ATLANTA — An odd play to finish the primary half of the SEC championship recreation left Georgia soccer beginning quarterback Carson Beck on the sphere injured.

Greater than half a dozen workers members surrounded Beck, who was down on the sphere after the play ended.

Beck was sacked by Texas’ Trey Moore and fumbled, whereas Anthony Hill returned it to the Georgia 23-yard line with offensive lineman Dylan Fairchild ending up with the ball because the half ended.

Texas led 6-3 on the half.

Carson Beck damage replace

Georgia radio sideline reporter D.J. Shockley indicated Gunner Stockton will likely be inserted within the recreation within the second half.

Beck wasn’t noticed when gamers have been warming up.

Shockley stated “It appears like it might be Gunner time now.”

Stockton certainly went within the recreation.

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Georgia coach Kirby Good instructed ABC earlier than the second half that Beck is “out.”

It appeared it was a proper elbow damage. He was icing it.

Good supplied an damage replace on Beck to ABC earlier than he left the sphere at halftime.

“They only stated his hand obtained hit as he was throwing it there,” Good stated. “Man got here all , the best way across the edge, which individuals do on that state of affairs. He’s gotta pay attention to it and simply do away with the ball.”

Requested if he will likely be OK, Good stated: “He must be, I don’t know. We’ve gotta go take a look at him.”

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Gunner Stockton is the backup quarterback however has performed sparingly this season. In three video games, he’s 13 of 16 for 135 yards however he performed extensively final 12 months within the blowout of Florida State within the Orange Bowl

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Beck entered Saturday finishing 65.1 p.c of his passes for 3,429 yards with 28 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.

He was 7 of 13 for 56 yards within the first half.

We’ve got a brand new Christmas wreath hanging on our door this vacation season.

It’s lower out of cardboard and has gobs of white glue securing foraged ferns, dried leaves and clipped twigs to it. 

This new creation replaces an expensive wreath I bought at Billies in Squamish just a few years again in a flurry of holy-shit-I’m-a-mom-I-have-to-make-Christmas-special panic. However I’ll fortunately pack away that arguably extra aesthetic providing rather than this cut-and-paste model as a result of my three-year-old noticed that neighbours had wreaths on their doorways and she or he needed to make her personal. 

It has already blown off the hanger as soon as, however I fished it out of a puddle, gave it a shake and hung it again up. It brings me a lot pleasure to see this handcrafted vacation cheer on our door. 

All of that is construct as much as my controversial opinion: your white Christmas lights suck.

OK, they don’t suck. They really look actually nice. I can let you know’re elegant and put lots of effort into your decorations. 

I imply, now that I’m desirous about it, you in all probability by no means must rewash your laundry as a result of it sat within the washer too lengthy, do you? I guess your automotive is vacuumed usually and you purchase new winter boots earlier than they’ve a full-fledged gap in them. 

Wait, do I need to be a white-light particular person? 

Perhaps, however I don’t assume you’ll be able to change. You’re born one or the opposite. 

However again to my argument. White lights aren’t what Christmas must be. It shouldn’t be crisp, formal grownup whites. It must be enjoyable and eccentric, messy and vivid. 

Santa isn’t glossy. He’s massive and bouncy. His cheeks are too pink and his beard is just too lengthy. He’s not going to greet your youngsters with a agency handshake. He’s acquired a heat lap and a hug and he is able to hear about all of the expensive objects your baby has dreamed up. 

Subsequent you’re going to inform me you outsourced your gingerbread home to professionals and to procure a kind of faux bushes with the lights completely put in in them in order that they don’t look haphazard and twisted. 

Come to consider it, I’d hazard a guess coloured-Christmas-light individuals like me are those who go and lower down a kind-of-shitty/kind-of-charming Charlie Brown Christmas tree whereas white-light individuals are those who’re shopping for a gloriously bushy, completely grown model from a Christmas tree lot. 

White-light individuals, you wouldn’t just like the tree we acquired final 12 months. Its branches may barely maintain up ornaments and after we left for the vacations we forgot it wanted watering after which, after we tried to get it out of the home, it shed actually EVERY SINGLE needle onto the ground. No, I’m not exaggerating for impact. We discovered stray brown tree needles till March. 

However, what, we strapped on a child and grabbed a be-mittened toddler and a noticed and we went on an journey to get that tree. And afterwards we made scorching chocolate—truly, I’m not going to lie, I’m fairly certain we purchased it from Starbucks and likewise I believe the canine licked the snowman cookie and I had to return and get a second one—and embellished the tree and made a Christmas reminiscence. 

Christmas is supposed to be cheesy, messy, and joyful. (Like trying in a mirror!)

