Freestyle circuit’s solely U.S. cease serves as an Olympic qualifier for aerials; world championship groups will probably be introduced after occasion.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) U.S. Freestyle Ski Group member Chris Lillis performs his aerial routine throughout apply Jan. 7, 2020 on the Utah Olympic Park. Lillis, the nationwide champion, is wanting ahead to the FIS Freestyle World Cup at Deer Valley Resort on Feb. 2-6, 2021, though it will not enable followers and will not be held underneath the lights.
The screams of 8,000 followers may have been mistaken for the howl of a powerful wind on the prime of Deer Valley Resort’s Champion moguls run. As Nick Web page bounced towards the underside, it grew to become a deafening rumble. Cheers for the Park Metropolis skier by household, associates and full strangers alike mixed with cowbells and whistles, swelling an increasing number of right into a cacophony the nearer he drew to the end line.
All Web page stated he may hear, although, was the scritch-scritch of his skis sliding between the bumps and, when he went airborne on a soar, silence.
That’s what he can count on to listen to at this 12 months’s Freestyle Worldwide Ski World Cup occasion at Deer Valley, too. Solely it’ll take much less focus.
The Park Metropolis resort will welcome most of the world’s finest moguls and aerials skiers on Feb. 2-6, when it extends its 23-year streak of internet hosting elite-level freestyle competitors with the one World Cup on United States soil this season. Not invited, nonetheless, are the hundreds of followers who’ve made an annual custom of tromping up the hill to observe the athletes fly, bounce and flip underneath the lights.
Due to COVID-19, this 12 months’s competitions will probably be held in the course of the day with no spectators and sparse media on web site. Parts will probably be televised reside on NBC Sports activities and the Olympic Channel.
“We are saying yearly Deer Valley’s the perfect and we really feel like rock stars once we come down the touchdown hill,” Caldwell, 27, stated. “To not have these folks there and for it to not be an evening occasion will change the environment. However that doesn’t make it any much less the perfect.”
After spending the previous month touring between Finland, Russia and Belarus, Caldwell stated the distinction between lodging at competitions there and people of the luxe Park Metropolis resort are stark. However there’s nothing soft in regards to the competitors or the venue at Deer Valley.
“So, with the ability to ski quick, clear and tight after which have some actually large, show-stopping airs will type of put all of it collectively into the proper run.”
As a result of he grew up snowboarding at Deer Valley, the 18-year-old advantages as a lot as any competitor from the help of the hometown crowd — even when he tunes it out throughout his runs. This 12 months, although, he’ll doubtless profit from his data of the Champion course and its many faces all through the day. Web page stated he expects the finals to be held within the afternoon, when the sunshine goes flat and the contours of the bumps and landings disappear into the snow, making it particularly tough to ski.
That’s precious info to have in his again pocket heading into the ultimate occasion earlier than U.S. Ski & Snowboard selects its world championship group. Web page at the moment ranks eighth within the FIS World Cup standings, one spot under prime American Brad Wilson. On the ladies’s facet, the People have 4 athletes within the prime 11. They’re led by Jaelin Kauf and Hannah Soar, who took fifth and fourth, respectively, in moguls and third and second in twin moguls at Deer Valley final season.
Alternatives for the world championships, scheduled for March 8-11 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, may even be made in aerials. The U.S. ladies’s area is particularly crowded with Winter Vinecki, Caldwell and Kaila Kuhn holding down Nos. 2-4, respectively, within the FIS World Cup rankings. Justin Schoenfeld, Chris Lillis and Eric Loughran are among the many prime 15 on the boys’s facet.
The coronavirus has put this 12 months’s version of the biennial championships in limbo, however the American jumpers produce other causes to go large this weekend. With the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2022 video games precisely a 12 months away, Deer Valley will function the primary of a number of Olympic qualifiers.
“There’s simply a lot connected to that web site personally for me as a jumper,” Lillis stated, “that successful that occasion and type of simply taking it in our hometown, the place we’re coaching, and on dwelling soil — I’d say that’s crucial factor to me.”
Males’s and girls’s moguls will probably be held Feb. 4. Twin moguls — which can most likely not be held at Deer Valley once more till 2023 as a result of it’s a non-Olympic sport — is slated for Feb. 5. Aerials competitors will wrap up the occasion Feb. 6.
