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His main target is Canton defensive end Darius Robinson, the highest ranked player in the state for the class of 2019 yet to pick a college.
Hallock, whose brother, Tanner, is a redshirt freshman linebacker on MSU and whose father, Ty, played fullback, tight end and linebacker for the Spartans, is a linebacker from Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central.
Robinson has two more visits – MSU and Syracuse – before he makes his decision sometime in November, so this would be a good time for Hallock to get in his ear.
Some of the top juniors in the state will be guests of the Spartans at Saturday's game. Detroit Cass Tech has its homecoming that night, so no one from that school is scheduled to be in East Lansing according to coach Thomas Wilcher.
MSU’s 2019 class currently stands at 16 with 5-star Belleville offensive lineman Devontae Dobbs along with teammate and cornerback Julian Barnett. Both are expected to be in East Lansing on Saturday.
“It is an important weekend for Michigan State and recruiting," said Allen Trieu, who covers Midwest recruiting for 247Sports. “They have several of their top senior targets on campus as well as a big group of underclassmen who either have Spartan offers or figure to get them in time."
Buford is a 6-foot-5, 265-pound junior offensive guard ranked as the 50th-best offensive tackle in the country and the 18th-best player in Michigan, according to the 247Sports Composite. He has offers from Iowa, Cincinnati, Iowa State and Kentucky.
Boone is one of the state’s top running backs at 6-2 and 210 pounds. He is ranked as the 25th-best RB in the country and the fifth-best player in Michigan for the class of 2020. He has offers from Iowa, Indiana, Cincinnati and Boston College.
A wide receiver with offers from Ohio State, Michigan and MSU, the 6-4, 200-pounder seems to be split between the Buckeyes and the Spartans for his commitment. He's the 83rd-best receiver in the country and 12th-best player in Michigan for 2020.
At 6-6 with 4.6-second speed in the 40-yard dash, he’s a big target. Through his first 10 catches this season, he was averaging 43.3 yards per grab. Has offers from Boston College, Iowa, Iowa State, Missouri and Kentucky. He’ll have to decide between basketball and football. He's considered the 25th-best player in Michigan for 2020.
More: Is Michigan football, MSU recruiting Oak Park WR Maliq Carr?
His brother, Michael, is an MSU commit. Dustin is a junior quarterback with a strong arm and run-pass option potential at 6-3 and 205 pounds. 247Sports ranks him as the 18th-best dual-threat QB in the country and 22nd-best player in the state.
Last month the wide receiver received a scholarship offer from Ohio State, his 20th. Stewart plays wide receiver, tight end and free safety. Offered by MSU in July. Easy comparisons can be drawn to MSU sophomore receiver and former Walled Lake Western star Cody White. He's rated the ninth-best player in the class of 2020 and the 69th-best receiver in the country.
The senior linebacker is awaiting an MSU offer. Horne has visited the East Lansing campus several times. Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley coach Scott Merchant calls Horne as a tough, hard-nosed player who is a better-than-average running back.
MSU or U-M hasn’t offered yet, but it’s likley only a matter of time before one of those schools does. Beal gained notoriety at the Sound Mind Sound Body camp. Central Michigan has offered the 6-4, 200-pounder who is a classic drop-back passer. Teammate Robert Army will also attend the game.
MSU executive director of player personnel and recruiting Sheldon White extended an offer to the 6-4, 230-pounder to attend the game. Guajardo plays wide receiver, tight end and outside linebacker. Eastern Michigan has offered and MSU could do so soon. Georgia Tech, Boston College and Notre Dame has expressed interest.
HBO‘s vision of the totalitarian future from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is starting to get a little clearer, as the cable giant released the first teaser for their film adaptation of the classic novel. Directed by Ramin Bahrani from a script by Bahrani and Amir Naderi, the film stars Michael B Jordan (Fruitvale Station), Michael Shannon (Midnight Special), Sofia Boutella (The Mummy) and Lilly Singh (Bad Moms).
Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature at which paper ignites) depicts a controlled, repressed future where “firemen” have a horrific new responsibility: burning all books as a way of suppressing free thought and free will. Montag (Jordan) is a young fireman who wakes-up one day to the realization that everything he thought he knew was wrong, forsaking his “safe world” and putting him into direct conflict with his fire captain and mentor Beatty (Shannon). With the “help” of Clarisse (Boutella), a mysterious informant, Montag struggles to get back his humanity as the world ignites around him.
Joining Jordan, Shannon, Boutella and Singh (as Raven) on Fahrenheit 451 are Laura Harrier as Millie Montag; Martin Donovan as Comissioner Nyari; Andy McQueen as Gustavo; and Grace Lynn Kung as Chairman Mao. Jordan serves as an executive producer through his Outlier Productions; alongside Sarah Green of Brace Cove Productions, Alan Gasmer, Peter Jaysen, and Noruz Films’ Bahrani, who co-wrote with Naderi. David Coatsworth is a producer.
HBO Films currently has thirty titles in development, including: My Dinner With Herve; a film version of their series Deadwood; Monty Clift; Battle of Versailles; Bone Wars; and Untitled Harriet Tubman Project.
An estimate finds that a northward shift of Earth's wind and rain belts could make a broad swath of regions drier, including the Middle East, American West and Amazonia, while making Monsoon Asia and equatorial Africa wetter.
The authors based their prediction on knowledge of warming that brought Earth out of the last ice age about 15,000 years ago and climate data collected from around the world, from tree-rings, polar ice cores, cave formations, and lake and ocean sediments. Based on that, they hypothesize that the wind and rain belts shifted north from about 14,600 years ago to 12,700 years ago as the northern hemisphere was heating up.
As the North Atlantic Ocean began to churn more vigorously, it melted Arctic sea ice, setting up a temperature contrast with the southern hemisphere where sea ice was expanding around Antarctica. The temperature gradient between the poles appears to have pushed the tropical rain belt and mid-latitude jet stream north, redistributing water in two bands around the planet. If Arctic sea ice continues to retreat, and with the northern hemisphere heating up faster than the south, history could repeat itself, they believe.
At the southern edge of the tropical rain belt, the great ancient Lake Tauca in the Bolivian Andes nearly dried up at this time while rivers in eastern Brazil slowed to a trickle and rain-fed stalagmites in the same region stopped growing. In the middle latitudes, the northward advance of the jet stream may have caused Lake Lisan, a precursor to the Dead Sea in Jordan's Rift Valley, to shrink, along with several prehistoric lakes in the western U.S., including Lake Bonneville in present day Utah.
Meanwhile, a northward shift of the tropical rains recharged the rivers that drain Venezuela's Cariaco Basin and East Africa's Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika. Stalagmites in China's Hulu Cave grew bigger. Evidence for a stronger Asian monsoon during this time also shows up in the Greenland ice cores.
The process worked in reverse from about 1300 to 1850, the study authors hypothesize, as northern Europe transitioned from the relatively warm medieval era to a colder period known as the Little Ice Age. Ocean circulation slowed, and sea ice in the North Atlantic Ocean expanded, the climate record shows. At the same time, rainfall declined in Monsoon Asia, leading to a series of droughts that have been linked to the decline of Cambodia's ancient Khmer civilization, China's Ming dynasty and the collapse of kingdoms in present day Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand.
In the southern hemisphere, the reconstruction of glacier extents in New Zealand's Southern Alps suggests that the mid-latitudes may have been colder during medieval times, supporting the idea of a temperature contrast between the hemispheres that altered rain and wind patterns.
A similar migration of Earth's wind and rain belts happens each year. During boreal summer, the tropical rain belt and mid-latitude jet stream migrate north as the northern hemisphere heats up disproportionately to the south, with more continents to absorb the sun's energy. As the northern hemisphere cools off in winter, the winds and rains revert south.
Sometimes the winds and rains have rearranged themselves for longer periods of time. In the 1970s and 1980s, a southward shift of the tropical rain belt, attributed to air pollution cooling the northern hemisphere, is thought to have brought devastating drought to Africa's Sahel region. The tropical rain belt has since reverted back, and may be moving north, the study authors say, as suggested by a number of recent droughts, including in Syria, northern China, western U.S., and northeastern Brazil.
"If the kinds of changes we saw during the deglaciation were to occur today that would have a very big impact," said the study's lead author, Wallace Broecker, a climate scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, about their upcoming paper in PNAS.
