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With two blocked punts returned for touchdowns on consecutive Panthers punts and a pair of TD passes by Bridgewater, the Vikings (5-7) jumped out to a 28-6 halftime lead against the visitors and cruised to a decisive victory. The 28 points were the most they had scored in a first half this season, and more than the tea...
“We knew that we just had to jump on these guys early in the game,” Bridgewater said.
After Bridgewater completed his first three passes on the opening drive, including a 4-yard touchdown to tight end Kyle Rudolph, the Vikings defense forced Carolina to bring out punter Brad Nortman.
The Vikings and special teams coordinator Mike Priefer had seen tendencies in previous Panthers games that gave them confidence that they could get to Nortman before he got his punts off. And it proved to be warranted when Adam Thielen sprinted past Panthers long snapper J.J. Jansen and laid out to smother Nortman’s se...
The blocked punt landed next to Thielen, who pulled the ball into his body as he picked himself up off the turf. His 30-yard touchdown return after the blocked punt was the longest in team history, but the receiver only held on to that record for a little more than 11 minutes of game time.
On Nortman’s next punt, linebacker Jasper Brinkley burst though the line to block it. Defensive end Everson Griffen scooped it up and scored after a 43-yard return.
The Vikings were the fifth team in NFL history to score on two blocked punts in the same game, and they joined the 1975 Detroit Lions as the only teams to do it in the same half.
Bridgewater and the offense piled on before escaping the cold at halftime. He capped off an 80-yard drive by connecting with receiver Greg Jennings on a 17-yard touchdown with 16 seconds left in the half.
Bridgewater misfired on a few open throws early in last week’s loss to the Green Bay Packers, but he completed nine of his 12 first-half attempts for 92 yards and two touchdowns Sunday. The rookie, who has been under the weather the past couple of days, finished the game with 138 yards on 15-for-21 passing. His 120.7 p...
The Panthers scored on a fourth-down play early in the third quarter to make the score 28-13 and threatened to score again when they began their next possession at midfield.
But after one Carolina first down, the Vikings defense pushed back. Safety Harrison Smith recorded a tackle for a loss on first down and cornerback Xavier Rhodes and linebacker Chad Greenway broke up passes on the next two downs, forcing a punt.
Pinned deep by Nortman, the Vikings were able to regain favorable field position when Bridgewater threw an accurate deep ball to Jarius Wright on third-and-3.
From there the Vikings coasted, with the defense pounding Panthers quarterback Cam Newton and the offense taking the air out of the ball and their opponent.
Vikings middle linebacker Jasper Brinkley (54) blocked a second quarter punt by Panthers punter Brad Nortman (8). Teammate Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen recovered the ball and ran 43 yards for the Vikings second blocked kick touchdown of the game Sunday afternoon.
The Panthers, despite their 3-8-1 record, entered freezing TCF Bank Stadium a game out of first place in the lowly NFC South. But it was the Vikings, out of the playoff hunt, who looked like the better team and the one playing with more desperation, especially early on.
DULUTH, Minn. – More fabric and fun will soon be available for quilters in the Duluth Lakeside neighborhood.
The owner of Hannah Johnson Fabrics is expanding.
The growth comes after Johnson’s Bakery vacated their Lakeside location in 2018.
“Who would have ever known? I never thought I’d be here for ten years,” said Janet Anelli, Owner of Hannah Johnson Fabrics.
A connection with the community is helping Anelli’s small business flourish.
With a goal of only being open for six months back in 2008, Anelli is now counting down the days until she opens up the stiches on her latest project.
“When I opened the store, I said if I’m just open for six months, I did it, I did something! I worked at it and it’ll be fine,” said Anelli.
This goal set by inspiration from Anelli’s grandmother, Hannah Johnson.
Since opening, Hannah Johnson Fabrics has weathered two locations in the Lakeside neighborhood. She’s proud to help folks in the community make their hobbies happen.
“People need something creative in their life,” said Anelli.
Anelli says countless customers have come in through the years from the Northland, Twin Cities, Chicago and beyond.
“If you don’t have something creative in your life whether its music or art, you just have to have something in your life that brings you a break,” said Anelli.
