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Beyoncé endorses Harris for president at Houston rally: “It’s time to sing a new song”

Hypothesis that Beyoncé would make an look on the Democratic Nationwide Conference two months in the past ran rampant for days main as much as the occasion.

The frenzy, nevertheless, did not occur.

On Friday, in entrance of an energized crowd in her hometown of Houston, Texas, the celebrity singer appeared on stage to marketing campaign at Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally on reproductive rights.

Beyonce speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally for U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris at Shell Power Stadium in Houston, Texas.

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“I am not right here as a star, I am not right here as a politician. I am right here as a mom,” Beyoncé stated. “A mom who cares deeply in regards to the world my kids and all of our youngsters reside in, a world the place now we have the liberty to manage our our bodies, a world the place we’re not divided.”

“Think about our daughters rising up seeing what’s potential with no ceilings, no limitations,” she continued. “We should vote, and we’d like you.”

Beyonce and Kelly Rowland at a marketing campaign rally in assist of U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on ‘Reproductive Freedom’ at Shell Power Stadium in Houston, Texas.

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On the finish, Beyoncé — who was joined onstage by her Future’s Little one bandmate Kelly Rowland — launched Harris.

“It is time for America to sing a brand new track. Our voices sing a refrain of unity. They sing a track of dignity and alternative. Are y’all prepared so as to add your voice to the brand new American track?” she stated. “Women and gents, please give a giant, loud, Texas welcome to the subsequent president of the USA, Vice President Kamala Harris.”

She didn’t carry out — not like in 2016, when she carried out at a presidential marketing campaign rally for Hilary Clinton in Cleveland.

Harris’ presidential marketing campaign has taken on Beyonce’s 2016 observe “Freedom,” a reduce from her landmark 2016 album “Lemonade,” as its anthem.

Harris first used the track in July throughout her first official public look as a presidential candidate at her marketing campaign headquarters in Delaware. That very same month, Beyoncé’s mom, Tina Knowles, publicly endorsed Harris for president.

Beyoncé gave permission to Harris to make use of the track, a marketing campaign official who was granted anonymity to debate personal marketing campaign operations confirmed to The Related Press.

Arriving within the back-half of “Lemonade,” “Freedom” samples two John and Alan Lomax area recordings, which doc Jim Crow-era folks spirituals of Southern Black church buildings and the work songs of Black prisoners from 1959 and 1948, respectively. It additionally options Pulitzer Prize winner Kendrick Lamar.

Musician Willie Nelson throughout a marketing campaign occasion with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at Shell Power Stadium in Houston, Texas, US.

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The Harris rally in Houston highlighted the perilous medical fallout from the state’s strict abortion ban and put the blame squarely on former President Donald Trump.

“We all know freedom is to not be given. It’s not to be bestowed. It’s ours by proper, and we’re ready to battle for it,” Harris stated. “We should be loud. We should manage. We should mobilize. We should energize.”

Since abortion was restricted in Texas, the state’s toddler loss of life fee has elevated, extra infants have died of start defects and maternal mortality has risen.

Beyoncé was not the one big-name celeb at Friday’s rally. Texas native and legendary singer-songwriter Willie Nelson carried out and actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba spoke earlier throughout the rally.

The Denver Nuggets’ internal angst was on display in opening-night loss to Thunder

DENVER — By the point the Denver Nuggets locker room was opened to the media on Thursday evening, Jamal Murray was gone.

There was no probability to ask him about his 4-of-13 capturing evening within the Nuggets’ 102-87 loss to Oklahoma Metropolis, or the assertion from his coach, Michael Malone, that the pairing of Murray and newcomer Russell Westbrook had all types of potential to be productive. By no means thoughts that Westbrook had simply completed a 2-of-10 night from the sector during which he wasted no time residing as much as his repute as a traditionally unhealthy shooter who, nonetheless, simply retains firing away.

His air-balled 3 on the 3:45 mark of the primary quarter — with no defender inside 5 ft, no much less — was as inauspicious a starting to this pairing as one may presumably think about on this evening during which he missed 5 of six makes an attempt from past the arc. By the top, with the Thunder outclassing the Nuggets all through and Denver lacking 31 of 38 3s in all, essentially the most disconcerting second of reality for Denver got here from crucial man within the Ball Area constructing, Nikola Jokić.

“We aren’t an excellent capturing workforce, I feel, besides in all probability (Michael Porter Jr.) and Jamal (Murray),” mentioned Jokiċ, who had a triple-double (16 factors, 13 assists and 12 rebounds) and hit 6 of 12 pictures (1-of-3 from 3). “All of us are sort of streaky. Not streaky, you recognize, however simply common shooters.”

