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The Zonta Club of Lockport recently installed 2022-2024 biennium officers.
The slate consists of: Beverly Federspiel, president; Tracy Farrell, vice president; Cathy Fraass, secretary; Mary Ann Bucolo, treasurer; and Kelli Alaimo, Donna Kleinhans, Carol Spedding, Teresa Sipowicz and Brenda Ulrich, directors.
Founded in 1920, the Zonta Club of Lockport, New York, Inc.’s mission is to empower women through service and advocacy. Locally the club supports scholarships for women and fundraises for local nonprofit organizations.
To inquire about membership, send a letter to P.O. Box 389, Lockport, NY 14095-0389, or send an email to zontacluboflockport@yahoo.com. Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month at the Lockport Town and Country Club. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/zonta-club-officers-installed/article_a782c2d6-2b22-11ed-89a2-5718dd29d242.html | 2022-09-03T01:33:58Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/zonta-club-officers-installed/article_a782c2d6-2b22-11ed-89a2-5718dd29d242.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SANBORN — With the strains of bagpipes echoing in the halls of the Niagara County Community College Media & Arts Building, a diverse class of 20 recruits from nine different law enforcement agencies, spanning four Western New York counties, took the auditorium stage to mark their graduation from the Niagara County Law Enforcement Academy’s 78th basic police course on Friday afternoon.
The newly minted police officers and sheriff’s deputies were a mix of men and women. Some were veterans of the U.S. armed forces, while others had family ties to law enforcement.
One of the recruits achieved an almost perfect score in marksmanship, while others were singled out for academics and leadership.
A beaming Niagara County Sheriff’s Lt. Julie Kratz, a co-director of the academy, told the graduates, “You should be extremely proud of the progress you’ve made.” She described the six months of training the recruits received as “grueling,” “exhausting” and “strenuous”.
“Always try to maintain the same enthusiasm you leave here with today,” Kratz said. “Remember who you were before you started your career (in law enforcement). Never stop training. The skills you learned are perishable.”
The graduating class president, Niagara County Sheriff’s Deputy Sarah Wentland, challenged her classmates to remember what Kratz, and academy co-director Niagara Falls Police Detective Angelo Berti told them early on in their training.
“They challenged us to find our ‘Why?’,” Wentland, a former Baltimore police patrol officer, recalled. “Why are you here? Why are you a police officer? My ‘why” is to meet the challenge that law enforcement faces today to be ready when someone calls for help. To run toward danger when others run away. To give a voice to those who have no voice.”
Wentland predicted that the academy training had “prepared us well for our profession” and finally reminded the class they were no longer just a group of individuals
“We are a team. A unit. We are never an ‘I’,” she said.
Wentland received her certificate of graduation from her husband, retired Lockport Police Detective Brian Wentland. New Falls Police Officer Nicholas Lepine was given his certificate by his dad, former Falls Police Captain Ronald Lepine.
While noting that the public continues to demand “better trained officers”, Niagara County Sheriff Michael Filicetti said, “The graduates of this academy are some of the best trained recruits anywhere.”
Falls Police Officer Samantha Stonebreaker was honored for academic achievement, while Erie County Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Thomas received the physical fitness award. Lockport Police Officer Ian Smith received both the Jeffrey A. Incardona Memorial Award and the Sgt. Jeff Juron Defensive Tactics Award.
Filicetti noted that the Incardona Award is given to the recruit who exhibits “the greatest heart, personality and commitment. Just as Deputy Incardona did.”
Incardona was killed when his patrol car crashed as he was rushing to assist a Lockport Police officer, wounded in a shooting incident.
The Scott Barnes Top Gun Award, named for a former Niagara County Sheriff’s Officer Criminal Investigator, went to Erie County Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholas Cervoni, who recorded an almost perfect score (99.9%) in firearms training. and the Joseph E. Steblein Memorial Award, given to the academy’s best overall graduate, was awarded to Wentland. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/niagara-county-law-enforcement-academy-graduates-its-78th-class/article_1c42971e-2b1d-11ed-8835-d7d40617f253.html | 2022-09-03T01:34:04Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/niagara-county-law-enforcement-academy-graduates-its-78th-class/article_1c42971e-2b1d-11ed-8835-d7d40617f253.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sister Helen Buscarino, for whom Sister Helen’s Food Pantry is named, died Tuesday in Buffalo. She was 98.
The pantry, which has been closed since March 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, is being reopened on Sept. 12, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church announced this week.
Buscarino had recently celebrated her 80th Jubilee of religious life, according to her obituary published by Western New York Catholic. She ministered in city and rural areas of Buffalo, Lockport, Brooklyn, San Antonio and Brazil and was a catechist, director of religious education, teacher, missionary, pastoral associate and advocate for social justice. She started a food pantry in Lockport while serving as the director of religious education at St. John the Baptist.
St. John’s parishioner Marion Hannigan remembers Buscarino as “very humble. and gentle. and dynamic.”
“She was my mentor ... the one that got me into teaching” as a second career, following a stint in nursing, Hannigan said.
Hannigan added that she had talked to Buscarino only two days prior to her death.
“She sounded fine. She was in great spirits.”
Buscarino was born on April 21, 1924, in Sicily. Her parents immigrated to Canada, then to Buffalo’s west side, when she was an infant. Buscarino became a member of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Divine Child in 1942, after graduating valedictorian from Hutchinson Central High School. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education in the 1950s and a master’s degree in religious studies in 1980.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Peter & Paul’s Church in Williamsville. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/sr-helen-buscarino-founder-of-the-food-pantry-at-st-john-the-baptist-church-has/article_944f6b2a-2af4-11ed-9852-fbe30952c899.html | 2022-09-03T01:34:10Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/sr-helen-buscarino-founder-of-the-food-pantry-at-st-john-the-baptist-church-has/article_944f6b2a-2af4-11ed-9852-fbe30952c899.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An air quality alert is in effect until 8 a.m. Sunday for Eastern Washington because of wildfire smoke, according to the state Department of Ecology.
Wildfire smoke was moving north into Washington on Friday from the Rum Creek Fire near Grants Pass, Oregon, according to satellite mapping. Fires in the Wenatchee area, Methow Valley and in northeast Washington also are contributing to the drop in air quality.
The Washington Department of Ecology expects air quality levels to reach unhealthy levels for sensitive groups, and unhealthy levels for those in areas close to wildfires. Air quality was listed as "moderate" on Friday afternoon in the Yakima Valley.
"Air quality concerns will continue for counties with nearby wildfires and we may continue to see smoke from outside the state impacting Eastern Washington," the alert said.
When air quality is unhealthy for sensitive groups, those groups should limit time outside and avoid strenuous outdoor activity. When air is rated as unhealthy, everyone should limit exposure.
The Yakima County Fire Marshal has declared a burn ban in unincorporated areas of Yakima County through Sept. 30 because of high fire danger.
For more information on air quality, go to https://wasmoke.blogspot.com/. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/air-quality-alert-in-effect-until-8-a-m-sunday-in-eastern-washington-because-of/article_dafc3548-2b18-11ed-9bea-fb01f3b05502.html | 2022-09-03T01:35:12Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/air-quality-alert-in-effect-until-8-a-m-sunday-in-eastern-washington-because-of/article_dafc3548-2b18-11ed-9bea-fb01f3b05502.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dozens sworn in as US citizens as part of WorldFest naturalization ceremony
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - More than sixty immigrants have been sworn in as citizens of the United States during Louisville’s WorldFest event.
The naturalization ceremony happened Friday afternoon at the Muhammad Ali Center, one of many events scheduled during WorldFest throughout Labor Day weekend.
During the ceremony, new citizens were greeted with a small American flag placed on their chair. The citizens then took the Oath of Allegiance before receiving their Certificates of Naturalization.
One of the men who became a U.S. citizen on Friday, Albert Mukendi Kabnangi, has been in the country for five years. He called Friday’s ceremony a privilege.
“It’s a very important thing for you to become a citizen, because you have so many opportunities if you’re a citizen,” Kabnangi said. “You have opportunity, you can travel around the world with your American passport, anywhere you want to go you can go. As you know, America is the greatest nation in the world, so, I’m very glad to be a citizen.”
Kabnangi said he plans to apply for a passport and visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo to see his family.
“I would like my friends too, to be come citizens, and my family too,” Kabnangi added. “When my children come here, they’re going to be citizens too.”
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A couple living in Coosa County in 2021 will now serve decades in the federal penitentiary for their role in sexual exploitation of a child and advertising child porngraphy.
On Wednesday, Michael Ochoa, 27, and Chasity Breanna Harris, 22, were sentenced for their roles in sexually exploiting a five-year old child, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. Ochoa was sentenced to 60 years for the sexual exploitation of a child and advertising child pornography. Harris was sentenced to 25 years for the sexual exploitation of a child.
The couple was arrested in Coosa County in February 2021 where they were residing.
Coosa County Sheriff Michael Howell said in 2021 the Coosa County Sheriff’s Office was assisting the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) in the investigation.
“ALEA (Internet Crimes Against Children Unit) had been working a child porngraphy case for the last couple weeks,” Howell said. “The Coosa County Sheriff’s Office assisted in a search of a home off of Coosa County Road 70 in Stewartville.”
Howell said Ochoa and Harris were boyfriend and girlfriend and were originally from California.
Court records state images of suspected child pornography were found on the internet by the National Center for Missing and Expolited children and lead to a search warrant of Harris’ and Ochoa’s home. During a search, several suspect images were found. Howell said no children were in the home at the time of the search.
The U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted the case in federal court. In June Ochoa and Harris pleaded guilty. According to their plea agreements and other federal court documents, in January of 2021, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received a report originating in Alabama describing activity related to child pornography on Twitter. Based on that report, ALEA began an investigation. Ochoa and Harris, residing together in Coosa County, soon became suspects. When law enforcement agents searched electronic devices belonging to Ochoa and Harris, they found evidence of child pornography.
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During their June 6 plea hearing, Ochoa and Harris specifically admitted that they took pictures of a five-year-old child’s genitalia and subsequently uploaded the images to social media sites. Ochoa also admitted that he recorded the child engaging in sexually explicit conduct and that he offered to, and ultimately did, share child pornography on the Kik messaging app with another user.
“The conduct that occurred here was horrendous—there is no place for it in our communities,” United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart said in a statement. “The defendants harmed their victims in immeasurable ways and the damage cannot be undone. It is my hope that the significant prison sentences imposed in this case will deter others who might prey on vulnerable children.”
FBI Special Agent in Charge Paul Brown said the case demonstrates the FBI and other law enforcement are committed to protecting children.
“[They] are the most vulnerable and innocent members of our community,” Brown said.
This case was investigated by ALEA and the FBI, with assistance from NCMEC and the Coosa County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant United States Attorney J. Patrick Lamb prosecuted the case.
There is no parole in the federal system so Ochoa will serve all 60 years and Harris all 25 years of their sentences. | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/news/coosa-defendant-gets-60-years-in-federal-child-porn-case/article_62e571ba-2af9-11ed-bfed-479d1e0d7a3c.html | 2022-09-03T01:46:38Z | alexcityoutlook.com | control | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/news/coosa-defendant-gets-60-years-in-federal-child-porn-case/article_62e571ba-2af9-11ed-bfed-479d1e0d7a3c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Six more area athletes were recognized this past week with the Reputation On The Line Award. The award is given to student-athletes across the area for excelling not only on the field, but off of it as well. Demonstrating character, academic excellence, and superior athletic performance are all qualities that can earn a student the award.
Since August 24, six local athletes have been recognized.
Horseshoe Bend’s Braxton Wilson
Wilson is a huge part of Horseshoe Bend’s football team, and also its culture. As a freshman, Wilson plays all three facets of the game. He runs the ball, plays outside on defense and even returns kicks. Wilson scored in the Generals’ opening game on a 45-yard run that he converted off of a bad snap. His touchdown was all his team would need to defeat rival Wadley.
Head coach Jeremy Phillips also noted that after the game, the freshman was seen picking up trash and helping clean the stadium and surrounding campus areas.
Benjamin Russell’s Malik Maddox, D’Nalius Woods and Malcolm Simmons
Maddox, Woods and Simmons have all been integral parts to the success of Benjamin Russell early this season. Off to a 2-0 start, Benjamin Russsell’s offense has been explosive and its defense has been locked down.
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Maddox scored his first rushing touchdown of the year last week against Central Clay, while rushing for 70 total yards. He currently leads the team in rushing yards per game.
Woods has been a terror on the defensive side for the Wildcats, and before his game on Friday, he is currently tied for fourth in the state in total sacks. Woods is also first on the team in tackles for loss.
Simmons is a star on both sides of the ball for Benjamin Russell. Last week, he had two rushing scores and an interception. Simmons is a four-star recruit, and has picked up major Division 1 offers already as a junior. He is second on the team in rushing yards per game and total touchdowns.
Both Maddox and Simmons were nominated for The Outlook’s Week Two Player of the Week.
Central Coosa’s Elisha Hayes
In Central Coosa’s first win of the season, Hayes was all over the field. In the running game, Hayes had six carries for 65 yards. He also got it done on the outside, catching two passes for 66 yards and a score. Hayes, on his own, almost doubled his team’s scoring output from the week before.
Dadeville’s Daquan Doss
In only one game this year, Doss has made his impact known. Against B.B. Comer, Doss had over 200 yards rushing and put up three scores. He won The Outlook’s Player of the Week for Week One due to his performance. | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/numerous-area-athletes-recognized-with-reputation-on-the-line-award/article_a470ae70-2b07-11ed-89c4-fbe89455a77e.html | 2022-09-03T01:47:02Z | alexcityoutlook.com | control | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/numerous-area-athletes-recognized-with-reputation-on-the-line-award/article_a470ae70-2b07-11ed-89c4-fbe89455a77e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CAMBRIDGE, Md. - The Beacon of Hope statue will stand in front of the Circuit Court House, in Cambridge.
The ceremony will be at the Cambridge Circuit Court House on Sept. 10 at noon.
Harriet Tubman's legacy will be able to stand proud. However, it won't be a statue that you only admire. It is encouraged to walk up the stairs, and touch the statue. And, the artist, Wesley Wofford, said he added little 'Easter eggs' to symbolize specific events. For example, the chains at the bottom and the star compass in Tubman's hand.
President of the Alpha Genesis Community Development Corporation, Adrian Holmes, started this project and many others like this, in Cambridge.
"We use art and culture as a platform for people to find their voice. And, to have those diverse and uncomfortable conversations, to bring about healing, reconciliation, and unity within our community," says Holmes.
And, for this project specifically, Holmes says, "that's what this project has done, hands down. The statue is beautiful, but the story behind it and how this community has come together in so many diverse ways to make this happen, is unprecedented."
The Statue itself has been a long time coming. It has taken about 18 months of planning and sculpting to get this ready for Sept. 10.
Wofford says there is one part of the sculpture that's sends one of the strongest messages. It is, the star compass hand. (Pictured above).
Wofford says, "She was the light. Like the people that she was guiding out, she used the north star to guide herself out and then she became that guiding compass for others."
The bronze statue will stand 13-feet-tall. And, to add to the interaction, 800 bricks will be available for you to engrave and place below Tubman.
President of the Harriet Tubman Organization, William Jarmon says, "I look at it as a part of history of Dorchester County. It represents who we were and what we are today."
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Annabel Eugenia "Jean" Hill 1931-2022 Jean was born in Wishart, Missouri, the third oldest of 11 children, eight sisters and two brothers. Jean graduated salutatorian from Morrisville High School, Morrisville, Missouri. She married Marine Corporal Phillip Hill on September 2, 1950, in Bolivar, Missouri, and was married until his passing on March 8, 1990. Jean is survived by daughter Vicki and Jim Boreing of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and son Steve and Marlene Hill of Castle Rock, Colorado. She is also survived by three sisters Ruth Ross, Springfield, Missouri; Sue Anderson, Republic, Missouri; and Debby Militscher of Branson, Missouri. She loved her grandchildren Philip Tracy and Amy Tracy and great grandchildren Emma, Alexis, Anna, and Liam Hoen. Growing up, Jean lived across from a railroad station where World War II troop trains would pass on a regular basis. She and her sisters would wave to the troops, yelling well wishes for their safe return. She also grew up playing gospel music for her church congregation. She had a career as Wyoming Wildlife circulation supervisor, during which time she was named employee of the year in the communications area. Jean was a member of the First Congregational Church in Cheyenne. She had a kind ear and a loving heart and was a friend to many, who thought of her as a gracious lady. Following cremation, Jean's final resting place will be Lakeview Cemetery where her husband is buried. At Jean's request no services will be held. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Davis Hospice Center. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/milestones/obituaries/hill-annabel-eugenia-jean/article_acf89e2f-72c0-5b65-a24f-05af8b1cb05a.html | 2022-09-03T01:52:54Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/milestones/obituaries/hill-annabel-eugenia-jean/article_acf89e2f-72c0-5b65-a24f-05af8b1cb05a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Vanelda Mellblom 1925-2022 Vanelda Mellblom died August 19, 2022 at C.R.M.C. She was born October 31, 1925, in Rudyard, MT, the daughter of Frank J. Novak and Bertha I. (Stevens) Novak. She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard, her parents, one brother, Victor Novak of Vancouver, WA, and sisters Vivian Barba, Guadalajara, Mexico, Valerie Bailey, Beaumont, Texas, Verda Siebenthaler, Coeru d'Alene, ID and Valencia Novak of the same city. Surviving her are her children Barbara (Michael) McCulloch, Santa Fe, NM, Dr. Frank Mellblom (Deborah) of Cheyenne, WY and Cdr. Mark Mellblom (Beth) of Virginia Beach, VA. Four Grandchildren, Brian and Courtney Mellblom and Tyler and Carson Mellblom and 2 step-grand daughters Lauran Rodriguez and Hilary Sandberg, two step great-grandsons Hunter Thompson and Jack Sandberg. In 1943, after graduation from Rudyard High School as class Valedictorian she spent the summer as a welder at Kaiser Shipyards in Portland, OR. She attended Northern Montana College in Havre, MT until her marriage to Howard Mellblom March 24, 1945, in Washington, D.C. His Navy career took them to various cities including Spokane, WA, Alameda, CA, Dallas, TX, Seattle, WA, Boston, MA, and Tustin, CA and finally to Cheyenne, WY in 1966. During all the 28 years of moving she was always in volved in Military Wives' Club serving as President at NAS Dallas, Seattle, South Weymouth and Los Alamitos while always providing a link to the community with school, church and civic activities. They moved to Cheyenne in 1966 when Howard was transferred here as the CO of the Naval Reserve Center. Van was involved in numerous volunteer organizations. She organized a bowling league for the Fairview School to help develop their library and continued to bowl for 18 years. She served on the Mayor's Bi-Centennial Committee, was a Symphony board member, volunteered at Memorial Hospital. She was a member and Past President of P.E.O Chapter AD, Past President of Women's Civic League, Past President of Military Wives Blub, Past President of Colonial Dames XVII Century, Cheyenne Artist's Guild, Past President of the Cheyenne Genealogical and Historical Society, Member of Endicott Family Association, Winthrop Society and DAR. After the children were grown, she went back to work as a sales rep for an engineering firm for several years and then as an Optometric Assistant and office manager for Dr. Frank Mellblom. After retiring she decided to go back to college. She maintained a 4.0 grade average while taking Spanish, Art (she was an accomplished artist, winning many awards) and a number of Computer classes. "I grow old learning something new each day -Solon" was always posted on her bulletin board. Van was a member of Ascension Lutheran Church. She sang in the choir, belonged to the WELCA Bible Study group, organized the first altar guild and baked communion bread for many years and chaired the Prayer Partner group. The Bible has made an ineffaceable impression upon her life. "The study of God's word for the purpose of discovering God's will is the secret discipline of our world's greatest leaders." Van always believed that the sense of somebody's need was the most powerful motivation in the world. She was a devoted and loving wife and mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Cremation has taken place at Cheyenne Memorial Services. Memorial Services will be on Friday September 9, 2022, at 10:00am at Ascension Lutheran Church. Memorial gifts may be made to Ascension Lutheran Church, Hospice, Botanic Gardens, or a charity of your choice.
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CHEYENNE – Prosecutors from the Sweetwater County and Prosecuting Attorney's Office will handle a criminal case against a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper.
County and Prosecuting Attorney Daniel E. Erramouspe and his office have been appointed in the case, Erramouspe confirmed Friday. He declined to answer questions about why his office had been tasked with prosecuting the case.
"I can't give any details at this time, not even on that," Erramouspe said Friday by phone.
Sgt. Gabriel Testerman was arrested Tuesday by the Laramie County Sheriff's Office, according to a Highway Patrol news release. The WHP apparently learned about a pending Cheyenne Police Department investigation involving Testerman on May 2, and he has been on administrative leave since then, the Highway Patrol said.
A Laramie County jail official said Thursday that Testerman had bonded out of jail following a Wednesday initial appearance. His bond had been set at 10% of $100,000, the official said.
Law enforcement agencies and court staff have so far declined to provide the Wyoming Tribune Eagle with the specific charges on which Testerman was arrested. No public documents had been filed in the case as of late Friday afternoon, according to a WTE records search.
In citing a specific Wyoming statute, a law enforcement official may have provided some information about the nature of the charges. On Wednesday, CPD Sgt. Kevin Malatesta pointed to statute 6-2-319(a), which prohibits a public employee from releasing information about an alleged perpetrator before charges are filed in district court. Statute 6-2-319 applies to charges of sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual assault of a minor and soliciting.
Malatesta said at the time at he wasn’t sure why Testerman’s name was included in the Highway Patrol news release, but that “it was probably an attempt for transparency.”
Erramouspe confirmed that a preliminary hearing for Testerman is set for Wednesday, Sept. 7 in Laramie County Circuit Court, when a judge would decide whether to bind the charges over to district court. At this point, the charges – and likely more details about the case – would become public.
Erramouspe declined to give the time of the hearing, directing a reporter to ask the court.
"There's some things that were released on this case that should not have been released, and I don't think it's the court that did it. The law doesn't allow for public officials to release names and stuff like that, so I'm reluctant to give that information," the prosecutor said Friday.
Laramie County Circuit Court staff told the WTE on two separate occasions Thursday that they "don't have any information about that case," and later that they weren't giving out any information about the case.
"If the court's not willing to release that public information, I'm unwilling to do so, as well," Erramouspe said. "That's not my job to make sure that the public is aware of when court settings are, and this is a difficult case, so I'm not interested in leaving the bounds of my prescribed duties at this point."
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On Friday afternoon, CPD spokesperson Alex Farkas sent out a news release making clear that the agency supports keeping details private for now.
"Due to the nature of the charges, the Wyoming state statute that applies to this case limits the information that can be disclosed, even though an arrest has been made," the release said. "According to the statute, a public employee is prohibited from releasing information about an alleged perpetrator or victim prior to charges being filed in district court."
"We are investigating this case just as we would any other,” Police Chief Mark Francisco said in the release. “The fact that this person is a law enforcement officer does not give them preferential treatment. We will continue to conduct this investigation in an unbiased and professional manner.”
Both of these statements echo information given to the WTE earlier this week by Malatesta.
Farkas said in the release that the case "remains under investigation by the Cheyenne Police Department Detective Bureau."
"Regarding all other cases, (CPD) supports the standard of not releasing the names of suspects until the prosecuting attorney has formally filed charges, or an arrest has been made," the news release continued. "According to the city attorney’s office, before a crime is charged, a prosecutor could reject the charging documents, or decline to charge the suspect depending on their prosecutorial discretion. However, after charges are filed, the documents are a public record available through the court." | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/special-prosecutors-appointed-in-troopers-case/article_9b946ffa-2b05-11ed-9675-53ea571d244c.html | 2022-09-03T01:53:31Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/special-prosecutors-appointed-in-troopers-case/article_9b946ffa-2b05-11ed-9675-53ea571d244c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
No.17 seed Caroline Garcia kept her sizzling summer rolling with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu at the US Open. Here are some numbers behind Garcia’s latest victory and her season overall:
12: Garcia is now up to 12 straight wins at all levels after her 1-hour and 26-minute win over Andreescu. In her prior event, Garcia became the first qualifier to win the title at WTA 1000 Cincinnati.
5: For the fifth time in her career, Garcia had made the third round of the US Open, but she had never gone any further in New York. That all changed on Louis Armstrong Stadium on Friday night.
In her 10th appearance at the tournament, the 28-year-old Frenchwoman is now into the Round of 16 at the US Open for the first time in her career.
US Open: Scores | Order of play | Draw
10: Cincinnati marked Garcia’s milestone 10th WTA singles title. She joins Amelie Mauresmo, Mary Pierce and Julie-Halard Decugis as the four French women since 1980 to garner a double-digit amount of singles titles.
3: Three of those titles have come during Garcia’s resurgent summer, and on three different surfaces. Before capturing the Cincinnati hard court title in August, Garcia won Bad Homburg on grass in June (defeating Andreescu in the final from a set and a break down, in their only prior meeting) and Warsaw on clay in July.
Caroline Garcia is soaring into week 2! pic.twitter.com/g12jBOJ7Z6
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 3, 2022
31: Garcia had 31 winners in the evening battle between the two former World No.4 players. Maintaining aggressive play throughout, the Frenchwoman still had a relatively low 20 unforced errors. Andreescu could only muster up 11 winners in the clash.
304: Eight of Garcia's winners were aces, bringing her season total to 304. Garcia is the current ace leader on tour for 2022.
50%: Coming up with outrageous forehands throughout, Garcia converted half of her break points (5-of-10) to build commanding leads over Andreescu in each set.
Andreescu pushed Garcia in close games at the end, and the Canadian saved two match points before holding for 5-2. But Garcia converted her third chance in the next game, handing Flushing Meadows expert Andreescu only her second loss in her 14 career US Open main-draw matches.
0-3: If she wants to extend her run even further, Garcia will next have to take down a player she's never beaten.
Garcia will meet No.29 Alison Riske-Amritraj of the United States in the Round of 16, after Riske-Amritraj battled past Wang Xiyu 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in 2 hours and 21 minutes.
Riske-Amritraj has defeated Garcia in all three of their previous meetings. In fact, one of those wins came during Garcia's superb 2022 summer, on the grass courts of Nottingham.
More to come... | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2776394/by-the-numbers-garcia-flies-past-andreescu-at-us-open | 2022-09-03T01:56:26Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2776394/by-the-numbers-garcia-flies-past-andreescu-at-us-open | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Anti‑Capitalism Is Cool. When Will It Be Revolutionary Again?
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Lately, there’s been talk of revolution. Not just any, the revolution, with a capital R. There’s some who speak of it in dating app bios and others who are waiting for its “sweet release” in Instagram captions of unrelated scenic photos. Still others express it through memes about eating the rich. But for all the talk about revolution online, there seems to be none in the offing. Indeed, most who profess allegiance to it do so with the biting irony of knowing that it’s likely to never come, because we’re all too busy. Welcome to modern anti-capitalism – increasingly less of a movement, more of an aesthetic.
The aestheticization of anti-capitalist sentiment has turned it into an edgy subculture that individuals can wear on the sleeve of their Che Guevara tee. People are no longer required to go beyond merely proclaiming a stance, thus precluding the possibility of any meaningful change.
It’s a unique moment in time where most young people either expressly disavow capitalism or at least are having conversations about it. The sentiment has even reached the indie music scene in India with The F16s recently releasing an album called Is It Time to Eat the Rich Yet?, which juxtaposes kaleidoscopic soundscapes with hopeless lyrics spelling doom for humanity as a whole.
Talking about capitalism is now mainstream in a way that it rarely was just a few years ago. It’s also become a stand-in for an overall dissatisfaction with modern life: hustle culture, crummy jobs, deteriorating health, less room for play, and more companies vying for our attention spans all share a common root, and young people have understood this.
