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Coast Guard: 1 dead, 9 missing after float plane crashes in Puget Sound
LANGLEY, Wash. (AP) — One person was killed and nine people remained missing after a float plane crashed in the Puget Sound in Washington state on Sunday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The agency said via Twitter Sunday afternoon that the plane was flying from Friday Harbor, a popular tourist destination in the San Juan Islands, to Renton, Washington. Previously the Coast Guard had said the plane was flying to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
The crash happened in Mutiny Bay, off Whidbey Island, about 40 miles northwest of Seattle.
The Coast Guard said one body was recovered and nine people remain missing.
The Coast Guard had initially said via Twitter Sunday afternoon that the aircraft had eight adults and one child aboard.
Float planes, planes that have pontoons allowing them to land on water, are a common sight around the Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. There are multiple, daily flights between the Seattle area and the San Juan Islands, a scenic archipelago northwest of Seattle that draws tourists from around the world.
The aircraft, which also fly between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, frequently fly through Seattle and land in a lake not far from the city’s iconic Space Needle.
Renton, where authorities say the flight was headed Sunday, is at the southern tip of Lake Washington about 10 miles southeast of Seattle.
In May 2019, six people were killed in a midair collision between two Alaska sightseeing planes. The Ketchikan-based floatplanes carrying passengers from the same cruise ship, the Royal Princess, were returning from tours of Misty Fjords National Monument.
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The Trion Fire Department says Engine 12 and 12R have responded to approximately 12 calls this morning.
Fire Chief Justin Lowe is advising everyone to get to a safe location and wait until road conditions are safe before traveling. It's extremely dangerous to drive in flood water.
The Tri-State Mutual aid alarm has been activated for Chattooga County due to Flooding in Summerville, Trion, and other areas in the county.
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As the West continues to roast in dangerous heat, two Northern California wildfires are growing and some residents have been told to leave, officials say.
The Mill Fire in Siskiyou County almost doubled in size since Friday and has burned through an estimated 4,254 acres with 25% containment, Cal Fire said in an update Sunday morning.
Two people are dead as a result of the Mill Fire in Weed, California, Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue said during a community meeting Sunday afternoon.
LaRue did not identify the people who died or the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
The blaze destroyed 50 structures as it spread, and forced the evacuation of an estimated 1,000 people, officials said.
The cause of the fire, which began Friday, remains under investigation and evacuation orders for Weed, Lake Shastina and Edgewood, are in place.
"This incident is rapidly changing and our staff and partners are doing everything they can to get everyone to safety," the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office said Saturday.
Officials in Siskiyou County are also battling the Mountain Fire, which had grown to cover 8,460 acres with 10% containment as of Sunday afternoon, Cal Fire said.
"Winds on the Mountain Fire will be stronger on the ridges, providing an opportunity for mid- to long-range spotting. Weather continues to be hot and dry with poor overnight relative humidity recoveries," the Cal Fire Siskiyou Unit said Sunday.
The fire has prompted the evacuation of more than 300 people. Its cause is not yet known, according to Cal Fire.
Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jon Heggie told CNN Sunday afternoon fire conditions in California are "extremely dangerous," given the state's extended drought.
"What that left us with was a huge amount of dead fuel throughout California. So, all these fires now have just receptive fuel beds to burn and now when anything gets started it has that potential for exponential growth in a short period of time," Heggie said. "There's such a large amount of dead fuel, you know, basically from San Diego all the way to the Oregon border," he said.
He warned the public to be careful engaging in any activities which could potentially start a fire.
On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for Siskiyou County to "support the response to the rapidly-spreading Mill Fire," his office said.
Meanwhile, in Southern California, the Route Fire in Los Angeles County was at 5,208 acres Saturday evening with 91% containment, according to an update from Cal Fire Sunday morning.
Issuing what it said was its "final update" on the incident Saturday evening, the Los Angeles County Fire department said the Route Fire had destroyed two structures and threatened hundreds more.
"Dozers, hand crews and engines made great progress today further building containment line around the fire perimeter and will continue overnight. Over the next three days, the Route Fire will continue to be patrolled and monitored," the fire department said.
It said the fire was expected to be fully contained by Wednesday.
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The family of Jayland Walker, an unarmed man who was shot and killed by Akron, Ohio, police at the end of a high-speed chase, has called on the city to stop "re-traumatizing" them following the fresh release of police body camera video from the June 27 shooting.
In a statement Friday through their attorney, the Walker family said the City of Akron "promised to release" additional police body camera video to their legal team "in a timely manner".
"Now, two months after Jayland's death, we have received just hand-picked videos, which the City has also released to the media in an apparent effort to build its own narrative of Jayland's death," the Walker family statement said.
"We call on the City to stop re-traumatizing the Walker family with these repeated edited video drops and release all unedited videos to their counsel in one comprehensive collection," the statement said.
The videos, obtained by CNN through a Freedom of Information Act request, were heavily redacted when released by Akron city officials Friday. The 24 video clips show a total of more than four hours of the shooting and its immediate aftermath.
In each of the videos, there are several sections where video is blurred or blacked out and/or where the audio is muted. In a statement attached to the video clips, the City of Akron told CNN, "Officer names and identifying information has been redacted, including information that is inextricably intertwined with the officers' identities."
The statement cites Ohio law, which allows for the redaction of officer names and identifying information, and pictures of officers "whose assignments may include undercover or plain clothes assignments" or when disclosure would "create a substantial risk of serious bodily harm" from a perceived likely threat.
CNN has reached out to Akron Police and Akron City officials for comment on the family statement. CNN has also asked police and the Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation for comment on the newly released video and is yet to receive any response.
What bodycam videos show
In the week following the fatal shooting, police released 13 videos from police body cameras: eight from the officers directly involved in the shooting and five others from officers who were at the scene. The videos were released according to a new city ordinance that requires video footage documenting an active police officer's use of force to be released within seven days of the incident. Those videos ended right after the gunshots were fired.
On Friday, CNN received the 24 videos that show the shooting and the immediate aftermath. In several, a barrage of gunfire is heard for around seven to eight seconds, followed by officers trying to establish if Walker is armed. In the videos, Walker is non-responsive and lying face-up on the ground, with several officers aiming weapons at his body. Walker appears to raise his hands towards his chest in at least one video before officers approach him and turn him over to handcuff him.
An autopsy revealed Walker suffered 46 gunshot wounds or graze injuries. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations is investigating and eight officers were placed on administrative leave at the time.
"Can anyone see the gun?" one officer is heard repeatedly yelling, as a group of officers stand with guns still aimed at Walker. "Where is the weapon at?" one is heard asking in several of the videos.
"We don't know, we can't see it," another officer responds. "OK, we've gotta move in and cuff him," another officer says. A group of officers then move to Walker and turn him over to his front. Several are heard rendering first aid. Officers shout for light and ask for tourniquets and packing gauze. Others are heard describing some of the locations of gunshot wounds on Walker's body, including his face, neck, back, chest and backside.
"Is he still breathing?" one officer asks. "No," one officer says. "I can't tell," another replies. A short time later, officers say they are not able to find a pulse.
In the weeks following the shooting, Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett told CNN affiliate WEWS department policy requires officers to handcuff a suspect following all officer-involved shootings because the suspect may continue to present a threat. The chief conceded the policy needs to be reviewed.
A week after the shooting, Mylett said the eight police officers fired their weapons following the vehicle pursuit and a short foot chase, believing Walker was turning towards them, reaching towards his waist and "moving into a firing position."
Walker was not armed at the time of the shooting. A handgun and loaded magazine were found in Walker's car after the shooting, police said. Officers said Walker fired a gun from his vehicle during the car chase.
None of the videos released to CNN show the inside of Walker's car. Some show police zeroing in on the vehicle after Walker was shot.
One video shows a group of officers approach the car with their weapons drawn. "Vehicle's clear," one officer says, after peering inside the car through the front passenger window.
In another clip, officers shout for someone to stay with car. "It's got a firearm in it," one officer says. "Yeah, just leave it," the officer responds.
Another video appears to have captured the vantage point of a police supervisor who takes command of the scene that night. Around one minute and 28 seconds after the shooting, that officer approaches a group of police huddled over Walker.
"Anybody who shot go over here for me," the officer says. The officer asks if the officers are okay. "Hey, everybody make sure they're good, let's take a deep breath, let's start getting it figured out, okay?"
While much of the video frame is blurred, the bottom third of the screen shows a group of officers walking away from where Walker is being rendered first aid. It is not clear if the officers step aside separately or together.
A few minutes later, the supervising officer returns to where Walker is on the ground and says, "Alright listen, anybody who was actually involved in the shots, is there anybody here?" Another officer says, "Negative." The officer then speaks about gathering body-worn cameras.
Another video shows a different officer working to sequester the police who fired at Walker from one another. "Were you guys involved? They were? They need to go sequester. Here, I'll walk with you."
During the news conference a week after the shooting, Chief Mylett said officers were "immediately sequestered" from one another pending an investigation into the officer-involved shooting.
At one point, one body camera captures a group of officers congregating in a circle near parked patrol cars.
The video is muted and faces are blurred. It is not possible to make out what was being discussed or if the group includes any of the eight officers involved in the shooting.
Walker family attorney Bobby DiCello said it's that sort of video which worries him. "We're concerned that they put all these officers together and the audio is off," DiCello told CNN Saturday. "It is unreasonable to strip the videos of their value at this point."
DiCello reiterated the Walker family's desire to receive the unedited versions of the police body-worn camera video.
The Akron Beacon Journal, which sought release of the videos under the city law requiring police to post videos of incidents involving police use of deadly force, was first to report on the content of the fresh videos last week.
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From the early days of Donald Trump's presidency, through the Covid-19 pandemic and following the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the power of governors has been increasingly clear for Americans to see.
In November, 36 states will hold gubernatorial elections that, while often less expensive than Senate races, are likely to yield more immediate impacts on the political landscape and could provide a launching pad for candidates with even higher aspirations -- like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Heading into the general election season, Republicans control 20 of the contested governor's seats to Democrats' 16. But many of the key battleground contests feature Democratic incumbents, elected during the 2018 "blue wave," trying to win a second term. In Michigan and Wisconsin, Govs. Gretchen Whitmer and Tony Evers are likely Republicans' only obstacle to governing trifectas. The same goes in Pennsylvania -- another state President Joe Biden flipped in 2020 -- where Democratic state Attorney General Josh Shapiro would likely face a GOP-controlled legislature if he defeats Republican nominee Doug Mastriano, a Trump-allied election denier.
Republicans have stronger grips on the governors' mansions in the red states of Florida, Texas and Georgia. But those campaigns underscore the unique nature of these races -- DeSantis in Florida and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are closely aligned with Trump and his movement, while Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, because he didn't go along with the former President's 2020 election lies, has come under frequent criticism from his party's ascendant right. That, however, didn't stop him from subduing a Trump-backed primary challenger, strengthening his brand with Peach State Republicans.
The added attention and, to some extent, increasing attractiveness of governors' races to big donors and outside spenders, could benefit Democrats if only because the party has in the past tended to look past state elections and zero in on federal and presidential ones.
"The rising profiles of some of our governors really make a big difference in getting people to focus on those races," said David Turner, a spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association. "But it's still much harder to get a major donor to have a conversation with a gubernatorial candidate in a top-tier race than it is for them to have that conversation with a Senate candidate."
The balance of interest -- among donors and the grassroots -- is improving, Turner added, especially as some Republican gubernatorial nominees either openly stake out hard-line positions on issues such as abortion rights or are confronted with past positions they've since tried to soften.
"This is an issue about Republicans talking about taking away rights and freedoms and what that means for other rights and freedoms," Turner said, noting Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial nominee Tim Michels' opposition to same-sex marriage
While Democrats try to fashion a broad argument that ties economic concerns to growing extremism in the Trump-dominated Republican ranks, the GOP has been keen to narrow the conversation to dissatisfaction with the economy -- especially in states, such as Nevada, which was hit especially hard by Covid-19 and has been slow to recover.
Republican Governors Association spokesman Jesse Hunt hangs the blame there on Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who will face off against GOP nominee Joe Lombardo, the Clark County sheriff, in the fall.
"These incumbent Democrats took a pretty heavy-handed approach (to Covid-19)," Hunt said. "Everyone knew who their governor was and many of them have not been satisfied with how their states have recovered post-pandemic."
Hunt also downplayed the impact of the voter backlash to the Supreme Court decision stripping federal abortion rights, saying, "Kitchen table issues that are affecting their everyday lives" will ultimately outweigh "an issue that certainly invigorates the base Democratic voters."
Though top operatives might stress different broad-based messaging, there is an implicit agreement -- as seen in advertising expenditures -- on which states are likely to be closely contested and where the respective parties see prime opportunities to pick up seats.
Kansas, a heavily Republican state where Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly was elected in 2018, is widely viewed as a toss-up, while Massachusetts and Maryland, a pair of deep-blue states with twice-elected popular, moderate GOP governors, offer Democrats a built-in advantage with those executives on the way out.
Here's a look at this fall's gubernatorial election landscape with Election Day about two months away:
The Biden Belt states
Biden flipped five states from red to blue in 2020, including three that had long been in the Democratic column before Trump won them in 2016.
In Michigan, Whitmer since her election in 2018 has emerged as a favorite of national Democrats. She was also among the first Democratic governors to face intense conservative backlash over Covid-19 policies, including business and school shutdowns. Still, she enters the fall favored to keep her seat.
That's due in no small part to the mess of a Republican primary that eventually nominated conservative commentator Tudor Dixon, who emerged -- with Trump's seal of approval -- after other leading GOP candidates were kicked off the ballot for submitting fraudulent signatures to get on it.
Perhaps more important than Trump's support, though, is that of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her family, who poured cash into Dixon's primary bid and see her as an ally in their long effort to shift public money toward private education.
Whitmer, whose pledge to "fix the damn roads" was the hallmark of her 2018 campaign, will again have a strong appeal to many drivers, this time in the form of a new automobile insurance law that helped deliver $400 rebate checks to many Michigan motorists.
Next door in Wisconsin, Evers is locked into what could be the tightest race of the season. Polling earlier this year suggested his path to reelection was narrow and contracting. Since then, Wisconsin Democrats have become somewhat more bullish about his chances. And, once again, that shift in perception was aided by Republicans.
The establishment favorite, former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, lost the GOP nomination to Michels, a wealthy construction company owner who won Trump's support by embracing lies about the 2020 election and suggesting he might go along with a scheme to seek to decertify the results.
Michels also pledged to further restrict absentee voting and replace the state's bipartisan elections commission with one run by representatives from its congressional districts -- which, in practice, would hand control of the body to Republicans.
The Wisconsin race will also, like so many others across the country, offer voters a stark choice on the question of abortion rights. Evers, even before the Supreme Court's ruling -- which brought back into effect a 173-year-old state ban, which is being challenged in court -- had been the last line of defense against a GOP-controlled legislature seeking to restrict the procedure. His calls to pass a law protecting abortion rights were ignored by Republicans.
Michels is a staunch opponent of abortion rights.
In Pennsylvania, with term-limited Gov. Tom Wolf on his way out, Democrats are desperate to hold on to yet another seat in a state that has a GOP-led legislature.
Enter Shapiro, the state attorney general and Democratic nominee to succeed Wolf. He will square off with Mastriano, a state senator who not only had Trump's backing but attended the former President's rally in Washington on January 6, 2021. (Mastriano says he never entered the US Capitol and has not been charged with any crimes.)
Mastriano is either Democrats' dream opponent or worst nightmare. He is an unabashed exponent of Trump's false election fraud claims, has expressed support for an abortion ban with no exceptions and, in the most recent controversy to erupt around his campaign, can be seen posing in Confederate military uniform for a faculty photo back in 2014 when he worked at the Army War College.
In the estimation of some Democrats, he is unelectable in a general election. Among them: Shapiro, who ran an ad during the GOP primary appearing to offer Mastriano a backhanded boost.
Red states that turned on Trump
Biden's performances in Pennsylvania and the Upper Midwest were always considered crucial to his campaign's fate.
But his victories in Arizona -- which also voted for Democrat Mark Kelly in a special Senate election -- and Georgia -- where Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won their Senate runoffs -- provided Democrats with proof that, under the right circumstances, they could win big races in states that had eluded them for so long.
Those particular circumstances might be in place in Arizona, where former local news anchor Kari Lake, another Trump-backed election denier, won the GOP nomination over a candidate supported by term-limited Gov. Doug Ducey, who co-chairs the Republican Governors Association, and former Vice President Mike Pence.
In addition to leaning hard into bogus election fraud claims, Lake also opposes abortion and has repeatedly singled out "the transgender movement" for attack. (This after previously expressing support for transgender youth.)
The Democratic nominee is Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, whose national profile rose in the aftermath of the 2020 election amid Republican efforts to sow doubt over the presidential result in Arizona. (None of it -- most memorably a ramshackle "audit" -- yielded anything.)
Hobbs, meanwhile, has doubled down on her support for abortion rights, in yet another state where the legislature is controlled by Republicans, and Lake's inflammatory rhetoric.
Republicans appear to be in better shape in Georgia, where Kemp blew out Trump-backed primary challenger David Perdue, a former US senator.
With the state GOP unified behind him, Kemp is the favorite in a rematch with Democrat Stacey Abrams, whom he defeated by roughly 55,000 votes in 2018.
In Abrams' favor is her highly developed grassroots voter turnout operation and, as her national political star rose after 2018, the ability to raise lots of money. She will need both to fire during the stretch run to Election Day.
The Democratic dream states
Democrats have been dreaming about reclaiming a foothold in Texas politics for ages. Beto O'Rourke, then an El Paso congressman, nearly pulled it off in 2018, when he challenged GOP Sen. Ted Cruz.
But rather than a sign of things to come, it now feels like a high-water mark. Biden underperformed O'Rourke by about 3 points in losing the state to Trump in 2020.
O'Rourke is back on the ticket this year, taking on Abbott, who is seeking a third term.
Like in Georgia, the Republican establishment in Texas saw off a handful of Trump-inspired challengers, and the party's base appears to be solidly behind its statewide ticket. (Trump endorsed Abbott, but mostly stayed away from the primary.) Still, Abbott's efforts to shore up his right flank -- including the signing of controversial abortion bans and a further loosening of gun laws -- could be used against him during the final weeks of the race.
O'Rourke, too, has some baggage -- for better or worse. His 2020 presidential campaign, in which he pushed for a mandatory assault weapon buyback program, is still fresh on the minds of conservatives. And though he has, at times, offered a softer version of that message during the current campaign, there is no mistaking his position.
But, as it did for so many other Democratic candidates, the Supreme Court's abortion ruling put a charge into his campaign. His first television ad warns that "women will die" as a result of the state's Abbott-backed abortion law.
If Democrats have been yearning for generations to overcome Texas Republicans, the party is only now coming to grips with the GOP's strength in Florida. Once a perennial swing state, Trump won there twice -- by a greater margin the second time around -- and it hasn't elected a Democratic governor since 1994.
It is also now home to the Republican Party's second most popular national figure in DeSantis. (And Trump, of course, calls the state home for much of the year.) DeSantis, a onetime US House backbencher before winning a 2018 gubernatorial primary that centered on his support for Trump, saw his profile explode after becoming a leading voice in opposition to pandemic restrictions -- and then parlaying those headlines into national notoriety on a variety of culture war flashpoints.
The Democratic nominee, now-former Rep. Charlie Crist (he resigned from the House to focus on the governor's race), would likely note that, while Florida hasn't elected a Democratic governor in nearly three decades, it did elect him to the job more recently. He served one term, from 2007 to 2011, most of it as a Republican before becoming an independent, and then a Democrat in 2012. Crist came within a point of defeating Republican Rick Scott (now the state's junior senator) in 2014, in his first statewide campaign as a Democrat. Two years later, he won the first of three terms in Congress.
Crist is hoping his history and familiarity with voters, mixed with an untapped desire among the electorate to take down the state's political temperature, could propel him to a remarkable return to his old job. But DeSantis, whose political operation has amassed a record fundraising haul, is the clear favorite in an increasingly red state.
Biden states that could flip
If other states saw more electable Republican challengers lose their primaries, Nevada provides a clear contrast.
Lombardo, the sheriff of Clark County, home to Las Vegas, has deep ties in the state's most populous area, and cuts a milder figure than flame-throwing GOP candidates in Arizona and Pennsylvania. He has suggested he was open to accusations of 2020 election fraud (all of them have proved baseless), but acknowledged Biden as the winner while seeking to pivot to criticism of Sisolak and state election laws he says are too lax.
Abortion law in Nevada is mostly set in stone -- it's legal up to 24 weeks (with exceptions therafter for health concerns) and could only be reversed by a direct vote. Lombardo, though maintaining he is anti-abortion, has not spelled out any plan to seek to change the law.
Still, Sisolak has been hammering his rival on the issue and warning that, should Lombardo win, additional efforts taken by the Democrat's office to expand abortion access and protect providers would come under threat.
