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Lenni Lenape

Field Hockey: Results, links and featured coverage for Fri., Oct. 25

Friday, Oct. 25

2024 Prep B Tournament, Semifinal Round

1-Montclair Kimberley 5, 4-St. Elizabeth 1 – Box Score

2-Pennington 3, 3-Morristown-Beard 1 – Box Score

2024 Shore Conference Coaches Cup Tournament, First Round

6-Pinelands 3, 11-Donovan Catholic 0 – Box Score

12-Toms River North 2, 5-St. Rose 1 – Box Score

7-Holmdel 4, 10-Jackson Memorial 0 – Box Score

15-Middletown North 2, 2-New Egypt 0 – Box Score

14-Freehold Township 2, 3-Neptune 1 – Box Score

Regular Season

COLONIAL

Deptford 4, Paulsboro 3 – Box Score

Haddon Heights 5, Collingswood 2 – Box Score

CVC

Hopewell Valley 4, South Hunterdon 0 – Box Score

Highland 4, Nottingham 0 – Box Score

ESSEX/UNION

Columbia 8, Union 0 – Box Score

NEFHL

Wayne Hills 3, River Dell 0 – Box Score

Wayne Valley 2, Lakeland 1 – Box Score

Dwight-Englewood 4, Old Tappan 3 – Box Score

Passaic Valley 3, Demarest 2 – Box Score

NJAC

Newton 7, Randolph 2 – Box Score

Kittatinny 3, High Point 0 – Box Score

Whippany Park 2, Morris Hills 1 – Box Score

Morristown 1, Boonton 0 – Box Score

SKYLAND

Phillipsburg 2, William Penn Charter (PA) 0 – Box Score

Hopewell Valley 4, South Hunterdon 0 – Box Score

TRI-COUNTY

Salem 3, Gloucester Catholic 0 – Box Score

Timber Creek 9, Cumberland 1 – Box Score

Highland 4, Nottingham 0 – Box Score

Deptford 4, Paulsboro 3 – Box Score

Independent

Phillipsburg 2, William Penn Charter (PA) 0 – Box Score

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Mohegan

CBRE: Positive EBITDA at Mohegan INSPIRE to take a few more quarters

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Mohegan’s Korean integrated resort INSPIRE will likely take “a few more quarters” to achieve positive EBITDA, but sufficient liquidity means the Mohegan group will not need to provide any further financial support, according to CBRE Credit Research.

In a note following a Mohegan Investor Day this week, CBRE analysts Colin Mansfield and Connor Parks said the property’s ramp is tracking slightly better than they had initially expected, with lifetime revenue at US$168 million since the property opened last November. The casino launched later in early February.

Inside Asian Gaming also reported earlier this week on some KPIs released by Mohegan during the Investor Day, including a three-fold increase in casino visitation from 10,771 in February to 30,729 in August and hotel occupancy climbed from 58.3% to 89.7% over the same period.

Providing further color, CBRE said that hotel occupancy is “pacing above 80% for fiscal 4Q and table game performance is likely better than we initially modelled.

“That said, we think EBITDA will remain breakeven to slightly negative in fiscal 4Q as the property continues to ramp, marketing is adjusted, and property awareness builds.

“Public data from a local competitor (Paradise City) shows that total table drop over the last three months is up 10% quarter-on-quarter, supporting the notion that INSPIRE is growing the overall market. In addition, inbound visitation to Incheon Airport is still growing thanks to Japanese, Hong Kong, and Chinese tourists.

“We continue to believe that INSPIRE can generate US$150 million of mature EBITDA, with low 30% margins, which is in-line with other APAC gaming margins (ex-Macau and ex-Singapore).”

The analysts added that Mohegan may look at refinancing its debt facility in relation to INSPIRE but that such…

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Nanticoke

Locations Picked for Three Large-Scale New Oyster Restoration Reefs in MD

“Now what?” is a question Maryland oyster restoration experts may have been asking themselves in the wake of successfully bringing back oyster populations in five major tributaries.

The five locations were targeted a decade ago, after 2014’s Chesapeake Bay Program’s Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement outlined a goal to “restore habitat and populations in 10 tributaries by 2025.” Now, four of the five are officially complete and the fifth, the Manokin River, is on target for completion right on time in 2025.

So, what should DNR and restoration advocates like the Oyster Recovery Partnership do now? Is the job finished?

No, there are new goals on the horizon. This month, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced it has selected three new sites for large-scale oyster restoration in state waters of the Chesapeake Bay. It’s the next phase of helping the historically depleted population slowly build up.