But there’s a defeatism inherent in the framing of frustration against capitalism that makes the inescapable capitalist reality a self-fulfilling prophecy – if we’re already resigned to the possibility that we’ll live and die under capitalism, we really just might.
Consider also the fact that t-shirts that say “Capitalism Sucks” in big bold letters must be bought on Amazon, and the device with which we can Tweet against capitalism was, in all probability, made using children’s labor at some point in the global supply chain. Capitalism has created conditions that make it impossible to take a stand against it outside itself. It is self-evident and always reproducing itself – even through discourse that disavows it.
It’s what theorist Mark Fisher called “capitalist realism” – the idea that capitalism is the only plausible reality, and any alternative would be too unrealistic to imagine. So we stop imagining altogether. “In a capitalist realist system, expressions of opposition to the socio-political situation, from Nirvana to The Hunger Games, are always-already transformed by the smooth logic of capitalism into its very products for sale,” notes an LSE blog about the idea.
Being anti-capitalist, then, is rebranded as cynical nihilism that wins favor among the disenchanted neo-Gatsbys of the urbane. They ironically indulge in material excess with the knowledge that nothing really matters, the Earth will be destroyed soon, and Bezos and Musk will be our overlords in whatever post-apocalyptic techno-Valhalla awaits.
But there’s proof to show that all this hopelessness is an illusion. Just recently, a wave of student-protests against Chile’s inequality led to a rewriting of the country’s dictator-era Constitution. Young people were key to this anti-capitalist resistance, and it happened just under three years ago.
Closer to home, the recent farmers’ protests in India took on an anti-capitalist flavor by recognizing capitalism’s role in fuelling fascism and inequality in the country. These were moments of reckoning and change – showing that revolution is possible.
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For many whose lives have always been precarious in the offline world, anti-capitalism was never about the aesthetic; it was an urgent call to action with clearly defined goals. These could be anything from unionizing, protesting privatization, labor strikes calling for a bandh in consumer shops, or a general strike preventing access to services. Feminist anti-capitalist movements have recognized how unpaid labor forms the bedrock of capitalism, where women’s carework in the home or otherwise reproduces workers’ labor power to turn more profits for capitalists. Movements calling for wages for housework, and even boycotting housework (as with the #WeStike movement in Latin America), not only had a systemic critique but also actioned upon them in ways that had tangible consequences. Occupy Wall Street, for instance, was one that ignited widespread anger against the financial institutions that dictate our lives and played an instrumental role in radicalizing many who witnessed it stand against capitalism.
India too has had a rich history of anti-capitalist activism and protest, and many leaders have paid dearly for their role in acting against the state and corporations; the Bhima Koregaon 15, for instance, include those who dedicated their lives to labor movements and anti-caste activism.
And yet, there remains a social media-fuelled sensibility that overemphasizes the doom – almost as if everyone’s in on a secret that it’s all hopeless in the end.
The internet mediating much of our lives and learning may have something to do with it. With Instagram, TikTok (where it is legal, at least), and importantly, Twitter threads serving as the primary teaching tools for anti-capitalist discourse, the very idea of revolution occupies the digital spaces bestowed upon us by capitalist tech monopolies. Ultimately then, Karl Marx is reduced to nothing more than a self-aware, edgy meme.
Online, there’s no cohesive strategy, direction, or goal underlying what seems to be a moment of discontent against capitalism. A few individuals (billionaires) are earmarked as the villains rather than the systems that created them. We know what the impacts of capitalism are: climate change, inequality, and a declining quality of life. But we’re still not quite sure what to do about it. And the problem is that discourse about capitalism has been snatched and sealed into the self-preserving orbs of digital algorithmic content – a space that forecloses many revolutionary possibilities before they have the chance to be dreamed up.
Our content and consumption being predetermined for us by algorithms also distances us from critical histories – as well as movements occuring in the present moment – that can serve as blueprints. Through a sleight of hand, social media platforms hijack powerful ideas and information that used to be part of the commons into generators of profit.
Surveillance capitalism and the monopoly of Big Tech further make it difficult to get on the ground again. Protestors are increasingly identified and punished in real time, which is made possible through the cooperation of tech and hostile governments. With the resulting inordinate power to influence everything from democracies, elections, and even military action fuelling genocide (as Facebook has been accused of enabling in Myanmar), the Internet may just be the most undemocratic democratic space we have ever witnessed.
It’s led to an oversimplification of concepts and a polarization online that homogenizes any vaguely progressive idea as “left.” With the term itself signifying an anti-capitalist stance, it’s easier than ever for all manner of takes, ideas, and people to be lumped into the same umbrella of being against something, without clear consensus on what they’re for.
Online conversations are taken over by in-fighting, virtue-signaling, and monologues that at their very core share something in common: a relentless individualism that puts one’s own interests at the center of their politics. This, by its very nature, isn’t anti-capitalist – on the contrary, it’s the foundational value of capitalism’s dark spawn, neoliberalism.
There’s arguably no better example of how anti-capitalism became an tech-fulled, intellectual aesthetic – the conversational equivalent of dark academia, if you will – than its proliferation on dating apps. These spaces are notorious for their hyper-optimization, complete with carefully curated bios and personal characteristics that show rather than tell who somebody is in a small, mobile-optimized rectangular frame. And where one might have overplayed physical attributes, now it’s gauche to do so. Instead, openly professing edge by calling on potential partners to dismantle capitalism together is the new dating language. It not only blunts the edge of what it means to be anti-capitalist, it normalizes it to the point of banality – making “dismantling capitalism” sound almost like an unreal joke and keeping it further away from the imagination rather than bringing it closer.
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This is also evident in how the prescriptive measures we’re taught to combat capitalism are astonishingly tepid and do almost nothing to disrupt it – in fact, they come with their own, new hierarchies. Loud social media infographics instruct us to be ethical consumers by supporting small businesses. We’re told to switch to zero-waste, circular microeconomies that recycle our own rubbish. Veganism and thrifting feature prominently in the manual for not contributing to capitalism. But these strategies all have one thing in common, besides individualism – they’re all firmly rooted in the domain of lifestyle consumerism. To be a morally-in-the-clear individual when it comes to capitalism, one must consume ethically, we’re told. But this is just the problem – being anti-capitalist has much less to do with one’s individual conduct than with a collective solidarity and vision for change. Somewhere along the way, however, the emphasis shifted away from direct action to direct consumption – which alienates workers from consumers even more.
The fact that inequality is higher than ever, there are fewer welfare protections for vulnerable people, and next to no safeguards against rising inflation and unemployment speaks to how movements on the left have been crushed – even if talk of them is more alive than ever. But coexisting with these statistics are other surveys that repeatedly show how young people despise capitalism, and many place the blame for much of the world’s problems squarely on its shoulders. So why are things getting worse, not better?
A lack of vision for what the alternative could look like could be one reason for all this. A concrete vision requires work to engage with theory and history, but shortening attention spans leave room only for the Sparknotes version of anti-capitalist discourse. The biggest irony of espousing anti-capitalism today, then, is that revolution is no longer on the menu – only talking about it with a disaffected cynicism is.
It doesn’t mean that people are the problem; it’s that capitalism itself is cannibalizing all the discourse around it. It feels hopelessly exhausting to know what the problem is but come up against so many barriers to doing something about it. Nowhere is this better depicted than in Bo Burnham’s Inside, a comedy special where he laments about the state of the world in a depressive fugue, from various corners in his apartment. It feels like there’s nothing to do but sigh, say something, and move on – which has made us all attached to the idea of anti-capitalism but without the motivation to act on it.
But as Fisher points out, capitalist realism is an illusion created by capitalism itself to make it seem like it is the only option. When tech monopolies like Meta control the information we receive and share and Amazon crushes labor unions, it’s hard to know what the resistance looks like – even when it is happening in front of our eyes. Many have begun to posit that rejecting surveillance capitalism itself has to be the way forward.
Shoshanna Zuboff, who coined the term “surveillance capitalism,” says: “What is abrogated here [under surveillance capitalism] is our right to the future tense, which is the essence of free will, the idea that I can project myself into the future and thus make it a meaningful aspect of my present.” If everything we say and do is watched, it makes our speech and action less radical by default. Resisting the profit-seeking gaze itself, then, may restore our future back to us. | https://theswaddle.com/anti-capitalism-is-cool-when-will-it-be-revolutionary-again/ | 2022-09-03T01:59:03Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/anti-capitalism-is-cool-when-will-it-be-revolutionary-again/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A 20-year-old man was arrested concerning the death of a 25-year-old man who was severely injured at a gay pride event last month in Germany, prosecutors announced on Friday.
According to local media reports, the victim, whose only been identified as Malte, succumbed to his injuries on Friday, the Associated Press reported.
Münster Police said the suspect attacked Malte after he tried intervening as other participants at the Christopher Street Day event were being harassed by the unidentified man, the media outlets reported.
The alleged assailant struck Malte, who then fell to the ground, police said, local media outlets reported. According to news outlets, Malte never regained consciousness and succumbed to his injuries on Friday.
Police said the suspect fled the scene, but the Associated Press reported that he was apprehended at the train station on Friday. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/20-year-old-man-apprehended-after-fatal-attack-at-german-gay-pride-event | 2022-09-03T01:59:24Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/20-year-old-man-apprehended-after-fatal-attack-at-german-gay-pride-event | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A 20-year-old man was arrested concerning the death of a 25-year-old man who was severely injured at a gay pride event last month in Germany, prosecutors announced on Friday.
According to local media reports, the victim, whose only been identified as Malte, succumbed to his injuries on Friday, the Associated Press reported.
Münster Police said the suspect attacked Malte after he tried intervening as other participants at the Christopher Street Day event were being harassed by the unidentified man, the media outlets reported.
The alleged assailant struck Malte, who then fell to the ground, police said, local media outlets reported. According to news outlets, Malte never regained consciousness and succumbed to his injuries on Friday.
Police said the suspect fled the scene, but the Associated Press reported that he was apprehended at the train station on Friday. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/20-year-old-man-apprehended-after-fatal-attack-at-german-gay-pride-event | 2022-09-03T01:59:24Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/20-year-old-man-apprehended-after-fatal-attack-at-german-gay-pride-event | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LAKE CITY, Fla. — An Amazon driver is being hailed a hero after she helped save the lives of three puppies from a house fire in Lake City.
Columbia County Fire Rescue said the unidentified woman noticed smoke coming from a home on Tuesday and called 911.
Fire crews told USA Today that they responded to the single-story house fire at 3:45 p.m.
The department said on their Facebook page that the three puppies were saved and revived from smoke inhalation.
"Thank you to the Amazon driver who noticed the smoke and called 911," the department said on its Facebook page. "Since the homeowner was not at home at the time, she saved the home and the puppies' lives!"
The homeowner told USA Today that "she was grateful to all involved who helped rescue her pets." | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/amazon-driver-hailed-a-hero-for-helping-save-lives-of-3-puppies-from-burning-home | 2022-09-03T01:59:30Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/amazon-driver-hailed-a-hero-for-helping-save-lives-of-3-puppies-from-burning-home | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Justice Department said the general counsel for the anti-government group Oath Keepers, Kellye SoRelle, was arrested in Texas after she was indicted on charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
According to the Justice Department, SoRelle was arrested in Junction, Texas, after she was indicted on Wednesday with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, entering a restricted building, and obstruction of tampering with documents, according to the indictment.
The indictment alleges SoRelle that between December 2020 and January 2021, the 43-year-old attempted to "corruptly obstruct, influence, and impede" Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election and "did aid and abet others known and unknown to the Grand Jury to do the same."
The indictment also alleged she persuaded others to destroy and conceal records sought by investigators.
According to the indictment, she is also accused of unlawfully entering the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
The Austin American-Statesman reported that SoRelle was caught on camera with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes near the Capitol on Jan. 6.
NBC News reported that Rhodes and four co-defendants had been charged with seditious conspiracy.
The Austin American-Statesman reported that their trial is slated to begin on Sept. 26. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/oath-keepers-attorney-arrested-in-texas-on-charges-connected-to-jan-6-insurrection | 2022-09-03T01:59:36Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/oath-keepers-attorney-arrested-in-texas-on-charges-connected-to-jan-6-insurrection | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Flex Alert was issued by the manager of the state’s power grid for the fourth consecutive day as the Southern California region continued to feel grueling, record-setting heat.
On Saturday, between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., California residents again are asked to take set their thermostats at 78 degrees or higher and avoid charging electric vehicles or using major appliances.
The possibility for additional Flex Alerts will continue through the holiday weekend as the California Independent System Operator, the nonprofit organization which oversees the state’s power grid, seeks to balance the state’s demand for electricity with its supply.
As of Friday, Southern California Edison officials had not reported any major blackouts amid the high temperatures.
“I’m quick to give credit where it’s due and residents have really stepped up to help conserve energy,” SCE spokesman David Song said.
Whether residents will be able to keep with up additional Flex Alerts into next week, however, will be a test.
“A few days of successful conserving is good sign but how long residents will continue to help out is difficult to gauge,” he said. “Its hard to tell people to shut off their AC when they’re baking in their homes at 11 p.m.”
Dry, warm weather reaching into triple temperatures across the region will likely stick around into next week with a slight chance of thunderstorms touching down in the afternoon over the eastern San Gabriels and Antelope Valley on Saturday and Sunday, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Fisher.
“The coolest day is (Friday),” Fisher said. “Tomorrow will see temperatures closer to Wednesday, and Sunday even warmer.”
In downtown Los Angeles, temperatures on Saturday were expected to reach 100 to 106 degrees, and in the valley up to 105 to 115 degrees. Along the LA coastline, temperatures will stay in the mid 80s to low 90s.
Cooling Centers are open through this Labor Day weekend to provide relief from the Heat.
Up-to-date listings may be found at https://t.co/WsenX3HeLl pic.twitter.com/r4ysEfVsoi
— Ready Los Angeles County (@ReadyLACounty) September 2, 2022
Moving inland to Riverside and San Bernardino counties, temperatures will soar into highs of 108 an 109 degrees Saturday, and continue to climb on Sunday.
In Orange County on Saturday, the county’s inland cities are expected to see temperatures in the mid 90s to 100 degrees and coastal areas slightly cooler in the mid 80s. Sunday and Monday are expected to hit peak maximum temperatures in the low 100s for inland areas and the beach cities seeing highs in the 90s.
When the heat wave will ends remains to be seen but Fisher said the region should start returning to average temperatures by Thursday or Friday.
Southern California had one record high as of Friday afternoon, the NWS said – Palmdale reached 110 degrees, breaking the previous record of 109 in 1996. Big Bear tied with a Sept. 2 record of 87 degrees set in 1978, and Idyllwild with a record of 96 set in 1950.
Forecasted temperatures for Saturday:
— Downtown Los Angeles: 99
— Fullerton: 103
— Long Beach: 97
— Anaheim: 101
— Mission Viejo: 102
— Pasadena: 105
— Pomona: 105
— Redlands: 107
— Riverside: 108
— San Bernardino: 109
— Lake Elsinore: 108
— Torrance: 94
— Van Nuys: 106
— Whittier: 102
Source: National Weather Service
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GREENVILLE, SC (WSPA) – The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is getting an additional $190 million for road projects across the state, and some of those will be right here in the Upstate.
“It’s typically called after August money. What that means is, every state DOT gets an allotment of funds from the federal government. If you are unable to use them, the unused portion of whatever budget you have with the feds, get’s thrown back into a pot,” said Pete Poore, Director of Communications, SCDOT. “That pot is shared among DOT’s like us–who have fully used our allotment and also have more projects ready to go, or programs like our interstate program, things like that,” Poore said.
As the federal government redistributed the funds, Poore said this means a boost for projects that are in the works or in the pipeline.
“We have projects that are in the pipeline, what that means is, they may not be under construction yet, but they’re ready to go. Remember the old term, shovel ready? Well, these projects are shovel-ready. They’ve been designed. They have their permits, right of way purchases if needed, and they are all set to go,” Poore said. “That’s what you need to qualify to get this money like this $190 million.”
No matter where you go in the state, you might see some of the projects already in progress.
“I’d say generally in South Carolina, our roads are subpar compared to the rest of the country. If there’s initiatives to fix the roads I’d support that,” said Ashley Bowers, a Greenville resident.
“Traveling along the I-85 is very difficult right now, especially with the construction. It causes a lot of traffic build up, but it is a very good thing for the infrastructure of the community, so in the long run it will be very good,” said Juliana Guarin, driver. “But currently, it’s kind of annoying,” she said.
Some people also had a lot to say about the stretch of I-85 in Cherokee County.
“It seems like it’s been a lot of construction on it for probably years…a long time, but it’ll be nice to see it get cleared up, one way or the other,” said Danny Bagwell, driver.
Now, the clock is ticking on that pain people are feeling, as the state is getting the additional funding.
“What we intend to do is add those funds to the allotment that we have in the four programs of the 10-year plan,” Poore said.
This funding helps SCDOT deliver on its 10-year strategic plan including:
- Improvements on interstates I-85, I-26 and I-95.
- The replacement and rehabilitation of the I-20 bridge over the Wateree river.
- Safety improvements in every region of the state.
“It’s good. It’s good any kind of help would be good for people that have to get on it every day. It’s much needed,” Bagwell said.
There’s also good news for every county across the Upstate. These funds will be used for rural road safety programs, intersection improvement programs, and then all over the state, in terms of regional projects, that are being prepared to go to construction
Poore said the funding will help the projects that have already been started. He also said it will help the ones that are in the design phase and planning stages.
“Now, there’s additional funding to get to the construction phase and start spending money on the actual work,” he said.
Guarin said it gives her hope for the future.
“Hopefully it will make commutes to places like my swim practice a lot faster than the hour that it takes to get through the traffic,” Guarin said.
Poore said the 10-year plan is already ahead, in terms of goals, targets, and achievements. He said this funding will help with their four programs.
SCDOT released the following in a press release:
“The $190 million August redistribution is a record amount for SCDOT. Historically, SCDOT has received approximately a third of this amount. Due to continuous planning and SCDOT’s robust project pipeline enabled by the General Assembly in its 2017 Roads Bill, South Carolina was well positioned to maximize funds available.
The $190 million in additional federal funding will also require 20 percent in state matching funds. Fortunately, in the FY 2023 state budget, the General Assembly provided SCDOT with $120 million in recurring match money in order to position the SCDOT to go after these additional federal funds as well as to fully draw down all other increased federal highway funds available to South Carolina.”
More information about current projects and progress on the 10-year Plan is available at www.scdot.org. | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/scdot-receives-190m-in-additional-federal-road-funds-what-does-this-mean-for-the-upstate/ | 2022-09-03T01:59:50Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/scdot-receives-190m-in-additional-federal-road-funds-what-does-this-mean-for-the-upstate/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) — Some inmates at Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution will soon have a new tool to treat their substance use disorder.
This week, the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) announced a partnership with Pear Therapeutics to launch a digital drug therapy for female inmates. The program is being funded by the South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services (DAODAS) with the help of a federal grant.
Through the pilot program, they’ll be able to offer FDA-authorized prescription digital therapeutics to support women inmates in recovery from opioid and other substance use disorders. Officials say this first of its kind collaboration in a correctional setting supports eligible patients to be prescribed and treated with reSET or reSET-O to help the facility expand access to addiction services.
DAODAS Director Sara Goldsby said the program is self paced and self driven. Inmates will also have specialists who will help guide them through the therapy and support them in person and online.
Inmates will be able to go through behavioral therapy programs with the help of tablets provided by the prison. The program also promotes abstinence based recovery.
SCDC Director Bryan Stirling said this was a ‘force multiplier’ and supports the services offered by state prison officials.
Officials said they’ll monitor the impacts of the program for up to a year and could possibly expand it to other prisons in the system.
“Since this is a first of it’s kind program in a correctional setting, the information we receive and outcomes we evaluate will let us know if this scalable and spreadable,” Goldsby said.
According to Stirling, the benefits outweigh the costs of the programs. He said it will help keep inmates safe in prison and once they reenter society.
Data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) shows 85% of the prison population in the United States has an active substance use disorder or were incarcerated for a crime involving drugs or drug use.
Officials also said inmates with opioid use disorder are at a higher risk for overdose following release from incarceration. | https://www.wspa.com/news/state-news/sc-to-launch-first-of-its-kind-digital-drug-therapy-program-in-prison/ | 2022-09-03T02:00:02Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/state-news/sc-to-launch-first-of-its-kind-digital-drug-therapy-program-in-prison/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Newly hired USC assistant track and field coach Martin Maric was banned from competition in 2014 for two years after testing positive for a prohibited performance enhancing substance, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency and World Athletics, track’s global governing body.
Maric, who was hired by Trojan head coach Quincy Watts on Friday, tested positive for ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator that has similar anabolic properties to anabolic steroids, according to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
Ostarine was placed on WADA’s prohibited substance list in 2008 and remains on the list.
Maric is a former NCAA discus champion for Cal and competed in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games for Croatia. He is the Croatian national record holder in the discus at 222-feet, 10 inches.
He spent the last 10 years as an assistant coach at Virginia where he coached 2022 U.S. javelin champion Ethan Dabbs.
USC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Watts and Maric.
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ANAHEIM — Zack Weiss was on a big league roster for the second time in his life, but it felt like the first.
“We’re treating it like it is (a debut),” Weiss said. “It’s been a minute.”
The right-hander made his major league debut on April 12, 2018, with the Cincinnati Reds. He faced four batters. He walked two, and allowed two homers.
And he hasn’t been back to the majors since.
“It was tough for a while,” Weiss said of having that outing as his only appearance in the big leagues. “But I feel like that was like a different guy ago. I’ve made my peace with where we were at then. And I’ve worked pretty hard to not be that guy. I’ve improved a lot over four and a half years or however long it’s been. It was tough to sit on, but the last few years have been different. More optimistic and way more forward thinking.”
Weiss, 30, said getting back to the big leagues with the Angels has added significance because he grew up in Orange County as an Angels fan. He was 10 years old when the Angels won the 2002 World Series, and his favorite players were Darin Erstad and Troy Glaus.
Weiss was thrilled to be wearing No. 57, which Francisco Rodriguez wore.
“This is legit a dream come true for me,” Weiss said. “I’ve been coming to games here since I was a kid. This has been the goal all along, and it’s pretty cool to get a second chance in this organization, in this stadium.”
Weiss is a product of Northwood High in Irvine and UCLA. The Reds picked him in the sixth round of the 2013 draft, just a handful of picks after they took Cal State Fullerton’s Michael Lorenzen.
After Weiss’ reached the big leagues straight from Double-A for his rough outing, he passed through the Minnesota Twins and Seattle Mariners organizations. He pitched one game in independent ball before the Angels signed him last winter.
Weiss has spent the entire year at Triple-A, posting a 4.50 ERA in 50 innings. He struck out 65 and walked 21. Since July 22, Weiss has a 2.30 ERA with 21 strikeouts and five walks in 15-1/3 innings.
SURGERY FOR WALSH
Jared Walsh underwent surgery on Thursday to address his thoracic outlet syndrome. The Angels had already determined that Walsh was going to be out for the season before he traveled to Dallas to see a specialist on Wednesday.
“We’re hoping that by spring training he’s full go,” head athletic trainer Mike Frostad said. “That’s the guideline we’ve been given and hopefully he can meet that goal.”
Walsh said earlier this week he’d been bothered for years by this issue, which stemmed from his days as a pitcher. He said it had been particularly troublesome for the past six weeks.
The Angels are certainly hoping that correcting the issue will help Walsh return to the production he had at the plate previously. He was an All-Star in 2021, when he hit 29 home runs with an .850 OPS. This season he hit 15 homers with a .642 OPS.
WBC NEWS
As reporters gathered around infielder David Fletcher to ask about his inclusion on Italy’s World Baseball Classic team, Shohei Ohtani walked by, so Fletcher made sure that Ohtani could hear as he said: “We’re going to beat Team Japan.”
Fletcher qualified for Team Italy because his mother is Italian. He said she spoke Italian to him when he was young.
Catcher Max Stassi will also be on the team, as will Fletcher’s younger brother, Arizona Diamondbacks prospect Dominic Fletcher.
Italy plays in Pool A, which will be March 8-13 in Taiwan. Japan is in Pool B, which will be March 9-13 in Tokyo. The top two teams from each of those pools will play on March 15-16 in Tokyo. The top two teams from that event will advance to Miami for the final stage of the tournament.
The United States team, with Mike Trout as the captain, will play March 11-15 in Phoenix, and then advance to Miami.
NOTES
Ryan Aguilar was in the lineup in right field for his home debut. Aguilar had made his big league debut last weekend in Toronto, but then he was sent back to the minors until rosters expanded in September. Manager Phil Nevin said he will be “just looking at matchups” to determine which outfielders play on a daily basis. Jo Adell was on the bench on Friday. …
Outfielder Mickey Moniak (fractured finger) has been taking batting practice, Frostad said. The Angels are talking about having him do a rehab assignment. “He’s getting close,” Frostad said. “He’s feeling good about everything.” …
Pitcher Griffin Canning (back) is still trying to return next season without undergoing surgery, Frostad said. Canning is scheduled to be evaluated again in November. …
The Angels held their annual Ducks night on Friday. Ducks players Jamie Drysdale, Adam Henrique, Max Jones, Derek Grant, Chase De Leo, Max Comtois, John Klingberg and Anthony Solarz took some swings in the cage during batting practice.
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Angels (RHP Shohei Ohtani, 11-8, 2.67) vs. Astros (RHP Luis Garcia, 11-8, 4.14), Saturday, 6:07 p.m., Bally Sports West, 830 AM
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The Fergus Falls Otters girls soccer team rebounded from a loss earlier this week, picking up a 7-0 victory over the visiting Rocori Spartans, on Sept. 1.
The evening got started on an Ella Starzl goal, with the assist going to Tyra Skjeret. Skjeret then called her own number and scored an unassisted goal. Later in the first half, Yana Prischmann tallied a goal, on an assist from Skjeret. Wrapping up the scoring in the first 40 minutes was Prischmann, on a penalty kick.
Just like the first half, Starzl started the scoring in the second half, once again being assisted by Skjeret. Madi Budke made it a 6-0 game, with Skjeret with the helper and Olivia Jurgens rounded out the scoring, getting the pass from Vanessa Vaughn.
“Defensively we were strong. Ry Krein made all of her saves in net. Vaughn led the defense along with Megan Tosset and Ava Eklund,” stated Fergus coach Ben Jurgens. “We controlled the middle of the field pretty well and were able to get some through balls to our goal scorers. The girls played hard and unselfish, it was fun to watch!”
Skjeret finished with five points, continuing her strong start to the season.
The JV team was also victorious, 5-0. Jurgens tallied a hat trick.
Now at 3-1 on the season, the Otters will host Hillcrest, on Sept. 6.
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In their first dual meet of the season, the Fergus Falls Otters girls swimming and diving team fell short to the Alexandria Cardinals, 100-80. There were a handful of personal records that were set including: Estee VerSteeg in the 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard breaststroke and Karlie Petersen in the 100-yard fly.
VerSteeg was first in the breaststroke, finishing with a time of one minute 16.74 seconds. Ava Api was second with a time of 1:29.68 and Alexis Thoma was third, 1:30.77.
Petersen claimed second place in the fly, finishing at 1:19.7. Alexis Wellman was second in the 50-yard freestyle, with a time of :27.04. She was also third in the 500-yard freestyle, 6:14.77.