FIS FREESTYLE WORLD CUP AT DEER VALLEY
Feb. 2-6 at Deer Valley Resort
TV SCHEDULE
Feb. 4
2 p.m: Moguls, Olympic Channel
Feb. 5
12:30 p.m: Twin moguls, Olympic Channel
3:30 p.m.: Moguls, NBCSN
Feb. 6
2:30 p.m.: Aerials, Olympic Channel
Feb. 7
4 p.m.: Aerials, NBCSN
5 p.m.: Twin moguls, NBCSN
Feb. 21
11 a.m.: Moguls, NBC Sports activities
March 14
10 a.m.: Aerials, NBC Sports activities
Nick Page's First Finals || #OneTeamBestMoments
Underneath the lights, in entrance of 8,000 screaming followers, Nick Web page made his first finals look in entrance of his hometown crowd on the Intermountain Healthcare FIS Freestyle Snowboarding World Cup at Deer Valley Resort! 🙌nn#OneTeamBestMomentsnnMore: https://bit.ly/2KnGzP6
Posted by U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team on Monday, April 27, 2020
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Count on extra of it because the ruling class will get extra distanced from actuality.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"One other #DezNat person, whose Twitter deal with is PorterHanmerRocksWell (after Nineteenth-century Mormon gunslinger Porter Rockwell), posted a colorized illustration Jan. 13 of Christ driving money-changers from the temple with the phrases “Jesus leads the protest into the capitol.”","sort":"textual content"},{"sort":"oembed_response"},{"content material":"Such Twitter speak spurs fears — particularly after the current social-media-inflamed assault on U.S. democracy — that some #DezNatters may flip from defending the religion to avenging perceived spiritual, cultural or political grievances.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Are the concerns justified? Some on the receiving finish of their digital assaults say sure — and an internet site has been set as much as accumulate examples of hostile #DezNat rhetoric.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“Prior to now two weeks my life has been threatened time and again and time and again,” stated one recipient of #DezNat wrath, Billy D, a former Latter-day Saint who, fearing for his security, requested to not be additional recognized. “I've barely eaten within the final 10 days.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"DezNat is “not affiliated with or endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” church spokesman Doug Andersen stated Wednesday.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"He famous the governing First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles condemned the recent violence in Washington and lawless behavior. The church additionally denounced white nationalism after the lethal 2017 “Unite the Proper” rally in Charlottesville, Va., saying, “white supremacist attitudes are morally wrong and sinful, and we condemn them.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Senior Latter-day Saint leaders have repeatedly decried the evils of racism, with Nelson urging “members everywhere to lead out in abandoning attitudes and actions of prejudice.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Dallin H. Oaks, Nelson’s first counselor, declared that “Black lives matter,” calling the assertion “an everlasting fact all affordable folks ought to help.” He additionally emphasised that Latter-day Saints “peacefully accept the results of political elections.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Church leaders have reminded “members — of all political opinions — to comply with the instance and teachings of Jesus Christ in treating others with respect, dignity and love,” Andersen stated. “Something that encourages or incites violence is opposite to the current instruction given by church leaders.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Past these statements, the religion’s General Handbook counsels members on the web to “exemplify civility...and deal with sharing praiseworthy messages that strengthen these with whom they arrive involved.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"For his or her half, #DezNatters, most of whom use pseudonyms, dismiss considerations about Twitter threats as overreactions. And students who've tracked the social media phenomenon be aware that solely a small minority of posts might be seen as violent.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"DezNat has served as a “type of bat sign, calling upon a cloud-based militia to assist besieged colleagues or arrange in opposition to perceived rising threats to the church and its members,” Latter-day Saint blogger Mary Ann Clements wrote on Wheat & Tares final summer season. “These enemies could be ideological (pornography, secularism, feminism, LGBTQ+ actions, the Black Lives Matter motion, and so on.) or precise people.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"DezNat additionally views the liberal LDS weblog By Common Consent, John Dehlin, founding father of the “Mormon Stories” podcast who was excommunicated in 2015, and Kate Kelly, who was ousted from the church in 2014 for her function in main the Ordain Women movement, as potential enemies who undermine religion. The Salt Lake Tribune additionally makes the record.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Although most posters use #DezNat to share scriptures, sayings and provoking quotes, some deploy refashioned alt-right memes to rebut, revile and, sure, mock their spiritual foes.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"J.P. Bellum acknowledged that some customers could be “combative, rude, crass, aggressive, even mean.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“This thread is for the aim of giving my expensive sisters a honest little bit of counsel that I’ve given many occasions to particular person males,” wrote a #DezNat poster. “If you're single and noticeably chubby or overweight, your primary precedence, each non secular and temporal, *should* be to get in form.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Vary of #DezNat tweeters","sort":"header"},{"content material":"Bellum asserts that progressives in addition to conservatives on this spiritual disagreement hurl verbal and visible jabs. DezNat’s technique, although, can seem extra militant.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Customers have adopted symbols of weaponry related to Mormon historical past to make their level — just like the bowie knife Brigham Younger allegedly placed on a podium, saying he would use it in opposition to “apostates.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Some have photo-edited semi-automatic rifles onto the our bodies of Nelson and different Latter-day Saint prophets like Spencer W. Kimball, who spoke in opposition to looking animals and famously quoted the road “don’t kill the little birds.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"For Meg Conley, a Latter-day Saint author in Denver who has been a #DezNat goal as a feminist and LGBTQ ally, the hashtag is “alarming while you perceive their work is the memeification of our faith’s worst excesses — the misogyny, the homophobia, and the racism.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"What is particularly terrifying, Conley stated, is understanding a few of “the nameless folks making these memes sit subsequent to you within the pews.