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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
83-Year-Old 'Twist' Icon Refuses Rock Hall — His Response Is Legendary
83-Year-Old 'Twist' Icon Refuses Rock Hall — His Response Is Legendary originally appeared on Parade. Chubby Checker, the legendary artist who made "The Twist" a global phenomenon, has shocked the music world by refusing to attend his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The 83-year-old performer, finally honored after decades of eligibility, chose to receive his trophy on his own terms. The unprecedented situation unfolded at Checker's concert in Des Plaines, Illinois, on July 27, per Future Rock Legends. In a move never before seen by the organization, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame officials brought cameras and Checker's trophy directly to his performance venue. The artist who turned "The Twist" into a dance craze with his 1960 hit single had been eligible for Rock Hall recognition since the institution's inaugural class in 1986. After nearly four decades of waiting, Checker received his long-overdue honor on his very first nomination. During his acceptance speech on stage, Checker explained his reasoning to the cameras. The singer had deliberately instructed his management to schedule a performance on the same night as the November induction ceremony. "You run into things that you didn't run into when you weren't an older person," Checker explained while on stage. "I told my manager, 'Make sure when we go to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the induction that I'm doing what I love doing the most, being in front of an audience. A live audience, not a television audience.'" His team followed through on the request, leading Checker to deliver a blunt message to the Rock Hall, "We're not coming. We have a gig." Part of Checker's decision to skip the ceremony stemmed from concerns about how the public perceives him. Despite continuing to tour for decades, he worried about how his appearance at the formal ceremony might be interpreted. "Chubby goes to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he's an old guy, he's probably retired, he's not doing anything. Maybe he has crutches and he's coming to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to get his little award and go back home," he stated. "I said, 'No. Let's be doing a show like I'm doing today.' This shows that I'm alive and well and the audience is wonderful and my dream is still being fulfilled, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is happening all at the same time." During his speech to the Rock Hall officials, Checker expressed appreciation while maintaining his stance. He spoke about "how wonderful it is that this has happened to me and I'm alive to enjoy it." 83-Year-Old 'Twist' Icon Refuses Rock Hall — His Response Is Legendary first appeared on Parade on Aug 8, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 8, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
05-08-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Loop introduces Twist polyester resin brand made from textile waste
Called Twist, the launch marks a pivotal move by Loop to aid the industry's transition from linear production models to circular systems that prioritise sustainability and material innovation. Loop is engaging with apparel brands to negotiate offtake agreements for its anticipated joint venture in India, where Twist will be offered as the branded product. Twist is produced using Loop's proprietary depolymerisation technology, which breaks down polyester textile waste into its foundational monomers, DMT and MEG. These monomers are then purified to their original quality and re-polymerised into the Twist resin. This process ensures the removal of dyes, colourants, and other contaminants, resulting in a resin that is chemically indistinguishable from virgin polyester. Twist is claimed to deliver high purity, consistent colour and dyeing properties, and enhances production efficiency, ensuring seamless integration with existing spinning and manufacturing systems. These qualities make it an attractive option for apparel companies looking to address the environmental impact of textile waste through textile-to-textile recycling, according to Loop. In addition, the production process is estimated to save up to 418,600 tonnes (t) of CO2 emissions annually, with a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 81% compared to traditional fossil fuel-based resins. These figures have been independently validated through a life cycle assessment (LCA) study conducted by Franklin Associates, a division of ERG, stated Loop. The resin also has embedded chemical tracers that allow customers to track the origin of finished products back to the initial waste textile inputs. This transparency ensures verification of the recycling and manufacturing processes, fostering trust in the circular economy and raising the bar for accountability in sustainable textile production, noted the company. Loop Industries plans to scale up the production of Twist at its Terrebonne facility and at the upcoming Infinite Loop India facility. The latter is strategically positioned to cater to global textile and apparel brands, offering Twist at competitive prices without compromising on performance or sustainability credentials. Loop Industries chief revenue officer Giovanni Catino said: 'Twist represents a major step forward in closing the loop for textiles. It supports the textile industry's shift toward a circular model and provides a unique product offering which meets the needs of Loop's customers as we secure agreements for the offtake of our India JV.' Earlier this year, Loop Industries reached a consensus with SK Geo Centric (SKGC) to mutually dissolve their joint venture (JV) agreement to construct and operate an Infinite Loop manufacturing facility in South Korea. "Loop introduces Twist polyester resin brand made from textile waste " was originally created and published by Just Style, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