The Otters had a strong showing in the relay events, capturing first place in all three. Aisling Cox, Jerzie Smith, Daphne Nadgwick and Wellman combined in the 400-yard freestyle relay, with a time of 4:245.08. In the 200-yard freestyle, finishing with a time of 1:50.65 was Mayah Fear, Wellman, Petersen and VerSteeg. The 200-yard medley relay saw the Otters top team finish with a time of 2:04.69, the team consisting of Cox, VerSteeg, Petersen and Fear.
Lastly, from diving, Elyse Adams came in third place, totalling 127.95 points.
Fergus Falls is set to return to action on Sept. 8, hosting Sartell.
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In non-conference action, the Hillcrest Comets volleyball team picked up a 3-0 victory over the Pelican Rapids Vikings, on Sept. 1. Set scores were 25-18, 25-19 and 25-17.
Hillcrest served 95% as a team, securing 11 aces. Maddie Ballweg had five and Madi Foss finished with three. Ruby Peterson and Foss combined to go 30-30 from the service line.
“Tonight we had a slower start to the game and went down 10-1,” said Comets coach Debi Foss. “Once we got our offense going, things started to click. Even though the Vikings moved their hitters and their blockers around, we were able to adjust.”
Anna Brumfield led the Comets with 10 kills, followed by Emily Adams with 9 and Hope Adams with 6. Peterson had 28 set assists for the night. Defensively, Ballweg led with 12 digs followed by Adams with 9, Peterson with 8, Foss with 7.
For Pelican, Morgan Korf finished with 21 digs. Kelsey Isamen had nine digs, five aces and five kills, with Ellie Welch contributed five kills, five digs and five assists.
“It’s important to remember that there are a lot of things happening on the court that don’t have stats! We had a solid team effort with contributions from everyone,” stated Foss.
Hillcrest travels to Ashby, on Sept. 6 and Pelican Rapids will host Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton, on Sept. 8.
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In an exciting section match up, on Sept. 1, the Hillcrest Comets boys soccer team fell to the Detroit Lakes Lakers, 4-3 in overtime. The game was physical and chippy, with nine yellow cards. Detroit Lakes scored first at 21 minutes into the game. DL was able to launch a counter attack with the Comets too far forward on offense, breaking through the Comet defense, back on their heels, to take the lead. Abram Ness, was taken down in the box at 27 minutes and tied the score on a penalty kick. At 33 minutes into the half, Laker, Kobe Braukman beat three defenders on the right side and scored a go ahead goal for DL, ending the first half scoring, with the Lakers up a goal.
Five minutes into the second half, HLA senior Nathan Aanes, attacked the right side goal line with sticky feet and placed a pass into the box to Rolf Fluge, who tied the score. HLA had its best chance to win the game with five minutes left in regulation, when Isak Ostevold was taken down in the box and awarded a penalty kick. Ostevold’s kick was blocked by the Lakers keeper, sending the game into overtime. DL scored once in both halves of OT with the Comets adding a goal towards the end of the game by Mateus Gjerme.
The Comets had 14 shots on goal compared to the Lakers five.
“It was a tough game, no one likes to lose in OT, especially when you had so many chances to put the game away in the second half … but, the mistakes we made are opportunities for us to build on and become a much better team,” stated Comets coach Rod Jensen. “I look forward to our matchup with DL again later in the season!”
The Comets now 1-1, travel to Crookston, on Sept. 8,for another conference match up with the Pirates.
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The Fergus Falls Otters girls tennis team welcomed in Central Lakes Conference foe, the Alexandria Cardinals, to the Kennedy Secondary School tennis courts, on Sept. 1. Not only a CLC clash but also a Section 8AA match, which saw the visitors come out on top, 5-2.
The wins came from Ruby Ellison at third singles and the second doubles duo of Karley Braeger and Cyntreya Lockett. Ellison has been showing consistency on the singles side of things and earning some big wins for. Braeger and Lockett just play so well together and dominated their match, only dropping two games. The other doubles matches were very close with Ashtyn Lill and Hattie Fullhard falling in a marathon 7-6(5), 7-5 matchup at first doubles while Kezi Hartwell and Hannah Anderson went the distance before dropping their match in the third set.
“We had some great all-around matches tonight,” said Otters coach Jamie Lill. “The conditions were extremely hot on the courts and played a factor for our girls out there. We had a few matches that really could have gone either way for us. We're happy that we get to see them again in late September.”
Fergus returned to action on Sept. 2, hosting a triangular.
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In a thriller affair at Tony Thiel Field, in Battle Lake, the Ottertail Central Bulldogs came away with a 28-27 victory over the visiting Breckenridge Cowboys.
OTC opened up the scoring with a 60-yard interception return for a touchdown by Owen Buehler, in the first quarter. The two-point conversion was good and it gave the Bulldogs an 8-0 advantage just minutes into the game. After another Buehler pick, Jack Mekalson hooked up with Mason Dalluge for a 22-yard touchdown pass to make it 14-0.
Late in the first half, the Cowboys got a pair of touchdowns. Cam Nieto scampered for 25 yards and after a fumble recovery, it was Gavin Pederson scoring from three yards out. Both point after touchdown kicks were good and the two sides were tied at 14 at the break.
In the second half, Mekalson tossed a pair of touchdown passes to put the Bulldogs up 28-14. He connected with Buehler for a 33-yard score and Dalluge for a 76-yard passing score.
Much like the first half, Breckenridge struck late. After getting a touchdown on a lengthy drive, Nieto scored on an 8-yard run, trimming the lead to one. The PAT was missed wide right and gave OTC the victory.
The Cowboys were led by Nieto, who had 122 yards on 23 carries, Pederson finished with 84 yards on 20 carries, while Alex Sanchez had 46 yards on seven attempts. Quarterback Bailey Evans was 6-9 for 67 yards. Breckendridge had 385 total yards of offense.
Mason Hammer had 39 yards on the ground, while Mekalson was 6-10 for 187 yards and three touchdowns for OTC.
The Bulldogs will host Pillager, on Sept. 9, while Breckenridge travels to Parkers Prairie.
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The Fergus Falls Otters boys soccer team welcomed in the Lakers of Minnewaska, on Sept. 1, going on to a 4-1 victory.
Fergus got the scoring going early, getting a goal from Reno Schierer around the eight minute mark. It was the first varsity goal for Scheirer. The 1-0 score would hold into halftime.
Shortly into the second half, Jose Rodriguez scored on a free kick, kissing it off the post. Shane Zierden gave the Otters some more breathing room, scoring at the 26 minute mark of the second. The last goal for Fergus was scored in the final minute, as Fran Rodriguez scored his first varsity goal. Fran was able to find the ball through a mass of bodies on a corner kick, finishing in the back of the net.
The Lakers lone goal came on a converted penalty kick.
“It was another great defensive game from Joey Johnson, Kasey Eggen, Josiah Vigessa, Fran and Jayden Manteuful in net,” stated Otters coach Joel Heikes.
The JV team also won, 3-1.
Fergus Falls, now 2-1, is set to return to action on Sept. 8, hosting Saint Cloud Apollo.
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The Pelican Rapids Vikings football team used timely turnovers and big plays into a 52-12 victory over the Underwood Rockets, on Sept 1, at Chauncey Martin Field in Pelican.
Quarterback Timmy Guler scored the first touchdown of the game, a 2-yard scamper three minutes into the contest. The two point conversion was good. Just past halfway through the first, Pelican made it 16-0 on an 11-yard touchdown run by Carter Johnson, plus the two point conversion. Later in the quarter, after a strip sack fumble recovery, the Vikings made it 24-0, as Guler found Peyton Blakeway for a 22-yard connection.
Pelican would make it a 38-0 halftime lead, putting up two touchdowns in the second. The second one being a 73-yard pitch and catch from Guler to Blakeway.
Those two would connect again for a touchdown in the third and a fumble recovery for a touchdown by Hunter Williams rounded out the scoring for the Vikings.
Underwood got the offense moving in the second half. Drew Evavold scored a 14-yard run and then Colin Lukken slipped in from one-yard out.
The Vikings were led by Guler who was 8-13 passing for 146 yards and three scores. Blakeway caught five passes for 116 yards, including all three touchdowns to lead the Viking receivers. Their top rusher was Johnson with 53 yards on 7 attempts.
Lukken ran for 49 yards on six carries, to lead Underwood. Brock Hastling finished with 43 yards on eight carries and Conner Nelson was 2-5 for 53 yards. Defensively, Owen Harig had four tackles, as did Hunter Haugen, who also had a sack and two tackles for loss.
Pelican Rapids will host Frazee, on Sept. 9, while Underwood will have their home opener, against Roseau.
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Five planned temporary closures will take place after Labor Day in Grand Teton National Park as construction and road improvements projects get underway. Tentative schedules and locations of projects are:
Moose-Wilson Road
As previously planned, the southern portion of the Moose-Wilson Road from Granite Canyon Entrance to the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve will close to all access the day after Labor Day, September 6. This section of road will reopen to winter activity in December, through March 2023. The closure is needed because the road is too narrow to safely allow construction equipment and visitor traffic.
The northern section of the road will remain open to the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve and Death Canyon Trailhead from the north, via Moose, WY.
Grand Teton is working in partnership with Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and Teton Village Association to provide access to trails originating from the Granite Canyon Trailhead, including Granite Canyon, Marion Lake, and the Teton Crest Trail. To access park trails from Teton Village, park in the Ranch Lot and walk or take the shuttle bus to the base area. Begin hiking from the Ranch Lot or ride the Aerial Tram or Bridger Gondola (fees apply) up to avoid hiking the initial elevation.
The Park will continue to use Twitter to communicate Moose-Wilson Road openings and closings with the public. Follow us on Twitter @GrandTetonNPS.
Park staff are evaluating Moose-Wilson Road construction impacts for 2023. For more information about the project, visit go.nps.gov/moosewilson.
The majority of the funding for Phase 1 work of the Moose-Wilson Road Corridor Project is provided by the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), the act is the single largest investment in public lands in U.S. history. The landmark legislation established a new National Parks and Public Lands Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF) to address the maintenance backlog on public lands.
Jackson Lake Dam Boat Launch
The Jackson Lake Dam Boat Launch area in Grand Teton National Park (located below the dam on the north side) will close to all access, including boating, fishing, and parking, beginning September 6. Work will continue into the spring of 2023, with no further closures anticipated, as phase two of the Snake River Gateways Project is completed. The National Park Service and Grand Teton National Park Foundation are working in partnership on this multi-year project to improve river access points along the Snake River.
All river users may want to consider an alternate plan during this time and should be aware of the skills needed for navigating each section of river. Those opting to launch at Pacific Creek Landing will travel down river to Deadmans Bar, which requires advanced river navigation skills.
The design for the Jackson Lake Dam Launch will provide improved boat launching opportunities with the addition of a boat ramp that will allow two vehicles to launch at the same time, expanded parking, and improved site amenities including picnic tables, bench seating, bicycle parking, viewing areas, and educational information about the Snake River. In addition, area improvements will include ADA (Americans with Disability Act) accessible sidewalks and two fishing platforms.
Phase one work along the Snake River at Pacific Creek Landing was completed in 2021. Phase three of the Snake River Gateways project, Moose Landing, is planned to begin next year.
Grand Teton National Park Foundation's goal is to raise $7.5 million to support these improvements. When combined with approximately $5.7 million from the National Park Service, private philanthropy will provide a margin of excellence that would not be possible otherwise.
For more information about the Snake River Gateways Project, visit the park website at www.nps.gov/grte and Grand Teton National Park Foundation’s website at www.gtnpf.org.
Jenny Lake Scenic Drive
The Jenny Lake One-way Scenic Drive will be temporarily closed September 12-16 while road striping operations occur to improve cyclist safety in the area. The work is contingent on dry weather and closure dates may change. New road signs are also planned to be installed this fall.
Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve Access Road
The access road to the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve is tentatively planned to temporarily close September 26-30 to overlay the roadway with new asphalt to repair the existing asphalt surface.
Signal Mountain Summit Road
Signal Mountain Summit Road will be temporarily closed September 14. The closure will begin at 8 a.m. to allow safe transport of a new radio tower to the top of Signal Mountain. This radio tower is important for communications during emergency responses. The road will reopen September 15 at 8 a.m.
Additionally, travelers may encounter minor delays as work occurs on the Gros Ventre Roundabout and along Highway 26/89/191 in Grand Teton throughout the fall. Crews will install new lighting in the roundabout area as well as two winter gates along the highway near Moose and Moran.
For status of park roads and to plan ahead for road closures, visit Grand Teton Live Road Status Map at go.nps.gov/tetonroads or call 307-739-3682.
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...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
SUNDAY EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE
WEATHER ZONE 410...
The National Weather Service in Pocatello has issued a Fire
Weather Watch for gusty winds and low relative humidity, which is
in effect from Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening.
* AFFECTED AREA...Mainly western portions of Fire Weather Zone
410 Upper Snake River Valley/Idaho Falls BLM.
* WINDS...Southwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 8 percent.
* IMPACTS...Humidity and wind at these thresholds can cause rapid
wildfire spread and long range spotting by embers.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
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Veronique Fullmer 6/8/2022 - 9/1/2022 Veronique Fullmer age 80 passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on September 1, 2022, after a short but fierce battle with cancer.
She was born June 8, 1942, to Carl Raymond Ripplinger and Julia Ethea Johnson Ripplinger. Veronique grew up in the Bates area of Teton Valley where she attended school graduating from Teton High in 1960.
She married her high school sweetheart Aaron James Beard in the Idaho Falls Temple June 8, 1960. They were blessed with three children Shane Aaron Beard, Bonnie Rae Beard, and Lincoln Elmer Beard. Aaron passed away in 1967.
On May 6, 1968, she married Lloyd H. Fullmer, and a daughter Vicki Ann Fullmer was born to this union. Veronique loved spending time with her family more than anything else but also enjoyed her animals especially her horses and dogs. Mom loved riding her horse in the mountains and later in life razor riding. She was very artistic and loved painting and crafting and spending the winters in Arizona with family and friends.
Veronique worked for the US Forest Service in Driggs for 21 years. She was an active member of the LDS Church and served in many positions throughout her life. Mom was adventurous and loved meeting new people and making new friends.
She is survived by her four children Shane (Cristina) Beard, Bonnie (Deon) Moore, Lincoln (Michelle) Beard, and Vicki (Shane) Muir, 12 Grandchildren and 18 Great-grandchildren, a brother Brent (Sandy) Ripplinger and sisters Darlene (Edwin) Wood, and Christine (Kent) Meikle.
She was preceded in death by her parents Raymond and Julia Ripplinger, both of her husbands and two brothers LaRell J. Ripplinger and Raymond Dee Ripplinger.
The family will visit with friends from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Monday, September 5, 2022, at Flamm Funeral Home. Graveside service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 6, 2022, at the Cache Clawson Cemetery, Tetonia, Idaho. Due to limited seating, if you plan on attending, please bring a lawn chair or be prepared to stand. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.flammfh.com. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/obituaries/veronique-fullmer/article_2883ecb9-9c78-52ba-a332-afe3339b831f.html | 2022-09-03T02:07:24Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/obituaries/veronique-fullmer/article_2883ecb9-9c78-52ba-a332-afe3339b831f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Border Patrol: 8 migrants found dead in Rio Grande at Texas
EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — At least eight migrants were found dead in the Rio Grande after dozens attempted a hazardous crossing near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said Friday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials made the discovery Thursday while responding to a large group of people crossing the river following days of heavy rains that had resulted in particularly swift currents. U.S. officials recovered six bodies, while Mexican teams recovered two others, according to a CBP statement.
The agency said U.S. crews rescued 37 others from the river and detained 16 more, while Mexican officials took 39 migrants into custody. Officials on both sides of the border continue searching for any possible victims, the CBP said.
CPD did not say what country or countries the migrants were from and did not provide any additional information on the rescue or search. Local agencies in Texas that were involved did not immediately respond to requests for additional information.
The Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. The sector may soon surpass Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, which has been the focus for the last decade. The area draws migrants from dozens of countries, many of them in families with young children.
The sector, which extends 245 miles (395 kilometers) along the Río Grande, has been especially dangerous because river currents can be deceptively fast and change quickly. Crossing the river can be challenging even for strong swimmers.
In a news release last month, CPD said it had discovered bodies of more than 200 dead migrants in the sector from October through July.
Surveys by the U.N. International Organization for Migration and others point to rising fatalities as the number of crossing attempts have soared. In the last three decades, thousands have died attempting to enter the United States from Mexico, often from dehydration or drowning.
In June, 53 migrants were found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer on a back road in San Antonio in the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.witn.com/2022/09/03/us-border-patrol-8-migrants-die-trying-cross-rio-grande/ | 2022-09-03T02:09:45Z | witn.com | control | https://www.witn.com/2022/09/03/us-border-patrol-8-migrants-die-trying-cross-rio-grande/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
2 shot while hanging out in garage on Chicago's Southwest Side
CHICAGO - Two people were shot while hanging out in a garage in Ashburn Friday night.
The shooting occurred in the 3600 block of West 85th Place.
At about 8 p.m., two people were in a garage when a dark-colored Kia drove by and an occupant fired shots, striking both victims, police said.
A 42-year-old man was shot in the chest, and transported to an area hospital in serious condition.
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A 38-year-old was shot in the knee, and refused medical attention, police said.
No one is in custody. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/2-shot-while-hanging-out-in-garage-on-chicagos-southwest-side | 2022-09-03T02:10:12Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/2-shot-while-hanging-out-in-garage-on-chicagos-southwest-side | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Donald Trump said he would ‘strongly’ consider pardons, apologize to Capitol rioters if elected
Former President Donald Trump said he would "very, very strongly" consider pardons and issue apologies to those who participated in the deadly Capitol riot if elected president for a second term, according to multiple reports.
"I mean full pardons with an apology to many," Trump said on Thursday during a radio interview with conservative host Wendy Bell, according to The Washington Post.
The former president also noted — while not offering specifics — he would financially support Jan. 6 rioters, The Guardian reported.
"I am financially supporting people that are incredible and they were in my office actually two days ago, so they’re very much in my mind," Trump said. "It’s a disgrace what they’ve done to them. What they’ve done to these people is disgraceful."
FILE - Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Hilton Anatole on August 06, 2022, in Dallas, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
While Trump has hinted he would run again for president in 2024, he has yet to make a formal declaration.
The Justice Department investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and into the efforts to overturn the election has been proceeding alongside a separate probe by a House committee, which has held several public hearings, including in prime time.
In a "conspiracy to defraud the United States," the committee argues that evidence it has gathered supports an inference that Trump and several other allies of the former president "entered into an agreement to defraud the United States."
The panel said Trump and his allies interfered with the election certification process, disseminated misinformation about election fraud and pressured state and federal officials to assist in that effort.
Federal prosecutors have recently been especially focused on a scheme by Trump allies to elevate fake electors in key battleground states won by President Joe Biden as a way to subvert the vote. They have issued subpoenas in recent weeks to multiple state Republican Party chairmen.
It has been almost 20 months since the deadly siege on the Capitol and about 350 rioters have pleaded guilty to federal charges or been convicted, and approximately 264 have been sentenced, according to the DOJ.
More than 860 defendants have been arrested and charged from nearly all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. This story was reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/donald-trump-said-he-would-strongly-consider-pardons-apologize-to-capitol-rioters-if-elected | 2022-09-03T02:10:18Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/donald-trump-said-he-would-strongly-consider-pardons-apologize-to-capitol-rioters-if-elected | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jury finds Illinois man guilty in 2021 Milwaukee shooting
MILWAUKEE - A jury found an Illinois man guilty on Friday, Sept. 2 of all charges he faced in connection to a 2021 Milwaukee shooting.
Michael White, 28, of Country Club Hills, Illinois was charged first first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree reckless injury and first-degree recklessly endangering safety. He pleaded not guilty in June 2021.
The shooting happened at a gas station at 26th and Capitol Drive the morning of April 7, 2021. A criminal complaint states two people were pronounced dead at the scene and a third was taken to a hospital. A fourth person, White, was later dropped off at a hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
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The complaint indicates surveillance video was used to positively identify White as the person who shot directly into the victims' vehicle. That video showed White got into an argument with one of the victims at the gas station.
The first victim was seen on video holding a handgun during the argument before punching White in the face, the complaint states.
Quadruple shooting near 26th and Capitol, Milwaukee
A struggle over the handgun ensued, and the complaint states during that struggle it "appeared" White overpowered the victim and shot in that direction. The complaint states White was also shot during that struggle. At that point, White and two others began to run from the gas station.
The complaint states, as White was passing the vehicle where the other victims in the incident were located, "two muzzle flashes appear" coming from the handgun White had recently acquired. White kept firing as he ran alongside the vehicle, the complaint said.
White and two other people then got into an SUV and drove down Capitol Drive out of the view of the camera, per the complaint. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/milwaukee-shooting-26th-capitol-guilty | 2022-09-03T02:10:36Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/milwaukee-shooting-26th-capitol-guilty | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A shot of this rare, 55-year old Japanese whisky can cost $58,000
BELTSVILLE, MD - A Beltsville, MD liquor store is showcasing a bottle of the oldest and most valuable Japanese Whisky in existence. The "Yamazaki 55," can sell for up to a million dollars.
Lax Vinnakota is the owner of LAX Wine & Spirits on Baltimore Ave. in Beltsville and has the rare 55-year old whisky on display for people across the DMV to come see (presumably while they shop for other spirits). 200 bottles of the whisky were released in 2020 and 100 in 2021, with 44 of those bottles being distributed across the USA.
Vinnakota won't say what the bottle will sell for eventually, but average prices with tax range around $1 million dollars. Its exclusivity has led to the price going up dramatically at auction, according to Sotheby's.
According to the Yamazaki website, the whisky features a deep amber color; has an aroma "redolent of sandal wood" and a "sweet, mature bouquet like well-ripened fruit," - and the taste is sweet, slightly bitter - and a bit woody. The finish (or after-taste) is "slightly bitter" and has a "sweet, rich, lingering finish."
Japanese whisky has a particular following by people in Japan and around the world. Yamazaki is the flagship single malt whisky brand for Suntory (which is one of the oldest alcoholic beverage companies in Japan). Vinnakota says that the company offered him a bottle because of his "great partnership with the company."
The Yamazaki 55 however isn't the world's most expensive whisky ever sold. At an auction in 2019, a bottle of Macallan Fine and Rare 60 Year Old whiskey was sold for $1.9 Million. In 2021, a bottle of Irish whiskey was sold for over $2 million however the cost was largely due to it being encased in a fabergé egg.
All of this to say, the Yamazaki 55 nor the other high-end whiskies are the kind you'd put in a Manhattan, mix with soda, or drink in excess. If you consider the bottle is 750ml, and the average shot is 44ml, that's where a single shot of it could cost $58,000 - that is if any bar would dare to offer it - and if your palate is rich enough to afford it. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/rare-yamazaki-55-japanese-whiskey-whisky-beltsville-maryland-suntory | 2022-09-03T02:10:42Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/rare-yamazaki-55-japanese-whiskey-whisky-beltsville-maryland-suntory | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The 40th Okinawan Festival returns on September 3-4 at the Hawaii Convention Center.
The Hawaii United Okinawa Association (HUOA) welcomes the festival back to in-person, showcasing Hawaii’s multi-ethnic culture.
The two-day event will feature Okinawan music and performing arts, cultural education, arts and crafts, historical exhibits, craft vendors, genealogy research, Okinawan-themed children’s games. Okinawan cuisine will also include local favorites such as andagi, andadog, and Okinawan soba.
General Admission to the Okinawan Festival starts at 10:00 am and will be $10.00 for adults ages 13-64 and $5 for senior citizens 65 and over. Children 12 and under are free. Early Admission will start one hour earlier at 9:00 am and can be purchased for an additional $5 for adults and seniors (children are still free).
Early Admission tickets are only available via pre-sale by purchasing online now through Friday 9/2 (11:59 PM HST). General Admission tickets are available for purchase online now and throughout the weekend of the festival. During the festival, only General Admission tickets will be available for purchase in person at the Admission Booth.
Proceeds from the Okinawan Festival support the Hawaii United Okinawa Association and its many cultural programs including classes, genealogy resources, the Hawaii-Okinawa Student Exchange Program, the Children’s Cultural Day Camp, community service projects and more. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/this-weekend-okinawan-festival-returns-september-3-4-at-the-hawaii-convention-center/article_e4ee8dd4-1ea8-11ed-81d1-7f07a8180085.html | 2022-09-03T02:10:43Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/this-weekend-okinawan-festival-returns-september-3-4-at-the-hawaii-convention-center/article_e4ee8dd4-1ea8-11ed-81d1-7f07a8180085.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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WOOGMS parade returns to Lake View for 60th year
CHICAGO - Call it a unique, or weird, tradition. Call it, "WOOGMS."
The parade on the North Side, where everybody marches and nobody watches, returns Labor Day.
This is the 60th year.
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WOOGMS stands for Wellington Oakdale Old Glory Marching Society.
So, how did WOOGMS get its start?
Back in 1963, a man named Al Weisman wanted to show his patriotism, and have some fun.
So, he gathered his son and a few friends, grabbed an American flag and started marching around the block. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/woogms-parade-returns-to-lake-view-for-60th-year | 2022-09-03T02:10:54Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/woogms-parade-returns-to-lake-view-for-60th-year | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The discovery of more than 260 gold coins dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries is "one of the largest on archaeological record from Britain," according to auctioneers Spink & Son.
The discovery of more than 260 gold coins dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries is "one of the largest on archaeological record from Britain," according to auctioneers Spink & Son.
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A house refurbishment in northern England has uncovered a trove of gold coins.
A house refurbishment in northern England has uncovered a trove of gold coins, which could be worth up to £250,000 ($290,000) at auction next month.
The discovery is one of the biggest hoards of 18th century English gold coins ever uncovered in Britain, according to auction house Spink & Son in a press release sent to CNN on Thursday.
While renovating their kitchen in July 2019, residents unearthed a salt-glazed earthenware cup burrowed underneath the concrete and floorboards of their home in Ellerby, North Yorkshire.
The cup, described as being no larger than a soft-drink can, contained more than 260 gold coins dating from 1610 to 1727. The stash of coins has an estimated value of £100,000 ($116,00) in today's spending power, auctioneers said.
Gregory Edmund, an auctioneer with Spink & Son, said the remarkable trove is unlike any find in British archaeology or like any coin auction in living memory.
"It is a wonderful and truly unexpected discovery from so unassuming a find location," Edmund said in the press release.
"This find of over 260 coins is also one of the largest on archaeological record from Britain, and certainly for the 18th century period," he added.
"The coins almost certainly belonged to the Fernley-Maisters, Joseph and Sarah who married in 1694," reads the press release.
According to Spink & Son, the Maisters were an influential mercantile family from the 16th century to the 18th century. They traded iron ore, timber and coal from the Baltic states and several generations took up posts as lawmakers in the early 1700s.
Their family line dwindled soon after the couple died, which is presumably why the coins were never retrieved, the auction house added.
Meanwhile, Edmund said the findings reflect the £50 and £100 coins that were used at the time.
"Joseph and Sarah clearly distrusted the newly-formed Bank of England, the 'banknote' and even the gold coinage of their day because they (chose) to hold onto so many coins dating to the English Civil War and beforehand," he added.
