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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will remain in place through today. Low pressure located off the Carolina coast is forecast to strengthen as it moves north and reaches the North Carolina Outer Banks tonight or Saturday. Breezy conditions are expected today and Saturday, especially along and east of Interstate 77. Calmer high pressure returns for Sunday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 70. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the north 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the north.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid70s. Light winds out of the north early in the morning increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the north 3 to 7 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the north 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Friday Night Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the north. Saturday Sunny, with highs near 70. Light winds out of the northwest early in the morning increasing to come out of the north 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Saturday Night Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northeast 3 to 7 mph. Sunday Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Sunday Night Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather
Massive Filament Launch Brings Earth-directed Solar Storm | Informal Forecast 16 September 2023
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Macon Calendar
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Saturdays in August from 11am to 1pm
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
9/23/23--TalentedSinger/Songwriter Bill Peterson teams up Singer/Guitarist George James to fill The Frog with folk, blues & soft country.
Frog Quarters is open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!
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Mountain Findings (a thrift store) is open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 2023.
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Local and State News
North Carolina House Passes $30 Billion State Budget with raises, tax cuts, controversial policy | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• NC budget poised for final legislative approval following emotional debate, midnight vote North Carolina's $30-billion budget cleared the state House early Friday and now awaits a final Senate vote before heading to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who says he isn't sure if he'll sign it. The plan includes one of his top priorities: Medicaid expansion. [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Proposed North Carolina budget would exempt legislators from public records disclosures Republican state lawmakers in North Carolina are attempting to exempt themselves from public records laws meant to safeguard transparency with a budget provision allowing them to keep any legislative document private - even after they leave office. [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC) ]
• NC agency disputes Berger’s reason for exempting legislators from public records laws State lawmakers began passing a state budget Thursday that would also free them from a public records law that has exposed all manner of corruption over years, including within the General Assembly. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Joint Conference Committee Report on the Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2023 [North Carolina General Assembly (786 page PDF)]
• House Bill 259 2023 Appropriations Act sponsors and voting history [North Carolina General Assembly]
• 2023 Appropriations Act (Final) [Macon Media Google Drive PDF (625 pages)]
Live at 9am: "Connecting Every American: The Future of Rural Broadband Funding" | Committee on Energy and Commerce
---Recent News Recap--- • Republicans release long-awaited $30 billion NC budget with raises and tax cuts [Raleigh News and Observer]
• 2023 Appropriations Act (Final) [Macon Media Google Drive PDF (625 pages)]
NC lawmakers to vote this week on delayed state budget | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• 13 noteworthy things in the newly released NC budget [BPR]
• Prepare for stiff heating costs this winter, experts warn [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
Live at 9am: "Connecting Every American: The Future of Rural Broadband Funding" | Committee on Energy and Commerce
• New NC budget would double driver's license renewal period, but there's a problem The legislature wants driver's licenses to last 16 years instead of eight, but the DMV says that conflicts with federal rules [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
---NORTH CAROLINA BUDGET PROCESS---
• HB259 NC House Bill Budget Substitute [PDF Download (640 pages)]
Proposed State Budget for 2023-2025 [Download PDF]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners March 2023 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
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National and World News Roundup
Burning Man 2023 Aftermath | Trent Palmer
Biden announces $325 million aid package for Ukraine | CBS News
‘It's a hard hand to be holding’: Media analyst on challenges for News Corp | ABC News
• Rupert Murdoch to Step Down as Chair of Fox and News Corp After Seven-Decade Career Murdoch will exit roles atop News Corp and Fox in November and be appointed chairman emeritus [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]