Sisolak's fate, though, could likely turn on issues mostly outside his control. Gas prices in Nevada are among the highest in the country, and the state, with its reliance on tourism, has been relatively slow to recover on the economic front. The good news for Sisolak: Both fuel prices and the unemployment rate are trending down.
Minnesota and Maine are also home to Democratic governors in states that broke for Biden in 2020. But neither is considered safely blue territory -- Maine delivered three of its four electoral votes to Biden, with one going to Trump under state rules that award votes to the winners of its two congressional districts -- and a GOP wave could endanger the incumbents.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills is running against her predecessor, Republican Paul LePage, who has described himself as "Trump before there was Trump."
LePage has not only made false claims about voter fraud in 2020, but has a history of alleging stolen elections. His campaign has also attacked Mills over Covid-19 restrictions and the struggles of the state's seafood industry, which Mills has sought to backstop by, among other measures, sending federal relief cash to reimburse licensing fees paid up and down the supply chain.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is also seeking a second term, will face Republican Scott Jensen, a doctor and former state senator. Jensen emerged as a potential challenger after becoming a critic of the Covid-19 lockdowns during the early days of the pandemic and a vaccine skeptic later on.
Walz and his allies, though, are keen to focus voters on abortion rights and the prospect that, should a narrowly divided legislature break for Republicans, who already control the state Senate, Jensen could lead a push to ban the procedure. Jensen has said that he would not seek to overturn a state Supreme Court ruling protecting abortion rights but that any potential legal prohibition should have exceptions for rape, incest and any threat to a woman's health.
Oregon and New Mexico could pose greater challenges to Democrats.
There is a three-way race to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Kate Brown in Oregon. The presence of an independent candidate, timber heiress and former Democratic state Sen. Betsy Johnson, could cut into the vote of the Democratic nominee, former state House Speaker Tina Kotek, and potentially benefit Republican former state House Minority Leader Christine Drazan in what's believed to be a tight race. Republicans have not won a governor's race in Oregon since 1982 -- their longest gubernatorial losing streak in the country.
And in New Mexico, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham faces a tough GOP challenger in Mark Ronchetti, a longtime TV weatherman who lost a surprisingly close 2020 Senate election to Democrat Ben Ray Luján.
The mismatched states
As this year ends, Massachusetts and Maryland will say goodbye to their Republican governors. Term limits will conclude Gov. Larry Hogan's tenure in Maryland, while Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, perhaps sensing how a difficult primary challenge from a more conservative candidate might hurt his bid for a third term, decided to retire.
But in Kansas, another political outlier, Kelly is hoping to stick around. The Democrat is seeking a second term against GOP nominee Derek Schmidt, the state attorney general.
Republicans have long sought to paint Kelly as too liberal for a conservative state, while Kelly's universe of much-needed crossover voters was likely boosted by the heavy turnout on August 2, when Kansans overwhelmingly voted down a ballot measure that would have allowed the state legislature to pursue an abortion ban.
Kelly could also benefit from former Republican state Sen. Dennis Pyle running as an independent. Kansas Republicans are concerned that Pyle, who has criticized the state GOP for not being sufficiently conservative, could siphon votes from Schmidt.
The Democratic nominee in Maryland, Wes Moore, is running against Republican Dan Cox, a Trump-endorsed member of the state's House of Delegates. While his conservative credentials might have carried him in the primary, in which he defeated Hogan's endorsed candidate, Cox's campaign has mostly stalled since, with notable trouble raising money.
It's a similar story in Massachusetts, where state Attorney General Maura Healey is poised to become the party's gubernatorial nominee, entering a contest likely with Trump-endorsed former state Rep. Geoff Diehl, who, for all his support from the party's base, will be a heavy underdog in the general election.
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John Sullivan, the United States' ambassador to Russia, has left his post and will retire, the US Embassy announced Sunday.
Sullivan departs amid a period of heightened tensions between the US and Russia not seen in decades. He leaves after nearly three years as ambassador in Moscow, where he oversaw the embassy as it faced increasing restrictions imposed by the Russian government.
"U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation John J. Sullivan has concluded his tenure as U.S. envoy and departed Moscow today," the US Embassy in Russia said in a press statement Sunday.
"Ambassador Sullivan was appointed in December 2019 and has served as Ambassador for almost three years," the statement read. "Following his departure, he will retire from a career in public service that has spanned four decades and five U.S. presidents, including service as the Deputy Secretary of State and in senior positions at the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Commerce."
The embassy added that Elizabeth Rood will take over as chargé d'affaires until a successor takes over.
A State Department spokesperson told CNN that Sullivan's departure "is planned and part of a normal diplomatic rotation," noting that the ambassador has served a "full tenure" as the top US diplomat in Moscow while managing "one of the most critical bilateral relationships in the world during unprecedented times."
"We intend to announce our next Ambassador soon," the spokesperson added.
This story and headline have been updated.
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The Las Vegas Review-Journal is mourning the loss of one of its own.
Jeff German, a journalist for more than 30 years in Las Vegas, was found dead outside of his home Saturday morning, the newspaper said. The paper said German was found with "stab wounds."
"The Review-Journal family is devastated to lose Jeff," said Executive Editor Glenn Cook, according to the paper. "He was the gold standard of the news business. It's hard to imagine what Las Vegas would be like today without his many years of shining a bright light on dark places."
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police (LVMPD) were called to the scene Saturday just after 10:30 a.m. local time, according to a department news release.
"Arriving officers and medical personnel pronounced the victim deceased at the scene," the release said.
The police department did not identify German in its release but said that "the identification of the victim, as well as the cause and manner of death" would be released by the Clark County Coroner's Office.
CNN has reached out to the Clark County Coroner's Office for more information.
The homicide division of LVMPD is investigating, the release said.
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YAKIMA, Wash.-
What is First Friday? It's a monthly event that helps showcase the different talents, shops and and businesses in Yakima.
Business owners in Downtown Yakima feature local artists and performers and have special promotions for their customers.
Downtown Yakima has a goal of making sure the downtown area grows and becomes a place for people to thrive in. First Friday helps create those opportunities.
It highlights the businesses, organizations and other downtown areas to possibly expand the culture, dinning and shopping within Yakima. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/downtown-association-of-yakima-hosts-yakima-first-friday-on-september-2/article_389ed9b8-2ca3-11ed-b99b-cbe839ebe230.html | 2022-09-05T03:08:50Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/downtown-association-of-yakima-hosts-yakima-first-friday-on-september-2/article_389ed9b8-2ca3-11ed-b99b-cbe839ebe230.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The consensus box of Del Mar picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022.
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NEW YORK — Nick Kyrgios eliminated defending U.S. Open champion and No. 1-ranked Daniil Medvedev in the fourth round.
Kyrgios beat Medvedev 7-6 (11), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday night in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
This is the first time Kyrgios has reached the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows.
It also extends the recent run of high-level play for the 23rd-seeded Kyrgios, a 27-year-old Australian who reached his first Grand Slam final at Wimbledon in July.
Kyrgios was up to some of his usual anctics but he also outplayed Medvedev with the help of 21 aces.
Next for Kyrgios is a matchup on Tuesday against Karen Khachanov.
Tomljanovic, who beat Serena, wins again
The woman who ended Serena Williams’ stay at the U.S. Open has won again to reach the quarterfinals in New York for the first time in nine appearances.
Ajla Tomljanovic beat Liudmila Samsonova 7-6 (8), 6-1 at Louis Armstrong Stadium in a matchup between unseeded players.
Tomljanovic is a 29-year-old Australian who is now into her third Grand Slam quarterfinal after making it that far at Wimbledon the past two years.
This win comes two nights after Tomljanovic defeated Williams in three sets in what is expected to be the last match of the 23-time Grand Slam champion’s career.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — When Press Robinson registered to vote in South Carolina in 1963, he was handed a copy of the U.S. Constitution and told to read it aloud and interpret it.
Robinson, then a college sophomore, wasn’t surprised. He heard stories from others in the South’s Black community who faced Jim Crow-era methods to suppress Black votes – from literacy tests to poll taxes to the infamous “jellybean test" that required prospective voters to guess how many of the small candies were in a jar.
As Robinson began reading, he thought about the woman behind him who was also registering to vote for the first time: his 43-year-old mother, who had never fulfilled her constitutional right, partly out of fear that she would encounter this exact situation.
In 1965, the Voting Rights Act outlawed the discriminatory voting practices of many states in the South, where Jim Crow laws also restricted how and where Black people could live, work, eat and study.
Yet, nearly 60 years later, Robinson and civil rights activists say those gains are being eroded. In Alabama, Florida and Louisiana, new congressional maps that some judges have ruled dilute the power of Black voters are being used in upcoming elections.
Civil rights leaders worry the maps could diminish minority representation on Capitol Hill. The issue is especially contentious this year, when Democrats — traditionally favored by minority voters — are fighting to hang on to slim majorities in Congress in midterms that tend to reward the party not in the White House.
“I’m hurt. I’m shocked. I’m disappointed," an 85-year-old Robinson said. “I’m also a little afraid, because I don’t know where all this is heading.”
Every 10 years, state lawmakers, armed with new U.S. Census Bureau information, redraw political maps for seats in the U.S. House, state Senate and state House. It is typically an extraordinarily partisan process, with each major party trying to scoop up enough of its voters to guarantee wins in the largest number of districts. The boundaries determine which political parties will make decisions that have a profound impact on people's lives, such as abortion, gun control and how billions of tax dollars are spent.
Under the Voting Rights Act, mapmakers are required to draw districts with a plurality or majority of African Americans or other minority groups if they live in a relatively compact area with a white population that votes starkly differently from them.
Republican legislators have often used this to their advantage by packing one district with Democratic-leaning African American voters, leaving the remaining seats whiter and more Republican.
Both Alabama's and Louisiana's Republican-dominated legislatures produced such maps after receiving the latest numbers from the 2020 U.S. census. In both cases, Democrats and civil rights groups sued, and courts ordered new maps drawn.
In Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court put the lower court's ruling on hold, essentially saying there wasn’t enough time to redraw maps ahead of the election and that it would take up arguments in the fall. The court also delayed a ruling that would have allowed the creation of a second majority-Black district in Louisiana, until it can hear arguments in the Alabama case. Any ruling is unlikely to come before 2023.
In Florida, the GOP-led legislature approved — and an appeals court upheld — a map created by Republican governor and potential 2024 presidential contender Ron DeSantis that would dismantle at least one district where Blacks have a strong say at the polls.
“What this ultimately means is that (Black voters) will not have as big of a voice as they should if the districts were drawn more fairly,” said Robert Hogan, a professor and chair of Louisiana State University’s political science department.
In Alabama, GOP lawmakers packed most Black voters into only one of seven congressional districts, even though Blacks make up 27% of the state’s population.
In Louisiana, where nearly one-third of the state’s population is Black, GOP lawmakers approved a map containing five majority-white districts, all of which favor Republican incumbents. The 2nd Congressional District, held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, is the sole Black-majority district. It stretches from the New Orleans area along the Mississippi River up to the capital city of Baton Rouge.
Democrats and Black activists want two Black-majority districts instead of just the one.
“We want our seat at the table,” Louisiana state Rep. Denise Marcelle, a Democrat and Black caucus member, said during a recent legislative session. “It’s real simple. ... Give us an opportunity to elect another Black seat so that we can fight for the issues that we believe our people want us to fight for.”
But Republican leaders say placing the state’s widely dispersed Black population in two districts would actually result in very narrow Black majorities that could diminish Black voter power.
There is also another reason why the GOP generally opposes — and Democrats support — additional majority-Black districts. For decades, Black voters have overwhelmingly voted Democratic. Adding Black-majority districts could boost the party's representation in the House.
“(Republicans) want to use the Voting Rights Act to the extent that it helps put all the African Americans in one district and it creates very noncompetitive, heavily Republican districts around it,” Hogan said. “But, when you take the Voting Rights Act out too far and try to create a second district ... you’re taking away from the Republicans.”
The way Robinson sees it, though, it's not about more Democratic seats and fewer Republican ones; it's about fundamental rights for which Blacks have fought too long and hard to let slip away.
“This is 2022. I thought that once we got past those initial hurdles in the '60s that things would really just move forward and that we would be treated as regular Americans," Robinson said. "But we are not.” | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/858f45d759c333b9e0718a504c772a7c | 2022-09-05T03:32:58Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/858f45d759c333b9e0718a504c772a7c | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — It's a course that welcomes hundreds of golfers weekly - of all backgrounds in Tallahassee.
"Kind of honed my game in out here. Went from probably a nine or 10 handicap down to a scratch," Leroy Kilpatrick said.
Kilpatrick says the Jake Gaither Golf Course on Tallahassee's southside is one of his favorites courses to play.
"We used to have a lot of fun here," he said.
"For Kilpatrick, the course is a little extra special. Back when it opened in 1956. It was one of the first courses dedicated to African Americans to play golf in Tallahassee."
"This is the only place you could play at, the only two courses in town was Jake Gaither and the Capital City Country Club," Kilpatrick said.
During the segregation period in the United States, Jake Gaither was the only course in town for people like Kilpatrick to play at.
Although he was a caddie at another golf course in Tallahassee, it wasn't a course that African Americans could regularly play at.
It's at this course where he made lifelong friendships with other Black golfers in Tallahassee.
"There wasn't that many Black golfers here in Tallahassee at the time. The few that were here converged over here, we would play together and get to know one another," Kilpatrick said.
Now, the city-owned golf course is making its way on to the National Register of Historic Places for it's role in serving African Americans in Tallahassee.
"It's for guys like that who have fought for the golf course, and stood up for the golf course, and for all it's meant for them," Jan Auger said.
Auger is the general manager for city golf courses.
She says the National Register of Historic Places adding Jake Gaither to its list further cements the legacy for all who learned to love the game at one of the only places they could.
"It's for guys like Leroy who had to sneak on to play golf," Auger said.
For Kilpatrick, when he learned about the historic designation, nothing but happiness for the course that means so much to him.
"When I got the call that it happened, I almost wanted to shout like I was in church, you know, you just get that good feeling," Kilpatrick said. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/jake-gaither-golf-course-added-to-national-register-of-historic-places | 2022-09-05T03:33:04Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/jake-gaither-golf-course-added-to-national-register-of-historic-places | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
All-purpose Pretzels: Freeport's versatile football stars shine in win over Belvidere
BELVIDERE — Fourteen seconds into Saturday’s game, Ryan Coon put Freeport ahead to stay with an 88-yard kickoff return.
Eight seconds into the second half, Denarius Jackson gave the Pretzels the ball again with an interception. The two also led Freeport in rushing in its 49-7 victory at Belvidere.
“We always look to make big plays like that,” Coon said. “Those can change games.”
“We need that spark,” Freeport coach Anthony Dedmond said. “They are our playmakers, so we are looking for them to make plays. They answered the call. From the first kickoff, they set the bar high and they didn’t let off the gas.”
High school football Week 2:Scores from around the Rockford area
The two are like a pair of Swiss army knives. They do so many things on a football field and excel at all of them. Dedric Macon is a third versatile Pretzel. All three juniors have been playing multiple roles since they were freshmen.
“Those two and Macon, they are on the field the whole time,” coach Anthony Dedmond said. “It’s definitely something we wish we didn’t have to do, but it’s a necessity. Because of our numbers, we have no choice, and they step up and play ball.”
Jackson ran 10 times for 78 yards and two touchdowns Saturday. He also returned a fumble 65 yards for a touchdown to pad Freeport’s lead to 35-0 at the half over Belvidere (0-2).
Coon ran seven times for 64 yards and caught a 6-yard touchdown pass in addition to his opening kickoff return.
“We do plenty of different things,” Jackson said. “We are so dominant on the field together. We’re a 1-2 punch, man. It’s ugly.
“Ryan making that kick return on the opening kickoff, that set the tempo for us. He is so quick. People don’t know he is so quick. He’s the fastest in our school man.”
Macon, who also is a starting defensive back, caught two passes for 24 yards and a touchdown and ran three times for 19 yards. All three players are playmakers on both sides of the ball.
That’s the way they like it, even though Dedmond said Coon and Jackson would be solely running backs if Freeport, the second-smallest public school in the NIC-10, had far greater depth.
“We try to do a little bit of everything — except play the line,” Coon said. “That’s a big part of our game. It’s fun to see football from both sides of the ball and make plays on both offense and defense. I wouldn’t trade what I am able to do here.”
Freeport led 16-0 after only three offensive plays, forcing a three-and-out from Belvidere and scoring in only three plays itself, on an 8-yard Jackson run. Xzaveon Segner’s 12-yard TD pass to Macon made it 22-0 before the end of the first quarter and Segner’s 6-yard TD pass to Coon made it 28-0 as the Pretzels scored the first four times they touched the ball.
Jackson said he never gets tired, no matter how many plays he is on the field.
More:What we learned from Week 2 of the high school football season around Rockford
“You put in the work, it’s going to pay off, no matter what,” Jackson said. “Running in the dark is going to shine in the light.”
“He is a very hard worker,” Coon said of Jackson. “He runs hard and plays tough on defense. And he really cares. That’s a big part of what he does. He puts a lot of effort into football and it shows on game days.”
Freeport, 3-6 last year, has a lot of work left ahead of itself if the Pretzels hope to make the playoffs for the first time in 14 years. Their big three and Segner, who completed 5 of 8 passes for 78 yards, might have played well enough Saturday, but the Pretzels were flagged 10 times for 85 yards in penalties. That won’t work against Boylan or Hononegah or Harlem — or maybe even against Auburn, Guilford, Jefferson and East, the four teams Freeport will likely have to sweep to reach the postseason.
“We are still growing,” Dedmond said. “We need to be a lot better.”
“We’re going to have to play really well,” Coon said. “A lot better than we did today. We got discombobulated at times. We have to play hard and we have to play smart.” | https://www.journalstandard.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/04/how-freeports-most-versatile-football-stars-led-pretzels-over-belvidere/65465308007/ | 2022-09-05T03:44:20Z | journalstandard.com | control | https://www.journalstandard.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/04/how-freeports-most-versatile-football-stars-led-pretzels-over-belvidere/65465308007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Massillon area real estate transfers Aug. 6-12
Bethlehem Township
Behringer Dan J & Collins Joan A from Weister Matthew & Stacy, parcel 1100566 Safari Trl, $3,900.
Canal Fulton
Green Jennifer N & Ashlee Dawn from Flickinger Regis M III & Megan A, 905 Dan Ave, $250,000.
Mark Stefan & Alycia Kathryn from Roberts Deborah J, 474 Riverview St, $219,500.
Jackson Township
4466 Canton LLC from 4466 Fulton Drive LLC, 4466 Fulton Dr NW, $4,400,000.
4990 Dressler Road NW Property LLC from Dipietro Enterprises No 5 Ltd, 4990 Dressler Rd NW, $2,200,000.
Chauhan Archana C from Zawada Ryan J, 4500 Edwin Dr NW, $239,900.
Crane Nicholas A from Summerlot Dorothy J, 7672 Lake O Springs Ave NW, $312,100.
Die-Tech Tooling Inc from Lab Don W & Carole A, 9120 Margaret St NW, $115,000.
Drumm Karol R Trustee of the Karol R from Clark Lynn D, 8400 Old Forest St, $357,000.
Ensminger James & Lindsey from Smith Daniel P & Andrea J, 6368 Great Court Cir NW, $530,000.
Flood Daniel & Lynda Petty from Elsass Keith A, 7601 Parkford St NW, $256,000.
Holland Sean A & Sanner Ronald A from Malloy Family Limited Partnership, parcel 10015476 Shuffel St NW, $258,500.
J&J Home Improvements LLC from Benchmark Properties of Ohio Ltd, 5070 Hills and Dales Rd NW, $241,000.
Karge Mark A & Zheng Huiwen from Murray Keith A & Shelly L, 9106 Ontario St NW, $275,000.
Key Bank Na from Myers Robert & Annam Trustees, 7770 Hills and Dales Rd NW, $122,454.
Lewis Brandon M & Soehnlen Rubi J from Mccarty Randy K & Deborah S Trustees of, 5160 Echoglenn Ave NW, $313,000.
Lieberman Nicole M from Fete Eric Trustee of the Fete Family Irr, 9211 Paulding St NW, $320,000.
Meador James A & Darla M from Golden Eagle Land LLC, 2001 Whipple Ave NW, $278,262.
Michel Katherine A from Standley Charles O & Beth B, 4958 Searls Dr NW, $312,500.
Mittas Demetrios JP & Debra D from Loh Ying Chih & Liao Shien-Chang, 7617 Peyton St NW, $125,000.
Myers Dominic J & Hannah M from Snyder Benjamin D, 4860 East BLVD NW, $269,900.
Peters Jeffrey S from Malloy Family Limited Partnership, 8120 Lake O Springs Ave NW, $550,000.
Petrillo Jason R from Malloy Family Limited Partnership, parcel 10015475 Lake O Springs Ave NW, $297,000.
