What is non-Hodgkin lymphoma? Is it curable? What to know after Jane Fonda's diagnosis



Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY
Sat, September 3, 2022 

Jane Fonda on Friday shared that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, with the 84-year-old actor and activist confirming that she has started chemotherapy treatments.

Fonda called herself “lucky” because she has “health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments.”

“I realize, and it’s painful, that I am privileged in this. Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another and far too many don’t have access to the quality health care I am receiving and this is not right,” she shared in a post on Instagram.

But what is non-Hodgkin lymphoma? Can it be treated? Here’s what you need to know.

Jane Fonda reveals cancer diagnosis: Star promises chemotherapy won't stop climate activism




What is non-Hodgkin lymphoma? Is it curable?

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a kind of cancer that starts in a person's lymphatic system, “part of the body's germ-fighting immune system,” according to the Mayo Clinic. A person’s white blood cells, called lymphocytes, can form tumors throughout their body.

There are over 70 types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to the Cleveland Clinic. People with non-Hodgkin lymphomas can go into remission, meaning they do not have any symptoms, and tests show they do not demonstrate signs of the cancer.

Experts have found that many aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphomas come back during the first two years after a person has completed treatment, or they do not ever come back.

Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma are both kinds of cancer that begin in lymphocytes, though their main difference "is in the specific lymphocyte each involves," according to the Mayo Clinic.

What are the symptoms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma?

Symptoms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that a person might notice include:

Swollen lymph nodes in the neck, armpits or groin


Chest pain


Fatigue


Unexplainable weight loss


Fever

How is non-Hodgkin lymphoma treated?

There are many different treatment options for people diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The goal of the treatments is typically to kill cancer cells or prevent them from dividing, according to the Cleveland Clinic, and some include:

Watchful waiting/active surveillance: If a person has a slow-growing non-Hodgkin lymphoma and no symptoms, a medical provider may advise that they wait to pursue treatment until they begin experiencing symptoms.

Traditional systemic chemotherapy: A person may also take drugs that attack cancer cells in their body. These drugs are traditionally administered intravenously.

Targeted therapy: This kind of treatment uses medicines that can target cancer cells and damage the lymphoma cells to control their spread, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
What is the survival rate for non-Hodgkin lymphoma?

According to the American Cancer Society, which relies on information from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database maintained by the National Cancer Institute, the overall five-year relative survival rate for people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma is 73%. A relative survival rate “compares people with the same type and stage of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) to people in the overall population,” according to the organization.

However, survival rates can vary depending on the person. Fonda in her Friday Instagram post called her condition “a very treatable cancer,” adding that “80% of people survive, so I feel very lucky.”

Are there causes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma

In most cases, a doctor will not know what causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to the Mayo Clinic. However, some factors that may increase a person’s risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma can include medications that suppress your immune system, infections with certain viruses and bacteria (such as HIV and Epstein-Barr infections), chemicals (such as those used to kill weeds and insects), and more.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Jane Fonda: What is non-Hodgkin lymphoma? Is the cancer curable?

 

The Christian right’s Faustian bargain

It goes back 42 years.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Sept. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

September 6, 2022

By 

Mark Silk

Spiritual Politics

(RNS) — “Trump should fill Christians with rage,” begins the headline on Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson’s latest opinion piece. “How come he doesn’t?”

Gerson, former chief speechwriter for George W. Bush and prominent evangelical-around-town, states the answer as succinctly as anybody: “Much of what considers itself Christian America has assumed the symbols and identity of white authoritarian populism — an alliance that is a serious, unfolding threat to liberal democracy.”

How did we get to this point? 

In Gerson’s view, the Christian Americans in question have come to feel themselves “outsiders in their own land” for holding traditional Western views on marriage and gender — views that are reviled by progressive elites. Whereupon: “Leaders in the Republican Party have fed, justified and exploited conservative Christians’ defensiveness in service to an aggressive, reactionary politics.”

