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YouTube has restored the channel of the institute run by former US Congressman Ron Paul after he complained, chalking it up to a mistake. The move comes amid a mass censorship spree by the Google-owned video platform.

Very shocked that YouTube has completely removed the channel of my Ron Paul Institute: no warning, no strikes, no evidence, the retired Texas congressman tweeted on Thursday. Only explanation was severe or repeated violations of our community guidelines. Channel is rarely used. The appeal was automatically rejected. Help?

In a follow-up message, Paul said the Ron Paul Liberty Report channel remains available. The institutes main channel is a seldom-used account and its termination is perplexing, he added.

Even though Paul posted screenshots of emails from YouTube that said they had received his appeal and decided to uphold the decision, the company responded on Thursday afternoon that this was a mistake and that the channel has been reinstated.

Paul established the institute when he retired from Congress in 2013, after decades of representing Texas in the House. He ran for president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1988 and in the Republican primaries in 2008 and 2012.

Jeffrey Tucker, a libertarian scholar who runs the recently established Brownstone Institute, called the move by YouTube an attempt to purify all platforms of dissent thats getting worse by the hour.

The Google-run video platform announced new rules on Wednesday, banning all harmful vaccine content not just of the recently developed Covid-19 jabs but vaccines in general.

The announcement was followed by bans on several people named by a UK-based nonprofit in July as purveyors of disinformation. The list compiled by the Center for Countering Digital Hate was then used by the Biden administration to call for social media censorship.

The day before, YouTube deleted two German-language channels of RT DE, accusing them of medical misinformation in four videos and attempting to circumvent a community guidelines strike by publishing new videos on another channel.

Pauls son Rand, a Republican senator from Kentucky, was also targeted by YouTube censorship recently. In early August, he revealed that the leftwing cretins at Google gave him a week-long ban for quoting peer-reviewed articles about the efficacy of face masks in stopping the spread of Covid-19.

Senator Paul called the censorship a badge of honor and said it amounted to anti-free speech, anti-progress of science behavior. However, as a libertarian, he chose to publicly express disagreement and promote companies that valued free speech, instead of calling for their regulation.

While YouTube has not commented on why the Ron Paul Institutes main channel was deleted, the former congressman has an upcoming book critical of the current administrations fiscal policies.

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Progressive policies and positions are supposed to be rooted in reality and hard evidence. But that's not always the case when it comes to the culture wars that have such an enormous impact on our politics especially not since the unexpected evangelical embrace of Donald Trump in 2016, culminating in the "pro-life" death cult of anti-vaccine, COVID-denying religious leaders. If this development perplexed many on the left, it wasless surprising to a small group of researchers who have been studying the hardcore anti-democratic theology known as dominionism that lies behind the contemporary Christian right, and its far-reaching influence over the last several decades.

One leading figure within that small group, Rachel Tabachnick, was featured in a recent webinar hosted by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (archived on YouTube here), as part of its Religion and Repro Learning Series program, overseen by the Rev. Dr. Cari Jackson. Tabachnick's writing on dominionism can be found at Talk2Action and Political Research Associates, and she's been interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air.

Her presentation sheds important light on at least three things: First of all, the vigilante element of the Texas anti-abortion law SB 8. Second, the larger pattern of disrupting or undermining governance, including the "constitutional sheriffs" movement, the installation of overtly partisan election officials and the red-state revolt against national COVID public health policies. While Donald Trump has exploited that pattern ruthlessly, he did not create it. And third, the seemingly baffling fact that an anti-democratic minority feels entitled to accuse its opponents including democratically elected officials of "tyranny."

Some dominionist ideas such as the biblical penalty of death by stoning are so extreme they can easily be dismissed as fringe, others have been foundational to the modern religious right, and still more have become increasingly influential in recent years. Those latter two categories are what we need to understand most, say both Tabachnick and Jackson.

"One of the things that struck me, as a relative newcomer," said Jackson, a former Congregationalist minister, "was that there was not sufficient understanding about the theological frames used by many individuals who are opposed to abortion." She continued, "I'm a strategist in a lot of ways, and one important strategy, I believe, must be to understand what the teachings and the theological frames are" on the other side. Which links directly to the question of what progressive activists need to do differently in this changed environment.

This failure to understand the nature of dominionism has hampered activists, not just in the realm of reproductive justice, but across an entire spectrum of political issues, both cultural and economic. Jackson discussed her own background, raised within a conservative Christian worldview.

"I was taught a very individualistic approach," she said, "taught that we shouldn't pay taxes, because doing so enabled people who were not working, and enables people whose lifestyle we don't agree with." There's nothing new about such views, but dominionism provides believers with an even stronger foundation for them.

Jackson describes her current understanding of religious faith as highly intersectional: "We believe that to understand the attacks on abortion also invites us or even requires us to look at attacks on voting, to look at attacks on immigrants, attacks on prison reform, attacks on equal pay and on and on," she said. "It's all of the same cloth: They are all attacks on humans flourishing. That's my language. The God of my understanding wants all of us to flourish in who we are."

The language of dominionism is strikingly different, to put it mildly. In her webinar, Tabachnick played a clip of one of the movement's leading figures, C. Peter Wagner, providing a definition:

Dominion has to do with control. Dominion has to do with rulership. Dominion has to do with authority and subduing. And it relates to society in other words what is talked about, what the values are in heaven [that] need to be made manifest here on earth. Dominion means being the head and not the tail. Dominion means ruling as kings. It says in Revelation chapter 1:6 that "he has made us kings and priests," and check the rest of that verse, it says "for dominion." So we are kings for dominion.