• Rupert Murdoch Turned Passion and Grievance Into Money and Power The retiring Fox leader built a noise-and-propaganda machine by giving his people what they wanted — and sometimes by teaching them what to want. [New York Times]
• The biggest donor group in Democratic politics privately moves against No Labels Democracy Alliance is raising alarms about a third-party candidate helping Donald Trump. [Politico]
• Credit card rates are practically in ‘loan shark’ territory as they hit record highs, advisor says [CNBC]
• First private US passenger rail line in 100 years is about to link Miami and Orlando at high speed [AP News]
• Disney CEO says company will 'quiet the noise' in culture wars -analyst [Reuters]
• US offers almost 500,000 Venezuelans legal status [BBC News]
International News Headlines
#UNGA78 - World leaders take the United Nations podium | Wrap Day 3 | United Nations
Diplomatic dispute between India and Canada escalates | CBC Vancouver
• Joe Biden raised Canadian Sikh separatist’s murder with Modi at G20: Media [Al Jazeera]
• UN summit: Sudan coup leader says war could spread Sudan's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, appealed to UN General Assembly delegates to counter supporters of the army's rival Rapid Support Forces. Follow DW for more. [DW News]
• Tocorón prison: Venezuela regains control of gang-run jail with pool and zoo Prisoners were able to roam freely inside the penitentiary, which had hotel-like facilities including a pool, nightclub and a mini zoo. [BBC News]
• US congress members teach Elon Musk about Taiwan's history 'Reconsider your remarks in light of historical record,' urged Andy Ogles, Randy Weber [Taiwan News]
• Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng tells UN General Assembly to oppose ‘hegemonism’ ‘A small number of countries have arbitrarily imposed illegal and unilateral sanctions’, vice-president says, using language often used to criticise Washington [South China Morning Post]
• DR Congo calls for swift withdrawal of UN peacekeepers [Africa News]
House recesses without spending deal, Biden 2024 manager discusses campaign, more | America Decides | CBS News
Washington Today (9-21-23): House done for week with gov't funding talks to prevent shutdown stalled | C-SPAN
Global National: Sept. 21, 2023 | The impact on Canadians as India suspends visa services
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Sept. 21st NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (September 21, 2023)
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County:
Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Macon County Public Health will stop publishing weekly COVID updates but will continue to monitor local case levels and trends. In the event that case counts increase significantly, MCPH will notify the public and resume weekly COVID updates.
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 2023, there have been 103,436,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,127,152 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 June 2023, a total of 668,882,018 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 2023, there have been 770,085,713 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,956,173 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 August 2023, a total of 13,499,983,736 vaccine doses have been administered.
COVID New variant of COVID-19 comes with symptoms not seen before | WKRC-TV (Cinncinnati, OH)
• Several Bay Area health departments issue new mask mandates, amid rising COVID cases [KTVU-TV (Oakland, CA)]
• U.S. government awards $45 million for long COVID clinics President Joe Biden had tasked HHS last year with developing a national action plan to tackle long COVID, a complex, multi-symptom condition that arises months after a COVID-19 infection and leaves many of its sufferers unable to work. [Reuters]
• COVID Impacts: Immune Dysfunction [Memorial Sloan Kettering Library]
• Northeastern receives $17.5 million from CDC to launch infectious disease prediction center [Northeastern University]
Office Hours with Earth's Virology Professor Livestream 9/20/23 8 pm eastern | MicrobeTV
• TWiV 1044: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1045: Less Lassa, CRISPR RNA viruses [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• The Sky This Week from September 15 to 22: Neptune reaches opposition [Astronomy Magazine]
Analog Chip Design is an Art. Can AI Help? | Asianometry
How Enterprise AI Accelerates Business | TWiT TV
• The contribution of wildfire to PM2.5 trends in the USA [nature]
• JPEX: Hong Kong investigates influencer-backed crypto exchange [BBC News]
• Judge “in a pickle” after Google demands DOJ stop sharing public trial exhibits Google continues fight to block public access to key facts in monopoly trial. [ARS TECHNICA]
• Scientists dive deep into Reddit data to decode the mysterious familiarity experienced in DMT trips [PsyPost]
• Microsoft AI team accidentally leaks 38TB of private company data [Mashable]
• A new electric-blue tarantula species of the genus Chilobrachys Karsh, 1892 from Thailand (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) [ZooKeys]
• MGM Resorts is back online after a huge cyberattack. The hack might have cost the Vegas casino operator $80 million. [Insider]
Evergreen Links
• Red Dead Online player bids farewell to Google Stadia save by releasing horse they named after their departed daughter [Games Radar]
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 69 - Twilight of the Æsir