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Scotsman
04-08-2025
- Business
- Scotsman
Lidl gives customers a chance to win a free item every time they shop
Find out how and what you can win at Lidl 🤩 Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Lidl is giving customers a chance to win a baked good every day Lidl's bakery was recently named the UK No.1 supermarket bakery The Lidl Bakery Spin is available through the Lidl Plus app Discount supermarket Lidl has announced that it will be offering customers a free baked treat every day, as part of an exciting campaign. Following on from Lidl's bakery being named the UK No.1 supermarket bakery, it has launched the Lidl Bakery Spin. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Lidl sells 21 baked goods in total, with favourites such as sweet treats like doughnuts and cookies to savoury bakes such as the iconic cheese twist. Lidl gives customers a chance to win a free item every time they shop | Adobe Stock / Lidl From Wednesday July 30 to Wednesday August 20, shoppers will be in with a chance to enjoy a baked treat from Lidl every time they purchase another item in-store. Exclusively available on the Lidl Plus app, the Lidl Bakery Spin will allow customers to redeem a spin each day which will give them access to a free bakery item. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad To ensure they are able to redeem the free baked good, customers must buy an item in-store and scan their Lidl Plus app at the checkout. App users will then have one week to spin the wheel in the app to redeem a bakery item at random. Here is a full list of Lidl's bakery items available to win: Mozzarella & Pesto Pizza Vegetable Pizza Slice Apple Turnover Maple and Pecan Plait 5.5% Pecans Belgian Bun All Butter Pain au Chocolat All Butter Croissant Baked Cookies Assorted Demi Baguette Jam Filled Doughnut Filled Muffins Assorted Toffee Filled Yum Yum Chocolate Hazelnut Doughnut Almont Croissant Pink Iced Ring Doughnut Chocolate Iced Ring Doughnut Chocolate Hazelnut Croissant Pizza Margherita White Cheddar Chocolate Twist Cheese Twist Rosemary and Sea Salt Focaccia Roll If you're interested in reading more about Lidl and its offerings, you can check out our story on Lidl's 'dupe' on the Ninja pizza oven here.
Indian Express
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens' gritty tale of social injustice, revisited in 10 frames
'Please, sir, I want some more.' Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist remains one of the most iconic fictional orphans, rivaled perhaps only by JK Rowling's Harry Potter. Set in the underbelly of 19th-century Victorian London, the novel follows the journey of an orphan who is entered into the system in infancy. He is then promptly swallowed up and spit out by that notoriously corrupt, sluggish, and bureaucratic entity: the State. As a ward of an indifferent government, Oliver Twist's simple request for more food, an act of innocent defiance, lands him in a world where he must fight to retain his virtue amid cruelty and exploitation. Dickens' second novel is a powerful indictment of England's broken social safety net, specifically the Poor Laws Amendment Act of 1834. Under these reforms, the impoverished were granted food and clothing only in exchange for labor in dehumanising workhouses. Dickens knew this world intimately. At just twelve, he worked in a blacking factory pasting labels on bottles after his father was jailed for debt. The workhouse, presented as a tool for moral uplift, is a machine of degradation. The legal system is capricious, and even religious figures frequently fail to embody the virtues they preach. Dickens strips away the Victorian fantasy that institutions exist to protect the vulnerable. This installment of 'Lit in 10' distills the serialised novel—published monthly from February 1837 to April 1839—into 10 defining moments that reveal the soul of Oliver Twist. Scroll down for a visual retelling of this literary classic, and when time allows, dive into the original. Its portrait of poverty, justice, and survival in a fractured society remains as powerful today as ever. A child is born in a grim English workhouse to a young woman who dies moments after childbirth. Her name is never recorded. The parish surgeon delivers the child, and a drunken pauper nurse mutters a half-hearted blessing. There are no celebrations, only bureaucratic procedures to welcome his arrival. Mr Bumble, the parish beadle, gives him the name 'Oliver Twist' as part of an alphabetical system (following 'Swubble' and preceding 'Unwin'). 