Tinsel? That stuff is a fantastic, sparkly nightmare! 

Inflatable garden decorations? My one-year-old discovered the phrase “penguin” when she noticed our neighbour’s as a result of it introduced her a lot pleasure. 

Stockings hung by the chimney with care? They appear greatest when the letters that used to spell your identify are falling off due to a long time of greedily ripping them open within the pre-dawn on Dec. 25. 

Christmas Day itself? It’s wrapping paper in all places and piles of dishes and noisy households and basic chaos. 

Not less than, I’d argue that’s the easiest way to do it. 

However you’ll be able to take my opinion with a grain of salt as a result of I’m not a white-light particular person.

ATLANTA — Georgia beginning quarterback Carson Beck was changed by backup Gunner Stockton in Saturday’s SEC championship sport towards Texas after injuring his proper shoulder on the ultimate play of the primary half.

Stockton began the second half at quarterback for Georgia at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and completed 12-of-16 for 71 yards and an interception in a 22-19 win.

An injured Beck re-entered the sport for one play in extra time, handing the ball off to tailback Trevor Etienne for the game-winning landing. Beck was pressured again into obligation after Stockton’s helmet was knocked off on an 8-yard run, which by rule meant he needed to sit out one play.

With the No. 5 Bulldogs trailing the No. 2 Longhorns 6-3, Georgia confronted first-and-5 on the Texas 42 with one second to play. As an alternative of taking a knee to go to the half, the Bulldogs ran yet another play. Beck dropped again, and Longhorns linebacker Trey Moore hit his proper arm as he threw.

Beck fumbled the ball, which was recovered by linebacker Anthony Hill.

Stockton led Georgia to a 75-yard landing drive on the primary possession of the second half. He threw a 12-yard move to Arian Smith on third-and-2 from the Georgia 33. On third-and-1 from the Texas 40, he ran for 3 yards. Then, on first-and-10 from the Texas 18, Stockton picked up 8 yards on a designed quarterback run.

Etienne bumped into the top zone for a 10-yard landing on the subsequent play to offer Georgia a 10-6 lead with 10:27 left within the third quarter.

In two video games taking part in behind Beck this season, Stockton, from Tiger, Georgia, accomplished 13 of 16 passes for 135 yards. He was ranked the No. 4 dual-threat quarterback within the nation and No. 7 prospect in Georgia by ESPN Recruiting within the Class of 2022.

This weekend’s reopening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is the end result of a restore and restoration effort greater than 5 years after it was gutted by a catastrophic fireplace.

Notre-Dame is without doubt one of the Western world’s most recognizable and beloved buildings — but it surely hasn’t at all times been that approach. After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars on the flip of the 18th century, it was in such a state of disrepair that Paris officers thought of demolishing it. 

In accordance with historian Bradley Stephens, it was writer Victor Hugo who helped restore each its construction and status along with his 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris — higher recognized by some by its authentic English title, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

“Hugo was arguing that the cathedral nonetheless had enormous symbolic worth each for French tradition, but in addition for French nationwide identification,” Stephens, a professor of French Literature on the College of Bristol, instructed CBC Radio’s Day 6.

Echoes of these arguments might be present in French President Emanuel Macron’s declaration instantly after the April 2019 fireplace devastated the cathedral, which positioned it as a nation-building train to unite the French folks.

In the course of the French Revolution, Notre-Dame had suffered a number of “mutilations,” as Hugo described them. A lot of its stained glass home windows have been smashed or stolen. The steel bells put in in its towers have been melted all the way down to be forged into cannons.

“Beforehand, Parisians have been involved that this cathedral had turn into fairly ugly. You had aesthetic purists who felt that its mixture of Romanesque and Gothic types made it fairly irregular, that it wasn’t uniform, it wasn’t consistent with extra neoclassical tastes which have been prevalent in more moderen historical past in France,” Stephens defined. 

“And Hugo says to his readers, ‘No, these are the strengths of the cathedral. The cathedral’s combination of types, the truth that it has been round for therefore very lengthy testifies to a pure surprise and dynamism, and it additionally helps bear witness to France’s altering historical past.'”

Following the blueprint

The novel helped impress the small, however rising quantity of people that shared Hugo’s views. Within the early 1840s, King Louis-Phillipe commissioned architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc to supervise the cathedral’s restore and restoration — a undertaking that will take a number of many years.

Viollet-le-Duc’s work remained the blueprint for the cathedral’s fashionable restoration, together with its now-iconic Nineteenth-century spire.

“He was a genius,” Philippe Villeneuve, the cathedral’s chief architect since 2013, stated of Viollet-le-Duc. “My function was to make sure that imaginative and prescient endured.” 

