from 247sports dot-com re-cap of Twitter official post:
Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly is the latest to go public with his thoughts on the situation, releasing a statement through his Twitter account Saturday morning (May 30, 2020).
"Enough! Senseless loss of life, violence, unrest and continued racial injustice. My voice should have been heard earlier, but I was at a loss for words," wrote Kelly Saturday morning on Twitter. "My thoughts and prayers go out to the Floyd family and all those affected by prior injustice. I lend my support to be a solution and stand with all those committed to change."
Floyd was killed following his arrest by Minneapolis Police on Monday May 25, 2020.
May 27, 2020 -- article in WSJM-FM radio news website The Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget has announced a grant to expand broadband access in parts of Berrien and Cass counties. State Representative Brad Paquette says Mercury Wireless has been approved for a proposed project rolling out high speed wireless internet to areas including Baroda, Berrien Springs, Buchanan, Dowagiac, Eau Claire, and Niles. According to its grant application, Mercury would offer download speeds of up to 100 megabytes per second and upload speeds of up to 20 megabytes per second by the summer of 2023. It is seeking to service 754 unserved households, 90 businesses, and 4 community anchor institutions. The total project cost is expected to be $600,000, and Mercury Wireless had applied for a grant of $450,000.
http://the1a.org/ Segment on Trump, Obama portrait, and what lies behind this war of protocol
The unveiling of a portrait of former President Barack Obama as been indefinitely delayed as his successor, President Donald Trump, is accusing him of unspecified crimes without offering any evidence. The indefinite suspension of the unveiling breaks with the tradition of first-term presidents hosting their predecessors for the displaying of this portrait.
Another potential reason for Trump’s attacks on his predecessor may be that Obama’s former vice president, Joe Biden, is set to be the incumbent president’s rival in the general election in November. Analysts have suggested that Trump might think it prudent to attack Biden’s former boss in an attempt to undermine his credibility.
What’s behind President Trump’s new attacks on Obama? And how will this play out in the general election?
Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Western Elkhart County in north central Indiana... St. Joseph County in north central Indiana...
* Until 830 PM EDT.
* At 742 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles west of Roseland to near South Bend to near North Liberty, moving east at 30 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include... South Bend, Elkhart, Mishawaka
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 211 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA IN MICHIGAN THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN BERRIEN
* At 11 AM Wednesday the stage was 11.2 feet and rising.
* Minor flooding is occurring and Minor flooding is forecast.
* Flood stage is 11.0 feet.
* Forecast...The river will rise to a crest near 11.6 feet around 8 AM Thursday May 21 and fall below flood stage around 2 AM Sunday May 24.
* At 11.0 feet...Minor flooding of low lying areas adjacent to the river, Island Park, and basement flooding of residences along River and Mairmont Streets in Niles can be expected. &&
from National Weather Service announcement (at WNDU.com website)
St. Joseph and Berrien Counties. Minor to moderate river flooding due to recent heavy rainfall. The Flood Warning continues for The Saint Joseph River Michigan at South Bend, Indiana
* from this morning Tuesday May 19 to Sunday evening May 24, 2020.
* At 6 AM Monday May 18 the stage was 4.0 feet and rising.
* Minor flooding is forecast.
* Flood stage is 5.5 feet.
* Forecast...The river will rise above flood stage Tuesday morning and crest near 6.4 feet around 8 P.M. Wednesday May 20 and fall below flood stage around 8 P.M. Saturday May 23.
Joining TODAY from South Bend, Indiana, Father John Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame, talks about his plan to open the campus this fall in spite of the coronavirus pandemic. School will start two weeks early and students will attend without a break until the semester ends at Thanksgiving. “I expect extensive testing,” Jenkins says, along with masks and social distancing. He also hopes there will be football.
A solid layer of clouds hovering over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station early Sunday seemed to know that an Atlas V rocket perched at Launch Complex 40 had a secretive payload on board.
Much like the national security shroud that conceals the X-37B spaceplane's objectives in orbit, the low-lying clouds quickly obscured the rocket's 9:14 a.m. ascent and eastward arc over the Atlantic Ocean. Just five minutes after liftoff when the second stage separated, United Launch Alliance ended its live updates of mission milestones, a move that limits what adversaries could glean about the payload and its capabilities.
The Air Force-owned spacecraft is flown by the Space Force, giving Sunday's flight the designation of U.S. Space Force 7, or USSF-7. There are only two X-37Bs in service, but both have broken record after record when it comes to time in space, the last of which orbited 780 days before landing at Kennedy Space Center's former Shuttle Landing Facility.
Capable of flying on Atlas V or SpaceX's Falcon 9, the twin X-37Bs have flown on six Orbital Test Vehicle missions to date.