DNR presented their selected sites, Herring Bay (southern Maryland), the Nanticoke River (Delmarva), and Hooper Strait (lower Eastern Shore), to the Oyster Advisory Commission. The diverse group of sites includes three different levels of salinity. The department will plant oysters on protected sanctuaries in all three waterways and monitor them regularly.

“These three large-scale restoration sanctuaries represent a new chapter for oyster restoration in Maryland,” Department of Natural Resources Secretary Josh Kurtz said. “We’ve had tremendous success with our existing restoration sanctuaries, and we’re excited to build on that achievement and keep up the momentum for oyster recovery in the Chesapeake Bay.”

Eastern oysters are still at a fraction of their one-time population levels because of overharvesting many years ago, disease, habitat loss and worsening water quality . They’re needed not just as a link in the food chain, but also as natural water filters and habitat providers for other species, thanks…

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Lenapehoking

From Lenapehoking to Palestine, genocide is a crime!

Philadelphia

Students, faculty and community activists came out for a Palestine Solidarity Vigil, with signs, banners, chants, speakers and musical instruments, on Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct 14. The vigil took place at the University of Pennsylvania campus, which sits on occupied Lenape territory, known as Lenapehoking.

Indigenous Peoples Day, Philadelphia, Oct. 14, 2024. WW Photo: Joe Piette

Highlights included a speech by a Lenapehoking activist and a talk condemning one of the Pentagon’s and Israeli Occupation Forces’ newest weapons invented by UPenn students and produced at Ghost Robotics. Demonstrators unfurled a long scroll containing the names of 7,000 Palestinians killed by Israel, reading aloud hundreds of their names. (tinyurl.com/2t8cc39m; tinyurl.com/3cv28ber)

Organized by Faculty for Justice in Palestine, the march emphasized the similarities between the struggles of Indigenous peoples, from Turtle Island to Palestine.

Both the U.S. and Israel were founded as European settler-colonial outposts. Both employed systematic dispossession, forced relocation and massacres, resulting in the ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples in order to gain control of maximum land and resources for a white supremacist ruling class.

To this day, U.S. imperialists and genocidal Zionists use surveillance, military checkpoints, police brutality, mass incarceration, theft of water and other natural resources, environmental destruction, desecration of burial sites, and cultural erasure and appropriation, and the most extreme violence to deny Native populations the right to live in peace on their own lands.

No to settler colonial projects, from Lenapehoking to Palestine!

 



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Field Hockey: Results, links and featured coverage for Thursday, Oct. 24

Thursday, Oct. 24

2024 Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament, Semifinal Round

3-South Plainfield 2, 2-Old Bridge 1 – Box Score

1-East Brunswick 4, 4-Metuchen 1 – Box Score

2024 Morris County Tournament, Quarterfinal Round

5-Mount Olive 3, 4-Mountain Lakes 2 – Box Score

2024 Prep A Tournament, Quarterfinal Round

5-Kent Place 3, 4-Blair 0 – Box Score

2024 Shore Conference Tournament, Second Round

9-Trinity Hall 2, 8-Manasquan 1 – Box Score

Southern 7, Manalapan 1 – Box Score

3-Point Pleasant Boro 9, 14-Toms River East 0 – Box Score

6-Monmouth 5, 22-Freehold Borough 1 – Box Score

1-Shore 8, 16-Red Bank Catholic 0 – Box Score

4-Rumson-Fair Haven 4, 13-Toms River South 1 – Box Score

5-Middletown South 4, 12-Ocean Township 0 – Box Score

7-Central Regional 2, 10-Lacey 1 – Box Score

Regular Season

BCSL

Cinnaminson 2, Robbinsville 1 – Box Score

Delran 6, Burlington Township 1 – Box Score

Gloucester 6, Maple Shade 0 – Box Score

Ewing 2, Pemberton 0 – Box Score

Notre Dame 5, Florence 2 – Box Score

CAPE-ATLANTIC

Our Lady of Mercy 4, Vineland 0 – Box Score

Egg Harbor 2, Oakcrest 1 – Box Score

Hammonton 6, Woodstown 1 – Box Score

Ocean City 2, Mainland 0 – Box Score

COLONIAL

Gloucester 6, Maple Shade 0 – Box Score

Gateway 4, Audubon 1 – Box Score

Haddonfield 1, West Deptford 1 – Box Score

CVC

Cinnaminson 2, Robbinsville 1 – Box Score

Ewing 2, Pemberton 0 – Box Score

Notre Dame 5, Florence 2 – Box Score

ESSEX/UNION

Scotch Plains-Fanwood 2, Morristown 1 – Box Score

Newark Academy 3, Koinonia 2 – Box Score

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Delaware Tribe

The History of the Lenape Tribe

Chief Dennis Coker

On Saturday, November 9, at 1:00 p.m. the Milford Museum will commemorate Native American Heritage month with a presentation at the Milford Public Library by Dennis J. Coker, Principal Chief of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware. Representing the ‘First People of the First State,’ the Lenape Indian Tribe is located in northern Kent County in and around the town of Cheswold.