After the fireplace, Macron made a decree to start probably the most bold restoration in fashionable French historical past — to revive an edifice that took almost 200 years to construct initially, in simply 5 years.

Villeneuve and his group put in cutting-edge fireplace security methods within the cathedral to assist defend it from future fires or different disasters.

The attic, now divided into three compartments — choir, transept, and nave — options superior thermal cameras, smoke detectors, and a revolutionary water-misting system.

In contrast to conventional sprinklers, this method releases a high quality mist of water droplets designed to extinguish flames whereas minimizing injury to the delicate wooden and stone.

“The mist saturates the air, decreasing oxygen ranges to smother fires with out harming the wooden or stone,” Villeneuve defined. “These are probably the most superior fireplace security methods in any French cathedral. We needed to study from what occurred. We owe it to the longer term.”

The folks’s palace

Macron’s announcement to restore the cathedral in simply 5 years sparked unprecedented international assist, with donations rapidly nearing $1 billion US.

Michel Picaud, president of the Associates of Notre-Dame de Paris charity, stated his group’s donor listing ballooned from 700 earlier than the fireplace, to almost 50,000 after with hundreds of them coming from over 60 nations — together with tons of of supporters and donors from Canada.

The charity shaped in 2017, to assist restoration efforts that had begun shortly earlier than the fireplace.

Picaud famous that extensive assist got here largely from people who find themselves eager about Notre-Dame past its function as a Catholic place of worship. Some see it as considered one of France’s most engaging vacationer locales. Others respect its place in French political historical past. Nonetheless others drew their fondness from Hugo’s novel and its variations, together with the 1996 Disney animated movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Stephens did word that Hugo was irked that his novel was retitled The Hunchback of Notre Dame in English, because it took a lot of the main target away from the cathedral itself in favour of Quasimodo.

“In fact, Quasimodo is the human determine in the entire story that … appeals to our sense of humanity as this maligned, hunchbacked bell ringer is ostracized by society however demonstrates his kindness and his inside magnificence,” he stated. 

“While Hugo, after all, needed that to be integral to the story he was telling, on the similar time, he was involved that by altering the title and narrowing the main target simply onto the hunchback, readers may miss the broader significance of the place the cathedral matches in.”

Its significance past Catholicism may be traced again to its authentic development, in accordance with Agnes Poirier, journalist and writer of Notre-Dame: the Soul of France.

“In contrast to different gothic cathedrals on the time, the aristocracy and the kings paid fairly little in direction of its development,” she instructed The Present‘s Matt Galloway. 

The funding got here from numerous sources together with the bishop of Paris, income from its fertile farmlands, and donations from the bourgeois, prostitutes and extra, making it “the folks’s palace,” in Poirer’s phrases.

Revolutionaries used it for numerous roles together with a polling station and a college, which was notable because the rebels have been atheists. 

“After the Charlie Hebdo assaults, Notre-Dame chimed and rang for the cartoonists that have been killed, though they have been fiercely anti-clerical,” Poirer stated.

“So she belongs to everybody, and she or he accepts everybody.”

Stephens says Notre-Dame de Paris’s biggest trials have parallels to France’s personal tumultuous historical past. Within the Nineteenth century, Hugo wrote a novel exalting its significance simply as folks have been wrestling with the legacy of the French Revolution.

“Now, within the twenty first century, what we’ve is a traditionally Catholic and imperial energy looking for its place in a multicultural, multi-religious and post-colonial world at a time when the nation is beset with fears a couple of potential waning worldwide affect in addition to rising nationwide discord at house domestically,” stated Stephens.

“The significance of Notre-Dame, then, may be to assist discover frequent floor, to unify relatively than divide.”

SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom at present issued a proclamation declaring December 7, 2024, as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

The textual content of the proclamation and a replica will be discovered beneath:

PROCLAMATION

On today 83 years in the past, Imperial Japan launched an unprovoked assault on america Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, killing greater than 2,400 American service members and civilians and destroying a lot of our nation’s Pacific Fleet. This assault led President Roosevelt to name on Congress to declare an act of struggle the subsequent day, stating December 7, 1941 could be a “date which is able to stay in infamy.”
 
As we replicate on the painful losses of that fateful day, we bear in mind those that defended Pearl Harbor – and all of the brave people who signed as much as serve our nation in battlefields throughout the globe. Annually, we’re reminded of those immense sacrifices and all that we owe our service members who struggle to defend the freedoms we cherish.
 
On Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, allow us to replicate on the which means of sacrifice and heroism and pay solemn tribute to the American heroes who gave their lives to make the world extra secure, free and simply.
 