Roholt Real Estate LLC from Gotch Anna E, 9088 Ontario St NW, $129,452.
Shaheen Sophia D from Wayne Savings Community Bank, 7644 Onyx Ave NW, $176,000.
Spencer Chad & Hannay Ashley from Gesquiere Robert F, 9340 Strausser St NW, $239,900.
Twin Oaks of North Canton LLC from Deville Apartments Ltd, 7337 Seymour St NW, $760,000.
Viola Katherine M from Trehan Shruti Trustee, 4251 Glenmoor Rd NW, $500,000.
Viola Katherine M from Trehan Shruti Trustee, parcel 1618623 Brunnerdale Ave NW, $500,000.
Massillon
Campbell Oil Company from Wavelengths LLC, 1129 State Ave NE, $349,000.
Ford Brothers Investments LLC from Lombardi Frank N, 442 6th St NE, $59,100.
Fry Aubrey Alana & Fry Brody J from Weyant Victor & Emily, 1825 John Carroll Dr SE, $355,000.
Geers Nate from Wasik Karen M, 1321 Arapahoe St SE, $63,000.
Geers Nate from Wasik Karen M, 1742 Huron Rd SE, $55,000.
Geers Nate from Wasik Karen M, 1759 Huron Rd SE, $55,000.
Mccarthy Kristi M & David J from Harris Michael A, 1122 Kendal Ave NE, $175,000.
Morrow Ben from Lustig Todd C & Amy M, 714 Overlook Ave SW, $70,000.
NVR Inc D/B/A Ryan Homes from Lockhart A R Development Co, 3545 Kenyon Creek Ave NW, $59,000.
Oakes Catherine A & Oakes III Charles from Bond Scott W, 719 Green Ave SW, $68,900.
Praxis Properties LLC from Stoneking Dorothy M, 711 Webb Ave SW, $68,500.
Rayner Jason & Mccune Haleigh from Solano-Cabrera Kristi M, 42 Woodland Ave SE, $80,000.
Rodgers Timothy W & Rebecca A from Rodgers Darlina, 524 Pike Ave SW, $58,000.
Schiller Michael D & Havlin Cynthia J from Clark Russell H & Patricia L, 1952 University Commons Dr SE, $220,000.
Smith Gregory & Teresa from Humerickhouse Russell E & Margaret A, 2334 Tanglewood Dr NE, $273,900.
Span Stephanie J from Schleichert Allison K & Brent P Crum Tru, 1506 11th St NE, $265,000.
Stine Emmaline Mae L & Rice Cooper A from Sarver Brittany K, 304 Korman Ave NE, $148,000.
Voulgares Nicholas Andrew Thomas from Mcintyre Michelle L & Alyson M, 856 Wellman Ave SE, $85,000.
Perry Township
Blaylock Alena & Marquez Daniel J from Blaylock Harold L &Sheila S, 212 Lennox Ave NW, $115,000.
Cooper Jennifer M from Green Jennifer N, 4547 2nd St NW, $182,500.
Garmany Jacob M & Hannah M from J&J Home Improvements LLC, 3730 Georgia St NW, $177,000.
M Laps Land LLC from Oaks Jill E, 139 Fairlawn Ave SW, $54,000.
Mccune James Neil II from Boss Cara M & Michael, 4191 Eldridge Ave SW, $157,500.
Shingleton David J from Kendle Judy K, 4422 Shepler Church Ave SW, $112,000.
Stevenson Bryan A & Ryan L from Koska Charles L, 6520 Navarre Rd SW, $130,500.
Summer Jason L & Murphy Kimberly J from Gabel Michael B Aka Michael J, 148 Crescentview Dr SW, $98,000.
Tredway Kenneth H Jr from Lawless Brian D & Rebecca, 1256 Delverne Ave SW, $141,100.
Twin Oaks of North Canton LLC from Perfection Developers Inc, 4669 17th St NW, $445,000.
Waggoner Kevin A II from Selan Stanley T, 3845 Clark St SW, $128,600.
Wilkerson Autumn from Reedy Clark F & Christi A, 166 Victoria Ave NW, $162,500.
Sugarcreek Township
Courtney Keith M & Julie L from Husted Deborah J, 10656 Elton St SW, $450,000.
Henthorne Samantha K & Whaley Earnest from Betinis Rebecca L, 309 Washington Ave SW, $135,000.
Kalleker-Wallace Elizabeth from Loudiana Bessie M, 8021 Manchester Ave SW #20, $8,700.
Miller Marcus J from Beachy Ezra, 107 W Main St, $107,500.
Rambo Kimberly from Radich Charles J & George L, 355 Washington Ave SW, $149,500.
Rippl Joseph G II from Havlin Cynthia J, 677 Wabash Ave N, $220,500.
Wentling Farms LLC from Mauger William E & Mary Jane, parcel 10016001 Pigeon Run Rd SW, $200,000.
Tuscarawas Township
Shimanek Brittany K & Tyler K from Thompson Zachery D, 12505 Lawnwood St NW, $230,000. | https://www.indeonline.com/story/news/2022/09/03/massillon-area-real-estate-transfers-aug-6-12/65462045007/ | 2022-09-05T03:59:33Z | eonline.com | treatment | https://www.indeonline.com/story/news/2022/09/03/massillon-area-real-estate-transfers-aug-6-12/65462045007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WHAT I am passing on to you in this piece reminds me of a story told by Simon Sinek while flying to Florida some years back. Simon said, “How many souls on board? One hundred and twenty-six (126) souls, replied the pilot. The air traffic controller asked. As if we were still traversing the globe in wooden ships with tall masts, the archaic and outmoded terminology referring to the number of people aboard the vessel is a standard question asked when an aircraft declares an in-flight emergency.
“The Florida-bound flight was somewhere over Maryland, at an altitude of 36,000 feet, traveling at about 560 miles per hour, when smoke started to pour into the cockpit. Smoke on board an aircraft is one of the most terrifying emergencies a pilot will ever face. They do not always know the cause of the smoke. They don’t know if there is a fire. They don’t know if emergency is contained or if it is going to spread…and spread out of control quickly. The smoke itself can make seeing or breathing difficult and it is sure to cause panic among the passengers. No matter how you look at it, it is bad. ‘Center, KH209,’ the pilot radioed when he realized the problem. ‘KH209, go ahead,’ replied the controller monitoring the air space. ‘KH209, I need to descend immediately. I cannot maintain altitude,’ was the abrupt call from the pilot.
“But there was a problem. There was another flight, also flying to Florida, 2,000 feet directly below the troubled aircraft. The FAA rules are simple enough: no two aircraft flying en-route may pass each other any closer than 1,000 feet, above or below, or five miles around each other. The rules are there for good reason. Traveling at three quarters the speed of sound, it becomes very difficult to maneuver aircraft without creating a serious risk of collision.
“To make matters worse, the two planes were flying on a narrow route toward their destination. Because of a military exercise that was going on in the area, the airspace was restricted to a narrow band, much like a lane of a highway. And though there were other lanes on this highway, there was other traffic in them at the time. The air traffic controller replied to the pilot’s request to descend immediately, ‘KH209, turn fifteen degrees right and descend. To ensure the safety of one hundred and twenty-six (126) precious people on board, the controller had to break the rules…’”
Knowing when to break the rules is what distinguishes successful and effective leaders from ineffective and unsuccessful ones.
To save lives in leadership, sometimes a leader needs to deliberately break the rules, because rules are made for man, man is not made for the rules. If the controller didn’t break the rules in the story told, 126 precious people would have lost their lives. Rules are meant to preserve lives, they are not meant to destroy them. Every great and effective leader knows and understands this.
A leader is not just occupying a leadership position to obey the rules, he is also in leadership to disobey and break them to impact positively on the lives of those within his sphere of influence. Also, the greatness of a leader comes to the fore when he knows when to break the rules and when to keep them. When a leader keeps the rules when he is supposed to break them, he is going to be a colossal failure in leadership.
Please understand that the rules are not meant to be broken every time, but as a leader, those on your watch trust you to know when to break them and when to obey them. It is better to break rules than for those under your leadership to be broken into pieces! For the umpteenth time, to preserve lives of those under your leadership, it is not wrong to break the rules—each time it is unavoidable.
Taking this issue further a little, we cannot either “trust” rules or technology. We can rely on them to an extent, for sure, but to trust them? No! Trust is a very special human experience, produced by the chemical oxytocin in response to acts performed on our behalf that serve our safety and protection. True trust can only exist among people. And we can only trust others when we know they are actively and consciously concerned about us. A technology, no matter how sophisticated, doesn’t care about us all—it simply reacts to a set of variable. And the rulebook, no matter how comprehensive, cannot consider every eventuality.
As I coast home, on the condition that people are asked to work in a bad culture, one in which leaders do not relinquish and give up control, then the odds of something bad happening go up. People will be more concerned about following the rules out of fear of getting in trouble or losing their jobs than about doing what needs to be done. And when that happens, souls will be lost!
What needs to be done comes before the rules to be obeyed. What needs to be done does not always agree with what the rules say. When this happens in leadership, we deliberately break the rules, so that the precious souls under our care are not lost. Remember, the highest onus of a leader is to preserve souls.
Lastly, a leader needs to develop the required courage to break the rules in order to model a life of integrity for his followers to see and pattern after. It takes courage to break the rules when others are obeying them, against their esteemed values. There are rules that can make a leader compromise his values. When he courageously breaks them, the character of those following his leadership is strengthened to face same challenge in the days to come and ultimately overcome it. Remember, one of the major attributes of a great leader is in knowing when to break the rules and when to obey them. See you where great leaders—who break the rules when they need to—are found.
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The former treatise have I made,
O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began
to do and teach…. (emphasis mine) – Acts of Apostles 1:1
IF there is anything that is more important than the generic definition of leadership as the capacity to influence others to move in a particular direction or do things a certain way, it is the fact that the very basis of leadership is service to PEOPLE. The business of any business is to make, serve and keep customers. Products or services are merely vehicles of accomplishing that goal. True leadership operates by persuasion, not conviction. Convincing someone about a particular line of action or thought is motivated by a desire to project and ultimately make the other party toe our line of thought, even if he is not sure if it is a line he wants to toe. Persuasion on the other hand is a way of getting people to subscribe to a particular line of thought projected by the leader in a way that makes them own it. When persuaded, a follower will defend that position as if it was theirs.
To effectively do that, a leader must cultivate the habit of leading from the heart. He must see his followers as stakeholders in any venture he is working on with them. When a leader can connect with his followers from the heart, he does not need to bark orders at them. They can literally think his thoughts and can fill any performance gap in his absence with little or no problem. A leader who has to shout to get the followers to do anything is not likely to be one who has effectively connected with them at the heart level. Simply put, a connected leader is a people person. He is inspired by people’s wellbeing and the removal of whatever makes it difficult for them to function at their optimum level, whether in their private lives or at work.
Our culture does not have too many of such leaders. In an environment where leaders are perceived as lords of the Manor and many in positions of authority have no qualms lording it over everyone and making it appear like they (leaders) are lieutenants to God, there is a yawning leadership gap and a loud cry for leaders who truly can connect with the people and walk where they walk.
What sets the connected leader apart from the pack?
The first quality required to connect effectively is Compassion. A compassionate leader is one who can feel the pains of the people he is leading. Compassion is not synonymous with pity. A compassionate leader enters into the world of the people he is leading and walks where they walk, understands why they feel or behave in the peculiar way that they do and almost always seeks a solution to all their problems. As has been popularly said, nobody cares what you know until they know how much you care. This goes beyond merely feeling sorry about a follower’s experience. It’s about helping him to find a solution to the attendant problems. Connected leaders are Ordinary people who became enigmatic because they chose to embrace responsibility at the level that most other ordinary people would not. However, in his ordinariness, he relates with people without fear or favour and across divides without being pedestrian or partisan. His relationship with people is driven by the purpose he intends to achieve or by the corporate destination.
He may be structured or organized. This is because order is at the heart of progress. Great leaders are not comfortable with chaos but they are Not bogged down by the rhetoric or rigmarole of structures cast in stone. Nobody feels allegiance to a structure that cannot serve him. Connected leaders understand that structures are meant to serve people before people are expected to subscribe to structures. So, effective leaders prioritize relationship above rules.
Connected leaders are not bound to forms or traditions. They know that as people evolve, so does the society that they live in. Consequently, they encourage Novelty in their approach to things. Connected leaders recognize that no two people, even if they are identical twins, are exactly alike. Their openness to new ideas makes it possible for them to manage a diversity of talents and warehouse innovative ideas that translate to significant progress.
In the corporate environment, people with very high capacity for Emotional and Social Intelligence tend to move up faster on the corporate ladder than others who lack those qualities. This is because their capacity to Engage makes them go-to persons in the organization. People around them usually feel at ease with them and can easily confide in them. They have an uncanny ability to remember names and special days of their followers. They are comfortable attending the naming ceremony of a subordinate’s child as they are attending the wedding ceremony of a top Manager. This makes them natural leaders in any organization where they find themselves.
Connected leaders are excellent communicators. They have no problems articulating a vision or an idea. Because they adopt advocacy as their strategy for communicating with others, they speak from the heart and with a disarming sincerity that makes people listen to them. They speak to the lowest of their subordinates in a way that demonstrates appreciation of their self-worth and dignity. Honour is a prominent feature of their vocabulary.
Everyone, including the most untrustworthy person seeks someone to trust. An armed robber who steals money and takes it to the bank does so because he is looking for trust. Trustworthy people, more so in leadership, are in high demand but in short supply. Connected leaders rate high on the trust index. This is the basis of confidence in their leadership.
Driven by the desire to see others become great and be the best that they can be, Empowering their followers is one competence of the connected leader. Such a leader is never comfortable with seeing others fail or function at a level beneath their natural capacity. They are comfortable relating with an audience of one as they are with a crowd. Consequently, they are quick to spot potentials in their followers and in helping them to develop and deploy such potentials. When they delegate responsibility, they empower the delegate with the authority for execution.
Aside from his commitment to people, the fuel of the connected leader’s success is nothing but his Dedication to an overarching purpose that goes beyond himself. He is committed to seeing people as they can be rather than as they have been or currently are. Connected leaders are avowed believers in possibilities wrapped up in people even when such people have little or no faith in themselves.
Connection is the soul of empathy. Leaders with stone-cold emotions towards their followers are detached and disconnected from their followers. Such leaders only care about their personal agenda and would stop at nothing to merely use other people to achieve their selfish aims. They are brutish dictators whose only claim to significance is their style of oppression.
Society only progresses significantly when leaders genuinely care about the people that they are called to lead.
May God give us leaders who walk where we walk and who can take us to where we ought to go.
Remember, the sky is not your limit, God is!
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NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Gauff raised a fist, then wagged her right index finger, responding to, and riling up even more, a loud-louder-loudest Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd that was standing and screaming. Gauff’s U.S. Open opponent, Zhang Shuai, covered both ears with her hands to shield them from what she described later as a “Boom!” of sound.
Gauff and her fans were reacting excitedly to quite a point, one in which the 18-year-old Floridian raced to her right for a defensive forehand, then changed directions to sprint and slide into a backhand that drew a netted volley from Zhang. Just four points later, Gauff was a quarterfinalist at Flushing Meadows for the first time.
Gauff, the French Open runner-up in June, came back in each set to beat China’s Zhang 7-5, 7-5 on Sunday to become the youngest American to make it this far at the U.S. Open since Melanie Oudin was 17 in 2009.
“Here, I can’t hear myself scream. Makes me want to do it more. I think I’m feeding off the momentum a lot. I enjoy it,” said No. 12 seed Gauff, who meets No. 17 Caroline Garcia of France on Tuesday. “New York is bringing out a side of me that I haven’t had since I was 15, so it’s nice.”
Nick Kyrgios is playing much better than he ever has at Flushing Meadows, too, building off the momentum of his run to the Wimbledon final in July, and he eliminated defending champion and No. 1-ranked Daniil Medvedev 7-6 (11), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday night.
The 23rd-seeded Kyrgios was up to some of his usual behavior — warned for cursing, yelling at his guest box, playing to the crowd — but he also outplayed Medvedev in a high-quality match.
“I’m just glad I’m finally able to show New York my talent,” said Kyrgios, never past the third round at the U.S. Open until now. “I haven’t had too many great trips here.”
He’ll play No. 27 seed Karen Khachanov on Tuesday, when the other’s men’s quarterfinal on the top half of the bracket is 2022 French Open runner-up Casper Ruud against 2021 Wimbledon runner-up Matteo Berrettini.
Medvedev will relinquish the top spot in the rankings after the U.S. Open, with Ruud joining Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz as players with a chance to replace him.
After trailing 5-4 in the opening set, then 5-3 in the second, which she was a point from losing, Gauff was buoyed by spectators who cheered her every point and chanted “Let’s go, Coco!” as the end neared. She improved to 4-0 in Ashe this year after having never previously won a match at the biggest arena in Grand Slam tennis.
How loud was it?
“It got so racuous in there that I got a headache. I had to take an Advil,” said Gauff’s father, Corey. “I kept pinching myself. I’m like, ‘My gosh, all of these people here for my daughter.’ You dream about this, but you never know if you’re going to realize that. She was pumping herself up and they responded to her. It sent chills up my spine.”
Zhang, at 33 the oldest woman to reach the fourth round, said it was more noise than she’s ever heard at a match.
She praised Gauff’s play, calling her “a superstar” and adding: “Everything is very good. She’s so much younger than me. Her energy is so much better. She’s faster. She’s powerful.”
They competed mostly from the baseline, and the longer the exchanges, the more success Gauff found: She claimed a 45-26 edge in points that lasted five or more strokes.
Garcia is coming off a hard-court title at Cincinnati and stretched her winning streak to 12 matches by defeating No. 29 Alison Riske-Amritraj of the U.S. 6-4, 6-1.
“I’m super excited, actually, to play Coco — in U.S., in New York, quarterfinal of a Slam. It’s great,” Garcia said.
The other quarterfinal on that half of the women’s field will be between Ajla Tomljanovic, the player who beat Serena Williams in the third round, and either No. 5 Ons Jabeur or No. 18 Veronika Kudermetova. Tomljanovic got past Liudmila Samsonova 7-6 (8), 6-1 at Louis Armstrong Stadium in a matchup between unseeded players.
Tomljanovic is a 29-year-old Australian who is now into her third Grand Slam quarterfinal after making it that far at Wimbledon the past two years. On Wednesday, Tomljanovic beat Williams in three sets in what is expected to be the last match of the 23-time Grand Slam champion’s career.
In Gauff-Zhang, the whirring of the Ashe retractable roof being pulled shut accompanied the start of the second set because of showers that started soon after, and it took a while for the artificial lights to reach full strength. The match proceeded, even though it was rather dark — and quite humid — indoors.
Zhang started getting a bit better of the back-and-forth midway through the second set, and when she hit a backhand winner of her own, she broke to lead 5-3.
Last year’s U.S. Open doubles champion — she and Sam Stosur beat Gauff and Caty McNally in the final — served to force a third set, and was a point away from getting there, but Gauff steeled herself and stood her ground.
That set point was frittered away when Zhang sent a backhand long. Gauff smacked — what else? — a down-the-line backhand winner for her third break point of that game, then delivered a good return to a corner that drew a long backhand to make it 5-4 and start a four-game, match-closing run.
Everyone’s known how talented Gauff is for a while now. After all, at 15, she became the youngest qualifier in Wimbledon history in 2019, beat Venus Williams in the first round of the main draw and made it all the way to the fourth. There have been more steps along the way, more achievements — last month, she became the second-youngest doubles No. 1 in WTA history — and her ever-developing game — the most notable recent improvements were to her forehand and second serve — keeps carrying her closer to the top of the singles rankings and closer to a Grand Slam title.
And at this point, having the full sport of more than 20,000 folks in Ashe doesn’t hurt, either.
“She’s found a home there,” Dad said. “I hope she’s going to play there for the rest of the tournament.”
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AP Sports Writer Dan Gelston contributed to this report.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Energy problems plagued Ukraine and Europe as much of the Russian-occupied region that’s home to a largely crippled nuclear power plant was reported temporarily in blackout Sunday.
Only one of six reactors at the Zaporizhzhia facility was connected to the electricity grid, and Russia’s main pipeline carrying natural gas to Germany remained shut down.
The fighting in Ukraine and related disputes over pipelines lie behind the electricity and natural gas shortfalls that have worsened as Russia’s war in Ukraine, which began on Feb. 24, grinds on for a seventh month.
Both issues will take center stage this week. U.N. nuclear agency inspectors are scheduled to brief the Security Council on Tuesday about their inspection and safeguard visit to the Zaporizhzhia power plant. European Union energy ministers were slated to hold an emergency meeting Friday in Brussels to discuss the bloc’s electricity market, which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said “is no longer operating.”
Much of the Zaporizhzhia region, including the key city of Melitopol, lost power Sunday.