Later she provided a definition from Frederick Clarkson, author of the 1997 book, "Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy":

Dominionism is the theocratic idea that regardless of theological view, means, or timetable, Christians are called by God to exercise dominion over every aspect of society by taking control of political and cultural institutions.

Wagner, who died in 2016, is known as the founding father of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), one of the two main branches of dominionism, which grew out of the Pentecostal and charismatic traditions within evangelical Christianity. Dominionists in the other branch, known as "Christian reconstructionism," come out of conservative Calvinism, with a focus on bringing government and society under biblical law. They tend to be more circumspect, often obfuscating their true intentions and avoiding the word "theocracy" in favor of "theonomy," for example. But not Wagner, as can be seen in the title of his 2011 book, "Dominion!: Your Role in Bringing Heaven to Earth." The NAR talks constantly about taking dominion over the "seven mountains" of society: education, religion, family, business, government, arts and the media.

But it's the other branch, the Christian reconstructionists, who have excelled at strategic organizing and providing blueprints across different right-wing constituencies for almost 50 years. They are the ones Tabachnick focused most of her presentation on, specifically two key figures: Rousas John Rushdoony, the movement's master theologian, and his son-in-law Gary North, a prolific strategist, propagandist and networker who was once a staffer for Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian hero.

Christian reconstructionism, Tabachnick explained, is "about bringing government in all areas of life under biblical law, a continuation of the Mosaic law in the Old Testament, with some exceptions." This dispensation would include, "according to Gary North, public execution of women who have abortions and those who advise them to have an abortion."

In a recent private presentation, Frederick Clarkson asked a rhetorical question: "People have long said that there should be Christian government, but if you had one, what would it look like? What would it do? Rushdoony was the first to create a systematic theology of what Christian governance should be like, based on the Ten Commandments, and all of the judicial applications he could find in the Old Testament including about 35 capital offenses."

But the "Handmaid's Tale"-style extremism of dominionists' ultimate vision shouldn't really be our focus, Tabachnick told Salon. "Nobody cares about the theocratic, draconian future envisioned by reconstructionists because they don't believe it will happen," she said.

What'shappening right now, however, is that this ideology has had tremendous impact on more immediate politics. "Christian reconstructionism is the merger of a distinct brand of Calvinism with Austrian School economics," Tabachnicksaid. "In other words, it's an interpretation of the Bible grounded in property rights." The results have been far-reaching:

For more than 40 years, its prolific writers have provided the foundations and strategic blueprints for the attacks on liberation theology and the social gospel, as well as many other streams of Christianity which do not share the Reconstructionists' belief in unfettered capitalism as ordained by God and its fierce anti-statism.

The larger religious right's attack on public education, the social safety net and most government functions are largely grounded in the writings, strategies and tactics formulated by reconstructionist writers. Reconstructionism is not the only (and certainly not the first) source of interposition and nullification in this country. However, much of what is currently being taught today about using interposition to undermine the legitimacy of government is sourced in reconstructionism.

This idea of "interposition" comes through what's known as the doctrine of the "lesser magistrate," which we'll return to below. But its significance especially in the post-2020 Republican Party has only recently become apparent. Reconstructionism's initial appeal was more immediately, as Tabachnick explained in the seminar:

What Rushdoony provided is a package that included attacking what these fundamentalists hated and feared most in society, often expressed in terms of "This is communist. This is socialist." But Rushdoony provided a way to sacralize these ideas, and at the same time not just tear down the old order, but provide a blueprint for the new order.

Everyone didn't have to agree on the blueprint, she said: "Rushdoony's ideas went out in bits and pieces. The Christian right leaders took what they wanted and discarded what they didn't."

"Christian reconstructionism, as articulated by Rushdoony, provided a standard by which everyone else had to measure themselves," Clarkson told Salon. "Not everyone on the Christian right agreed with Rushdoony and his fellow Reconstructionist thinkers on, for example, the contemporary application of capital crimes listed in the Old Testament. And followers were often at pains to distinguish themselves."

Clarkson cites the case of conservative Presbyterian theologian Francis Schaeffer, who disagreed with Rushdoony on the applicability of biblical law, but became a driving force behind the anti-abortion activist movement Operation Rescue. That "militant Schaefferism," Clarkson said, "led activists to think: What's next, beyond political protest and stopping abortion? This is where the conversation has been in the Christian right for decades."

The doctrine of the "lesser magistrate," mentioned above, first emerged into public discourse out of Operation Rescue. But it did so as part of a larger, more complicated story.

There's a long history of right-wing opposition to federal authority, particularly grounded in the 19th-century defense of slaveryand continuing in the defense of Jim Crow segregation. In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke specifically of the governor of Alabama "having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification."

As detailed by Randall Balmer in "Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right," the religious right wasn't initially fueled by opposition to the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, but by opposition to a lesser-known decision in 1971, Green v. Connally, which threatened the tax-exempt status of racially discriminatory institutions, most famously the evangelical stronghold Bob Jones University.

Anti-abortion activists have long sought not just to bury that past but to stand it on its head, somehow equating Roe v. Wade with the notorious Dred Scott decision of 1857 and claiming the moral heritage of abolitionism.

"Throughout these movements there is also an attempt to turn the tables on the claims of racism," Tabachnick said in her webinar. "This is one of the roles that anti-abortion activism as abolition plays. Also, there's a promotion of narratives that provide a different history and legal justifications for interposition, nullification and even secession. One of the things that Christian reconstructionism has added to this dialogue is the concept of the lower magistrate."

