America with locusts,’ the headline would have been ‘Candidates offer different visions…

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump traded blows in a fiery presidential debate on Tuesday that went off the rails multiple times and saw the former president go on bizarre and often false asides about audience size, immigration policy and abortion rights.The Philadelphia debate, perhaps the most significant for Harris and Trump since Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race in July, began amiably: Harris walked up to Trump’s podium and introduced herself with a handshake, an acknowledgment that the two presidential candidates had never met in person before Tuesday night.But the cordial relationship was short-lived: After a standard tirade…

According to a recent video released by the British Museum, “the world’s oldest known map of the world,” drawn on a Babylonian clay tablet, has been deciphered over the centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story. A 6th century BC cuneiform tablet shows an aerial view of Mesopotamia (roughly the area of ​​modern-day Iraq) and what the Babylonians believed to be beyond the known world. Discovered in the Middle East, the ancient artifact was acquired by the British Museum in 1882 but remained a mystery for centuries until curators discovered missing sections and transcribed the cuneiform inscriptions. On the back…