Hardcore History: Addendum EP26 Dig This! | Dan Carlin
• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse [Venture Beat] [PDF of White paper]
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
How Do We Know What We Know? Philosophy of Science | Fraser Cain
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Cinetimes]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
The Level1 Show September 22 2023: A Possum In the Wind | Level1 Techs
Microsoft Event Includes the Okie Doke Price - DTNS 4609 | Daily Tech News Show
Fermi Paradox: The AI Farm Hypothesis | John Michael Godier
Blue Angels 1-4 Miramar Air Show 2023 Gloomy Warmup (with radio traffic) | AIRBOYD
Increased water surface temperatures cause unusual growth of plankton | DW News
Surprise RetroArch Update, Duckstation, the Fall of NFTs and more... | Mr Sujano
Matters Microbial #8: Who goes there? Going deep in the Pine Barrens with Lauren Seyler | Microbe TV
What Happens Beyond the Planck Length? | OV Astronomy
Public Lecture | Clocking Electrons: an Attosecond Stopwatch by Siqi Li | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Civilization: Is the West History? | Episode 2: Science | BBC Select
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
Russia’s Low-Cost Explosive Drones: Lancet, Shahed and More Explained | WSJ
Ukraine 'likely' behind strikes in Sudan, Ukrainian military source says | CNN
• What we know about US Abrams tanks arriving in Ukraine ‘next week’ Long-awaited M1 Abrams tanks are to arrive in Ukraine next week and come at a crucial time for Kyiv’s forces. [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 21, 2023 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Poland no longer sending arms to Ukraine: A reason to worry? [DW News]
• Russia misrepresenting the sentiments of Warsaw and Kyiv on grain issue: expert [TVP World]
• A shadow of 'Ukraine fatigue' hangs over Polish politics [BBC News]
• Bakhmut has seen the bloodiest battles of the Russia-Ukraine war [WION]
Major reversal: Ukraine ally says it will stop sending arms | CNN
What Zelenskyy accomplished with U.S. trip | CBS News
Grain dispute tears a rift in Poland-Ukraine relations | Irina Tsukerman | TVP World
New report sheds light on 'Conflict-Related Sexual Violence' in Ukraine | DW News
Ukraine's President Zelensky holds talks with Joe Biden at White House | BBC News
🔴 (NSFW) Combat Footage Show: F-35 Freebies, Klischiivka, POWs Not Allowed | Funker530
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or articles/video about those who support Russia
Col Douglas Macgregor: "The Ukrainian Phase Of The War Is Over" | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• Fyodor Lukyanov: UN feedback shows that while the West is hostile to Russia, the world isn’t The US and its allies are beating a drum that isn’t finding receptive ears. Most states have other priorities [Russia Today]
• Lancet becomes most efficient UAV in special operation zone The Armed Forces of Ukraine may face new problems over the upgraded Russian unmanned aerial vehicle Lancet, Forbes observer David Axe said. Pravda.Ru turned to military experts to ask them about the features of the modernised Russian drone. [Pravda]
• Lavrov calls on Guterres not to draw UN into politicized initiatives on Ukraine Russia’s top diplomat also directed the UN Secretary General’s attention to unacceptability of applying double standards in US documents regarding various territories [TASS Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 100 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
1236 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
1499 – The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
1586 – The Battle of Zutphen is a Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
1692 – The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials; others are all eventually released.
1711 – The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.
1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.[
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1789 – Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
1792 РPrimidi Vend̩miaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
1823 – Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1862 – A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
1866 – The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
1891 – The first hydropower plant of Finland was commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
1892 – A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive.
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1914 – A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1934 – The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
1939 – World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
1941 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1948 – Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
1948 – Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.
1957 РIn Haiti, Fran̤ois Duvalier is elected president.
1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
1966 – Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.
1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
1980 – Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
1995 – The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
2006 – Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.
2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, September 22, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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