As Tabachnick explains it, the "lesser magistrate" is a heroic figure who "resists the tyranny of a higher authority" defining "tyranny" in biblical terms, potentially including any number of popular or common-sense laws or policies. This notion first gained salience in the anti-abortion context in the 1980s and '90s, as Tabachnick went on to explain.

"Many violent anti-abortionists have justified their actions in reconstructionist teachings," she said. "One of these was Paul Hill, who studied under one of the major reconstructionist leaders and corresponded with others." Hill went on to murder Dr. John Britton, a physician who performed abortions, as well as Britton's personal bodyguard, in 1994. Hill was executed in 2003, but the reconstructionist movement sought to cast him out well before that.

"Gary North responded, after the murders had taken place, in a book called 'Lone Gunners for Jesus,'" Tabachnick said. His message to Hill was, "You're going to burn in hell, you've been excommunicated. This was because Paul Hill stepped outside the bounds of the guidelines set by the movement."

To explain this, she quoted a passage from another book by North that offered qualified support for Operation Rescue: "We need a statement that under no circumstances will Operation Rescue or any of its official representatives call for armed resistance to civil authority without public support from a lesser magistrate."

"On the basis of their belief of what the law or the word of God is, they are allowed on the advice, on the interposition, of a lesser magistrate to commit acts of violence," Tabachnick continued. North was seeking to control or curb anti-abortion terrorism, but without rejecting it in principle. Murdering abortion providers or even murdering women seeking abortions could be morally justified, with the blessing of a lesser magistrate.

This is relevant to SB 8 in Texas in at least two ways. That bill bans abortions after six weeksandis enforced not by state officials, but by deputizing private individuals to sue anyone who performs the procedure or "aids and abets" it. First of all, giving private individuals these vigilante-style rights seems a lot like making them into "lesser magistrates," however narrowly constrained.

Second, the Supreme Court's refusal to stay the law which clearly violates the Constitution and existing precedent, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor argued in her dissent can be seen as an example of the doctrine in action. In more normal circumstances, the court would have stayed the law pending consideration on the merits, even if a majority of justices intended to overturn precedent. That's how common law has worked for centuries.

But biblical law isn't common law, especially as reconstructionists understand it. Under the doctrine of the "lesser magistrate," Roe is not precedent but an instance of tyranny and the justices have a duty to God to resist it. Of course, not even Amy Coney Barrett or Clarence Thomas has said anything like that, but it's entirely consistent with their behavior as well as with their silence, since openly making such an argument would clarify just how radicalized they have become. But adherents of the doctrine of the lesser magistrate must surely appreciate the drift in direction.

Nor is the doctrine limited to abortion cases, as already noted. Matthew Trewhella is a pastor who was a prominent leader of violence-prone wing of the anti-abortion movement in 1990s, and author of the 2013 book, "The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates," which greatly heightened its visibility.

"Trewhella is now all over radio and the internet," Tabachnick said in her webinar, "claiming to meet with state legislators and attorney generals at the moment, with the cause of fighting the 'tyranny of mask mandates' and vaccination for COVID. So you can see how this is a concept that is not just limited to abortion. It is a concept that can be used in resistance of government authority all over the country in all different kinds of ways FEMA, EPA, Bureau of Land Management and so forth."

Trewhella isn't breaking new ground here. Clarkson's 1997 book "Eternal Hostility" describes him making similar arguments in a speech to an anti-tax group in Wisconsin. He was just one figure among many spreading the seeds of reconstructionist resistance to federal authority among militia members, "freemen" and anti-abortion activists at the time.

"This movement believes that rights come from God and not from any government," Tabachnick told Salon. "Therefore, any 'rights' that conflict with their interpretation of God's law are not actually rights. They are 'humanist' or a product of man's laws and not God's laws. This theme of 'human rights' versus inalienable rights from God has been at the center of the Christian Reconstructionist movement since its beginnings."

She pointed to "What's Wrong With Human Rights," an excerpt from a book of the same name by the Rev. T. Robert Ingram published in "The Theology of Christian Resistance," a collection edited by North. Ingram sweeps aside the Bill of Rights as "a statement of sovereign powers of states withheld from the federal authority of the Union," and turns instead to the Virginia Declaration of Rights, authored by George Mason in 1776.

The first section of the Virginia Declaration, beginning "That all Men are by Nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent Rights," is dismissed by Ingram for omitting any mention of God, as an "error of unbelief which falsifies all the rest that is said about human life." The second, beginning "That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from the People; that Magistrates are their Trustees and Servants, and at all Times amenable to them," he dismisses as well: "The meaning could not be more clear, nor more opposite Biblical thought. The ruling proposition of Scripture and Christian doctrine is that 'power belongeth unto God.'" In short, there are no human rights.

The connection to the doctrine of the lesser magistrate is clear: Power comes from God, not the people. Whatever the people want is irrelevant. Whatever laws they may pass are irrelevant, too, if they go against God. "Tyranny" is whatever the Christian reconstructionist decides he doesn't like.

Elsewhere, Ingram denigrates freedom of speech and the press:

Freedom of speech and freedom of press are, in fact, applied seriously only to giving government protection to instigators of riot and rebellion, as well as those who would undermine human order by more subtle attacks on morals and customs.

