Originally published on Sept. 27, 2021 Over the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to have headed into the woods on a variety of moose hunts — two of my own, three with pals and a couple times as a journalist seeking a cool story to tell. And while that might not qualify me as a moose-hunting expert — I leave that title for the registered Maine guides who have accompanied dozens of sports afield — I have learned a few things about Maine’s classic hunt, which I’ll share today. Maybe you’ve been waiting for 20 or 30 or 40 years to finally have your name pop out of the state’s random drawing. Maybe you don’t know exactly what to expect. Or maybe you’re like me, and enjoy listening to others share their own opinions on all kinds of hunting topics. Whatever the case, here are some things you might want to consider. Drive less. Walk more. Call often … until it’s time to shut up. One of the keys to success on the hunting parties that I’ve been a part of is that in the weeks ahead of a hunt, we’ve pinpointed several — often dozens — of spots that we’re likely to find a moose or two. We’re looking for tracks and moose droppings, to be sure, but we’re also looking for the kinds of regenerating clearcuts that will serve as salad bars for hungry moose. Then, come moose season, we can recheck those spots and make plans on which locations to target each day. We do do a bit of slow-rolling, driving along those woods roads, but we’re not planning to spend entire days doing nothing but driving. Instead, we set up in our (hopefully) productive spots, hunker down, and do some calling. We’re not professional callers, and often rely on electronic calls. We regularly end up talking with moose, and have drawn several within shooting range, whether we’re shooting with rifles or cameras. One thing we’ve learned: Real, live, mating moose can make a lot of racket. We’ve found that some of our most productive sessions have relied on near-constant calling to attract a bull’s attention. And then, when the bull starts to come in, we tend to idle back on the calling, lower the volume, and spend more time listening. Your mileage may vary, as they say. But if you’re having trouble finding a bull to answer your calls, amping up your approach for a few minutes might pay dividends. At least, it has for us. Another tip you might consider: If you are an avid road runner and plan to spend the bulk of your time in your truck, riding those roads in search of a moose, do yourself a favor and slow down. One year my buddies and I ended up in a truck with a new member of our group during a hunt, and as he drove those bumpy roads I quickly realized that we had a problem: Even if a moose had been standing a few steps into the forest, we never would have seen him. That’s because the driver — apparently new to moose hunting — was simply traveling too fast for us to see anything. Instead of slow-rolling, he thought we’d be able to peer between the trees while we were traveling 25 mph or so. About the only good thing I can say about that day is that none of us got carsick as we constantly tried to refocus our vision and find a moose. It was close, though. Just describing the hunt makes me a bit queasy, in fact. And finally, I’ll offer up a tip that might make all the difference in the world, both for you and the hunters you may cross paths with: Share. Share the roads. If you come across a small road that already has a truck parked near the end of it, you might consider letting those other hunters have the area to themselves. Share information, especially if your hunt is already over. If your tag is full and you come across another hunting party, why not tell them about one of the areas you’d pre-scouted, and that looked promising? Share your food. Invite the guys from the next camp down over for a feed or a beer after the day’s hunt is over. And share your equipment or manual labor, should you have the opportunity. Maybe that hunter you just passed on the road is struggling to get their moose to the road. Maybe your help would be appreciated. Offer that help. They’ll be glad you did. And so will you. And finally, have fun. Enjoy your own Maine moose hunt, and make some memories that you’ll keep for a lifetime. John Holyoke is the former outdoors editor of the BDN, an aspiring novelist and a high school English teacher. His first book, EVERGREENS, can be found wherever you buy books. He can be reached at john.r.holyoke44@gmail.com. Watch more:

Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com Recently, I had the misfortune of finding an unsolicited flyer attached to my front door promoting the behind-in-the-polls reelection campaign of Sen. Susan Collins. I’m no litterbug, so I read it and was struck by its vague claim that Collins is “a leader we can be proud of.” I think it’s revealing that the flyer does not boast that “Mainers can be proud of” Collins’ leadership, and instead settles for a deliriously unspecific “we.” Perhaps the “we” refers to Collins’ legion of out-of-state billionaires supporting her campaign, or maybe it’s the manufacturers of ICE’s shock gloves profiting from Collins’ vote to increase ICE’s funding. Of course, there’s always the anti-choice partisans celebrating Collins’ unapologetic support of Brett Kavanaugh and her history-making role in Roe v. Wade being overturned. It’s hard to know for certain. However, I will admit I’m grateful for that unwanted, poorly executed flyer because it inspires me to be more specific. I believe there is someone whose leadership will make Mainers proud and his name is Troy Jackson. Aaron Bergeron Portland

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Travel restrictions have been placed on U.S. government employees in the Mexican border city of Nogales, Sonora, according to officials.The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico on Saturday issued a warning restricting government activity over an unspecified threat in Nogales, Sonora, in Mexico."Due to threat information, U.S. government activities in, and travel to, Nogales have been restricted to essential movement during daylight hours only," the U.S. Consulate General in Nogales said in a statement.STATE DEPARTMENT URGES AMERICANS TO AVOID MEXICAN CITY JUST ACROSS TEXAS BORDER"We are alerting U.S. citizens of this threat and change in posture," the statement continued.Sonora's State Security Board said it contacted U.S. consular officials after the alert was issued but did not provide information identifying a specific threat. State authorities said they had no information establishing a concrete risk to the public, though they would continue preventive security operations in Nogales.The alert also reminded Americans that the U.S. Travel Advisory designates Sonora as a Level 3 "Reconsider Travel" area.Anyone in the area is urged to exercise increased caution and be aware of their surroundings, seek shelter in the event of an incident, notify friends and family of their safety in the event of an incident, follow instructions from Mexican law enforcement, and monitor local media for updates.U.S. lawmakers also encouraged people in the area to pay attention to the warnings issued by the U.S. government."For Americans in or near Nogales - or who may have family members or friends there: please heed the guidance and warnings from the U.S. government," Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., said on X."We are praying for the safety of U.S. citizens and personnel who may be in harm's way," he added.AMERICANS WARNED POPULAR TRAVEL ROUTES THIS SUMMER COULD CARRY CRIME AND KIDNAPPING RISKSIt remains unclear what threat in Nogales triggered the security warning.

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Late yesterday, the Federal Circuit released a nonprecedential order dismissing a petition. This morning, the court released one precedential opinion and three nonprecedential orders dismissing appeals. The opinion comes in a government contract case appealed from the Court of Federal Claims. Here is the introduction to the opinion as well as links to the orders. Read MoreRead More

Background ← Older revision Revision as of 04:50, 7 September 2026 Line 54: Line 54: Lloyd continued his journey with the Titan Mech in "[[Secret of the Wolf]]", accompanied by a wolf that later proved to be the Formling [[Akita]]. Having become aware of their approach, [[General Vex]] urged the Ice Emperor to mount a response. The Ice Emperor responded by crafting a great [[Ice Behemoth]] that attacked the Titan Mech and proved to be a formidable adversary due to its ability to reassemble itself after being broken down. Lloyd managed to defeat it, however, by piloting the mech out onto a frozen lake and then breaking up the ice underneath the behemoth. He and an injured Akita then made camp underneath the mech, which they would remain at throughout "[[The Last of the Formlings]]." Lloyd continued his journey with the Titan Mech in "[[Secret of the Wolf]]", accompanied by a wolf that later proved to be the Formling [[Akita]]. Having become aware of their approach, [[General Vex]] urged the Ice Emperor to mount a response. The Ice Emperor responded by crafting a great [[Ice Behemoth]] that attacked the Titan Mech and proved to be a formidable adversary due to its ability to reassemble itself after being broken down. Lloyd managed to defeat it, however, by piloting the mech out onto a frozen lake and then breaking up the ice underneath the behemoth. He and an injured Akita then made camp underneath the mech, which they would remain at throughout "[[The Last of the Formlings]]." In "[[My Enemy, My Friend]]", Lloyd continued