On this Nuggets surroundings the place the longstanding stress between Malone and Nuggets basic supervisor Calvin Sales space is the worst-kept secret within the Affiliation lately, it was fairly a factor for Jokić to determine to say the quiet half out loud like that. That’s an unflattering assertion concerning the workforce’s personnel, which inevitably factors the finger on the entrance workplace throughout a time when Sales space and his workers try their finest to encourage synergy from high to backside as a solution to return these Nuggets to title contender standing.

However make no mistake, the not-so-subtle references to the adjustments which have taken place since Denver’s title in 2023 are a mirrored image of the inner angst that these Nuggets try to navigate. Within the curiosity of equity, it needs to be remembered that the Kroenke household who owns the workforce is making the entire closing monetary selections with this group. And Malone’s curious postgame choice to remind the lots that Denver misplaced Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to Orlando in free company, for instance, was nearly as good an indication as any that the Nuggets are struggling to maximise their current whereas reconciling their previous.

“I don’t assume there’s any want for panic,” Malone mentioned. “Going into the season, capturing is a priority of mine. , you lose a man like KCP, who was a 40 p.c 3-point shooter, you recognize what I imply? And I believed Christian Braun was nice tonight. Once more, Christian Braun is just not going to be KCP, so I feel all of us have to grasp that, which I feel we do, and embrace CB for who he’s. I believed he performed actually good protection, competed, ran the ground. …No, there’s no panic.”

Nope, nothing to see right here in any respect. It’s only a powerful begin to a season that resumes towards Westbrook’s previous LA Clippers workforce on Saturday at house. The necessity to win that sport, and quell all this uncomfortableness within the course of, is about as nice because it will get for this time of 12 months.

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Nuggets study some onerous truths in opening loss to Thunder

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In fact Thunder coach Mark Daigneault watched the Olympic semifinal during which Jokić’s Serbian workforce almost surprised Crew USA within the Olympics. Everybody within the basketball group was glued to their televisions for that sport (and a few of us have been fortunate sufficient to witness it in particular person).

However after I requested Daigneault about Jokić’s greatness at shootaround on Thursday morning, whereas noting how the Thunder have an MVP-caliber participant of their very own in Shai-Gilgeous Alexander who definitely held his personal within the Video games, his response about Oklahoma Metropolis’s celebrity stock was fairly telling.

“We would have a couple of,” he mentioned.

Whats up, Chet Holmgren.

The second-year massive man had about as spectacular an opener as anybody may think about, ending with 25 factors (11-of-18 capturing), 14 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 blocks and two steals. Contemplating the context right here, how the 22-year-old needed to sit out his rookie season due to the Lisfranc harm in his proper foot, it’s fairly exceptional {that a} coach of Daigneault’s reputation is so prepared to lift the notion that Holmgren is perhaps as a lot of a franchise centerpiece as Gilgeous-Alexander. However judging by the Thunder’s debut — this one-sided rout during which Gilgeous-Alexander completed with 28 factors, eight assists and 7 rebounds — the excessive reward is warranted.

Holmgren, and the Thunder by proxy, are very a lot for actual.

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Why Alex Caruso’s mindset, Chet Holmgren’s sturdiness make these Thunder completely different

Previous is prologue for OKC-Denver 

It’s so cliche to say the West is wild. However as so lots of my colleagues chronicled lately, parity is the brand new means of the NBA.

Inside that, there’s the undeniable fact that no workforce within the West ought to really feel secure. The Thunder are the heavy front-runners, to make sure, however Daigneault detailed why the notion of overlooking the Nuggets — or anybody else, for that matter — is a idiot’s errand.

“Our job as a workforce is for the entire to be higher than the sum of the elements,” mentioned Daigneault, whose Thunder beat the Nuggets thrice in 4 tries final season. “And that may typically work in bizarre methods. You possibly can look down on paper and say, nicely, they misplaced this man. They didn’t exchange it with x, y or z. However all that issues in a workforce is that the entire is larger than the sum. And there’s been nice examples of groups which have accomplished that nicely.

“I believed we have been a workforce that did that very nicely final 12 months. I believed we have been higher as a result of we have been extra collective than we have been with the person elements. And that’s (the Nuggets’) problem. It’s our problem, and it’s 28 different groups’ problem. However we definitely don’t take them flippantly, as a result of they’ve continuity on the high of the roster. They actually have a system that they know easy methods to play to and can come to play. In addition they are hungry proper now. I feel you will get a way from them, simply from listening to them and watching them from a distance, that there’s a starvation coming off of the championship final season, (and) with how the season went and the way it ended, and a starvation particular to us.”

All true statements by Daigneault, to make sure. However the Thunder, ultimately, have been those who would do the wonderful eating.


