from NILES Library website / newsletter
Join us in the Niles District Library Rotunda for a delightful Sunday afternoon concert, courtesy of the Niles Area Community Orchestra. Please enter via the Rotunda door on Cedar Street, the main entrance will be closed.
Admission is free, ticket is required for admission.
from ALMANAC dot-com (Old Farmer's Almanac) --
This two-day Jewish celebration of the New Year
literally translates to “head of the year” in Hebrew.
It is observed on the first and second days of
the Jewish month of Tishrei, the first month in the civil calendar.
In 2021, it begins at sundown, Monday, September 6,
and ends at sundown, Wednesday, September 8.
posted at Weather Channel online alert
Address 1263 Rose Drive, Niles, MI 49120
Saturday 8/28 morning features long and short-sprint triathlon races for adults as well as competitive and noncompetitive triathlons for kids.
http://barronlaketri.com/
Age groups include =
your age as of 12/31/2021
10-14
15-19
20-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-44
45-49
50-54
55-59
60-64
65-69
70-74
75-79
80+
The race will go off either rain or shine; in the event of lightning the race will be delayed. There will be no refunds if the race is cancelled due to the weather.
8 p.m. from Weather Channel
severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Benton Heights to near New Buffalo, moving southeast at 35 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, La Porte, Niles, Buchanan, Benton Heights, Fair Plain, Bridgman, New Carlisle, Berrien Springs, Three Oaks, Coloma, Shorewood-Tower Hill, Shorewood-Tower Hills-Harbert, Dayton, Sodus, Baroda, Eau Claire, Galien, Glendora and New Troy.
from Weather Channel "alert"
A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Cass and Berrien Counties through 745 PM EDT... At 649 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms over Berrien Springs, or near Buchanan, moving northeast at 10 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. These storms will move very little and remain over much of Berrien and western Cass counties through 745 PM EDT.Other locations in the path of this storm include Niles and Dowagiac.
from Weather Channel -- NOAA
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Zoom presentation -- Sept. 1, 2021 (twenty years later) -- Notre Dame, IN
Wednesday, September 1
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET (US)
1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls
Also streamed live via Zoom
First in a series of three conversations
In a famous presidential primary debate in 2008, libertarian candidate Ron Paul argued that the United States was attacked on September 11 because of its military meddling in Middle Eastern affairs. Former mayor Rudy Giuliani called that one of the most absurd explanations he had ever heard, and demanded an immediate apology. But the question remains.
Was September 11 an expression of religious fanaticism or blowback to US foreign policy? Is this an either/or question or a both/and proposition? Answers to these critical questions have varied in the scholarly conversation and the public arena.
RSVP required.
Featuring remarks by Andrew Bacevich, president of the Quincy Institute and author of "After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed," and responses from invited guests, faculty members, and students.
POLICY Discussion Keough School of Global Affairs and Ansari Institute
Crystal Springs Camp and Retreat Center, Dowagiac, MI (Cass County) - SW Michigan
Sale and decommissioning to take place September 2021
https://michiganumc.org/decommissioning-set-for-crystal-springs/?mkt_tok=MDc4LUpYUS02NDMAAAF_E_xOXTn_slianOj-qjqmKndno6hTsR_UDKnI3iesGGHgd_nC3WZItJX2UGTowL5MZNh_Aln1ReAK3NX4i-xMp_JXnU5VfEDjVxQ8rSFceEoLyw
August 22,2021
web article at si dot-gov (Smithsonian Institute)
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/happy-first-birthday-xiao-qi-ji
from Weather Channel online report of NOAA
Aug. 20, 2021 -- article at ABC57 dot-com on University announced-policy
The University of Notre Dame is asking all visitors to mask up,
whether they're vaccinated or not.
According to the policy that's in place, students don't need to wear masks
in most places if they're fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
They must still wear masks if they're in high-traffic areas,
like student centers and the bookstore.
Unvaccinated students must wear masks inside.
LANSING, MICH. -- The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is offering a novel way for people to make a little extra cash in the month of September.
From Sept. 1-30, people can pick fresh pine cones from red pine trees and drop them off by appointment at six DNR locations across the Upper and Northern Lower Peninsulas.
A bushel of red pine cones will net $75 and help the DNR plant trees in state forests, a DNR release said.
https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/08/you-can-pick-pine-cones-to-earn-money-help-dnr-reforest-michigan.html
publicized at ABC 57 dot-com
The South Shore Line announced that all weekday, eastbound trips will be free for passengers from September 1 through October 31.
South Shore Line says they are offering these free rides out of appreciation for passengers that have continued to use their transportation services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Passengers will remain responsible to pay for tickets on the weekends and for all westbound travel.
Any travelers going east on weekdays will be able to simply board the South Shore Line without a voucher or a ticket.
