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Its true. Sporting a shacket (you know, the lovechild of the sherpa jacket and flannel) is a testament to the fall season just as much as drinking Starbucks new Apple Crisp Macchiato.

Youve probably seen a closets worth of shackets clogging up your Instagram feed and, for a good reason. Its one of the easiest ways to elevate your look for transitional seasons, and one of the cheapest, especially if you take the Amazon route.

With a good pair of booties, one of our 65 favorite bodysuits and classic gold accessories, youll be looking like a rockstar en route to pumpkin picking this fall, too.

Below, find our edit of the 20 best shackets to sport this season, along with versatile options to carry you all the way to spring. After all, its not time for the tried-and-true down coat or trench coat just yet.

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Blair Waldorf inspired this shacket. With a dainty blush, grey and ivory plaid, its one to live in this season for a girly touch to any outfit.

This shacket practically screams October. Wear this plush green and brown checkered shacket to a haunted house, fall festival and all other autumnal activities.

As Amazons bestselling shacket, this style is one to steal this fall. For less than $30, were completely and totally obsessed.

We cant help ourselves this brown plaid shacket is dreamy, chic and oh-so-cozy. Plus, with a cream bodysuit and straight-leg jeans (my favorite pair here), you have your new fall outfit.

Add a pop of glamour and color to your shacket with this comfy style that looks like a designer splurge. Just imagine all the IG pics youll take in it, too.

On the hunt for a shacket and a coat? The RDI Plaid Boyfriend Shackets slightly oversized fit makes it a perfect addition to brace the cold this season and next.

The pastel hue and on-trend button details on this plaid shacket make it one of our faves. Pair it with a nude top and jeans and youll be comfy and confident.

Add some edginess to your fall lookbook with the SNDYS Faux Leather Shacket. Its like the moto, but better.

For a versatile piece of outerwear, you cant go wrong with this brown faux leather shacket from River Island. Quality with a Gen Z-minded boxy fit, its even fun to wear as a cape to spice up an outfit.

Not all faux leather shackets were created equal. Especially when this sky blue beaut hit Boohoos website. It adds designer without the hefty price tag.

Looking for the perfect piece to style with all your gold accessories? Look no further. This pocket-front leather shacket is the creme de la creme for less than $30.

This relaxed leather shacket comes in a variety of match-all colors and looks dynamite with just about anything. Specifically, we have our eyes on this red-brown shade.

Take the traditional denim jacket and make it an oversized shacket. In a greyish light-wash hue, the Frida Utility Jean Shacket is just the perfect throw-on to style with dark-wash or black jeans.

Straight-fitting and cute, shop this distressed denim shacket to dress up and down this season. Plus, the subtle raw hem is fall-ready.

Olive is in, and what better way to stick with the trends than with the Super Oversized Rigid Denim Jacket. On sale for more than 50% off, swipe this staple before its gone.

We cant believe this blush and leopard shacket is less than $10 (with four-star reviews on Amazon). In endless color options, youll want to snatch them all.

Serve up some shacket style with this checkered denim jacket an elevated approach to classic washes.

This roundup would be incomplete without a beautiful mauve corduroy shacket. With two front pockets and impeccable button detailing, its a girly and chic look to rock all fall and winter long.

This color. Yes, yes and yes. Shop this lovely lavender shacket with a flattering fit before it completely sells out on Lulus.

Traditional and slightly cropped, the Rails Turner Top is one of our favorites on this list. Why? Naturally, it matches everything and looks super cozy.

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20 shackets to wear every day: Flannel, leather, corduroy and more - New York Post

Each week during the NFL season,TheLines will compile a list of implied team totals. In other words, NFL Week 4 implied team totals are how many points each team is expected to score this week, based on simple math with the spread and over/under.

Readers can make use of these team totals in a variety of ways for NFL Week 4and beyond. Those ways include handicapping props, making fantasy decisions, etc.

All lines come from FanDuel Sportsbook as of Sept. 27, rounded to the nearest whole number.