"Why they never recovered the coins when they were really easy to find just beneath original 18th century floorboards is an even bigger mystery, but it is one hell of a piggy bank." | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/coins-worth-up-to-290-000-found-under-kitchen-floorboards/article_9db60e26-68dc-5c92-80a8-2a718b3a7f8f.html | 2022-09-03T02:10:55Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/coins-worth-up-to-290-000-found-under-kitchen-floorboards/article_9db60e26-68dc-5c92-80a8-2a718b3a7f8f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.B.: Can your government help finance it yourself ? Or have enough funds available that would require your participation, at least of invoiced receievabes which are non - negotiable which by doing both might put the US and Russia \"more of less \"equal.\nNo reply required (these words belong not only you), but my answers to many more QI, I had not seen...: I have the answers: we have to take these days what money have The Justice Department said the general counsel for the anti-government group Oath Keepers, Kellye SoRelle, was arrested in Texas after she was indicted on charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
According to the Justice Department, SoRelle was arrested in Junction, Texas, after she was indicted on Wednesday with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, entering a restricted building, and obstruction of tampering with documents, according to the indictment.
The indictment alleges SoRelle that between December 2020 and January 2021, the 43-year-old attempted to "corruptly obstruct, influence, and impede" Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election and "did aid and abet others known and unknown to the Grand Jury to do the same."
The indictment also alleged she persuaded others to destroy and conceal records sought by investigators.
According to the indictment, she is also accused of unlawfully entering the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
The Austin American-Statesman reported that SoRelle was caught on camera with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes near the Capitol on Jan. 6.
NBC News reported that Rhodes and four co-defendants had been charged with seditious conspiracy.
The Austin American-Statesman reported that their trial is slated to begin on Sept. 26. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/oath-keepers-attorney-arrested-in-texas-on-charges-connected-to-jan-6-insurrection | 2022-09-03T02:14:54Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/oath-keepers-attorney-arrested-in-texas-on-charges-connected-to-jan-6-insurrection | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An Atlanta-area resident is snagging the spotlight thanks to NAPA Auto Parts and NASCAR driver Chase Elliott!
This year’s Desi9n to Drive program called on patients to submit drawings of their personal healthcare hero for a chance for it to be represented in a custom design makeover of Chase Elliott's driver uniform and No. 9 race car for the upcoming Cookout Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on September 4.
The winning entrant was Dani Gamel, a former patient at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dani was diagnosed with leukemia in eighth grade. Her treatment at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta was intensive and after two and a half years of care, she was able to ring the bell having been declared cancer-free. While a patient at CHOA, Dani would have visits with facility dogs and looked forward to every single one. Their impact on her recovery was so monumental, she decided to honor their contribution with her Desi9n to Drive submission!
Her winning design – chosen by Chase Elliott himself – honors heroes in her own recovery – facility dogs! | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72555-napa-chase-elliott-foundation-team-up-for-desi9n-to-drive | 2022-09-03T02:16:00Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72555-napa-chase-elliott-foundation-team-up-for-desi9n-to-drive | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Celebrating exemplary employees confirms what they do is necessary for a company to thrive. This Labor Day weekend Darlington Raceway in partnership with NASCAR Cup Series teams are recognizing a deserving employee from their respective partner organization during an industry-wide initiative called “Workforce Appreciation Weekend.”
JTG Daugherty Racing worked with our partner Colgate-Palmolive Company to identify an employee they wanted to recognize. Gary Lindsay was quickly identified by the brand and has been named the “Workforce Appreciation Honorary Crew Member.”
“This is a nice industry-wide program where we are able to recognize an employee from the Colgate-Palmolive Company for going above and beyond to contribute to the success of the company,” No. 47 Kroger®/Irish Spring® Camaro driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. said.
Lindsay, who is a Finishing Operation Technician from Tennessee, was a big winner of Colgate-Palmolive’s productivity initiative within one of their plants. His major responsibility is to drive efficiency and effectiveness of Colgate-Palmolive’s production lines at the U.S. toothpaste plant.
“When we read the requirements for the ‘Workforce Appreciation Honorary Crew Member,’ Gary Lindsay met the requirements to receive this honor,” said Jeff Cope, Associate Director of Customer Development at Colgate-Palmolive Company. “This is a clever initiative by Darlington Raceway and the NASCAR Cup Series teams to involve the brands. We’re also looking forward to seeing Irish Spring on Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s No. 47 Kroger Camaro on track at Darlington Raceway.”
Lindsay has a big weekend ahead of him at the 1.366-mile egg-shaped oval before watching the 367-lap event. In addition to being an honorary crew member, he will be invited to a big cookout at Darlington Raceway, receive a tour of the Darlington Raceway Stock Car Museum, and receive a gift from NASCAR and the track.
One more big item on the list is that Gary Lindsay’s name will be above the right-side door of the No. 47 Kroger/Irish Spring Camaro ZL1 during the Cook Out Southern 500 on Sunday, September 4th that airs on USA Network at 6 PM ET.
JTG Racing PR | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72565-jtg-daugherty-racing-s-partner-colgate-palmolive-celebrates-workforce-appreciation-weekend-at-darlington-raceway-by-recognizing-gary-lindsay | 2022-09-03T02:16:06Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72565-jtg-daugherty-racing-s-partner-colgate-palmolive-celebrates-workforce-appreciation-weekend-at-darlington-raceway-by-recognizing-gary-lindsay | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
-Jones at Darlington Raceway: With 10 races remining in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, Erik Jones and the No. 43 FOCUSfator team head to Darlington Raceway where Jones will make his 10th-career Cup Series start at the historical South Carolina track in Sunday’s Cook Out Southern 500.
In his previous nine starts at the track, Jones has one win in the 2019 Southern 500 where he led 79 laps piloting a throwback scheme resembling his late-model car from his early racing career. In addition, Jones has four top-five and six top-10 finishes with a total of 109 laps led. Earlier this season, Jones started the race at Darlington from the 11th position, led one lap and was poised for a top-10 finish before a late-race accident ended the day early for the No. 43 team.
Jones also has two starts in the Xfinity Series with a fourth-place and sixth-place finish.
-Erik Jones Appearances: Fans attending Sunday’s race at Darlington Raceway will have the chance to see Erik Jones before the race:
- Chevy Display: Jones will be at the Chevy Display in the Fan Zone from 2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET.
Focused on Winning: FOCUSfactor will serve as the primary partner on Jones's Chevrolet Camaro for Sunday’s race at Darlington Raceway.
- About FOCUSfactor: FOCUSfactor is sold at America’s leading retailers such as Costco, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS, The Vitamin Shoppe and Amazon.com. FOCUSfactor, America’s leading brain health supplement, is a nutritional supplement that includes a proprietary blend of brain supporting vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other nutrients. In December 2012, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued US Patent 8,329,227 covering FOCUSfactor’s proprietary formulation “for enhanced mental function”. The issuance of the patent marked one of the few times a patent has been issued for a nationally branded nutritional supplement. FOCUSfactor is clinically tested with results demonstrating improvements in focus, concentration and memory in healthy adults.
- From the Driver’s Seat:
“I’ve always enjoyed racing at Darlington. It reminds me of the short tracks I grew up racing on. It’s one of the older tracks on the circuit and has so much history. I was fortunate to get a win in the Southern 500 a few years ago and that was really special and cool to join a list of some of the best of NASCAR who have won at Darlington. The short tracks have been a little bit of a struggle for us this year with the new car, but we ran decent at Darlington earlier this year, so that gives me some confidence going in to the weekend. We’ve been working hard on our short track program, and I think we’ve made some gains throughout the year. Should be a good weekend for our FOCUSfactor Chevy.”
Petty GMS Racing PR | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72567-petty-gms-race-preview-darlington-raceway-ii | 2022-09-03T02:16:12Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72567-petty-gms-race-preview-darlington-raceway-ii | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As summer winds down, Chevrolet Racing continues to gear up.
Chevrolet is the only manufacturer to compete in the combination of NASCAR, INDYCAR, NHRA, IMSA and Best in the Desert (BITD). Heading into the Labor Day Weekend, a number of Chevrolet drivers are currently leading the standings in their respective series:
- Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Camaro ZL1, won the NASCAR Cup Series regular-season championship and is one of eight Team Chevy drivers to qualify for the 2022 Cup Series playoffs. Elliott, who won the series championship in 2020, leads the series with four wins. Fourth-seed Kyle Larson (No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Camaro ZL1) is the defending champion.
- AJ Allmendinger (No. 16 Kaulig Racing Camaro SS) leads the NASCAR Xfinity Series standings.
- 2014 champion Will Power (No. 12 Team Penske Chevrolet) leads the INDYCAR standings with just two races remaining. Two-time champion Josef Newgarden (No. 2 Team Penske) Chevrolet is in second place, just three points back.
- Three-time champion Robert Hight (Camaro SS) leads the NHRA Funny Car standings, past champion Brittany Force (Chevrolet) leads the Top Fuel standings, and four-time champion Erica Enders (Camaro SS) leads the Pro Stock standings.
- Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor (No. 3 Corvette C8.R) lead the Michelin Endurance Cup standings in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
“It’s exciting to see all of these Chevrolet drivers leading their respective series in points as we prepare to finish the season,” said Jim Campbell, Chevrolet vice president of Performance and Motorsports.
Additionally, Chevrolet currently leads the manufacturer’s standings in NASCAR Cup, NASCAR Xfinity, INDYCAR, NHRA and IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup.
“We appreciate the hard work of our drivers and teams who have scored valuable manufacturer points through this point of the season,” Campbell said. “We remain focused on working with our drivers and teams as they prepare for the important final portion of the season.”
Chevrolet has won 40 NASCAR Cup Series Manufacturer’s Championships, and 23 Xfinity Series manufacturer’s titles, each more than any other OEM. Since returning to INDYCAR In 2012, Chevy has won six Manufacturer’s Championships. Chevrolet also has won the NHRA Manufacturer’s Cup 26 times to lead all manufacturers.
So far this year, Chevrolet has won 84 races. In 2021, Chevrolet won 95 races, five driver championships, four manufacturer championships and two team championships.
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RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Menards Ford Mustang – WHAT WAS THE EMOTION FOR YOU AFTER SUNDAY? “You realize how fortunate that you were and, honestly, there was a lot of pride. I had a lot of pride in my guys, who worked their butts off on fixing that thing because it probably shouldn’t have been fixable to where it would drive. They did a heck of a job of doing what they could and salvaging parts and pieces and making it so it would roll. That’s why we race all day. That’s why you stay in the game, so I was just really proud of all those guys who did a great job of fixing it. Yeah, it was definitely was like, ‘OK, now everything is reset and we can really go at them now.’”
YOU ARE NOT IN THE OWNER’S CHAMPIONSHIP RACE, SO ARE YOU RACING FOR LESS? “I personally don’t care about it. I care about that thing sitting right behind you (the Cup trophy). That’s really all I care about. On that side, it stinks that Mr. Penske is not in with the 12 car on the owner’s side of it. He and I talked a little bit about that. I was like, ‘Man, I hate we didn’t get you in on the owner’s side of it,’ and he said, ‘As long as you’re in on the driver. I want you to win the championship.’ Best-case scenario I could win the driver championship and one of the other two cars could win the owner’s championship. That would be a fun party, I guess. That would be the only time both of you win, so that definitely stinks that our car isn’t in the owner’s, but, for me and the money side, I don’t care. I want the hardware. My only regret on that is the 12 car isn’t in for Roger, but he was just happy to get me in as a driver.”
THAT’S A LOT OF MONEY IF YOU GET A PERCENTAGE. “I make a good enough living. I don’t really care about that.”
DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR STATS AT DARLINGTON? IT’S BEEN A BIT OF A STRUGGLE. “Not really. I feel like, personally, we had a great car there in the spring and we just had a disaster day on pit road and would lose 10 spots every time we came down pit road. By the time we got them made back up, the caution would come out and we’d lose those again. It was kind of a recurring cycle and then we got caught up in that accident off two and that really hurt us. I look forward to going there. I thought we had a great piece and just try to clean some stuff up on pit road that could keep us in the game. That’s really what you’ve got to do, but I think we’ve gotten a lot better there over the years and hopefully we can show something this weekend.”
MORE PIT STOPS IN THIS RACE ON SUNDAY, SO DOES EVERYONE HAVE TO BE OF A CONFIDENT MINDSET? “Yeah, we understood our issue in the spring race at Darlington and our issues throughout the year and we’ve done a great job of getting better and better. I think the last two months we’ve had great days on pit road and hopefully that carries over. That’s really all you can hope for.”
DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO PROVE IN THE PLAYOFFS? “I think everybody has something to prove. You always want prove that you can go and compete for a championship and we have a chance to compete for a championship and it’s just a matter of how far you can go. I would love it if we barely sneak in by the skin of our teeth and then go out there and make it to Phoenix. That would be pretty good and I think this team is plenty capable, that’s for sure. I’ve got the utmost confidence in the world with those guys and I think everyone has something to prove, just showing they deserve to be here.”
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING WHEN THE CAUTION CAME OUT BUT KNOWING YOU HAD TO REACH MINIMUM SPEED AFTER THE WRECK? WERE YOU AWARE OF THAT QUIRK? “Yeah. It was an interesting situation. I was able to run wide-open, you just hope you’re fast enough and you’re not draggy and damaged enough to where you won’t make minimum speed. It was weird. We were coming to the end of the stage, they throw the yellow, but you still have to complete your lap. They told Hassler initially that we didn’t make the DVP clock because the caution came out. We were like, ‘That’s wrong. We finished our lap and it was fine.’ So they luckily looked at it were like, ‘OK, yeah, you did make it. Our system was messed up.’ But you’re just hoping that you can make minimum speed. I didn’t know what minimum speed was to be honest with you. I just hoped it was fast enough. I think it’s pretty high there because you’ve got damaged cars all the time, so luckily it made it and that gave us a chance to be able to come back and work on it because I had flat-spotted lefts. We didn’t have enough time to put four tires on it. We just put rights on it and fixed what we could and kind of got a little bit of bear bond on it, but my lefts were squares. If we wouldn’t have made minimum speed there and had to stay out, that was gonna be a little rough. We would have had to come back in under green and I probably would have lost a lap or two more, so that was critical that we made minimum speed on that last lap.”
DID YOU HAVE THAT BEER? “Yeah, I had a handful. It was a good, relaxing night of getting home and just hanging out a little bit. I definitely needed that.”
IS IT A DIFFERENT FEELING GOING FROM THE LAST MONTH FIGHTING TO JUST GET IN AND NOW STARTING TO RACE FOR A TITLE? “I think a little bit. That was definitely a tough last month racing the 19 real hard. You’ve got really just one guy you’re trying to get into to get the final spot to set yourself up for 10 weeks, and now that we’ve accomplished that goal it feels like a little breath of fresh air. Everything resets. We’ve got great bonus points from the pretty good season we’ve had so far and it’s kind of reset us up towards the front half of the playoff grid, so, yeah, it’s refreshing for everybody. It’s not just me, it’s everybody on the team. It’s like, ‘OK, we’ve accomplished that goal of getting in and now it turns into a new goal of trying to go win this weekend and then trying to do our jobs for the next 10 weeks.’ I guess you can say it’s new life. We weren’t dead before, but we were definitely in a little different mindset.”
SO ARE YOU PLAYING WITH HOUSE MONEY? “Maybe a little bit. I don’t know. You still have to be consistent and you still have to be competing as well as you can – really like we’ve done all year. I mean, we’ve had a good year it’s just the wins haven’t really come. We’ve been consistently good, it’s just trying to break through on that side and I think this team can do it.”
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE IN PREPPING FOR THE PLAYOFFS BY GETTING IN ON THE LAST RACE VERSUS THOSE WHO WON EARLY IN THE SEASON? “No, I feel like even before we went to Daytona we were getting ready for our Darlington car. I mean, you’re always preparing weeks in advance, so I don’t think that really played a factor in that. You’re always doing the best you can to get your next week’s car as fast as it can be, and we’re really good at – gosh, you change over races race after race weekends really quick. We’re really good at that stuff. That’s the name of the game with these guys, so, no, I don’t think that hurt us at all.”
WAS THERE A LOT OF ENERGY AT THE SHOP THIS WEEK? “Yeah, it was and it was good to go in there Monday and see everybody – all the shop men and women who don’t go to the track. They were working in there Monday and they were pumped up. It’s great for them with us getting all three cars in. That’s huge for the morale of the race shop, so it was great to see all those people. It was great to see my guys on Tuesday when they came into the shop. We had a great meeting on Tuesday between us – pit crew, road crew of we did a great job of doing our duties at Daytona and now it’s on to the next 10 weeks. That was good to have everyone sit down and talk to them and kind of get everyone’s head right and ready to roll.”
HAVE YOU THOUGHT MENTALLY ABOUT THINGS YOU NEED TO DO DIFFERENTLY IN THE PLAYOFFS THIS YEAR THAN YOU’VE DONE IN THE PAST? “Yeah, I thought last year we had a really great playoffs up until Kansas. We did everything right. We did a great job of putting ourselves in position to transfer and contend for wins and then we got wrecked at Kansas and didn’t perform the next week well enough to transfer into Phoenix. I think every year you kind of are part of the playoffs you understand, ‘What can we do different?’ Little positions you put yourself in that are a little bit better. Don’t make mistakes. That’s one of the biggest things, so I think you get a little bit, I wouldn’t say they get easier, but mentally you feel like you can approach them a little bit better.”
DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU’VE BEEN IN PLAYOFF MODE THE PAST FIVE RACES? “Yes and no. It’s a little bit different mindset. We were kind of just racing one guy. It was me and Martin racing for the points side of it there and now you’ve got 15 guys you’re racing when it resets like this, so it’s a little bit different mindset, but, on the same side, it was kind of like a ride or die kind of thing between me and Martin to try to get in and now it’s almost the same thing in some areas. If you get down to the last race of a round and you’re on the cusp of making it or not on points, it’s maybe the same mindset, but I think it changes up a little bit.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BRISTOL BEING A CUTOFF RACE WITH THE NEXT GEN CAR AND SOME OF THE OTHER AGENDAS OUT THERE. COULD IT BE MORE VOLATILE THAN NORMAL? “Yeah, probably. I think we’ve got two of the toughest races in the first round. You start with Darlington and you end with Bristol. Those are two really tough tracks starting and ending the first round, and the unknowns of Bristol – going there for the first time with the concrete track you don’t know what to expect. It’s just one of those things where you kind of see where the flow of the race is going. You understand what the Bristol NIght Race is like, but you don’t ever know how this car is going to react to it. On the other side, I don’t think I’ve pissed off too many guys this year. I hope I’m in a good spot on that side of it, but as far as everyone else goes, I hope I just sit back and watch it. I don’t know what will happen.”
SEVEN HAS BEEN THE LOWEST SEED TO WIN THE TITLE AND YOU ARE THE SEVENTH SEED THIS YEAR. CAN YOU DO IT? “I didn’t know that. Yeah, I hope so. What do you want me to say, no? (laughing) I think we can definitely do it. It’s just all about trying to stay in the game. You never know what can change. Who can have troubles. You just hope it’s not you. You just don’t want to make any mistakes as a driver and as a team in general. There’s gonna be adversity you’ve got to overcome. That’s just part of it. You’re not gonna have a completely smooth 10 weeks. You’re gonna have things that are gonna go wrong and you have to adapt to them, so I definitely think we can do it, it’s just a matter of improving on some stuff that kind of bit us through the year, but I think this team is ready to do it.”
SHOULD THERE BE ANYMORE WEIGHT PUT ON CONSISTENCY LIKE YOU AND MARTIN HAD THIS YEAR? “We understand the playoff rules and every driver knows that – the win and you’re in type of thing – it’s just one of those situations that we haven’t had before of there’s been so many winners that me and him, who were third and fourth in regular season points, one of us doesn’t make it. There was a good shot that neither of us could have made it, but that stinks for him. He’s had a great year. He’s had a really good year just like us. I mean, that group has been really strong, but the wins just haven’t come. It’s the same year we’ve had, really, so that kind of stinks but it is what it is. Every driver and team knows the win and you’re in thing, so there’s a big emphasis on it.”
SHOULD THE ALL-START AND CLASH WINS BE CONSIDERED? “I don’t know. Yeah, it’s a victory, but I don’t know. I could go either way on that. I don’t really look at them either way. Maybe as a tiebreaker I could see, but I haven’t really put much thought into that. Obviously, when we were getting closer and closer toward the cutoff line I’m like, ‘Man, that All-Star win should have counted,’ but I don’t know. I could go either way. It’s technically an exhibition race and a non-points race, but I guess if it’s a non-points race, it doesn’t count toward the regular season so I could see it staying the same way. I probably wouldn’t want the Clash winner or the All-Star winner. I don’t know if you could just lock them into the playoffs. Maybe it’s a tiebreaker if you’re in that situation.”
HOW DO YOU GET SET FOR THE PLAYOFFS AFTER THE DRAMA OF DAYTONA? “I feel like we’ve done a really good job of resetting everything. Yeah, you had a stressful day at Daytona, not only me but everybody in the group biting their nails and hoping everything works out. Now, it’s like, ‘OK, we’ve accomplished that. Now let’s switch gears here in the playoffs and focus on these next three weeks in the first round.’ We had a great meeting on Tuesday with everybody of getting everyone’s head in the right spot – of saying, ‘Hey, great job at Daytona,. Everyone did their job the best that they could and look where we are now. Now, let’s do the same thing in Darlington and let’s focus our minds on playoff mode here. I feel like we’ve done a good job of resetting a little bit and then focusing at the next task.”
KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Busch Light Ford Mustang – DO YOU FEEL YOU CAN GET CLOSER TO THE WALL AT DARLINGTON WITH THE NEW CAR AND HOW DURABLE IT IS? “I think that’s probably one reason that the DVP clock got changed from six minutes to 10 minutes, so you have more opportunity to fix those types of issues because I think everybody knows that if you hit it wrong, it’s gonna break the toe link or something on the suspension back there, so the car is more durable if you hit it square, but if you hit it while you’re sliding with the rear, it’s gonna snap something back there. I guess it was Bristol, I hit somebody with the front of the car and didn’t even think I hit it with wheel and the wheel was broke - the suspension on the right-front. If you hit it just right, it’s gonna break. You feel like you can be more aggressive with the car and scrape it against the wall flush, but you still have to be mindful of breaking suspension pieces. The car is definitely more durable.”
HOW NARROW IS IT? “It’s about three car widths wide. If you put them door to door, you could probably fit three comfortably.”
DO YOU LIKE THAT CHALLENGE? “I do. I like Darlington just because of the fact it’s challenging to drive by yourself. You put all the other cars out there and then it becomes an even bigger challenge, so it’s just a race you still have to think through it in order of positioning your car and the things that you do with it. When you’re in a good scenario or a bad scenario or somebody is catching you is a little bit different than it used to be because you can hold them up so much more by keeping them in your wake, so it’s not as much give as it used to be because of that. You have to know when you’re in a bad spot in order to keep yourself from not getting torn up or sticking the car up in the wall and doing something that you don’t need to, especially early in the race.”
IS THIS CHAMPIONSHIP RACE WIDE OPEN COMPARED TO PAST SEASONS? “Yeah. I think it’s wide-open. We talked about this last week as a team. It’s just as wide-open as I’ve ever seen it. I don’t think there’s really anybody that sticks out and says I’m the guy, so I think the thing that factors in more this year is you know anybody is able to pop off a win – that they might hit it this week just because that’s what’s happened all year. You see somebody pop off a win and then they kind of fade away, but the ability to hit it on a week to week basis is there, so it’s like there’s no safe spot. I think you could wind up in the Truex scenario pretty quick from a points standpoint because you just don’t know.”
A LOT OF TALK THIS WEEK ABOUT THE CAR AND THE HARD HITS AND IMPACT ON DRIVERS. HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED THAT AND IS IT AN AREA YOU FEEL CAN BE WORKED ON? “I mean, every hit that I’ve pretty much taken in the car hurts. We hear it week after week after week. It seems slow, the response, in my opinion, but that’s just my opinion. I think, from my previous experiences, I’ve had some things that I’ve presented that we’re three years into having no response to from a driver’s standpoint, so the things I think that the drivers would consider the most important may not rank as high on that priority list when everybody’s not out there banging into stuff themselves. I think when you see Denny talking about being banged up and Kurt out, you hear the hits week after week after week and I know everybody is talking about making some changes, but I haven’t really seen any.”
LOGANO SAID IT WAS BECAUSE IT COST A LOT OF MONEY. “Well that tells you where we rank. Money is more important than the safety of the car. That’s the perception that seems to be coming with it.”
IT SEEMS KIND OF COUNTERINTUITIVE BECAUSE YOU WOULD THINK THE NEWER CAR WOULD FEEL MORE SAFE? “Yeah, it’s not better from a crashing standpoint. The hits are violent. At Sonoma, I hit the back of the 2 car so hard that it locked my HANS out, and I kept going. It was just over the hill, they checked up and I hit him, and it locked my HANS. Every hit is violent and some of the smallest hits hurt like they shouldn’t hurt. Everybody knows the car is too stiff and I think when you look at the crash data it just doesn’t represent what the drivers are feeling in the car. They’ll say, ‘Well, it was only a 15 g hit.’ Well, I’m telling you some of those 15 g hits feel like 50 compared to what they have been in old cars. Like at Daytona, in that particular wreck those hits were all hard and especially the ones where the car gets loose and goes to the right. When it’s raining it’s hard to catch the car, but when you watch that video of all those cars slide and then just go immediately to the right, I can’t even explain to you how violent that is and then to have half the field or more piling into you, it’s all too slow to me. We talk about guys getting gassed out and it’s just random. It’s like I said earlier, I’ve been in a scenario where I had just tons of blood work and urine work and all the things presented to us of what was inside my body with the specifics of what was in my bloodstream after the race, and I’m still three-and-a-half years into hearing from somebody.”
NASCAR SAYS THAT YOU’RE GOING FASTER IN THIS CAR AND WRECKING AT DIFFERENT ANGLES. “I disagree. I think their angles and going faster, they don’t feel the same. I mean, they are just blunt, violent wrecks every time you hit something and they do not feel like they did in the old car. It’s like we’ve taken the soft walls down. Every time we hit a car, it feels like hitting a concrete wall. Every time we hit a soft wall it feels like hitting a concrete wall and they’re violent. There’s no other way around it.”
CAN YOU GO TO ANYBODY IN YOUR ORGANIZATION TO WORK ON THINGS? “I go and just do my own thing and try to take care of myself because, like I say, with my experience I didn’t feel like I got anywhere, I just got delayed. I just got put off.”
DEFINE BEING GASSED OUT? “A lot of times you’ll feel like there are a lot of fumes in your car and, in my opinion, it’s not carbon monoxide because carbon monoxide is odorless. A lot of it, in my opinion, it’s the octane boosters in the fuel and some of the oils based on the blood tests that I had after the race a few years ago in Chicago. I feel like that a lot of those fumes that are coming inside of the car based upon the chemicals and things that were in the blood test that I presented them are coming from the fuel and the oil.”
AND YOU PRESENTED THIS SEVERAL YEARS AGO? “I did to a few different people. You asked me a few weeks ago about why I didn’t speak up more and that’s why – because the response, for me, there’s been no response. It’s been pretty slow.”
BUT YOU KEPT RACING AND KEPT YOUR CAREER GOING. YOU DIDN’T GET OUT FOR YOUR HEALTH? “Well, the intent of that was to decide just to, A, make sure that your health was where you wanted it to be, but what was the path to resetting your body when you got done, and the doctors wanted to know what was inside your body so that they had an understanding of, ‘OK, when you’re done racing at some point, this is gonna be the detox that you need in order to reset your body so that it’s back to a normal routine because right now you’ve got all these things in your body that it has adapted to,’ and it’s just become, not immune to it, but it’s definitely become used to it and adjusted to it, so that was the original reason why I had done it.”
HAVE YOU SHARED IT WITH ANY YOUNGER DRIVERS? “I’ve shared it with a few of them. I’ve definitely brought it up in a few meetings.”