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Ergo, resistance to vaccine and mask mandates, discrediting of fair elections, baseless charges of gay grooming in schools, silencing the teaching of the history of racism, and a belief in political institutions suffused in godless conspiracies. And that’s not to mention attachment to Confederate nostalgia, antisemitic replacement theory and QAnon accusations of satanic child sacrifice.

It’s a powerful assessment, but altogether too present-minded. The malady of the Christian America Gerson diagnoses goes back at least half a century, and its exploitation was engineered— by evangelical as well as Republican leaders — long before Gerson joined the Bush II administration.

When conservative Christians first began mounting political protests in the 1970s, they did so as, well, Christian conservatives. Whether it was Phyllis Schlafly and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints versus the Equal Rights Amendment, Anita Bryant versus the Dade County gay rights ordinance, or folks in Kanawha County versus public school textbooks, the protests were defensive — and nonpartisan. So too with the anti-abortion movement, which got off the ground toward the end of the decade.

But in 1980 that ceased to be the case, and here’s how.

Mesmerized by the idea of creating a Republican majority based in the increasingly populous Sun Belt, Republican insiders were shocked and dismayed by the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976. For a moderate Democratic ex-governor of Georgia to carry every state of the Confederacy except Virginia posed a mortal threat to the GOP’s “Southern strategy.”

Pastor James Robison, left, speaks and Ronald Reagan, center, applauds during the National Affairs Briefing in Dallas in August 1980. Video screen grab

And so it became essential to turn as many white Southerners as possible into Republican voters and, ideally, political activists. It all came together in August 1980, when 10,000 evangelicals came to Reunion Arena in Dallas for what was called the National Affairs Briefing.

The attendees were told, “You’ll walk away with know-how to inform and mobilize your church and community in a nonpartisan drive to push beyond complaint into positive control of your destiny.”

The object was the opposite of nonpartisan. Alongside major evangelical preachers, the event featured an array of prominent conservative Republican pols and culminated in the appearance of newly nominated presidential nominee Ronald Reagan, who stroked the crowd. “I know you cannot endorse me,” he said, “but I endorse you and everything you do.”

Come November, Carter lost every state of the Confederacy except his own. The Christian right was on its way; the Republican alliance, its Faustian bargain. Seduced by the promise of power, most white evangelicals and many other white Christians as well would become locked as much into a Republican as a Christian identity.

in a recent interview on the Ezra Klein Show, Russell Moore, former head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission who now edits Christianity Today, testified to his own experience as a teenager in Mississippi in the 1980s.

The problem is when the political ideas or even worse, the political affiliations and those sorts of tribal identities, that becomes primary. And so the religion then becomes kind of a means to an end.

That was one of the really difficult problems I had to grapple with as a teenager was seeing voting guides that would say here’s the Christian position on line item veto, balanced budget amendment, those sorts of things, and realizing, is there a Christian position on the Strategic Defense Initiative and how much funding it should get? 

Getting those voter guides into evangelical churches was the specialty of the Christian Coalition. Allegedly nonpartisan, the guides were structured by Executive Director Ralph Reed to favor only Republican candidates — as the IRS belatedly recognized when it denied the organization nonprofit status in 1999.

As Thomas Edsall and Hanna Rosin of The Washington Post put it at the time, “In states with large evangelical and fundamentalist constituencies, the coalition, the premier organization of the religious right, has helped Republicans at every level of the ballot, playing a crucial role in the GOP takeover of the House and Senate in 1994.”

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By the early 2000s, when Reed became head of the Georgia Republican Party and flipped the state from blue to red, the Christian right was literally demonizing the other side. As a lonely Democrat in a suburban Atlanta church emailed me two decades ago, “The ‘in-crowd’ at my church is all Republican and regularly encourage others in the church to attend the Christian Coalition meetings and rallies. … If I ever spoke up in defense of a Democratic politician, I was talked down and sometimes actually yelled at by red-faced Deacons saying that the Democrats are the work of the devil.”

The corrupting influence of power is an old story. Meditating on the theological relevance of the latest Lord of the Rings series in his most recent column for The Dispatch, anti-Trump evangelical David French writes: “Tolkien wasn’t naive. He knew that world. He’d confronted it directly. That’s why characters like Boromir or Fëanor resonate so strongly. In the quest to confront the enemy, you become the enemy.”