NOW THEREFORE I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim December 7, 2024, as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I’ve hereunto set my hand and prompted the Nice Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 4th day of November 2024.

GAVIN NEWSOM
Governor of California

ATTEST:
SHIRLEY N. WEBER, Ph.D.
Secretary of State

France’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral is formally reopening its doorways on Saturday for the primary time since a devastating hearth practically destroyed the 861-year-old landmark in 2019.

The restoration, a spectacular achievement in simply 5 years for a construction that took practically two centuries to construct, is seen as a second of triumph for French President Emmanuel Macron, who championed the bold timeline — and a welcome respite from his home political woes.

Underneath the luminous stained glass, many world leaders, dignitaries, and worshippers will collect within the night to mark the event — a uncommon second of unity in opposition to the backdrop of worldwide divisions and conflicts.

President-elect Donald Trump, America’s first woman Jill Biden, Britain’s Prince William and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are amongst 1,500 friends attending the reopening celebration beneath Notre Dame’s hovering Gothic arches, led by Archbishop Laurent Ulrich.

Due to robust winds forecast for Saturday night in Paris, the French presidential palace and the Paris diocese mentioned Friday your complete opening ceremony will probably be held inside Notre Dame, as a substitute of ranging from the cathedral’s forecourt as initially deliberate.

An indication of hope

Notre Dame’s rector, Rev. Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, says the cathedral is “greater than only a French monument” and a beloved treasure of world’s cultural heritage.

“The cathedral is an impressive image of unity,” the rector mentioned. “An indication of hope, as a result of what appeared unattainable has develop into attainable.”

Saturday’s occasions will mix solemn non secular custom with an official presidential speech and cultural grandeur, beginning with Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wood doorways.

Tapping them 3 times with a workers crafted from charred wooden salvaged from the cathedral’s fire-ravaged roof, he’ll declare the cathedral open for worship as soon as extra.

Huguette Euphrasie’s 79-year-old mom, Marie-Yolande, is battling most cancers. In order she stared intently up at Notre Dame’s towers, the daughter appealed Saturday to the cathedral for assist, with a prayer on the day of the monument’s reopening.

“It has enormous non secular worth for me,” Euphrasie mentioned, gathering with individuals from around the globe to look at the reopening from screens on close by riverbanks. “It’s very transferring.”

Solemn rituals

Psalms, prayers, and hymns will fill the cavernous house because the cathedral’s thunderous organ, silenced for the reason that hearth, is reawakened. The 8,000-pipe instrument, painstakingly restored and cleaned of poisonous lead mud, will reply to the archbishop’s invocation, with 4 organists performing an improvised interaction of melodies.

Later within the night, a star-studded live performance will take heart stage contained in the cathedral and pay tribute to its resurrection and to those that labored to revive it, providing a common message of concord. Pianist Lang Lang, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and soprano Fairly Yende are among the many world-famous artists slated to carry out.

On Sunday, Ulrich will lead the inaugural Mass and consecrate the cathedral’s new altar, designed by up to date artist Guillaume Bardet to interchange the one crushed beneath the flaming spire within the blaze.

Unity in occasions of worldwide challenges

The reopening of Notre Dame comes at a time of profound international unrest, with wars raging in Ukraine and the Center East.

For Catholics, Notre Dame’s rector mentioned the cathedral “carries the enveloping presence of the Virgin Mary, a maternal and embracing presence.”

“It’s a magnificent image of unity,” Dumas mentioned.

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The vary of dignitaries coming to Paris from Africa to the Mideast and the U.S. underline the cathedral’s significance as a logo of shared heritage and peace.

Macron’s political woes

The celebration is anticipated to provide a much-needed enhance to embattled Macron, whose prime minister was ousted this week, plunging the nation’s political scene into extra turmoil.

The French president, who has known as Notre Dame’s reopening “a jolt of hope,” will tackle the gathering. He had hoped the event would briefly silence his critics and showcase France’s unity and resilience beneath his management, and the achievement of restoring Notre Dame in simply 5 years — a timeline that had appeared unbelievable to many.

Macron’s presidency now faces its gravest disaster after the federal government’s collapse this week in a historic no-confidence vote that toppled Prime Minister Michel Barnier.

The vote adopted months of political gridlock after snap elections. Calls at the moment are rising louder from opposition forces for Macron to resign. However he vowed Thursday to stay in workplace till the top of his time period in 2027, and mentioned he’ll title a brand new prime minister inside days.

As France struggles with financial woes and social unrest, Notre Dame’s rebirth celebrations kind a stark distinction to the disaster.