IF THE IMPACTS CONTINUE, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT MIGHT IMPACT WHAT YOU WOULD DO WHEN YOUR CONTRACT IS UP? “I think there are a lot of factors that go into that. I think when you look at the car I’ve wrecked more cars this year than I probably wrecked five years combined. The wreck rate is way up compared to what it used to be and spin outs, so there’s definitely a lot more contact and a lot more moments where you’re slamming your head around and your body around, for sure.”
I ASSUME YOU WORK WITH A NUTRITIONALIST OR PERSONAL TRAINER TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HANDLE THIS TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY. “Yeah and that’s been something I’ve tried to keep up with for years in order to make sure that you understand your body and trying to make sure that you know what’s going on.”
CAN YOU USE SOME SORT OF A FILTER THAT WOULD TAKE SOME OF THOSE CHEMICALS OUT? “Our guys do a great job with the carbon monoxide filter and things that we have in the car, but every time I go into the infield care center my carbon monoxide level is 0.0 or 0.1. I think that sometimes the way that the car takes the air in, it’s just really random with the gassing and the drivers getting gas side of it, but it’s all too slow, in my opinion, whether it’s the wrecks or the gassing or whatever it is it always seems to kind of get shuffled away.”
WHY IS THAT? “I wish I knew.”
JOEY SAID COST IS AN ISSUE. “Yeah, a lot of it comes to cost would be my opinion.”
IS IT FRUSTRATING THAT WE’RE GOING INTO RACE 27 AND WITH OFF-SEASON TESTING THAT THIS IS STILL AN ISSUE? “I think it was everybody’s original concern that the car was too stiff, especially the rear impacts, but we’ve learned that all impacts, the side impacts are extremely rough. The small ones are extremely violent, so I don’t think there’s anybody here that wouldn’t tell you, ‘Holy crap, that hurt’ after probably every, just about, it just feels way different than any wreck that I’ve ever experienced outside of hitting a concrete wall.”
HAVE YOU TALKED TO KURT? “Just via text.”
DO YOU DO ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY WHEN YOU KNOW YOU’RE ABOUT TO WRECK THAT YOU DIDN’T DO IN THE PREVIOUS CAR? “I don’t currently. I’m probably gonna start letting go of the steering wheel because it keeps jamming my thumbs every time I hit something head on.”
EARLY ON THE DRIVERS WERE EXPRESSING THAT THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT THE CAR COULD BE TOUGH IN CRASHES AND THEN NASCAR GAVE MORE INFORMATION AND THINGS SEEMED TO CALM DOWN. WHY DID EVERYBODY CALM DOWN AND NOW THERE’S CONVERSATION AGAIN? “I think everybody calmed down because they thought something was gonna be progressively getting better, and I think everybody is wound up now because it keeps happening and now you’ve got one guy hurt, one guy that’s kind of hurt from Denny’s standpoint and I think everybody wants to know what is the progression here? How are we gonna make this better? What’s the plan? If it’s not gonna be this year, what’s the plan for next year? What are we doing? How are we gonna keep guys from getting hurt? So, I think everybody is a little bit frustrated that the progression is as slow as it has been.”
SOME FEEL THAT JEFF BURTON AND THE DRIVER’S COUNCIL IS DISCUSSING IT. “As I said earlier, I’m not 100 percent in belief that is going to help. They’re doing a great job with the driver council stuff, but I still haven’t seen any real progression on making it better, and, as I told you with my previous encounter we’re three years into.”
THE TEAMS WOULD USUALLY WORK ON THIS STUFF. “If the teams weren’t involved, it would be worse. I can’t even tell you. Think about the guys’ legs going to sleep at the beginning of the year. The people who fixed that were the teams. They went to work on, your suit is too big and too wrinkled or your seat is too high and your pedals are too low. We worked on that stuff for 12-14 weeks. I just got to the point six weeks ago where my pedals feel good and I know that the other guys on my team have repositioned their seats, some of them three and four times – four different inserts and different seat belts and all kinds of different things.”
SOME OF THAT WOULD BE EXPECTED WITH A NEW CAR, BUT I’M GUESSING NOT TO THIS EXTENT? “I don’t think anybody thought it was gonna be as violent as it is, but the crash data does not show it to be as violent as it is in the car, and I think that’s where a lot of the frustration is from the driver’s standpoint. These cars wreck violently and it hurts. It’s not like it used to be. It doesn’t show a 20-30 g impact may look the same, but it doesn’t feel the same.”
YOU AND JOEY ARE THE LOWEST SEED TO WIN A TITLE AT 7. YOU ARE 9 THIS YEAR. DOES THAT MATTER? “I think those are just numbers. I don’t think anything adds up this year compared to what it has in year’s past, so it’s just so much different than anything we’ve done in the past. I think this year is just way closer than it’s ever been before from second to 16th.”
SO IT FEELS MORE WIDE OPEN? “I sure feels wide-open. Based on the first 26 races, it feels like everybody’s got a chance.”
YOU GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE HAMLIN/CHASTAIN WRECK AT POCONO. DOES IT GET TO A POINT WHERE DRIVERS JUST GO AND TELL DENNY THAT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH? “No, I think all of those situations need to be handled with themselves. I think sometimes you get in there and you’re like, ‘Screw it, today is the day I’m wiping that guy out,’ and you don’t even care. Denny Hamlin is like, ‘Today is the day,’ and he was never thinking about, ‘Harvick’s the guy behind me, I hope he’s not pissed when he hits him.’ I mean, as a driver those moments are just the moments.”
IS THAT THE WAY YOU FELT AT THE CHARLOTTE ROVAL LAST YEAR? “Maybe.”
ARE THE HITS MORE SIMILAR TO BEFORE SAFER BARRIERS? “Oh, yeah. Very similar. Unfortunately, I’ve experienced all that. It is very similar to hitting a concrete wall, even when you just hit a car.”
YOU’VE BEEN TALKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS FOR SIX WEEKS, ARE YOU SURPRISED NO ONE HAS ASKED WHAT’S IRKING YOU? “I’m not irked. I’m just, as someone said earlier, I’m jaded in a way that I like to just do my own thing. I like to handle my own issues. If I don’t feel good, I’ll go to the doctor and figure it out. In those cases and when that stuff was super high with some of those races, we started trying to figure out ways to lessen the fatigue and sore muscles and everything that comes with being gassed on Mondays, so I started doing some things differently and going to the hyperbaric chamber. I try to create solutions for myself. When you don’t have that help from somebody else, you have to do it yourself, so I’d prefer to take it into my own hands.”
BUT YOU DON’T WANT TO BECOME KURT. “True. None of us do.”
IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU AT DARLINGTON BECAUSE OF YOUR PAST SUCCESS OR DOES THAT HAVE NO CORRELATION TO WHAT’S GOING ON THESE DAYS? “We ran OK there the first race. I think we’ve made our cars a lot better and I still feel like Darlington is a place where you have to race the racetrack and you have to make the car finish and you have to not make mistakes and you have to get on pit road under green. There are just a ton of things that go with that race where you can screw it up and so that’s our goal is to not screw it up – try to dot the i’s and cross the t’s and if you can keep yourself in the hunt with 100 miles to go, then that’s the first battle. You just have to go in with that mindset and see what happens.”
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Tightly bunched NASCAR Playoff field faces major test at Darlington
Since the introduction of the elimination format into the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff in 2014, no 16th seed has come close to qualifying for the Championship 4 race.
Then again, before University of Maryland Baltimore County drubbed Virginia in the first round of the 2018 NCAA basketball tournament, no 16th seed had ever beaten a No. 1.
So why can’t Richard Childress Racing driver Austin Dillon, who barged into the postseason with a dramatic victory in last Sunday’s regular-season finale at Daytona, dream about a deep run in the Playoffs, which start with Sunday’s Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway (6 p.m. ET on USA, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)?
“Why not?” Dillon asked rhetorically during Thursday’s NASCAR Cup Series Playoff Media Day at the Charlotte Convention Center. “I’m confident at the tracks in the Playoffs. RCR has shown speed at every type of track with Tyler (Reddick) winning the road courses, us winning the speedway (Daytona). Martinsville, I finished third but was probably the second-best car there.
“And we probably should have won the 600 at Charlotte; I was really close there when you got down to it. I’m happy to be in this spot, and I think we’re the dog. Some people are already putting us out, which is just fine with me, because it takes pressure off, and we’ll go have fun and try to upset some of these guys and take it as survive-and-advance mode from here on out.”
Another cause for optimism among the lower seeds is the unprecedented tightness of the Playoff field in terms of starting points positions. Only 20 points separate second-place Joey Logano from 16th-place Dillon, and positions five (William Byron) through 16 in the standings are covered by a nine-point spread.
Only Regular Season Champion Chase Elliott has anything that resembles a working margin. He’s 15 points clear of Logano, who won the 2022 spring race at Darlington from the pole.
“We’ve never been in that position before,” said Elliott, who starts the postseason with 40 Playoff points in the bank. “This is a good thing. I’d love us to put ourselves in that position more often year after year.
“It means you’ve probably had more fun that year. It also means you’re trying to hedge your bet. Nothing is guaranteed, but it can certainly help. That’s the big one… we want to hedge that bet and better our odds as much as possible.”
Darlington is likely to create more separation between the Playoff contenders. The Cook Out Southern 500 is a grueling race in which drivers run close to the outside walls at the 1.366-mile egg-shaped track, where tensions remain high throughout.
One lapse of concentration can lead to disaster.
Dillon, for one, is up to the challenge
“I love that track,” he said. “People ask me what’s my favorite track, and I’ve gone to saying the places you win, so Daytona and Charlotte. But Darlington is my favorite. It’s like driving back in time. It’s a driver’s track.
“Tire management comes into play. It’s a long race, and you’re racing the race track. Historically, that’s been good for me.”
Race for NASCAR Xfinity Series Regular Season Championship heats up at Darlington
If Ty Gibbs plans to make a move toward the NASCAR Xfinity Series Regular Season Championship, now would be a good time.
The driver of the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota has a series-best five victories this season, but he trails three-time winner AJ Allmendinger in the standings by 58 points with three races left in the regular season.
Allmendinger has held the top spot in the standings for 17 straight races. Darlington, however, is not one of his best tracks, and if Gibbs wants to make a dent in Allmendinger’s hefty points lead, he can start with Saturday’s Sports Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 at the Lady in Black (3 p.m. ET on USA, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Allmendinger has other ideas, but his attitude toward Saturday’s race can best be described as cautiously optimistic.
“Darlington is such a tough race track to master,” said Allmendinger, who finished eighth at the speedway in May—his first top 10 there in three Xfinity starts. “The last time we raced there in the spring, we didn’t quite have the grip and speed we needed, but still came away with a top-10 finish.
“I think we were able to learn a lot from that, and hopefully that shows this weekend.”
The Sports Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 also features entries from three NASCAR Cup Series Playoff drivers—Kyle Larson, who won his most recent series start Aug. 20 at Watkins Glen; Christopher Bell, subbing for Denny Hamlin, still sore from an incident last Sunday at Daytona; and Ross Chastain, whose breakout performance at Darlington in 2018 propelled him toward the national spotlight. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72579-weekend-preview-darlington-raceway | 2022-09-03T02:16:32Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72579-weekend-preview-darlington-raceway | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
By Jeff Olson IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Chip Ganassi heard the chatter. In late August 2012, rumors roiled among the essential players in North American sports car racing. Its two sanctioning bodies – GRAND-AM Road Racing and the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) – were considering a merger. Not long after the gossip surfaced, the news became official. On Sept. 5, 2012, at a press conference in Daytona Beach, the principals of the two series, Jim France and Don Panoz, announced the merger. The split that had fractured the sport for 13 years would end, and the 2014 season would put everyone – teams, manufacturers, drivers and sponsors – on the same page. Ganassi, whose team had been a force in GRAND-AM, recalls it well. The merger didn’t just save sports car racing, he says. It strengthened it. “It set the stage for a growth period that we’re still in. That’s my most important takeaway,” Ganassi said. “It was the first building block, the first threshold moment that we went through. The sport is on the precipice of something great now, and (the merger) was the first thing that had to happen. It led to a lot of other great things that otherwise wouldn’t have happened.” Around the time Ganassi was hearing chatter about a merger, John Doonan, then Mazda’s director of motorsports, was summoned to Novi, Michigan, for a mysterious meeting. “I didn’t know who was going to be at the meeting and didn’t know what the topic would be,” Doonan said. “But as I was driving up to Novi for the meeting, I got a text message from Scott Atherton saying, ‘FYI, here’s who’s going to be in the meeting: Jim France, Ed Bennett, himself and Don Panoz.’ My heart started racing in a positive way. I had this strange feeling of ‘Could it be?’” It was. France, the founder of GRAND-AM, and Panoz, who founded ALMS in 1999, were meeting along with Bennett, the CEO of GRAND-AM at the time, and Atherton, then president and CEO of Panoz Motor Sports Group and ALMS, to heal the wounds, put the sport back together, and turn two schedules, specs and rules into one. It was serious news and a serious secret. For Doonan, who eventually became president of the unified sanctioning body under its regenerated name – International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) – the Novi meeting still evokes feelings. “Not to get sappy, but it was a very emotional meeting for me,” Doonan said. “I started breaking down a little bit when they told me what was happening because I remembered the heyday of IMSA back in the ‘80s and going to places like Road America and Brainerd and Mid-Ohio and seeing what I thought at the time was the best of the best. What came out of that meeting was a massive amount of work by Jim and Don and Scott and Ed to try to get the sport on a path to get to where we’re going to be in ‘23.” That’s the underlying theme of the upcoming 10-year announcement anniversary. The meeting and what came from it are the foundation for the next meaningful step in IMSA history: the introduction of the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class, a hybrid-based, top-tier IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship class that will debut in January at the Rolex 24 At Daytona. “You had the interest of what’s good for both sides working together, and that eventually led to a category that’s going to be really strong,” said Bobby Rahal, whose team raced in ALMS and continued on with IMSA after the merger. “We haven’t seen this many manufacturers in a major category since the ‘70s. That’s a result of the coming together of the two entities.” Trepidation Cast Aside as Momentum Grows While it was a positive development for North American sports car racing, news of the merger wasn’t exclusively greeted with champagne and roses. Some on each side felt their approach was right, the other wrong. Teams were deep-seated in their commitment to Panoz and France, and owners weren’t sure what a merged future might hold. “The business model worked for me at that time,” said Will Turner, whose Turner Motorsport was successfully entrenched with GRAND-AM. “When I heard of the merger, I was like, ‘Wait a second. What’s going to happen here? What are they going to bring to the table to make my life better and the series better?’” Drivers had the same questions. For many, it meant fewer races and fewer chances to make money. Bill Auberlen, Turner’s ace driver who raced in both series at the time, turned uncertainty about his future into the most successful résumé in IMSA history. “It was going to halve my racing opportunity,” Auberlen said. “With newness comes a little bit of fear and trepidation with how it will turn out. But you look back now and it was amazing. The cars are great and the teams are great. They had to identify what was important, and they’ve improved it in almost every aspect. It’s been fantastic and strong. When you come to our races now, you see that the fans are back. The excitement about the racing is back.” While it has been 10 years, it feels longer ago and farther away. The progress made in recent years – despite the unexpected difficulties of a pandemic – make a damaging political battle seem a distant memory. “It is hard to believe that is has been 10 years since the unification of sports car racing here in the United States," said Roger Penske, whose decades-long involvement in sports car racing enters a new chapter next year with Porsche Penske Motorsport's GTP entries. "As we look back on it, the impact of bringing the sport together through IMSA provided the vision and the direction that was needed for competitors, manufacturers, partners and our fans. “It is incredible to think about all of the advancements and great competition we have witnessed on track over the last decade, and the unification really helped chart the path for the exciting future that lies ahead for sports car racing. With the new global formula across FIA WEC and IMSA competition set to make its debut in 2023, sports car racing has a great opportunity to carry its momentum forward.” Combining Best of Both Worlds for a Better Future Looking back at the anniversary of the announcement means looking back at the unpredictable currents of racing and the people who lead it. The GRAND-AM/ALMS split held echoes of the CART/Indy Racing League split. That ended in 2008 after 12 years. “It was so obvious that (sports car racing) had to be together, just like it became so obvious that CART had to get together with IRL and create IndyCar,” said Rahal, who also fields a team in the IndyCar Series. “Look at how good that is today compared to where it was. … It’s one of those things where it never should have happened in the first place and with time it became apparent that the two sides had to come together for the betterment of not just the sport or the teams, but for themselves.” Ten years ago, the leaders of sports car racing did just that. The negotiations were primarily between France and Panoz, who were given credit for a careful, bilateral negotiation. Panoz, who died in 2018, left a wide-ranging legacy in sports car racing; his Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta will carry on next month for its 25th year, standing steadily as the season finale for the WeatherTech Championship. It was his work – and France’s – that led to this moment. “There was a lot of give and take on both sides,” Ganassi said. “I’m sure there probably were some good feelings on both sides and probably a little pain on both sides. Ultimately it was something that proved to be the spark that lit the fire of sports car growth worldwide. It was the original spark that said, ‘Hey, this can happen.’ Opposing sides that have the same interest in mind can come together and live happily ever after. Look what it’s done.” It’s brought fans, manufacturers, race promoters and corporate partners to the same playing field. Now, as the anniversary of the announcement of the merger is celebrated, IMSA reaches for another milestone on the horizon. “What we’ve been working toward as an industry is continuing that,” Doonan said. “Now it’s down to the nuts and bolts of a set of technical regulations that do the same thing. It’s what the fans want. They want to see all the top manufacturers and the top drivers with the top teams competing both here in IMSA in North America as well as in the World Endurance Championship – specifically Le Mans. “There are so many positive elements to this, and a lot of people are putting in a lot of work to see it come to fruition.” | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72541-a-decade-after-merger-announcement-imsa-continues-arcing-higher | 2022-09-03T02:16:51Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72541-a-decade-after-merger-announcement-imsa-continues-arcing-higher | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Motorsport icon Emerson Fittipaldi talked to VegasInsider about the Dutch GP this weekend, tipping Max Verstappen to give it his all.
Here's what he said:
- Ferrari are starving for a win
"If you look back, most of the grands prix, Ferrari is the fastest car on average, through the whole year."
"But the Ferraris are extremely competitive. They need results now. They're starving for a good result. They're starving for a win."
"LeClerc is strong. Carlos is strong for sure."
- Max Verstappen will give his 110 percent at his home race
"Max proved last year that he did a fantastic job (in his home race)."
"When I raced, everytime I raced in my home country, like Interlagos or Rio de Janeiro, the Jacarepagua, I would give my 110 percent."
"I'm sure Max will give his 110 percent."
- It will be a very competitive grand prix - even Sergio Perez can win
"I think it would be a very, very competitive Grand Prix with a lot of challenge from Ferrari.
"Even Checo could do well in that Red Bull car. They won last year. They'll be strong again this year."
Fittipaldi was speaking to VegasInsider, and you can find the entire interview here. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72542-emerson-fittipaldi-ferrari-are-starving-for-a-win-and-i-expect-max-verstappen-to-give-his-110-percent-at-zandvoort | 2022-09-03T02:16:57Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72542-emerson-fittipaldi-ferrari-are-starving-for-a-win-and-i-expect-max-verstappen-to-give-his-110-percent-at-zandvoort | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NHRA officials today announced a partnership with Phillips Connect, along with the formation of the “Phillips Connect 300 at the 1/8” program, a special club that will honor the first 10 drivers in either Top Fuel or Funny Car to reach the 300-mph milestone in the 1/8-mile.
Starting at this weekend’s prestigious Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, the first driver in NHRA history in one of the nitro categories to reach the 300-mph mark by 660-feet in qualifying or eliminations will receive a special $30,000 bonus as the first driver in the “Phillips Connect 300 at the 1/8” program. Each of the next nine competitors to reach the mark will also earn recognition and a bonus.
NHRA and Phillips Connect, an industry leader with connected asset solutions for trailers, chassis, and containers, partnered together to create the unique program, rewarding the milestone feat of technology and engineering among the standout teams in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series.
“When I broke 300 mph in a Funny Car at the quarter-mile, it was a major accomplishment," said Phillips Connect EVP Jim Epler, who enjoyed a standout career in the Funny Car ranks. "Now you see drivers reaching this speed at just half the distance. It’s a true testament to the technology and the incredible crew chiefs that have taken this sport to the next level. We’re honored to be a part of this groundbreaking club and appreciate the hard-working teams that have kept the NHRA excited.”
Top Fuel points leader Brittany Force went 299.00 MPH, while Phillips Connect-sponsored Top Fuel driver Justin Ashley went 298.27 at the most recent race in Brainerd.
The 300-mph mark is one of the last barriers for race teams in the thrilling 11,000-horsepower nitro categories to reach in a safe and controlled manner, and Phillips Connect was eager to create the unique program. The industry leader has developed innovative IoT sensor connection technology widely used in the freight industry, keeping drivers and their cargo safe. Phillips Connect products are also designed to improve overall safety and security, reduce costs in fleet maintenance, and dramatically enhance fleet asset utilization.
“We had the privilege of testing our motorsports program with Justin Ashley Racing this year, but to put a program out there with NHRA that includes all nitro drivers is very exciting,” said Phillips Connect founder and CEO, Rob Phillips. “The NHRA is growing at lightning speed with new technology that enables the sport to keep getting faster. Our customers have a deeply rooted love for motorsports, and we are thrilled to get even more involved with the industry.”
The second driver to hit the 300-mph mark in the eighth-mile will receive $13,000, while the third gets $9,000. The fourth through 10th drivers will each receive $3,000. The purse award is unique to each driver regardless of the driver’s team affiliation and regardless of whether the driver is competing in Top Fuel or Funny Car.
(Courtesy of NHRA Communications) | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72545-nhra-announces-phillips-connect-300-at-the-1-8-program | 2022-09-03T02:17:16Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72545-nhra-announces-phillips-connect-300-at-the-1-8-program | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
During the annual State of the Sport presentation at Road America on Aug. 5, IMSA President John Doonan detailed plans to increase recognition for Bronze-rated drivers in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT Daytona (GTD) class.
Those plans included the new-for-2023 Bob Akin Bronze Cup championship, which will honor the top Bronze-rated drivers in GTD at each race, along with end-of-season recognition as part of the annual WeatherTech Night of Champions celebration and entry into the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans. It also was confirmed that the first 15 minutes of Practice 2 for every WeatherTech Championship race will continue to be reserved for the GTD, LMP2 and LMP3 classes.
As part of his State of the Sport presentation, Doonan alluded to additional plans being developed for Bronze GTD drivers and those plans were confirmed today.
For 2023, IMSA will allow a single driver of any categorization – Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum as shown on the FIA Driver Categorization List – to qualify the car to earn starting position and qualifying points. If a Bronze driver qualifies, they may start the race on any set of tires from the car’s allocation without penalty. Any non-Bronze driver will be required to start on their qualifying tires.
In addition to the overall Bob Akin Bronze Cup championship, IMSA will recognize the top three Bronze-rated finishers in the season standings during WeatherTech Night of Champions.
“Bronze-rated drivers literally make it possible for their teams to go racing – not only in the WeatherTech Championship GTD class, but it many other IMSA classes and series,” Doonan said. “These drivers provide vital funding for their teams and have provided the backbone of sports car racing throughout its history. These enhancements will provide more benefits for Bronze-rated drivers in the GTD class and focus more well-deserved attention on their success in the WeatherTech Championship.”
Prior to the 2023 season, IMSA also will conduct its annual review of the IMSA Sporting Regulations & Series Supplementary Regulations, including Timing and Scoring of drive time.
WeatherTech Sprint Cup Set for 2023 Return
In addition to the Bob Akin Bronze Cup enhancements, IMSA also announced the return of the WeatherTech Sprint Cup for the GTD class in 2023.
The Sprint Cup will comprise the seven WeatherTech Championship races on the 2023 schedule that are two hours and 40 minutes in length or shorter. As has been the case in previous years, WeatherTech Sprint Cup driver, team and manufacturer champions will be honored at season’s end.
One difference from previous years is that there will be no Sprint Cup-only races in 2023. The full WeatherTech Championship GTD schedule includes all 11 races next year. Within the overall championship, the seven sprint races count toward the Sprint Cup and the four endurance races count toward the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72550-imsa-announces-additional-enhancements-for-2023-weathertech-championship-gtd-class | 2022-09-03T02:17:49Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72550-imsa-announces-additional-enhancements-for-2023-weathertech-championship-gtd-class | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Paul Miller Racing Takes Satisfaction in WeatherTech Sprint Cup Title
Adam Sinclair
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Contact Adam: Email | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72552-paul-miller-racing-takes-satisfaction-in-weathertech-sprint-cup-title | 2022-09-03T02:18:01Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72552-paul-miller-racing-takes-satisfaction-in-weathertech-sprint-cup-title | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“I’ve been watching the series all year and am very excited to get in the USF2000 car for my first weekend on the Road to Indy. I look forward to working with Peter Dempsey and learning as much as I can from him given his experience. Portland International Raceway looks like it could produce some awesome battles, and I can’t wait to get on track.”
ProFlo / Ferguson / eComfort.com
“I’m excited for this weekend’s season finale here at Portland International Raceway. It’s a short and flowy circuit, and these last three races are going to be tense with so many drivers in the series still within a shot of the title. This has been close to one of my toughest years of racing, but I hope that I can turn it around into triumph this weekend and get some results.”
Ignite Autosport / Margay Racing / TierPoint / PSL / RSolution / TrueTitle / Ruckus Racing / Messmer Cares / Alvear / Cfx
“This year has definitely gone by quickly. I’m happy to say I’ve learned a lot as a driver this year. I’m also very happy to give it my all in the last race weekend of the season. We’ve got three races to try to get some results, so I’m looking forward to getting out there. Hope to see you at the track!”
Human Centred Movement / CRPS Awareness
“I’m really looking forward to getting back out this week at Portland. It’s been a bit of a break since the last time I was in the car, so we will need to dial it all back in quickly and have some good practice sessions to get us in the right spot for qualifying and the races. Can’t wait to get going!”
SessionGuardian / Zimperium / Lionfish Tech Advisors / Mark Green / JHG Investments
“I’m really excited to get going in Portland. It’s the first circuit on which I drove a USF2000 car and where I debuted on the Road to Indy, so it has a certain place in my heart. That being said, showing up for the second time at the circuit gives me a competitive edge, and I’m excited to see what results we can produce throughout the weekend!”
“The season finale is always one of the most exciting weekends in racing,” said Team Owner Peter Dempsey. “It will be extremely busy with six races across both series. It’s great to be able to add Luke to the program for this race event. We’re working hard with him to start building our program into the 2023 season. I’m so proud of everything our drivers have done all season. Hopefully we can finish as strongly as possible to keep building for 2023.”
The Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Portland kicks off with testing and practice tomorrow followed by qualifying and two races each for the USF2000 and Indy Pro 2000 series. Saturday will host a third and final race for each series to complete the 2022 season. A full weekend schedule is below. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72553-lucas-mann-joins-turn-3-motorsport-for-portland-season-finale | 2022-09-03T02:18:07Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72553-lucas-mann-joins-turn-3-motorsport-for-portland-season-finale | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jake and Andretti began their relationship in 2020 when the 25-year-old Brit caught the eye of the outfit's management during an intensive selection process encompassing several test sessions. Jake was quick to make an impression during his debut season in the FIA Formula E World Championship, winning two races and finishing third in the Driver’s World Championship standings.
Building upon the strong two-year relationship between Andretti Formula E and the British driver, Dennis will extend his partnership with the team as they head into the Generation 3 era, powered by Porsche.
