Liberty Universitys accrediting body has had no formal communication with the college since a flurry of recent media reports have alleged misconduct under President Jerry Falwell Jr.s leadership, the organizations president said Thursday, contradicting an earlier account.

We have not yet written a letter to Liberty, said Belle Wheelan, the president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the accrediting body told The News & Advance the commission asked Liberty in a letter to share their side of the story after reports in Politico Magazine and Reuters highlighted allegations of financial and personal impropriety by Falwell.

Both outlets published internal university emails and Politico cited multiple unnamed sources described as current and former Liberty employees.

Falwell, who spoke with the The News & Advance in an interview on Sept. 12, denied any misconduct and said he has asked the FBI to investigate the origin of the leaked emails.

On Thursday morning the same spokesperson for the accrediting body reached out to The News & Advance to retract the earlier statement. The spokesperson also called Falwell to personally apologize for the mistake.

I accepted her apology, Falwell said Thursday.

Reached by phone, Wheelan, a former secretary of education for Virginia who also once served as the president of Central Virginia Community College, said the commissions spokesperson had confused Liberty with the University of South Carolina.

It was a new employee who just mixed them up, she said, explaining the commission had sent a letter to USC regarding its recent search for a new president.

In August, the commission asked USC to address concerns about allegations of political influence in the college boards decision to hire a retired general, according to a report published Tuesday by The Post and Courier, a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina.

Wheelan said the commission regularly monitors media reports, including the recent allegations against Falwell published in Reuters and Politico Magazine. She declined to discuss the allegations and how they could relate to accreditation standards.

Libertys accreditation was last reaffirmed in 2016, a formal review process that occurs every 10 years. If the commission does launch an inquiry, any action the accrediting body may take in response will occur at the commissions board meeting in Houston, Texas in early December.

Scott Lamb, senior vice president of university communications, said Thursday the university is prepared to respond to any questions from the commission and will continue to cooperate with the accreditation process. He confirmed the university has not been in contact with the commission about recent media reports.

Richard Chumney covers breaking news for The News & Advance. Reach him at (434) 385-5547.

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NORTH LIBERTY The wild ride that has been the Carson King story has resulted in more than $2 million raised for the University of Iowa Stead Family Childrens Hospital, the dismissal of a newspaper reporter, and now, an arrest in North Liberty.

North Liberty police responded to an assault around 8:43 p.m. Friday. Police said Jordan M. Lewis, 21, had gotten into a fight with his brother over King that resulted in a fist fight.

Police said Lewis hit his brother in the mouth with a closed fist, causing a large cut on his lip.

The brothers have lived together for the past year, police said.

King, 24, of Altoona, catapulted to fame Sept. 14 when his sign appealing for Busch Light appeared on ESPNs College GameDay before the annual Cy-Hawk football game in Ames. When funds started pouring in to Kings Venmo account, he announced he would redirect the money to the Childrens Hospital. The story quickly went viral and reached a national audience as donations climbed.

Kings tale took another twist, however, when according to the Des Moines Register a reporter discovered two racist tweets from when he was 16. King issued a public apology Sept. 24 and Anheuser-Busch announced it was severing future ties with him.

North Liberty Police Chief Diane Venenga said Buschs decision is what caused the fight between Lewis and his brother.

I do not have anything further on where the involved parties landed on the issue, Venenga said.

Following the Registers reporting, the newspaper faced backlash on social media. Online sleuths discovered the reporter who wrote Kings profile had made racist and homophobic remarks online, as well. The Register parted ways with the reporter.

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In the meantime, however, Kings fundraiser which ends today hit the $2 million mark Friday.

As for Lewis, he was arrested and faces one count of domestic assault causing injury, a serious misdemeanor.

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) In a story Sept. 25 about Liberty University, The Associated Press, relying on information from the schools accreditor, reported erroneously that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges sent a letter asking for more information about recent news reports about Jerry Falwell Jr. A spokeswoman for the commission says that no letter has been sent but that the news reports are under review.

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APNewsBreak: Accreditor reviewing Falwell reports

The accrediting body that oversees Liberty University says it is reviewing recent news reports that have questioned President Jerry Falwell Jr.s leadership style and personal business interests

By SARAH RANKIN and ALAN SUDERMAN

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) The accrediting body that oversees Liberty University is reviewing recent news reports that have questioned President Jerry Falwell Jr.s leadership style and personal business interests, a spokeswoman told The Associated Press.

We are monitoring the situation based on our standards to see if there are any potential violations, said Janea Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

Johnson previously told The Associated Press on two occasions that the commission sent a letter to the Lynchburg, Virginia, school asking for more information about the news reports. The reports, some based on anonymous sources, have described Falwell as a temperamental leader who brokers no dissent and has blurred the lines between the school and his personal business.

Johnson later said she had misspoken and that no letter has been sent.

Liberty is the nations highest-profile evangelical college. Falwell previously told AP that the news reports stemmed from an attempted coup orchestrated by several disgruntled former board members and employees who are leaking internal university communications to discredit him. He said he has asked the FBI to investigate what he considers a criminal conspiracy.

Falwell is the son of the late evangelist the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who founded Liberty and led the Moral Majority, a conservative, religious political action group.

The younger Falwell was among the earliest Christian conservatives to endorse President Donald Trumps campaign and has enjoyed close access to the president. He says that support has likely prompted some of the criticism of his leadership style, personal life and business investments that has surfaced in news reports recently.

Falwell has helped transform Liberty from a tiny Baptist college into a touchstone institution for evangelicals. Its campus is dotted with sparkling new buildings and the university is flush with cash and real estate holdings in and around Lynchburg.

The most recently available tax records show Falwell makes about $1 million a year running the school.

Liberty is currently fully accredited without any sanctions, Johnson said.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Liberty Gold Corp. (LGD-TSX) (Liberty Gold or the Company) is pleased to announce that drilling at Black Pine in southern Idaho, USA, continues to return thick, high-grade intervals of Carlin-style oxide gold mineralization. New results from Discovery 2 expand the footprint of mineralization and confirm the Company thesis that previous operators did not test laterally and to depth in this 12 square kilometer (km2) sedimentary rock-hosted gold system.

DISCOVERY 2 ZONE DRILL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE1:

1A number of mineralized intervals were omitted from this table for brevity. Please refer to the full table at the link below for complete results. Grams per Tonne Gold abbreviated as g/t Au.

For a cross section and long sections of drill collars and traces for the current release, please click here:http://libertygold.ca/images/news/2019/october/BlackPine_NR10012019CS.pdf

For a map of drill collars and traces for the current release, please click here:http://libertygold.ca/images/news/2019/october/BlackPine_NR10012019Map.pdf

For a complete table of drill results from all Liberty Gold drill holes at Black Pine, please click here:http://libertygold.ca/images/news/2019/october/BP_Intercepts10012019.pdf

The Discovery 2 zone continues to deliver high grades along a north-northwest-striking feeder fault corridor, as well as long intervals of approximately 1 g/t Au in the footwall area to the east. Liberty Gold believes that this represents a small portion of the total strike length of the Discovery 2 zone. The two zones are projected to converge near the northern margin of and below the historic B Pit, with an average mined grade of 1.38 g/t Au.