Safety is tight for this international occasion

Safety will probably be excessive via the weekend, echoing measures taken throughout the Paris Olympics earlier this yr.

The Île de la Cité — the small island within the River Seine that’s dwelling to Notre Dame and the historic coronary heart of Paris— is closed to vacationers and non-residents. Police vans and limitations blocked cobblestoned streets in a big perimeter across the island, whereas troopers in thick physique armor and sniffer canine patrolled embankments. A particular safety element is following Trump.

Public viewing areas alongside the Seine’s southern financial institution will accommodate 40,000 spectators, who can comply with the celebrations on giant screens.

For a lot of, Notre Dame’s rebirth isn’t just a French achievement however a world one — after the reopening, the cathedral is ready to welcome 15 million guests yearly, up from 12 million earlier than the fireplace.

Following the 2019 hearth, practically $1 billion in donations rapidly poured in from around the globe, testifying to Notre Dame’s common attraction.

Amongst those that traveled from afar for the reopening was Canadian Noelle Alexandria.

“It’s not the primary time she (Notre Dame) has been practically in destroy, and each time it’s occurred, she’s all the time managed to bounce again. Not many people may actually say that we might do the identical, have the ability to hold coming again it doesn’t matter what tragedy strike us. However she has,” Alexandria mentioned.

— with information from John Leicester and Sylvie Corbet in Paris 

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii  –  

On the eightieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day in 2021, about 135 World Battle II veterans attended the observance of the Dec. 7, 1941, assault on Pearl Harbor. Final yr, fewer than 30 veterans attended Dec. 7 occasions.

As veterans and Pearl Harbor survivors cross away, their legacy lives on with the following era of service members.

This yr’s 83rd Pearl Harbor Day commemoration encompasses a collection of observances co-hosted by the Nationwide Park Service and Commander, Navy Area Hawaii (CNRH), together with the interment of a former Pearl Harbor Day survivor aboard the USS Utah (AG-16) and the Blackened Canteen ceremony. Younger service members play an lively within the commemoration rituals, reinforcing this yr’s theme of Forging Forward.

Models from the Junior Reserve Officers Coaching Corps might be collaborating in occasions and the granddaughter of a Pearl Harbor survivor would be the keynote speaker on the foremost Dec. 7 ceremony. “Though we honor those that handed away, we need to look ahead to the longer term,” defined Jim Neuman, historical past and outreach supervisor for CNRH and one of many lead planners for the Pearl Harbor Day observance.

This yr, the stays of Pearl Harbor survivor Gilbert Meyer might be interred aboard the wreckage of the USS Utah. Meyer handed away in 2023 on the age of 100. He served within the Navy for 22 years and retired as a Chief Petty Officer. He was an 18-year-old Fireman First Class assigned to the USS Utah when it was hit by a torpedo. On his one centesimal birthday final yr, Meyer donated two acres of land in his hometown of Lytle, Texas, to the Veterans of International Wars for a brand new assembly corridor. He additionally wrote a e book about his time within the Navy and the way he survived the assault on Pearl Harbor.

Meyer’s nephew, Gilbert Benton, 79, mentioned the interment ceremony for his uncle might be particularly significant for his household.

“I’ve seen three of those interments over time and it’s so shifting to observe that, however it is going to be so particular for us this yr as a result of it’s him,” mentioned Benton, who emphasised how vital it is going to be for his uncle to hitch his shipmates at relaxation.

Up to now, a complete of 16 interments have taken place aboard the USS Utah.

The Pearl Harbor Day commemoration concludes on Dec. 8 with the Blackened Canteen ceremony aboard the USS Arizona Memorial (BB-39).

“This truly is in connection to the Park Service’s mission right here at Pearl Harbor,” defined David Kilton, the interpretation, schooling, and companies lead for the Nationwide Park Service. “We’re the keeper of these tales which are dropped at us after which we share them and attempt to honor all of the completely different points of these tales.”

Kilton defined how this distinctive remembrance ceremony started:

On the evening of June 20, 1945, throughout a bombing raid over Shizuoka, Japan, two B-29 plane collided and crashed, killing 23 crewmen. When an area Shizuoka businessman and farmer pulled fatally wounded U.S. airmen from the wreckage, he discovered a blackened canteen in one of many plane, distorted from warmth and bearing what seemed to be the seared handprint of its late proprietor.

The farmer, who was a religious Buddhist who believed all life is valuable, began conducting an annual ceremony honoring the Japanese and People who misplaced their lives because of the warfare. The ceremony included a silent prayer and the pouring of bourbon whiskey from the blackened canteen onto the crash website as an providing to the spirits of the fallen. Two monuments have been later erected close to the crash website in reminiscence of those that died.

The Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Ceremony on Dec. 7 is the principle ceremony of the annual commemoration. It’s held on the Pearl Harbor Nationwide Memorial, which is devoted to the reminiscence of greater than 2,300 service members and civilians who died in the course of the Pearl Harbor assault. Central to the memorial is the USS Arizona Memorial, which rests above the stays of the sunken battleship and commemorates the 1,177 crewmen who died aboard. The USS Arizona suffered half of all casualties on the day of the assault.

Neuman defined how the design of the Arizona Memorial highlights the twin deal with the previous and future and emphasised how he seeks to emulate this focus when he plans the main points of Pearl Harbor Day.

“This ties into how I have a look at the ceremony,” he mentioned. “It’s a memorial to the previous as a result of we’re honoring the best era. We’re honoring those that gave their lives on Dec. 7, 1941. It’s a memorial to the longer term as a result of whenever you have a look at the design of the memorial it begins out excessive, which is earlier than the assault on Pearl Harbor. As you come aboard the memorial, you’re at a excessive level. It goes low over the middle of the memorial, the middle of the wreckage as a result of Dec. 7, 1941 was a low level. Then it tapers to a excessive level over the shrine room.”

Alfred Preis, the architect who designed the Arizona Memorial, used the shrine room to intensify the beliefs of peace, renewal, and remembrance of those that misplaced their lives on the day of the assault, Neuman defined.

“On both aspect of the shrine room, you’ve bought the Tree of Life. From a biblical perspective, that might be the Ebook of Revelations, therapeutic of the nations, and from Alfred Preis’ perspective, it was the concept of renewal and lasting peace,” mentioned Neuman. “We’re honoring those that have been misplaced on Dec. 7, however we’re additionally trying ahead to the longer term as a result of he hoped that the victory on the finish of World Battle II can be one that might result in lasting peace and renewal and partnerships with our allies.”

The final survivor of the Arizona crew, Lou Conter, 102, handed away on April 1, 2024.

Neuman acknowledged the importance of that loss and mentioned our era’s means to maneuver on resembles how veterans and survivors of the Pearl Harbor assault have been forging forward with their lives with resilience and tenacity, which is a part of the explanation why “forging forward” is that this yr’s theme for the observance.

“A part of honoring that legacy is realizing that they did push forward inside their lives with the trauma and horror of warfare,” defined Neuman. “For these of us who stay in 2024, we see that memorial and it reminds us that if we’re going to hold on this lasting peace that the best era fought and died to safe, it’s going to be as much as our era and the generations shifting ahead.”

The temper in Damascus seems to be one among confusion and worry, with many individuals unable to seek out out precisely what’s going on as insurgent factions strategy ever nearer.

In a number of suburbs, symbols of the ability of the Assad dynasty have been torn down or toppled.

The inside ministry says it is creating a hoop of metal across the capital. However authorities forces have notably failed to supply any such defence in cities, cities and villages which have fallen to insurgent factions throughout the nation.

Rumours are swirling over the whereabouts of President Bashar al-Assad, with individuals logging flights out and in of Damascus to work out whether or not he might need left.

His workplace has denied all such stories, saying he is nonetheless at work in Damascus, however there was no signal of him.

Syria has remained a divided nation, with the deep scars of the years of civil struggle unhealed, regardless of the obvious stalemate and establishment that had been in place for round 4 years till only a week-and-a-half in the past.

Assad’s pariah standing had come to an finish amongst his fellow Arab leaders, however no progress had been made inside Syria in direction of constructing a viable future for its individuals within the aftermath of struggle.

However the presence of President Assad had appeared to be a seal, nevertheless unsatisfactory, on the lethal battle that had raged for years.

If he’s now out of the image, an influence vacuum will re-emerge, with no clear indication of how it will likely be crammed. There isn’t a unified opposition that’s in place to take over. The insurgent factions have a historical past of division and internecine preventing.

The group that has spearheaded the brand new rebellion towards President Assad has its basis within the extremism of Al Qaeda. Its chief has tried to reassure different communities in Syria that it’ll not impose its ideology on them, however they continue to be understandably apprehensive of what would possibly come.

There will probably be wider fears that Syria might plunge into an much more calamitous state, with numerous factions battling one another for management. In an already desperately unstable and risky area, that might feed extra harmful unrest.

However for now no less than, many Syrians each inside and out of doors the county are united by a hope that many felt they could by no means expertise once more – that they could have the ability to return to their houses, lengthy misplaced within the bitter struggle that Assad’s violent repression of protest and dissent initially triggered.