But electricity was gradually being restored, said Vladimir Rogov, the head of the Russia-installed local administration in Enerhodar, the city where the nuclear power plant is located. To the southwest, power was also out in several parts of the port city of Kherson, according to Russia’s Tass news agency. Rogov blamed the outages in both locations on damage to high-voltage power lines.
While Rogov said no new shelling of the area around the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia plant was reported Sunday, the effects of earlier strikes lingered.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday that the plant was disconnected from its last main external power line and one reactor was disconnected because of grid restrictions. Another reactor was still operating and producing electricity for cooling and other essential safety functions at the site, as well as externally for households, factories and others through a reserve power line, the IAEA said.
Russian forces have held the Zaporizhzhia facility, Europe’s largest nuclear plant, since early March, with its Ukrainian staff continuing to operate it.
IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said he will brief the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday on a mission he led to the plant last week. The 14-member delegation braved gunfire and artillery blasts to reach the plant last Thursday after months of negotiations to enable passage through the fighting’s front lines.
Without blaming either warring side, Grossi said his big concerns are the plant’s physical integrity, its power supply and the staff’s condition.
Europe’s energy picture remained clouded by the war in Ukraine.
Just hours before Russian energy company Gazprom was due to resume natural gas deliveries to Germany through a major pipeline after a three-day stoppage, it announced Friday that it couldn’t do so until oil leaks in turbines are fixed.
That is the latest development in a saga in which Gazprom has advanced technical problems as the reason for reducing gas flows through Nord Stream 1 — explanations that German officials have rejected as a cover for a political power play. Dismissing Gazprom’s latest rationale for the shutdown, Germany’s Siemens Energy — which manufactured turbines the pipeline uses —- said turbine leaks can be fixed while gas continues to flow through the pipeline.
Von der Leyen blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine for Europe’s energy crisis. Before the EU energy ministers’ meeting this coming Friday, she said electricity and natural gas prices should be decoupled and that she supports a price cap on Russian pipeline gas exported to Europe.
Natural gas is one of the main fuels used in electricity generation, and is a major source of Russia’s income, along with oil exports.
On Ukraine’s battlefield, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address Sunday, without providing specifics, that his country’s forces had retaken control of two settlements in Ukraine’s south and one in the separatist eastern Donetsk region.
Russian shelling hit the southern Ukraine port city of Mykolaiv during the night, damaging a medical treatment facility, the city’s mayor said Sunday.
Mykolaiv and its surrounding region have been hit daily for weeks. On Saturday, a child was killed and five people were wounded in rocket attacks in the region, Gov. Vitaliy Kim said.
Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych didn’t report injuries in the overnight attack, which he said also damaged residences. Mykolaiv, which is 30 kilometers (20 miles) upstream from the Black Sea on the Southern Bug River, is a significant port and shipbuilding center.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, Russian shelling late Saturday set a large wooden restaurant complex on fire, according to the region’s emergency service. One person was killed and two others were wounded in shelling in the region, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the eastern Donetsk region where Russian forces have been trying to take full control, said four people were killed in shelling on Saturday.
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Andrew Katell contributed to this story from New York.
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UNION, N.J. (AP) — Gustavo Arnal, the chief financial officer of retail chain Bed Bath & Beyond, has died, the company confirmed on Sunday.
The company said Arnal died on Friday. According to the New York City Police Department, police found the 52-year-old unconscious with injuries showing he fell from a building in Manhattan. He was pronounced dead in the scene and the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause of death. Police said an investigation was ongoing.
Arnal joined the company in May 2020 after previous stints at Avon, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Procter & Gamble.
“Gustavo will be remembered by all he worked with for his leadership, talent and stewardship of our Company. I am proud to have been his colleague, and he will be truly missed by all of us at Bed Bath & Beyond and everyone who had the pleasure of knowing him,” said Harriet Edelman, independent chair of the company’s board, in Sunday’s statement.
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REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — A series of stabbings at an Indigenous community and at another town nearby in Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, Canadian police said Sunday as they searched across the expansive province for two suspects.
The stabbings took place in multiple locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, police said.
Rhonda Blackmore, the Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP in Saskatchewan, said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects but others appear to have been attacked at random. She couldn’t provide a motive.
“It is horrific what has occurred in our province today,” Blackmore said, adding there were 13 crime scenes where either deceased or injured people were found.
It is among the deadliest mass killings in Canadian history. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian history happened in 2020 when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. A man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto in 2019. But mass killings are less common in Canada than in the United States.
Blackmore said police began receiving reports before 6 a.m. of stabbings on the First Nation community. More reports of attacks quickly followed and by midday police issued a warning that a vehicle reportedly carrying the two suspects had been spotted in Regina, about 335 kilometers (208 miles) south of the communities where the stabbings occurred.
Police said the last information they had from the public was that the suspects were sighted there around lunchtime. There have been no sightings since.
Regina Police Evan Bray said late Sunday they still believe the suspects are in the city of Regina and urged residents to follow alerts and provide information if they have.
“If in the Regina area, take precautions & consider sheltering in place. Do not leave a secure location. DO NOT APPROACH suspicious persons. Do not pick up hitch hikers. Report suspicious persons, emergencies or info to 9-1-1. Do not disclose police locations,” the RCMP said in a message on Twitter.
The suspects were identified as Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30. Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list last May that included Myles, writing that he was “unlawfully at large.”
Doreen Lees, an 89-year grandmother from Weldon, said she and her daughter thought they saw one of the suspects when a car came barreling down her street early in the morning as her daughter was having coffee on her deck. Lees said a man approached them and said he was hurt and needed help.
But Lees said the man took off and ran after her daughter said she would call for help.
“He wouldn’t show his face. He had a big jacket over his face. We asked his name and he kind of mumbled his name twice and we still couldn’t get it,” she said. “He said his face was injured so bad he couldn’t show it.”
She said the man was by himself and “kind of a little wobbly.”
“I followed him a little ways to see if he was going to be OK. My daughter said ‘Don’t follow him, get back here.’”
Weldon residents have identified one of the victims as Wes Petterson. Ruby Works said the 77-year-old widower was like an uncle to her.
“I collapsed and hit the ground. I’ve known him since I was just a little girl,″ she said, describing the moment she heard the news. She said he loved his cats, was proud of his homemade Saskatoon berry jam and frequently helped out his neighbors.
“He didn’t do anything. He didn’t deserve this. He was a good, kind hearted man,″ said Works.
She said the event has shaken a community where the sounds of sirens are rarely heard.
“No one in this town is ever going to sleep again. They’re going to be terrified to open their door,″ she said
Weldon resident Robert Rush also described the victim as a gentle, widowed man in his 70s.
“He wouldn’t hurt a fly,″ he said.
Rush said Petterson’s adult grandson was in the basement at the time and phoned police.
At the Weldon Christian Tabernacle Church the congregation began their regular Sunday service by saying a special prayer to the victims and their families.
At the James Smith Cree Nation, a convenience store that also serves as a gas station became a gathering place for community members, who greeted each other with tears and hugs.
A sign on the door said: “Due to safety concerns with our community we will remain closed until further notice.”
The elected leaders of the three communities that make up the James Smith Cree Nation, including the Chakastaypasin Band and the Peter Chapman Band, declared a local state of emergency on Sunday.
Chakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson said he’d left his phone off on Sunday morning and only learned of the tragic events when community members came to his door to check on him. He is not related to the two suspects.
Everyone’s been affected, he said.
“They were our relatives, friends. Mostly we’re all related here, so it’s pretty hard,″ Sanderson said. “It’s pretty horrific.”
The emergency declaration, which was released by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, said two emergency operations centers have been set up.
“This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the Chiefs and Councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.
The search for suspects was carried out as fans descended on Regina for a sold out annual Labor Day game between the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
The Regina Police Service said in a news release that with the help of Mounties, it was working on several fronts to locate and arrest the suspects and had “deployed additional resources for public safety throughout the city, including the football game at Mosaic Stadium.″
The alert first issued by Melfort, Saskatchewan RCMP about 7 a.m. was extended hours later to cover Manitoba and Alberta, as the two suspects remained at large.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority said multiple patients were being treated at several sites.
“A call for additional staff was issued to respond to the influx of casualties,” authority spokeswoman Anne Linemann said in an email.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement he was “shocked and devastated by the horrific attacks.”
“As Canadians, we mourn with everyone affected by this tragic violence, and with the people of Saskatchewan,” Trudeau said.
Deadly mass stabbings are more rare than mass shootings but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China’s southwestern city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge.
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Associated Press journalist Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-canadian-police-10-dead-15-injured-from-stabbings/ | 2022-09-05T04:18:04Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-canadian-police-10-dead-15-injured-from-stabbings/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Pedro Castillo’s surprise election brought hopes for change in Peru’s unstable and corrupt political system, but the impoverished rural teacher and political neophyte has found himself so engulfed in impeachment votes and corruption allegations that his presidency has become an exercise in political survival.
Chances the leftist leader could accomplish a signature policy such as improving education or health care were slim to begin with, given his lack of support in Congress, and have evaporated as he focuses on staying in office and his family’s freedom.
In just over one year as president, Castillo has survived two congressional votes to oust him, named more than 60 ministers to the 19 agencies that make up his cabinet and confronted six criminal investigations into accusations ranging from influence peddling to plagiarism, one that recently saw a close relative imprisoned. The probes are in their initial stages and no formal charges have been filed.
Castillo says he has not had a “single minute of truce” since taking office and blames it on Peru’s political elite wanting him gone.
“I don’t speak like them, I don’t sit at those opulent tables like them,” he told people gathered at a remote desert community. Later, he told a group of mothers outside a recently restored school that he comes from the lower class and that the accusations will not “break” him.
But Castillo’s tribulations follow a pattern in Peru, which recently had three different presidents in a single week after one was impeached by Congress and protests forced his successor to resign. Almost all former Peruvian presidents who governed since 1985 have been ensnared in corruption allegations, some imprisoned or arrested in their mansions. One died by suicide before police could arrest him. Castillo defeated the daughter of one of those presidents, Alberto Fujimori, during last year’s elections.
The preliminary investigations by prosecutors against Castillo are a first for a sitting president in Peru, as is the preventative detention of his sister-in-law stemming from money laundering allegations.
Peru’s constitution does not specifically say whether a sitting president can be investigated for crimes, and in the last two decades, attorneys general had proposed initiating initial investigations of three acting presidents. One against then-president Martín Vizcarra was opened in October 2020, but the attorney general immediately froze it until the end of the presidential term.
Now, however, there is a new attorney general, Patricia Benavides, who has promised to go “after the investigation of any criminal act, whether it be by the most powerful or any ordinary citizen.”
When he assumed power, Castillo not only faced a fragmented Congress and his own political inexperience, but a distrustful elite upset with controversial campaign promises that included nationalizing key industries.
Castillo was a rural schoolteacher in Peru’s third poorest district before he moved into the presidential palace. His only leadership experience before becoming president was as the head of a teachers’ strike in 2017.
That inexperience makes some doubt whether he is the “ringleader” of corruption scheme, as critics allege.
“That said, you can’t look at Castillo’s record and say, ‘Hey, this guy is honest.’ So, how do we put those together?” said Cynthia McClintock, a political science professor at George Washington University who has studied Peru extensively. “My sense of it is that part of him doesn’t quite understand how careful he should be. Whether he just sort of thought this was the way you do business? It’s unclear at this point.”
Five of the probes against Castillo are linked to what prosecutors describe as a criminal network led by the president, involving influence peddling and other crimes. A sixth investigation accuses him and his wife of plagiarizing their master’s degree theses a decade ago.
One case involves a contract won by a group of businessmen in 2021 to build a bridge. Authorities say an informant claims former Transportation Minister Juan Silva told him late last year that Castillo was “happy” when he received $12,900 after the contract was awarded. Silva is considered a fugitive.
In another case, prosecutors allege that Castillo, his former personal secretary and a former minister of defense requested the promotion of several military or police officers because those moves would net them money. Authorities say they have statements from the ex-head of the Army, José Vizcarra, claiming he was pressured to promote military personnel close to the government.
Authorities also suspect Castillo of obstructing justice for removing an interior minister who had set up a team to capture Silva and one of the president’s nephews, who is also linked to the bridge contract investigation.
“Ideally, the president would resign,” Lady Camones, head of Peru’s Congress, said last month. “He has been asked to do so… It would be the ideal scenario. But let’s hope in any case that the evaluation is made by the president.”
In a separate preliminary investigation, agents of the prosecutor’s office last month entered the presidential palace in Lima to arrest Yenifer Paredes, Castillo’s sister-in-law, whom he raised and considers a daughter. They searched under Castillo’s bed and in the closets of the presidential bedroom, according to a search report obtained by The Associated Press.
Paredes turned herself in a day later. A judge then ruled she can be detained until February 2025 while authorities investigate her alleged involvement in money laundering.
“They don’t mind breaking the family. They don’t mind leaving our children orphaned, a situation has been designed with the purpose of breaking us,” Castillo said.
Paredes’ attorney, José Dionicio, said prosecutors have no evidence against his client.
Historian Charles Walker, director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California, Davis, said Castillo’s position is a reflection of the ingrained corruption surrounding government and an implacable opposition that feels it is losing power.
“It’s a perfectly wretched storm,” Walker said. “It does seem that, around him, there is a circle of people getting contracts, doing shoddy work — I mean classic, almost traditional corruption.
“But on the other hand, you have this right wing that feels like it’s besieged Vietnam, that the ultra-left has taken over … and there’s this incredible paranoia. I think this almost needs psychological explanation because most of their benefits are still intact; the elite economy is doing quite well.” | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-challenges-mount-against-perus-president-his-family/ | 2022-09-05T04:18:11Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-challenges-mount-against-perus-president-his-family/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Liz Truss, who is widely expected to become Britain’s new prime minister this week, has pledged to act within a week to tackle a cost-of-living crisis fueled by soaring energy bills linked to the war in Ukraine.
But Truss, speaking to the BBC on Sunday, refused to provide any details on the actions she would take, suggesting it would be wrong to discuss specific policies until she takes the top post. She stressed, however, that she understands the magnitude of the problems facing Britain.
The government has been unable to address soaring inflation, labor strife and strains on the nation’s creaking health-care system since early July, when Johnson announced his intention to resign and triggered a contest to choose his successor. The ruling Conservative Party will announce the winner on Monday.
“I want to reassure people that I am absolutely determined to sort out this issue as well as, within a month, present a full plan for how we are going to reduce taxes, how we’re going to get the British economy going, and how we are going to find our way out of these difficult times,’’ said Truss, who has been foreign secretary for the past year.
Truss is facing Rishi Sunak, the government’s former Treasury chief, in the contest to become Conservative Party leader and so prime minister. Only dues-paying party members were allowed to vote in the election, putting the choice of Britain’s next leader in the hands of about 180,000 party activists.
During the campaign, Truss promised to increase defense spending, cut taxes and boost energy supplies, but she refused to provide specifics on how she would respond to the cost of living crisis.
With household energy bills set to increase by 80% next month, charities warn that as many as one in three households will face fuel poverty this winter, leaving millions fearful of how they will pay to heat their homes.
The Bank of England has forecast that inflation will reach a 42-year high of 13.3% in October, threatening to push Britain into a prolonged recession. Goldman Sachs has estimated that inflation could soar to 22% by next year unless something is done to mitigate high energy prices. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-tory-front-runner-truss-vows-fast-action-on-cost-of-living/ | 2022-09-05T04:19:15Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-tory-front-runner-truss-vows-fast-action-on-cost-of-living/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ABOARD USS KEARSARGE (AP) — U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge is taking part in international training in the Baltic Sea amid Russia’s war in Ukraine and tensions in the region.
The Kearsarge is the first ship of the Wasp class to take part in international training in the Baltic in at least two decades. Associated Press journalists visited the ship last week.
“It’s a first off for us in recent memory and it’s been very exciting,” said Capt. Tom Foster, the commanding officer of the Kearsarge.
With some other U.S. Navy ships, the Kearsarge has been training for several months with the militaries of Sweden and Finland, which formally applied to join NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
The training mission is to promote safety and security in the region.
“In the past several months, we have been operating in the Baltics and in the Mediterranean,” said Capt. Aaron Kelley, commander of the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group.
“We’ll continue to operate in those areas. And always the goal there is promoting safety and security in those regions and in international waters,” Kelley said.
The USS Kearsarge allows for training by such aircraft as AV-8B Harriers, UH-1 Y Venom and AH- 1Z Viper helicopters as well as MV-22 Osprey planes.
The Baltic Sea countries are Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany and Denmark. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-us-navy-assault-ship-takes-part-in-baltic-sea-training/ | 2022-09-05T04:19:28Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-us-navy-assault-ship-takes-part-in-baltic-sea-training/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Thunderstorms and heavy rain pounded parts of northwest Georgia on Sunday, sparking flash flooding in some areas. Local news reports showed roads under water and homeowners struggling to keep water out.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency Sunday afternoon in Chattooga and Floyd Counties, directing all state resources to help with “preparation, response and recovery activities.” The National Weather Service said rainfall of up to one inch per hour was causing creeks, streams, roadways and urban areas to experience unusually high levels of water. Up to 12 inches of rain was estimated to have fallen in the area, according to Kemp’s executive order.
“This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order,” the service said.
The service declared a “flash flood emergency” for Summerville, Lyerly and James H. Floyd State Park in Chattooga County. Floyd County — just to the south — was also under a flash flood warning.
At 3:10 p.m., the service advised locals to avoid non-emergency travel as another round of emergency rainfall entered the area.
The city of Summerville advised residents who use the city’s water utility services to boil water prior to drinking, cooking or preparing baby food due to flash flooding at the Raccoon Creek Filter plant.
“Water should be boiled for at least one minute after reaching a rolling boil. Citizens should continue to boil their water until they are notified by their drinking water utility that the water system has been restored to full operation, and that the microbiological quality of the water in the distribution system is safe for human consumption,” the city said on its website. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-emergency-declared-as-flash-flooding-hits-northwest-georgia/ | 2022-09-05T04:19:55Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-emergency-declared-as-flash-flooding-hits-northwest-georgia/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A U.S. Soldier assigned to 82nd Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, digs a berm during Decisive Action Rotation 22-09 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Macaydan Hawkins, Operations Group, National Training Center)
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At the end of a thrilling three-car battle that wasn’t decided until the last corner of the last lap Saturday at Darlington Raceway, Noah Gragson stole a victory from Sheldon Creed and charging Kyle Larson to score his fourth victory of the NASCAR Xfinity Series season.
After passing Gragson for second place on Lap 144 of 147, Larson got a strong run on Creed, then the leader, coming to the white flag. Larson steered his No. 17 Chevrolet to the inside of Creed’s Camaro, and the drivers raced side-by-side through the first two corners.
Creed brushed the outside wall, and Larson got loose beneath him, allowing Gragson to gain ground. Creed cut down his right front tire and buried his car into Turn three, hitting the outside wall in a shower of sparks.
Gragson found room to the inside, slapped the outside wall near the exit of Turn 4 as Creed rode the fence and powered ahead in the last 200 yards to claim his second victory in the last three races at the Lady in Black and the ninth of his career.
The late-race pyrotechnics took place under the lights after a rain delay that stopped the proceedings for 2 hours, 37 minutes, 22 seconds.
“All you fans, was that cool—did we put on a show for you guys?” Gragson shouted to the crowd from Victory Lane. “Sheldon Creed was really fast… I watched, during that rain delay, him running the top in (Turns) 1 and 2, and I knew there was a lot of speed there.
“So I went up there (after a restart on Lap 134), and I found something, and Sheldon pinched me off, and the 17 (Larson) got by me when it was like three (laps) to go, and I was like, ‘Oh, they’re going to get into each other—they’re racing too hard.’ (Sheldon’s) got nothing to lose, He’s racing his tail off, and Kyle’s going for a win.”
Gragson’s vision of the immediate future proved prophetic, as the two cars ahead of him made contact.
“I was trying to hold on,” Creed said. “I had a really fast car. It was just a little too free to run their speed there at the end. They could run up the hill in (Turns) 1 and 2 and then really get a good run down the backstretch. I had to stay really low to keep the rear of the car underneath me.
"I was hoping they were going to get to racing behind me. When Kyle got next to me, my only opportunity was to side-draft as hard as I could. We got that wall, and I felt the right-front start to go down (as I was) going down the backstretch.”
Creed held onto second place, crossing the finish line .794 seconds behind the race winner. In the last-lap chaos, Larson slipped to fifth behind Justin Allgaier and AJ Allmendinger.
“It was a lot of fun,” said Larson, who will begin defense of his NASCAR Cup Series title in Sunday’s Cook Out Southern 500, the first of 10 Playoff races in NASCAR’s top division. “I was just trying to be patient as I caught them two… I was able to get by Noah, and I saw Sheldon was really loose in front of me, so I was just trying to stay patient behind him.