Rage? Having long since cast its political enemy as the devil, how could the Christian right have done other than embrace the demonic Donald Trump?

'God-denying' women and self-replacing Christians: How religion changes birthrates

Religion News Service - Yesterday 

(RNS) — According to Bloomberg News, South Korea’s fertility rate dropped from .84 babies per woman to .81 in 2021, the lowest figure on record. If current trends continue, the number of people in South Korea will be the same in 2100 as it was in 1960. In response, the government has tripled the baby payment as a way to induce more childbearing.

This collapse in fertility is also evident in China and in many European countries, where the total population in many places has the potential to drop by half in the next eight years.

Religion has become a part of the conversation about declining birthrates. Recently, pastor and podcaster Dale Partridge tweeted about the “great sadness” of “God-denying” 39-year-old women who are intentionally single and childless who will realize in later years that they will have “a total sense of emptiness” for not finding a partner and having children.

For Partridge, rejecting the institutions of marriage and parenthood is to embrace a lifestyle that is antithetical to his understanding of God’s design for human beings — namely, that “they be fruitful and multiply.”

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But does religious belief actually have an impact on how people in the United States think and act about marriage and family? The General Social Survey has been asking questions about whether someone is married and whether they have children since the early 1970s. The results do point to religion as an important factor for many when it comes to making important life decisions.



'God-denying' women and self-replacing Christians: How religion changes birthrates© Provided by Religion News Service

In a GSS question about marital status, respondents are asked to identify as married, separated, divorced, widowed or never been married. In 1972, about 14% of the American population reported that they had never wed. Evangelicals were just a bit lower at 9%. However, those without a religious affiliation reported a much higher likelihood of never being married. In 1972, 36% of them had never walked down the aisle.

Over time, the portion of Americans who have remained single has clearly climbed. In 2021, nearly 3 in 10 adults said that they have not married — double the rate in 1972. Evangelicals have also seen a significant increase, with 19% never having wed.


Among the so-called nones — those unaffiliated with any religious organization — the share of people who have never married, at 42% in 2021, has increased, but the rise has been far more modest. Still, that’s about 12 percentage points above the national average.



'God-denying' women and self-replacing Christians: How religion changes birthrates© Provided by Religion News Service

Religion doesn’t only impact the likelihood of entering into matrimony. It can have profound impacts on other decisions, such as when to have children or the number of children to have. That’s clearly shown by the General Social Survey. In the early 1970s, evangelical households had a little more than 2.5 children on average. That was just slightly higher than the average American, who was having 2.3 children. Nones were much, much lower than that. In 1972, the average none had 1.4 children.

There’s unmistakable evidence of declining fertility rates in the data as well. The average respondent reported having 1.8 children in 2021, a dip of .5 over the last five decades. Evangelicals were also reporting declining birthrates between 1972 and 2000, but those numbers have slightly rebounded from there. The average evangelical has about 2.1 children now, slightly above the national average.

For nones, there is also decline in fertility, but it’s much less severe. According to the most recent data, the average none has about 1.3 children, a slight increase from two decades ago, but still 50% below the national average.



'God-denying' women and self-replacing Christians: How religion changes birthrates© Provided by Religion News Service

One curious development when talking about birthrates is the expanding trend of “child-free” individuals, who have declared they will never have children for a wide variety of reasons. There’s a community dedicated to these individuals on Reddit, boasting 1.5 million members.

This trend has yet to show up in the data, however. Looking at those who are at least 40 years old, little evidence supports the notion that the child-free movement has momentum in the general public. In the 1970s, about 13% of adults 40 or older had never had children. Today, it’s risen by perhaps 1 or 2 percentage points.

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Even the nones are still having children, though their story is more complicated. In the 1970s, nearly 20% of nones were child-free before dipping slightly in the 1980s, and then peaking at 28% in the early 2000s. But from that point forward, nones 40 or older with no children dropped as a share of nones overall. They now make up about 20% of the group — 6 points higher than the national average, but far less than the nearly 15-point gap in 2004.