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We continue to be extremely happy with the results coming out of Black Pine, stated Moira Smith, VP, Exploration and Geoscience. It is hard to overstate the potential significance of the grades and widths of mineralization encountered in this drilling, given that our target is a low capital and operating cost, bulk tonnage, heap-leachable oxide gold deposit. High-grade intercepts of greater than 1.0 g/t Au are hosted in a relatively flat-laying calcareous sandstone unit outcropping in the historic B Pit, A Basin and A Pit. Our drilling to date is starting to connect these three areas under the ridge with zones of continuous mineralization. Historic and Liberty Gold drilling demonstrates that the rock overlying the high-grade zones also contains broad areas of oxide gold mineralization, with intercepts typically ranging from 0.20 to 0.60 g/t Au. Based on the results received to date, we anticipate a low overall strip ratio. We intend to accelerate the drill program in 2020.

DISCOVERY 1 ZONE NEW RESULTS

Results were also received for infill and step-out holes in the Discovery 1 zone. Additional step out drilling will be carried out to extend this zone to the northwest, and to better define the transition of this zone into historic B pit mineralization to the southeast. It is presently approximately 150 to 200 m wide and 1 km long and may continue to the southeast on the south side of the B pit complex, beyond the limits of the Focus Area.

DISCOVERY 1 ZONE DRILL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

Drilling in October will continue to focus on step-outs to the Discovery 1 and 2 zones, as well as testing of two potential new zones located further to the east.

ABOUT THE 2019 BLACK PINE DRILL PROGRAMOne Reverse Circulation (RC) drill was deployed on April 23, 2019, with a second drill added on June 18, to drill an estimated 20,000 m in 80 to 100 holes to provide a comprehensive test of a portion of the core of an oxide gold system estimated at over 12 km2 in size. A diamond core drill was added on September 24 to drill an estimated 1600 m program. The drill program represents the culmination of over 2 years of intensive compilation, modeling and interpretation of the complex geology of the project, as well as a 20 month permitting process. The goal of the 2019 drill program is to carry out a comprehensive test of the geological and mineralization model over a roughly one km2 Focus Area encompassing a highly prospective location near the historic A and B historic pits, in order to establish and refine the model for use throughout the project area. Extensive data compilation, involving over 1800 historic drill holes, thousands of surface soil and rock samples and 5 shallow pits, suggests that a large volume of rock under and adjacent to zones of previously drill-tested and/or mined gold mineralization contains highly prospective stratigraphy and favourable structural settings for hosting Carlin-style gold mineralization.

ABOUT BLACK PINEBlack Pine is located in the northern Great Basin, immediately adjacent to the Utah/Idaho border. It is a Carlin-style gold system, similar in many ways to the prolific deposits located along Nevadas Carlin trend. Like Newmonts Long Canyon deposit, Black Pine represents a growing number of Carlin-style gold systems located off the main Carlin and Cortez trends in underexplored parts of the Great Basin. The historic Black Pine Mine operated from 1992 to 1997, during a period of historically low gold prices, with 435,000 ounces of gold produced from five composite, shallow pits, at an average grade of 0.63 g/t Au and average recovery of approximately 66%.

A virtual site tour and 3D model of Black Pine property, including details about the geology and mineralization, is available on the homepage of the Companys website, http://www.libertygold.ca, and in a Technical Report also available on the Company website.

Moira Smith, Ph.D., P.Geo., Vice-President Exploration and Geoscience, Liberty Gold, is the Company's designated Qualified Person for this news release within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") and has reviewed and validated that the information contained in the release is accurate. Drill composites were calculated using a cut-off of 0.20 g/t. Drill intersections are reported as drilled thicknesses. True widths of the mineralized intervals vary between 30 and 100% of the reported lengths due to varying drill hole orientations, but are typically in the range of 60 to 100% of true width. Drill samples were assayed by ALS Limited in Reno, Nevada for gold by Fire Assay of a 30 gram (1 assay ton) charge with an AA finish, or if over 5.0 g/t were re-assayed and completed with a gravimetric finish. For these samples, the gravimetric data were utilized in calculating gold intersections. For any samples assaying over 0.20 ppm an additional cyanide leach analysis is done where the sample is treated with a 0.25% NaCN solution and rolled for an hour. An aliquot of the final leach solution is then centrifuged and analyzed by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy. QA/QC for all drill samples consists of the insertion and continual monitoring of numerous standards and blanks into the sample stream, and the collection of duplicate samples at random intervals within each batch. Selected holes are also analyzed for a 51 multi-element geochemical suite by ICP-MS. ALS Geochemistry-Reno is ISO 17025:2005 Accredited, with the Elko prep lab listed on the scope of accreditation.

ABOUT LIBERTY GOLDLiberty Gold is focused on exploring the Great Basin of the United States, home to large-scale gold projects that are ideal for open-pit mining. This region is one of the most prolific gold-producing regions in the world and stretches across Nevada and into Idaho and Utah. We know the Great Basin and are driven to discover and advance big gold deposits that can be mined profitably in open-pit scenarios. Our flagship projects are Black Pine, Goldstrikeand Kinsley Mountain, all of which are past producing open-pit mines, where previous operators only scratched the surface.

For more information, visitwww.libertygold.caor contact:

Susie Bell, Manager, Investor RelationsPhone: 604-632-4677 or Toll Free 1-877-632-4677info@libertygold.ca

Allstatements in this press release, other than statements of historical fact, are "forward-looking information" with respect to Liberty Gold within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements regarding timing of the anticipated metallurgical results, potential quantity and/or grade of minerals, potential size and expansion of a mineralized zone, proposed timing of exploration and development plans. Forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "plan", "continue", "planned", "expect", "project", "predict", "potential", "targeting", "intends", "believe", "potential", and similar expressions, or describes a "goal", or variation of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "should", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. Forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance and is based upon a number of estimates and assumptions of management at the date the statements are made including, among others, assumptions about future prices of gold, and other metal prices, currency exchange rates and interest rates, favourable operating conditions, political stability, obtaining governmental approvals and financing on time, obtaining renewals for existing licenses and permits and obtaining required licenses and permits, labour stability, stability in market conditions, availability of equipment, accuracy of any mineral resources, the availability of drill rigs, successful resolution of disputes and anticipated costs and expenditures. Many assumptions are based on factorsand events that are not within the control of Liberty Gold and there is no assurance they will prove to be correct.

Such forward-looking information, involves known and unknown risks, which may cause the actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including, risks related to the interpretation of results and/or the reliance on technical information provided by third parties as related to the Companys mineral property interests; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; current economic conditions; future prices of commodities; possible variations in grade or recovery rates; the costs and timing of the development of new deposits; failure of equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; the failure of contracted parties to perform; the timing and success of exploration activities generally; delays in permitting; possible claims against the Company; labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; delays in obtaining governmental approvals, financing or in the completion of exploration as well as those factors discussed in the Annual Information Form of the Company dated March 27, 2019 in the section entitled "Risk Factors", under Liberty Golds SEDAR profile atwww.sedar.com.Although Liberty Gold has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Liberty Gold disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise unless required by law

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The Arizona Repertory Theatres first show of the season, The Legend of Georgia McBride, puts their actors in drag over-the-top costumes, makeup looks and wigs.