“Coming to white, I didn’t want to get inside him on the frontstretch, because I knew what would happen, but I had such a good run off of (Turn) 4 that I had to make a move. He sat on my door and got me really loose. I had to chase him up the track…
He was racing really hard for his first win. It was just a lot of fun from all of our seats. Crazy to be a part of a finish like that.”
A victory would have put Creed into the Xfinity Series Playoffs. Instead, he leaves Darlington 13th in the standings, 16 points behind 12th-place Ryan Sieg. There are two races left before the 12-driver Xfinity Playoff field is set.
Gragson led four times for 82 laps and dominated the action before the rain delay. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72615-noah-gragson-triumphs-in-wild-nascar-xfinity-series-duel-at-darlington | 2022-09-05T04:34:41Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72615-noah-gragson-triumphs-in-wild-nascar-xfinity-series-duel-at-darlington | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Playoffs underway: Once again Darlington Raceway and 500 miles will kick off the 2022 NASCAR Championship with only one time previously has the winner of the opening race gone on to win the championship when Kurt Busch did it was back in 2004. Busch for his part will once again be sitting out of this event due to concussion issues suffered earlier in the season. Busch had qualified for the postseason playoffs based on his wins earlier in the season, but the team would drop the waiver when recovery took precedence over competing for another championship.
23XI swap: Starting this weekend at Darlington Bubba Wallace and Ty Gibbs who is driving in relief of Kurt Busch will swap car numbers with Wallace now in the No. 45 and Gibbs in the No. 23 as 23XI chases the owners championship in the No. 45 car.
NASCAR Cup Series Championship Playoff Run down provided by NASCAR:
An overview:
- A victory in the first 26 races all but guarantees a berth in the 10-race Playoffs.
- The number of Playoff drivers in contention for the championship will decrease after every three Playoff races, from 16 to start; 12 after race No. 3; eight after race No. 6; and four after race No. 9.
- The first three races (27-29) will be known as the Round of 16; races 30-32 will be known as the Round of 12; races 33-35 will be Round of 8; and race No. 36 will be the Championship 4 Round.
- A win by a championship-eligible driver in any Playoff race automatically clinches the winning driver a spot in the next Playoff round.
- Four drivers will enter the Championship Race with a chance at the title, with the highest finisher among those four capturing the prestigious NASCAR Cup Series championship.
Eligibility For The NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs
- The top 15 drivers with the most wins over the first 26 races will earn a spot in the Playoffs – provided they have finished in the top 30 in points and attempted to qualify for every race (except in rare instances).
- The 16th Playoff position will go to the points leader after race No. 26 if he/she does not have a victory. In the event that there are 16 or more different winners over 26 races, the only winless driver who can earn a Playoff spot would be the points leader after 26 races.
- If there are fewer than 16 different winners in the first 26 races, the remaining Playoff positions will go to those winless drivers highest in points. If there are 16 or more winners in the first 26 races, the ties will first be broken by number of wins, followed by points.
- Prior to the start of the Playoffs, all Playoff drivers will have their points adjusted to 2,000, with all Playoff points added to their total. Those Playoff points will stay with the driver as long as he/she remains in the Playoffs (except for the Championship 4 Round race).
Playoff Structure
The NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs are an elimination-style format that is broken up into four rounds. After the third Playoff race, there will be 12 drivers. After the sixth Playoff race, the field will drop to eight drivers, and following the ninth Playoff race, only four drivers will remain in championship contention.
- Round of 16: The first round (races 27-29 at Darlington, Kansas, Bristol) is the Round of 16. If a Playoff driver wins a race in this round, the driver automatically advances to the next round (Round of 12). The remaining available positions 1-12 that have not been filled based upon wins will be based on points. Each driver will then have their points reset to 3,000, with any awarded Playoff points added.
- Round of 12: The second round (races 30-32 at Texas, Talladega, Charlotte RC) is the Round of 12. Likewise, if a driver in the top 12 in points wins a race in this round, the driver automatically advances to the next round (Round of 8). The remaining available positions 1-8 that have not been filled based upon wins will be based on points. Each driver will then have their points reset to 4,000, with any awarded Playoff points added.
- Round of 8: The third round (races 33-35 at Las Vegas, Homestead, Martinsville) is the Round of 8. If a driver in the top eight in points wins a race in this round, the driver automatically advances to the next round (Championship 4). The remaining available positions 1-4 that have not been filled based upon wins will be based on points. Each will then have their points reset to 5,000.
- Additionally, drivers who are eliminated in the Round of 16, Round of 12 and Round of 8 will have their points readjusted. Each eliminated driver will return to the Playoff-start base of 2,000 with any awarded Playoff points and any accumulated points starting with race No. 27 added. This will allow all drivers not in contention for the title to continue to race for the best possible season-long standing, with final positions fifth-through-16th still up for grabs.
Championship Finale
- The 36th and final race of the season will be the Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway, which will feature the Championship 4 Round. Simply stated, the highest finisher in that race among the remaining four eligible drivers will win the NASCAR Cup Series title.
- Playoff points for stage wins will not apply in the season finale, so the official finishing position alone will decide the champion.
- Note: All rules outlined above also apply to the owner championship structure. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72629-ncs-what-to-watch-for-in-tonight-s-southern-500-at-darlington-raceway | 2022-09-05T04:34:47Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72629-ncs-what-to-watch-for-in-tonight-s-southern-500-at-darlington-raceway | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Imagine being Ryan Blaney for a moment.
You’ve been top-five in points since the sixth race of the season, yet somehow, some way, you have to sweat it out all the way until the waning laps of the regular season finale at Daytona – Race 26.
Welcome to NASCAR in 2022.
Blaney – like everyone else – had to wait out a 3-plus hour rain delay last Sunday while relying on his crew to keep his car in raceable condition after an early wreck.
For much of the day, the ever-consistent Blaney found himself behind fellow winless driver Martin Truex Jr. in points as a result of his wreck, and making matters worse, Austin Dillon passed a train of cars to take the lead after a big wreck in a rain-soaked Turn 1 before NASCAR could display the yellow flag.
Not only did that give Dillon the 15th spot on the Playoff grid temporarily as he came into the race needing a win – it meant that Blaney was out of the Playoffs.
Talk about a precarious and unenviable position to be in with just 21 laps to go.
Fortunately for Blaney, NASCAR made the obvious decision to wait out the rain and restart the race when the skies cleared.
Because of the aforementioned wreck that propelled Dillon to the lead, several of the cars involved were unable to continue, allowing Blaney to pass enough of them when the race resumed that he wound up three points ahead of Truex when Dillon crossed under the checkered flag.
(By the way, Dillon made the race-winning move with three laps remaining, otherwise Austin Cindric may have won his second race of the season and Truex and Blaney both would’ve made the Playoffs anyway. Not much is simple about NASCAR anymore, folks.)
So, when the day was over in Daytona, Blaney left the track knowing the goal was accomplished, albeit with even more nervousness than he and his team had planned for.
While Blaney may have been the last car to earn a postseason berth, any objective fan would acknowledge that he shouldn’t have even been in that position to begin with. (I know, I know, “But he couldn’t even win one race. He deserved to miss the Playoffs!” or something like that.)
Wrong.
Blaney has been a model of consistency this season, and there’s still something to be said for that attribute.
Blaney was 212 points above Erik Jones – the proverbial cutline – heading into Daytona. 212!
But because of the new winner, Dillon, who himself had 275 fewer points than Blaney coming into Daytona, Blaney almost missed the Playoffs.
Regardless of how asinine I may think that is, the point is that Blaney clearly deserved to be in the Playoffs, and it isn’t crazy to view him as one of the favorites.
Which is why he is my pick to win the championship in November.
Let’s take a look at some numbers, shall we?
While he doesn’t (yet) have a win – unless of course you count the All-Star Race – Blaney finished third in the regular-season standings; earned five stage wins; 3 poles; eight top-fives; and 12 top-10s.
He has the fourth best average finish in the garage, and the second best average running position. Blaney has also been outside the top-10 in points on just one occasion the entire season – way back after Race 3.
Blaney has led 417 laps this season to boot, but perhaps the most important factor working in his favor? Second through 16th on the Playoff grid are separated by only 20 points (Blaney is tied for sixth with 2013 points).
Traditionally we have seen two or three drivers with a hoard of Playoff points, followed by two or three with slightly fewer, and then the bottom 10 or so have practically none in comparison.
That simply isn’t the case with the advent of the Next Gen car and parity in the sport. This to me means that consistency is precisely what is needed to separate oneself from the pack in these Playoffs.
Enter Blaney.
In the opening round of the Playoffs, it wouldn’t surprise anyone to see him win at Bristol, a track he’s led 484 laps in 12 career races.
In the Playoffs’ second-round tracks, Blaney has an All-Star victory at Texas, two career wins at Talladega, and a win in the inaugural edition of the Charlotte ROVAL race in 2018.
The third round of the Playoffs sees two of Blaney’s best tracks: Las Vegas (eight career top-10s) and the season’s penultimate race at Martinsville (six top-fives and 377 laps led in 13 races).
For the forgetful, the championship race is once again at Phoenix Raceway. What are Blaney’s stats there, you ask?
In the last seven races in the desert, Blaney has four top-fives and 306 laps led. Just this season, he started on pole, won a stage and led 143 laps. While he hasn’t yet claimed victory there, Blaney and crew have a tremendous notebook from which to build come November.
What a storybook ending it would be for Blaney – who assuredly had thoughts of what-if-I-miss-the-Playoffs just a week ago – to ride his consistency through the Playoffs to his first Cup championship.
I for one expect it to happen, and believe Blaney will propel himself to “Elite” level in NASCAR’s top series once and for all. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72632-opinion-why-ryan-blaney-will-win-cup-championship-despite-being-the-last-driver-to-make-the-playoffs | 2022-09-05T04:34:53Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72632-opinion-why-ryan-blaney-will-win-cup-championship-despite-being-the-last-driver-to-make-the-playoffs | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cole Moore overcame an adventurous Portland 100 on Saturday afternoon, charging back to a fourth-place finish in the ARCA Menards Series West round eight on the 1.967-mile road course.
Moore was driving the No. 99 Adaptive One Chevrolet SS for Bill McAnally Racing. His rookie teammate Landen Lewis earned his fourth top 10 of the season, as well, in the No. 16 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet SS.
Moore rolled off third and Lewis rolled off fourth after time trials. The top five cars lined up in a close formation before a caution flag fell as Lewis drove into third past Moore. The teammates raced side-by-side on the restart with Moore taking over third on Lap 9.
Moore then made a nice pass for second into Turn 1 on Lap 13. Lewis followed suit a few laps later to take third. The caution fell on Lap 23 for debris, with Moore running second and Lewis running third. The caution led into the halfway break for adjustments on pit road.
The restart proved tumultuous for Moore as he was crowded off the edge of the track and fell back to eighth position. The field bunched up again for a stalled car and Moore pitted during the caution for repairs. Lewis challenged for the lead briefly, but had to pit as well. Both BMR drivers lost laps in the pits, but were able to rejoin the action.
Moore got his lap back and charged into second position on Lap 39. Although he had to serve a subsequent pass-through penalty for a restart violation, he was able to battle his way back up to finish fourth. Lewis returned three laps behind and ultimately finished ninth.
Guests from NAPA Portland enjoyed VIP experiences, featuring garage tours and suites at the track. BMR participated in a special event at the Wilson’s NAPA AUTO PARTS store in Tualatin, Oregon on Friday. Team owner Bill McAnally accompanied Lewis and Moore, who greeted guests and signed autographs.
Lewis’ No. 16 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet honored Tony and Gail Wilson and Wilson’s NAPA AUTO PARTS on the roof. PJM Auto LLC and owner Paul Martinson were featured on the No. 99 Adaptive One Chevrolet.
BMR PR | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72618-moore-charges-back-to-finish-fourth-in-portland | 2022-09-05T04:35:19Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72618-moore-charges-back-to-finish-fourth-in-portland | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Adding Lake Ozark Speedway to his list of winning destinations, Blake Hahn broke into Victory Lane at the one-third-mile oval with flag-to-flag coverage of the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network on Night 1 of the Fall Sprint Car and Midget Nationals.
Winning in the tour’s 19th visit to Lake Ozark Speedway, Hahn’s win is career victory No. 18 with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network and his second National Tour score of the season.
“The car was really good tonight. It pretty much went anywhere I wanted it to go, and it just feels good to finally come here and get a win with the National Tour. We’ve had some rough nights here, so this is nice,” commented Hahn of the win.
“Glad to be out here and keeping our momentum going we built during Speedweek. We came out of that, won at Lakeside a month ago, and followed that with some decent runs at Knoxville, and tonight, I feel like we were able to build on that, so I’m looking forward to tomorrow to see if we can do it again.”
Getting the lead at the start after a quick challenge from Landon Crawley, Hahn was able to run away quickly. Working through a few mid-race cautions and stoppages that positioned slower cars in the lineup, Hahn was stalked by Sam Hafertepe, Jr., who shot from eighth to second by Lap 5.
One final caution on Lap 17, the two aligned bumper to bumper with Hafertepe looking to the hub while Hahn shot to the cushion. Pulling away once again, the Hills Racing No. 15h had his hands full with Joe B. Miller in hot pursuit. To third from 13th, Miller worked numerous lines on Hafertepe with the Texas shoe able to fend off the challenges.
Finding traffic with a pair of laps to run, the slower cars did allow Sam to make up some time, but there was not enough with the Sage Fruit Co. No. 52 streaking to the win with 1.461-seconds to spare.
Hafertepe, in second, would be joined by Joe B. Miller in third for his first career podium run with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network.
Derek Hagar, who ran up to third through the race’s mid-point, ended up fourth, with Matt Covington in fifth.
Miles Paulus from 14th rolled to sixth, followed by Jordon Mallett from 17th. Jason Martin followed from 20th, with Dylan Westbrook recovering from a trip to the work area on Lap 11 to finish ninth. Landon Crawley ended up tenth.
Saturday Lake Ozark prelim event drew a field of 39 with SCE Gaskets Heat Race wins going to Dylan Postier, Joe B. Miller, Kyle Bellm, Tim Crawley, and Landon Crawley. A pair of BMRS B-Features were topped by Jordon Mallett and Jason Martin. Three drivers run under the previous ASCS Track Record (12.073-seconds, set by Dylan Westbrook), with the new record set by Waco’s Chase Randall at 12.027-seconds.
A tip of the cap is due to the track crew at Lake Ozark Speedway for providing an exception surface after Mother Nature drenched the grounds Thursday afternoon. Having to take some time after Qualifying to right the track, the surface worked out nicely, with teams able to work top and bottom in the features.
Racing continues at Lake Ozark Speedway on Sunday, September 4. Times have been moved up an hour for Sunday. Gates open at 4:00 P.M. with cars on track at 5:30 P.M. (CDT). Racing will begin shortly after. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and military, $10 for youth (6-12), and free for kids five and under. Lake Ozark Speedway is located at 50 Twiggy Lane in Eldon, Mo. Information on the track, including advance ticket sales, can be found at http://www.
The 2022 season will mark the 31st year of competition for the American Sprint Car Series. Spearheaded by the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network, the ASCS Nation includes Regional Tours that encompass both wing and non-wing competition.
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Race Results:
Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour
ASCS Warrior Region
Lake Ozark Speedway (Eldon, Mo.)
Saturday, September 3, 2022
Car Count: 39
The Driver's Project Group Qualifying
The Drivers Project Qualifying 1 (3 Laps): 1. 23-Seth Bergman, 12.054[3]; 2. 55B-Brandon Anderson, 12.454[4]; 3. 10P-Dylan Postier, 12.523[2]; 4. 1XX-Brad Ryun, 12.594[6]; 5. 4-Evan Martin, 12.603[5]; 6. 86-Timothy Smith, 12.607[1]; 7. 12M-Greg Merritt, 13.022[7]; 8. 18X-Nathan Ryun, 13.876[8]
The Drivers Project Qualifying 2 (3 Laps): 1. 9-Chase Randall, 12.027[7]; 2. 9JR-Derek Hagar, 12.489[2]; 3. 10-Landon Britt, 12.521[3]; 4. 51B-Joe B Miller, 12.757[4]; 5. 73-Samuel Wagner, 13.092[1]; 6. 31-Casey Wills, 13.202[8]; 7. 00-Broc Elliott, 13.361[5]; 8. 12X-Brennon Blair, 13.662[6]
The Drivers Project Qualifying 3 (3 Laps): 1. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 12.043[4]; 2. 95-Matt Covington, 12.509[1]; 3. 45X-Kyler Johnson, 12.558[7]; 4. 14E-Kyle Bellm, 12.648[2]; 5. 47-Dale Howard, 12.801[8]; 6. 0-Jake Griffin, 13.043[3]; 7. 1JR-Steven Russell, 13.485[6]; 8. 32D-Daryn Langford, 14.168[5]
The Drivers Project Qualifying 4 (3 Laps): 1. 47X-Dylan Westbrook, 12.151[7]; 2. 52-Blake Hahn, 12.376[5]; 3. 21-Gunner Ramey, 12.521[6]; 4. 1X-Tim Crawley, 12.629[4]; 5. 14-Jordon Mallett, 12.772[2]; 6. 77-Jack Wagner, 12.844[3]; 7. 17B-Ryan Bickett, 13.044[1]; 8. 24-Jeffrey West Jr, 13.130[8]
The Drivers Project Qualifying 5 (3 Laps): 1. 2C-Wayne Johnson, 12.493[7]; 2. 98P-Miles Paulus, 12.702[3]; 3. 187-Landon Crawley, 12.792[5]; 4. 97-Scotty Milan, 12.903[6]; 5. 36-Jason Martin, 12.912[4]; 6. 7C-Chris Morgan, 12.972[2]; 7. 7B-Ben Brown, 12.989[1]
SCE Gaskets Heat Races (Top 16 in combined Qualifying/Passing Points advance to the A-Feature)
SCE Gaskets Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10P-Dylan Postier[2]; 2. 55B-Brandon Anderson[3]; 3. 23-Seth Bergman[4]; 4. 1XX-Brad Ryun[1]; 5. 86-Timothy Smith[6]; 6. 4-Evan Martin[5]; 7. 12M-Greg Merritt[7]; 8. (DNS) 18X-Nathan Ryun
SCE Gaskets Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 51B-Joe B Miller[1]; 2. 9JR-Derek Hagar[3]; 3. 10-Landon Britt[2]; 4. 9-Chase Randall[4]; 5. 31-Casey Wills[6]; 6. 00-Broc Elliott[7]; 7. 73-Samuel Wagner[5]; 8. 12X-Brennon Blair[8]
SCE Gaskets Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 14E-Kyle Bellm[1]; 2. 95-Matt Covington[3]; 3. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[4]; 4. 45X-Kyler Johnson[2]; 5. 47-Dale Howard[5]; 6. 1JR-Steven Russell[7]; 7. 0-Jake Griffin[6]; 8. 32D-Daryn Langford[8]
SCE Gaskets Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 1X-Tim Crawley[1]; 2. 52-Blake Hahn[3]; 3. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[4]; 4. 14-Jordon Mallett[5]; 5. 21-Gunner Ramey[2]; 6. 17B-Ryan Bickett[7]; 7. 24-Jeffrey West Jr[8]; 8. 77-Jack Wagner[6]
SCE Gaskets Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 187-Landon Crawley[2]; 2. 2C-Wayne Johnson[4]; 3. 98P-Miles Paulus[3]; 4. 36-Jason Martin[5]; 5. 7B-Ben Brown[6]; 6. 97-Scotty Milan[1]; 7. 7C-Chris Morgan[7]
BMRS B-Features (Top 3 from each advance)
BMRS B-Main 1 (12 Laps): 1. 14-Jordon Mallett[1]; 2. 45X-Kyler Johnson[2]; 3. 21-Gunner Ramey[5]; 4. 31-Casey Wills[3]; 5. 97-Scotty Milan[8]; 6. 73-Samuel Wagner[10]; 7. 12M-Greg Merritt[9]; 8. 4-Evan Martin[7]; 9. 7B-Ben Brown[4]; 10. 00-Broc Elliott[6]; 11. 32D-Daryn Langford[11]; 12. 18X-Nathan Ryun[12]
BMRS B-Main 2 (12 Laps): 1. 36-Jason Martin[1]; 2. 47-Dale Howard[4]; 3. 86-Timothy Smith[2]; 4. 1XX-Brad Ryun[3]; 5. 17B-Ryan Bickett[5]; 6. 24-Jeffrey West Jr[7]; 7. 1JR-Steven Russell[6]; 8. 0-Jake Griffin[9]; 9. 12X-Brennon Blair[10]; 10. 77-Jack Wagner[11]; 11. 7C-Chris Morgan[8]
A-Feature
Lucas Oil A-Main (25 Laps): 1. 52-Blake Hahn[1]; 2. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[8]; 3. 51B-Joe B Miller[13]; 4. 9JR-Derek Hagar[6]; 5. 95-Matt Covington[7]; 6. 98P-Miles Paulus[14]; 7. 14-Jordon Mallett[17]; 8. 36-Jason Martin[18]; 9. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[10]; 10. 187-Landon Crawley[2]; 11. 47-Dale Howard[20]; 12. 10P-Dylan Postier[3]; 13. 45X-Kyler Johnson[19]; 14. 17B-Ryan Bickett[23]; 15. 1X-Tim Crawley[11]; 16. 10-Landon Britt[16]; 17. 55B-Brandon Anderson[5]; 18. 2C-Wayne Johnson[4]; 19. 23-Seth Bergman[9]; 20. 9-Chase Randall[15]; 21. 21-Gunner Ramey[21]; 22. 14E-Kyle Bellm[12]; 23. 86-Timothy Smith[22]
Lap Leader(s): Blake Hahn 1-25
Hard Charger: Joe B. Miller +10
Quick Time: Chase Randall 12.027-seconds (NTR)
High Point Driver: Wayne Johnson
Provisional(s): Ryan Bickett (Points)
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The NASCAR GP Czech Republic turned out to be a perfect NASCAR Whelen Euro Series race weekend for Alberto Naska. The Italian swept both EuroNASCAR 2 at Autodrom Most and extended his championship lead by edging reigning champion Martin Doubek by 0.709 seconds. The CAAL Racing driver received the red Whelen banner and will head to the next round at Circuit Zolder in Belgium with a lot of momentum after becoming the driver to claim back-to-back wins in the same event in 2022 across the two NWES championships.