Michael Andretti, CEO and Chairman, Andretti Autosport, said:
"Keeping Jake a part of Avalanche Andretti FE is a great step for our success as a team heading into Season 9. Jake has been a successful driver and leader over the past two years with our team, and we are looking forward to this continuing into Season 9 and beyond. This step is a continuation of building Avalanche Andretti FE towards consistency to achieve our main mission, to win."
Jake Dennis, Driver, Avalanche Andretti Formula E, said:
Roger Griffiths, Team Principal, Avalanche Andretti Formula E, said: | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72554-jake-dennis-signs-extension-with-avalanche-andretti-formula-e | 2022-09-03T02:18:13Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72554-jake-dennis-signs-extension-with-avalanche-andretti-formula-e | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon will briefly step out of retirement to race in the IMSA-sanctioned Porsche Carrera Cup North America Presented by the Cayman Islands at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), Sept. 2-4.
Highlighting the weekend for the three-time Daytona 500 winner will be a reunion with longtime and storied crew chief Ray Evernham. It marks the first time the championship-winning combination has teamed together since 1999. Gordon joins an entry list of more than 30 Porsche specialists all piloting Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars competing on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course at the world-famous race course.
“I’m looking forward to getting back in a race car and competing against a talented field of teams and drivers,” said Gordon, the NASCAR Hall of Famer. “It’s always special when I get a chance to compete at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Ray and I have always talked about running another race together, and we felt like Indy was the perfect place. It’ll be a fun way to spend the holiday weekend and make some new memories.”
Gordon will drive the No. 24 entry in the Invitational class of the Porsche one-make series as part of the second annual Porsche Sports Car Together Fest. The 93-time NASCAR Cup race winner is no stranger to either road courses or Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The hometown hero of nearby Pittsboro, Indiana, is a record five-time Brickyard 400 winner on the IMS oval and holds the NASCAR Cup Series record for most road course victories (nine). In 2017, Gordon won the Rolex 24 At Daytona overall in his second attempt in the iconic IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race. In doing so, he became one of only four drivers to win both the Daytona 500 and the Daytona 24-hour race. In 2003, he had his first taste of the Indy road course in a famous “car exchange” with Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya.
Opening practice for the two 40-minute Carrera Cup races will come on Friday, Sept. 2, followed by qualifying and Race 1 on Saturday, Sept. 3 and Race 2 scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 4.
Live timing and scoring of each session can be found at www.PorscheCarreraCup.us. The races will be broadcast live on the official series website – www.porschecarreracup.us – as well as on IMSA.com/TVLive. IMSA Radio will provide play-by-play commentary. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72562-nascar-legend-gordon-to-race-in-porsche-carrera-cup-at-indianapolis | 2022-09-03T02:18:58Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72562-nascar-legend-gordon-to-race-in-porsche-carrera-cup-at-indianapolis | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The championship leaders of the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series kicked off the NASCAR GP Czech Republic on the right foot. Alon Day and Alberto Naska topped the combined standings in Free Practice on Friday with stellar lap times. While Day beat championship contender Nicolo Rocca by 0.314 seconds, Naska edged his rival Vladimiros Tziortzis by 0.396 seconds at the 4.2-kilometer long Autodrom Most.
Day has already proved his abilities to win at the Czech facility in 2021, when the driver of the #24 PK Carsport Chevrolet Camaro grabbed his first win at Most. For Alberto Naska, it was another debut at an unknown track for him, but the CAAL Racing rookie again mastered the new track well and put himself on top of the standings. The Italian was watching the EuroNASCAR PRO Free Practice at the hill in turn 1 to find the missing secrets of the high speed track.
EuroNASCAR PRO: Day set the bar
Day started where he left in 2021 and set the benchmark in the two free practice sessions on Friday with a 1:40.523-lap in Free Practice 1. The Israeli beat title contender Nicolo Rocca by about three tenth of a second and made a statement in the championship battle. The duo was followed by reigning EuroNASCAR 2 Champion Martin Doubek, who was only 0.043 seconds slower than the Italian in his #56 CAAL Racing Chevrolet.
Gianmarco Ercoli ended up fourth and is set to fight his way back into title contention after a season that was filled with ups and downs for the Rome native. Academy Motorsport / Alex Caffi Motorsport driver Patrick Lemarie closed the top-5. The Frenchman has plenty of experience at Autodrom Most, where he won a European Le Mans Series race twenty-one years ago.
Sebastiaan Bleekemolen finished sixth ahead of Marc Goossens and Giorgio Maggi, who topped the Junior Trophy ranks. Liam Hezemans, who crashed into the barriers in Free Practice 2, and NWES veteran Romain Iannetta rounded out the combined top-10. Frederic Gabillon and Brands Hatch race winner Alexander Graff ended up eleventh and twelfth.
Henri Tuomaala was the fastest of the Challenger Trophy drivers in 13th place whilst two-time NWES race winner Yann Zimmer finished 16th on his return to the series with Racingfuel Motorsport. Max Lanza and Davide Dallara completed the top-3 in the Challenger Trophy in 15th and 17th respectively. Aliyyah Koloc took 14th on her hometrack and closed the Junior Trophy top-3 behind Hezemans.
EuroNASCAR 2: New challenges for Naska
Visiting a new track is nothing new to Naska, who impressed with strong performances in his rookie season so far. The EuroNASCAR 2 championship leader was the fastest driver with a 1:40.686-lap in Free Practice 2. He beat one of his closest rivals in the championship battle, Tziortzis, who ended up about four tenths of a second slower than the CAAL Racing driver.
Reigning champion Doubek followed in third while Gil Linster showed promising pace in his #56 Chevrolet Camaro after he finished the day in fourth. Claudio Capelli did not only close the top-5, but he also took second in the Rookie Trophy and topped the Legend Trophy classification. PK Carsport driver Christian Malcharek followed in sixth, while Koloc was the best Lady Trophy driver in seventh.
Hezemans, Leonardo Colavita and Tuomas Pontinen rounded out the top-10, with Hezemans completing the top-3 in the Rookie Trophy. Michael Bleekemolen, who is deputizing for Melvin de Groot, and Dario Caso completes the top-3 in Legend Trophy whilst the top-3 in Lady Trophy was completed by Luli del Castello and Alina Loibnegger.
The last session of EuroNASCAR 2 was red flagged in the closing stages due to an incident involving Patrick Schober and Miguel Gomes. Both NWES championships will be back to action on Saturday at 10:30 am CEST with Qualifying. The grid-setting sessions and all races will be broadcast live on EuroNASCAR’s YouTube channel, Motorsport.tv and several TV services from around the world.
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After several years of trying, Jason Feger is now finally a Herald & Review 100 winner.
The veteran racer from Bloomington, IL, grabbed the lead after a Lap 30 restart and never looked back, leading the rest of the distance for the $5,000 check and his 23rd career DIRTcar Summer Nationals Feature win Thursday night at Macon Speedway.
“This race, to me, means as much as it always has,” Feger said. “I’ve been coming here for a long time. I think I won a couple of these when I was helping Billy Drake back in the day. I’ve just always wanted to get this one bad for some reason.”
“We’ve won races here, just never the Herald & Review. To finally be able to pull it off feels great.”
Through victories at the national tour level, his 2010 Hell Tour championship, and his DIRTcar Late Model national points title in 2009, Feger has enjoyed a great deal of success in his career. While the wins and accomplishments have accumulated over the years, one trophy was missing from his cabinet. One to show he had conquered one of Illinois’ most prestigious dirt track racing events.
Now, he finally has it. But it was no easy road, coming from eighth on the starting grid and having to battle just to stay inside the top-four in the first 30 laps.
After a restart on Lap 30, it looked as though Feger flipped a switch, making the move on Fast Qualifier Myles Moos for third on Lap 34, passing Jake Little for second on Lap 36, and then Rusty Schlenk for the lead on Lap 39.
Though the Macon top side was working as it so often does with Super Late Models, Feger decided to go to the bottom for all these passes, and it paid off.
“[The track] was still pretty fast when we started the Feature, so I was just biding my time and letting them guys go,” Feger said. “They were going hard, and I was just kinda trying to roll around there in the middle groove, just keep working it and saving my stuff.
“I just felt like we kept getting better and better. When it was there, I had to be aggressive, but I was just biding my time and waiting for the opportunities.”
Now armed with the race lead and the competition behind him, Feger set it on cruise control and began clicking-off laps. Several caution flags (and one red) arose from that point forward, testing Feger’s ability to be smart on restarts.
“When you get all those yellows, you can always just leave yourself open for a mistake or for somebody to throw a slide job or easing into the corner and somebody runs into the back of you or something,” Feger said. “Them guys kept racing me clean.”
Rusty Griffaw crossed the line second – his best career finish in the event. Wisconsin’s Jayme Zider completed the podium, while Myles Moos and Jake Little rounded out the top-five.
ABBREVIATED RESULTS
Feature 100 Laps | 00:53:50.660
1. 25-Jason Feger[8]; 2. 16-Rusty Griffaw[9]; 3. 9Z-Jayme Zider[6]; 4. 84-Myles Moos[5]; 5. 38J-Jake Little[1]; 6. 25T-Tucker Finch[7]; 7. 27-Greg Kimmons[22]; 8. 38-Thomas Hunziker[10]; 9. 35-Claude Walker[13]; 10. 91-Rusty Schlenk[2]; 11. 33H- Roben Huffman[16]; 12. 11M-Ryan Miller[12]; 13. 22-Chris Dick[18]; 14. B15-Bob Sidener[20]; 15. 4D-Doug Tye[23]; 16. 24-Ryan Unzicker[4]; 17. 10-Blake Damery[21]; 18. 23-Andrew Barnes[17]; 19. 28M-Jake Miller[11]; 20. 31AUS-Paul Stubber[14]; 21. 22J-Dan Jacober[15]; 22. 18-Shannon Babb[3]; 23. 64-Donnie Kohler[19]
SIX-STRAIGHT: Harrison Wins Summit Modifieds at Macon for Sixth Consecutive Year
When it comes to Macon Speedway, nobody has dominated quite like Mike Harrison in the Modified portion of the Herald & Review 100.
The six-time DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals champion has won each of the last five editions of this race and continued that streak Thursday night with another strong performance.
“We found something that works here at Macon several years ago,” Harrison said. “We just kinda come back here with the same thing every time, no matter what car we got.
“This little places just really suit me; I grew up racing on this stuff. It’s really fun and produces really good racing.”
In short, Harrison took the lead from polesitter Tim Luttrell on Lap 2 and never looked back, notching the 56th Summit Modified victory of his career. Though it was not the tallest mountain he’d climbed this season, Harrison’s no-quit attitude still propels him to perform as if the race were his last.
“It doesn’t matter what local show you’re at or big show, there’s always guys there that can beat you,” Harrison said. “You can’t ever take a win for granted.”
ABBREVIATED RESULTS
Feature 25 Laps | 00:08:17.408
1. 24H-Mike Harrison[2]; 2. 43-Jared Thomas[4]; 3. 10M-Chris Morefield[5]; 4. 99-Tim Luttrell[1]; 5. 13-Guy Taylor[7]; 6. 36- Kenny Wallace[9]; 7. 72W-Kaleb Wood[12]; 8. 87-Alan Crowder[3]; 9. 28S-Joe Strawkas[10]; 10. 87S-David Shain[8]; 11. 28-Rodney Standerfer[6]; 12. (DNS) 71-Jeff Graham
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It was an emotional win for Federico Monti in the Club Challenge at Autodrom Most, Czech Republic. The Italian was the most consistent driver in the regularity test of the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series and grabbed victory at the end of the two timed sessions. The Academy Motorsport / Alex Caffi Motorsport driver dedicated the win to his late friend, who unfortunately passed away during the summer. Monti was followed by the Marko Stipp Motorsport duo of Andreas Kuchelbacher and reigning champion Gordon Barnes.
“We wanted to get this win,” said an emotional Monti at the podium. “The team is working so hard and we had an awesome day here in Most. I dedicate this win to one of my best friends, who passed away this summer. We really wanted to get this victory for him. I’m really happy and had a great time at the track. We are now looking forward to the next round at Circuit Zolder in Belgium.”
While Monti scored a total of 75 points and topped the second session, Kuchelbacher ended up second just one marker down to the Italian. The former Club Challenge champion was the most consistent driver in the first session but lost the battle to Monti in the second outing because he ended up only third. With that, the Austrian beat his Marko Stipp Motorsport teammate Barnes, who suffered from technical issues on his Chevrolet Camaro.
The Brit collected 73 points despite losing a lot of track time due to a fuel pump issue in the first session. With his podium finish, Barnes still leads the championship, but Monti gained massive ground before the last two rounds at Zolder and Grobnik. Julian Vanheelen ended up fourth, while championship contender Neo Lambert suffered from a setback at Most. The Frenchman wasn’t able to turn a single lap due to technical issues and therefore lost important points in the title battle.
The Club Challenge will return on October 7 at Circuit Zolder in Belgium. The final will take place at the Automotodrom Grobnik on October 28 and promises to deliver a fantastic battle in the regularity test in Croatia. With the first sessions in the books, it’s time for EuroNASCAR PRO and EuroNASCAR 2 to hit the track with Free Practice on Friday and four thrilling races over the weekend – two for each championship.
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Speedway Motorsports and Onward Technology have partnered on a multi-year agreement to provide high-speed, wireless internet access on NASCAR Cup Series race weekends at select Speedway Motorsports facilities. The enhanced service, FansFirst WiFi, has been available during the 2022 season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Sonoma Raceway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This fan amenity will continue at Bristol, Texas, Charlotte and Las Vegas for the upcoming NASCAR Playoff weekends and subsequent seasons to come.
By connecting to the FansFirst WiFi network, race fans can access free high-speed internet during events leading up to and during NASCAR Cup Series races. The network is available in concession and concourse areas, fan zones and select camping areas. This enhanced WiFi experience allows race fans to quickly access social media accounts and share the excitement of race weekend with friends and family on their smartphones. FansFirst WiFi also allows fans to easily engage with online resources on Speedway Motorsports, NASCAR and race team mobile apps and digital services.
“We are excited to partner with Speedway Motorsports and continue providing a more connected experience for race fans during event weekends,” said Onward Technology Chief Executive Officer Jarom Roney. “Providing reliable WiFi for thousands of connected fans is a challenge that we’ve embraced alongside Speedway Motorsports, and we’re looking forward to elevating that experience for fans throughout this and coming seasons.”
Onward Technology is a high-performance networking solution provider that specializes in complex WiFi deployments for large spaces and high user density. Onward Technology designs, deploys and manages networks that can handle demanding environments and significant numbers of people. Onward Technology also provides managed IT services to organizations with a focus on likeable engineers and ultra-reliable networks.
“Keeping fans, friends and families connected on race days makes for a more enjoyable and remarkable experience,” said Speedway Motorsports Chief Operating Officer Mike Burch. “FansFirst WiFi provides a platform for fans not only to share their good times during our events, but also for us to communicate information fans need to know through our speedway apps and social media channels. We look forward to working with Onward Technology on more ways to keep our fans engaged through their state-of-the-art wireless networks.”
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Zero FG Energy, a newly established and rapidly growing brand of energy drinks, is set to return as the primary partner of Brandon Brown’s No. 68 Chevrolet Camaro on Saturday, October 1, 2022, when the NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) heads back to Talladega Superspeedway for the one-year anniversary of Brown’s first-ever and highly publicized victory.
As the defending race winner, October’s highly anticipated return to the steep banks of Talladega Superspeedway will serve as an emotional reminder of a turning point in Brown’s career when success and opportunity were quickly met by false promises and hostility after the 28-year-old driver was inadvertently thrown into the global spotlight after a movement which originated during his victory, almost instantaneously overshadowed his accomplishment. Now, nearly one year later, Brown continues to be haunted by the events that unfolded after his first-career win.
Coincidentally, it was during the height of Brown’s unsolicited rise in notoriety that Zero FG Energy Founder Josh Askew became acquainted with him.
“Like many NASCAR fans, I was originally drawn to support Brandon Brown after seeing what a talented race car driver he had proven to be,” said Askew. “Unfortunately, his career suffered after becoming collateral damage in a nationwide movement that he did not ask to be a part of – and that didn’t sit well with me. Then, after getting to know Brandon personally and hearing his story, it became clear to me that all he wanted to do was race.”
“Fortunately, that mentality aligned directly with our culture here at Zero FG Energy, where we encourage everyone to run their own race and disregard negativity,” continued Askew. “We’re extremely proud of Brandon for his embodiment of the Zero FG brand as he continues to work extremely hard at leaving the negatives in the past while doing his best not to let anything stand in the way of what he loves to do. And for those reasons, we’re proud to continue our support of Brandon during his return to Talladega and beyond.”
When the eye-catching black and gold colors of Zero FG Energy take to the 33-degree banking of Talladega Superspeedway, it will be for their third NXS primary partnership of the 2022 season aboard Brown’s No. 68 Chevrolet. The pairing has already started to build an impressive on-track resume with a strong showing in their partnership debut at Atlanta Motorsports Speedway on March 19, followed by a dominating performance at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on July 16, where Brown led a total of 12 laps en route to a season and partnership-best finish of third.
“It’s been a tough year of racing, but thanks to the support of great partners like Josh, Chuck, and everybody at Zero FG Energy, it’s made things a whole lot better,” Brown explained. “I’m incredibly grateful to have Zero FG Energy on board with me when our team returns to Talladega (Superspeedway) in October, where I hope to improve upon our partnership-best finish of third and put the No. 68 back in Victory Lane, where I know that the Zero FG’s will taste even better than they already do.”
Brown continued by saying, “I encourage all race fans to help me in showing support for Zero FG as they’ve shown support for me, by visiting their website and ordering a few cases of their delicious tasting products. And if you live in Georgia, visit your local gas stations or convenient store to see if you can find their products as they’ve been rapidly expanding across the state.”
The No. 68 Zero FG Energy Drink Chevrolet Camaro will be on track for the NASCAR Xfinity Series return to Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday, October 1, 2022, with race coverage airing live on USA Network at 4 p.m. ET.
For more information about Zero FG Energy and to order your product, please visit www.zerofgenergy.com.
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Beason, Craven-Howell, Darden, Gianopulos and McConnell Join the Salem Academy and College Board of Trustees
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (SEPTEMBER 2, 2022)—Sallie Smalley Beason A’85, Akeshia Craven-Howell, Linda W. Darden, Beth Mabe Gianopulos C’97 and Dr. John D. McConnell joined the Salem Academy and College board of trustees as of July 1, 2022.
Beason graduated from Salem Academy in 1985 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. After college, she moved to Philadelphia and began a career as a commercial loan officer for a regional bank. In 1997, she earned a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, double majoring in finance and real estate. Upon graduation from Wharton, Beason worked in New York City on Wall Street for five years in commercial real estate investment banking and continued this career in Charlotte, N.C. with senior positions at Bank of America and Fifth Third Bank. In 2009, she founded her own consulting company where she works directly with financial institutions, debt and equity funds and national due diligence companies to provide real estate, banking and capital markets expertise.
Craven-Howell is a partner with Bellwether Education Partners in the strategic advising practice area. She brings more than 15 years of leadership experience in large urban school systems, most recently serving as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ associate superintendent for student assignment and school choice in North Carolina. Craven-Howell led innovation, college and career readiness and equitable access to high-quality learning in the district. Prior to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Craven-Howell worked in the Chicago Public School System as a project manager for high school transformation, a senior manager in instructional leadership, a chief area officer for high schools and an officer for pathways to college and career. She is an alumna of The Broad Superintendents Academy and The Broad Residency in Urban Education. Craven-Howell holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Darden is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Trellis Supportive Care, a position she has held since 2014. Prior to joining Trellis, Darden worked for almost 20 years in a number of financial management capacities at North Carolina Baptist Hospital (now a part of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist). She also has served as president of the North Carolina Healthcare Financial Management Association. Darden has a master’s degree in health administration, is a Certified Public Accountant and has broad executive leadership experience.
Gianopulos is Senior Associate General Counsel in the legal department at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Associate Dean of Faculty Relations and Retention in the Office of Faculty Affairs at Wake Forest School of Medicine, where she has worked since 2006. She also is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at Wake Forest School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest School of Law. Gianopulos’ practice includes a wide range of labor and employment issues that arise in the complex atmosphere of an academic medical center. Prior to joining Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, she was the first General Counsel and Chief Planning Officer at Salem Academy and College. Gianopulos received a J.D. cum laude from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2001. She graduated magna cum laude from Salem College with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1997. She served as Student Government Association president while at Salem College.
Dr. McConnell is Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Professor and Gordon Hanes Chair of Urology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. McConnell joined Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, the academic medical center of Wake Forest University, in November 2008 after being named the Medical Center’s first Chief Executive Officer. A urologist and translational researcher by training, Dr. McConnell has served on the Advisory Board of National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2004. He has received the Barringer Medal from the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons and the Fuller Award from the American Urological Association in recognition of his contributions to the field of prostate disease. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and ten books. Dr. McConnell continues to serve as a fulltime as a tenured professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine. He has served as a board member and advisor to a number of non-profit organizations that focus on healthcare, education, the arts and the development of an inclusive economy.
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HPU’s New Pharmacy Students Start Their Year in Service to the Community
HIGH POINT, N.C., Sept. 2, 2022 – High Point University recently welcomed its seventh cohort of pharmacy students in the Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy, the Triad’s only pharmacy school.
The students took part in a traditional White Coat Ceremony, which welcomes them into the profession. The event is also a time for beginning students to learn about their responsibility to balance a broad basic scientific and clinical knowledge with compassionate patient care.
“As the interim dean of the Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy, I am so proud to welcome the Class of 2026,” says Mary Jayne Kennedy. “This new class joins a group of talented and motivated pharmacy students in the School of Pharmacy, and their excitement for becoming student pharmacists is both palpable and infectious. Our faculty and staff are all excited to work with such an excited and motivated group of students.”
On Aug. 15, pharmacy students also dedicated a day of service to the city of High Point and completed various projects at several community organizations, including the Community Clinic of High Point, Open Door Ministries and more. Projects included cleaning, organizing, gardening and painting. It’s a tradition for new pharmacy students to begin their HPU journey each year with a day of service to the city they now call home.
Zachary Amigo, a first-year pharmacy student from Fort Mill, South Carolina, spent his morning helping the Community Clinic of High Point, which serves patients in the community who are uninsured or underinsured.
“I was able to help organize medical supplies as well as organize medical records,” said Amigo. “This experience gave me a chance to not only learn more about how the clinic operates, but to have the opportunity to do so while giving back to the community that has welcomed me for the last two years. I’m excited to keep giving back to the community for the next four years.”
This is one of the many ways throughout the academic year that students give back to the community.
At High Point University, every student receives an extraordinary education in an inspiring environment with caring people. ® HPU, located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, is a liberal arts institution with 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students. It is ranked No. 1 by U.S. News and World Report for Best Regional Colleges in the South and No. 1 for Most Innovative Regional Colleges in the South. The Princeton Review named HPU in the 2023 edition of “The Best 388 Colleges” and on the Best Southeastern Colleges “2023 Best Colleges: Region by Region” list. HPU was also recognized among the Top 20 in the Nation for Best-Run Colleges, Best Career Services, Most Beautiful Campus, Most Active Student Government Association, Best College Dorms and Best Campus Food, as well as a Great School for Business/Finance Majors and a Great School for Communication Majors. For 12 years in a row, HPU has been named a College of Distinction with special recognition for career development, business and education programs. The university has 64 undergraduate majors, 66 undergraduate minors and 19 graduate degree programs. It is a member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference. Visit High Point University on the web at highpoint.edu. | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/hpu-s-new-pharmacy-students-start-their-year-in-service-to-the-community/article_8950d384-2af0-11ed-b1b5-8bea49b0a0a0.html | 2022-09-03T02:21:56Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/hpu-s-new-pharmacy-students-start-their-year-in-service-to-the-community/article_8950d384-2af0-11ed-b1b5-8bea49b0a0a0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Thousands anticipated the grand return of the three day Stone Soul Festival at Springfield’s Blunt Park, and the community came from all over to take part in this community event.
Some say this festival is the final hurrah of the summer! Many excited to celebrate after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic. It’s an easy day of eating, greeting and meeting new and old family and friends.
Christopher Scott, the coordinator of the event, told 22News, “After COVID, this is going to be a big event because people haven’t been out in a couple of years, so we really are anticipating a great turn out.”
The Stone Soul Festival began in 1989 as a community reunion picnic aimed at gathering together the Mason Square Community. Since then it has become New England’s largest African-American festival that celebrates and encompasses Springfield’s vibrant community.
“It’s nice to get back out again because, you know, for two years we were pretty much shut down, we weren’t doing this type of activity,” said Wayman Lee, president of CREW, a local non-profit. “So now we’re out doing it and we can help more people in the community by doing what we’re doing now.”
The festival provides family orientated activities, local entertainment, food, and performances that are culturally enriching.
Drew Keatonel, secretary of CREW said, “The makeup of Springfield with black and brown folks, if you look at Springfield, is almost 60, 70%. It’s very important for us to express ourselves, and we can do it through cultural events. It’s an expression of the community within itself.”
The Stone Soul Festival reunites the community with former Springfield residents who return on Labor Day weekend to renew acquaintances and relationships at Blunt Park decade after decade.
“Every part of the event is to see people that I haven’t seen from around the country in years.” Scott said. “We will have a chance to meet and greet people we haven’t seen in a long time, to mend some old wounds, and to heal.”
This three day festival continues into the weekend with more food vendors, local artists, even a gospel concert at the picnic on Sunday! | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/stone-soul-festival-celebrates-springfields-vibrant-african-american-culture/ | 2022-09-03T02:25:45Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/stone-soul-festival-celebrates-springfields-vibrant-african-american-culture/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CooperSmith's closing Poolside location in Old Town Fort Collins
CooperSmith's Pub & Brewing, 5 Old Town Square, will close its Poolside location at the end of September but keep its Pubside open.
The city's first brewpub has been a mainstay of Fort Collins' dining scene for about three decades, with the more traditional pub-style dining called Pubside and the more informal gathering spot, Poolside, across a sidewalk that meanders through Old Town Square.
Pubside was a place to grab a beer, play pool, ping pong and other games or sit on the patio.
"If there is one thing we've learned over the years, it is that change is inevitable," Dwight Hall, CooperSmith's president and co-owner, said in a press release announcing Poolside's impending closure.
"It has been a fun, wild adventure and we are immensely grateful for the last 30 years in both locations. Although it is sad to say goodbye to Poolside, it is also an exciting new time as we turn our full attention to making Pubside as great as it can be."
Poolside employees have been offered jobs on the Pubside.
"Change can be difficult, but it is also an opportunity to improve," Hall said. "We are committed to being the best brewpub in Northern Colorado for years to come."
Founded in 1989 by Scott Smith, now Sen. John Hickenlooper and 28 investors, CooperSmith’s was Fort Collins’ first brewpub and named for Smith's son, Cooper.
More:Despite hard-fought battle for liquor, beer crafted Fort Collins' image
Smith sold off majority ownership in 2014 to his management team, general manager Sandra Longton, head brewer Dwight Hall and operational manager Chris O'Mara, who had been running the business for years, according to Coloradoan archives.
Pubside is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays and 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sundays through Wednesdays.
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Live updates: Top-10 Michigan football team hosts Jay Norvell, Colorado State
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — For one team, it's the biggest opening game possible. For the other, it's a way to ease into the season.
That's the on-paper look, at least, as the Michigan football team hosts Colorado State on Saturday in the first game of the 2022 college football season for each squad.
Michigan (ranked in the top 10 in each poll) is looking to win the Big Ten and return to the College Football Playoff, and the Wolverines are in some ways treating this as a pseudo-exhibition with a QB rotation and all.
