I don't understand why the Clones uniforms are black and white when the school colors are red and gold. Can someone explain that to me.

play that has not played much this year.

KJ Parker WR - hope he gets a chance

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Marcus Fakana, 18, was on holiday with his family in the United Arab Emirates when he met the girl, who is also from London and turned 18 the following month. He was arrested at his hotel and charged after the girl’s mother found their chats and pictures after the family’s return to London and called the Dubai police.

Truth slowly coming out.

He should resign today.


“Dr. Kevin Cannard, a Parkinson’s disease expert at Walter Reed Medical Center, met with Dr. Kevin O’Connor, and two others at the White House residence clinic on Jan. 17, according to the records, which emerge as questions continue to swirl about the 81-year-old president’s mental health in the wake of his debate debacle last week with former President Trump.

Dr. John E. Atwood, a cardiologist are Walter Reed, was also in the 5 P.M. meeting, the White House visitor logs show.“

I'm not opposed to having a Department of Government Efficiency. Nor am I adamantly opposed to the idea that Musk and Ramaswamy might run it. They wouldn't be my top choices, but I might very well invite their input.

What very much does concern me is that this exercise - with the stated, non-trivial aim of cutting $2 trillion - is NOT a government agency. Rather, it's yet another exercise in privatizing legitimate government activities and bypassing Congress.

It's an open door to corruption and a direct attack on democracy.

If Trump wants to do this, or if those who claim to be fiscal conservatives in Congress want to do this, then create the agency and let's make sure the people running it go through a tough vetting process.

Bill Melton, the first Chicago White Sox player to hit 30 home runs in a season and the first to lead the American League in homers, died Thursday at age 79.


The Sox said Melton, who played eight of his 10 major-league seasons for them, died in Phoenix after a brief illness.


Melton’s playing career ended early, at age 31, because of recurring back problems. The always blunt and outspoken Melton, who often battled with the Chicago media during his playing days, later became a Sox TV analyst.


“Bill Melton enjoyed two tremendous careers with the White Sox,” Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said in a statement. “His first came as a celebrated home run king for White Sox teams in the early 1970s, where ‘Beltin’ Bill’ brought power to a franchise that played its home games in a pitcher-friendly ballpark. Photos of Bill wearing his home run crown and others of him posing with ballpark organist Nancy Faust still generate smiles to this day.


“Bill’s second career came as a well-liked and respected pre- and postgame television analyst, where on a nightly basis Sox fans saw his passion for the team, win or lose. Bill was a friend to many at the White Sox and around baseball, and his booming voice will be missed. Our sympathies go out to his wife, Tess, and all of their family and friends.”


Melton was born on July 7, 1945, in Gulfport, Miss. He attended Citrus College in Glendora, Calif., which is where Sox scouts found him and signed him to a professional contract. He made his major-league debut with the Sox on May 4, 1968, at age 22.


A converted outfielder, he was less than graceful at third base, his primary position with the Sox, but he felt his bat more than compensated for his glove work.


“In the old days you were just a clunker,” Melton told the Tribune in 2016. “All you had to do was just stand out there, cement yourself in the ground, and as long as you hit home runs and RBIs, they didn’t care if you caught it or not. Now the game is a lot more about defense. There’s so much athleticism. You see how valuable that is because there are so few of them.”


Melton’s value wasn’t universally appreciated during his time with the Sox. His tenure with the team was marked by hurt feelings and physical pain.


“When we lost 106 games (in 1970), it was humiliating,” Melton recalled. “They said we were the worst team in baseball and I was the worst third baseman.”


Melton hit 33 homers in 1970, the first Sox player to reach the 30-homer mark in a season. He followed up with 33 more in 1971, becoming the first Sox player to lead the league. He also made his lone All-Star team that year.


Melton’s chase for the AL home run title was loaded with drama and came down to the final game of the ’71 season.


“I was in a battle with Reggie Jackson and Norm Cash. I had 30 and they had 32,” Melton recalled. “I hit two home runs the last night game of the season, so I tied them. But I had one game remaining on a Wednesday afternoon (against the Milwaukee Brewers at Comiskey Park). I’ll never forget it. It was Sept. 30, and it was like 95 degrees.”


To give Melton as many at-bats as possible, Sox manager Chuck Tanner put him in the leadoff spot.