As for the right to dissent, he calls it "not a lawful claim to own or to do something, which is the true right," but "a turning upside down of right and wrong, calling good evil and evil good." Similarly, there is no scriptural right to "resist authority," only that granted by thefalse doctrine of "human rights."

Ingram's interpretation of the Civil War is that "Yankee radicals inflamed the Northern peoples to mount the Civil War in the name of a 'human right' to be free ... if they did not destroy the whole Southern Order, they did at least dismantle its vast and efficient plantation economy." The civil rights movement, unsurprisingly, is understood as a defiance of "Tradition, law, and custom, which preserved public peace and order in the bi-racial state of the union, both North and South," and became "the target of the right to resist in the 60's, the supposed human rights justifying the violent means."

Tabachnick didn't dig into this text in her webinar, but it serves toillustrateher central principle: "This attack on the very concept of 'human rights' can be found throughout today's religious right."

Jackson told Salon that the most important part of Tabachnick's presentation came "when she talked about humanism and the humanistic frame, from the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Those who are within the dominionist camp see that as contrary to God. I read those same documents and I say, this is pointing us toward the direction that God wants for us. They look at it and see that as counter to God, because humanism from their perspective is something very contrary to God."

If we take such arguments seriously, then we understand why for dominionists there is nothing wrong with breaking any law at all, so long as "God wills it" and you have the blessing of a so-called lesser magistrate. This is the reconstructionist argument supporting a whole range of chaotic right-wing activity today, including baseless claims that the 2020 election was a fraud. After all, the fundamental reconstructionist argument is that all such democratic government is illegitimate.

"The goal of reconstructionism is to tear down the existing order and reconstruct a new society based on biblical law," Tabachnick said. "Even if we assume that this vision of a theocratic America will never come to fruition, it's important to recognize the movement's impact on the ideas, strategies and tactics of the larger religious right and its role in sacralizing the actions of other anti-statist fellow travelers.

"As I wrote almost a decade ago, the theocratic libertarianism of Christian reconstructionism has been surprisingly seductive to Tea Partiers and young libertarians many of whom may not realize what is supposed to happen after the government is stripped of its regulatory powers."

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Well, we finally made it. In a season that has made health and safety protocols and canceled nearly as common as kick-off and touchdown, the wait is finally over.

For the first time in 692 days, Kern County football teams will take the field for a postseason game when the Central Section playoffs open Friday night. East hosts Orange Cove in the lone Thursday night game, but there will be 20 teams in action on Friday.l

The last time an area team took the field for a playoff game, it ended in a wild celebration. Bakersfield Christian had just capped a 42-21 victory at Rohnert Park-Rancho Cotate to capture the CIF State Division 3-A championship on Dec. 14, 2019.

I was originally supposed to attend the game, but was in the hospital with a dangerous blood clot in my lungs and had to sit that one out.

Plenty has changed since then. The COVID-19 pandemic was still not front-page news in the United States, and its full effects wouldnt be felt for a few more months, changing the sports landscape along the way with a series of cancellations and postponements.

Fast forward to Friday, and No. 7 BCHS will be in action again, and will have an opportunity to start its postseason with a defense of its section D-III title, earned with a 28-14 victory over Visalia-Central Valley Christian in 2019.

Despite a somewhat controversial seeding and divisional placement system, reliant solely on computer rankings, the Eagles (7-3) are pretty much where they were two years ago. Same record and same division, albeit as a lower seed they were the No. 2 seed in 2019 which figures to make a repeat run a little more difficult since they will likely have to play most of their games on the road.

Bakersfield Christian opens play at home on Friday at 7 p.m., against a Stockdale team that has lost five straight games after opening the year 4-0. BCHS has won five straight en route to its second South Yosemite League title in three years. Its also the schools seventh league title in eight years, having won the South Sequoia League five consecutive years before moving to the SYL in 2018.

The No. 10 Mustangs struggled a bit in the powerful Southwest Yosemite League, but are plenty capable of competing in the Division III bracket. The teams losses came against two D-I teams and three D-II teams with a combined record of 27-14.

The BCHS-Stockdale matchup is one of three games on Friday featuring a pair of area teams. In Division II, No. 14 Wasco (9-0) plays at Centennial (6-3), and No. 5 Foothill hosts No. 12 West (6-3) in Division IV. The Tigers won the SSL title, while the Trojans are Southeast Yosemite League champions, their first league crown since 1981.

No. 4 Liberty and No. 7 Garces wont play until next week, when the 8-team Division I bracket opens play. The other five divisions all feature 16 teams.

So for the other 21 teams that will be in action this week, heres hoping that you all have a successful run through the playoffs. Although ending the way it did in 2019 may be too high of an expectation, you never know. That 2019 Bakersfield Christian squad finished second in its league that year and was just 3-2 following an 18-0 Week 6 loss at Tulare Union.

I guess, like they say, thats why they play the games.

The number of area playoff teams that:

1 Are undefeated: Wasco (9-0), the South Sequoia League champion

2 Have head coaches that have won CIF State championships: Garces Paul Golla (at Bakersfield High in 2013), Bakersfield Christians Darren Carr (2019)

3 Have a 1,000-yard rusher: Kennedy (Avian Pesina, 1,472), Foothill (Kaelan Deloney, 1,192), Independence (Evan Peaker, 1,029), according to posted stats on MaxPreps.