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"When she is harassed by a #DezNatter, Conley wonders: “Is that this particular person in my ward [congregation] and do they know my deal with due to our ward listing?”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"For some #DezNat tweeters, it's about constructing group.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"It has helped Sophie Sprague join with folks “who've the identical views on the gospel as I do,” the West Jordan resident tweeted. “Most people I do know in actual life are both not members or very liberal members so it has been so superb to search out different folks with my identical requirements. … Even simply discovering different younger, married ladies with kids has been a blessing in my life.”","sort":"textual content"},{"sort":"oembed_response"},{"content material":"Ebberts felt the identical means when he found #DezNat.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“Out of the blue I once more had hope that I wasn’t alone. Folks nonetheless needed to defend the gospel,” Ebberts wrote in a 2019 essay, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Meme.” They “harnessed the ability of MEMES and went on the offensive.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Ebberts was wanting to “defend the individuals who defend the church.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Janessa Taylor makes use of #DezNat to “create a devoted dialogue on Twitter,” to help and strengthen discipleship, and to push again in opposition to “worldly concepts.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"If there are any assaults, Ebberts and Sprague stated, they're coming from the opposite course.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Ebberts stated some #DezNat critics tried to “dox” him — reveal his identification and office — and get him fired.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"After Sprague posted a photograph together with her child and the phrases “Why would I need feminism and a profession, when I've this?” the brand new mother stated she obtained feedback on the Twitter thread, together with threats: “You don’t need to be alive. Your poor baby, you need to have aborted her.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Ebberts has no drawback utilizing what some see as violent memes, which he sees as “trendy political cartoons.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“I wholeheartedly embrace them,” he wrote. “I'll proceed to make and use them. Some will suck, and a few will probably be completely superior.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"How #DezNat compares to ‘alt-right’","sort":"header"},{"content material":"Casually slinging slurs, together with anti-immigrant, sexist and racist rhetoric, some #DezNat tweeters clearly have adopted the tunes and tones of these on the far proper — though, of their eyes, their points are extra about piety than politics.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“What if we made a separate BYU only for white college students so the minority college students couldn’t presumably be oppressed by whiteness?” a sarcastic tweet said. “I’m simply attempting to alleviate them of their traumatic lived experiences with microaggressions?”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"One other requested: Why is anti-white racism by no means addressed by wokists when the Prophet admonishes [us] all about racism?”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"And, lastly: “Brigham Younger is within the Celestial Kingdom together with his 47-plus stunningly lovely perfected wives and also you’re caught in Provo calling him racist within the hopes of incomes sufficient woke credit to persuade some seacow to ship you nudes.”","sort":"textual content"},{"sort":"oembed_response"},{"content material":"One in every of “the symbols and tropes of white nationalist ‘troll’ tradition” that has been tailored to Mormonism concerned the idea of “redpilling,” stated Stephen Betts, a doctoral scholar in spiritual research on the College of Virginia.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“Redpilling normies” is an alt-right course of, suggesting a “normie,” or regular particular person, who has woke up from liberal considering, can get up others, Betts wrote in an unpublished paper.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“Redpilling normies” is an alt-right course of, suggesting that somebody who has woke up from liberal considering can get up “normies,” or regular folks, Betts wrote in an unpublished paper. Within the LDS model, “normies” have develop into “Mormies.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"It's an allusion to the 1999 film “The Matrix” wherein people are managed by clever machines. At one level, the principle character is given a selection between a blue tablet, which permits an individual to remain asleep or stay in blissful ignorance, and a crimson tablet, which prompts the particular person to extra totally perceive the depth of the earlier fantasy.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"To this, the #DezNat crowd has added a 3rd selection: a vitamin tablet, after Nelson told the Latter-day Saint faithful to take their vitamins in preparation for a way a lot change was coming.","sort":"textual content"},{"sort":"picture"},{"content material":"Right here’s how Brigham Groyper said it on Twitter:","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“Blue tablet — Transfer the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“Purple tablet — Retake Jerusalem, Deus Vult [a Crusades rallying cry].","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“Vitamin tablet — Construct the brand new Jerusalem on the American continent.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Then there’s the “Hitler Did Nothing Fallacious” meme, which #DezNat has altered into “Brigham Did Nothing Wrong.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“#DezNat customers typically make use of this [technique] to defend Younger in reference to a core group of accusations about him,” Betts argued, “which are inclined to middle on his racism, alleged vigilantism and apply of polygyny.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Whereas these fringe teams have printed their memes to suggest America as they need it to be, the scholar stated, #DezNat customers are adapting these photos for a distinct type of “nation” — a cultural theocracy, the place the doctrine is pure and devotion to the prophet absolute.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"By Frequent Consent founder Steve Evans stated he doesn’t distinguish the #DezNat motion “from different kinds of non secular or political extremism.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"All of them have “the identical cultural hallmarks: misogyny, racism, fundamentalism and pining for a return to an idyllic previous state that's largely imagined,” Evans stated. “They view themselves as trendy Danites or spiritual vigilantes.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"By Frequent Consent is a goal, the Salt Lake Metropolis legal professional stated, “as a result of we flatly reject spiritual extremism, and we exist as a spot for folks to voice minority views throughout the church.