"The value of the X-37 is you can launch it, you can do experiments, and then you can bring those experiments back down to Earth," Space Force commander Gen. John "Jay" Raymond told FLORIDA TODAY, adding that Sunday's mission included a new service module. "By adding this service module, you increase the capacity. It allows us to put more experiments and garner even more utility out of this capability."
When taking a break on the ground, the reusable spaceplanes built by Boeing are stored in a former space shuttle hangar near the Vehicle Assembly Building. If their overall capabilities seem like they draw inspiration from the shuttles, that's because they do – vertical launch, horizontal landing, based at KSC. . .
Sunday May 17, 2020
Indiana and the following Michigan counties including:
Berrien, Cass, and St. Joseph (MI) until Monday morning 5/18/2020
* From Sunday morning through Monday morning 11 a.m. Eastern Time
* Another weather system will bring more heavy rain tonight through Monday morning. Storm total rainfall totals of 2 to 3 inches with locally higher amounts are expected.
* With soils across most of the area saturated and rivers swelling in response to the heavy rain that fell earlier this week, areal and river flooding is possible. People living in flood prone locations, such as near creeks, low spots, and poor drainage areas may be impacted.
A Flood Watch means there is a potential for flooding based on current forecasts. You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared to take action should flooding develop.
* Flood Advisory for Minor Flooding in Poor Drainage Areas for... Western St. Joseph County in north central Indiana... Northeastern Starke County in northwestern Indiana... La Porte County in northwestern Indiana... Berrien County in southwestern Michigan...
* Until 700 AM Eastern Time.
* At 156 AM Eastern Time , Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. One to one and one half inches has already fallen across the advised area. This will cause minor flooding.
the Honor Flight Network will postpone all trips through August 31, 2020 in response to the growing health concerns over the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. The Board of Directors made this difficult decision following an alert issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which advised that adults over the age of 60 are particularly at risk of infection and should avoid all non-essential air travel. Unfortunately, the vast majority of our veterans fall into the CDC’s high-risk category. Many of our veterans also live in community settings, such as retirement homes or assisted living facilities, where the risk of spreading illness is extremely high.
Honor Flight trips are a once in a lifetime opportunity for America’s veterans, but their safety is our highest priority. We will continue to assess if any extension needs to be made beyond August 31 as more information is provided by health authorities. Honor Flight participants with questions about their individual trip should contact their local Honor Flight hub. Hub contact information can be found on our website by clicking the button below
from ND dot-EDU posted information (mid-May 2020) acknowledging need to postpone more than one year the outdoor Concert for the general public in N. Indiana
Saturday, August 7, 2021
THE BASICS Who: George Strait, Chris Stapleton and Brothers Osborne When: Saturday, August 7th, 2021 Where: Notre Dame Stadium Parking Lots Open: 10 a.m. Doors/Gates Open: TBA Concert Time: TBA
Whether you will be a first-time visitor to campus, or visit often, Welcome to Notre Dame!
TICKET INFO/REFUND POLICY
Due to concerns surrounding COVID-19, the upcoming George Strait concert at Notre Dame Stadium has been rescheduled. The concert, originally scheduled for August 15th, 2020, will now be held on August 7th, 2021. Tickets purchased for the 2020 concert will be honored on the rescheduled date.
Shared Legacies: The African American-Jewish Civil Rights Alliance
Come Celebrate the 10th Annual (and 1st virtual) Michiana Jewish Film Festival, in partnership with the Debartolo Performing Arts Center. Our Michiana Jewish Film Festival committee is excited to share with you the line up for the 2020 festival. We invite all to join us, as we explore Judaism through the artistic lens of cinema. If you would like to help publicize our event or would like to help support this community wide program, please contact The Jewish Federation at (574) 233-1164.
from http://oikoumene.org/ World Council of Churches
World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca invites all member churches to observe a global prayer day on 14 May. The joint initiative with the members of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, of which the WCC is part, is calling for “prayer and supplication” to God for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Many of our people are experiencing fear and uncertainty, as well as trauma, separation, isolation, and even death in their families or in their church communities,” said Sauca.
“As we continue to navigate this global health crisis, world unity through prayer reflects our willingness to care for one another,” continued Sauca. “WCC member churches can, from their own places and traditions, support each other, look outwards to the needs of all their neighbours, and strengthen our one human family.”
In calling for worldwide prayer, the committee stated in the invitation: “Each one, from wherever they are and according to the teachings of their religion, or faith, should implore God to lift this pandemic off us and the entire world, to rescue us all from this adversity.”
The committee’s call also emphasizes the importance of asking God “to inspire scientists to find a cure that can turn back this disease, and to save the whole world from the health, economic, and human repercussions of this serious pandemic.”
The committee is suggesting a day “for fasting, works of mercy, prayers, and supplications for the good of all humanity.”