4 Are league champions: Bakersfield Christian (SYL), Foothill (SEYL), Liberty (SWYL) and Wasco (SSL).

6 Have first-year head coaches at their school: Bakersfield (Rashaan Shehee, interim), Delano (Frank Gonzales Jr.), East (Bibi Carrasco), Ridgeview (Casey Quinn), Taft (Brian Durkan), Tehachapi (Kris Krempien).

9 Have a losing record: Stockdale (4-5), Tehachapi (4-5), Independence (4-6), Bakersfield (3-5), North (3-5), Chavez (3-6), Delano (3-6), East (3-7), Ridgeview (1-7).

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Roger L Acton, Alan Arch, Lee Arth, Mark Bann, Bert Barbay, Al Barr, Daniel Batinich, Casyn Battleson, Paul J Bergdahl, Andrew Bergstrom, Harold Dean Blade, Mark S Bora, David A Brabant, Gregory D Bridges, Laurance C Brown, Bruce Buckley, Derald Chartier, Benjamin Cascario, Chuck Casey, Chris Cervantes, Lindsey Clark, Carl Coats, Michael S Cook, Robert Cooper, Jacob Curteman, Joshua Curteman, Robert E Davis, Brian Scott Dawdy, Lloyd E Dishon, Lyle Nelson Drew, Craig Duckworth, Carl Farris, John E Felix, Charles L Furry, Ura Furry, Steven P Garza, James M Gebow, Felix Giles, William Gilles, Joseph Gossett, Darrel Bud Gray, Quince Royd Hansen, Harry J Harlow, Michael J Harris, Paul Hilzer, Michael Hosking, Robert E Hughes, David J Humphrey, Anthony P Iacono, Leslie Ray Jones, John B (Jack) Kramer, Frank Kuhlman, Vince La Rosa, Eric Larsen, Dennis J Lees, Don Lynch, C Mandernacht Sr., Ron Marcuse, Trever Marson, John G Martin III, Dennis Mawhorter, Adam McNaughton, Robert Mericle, Thom Merry, Francis Frank Miller, William Mitchell, James Morrison, Normand Morrissette, Bertman Nafziger, Robert L Nusser, Neil Orme, Richard Pedersen, Ronald Pereira, Cyril M Peterson, Dexter Peterson, Tim Pouncy, Clair A Preston, Ronald Proeschold, Carlos Ramirez, Anthony Richuisa, Kenneth Ritchie, Norman Ronkainen, Craig E Rorex, Steve Runyon, Donald Schorr, Leon (Lee) Sherman, Dwayne Shortridge, Dennis Sitkiewicz, Duston Smith, David Spraul, John Sullivan, John J Taylor, Richard P Taylor, Brent Tibbet, Robbie Valdez, Glen H Walker, Gavin D Wallis, Hubert Watson, Lee W West, Don Wicen, Charles Thomas Willey, Patrick Williams, Gary Witchell, Michelle L Wynn. and DeWayne M York.

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Rondall L Niccum

Royal British Navy

Bob Letham

Royal Canadian Air Force

Peter Gayed and Thomas Michael Harris.

Royal Marines

Neil D Ashworth

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William Cheeseman, Ronnie Curteman, Dale Erwin, Charles W Griffin, Kevin Lowe, Frank Miller, Scott Miller, Gordon Mobley, Raymond Snyder, and Glen Walker.

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Harry, 37, lives a couple of hours drive away from Hollywood with his wife Meghan Markle, 40. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex split with the Royal Family last year and moved to North America. The couple now live in the Montecito area with their two young children, Archie Harrison, two, and Lilibet Diana, five months. The legendary film director Ron Howard, 67, was also raised in Hollywood and went on to be one of the most successful filmmakers of his generation.

Ron found fame as Richie in the seventies sitcom Happy Days opposite Henry Winkler, who played the Fonz.

He went on to have huge directing successes, winning Oscars for his films, A Beautiful Mind and Frost/Nixon.

Now, the director and his brother Clint Howard, an actor, have published a joint memoir of their upbringing in Tinseltown.

The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family, which hit the shelves in October, charts the brothers early adventures together, as well as how to survive the ruthless world of Hollywood.

Ron will chat about his new book on The Graham Norton Show on BBC One this evening.

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Joining Graham will be Miriam Margolyes, who has her own book to promote, This Much Is True.

Actor Paul Rudd will also be welcomed to Grahams sofa to chat about his role in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

The actress Halle Berry will speak about her new drama, Bruised, while Stephen Fry will also plug his new book Fry's Ties.

Jazz singer Gregory Porter will also perform his song Revival.

The paper quoted a source, who said: Harry has been doing courses, most recently a five-day creative producing lab.

There is talk of Ron Howard being someone to emulate.

It would prove to his family and the world hes not going to sit back and sponge off his name.

Harry wants to work and is willing to do that from the bottom up.

He also doesnt want to be in Meghans shadow either.

He is in a very creative headspace and is determined to work as hard as he can.

The Graham Norton Show airs on BBC One tonight from 10.35pm-11:25pm.

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The 2021 high school football playoffs opened Thursday night with a pair of games.

In Class 2A, B.B. Comer defeated G.W. Long, while Oak Mountain kicked a last-second FG to beat James Clemens in the 7A opener.

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Key matchups in tonights first round include Prattville at Theodore, Baldwin County at Helena, Gardendale at Hartselle and Pinson Valley at Muscle Shoals.

Check back frequently tonight for all the updates, the final scores and the second-round pairings.