It is more so in your face than anything I have ever experienced, said Rachel Wilkins, one of the wardrobe heads for the show.

The show tells the story of Casey, played by University of Arizona student Dylan Cotter. When Casey loses his job as an Elvis impersonator, he turns to the drag scene in order to provide for his wife and the child he has on the way.

With a lot of pressures mounting up on him, he eventually turns to the unlikely world of drag and drag queens to help solve his problems, Cotter said. He finds a little bit more than just financial security in these people.

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For Cotter, this was the first time he had ever come into contact with drag. While drag didnt pique his interest prior to the play, he said he was able to learn about the history behind drag and had a fun time representing the community.

I never really had interest in it or knew what it was, Cotter said. As soon as I got cast in the play and we started prepping for the show, I became more and more familiar with the world of drag and the culture of drag. The history was like an entirely new universe that I never heard. It was a really great time.

Similar to Cotter, Naphtali Curry, who plays a character named Tracy, had also never been in drag. In the past, Curry had to wear makeup in order to portray a scary ghost face, but he had never done makeup that portrayed beauty.

When I did Addams Family here, we had to wear, like, ghostly, ancestry makeup, Curry said. We still had contour and things like that but it wasnt like giving face contour, more so just making us look older and ghost-like.

According to Wilkins, co-director Patrick Holt went over the makeup basics with the actors. Holt is an associate professor at the UA School of Theatre, Film & Television and a prominent drag queen. He taught everyone how he wanted it to look and perfected it along the way, allowing the actors to do their own makeup for the show.

Wilkins said they all look so great when they are transformed into their characters.

It was hard, Ive never done it before, Curry said. You dont want it to look spotty, so that was my biggest challenge, just making sure everything blends. I learned it pretty quickly. From starting it to doing it by myself, it took me about a week to really solidify this is how it goes and it will look like this every time.

When it came to costumes, the bigger the better. Wilkins said Holt designed the costumes with the help of theatre production student Shaelyn Ellershaw. Wilkins and the rest of the wardrobe department made the costumes that couldnt be bought, such as the Tina Turner dress and Elvis jumpsuits.

As you can imagine, Patrick having that field of knowledge already led to the most amazing kind of spectacular costumes, from beautifully embroidered dresses that give a callback to the Elvis and 50s theme of the show, to ridiculous and over the top bikini leotards, Cotter said. You get the full range of really nicely done stuff and stuff that will make you laugh as soon as you see it.

Curry said the bold wardrobe in the show included the biggest costumes he has ever had to wear, and he has to make eight costume changes throughout the show.

In other shows that I have done, its like pants, shirt, youre good, and this time, Im having to do the most costume changes Ive ever had during a show, Curry said.

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Despite having three back-to-back costume changes, Curry said that he is blessed to have some time in between. Cotter, on the other hand, has to change from woman to man in the matter of seconds.

We have two wardrobe people on Dylan because he has so many changes, Wilkins said. The longest change that he has is in between scenes. When he runs off, we have 15 seconds or less to literally get him out of a woman and into a man or get him out of man into all woman.

Wilkins said they were able to work on a routine and figure out what works best when it comes to the fast wardrobe changes. She said they can probably do it with their eyes closed now.

In addition to the crazy costumes and makeup, Cotter said the show is sure to make you fall from your seat laughing.

Aside from the fact that youre going to have nonstop laughter for an hour and a half, the show is really funny and hilarious, Cotter said. Youre going to see everything in the world of drag from every perspective.

If youre interested in learning more about the show, you can visit them at theatre.arizona.edu.

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Hinesville police reveal the identities of two young children found dead in a car in Hinesville this weekend.Raelynn and Payton Keyes, both 3 years old, were found in a carthat wasn't running in the Griffin Park neighborhood."It's been some time since we found children inside a car that was associated with heat,"Capt. Tracy Howard with the Hinesville Police Department said.Investigators came to the scene Sunday afternoon when the children's foster parent found them, after they had reportedly been missing for a period of time.Monday morning, an autopsy was conducted on the two, and now the Liberty County Coroner's Office is waiting for the results before they rule a cause of death.While the Georgia Bureau of Investigation assisted with the crime scene, it is the Hinesville Police Department investigating it further.While police say the house was not unfamiliar to the children, it's not the house the children and foster parents normally reside at. The car the girls were found in is also under investigation as it does not belong to the foster parent that found them, as well as why the car wasn't turned on when police arrived on scene. "It's still too early in the investigation to tell. We're looking at what caused their deaths. They were found in a vehicle, unresponsive, and there is a question about them being missing before they were located," Howard said.

Hinesville police reveal the identities of two young children found dead in a car in Hinesville this weekend.

Raelynn and Payton Keyes, both 3 years old, were found in a carthat wasn't running in the Griffin Park neighborhood.

"It's been some time since we found children inside a car that was associated with heat,"Capt. Tracy Howard with the Hinesville Police Department said.

Investigators came to the scene Sunday afternoon when the children's foster parent found them, after they had reportedly been missing for a period of time.

Monday morning, an autopsy was conducted on the two, and now the Liberty County Coroner's Office is waiting for the results before they rule a cause of death.

While the Georgia Bureau of Investigation assisted with the crime scene, it is the Hinesville Police Department investigating it further.

While police say the house was not unfamiliar to the children, it's not the house the children and foster parents normally reside at. The car the girls were found in is also under investigation as it does not belong to the foster parent that found them, as well as why the car wasn't turned on when police arrived on scene.

"It's still too early in the investigation to tell. We're looking at what caused their deaths. They were found in a vehicle, unresponsive, and there is a question about them being missing before they were located," Howard said.

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By buying an index fund, investors can approximate the average market return. But if you pick the right individual stocks, you could make more than that. For example, the The Liberty Braves Group (NASDAQ:BATR.K) share price is up 60% in the last three years, clearly besting the market return of around 34% (not including dividends). On the other hand, the returns havent been quite so good recently, with shareholders up just 4.4%.

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While Liberty Braves Group made a small profit, in the last year, we think that the market is probably more focussed on the top line growth at the moment. Generally speaking, wed consider a stock like this alongside loss-making companies, simply because the quantum of the profit is so low. For shareholders to have confidence a company will grow profits significantly, it must grow revenue.

In the last 3 years Liberty Braves Group saw its revenue grow at 21% per year. Thats well above most pre-profit companies. The share price rise of 17% per year throughout that time is nice to see, and given the revenue growth, that gain seems somewhat justified. So now might be the perfect time to put Liberty Braves Group on your radar. A window of opportunity may reveal itself with time, if the business can trend to profitability.

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Dr. Luke Sheahan, an assistant professorin the Department of Political Science at Duquesne University, held apresentation at the Memorial Student Center in regard to the freedom of associationand how it affects us as individuals in our everyday lives. The presentationwas held on Tuesday, Sept 17.

Freedom of association is defined to bethe right to form societies, clubs and other groups of people and to meet withthose people individually without interference by the government. If taken thewrong way, it can derail other rights such as freedom of religion, speech andpress.