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Monitoring #DezNat tweets","sort":"header"},{"content material":"One of many causes for adopting #DezNat, Bellum stated, was as a result of the church’s “most vocal” critics have been “getting essentially the most likes and retweets” on Twitter.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"He’s not unsuitable, stated social media researcher Spencer Greenhalgh. The College of Kentucky scholar has made an in-depth examine of #DezNat tweets.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Within the current previous, analysis on Mormons and the web has largely centered on progressive members, particularly feminists and “queer Mormons,” he stated. “A variety of the story has develop into how the web has allowed progressive voices within the conservative faith to emerge.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"The #DezNat group needed “to play the identical recreation as progressive Mormons,” Greenhalgh stated. “Even with out having a church workplace, they really feel they've a mandate to shore up the authority that already exists … and to forestall additional change within the church and extra assimilation into the bigger world.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"In any case, what was the unique State of Deseret, he stated, however the manifestation of a church group earlier than it “gave in to the U.S.?”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"A few years in the past, the social media researcher arrange a “Twitter tracker,” which routinely downloaded each tweet that features #DezNat and entered it onto a spreadsheet. He now has amassed lots of of hundreds of tweets.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"The overwhelming majority wouldn't be seen as violent, Greenhalgh famous, however they do wield numerous alt-right language and what might be termed darkish humor.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"They depend on ambiguity within the message, he stated, so if targets take a risk significantly, they'll say, “with a wink and a nod,” that they have been simply kidding.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"How #DezNat frightens foes","sort":"header"},{"content material":"The “essence of #DezNat,” stated a podcaster named Hoss, with a crimson, white and blue proposed Utah flag on the wall behind him, is to “have enjoyable whereas sharing the gospel on-line.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Final month, a #DezNatter produced a clip from “Inglourious Basterds,” wherein a Nazi is brutally crushed, with Dehlin’s identify photo-edited onto the German soldier.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Dehlin says he reported the retweeted clip to police and the FBI.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"One in every of #DezNat’s most sustained on-line assaults in opposition to a person has been geared toward Brigham Younger College undergrad Calvin Burke, who self-identifies as homosexual and as an LGBTQ ally. He has a energetic Twitter account and greater than 10,000 followers.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"DezNat customers routinely insult him, generally with crude sexual language, and threaten violence. One man talked about wishing to beat him up. They've doxxed him time and again, repeatedly attempting to get him fired from his job on the faculty’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Spiritual Scholarship.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Final 12 months, Bellum supplied a “hypothetical” bounty of $1,000 for any info resulting in Burke’s expulsion from BYU.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“It has been actually troublesome. The considered unwittingly sitting beside somebody in a school class who has made a meme depicting [physical harm] can be terrifying to anybody,” Burke stated. “It’s already troublesome for me to be an energetic LGBTQ member of the church and BYU scholar with out this.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Burke’s prayer is that the church and BYU “resolve to take energetic steps to guard its LGBTQ+ members and college students earlier than this occurs to extra folks,” he stated, “and condemn individuals who use church leaders out of context to justify their habits.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Even #DezNatters could be splitting alongside the traces of how virulent to be of their tweets, stated Clements, who lives in Millcreek.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“The unique customers of the DezNat hashtag have been way more enthusiastic on the nationalism side,” she wrote in a message, “and are typically extra excessive.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Now a few of them, Clements stated, have taken on a brand new hashtag, “Dezbollah.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"
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I watch “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” because it’s my job. If this wasn’t a Utah-based show, I wouldn’t be tuning in.","type":"text"},{"content":"Few people were more scathing than I was when Bravo confirmed that “RHOSLC” would become a thing this year.","type":"text"},{"content":"And at times, watching Lisa Barlow, Mary Cosby, Heather Gay, Meredith Marks, Whitney Rose and Jen Shah fight has been utterly exhausting. I get that there has to be conflict, but people screaming at each other is not my idea of entertainment.","type":"text"},{"content":"But as we near the end of Season 1, I can honestly say that I’ve learned a few things from watching it. And I’ve learned to be less dismissive of the whole “Real Housewives” phenomenon. There’s more to the cast and show than I ever expected.","type":"text"},{"content":"There’s an art to “Real Housewives”","type":"header"},{"content":"There’s clearly talent involved in putting the show together. You’ve got to cast it well, create the dynamics that will build drama, and then edit it to create a show that will suck you in and keep you watching.","type":"text"},{"content":"It’s not as easy as the producers of “RHOSLC” make it look.","type":"text"},{"type":"image"},{"content":"Guilt-free guilty pleasure","type":"header"},{"content":"It’s one thing to review a scripted TV show; it’s something different to review a “reality” show. This is about the personal lives of six women, and it’s weird and uncomfortable to comment about that.","type":"text"},{"content":"But my former Tribune colleague, Sara Weber, set me straight. That’s what “Real Housewives” is all about, she said, and everybody involved knows what they’re getting into. Or they should, given that the franchise has been around for almost 15 years and more than 1,100 episodes. They’ve given us permission to have opinions about their lives.","type":"text"},{"content":"It’s not altogether real","type":"header"},{"content":"The Housewives admit they weren’t all close friends before filming began. They were thrown together specifically to create chaos.","type":"text"},{"content":"It’s like the long-running “Real World,” which cast people they knew were going to come into conflict. If everybody gets along, there’s no