Consistent with the study, at least one climate model shows the tropical rain belt moving north as carbon dioxide levels climb and temperatures warm. "It's really important to look at the paleo record," said Dargan Frierson, an atmospheric scientist at University of Washington whose modeling work supports the authors' hypothesis. "Those changes were huge, just like we're expecting with global warming."
The study authors acknowledge that their hypothesis has some holes. In the past, changes in sea ice cover drove the temperature gradient between the two hemispheres while today rapidly rising industrial carbon emissions are responsible. So far, there is also no clear evidence that ocean circulation is increasing in the North Atlantic or that the monsoon rains over Asia are strengthening (though there is speculation that sulfate aerosols produced by burning fossil fuels may be masking this effect).
As air pollution in the northern hemisphere declines, temperatures may warm, creating the kind of temperature contrast that could move the winds and rains north again, said Jeff Severinghaus, a climate scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who was not involved in the study.
"Sulfate aerosols will probably get cleaned up in the next few decades because of their effects on acid rain and health," he said. "So Broecker and Putnam are probably on solid ground in predicting that northern warming will eventually greatly exceed southern warming."
Amherst adopted a resolution to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day.
AMHERST - The town of Amherst is the first community in the state to adopt an Indigenous Peoples Day resolution, though it does not change the federal or state designations for Columbus Day.
Town Meeting agreed to support the resolution initiated by Matthew Venditti's eighth grade Amherst Regional Middle School students on Wednesday night.
RESOLVED: That Amherst Town Meeting recommends that Indigenous Peoples' Day be observed by the people, with appropriate exercises in the schools and otherwise, to the end that the culture, history and diversity of Native American Peoples be celebrated and perpetuated."
The Cambridge City Council will talk about a similar resolution May 26.
Temporary Town Manager Peter Hechenbleikner wrote in an email that with "respect to Town calendars, we will probably do some sort of hyphenated designation recognizing the actions of Town Meeting, but not wanting to confuse residents who are used to the Columbus day holiday, and also recognizing that it is still known as Columbus Day for federal and state purposes."
The Amherst Regional School Committee last month voted to change the name of the day on the school calendar.
Students initiated the resolution after reading more about Columbus during an "inquiry segment" on the explorer.
After learning about some of his atrocities they wanted to do more than debate so brought their resolution forward.
Some in Town Meeting who opposed the resolution wanted to continue celebrating Columbus and Indigenous People's Day.
Town Meeting member Robert Biaggi asked to amend the resolution to keep Columbus Day on the second Monday and Indigenous Peoples Day on the third Monday of October. "Columbus was a person of his time."
Biaggi said, "Indigenous people were slaughtering people before Columbus."
In an email Thursday, Venditti wrote that the "students were very pleased with the results.
"The students had a great opportunity to learn about the democratic process and how it works at the town level.
"There were those who spoke eloquently in opposition to the article, which help to show the kids that people can have honest disagreements in politics with thoughtful debate rather than personal attacks.
"I was very grateful for that."
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Protesters have rallied for months against plans to route the Dakota Access pipeline under a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, saying it threatened water resources and sacred Native American sites.
The tribe, which has fought to stop the pipeline since last year, won a major victory last month when the government denied Energy Transfer Partners LP the right to run the pipeline under Lake Oahe, a water source upstream from the reservation.
Trump’s order instructed the Army and the Army Corps of Engineers to review the decision.
The Republican president also signed an order reviving the C$8 billion ($6.1 billion) Keystone XL pipeline project, which was rejected in 2015 by then-President Barack Obama.
As a small airplane circled over the main protest camp near the Dakota Access pipeline on Tuesday, the mood following the White House’s announcement was calm but defiant.
Buffalo has been at the camp since August, when tensions started to flare up between law enforcement officers and protesters, who have been backed by Hollywood celebrities, veterans and other activists.
The tribe had recently called for protesters to leave after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to an environmental review last month, saying the battle had moved beyond the camp and into the courts or back rooms for negotiations with the government.
The tribe also warned that the camp itself might contaminate the river if hit by heavy flooding in March, when waters are expected to rise.