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Chappell Roan Confronts Photographer Who Was “So Rude” To Her

Chappell Roan is constant her marketing campaign for pink carpet etiquette, confronting one other photographer in a heated alternate.

Whereas attending the Friday world premiere of Netflix‘s Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour live performance documentary, the artist zeroed in on one shutterbug and pointed her finger earlier than strolling over to offer them a chunk of her thoughts in a video shared to social media.

“You had been so disrespectful to me on the Grammys. You yelled at me on the Grammy celebration. I keep in mind, you had been so impolite to me. And I deserve an apology for that,” mentioned Roan within the clip. “It’s essential to apologize to me.”

The photographer may very well be heard apologizing as Roan’s publicist pulled her away.

Final month, earlier than successful Greatest New Artist on the MTV Video Music Awards, Roan scolded a photographer on the pink carpet who may very well be heard shouting “shut the f— up.” She turned whereas somebody was styling her gown and yelled, “No, you shut the f— up! Not me, bitch.”

Roan beforehand opened up on social media about her must “draw strains and set boundaries” after encountering “predatory conduct disguised as ‘superfan’ conduct” from a few of her “creepy” followers.

“I’ve been in too many nonconsensual bodily and social interactions, and I simply want to put it out and remind you, girls don’t owe you s—,” she defined on Instagram. “I selected this profession path as a result of I really like music and artwork and honoring my inside little one. I don’t settle for harassment of any type as a result of I selected this path, nor do I deserve it.”

Final month, Roan cancelled her All Issues Go Music Pageant efficiency after an “overwhelming” few weeks, explaining she wanted “just a few days to prioritize my well being.”

Thunder 102-87 Nuggets (Oct 24, 2024) Game Recap

DENVER — — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 28 factors, Chet Holmgren added 25 as a part of a stellar all-around efficiency and the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder beat the Denver Nuggets 102-87 on Thursday night time within the season opener for each groups.

Holmgren proved to be a handful on each ends of the ground. He tied a profession excessive with 14 rebounds, and had 5 assists and blocked 4 photographs. Reserve Aaron Wiggins added 15 factors.

It was an necessary divisional recreation proper out of the gate. The Thunder and Nuggets each completed 57-25 final season, with the Thunder incomes the No. 1 seed within the Western Convention by advantage of a tiebreaker.

Reigning NBA MVP Nikola Jokic had 16 factors, 13 assists and 12 rebounds for Denver.

Jokic’s level guard accomplice, Jamal Murray, had 12 factors on 4-of-14 capturing. Christian Braun added 16 factors. whereas Aaron Gordon, contemporary off signing a brand new contract extension, added 12 factors. Denver was 7 of 39 on 3-pointers.

Takeaways

Thunder: Holmgren can run the ground with authority. Within the third quarter, he blocked a shot by Jokic, ran the down the courtroom, took a go and and threw down a strong dunk.

Nuggets: The Thunder’s bench outscored the Nuggets’ reserves 25-16. New addition Russell Westbrook had six factors on 2-of-10 capturing.

Key second

Earlier than the sport, Denver gamers and coaches paid tribute to the late Dikembe Mutombo by carrying T-shirts emblazoned with a picture of the large man’s iconic finger wag. Within the first quarter, the staff confirmed a video tribute celebrating Mutombo’s massive accomplishments on and off the courtroom. Then, followers stood and applauded for 55 seconds — his quantity. Mutombo died final month of mind most cancers. He was 58.

Key stat

At a mean of 24 years, 148 days, the Thunder opened the common season with the youngest roster within the league.

Up subsequent

The Thunder are at Chicago on Saturday night time, whereas the Nuggets host the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night time.

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Chappell Roan Confronts Photographer For Being Rude to Her

Chappell Roan confronted a photographer who she stated was impolite to her and demanded an apology throughout a current pink carpet look.

Whereas posing for photographs forward of the movie premiere of Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour on Friday night time, Roan noticed a photographer with whom she apparently had an unfriendly interplay previously. In between poses, Roan pointed instantly on the photographer and walked proper as much as them saying, “You had been so disrespectful to me on the Grammys.”

Footage from the pink carpet confirmed Roan approaching the group of photographers, pointing her finger on the one who had beforehand offended her. Within the video, Roan may be heard persevering with: “You yelled at me on the Grammy social gathering. Sure, I bear in mind. You had been so impolite to me. And I deserve an apology for that. It’s essential to apologize to me.”

Earlier than Roan may proceed additional, she was proven being guided again to the carpet, in keeping with different movies.