“The game started at noon and I hit a home run,” Melton said. “Being the first White Sox player ever to lead the league in home runs and the first White Sox player ever to hit 30 homers — it sounds so minute now. But at that time it was a pretty good feat.“


That was about as good as it would get for Melton. A back injury limited him to 57 games in 1972 and nearly ended his career.


“The pain … the ache inside, was something else,” Melton recalled. “First, those three months on my back. I couldn’t sit up for five minutes to eat. Then back on the floor.”


Melton underwent a rigorous rehab program and bounced back with a 20-homer season in 1973.


“I had my doubts,” he said. “I was scared to death, to be honest, because I had lost the feeling in my leg.”


Melton was batting .299 with 13 homers and a team-high 58 RBIs at the All-Star break that year and felt he should have been voted onto the All-Star team or at least selected as a reserve. When neither came to pass — he finished a distant second in fan voting to the Baltimore Orioles’ Brooks Robinson — he felt snubbed.


“I don’t think the Chicago press backed me up enough,” he said.


After the Sox acquired veteran third baseman Ron Santo from the Chicago Cubs before the 1974 season, Tanner said he planned to keep Melton at third and use Santo as a designated hitter.


Melton was asked during spring training if he would accept those roles being reversed, considering Santo was a nine-time All-Star, albeit at the end of his career, and a five-time Gold Glove winner.


“That would upset me,” Melton responded with typical honesty. “But later, if I’m not doing the job … that would be something different.”



The Santo deal irked Melton, as did the frequent criticism he received from play-by-play man Harry Caray. Melton was especially irritated by a quote from Caray that appeared in a column by the Tribune’s Gary Deeb: “It’s pretty tough not to be critical, especially when (Melton) loafs on the job.”


“There are 25 guys on this team who are sick and tired of (Caray),” Melton said in 1975. “We keep our criticisms of him in the clubhouse, though. We don’t blast him like he blasts us. But I’ve finally had it and I can’t keep it in any longer.”


The Melton-Caray feud reached new heights after the broadcaster questioned Melton’s baserunning during a 1975 game in Milwaukee.


“He harped on it and harped on it, and all I was doing was playing heads-up baseball,” Melton said. “I’m tired of going everyplace and hearing that Caray is jumping all over me on every broadcast. Then he comes over to me (not long after the Milwaukee game) real sarcastic and says, ‘What’s wrong, is little sweetheart Billy upset over something?’ I could have popped him one.”


Taking their cue from the popular Caray, fans started to turn on the former home run champ.


“The people of Chicago are down on me now, but I just want them to know that I’m trying,” Melton said. “I’m busting my butt. I’m not trying to strike out, I’m not trying to pop up, I’m not trying to be traded. But if I was, the reason I’d be happiest to leave is because of that man (Caray) upstairs.”


Melton’s former teammate Ed Herrmann, who had moved on to the New York Yankees by 1975, offered his perspective of the feud: “Something’s got to happen soon. It’s been going on too long. Either Melton, Caray or Chuck Tanner will go. I’m just glad I don’t have to hear that stuff anymore.”


As the ’75 season wound down, Hermann’s words became prophetic.


“Bill has admitted that it’s become hard to play here,” Sox general manager Roland Hemond said that September, “that some of the fun has gone out of it. And I’m sure that his name will be brought up (in trade discussions) during the winter. Both he and Kenny (Henderson) have undergone unwarranted criticism all season. When it starts from opening day, you wonder why.”


The Sox decided to make a clean sweep. On Dec. 11, 1975, they traded Melton to the California Angels. Henderson was traded to the Atlanta Braves. Tanner reportedly was offered a demotion but chose to take the managing job with the Oakland Athletics.


And Sox owner John Allyn fired Caray. But after Allyn’s deal to sell the team to Bill Veeck was approved, Caray was reinstated.


Melton, who lived in California during the offseason, expressed relief at his trade to the West Coast. He spent one season with the Angels and one more with Cleveland in 1977 before ending his career with 160 home runs.


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“I’ve been waiting for this for two years,” he said when reporters reached him at his home in Mission Viejo after the Sox traded him. “I had to get out of Chicago.”


Melton eventually returned — ironically as an outspoken and occasionally critical broadcaster and analyst for Sox games.


“(Caray’s) criticism was more personal,” Melton said in 2005. “If I made it a personal issue, I wouldn’t be in the business. The media exposure now is huge, and anything can be taken out of context.”