So while religion affects trends in marriage and offspring in sometimes unclear ways, the one loud message is for the nones: Their focus must be on conversion, not retention. While the unaffiliated nones have grown by leaps and bounds over the last three decades, their low birthrate means they will have to bring in new members who were raised in other faith traditions to maintain that momentum in the coming decades.

(Ryan Burge is an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, a pastor in the American Baptist Church and author of “The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going.” He can be reached on Twitter at @ryanburge. The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of Religion News Service.)

Ahead of the Trend is a collaborative effort between Religion News Service and the Association of Religion Data Archives made possible through the support of the John Templeton Foundation. See other Ahead of the Trend articles here.

AUSTRALIA

Mystery 4,000-Foot Coral Reef Found in the Middle of the Desert

Jess Thomson - 9h ago


The remains of a multimillion-year-old coral reef have been discovered in the middle of a desert in Australia.

Southern Australia's Nullarbor Plain, where the reef was found, is now a 76,000-square- mile desert consisting of limestone bedrock. But it was covered by a tropical ocean about 14 million years ago, during the Cenozoic period.

Researchers from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group at Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Perth spotted the reef as a bull's-eye shape on new high-resolution satellite imagery. The discovery challenged their previous assumptions that the Nullarbor Plain had always been featureless.

"Unlike many parts of the world, large areas of the Nullarbor Plain have remained largely unchanged by weathering and erosion processes over millions of years, making it a unique geological canvas recording ancient history in remarkable ways," co-author and geologist Milo Barham of Curtin University said in a statement.

"Through high-resolution satellite imagery and fieldwork we have identified the clear remnant of an original sea-bed structure preserved for millions of years, which is the first of this kind of landform discovered on the Nullarbor Plain," Barham said.

Most of Australia has been dry in modern times, with 18 percent of the country classified as desert. But for hundreds of millions of years, Australia was covered with rain forests and seas, including the ocean that once put the Nullarbor Plain underwater.

The coral reef structure has a circular elevated rim and a central dome shape, according to a paper published in the journal Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. The structure is between 3,950 and 4,250 feet in diameter.

In addition, the structure is distinct from other landforms observed on the plain and cannot be explained by any of the geological processes common to the area, the paper said.

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"The ring-shaped 'hill' cannot be explained by extra-terrestrial impact or any known deformation processes but preserves original microbial textures and features typically found in the modern Great Barrier Reef," Barham said.

The researchers' access to new high-resolution satellite imagery has allowed them to spot much more subtle features of the Nullarbor Plain. This led them to realize it wasn't a featureless and unchanging landscape, which they had thought it became after its ocean dried up.

"Evidence of the channels of long-vanished rivers, as well as sand dune systems imprinted directly into limestone, preserve an archive of ancient landscapes and even a record of the prevailing winds," Barham said.

"And it is not only landscapes. Isolated cave shafts punctuating the Nullarbor Plain preserve mummified remains of Tasmanian tigers and complete skeletons of long-extinct wonders such as Thylacoleo, the marsupial lion," he said.


A picture of the reef included in the paper. Curtin University School of Earth and Planetary Sciences / Timescales of Mineral Systems Group

Further exploration of the geology of Nullarbor may aid researchers in their quest to learn more about the beginnings of our solar system and of Earth itself.

"At the surface, due to the relatively stable conditions, the Nullarbor Plain has preserved large quantities of meteorites, allowing us to peer back through time to the origins of our solar system," Barham said.

"These features, in conjunction with the millions of years old landscape features we have now identified, effectively make the Nullarbor Plain a land that time forgot and allow a fascinating deeper understanding of Earth's history," he said.

IT USED TO BE A WEEK

Russian Defence Ministry spends three days thinking how to explain non-admission of journalists to Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant


Ukrainska Pravda

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — SUNDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 2022

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has stated that Ukrainian and Western journalists, whom the invaders did not let enter the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear power Plant (ZNPP) on 1 September, were allegedly preparing a provocation and that more than 60 media representatives from different countries were allowed to enter in their place.