All passengers will be expected to follow the mask requirement in place that is in effect through January 18.
from AP News article (Aug. 18, 2021)
2,448 U.S. Service Members
3,846 Contractors / employees
estimate Afghan army 66,000
other allied service members 1,144
Afghan civilians 47,245
Aid workers 444
https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-business-afghanistan-43d8f53b35e80ec18c130cd683e1a38f
at website for centralusa: salvationarmy dot-org
The Salvation Army, Niles Corps
424 N. 15th Street
Niles, MI 49120-0247
(269) 684-2660
wminiles@usc.salvationarmy.org
from Niles Star / Leader Pub. dot-com online article
The Salvation Army of Niles’ Annual Backpack Program is running until Aug. 20.
“Thanks to the generous donations of those in our community, WNDU and many others, prepacked backpacks with basic age-appropriate school supplies will be available free to any child who needs it,” said Jim Cramer, development coordinator.
All interested in the program can come to The Salvation Army in Niles, Michigan from 9 to 11 a.m. or 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 16-20, 2021. Participants should bring picture identification, Social Security cards, medical insurance cards or birth certificates for each child and fill out a short application.
Due to COVID protocols, please use the Salvation Army building back door-entrance.
Director Tlaloc Rivas
Complete Digital Program
http://shakespeare.nd.edu/program
August 12 - 29, 2021
National Weather Service
HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM Wednesday and Thursday AFTERNOONs TO 8 PM EVENINGs... WHAT...Heat index values 95 to 105 degrees expected. WHERE...Portions of northern Indiana, southwest Michigan (Berrien County), and northwest Ohio. IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses to occur. ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Heat advisory conditions are expected again Thursday.
8:38 p.m. Eastern
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON EDT TO 8 PM EDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values from the upper 90s to 105.
* WHERE...Portions of northern Indiana, southwest Michigan, and northwest Ohio.
* WHEN...From noon to 8 PM EDT August 10, 2021
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses to occur
CNN) -- George Harrington applied for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's funeral assistance program soon after it launched in mid-April. He sent in all the documents related to the burial of his father, George III, 80, a veteran and registered nurse who had died from Covid-19 in a nursing home a year earlier.
And then he waited. And waited. And waited.
Harrington, who paid more than $11,000 for his father's funeral, called FEMA every week but the staffers couldn't tell him when he might receive the funds. The Danvers, Massachusetts, resident reached out to elected officials too as he grew increasingly frustrated.
Finally, in June, he received the reimbursement of $9,000, the maximum FEMA provides for each loved one who died of Covid-19. He's now more understanding of the time it took to process his application.
"It let me pay off bills, let me get back on my feet," said Harrington, a community manager for an affordable housing division of a real estate developer. "I got my money. I didn't have to wait a year. So I'm happy."
Harrington is among the more than 135,000 people who've been helped so far by the funeral assistance program, which Congress established as part of its coronavirus relief legislation. The effort got off to a rocky start, but the agency has approved about 55% of the nearly 247,500 applications it's received and has doled out more than $888 million, as of August 2.
Minnesota residents have had the highest percentage of their applications approved, at 64%, followed by Oklahoma residents at 63%. Applicants in Alaska, the District of Columbia and Montana each had among the lowest shares, with about 44% of their claims approved, along with Puerto Rico at 43%.
now available August 2021
https://svspress.com/light-on-the-mountain-greek-patristic-and-byzantine-homilies-on-the-transfiguration-of-the-lord/?mc_cid=6670abfce9&mc_eid=3c4ca5f452
The episode of the Transfiguration of Jesus plays a key role in the narrative of the Synoptic Gospels. Peter and his fellow Apostles have just acknowledged Jesus to be Israel’s long-awaited Messiah, and have been shocked by Jesus’ immediate prediction of his coming passion and death. Now Peter, James and John are allowed to share an extraordinary vision, marking him out as truly God’s own Son, radiant with divine glory.
This volume brings together, in a new translation, a comprehensive collection of homilies on the Transfiguration of Christ from the Greek Patristic and Medieval Church, from Origen in the third century to St. Gregory Palamas in the fourteenth. Together they form a profound and moving set of meditations, from many perspectives and in many voices, on “the light of the recognition of the glory of God in the face of Christ” (II Cor 4.6), and on its importance for our lives.
Early Christian commentators and preachers recognized the crucial importance of this incident for Christian faith and discipleship, as pointing in advance to the power of the Cross and Resurrection of Christ. The liturgical feast of the Transfiguration, anticipating that of the Exaltation of the Cross by forty days, came to be celebrated in the Eastern and Western Churches, beginning in the seventh century; yet since at least the third century, theologians have reflected on the significance of this event for the life of faith.
Monday, Aug. 2, masks were required in all indoor spaces for everyone on campus, including students, employees and visitors, regardless of vaccination status.
