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LUQUE, Paraguay (AP) — Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savored in the country’s pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and served slightly chilled for special toasts. The smooth rice wine that plays a crucial role in Japan's culinary traditions was enshrined on Wednesday by UNESCO on its list of the “intangible cultural heritage of humanity." At a meeting in Luque, Paraguay, members of UNESCO’s committee for safeguarding humanity's cultural heritage voted to recognize 45 cultural practices and products around the world, including Brazilian white cheese, Caribbean cassava bread and Palestinian olive oil soap. Unlike UNESCO’s World Heritage List, which includes sites considered important to humanity like the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Intangible Cultural Heritage designation names products and practices of different cultures that are deserving of recognition. A Japanese delegation welcomed the announcement in Luque. “Sake is considered a divine gift and is essential for social and cultural events in Japan,” Kano Takehiro, the Japanese ambassador to UNESCO, told The Associated Press. The basic ingredients of sake are few: rice, water, yeast and koji, a rice mold, which breaks down the starches into fermentable sugars like malting does in beer production. The whole two-monthlong process of steaming, stirring, fermenting and pressing can be grueling. The rice — which wields tremendous marketing power as part of Japan's broader cultural identity — is key to the alcoholic brew. For a product to be categorized Japanese sake, the rice must be Japanese. The UNESCO recognition, the delegation said, captured more than the craft knowledge of making high-quality sake. It also honored a tradition dating back some 1,000 years — sake makes a cameo in Japan’s famous 11th century novel, “The Tale of Genji,” as the drink of choice in the refined Heian court. Now, officials hope to restore sake's image as Japan's premier alcoholic drink even as the younger drinkers in the country switch to imported wine or domestic beer and whiskey. “It means a lot to Japan and to the Japanese,” Takehiro said of the UNESCO designation. "This will help to renew interest in traditional sake elaboration.” Also, Japanese breweries have expressed hope that the listing could give a little lift to the country's export economy as the popularity of sake booms around the world and in the United States amid heightened interest in Japanese cuisine. Sake exports, mostly to the U.S. and China, now rake in over $265 million a year, according to the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association, a trade group. Japan's delegation appeared ready to celebrate on Wednesday — in classic Japanese style. After the announcement, Takehiro raised a cypress box full of sake to toast the alcoholic brew and cultural rite.
CHICAGO (AP) — In the days after the presidential election, Sadie Perez began carrying pepper spray with her around campus. Her mom also ordered her and her sister a self-defense kit that included keychain spikes, a hidden knife key and a personal alarm. It’s a response to an emboldened fringe of right-wing “manosphere” influencers who have seized on Republican Donald Trump ’s presidential win to justify and amplify misogynistic derision and threats online. Many have appropriated a 1960s abortion rights rallying cry, declaring “Your body, my choice” at women online and on college campuses. For many women, the words represent a worrying harbinger of what might lie ahead as some men perceive the election results as a rebuke of reproductive rights and women’s rights. “The fact that I feel like I have to carry around pepper spray like this is sad,” said Perez, a 19-year-old political science student in Wisconsin. “Women want and deserve to feel safe.” Isabelle Frances-Wright, director of technology and society at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank focusing on polarization and extremism, said she had seen a “very large uptick in a number of types of misogynistic rhetoric immediately after the election,” including some “extremely violent misogyny.” “I think many progressive women have been shocked by how quickly and aggressively this rhetoric has gained traction,” she said. The phrase “Your body, my choice” has been largely attributed to a post on the social platform X from Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and far-right internet personality who dined at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida two years ago. In statements responding to criticism of that event, Trump said he had “never met and knew nothing about” Fuentes before he arrived. Mary Ruth Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law, said the phrase transforms the iconic abortion rights slogan into an attack on women’s right to autonomy and a personal threat. “The implication is that men should have control over or access to sex with women,” said Ziegler, a reproductive rights expert. Fuentes' post had 35 million views on X within 24 hours, according to a report by Frances-Wright's think tank, and the phrase spread rapidly to other social media platforms. Women on TikTok have reported seeing it inundate their comment sections. The slogan also has made its way offline with boys chanting it in middle schools or men directing it at women on college campuses, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue report and social media reports. One mother said her daughter heard the phrase