Dr. Sheahan explains that upon evidencein multiple court cases in the past, the United States Supreme Court does notrealize how big of an impact the freedom of association really has. One of thelargest court cases to ever weaken this First Amendment Law was Christian LegalSociety (CLS) vs Martinez in 2010.

The court ruled in this case that theuniversity can force a religious student group to allow anyone to join thatgroup, whether that individual agreed to the terms of the group or not. Whathas seemed to be missing throughout the entirety of cases related to this oneis more or less the concept of association itself, Dr. Sheahan said.

To better understand what makes up anassociation, Dr. Sheahan used Robert Nisbets explanation of the seven piecesthat make up a group. These pieces are function, dogma, authority, hierarchy,solidarity, status and superiority. Each group must have some form of thesevalues. In relation to the Christian Legal Society (CLS) vs Martinez, the CLScontains all of the Nisbets to be considered a group and every group orassociation will have functional autonomy. What this means is that each groupfunctions based on what they wish to do.

Dr. Sheahan said that the freedom of associationgives a lot of power to other rights, and that the idea of assembly andassociation being undercut, can undercut a lot of other important things suchas religious studies, recreational events or even certain groups within theworkplace. Dr. Sheahan has set up the Freedom of Association Protection Act.This act will protect the freedom of association in its entirety. The act drawsupon the true power of the First Amendment as a whole and not piece by piece.

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Editors note: This is the last of a four-part series exploring the need for America to transform from a culture of brokenness to a culture of life.

Our Founding Fathers knew that without the Creator, the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness would not be absolute.

As American society moves ever further from God, our culture is increasingly marked by the human brokenness that results from the disintegration of these sacred rights.

Without the Creator, the value of a life depends on its usefulness to those who are stronger, and liberty is curtailed in a thousand ways, including how we spend our money, time and talents severely limiting our ability to pursue what makes us happy.

As radical leftists continue their attempt to expunge God from our culture, liberty is diminishing with it, including the unalienable right to pursue happiness. Oppressive leftist policies even pervert what it means to pursue happiness, replacing the hard work required to realize personal dreams with an empty promise of happiness through instant gratification.

The pursuit of happiness involves effort. No one can hand happiness to us: It is something we must work toward.

God created us in His image, with each of us reflecting glimpses of His magnificence. Some are created to be musicians, others writers or teachers. Some have abilities to excel in business, to champion a cause, or are imbued with the gift of hospitality. It is in discovering our own talents, and then developing and using them, that brings deep personal fulfillment.

In other words, we find our greatest happiness when we spend our time pursuing what we were created to do.

Discovering our purpose and doing our best to achieve it is a God-ordained right, and entire nations thrive or vanish depending on if they infringe upon this sacred prerogative.

Any accomplished dancer, welder, chef or nurse will tell you it takes hard work and long hours to develop innate talents in order to exercise them to their fullest potential.

Tragically, that right is infringed when oppressive governments seek to foster a sense of dependency. Far too many Americans have fallen for the allure of the siren song of instant gratification. Its just so much easier to take the cash and avoid the work required to overcome adversity in order to achieve our dreams. Falling into this trance robs people of much happiness.

It also destroys liberties as the takers gradually become ensnared by the strings that are always attached to easy money.

When governments erect unnecessary barriers that inhibit innovation and creativity, they also rob people of the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Both the fulfillment that comes with personal achievement and the deep satisfaction that comes with trying your best, but failing and having the ability and the guts to try again, are essential to human happiness. Government has a duty to stay out of the way of those who wish to relentlessly pursue their dreams.

When governments play God and restrict the pursuit of happiness through endless regulations and bureaucratic paperwork, they shatter dreams and set people up for failure.

Spirits are crushed, and society suffers from stagnation. Hearts begin to fill with hopelessness, despair and a feeling of why even bother? Such negative attitudes affect the fabric of the nation and result in malaise. There is no happiness in that.

Just as policies designed to oppress freedom and limit our potential lead to human misery, so do the policies of those who foolishly believe in liberty absent moral standards established by an omniscient God.

The result is anarchy at worst, and cultural chaos at best. True liberty is only possible when it is ordered by Gods natural law.

It was John Adams who said, Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

This is not to say that every American must be a person of faith in order for our nation to be marked by a culture of life and liberty.

It does mean that if America bans God and his guidance from our institutions, if we prohibit believers to freely practice their faith, if we fail to seek His guidance and protection, then we will suffer the natural consequences of the choices that we have made.

The cure to our cultural ills does not reside in government. America will never conquer the growing cancers of heartbreak, anger and violence with mindless feel-good legislation.

Cultural healing will only come when the people can fully enjoy their rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And that is only possible when America is one nation under God.

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The Supreme Courts October term is centered around First Amendment cases, including more than a dozen regarding religious liberty. In a political climate in which religious liberty is under attack, the bench has a shining chance to stand with one of our most fundamental freedoms, and remind First Amendment opponents of the importance of the law. A few of thesecases, which will begin on the courts October 8th return date, include LGBTQ and discrimination issues; these will all put the scope of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the test.

First up in front of the bench, Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, constitutes the discrimination battle between a Christian funeral home and 58 year-old Aimee Stephens, a transgender woman who was fired from her job at the funeral home in 2013. The Michigan lower court ruled in favor of Stephens, citing the Civil Rights Act, and claimed that the law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, which the court said includes gender identity. Most notably, the states civil rights commission ruled last year that LGBTQ workers could not be discriminated against, but Stephens was fired in 2013.

Bostock v. Clayton County also puts discrimination based on sexual orientation to the test. Filed under Title VII, Gerald Bostock, a gay man, claims that during his tenure of employment with Clayton County, Georgia, he was unnecessarily audited on account of his sexual orientation. Bostock also affirms that he was eventually fired by the county for conduct unbecoming of its employees, and believes his termination was on the basis of his sexual orientation.

Altitude Express v. Zarda,alsofiled under Title VII, is brought to the high court by Donald Zarda, who worked as a skydiving instructor at Altitude Express. Also a gay man, Zarda claims that he was wrongfully terminated on the basis of his sexual orientation. Often in close proximity with clients, due to the nature of the job, a woman complained to the management of Altitude Express that Zarda touched her inappropriately and used his orientation as a cover. Zardas employment was then terminated.

The latter two cases will be argued in tangent with one another. All three cases constitute a true test for the scope of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Verbatim, the act does not cover sexual orientation or gender identity. Until 2017, all lower court rulings were consistent with the language as written in their rulings. Now, we see a trend of bending the language to fit the 2019 mold and idea of gender as a social construct.

These three cases, among others the highest court may hear, present an opportunity for the justices to defend religious liberty fiercely. The future of how gender and sexual orientation are viewed under the law, with respect to workplace discrimination, is highly contingent on the rulings that will come from the bench this term.

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Watching Wellsboro soccer, youd never know Junior Kaeden Mann was such a prolific goal scorer. Hes a team-first player whose main purpose is to create havoc with his movement for a prolific Hornet attack that has scored over 250 goals the last three years.