show.","type":"text"},{"content":"And you will never, ever convince me that Whitney decided on her own to blow up the surprise birthday party Jen threw for her husband, Sharrieff. It was so incredibly dumb she had to have at least been pushed in that direction.","type":"text"},{"content":"Real feelings","type":"header"},{"content":"You will also never convince me that the emotion Meredith showed about her separation from her husband wasn’t real, that her tears over how her marital problems affected her children weren’t genuine.","type":"text"},{"content":"And, while Heather is brash and funny, what we’ve learned about her divorce and the pressure she’s felt to conform to her “Mormon” upbringing has been touching and heartfelt.","type":"text"},{"type":"image"},{"content":"Surprise! I like them","type":"header"},{"content":"Yes, I came in to this show with preconceived notions about the type of person who would sign up to be a “Real Housewife.” But when I had a chance to interview five of the six women (everyone but Mary), I found myself liking them.","type":"text"},{"content":"That made it harder for me to criticize Lisa, Heather, Meredith, Whitney and Jen.","type":"text"},{"content":"(At first, I wondered if Mary dodged interview requests because she didn’t want to talk about her marriage to her step-grandfather. Now I wonder if it was at least in part because she came across as racist in Episode 5 and she has largely disappeared from the show in recent episodes.)","type":"text"},{"type":"image"},{"content":"Just say no","type":"header"},{"content":"Heather was flattered to be asked to join the cast, and this is a big deal for her. Meredith hopes it will help her jewelry business. And it’s free promotion for all the Housewives’ businesses.","type":"text"},{"content":"And then there’s Mary. Why is she there? She had to know that her arranged marriage would be front and center, and she’s cried over that. She’s retreated from the show because of her ongoing feud with Jen.","type":"text"},{"content":"Whether you’re on Team Jen or Team Mary, there’s no getting away from the way Mary has come across. She’s the “first lady” of the Faith Temple Pentecostal Church, and it’s been incredibly off-putting to see her obsession with possessions — her designer clothes, her enormous wardrobe, her multiple homes.","type":"text"},{"content":"It’s not good or bad for Utah","type":"header"},{"content":"Some are under the impression that “RHOSLC” is great for the city and the state. And, yes, viewers have seen that Utah is beautiful, more diverse than many believe, and there are a lot of cool things here.","type":"text"},{"content":"But it’s not exactly a travelogue.","type":"text"},{"content":"On the other hand, there are (predictably) those who think “RHOSLC” is slandering the city, the state and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And, yes, Whitney, Jen and Heather all have issues with the church, which is why they left/are leaving.","type":"text"},{"content":"Rather than condemn them, it’s worth listening to their stories to understand them.","type":"text"},{"content":"Lisa’s story is more complicated. She’s a Latter-day Saint, but she sort of picks and chooses which church standards to keep. For Utahns and other members of her church, that’s pretty clear. For others, it’s muddled.","type":"text"},{"content":"And, no, there are no fully active, temple recommend-holding Latter-day Saints on “RHOSLC.” How would that work?","type":"text"},{"content":"But the show is not going to rock the foundations of the church. And there’s little chance it’s going to change the perceptions of those who aren’t members; I think most people are smart enough to realize the women don’t represent the church.","type":"text"},{"content":"It’s an escape","type":"header"},{"content":"Why get caught up in the often over-the-top lives of the Housewives? It’s not because they’re role models or cautionary tales. It’s not because they have more money than most of us, and it’s a chance to see how the other half lives.","type":"text"},{"content":"It’s an escape. It’s a chance to forget about our own problems for an hour a week — more, if you’ve got friends/family with whom to discuss episodes — and focus on other people’s problems. As ridiculous as those problems might be at times.","type":"text"},{"content":"In the middle of a pandemic, that’s a big deal.","type":"text"},{"content":"Episode 13 of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” airs Wednesday on Bravo — 8 p.m. on Dish and DirecTV; 11 p.m. on Comcast.","type":"text"}],"credit":{"by":[{"_id":"spierce","image":{"url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/sltrib/80a1f33c-6786-4297-8540-865f170ba0e5.png"},"name":"Scott D. Pierce"}]},"display_date":"2021-01-31T13:00:00Z","headlines":{"fundamental":"Scott D. 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But this one, set up on the front lawn of a private residence at the direction of the property owner — and where residents on this morning are cooking up a breakfast of pancakes and eggs — is unlike many the city has seen in recent memory.","type":"text"},{"content":"“I don’t know of a case where people have opened up their home to a homeless camp,” said Darin Mann, a 31-year-old community organizer who owns the house that sits behind the tents. “We’re pioneering that.”","type":"text"},{"content":"The Village Camp has been home over the last two weeks to anywhere from five to 15 people who have access to medicine, food and donations, as well as to the bathroom in his home. And he’s enforcing prohibitions on drug use and violence and a strict one-strike-you’re-out policy.","type":"text"},{"content":"But so far, Mann said he hasn’t had any problems with the visitors on the third of an acre plot where he grows vegetables for the Rose Park and Fairpark neighborhoods through his nonprofit, the Village Cooperative.","type":"text"},{"content":"“What I hope to break is this stereotype that they’re just taking handouts,” he said. “They’re really resilient and like to help out around the garden and help out [in] the area and be respectful.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Mann began this camp on Jan. 14, in response to what he sees as inaction from Salt Lake Metropolis leaders to handle homelessness and after he stated current Salt Lake County Well being Division camp cleanups put elevated pressure on different unsheltered folks within the metropolis.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"The Village Camp, Mann stated, provides a protected area for folks to get again on their ft — a spot the place they'll entry fundamental requirements, don’t have to fret about their belongings being stolen and might, not less than for now, reside with out worry of being pushed to a different spot.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“Each time we push them,” Mann stated, “we put them proper again at sq. zero.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"One man staying on the camp on the mornings The Tribune visited, who didn't wish to be named, stated he noticed the positioning as a lot calmer and safer than a traditional “tent metropolis,” which he characterised as “unpredictable” and “harmful.