On Tuesday, Standing Rock leaders said they would meet in the coming days to plan next steps. Some said they feared fresh violence after past clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers.
Dana Yellow Fat, Standing Rock Sioux tribal council member at large, called Trump’s order “a poor decision and a bad move” and said he worried about injuries if new violence broke out.
“Now you’re going to see both sides gear up for even more actions on the ground because you have a group of people that is determined to stop that pipeline one way or another,” he told Reuters.
Since the exit of the Standing Rock Sioux, the camp has been less organized, with no regular sunrise prayers and communal kitchens that now only serve food sporadically. In some spots, tents are buried under snow and as many as 60 cars have been abandoned.
Tribal officials expect the cleanup of the site to take about a month.
The Morton County Sheriff’s Department urged activists to remain peaceful in light of Trump’s order and said they were bracing for a possible resurgence in protests.
She declined to say whether additional officers would be sent to the protest site.
Morton County spokesman Rob Keller on Monday said police had no plans to forcibly remove people from the campsite, where protesters now number 500 to 600, down from the nearly 10,000 once there.
Many in the camp, some of them members of Native American tribes from other parts of the country, had already planned to defy the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s call to leave, saying the fight against the pipeline was not over.
Forest Borie, 33, of Magalia, California, said the protest will only become more intense.
“Our struggle to protect the planet is getting more intense, and the stakes are getting higher, said Borie, who has been at the camp since early November.
Nagpur: India stands to lose the most from climate change than other polluting countries, according to a new international research. It pegs the country’s economic loss from carbon dioxide emissions at Rs6,235 per tonne. As reported by TOI on Friday, the country’s carbon emissions from thermal sector alone was 929 million tonnes in the last fiscal. This amounts to an unbelievable loss of nearly Rs5.8 lakh crores in 2017-18, which is almost three times this year’s defence budget.
In a first-of-its-kind attempt, researchers have developed a data quantifying the social cost of carbon (SCC) for nearly 200 countries. SCC refers to the measure of economic damage from the emissions of carbon dioxide for different countries.
While earlier researches suggested that the benefits of fossil fuel-led development are “mostly enjoyed by the developed countries,” the new study assesses that the top three countries set to face the worst economic damage due to climate change are India, United States and Saudi Arabia.
Carried out by researchers from the University of California in San Diego, European Institute on Economics and the Environment in Milan (Italy), Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford (USA) and Politecnico di Milano, Italy. The study has been recently published in Nature Climate Change, a prominent international scientific journal focused mainly on research related to global warming.
Rather than evaluating only global cost of carbon emissions, the study finds out country-level contributions to the social cost of carbon (CSCC) for individual nations using recent climate model projections, estimations of climate-driven economic damages and socio-economic projections.
According to the study, India’s CSCC was the highest — Rs6,267 per a tonne of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to 21% of the global social cost of carbon. Four days ago, TOI reported that the country’s thermal sector spewed out nearly 929 million tonnes of CO2 in the last fiscal.
Multiplying the country’s CSCC estimated in the study with total carbon emissions shows that India lost as much as Rs5.8 lakh crores from CO2 emissions from just the thermal sector. The loss would be much more if other polluters are taken into account.
“While Russia dominates all the other nations in gains from emissions, India is consistently dominated by all the other large economies with large losses,” the study states, adding that the country lags behind when it comes to mitigating against climate change through policies.
“We all know carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels affects people and ecosystems around the world. However, these impacts are not included in market prices which creates an environmental externality whereby consumers of fossil fuel energy do not pay for and are unaware of the true costs of their consumption,” said lead author Kate Ricke, who is an assistant professor at University of California San Diego.
The study concludes that many countries have “not yet recognized the risk posed by climate change”.
When sport is working entirely well it provides us with opportunities to lose ourselves a little in the celebration of achievement and while enough has happened in these parts over the last few years for every outstanding performance to raise an eyebrow, nobody here is rushing just now to question how the Russian team has outrun every other over the first two rounds of games.
Instead, the euphoria here over the way Stanislav Cherchesov’s team has performed to date is huge and most of the visitors are more than happy that their hosts are getting to enjoy a party they have gone to a great deal of trouble and expense to put on.