Naska started from pole and defended his lead in turn 1. The Italian fended off the attacks brought by Doubek until the safety car was deployed to recover Luli Del Castello’s car from the gravel trap. The driver of the #54 CAAL Racing car was able to rejoin the field. Because of the several incidents occured in restarts on Saturday, Race Control opted for a Full Course Yellow start and Naska was able to defend his lead again. He also survived another restart after Paolo Valeri and Roberto Benedetti clashed and grabbed the win.
“This was certainly unexpected because the way we started the weekend was not good!” admitted Naska in the Victory Lane. “We were not fast, we were struggling with the setup, but I think today’s victory is a conjunction between the teamwork and my experience because if this happened in the first race, I wouldn’t be able to win.”
Despite his dominating run in both races, Naska made sure to credit his team for the sweep at Most as he has been battling with setup issues on his #88 CAAL Racing Chevrolet Camaro throughout the weekend. He believes that the combination of CAAL Racing’s expertise and his improving driving capabilities allowed him to come out on top in the races.
“I was able to overcome the problems of the car, for example we were struggling with the setup on Friday and the team changed everything so they did a good job. But, I found out it was easier to drive in the afternoon than in the morning so you have to change the way you drive in order to do that in these conditions. I don’t know why, but the car feels different so the team was able to follow my instructions in setup and I was able to adapt to the changes so that’s very much a team victory,” commented Naska on the team effort showcased this week.
Driving the #7 Hendriks Motorsport Ford Mustang, Doubek again ended up second at his home race and secured his fourth podium finish of the 2022 EuroNASCAR season. The podium mirrored the results of EuroNASCAR 2 Round 7 as Vladimiros Tziortzis ended up third after a solid run in his #5 Academy Motorsport / Alex Caffi Motorsport EuroNASCAR FJ. Gil Linster scored his third top-5 of the season in fourth by edging 2018 EuroNASCAR 2 Champion Ulysse Delsaux, who rounded out the top-5.
Paul Jouffreau impressed with another stellar performance for Speedhouse in sixth. The Frenchman was second in the Rookie Trophy behind Naska, who topped the special classification for the sixth time in 2022. Patrick Schober started 23rd and carved his way up to seventh with plenty of strong maneuvers in the 14-lap race. The Austrian, who grew up in Slovakia, ended up in the top-10 for the fourth time this season and completed the Rookie Trophy podium.
Christian Malcharek followed in eighth, while the Marko Stipp Motorsport drivers not only closed the top-10 but also ended up first and second in the Legend Trophy classification for drivers aged 40 and more. Yevgen Sokolovskiy took the win ahead of his teammate Miguel Gomes in tenth. Claudio Cappelli, who had to serve a penalty during the race, completed the Legend Trophy podium by finishing eleventh.
Aliyyah Koloc scored her fourth Lady Trophy win in twelfth place ahead of Luli Del Castello in 14th. Both drivers made a great comeback after they spun off in separate incidents on lap 2 and made up plenty of positions with a solid performance. Arianna Casoli got into the top-3 of the special classification in 16th overall. Tuomas Pontinen had a good run in his #23 Team Bleekemolen Ford Mustang, but a 30 seconds penalty for a jump start shuffled him back to 18th, while Liam Hezemans lost massive ground in the championship battle by only finishing 13th.
Naska now leads the championship by 46 points on Hezemans, but Doubek has closed the gap to the Dutchman as he’s only 6 points behind his teammate with Tziortzis only a further point behind. Naska has a comfortable lead in the EuroNASCAR 2 Championship ahead of the regular season finale at Circuit Zolder. After the NASCAR GP Belgium, drivers will drop their two worst results, while the EuroNASCAR Finals at Automotodrom Grobnik will award double points.
The EuroNASCAR 2 will be back in action at Circuit Zolder on October 8-9, the EuroNASCAR PRO drivers will close another eventful NASCAR Show Most with Round 8 at 14:30 CEST. The race will be broadcast live on EuroNASCAR’s YouTube channel, Motorsport.tv and plenty of TV services from around the world.
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Since his first encounters with the DIRTcar UMP Modified over 15 years ago, Kyle Strickler has enjoyed a fruitful career behind the wheel with wins in multiple high-profile events at tracks across the nation. But there remained one prestigious venue he’d yet to conquer – Fairbury Speedway.
In one of the most intense, back-and-forth UMP Modified battles seen this season, Strickler defeated rival Josh Harris in an epic duel for the lead in the closing 20 circuits of the 50-lap grind to claim $10,000 and his first career FALS Super Nationals Modified title.
“It’s awesome to get $10,000, but it’s also awesome to get a win here at Fairbury,” said Strickler, of Mooresville, NC. “This place is one of my favorite racetracks in the country.”
While Strickler had solid results earlier in the evening, including a second-fast effort in Group 2 Qualifying and a win in Heat Race #5, Harris was forced to dig from further back. Harris, the veteran racer from Utica, KY, finished two spots behind Strickler in the Heat and transferred into the big show, but took the green from outside Row 8.
“I knew that we had a really good car,” Harris said, reflecting his thoughts before taking the green. “But when you start that far back, you’ve gotta have a good car and you’ve gotta have a lot of luck.”
In the opening laps, Strickler stayed patient and ran securely inside the top-three, while Harris flipped on the nitrous. By Lap 10, he was riding 10th and looked to be on the fast-track to the front, until the surge temporarily went flat.
Over the next 10 laps, Harris advanced only one position. Before the race’s first caution was thrown on Lap 22, Harris sat ninth in the running order, looking for a bigger shovel to help him dig through the rest of the top-10. He found it almost immediately, jumping a whopping four positions on the race’s second restart two laps later to break into the top-five.
“My car was just really good through the black,” Harris said. “There was people searching for traction on the bottom, people searching for traction on the top, and I was able to roll through the middle. It’s my preferred lane, we nailed the setup, and I was able to roll through the center and pass them when they were up there or down around the tires. They left the lane open for me.”
Now riding fourth, Harris saw Strickler right in front of him with polesitter Cole Falloway and three-time FALS Super Nationals winner Mike Harrison leading the field. Harrison had passed Falloway for the lead on the Lap 23 restart but broke a J-bar component after contact with the Turn 1 wall two laps later and retired to the infield.
Strickler and Harris made their way past Falloway for the lead by Lap 30, and soon after, the battle was on.
Harris struck first with a pass for the lead on the bottom on Lap 33; Strickler returned the favor to lead Lap 34. Harris beat him to the line to lead Lap 36; Strickler regained momentum on the cushion to lead Lap 37. Back-and-forth the two swapped the lead – a total of six times before all was said and done.
After Strickler caught the outside wall a bit too hard on Lap 38 and allowed Harris to pull ahead, Strickler was able to pull it back together and motor back around Harris one final time with six-to-go. A slight sprinkle of rain was falling on the track in the second half of the race, adding a touch of extra moisture, which Harris said may have hindered his plan.
“I was really good through the black, and then the rain started falling and I had to get into some traction – it made that black real greasy,” Harris said. “That made the top come back in, which was where [Strickler] was running.”
Still riding the outside wall, pounding the signature FALS cushion, The Highside Tickler was able to hang on to the lead in the final laps and drive it across the line for his first Feature win of the season in Fairbury’s richest UMP Modified event.
“It feels so good to come out here and put on a show for the fans,” Strickler said. “It doesn’t get any more Fairbury than that right there. The place was going crazy; it was so much fun to be a part of it and the most fun I’ve had in a racecar all this season.”
In Victory Lane, the two racers shared smiles and a sincere handshake, congratulating one another on their great finishes. It was an important moment for both racers, who treated the Fairbury crowd to one of the cleanest and most exciting races all season.
“I said, ‘I really appreciate you running me as clean as you did,’” Strickler said in his conversation with Harris. “It’s easy to come off that bottom and just go right to the fence and not leave that guy a lane. So, I really appreciate that. There’s a lot of respect between both of us.”
“I’ve got a lot of respect for Kyle, racing with him the last few years before he went Late Model racing,” Harris said.
Tyler Nicely came from seventh to complete the podium, while fellow Elite Chassis driver Will Krup completed the top-five with Falloway, who fell back to fifth. Harrison, who led three laps before breaking, was credited with a 21st-place finish.
UP NEXT
The UMP Modified Labor Day Weekend swing continues Sunday, Sept. 4, with the 32nd annual Plowboy Nationals at Spoon River Speedway in Canton, IL. Stay tuned to the DIRTcar social media channels for live updates.
ABBREVIATED RESULTS (view full results)
A Feature 1 (50 Laps): 1. 8-Kyle Strickler[4]; 2. 22H-Josh Harris[16]; 3. 25-Tyler Nicely[7]; 4. K9-Will Krup[8]; 5. 66-Cole Falloway[1]; 6. 25W-Allen Weisser[19]; 7. 35-David Stremme[9]; 8. 18L-Michael Long[12]; 9. 4L-Victor Lee[15]; 10. 89-Austin Friedman[5]; 11. 5B-Steven Brooks[14]; 12. 96M-Mike McKinney[22]; 13. 28M-Frank Marshall[13]; 14. 88S-Alan Stipp[20]; 15. 22-Will Bennett[23]; 16. 5CS-Curt Spalding[18]; 17. 4-Jeff Koz[24]; 18. 00-Ethan Dotson[6]; 19. 242-Brandon Bollinger[10]; 20. 37-Michael Ledford[17]; 21. 24H-Mike Harrison[3]; 22. 21-Derek Losh[2]; 23. 35W-Ethan Weber[21]; 24. 21W-Lyndon Whitfill[25]; 25. 52-Billy Knebel[11]
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Benjamin Pedersen finished the job Sunday in the Indy Lights Grand Prix of Portland, while Linus Lundqvist still has a bit of work to do to reach his ultimate goal.
Danish driver Pedersen, who grew up in Seattle, earned his first career Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires victory to complete a dominant weekend at Portland International Raceway in the No. 24 Global Racing Group with HMD car. The win came in the 32nd career Lights start for Pedersen, who started from the pole and led both practice sessions at this event.
SEE: Race Results
“Definitely a dream,” Pedersen said. “We were fastest in every session this week. I don’t think I’ve ever done that before, but at a home event where I grew up, in Seattle, only a couple hours from here, a bunch of local support. It’s just so awesome. I’ve loved every minute.
“I’m so relieved, so thankful.”
Matthew Brabham finished second in the No. 83 Andretti Autosport car, .9651 of a second behind Pedersen, to sustain his faint championship hopes. Championship leader Lundqvist needed to leave this race with a 109-point lead to clinch his first Indy Lights title, but he is 103 points ahead of Brabham after finishing third in the No. 26 HMD Motorsports with Dale Coyne Racing car.
The season ends with a doubleheader on Saturday, Sept. 10 and Sunday, Sept. 11 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Lundqvist only needs to lead by at least 54 points after the Saturday race to lock up the championship. The deal is nearly sealed.
While Lundqvist almost certainly will hoist the 2022 championship trophy next weekend in picturesque Monterey, California, this weekend in the scenic Pacific Northwest belonged to Pedersen. He capped his magic carpet ride by leading all 35 laps of the race.
The only thing that slowed Pedersen on the 12-turn, 1.964-mile road course was two caution periods for separate incidents. But Pedersen never was challenged on either restart in a command performance.
Brabham inherited second after showing the wisdom of a series veteran during a three-way joust for second place on Lap 6 immediately after a restart.
Danial Frost, Christian Rasmussen and Brabham darted around each other for position on the first full lap after a restart. Brabham wisely backed off while Rasmussen and Frost went side by side into the fast Turn 11. The two cars touched, and Frost’s No. 68 HMD Motorsports with Dale Coyne Racing car speared into the tire barrier while Rasmussen’s No. 27 Road to Indy/Stellrecht car was forced across the grass to the escape road.
Frost was unhurt after his race-ending crash, while Rasmussen continued and finished seventh.
That fracas elevated Brabham to second and Lundqvist to third, where they held station for the rest of the race. Lundqvist never mounted a challenge to Brabham over the closing 28 laps, finishing 5.4 seconds behind his closest championship rival to earn his ninth podium finish in 12 starts this season.
“It’s all right,” Lundqvist said. “You always want a little more, you want to win every race if you can, but we just didn’t really have the pace this weekend. Benjamin has been on it since session one. Congratulations to him. It’s always a good feeling to get that first win under your belt.
“But from our side, it was all right. Happy to get away with a podium. We’ll take the points. Obviously, it would have been nice to finish ahead of Brabham and be finished with it, but we’ll see. We still have a good gap, and we’re going to Laguna with some good energy.”
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Racing next weekend at Grandview Speedway will be on Saturday, September 10, featuring Championship Night. It will be the T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds and the T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman in another NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series program that will be the final night of points racing, and the 2022 track champions will be crowned in both divisions.
Pit gates will open at 4 pm. with grandstand gates opening at 5:30 pm. warm-ups will be starting at 6:30 pm. Adult grandstand admission is $18, while children ages 11 and under are admitted free of charge.
The 52nd annual Freedom 76 Modified Championship is the next big event on the schedule, coming up on Saturday, September 17. Lap sponsorships at $20 per lap are now available by contacting Tina Rogers, Tommy Kramer or announcer Jeff Ahlum at the track on race night.
The Freedom 76 weekend begins on Friday, September 16 with the 9th annual Freedom 38 Sportsman Championship race paying $2000 to the winner, along with practice time for Modified drivers wishing to participate in the Freedom 76.
On Friday, pit gates open at 3 pm with grandstand gates opening at 5:30 pm. and racing at 7:30 pm. Adult Grandstand admission is $15, with children ages 6-11 paying $5, while children ages 5 and under are admitted for free. Pit admission on Friday is $35, and no license is required. There is no rain date for the Friday event.
On Saturday, September 17, the 52nd annual Freedom 76 will be run for the 358 Modifieds paying $30,060 to the winner, with the number 60 signifying the speedway’s anniversary season. Pit gates open at 9 am for inspections, Grandstand ticket windows open at 3 pm. with racing starting at 7 pm. Fans will be able to enter the Grandstand areas between 9 am. and 12 Noon to reserve seats with blankets.
Adult Grandstand tickets on Saturday will be $40, while children ages 6-11 are $10, with children ages 5 and under admitted for free. Pit admission will be $45, and no license is required. There will be no advanced tickets sold for this event, and the rain date is Saturday, September 24.
The T. P. Trailer Modified and T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman drivers will be using the final point race of the season to prepare for the big Freedom weekend of racing next weekend. Race info and Modified entry forms are available on the track website under the Freedom 76 tab at www.grandviewspeedway.com.
Since the 1960’s, Grandview Speedway has been presenting exciting wheel to wheel NASCAR stock car racing every Saturday Night starting in April and running through September, plus special events. Grandview Speedway is located at 43 Passmore Road, Bechtelsville, Pa. 19505, just off Route 100, ten miles north of Pottstown, Pa.
Information is always available at www.grandviewspeedway.com or on Facebook, or by telephone at 610.754.7688.
T.P. TRAILER NASCAR MODIFIED FEATURE FINISH (30 laps): CRAIG VON DOHREN, Dylan Swinehart, Steve Swinehart, Jared Umbenhauer, Ryan Beltz, Brad Arnold, Nate Brinker, Kevin Hirthler, Jeff Strunk, John Willman, Tim Buckwalter, Ray Swinehart, Bobby Gunther-Walsh, Brett Kressley, Dan Waisempacher, Mark Kratz, Joe Funk, Lex Shive, Cory Merkel, Mike Lisowski, Bobby Trapper Jr., Jesse Leiby, Ryan Grim, Justin Grim, Kyle Lilick, Duane Howard, Eric Biehn, Kevin Graver Jr., DNS – Doug Manmiller
DID NOT QUALIFY: Carroll Hine III, Ron Haring Jr., Brett Gilmore,
T.P. TRUCK EQUIPMENT NASCAR SPORTSMAN FEATURE FINISH (25 laps): KYLE SMITH, Michael Burrows, Brian Hirthler, Jesse Landis, Jesse Hirthler, Joey Vaccaro, Dakota Kohler, Dylan Hoch, Kenny Bock, Mike Schneck Jr., Jimmy Leiby, Cody Manmiller, Keith Haring, Parker Guldin, Nathan Mohr, Mark Mohr, Addison Meitzler, Josh Adams, Logan Bauman, Adrianna Delliponti, Ryan Graver, Steve Young, Zach Steffy, Chris Esposito
DID NOT QUALIFY: Kaitlyn Bailey, Decker Swinehart, BJ Joly, Nathan Horn, Wayne Rotenberger, Kyle Hartzell, Molly Struss, Bryan Rhoads
WINGLESS SUPER SPORTSMAN FEATURE FINISH (25 laps): BRETT PERIGO, Steve Wilbur, Michael Smith, Cliff Brian Jr., Bill Brian Jr., Eric Jennings, Paul Kline, Craig Perigo, Rohan Beasley, Charles Weslowski, Walter Fletcher, Blake Brooks, Brian Nace, Trent Yoder, Troy Fraker, Tom Savage
UPCOMING EVENTS –
Saturday, September 10 – CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT - T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman – 7:30 pm.
Friday, September 16 – 9th annual FREEDOM 38 CHAMPIONSHIP for T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman $2000 to win, plus Modified practice – 7:30 pm.
Saturday, September 17 – 52nd annual FREEDOM 76 MODIFIED CHAMPIONSHIP for T.P. Trailer Modifieds $30,060 to win – 7 pm.
Saturday, September 24 - Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 7 pm. (Rain date for Freedom 76)
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Castro Valley’s Andrew Smith won a thrilling Restricted feature during the opening night of the Dual at Delta, taking the victory on the 1/7th mile dirt track by just .045 seconds at the stripe. Smith was one of four winners at Delta Speedway presented by Valley Strong Credit Union on Saturday night.
Tracy’s Kyle Fernandez led the Restricted field from the pole position and encountered lapped traffic by lap seven. He got loose on the backstretch and nearly gave up the lead to Smith. Smith then drove around the outside on the backstretch on the following lap to lead lap eight.
Fernandez took the top position back on lap ten. San Jose’s Nicholas Leonard, Jr. spun while being lapped and was hit by both Adrianna DeMartini of Brentwood and points leader Lucas Mauldin of Rancho Murieta, drawing a caution on lap 12. A four-car pileup ensued on the first restart attempt but all drivers were uninjured.
The leaders encountered traffic again on lap 18 with Smith in pursuit of Fernandez. Smith dove underneath Fernandez in turn four driving to the checkered flag, winning by a nose. DeMartini, Mauldin, and Nathan Ward rounded out the top-five.
Mattix Salmon won his first career Delta Speedway Super 600 feature, wire-to-wire, in the $500-to-win, 30-lap contest. Raio Salmon of Fresno and Cole Schroeder of Scottsdale, Ariz. raced side-by-side for third throughout the first half of the contest.
Jeffrey Pahule, Jr. of Brentwood spun in turn four for a lap 20 caution, erasing Mattix Salmon’s 2.7 second lead over the field. Salmon held the lead while Alex Panella of Stockton drove up into third past Schroeder on the restart. Salmon topped Jarrett Rogers of Hanford, Panella, Schroeder, and Raio Salmon at the finish.
The $500-to-win Non-Wing feature was an exciting one as well with many twists and turns. Bakersfield’s Taylor Mayhew stood tall at the end of the 30-lap main event. Stockton’s Nikko Panella charged from fifth to first on the opening lap before a pair of early caution flags flew over the speedway.