This is not the primary time the “Informal” singer has had alternative phrases with photographers at a significant occasion. Roan famously clapped again at one paprazzi forward of the 2024 VMAs in September. Earlier than making her award present efficiency debut, Roan put a photographer in his place after he yelled “shut the f*ck up” at her. In footage from the pink carpet second, Roan may be seen instantly whirling round, pointing her finger on the photographer, and yelling “No, you shut the f*ck up. Not me, bitch.”

Shortly after the clip went viral, Roan defined in an interview with Leisure Tonight that plenty of her new experiences with fame have been “fairly overwhelming and fairly scary.”

“For somebody who will get plenty of anxiousness round folks yelling at you, the carpet is horrifying, and I yelled again,” she continued.

Chappell Roan joined Olivia Rodrigo for the premiere after Roan was featured as an opener for the artist’s SOUR tour and through among the GUTS tour dates. Throughout Rodrigo’s live performance in Los Angeles in August, she introduced out Roan as a shock visitor to carry out the latter’s hit, “Sizzling To Go.”

“I completely adore her,” Rodrigo stated on stage. “I feel she is among the most singular, inspiring, highly effective artists I’ve ever had the pleasure of assembly.”

Full Moons Explained, From Blue Moons to Supermoons to Lunar Phases

The moon is Earth’s fixed companion. It is up there within the sky, remodeling from a curved sliver to a disc and again once more. Some nights, it disappears. We sing songs about it and ship spacecraft and astronauts to go to it. Should you get pleasure from stargazing, then make the moon a part of your viewing routine. This is what that you must know to get essentially the most out of your moon-watching. 

The place did the moon come from?


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The moon is our solely pure satellite tv for pc. We’d choose up a brief mini-moon right here and there, however the moon is Earth’s journey or die. Scientists have just a few ideas on how the moon shaped, however there is a widespread consensus that it was created billions of years in the past when an object the scale of Mars smacked into Earth. The particles from the impression coalesced into the moon. A 2022 research suggests the moon could have shaped inside hours after the impression. 

The moon is about 240,000 miles away from Earth. That is sufficient house to suit 30 Earths in between. Generally, it snuggles slightly nearer, and generally it is slightly farther away.


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What are the phases of the moon?

The moon goes by eight phases throughout every cycle.

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While you lookup on the moon, you may take into consideration the way it’s shining like a lantern within the sky. In actuality, the moon is not producing mild; it is reflecting daylight. There are eight phases of the moon throughout a 29.5-day cycle: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent.

A crescent moon may be waxing or waning relying on the purpose within the moon’s cycle.

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The phases exist due to how the moon orbits Earth. 

“Daylight illuminates half the Earth and half the moon always,” NASA says in an explainer. “However because the moon orbits across the Earth, at some factors in its orbit the sunlit a part of the moon may be seen from the Earth, and at different factors, we are able to solely see the components of the moon which might be in shadow.” 

A brand new moon is a shadowed moon, which makes it seem to be the moon has disappeared. A waxing crescent is the fingernail form of brightness that occurs because the moon turns into fuller. First quarter is when the moon is 1 / 4 of the best way round its orbit of Earth, despite the fact that the moon seems half in shadow and half in mild. 

Waxing gibbous comes subsequent. The phrase “gibbous” has a Latin origin that refers back to the “humped” form of the illuminated a part of the moon. Subsequent comes the triumphant full moon when all the face is lit up due to the solar’s location reverse the moon with Earth within the center. 

The cycle continues after the complete moon. Waning gibbous means the sunlit a part of the moon is retreating, however it nonetheless has that humped form. Third quarter is a return to the half moon look, however it means the moon is three-quarters of the best way alongside in its orbit of Earth. Waning crescent is the fingernail as soon as once more, however the lit a part of the moon continues to develop smaller earlier than it pulls the transient disappearing act of changing into a brand new moon. 

How typically do full moons occur?

The moon’s cycle of phases does not match up precisely with our calendar dates on Earth, so the timing of full moons can shift. You may get a full moon as soon as throughout every 29.5-day cycle. Most years, which means we get 12 full moons. Roughly each 2.5 years, although, we get 13 full moons in a calendar yr.

The place do the complete moon names come from?

The total moons that occur all year long include colourful names. Within the US, you may hear concerning the wolf moon, worm moon, flower moon, strawberry moon and hunter moon, amongst others. The Outdated Farmer’s Almanac is a supply for a lot of of those names. The almanac is a publication of climate forecasts, planting guides and astronomy that dates again to the late 1700s. There is a digital model now. “The moon names we use in The Outdated Farmer’s Almanac come from Native American, colonial American or different conventional North American sources handed down by generations,” the almanac says. 