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After two weeks, you could hear whispers in some circles that the Bills offense had peaked in 2020 and wouldnt hit those same highs in 2021. The team opened with a loss to Pittsburgh, but even a wipeout win over Miami came courtesy of three turnovers. The vaunted offense did not perform particularly efficiently or prolifically.

Those concerns may quiet some after a 43-point show against Washingtons hyped but underperforming defense. The Bills gained 8.2 YPA through the air.

Now, they get a Houston team reeling, with a massive spread of separating them.Josh Allen and Co. should have another big week.

The Rams showed their offense is for real as they passed all over the Bucs for 8.5 YPA. Now, they get to face a Cardinals defense that took it on the chin from the Vikes in Week 2 but did have success against a solid offense in Tennessee. LAs offensive line doesnt have the holes the Titans do that allowed the Cardinals pass rush to have a hey day. Watch for offensive fireworks here.

Speaking of the Rams, they managed to corral a Bucs offense that had previously tossed the rock all over the field at will. Dont letTom Bradys stat line fool you as the team managed just 17 points before garbage time.

Has the market downgraded this unit after they struggled against the first real defense they faced?

On the opposite end of the spectrum from the Bills, it comes as little surprise given the line that the market projects the Texans as the lowest-scoring team this week. Only the Jets in Week 3 have gotten a lower projection and they wound up on the business end of a shutout.

The Texans looked like they had a competent offense withTyrod Taylor. Injury replacementDavis Mills managed to stay out of the turnover column but his 151 net yards on 28 attempts wont cut it going forward. OnlyBrandin Cooks managed to stay relevant for fantasy and prop over players.

Still, the surprising Panthers D was a tough assignment. Perhaps better things lie ahead.

The most surprising and notable inclusion here: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hope existed in some corners that a retooled offensive line could give Ben Roethlisberger enough time to distribute the ball to a talented group of receivers, not to mention newly drafted talentsRB Najee Harris andTE Pat Freiermuth.

Instead, Roethlisberger has looked like a bottom-five starter so far. He has put up a putrid 35.7 QBR with 5.55 net yards per attempt. Poorly regarded Bengals and Raiders defenses put the clamps on him with ease the past two weeks. If his true talent level has really plummeted like this, the Steelers should probably start taking a hard look at the free agency and trade markets.

Did you have to do a double-take when looking toward the top of that board? Yes, thats the Bengals with one of the highest implied team totals.

Of course, facing the Jaguars provides quite the boost to ones offense. The Jags actually had an interesting day defensively against Arizona in Week 3 as they forced five punts. But it mostly came from shutting down the Cards rushing offense, including Kyler Murrayscrambles.

Joe Burrow will attack through the air as long as the coaching staff doesnt get stubborn. The Jags have allowed a horrific nine yards per pass so far.

How can a team that just passed for 1 net yard have an implied total of 23? Thats a difficult question to answer as Bears fans had to walk away incredibly disappointed in the earlyJustin Fields returns. The offense is fighting through a brutal combination of awful line play and an indecisive rookie QB.Myles Garrett and the Browns had a party in tallying 9 sacks.

The coaching staff must make adjustments in a hurry or the Bears will find themselves lower than this in the coming weeks.

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Just as the last two B.C. elections showed, the federal election revealed the deepening divide between urban and rural Canada.

This growing divide spells bad news for centre-right political parties that struggle to connect with younger and more diverse voters whose issues are largely tied to the affordability challenge that comes from living in urban and suburban areas.

Any electoral map shows why: there are more ridings in metro areas than there in the outlying regions.

B.C. has 42 federal ridings and 28 of them are in Metro Vancouver and the Capital Region, with three more right on the edges. In last weeks election, the Conservative Party won just two of the urban ridings and three more that are on the outer edge of Metro Vancouver and extend well into the Interior.

The Conservatives lost two seats in Richmond, one in the Tri-Cities and one in Surrey-Langley. They also saw their vote drop in a number of other urban seats (something that can be partly attributed to the low voter turnout).