Despite his seemingly laid-back style, Mann became the fast player in Wellsboro Boys Soccer history to score 50 goals as his four tallies led Wellsboro to an 11-1 win over North Penn-Liberty on Monday night at the Wellsboro Community Athletic Complex.

It took Mann just 53 games to reach 50 goals.

Kaeden came in his freshman year and started scoring right away, and to get his 50 goals this early in his junior season shows you the type of player he is. Hes never competing against the competition, hes always competing against himself, remarked Wellsboro Head Coach Todd Fitch.

Fitch, who is in his second year as head coach at Wellsboro, was the assistant coach when Mann was a freshman.

Hes an unselfish player. He started off the season recording more assists than scoring goals himself, Fitch noted.

The goals came early and often as Wellsboro scored three times in the first four minutes, one coming from Mann. Hed be shut out the rest of the half, though and getting to 50 in front of a home crowd looked in doubt.

However, three goals in the first 22 minutes of the second half, the final one coming on a slick first-time finish off a cross, gave Mann the milestone.

It made me feel really good to get it out of the way Junior year and get a milestone for me I didnt try to get 50 goals, I just played my game, remarked Mann after the game. Hes taken after two other players hes played with who have reached the mark, as Tanner Runyan and Brett Rudy reached it in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Northeast Bradford 5, Galeton 4

The Panthers scored three second half goals to rally past Galeton in NTL boys soccer action Monday.

Galeton nabbed the first two goals of the game as Joseph Brumbach scored at 29:34 off a Jake Cochran assist.

Then at 21:15 Brumbach finds the back of the net again, this time off a Jessica Evans through ball.

Brandon Kuhn got NEB on the scoreboard off a shot from outside the 18 at 16:56.

The Panthers then tied it up at 15:14 as Julian Jampo curled a long shot in.

Cochran put Galeton up with 13:10 left in the half, making it 3-2 at the break.

Less than four minutes into the second half Kuhn finished off a Brennen Canfield assist to knot the game up.

Kuhn got the hat trick at 18:52 on a shot from the corner of the 18.

Gavin Merritt extended the lead to two goals off an assist by Jampo with 8:44 left in the game.

With 2:01 Cochran cut it to a 1-goal deficit crashing the goal on a Garrett Cooper save that deflected away.

NEB out shot Galeton 17-10 as both teams notched four saves.

Cooper made six saves for NEB.

Benton 7, Sullivan County 2

The Griffins cut it to 2-1 early in the second half but Benton went on to score five straight goals to get the Mid-Penn boys soccer win Monday.

Benton took a 2-0 lead at the break thanks to goals from Fernando Cruz and Clay Nickles.

Less than three minutes into the second half Nathan Higley scored to make it 2-1.

However, a little over two minutes after that James DiLossi scored for a 3-1 lead. Benton then got goals from Chase Hoover, Luke Hayman, Cruz and Orion Pursel to push their advantage to 7-1.

Trace Neary scored with nine minutes left for the 7-2 final.

Benton out shot Sullivan 21-10 as Owen Schweitzer made 13 saves in net for the Griffins.

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Liberty 3, North Florida 0

Liberty volleyball ran its Atlantic Sun Conference win streak to three games and its overall win streak to five matches with a 3-0 sweep of North Florida (6-10, 0-2 A-Sun) on Sunday at the Vines Center.

The Flames, who swept an A-Sun opponent for the third straight match, won 25-17, 25-21, 25-19. Liberty has won 12 straight at the Vines Center.

Amelia Johnson had a match-high 17 kills for LU (10-5, 3-0), and Kailey Macy had six blocks.

North Florida 1, Liberty 0

In Jacksonville, Florida, Liberty (5-5-2, 1-1 A-Sun) suffered its first conference loss, falling to North Florida in overtime.

Thais Reiss netted the game-winner in the 97th minute for the Ospreys (7-3-1, 1-0).

Notre Dame (Md.) 2, Sweet Briar 1

In Baltimore, Alexis Jones scored in the 30th minute to cut Sweet Briars deficit to one goal, but it wasnt enough to push the Vixens to a victory, and Notre Dame (Maryland) secured the win.

Maia Giafes put Notre Dame up 1-0 in the ninth minute off an assist from Vanessa Dunn, and Hailey Lockard scored the game-deciding goal in the 25th minute.

Notre Dame (4-6) outshot Sweet Briar (1-5) 14-3.

Sweet Briars Kuleba 20th in R-MC tourney

In Ashland, Sweet Briars Annika Kuleba shot a 98 in the second round of the Randolph-Macon Fall Invitational at Hanover Country Club to finish 20th in a field of 36 individuals.

Kuleba carded an aggregate 203 over two rounds. After shooting a 105 in the first round Saturday, she improved her second-round score by seven shots. Kuleba finished 47 strokes behind Stevensons Casey Oppenheimer, who claimed medalist honors in the tournament.

Sweet Briar did not field a team in the event.

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An athletics official at Liberty University is expected to launch a GOP primary challenge to freshman Rep. Denver RigglemanDenver RigglemanLiberty University official to launch primary challenge to GOP's Riggleman Virginia county GOP censures Rep. Riggleman, sparking sharp response House Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 2020 MORE in the coming days after the Virginia Republican recently faced pushback from a handful ofcounty officials in his district.

Bob Good, who currently sits in the Campbell County Board of Supervisors and serves as the senior associate athletics director and chief fundraiser for athletics at Liberty University, told The Hill he plans to have a formal announcement in the near future.

"Denver Riggleman has betrayed the trust of the conservative Republican base that comprises the bulk of the 5thDistrict with his votes against the border wall in favor of increased immigration, frankly, ignoring President TrumpDonald John TrumpKamala Harris calls for Twitter to suspend Trump account over whistleblower attacks Clinton jokes she 'never' had to tell Obama not to 'extort foreign countries' John Dean: 'There is enough evidence' to impeach Trump MORE's policy on American jobs for American workers, and even restricting the ability of ICE to do their jobs, just to name a few, he told The Hill in an interview.

And it's my contention and many others that he has so severely damaged himself within the party that he's made himself unelectable in a general race next November. So I can confirm and will confirm that I responded to the call from the party to give our voters a concerted choice as their nominee and I do plan to formally announce my candidacy soon.

The expected challenge comes shortly after the Rappahannock County Republican Party in Virginia censured Riggleman,accusing the freshman GOPcongressman of abandoning party principles on fiscal spending, foreign policy and immigration.

However, Rigglemans camp has argued the censure is intended "to punish" the congressman after he officiated a same-sex wedding in July.

Thiscensurein Rappahannock is part of an ongoing effort to punish Denver Riggleman for his recent officiation of a same-sex wedding. Denver Riggleman has an excellent conservative voting record that has brought jobs back to the 5th district, Riggleman spokesman Joe Chelak told The Hill in a statement earlier this monthafter the censure.

"Denver Riggleman will continue to fight to make the Republican party a big tent party.

Critics of Riggleman have denied that the same-sex wedding is the reason behind the censure, arguing he has stood consistently with GOP leadership instead of voting in the best interest of his district and alleging he ignored everyones emails and phone calls all from Republican voters who had supported him."