“The Lenape people, who are ethnically distinct, have been known historically as the Delaware Moors,” Tom Summers, Director of the Milford Museum, said. “For hundreds of years the Cheswold Lenape community has coexisted with their neighbors of European and African descent largely through attending separate churches and schools. Their separate schools closed in the mid-1960s as a result of Delaware’s desegregation efforts.”

During the early 1990s, in response to a resurgence of Native awareness and pressures from the outside, elders of the Cheswold Lenape community decided to celebrate their unique history and formed the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware. On August 3, 2016, Delaware’s Governor Jack Markell signed legislation officially recognizing the Lenape Community in Cheswold as a Sovereign Indigenous Nation.

A lifelong resident of Kent County, Delaware, Dennis J. Coker has been honored to serve as the elected Principal Chief of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware since 1996. During his term, Chief Coker has established successful collaborations with the Delaware State Historic Preservation Office and the Federal Census Bureau.

The mission of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware is to protect the cultural identity of the Lenape people through educational, social and cultural programs. They also promote the physical and economic health of their citizens through specialized health…

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Nanticoke

Maryland aims to launch new round of oyster restoration projects

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A water cannon on an Oyster Recovery Partnership boat shoots spat-on-shell oysters from the University of Maryland’s Horn Point hatchery onto a sanctuary in Maryland’s Tred Avon River in 2018. 

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As Maryland works to complete the last of five large oyster restoration projects it committed to a decade ago, state officials have decided to tackle three more.

The state has restored more than 1,100 acres of reefs so far in Harris Creek and the Little Choptank, Tred Avon and Manokin rivers, all on the Eastern Shore, and in the St. Mary’s River off the lower Potomac.

Now, the Department of Natural Resources has announced it intends to restore and repopulate hundreds of acres more in oyster sanctuaries in Herring Bay on the Western Shore and in the Nanticoke River and Hooper Strait on the Eastern Shore.

“These three large-scale restoration sanctuaries represent a new chapter for oyster restoration in Maryland,” DNR Secretary Josh Kurtz said in announcing the selection on Oct. 9. “We’ve had tremendous success with our existing restoration sanctuaries, and we’re excited to build on that achievement and keep up the momentum for oyster recovery in the Chesapeake Bay.”

Maryland and the federal government have spent more than $87 million so far rebuilding reefs and planting hatchery-reared oyster spat in the first five sanctuaries. The effort has proven durable to date with nearly all reefs at least 6 years old yielding the minimum expected densities of bivalves, or better — and 83% sustaining the hoped-for goal of more than 50 oysters per square meter.

All but the Manokin, off Tangier Sound, are considered at least initially “restored.” DNR expects to finish seeding the Manokin in 2025, which would meet the deadline set in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay…

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Endangered languages study wins top British Academy Global Cultural Understanding Prize

A book that charts how endangered languages are preserved in the modern world has won this year’s British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

The annual Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, created by the British Academy in 2013, has awarded American writer Ross Perlin the £25,000 (€30,100) prize for his non-fiction work ‘Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues’.

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‘Language City’ charts the history of migration into New York via the languages of different cultures entering the area, overwhelming the indigenous Lenape speakers. He then traces that history through to the present with six case studies of endangered language speakers in New York.

Throughout the book, Perlin examines how endangered languages survive through the resilience of their cultural communities, how their unique grammar and syntaxes work, and what we can learn about diverse cultures through studying these languages.

“New York City is home to more than 700 languages – ‘the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world’ – and by examining them Perlin opens out new ways of thinking about the exuberant variety of these aspects of the urban soundscape, which we might otherwise take for granted or ignore,” Professor Charles Tripp FBA, one of the judges commented.

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Language City – Grove Press UK

“Perlin’s research is dynamic and immediate; it is about what is happening now, right in front of us, as we witness the flux of everyday life. It was a real pleasure for the judges to read, even if our reading was tinged with concern for the subjects of these entrancing narratives,” Tripp added.

Professor Julia Black, President of the British Academy commented on the status of the academy’s book prize in celebrating “exceptional research” and non-fiction works that highlight…

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