Now Anelli is looking to expand with more than just retail. Education will be on Anelli’s agenda after construction is completed.
“I do have Claudia! She’s going to be teaching a class,” said Anelli.
“I have been competing since about 1996,” said Claudia Myers, a local quilt designer.
As Hannah Johnson Fabrics moves into the old Johnson’s Lakeside Bakery location, Anelli is joining forces with other talented quilters in the region to offer more hands-on experiences.
Myers will be hosting classes two to three times a month starting in February.
“I really wanted some time to teach because I feel that I’ve got all this knowledge that I want to pass on,” said Myers.
Myers will be passing on life lessons while working with top notch materials.
“Quality of the fabric is so much better from a local shop. Thread count is higher, when you wash it, it lasts longer,” said Anelli.
A benefit Anelli says you can only find at a local shop in your neighborhood.
“There are so few places that are different anymore. Lakeside is nice because we have so many different shops in this area,” said Anelli.
In the next ten years, Anelli plans on still being open in the Lakeside neighborhood, but taking more time to travel and visit with family.
A grand opening is set for Thursday, January 24 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Hannah Johnson Fabrics, 4511 East Superior Street in Duluth.
Click here to learn more and sign up for classes today!
The Board of Directors will consider changes to its operating procedures, including a two-term limit and public voting on travel expenditures, at next Tuesday's meeting.
The changes are sought by City Director William Paparian. On Tuesday, he asked for the one-week delay in the discussion to allow all members to discuss the issues. Director John C. Crowley was absent.
Next week's meeting begins at 9 a.m. at City Hall.
Pizza Hut has made a landmark move and started selling pizza by the slice for the first time ever at two test locations this week.
According to USA Today, slices cost between $2 and $3, and take up to four minutes to heat up. Furthermore, they're made using recipes more similar to the thinner pizzas made in the Northeast region of the U.S. The two test locations are in York, Neb. and Pawtucket, R.I., both of which are now open.
The chain has made the decision in an effort to keep up with an industry that's been shaken up by an altered process where customers can not only watch their food as it's assembled, but receive meals worthy of a restaurant at fast food prices.
USA Today noted that Domino's has also been selling pizza by the slice at some updated locations. Meanwhile, Chipotle plans to enter the pizza market with Pizzeria Locale, where customers will be allowed to see their pizzas being built and cooked in an oven for roughly two minutes.
"We're seeing the trends for quick and ready products," Pizza Hut chief marketing officer Carrie Walsh noted. That's where the industry is going. It'll be interesting to see if and when this takes off in larger markets.
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NUEVA FUERABAMBA, Peru (Reuters) - This remote town in Peru’s southern Andes was supposed to serve as a model for how companies can help communities uprooted by mining.
Named Nueva Fuerabamba, it was built to house around 1,600 people who gave up their village and farmland to make room for a massive, open-pit copper mine.
The new hamlet boasts paved streets and tidy houses with electricity and indoor plumbing, once luxuries to the indigenous Quechua-speaking people who now call this place home.
The mine’s operator, MMG Ltd, the Melbourne-based unit of state-owned China Minmetals Corp, threw in jobs and enough cash so that some villagers no longer work.
But the high-profile deal has not brought the harmony sought by villagers or MMG, a testament to the difficulty in averting mining disputes in this mineral-rich nation.
Resource battles are common in Latin America, but tensions are particularly high in Peru, the world’s No. 2 producer of copper, zinc and silver. Peasant farmers have revolted against an industry that many see as damaging their land and livelihoods while denying them a fair share of the wealth. Peru is home to 167 socia...
Nueva Fuerabamba was the centerpiece of one of the most generous mining settlements ever negotiated in Peru. But three years after moving in, many transplants are struggling amid their suburban-style conveniences, Reuters interviews with two dozen residents showed. Many miss their old lives growing potatoes and raising...
“It is like we are trapped in a jail, in a cage where little animals are kept,” said Cipriano Lima, 43, a former farmer.
Meanwhile, the mine, known as Las Bambas, has remained a magnet for discontent. Clashes between demonstrators and authorities in 2015 and 2016 left four area men dead.
Nueva Fuerabamba residents have blocked copper transport roads to press for more financial help from MMG.