The undefeated No. 1 Oregon Geese will play the No. 4 Penn State Nittany Lions on this 12 months’s Huge Ten championship ultimate this Saturday night time. Kickoff will likely be at 8 p.m. ET from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN and the sport will air on CBS and Paramount+. The Geese, led by head coach Dan Lanning, have made their presence recognized all through their inaugural 12 months within the convention with their 12-0 report total, 9-0 in convention play. The Nittany Lions, who have not appeared in a convention ultimate since 2016, have adopted shut behind with an 11-1 report (8-1 in convention video games).

Here is how one can watch the Penn State vs. Oregon Huge Ten championship recreation this afternoon, and sustain with stay game-day updates right here.

The way to watch the Penn State vs. Oregon Huge Ten championship recreation on Saturday:

Date: Saturday, Dec. 7

Time: 8 p.m. ET

Location: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN

TV Channel: CBS

Streaming: Paramount+, Fubo, DirecTV, YouTube TV and extra

The place to look at the Penn State vs. Oregon recreation on TV:

You may watch protection of this weekend’s Huge Ten championship recreation between Penn State and Oregon beginning at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.

The place to look at the Penn State vs. Oregon recreation with out cable:

You may tune into the Penn State vs. Oregon recreation on Paramount+ (with the Paramount with SHOWTIME plan solely) and on CBS, which is carried by a number of platforms together with Fubo TV, DirecTV, and YouTube TV.

2024 NCAA Week 15 Schedule:

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Here is a full rundown of the schedule for Week 15 of the NCAA season.

Friday, Dec. 6

7 p.m. | Western Kentucky vs. Jacksonville State | Convention USA Championship Sport | CBSSN
8 p.m. | No. 17 Tulane at Military | AAC Championship Sport | ABC
8 p.m. | No. 11 Boise State vs. No. 22 UNLV | Mountain West Championship Sport | FOX

Saturday, Dec. 7

12 p.m. | No. 16 Arizona State vs. No. 18 Iowa State | Huge 12 Championship Sport (Arlington, Texas) | ABC
12 p.m. | Miami (OH) vs. Ohio College | MAC Championship Sport (Detroit, Michigan) | ESPN
2 p.m. | Southern at Jackson State (SWAC Championship) | ESPN2
2 p.m. | Montana at South Dakota State (FCS playoffs second spherical) | ESPN+
2 p.m. | Rhode Island at Mercer (FCS playoffs second spherical) | ESPN+
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(Bloomberg) — With Syrian rebels edging ever-closer to the capital, President Bashar Al-Assad is making a last-ditch try to stay in energy, together with oblique diplomatic overtures to the US and President-elect Donald Trump, in keeping with folks with direct information of the state of affairs.

Assad is ordering his military to fall again to defend Damascus, basically ceding a lot of the nation to insurgents, who seized the main cities of Aleppo and Hama in a lightning offensive over the previous week. The rebels have entered Homs, a conflict monitor mentioned, the final main metropolis earlier than Damascus.

As his remaining troops dig in, Syria’s longtime ruler is signaling his willingness to achieve a deal that might permit him to carry on to the rump territory his military controls, or assure his protected passage into exile if wanted, mentioned the folks. They spoke on situation of anonymity to debate secret conferences.

One supply Assad made to the US by way of the United Arab Emirates is for Syria to chop all involvement with Iran-backed militant teams, similar to Hezbollah, if Western powers wield affect to stem the preventing, the folks mentioned. 

One other initiative noticed Assad dispatch a senior Christian chief to fulfill Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to relay what he sees as an existential menace to Syria’s Christian minority if Islamist rebels prevail, in keeping with different folks accustomed to the plan. The intention was that Orban, a Trump ally, would convey this hazard to the incoming US president, they mentioned.

Trump, who finds himself in Paris, has responded to occasions on the bottom. He took to X to say: “There was by no means a lot of a profit in Syria for Russia, apart from to make Obama look actually silly. In any occasion, Syria is a large number, however is just not our good friend, & THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!”

It’s a dramatic flip of occasions for a dynasty that’s dominated Syria with an iron fist for half a century, crushed peaceable protests in 2011 and clung to energy by years of civil conflict that spurred one of many worst humanitarian crises of contemporary occasions. Iranian and Russian navy help was essential to the survival of the 59-year-old president, however each at the moment are distracted and stretched skinny by different conflicts.

“Assad is in big hazard — it’s virtually like in 2015 when the insurgents had been on the gates of Damascus,” mentioned Sergei Markov, a political marketing consultant near the Kremlin, referring to the yr Russia intervened to avoid wasting him.