to pilot the mech towards the Ice Emperor's castle in company with Akita. The two would stop once more to camp, only to detect the approach of the Ice Emperor's dragon [[Boreal]]. Lloyd quickly reentered the mech, and he soon became engaged in a battle with the elemental dragon. Though he was able to use the Titan Mech's arm saw to deflect Boreal's ice for a time, the arm eventually became frozen and the mech was carried into the air by Boreal. Boreal eventually flung the Titan Mech against a cliff wall, causing it to break into several large pieces. Lloyd survived, but the mech was apparently too badly damaged to salvage, as the Ninja did even attempt to bring it back with them when they returned to [[Ninjago (World)|Ninjago]] in "[[Awakenings]]." In "[[My Enemy, My Friend]]", Lloyd continued to pilot the mech towards the Ice Emperor's castle in company with Akita. The two would stop once more to camp, only to detect the approach of the Ice Emperor's dragon [[Boreal]]. Lloyd quickly reentered the mech, and he soon became engaged in a battle with the elemental dragon. Though he was able to use the Titan Mech's arm saw to deflect Boreal's ice for a time, the arm eventually became frozen and the mech was carried into the air by Boreal. Boreal eventually flung the Titan Mech against a cliff wall, causing it to break into several large pieces. Lloyd survived, but the mech was apparently too badly damaged to salvage, as the Ninja did not even attempt to bring it back with them when they returned to [[Ninjago (World)|Ninjago]] in "[[Awakenings]]." {{Spoiler2|The [[Ice Fishers]] and [[Formlings]] would later salvage the components of the mech to use in [[71860 Lloyd's Titan Mech|a statue]] built to honor the Ninja for saving the [[Never-Realm]].}} ==Minifigures Included== ==Minifigures Included==

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Alexander / DatePsych:>I saw a few comments on “good men” and dating. We get a lot of the incel perspective on dating, but here is what I think is a typical dating trajectory is for “good men” and how I would define “good men” in this context: Good men: these are men who don’t have many serious vices, they tend to be (reasonably) fit, or working on it. They tend to have good educations, or are in school if they are younger. They are motivated and hard-working. They vary in moral and ethical beliefs, some are religious and some are secular, but they are prosocial. They have “good personalities” such that their peers and women like hanging out and talking with them, at the very least. They don’t have extreme and obvious red flags. They aren’t male models (few people are), but they are handsome enough that women do like them. They have attractive hobbies. They have had past relationships; they haven’t had an experience of perpetual fruitless struggle with dating. This is not the cohort of men that gets zero matches on Tinder. They can go to bars, talk to women, and get phone numbers. They go on dates with women from apps (if they use apps) and women that they meet in person. This does not mean dating is “easy” for them. Women don’t fall out of the sky into their laps. They have to put forth effort. The whole dating and courtship search can be frustrating and take time. They go on dates and they often find that someone who was a romantic prospect wasn’t interested in them after a date, phone number exchange, or Tinder chat. They are also selective themselves: they reject women and screen women out. Again, dating is not easy for these good men - there is a bit of luck in finding someone who they like and who likes them back. They are not desperate. They have had women who liked them, but who they didn’t like back for any number or reasons. They have had women they shared attraction with. And they have experienced liking a woman who doesn’t return their affection. Usually, after some period of dating, they will enter a long term relationship. It could be a month or a year, but they don’t stay single forever. During early dating, some of these men will have had sex without going on to form a relationship, some won’t, and it largely depends on how sociosexually open they are and the kind of women that they pick. They are not having a steady stream of casual sex, often because they aren’t trying to - they are trying to date. They want relationships. But they do occasionally have sex outside of committed relationships. They are not long-term celibates, unless they are just very opposed to casual sex and choose to be. These guys go on to get married. They also form long term relationships they don’t get married in. They get divorced and they get remarried. They have lots of different relationship patterns and trajectories. What I don’t tend to see them do: 1. They aren’t lining up to commit to any woman with a pulse. The average woman does not have a dozen of these guys waiting around for her. They have preferences. 2. They aren’t self-isolating into a schizo hole. That’s basically antithetical to the “good relationship haver” personality. 3. They aren’t lifelong incels. The “good men” are never perpetually rejected by every single woman they interact with.<