The company acknowledged the transition has been difficult for some villagers, but said most have benefited from improved housing, healthcare and education.
“Nueva Fuerabamba has experienced significant positive change,” Troy Hey, MMG’s executive general manager of stakeholder relations, said in an email to Reuters. MMG said it spent “hundreds of millions” on the relocation effort.
Mining is the driver of Peru’s economy, which has averaged 5.5 percent annual growth over the past decade. Still, pitched conflicts have derailed billions of dollars worth of investment in recent years, including projects by Newmont Mining Corp and Southern Copper Corp.
To defuse opposition, President Pablo Kuczynski has vowed to boost social services in rural highland areas, where nearly half of residents live in poverty.
But moving from conflict to cooperation is not easy after centuries of mistrust. Relocations are particularly fraught, according to Camilo Leon, a mining resettlement specialist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Subsistence farmers have struggled to adapt to the loss of their traditions and the “very urban, very organized” layout of planned towns, Leon said.
“It is generally a shock for rural communities,” Leon said.
At least six proposed mines have required relocations in Peru in the past decade, Leon said. Later this month, Peru will tender a $2-billion copper project, Michiquillay, which would require moving yet another village.
MMG inherited the Nueva Fuerabamba project when it bought Las Bambas from Switzerland’s Glencore Plc in 2014 for $7 billion.
Under terms of a deal struck in 2009 and reviewed by Reuters, villagers voted to trade their existing homes and farmland for houses in a new community. Heads of each household, about 500 in all, were promised mining jobs. University scholarships would be given to their children. Residents were to receive new land for f...
Cash was an added sweetener. Villagers say each household got 400,000 soles ($120,000), which amounts to a lifetime’s earnings for a minimum-wage worker in Peru.
MMG declined to confirm the payments, saying its agreements are confidential.
Built into a hillside 15 miles from the Las Bambas mine, Nueva Fuerabamba was the product of extensive community input, MMG said. Amenities include a hospital, soccer fields and a cement bull ring for festivals.
But some residents say the deal has not been the windfall they hoped. Their new two-and-three story houses, made of drywall, are drafty and appear flimsy compared to their old thatched-roof adobe cottages heated by wood-fired stoves, some said.
Many no longer plant crops or tend livestock because their replacement plots are too far away. Jobs provided by MMG mostly involve maintaining the town because most residents lack the skills to work in a modern mine.
Many villagers spent their settlements unwisely, said community president Alfonso Vargas. “Some invested in businesses but others did not. They went drinking,” he said.
Now basics like water, food and fuel - once wrested from the land - must be paid for.
Some residents said they have benefited from the move.
The new town is cleaner than the old village, said Betsabe Mendoza, 25. She invested her settlement in a metalworking business in a bigger town.
Portilla, the young mom, says her younger sisters are getting a better education than she did.
Still, the streets of Nueva Fuerabamba were virtually deserted on a recent weekday. Vargas, the community leader, said many residents have returned to the countryside or sought work elsewhere. Alcoholism, fueled by idle time and settlement money, is on the rise, he said.
Some villagers have committed suicide. Over the 12 months through July, four residents killed themselves by taking farming chemicals, according to the provincial district attorney’s office. It could not provide data on suicides in the old village of Fuerabamba.
MMG, citing an “independent” study done prior to the relocation, said the community previously suffered from high rates of domestic violence, alcoholism, illiteracy and poverty.
While the company considers the new town a success, it acknowledged the transition has not been easy for all.
“Connection to land, livelihood restoration and simple adaptation to new living conditions remain a challenge,” MMG said.
Nueva Fuerabamba residents continue pressuring the company for additional assistance. Demands include more jobs and deeds to their houses, which have yet to be delivered because of bureaucratic delays, said Godofredo Huamani, the community’s lawyer.
MMG said it stays apace of community needs through town hall meetings and has representatives on hand to field complaints.
While villagers fret about the future, many cling to the past. Flora Huamani, 39, a mother of four girls, recalled how women used to get together to weave wool from their own sheep into the embroidered black dresses they wear.
“Those were our traditions,” said Huamani from a bench in her walled front yard. “Now our tradition is meeting after meeting after meeting” to discuss the community’s problems.
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