Source: statement by an official representative of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Details: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, has said that journalists were not able to accompany the IAEA mission to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). The Russian Defence Ministry responded to this statement only on Sunday, 4 September.

Quote from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation: "While the Kyiv regime and its Western sponsors were preparing for an operation to seize the ZNPP on 1 September, specially chosen and trained ‘media representatives’ from Ukraine, the US and the UK had to inform the world community in the presence of the IAEA of the transfer of the station to Kyiv’s control.

To this end, as was confirmed on 2 September of this year by Zelenskyy's public statement, the Kyiv government added cars carrying Ukrainian and Western journalists to the IAEA motorcade".

More details: The Russian Defence Ministry said that according to "detailed and agreed documents", access to the territory of Zaporizhzhia Oblast that is controlled by the invaders should have been provided strictly on the basis of the lists previously submitted to the Russian Defence Ministry by the UN Department of Safety and Security.

"No representatives of the Ukrainian or other mass media who were supposed to accompany the convoy of IAEA experts from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime to the Zaporizhzhya NPP on 1 September are included on the agreed mission lists," the Russians say.

The Russian Defence Ministry stated that "in order to comply with the safety protocol of the mission", all outsiders who tried to cross the line of demarcation together with the IAEA motorcade were halted and not allowed to pass.

The Russian authorities also claim that at the request of the IAEA Secretariat, more than 60 media representatives, including from France, the United States, China, Denmark, Japan, Germany, Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries, were invited by the Russians to cover the mission's work at Zaporizhzhia NPP.

According to the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, on the morning of 1 September, the journalists belonging to this pool who arrived in Enerhodar were allegedly "direct eyewitnesses of an unsuccessful attempt to storm the Zaporizhzhia NPP by Ukrainian saboteurs and, hiding in a bomb shelter, personally observed a massive artillery attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the nuclear plant and residential quarters in Enerhodar."

Background: The mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was supposed to arrive at the Zaporizhzhia NPP on 31 August, but did not get there until 1 September.

It took quite some time for the mission to reach the ZNPP, with the Russians not providing the experts with special passes. Fourteen members of the mission did not arrive at the occupied station until 1 September and spent 2.5 hours there, after which only 5 representatives of the mission remained at the nuclear power plant. Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that the IAEA team would maintain its presence at the Zaporizhzhia plant.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that despite the agreement with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, the mission arrived at the Zaporizhzhia NPP without any escort by independent journalists.

Electric dog collar ban will lead to ‘animal welfare disaster’, warn farmers

NOT A DOG'S BEST FRIEND

Banning electric dog collars is “naïve nonsense” that will lead to “an unmitigated animal welfare disaster”, a farmers’ union has warned the Government.

THEY CAN'T BLAME WOLVES (THEY KILLED THEM ALL).....

More than 200 sheep farmers from across England say that they are experiencing an increasing number of “distressing and harrowing” dog attacks and the ban on the training devices due to come into effect this year is “utterly irresponsible”.

In a letter to Boris and Carrie Johnson, who both campaigned in favour of a ban on e-collars when it was first announced in 2018, they warn that the plans are “misguided in the extreme”.

The letter, led by the National Sheep Association, warns that in Wales, where a ban is already in place, there has been an increase in both attacks on sheep and the number of dogs shot by farmers.

Phil Stocker, the chief executive of the National Sheep Association, said: “Attacks on sheep by dogs are getting progressively worse and farmers are fed up with the trauma of finding dead and injured sheep and in some cases telling people that they have had to shoot their dogs.

Keeping dogs on leads

“The solution starts with owners keeping their dogs on leads. But dogs with strong prey instincts must also be trained and, as the signatories of this letter say, it would be madness to ban an effective and proven way of training them to be wary of sheep.

“We are in favour of regulation to minimise any risk of misuse – but a blanket ban on e-collar training would be misguided in the extreme.”

But last night officials insisted that the ban was being put in place to protect dogs from abuse. It is understood that they are planning to respond to the farmers.