JUNE 14, 2024


Older Americans are the heart and soul of our families, our communities, and our Nation. But every year, up to five million older Americans face some form of abuse. Around the world, too many are denied the opportunity to age with dignity and security. During World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, we recommit to standing with elder abuse survivors, shedding light on this important issue, and creating a world in which no older person has to live in fear of violence, abuse, or neglect.

Elder abuse comes in many forms. It can include physical or emotional abuse and neglect, sexual violence, or financial exploitation. These and other abuses can leave older Americans with scars, both visible and invisible, that impact them for the rest of their lives. They can happen anywhere — at home, at a care facility, at work, or online.

Elder abuse goes against everything we stand for as a Nation — and my Administration is working relentlessly to stop it. To date, my Administration has dedicated over $430 million to Adult Protective Services, making it easier to investigate reports of elder abuse and give survivors the resources they need to heal — from emergency resources like food, shelter, and law enforcement protection to medical and mental health treatment, legal services, and financial assistance. My new Budget proposes a $30 million investment to sustain and strengthen these resources. Furthermore, I reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act and increased its funding to the highest levels to date — which includes funding for service providers, law enforcement, and prosecutors to respond to domestic and sexual violence experienced by older adults.

Concurrently, we are working to protect the savings that older Americans have worked their entire lives to build up. Last year alone, Americans over 60 years old lost over $3 billion to scams. In response, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other regulatory agencies are taking aggressive action to identify and crack down on loan scams, mortgage scams, junk fees, and price gouging, which too often prey on older Americans.

Meanwhile, my Administration is working to ensure that older Americans have access to the quality care they deserve — whether they are at home or in another residential setting. By signing an Executive Order on Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers, I took the most comprehensive set of executive actions in history to support family caregivers and care workers. Additionally, we are helping home care workers get a larger share of Medicaid payments. We are ensuring nursing homes have enough staff to guarantee every resident a safe, quality environment. My new Budget would also significantly expand Medicaid home care services to reduce the long waitlist, ensure nursing homes can be regularly audited for safety and quality, and empower more older Americans to live full lives in settings of their choice.

Globally, my Administration is ensuring that our partnerships with nations abroad reflect the same care for older people that we prioritize here at home. Through the Department of State, local law enforcement agencies are training their foreign counterparts in best practices to investigate elder abuse and support survivors. We are also working to implement our Strategy on Global Women’s Economic Security, which includes a focus on expanding opportunities and protections for caregivers around the world, including older women. With our Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally, we are tackling violence that affects older adults, particularly older women and widows.

This World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, let us remember the integral and irreplaceable role that older Americans have in our families, our communities, and our society. Let us recommit to ensuring that they can live with the comfort, dignity, and respect they earned and deserve. Let us celebrate the blessings of their wisdom, their contributions, and their love, which nurture who we are as people and shape all that we are as a Nation.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 15, 2024, as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. I encourage all Americans to be diligent; work together to strengthen existing partnerships; and develop new opportunities to improve our Nation’s prevention of and response to elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

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Kaleb, Jones, Entringer, Anderson and Fisher. Are there others that I've missed?

Germany’s government on Monday accused Elon Musk of trying to influence the country’s upcoming election, set for February, after he wrote an opinion piece for a German newspaper over the weekend doubling down on his support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

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“It is indeed the case that Elon Musk is trying to influence the federal election,” deputy government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann told reporters, in reference to Musk’s posts backing the AfD on X, the social media site he owns, as well as the opinion piece.

Musk expressed his support for the AfD earlier this month, writing on X that “Only the AfD can save Germany” — an assertion dismissed by the country’s leader, Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Musk’s German-language op-ed, published online Saturday by Welt am Sonntag, prompted the resignation of the newspaper’s opinion editor in protest.



In it, Musk wrote that the AfD was the “last spark of hope for this country” and praised the populist party’s approach to regulation, taxes and market deregulation. His article ran just eight weeks before Germany’s early election, set for Feb. 23 following the collapse of the country’s coalition government in early November.
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Musk — an acolyte and confidant of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has appointed the tech billionaire to lead a new commission focused on government efficiency — was free to express his opinion, Hoffmann said in comments to reporters Monday. “After all, freedom of opinion also covers the greatest nonsense,” she said.
The AfD has soared in popularity since its founding in 2013, largely due to its anti-migration and antiestablishment stance. The party has been designated by Germany’s domestic intelligence service as a “suspected extremist” organization, while its regional branches in three of Germany’s 16 states are classified as “confirmed right-wing extremist.”