8:53 PM, Getting late:

Auburn 32, Baker 3

Parker 24, Boaz 14 (End 3)

Pike Road 30, Holtville 0 (End 3)

Alexandria 45, Ardmore 0 (End 3)

Decatur Heritage 28, Marion County 14 (4:59 3rd)

Gardendale 35, Hartselle 21

Lee-Montgomery 21, McAdory 12 (1:21 3rd)

Andalusia 21, Sylacauga 0

8:51 PM, Most underrated recruit in the state? How about a vote for Baldwin Countys Ty Mims, who is headed to Southern Miss.

8:46 PM, Best games of the night? Here are four to choose from, all in 6A:

Spanish Fort leads Calera 27-24 with Calera driving.

Gardendale leads unbeaten Hartselle 28-21 after 3

Baldwin County and Helena are tied 22-22 with 4:09 left in the third.

McGill-Toolen leads Pelham 13-6

8:40 PM, Jackets in front: McGill-Toolen takes a 13-6 lead on the road against Pelham on Braylon McReynolds 34-yard TD run.

Also:

Briarwood 28, Fort Payne 12 (End 3)

Prattville 19, Theodore 8 (James Rogers 42-yard FG, 5:45 3rd)

Decatur Heritage 28, Marion County 8 (Brayden Kyle 62-yard run, 7:40 3rd)

UMS-Wright 45, Marbury 0

Enterprise 28, Fairhope 10 (18 seconds 3rd)

8:31 PM, Close games:

McGill-Toolen 6, Pelham 6: McGill running back and South Alabama commit Braylon McReynolds closing in on 200 yards rushing.

Baldwin County 15, Helena 14: Ty Mims with a 55-yard punt return.

Gardendale 28, Hartselle 14.

Spanish Fort 27, Calera 24 (Calera returns opening second-half kick for a TD)

Parker 18, Boaz 14 (7:35 3rd)

Mobile Christian 14, Bibb County 0

8:25 PM, Tough night for Class 7A, Region 1: The Mobile area may get swept in the first round. All four teams are currently behind and only one is close.

Here are the scores:

Prattville 16, Theodore 8

Enterprise 28, Fairhope 3

Central-Phenix City 24, Daphne 0

Auburn 21, Baker 3

AND, Region 4 isnt looking so good either:

Region champ James Clemens lost Thursday night to Oak Mountain.

Hoover leads Sparkman 49-0 in the second half

Thompson leads Florence 42-0 at the half.

Hewitt-Trussville vs. Bob Jones has yet to start in Madison due to a lighting issue.

8:20 PM, More updates:

Class 5A No. 1 Pike Road leads Holtville 17-0 at half

Fyffe 28, Walter Wellborn 0 (3rd)

Bayside Academy 28, Southside-Selma 8

8:10 PM, Checking the scores:

Decatur Heritage 21, Marion County 8 (Half)

Lee-Montgomery 14, McAdory 6 (Half)

Prattville 16, Theodore 8 (Half)

Madison Academy 35, Hamilton 0 (Half)

Parker 12, Boaz 7 (Half)

Saraland 21, Wetumpka 7 (Half)

Guntersville 14, Ramsay 14 (Half)

Spanish Fort 27, Calera 17 (Half)

St. Pauls 22, Selma 0 (Half)

Priceville 17, Etowah 14

Mountain Brook 49, Southside 0

Wadley 28, Gaylesville 0

Briarwood 21, Ft. Payne 12 (Half)

Ragland 22, Valley Head 0 (Half)

Gordo 27, North Jackson 0

Plainview 29, Saks 6

Mars Hill Bible 21, Sand Rock 0

Loachapoka 12, Millry 7

8:05 PM, Looking angry: Thompson having its way with Florence tonight ...

8:01 PM, Its that kind of night: Things not going well at all at Madison City Schools Stadium where Bob Jones and Hewitt-Trussville have yet to start because of a lighting issue.

7:53 PM, Scores from all around ...

Briarwood 21, Fort Payne 12

Enterprise 28, Fairhope 3 (Wildcats all over the Region 1 champs)

Hoover 42, Sparkman 0

Highland Home 14, Orange Beach 7

Pelham 6, McGill-Toolen 3

Vigor 27, West Blocton 0 (Jermaine Coleman 11-yard TD run)

Clarke County 35, Thorsby 0 (Ron Johnson 49-yard run)

Alexandria 38, Ardmore 0

Sweet Water 35, Billingsley 0

Pike Liberal 35, Clarke Prep 0

Opelika 28, Northridge 0

Helena 14, Baldwin County 9 (Half)

UMS-Wright 31, Marbury 0 (Half)

Homewood 21, Arab 7 (half)

Randolph 28, Fayette County 0 (half)

7:45 PM Good one on the Hill: Spanish Fort leads Calera 21-14.

Also in 6A, Saraland leads Wetumpka 14-7 with 8:23 left in the half

and Lee-Montgomery leads McAdory 14-0

In 7A, Auburn leads Baker 21-3

Central-Phenix City leads Daphne 24-0 (Karmello English with a 35-yard run with 4:21 left in half)

Prattville 9, Theodore 8 (James Rogers 54-yard FG)

Greenville 12, Tallassee 0

7:41 PM, Plenty of first-half scores updates ...

UMS-Wright 21, Marbury 0 (2 Barton Elliott to Shane Roberson TD passes)

Enterprise leads Fairhope 21-3

Decatur Heritage 14, Marion County 8

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Friday was media day for the Rutgers mens basketball program and it was the first practice I was able to attend in two years due to COVID-19. Ill have plenty of content from player interviews leading up to the November 10 season opener at the RAC against Lehigh. Here are five thoughts and observations from Fridays practice.