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“I simply assume that’s it’s rather a lot higher setting to have any person open their yard and just about their houses up to people who want it,” he stated, noting that he wished extra folks would comply with swimsuit. “That is like compassion, virtually. They're opening up their houses they usually’re risking their freedom and their safety to assist present us with safety and luxury.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Frederick Hidalgo, who stated he has been homeless for about seven years, had moved into the camp the week earlier than and stated it already felt “like a house.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“That is the place the peace is at,” he stated, warming his arms in opposition to one among a number of fires burning in pits spaced all through the camp. “I adore it.”","sort":"textual content"},{"sort":"picture"},{"content material":"‘Give them some stability’","sort":"header"},{"content material":"Mann stated he’s obtained a combined response from his neighbors because the tents went up.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Some have come over to introduce themselves to the residents and have stepped in to assist feed these on the camp. However Mann stated he’s heard from not less than one home-owner who isn’t blissful in regards to the encampment and want to see it gone.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"He stated, “ ‘We don’t need this right here. We pay taxes, equal taxes, and we’re apprehensive in regards to the medication and stuff like that,’” Mann recounted. “Which I informed him everyone right here is vetted. There’s a one strike coverage. There’s completely no medication right here; no violence.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"David Osokow, who lives close by, stated he’s additionally not in favor of the encampment, which he thinks poses high quality of life challenges for a group that’s already disproportionately impacted by points associated to homelessness.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“It’s his personal residence,” Osokow acknowledged. “But it surely’s fairly disrespectful for different neighbors to someday begin letting folks put up camps and burn fires.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Even when they needed to, he added, many individuals within the Fairpark group don’t have the sources to struggle the camp.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“We’re not a neighborhood that has some huge cash the place if we didn’t like this, our solely recourse actually is to succeed in out to town and hope they mitigate what’s happening,” he stated. “Different areas like ninth and ninth, Sugar Home, they might be most likely litigating in opposition to this, whereas we don’t have the sources. So to type of benefit from our neighborhood, that’s type of the place I'm just a little disillusioned.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"The Salt Lake County Well being Division, which conducts abatements of homeless encampments on a regular basis, has obtained not less than two complaints in regards to the camp from individuals who seem like Mann’s neighbors and need it cleared out.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Nicholas Rupp, a spokesman with the well being division, famous that an encampment situated on personal property not zoned for in a single day tenting can be prohibited — even when a property proprietor desires it there.","sort":"textual content"},{"sort":"picture"},{"content material":"The county’s health code forbids the establishment of camps on both public and private property in an effort to mitigate environmental and public well being hazards, comparable to human waste. However as a result of occupants at The Village Camp reportedly have entry to a personal rest room in Mann’s dwelling, Rupp stated this encampment would doubtless fall under a separate housing code.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"That regulation permits for tents, trailers and campers on personal property with the permission of the property proprietor “for as much as 10 consecutive days,” although the director of the Well being Division does have the flexibility to grant exemptions.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Rupp stated the housing regulation was constructed much less for encampments and extra for “personal property house owners who've had household keep and neighbors have complained the RV has been parked there for 4 months.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Neither he nor the county’s environmental well being director may bear in mind a time when somebody had invited an encampment onto their property, Rupp stated.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“That’s to not say it hasn’t occurred,” he stated, however it’s “not widespread. Actually not.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Underneath county code, the well being division has the flexibility to request that Mann basically evict the campers from his property. If he declined to take action, he may finally face fines in addition to civil or legal penalties.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Mann stated he doesn’t wish to go to battle with the well being division and hopes he can work one thing out, stressing that this camp is momentary and that he’s doing every thing doable to maintain it sanitary.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"If they arrive knocking, “I might attempt to speak to them and see if I may lengthen it for so long as doable till we may discover shelter for these folks,” Mann stated. “As a result of the entire drawback is them getting pushed time and again and over. I simply wish to give them some stability.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Whereas he’s but to listen to from the county well being division, Mann stated he did obtain a code violation discover from Salt Lake Metropolis for the tenting gear, storage bins, tents and particles on his garden. The letter instructed him to scrub up the property by Feb. 4 and that failure to take action would end in initiation of “applicable authorized motion.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"He hopes to obtain an extension from town “till we will discover a lasting answer for this disaster,” he stated.","sort":"textual content"},{"sort":"picture"},{"content material":"‘Let’s be actionable’","sort":"header"},{"content material":"Whereas Mann feels the necessity to step up immediately to assist folks experiencing homelessness, he doesn’t assume he’ll have tents in his yard a 12 months from now — each as a result of he doesn’t wish to put an excessive amount of pressure on his neighborhood and since he hopes it gained’t be needed.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"His important aim, he stated, is to get the folks on his property jobs and assist them discover shelter to maneuver off the streets for good.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"As a part of that purpose, Mann stated he desires to see “a extra productive dialogue” between town and the assorted group activists who've just lately taken on an even bigger function in serving to people who find themselves unsheltered. Whereas he thinks activists have a component to play, he argues Salt Lake Metropolis leaders haven’t achieved sufficient to stem the tide of homelessness locally.