According to the university, masks must be worn:
Individuals in private offices can remove their masks unless another person is in the room.
PoetryFoundation dot-org/
His most famous work, The Divine Comedy, is as rich in science, astronomy, and philosophy, and as it is rooted in 14th-century Catholicism and Italian politics. The epic describes Dante’s imagined journey through Hell and Purgatory to Heaven. Inferno, the most popular and widely studied section of The Divine Comedy, recounts Dante’s travels through the different regions of Hell, led by his mentor and protector, the Roman poet Virgil. In his translation of Inferno, Mark Musa writes, “Dante invites us to read his poem as he expects us to read the Bible, that is, to believe in the historical truth of the literal level. And this extends to the figural symbolism of the main characters in the allegory of the poem. We are not dealing with consistent or typical allegory ... his is much more sophisticated.” Constructed as a huge funnel with nine descending circular ledges, Dante’s Hell features a vast, meticulously organized torture chamber in which sinners, carefully classified according to the nature of their sins, suffer hideous punishment, often depicted with ghoulish attention to detail. Sinners who recognize and repudiate their sins are given the opportunity to attain Paradise through the arduous process of purification, which continues in Purgatorio. A shift from human reason to divine revelation takes place in Purgatory, a place where penitents awaiting the final journey to Paradise continually reaffirm their faith and atone for the sins they committed on earth. A mood of brotherly love, modesty, and longing for God prevails in Purgatory. Although in Hell, Virgil—a symbol of human reason—helps Dante understand sin, in Purgatory the poet needs a more powerful guide who represents faith: Beatrice. Finally, Paradiso manifests the process of spiritual regeneration and purification required to meet God, who rewards the poet with perfect knowledge.
Near the end of his life, Dante settled in Ravenna, Italy under the patronage of Guido da Polenta, where he died September 13 or 14, 1321. Although The Divine Comedy caused an immediate sensation during his life, Dante’s fame waned during the Italian Renaissance and was later revived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many scholars have examined the structural unity of the poem, discussing the relationship between medieval symbolism and allegory within the poem’s three sections and exploring Dante’s narrative strategy. Others have marveled at the seemingly inexhaustible formal and semantic richness of Dante’s text. With its various enigmatic layers of philological and philosophical complexities, The Divine Comedy has received scrutiny by critics, literary theorists, linguists, and philosophers, who have cherished the immortal work precisely because it translates the harsh truth about the human condition into a poetics of timeless beauty.
Poetry
Please join the Center for Italian Studies and Devers Program in Dante Studies for its annual "Dante Now!" event, dedicated to performing and understanding Dante's Divine Comedy.
ISBN
9788826606163
Publisher Libroria Editrice Vaticana
an Apostolic Exhortation (not an encyclical) on honoring Dante at the 700th Anniversary of his death
see this blog entry
http://faithfor2008.blogspot.com/2021/07/pope-francis-apostolic-letter-on-dante.html
from NILES MI community schools web calendar
Tuesday August 31, 2021 First Day with Students (Kindergarten starts Wednesday
September 1, 2021) ½ Day Teacher Work Day for BA, ECS, HO-EL, NS, RL
Half Day-1st-8th grade
Full Day-CL,HS,SS Full Day
Friday September 3, 2021 Non-Work Day NO SCHOOL NO SCHOOL
Monday, September 6, 2021 Labor Day Holiday NO SCHOOL NO SCHOOL
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from Detroit (MI) Free Press article online
Michigan is looking far rosier than the rest of the country — at least for now.
It's one of the last holdouts in terms of seven-day coronavirus case counts per 100,000 people and community transmission, according to federal data. But there are indicators that may change.
Only Michigan, South Dakota, Vermont and four U.S. territories, including Guam, had the lowest seven-day case rates per 100,000 people, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention COVID-19 tracker Friday. Michigan's positivity rate was 3% to 4.9%.
Michigan was one of six states, as well as Guam, listed with moderate community transmission level as of Friday. It was the only state in the Midwest with that designation. All of its nearby neighbors — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin — had substantial community transmission, according to the CDC tracker.
from WPTA dot-com
July 29 posted article:
INDIANAPOLIS (WPTA21) - Gov. Eric Holcomb has extended the public emergency in Indiana for another month, with that measure now in effect through August.
His signature on Thursday enacts an Executive Order that continues directives that pertain to health care workers and facilities, certain state agencies and law enforcement.
No limits were placed on public gatherings and no mask mandates are in the new order, which reiterates the importance of vaccination, noting that "unvaccinated individuals are the most at risk for serious illness, hospitalization and death."
The public health emergency was declared in March 2020.
Since January, 98 percent of new COVID-19 cases involve unvaccinated individuals, he said.
As of Thursday, about 48 percent of all Hoosiers have received at least one dose of a vaccine, with 45 percent fully vaccinated.