May’s full Flower Moon reaches peak illumination at 6:45 A.M. (EDT) on Thursday, May 7, 2020. It will be below the horizon at this time, so plan to venture outdoors the night before (Wednesday, May 6) or on Thursday night to get the best view of the bright full Flower Moon! Find out what time the Moon will be visible in your area with our Moonrise and Moonset Calculator.
When the full Moon appears this month, it will be ever-so-slightly farther away than it was in April and March. May’s full Moon still qualifies as a supermoon, but it won’t be as bright or as big as the others in the series, technically speaking. However, the difference in distance between its orbit and April’s—about 2500 miles—is not much in the grand scale of space, so you will still see a bright, beautiful supermoon!
from WAMU website / NPR -- The 1A radio call-in show (http://the1a.org/ )
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments via an audio livestream for the first time in history. And it’s the first time the public will get to hear them live, too.
The Washington Post’s Robert Barnes described the move as “taking a historic but modest step into the technological present.”
Over the next two weeks, the judges will hear arguments about birth control access, robocalls and subpoenas for some of President Donald Trump’s pre-presidential financial records.
“You lose the ability to read body language. That’s No. 1,” says Jay Sekulow, who will be representing President Trump in cases testing whether the president can be subpoenaed for his pre-presidential financial records either by Congress or by a state grand jury subpoena in a criminal case.
As Sekulow observes, oral argument is typically a “pretty intimate event when you’re actually arguing in the courtroom. You see them. You can see their reactions. You see if they nod to each other. Here you’re doing this literally over a telephone line. So you lose the intimacy.”
We bring you the latest on what’s ahead for the court. Guest Leah Litman, Univ. of Michigan Law School
6 p.m. Saturday posting at The Hill political - foreign policy website:
President Trump shared that he is “glad” to see North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un is “back and well” on Saturday May 2, 2020 after Kim appeared in public for the first time in 20 days following international speculation over his health.
“I, for one, am glad to see he is back, and well!” President Trump tweeted, sharing photos of Kim cutting tape to mark the completion of a fertilizer plant in Sunchon, North Korea, an area north of Pyongyang.
Waves of the bubonic plague killed at least a third of the European population across centuries. A year or so before Shakespeare wrote “Romeo and Juliet,” a powerful plague struck London in 1593.
Theatres closed for 14 months and 10,000 Londoners died, says Columbia University professor and author James Shapiro. In “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare uses the plague as source material.
The play features a scene where Friar John is sent to deliver the message to Romeo about Juliet’s faux death. But the Friar is suspected of being in an infected house and quarantined — making him unable to deliver the message to Romeo.
“That would have been lived experiences for Londoners just coming out of what I hope we'll be coming out of quite soon, but a far more lethal pandemic” than the coronavirus, he says.
This use of the plague is “terrifying” in part because Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights seldom wrote about the subject, Shapiro says.
Now, he predicts artists will write about this pandemic in their diaries and it will take time before people want to go see movies about pandemics again.
“People died in all kinds of ways in Shakespeare's plays. Nobody ever dies of plague. It's just taboo,” he says. “So the few times that he does mention plague, mostly in his tragedies, it hits with incredible force.”
In the early 1600s, more bubonic plague outbreaks struck and shuttered the doors of London’s Globe Theatre. A 1603 outbreak killed over a fifth of Shakespeare’s fellow Londoners and the plague returned again in 1610, he says.
During and after the worst outbreaks of his lifetime, Shakespeare wrote some of his greatest works: “King Lear,” “Macbeth,” “Antony and Cleopatra,” “Coriolanus” and “Timon of Athens."
“These plays really bear the mark of living through such a terrible experience,” he says. “And it may well be that his move toward writing tragedy at this time is a kind of response to the tragedy that his society was experiencing in these years.”
English actor and producer John Gielgud on the throne in a production of Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. (Gordon Anthony/Getty Images)
In “King Lear,” the title character mentions the plague when cursing his eldest daughter, Shapiro says.
The character King Lear is changed throughout the course of the play. In the end, the ruler acknowledges the suffering of his people and that he hasn’t done enough to take care of them, he says.
“It may be too much to hope that our national leaders and international leaders right now may have a similar response: feel that they, too, have taken too little care of the social problems that are under the magnifying glass right now,” he says.
What strikes Shapiro about Shakespeare and the bubonic plague is the playwright never fled London. He stayed in the city because he understood his job as an artist was to help people come out of difficult periods when the theaters reopened, Shapiro says.
Despite the uncertainty in the theater world right now, Shapiro is sure Shakespeare will still be there when the crisis ends — like he stuck around for the people of London during his lifetime.
“His works were there to give them comfort and clarity,” he says. “I do know that when we come out on the other side of this, we're going to need theater and we're going to need Shakespeare — and it'll be there for us.”
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