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"He desires them to discover extra artistic choices, comparable to zoning adjustments to create a tiny dwelling village or opening surplus property town owns to supply shelter.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Why isn’t town doing extra, “when there’s dilapidated buildings we may convert?” he requested. “There’s numerous completely different options that I don’t really feel like are being explored.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Sarah Kelly, who lives close to Mann and has been within the neighborhood for almost 20 years, stated “no one desires a tent metropolis of their neighborhood.” However she stated she helps The Village Camp as a result of she agrees the federal government hasn’t achieved sufficient to assist folks experiencing homelessness.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“Their answer is bulldozers, which isn't a long-term answer,” she stated, referencing the county’s camp cleanups. “It’s not a compassionate answer. And I feel you will have Darin who’s saying, ‘I’m uninterested in ready for the federal government to provide you with one thing, so I’m going to do one thing.’ And he’ll say this isn’t a everlasting answer. This isn’t an ideal answer. But it surely’s one thing higher than what the federal government’s doing, which is nothing.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"In response to criticism from activists, Salt Lake Metropolis Mayor Erin Mendenhall countered in a current interview that town has stepped up greater than another authorities physique to help folks experiencing homelessness — from diversifying housing choices by way of zoning adjustments to making a road outreach partnership with Volunteers of America to hosting a winter overflow shelter this year and last.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"“The town has achieved greater than another metropolis within the state and we are going to proceed to work,” she stated. “However it is a statewide humanitarian disaster and we'd like the state and each different chief in Utah to sit at this desk and work collectively. The concept that homelessness is the duty of Salt Lake Metropolis alone isn't a brand new narrative. It’s simply coming from a brand new voice proper now.”","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"Because the camp matures, Mann stated he plans to proceed advocating for motion from town and can struggle for the residents to remain.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"He additionally hopes to serve for example to different group members who may take into account offering area on their very own property for unsheltered folks within the Salt Lake Valley.","sort":"textual content"},{"content material":"At his camp, “we’re attempting to destigmatize the best way we take a look at our homeless group,” he stated. “As a result of if we destigmatize it, then it’s one thing that’s to be addressed reasonably than type of be afraid of it. Let’s not be afraid of it anymore. 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As Nick Page bounced toward the bottom, it became a deafening rumble. Cheers for the Park City skier by family, friends and complete strangers alike combined with cowbells and whistles, swelling more and more into a cacophony the closer he drew to the finish line.","type":"text"},{"content":"All Page said he could hear, though, was the scritch-scritch of his skis sliding between the bumps and, when he went airborne on a jump, silence.","type":"text"},{"content":"That’s what he can expect to hear at this year’s Freestyle International Ski World Cup event at Deer Valley, too. Only it’ll take less concentration.","type":"text"},{"content":"The Park City resort will welcome many of the world’s best moguls and aerials skiers on Feb. 2-6, when it extends its 23-year streak of hosting elite-level freestyle competition with the only World Cup on United States soil this season. Not invited, however, are the thousands of fans who have made an annual tradition of tromping up the hill to watch the athletes fly, bounce and flip under the lights.","type":"text"},{"content":"Because of COVID-19, this year’s competitions will be held during the day with no spectators and sparse media on site. Portions will be televised live on NBC Sports and the Olympic Channel.","type":"text"},{"content":"Ashley Caldwell, a three-time Olympic aerialist and the national champion, likened it to playing a rock concert inside an empty stadium.","type":"text"},{"content":"“We say every year Deer Valley’s the best and we feel like rock stars when we come down the landing hill,” Caldwell, 27, said. “To not have those people there and for it not to be a night event will change the atmosphere. But that doesn’t make it any less the best.”","type":"text"},{"type":"oembed_response"},{"content":"After spending the past month traveling between Finland, Russia and Belarus, Caldwell said the contrast between accommodations at competitions there and those of the luxe Park City resort are stark. But there’s nothing cushy about the competition or the venue at Deer Valley.","type":"text"},{"content":"“It is kind of one of those courses where you need everything,” said Page, who topped the American men with a 10th-place finish last year during his World Cup debut at the venue. “It’s definitely one of the hardest courses we’ll see all year. It’s the longest. The steepest. It’s always built really well, but it’s really challenging. And that’s what makes it really, really fun, because it kind of separates the field and the skiers that can really excel on that and then the skiers that kind of fall behind.","type":"text"},{"content":"“So, being able to ski fast, clean and tight and then have some really big, show-stopping airs will kind of put it all together into the perfect run.”","type":"text"},{"content":"Because he grew up skiing at Deer Valley, the 18-year-old benefits as much as any competitor from the support of the hometown crowd — even if he tunes it out during his runs. This year, though, he’ll likely benefit from his knowledge of the Champion course and its many faces throughout the day. Page said he expects the finals to be held in the afternoon, when the light goes flat and the contours of the bumps and landings disappear into the snow, making it especially tricky to ski.","type":"text"},{"content":"That’s valuable information to have in his back pocket heading into the final event before U.S. Ski & Snowboard selects its world championship team. Page currently ranks eighth in the FIS World Cup standings, one spot below top American Brad Wilson. On the women’s side, the Americans have four athletes in the top 11. They are led by Jaelin Kauf and Hannah Soar, who took fifth and fourth, respectively, in moguls and third and second in dual moguls at Deer Valley last season.","type":"text"},{"content":"Selections for the world championships, scheduled for March 8-11 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, will also be made in aerials. The U.S. women’s field is especially crowded with Winter Vinecki, Caldwell and Kaila Kuhn