Jaden Jones is the freshman that has gotten the most hype and rightfully so. His athleticism and quickness jumps out watching him in person. Patience is needed but I fully expect him to be a significant contributor this season. However, it was the former 3-star point guard, Jalen Miller, who left a major impression on Friday. Id heard he was playing tough this summer and then the video that the program tweeted out weeks ago shows him playing lockdown defense on Ron Harper Jr., who is significantly bigger than Miller.

On Friday, I watched Miller give Geo Baker all he could handle on the defensive end in Fridays practice. Even if Miller cant crack the rotation on a regular basis this season, he will be a valuable addition. Baker has openly talked about his mistakes with the ball down the stretch in the loss to Houston in the NCAA Tournament second round last year. Having to face Miller every day in practice is exactly what Baker wants. And dont be surprised if Miller is called on at times to come in to be a defensive stopper in spots in Big Ten play.

The leadership of this team really stuck out in person. This is Geo Baker and Ron Harper, Jr.s team with Caleb McConnell and Paul Mulcahy leading right beside them. I saw each of them at least once talking to younger players on the team during and in between specific drills. They carry themselves more confidently and the younger players spoke about how theyve been welcomed with open arms. The veterans love the competitive spirit that the younger players have brought and its made everyone better.

When the class with Harper Jr. and McConnell arrived as freshmen, they had similar moxie but it wasnt embraced in the same way by everyone on the roster. The culture has always been strong since Pikiells arrival, but the veteran core four players have made it even better. Players are focused on succeeding in their roles and helping the team win above all else.

The transfer from LSU looked like he has been on this team for years when watching him practice. He fits right in and looks the part of a veteran player who has played well and won in the NCAA Tournament. He is smooth in every way on the court and his versatility of being able to play at multiple spots makes him invaluable. He can shoot from the perimeter, run the floor and defend the four on the block. Expect him to be a productive sixth man who can come in for multiple players off the bench.

Hyatt told me after practice that this is not the same program that recruited him. He is also not the same player when he came to college and has diversified his skill set. Hyatt is a great example of not burning bridges in recruiting on either side. He and Rutgers will benefit from that.

While there are many keys to Rutgers returning to the NCAA Tournament, the play of Cliff Omoruyi and Ralph Agee is arguably the most important one.

Everyone has praised the effort Cliff has made in this offseason as he regularly clocks into the APC at 4:30 a.m. for individual workouts. His athleticism is off the charts and he explodes at the rim. I wouldnt expect him have too expansive of a tool box on the offensive end yet, but I think hell be a better rebounder. However, its how he develops on the defensive end that is the most important aspect of his game. It shouldnt be expected he play at the level of Myles Johnson, who was robbed of earning Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honors last season.

That being said, he has to be able to hold his own and defend the rim without fouling. He isnt going to play 35 minutes a game regardless, but he needs to be available for Rutgers when they need him most. Ive said all offseason the biggest key is when Omoruyi leaves a Big Ten game with two fouls in the first five minutes, how will Rutgers respond?

Enter Ralph Agee, who looks more polished on the offensive end than arguably any big man thats played for Pikiell. He has been efficient in two-point shooting and free throw rate throughout his career. I think he can provide some inside scoring punch off the bench, but how he defends in the Big Ten is a huge question mark. Its not his strong suit and he played for a terrible defensive team at San Jose State last season, as they ranked 338th in defensive efficiency per KenPom.

Rutgers was 16th and if they are going to stay close to that range, how Omoruyi and Agee hold up defensively in Big Ten play is crucial to that occurring.

A theme you heard often and Ill have more on later this week is the focus for this team to reestablish their identity. That means get back to what Pikiells early teams relied on the most and were known for. Defense and rebounding. Even though Rutgers was a top 20 defense last season, they played terribly on that end of the floor at times in big games. It was tied to their inability to rebound against quality competition, which ultimately is what ended their season against Houston in March.

Pikiell has engrained in this team that for them to take the next step, they have to be a better rebounding team. If they can and still maintain a high level defensively, they should be in every game and win a good amount of them. On nights theyre clicking offensively at the same time, Rutgers will be able to play with beat almost anyone. On the flip side, if their defense declines and rebounding stays mediocre, it will put too much pressure on the offense to carry them to be successful.

Pikiell has cited chemistry being at an all-time high and this being his best team yet. That gives confidence that he fully believes this group will be bought in on the defensive end and on the glass, as well as being able to play at a high level in both areas.

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Game day on the road, without your head coach and play caller, without your starting center, without your best pass rusher and... Well there are still many of us that believe the Arizona Cardinals can leave with a win.

Here is everything you need to know about todays game.

Who: Arizona Cardinals (5-0) vs Cleveland Browns (3-2)

Where: FirstEnergy Stadium, Cleveland, OH

When: October 17, 2021 - 1:05 p.m. Arizona Time

TV: Fox (Channel 10 Locally) - Kevin Kugler (play-by-play) Mark Sanchez (analyst) Laura Okmin (sideline reporter)

Streaming: Fubo TV

Local Radio: Arizona Sports 98.7 FM - Dave Pasch (play-by-play) Ron Wolfley (analyst) and Paul Calvisi (sideline)

Spanish Radio: KHOV 105,1 FM - Luis Hernandez (Play-by-Play) Rolando Cantu (Color Analyst)

Odds: Cardinals +3.5Over/Under: 48.5DraftKings Sportsbook

The Cardinals are the only undefeated team left in the NFL... Can they leave Cleveland that way?