The Westminster Government promised to ban the devices, which are used to train an estimated 300,000 dogs, in 2018 and has pledged to introduce new legislation this year.

When announcing the ban, then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove urged people “to instead use positive reward training methods”. Animal charities suggest treats including biscuits to teach pets.

Proposals are ‘naïve nonsense’

But the letter warns that the “view that these attacks can be stopped by instead training a dog with biscuits is naïve nonsense”.

It adds: “While we agree with Defra that using leads on dogs around sheep is important, the vast majority of attacks happen when a dog has escaped. So, it would be utterly irresponsible to ban the only training which prevents such attacks, and can avoid dogs being shot or destroyed.”

Farmers in Wales, including BBC star Gareth Wyn Jones, wrote to the Welsh Parliament in June calling on ministers to reverse their decade long ban on the collars, which deliver a small electric shock.

Referencing their complaints, the 206 English farmers pointed out that the Welsh “suffer four times more attacks and have to shoot many more dogs than their counterparts elsewhere in the UK”.
Concern about abuse

“Above all the Government must not ban them,” they pleaded with the Prime Minister and his wife. “That would be an unmitigated animal welfare disaster.”

A Defra spokesman said: “The Government’s proposed ban on hand-operated electric shock collars will protect dogs from these harmful devices which can be all too easily open to abuse.

“It is important that dogs are trained to behave well, ideally from a young age, and introduced gradually and positively to different environments, people and animals. Dog owners can prevent incidents of livestock worrying through keeping their pet dogs on a lead in the vicinity of livestock.”

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FIRST ROYAL FAUX PAS

King Charles’ Speech Interrupts Final Episode Of ‘Days Of Our Lives

Anita Tai - ET CANADA

THE KINGS'S SPEECH

Daytime soap opera fans will have to wait a little longer to see the conclusion of one of the most beloved shows.
Britain's King Charles III, and Camilla, the Queen Consort, wave to the crowd outside Buckingham Palace, following Thursday's death of Queen Elizabeth II, in London, Friday Sept. 9, 2022. King Charles III, who spent much of his 73 years preparing for the role, planned to meet with the prime minister and address a nation grieving the only British monarch most of the world had known. He takes the throne in an era of uncertainty for both his country and the monarchy itself.
(Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

During the airing of the final episode of the show, which has been on air for 57 years, the final scene was cut short on NBC to air King Charles III's first official address.

The episode was meant to conclude the long-running show's broadcast on a network television channel, as it will be moving to NBC's streaming service Peacock on Monday.

Gabi, played by Camila Banus, was in the mausoleum telling her dead lover she had moved on.

"But, you know, even though …" she said before the broadcast was cut short.

Outraged fans took to Twitter to express their frustration.

"I UNDERSTAND THAT THE QUEEN DIED AND IT’S A BIG DEAL…IN EUROPE. BUT WE ARE NOT A MONARCHY. WE ACTUALLY REVOLTED AGAINST IT. SO WE DONT NEED 24/7 COVERAGE WHEN 'DAYS OF OUR LIVES' IS AIRING THEIR LAST EPISODE EVER ON NBC. #Days" wrote one fan.

"So disrespectful of NBC to interrupt 'Days of our Lives' on its last day on regular tv for non breaking news! Completely disrespectful! Cable news exists for a reason! #DAYS #DOIL" wrote another.

While the interruption was disruptive for viewers, a rep for the show confirmed toDeadlinethat the episode would air normally in all other markets while the interrupted episode would be available on Peacock on Saturday.

The show was renewed for its 57th and 58th season in 2021.

"Days of Our Lives" first aired on NBC in 1965, It celebrated its 55th anniversary in 2020.

NO MORE THE PRINCEKing Charles III appears to signal 

an end to climate change activism

David Knowles

·Senior Editor

Fri, September 9, 2022 

Outspoken about the "existential" threat posed by climate change when he was Prince of Wales, King Charles III on Friday seemed to signal an effective end to his decades-long public advocacy for lowering greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming global temperatures.

In his first speech as king, Charles pledged to uphold the constitutional principles that kept the sovereign, including his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, from weighing in on what could be seen as political matters.