holding down Nos. 2-4, respectively, in the FIS World Cup rankings. Justin Schoenfeld, Chris Lillis and Eric Loughran are among the top 15 on the men’s side.","type":"text"},{"content":"The coronavirus has put this year’s edition of the biennial championships in limbo, but the American jumpers have other reasons to go big this weekend. With the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2022 games exactly a year away, Deer Valley will serve as the first of several Olympic qualifiers.","type":"text"},{"content":"Lillis, the men’s national champion, noted that winning at Deer Valley is almost akin to rubber stamping a trip to the Olympics. And yet, he’s more concerned with living up to the legacy of those who competed there before him. He hopes to inspire kids who might be watching at home on TV, just as he was in 2007 when Jeret “Speedy” Peterson won a World Cup there by performing his signature “Hurricane.”","type":"text"},{"content":"“There’s just so much attached to that site personally for me as a jumper,” Lillis said, “that winning that event and kind of just taking it in our hometown, where we’re training, and on home soil — I’d say that’s the most important thing to me.”","type":"text"},{"content":"Men’s and women’s moguls will be held Feb. 4. Dual moguls — which will probably not be held at Deer Valley again until 2023 because it is a non-Olympic sport — is slated for Feb. 5. Aerials competition will wrap up the event Feb. 6.","type":"text"},{"type":"quote"},{"content":"
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Lillis, the nationwide champion, is wanting ahead to the FIS Freestyle World Cup at Deer Valley Resort on Feb. 2-6, 2021, though it will not enable followers and will not be held underneath the lights.","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.photos.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/MORGGS7OERDKJI4EUWIPOPOPL4.jpg"},"publish_date":"2021-01-31T13:00:00Z","subheadlines":{"fundamental":"Freestyle circuit’s solely U.S. cease serves as an Olympic qualifier for aerials; world championship groups will probably be introduced after occasion."},"taxonomy":{"primary_section":{"_id":"/sports activities","identify":"Sports activities","parent_id":"https://sltrib.com/","path":"/sports activities"},"websites":[{"name":"Sports","path":"/sports"}],"tags":[{"description":"sports features","slug":"sports-featured","text":"Sports Featured"}]},"website_url":"/sports activities/2021/01/31/deer-valley-world-cup"},{"_id":"FQLZR5DGNBCXBD5EFR7XWQUNZY","canonical_url":"/opinion/commentary/2021/01/31/leonard-pitts-josh-hawley","content_elements":[{"content":"So last week, Sen. Josh Hawley complained that he was being “silenced.” He lodged this complaint on Fox “News” and in The New York Post.","type":"text"},{"content":"As social media observers promptly pointed out, that’s a level of media exposure that effectively refutes the senator’s claim. But Hawley is in a snit because Simon & Schuster backed out of a contract to publish his book, and the Loews hotel chain declined to host one of his fundraisers after he encouraged protesters who rioted in the U.S. Capitol. Apparently, that’s left him blind to irony.","type":"text"},{"content":"In the Post piece, he compared his experience to something out of communist China and declared himself a victim of “cancel culture.” Well beg pardon, but “cancel culture” — like the War on Christmas — is little more than a chimerical boogeyman created to frighten and appall. Truth is, there ain’t no such thing.","type":"text"},{"content":"That declaration will affront those who consider cancel culture an outrage against free speech. They’ll point to James Gunn; the director was fired from a movie (he was later rehired) after offensive tweets surfaced. They’ll point to Shane Gillis; the comedian lost a job on “Saturday Night Live” after racist comments he made about Asians came to light. They’ll point to Mike Lindell; the My Pillow guy’s product was pulled by major retailers after he voiced support for baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. And they will point to Donald Trump; he lost his Twitter account for being, well ... Donald Trump.","type":"text"},{"content":"The argument goes that censorious liberals are offending free speech by shaming and ostracizing those who breach social or political orthodoxy. Tellingly, this claim against liberals is sometimes made by liberals, as well as by conservatives. But it collides with the same obvious paradox either way.","type":"text"},{"content":"To wit: None of this affronts free speech. To the contrary, it is free speech, people and corporations using their influence and the withdrawal of their cooperation or economic support to make statements. That was the story of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. For that matter, it was the story of the 1997 boycott of The Walt Disney Company by conservative church groups after Disney extended employee benefits to same-sex domestic partners.","type":"text"},{"content":"Nor is it immaterial that the one succeeded after a year while the other failed after eight. Ultimately, what we’re talking about is the free market — of economics and of ideas — at work, however imperfectly. The market will bear what the market will bear.","type":"text"},{"content":"Make no mistake: There is a debate to be had here. Multiple debates, actually. Have we become too peevishly sensitive? Are we too quick to weaponize outrage? Have social media made it too easy to dial up a virtual lynch mob? Should there be a statute of limitations on punishment for stupid stuff you said or did way back when? But the baseline of that debate cannot be some misguided notion that it is wrong simply to censure that which offends. And on this subject a pundit may claim special insight.","type":"text"},{"content":"To be a columnist, after all, is to have always just offended someone. Frequently, that someone will present the offense to an editor and demand the scoundrel be given the boot. Occasionally, the editor will comply, a decision that reduces both the columnist’s reach and his bank account. To be sure, this doesn’t make him happy.","type":"text"},{"content":"But it also doesn’t make him a victim — at least, not of any force more nefarious than supply and demand. The market giveth and the market taketh away. Yes, freedom of speech is a constitutional right.","type":"text"},{"content":"To have a platform, however, is a privilege.","type":"text"},{"type":"image"},{"content":"Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. [email protected]","type":"text"}],"credit":{"by":[ The Miami Herald"]},"display_date":"2021-01-31T13:00:00Z","headlines":{"fundamental":"Leonard Pitts: Josh Hawley is blind to irony"},"last_updated_date":"2021-01-31T13:00:02.896Z","promo_items":{"fundamental":{"caption":"About 300 demonstrators collect after portray an indication in the course of Broadway Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021 outdoors the historic Previous Courthouse in downtown St. Louis. Audio system known as for Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., to resign following a seizure and occupation of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. 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