The partys elected representation has been pushed to the edge of Metro Vancouver in places like Abbotsford, Mission, Maple Ridge, Chilliwack and White Rock. All other ridings are in the Interior and the North.

The Liberals won all 25 ridings in Greater Toronto, nine out of 10 in Ottawa, 22 of 24 Montreal ridings and all the ridings in Halifax. On Vancouver Island, which used to occasionally elect Conservative or Reform Party MPs, the NDP won all but one of the seven ridings.

The Liberals even won seats in Calgary and Edmonton, and the Conservative share of the popular vote in Alberta dropped by more than 10 percentage points.

All this spells bad news for the Conservatives and presents a monumental challenge for party leader Erin OToole, or his potential replacement.

Voters in urban and suburban areas care about issues such as child care, transit, housing and other ones tied to affordability. They support laws that restrict guns and have higher vaccination rates against COVID-19 than voters in rural areas.

OTooles campaign stumbled on those two issues the gun registry and mandatory vaccinations near the end of the campaign and they may well have cost his party those four ridings in Metro Vancouver.

The Conservatives now have to pick a lane and stay in it.

Do they veer even more right to appease their supporters on that side of the political spectrum? That would pretty well guarantee a shutout in the riding-rich cities.

Alternatively, do they move towards the political centre (where OToole appeared to be headed at times) to woo urban and suburban voters? That seems like it would be a tough trick to pull off, as the Liberals and NDP have been occupying that turf for a long time.

In any event, the Conservatives have discovered what the BC Liberals discovered in the 2017 and 2020 provincial elections.

In each contest, the BC Liberals (essentially, a center-right coalition party) found themselves increasingly banished from much of Metro Vancouver. Of the 45 ridings in that area (not counting Chilliwack), the NDP won 36 of them in the last election, plus six of the seven ridings in the Capital Region.

That urban-rural divide is real, it is deepening and is bad news one side of the political spectrum in particular.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Opinion: Urban-rural divide getting wider and damaging the Conservatives - North Shore News

Your leader column on Saturday outlines succinctly a major event in Irelands history that is still reverberating. You correctly state: And so, a century later, we find ourselves once again in heated exchanges over the establishment of Northern Ireland.

his need not be so. It is beside the point whetherMichael D Higginsshouldbe in attendance at the mixed denominational religious service commemorating the establishment and history of Northern Ireland.

It is right, however, that Queen Elizabeth should be in attendance. She is the head of the Church of England. PresidentHiggins is not a religious leader,so why should he participate?

Archbishop Eamon Martin is Catholic Primate of Northern Ireland and Ireland and will be participating in this religious ceremony. That is surely enough Irish representation, North and South.

Perhapsthe powers that bein Romemight consider making the Catholic Primates office in Armagh the head of the Catholic Church for Northern Irelandand create a new office of Catholic Primate for Irelandexcluding Northern Ireland.

Even though 100 years late,it would be a concrete conciliatorygesture of recognition to the people of Northern Ireland and Queen Elizabeth.

Micheal OCathail

Dn Laoghaire, Co Dublin

SOMETIMES a messianic, neutral third party can bring the most obdurate sides together.

Can we not imagine leaders and former leaders of the DUP and Sinn Fin with the current Irish Government and its British opposite being led by Queen Elizabeth and President Higgins as they all line-dance on Rockall to the charming music of Garth Brooks?

Would that not satisfy all the egos involved?

Eugene Tannam

Firhouse, Dublin

THE greyhound community is a family community of peoplewho have been meeting on a constant basis, week in, week out, for generations. It is like any club GAA club, golf club, bridge club and so on. Life-long friendships are formed.

There are people who act against the law in any sport,including greyhound racing.

However,people who own greyhounds know that unless your dog is well-cared for,it will not perform.

I am aware there are pros and cons in every debate and we are in a time when misinformation is rife.

If the hobby of greyhound racing is stopped,one would have to ask the question:Whats next?

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THE Government is concerned with the huge price increases being levied on gas and electricity.