"My life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities," Charles said in his videotaped speech. "It will no longer be possible to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I cared so deeply, but I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others."

King Charles III delivers an address from Buckingham Palace, London, on Friday. (Yui Mok/Pool via Reuters)

For more than 40 years, Charles had championed environmental causes, including the need to transition the global economy off of fossil fuels so as to avert a climate catastrophe. In November, at the start of COP 26, the United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Charles said climate change was an "existential threat to the extent that we have to put ourselves on what might be called a war-like footing" and called on world governments to begin "radically transforming our current fossil fuel based economy to one that is genuinely renewable and sustainable."

Three months later, however, Russia launched its own war on Ukraine, disrupting oil and gas supplies for Europe and the U.K. in the process and throwing the British government's pledge of reaching net zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 into doubt.

With Russia cutting off deliveries of natural gas, the continent is bracing for an energy crisis that will send energy prices skyrocketing during the cold winter months and cause governments to resume oil exploration and using coal at a time when climate scientists have warned that mankind needs to immediately transition to renewable sources of energy or face dire consequences such as those witnessed this summer in places like Pakistan, the Horn of Africa, Europe and the American West.

On Thursday, newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss announced measures to try to blunt the impact of skyrocketing energy prices over the coming months, including lifting a ban on hydraulic fracking and green-lighting new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. She has also appointed Jacob Rees-Mogg, who environmental activists call a climate science denier, to oversee the country's energy sector.

In 2020, Charles addressed the World Economic Forum, calling for "a shift in our economic model that places nature and the world's transition to net zero at the heart of how we operate."

Needless to say, a continued reliance on oil was not exactly what Charles had in mind. The king, being a symbolic figure who is not elected, has no control over the government's policies, however.

Truss also named Ranil Jayawardena, who has spoken out against the installation of solar farms on agricultural land, as environment secretary.

Over the years, Charles has been a champion of solar power, winning approval in 2021 to install panels atop London's Clarence House, his former residence, and praising India's expansion of solar capacity.

Charles had delivered countless speeches on addressing climate change, written books on the topic and had made the issue central to his role as Prince of Wales. That decision also earned him ample criticism from those who saw his activism as overstepping the bounds of the monarchy.

In his Friday speech, the new king did not mention the words "climate change," and that, in and of itself, spoke volumes.

James Bond and The Queen London 2012 Performance & BONUS TRACK

Daniel Craig reprises his role as British secret agent James Bond as he accompanies Her Majesty The Queen to the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

BONUS TRACK HER MAJESTY IS A PRETTY NICE GIRL

FAUX OUTRAGE FROM FAUX NEWS
Carnegie Mellon professor wishesQueen Elizabeth ‘excruciating pain’
as she ‘finally’ dies

Andrew Miller Thu, September 8, 2022 

A professor at Carnegie Mellon University drew criticism on social media after wishing England’s Queen Elizabeth "excruciating pain" hours before she died on Thursday.

"I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying," Carnegie Mellon University Professor Uju Anya tweeted on Thursday morning. "May her pain be excruciating."

The Twitter post came as reports began to circulate that the 96-year-old monarch's health was deteriorating and doctors were "concerned" about her condition.

The tweet, which was re-tweeted and liked over 10,000 times on Twitter in just a few hours, prompted strong pushback from many users on Twitter.

"That sentiment is pure evil," researcher Mike Galsworthy tweeted. "Please delete as it benefits the world nothing."

"Hi @CarnegieMellon, this your professor?" Young America’s Foundation Spokesperson Kara Zupkus tweeted.

"Who are you again?" blogger and former conservative Member of British Parliament Louise Mensch tweeted. "Oh yeah absolutely nobody trying to grift off a beloved woman people care about."

"This is what a complete lack of emotional intelligence & a heart full of hate looks like," British model Jemma Palmer tweeted. "Don’t be like @UjuAnya. Be a better human."

"This is someone supposedly working to make the world better?" Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tweeted. "I don’t think so. Wow."