'Badged and ticketed,' the orphaned Oliver is reduced to a number. Fed on a diet of thin gruel and endless sermons, Twist and other boys endure sanctioned suffering. After drawing lots, Twist is chosen to request another portion of food. His plea, 'Please, sir, I want some more,' shocks the authorities and brands him as a troublemaker. The outraged board of guardians decides to remove him from the workhouse, offering five pounds to anyone willing to take him. This moment marks Twist's first resistance to injustice. The iconic scene turns hunger into an act of political defiance. A cruel chimney sweep named Mr Gamfield offers to take Twist as an man known to have 'bruised three or four boys to death.' He wants a small boy to force into narrow chimneys, to get a five-pound bonus. The board, eager to rid themselves of Twist, almost agrees. But Twist's visible terror before the magistrate, his pale face and pleading eyes, spares him. Twist is apprenticed to Mr Sowerberry, an undertaker instead. He sleeps under the counter near empty coffins and eats leftover scraps meant for the dog. For the first time, he earns a wage. When the undertaker's apprentice, Noah Claypole, insults Twist's dead mother, he lashes out in rage. The punishment that follows is swift and brutal. The funeral trade becomes a metaphor, Twist is alive, but surrounded by death in every sense. Beaten, starved, and unwanted, Twist runs away to London. The journey is long, hungry, and dangerous. On the final stretch, he meets Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, a streetwise boy who offers him shelter. The Dodger leads Twist to a new 'home' under Fagin's roof. This is a trap. Twist's new family is a gang of pickpockets overseen by Fagin, who grooms children for theft. Fagin offers food, shelter, and even affection, but at a price. In his den, lined with stolen watches and silk handkerchiefs, Twist is taught to steal without understanding it is a crime. On his first outing, Twist is wrongly accused of pickpocketing a kind gentleman, Mr Brownlow. But instead of punishment, Brownlow offers him refuge. In his home, Twist gets warmth, books, and clean clothes, and feels he might be loved. It is a short interlude of peace. This sanctuary is snatched from him when Fagin's gang violently abducts Twist. Twist is forced to assist in a house burglary by the violent Bill Sikes. Nancy, Sikes's companion, secretly helps Twist and later takes a great risk in informing Mr Brownlow of the boy's whereabouts. She sees her younger self in Twist and in trying to help him, seeks redemption. Sikes, paranoid and cornered, brutally murders Nancy. His descent into guilt and madness mirrors the city's shadows, cloaked, chaotic, inescapable. Hunted by mobs, Sikes accidentally hangs himself trying to flee across a rooftop. The murder of Nancy, though horrific, becomes the event that finally causes the collapse of the criminal world that held Twist captive. Finally, Twist is revealed to be the son of a naval officer and the rightful heir to an inheritance. The people who mistreated or exploited him—Fagin, Sikes and Bumble—are exposed or punished. Mr Brownlow formally adopts Twist. Reading only the plot summary, anyone unfamiliar with the novel would be forgiven for mistaking Oliver Twist as a somewhat grotesque picaresque tale where a young boy, standing in for the archetypal innocent maiden, defends his virtue from villainous predators. Oliver himself may appear a one-dimensional cardboard cutout. So what makes this a literary classic? For me, it is Dickens' empathetic and layered portrayal of criminality. He does not romanticise crime like the popular Newgate novels (named for a London prison that was destroyed in a fire in 1780) of his day. Instead, he draws a realistic portrait of London's seedy underbelly and those who inhabit it. Dickens' criminals are neither evil nor heroes rebelling against an unjust society, they are human beings struggling to survive in an apathetic city. They are people shaped, and often broken, by an uncaring system. Who is the greater criminal: Fagin, who gathers those discarded by society into a makeshift family, or Judge Fang, the cold embodiment of institutional cruelty? One preys on the desperate, the other represents a system that created that desperation. Dickens does not offer easy answers. Fagin is manipulative, yet provides laughter and shelter. Nancy is both kidnapper and protector. Even Bill Sikes, brutal as he is, is more than a monster, he is the product of poverty and pain. In a novel full of morally ambiguous characters, Oliver's unblemished innocence may seem implausible, but perhaps he is not meant to be realistic. Instead, he serves as a moral anchor, a fixed point of purity around which the chaos of the city swirls. Dickens uses caricature and satire to great effect to expose the hypocrisy of respectable society. Now, in the 21st century, Oliver Twist has become a cultural touchstone. Its characters have entered the popular imagination, and its themes have inspired generations of writers and reformers to confront injustice with empathy. It has been adapted both for stage and screen, and the iconic musical, Oliver! (Disclaimer: Lit in 10 aims to distill the essence of great works, not to replace them. To fully experience Dickens' humor, horror, and heart, the original novel is still essential reading.) Aishwarya Khosla is a journalist currently serving as Deputy Copy Editor at The Indian Express. Her writings examine the interplay of culture, identity, and politics. She began her career at the Hindustan Times, where she covered books, theatre, culture, and the Punjabi diaspora. Her editorial expertise spans the Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Punjab and Online desks. She was the recipient of the The Nehru Fellowship in Politics and Elections, where she studied political campaigns, policy research, political strategy and communications for a year. She pens The Indian Express newsletter, Meanwhile, Back Home. Write to her at or You can follow her on Instagram: @ink_and_ideology, and X: @KhoslaAishwarya. ... Read More