Colorado State is picked as a middle-of-the-pack Mountain West squad and aiming to start a resurgence under new coach Jay Norvell. A network national TV broadcast is rare for the Rams and a full Big House will be the largest crowd CSU has ever faced.
Coloradoan reporter Kevin Lytle is on the ground in Ann Arbor and will have live updates through the day Saturday.
Who are the quarterbacks for Michigan and Colorado State?
Colorado State: For the Rams, it was never a debate who would start at quarterback against Michigan. Redshirt freshman Clay Millen is the man chosen to start the Fort Air Raid revolution.
Millen's journey:Clay Millen hasn't started a game since 2020. Now he leads the Rams at the Big House
Michigan: The Wolverines have a much more interesting decision. Cade McNamara led Michigan to the College Football Playoff last season but had a battle in camp with sophomore J.J. McCarthy. Jim Harbaugh went the unusual route. McNamara will start against CSU and McCarthy will get the start next week against Hawaii. Both could play against the Rams.
Inside Michigan's QB battle:Read more on the competition from our friends at the Detroit Free Press
Get to know the Colorado State football team
At least a dozen starters on the CSU football team are new to the program this season. There are more than 50 new Rams on the roster overall.
It's a whole new look at Colorado State as the program transitions from the old-school Steve Addazio methods to Jay Norvell and the Air Raid.
There's a lot to learn about this Rams team.
Guide to CSU:Everything you need to know about new look Colorado State football
How to watch Michigan football vs. Colorado State
Saturday's game (10 a.m. MT, noon ET) will be broadcast on ABC.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CN) — Argentina Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner survived an assassination attempt while greeting supporters outside her home in the capital of Buenos Aires on Thursday.
Crowds have gathered over the last couple of weeks, holding vigil in support of the vice president who faces corruption charges. The gunman filtered through the supporters outside of her home in the wealthy Recoleta neighborhood, aimed a pistol at her from point-blank range and pulled the trigger. The gun failed to fire.
The gunman, identified as 35-year-old Brazilian national Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, was taken into custody after being apprehended by the politician’s security service. He is already known to law enforcement, having been arrested last year for possessing a knife when stopped at a vehicle control point.
“A man pointed a firearm at her head and pulled the trigger,” said President Alberto Fernández during a televised nationwide address Thursday. “Cristina is still alive because, for some reason yet to be confirmed, the gun did not fire.”
The president described the attack as “the most serious that has happened since we recovered our democracy” in 1983 after a bloody dictatorship. In his speech delivered close to midnight, he declared a national holiday for the following day, calling on the people to march against political violence.
The country’s largest trade union federation, the CGT, which represents millions of workers, declared that they are “in a state of alert” after the attack and are weighing up the possibility of a general strike in solidarity with the vice president.
On Friday, tens of thousands of people took part in marches across the country, with thousands descending on the nation’s spiritual center, Plaza de Mayo, the backdrop of many of the nation’s most iconic moments in history.
“I feel that what I’ve experienced today, I have never experienced before in my life,” said Laurence Bari, a 27-year-old language professor from Greater Buenos Aires. “It is the first time that a political representative has been in severe danger. Beyond the political differences and different ideas one may have about Cristina, an attempt against the integrity of any democratically elected political representative is an attempt not only against her life but also against the whole community, the rule of law, peace and representativeness.”
Bari went to the capital’s main square with a group of friends. “Plaza de Mayo was, as always, a refuge for the people. We were all calm, trying to celebrate the fact that Cristina was alive — probably by a miracle. There is a feeling in the air of irreparable damage, of anguish and pity. Our society has been put in check.”
Looking out into the crowd spread out across the iconic square, Bari said: “We felt democracy breaking into a thousand pieces, but we also felt how we were there trying to repair it in spite of everything.”
Fernández de Kircher, a charismatic center-left politician from the broad Peronist party, is one of the most influential public officials in the country. She served as president from 2007 to 2015 and is currently the vice president after choosing Alberto Fernández (no relation) to run as president in the 2019 elections.
The Bersa .380 caliber pistol used by the gunman was loaded with five bullets. As authorities work to identify the motive for the failed assassination, there has been international condemnation from world leaders as well as broad support for the vice president across the deep political divide that exists in Argentina.
Pope Francis, who is Argentine, called Fernández de Kircher by phone on Friday to express his solidarity. Presidents from across Latin America expressed their solidarity with Fernández de Kircher and their rejection of political violence, from Gustavo Petro in Colombia and Gabriel Boric in Chile to Luis Arce in Bolivia and Pedro Castillo in Peru.
Former Argentina president and leader of the center-right PRO party, Mauricio Macri, who is a strong critic of the vice president and also faces court cases of his own, expressed “absolute repudiation of the attack.” The mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta of the PRO party, expressed “total solidarity” with the vice president, calling the attack “a turning point in the democratic history of our country. Today, more than ever, all Argentines have to work together for peace.”
Other national politicians have refused to condemn the attack. The current head of the PRO party, Patricia Bullrich, took aim at the president for declaring a public holiday. “The president is playing with fire,” she said, accusing him of politicizing “an individual act of violence.”
Influential libertarian politician Javier Milei, whose anti-establishment position has catapulted him into the political center of Argentina in recent years, has so far refused to publicly comment on the attack.
The attempt on the vice president’s life comes weeks after another PRO politician, Francisco Sánchez, called for the reintroduction of the death penalty for those guilty of corruption. He was speaking in response to the 12-year jail sentence asked by prosecutors in the lengthy corruption case against Fernández de Kircher, who is accused of heading “probably the biggest corruption scheme that has ever been known in the country,” according to federal prosecutor Diego Luciani.
Fernández de Kirchner firmly denies the allegations and claims to be the victim of lawfare directed by political and judicial persecution.
The attempted assassination of the vice president occurred on the same day that U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a stark speech on the health of American democracy in light of the Jan. 6 hearings. Biden warned of the attempts to undermine democracy and the danger of descending into political violence.
The attack on Argentina’s vice president highlights the fragile state of democracy across continents. Yet many citizens refuse to let their countries descend into an era of political violence. For many, they’re holding the weight of uncertainty, attempting to repair the damages done to democracy. “To repair it with love,” Bari said, “with passion, with ingenuity and above all with tenderness. Because with tenderness we will win.”
Courthouse News correspondent James Francis Whitehead is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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DALLAS (CN) — Former Texas police officer Shaun Lucas was sued in federal court Friday by the mother of Jonathan Price, an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed at a convenience store after he tried to walk away from Lucas.
Marcella Louis sued Lucas, 24, and the city of Wolfe City in Dallas federal court for violations of her son’s Fourth Amendment rights and wrongful death.
The lawsuit claims Lucas responded to a Kwick Check store on Oct. 3, 2020, after reports of a fight. It claims there was a brief tussle after Price, 31, bumped into someone and a woman jumped onto his back, but it was quickly broken up without injuries. Price allegedly approached Lucas, asked him how he was and extended his hand to shake.
“Officer Lucas declined to shake hands and stated his intent to detain Mr. Price because he believed him to be intoxicated,” the seven-page complaint states. “Mr. Price stated that he ‘can’t be detained’ because he had done nothing wrong and began to walk away from Officer Lucas.”
The lawsuit claims Price was not aggressive and posed no danger to Lucas, who fired his Taser at Price before immediately firing his gun into Price’s chest four times.
“Officer Lucas was not in reasonable fear of serious bodily injury or death at the time that he shot Mr. Price,” the complaint states. “There was no justification for Officer Lucas to use lethal force against Mr. Price.”
The lawsuit echoes findings made by the Texas Rangers, who arrested Lucas after the shooting and charged him with murder.
“The preliminary investigation indicated that the actions of Officer Lucas were not objectionably reasonable,” the Rangers said at the time.
Louis claimed police did not let her approach her dying son after she rushed to the gas station after the shooting.
“They wouldn’t let me get close to my baby,” she said at the time. “I just wanted to hold his hand and they wouldn’t let me do that. I just wanted to crawl over there to him."
Louis told ABC-affiliate WFAA after the shooting that Lucas “didn’t have to shoot” her son.
“I know he was trained to do more than just tase him and shoot him,” she said at the time. “He didn't deserve that."
Wolfe City is in Hunt County and is approximately 70 miles northeast of Dallas. Lucas was one of only three officers in the police force, according to the city. Lucas was fired three days after the shooting after what the city called an “egregious violation” of department policies. Price was also a city employee at the time of his killing.
Lucas is currently being held on $1 million bond. He was transferred this week from jail in Collin County to Hunt County in preparation for his murder trial that is scheduled to being on Sept. 12.
The plaintiff is represented by John Coyle and Mark Maguire with McEldrew Young in Philadelphia.
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Colombo: Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday returned to the country from Thailand, nearly two months after he fled the country following a massive uprising against his government over the island nation's worst-ever economic crisis.
Rajapaksa, 73, fled the country on July 13 after months-long mass public demonstrations demanding his immediate resignation on July 9 gained momentum after protesters stormed the President's House in Colombo and several other state buildings in the capital.
Rajapaksa arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport amidst a heavy security presence. After being received at the airport by several ministers and Parliamentarians of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party, Rajapaksa left the airport in a heavily-guarded motorcade.
The ex-president returned to Sri Lanka on a Singapore Airlines flight. He travelled from Thailand to Singapore to take the flight as there are no direct flights between Bangkok and Colombo, sources said.
Rajapaksa will be living in a state bungalow close to Wijerama Mawatha in Colombo while a large security contingency will be appointed to maintain security in the area, Daily Mirror Lanka reported.
As a former president, Rajapaksa is entitled to a government house, security and other privileges.
Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka to the Maldives on a Sri Lanka Airforce plane and then proceeded to Singapore, from where he sent in his resignation on July 14.
Later, he flew to Thailand, seeking temporary shelter. Thailand had said that Rajapaksa can stay in the country for 90 days because he is still a diplomatic passport holder.
However, Rajapaksa was not allowed to engage in political activities in Thailand. He was confined to a hotel and surrounded by security personnel.
Local media reports on August 19 quoted Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam as saying that his party had requested the president to facilitate the former president's return and ensure security and necessary facilities".
After Rajapaksa was ousted, Sri Lanka's parliament elected then-Acting President and six-time former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new Head of State. Wickremesinghe has a mandate to serve out the rest of Rajapaksa's term, which ends in November 2024.
Rajapaksa, an ex-military officer, became president in November 2019.
Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948 which was triggered by a severe paucity of foreign exchange reserves.
The IMF on Thursday announced that it will provide Sri Lanka with a loan of about USD 2.9 billion over four years under a preliminary agreement to help the bankrupt island nation tide over its worst economic crisis and protect the livelihoods of the people. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/09/03/former-sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-returns.amp.html | 2022-09-03T02:36:42Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/09/03/former-sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-returns.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) unintentionally posted some private individuals’ tax information on its website last week before taking it down, officials said in a letter to Congress on Friday that was obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
Anna Canfield Roth, the acting assistant secretary for management in the Treasury Department, said in the letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, that the IRS determined that some machine-readable Form 990-T data was made available for bulk download last Friday, Aug. 26.
The Journal, which first reported the news, stated that the letter also went to other key members of Congress.
The IRS did not immediately return a request from The Hill for comment.
Tax-exempt businesses use the Form 990-T to report and pay income tax on income from certain investments or income that is unrelated to their exempt purpose.
The letter states that the IRS took immediate action to address the issue once it was noticed.
The agency said it has removed the files from the website and will replace them with updated files in the coming weeks. It will also work with groups that routinely use the files to remove the erroneous files and replace them with correct versions as they become available.
The IRS plans to contact all filers who were impacted in the coming weeks.
The agency determined that “limited” information for about 120,000 people was posted, but the data did not include Social Security numbers, individual income information, detailed financial account data or other “sensitive” information that could impact their credit.
The data did include some individual names or business contact information in some cases.
The letter states that the agency is continuing to review the situation, and the Treasury Department directed the IRS to conduct a “prompt review” of its practices to ensure necessary guards are in place to prevent future unauthorized disclosures.
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NEW YORK -- Like the champion she is, Serena Williams slugged away five match points in the final game. In the end, it wasn't enough.
Williams, perhaps the most decorated player in history, ended her tennis career Friday night at the 2022 US Open.
Ajla Tomljanovic won a third-round match 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-1 in front of a packed, passionate crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium, the familiar venue where Williams won a record-equaling six US Open titles.
Williams, 40, who won an Open Era record 23 Grand Slam titles, will leave the game with some of the loftiest numbers of all time.
Strictly in terms of Hologic WTA Tour titles, Martina Navratilova leads the all-time list with 167, followed by Chris Evert (157), Stefanie Graf (107), Court (92) and Williams, with 73.
Beyond the bare numbers, though, Williams is credited with transforming the women’s game.
“I don’t think I’ve even taken a moment to realize any impact,” she said in New York, responding to tributes from Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka and many others. “I understand it, but I don’t really meditate or think about it. I’ll have plenty of time soon to do all that.
“I never thought I would have that impact, ever. I was just a girl trying to play tennis in a time where I could develop this impact and be a voice. It was just so authentic because I do what I do, and I just do it authentically me.”
Today’s tennis is unquestionably deeper than it’s ever been, and players don’t play as many matches as they used to. And yet, despite several extended sabbaticals, Serena Jameka Williams’ accomplishments rank with the best of her sport. In a professional career that spanned 27 years, she:
- Won 73 WTA-level titles, fifth all time, and first among active players.
- Produced eight different reigns at No.1, from 2002-17, for a total of 319 weeks, third all time.
- Is the most recent player to simultaneously hold all four Grand Slam crowns -- twice, from 2002-03 and 2014-15.
- Finished with an overall match record of 858-156 (.846). She’s also 367-56 in Grand Slams and 108-15 at the US Open.
- Won more than $94 million in prize money, more than any woman in tennis history.
- Won four Olympic gold medals, three in doubles.
“[There’s] no happiness in this topic for me,” Serena wrote in a first-person essay for Vogue magazine. “The best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.”
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Chris Evert, an 18-time Grand Slam singles champion herself, summed up Williams’ extraordinary career.
“For me,” Evert said after Williams withdrew from the 2021 Wimbledon event, “her legacy is already sealed.
“Even though she did not catch Margaret Court’s [all-time] record [of 24], it doesn’t matter. She is always the greatest of all.”
Here’s some further context:
From the time Williams won her first major, the US Open, in September 1999, to the last, the Australian Open in January 2017, Serena won 23 major titles and Venus seven. The rest of the tennis universe -- 18 different players -- managed to win a total of 40.
And that doesn’t include the Williamses’ additional 13 major finals appearances.
Together, they won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles. Incredibly, they never lost a final. Additionally, they each won three Olympic gold medals and a bronze.
They met 31 times, with Serena holding a 19-12 advantage. Remarkably, nine of those were Grand Slam finals, including a stretch of four of five from the 2001 US Open to the 2002 US Open.
While so much attention was focused on Serena’s challenge to equal Court’s record, consider the quality of her recent near-misses.
Williams was 35 years and 124 days old when she won that 2017 Australian Open, becoming the oldest women’s winner in a major. She then proceeded to reach four Grand Slam finals after that. At Wimbledon in 2019, Serena, at 37 and 291 days, was the oldest female major finalist, surpassing Navratilova’s record.
She was nearly 38 years old when she lost the US Open final later that year to Bianca Andreescu. Roger Federer, whose stellar career tracks similarly to Williams', reached only one major final after the age of 36, losing the 2019 Wimbledon final to Novak Djokovic.
Against Tomljanovic, Williams was bidding to become the oldest women to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam in the Open Era.
Her sustained longevity is even more astonishing because of the extended absences she’s endured.
In 2003, Williams underwent serious knee surgery and missed eight months. Seven years later she suffered a hematoma and a pulmonary embolism and was out for nearly one year. In 2017, after giving birth to her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian, she faced serious, life-threatening issues, was bedridden for six weeks, and ultimately missed another entire year. A hamstring injury sustained at Wimbledon in 2021 took her out for the rest of the year.
In the end, Williams took home seven Australian Open and Wimbledon titles, along with six US Open and three French Opens. Only Navratilova (nine Wimbledon crowns) had more Slam titles at a single event.
It’s also worth remembering that it was Serena, the younger sister, who provided the blueprint for the success of her older sister, winning the 1999 US Open -- at the age of 17. Serena was the first African American to win a major singles title since Althea Gibson in 1958.
One year earlier, she provided another example for Venus.
“This was like in ‘98 in Sydney,” Venus said that fortnight. “Serena was playing a top player, was down 6-1, 5-0. She was fighting like there was no tomorrow, like it was her last day on earth. After that, I reconsidered. I wasn’t such a fighter.
“After that, I became a fighter, too. That’s what I took from her game.”
Never one to shy away drama, Williams gifted the sellout crowd with a memorable match before taking her final curtain. They thanked her with a prolonged standing ovation, which brought tears to her eyes.
At the end, after more than 3 hours, after Tomljanovic converted her sixth match point, Williams looked weary. She had served for both sets with a 5-3 lead and somehow they both eluded her.
When the final forehand found the net, she approached the net and shook hands with Tomljanovic. She waved to the four sides of the stadium and placed her hand over her heart.
“Thank you, daddy, I know you’re watching,” Williams said in her on-court interview. “Thanks mom.”
Her voice cracked and the tears came faster.
“I wouldn’t be Serena if it wasn’t for Venus,” she continued. “She’s the only reason Serena Williams ever existed.
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August 30, 2022 (GMN) - Safaricom Ethiopia has begun a large-scale customer pilot of its network in Dire Dawa, four months after it missed operational launch in the Horn of Africa nation.
The pilot in Ethiopia’s second biggest city after the capital Addis Ababa, with an estimated population of half a million, is part of the telco’s planned phased city-by-city roll-out ahead of the October national launch.
Dire Dawa residents can now purchase the 07 prefix SIM cards, choose their numbers, and access 2G, 3G and 4G network services, the company said.
“We are excited to begin our customer pilot for Safaricom Ethiopia Dire Dawa. This is an important milestone we begin opening the network to customers in order to test the end-to-end readiness of technical and commercial operations ahead of the full network launch,” said Anwar Soussa, Safaricom Ethiopia's chief executive officer.
The firm has set up three customer care centres in Kezira, Meskelegna and Cornell for registration, SIM card and device purchases and other client-support services.
The SIM cards are also available in branded shops and come with a welcome offer of data, voice and SMS for a month. Customers will also be able to purchase airtime vouchers to recharge.
Customer care services from the call centre will be available in Amharic, Tigrigna, Somali, Afan Oromo and English by dialling 700.
Customers will be able to access data services, calls and text messages to or from Safaricom Ethiopia lines and the state-owned Ethio Telecom network. They can also make or receive international calls.
“This customer pilot in Dire Dawa is part of switching on our network and services in 25 cities by April 2023, working in partnership with government, businesses, local communities, and others stakeholders as part of our long-term commitment to transforming lives for a digital future in line with the Digital Ethiopia objectives,” Mr Soussa said.
Since getting the licence in July 2021, the company has invested in its network and building infrastructure, including its own mobile radio towers, national transmission network, and wholesale agreements for international connectivity.
Last month, the company said it invested $1 billion (including the licence fee), imported equipment worth over $300 million, developed its own core network, IT, products, and services, set up a call centre, and built two data centres.
The telco also recruited 500 staff, 320 of whom are Ethiopians.
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until October 17, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against MINISO Group Holding Limited (NYSE: MNSO), if they purchased or acquired the Company's securities pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's October 2020 initial public offering (the "IPO"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
If you purchased or acquired securities of MINISO as above and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-mnso/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by October 17, 2022.
MINISO and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information in its IPO Registration Statement, violating federal securities laws.
On July 26, 2022, market researcher Blue Orca Capital reported on a myriad of issues involving the China-based company, including that "there is overwhelming evidence that MINISO misleads the market about its core business" and that "Chinese corporate filings also indicate, in our view, that the chairman siphoned hundreds of millions from the public company through opaque Caribbean jurisdictions as the middleman in a crooked headquarters deal," among other things.
On this news, the price of MINISO's American Depositary Shares fell $1.08, or 14.98%, to close at $6.13, on unusually heavy trading volume.
The case is Ashraf v. MINISO Group Holding Limited, No. 22-cv-05815.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqCM: PCT) f/k/a Roth CH Acquisition I Co. (Nasdaq: ROCH).
On May 6, 2021, analyst Hindenburg Research reported a wide range of criticisms toward the Company related to its prior "going public" transaction, highlighting problems with its business model and financial projections, among other things. For example, the report noted that the Company "put its aggressive projections through a bit of a torture session in order to justify its valuation," that the numbers projected "would put PureCycle's margins on par with some of the world's most profitable tech companies," and concluded that the Company "represents the worst qualities of the SPAC boom; another quintessential example of how executives and SPAC sponsors enrich themselves while hoisting unproven technology and ridiculous financial projections onto the public markets, leaving retail investors to face the ultimate consequences." Then, on November 10, 2021, the Company disclosed the receipt of an investigative subpoena from the SEC on September 30, 2021 "requesting testimony in connection with a non-public, fact finding investigation of the Company," pertaining to "among other things, statements made in connection with [Purecycle's] technology, financial projections, key supply agreements, and management."
The Company and certain of its executives have been sued in a securities class action lawsuit, charging them with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period in violation of federal securities laws, which remains ongoing.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether PureCycle's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to its shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of PureCycle shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqcm-pct/ to learn more.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Contact:
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1-877-515-1850
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SANTA ROSA, Calif. — The post office is celebrating the creator of "Peanuts" with special stamps.
The United States Postal Service will commemorate the 100th birthday of Charles Schulz with Forever stamps of his famous characters.
Ten different designs on each sheet of 20 stamps will feature the "Peanuts" gang, including Charlie Brown, Lucy, Franklin, Sally, Pigpen, Linus, Snoopy (with Woodstock), Schroeder, Peppermint Patty, and Marcie.
(NOTE: The video in the player above is from an interview in the 1990s with "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz by our sister station KARE.)
"Peanuts" debuted as a comic strip in 1950. In the 1960s, the cartoon became a worldwide phenomenon when it was featured in television specials, a Broadway show and numerous products. By the time Schulz announced his retirement in 1999, "Peanuts" was syndicated in more than 2,600 newspapers around the globe.
Schulz wrote nearly 18,000 "Peanuts" strips, with the last one published on Feb. 13, 2000, the day after he passed away from complications of colon cancer at the age of 77.
His 100th birthday would have been Nov. 26, 2022.
The stamps will be released to the public during an event Sept. 30 at the Charles M Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, California.
The price of a first-class mail Forever stamp increased to 60 cents in July. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/usps-to-celebrate-peanuts-characters-on-forever-stamps-charles-schulz/531-190f27e2-5644-4c6d-b624-596a567fd2fc | 2022-09-03T03:22:21Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/usps-to-celebrate-peanuts-characters-on-forever-stamps-charles-schulz/531-190f27e2-5644-4c6d-b624-596a567fd2fc | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The Buzz Cut: Man Keeps Biological Clock on Behalf of All Women
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In The Buzz Cut, we bring you a round-up of news you wish wasn’t news.
Man Keeps Biological Clock on Behalf of All Women
An actor may yet receive the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the physical sciences. His ability to detect the exact moment a woman’s prefrontal cortex fully develops, remains unmatched by either man or machine. Some say that he is able to perceive the changes in a woman’s age on a cellular level — with an internal sixth sense alerting him to the fact that she is now a quarter of a century old. While many others in society have tried, nobody has come close to keeping a biological clock for all women in quite the same way as this man, who has diligently maintained the timekeeping method for years of his life. Reports suggest that his unique ability saves him from having to use calendars, as he keeps track of the passage of time through the women he is with. The man’s contribution to science, and to a society that likes to remind women of their age, may just be the most remarkable yet — it’s a contribution so ahead of its time that it may never get old, just like the women he dates.
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Relatable Royal Tearily Recounts Experience of Being Unable to Afford Multimillion-Dollar Home
Royals: they’re just like us! In this case, it’s an exiled royal. A duchess recently opened up about her struggle of feeling like she wouldn’t be able to afford a multimillion-dollar mansion. This is a struggle that many can indeed relate to, as not many can really afford such a luxury. But the duchess also proved to be inspirational as she recounted the experience from the comfort of the aforementioned mansion that she was able to buy after all. But the revelation served as an important reminder that everyone has internal financial struggles that we may know nothing about. For some, it could be unemployment, a health crisis, or crushing debt. The former royal showed that even princesses can be reduced to potential homelessness in this economy — if the home is over ten million dollars, has more than ten bedrooms and bathrooms, and generally, much spare space to accommodate absolutely nobody else.
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Transphobic Author Pens Moving 1,000-Page Novel on Transphobic People’s Oppression
An author recently wrote a novel that details the persecution and systemic marginalization of some of the most oppressed people on the planet: transphobes. The popular children’s novelist had previously gained a reputation online for bravely calling for the disenfranchisement of trans people. This experience led to some backlash — one that, it would seem, put her in the ranks of some of humanity’s most invisibilized victims of disempowerment. In a bid to provide some much-needed representation to the transphobic community, the author went on to pen a haunting tale of a character who is murdered for expressing their views against trans people. The story threw light on the fact that bigots, too, are oppressed — in fact, they’re more oppressed than the people they’re bigoted against.
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Beloved Children’s Bear Not Spared by Inflation, Takes Side Gig as Horror Movie Killer
A beloved cartoon character is down in the dumps. After a flourishing early career as a lovable bear, the bear suffered a downward spiral that’s familiar to many one-hit wonders: grappling with the fleetingness of fame, craving validation, and suffering from an acute lack of relevance. Amid dwindling opportunities to break out of the trappings of former stardom, the bear signed on to a role markedly different from the one he was known for. He is now a killer. Audiences will see him reprise his role albeit with a shocking twist: a grittier, darker, and adult version of it. Nobody — not even animated bears — is spared from the realities of inflation and a downward spiraling economy, it would seem. | https://theswaddle.com/the-buzz-cut-man-keeps-biological-clock-on-behalf-of-all-women/ | 2022-09-03T03:30:33Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/the-buzz-cut-man-keeps-biological-clock-on-behalf-of-all-women/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — Serena Williams lost what is expected to be the last match of her transcendent tennis career Friday night, eliminated from the U.S. Open in the third round by Ajla Tomljanovic 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1 before an electric crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Unwilling to go quietly, Williams staved off five match points to prolong the three-hours-plus proceedings, as some spectators stood to watch, camera phones at the ready. No one — save, of course, Tomljanovic — wanted this to end.
It did on Tomljanovic's sixth chance, when Williams netted a shot.
Williams turns 41 this month and recently told the world that she is ready to start “evolving” away from her playing days — she expressed distaste for the word “retirement” — and while she has remained purposely vague about whether this appearance at Flushing Meadows definitely would represent her final tournament, everyone assumes it will be.
If this was, indeed, the last hurrah, she took her fans on a thrill-a-minute throwback ride at the hard-court tournament that was the site of a half-dozen of her 23 Grand Slam championships. The first came in 1999 in New York, when Williams was just 17.
But she faltered against Tomljanovic, a 29-year-old Australian who is ranked 46th. Williams gave away leads in each set, including the last, in which she was up 1-0 before dropping the final six games. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/serena-loses-to-tomljanovic-at-us-open-could-be-her-last-match | 2022-09-03T03:35:09Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/serena-loses-to-tomljanovic-at-us-open-could-be-her-last-match | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jeremy Strong really loves acting. That much becomes clear as we settle in for a long conversation at the Madeline Hotel in Mountain Village, a few gondola stops away from the town of Telluride. Strong is in town for the North American premiere of his new film, Armageddon Time, the semi-autobiographical portrait from James Gray in which Strong brilliantly plays a wounded, angry, but loving version of the filmmaker’s father. He and I have just come from the festival’s annual filmmaker brunch, where Strong took in some stunning mountain views, and also a few breaths as he let his brief break from the Succession set settle in.