on her college campus three times, the report said . School districts in Wisconsin and Minnesota have sent notices about the language to parents. T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase were pulled off Amazon. Perez said she has seen men respond to shared Snapchat stories for their college class with “Your body, my choice.” “It makes me feel disgusted and infringed upon,” she said. “... It feels like going backwards.” Misogynistic attacks have been part of the social media landscape for years. But Frances-Wright and others who track online extremism and disinformation said language glorifying violence against women or celebrating the possibility of their rights being stripped away has spiked since the election. Online declarations for women to “Get back in the kitchen” or to “Repeal the 19th,” a reference to the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote, have spread rapidly. In the days surrounding the election, the extremism think tank found that the top 10 posts on X calling for repeal of the 19th Amendment received more than 4 million views collectively. A man holding a sign with the words “Women Are Property” sparked an outcry at Texas State University . The man was not a student, faculty or staff, and was escorted off campus, according to the university’s president . The university is “exploring potential legal responses,” he said. Anonymous rape threats have been left on the TikTok videos of women denouncing the election results. And on the far-flung reaches of the web, 4chan forums have called for “rape squads” and the adoption of policies in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a dystopian book and TV series depicting the dehumanization and brutalization of women. “What was scary here was how quickly this also manifested in offline threats,” Frances-Wright said, emphasizing that online discourse can have real-world impacts. Previous violent rhetoric on 4chan has been connected to racially motivated and antisemitic attacks, including a 2022 shooting by a white supremacist in Buffalo that killed 10 people . Anti-Asian hate incidents also rose as politicians, including Trump , used words such as “Chinese virus” to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. And Trump’s language targeting Muslims and immigrants in his first campaign correlated with spikes in hate speech and attacks on these groups, Frances-Wright said. The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism reported similar rhetoric, with “numerous violent misogynistic trends” gaining traction on right-wing platforms such 4chan and spreading to more mainstream ones such as X since the election. Throughout the presidential race, Trump’s campaign leaned on conservative podcasts and tailored messaging toward disaffected young men . As Trump took the stage at the Republican National Convention over the summer, the song “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World” by James Brown blared from the speakers. One of several factors to his success this election was modestly boosting his support among men , a shift concentrated among younger voters, according to AP VoteCast, survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide. But Trump also won support from 44% of women age 18 to 44, according to AP VoteCast. To some men, Trump's return to the White House is seen as a vindication, gender and politics experts said. For many young women, the election felt like a referendum on women’s rights and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris ’ loss felt like a rejection of their own rights and autonomy. “For some of these men, Trump’s victory represents a chance to reclaim a place in society that they think they are losing around these traditional gender roles,” Frances-Wright said. None of the current online rhetoric is being amplified by Trump or anyone in his immediate orbit. But Trump has a long history of insulting women , and the spike in such language comes after he ran a campaign that was centered on masculinity and repeatedly attacked Harris over her race and gender . His allies and surrogates also used misogynistic language about Harris throughout the campaign. “With Trump’s victory, many of these men felt like they were heard, they were victorious. They feel that they have potentially a supporter in the White House,” said Dana Brown, executive director of the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics. Brown said some young men feel they’re victims of discrimination and have expressed mounting resentment for successes of the women’s rights movement, including #MeToo . The tension also has been influenced by socioeconomic struggles. As women become the majority on college campuses and many professional industries see increasing gender diversity, it has “led to young men scapegoating women and girls, falsely claiming it’s their fault they’re not getting into college anymore as opposed to looking inward,” Brown said. Perez, the political science student, said she and her sister have been leaning on each other, their mother and other women in their lives to feel safer amid the online vitriol. They text each other to make sure they got home safely. They have girls' nights to celebrate wins, including a female majority in student government at their campus in the University of Wisconsin system. “I want to encourage my friends and the women in my life to use their voices to call out this rhetoric and to not let fear take over,” she said. The Associated Press receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here . The AP is solely responsible for all content.Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its position in Krispy Kreme, Inc. ( NASDAQ:DNUT – Free Report ) by 2.3% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 2,099,645 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 48,203 shares during the quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC’s holdings in Krispy Kreme were worth $22,555,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Landscape Capital Management L.L.C. lifted its position in Krispy Kreme by 86.1% in the 3rd quarter. Landscape Capital Management L.L.C. now owns 216,559 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,326,000 after purchasing an additional 100,163 shares during the last quarter. Paloma Partners Management Co lifted its position in Krispy Kreme by 6,993.4% in the 3rd quarter. Paloma Partners Management Co now owns 872,068 shares of the company’s stock valued at $9,366,000 after purchasing an additional 859,774 shares during the last quarter. Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. bought a new stake in Krispy Kreme in the 3rd quarter valued at about $810,000. Samlyn Capital LLC lifted its position in Krispy Kreme by 120.5% in the 2nd quarter. Samlyn Capital LLC now owns 2,230,176 shares of the company’s stock valued at $23,997,000 after purchasing an additional 1,218,699 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Holocene Advisors LP bought a new stake in Krispy Kreme in the 3rd quarter valued at about $1,716,000. 81.72% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors. Krispy Kreme Stock Up 0.5 % DNUT stock opened at $9.78 on Friday. Krispy Kreme, Inc. has a 12 month low of $9.18 and a 12 month high of $17.84. The firm has a market cap of $1.66 billion, a PE ratio of 57.53, a P/E/G ratio of 4.21 and a beta of 1.34. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $10.81 and a 200 day simple moving average of $10.91. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.67, a current ratio of 0.35 and a quick ratio of 0.28. Krispy Kreme Announces Dividend Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth A number of analysts have commented on DNUT shares. JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their price target on shares of Krispy Kreme from $14.00 to $13.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, November 12th. Morgan Stanley started coverage on shares of Krispy Kreme in a research report on Tuesday, November 5th. They set an “equal weight” rating and a $14.00 price target on the stock. Finally, Bank of America boosted their price target on shares of Krispy Kreme from $15.00 to $16.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 22nd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, five have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Krispy Kreme has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $15.56. Read Our Latest Report on Krispy Kreme About Krispy Kreme ( Free Report ) Krispy Kreme, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, produces doughnuts in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, Japan, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: U.S., International, and Market Development. 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Share this Story : Mr. Big Shot: Carson Rehkopf cracks Canada lineup a decade after busting a family appliance Copy Link Email X Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Breadcrumb Trail Links Sports Hockey Junior Hockey World Juniors Mr. Big Shot: Carson Rehkopf cracks Canada lineup a decade after busting a family appliance Author of the article: Don Brennan Published Dec 29, 2024 • Last updated 7 minutes ago • 4 minute read Join the conversation You can save this article by registering for free here . Or sign-in if you have an account. Canada's Carson Rehkopf (16) fights Czechia's Tomas Galvas (23) for the puck during second period 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship pre-tournament hockey action in Ottawa on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS Article content Sidney Crosby famously covered his mom’s clothes dryer with hundreds of puck marks. Carson Rehkopf destroyed his family’s washing machine. Article content We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team . Mr. Big Shot: Carson Rehkopf cracks Canada lineup a decade after busting a family appliance Back to video Article content Funny the things kids will do to develop their shots. Unless you’re Mrs. Crosby and Mrs. Rehkopf, of course. “Mom kind of kicked me out of the basement when I was maybe eight or nine ... I broke her washing machine,” Rehkopf, a Team Canada forward from Barrie, Ont. recalled after the morning skate leading into Sunday’s 3-0 victory over Germany and another Carter George shutout. “(Shooting) is always something I loved to do. I was lucky enough to kind of grow up with outdoor rings, so I spent a lot of time on them as well.” Advertisement 2 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 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Activate your Online Access Now Article content Rehkopf clarified he wasn’t intentionally firing at the washing machine. “It was just behind my net,” he said. “I broke the glass once or twice, and she was not too happy.” All the practice has paid off though. Rehkopf has scored 72 goals in 87 games over the last season and a half, playing with the OHL’s Kitchener Rangers and Brampton Steelheads. He was selected in the second round, 50th overall by the Seattle Kraken in the 