Full moon names differ with cultures, areas and traditions. The March full moon, for instance, is commonly known as the worm moon. The almanac traces this title to the warming of soil in spring when earthworms begin to get energetic once more after months of chilly. Different names for this moon embody the eagle moon, goose moon, snow crust moon or sugar moon. It is a poetic approach to consider how full moons tie into altering seasons throughout the yr. 

What’s a supermoon?

The obvious dimension distinction between a median full moon and a supermoon may be delicate.

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A supermoon is a extra delicate phenomenon than its title may counsel. It occurs when the moon is at or close to the closest level in its orbit to Earth throughout a full moon — a place known as perigee. At its farthest, the moon is about 251,000 miles away from Earth. At perigee, it is about 226,000 miles away, NASA says. A supermoon moon could seem bigger and brighter than a run-of-the-mill full moon, however it will not hit your eye like an enormous pizza pie.

Count on three to 4 supermoons per yr. “Supermoon” is an unofficial time period, however it certain sounds cool to say one thing like “tremendous harvest blood moon.”

What’s a blue moon?

The commonest definition of a blue moon is the second moon in a month with two full moons. Sadly, it does not imply the moon seems like a cosmic blueberry. The time period “as soon as in a blue moon” is used as a wistful expression of one thing that hardly ever occurs, however you’ll be able to anticipate a blue moon to roll round each two to a few years. Should you received the lottery “as soon as in a blue moon,” you would be filthy wealthy. Enjoyable reality: February is just too wanting a month to ever have a blue moon. The following blue moon will seem on Could 31, 2026, so mark your calendar.

What’s a lunar eclipse?

NASA caught sight of a supermoon lunar eclipse on September 27, 2015. 

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You want a full moon to have a lunar eclipse. You additionally want a particular set of circumstances the place Earth throws its shadow onto the moon, plunging some or all of it into darkness. The solar must be on the other facet of our planet from the moon for this to occur. That is additionally how we get a full moon. Often, we get a pair lunar eclipses annually. We do not get one each single month due to a quirk within the moon’s orbit that permits it to dodge Earth’s shadow. 

A complete lunar eclipse occurs when the entire moon is roofed by Earth’s shadow. A partial lunar eclipse means solely a number of the moon is shaded.

A lunar eclipse is typically known as a blood moon. That descriptive time period took place as a result of the moon can choose up a reddish hue throughout an eclipse as a result of approach daylight filters by Earth’s environment. 

NASA retains an inventory of lunar eclipses displaying the dates, varieties and geographical areas of visibility. The following lunar eclipse is a complete eclipse set for March 14 in 2025. It is going to be seen from components of the Pacific, the Americas, Europe and Africa. There is a second complete lunar eclipse on faucet for September 7 favoring Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Does a full moon have an effect on the tides?

The moon and Earth exert a gravitational pull on one another. On Earth, the moon’s gravitational pull causes the oceans to bulge out on each the facet closest to the moon and the facet farthest from the moon.

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Tides are complicated, and the moon performs an essential function in how they work. The Earth and moon’s {couples} dance means the 2 our bodies react to one another. The moon’s gravitational pull causes our planet’s lots of ocean water to bulge out towards the moon in addition to on the other facet of the planet — like a squashed ball. That is known as the tidal drive.

The Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gives a simplified clarification of what is taking place with the moon and the water bulges: “Because the Earth rotates, your area of Earth passes by each of those bulges every day. While you’re in one of many bulges, you expertise a excessive tide. While you’re not in one of many bulges, you expertise a low tide.” Land lots, climate, wind and the solar’s gravitational pull additionally have an effect on tides and the way excessive the tides are.

Each the complete and new moons impact tides. The total moon occurs when the moon is reverse the solar with Earth within the center. A brand new moon occurs when the moon is between Earth and the solar. 

“In each circumstances, the gravitational pull of the solar is ‘added’ to the gravitational pull of the moon on Earth, inflicting the oceans to bulge a bit greater than ordinary,” NOAA says. “Which means excessive tides are slightly increased and low tides are slightly decrease than common.” 

The phenomenon is called a spring tide. It is not associated to the season however as a substitute refers back to the concept of springing forth.

Is there a darkish facet of the moon?

Pink Floyd’s music may lead you to imagine the facet of the moon we won’t see is at all times coated in shadow, however that is not the case. There may be darkish components of the moon the place the solar is not shining on it, however there is not any everlasting darkish facet. The identical facet of the moon at all times faces Earth, which is why we see the identical craters and landscapes — the face of the “man within the moon.” The opposite facet is extra precisely described because the far facet of the moon, moderately than the darkish facet.

Moon-watching suggestions

NASA’s Artemis I spacecraft sat atop the SLS rocket in 2022 with a full moon in view. 

NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Get pleasure from a full moon: There is a explicit second in time when the moon is at its fullest. That will or could not work out to be good timing so that you can see it. However don’t be concerned, the moon normally seems full for a day on both facet of the particular full moon, so benefit from the view.

Use binoculars: You do not have to have a high-end telescope to get a more in-depth take a look at the moon. Pull out a good set of binoculars and anchor your elbows on a wall or different strong spot to cut back jiggling. You could be shocked on the quantity of element you see as craters, highlands (mild areas) and lunar seas (darkish areas) come out. A full moon is an particularly good time to do that.

Examine Timeanddate.com’s moon guides: Timeanddate.com provides you detailed info on full moon timing, when and the place to identify a lunar eclipse and future dates for occasions like blue moons. It is particularly helpful for dialing in moonrise and moonset occasions on your location.

Catch a lunar eclipse: Not like with photo voltaic eclipses, you do not want particular glasses to view a lunar eclipse. Simply go look. The eclipse’s path won’t line up with the place you are situated, so preserve an eye fixed out for livestreams to get in on the motion even when the eclipse is not overhead for you.

El Clasico: Why Barcelona are favorites over Real Madrid

As an instance that, earlier than the season started, I instructed you that there can be a crew in Spain that scores so many objectives that they may trigger scorekeepers throughout the nation to refuse to work in protest of their unfairly demanding working circumstances. This crew would produce the main purpose scorer in Europe. They might rating 33 objectives via 10 matches. Come late October, they’d have eight extra objectives than some other crew throughout the continent.

You’d’ve digested this info, nodded your head, and mentioned, “After all. Actual Madrid did the LaLiga-Champions League double final yr — after which they signed the most effective attacker on the earth! They already had the Ballon d’Or favourite, Vinícius Júnior, and now they’ve Kylian Mbappé! Everybody else is doomed.”

You, in fact, would have been flawed.

Via 10 video games, it is Barcelona’s assault, not Actual Madrid’s, that’s reaching these not often seen heights in Spain. Madrid stay undefeated and solely three factors again of their everlasting rivals within the desk, nevertheless it’s been a grind. Barcelona have gained 5 league matches by not less than three objectives — Madrid have scored three objectives in a LaLiga sport solely twice thus far this season. There’s one crew in Spain that appears like an all-time-great attacking aspect — and it is not the one with Vinícius, Mbappé and Jude Bellingham.

Whereas there’s nonetheless loads of season to go and Madrid do nonetheless stay the betting favorites to retain the LaLiga crown, there isn’t any query as to which has been the higher crew via the primary 10 video games of the season. Barcelona are firing on all cylinders whereas Actual Madrid have not fairly clicked into gear.

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So, how did Barcelona surpass Madrid? Allow us to have a look at the explanations, organized in ascending order of significance.


Broncos receiver Josh Reynolds recovering from two gunshot wounds after visit to strip club

By Arnie Stapleton/AP

Denver Broncos large receiver Josh Reynolds is recovering from two gunshot wounds after he and one other man had been fired upon following a go to to a strip membership final week.

“Josh Reynolds was a sufferer of a capturing on Friday in Denver and obtained therapy for minor accidents,” the Broncos mentioned in a press release to The Related Press. “Out of respect for the authorized course of, we’ll defer additional touch upon this matter to the authorities.”

Denver police mentioned they’ve arrested two males — Luis Mendoza, 35, and Burr Charlesworth, 42 — in reference to the shootings, which occurred round 3 a.m. on Oct. 18 alongside a stretch of Interstate 25 south of downtown.

The lads had been being held for investigation of tried first-degree homicide and first-degree assault. Police mentioned they had been attempting to establish doable extra suspects and “due to this fact the arrest reviews are sealed to guard the integrity of the investigation.”

NBC affiliate KUSA-TV in Denver, the Broncos’ flagship station, which first reported the capturing, mentioned Reynolds was shot as soon as in his left arm and as soon as behind his head. The station mentioned Reynolds and the opposite man had been adopted after leaving a strip membership referred to as Shotgun Willies.

Reynolds is on injured reserve with a damaged finger and did not journey with the Broncos to New Orleans for his or her Thursday night time recreation on Oct. 17. The capturing occurred just a few hours after the Broncos beat the Saints.

Reynolds has been figuring out on a aspect discipline throughout the Broncos’ practices this week. Gamers on IR aren’t obtainable to talk with reporters.

Reynolds is in his ninth NFL season and his first in Denver after signing a two-year, $9 million contract final offseason. He is performed in 5 video games with one begin and has caught 12 passes for 183 yards and a landing.

He spent the final three seasons with Detroit. He is additionally performed for the Titans and the Rams, who drafted him within the fourth spherical of the 2017 NFL draft out of Texas A&M.