It is a great pity that, when they were merrily dismantling the ESB and handing the sector over to the market,those predicting that more expensive energy charges would result were ignored.

Here is another prediction:not only will we have to suffer the huge hikes in the cost of energy we use,but we will have to pick up the tab as the Government uses our moneyto save companies and their profits.These days, the ordinary Joe never seems to get a break.

Jim OSullivan

Rathedmond, Sligo

I WENT to two pubs that wanted my name and number just for a drink outside.

One had the list of contacts tracing open and unattended on a table outside. Anyone could have taken a photo of the contents.

I went to a third pub where a lovely lady brought me out a pint and didnt ask me for anything, except money.

John Williams

Clonmel, Co Tipperary

REGARDING Saturdays article suggesting Dublin City Council is biased toward the southside when it comes to sculpture the countrys largest outdoor sculpture exhibition is happening right now in the National Botanic Gardens on the northside.

Edmund Ball

Dn Laoghaire, CoDublin

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Why should Michael D have to go to service in the North? - Independent.ie

William Lee Golden couldnt take another piece of bad news.

His sons,Rusty, Craig and Chris, were mourning the loss of their mother while the famed Oak Ridge Boys member with the iconic white beard was mourning the loss of his first wife and high school sweetheart. And due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the world was mourning the loss of far, far too many.

Goldenhad to find a way to escape; he had to find a way to heal.So, he headed into the studio with his family.

I had a vision to do this for, like, three years, but I could never get everyone together at the same time, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member explains in an exclusive interview.The pandemic allowed us to get in the studio together, and that was a blessing for many reasons, but partly because I think we all had to find a way to get away from television and get out of the house. It was just too much negative and hate and violence coming from every direction.

Indeed, it was something of a therapeutic exercise for Golden to reminisce on better days by listening to and re-creating the uplifting and inspirational music of the past.

To me and to my family, and to all the guys that were helping us sing and play, it was a chance for us to go in and do something positive and get lifted up," Golden says. "There was a negative situation occurring outside the doors, but it was a negative situation that we had no control over.

One of those uplifting and inspirational songs was the 1917 hymn Come and Dine. Their rendition is premiering exclusively via Taste of Country and The Boot; press play below to listen.

This song took me back to my childhood, and I wanted to take my sons back there with me. It took me back to where I came from, says Golden. "Come and Dine" is the first single to be released from the collection of albums he and his family created together:Old Country Church Gospel, Country Roads: Vintage Country Classics and Southern Accents: Pop & Country Rock, allset for release in early 2022.

Goldenstill remembers those days, growing up with his family on the Alabama/Florida state line, where songs including "Come and Dine" would fill the home.Thats how we spent our time, listening to music and playing music and, of course, singing music, recalls the artist, who recently told his life story in the book Behind the Beard.

When all was said and done, Golden and his sons had recorded a total of 32 songs, 12 of which were old gospel songs and 10 of which were classic country songs.I wanted my kids and grandkids to go back to the songs that touched them, says Golden, who also enlisted his grandchildren Elizabeth, Rebekah and Elijah and friends Aaron McCune, Ben Isaacs and Michael Sykes for the sessions.

Together, we could bring these songs back to life and put our feelings within each and every one of them," Golden continues. "We respect the writers for writing songs that touched us, so it's a way to honor them while healing ourselves in the process.

A music video for"Come and Dine" finds Goldenjoining together with three generations of family and friends for a hearty, home-cooked meal or was it?

Well, to be honest with you, my wife ordered that from Cracker Barrel, and then we put it in our own dishes, Golden admits with a hearty laugh. That's what really happened" and itwas perfectly fine with him.

Weve been all shut down from having family over for a while. We've been shut out of church so we can't get together and sing songs, Golden concludes. But now, we can come together in this moment and have a reason to celebrate.

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WATCH: William Lee Golden and the Goldens' 'Come and Dine' Is a Celebration of Family and Friends [Exclusive Premiere] - Taste of Country