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NEW YORK (AP) — Steel drums, flag-draped floats, and the smell of jerk chicken will fill Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway on Monday, as hundreds of thousands turn out for the West Indian Day Parade, one of the largest celebrations of Caribbean culture in the country. This year, Haitians are marching under more solemn circumstances than in prior years. Federal immigration enforcement has intensified against Caribbean and other Black immigrant communities over the past year, and Haitians have lost a key protection — temporary protected status. Known as TPS, it let hundreds of thousands remain in the U.S. legally. Organizers say the parade has become both a defiant assertion of pride and a rare bright spot in a traumatic year. “There’s a somber cloud over it with everything that has happened from last year to this year with TPS … what’s happening in detention centers, and those who are being sent back with no valid way of living or supporting themselves,” said Natalie Lafontant, a Brooklyn native who organizes Lespri Ayiti, or “Spirit of Haiti,” the largest Haitian “mas” — short for masquerade — or marching community in Monday’s parade. Still, she said, the response to hardship is not surrender. “But if you know anything about the Caribbean, especially about Haiti, we use music, dance, art, to continue to strive and push through,” Lafontant said while taking stock of parade costumes at a community center. Keeping parade plans alive amid anti-immigrant policies In June, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe that federal courts cannot review the Trump administration’s decision to end temporary protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, clearing the way for roughly 350,000 Haitians to lose the protection. A federal judge finalized the order in early August, and work permits tied to Haitian TPS expired July 27. Lafontant’s group, comprising about 180 artists, designers, musicians and residents, is marching in the parade for the second year. The group struggled to find float sponsors this year. “All the insurances that we’ve got to cover, the people who walk, you’ve got to take care of them, the costumes, the designers. You add that all up, it’s a very hefty bill. But we continue to do it because we love our country,” said Lafontant. Haitians’ history with New York goes back decades Lafontant is part of a Haitian community that numbers roughly 163,000 in the New York metropolitan area, according to the Migration Policy Institute — the second-largest Haitian population in the U.S. after the Miami metropolitan area. Most Haitian migrants settled in Brooklyn neighborhoods including Flatbush, East Flatbush and Crown Heights. Haitians arrived in New York in waves beginning under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, whose regime’s repression and economic collapse drove many to leave the island in the 1970s and 1980s. The migration continued after his 1986 ouster. Haiti’s history of resistance runs deeper still, back to the Haitian Revolution, when enslaved and free Black people overthrew French colonial rule in what is widely regarded as the only successful slave revolt in modern history, culminating in the 1803 Battle of Vertières. The victory paved the way for Haiti’s independence the following year. That history of resistance remains a source of pride for Haitians far beyond the country’s shores, even among generations who have built new lives abroad. Edwina Paul, founder of SPM, or “Fanm Se Poto Mitan” — “Women Are the Pillar of Society” — left Haiti in 1993 to start a new life with her husband in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie. Paul, whose coalition of Haitian women leaders and organizers is marching Monday, said conditions in Haiti are what pushed people to leave. “It’s not safe there. Coming here is like an umbrella for us to be safe from that,” she said of those fleeing the country’s gang violence and instability. “We don’t come here to sin, we don’t come here to kill. We come here to work, to have a better education.” Anticipation for electrifying lineup of Haitian pop, fashion SPM’s resilience is stitched into its costumes this year. Clara Poteau, a fashion designer and an alumna of the Fashion Institute of Technology, designed royal blue emperor robes in the image of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a lieutenant and leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first