Freddie Freeman wins Game 1 with 1st walk-off grand slam in World Series history

LOS ANGELES — We don’t imagine what we simply noticed.

One of the crucial well-known highlights in World Collection historical past was simply performed on repeat, with a brand new hero and a brand new historic twist in a Recreation 1 for the ages.

Thirty-six years after a gimpy Kirk Gibson limped to the plate to smack a Recreation 1 walk-off homer, Freddie Freeman got here to the plate on a badly injured proper ankle with the bases loaded within the backside of the tenth and belted the primary walk-off grand slam in World Collection historical past to ship the Dodgers to an electrifying 6-3 victory over the Yankees on Friday night time at a sold-out Dodger Stadium.

“That is pretty much as good because it will get proper there,” Freeman stated.

Amen to that. To dwell as much as a working week’s value of hype is not any small feat. However the Dodgers and Yankees — the No. 1 seeds within the Nationwide and American Leagues who’re clashing within the Fall Basic for the primary time in 43 years — performed a Recreation 1 very a lot well worth the wait.

And ultimately, the Dodgers got here out with a magical opening act by which Freeman gave off these Gibby goosebumps — virtually to the minute (Gibson’s homer had landed at 8:38 p.m. native time, Freeman’s cleared the wall at 8:39).

“Man,” stated supervisor Dave Roberts after the Dodgers abandoned the dugout to greet Freeman at residence plate, “it was an important sport earlier than that, however the best way it completed, I simply could not be extra excited for our guys.”

In all best-of-seven sequence, groups profitable Recreation 1 have gone on to take the sequence 125 of 191 instances (65%). That features 23 of 29 instances (79%) within the World Collection since 1995. In all sequence beneath the present 2-3-2 format, groups profitable Recreation 1 at residence have gone on to take the sequence 68 of 101 instances (67%).

“We performed that group rather well for the entire complete sport,” Yankees left fielder Alex Verdugo stated. “On the finish of the day, we are the two greatest groups out right here, so we’ll come right here with our heads held up excessive, with confidence, and exit right here and compete once more.”

Even earlier than Freeman took Nestor Cortes deep a la Gibson off the A’s Dennis Eckersley, this Collection setup summoned the ghosts of Octobers previous.

Although it had been a very long time since these baseball behemoths final met on this stage, the Dodgers and Yankees, going through one another for the twelfth time, are the most typical World Collection opponents. These are the golf equipment that staged the primary Subway Collection, again when the Bronx Bombers defeated “Dem Bums” from Brooklyn mere months earlier than the U.S. entered World Warfare II. These are the franchises that battled one another whereas the Bronx was burning and Reggie Jackson was taking over the “Mr. October” moniker. These are the groups that final coexisted within the Fall Basic in 1981, when the Dodgers’ rotation was led by a rookie phenom named Fernando Valenzuela.

Historical past pulsates within the postseason, all of the extra when iconic golf equipment conflict. And Valenzuela’s demise earlier this week solely added to the emotional heft of what’s going down right here. Previous to the primary pitch, the Dodgers had two of their World Collection MVPs — Steve Yeager (1981) and Orel Hershiser (1988) — honor Valenzuela’s reminiscence by putting a ball on the mound, under the place his No. 34 had been painted.

Then, it was time for the 2024 Dodgers and Yankees to make Fall Basic reminiscences of their very own.

They proved as much as the duty.

Towards loaded lineups, Yankees ace Gerrit Cole and Dodgers commerce acquisition Jack Flaherty — each of whom grew up rooting for the groups they now go well with up for — managed to mount a uncommon beginning pitchers’ duel within the midst of an particularly bullpen-oriented October.

All Cole allowed in six-plus scoreless innings was a Will Smith sacrifice fly after a Kiké Hernández triple within the fifth. Flaherty’s lone mistake in 5 1/3 innings was to a man who has been punishing pitcher errors all postseason, as ALCS MVP Giancarlo Stanton took him deep with a two-run, 412-foot homer within the sixth to provide the Yankees a 2-1 lead.

That lead held when Cole calmly retired Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freeman in succession after a leadoff double from NLCS MVP Tommy Edman within the sixth. And once more when the Yankees’ bullpen escaped a two-on, one-out jam within the seventh.

However within the eighth, the Dodgers capitalized on a pricey defensive miscue. Ohtani rocketed a Tommy Kahnle changeup for a double off the highest of the right-center subject wall. Juan Soto’s one-hop throw again to the infield bounced off Gleyber Torres’ glove, and Ohtani was in a position to advance to 3rd.

“Troublesome bounce,” Torres stated. “I am simply attempting to cowl the cutoff and realized the ball was again to Soto actually fast, and simply tried to get again to the bottom and make a tag.”