Anya, listed as an associate professor of second language acquisition on the Carnegie Mellon website, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

"If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star," Anya later tweeted.

Hours after the tweet was posted, Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Elizabeth has died.

"The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon," the royal family shared on its website. "The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow."

Carnegie Mellon University did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital but posted a message on social media regarding the controversy.

"We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account," the university posted on Twitter. "Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster."

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University condemns professor’s posts wishing Queen ‘excruciating’ death

Sheila Flynn - 


Carnegie Mellon University has condemned social media posts by one of its professors after Dr Uju Anya wished the Queen an “excruciating” death and tweeted that she hoped the Queen would die “in agony.”


uju.jpg© Twitter/Uju Anya

Dr Anya made the comments Thursday as reports emerged that the Queen was in her final hours at Balmoral.

“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,” the professor wrote before it was announced the Queen had died.

Twitter took down the tweet for violating its policy; it has not responded to The Independent’s request for comment.

Dr Anya faced a serious Twitter backlash for the seeming insensitivity - even from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who then came in for criticism himself - but the professor responded by doubling down on the tweet.

“If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star,” she tweeted.

She also responded to Bezos, tweeting at him directly: “Otoro gba gbue gi” - which roughly translates to an Igbo insult wishing someone death - “May everyone you and your merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonizers.”

Dr Anya’s employer, Carnegie Mellon - the Pennsylvania university where she is an associate professor of second language acquisition - quickly issued a statement on Thursday.

“We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uku Anya today on her personal social media account,” the university tweeted.

“Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster.”

Dr Anya, who describes herself on Twitter as an “antiracist” and “feminist,” was born in Nigeria to a Nigerian father and mother from Trinidad and Tobago. Both countries were colonised by the British - Nigeria became independent in 1960, with Trinidad and Tobago following suit two years later.

While many Twitter users, most hailing from former colonies or tracing their ancestry to British-occupied places, agreed with Dr Anya’s mentions of historical genocide and violence, the majority disagreed with her delivery.

One user, @Sumolaldowu, called the professor “uncouth and mannerless” and accused her of having “hate in your heart.”

“You speak of someone who just passed with such a vile and disdaining comment,” the user commented.

Another, @mariescully24, tweeted that, “at the end of the day she was a mother, grandmother, a great grandmother it’s totally disgusting to speak the way she has.”

Dr Anya did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Independent.

'The View' Host Sunny Hostin on Elizabeth II's Death: 'We Can Mourn the Queen and Not the Empire' (Video)

Benjamin Lindsay - 8h ago

The topic on "The View's" mind Friday morning was Queen Elizabeth II's death this week at the age of 96.


'The View' Host Sunny Hostin

While the talk show's hosts agreed that the queen lived a life deserving of respect and honor, Sunny Hostin highlighted how she's seen many negative reactions to her death online from various minority communities. She concluded that "we can mourn the queen and not the empire."

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Hostin began by remembering her time in London and being seduced by the nation's embrace of traditions like the royal family, the changing of the guard and more: "I think we all love glam and pageantry," she admitted. But she also said that the crown is not without criticism or controversy.

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"If you really think about what the monarchy was built on, it was built on the backs of Black and brown people. She [Queen Elizabeth II] wore a crown with pillaged stones from India and Africa," Hostin said. "Now what you're seeing, at least in the Black communities that I'm a part of, they want reparations."

When Ana Navarro later pointed out that the United States was similarly built on the backs of Black and brown people, Hostin emphasized, "And we want our reparations!" to applause from the studio audience.

She also reflected on the role that the newly crowned King Charles could play in alleviating these tensions.

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"Right now, Charles is in a position - I think he has 14 colonies that he is now head of state, including Australia and Canada, I believe, if I'm correct. It's time for him to modernize this monarchy and it's time for him to provide reparations to all of those colonies," Hostin said. "I also think, you know, a monarchy, it's very easy to uplift one family, the harder thing is to uplift all families, and I think that he's in a position to be able to do that."

You can watch the full discussion - which also included how Charles should navigate his relationship with the estranged Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex - in the video above.

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