2023 NHL entry draft, and likely has a promising career ahead of him. Marksmen like Rehkopf are hard to find. “He’s probably got the best shot in the OHL,” said Canada defenceman Sam Dickinson, a London Knights blue liner in his full-time gig. “He’s one of the best just pure goal scorers I’ve ever seen.” And yet it wasn’t until Canada fell to Latvia on Friday, after scoring just twice on 57 shots, that Rehkopf moved from the pressbox to the lineup. Asked why he was a healthy scratch for the first two games, coach Dave Cameron said the feeling was other combinations gave the team its best chance to win. Rehkopf, who had four points in five games for Canada at last year’s WJC and scored a hattrick in an exhibition against the U Sports all-stars during selection camp last week, didn’t take the snub personally. Sports Get the latest sport headlines and breaking news. There was an error, please provide a valid email address. Sign Up By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Thanks for signing up! A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sports will soon be in your inbox. We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again Article content Advertisement 3 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content “You respect their decision,” said the 6-foot-2, 200-pounder. “It’s a very good tournament. The best players in Canada. So you just try to stay humble and wait for an opportunity.” And he didn’t let it damage the confidence that has helped make him a sniper. “I think it can, but I try not to let it,” said Rehkopf. “I kind of focus on myself. I know what I can do. I know I can help the team win. So I’ll just try to show that when I get the chance.” Dickinson said “a hard play style” comes in the package that is Rehkopf. “I think you saw it in the first couple of pre-tournament games,” said Dickinson. “He’s been hard on the forecheck and was a hard guy to play against. I think that’s a big thing he’ll bring for us tonight.” Rehkopf’s obvious impact wasn’t immediate – until he crushed German captain Edwin Tropmann into the offensive end boards late in the second period. It was a hit heard loud and clear way up in the press box. At that point, Canada had the game’s lone goal on a blast from Oliver Bonk set up by London Knights teammate Easton Cowan and Berkly Catton that temporarily took scrutiny off the team’s struggling power play. Advertisement 4 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Another defenceman, Caden Price, helped the capacity crowd of 18,526 breathe easier with an unassisted effort that saw the puck just trickle over the line with 4:58 left in the third. Mathieu Cataford cemented the victory with an empty net goal 2.4 seconds from the final buzzer that was assisted by George, who made 25 saves for the shutout. Winning the game in regulation time was important as the three points back in a Group A first-place tie with the U.S and perfectly set the stage for a New Year’s Eve showdown with the Americans. If that one comes down to special teams play, the Bonk blast did served as a response to Cameron’s directive his players shoot more with a man-advantage. “Sometimes we overpass and we’re looking for something better,” Cameron said before the game. “You’re not going to break PK until you shoot the puck. It’s off shots and rebounds that stuff happens, and so you have to stay with the shot. That’s first and foremost.” Around the same time, Cameron also raved about Rehkopf’s shot. “And he’s not scared to shoot,” said Cameron, who hates nothing more than cutting a player or scratching him from the lineup. “He doesn’t need many chances to score. He’s a primary shooter, that’s the first trait of a good goal scorer.” Advertisement 5 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Don’t be surprised if he gets a big one before this tournament is done. Cowan says Rehkopf “finds a way to score almost every game he plays.” Maybe it will come on against the team Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews — a guy with a shot Rehkopf has studied and tried to copy – was the co-leader of in scoring with Matthew Tkachuk by racking up 11 points when the U.S. won bronze at the 2016 world juniors. “I’ve been watching Matthews shoot since he came into (the NHL),” said Rehkopf. “Obviously you try to mess around, do stuff yourself, and kind of figure out different ways to shoot and whatnot, (but) “(Matthews’) pull and drag is something and I’ve really taken to ... it’s something that he brought in the league and scores a lot with a lot. I think it just messes with the goalie, so it’s something I’ve worked on a lot.” His days of firing pucks in his mother’s basement are over, however. “I’m not allowed to shoot at my house anymore,” said Rehkopf. “I’ve gotta go to the shop, so she has kind of kicked me out of that area of the house.” Article content Share this article in your social network Share this Story : Mr. Big Shot: Carson Rehkopf cracks Canada lineup a decade after busting a family appliance Copy Link Email X Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Comments You must be logged in to join the discussion or read more comments. Create an Account Sign in Join the Conversation Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion. Please keep comments relevant and respectful. Comments may take up to an hour to appear on the site. You will receive an email if there is a reply to your comment, an update to a thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. 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