Betts then drove Ohtani in on a sac fly to middle subject, and the rating was tied at 2.

Moments after his error, Torres sparked probably the most attention-grabbing “defensive play” of the night, when his lengthy fly ball to left-center within the high of the ninth discovered the glove of a fan positioned on the wall within the pavilion seats. As a result of the fan had clearly reached over the wall to make the snag, it was dominated — and upheld on replay evaluation — a ground-rule double slightly than a go-ahead homer. In a gutsy transfer, the Dodgers deliberately walked Soto to face Aaron Choose with two aboard, and Blake Treinen got here on to get Choose to harmlessly come out to finish the inning.

This grew to become the third consecutive World Collection Recreation 1 to go to further innings, and, due to Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s single and two stolen bases, the Yankees had runners on the corners with one out within the tenth. When Anthony Volpe grounded to brief, Edman made a pleasant diving cease on the ball however had hassle with the switch and couldn’t full a possible double play. Chisholm motored residence.

So the Yankees took a 3-2 lead into the underside of the tenth. Ohtani got here to the plate with two on and one out. The Yankees turned to the lefty Cortes, who hadn’t pitched since Sept. 18 due to elbow hassle.

“Simply favored the matchup,” Yanks supervisor Aaron Boone defined. “The truth is [Cortes] has been throwing the ball rather well the previous few weeks as he is gotten prepared for this.”

Cortes received Ohtani to hit a excessive pop fly to foul territory, and Verdugo made a sensational play reaching and falling over the sidewall to get the out.

Then the Yankees deliberately walked Betts to carry Freeman to the plate for a left-on-left matchup.

Freeman had sat out Recreation 6 of the NLCS due to the ankle sprain. He’s not as dangerous off as Gibson was when he was relegated to the Dodger bench with a pulled left hamstring and swollen proper knee in ’88, however he actually wanted these 4 days off between rounds.

“This final week has been actually good for me,” Freeman stated. “The primary time I ran was once I ran out to provide excessive fives to my teammates once we received launched. Tried to stave off operating as a lot as I may this week, handled it as a lot as I may.”

And when he related with Cortes’ first-pitch fastball on the within edge, Freeman felt higher than ever.

“It felt like nothing,” he stated, “simply type of floating.”

The ballpark erupted, Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” blared, and a World Collection steeped in historical past and stocked with superstars had the primary of what might be many majestic moments.

Broncos receiver Josh Reynolds injured in shooting and suffered graze wound in back of his head

Denver Broncos broad receiver Josh Reynolds and one other man have been injured in a capturing final week after two autos adopted them from a Glendale, Colorado, gents’s membership, paperwork state.

Two males, Burr Charlesworth and Luis Mendoza, have been arrested within the Oct. 18 capturing, in accordance with NBC affiliate KUSA of Denver, citing police.

Shortly earlier than 3 a.m., police acquired 911 calls a few capturing close to East Hampden Avenue and South Dahlia Avenue, KUSA reported. One caller stated he was driving and had been shot, in accordance with court docket paperwork obtained by KUSA.

A second caller stated he was being adopted and that two of his buddies had been shot, the paperwork state. A 3rd caller stated they’d been shot at, in accordance with the court docket paperwork.

Police have been capable of finding the victims by utilizing GPS monitoring.

Reynolds was allegedly shot twice, as soon as in his arm and as soon as behind his head, KUSA reported. The second man was shot in his again and a 3rd was injured by shattered glass.

The victims stated they have been at Shotgun Willies, a gents’s membership in Glendale, and that two autos started following them after they left round 2:45 a.m., KUSA reported. They stated there have been no points on the membership whereas they have been there.

In keeping with the victims, the 2 autos continued to path them on the freeway. At one level, 4 autos have been allegedly following the automobile Reynolds was in, in accordance with the information station.

Video on the membership allegedly confirmed Mendoza watching the victims. A number of autos have been seen coming into the membership’s parking zone and showing to attend for the group to depart, KUSA reported.

Charlesworth, 42, allegedly denied capturing on the victims, telling investigators that he was serving to a pal who had requested him to observe the group, in accordance with KUSA.

Charlesworth and Mendoza, 35, each face prices of tried first-degree homicide and first-degree assault. An lawyer for Charlesworth didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Legal professional info for Mendoza was not obtainable.

The Broncos stated in a press release to NBC Information on Friday that Reynolds, 29, “was a sufferer of a capturing” and “acquired therapy for minor accidents.”

“Out of respect for the authorized course of, we are going to defer additional touch upon this matter to the authorities,” the group stated.

An agent for Reynolds couldn’t instantly be reached. The broad receiver was already on four-week injured reserve previous to the capturing.