Visalia’s Jett Barnes drove underneath Panella to take the lead on lap three. Mayhew then used the inside to challenge Panella for second. Mike Graves of Stockton lost a wheel to bring out a yellow flag on lap 12. Mayhew showed his nose inside Barnes for the lead before another caution.
Panella drove to the outside of Mayhew for second, then nearly took the lead from Barnes. The leaders went three-wide with Mayhew knifing to the inside to lead lap 24. Barnes tried to answer back on the top but tagged the backstretch wall before a yellow flag for Austin Wood of Sacramento spinning. Mayhew held off a late run from Medford’s Ashton Torgerson for the win. Panella finished third followed by Jeffrey Pahule and Tyler Chamorro. Barnes slipped to sixth at the finish.
Maya Mauldin of Rancho Murieta won her second Jr. Sprint feature of the year, paying $200-to-win the 20-lap race. Mauldin drove around the outside of Jackson Tardiff of Vacaville at the green flag. Tardiff battled with Braxon Vasconcellos for second before they collided in turn three, with the spin requiring a caution on lap 15. Mauldin held off points leader Briggs Davis of Vacaville through a pair of restarts for the win. Haven Sherman of Citrus Heights finished third followed by Heston Stepps of Oakdale and Kyle Klagenberg of Arboga.
Delta Speedway hosts the second night of the Dual at Delta on September 4th with a complete night of points racing action. Grandstand gates open at 5pm with the drivers meeting at 5:30pm and hot laps to follow.
Delta Speedway Stockton thanks Valley Strong Credit Union, Hoosier Tire, Scully’s Air, Kludt Oil and Propane, Interstate Truck Center, Papé Kenworth, Van De Pol Petroleum, Hostile Wheels, Genova Bakery, Winner’s Bingo, Solari’s Backhoe Service, and PMP Chassis for their support of the 2022 racing season.
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Delta Speedway Results – September 3, 2022 Points Race #11 Dual at Delta
SUPER 600 (30 LAPS)
1. 5-Mattix Salmon[1]; 2. 49-Jarrett Rogers[2]; 3. 12-Alex Panella[8]; 4. 3-Cole Schroeder[4]; 5. 21-Raio Salmon[3]; 6. 56-Cody Key[10]; 7. 4-Jett Yantis[6]; 8. 02-Ashton Torgerson[14]; 9. 88-Austin Torgerson[11]; 10. 73-Nikko Panella[7]; 11. 2C-Caden Stoll[9]; 12. 2-Austin Wood[5]; 13. 27-Brandon Carey[18]; 14. 32A-Colton Huelsmann[15]; 15. 44X-Jeffery Pahule[12]; 16. 63-Colton Key[19]; 17. 10R-Rylee Whitehouse[16]; 18. (DNF) 30-Isabel Barnes[17]; 19. (DNF) 19-Nate Matherly[13]; 20. (DNF) 91C-Colby Greig[20]
NON-WING (30 LAPS)
1. 2T-Taylor Mayhew[1]; 2. 02-Ashton Torgerson[4]; 3. 73-Nikko Panella[5]; 4. 44X-Jeffery Pahule[2]; 5. 81T-Tyler Chamorro[7]; 6. 55B-Jett Barnes[3]; 7. 77-Sage Bordenave[6]; 8. 35-Carsen Perkins[15]; 9. 88-Austin Torgerson[9]; 10. 28K-Kevin Carter[18]; 11. 20-Dalton Hill[10]; 12. 4X-Teagan Moles[17]; 13. 13D-Drew Laeber[22]; 14. 06-Brayden Abrew[23]; 15. 2-Austin Wood[8]; 16. 44B-Steve Bettanini[21]; 17. 27-Isabel Barnes[16]; 18. 82-Brent Brooks[14]; 19. (DNF) 4Q-Mike Graves[19]; 20. (DNF) 52-Joe Silva[20]; 21. (DNF) 4-Jett Yantis[11]; 22. (DNF) 23C-Cody Samuels[13]; 23. (DNF) 5-Mattix Salmon[12]
RESTRICTED (25 LAPS)
1. 33-Andrew Smith[3]; 2. 77K-Kyle Fernandez[1]; 3. 9-Adrianna DeMartini[2]; 4. 55X-Lucas Mauldin[4]; 5. 95-Nathan Ward[5]; 6. 25R-Brody Rubio[7]; 7. 76-TK OBrien[10]; 8. 10P-Peyton Whitehouse[6]; 9. 75-Josiah Vega[9]; 10. 66B-Blayden Graham[8]; 11. 4K-Khloe Cotton[13]; 12. 27C-Cameron Carraway[17]; 13. V5-Vito Cancilla[16]; 14. 58C-Clay Mibach[12]; 15. 9J-Levi Osborne[19]; 16. 21-Mickelina Monico[14]; 17. 32JR-Nicholas Leonard Jr[15]; 18. 54A-Aniyah Scott[20]; 19. 25A-Bradley Anderson[21]; 20. (DNF) 98-Hayden Stepps[11]; 21. (DNF) 5-Kellan Harper[18]
JR SPRINTS (20 LAPS)
1. 55X-Maya Mauldin[2]; 2. 96-Briggs Davis[3]; 3. 12-Haven Sherman[5]; 4. 98-Heston Stepps[6]; 5. 11K-Kyle Klagenberg[8]; 6. 38J-Jackson Tardiff[1]; 7. 13V-Braxon Vasconcellos[4]; 8. 24N-Nathan Fernandez[10]; 9. 26-Dylan Silva[11]; 10. 25DD-Samantha Dozier[12]; 11. 55-Jayden Carey[7]; 12. (DNF) 3D-David Anderson[9]
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It came down to the final points night and the last two races of the season. When all was done, Layne Riggs emerged with his first career South Boston Speedway NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Late Model Stock Car Division championship.
Meanwhile, Peyton Sellers gained ground on Riggs in the quest for the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national championship.
Riggs finished second to Sellers, the defending South Boston Speedway and NASCAR national champion, twice as Sellers swept the twin 65-lap NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Late Model Stock Car Division races that headlined Saturday night’s Halifax County Farm Bureau Championship Night event at South Boston Speedway.
The Bahama, North Carolina resident entered Saturday night’s twinbill with a 20-point lead over Sellers and a 22-point edge over Jacob Borst of Elon, North Carolina. The pair of runner-up finishes was more enough to give Riggs, a 10-time winner at the speedway this season, the track championship.
“It feels great to win this championship,” Riggs said. “At the beginning of the year I didn’t expect it would happen. But wins started coming, and I felt we were a dominant enough car to win every weekend. We deserved to win this championship. I really hate that we couldn’t seal it with a win.”
The magic Sellers has known at South Boston Speedway in recent seasons returned over the final two nights of the season. He won three of the season’s final four races to cap his season at the .4-mile oval with four victories.
It wasn’t enough for the Danville, Virginia resident to claim a record-tying seventh career South Boston Speedway NASCAR track championship and a fifth consecutive South Boston Speedway title.
“Man, this was an amazing night,” Sellers said of the sweep. “We executed perfectly. Everybody said you’re worried about points, and I said all we can do is go win the race. Everything else would have to fall into place. We came up a little short.”
While Sellers lost the battle for the South Boston Speedway championship, he was able to further close the gap on Riggs in the chase for the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national championship.
Riggs, entered Saturday night’s event leading Sellers by just eight points in the NASCAR national standings and leading Sellers by just two points in the Virginia NASCAR state standings.
“We gained some good points tonight,” Sellers pointed out. “We’ve just got to go out and do what we know to do and that’s just stay focused and try to win races.”
Sellers dominated Saturday night’s pair of 65-lap NASCAR Late Model races. He led flag-to-flag in winning the opening race as he sped across the finish line six seconds ahead Riggs. Landon Pembelton of Amelia, Virginia finished third with Borst and Parker Eatmon of Sims, North Carolina rounding out the top five finishers.
With an inverted start among the top 10 finishers of the first race, Sellers started tenth in the nightcap but needed only nine laps to get to the front of the field, Once Sellers passed Borst for the lead on the ninth circuit he never relinquished the lead, finishing 1.6 seconds ahead of Riggs in taking the win and the sweep.
Borst finished third with Thomas Scott of Efland, North Carolina and Chris Denny of Timberlake, North Carolina completing the top five finishers.
For the night, Sellers led 122 of the total 130 laps.
KYLE BARNES TAKES HOME THE BUDWEISER LIMITED SPORTSMAN TITLE WITH PAIR OF THIRD-PLACE FINISHES
Kyle Barnes would have liked a better result in Saturday night’s twin 30-lap Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division races, but a pair of third-place efforts allowed him to win his first career South Boston Speedway Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division championship.
Barnes of Draper, Virginia entered Saturday night’s twin 30-lap races having won eight of his 11 starts at South Boston Speedway and holding a 30-point lead over Jason Myers of Hurt, Virginia.
Myers finished second in both races, cutting into Barnes’ final margin, but it was not enough to prevent Barnes from winning the championship.
The night belonged to Eric Winslow of Pelham, North Carolina. Competing in the division at South Boston Speedway for the first time this season, Winslow swept the twinbill, with Myers taking second place in both races and Barnes finishing third in both races.
Zach Peregoy of Clarksville, Virginia finished fourth in both races. Tristen Barnes of Draper, Virginia rounded out the top five finishers in the first race and Andrew Amos of Callands, Virginia finished fifth in the second race.
Winslow started on the pole and led the entire distance in the first race and led all but one lap in the second race.
SCOTT PHILLIPS LANDS FIRST CAREER SBS SOUTHSIDE DISPOSAL PURE STOCK DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP
Scott Phillips of Halifax, Virginia has been trying for several years to win the South Boston Speedway Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division championship. Saturday night Phillips landed the big prize.
Entering Saturday night’s 25-lap Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division race, Phillips had finished second six times and was still looking for his first win of the season. He started the night with 10 Top-Five finishes and held an eight-point edge over Johnny Layne of Halifax, Virginia, who entered the event with four wins this season.
Layne finished second to winner Nathan Crews of Long Island, Virginia and Phillips finished fourth. Despite Layne finishing two positions in front of him, Phillips did enough to win his first South Boston Speedway title.
Crews, running a partial schedule of races this season, earned his seventh victory in eight starts at South Boston Speedway in the 25-lap race. He passed Layne, the pole winner, on the opening lap and never lost the lead. He sped across the finish line 1.822 seconds ahead of Layne in taking the win.
Layne claimed the runner-up spot, with Bruce Mayo of Halifax, Virginia, Phillips, and B.J. Reaves of South Boston, Virginia rounding out the top five finishers.
JASON DeCARLO HANGS ON TO CAPTURE THE SBS VIRGINIA STATE POLICE HEAT HORNETS DIVISION TITLE
Jason DeCarlo of Chase City, Virginia knew he needed to either finish in front of two-time former division champion Kevin Currin of Chase City, Virginia or right behind Currin in Saturday night’s 20-lap Virginia State Police HEAT Hornets Division race if he was to lock up his first career South Boston Speedway Virginia State Police HEAT Hornets Division championship.
DeCarlo did not have the best performance Saturday night, but it was good enough as he finished fourth while Currin finished fifth, a result that earned him the South Boston Speedway Virginia State Police HEAT Hornets Division championship.
Steven Layne of Nathalie, Virginia took the checkered flag first in the 20-lap race, but his car failed a post-race inspection by track NASCAR officials, resulting in disqualification.
That turn of events gave apparent runner-up Kendall Milam of Keeling, Virginia the win. The victory was his second of the season.
Dillon Davis of Nathalie, Virginia was listed as the runner-up in the final results, with Landon Milam of Keeling, Virginia, DeCarlo and Currin rounding out the top five finishers.
Cameron Goble of Ringgold, Virginia won the pole for the race and led the first 16 laps before being sidelined in a mishap.
TYLER WRAY SPEEDS TO VICTORY IN THE 20-LAP MILLS FAMILY PRACTICE CHAMP KARTS RACE
Tyler Wray of Eden, North Carolina edged runner-up Dustin Phillips of Dunn, North Carolina at the finish line to win the 20-lap race for the Mills Family Practice Champ Karts.
Wray, the pole winner, wrestled the lead away from Trey Masengill of Dudley, North Carolina on the second lap and held on to edge Phillips for the win.
Tony Arnold of Creedmoor, North Carolina, Danny Willis Jr. of South Boston, Virginia and Tommy Elliott of Virgilina, Virginia completed the top five finishers.
COMING UP AT SOUTH BOSTON SPEEDWAY
The Solid Rock Carriers CARS Tour will make its annual stop at South Boston Speedway on Saturday afternoon, October 22 for what will be the final racing event of the 2022 season at South Boston Speedway.
The competitors of the CARS Tour Late Model Stock Car Division will battle it out in a 125-lap race. In addition, the CARS Tour Pro Late Model drivers will compete in a 100-lap race.
The first race of the day will get the green flag at 2 p.m.
Advance adult general admission tickets are priced at $15 each and may be purchased online on South Boston Speedway’s website, www.southbostonspeedway.com, through Friday night, October 21. Advance tickets may also be purchased by calling the speedway office at 434-572-4947 or toll free at 1-877-440-1540 during regular business hours.
Tickets at the gate on race day will be $20 each. Seniors ages 65 and older, military, healthcare workers, and students (with ID) can purchase tickets for $15 each at the gate on race day.
Other events at South Boston Speedway this fall include the Country Roads Truck Show on Saturday afternoon, September 17. Classic cars and trucks, low-riders, big rigs, ATVs and more will be on display. That event is managed and promoted by Thorpe Money Enterprises and not South Boston Speedway.
In addition, South Boston Speedway will host the SoBo Drifts Powered By Barlow’s Tire on Saturday, October 29 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. More details regarding that event will be announced in the near future.
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It was another classic night of racing at Grandview Speedway on Saturday night, in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series program, as Craig Von Dohren of Oley, Pa. authored another drive from 18th starting spot to the victory in the 30-lap T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modified feature race.
Von Dohren was able to use a couple of well-timed caution flags to regroup the field, and some key moves following restarts, to drive to his eighth point race win of 2022 and his twelfth overall win of this season. Von Dohren took the lead from Dylan Swinehart of Fleetwood, Pa. on lap 16 moving through turn one, and never surrendered the top spot the remaining laps to score his 122nd career NASCAR Modified Saturday night win at Grandview Speedway.
Kyle Smith of Fleetwood, Pa. has been close on several occasions this season to the top spot but was not able to put everything all together until this week. Smith grabbed the lead from race long leader Michael Burrows of Jonestown, Pa. entering turn one on lap 20 and ran the final five laps to his first win of the season and third career win.
Both feature winners received bonus money from T.P. Trailers and Truck Equipment (Modified $300, Sportsman $200), sponsors of both divisions all season long at GRandview Speedway.
The Wingless Super Sportsman made a visit to Grandview on Saturday night and Brett Perigo was able to take the lead from Steve Wilbur on lap three, then survive a late race challenge from Wilbur in lapped traffic in the closing laps to score the victory.
The T.P. Trailer Modified feature saw Ryan Beltz of Barto, Pa. take the lead at the drop of the green flag, and set the pace for the first eleven laps of the main event. During this time Steve Swinehart of Perkiomenville, Pa., Dylan Swinehart of Fleetwood, Pa., Mark Kratz of Pennsburg, Pa. and Bobby Gunther-Walsh of Allentown, Pa., were dicing amongst each other for top five positions.
A caution on lap eleven reset the field, and by this time Von Dohren had climbed to position eleven. The next couple of laps were key, as there were a couple of mixups, and cautions, as well as some intense racing, which saw Von Dohren move from eleventh to third by the time the caution waved again on lap fifteen for point title contender Brett Kressley of Orefield, Pa. who slowed with a flat tire. Included in this sequence was a turn one move which saw Von Dohren go around Beltz entering turn one, then slide under Brad Arnold of Bethel, Pa. almost at the same time securing two positions in one corner.
Steve Swinehart was able to take the lead away from Beltz following a lap eleven restart, and stay out front until Dylan Swinehart was able to take the lead following a lap fifteen restart. Dylan’s lead lasted only one lap until Von Dohren motored by entering turn one on lap sixteen, to take a lead he would never surrender.
Von Dohren would pull out to a huge lead during a long run of green flag racing which would last to the end of the feature. During this time a good tussle would happen between Dylan and Steve Swinehart and Beltz for the number two position, while Arnold, who had been as high as third at one point, Nate Brinker of Macungie, Pa., Kevin Hirthler of Boyertown, Pa., Jared Umbenhauer of Richland, Pa., John Willman of Birdsboro, Pa., and Jeff Strunk of Boyertown, Pa. who was returning from a pitstop were all in a fierce battle for the remaining top ten spots.
Von Dohren would reach lapped traffic with five laps to go, but it never slowed him down, and he was able to race unchallenged the final laps to his eighth point race victory of the season. At the wave of the checkered flag several drivers were able to score their best feature finish of the season. Following Von Dohren across the finish line were Dylan Swinehart, Steve Swinehart, Umbenhauer who grabbed fourth off the final corner, Beltz, Arnold, Brinker, Hirthler, Strunk, and Willman.
Qualifying heats races for the 32 car field were won by Beltz, Gunther-Walsh and Kressley, with the consolation win going to Strunk.
The T.P. Truck Equipment 25-lap Sportsman feature saw Michael Burrows take off at the opening green flag and open up a huge lead with Zach Steffy of Sinking Spring, Pa. holding down second spot. While this was happening, a multi-car duel for position was happening behind them between Keith Haring of Alburtis, Pa., Jesse Landis of Gilbertsville, Pa., Jesse Hirthler of Boyertown, Pa., and Joey Vaccaro of Reading, Pa.
The race ran green for the first 19 laps with Burrows having a huge lead and reaching lapped traffic by lap fifteen. At this point Smith had just reached the fifth spot after starting in thirteenth position. The lap nineteen restart proved to be the key point of the event.
On the restart Burrows led, Steffy pushed high entering turn one, and Smith went low, motoring by several cars to arrive in second spot by the backstretch. The next time around Smith would dive low again in turn one and grab the lead from Burrows off of turn number two.
A final caution on lap 21 for an unfortunate Steffy would set up a final restart, but while the restart would allow several drivers to change positions in the top ten, Smith would pull away to his first win of 2022, becoming the 12th different driver to win a T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman feature this season.
The final rundown would be Smith in for the win followed by Burrows for his career best finish, point leader Brian Hirthler of Green Lane, Pa. with a late charge, Landis, Jesse Hirthler, Vaccaro, Dakota Kohler of Kutztown, Pa., Dylan Hoch of Mertztown, Pa., Kenny Bock of Oley, Pa., and Mike Schneck Jr. of Lebanon, Pa.
Qualifying heats races for the 32 car field were won by Haring, Burrows and Steffy, with Steve Young of Collegeville, Pa. winning the consolation.
The Wingless Super Sportsman were on hand for their only visit of the season after seeing their earlier visit wiped out by rain in May.
Steve Wilbur took the lead on the opening green, but Brett Perigo was able to sweep to the outside and take the lead off of turn four to score lap three just before the only caution of the 25-lap feature waved for a slowing Brian Nace.
After the restart, the top two would pull away to a huge advantage on the rest of the field, leaving several other drivers to dice for position including Paul Kline, Craig Perigo and Bill Brian Jr. by the half-way point.
By lap 18 the leaders reached lapped traffic and suddenly Perigo’s comfortable lead was gone. Wilber was suddenly putting on the pressure in the closing laps, but Perigo was able to survive the pressure and the lapped traffic to preserve the victory in an exciting finish.
At the checkered it was Brett Perigo in for the win followed by Wilber, Michael Smith with a solid top five all race, Cliff Brian Jr., Bill Brian Jr. up from 13th starting spot, Eric Jennings, Kline, Craig Perigo, Rohan Beasley and Charles Weslowski.
The two qualifying heat races for the 16 car field were won by Tom Savage and Brett Perigo.
Racing next weekend at Grandview Speedway will be on Saturday, September 10, featuring Championship Night. It will be the T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds and the T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman in another NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series program that will be the final night of points racing, and the 2022 track champions will be crowned in both divisions.
Pit gates will open at 4 pm. with grandstand gates opening at 5:30 pm. warm-ups will be starting at 6:30 pm. Adult grandstand admission is $18, while children ages 11 and under are admitted free of charge.
The 52nd annual Freedom 76 Modified Championship is the next big event on the schedule, coming up on Saturday, September 17. Lap sponsorships at $20 per lap are now available by contacting Tina Rogers, Tommy Kramer or announcer Jeff Ahlum at the track on race night.
The Freedom 76 weekend begins on Friday, September 16 with the 9th annual Freedom 38 Sportsman Championship race paying $2000 to the winner, along with practice time for Modified drivers wishing to participate in the Freedom 76.
On Friday, pit gates open at 3 pm with grandstand gates opening at 5:30 pm. and racing at 7:30 pm. Adult Grandstand admission is $15, with children ages 6-11 paying $5, while children ages 5 and under are admitted for free. Pit admission on Friday is $35, and no license is required. There is no rain date for the Friday event.