Odds/lines subject to change. T&Cs apply. See draftkings.com/sportsbook for details.

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Watch: Raw highlights from Rutgers basketball practice

Watch: Raw highlights from Rutgers basketball practice

Jerry Carino, Asbury Park Press

PISCATAWAY -- Paul Mulcahy was open in the left corner at the beginning of Rutgers mens basketball practice Friday. The ball quickly worked its way around the perimeter through the air, no dribbles and found him.

Swish.

A few minutes later, he was open in the right corner. Same ball movement, same result: nothing but net.

The casual observer will focus on Mulcahys 3-point stroke. As a freshman, the former Gill St. Bernards star from Bayonne rarely took a shot. As a sophomore he took what defenses gave him and hit a team-high 39% of his triples. Now the junior is looking like a full-fledged sniper, but Mulcahy would rather talk about the passing that led to his open looks.

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I think thats contagious, he said Friday, during the teams media day. Unselfish basketball is contagious. Selfish basketball is contagious. You make the right play, the next guy will make the right play.

No matter how many jumpers he makes, Mulcahy wants the pass-first ethos to be his main imprint on this program. For the Scarlet Knights to return to the NCAA Tournament, thats the roadmap. Last year, there were times when everyone stood around while explosive guard Jacob Young (who is now at Oregon) and others drove headlong at the bucket. Judging from early glimpses of this group, those days are over.

I try to make the right play, and I think a lot of guys are buying into that, Mulcahy said. A lot of guys have learned from last year. Its a fun way to play, its the right way and it works.

For the first time, hes preaching that to the team.

In the past I deferred, but Ive matured a lot, he said.

Its been cool to see his evolution, backcourt mate Geo Baker said. Ive told him, Listen, you know the game better than some of these guys, you have to use your voice. I think we have the right group where he can really excel. We have veterans who are willing to listen and we have younger guys who are willing to listen and learn.

So is Mulcahy. He gets together with newly elevated assistant coach T.J. Thompson two or three times a week to break down film.

T.J. helped me a ton this offseason, he said.

Thompson was a standout point guard at George Washington from 2001-2005, playing under current Rutgers coaches Steve Pikiell and Karl Hobbs.

Pauls been phenomenal, from the way hes improved his jump shot to the way hes leading the team and being more vocal, Thompson said. Im so proud of his growth.

Mulcahy, who stands 6-foot-6, averaged 5.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 27 minutes per game last season. He did much of that with a mangled pinky on his shooting hand.

I got surgery, so Im still trying to come back from that, he said, adding that hes undergoing daily treatment with athletic trainer Richard Campbell. Its better than it was; now its about strengthening it.

Although Pikiell calls Mulcahy a point guard, hell split ball-handling duties with Baker, and there will be times when fellow upperclassmen Ron Harper Jr. and Caleb McConnell initiate the offense as well.

The way weve been playing, we dont really have a set point guard, Baker said. I think well be really sharing the game.

So far, in practice at least, its happening.

This team truly shares the basketball, Pikiell said. That starts with Paul, and it starts with Geo, too.

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Pikiell added two players from the transfer portal, LSU wing Aundre Hyatt and San Jose State center Ralph Agee, and on Friday Pikiell shed some light into thatprocess.

A lot of teams want to stockpile whatever they can in terms of talent five-star, six-star, eight-star guys, he said. Im trying to find guys who are going to fill in the needs we have and fit in with the personality of the team.

In some calls Pikiellmade to transfering players, their first commentwas, How many shots can I get? or Ive got to play this position or Ive got to start.

That was a red flag for a coach with five key players returning.

Aundre and Ralph both said, Well compete, Pikiell said.

Thats exactly what he wanted to hear.

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The freshman guard continues to show thedefensive chops that will earn him minutes. He locked up Baker on a few sequences Friday and held his own no matter who he was matched up against.

In one telling half-court set, he dropped down to double Cliff Omoruyi after the big man received a deft pass from Mulcahy on the low block and would up slapping the ball out of bounds.

Pikiell said Miller and sophomore wing Mawot Mag have been his most consistentdefenders throughout the preseason.

After shooting the lights out at a recent practice observed by media members, Rutgers was not nearly as hot this time around. The Scarlet Knights struggled from the free-throw line Friday and did a bunch of extra wind sprints because of it.

Worth noting: Omoruyi led the teams sprints nearly every time. Thats highly unusual for a center.

Pikiell said it privately in recent weeks, and Friday he went public: McConnell has graded out as the programs most efficient player throughout the preseason based on the teams internal metrics.

While McConnell got denieda seat forthe television interviewduring Big Ten media day the Big Ten Networks setup in Indianapolis only allowed for two players to join the broadcasters (they wanted Baker and Harper, understandably) his contributions will be vital as the Scarlet Knights top defender andjunkyard dog.

Pikiell announced that the season opener vs. Lehigh Nov. 10 has sold out, going off the board along with Michigan (Jan. 4) and Michigan State (Feb. 5). There will be more.

I go to the store now and people want to know (how many tickets are left), Pikiell said. I just tell them, youve got to call.

That was unimaginable when Pikiell took the job in 2016 not just the sellouts, but people recognizing him in stores.

Times have changed.

Jerry Carino has covered the New Jersey sports scene since 1996 and the college basketball beat since 2003. He is an Associated Press Top 25 voter. Contact him atjcarino@gannettnj.com.

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