leader of an independent Haiti. A total of six designers and one painter spent a month hand-painting costumes that commemorate Haitian achievements, working through the weekend before the parade: dresses covered in miniature Haitian flags, skirts bearing the faces of Duckens Nazon and Emmanuel Sanon, the national football players who hold Haiti’s international scoring records, at 44 and 47 goals, respectively. One orange T-shirt, dubbed the “Freedom” tee, carries the flags of nations Haitian revolutionary leaders helped liberate with shelter, money, weapons, and troops, including Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Panama, Mexico and Greece. The sound of the mas, the first taste of Haitian energy parade attendees will experience before seeing the group, is carried forward by Jesus Luc, a Harlem native and Lespri Ayiti’s band manager. Luc coordinated a lineup built around “Raboday,” a popular genre of contemporary Haitian and Caribbean sounds, and Kompa, Haiti’s signature native dance music. Headlining is DJ Comix of the band Team Madada, dubbed by Luc as “probably the most popular group in Haiti,” part of a new generation of sound defining the country’s youth. “It’s electrifying. It’s music that will touch your soul. Between the music and the costumes… it’s the heart of the people that’s going to be there.” Source

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Patrick Corbin is a “long shot” to pitch again in 2026 due to a teres major strain, Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters (including Sportsnet’s Arden Zwelling and MLB.com’s Keegan Matheson). This already seemed the case after the Jays shifted Corbin to the 60-day injured list on August following an initial 15-day IL placement on July 22, so the best-case scenario would’ve seen the left-hander back just for the last week of the regular season. Corbin signed a one-year, $1MM deal in early April, and the veteran southpaw ended up tossing 80 innings (over 15 starts and 19 total appearances) of 5.51 ERA ball. Toronto signed Corbin as an extra arm during what has ended up being a season-long plague of pitching injuries, as nine hurlers are still on the Jays’ IL. Trey Yesavage has progressed to throwing bullpen sessions as he recovers from meniscus surgery, while Shane Bieber is about 10-11 days behind Yesavage’s progress, in Schneider’s view. As the skipper put it, “a perfect world” scenario would see Bieber (teres major inflammation) will start throwing off a mound this week. It’s going to be touch-and-go for Bieber to return before the regular season is over, but Yesavage seems to be on pace to be part of the Jays’ stretch drive. More from both the AL and NL East… Garrett Crochet has resumed throwing bullpens, and The Athletic’s Jen McCaffrey writes that the Red Sox southpaw’s latest session is planned for Tuesday. The plan is for Crochet to work as a reliever if he is able to make it back this season, as there isn’t enough time remaining for Crochet to fully rebuild his arm strength for a starter’s workload. Crochet hasn’t pitched since April 26 due to a capsule sprain in his shoulder, and then a lat strain that delayed his rehab process. Tanner Houck and Johan Oviedo are two other injured Red Sox pitchers who might yet have roles to play in the 2026 campaign, as McCaffrey said the duo are expected to begin minor league rehab assignments before the end of next week. Houck underwent Tommy John surgery in August 2025, while Oviedo pitched in one game in March before a flexor strain sent him to the 60-day injured list. Nate Lavender received plenty of trade interest during the left-hander’s time in the Mets farm system, the New York Post’s Joel Sherman writes. While he did leave the organization for most of 2025 after being taken by the Rays in the Rule 5 Draft, Lavender spent the whole season recovering from a UCL surgery and was returned to the Mets last November. Returning to action this year in the minors and then making his MLB debut in August, Lavender is off to a great start, as he has yet to allow a run over his first 13 big league innings. The left-hander is making a strong case for himself as a member of the 2027 bullpen, and a pitcher to watch as the Mets try to get their team back on track. Nationals catcher Drew Millas is likely facing another surgery on his left index finger, according to The Athletic’s Spencer Nusbaum. It was a little over a year ago that Millas’ finger was fractured by a wayward Austin Wells swing, which led to a surgery soon afterwards. Millas hasn’t played since July 11 due to another fracture and another surgery, but things apparently still aren’t right with his troublesome digit. Millas has hit .231/.308/.330 over 302 career plate appearances, all in a part-time/backup catching role with Washington since his Major League debut in 2023.