Diocese of Pittsburgh tells Catholics to skip hot dogs at Pirates home opener

Luke Gentile

April 07, 02:00 PM April 07, 02:02 PM

The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh hit many Pittsburgh Pirates fans in the stomach Wednesday, telling them to stay away from hot dogs at the team's home opener on Friday.

The Good Friday game sees the Pirates host the Chicago White Sox, and the diocese recognizes the sacrifice it is asking its faithful baseball fans to make, as Catholics are supposed to abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent, especially on the Friday preceding Easter, according to a report.

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"We wish the Pirates well, and we will be rooting for them with all of Pittsburgh," the diocese said in a statement. "But we also need to hold to the priority importance of Good Friday."

"It is an essential part of the most sacred time of year for all Christians. Nothing should take precedence," it said.

Catholic Pirate fans will have to avoid hot dogs, sausages, and chicken fingers, sticking to other fan favorites, including Cracker Jacks and peanuts, but not every Catholic Pirate fan intends to comply with the church.

"Being a Pirates fan my whole life has been sacrifice enough. I'm eating a hot dog at the ballpark Friday," one baseball fan wrote in response.

At least eight teams, including the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, are slated to have home openers Friday.

Catholic dioceses in those areas have echoed the Pittsburgh diocese's sentiment.

The Diocese of Brooklyn and the Archdiocese of San Francisco have both told their faithful that no exception to the no-meat rule will be handed down on Opening Day.

Stimulus update: Direct payment applications for checks worth up to $302 will open in four days

Asher Notheis

February 25, 09:00 AM February 25, 09:00 AM

Residents of Boulder, Colorado, only need to wait a little longer before they can apply for a rebate program that will give them some extra cash to put food on the table.

The Colorado city offers the Food Tax Rebate Program to its low- and middle-income residents annually and offers applicants $99 for individuals and $302 for applicants with dependents, according to the city of Boulder.

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Applications for this rebate will open on March 1, after which Boulder residents will have four months to apply. All applications will be due on June 30.

To be eligible, an applicant must have lived in Boulder for the entire 2022 calendar year and have been 62 years old throughout 2022, be a person with a disability, or have a family with children under 18 in the household throughout 2022. Additionally, an applicant's income cannot surpass a certain limit that varies depending on his or her family size, with the limit being $43,900 for individuals, $50,200 for a family of two, and $56,450 for a family of three. The limit increases slightly as the household size increases.

Any city residents who do not have permanent shelter in the city are eligible for the refund if they provide documents showing they are receiving services from a city-recognized homelessness services agency.

Additional information regarding this rebate program can be found by calling 720-955-8486 or emailing foodtaxrebateprogram@bouldercolorado.gov.

Domino's flees Italy just after locals reject American-design and style pizza

Brady Knox

August 09, 11:23 PM August 09, 11:23 PM

U.S. pizza chain Domino's closed its very last store in Italy following the American pizza fashion failed to catch on in the dish's birthplace.

Domino's shut the last of its unique 29 branches, a considerably cry brief of the prepared 880 locations the franchise was scheduling to open in Italy, according to Bloomberg. The enterprise found that Italians considerably choose neighborhood pizza, total rejecting the American fashion, and it was not ready to get an edge in deliveries as third-party shipping and delivery services stepped up operations.

“We attribute the concern to the significantly greater level of level of competition in the foodstuff supply market place with both equally structured chains and ‘mom & pop’ restaurants offering food, to provider and dining establishments reopening put up pandemic and shoppers out and about with revenge spending,” ePizza, Domino's lover franchise in Italy, mentioned in a report to traders accompanying its fourth-quarter 2021 success, in accordance to Bloomberg.

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Domino's opened its first retailer in Milan in 2015, partnering with ePizza, and there was communicate about a motivation to applying community components, according to CNBC.

Previous Domino's main govt Patrick Doyle resolved to hedge his bets, likely on the logic that Italians take in so considerably pizza that they were being certain to get at least some takers on the lookout for wide variety.

"We never anticipate to exchange all of the pizza usage in Italy with Domino’s, but truthfully we only have to get a couple of events from every single shopper. The intake is so substantial for each capita there that if we get a few occasions from every shopper we can have — we can have a incredibly eye-catching organization in Italy," Doyle claimed, according to the Wall Road Journal.

But it appears that in the famously purist homeland of pizza, even that was asking as well considerably. The chain's distinguishing delivers of an American-model pizza, including toppings these as pineapple, failed to perform perfectly with locals. By the finish of 2020 the corporation was $10.8 million in financial debt, in accordance to the newest audited once-a-year stories claimed by Bloomberg.

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Domino's has bode considerably better in other areas of the continent, running 1,169 retailers in the United Kingdom and 457 suppliers in France.

Original Gerber infant dies at 95

Asher Notheis

June 05, 10:22 AM June 05, 10:22 AM

The original Gerber baby, Ann Turner Prepare dinner, has died at the age of 95.

Gerber, which started employing Cook's toddler portrait as its brand considering that its trademark in 1931, introduced her death in a social media post on Friday.

"Several many years in advance of becoming an extraordinary mom, trainer and author, her smile and expressive curiosity captured hearts all over the place and will carry on to dwell on as a image for all toddlers," the organization stated. "We lengthen our deepest sympathies to Ann’s family members and to any individual who had the satisfaction of realizing her."

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Gerber held a contest in 1928 to obtain a deal with to characterize a baby foods marketing marketing campaign, main artist Dorothy Hope Smith to post her very simple charcoal sketch of Cook, who had been born two years before and was Smith's neighbor. Smith pointed out in her entry that she would complete the sketch if she won, but the judges loved the simple sketch as it was and insisted that it be utilized as the firm's symbol, according to Gerber.

The id of the Gerber child had remained a magic formula right until 1978, leaving quite a few in the interim to guess it to be actor Humphrey Bogart, actress Elizabeth Taylor, or even Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS).

Prepare dinner observed out she was the Gerber infant when her mom informed her. Cook considered the motive the photo had been so common is due to the fact "all infants are attractive" and Smith captured the appeal that all infants have," she reported in a 1998 interview with the .

"If you are heading to be a image for something, what could be much more pleasant than a image for infant foods?" she explained.