Business Wire
07-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Twist Bioscience Expands Express Delivery Turnaround Time to All Gene Fragments Regardless of Format
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a core mid-cap growth and value equity company in the life sciences segment of the health care sector, today accelerated its Express turnaround time for all Twist Gene Fragments with a turnaround time starting at two business days for both adapters off and adaptors on configurations. 'We continue to iterate our manufacturing processes, enhancing and expanding our products to meet our customers' needs,' said Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience. 'Our customers receive the same high quality Twist Gene Fragments in the format they want, the scale that they need, now with the Express turnaround time regardless of configuration. Leveraging our highly automated workflow and scalable infrastructure, our pricing from seven cents per base pair for all Gene Fragment configurations, with no additional fees, allows transparency, affordability and flexibility to enable myriad applications across industries.' Twist Gene Fragments are designed to simplify the process of ordering synthetic DNA by offering a reliable and cost-effective solution for researchers. Fragments ship within two to four business days, for one or tens of thousands of Gene Fragments. Twist provides flexible delivery formats including tubes, plates, normalization and resuspension, as well as adapter addition, without impact to turnaround time or cost. Twist will offer gene fragments without adaptors as a standard offering, eliminating the fee previously charged for removing adaptors. At Twist, we deliver Gene Fragments quickly, with a typical processing time of just 2–4 business days before turning your product over to the shipping carrier. This rapid turnaround time reflects the efficiency of our state-of-the-art facilities, ensuring orders are manufactured quickly and reliably. With the lowest industry error rate of 1:7500, researchers can reduce the time spent picking colonies or troubleshooting mutations, improving confidence in downstream applications. Twist Gene Fragments Twist Gene Fragments are universally compatible with all downstream cloning methods, allowing for seamless integration into a wide array of applications. They can be utilized in protein engineering, antibody discovery, pathway engineering, functional genomics, diagnostic assays and other fields. Twist Gene Fragments are customizable and have no order limit. Turnaround time for Gene Fragments 0.3-5.0kb in length starts at two business days regardless of configuration. About Twist Bioscience Corporation At Twist Bioscience, we work in service of customers who are changing the world for the better. In fields such as medicine, agriculture and industrial chemicals, by using our synthetic DNA tools, our customers are developing ways to better lives and improve the sustainability of the planet. The faster our customers succeed, the better for all of us, and Twist Bioscience is uniquely positioned to help accelerate their efforts. Our innovative silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform provides precision at a scale that is otherwise unavailable to our customers. Our platform technologies overcome inefficiencies and enable cost-effective, rapid, precise, high-throughput synthesis, sequencing and therapeutics discovery, providing both the quality and quantity of the tools they need to most rapidly realize the opportunity ahead. For more information about our products and services, please visit Follow us on LinkedIn | X | YouTube | Instagram | Bluesky Twist Bioscience Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained herein are forward-looking statements reflecting the current beliefs and expectations of management made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the continued improvements to our manufacturing processes and products to meet future customer needs, and the expected benefits of such improvements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other important factors that may cause Twist's actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the ability to attract new customers and retain and grow sales from existing customers; the ability of Twist to achieve sufficient revenue to achieve or maintain positive cash flow from operations or profitability in any given period; ability to obtain financing when necessary; risks and uncertainties of rapidly changing technologies and extensive competition in synthetic biology that could make the products Twist is developing obsolete or non-competitive; ability to expand DNA synthesis manufacturing capacity; dependence on one supplier for a critical component; dependence on key personnel; additional regulations that could increase Twist's costs and delay commercialization efforts; changes in U.S. trade policies and other trade actions that could result in increased costs and supply chain disruptions; and the ability to maintain and enforce intellectual property protection. For a description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to Twist's business in general, see Twist's risk factors set forth in Twist's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2024 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on November 18, 2024 and subsequent filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and Twist specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