As we get to talking about his complex new film, despite the altitude and the rushing perhaps taking a little bit out of us, Strong proves immediately passionate, focused, playful in conversation. He’ll close his eyes for a few minutes as he gets lost in a memory. He’ll smile thinking about one scene that went especially well. And he’ll turn more serious, candid, and prepared as he talks about his past year, including going viral for a New Yorker profile that he tells me felt like “a profound betrayal of trust.”
Vanity Fair: Have you been to Telluride before?
Jeremy Strong: No, it’s my first time.
So you were just at that gorgeous brunch.
That incredible panoramic view of the mountains, yeah. I was working until late Wednesday for season 4 [of Succession], then got on a plane and find myself here. It feels really different and special here as far as festivals go. The energy is different, there’s a feeling of community, it’s unencumbered by the same pressures that some of the other festivals seem to have. It feels like it’s really about the work. I’m pinching myself.
And you’re here for such a wonderful movie. It’s a tough movie—and I think your character, Irving, is a tough character, and key to why it works. We see him as physically abusive and withdrawn at times, but there’s also such a heart to the way you play him. How’d you find that—especially given the autobiographical roots of it for James?
It comes with a great responsibility for me. A lot of James’s work is about the relationship between fathers and sons, but this one most directly and acutely. It is tough. I always think that, as an actor, you have to find a way to get inside and empathize with a character’s struggle. This man in a way is drowning in his life. He is trying to be a father in the best way that he’s equipped to be, but he’s ill-equipped. There’s nothing malevolent about this character; if anything, there’s something ineffectual about him, uncomprehending. There’s something about that that really touches me. It’s something many people can relate to. I’m really interested in characters that are deeply flawed and deeply fallible. It’s their fallibility that makes them compelling to me, to figure out just viscerally what it’s like to be in that particular rock-and-hard-place that they’re in. It’s also a different time. There’s a different way of thinking of what’s appropriate in terms of child-rearing, so a lot of it is a misguided love expression.
There’s a scene in the bathroom, of course, where we see him particularly violent.
That was a hard day. At the end of the day, I went and got Annie [Hathaway] and I said, “Let’s bring James upstairs and give him a hug right now.” We’ve been through ritual, which drama is—we’re enacting abuse and cruelty that was inflicted on this child, and I know that was a difficult day for him, to be in a way retraumatized by it. It was very heavy. And yet I knew that James wanted to be unflinching about everything. I didn’t want to hold anything back from what I believed was the cruelty of some of those moments.
You did a kind of tour of Queens with James, right, to learn about his and his father’s world?
We visited the neighborhood and I asked him to take me to the Panorama at the Queens Museum, which I knew he’d been to a lot as a child with his grandfather. We went to a lot of significant places for him. And of course, I pried and pried and tried to interrogate him as much as I could about his father—got a tape-recorder in his hand. James doesn’t want the film to be autobiographical, in the sense of a one-to-one portrait. He wanted us to find the essence of what he had written. So much of it is in the page. But I also wanted to try and channel the man he had been writing about. I tried to do that in any way that I could. Whether that’s through photographs or hearing audio, which I was determined to do—
—The accent work is so specific.
Thank you. I felt like I wasn’t ready to do this until my voice was his voice. Also, there’s a lot in the film unscripted. James is a great storyteller, and a great raconteur. He would tell me a lot of stories. I wanted to find out: What kind of jokes did he tell? What did like, what didn’t he like? What was he interested in and fascinated by? By the time we started, we had a real reservoir of knowledge and understanding as much as we could of who he was. Then getting to the set to set that free. My job, in a way as the actor. You follow the line and have your instincts, and in some ways you have to double-down on those instincts. I remember Sean Penn telling me that, “As an actor, your job is to be a bodyguard for your character.” I find that to be true. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/jeremy-strong-armageddon-time-telluride-awards-insider | 2022-09-03T03:46:12Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/jeremy-strong-armageddon-time-telluride-awards-insider | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Timothée Chalamet, the 26-year-old Academy Award-nominee with, it’s fair to say, a somewhat enthusiastic fan base, swooped into Venice this weekend and controlled the city with a command not seen since the Dogeship of Enrico Dandolo in the late 12th century.
For the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All he appeared in a red shimmering sleeveless/backless halter top with matching tight-fitting trousers, a wraparound scarf, and a lot of confidence. The ensemble was designed by Chalamet’s friend, Haider Ackermann, with whom he has collaborated on fashion extravaganzas before.
But rarely has a march down the red carpet knocked the Venice Film Festival on its gondolas in such a fun and playful manner. Online, it caused quite a sensation.
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BENTON COUNTY, Wash. — The Benton County Clean Air Agency is warning people of extreme air quality levels in the area over Labor Day weekend after numerous wildfires. The Air Quality Index is forecasting Moderate levels through the weekend and into the following week.
Pollutants are being measured as smaller than 2.5 microns. Wind forecasts should prevent worsening conditions, but this could change.
These pollutants can cause a runny nose, burning eyes and aggravated diseases and conditions. If it’s smoky outside, stay indoors as much as you can. Use an indoor air filter or set your air conditioning to recirculation to improve air quality inside. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/air-quality/poor-air-quality-expected-in-benton-county/article_8fa8871e-2b2b-11ed-bfa0-5b21546b9aa4.html | 2022-09-03T03:47:10Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/air-quality/poor-air-quality-expected-in-benton-county/article_8fa8871e-2b2b-11ed-bfa0-5b21546b9aa4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PASCO, Wash. — The Washington state Department of Health Care-a-van will host community vaccination clinics at the Supermex El Pueblo Market during weekends in September. Anyone getting their first or second dose can receive a $50 gift card.
The clinics will be from 2-6 p.m. on Saturdays and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays. Pfizer and Moderna shots will be available for anyone age six months and older.
Walk-ins are welcome and no insurance is necessary. Bring your vaccine card if you can. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/coronavirus/state-care-a-van-to-host-vaccine-clinics-in-pasco/article_888e6dfc-2b32-11ed-b728-530aa774a3c6.html | 2022-09-03T03:47:16Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/coronavirus/state-care-a-van-to-host-vaccine-clinics-in-pasco/article_888e6dfc-2b32-11ed-b728-530aa774a3c6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of a planet beyond our solar system.
The planet, called HIP 65426 b, is a gas giant with no rocky surface, which means it likely cannot support alien life, according to astronomers who described the images in a NASA blog post published Thursday. The scientists are preparing a paper about the observations, but the findings have yet to be peer-reviewed.
The observations are notable, however, because they hint at how the Webb telescope could be used to search for potentially habitable planets elsewhere in the universe.
"This is a transformative moment, not only for Webb but also for astronomy generally," Sasha Hinkley, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, said in a statement. Hinkley led the observations of HIP 65426 b with an international team.
The exoplanet is located about 355 light-years away from Earth and was first discovered in 2017, according to NASA. The gas giant is up to 12 times the mass of Jupiter and its orbit is around 100 times farther from its host star than Earth is from the sun.
NASA said the Webb telescope will be able to glean new details about HIP 65426 b, including a more precise measurement of its mass and age. Astronomers estimate that the exoplanet is about 15 million to 20 million years old, which means it’s a relatively young world compared to Earth, which is 4.5 billion years old.
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped direct images of exoplanets before, but it remains tricky to accomplish from space because stars typically outshine planets. In the case of HIP 65426 b, the exoplanet is more than 10,000 times fainter than its host star in near-infrared light, the astronomers said.
"Obtaining this image felt like digging for space treasure," Aarynn Carter, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led the analysis of the images, said in a statement. "At first all I could see was light from the star, but with careful image processing I was able to remove that light and uncover the planet."
The resulting image shows HIP 65426 b through four different light filters captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument.
The telescope's infrared "eyes" can see through dust and gas, making them able to pick up objects and features beyond the range of human sight. Both the Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument are also outfitted with so-called coronagraphs that help block out starlight.
The $10 billion Webb telescope launched into space on Dec. 25, 2021. The first batch of images from the observatory was released in July, and early science operations have already yielded tantalizing discoveries.
"I think what's most exciting is that we've only just begun," Carter said in the statement. "There are many more images of exoplanets to come that will shape our overall understanding of their physics, chemistry, and formation. We may even discover previously unknown planets, too." | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/nasas-james-webb-telescope-snaps-its-first-picture-of-an-exoplanet/article_9ba0cb24-2b23-11ed-941b-476a15a72430.html | 2022-09-03T03:47:22Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/nasas-james-webb-telescope-snaps-its-first-picture-of-an-exoplanet/article_9ba0cb24-2b23-11ed-941b-476a15a72430.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A smoked salmon product sold in 10 states is being recalled after a sample tested positive for Listeria.
The recall concerns 4-oz. packages of St. James Smokehouse’s Scotch Reserve Scottish Smoked Salmon sold between February and June 2022.
The affected products were distributed to stores in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Washington State, Virginia and Wisconsin.
That includes Safeway stores in Washington State, according to the recall notice.
Routine testing by the state of Washington's Department of Agriculture revealed the presence of Listeria, which can cause a variety of symptoms, some of them deadly in vulnerable populations. No illnesses have yet been reported.
Consumers in possession of the product should dispose of it immediately or return it to the store for a full refund, the recall notice said.
For more information on the recall can be found at the FDA's website. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/smoked-salmon-sold-in-10-states-recalled-over-listeria-concerns/article_309e7810-2b25-11ed-8b96-43f5da00eea7.html | 2022-09-03T03:47:28Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/smoked-salmon-sold-in-10-states-recalled-over-listeria-concerns/article_309e7810-2b25-11ed-8b96-43f5da00eea7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Canadian man died this week while camping at Olympic National Park in Washington state, officials said.
Thomas Bernier-Villeneuve, 34, died after a tree fell on his tent at Elk Lake, a remote wilderness campsite in the almost 900,000-acre park west of Seattle, park officials said.
The National Park Service was notified Tuesday about the death and reached the site by helicopter Wednesday morning, it said in a statement Thursday.
The body was turned over to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office.
Bernier-Villeneuve was visiting the park from Montreal, Quebec, with his hiking partner, who reported the incident via inReach, a satellite communications device, a park spokeswoman said.
Other hikers got to the scene within 20 minutes of the incident and helped the hiking partner continue to relay information through inReach, the spokeswoman said.
The National Park Service is investigating the incident and will attempt to determine why the tree fell. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/canadian-man-killed-by-falling-tree-in-olympic-national-park/article_53215cfa-2b33-11ed-9dae-bb1ade4f2c64.html | 2022-09-03T03:47:34Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/canadian-man-killed-by-falling-tree-in-olympic-national-park/article_53215cfa-2b33-11ed-9dae-bb1ade4f2c64.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PENDLETON, Ore. -
With the Wildhorse Ladies Golf Classic going on, more work goes into keeping up the green.
The grass on the green is Creeping Bentgrass. Director of Grounds Sean Hoolehan said Bentgrass grows better in the hot dry climate.
He said his team has put care into building up the habitat around the golf course to create space for birds and wildlife.
He says in his experience managing the green is part science and art.
"Well you look out here behind us you see the stripes and the golf course the color and getting that plan getting everything to fit right," Hoolehan said.
He also said some of his team are working extra hours and starting as early as 4:30-a-m to prepare the green daily for the tournament.
Hoolehan said, "It's really fun to have some of the best golf, women, golfers in the world out here playing our golf course."
He also said players have come to him to ask how his team will be working on the grass to prepare for what the green is like before they play
Professional Golfer, Brynn Walker, said, "They're soft but they're rolling great so that's a good combo and it's very good scoring when you get those two together."
The tournament will be from September 2 to 4 at the Wildhorse Golf Course. The golfers will have a chance to win money and a spot in the Ladies Country Golf Association tournament. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/preparing-the-green-for-the-wildhorse-ladies-golf-classic/article_6010143c-2b25-11ed-84f4-7fb52792045f.html | 2022-09-03T03:47:40Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/preparing-the-green-for-the-wildhorse-ladies-golf-classic/article_6010143c-2b25-11ed-84f4-7fb52792045f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WOOD VILLAGE, Ore. — Deputies are investigating a shooting outside the Wood Village Fred Meyer where two people exchanged gunfire late Friday afternoon.
No people were injured, but bullets hit the front of the store and several cars, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said. A KGW crew on scene said the store's front door was shattered.
Law enforcement responded to the store off Northeast Wood Village Boulevard and Glisan Street just after 4:30 p.m.
A witness said they heard at least 14 gunshots and saw a man near the front door of the Fred Meyer exchanged gunfire with another man in the parking lot.
"Out of nowhere we hear shots," said one witness. "I look outside, there's a car parked, he was behind the car with his hands over his head shooting randomly towards Fred Meyer. There was another guy at the center of the Fred Meyer shooting back. He turned around and took his gun, hid it, between his shirt and his pants and ran out the back."
The sheriff's office said they have detained a person of interest.
A Fred Meyer spokesman released a statement and said all staff and customers are safe.
The statement went on to say, "We are working with local law enforcement as they investigate an altercation that occurred outside the store in the parking lot."
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Serena Williams' inspiring run through the U.S. Open came to a close Friday night with a third-round loss to Australian Ajla Tomljanović, likely bringing down the curtain on the all-time great's storied career.
Tomljanović, the tournament’s world’s No. 46 ranked player, won the match 7-5, 6-7, 6-1 at 10:22 p.m at Arthur Ashe Stadium, on the grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
If Williams' singles career is done, then her last victory will have been in Wednesday night's second-round action when she bested the tournament's No. 2 seed Anett Kontavei, 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2.
She and sister Venus Williams were eliminated from doubles play on Thursday.
Three weeks ago, the 40-year-old Williams announced she would be "evolving away from tennis" after the U.S. Open and nearly a quarter-century of dominance.
And if this is indeed retirement from tennis for Williams, she leaves the court with a trophy case filled with 23 major singles titles: Six U.S. Open wins, six Australian Open titles, three French Open wins and eight Wimbledon championships.
Williams likely said goodbye to major competitive tennis on the same court where she first served notice of her impending greatness.
Her first major title came Sept. 11, 1999, when she outlasted Martina Hingis in the U.S. Open final.
While very few opponents got the better of Williams, the iconic player said motherhood and age were unbeatable rivals that factored into her decision to hang it up.
“It comes to a point where women sometimes have to make different choices than men, if they want to raise a family,” Williams told Time magazine, in an interview that was posted hours before she took the court Monday. “It’s just black and white. You make a choice or you don’t.”
Williams said her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., was overjoyed when she learned that her mom might leave the game.
“That kind of makes me sad,” Williams told Time. “And brings anxiety to my heart.”
“It’s hard to completely commit,” she continued, “when your flesh and blood is saying, Aw.”
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TOPPENISH, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Transportation has reopened the stretch of US 97 being worked on near Toppenish, just in time for Labor Day weekend travel.
One mile of the highway was closed near milepost 60, south of Toppenish, to replace a blocked culvert. The culvert had caused water pooling and highway erosion, according to WSDOT. The stretch has been reopened as of September 2.
Crews will return after observed Labor Day to install a guardrail, work that isn’t expected to cause much delay. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/traffic/us-97-near-toppenish-reopens-for-labor-day-weekend/article_7a6f177c-2b31-11ed-97d6-9f02fa0950a3.html | 2022-09-03T03:47:59Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/traffic/us-97-near-toppenish-reopens-for-labor-day-weekend/article_7a6f177c-2b31-11ed-97d6-9f02fa0950a3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer
NEW YORK — Leave it to Serena Williams to not want to go quietly, to not want this match, this trip to the U.S. Open, this transcendent career of hers, to really, truly end.
Right down to what were, barring a change of heart, the final minutes of her quarter-century of excellence on the tennis court, and an unbending unwillingness to be told what wasn’t possible, Williams tried to mount one last classic comeback, earn one last vintage victory, with fans on their feet in a full Arthur Ashe Stadium, cellphone cameras at the ready.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion staved off five match points to prolong the three-hours-plus proceedings, but could not do more, and was eliminated from the U.S. Open in the third round by Ajla Tomljanovic, 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1, on Friday night in what is expected to be her final contest.
“It’s been the most incredible ride and journey I’ve ever been on in my life,” Williams said, tears streaming down her cheeks shortly after one final shot of hers landed in the net. “I’m so grateful to every single person that’s ever said, ‘Go, Serena!’ in their life.”
She turns 41 this month and recently told the world that she is ready to start “evolving” away from her playing days – she expressed distaste for the word “retirement” – and while she remained purposely vague about whether this appearance at Flushing Meadows definitely would represent her last hurrah, everyone assumed it will be.
Asked during an on-court interview whether she might reconsider walking away, Williams replied: “I don’t think so, but you never know.”
With two victories in singles this week, including over the No. 2 player in the world, Anett Kontaveit, on Wednesday, the Compton-raised Williams took her fans on a thrill-a-minute throwback trip at the hard-court tournament that was the site of a half-dozen of her championships.
The first came in 1999 in New York, when Williams was just 17. Now she’s married and a mother; her daughter, Olympia, turned 5 on Thursday.
But even with 23,859 of her closest friends cheering raucously again on Friday, Williams faltered against Tomljanovic, a 29-year-old Australian who is ranked 46th.
Williams gave away leads in each set, including the last, in which she was up 1-0 before dropping the final six games.
Tomljanovic is unabashedly a fan of Williams, having grown up watching her play on TV.
“I’m feeling really sorry, just because I love Serena just as much as you guys do. And what she’s done for me, for the sport of tennis, is incredible,” said Tomljanovic, who has never been past the quarterfinals at any major. “This is a surreal moment for me.”
Then, drawing laughs, Tomljanovic added: “I just thought she would beat me. … She’s Serena. That’s just who she is: She’s the greatest of all time. Period.”
This performance was not perfect.
On one point in the second set, Williams’ feet got tangled and she fell to the court, dropping her racket. She finished with 51 unforced errors, 21 more than Tomljanovic.
Williams let a 5-3 lead vanish in the first set. She did something similar in the second, giving away edges of 4-0 and 5-2, and requiring five set points to finally put that one in her pocket. From 4-all in the tiebreaker, meaning Williams was three points from defeat, she pounded a 117 mph ace, hit a forehand winner to cap a 20-stroke exchange, then watched Tomljanovic push a forehand long.
Momentum appeared to be on Williams’ side. But she could not pull off the sort of never-admit-defeat triumph she did so often over the years.
“Oh, my God, thank you so much. You guys were amazing today. I tried,” Williams told the audience, hands on her hips, before mentioning, among others, her parents and her older sister, Venus, a seven-time major champion.
“I wouldn’t be Serena if there wasn’t Venus. So thank you, Venus,” she said. “She’s the only reason that Serena Williams ever existed.”
Williams entered the night having won 19 times in a row in the U.S. Open’s third round of singles competition, including reaching at least the semifinals in her most recent 11 appearances in New York.
Talk about a full-circle moment: The only other third-round loss she’s ever had at Flushing Meadows (she is 42-0 in the first and second rounds) came all the way back in 1998, the year Williams made her tournament debut at age 16. She would win her first major trophy 12 months later at the U.S. Open.
A speech worth of the 🐐@serenawilliams | #USOpen pic.twitter.com/0twItGF0jq
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 3, 2022
What a week. What an evening.
Thank you, #Serena. pic.twitter.com/KJ1zDkQGUs
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 3, 2022
Serena put up numbers we may never see again. pic.twitter.com/OYPGaQZcAq
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 3, 2022
Major memories made across the 🌎@AustralianOpen | @RolandGarros | @Wimbledon | #USOpen pic.twitter.com/aF6tmMBA3B
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 3, 2022
MURRAY ELIMINATED, GAUFF BEATS KEYS
Andy Murray’s latest Week 1 exit at a Grand Slam tournament did not discourage him. The three-time major champion still thinks he can go toe-to-toe with the best in men’s tennis – even after two hip operations, even as the years without a trip past the third round at any of the sport’s biggest events stretch on.
After bowing out at that stage of the U.S. Open with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (1), 6-3 loss across more than 3½ hours against 2021 Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini on Friday, Murray chose to look on the bright side.
“I’ve got a metal hip. It’s not easy playing with that. It’s really difficult. I’m surprised I’m still able to compete with guys that are right up at the top of the game,” the 35-year-old Murray said, resting his head on his left hand. “Matches like this, I’m really proud that I have worked myself into a position where I’m able to do that. I’m really disappointed that I didn’t get over the line today. But I get reminded, like, ‘This is the first time you’ve made the third round here since 2016.’ It’s been six years. It’s been a difficult six years for me.”
Berrettini, a big hitter who reached the 2019 semifinals at Flushing Meadows, dominated in just about every statistical way at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Coco Gauff, an 18-year-old American who reached the final at the French Open in June, made it to the fourth round at the U.S. Open for the first time with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Madison Keys, the 2017 runner-up in New York and seeded 20th this year.
Gauff’s match ended a little more than an hour before Williams-Tomljanovic was due to begin – and so the teen looked ahead a bit.
“I know she’s on my side of the draw,” Gauff said about Williams, whom she cites as an idol and inspiration and would love to get the chance to face. “Hopefully we can both keep winning. It’s been a lifelong dream of mine for that to happen.”
Gauff now meets Zhang Shuai, who eliminated Rebecca Marino, 6-2, 6-4.
Defending men’s champion Daniil Medvedev was scheduled to face Wu Yibing of China in Ashe to close the night.
In other action during the day session, Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur came back to defeat No. 31 Shelby Rogers, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, and avoid the sort of early exit by a high-seeded woman that has filled the first week of play at the year’s last major. No. 2 Anett Kontaveit (who lost to Williams), No. 3 Maria Sakkari and No. 4 Paula Badosa are all aready gone, as are 2021 champion Emma Raducanu and 2021 runner-up Leylah Fernandez; No. 1 Iga Swiatek and No. 5 Jabeur have offered a bit of the expected.
Jabeur reached the fourth round in New York for the first time after going 0-3 in the third round since 2019.
“Finally,” Jabeur said. “I know that I don’t play the best on hard courts, but it’s always amazing to see how I’m improving, how I’m pushing my limits.”
She next plays No. 18 Veronika Kudermetova, who needed just 47 minutes to overwhelm Dalma Galfi, 6-2, 6-0.
In the men’s bracket, French Open runner-up Casper Ruud edged 29th-seeded Tommy Paul in five sets, 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-0, while No. 27 Karen Khachanov moved on when his opponent, Jack Draper, stopped playing in the third set because of an injured hamstring.
The 13th-seeded Berrettini advanced to face Alejandro Davidovich Fokina on Sunday by hitting more aces than the unseeded Murray, 18-5, delivering far more total winners, 55-24, and accumulating 15 break points, converting five, while facing only four.
Murray’s summation: “I served pretty poorly for a large part of the match.”
He won his first Slam trophy at the U.S. Open in 2012, then added titles at Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016, becoming the first British man to triumph there since the 1930s. Murray made it to No. 1 in the rankings in 2017; that also was the last time he reached the fourth round at any major, doing so at the All England Club.
“Unfortunately, I never played him when he was No. 1, but his level seems very high right now. He’s super intelligent. He reads the game very well. … He made me sweat a lot,” Berrettini said after a match that was interrupted for about five minutes while paramedics attended to a spectator. “He still moves well. He has a lot of strength in his legs. I see him in the gym all the time.”
The first procedure on his hip came early in 2018, and the assumption by most, including Murray, was that he would need to retire. Then a second surgery, to install the metal implant, arrived in January 2019.
“Lots of people told me I wouldn’t be able to play again. And lots of people told me I’d be able to hit tennis balls but not compete professionally again. That was nonsense,” he said Friday, “and I want to see how close I can get back to the top of the game.”
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- After receiving a lot of criticism for giving themselves significant raises, the state board of directors for the Hawaii police officers union temporarily suspended its monthly allowances pending the outcome of a vote.
In a letter to its members, the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers (SHOPO) on Friday said it took the following actions:
Revert the monthly allowance rate back to the 2011 levels until the SHOPO membership approves any allowance increase.
Immediately suspend the payment of any monthly allowances until the membership votes on the allowance issue.
Remove the membership voter turnout threshold for qualifying a vote of 50%+1 of the membership.
This move comes a day after the board held a meeting for its members, and the meeting got heated at times with members criticizing the board for its actions.
SHOPO president Bobby Cavaco told its members in a video on Friday: "This morning, the state board had its monthly meeting, and we continued the discussion based off of the feedback that we got from all of you last night. And I must say I believe that the state board, including myself, could've done a better job on how we rolled this out to you folks.
"We should've gotten your input about this issue and myself being the leader of this organization I take full responsibility for that. We should've got your input before implementation of an increase to the monthly allowance."
Since 2011, the president of SHOPO has received $1,400 as a monthly allowance. The board decided last month to raise that to $6,000 per month.
The vice president's monthly allowance went from $800 to $5,000 per month. The secretary and treasurer went from $800 to $4,000 per month. The chapter chairs went from $800 to $3,000 per month.
The director at-large went from $600 to $1,500 per month, and the vice chair's allowance remained the same at $500 per month.
SHOPO's board said it plans to hold the vote within the next several weeks. There are three options -- either leave the monthly allowances the same as the were before, or increase them to what the board approved last month, or an option that's in between.
"We believe that this is in the best interest of you folks, the membership that we serve. We are one family, we need to bring everybody together and we need to move forward, and we are looking forward to your input on this issue," Cavaco said.
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Most monkeypox cases in the current outbreak have been linked to sexual activity, but research published on August 17 by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers new insight into other ways it may be spreading.
HONOLULU (KITV4) --Two new cases of Monkeypox have been confirmed in Hawaii, according to the state Department of Health. The latest cases bring the statewide total to 25.
One new case was diagnosed on Oahu and the other was diagnosed on the Big Island, the DOH reported. The Oahu case has been linked to travel outside of the state. The origin of the Hawaii Island case is still under investigation.
Health officials say monkeypox shares many commonalities with smallpox, like causing blistering skin rashes. It is a rare disease caused by the monkeypox virus. Infection begins with flu-like symptoms and swollen lymph nodes, and progresses to a rash or sores, often on the hands, feet, chest, face, or genitals. Individuals generally become ill within 21 days of exposure, the DOH said
Monkeypox can spread through direct contact with body fluids, lesion material, or items used by someone with monkeypox as well as close, prolonged contact with an infected person or animal. It can also be spread through large respiratory droplets.
Monkeypox vaccines are available in every county in Hawaii. Anyone who is eligible who would wish to make an appointment can call the following numbers:
• Hawaii Department of Health (Statewide): 808-586-4462
• Malama I Ke Ola (Maui): 808-871-7772
• Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (Oahu): 808-427-0442
• Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center (Oahu): 808-521-2347
• Kaiser Permanente (Oahu): 808) 434-2000, prompt 1
• Hamakua-Kohala Health (Big Island): 808-930-2751
• Malama Pono Health Service (Kauai): 808-246-9577
Earlier in August, DOH expanded its vaccine eligibility in order to prevent the spread of the virus.
“As more vaccine doses become available, we are expanding vaccine eligibility to communities that have been disproportionately impacted by this outbreak and individuals who are at risk for severe illness,” said Deputy State Epidemiologist Dr. Nathan Tan.
Those eligible to receive the JYNNEOS vaccine under the new guidelines include the following:
• Anyone who has had close contact with a person with known or suspected monkeypox infection in the last two weeks
• Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender individuals who have multiple or anonymous sex partners;
• Persons who are severely immunocompromised or those with certain skin conditions, such as eczema; AND who have a household member or sex partner at high risk for monkeypox.
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