Congressman Riggleman and his hired hands want to portray all criticism of his votes in Congress as being cover for bigotry and homophobia. This is not only untrue, its a despicable unprecedented slander at his own constituents, one Good supporter who declined to be named told The Hill.

The district was previously represented by former Rep. Tom GarrettThomas (Tom) Alexander GarrettLiberty University official to launch primary challenge to GOP's Riggleman Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations Ethics investigation finds outgoing House Republican made staff unload groceries, dog-sit MORE (R-Va.), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, a group Good has vowed to join in elected.

Riggleman, meanwhile, has received key endorsements on the right, including from Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.

Falwell recently called on Republicans in Virginias 5th District to unite and become a big tent party.

It is my understanding that certain leaders of the Republican Party in the 5th district are attempting to exclude you and others because of social issues. I was told they are assuming that because you officiated a gay marriage recently, that you are not socially conservative, Falwell wrote in his letter endorsing Riggleman on Sept. 4.

I believe that excluding other conservatives over issues that have already been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court does nothing but help liberals gain more power.

Good said he expects topGOP figures in the areato come out in support of his candidacy as the race heats up, though he declined to offer any names yet.

I will just say that my candidacy or my potential which will soon we realized candidacy has been greatly received, I've been tremendously encouraged by Republican leadership throughout the district, and from state officeholders, as well as local officeholders, as well as party leaders throughout the district, so I think we all have a tremendous base of conservative Republican support heading into the primary season, he said.

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NEW DELHI: There has to be a balance between personal liberty of an individual and national security, the Supreme Court said Tuesday while hearing the pleas that have raised issue of curbs in the Kashmir Valley after the abrogation of provision of Article 370.

The top court's remarks came after the Jammu and Kashmir administration said that 100 per cent landlines are working in the Valley and their is no restriction on he movement of people during the day time.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for J&K administration, told a bench headed by Justice N V Ramana that if mobile and internet facility were resorted in the Valley, then fake WhatsApp messages would be circulated from "across the border" and it might incite violence there.

Several petitioners, including Executive Editor of Kashmir Times Anuradha Bhasin, activist Tehseen Poonawala and Foundation of Media Professionals, through its president Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, claimed that their was complete lockdown of communication networks and restrictions on movement of journalists.

The bench, also comprising justices R Subhash Reddy and B R Gavai, sought response from Centre and asked the petitioners to file their rejoinder and listed the matter in the second week of November.

"There has to be a balance between personal liberty of a person and the national security," the bench said while dealing with a batch of nine petitions pertaining to restrictions in the Valley.

At the outset, the top court dealing with the petition of CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that it was habeas corpus (writ directing production of a person in detention before the court) petition and he has already been granted indulgence by the court.

"You have moved a habeas corpus petition. That prayer no longer survives as that person -- Mohd Yousuf Tarigami -- has himself moved the apex court challenging the abrogation of Article 370. It was a limited question. what further relief do you want," the bench told senior advocate Raju Ramachandaran, representing Yechury.

Ramachandaran said he want that either the detention of Tarigami be declared illegal or the authority be asked to justify his detention after August 5.

To this, the bench said that Jammu and Kashmir High Court is functioning smoothly and the petitioner can approach there for relief.

"If you want this petition to be heard here, then it will come in due course of time and if you want your petition to be heard urgently, then you shall go to the Jammu and Kashmir High Court," the bench said.

Ramachandaran insisted that the matter be heard by the top court after which the bench directed the Centre to file its response and listed it for hearing in November.

In another related matter, Senior advocate Huzefa A Ahmadi, appearing for Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, said as per the court orders, Azad had visited the state and thus, his first prayer in the petition has been complied with.

Ahmadi said his other prayers still remain and the authority should tell the court as under what provisions of law the restrictions have been imposed on movement of people in the valley.

Mehta told the bench that during the day time, there are no restrictions on movement of people in the valley and curbs are imposed depending upon situation during the night time.

The bench asked Mehta to file an affidavit related to the restrictions on movement of people within two weeks.

The apex court also refused to entertain a petition filed by Sameer Kaul seeking restoration of internet communication services in hospitals and directed him to approach the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.

Dealing with the petitions of Bhasin, Poonawalla and Foundation of Media Professionals, the top court questioned the number of intervention applications filed in the case.

It restrained filing of any fresh intervention application in the issue related to restriction imposed in the valley.

Mehta questioned the locus of Poonawalla and said that he is a "TV personnality and not the resident of the state".

To this, Justice Gavai apparently referring to Judge B H Loya death case said, "Is this Tehseen Poonawalla the same person, who has levelled certain allegation against us in the Nagpur case?".

Senior advocate Meenakshi Arora, appearing for Poonawalla said she is not in know how of any such incident, but the issue of restrictions in Kashmir, which is on its 57th day, is a serious matter and needs to be addressed.

She stated that they are aggrieved with the complete shutdown in the valley as people are being forced to suffer as most of the hospitals are in Srinagar.

"Under what notification this lockdown was done in Kashmir valley, the government must tell the court," she said.

Mehta denied any such claims and said hospitals are working smoothly in the valley and lakhs of people have availed the medical facilities since August 5 till mid September.

"There are no restrictions on health facilities and all the hospitals are working smoothly. These issues are being raised to serve some other interests," he said, adding that if the internet services are restored then there will be circulation of fake news.

He said that internet kiosks are being set up in various areas for the people and journalists.

The bench, while listing all these matters related to restrictions in Kashmir in the month of November, asked the Centre to file its reply on these petitions.

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Brandon Hall didnt want to come back to coaching wrestling unless it was real.

Some of the other jobs that came open, no disrespect to them, but I felt like Id have to manufacture the passion to get things going there, he said. But I thought Liberty, the passion would have come back really quickly, if that had ever come available to me.

And now it has.

With the approval of the Bethlehem Area School Board on Monday, Hall becomes the fifth head coach in Hurricanes history, succeeding Jody Karam and his 26 eventful years.

Its a remarkable turnaround for Hall, who at this time last year was dealing with his ouster as Freedoms head coach, where he had been since 2010.

Yes, the same school district where he was just hired. And, yes, Libertys archrival. Like going from the Yankees to the Red Sox, Penn State to Pitt, Easton to Phillipsburg.

As one former Freedom wrestler tweeted at the news, I never thought Id be rooting for Liberty wrestling.

But a deeper look shows the move makes sense.

First, and foremost, almost everybody in the regional wrestling community respected the job Hall did at Freedom, and almost everybody was surprised (to say the least) when he was let go. That included plenty of people at Liberty, who, when Karam resigned in July, knew who they wanted to step in. While Liberty and Freedom are in the same district, they are not run, at most levels, by the same people. So Freedom not wanting Hall made no difference if Liberty did. And it did.

Second, Hall loves Bethlehem, in the way that sometimes only a transplant can. Hes not a native -- Hall, now 43, originally hails from tiny Tussey Mountain High School in south-central Pennsylvania, in perhaps the most obscure PIAA district (5). But while you could drop Tussey Mountains graduating class into Libertys student body and hardly anyone would notice, Hall sees a similar mindset in the Christmas City.