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Polls this month show the AfD in second position behind the conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU), at around 20 percent and 31 percent respectively, but all Germany’s political parties have ruled out forming a coalition with the AfD.
In the opinion piece, Musk argued that his “significant investments” in Germany, namely Tesla’s first “gigafactory” in Europe, allow him to speak out about Europe’s largest economy — and he also questioned the AfD’s “far-right” label.
“Portraying the AfD as far-right is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party’s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Come on!” Musk wrote.

Friedrich Merz — the chancellor candidate for the CDU/CSU alliance, who is widely expected to become Germany’s next leader — criticized the op-ed as “intrusive and presumptuous.”

“I cannot recall, in the history of Western democracies, that there has been a comparable case of interference in the electoral campaign of a friendly country,” Merz told the Funke media group Sunday.
Lars Klingbeil, the leader of Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) party, compared Musk to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Both want to influence our elections and are deliberately supporting the AfD, the enemies of democracy. They want Germany to be weakened and plunge into chaos,” he said, according to Funke reports.

The accusations of election interference come on the heels of warnings from Germany’s domestic intelligence services, which last month said other states could attempt to influence the February election by means of disinformation, cyberattacks, espionage and sabotage. Cyberattacks by Russia pose a particular threat, officials said.

Musk’s article ignited discord even within Welt’s editorial office, with opinion editor Eva Marie Kogel resigning in protest.
“Today an article by Elon Musk appeared in Welt am Sonntag. I handed in my resignation yesterday after the article went to print,” she wrote on X.
Since acquiring the platform formerly known as Twitter in 2022, Musk has increasingly used it to promote his right-wing political views to his more than 200 million followers. During and since the 2024 U.S. presidential election, he has used X to align himself with Trump’s positions on crime, immigration and the economy.
Musk has also used X to express support for some of the most prominent and polarizing figures of the right. He often posts about his support for Argentine President Javier Milei and was invited to a live online appearance with former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro.

Went car shopping with Mrs. Kidhawk today to get her a new car. We are down to the Hyundai Tucson versus the Honda CRV. The Tucson will be about $6,000 less for basically the same car. Honda is a better known company/brand.I am wondering if any HROTer's have the Hyundai Tucson and what are the thoughts.
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What else are they lying about?

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It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Am I missing a thread here? Big time playoff implications. Let’s go Commanders!

What is the best way to secure tickets to Big Tourney in Evanston?
Are they on sale yet?

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Trump has promised to deport millions of migrants and vowed to use the U.S. Armed Forces on domestic soil to do it, rhetoric which Homan has echoed.

The incoming “border czar”, meanwhile, told his Chicago audience Monday that the mass deportation plan will begin in America’s third most populous city.

“We’re going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois,” he said.


“Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,” Homan said, which local outlet WBEZ reported was received with cheers from the Republican crowd.

Of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, he said: ““If he doesn’t want to help, get the hell out of the way. But if he impedes us—if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien—I will prosecute him.”

He called Johnson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Prizker “terrible” at the same time that he asked them to “come to the table” and work with him.

On how to tighten our belts and make do with less?

Eli Drinkwitz up first.

Opening comments included compliments to KF and the Iowa program. Called KF the "gold standard of college football." Added that Iowa has been a sustained powerhouse. Lots of respect between these two coaches.

The Democrats have called Trump a fascist, Nazi, tyrant, criminal, a threat to democracy. It seems it would be incumbent upon them to prevent such a person from taking the seat of President.

Seems hard to believe we have heard all we have for 1-2 years and expect that those that cried the most loudly to simply agree to let him take office peacefully.

That brings in all sorts of options. Does Kamala vote to seat him? Do they throw him in jail? Do crazy people see this win as a call to take another crack at Trump?

Or do we finally see a return to normalcy, move on from the name calling that was so profoundly rejected by voters, and seek commonality and put the hand of reconciliation out to conservatives?

Certainly, that is my hope.

From the October show. Was reviewing those photos and this was the best of the bunch. (sometimes it takes a while to figure it out)