Western nations had been equally stunned, together with the US, which had largely relinquished a lot of its affect in Syria to Iran, Russia and Turkey however has reacted to guard its pursuits, in keeping with senior officers. 

A number of Western officers mentioned it was tough to see Assad remaining in energy.

The autumn of Homs, Syria’s third-largest metropolis, may reduce the freeway linking Damascus and the nation’s west and Mediterranean coast — the stronghold of the Assads and loyalists from their Alawite sect.

South of Damascus, rebels have seized components of Daraa province bordering Jordan and within the capital residents of some districts took to the streets and tore down billboards of Assad. In a single space folks destroyed a statue of Assad’s father Hafez.

The president’s whereabouts are unclear, though he’s believed to be in Damascus or his hometown of Al-Qardaha, near Russia’s Khmeimim airbase. It’s additionally potential he’s within the Iranian capital, Tehran, an individual accustomed to US coverage mentioned Saturday.

Assad’s workplace issued a press release condemning “rumors and faux information,” saying the president stays within the capital.

Assad has ordered the majority of Syria’s remaining military — estimated at between 30,000 to 40,000 fighters — to hurry to defend Damascus, in keeping with two folks accustomed to the matter. A military spokesman mentioned in a TV tackle on Saturday that it was strengthening its defenses within the countryside across the metropolis.

The principle insurgent offensive has been led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, or HTS, a former al-Qaeda affiliate, and numerous armed teams backed by Turkey. Different fighters have joined in, together with military defectors who’d fought the regime and laid down arms in earlier ceasefires, mentioned the folks. 

As rebels converge on Damascus from the north and south, Iran has drawn again its presence in Syria, leaving its navy advisers concentrated across the capital, in keeping with the folks. Some Tehran-backed Iraqi militias have additionally returned to their nation after the federal government ceded the jap metropolis of Deir Ezzor to US-backed Kurdish fighters, they mentioned. 

Russian personnel now stay primarily across the capital and on the Khmeimim airbase and Tartous naval base, they mentioned.

After a gathering together with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts in Doha on Saturday, Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov mentioned Moscow is “making an attempt to do all the things to not permit terrorists to prevail.”

“We don’t need them to observe the destiny of Iraqis, Libyans and different nations who had been disturbed by the folks needing to maintain their domination,” he mentioned.

Trump mentioned Saturday a withdrawal from Syria would possibly “be the perfect factor that may occur” to Russia and that troops shouldn’t get entangled within the preventing.

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Russia has launched airstrikes round Homs to attempt to stall the insurgent advance. However with indicators the Kremlin’s assist is probably not sufficient, Assad is urgent on with back-channel negotiations.

A key objective could be retaining management of a portion of the nation and addressing Turkey’s calls for for a political transition and the potential return of tens of millions of Syrian refugees, a significant subject for Ankara. 

Assad can also be proposing a brand new structure and talks with the principally exiled political opposition, in keeping with the folks accustomed to the outreach.

It’s unclear if the efforts will bear fruit. Occasions on the battlefield have their very own momentum, and even international locations similar to Turkey which have affect over the rebels could not be capable to totally management occasions.

“I don’t suppose any of those exterior powers have the leverage over their proxies to alter the course of what’s taking place on the bottom,” mentioned Andreas Krieg, director of London-based MENA Analytica Ltd. “At this second most bets are that the Assad regime could not be capable to maintain out.” 

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It was in opposition to that backdrop that Assad despatched Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II to Hungary on Monday to relay his fears. Syria’s Christian group makes up about 10% of the nation’s 24 million inhabitants. 

The plan to have Orban relate this message to Trump was described by an aide to the patriarch and one other particular person with information of the encounter.

Individuals near Trump couldn’t instantly remark, however mentioned he had dispatched his in-law and Center East adviser, Massad Boulos, to the UAE on Saturday to debate the state of affairs within the area.

Assad has pursued comparable ways earlier than. HTS chief Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani and different rebels have in latest days tried to allay the fears of Christians and Syria’s different minorities that they envision a type of Islamic rule. 

Assad’s personal Alawite group, which has caught by him since 2011 and paid a heavy worth to defend the regime, additionally seems to sense the tip could also be close to. 

Nariman, an Alawite girl reached by telephone in Damascus on Friday mentioned she, her husband who’s within the safety forces and their 23-year-old son had been fleeing to their ancestral village close to Jableh in western Syria. She mentioned there have been many households like hers.

No one goes to struggle for Assad this time, she mentioned, asking to not be recognized by her final identify for causes of security.

(Updates with rebels coming into Homs in second paragraph. A earlier model corrected the title of Hungary’s Viktor Orban.)

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