My wife Tara and I moved here in 2000 and we live in Bethlehem, Hall said. It feels like a small-town environment, which is so important to me, My children go to Nitschmann Middle School and James Buchanan Elementary. I have always been impressed by the sense of community at Liberty, its a beautiful thing to see how many people care about the school in all its aspects.

Hall, who teaches social studies at South Mountain Middle School in the Allentown School District, and his passion for his adopted hometown and his sport came together nicely.

I was on vacation in Maine (when Karam resigned), way up in Maine, and we barely had cellphone service, and people were calling and asking me if I wanted the job, Hall said. I really thought about it and I never thought the opportunity would come up, but now it has, and its an amazing thing to me, being head coach of the oldest program in the state (1923).

Third, Hall loves wrestling in a way that a coach at a program like Liberty must love the sport. When you coach at one of the Lehigh Valleys top wrestling schools, you become identified with both the school and, even more so, the sport in an almost all-consuming way. Thats not for everybody -- as some folks who have taken those jobs have learned to their sorrow -- but it fits Hall perfectly.

My wife told me, Youll never be completely happy if youre not involved in wrestling; remember you went back to school to get your teaching certificate because of coaching, Hall said. She reminded me of that -- to not lose sight of your ultimate goal.

Hall did hesitate a bit about applying at Liberty.

Would they hire me?, Hall said he thought. We know what happened across town, the same school district. But (longtime referee and youth coach) Mike Evans, who I am really good friends with, reached out to me and said, I think you are so wrong. I think you are misreading this.

That excellent advice landed Hall at Liberty, where he can apply his long experience in wrestling -- he was part of three MAC championship teams at Lycoming under the legendary Roger Crebs, as good a coaching model as can be found -- to maintain the levels of excellence Karam reached, especially in recent seasons.

Theres every reason to believe Hall will do so.

Karam inspired loyalty and commitment to Liberty wrestling, and Hall did the same at Freedom. Both coaches, while wildly different personalities and with a very different sense of style (Hall isnt quite Karam-like in sartorial splendor), believe in their wrestlers and their staff in ways that last far beyond the mat and create lifetime bonds.Thats where the passion comes in.

Halls Liberty will be a mix of Freedom types and Liberty loyalists on staff, with Kyle DeHaut and Evans as ex-Pates and Mikey Pena, Richie Cabrera and more as Hurricanes holdovers.

Its not just about bringing in my people, Hall said. What makes Liberty great is all the people that want to help me.

Hall helps himself by his approach to the sport. Like Karam, he knows not everybody wrestles year-round, and thats OK. He has a real flair for working with upper weights -- an increasing rarity these days and often an untapped road to victories. He can convince athletes to wrestle, as he did so well at Freedom. At the same time, he knows the junior high and youth programs are critical.

Its all helped by where Hall is.

Theres a lot of history and tradition here, Hall said. Its our goal to make it even better.

Halls task will be to keep Liberty at the top of the region and advance the Hurricanes to levels not seen under Karam -- a berth in the state team duals, for example. Hall has a clear idea of what he wants on the mat.

Grit and no quit," he said. Thats what I want to see. I want the same blue-collar mentality this town as built on. I dont want my kids to back down no matter who steps on the mat. The other kid has better technique? Get in their face and break them, dont ever stop.

If Liberty wrestles like that every night, with that kind of passion, Bethlehem will love Hall as much as he loves it.

Brad Wilson may be reached at bwilson@lehighvalleylive.com. Follow him on Twitter @bradwsports. Find Lehigh Valley high school sports on Facebook.

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Published on September 30, 2019 at 4:45 PM EDT

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Former WNBA great and recent Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, Teresa Weatherspoon, will join the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans staff as announced late last week.

News broke via ESPN insider Adrian Wojnarowski, aka a "Woj Bomb," as Weatherspoon became the newest addition of female roles within the NBA.

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The Pelicans now have a woman in key roles across the board within the organization as Weatherspoon joins another former Liberty great Swin Cash, who was hired earlier this summer as Vice President of Operations and Player Development. The Pelican's are also owned by Gayle Benson

Weatherspoon was hired alongside AJ Diggs. The two were brought on board to serve as support for the franchise's younger players and to assist with the Erie Bayhawks, anNBA G League squad.

As a graduate of Louisiana Tech, Weatherspoon led her team to a national championship in 1988. She then went on to play professionally overseas as well as being one of the original members of the WNBA which began in the summer of 1997. She was originally drafted by the New York Liberty and played in the league for eight seasons.

Most recently, Weatherspoon spent the last five seasons as Director of Player and Franchise Development for the New York Liberty. Prior to that, she was the head coach for her alma mater where she led Louisiana Tech to a 99-71 record in six seasons which featured two NCAA tournament appearances.

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The Von Braun Station will feature 24 modules with a different dedicated function, the company said. In addition to the hotel, it will also hold research facilities, restaurants and bars. (Photo credit: The Gateway Foundation) The Von Braun Station will feature 24 modules with a different dedicated function, the company said. In addition to the hotel, it will also hold research facilities, restaurants and bars. (Photo credit: The Gateway Foundation)

ALTA LOMA, Calif. - Much like taking the family on a cruise or a trip to visit Mickey Mouse at Disney World, one California company believes that going to space will eventually become just another vacation option.

Design plans for the Von Braun Station, the first-ever hotel in space, have been revealed by the Gateway Foundation. Set to have the first 100 people on board by 2025 and be fully complete by 2027, the company said the Von Braun Station is designed to give tourists the feel of home with luxury suites, recreation halls, restaurants and bars while simultaneously floating in space with an out-of-this-world view.

It will also hold research facilities for governments, scientists and commercial interests, the foundation said.

As a species we have had a transient and limited presence in space by a small number of specialists for over 58 years, Senior Design Architect Tim Alatorre told the architecture and design magazine Dezeen. We want to change that and open up space to anyone who wishes to work or live in space.

When compared to the Stanley Kubrick movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," Altorre said the atmosphere of the station station hotel will be warmer with fabrics, lighting, paints and materials with texture to "help us to connect and feel at home."

Some of the planned for activities at the luxury hotel in space could include low-gravity basketball, trampolining and rock climbing. Because the majority of the station will initially have about a sixth of Earths gravity and other parts with near zero gravity, theres also potential for playing fictional games like Quidditch from the Harry Potter series and the battle games from the Ender's Game series, Altorre told Dezeen.

There will also be many of the things you see on cruise ships: restaurants, bars, musical concerts, movie screenings, and educational seminars, Alatorre told Dezeen. Eventually, we plan on offering excursions in true space ships (not designed to return to Earth) out to other stations or the moon.

Alatorre said astronaut Scott Kelly's recent stay on the International Space Station for nearly a year made clear that long term habitation of space in microgravity is not sustainable. The senior design architect said the main objective for the Von Braun Station is to be the first space station to have artificial gravity, allowing a permanent culture of people living and working in Earths orbit.

The station is planned to have a total population of 350 to 450 people, including more than 100 crew.

When it comes to the logistics of holding hundreds of people, Altorre told Dezeen that the majority of food will be served in one of the two restaurants on the station with all of the dishes you would expect on a luxury cruise ship or in a major hotel.