So, for a while at least Denis Cheryshev and co are national heroes, pure and simple and Yekaterinburg was a noisy place to arrive into in the early hours of last Wednesday morning as the locals celebrated having secured their place in the tournament’s second round.
The mood was more sombre on Friday with flags flying at half mast to mark the 77th anniversary of the invasion by Nazi Germany. Veterans of the Great Patriotic War are in increasingly short supply. There were a sprinkling of elderly men and women, weighed down by their many medals it seemed, at what were moving ceremonies to mark the occasion in the city. The respect shown towards those who fought fascism is impressive to witness.
The question of just who gets to be regarded as a hero, though, has not been been so straightforward in a country that has changed so much since the days when they fought to defend it.
One of the June 22nd ceremonies took place on the edge of the city pond in Yekaterinburg, a city with origins in mining, metal and its place on the route to Siberia that grew dramatically during the war as factories and people, many of whom never left again, were transported to safety from the West. Now home to 1.3 million people, it is Russia’s third largest urban centre in terms of commerce.
Barely 50 metres away from the waterside event was the Boris Yeltsin Centre, a lavish complex incorporating a museum, exhibition spaces, cinema/theatre and shops. It would not look remotely out of place in Moscow, Madrid or Manhattan.
A lot of money has clearly gone into what is essentially a monument to Russia’s transformation from command to free market economy and the man who oversaw its most traumatic phase. Both President Vladimir Putin, who Yeltsin effectively handed power over to with the much quoted instruction to “take care of Russia”, and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev attended its opening a couple of years ago. The local communists want it closed down (because it distorts history they allege, entertainingly enough) and they occasionally stage protests outside the place.
Yeltsin’s “shock therapy” approach impoverished millions and, as state assets were sold off at huge discounts to a chosen few, created a handful of billionaires almost overnight. A few of those are well known to football fans.
Yeltsin, in any case, faced down an attempted coup which, one suspects, may not have made matters much better, but also invaded Chechnya which undoubtedly made them worse. A survey a couple of years ago found that he had an approval rating of just 11 per cent across Russia (although half the respondents claimed to have no opinion) but it remains far higher more than a decade after his death in what is effectively his hometown.
Under his successor, meanwhile, the economy has obviously improved greatly since the 1990s and Putin clearly enjoys a lot of support although it is interesting that he never seems entirely happy to test the actual extent of it in what might be regarded as a completely free and fairly fought election.
He won the latest one with 77 per cent of the vote a few months back and might well have triumphed comfortably anyway but the most serious alternative candidate, anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, was prevented from running due to a couple of convictions that few outside Russia consider genuine.
It is worth acknowledging that all of this information is freely available over the internet here. Perhaps the searches involved were simply too superficial but in Turkey a few months ago, even checking which club a local player was at was complicated ever so slightly by the fact that Wikipedia was, in its entirety, blocked by the government.
Being a journalist that challenges the authority of the state and those close to it has a habit of ending badly in both countries. In Turkey a great many go to prison and in Russia, according to international organisation the Committee to Protect Journalists, 58 have been killed since 1992 of whom, 33, it says, have been “murdered with impunity”.
Two perished in 2017 but the numbers do not include Maksim Borodin, the 32-year-old investigative reporter who died in Yekaterinburg on April 15th this year, three days after he was discovered on the pavement under the balcony of his fifth floor apartment.
His work on local corruption, prisons and, most recently, the involvement of Russia mercenaries in Syria for the periodical and website, Novy Den, made him powerful enemies.
The authorities nevertheless said there was nothing suspicious about his death and his editor dismissed the notion that he could have committed suicide and friends, who have called for a fuller investigation, are sceptical about the suggested alternative: an accident while smoking.
Borodin’s work doubtless marks him out as a hero to some Russians and his death certainly raises some questions but the wider population might be forgiven for believing it best to go with the flow a little more readily. No matter how things have changed down the years, after all, no one ever gets thanked for trying to spoil a party.
A novice politician hailing from the New York borough of Queens gains enormous media attention and a huge and wildly passionate following in part by lobbing irregular critiques at the news media.
Donald Trump in 2015? Yes. But also Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, circa 2019.

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