With artificial gravity, the restroom facilities will function almost identically to how they are on Earth, Altorre said. Drinking water will be brought from Earth, and showers and toilets will use recycled water.

Alatorre told Dezeen that much of the technology and overall architecture of the Von Braun Station was heavily influenced by the International Space Station, but varies on the way it will be constructed. While the ISS was assembled in orbit using the labor of astronauts performing space walks, this station will primarily be constructed in space by automated and semi-autonomous systems.

The space hotel design was named after Dr. Wernher von Braun, a rocket scientist and space architect who popularized the rotating space station concept first in Germany and later in the United States. Members of the Gateway Foundation overwhelmingly voted for the name earlier this year.

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The team for the NASA-Bigelow Aerospace habitat test lines up in front of the Bigelow Mars Transporter Testing Unit at the companys Nevada headquarters. (Bigelow Aerospace Photo)

Bigelow Aerospace opened up its ground-based prototype for a space station module or perhaps even a Mars transport habitat for inspection today at its headquarters in North Las Vegas.

The open house centered on the Mars Transporter Testing Unit, an all-steel mockup of the companys expandable, fabric-covered B330 space module. For two weeks, a NASA-Bigelow team will be testing the suitability of the B330 concept for crewed deep-space missions.

Bigelows prototype is one of six ground-based demonstration projects funded as part of NASAs NextSTEP-2 program. The other companies building full-sized NextSTEP-2 prototypes for space habitats include Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Sierra Nevada Corp. and Nanoracks.

Northrop Grummans modified Cygnus cargo carrier has already won NASAs nod for use as the crewed mini-habitation module on the future moon-orbiting Gateway outpost, mainly because it was the only one judged likely to be built in time for a 2024 lunar landing.

However, Bigelow Aerospace and other contractors are hoping their concepts will remain in the running for future deep-space facilities.

Bigelows expandable space structures are sent into orbit in a folded-up, space-saving configuration, and then filled with air for deployment and use.

Robert Bigelow, the founder of Bigelow Aerospace, noted in a statement issued today that the B330 design evolved from a NASA concept for an expandable habitat capable of carrying a crew to Mars.

This is important, Bigelow said. In deep space, expandable structures have the potential to provide better protection against secondary radiation than traditional aluminum structures.

Expandable structures have been put through in-space tests for more than a decade. Bigelow started out with two uncrewed modules that were delivered to orbit by Russian rockets in 2006 and 2007 and are still flying today. In 2016, an expandable test module was successfully installed onto one of the International Space Stations ports.

Bigelow Aerospace has offered the much larger B330 so named because it offers 330 cubic meters (12,000 cubic feet) of interior volume for use as a supersized addition to the space station, a free-flying space outpost in Earth orbit, or a moon-orbiting supply depot.

The B330 is built to accommodate four people indefinitely, or five people for a months-long stay. Its equipped with two galleys, two toilets and two independent propulsion systems that make it the ideal habitat for a long-duration space mission, Robert Bigelow said.

Bigelow said the first B330 could be built 42 months after the go-ahead for construction is given.

This months two-week test involves a team of eight NASA astronauts as well as more than 60 NASA engineers, test leads and support staff at the companys cavernous Nevada facility.

In contrast to the other NextSTEP Phase 2 participants, we chose to keep our ground units at our facility so we could continue to develop and test, Bigelow said. We also have may units that are too large and complex to feasibly transport back and forth.

NASA isnt likely to be the only potential customer for the B330. Bigelow has spoken repeatedly about providing space modules as research platforms for non-NASA clients, or as destinations for space tourists.

In June, Bigelow Aerospaces service subsidiary, Bigelow Space Operations, struck a deal with SpaceX to arrange commercial rides to the International Space Station at a price of roughly $52 million a seat.

Eventually, Bigelows customers might well be staying on a B330, either attached to the ISS or flying on its own.

Update for 10 a.m. PT Sept. 13: In a report from The Verge, Bigelow says the SpaceX deal for trips to the International Space Station has been put on hold, due to the red tape associated with arranging such trips. Instead, Bigelow is thinking about a reality-TV show that would pick contestants to launch to a free-flying B330. Which sounds a lot like reality-TV impresario Mark Burnetts plan for Destination Mir back in 2000.

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When it comes to opportunities presented at the Gatton Academy, even the sky is not always the limit.

A recent live Q and A with astronauts aboard the International Space Station is proof of that as Amy Bingham explains in this weeks View from the Hill.

How do you celebrate holidays in space? What happens when you chew gum and blow a bubble in space? Those are just some of the questions asked of astronauts as they floated in the atmosphere some 250 miles away.

Drew is showing you now how we fly around.

It was a lot of fun to watch because the astronauts were having fun too.

Its not every day students get to interact with astronauts while they are on board the International Space Station.

The fact that they actually talked to an astronaut who was flying around the earth in a space station. Its just a remarkable thing. 500 plus middle school students from classrooms in which there is a teacher who is a National STEM scholar gathered at the Kentucky Science Center for the downlink.

In Louisville there was so much excitement in the room during the live interview with the astronauts.

Are there ever any practical jokes?

The questions were submitted by National STEM Scholar classrooms nationwide, but were asked on camera by students representing six scholar classrooms in Kentucky.

The technology is overwhelming.

Space enthusiast and Gatton senior Sarah Vickers was one of seven Gatton students who were in the audience.

The biggest thing I got out of it was learning how much theyre doing research for other scientists on the ground.

Shes already conducting research in astro physics.

Its just fun to see something related to so many aspects of my life.

Here on campus, the feed was made available at the Gatton Academys Great Hall.

Thats what the idea is. Especially here at the Gatton Academy. To continue to provide this extreme level of educational opportunity.

And lead to a passion some students may have never known existed.

You never know what will spark interest that creates a career aspiration and provides a goal to work for.

Dr. Julia Roberts is the director of the National STEM Scholar program which is funded by the National Stem Cell Foundation.

The Foundation was awarded the highly competitive NASA In-Flight Education downlink.

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One company is catering to people's fascination with space by planning to build an enormous hotel for tourists who want to experience life beyond Earth's atmosphere.

The Gateway Foundation plans to build a rotating space station that will produce varying rates of artificial gravity, according to its website.

Utilizing existing technology from the International Space Station, the accommodations are geared toward guests who want to experience life in space but in the luxury and comfort of a hotel.

Activities on board will include low-gravity basketball, low-gravity trampolining and rock climbing, Tim Alatorre, senior design architect of the Von Braun Space Station, told architecture and design magazineDezeen.

Alatorre likened the travel experience to a cruise or going to Disney World, as it will also feature restaurants, bars, concerts, movie screenings and educational seminars.

The Von Braun Space Station will feature privately-owned modules used for villas, hotels or commercial activity as well as government-owned modules used for research, according to the proposal.

The company plans to be fully operational by 2025 with 100 tourists visiting weekly, according to Dezeen. While the wealthy will only be able to afford space travel at first, the eventual goal is to make the experience open to everyone, Alatorre said.

The Gateway Foundation isn't the only company aiming to widen the opportunity for space travel. In June, NASA announced that it hopes to open up the International Space Station to private astronauts by 2020.

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