On Saturday, September 17, the 52nd annual Freedom 76 will be run for the 358 Modifieds paying $30,060 to the winner, with the number 60 signifying the speedway’s anniversary season. Pit gates open at 9 am for inspections, Grandstand ticket windows open at 3 pm. with racing starting at 7 pm. Fans will be able to enter the Grandstand areas between 9 am. and 12 Noon to reserve seats with blankets.
Adult Grandstand tickets on Saturday will be $40, while children ages 6-11 are $10, with children ages 5 and under admitted for free. Pit admission will be $45, and no license is required. There will be no advanced tickets sold for this event, and the rain date is Saturday, September 24.
The T. P. Trailer Modified and T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman drivers will be using the final point race of the season to prepare for the big Freedom weekend of racing next weekend. Race info and Modified entry forms are available on the track website under the Freedom 76 tab at www.grandviewspeedway.com.
Since the 1960’s, Grandview Speedway has been presenting exciting wheel to wheel NASCAR stock car racing every Saturday Night starting in April and running through September, plus special events. Grandview Speedway is located at 43 Passmore Road, Bechtelsville, Pa. 19505, just off Route 100, ten miles north of Pottstown, Pa.
Information is always available at www.grandviewspeedway.com or on Facebook, or by telephone at 610.754.7688.
T.P. TRAILER NASCAR MODIFIED FEATURE FINISH (30 laps): CRAIG VON DOHREN, Dylan Swinehart, Steve Swinehart, Jared Umbenhauer, Ryan Beltz, Brad Arnold, Nate Brinker, Kevin Hirthler, Jeff Strunk, John Willman, Tim Buckwalter, Ray Swinehart, Bobby Gunther-Walsh, Brett Kressley, Dan Waisempacher, Mark Kratz, Joe Funk, Lex Shive, Cory Merkel, Mike Lisowski, Bobby Trapper Jr., Jesse Leiby, Ryan Grim, Justin Grim, Kyle Lilick, Duane Howard, Eric Biehn, Kevin Graver Jr., DNS – Doug Manmiller
DID NOT QUALIFY: Carroll Hine III, Ron Haring Jr., Brett Gilmore
T.P. TRUCK EQUIPMENT NASCAR SPORTSMAN FEATURE FINISH (25 laps): KYLE SMITH, Michael Burrows, Brian Hirthler, Jesse Landis, Jesse Hirthler, Joey Vaccaro, Dakota Kohler, Dylan Hoch, Kenny Bock, Mike Schneck Jr., Jimmy Leiby, Cody Manmiller, Keith Haring, Parker Guldin, Nathan Mohr, Mark Mohr, Addison Meitzler, Josh Adams, Logan Bauman, Adrianna Delliponti, Ryan Graver, Steve Young, Zach Steffy, Chris Esposito
DID NOT QUALIFY: Kaitlyn Bailey, Decker Swinehart, BJ Joly, Nathan Horn, Wayne Rotenberger, Kyle Hartzell, Molly Struss, Bryan Rhoads
WINGLESS SUPER SPORTSMAN FEATURE FINISH (25 laps): BRETT PERIGO, Steve Wilbur, Michael Smith, Cliff Brian Jr., Bill Brian Jr., Eric Jennings, Paul Kline, Craig Perigo, Rohan Beasley, Charles Weslowski, Walter Fletcher, Blake Brooks, Brian Nace, Trent Yoder, Troy Fraker, Tom Savage
UPCOMING EVENTS –
Saturday, September 10 – CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT - T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman – 7:30 pm.
Friday, September 16 – 9th annual FREEDOM 38 CHAMPIONSHIP for T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman $2000 to win, plus Modified practice – 7:30 pm.
Saturday, September 17 – 52nd annual FREEDOM 76 MODIFIED CHAMPIONSHIP for T.P. Trailer Modifieds $30,060 to win – 7 pm.
Saturday, September 24 - Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 7 pm. (Rain date for Freedom 76)
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Mahoning Valley Speedway returns to action this coming Saturday, September 10 at 6:00 pm with the fifth and final segment of the Mahoning Valley Speedway Hall of Fame Series (MVSHoFS) and the Mike Muffley Tribute.
The evening will pay homage to another great in the long list of Hall of Fame stars with a tribute to a champion driver who etched a lasting impression on the local racing scene, especially at Mahoning Valley Speedway.
Mike Muffley started his driving career in the early 1950s. He is the 1961 champion at Mahoning which at that time was a dirt surface. During that era he became one of the top stars under the Lehighton Stock Car Racing Association banner. He not only raced Mahoning but a number of other area tracks including the Lehighton Fairgrounds, Pocono Sunrise Speedway, Skyline Speedway, Dorney Park Speedway and several others.
As a driver Muffley was fearsome competitor who always did his best while at the same time was a very clean and respectable racer. It wasn’t surprising that he would go out of his way to help a fellow racer and would never turn away the chance to meet with fans.
After Mahoning Valley shut down in 1963 and then reopened in 1970 as the current asphalt layout of today, Muffley was among the many drivers who made it his weekly venue. Racing for car owner LeRoy Goldberg, it was at that time he became associated with his popular #79 coupe. Together they became quite the formidable team throughout the early to mid-1970s.
A neat fact about the Goldberg/Muffley operation was their shop being located adjacent to the speedway and Mike would simply drive the car over to the track each week.
Another rare distinction Muffley holds is having won on both dirt and asphalt Mahoning surfaces, something that only a select few have done.
Mike passed away on March 9, 1978. He was inducted into the Dorney Park Speedway/Mahoning Valley Speedway Hall of Fame in 2021.
The Modifieds will compete for 79 laps but do so in twin features of 40 and 39. Mike’s family have done a terrific job of raising additional monies to be awarded and continue to do so as the race nears.
With this being the final leg of the MVSHoFS the respective titles will be decided as well for the Modifieds, Street Stocks and Hobby Stocks.
In the Modifieds Kyle Strohl holds the lead by 19 points over Brian DeFebo. Also in the hunt are Lou Strohl and Austin Kochenash.
MVSHoFS Street Stock point leader TJ Gursky will be seeking his unprecedented eighth Mahoning championship. However, Johnny Bennett and Matt Schlenker will be doing their best to not make that happen.
As expected the Hobby Stocks are also close with Cody Boehm ahead of Corey Edelman by a mere five markers. Matter of fact the top five which also includes Jacob Boehm, Shayne Geist and Ryan Berger all have a shot to win the crown.
A draw for heat line-ups and redraw for the features will take place. While there is a separate point tally for the MVSHoFS, all drivers signed in will additionally receive 50 show-up points towards the regular season championship with the exception of the Futures which who will collect regular points.
The MVSHoFS is a special five race series run amongst the Modifieds, Street Stocks and Hobby Stocks and pays tribute to select individuals who have been inducted into the Dorney Park Speedway/Mahoning Valley Speedway Hall of Fame at the America on Wheels Museum in Allentown.
Also in action will be the Futures which will be racing in a 20-lap feature sponsored by Kutz Racing. The Kutz’s have been collecting lap money for the race and have noted that the winner will receive an additional $42 and a larger winner’s check.
The East Coast TQ Midgets will be on the card to make for a great night of competition at the paved ¼-mile oval.
Pit gates open at 11:00 am. Early paid practice will take place from noon to 3:00 pm. Warm-ups begin at 4:00 pm. Adult grandstand admission is $20. Pits are $45. Driver sign-ins are from 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. Racing begins at 6:00 pm.
Please log onto the official Mahoning Valley Speedway website at www.mahoningvalley-speedway.
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Race Winner: Noah Gragson of JR Motorsports (Chevrolet)
Stage 1 Winner: Noah Gragson of JR Motorsports (Chevrolet)
Stage 2 Winner: Justin Allgaier of JR Motorsports (Chevrolet)
Overview:
Riley Herbst and the No. 98 Monster Energy team for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) saw an abrupt and early end to their day in Saturday’s Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway. After starting eighth and finishing sixth in Stage 1, having made an impressive save to keep his Ford Mustang from making contact with the outside wall after getting shoved up the racetrack on lap four, the 23-year-old from Las Vegas was penalized for speeding while exiting pit road during the stage break. He restarted 21st when the race went back to green on lap 54 to start Stage 2. On the very next lap, Herbst slid into the inside SAFER Barrier exiting turn two while trying to avoid a two-car incident in front of him. His racecar sustained left-front damage that the team was unable to repair under the allotted NASCAR Damaged Vehicle Policy time limit.
Riley Herbst, driver of the No. 98 Monster Energy Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing:
“It was 100-percent my fault. I ran sixth (to end the first stage) and I have to do what I can do and I didn’t do that. I sped off pit road and put us in the back. And when you run in the back, accidents happen like that off (turn) two, and then you get collected into it. I don’t know, it’s tough, but at the end of the day, I was in control of our good track position. I had one of the best racecars I’ve ever had, especially here at Darlington. It was so much fun in this heat, sliding around. But I threw it all away by speeding on pit road and you can’t do that.”
Notes:
● Herbst finished sixth in Stage 1 to collect five bonus points.
● Noah Gragson won the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 to score his ninth career Xfinity Series victory, his fourth of the season, and his second at Darlington. His margin over second-place Sheldon Creed was .794 of a second.
● There were five caution periods for a total of 39 laps.
● Twenty-five of the 38 drivers in the race finished on the lead lap.
● AJ Allmendinger remains the championship leader after Darlington with a 51-point advantage over second-place Ty Gibbs.
Next Up:
The next event on the NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule is the Kansas Lottery 300 on Sept. 10 at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City. The race starts at 3 p.m. EDT with live coverage provided by USA and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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“I put together really good restarts and I was able to get the lead, I needed that to stay green. Noah (Gragson) and I were kind of even there late in that run, he’d be a tenth better and then I’d be a tenth better and it would go back and forth. I just wanted it to stay green. Obviously, the caution came out and I just needed to have another good restart. I was good, I was really tight for like five laps, then I would get really loose after that but I was good. The pace we were running there with eight laps left, I was just way too loose in Turns 1 and 2. We were all racing really hard there at the end, I was hoping they were going to get racing behind me and that would kind of let me go but it didn’t happen. I just had to race Kyle (Larson) really hard there, I wasn’t going to give up. I’m just happy we had a really fast race car. The guys showed up with a really good car this weekend and it was exactly what we needed, everyone was on it. We stayed in it the whole time and just raced really hard for the win, and I can’t really ask for more in a situation like that. I’m proud of my team and I’m looking forward to Kansas Speedway next weekend to finish one spot better.”
-Sheldon Creed
Austin Hill Grabs 15th Top-10 Finish in Rain-Delayed Race at Darlington Raceway
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“Before the rain delay, we were fighting a loose balance on our Bennett Transportation & Logistics Chevrolet. We talked during the delay about what we were going to do to make it better. I felt like it fired off better when we restarted and we worked our way up to the top-five but as the run went along, we again started losing rear grip. Our biggest issue all night was in Turns 3 and 4. When I tried to run the bottom it would bog down too much. I’d spin the tires really easy when I tried to put the throttle down and I felt like I was burning the right rear off of it. We made it a little better at the start of that last restart there with 15 to go but we started losing rear grip again. We ran top-five for most of the day but it’s a little frustrating to finish 10th. We’re going to go back to the drawing board and keep working on it and try to be better once the Playoffs start. We’ll just keep working at it.”
-Austin Hill
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - September is Suicide Prevention Month and a local veteran is kicking off a podcast called “One Mile One Veteran” to help prevent suicides in the veteran community.
The host and founder, Danny Mayberry served in the Navy for 11 years with several deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. After returning to Hawaii, he said he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and wants to help veterans with their path to healing.
“These conversations around mental health need to be normalized. We need to get rid of the stigma that seeking help is a sign of weakness. Everything you do in life, you do as a team in a community. We all want to build each other up and that’s what the veteran community wants to do,” said Mayberry.
Suicide among veterans has steadily gone up nationally over the past two decades. According to a report by the Department of Veterans Affairs, suicide accounted for 217 deaths in Hawaii in 2019 and 17 of them were veterans.
However, some officials believe that number is actually higher.
"We have to take everyone into consideration. There are those that are actively serving, those with prior service, those in the reserves and even family members of veterans. A lot of those people have attempted and/or contemplated suicide. That number is significantly higher actually," said Alim Shabazz, Coast Guard auxiliary member.
A combat veteran told KITV4 he believes there is a mental health crisis in this community in Hawaii. He said aside from suicide, there are many veterans that fall into poverty and or become homeless.
"A lot of the negative things you hear that happen to people, veterans are not exempted from them. This is a problem for them and we need solutions for them,” said Jeff Perez, Army combat veteran.
The “One Mile One Veteran” podcast kicks off Labor Day and will stream on Spotify, Google Podcast and Apple Podcast.
Host and founder, Danny Mayberry said he wants to help veterans with all forms of health - mental, physical, spiritual relational, and professional and find ways to fight negative thoughts like stress and anxiety.
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Ajla Tomljanovic and Ons Jabeur each came back from first-set deficits to claim straight-sets wins in the Round of 16 at the US Open on Sunday night.
Tomljanovic, who defeated Serena Williams in the final match of the WTA Legend's career, reached her second Grand Slam quarterfinal in a row and her third major quarterfinal overall with a gritty 7-6(8), 6-1 win over Liudmila Samsonova on Louis Armstrong Stadium
Australia's Tomljanovic ended Samsonova's stunning 13-match winning streak with the nearly 2-hour victory. Tomljanovic came back from 2-5 down and erased a whopping eight set points in the opening set.
No.5 seed Jabeur of Tunisia also came back from 2-5 down in the first set before topping No.18 seed Veronika Kudermetova 7-6(1), 6-4. It was Jabeur's first win over Kudermetova in their four meetings.
Read more: Gauff, Garcia set for quarterfinal clash at US Open
All four players remaining in the bottom half of the draw are first-time US Open quarterfinalists.
Here are thoughts on Tomljanovic's and Jabeur's wins, and how they can keep her momentum rolling in the elite eight:
Assertive.
— wta (@WTA) September 5, 2022
Composed.
Tactical.@Ajlatom backs up her win over Serena with a 7-6 6-1 victory over the in-form Samsonova to reach her first QF at the #USOpen 💪 pic.twitter.com/o6bfSVMUX3
Ajla Tomljanovic
Self-belief is key
Last year, Tomljanovic made her first major quarterfinal at Wimbledon, and she backed it up by returning to the same round at the All-England Club this year. Tomljanovic is now brimming with confidence at the majors after pulling that feat off twice successively.
Even after Williams predictably battled back in the second set of their clash, Tomljanovic did not waver and took home the famous victory, underscoring the self-belief she has built up over the last couple of seasons.
Tomljanovic was also nearly eliminated in the round prior to that, coming within two points of defeat against Evgeniya Rodina, but she battled back there too.
Tomljanovic demonstrated that self-confidence in the first set against Samsonova on Sunday night, where she saved seven set points in an engrossing 18-minute 5-4 game, as well as an eighth set point in the decisive tiebreak.
Smart choices in rallies
Tomljanovic got into the head of Samsonova as the opening frame progressed, extending rallies until Samsonova lost the plot and, eventually, the first-set tiebreak.
Soaking it all in.
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 5, 2022
Alja Tomljanovic has reached her second straight Grand Slam quarterfinal! pic.twitter.com/4LH8dC0YVF
The Aussie's resilience in points paid off, drawing an increasing number of unforced errors from Samsonova, who was desperately trying to keep her 13-match winning streak going.
Tomljanovic also frustrated Samsonova with well-placed serves which slid quickly into Samsonova’s shallow return position. If Tomljanovic can continue to outfox her opponents with solid decision-making, she can keep her run going even further.
Seal the second service
After fending off peril to clinch the first set after a grueling 82 minutes, the writing was on the wall, and Tomljanovic cruised through the second set.
"Just feels really good to back up a win that I think got a lot of attention," Tomljanovic said in her post-match press conference. "It's been a really big 48 hours. I didn't really feel like myself today the whole day.
"I just felt a little bit drained. After that slow start, I just didn't want to go out like that. Picked myself up, fought back really hard, played some quality tennis after that."
Powerful Samsonova finished the match with 24 winners to Tomljanovic's nine, and the pair were nearly equal in success rate behind their first serves.
But where Tomljanovic excelled was defending her second service -- she won 59 percent of those points compared to Samsonova's 40 percent success rate. It will serve Tomljanovic well down the road if she can keep that second serve rock-solid.
New York State of 𝗢𝗡𝗦 🗽@Ons_Jabeur defeats Kudermetova 7-6, 6-4 to book a spot in her first-ever quarterfinal at the #USOpen!
— wta (@WTA) September 5, 2022
🇹🇳💪 pic.twitter.com/wRJ3gaDvbO
Ons Jabeur
Carve out the angles
In the early stages of the first set, Jabeur was in deep trouble against a player she was 0-3 against. Kudermetova led 5-2 and was seemingly on her way to maintaining her undefeated record against the Tunisian.
But Jabeur kept her composure and methodically pulled her way into a decisive first-set tiebreak with her trademark variety. Jabeur started the breaker with a backhand angled winner, and she pulled a commanding forehand down the line to notch a commanding 4-0 lead.
A backhand winner down the line wrapped up a dominant tiebreak for the 2022 Wimbledon finalist. As she continues to stake her claim as a Top 5 regular, Jabeur is proving that no matter the scoreline, she will find exactly the right places to put the ball from whatever sector of the court she is in.
There’s Ons…and there’s ONS 🔥@Ons_Jabeur | #USOpen pic.twitter.com/ouYJQCAhqp
— wta (@WTA) September 5, 2022
Another ace queen?
Despite failing to serve out the match at 5-3 in the second set, Jabeur held on to capture her first win over Kudermetova, breaking for the triumph after an hour and a half of action on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Jabeur dragged herself out of trouble on numerous occasions with pristine serving at key moments. She had 11 aces in the match overall, finishing the match with a 72 percent success rate behind her first delivery. More big serves will come in handy against Tomljanovic's resilient play.
Revel in the history of the moment
Jabeur takes great pride in being a historic trailblazer for her region, becoming the first Tunisian and first Arab woman to win a title, to reach the Top 10, and to make a Grand Slam quarterfinal and beyond. She is reaching more milestones in New York, which will bolster her spirits further.
Jabeur is now the third African woman to make it into the US Open quarterfinals in the Open Era (since 1968) -- and the first from the northern part of the continent. The other African women to reach the US Open quarterfinals in the Open Era hail from South Africa: Maryna Godwin (1968) and Amanda Coetzer (1994, 1996 and 1998).
Jabeur can also look back at her history against Tomljanovic for a boost: she has a 2-0 head-to-head lead over the Aussie, including a win on the clay courts of Rome this year.
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LOS ANGELES ― The Dodgers’ stable of capable outfielders is large enough to make Cody Bellinger’s spot in the lineup appear shaky.
Bellinger failed to collect a hit in his four plate appearances Sunday against the San Diego Padres. He’s riding an 0-for-11 slump dating to Aug. 29.
But Bellinger drew three walks in Sunday’s series finale, including one against Mike Clevinger with the bases loaded in the fourth inning. For now the plan with Bellinger seems to involve using his plate discipline to “move the chains” ― turning the lineup over with a quality at-bat ― while he figures out how to catch up to the fastballs that have eluded his bat most of the season.
“Tonight the plate discipline was really good,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “Earning three walks was great. I think the next layer is, when you do get pitches in the zone, you’ve got to finish the at-bat. That’s something we’re going to keep working on, because he did get some pitches he should hit.”
Trayce Thompson, Joey Gallo and Chris Taylor have all played at least a capable center field at times during their careers. Given the positional versatility on their roster, the Dodgers could shuffle Bellinger to the bench in favor of any of the
But the 2019 National League Most Valuable Player has more plate appearances this season than all but four of his teammates. And Roberts shows no sign of giving up on the struggling center fielder, citing his effort behind the scenes to turn his season around.
“You see a ball and you’re expecting (Bellinger) to square it up,” Roberts said. “It could be a mechanical thing, it could be a mind thing, could be a body thing. … It’s a combination of things.
FOR STARTERS
The Dodgers used an “opener” for the first time this season when Caleb Ferguson took the ball in the first inning against the Padres before giving way to Ryan Pepiot.
The move was ostensibly designed to protect the right-handed throwing Pepiot (who’s better against right-handed hitters) from left-handed hitting slugger Juan Soto (who’s better against right-handed pitchers). Ferguson, a lefty, had allowed five hits to left-handed hitters all season entering Sunday. He struck out the side in order in his only inning against San Diego.
The Dodgers have been much quicker to use openers in years past, but Roberts said a rotation of Clayton Kershaw, Julio Urías, Tony Gonsolin, Tyler Anderson, Andrew Heaney and Dustin May doesn’t leave room for the strategy.
“We have a lot of neutral(-splits) guys, as far as the starters this year,” Roberts said.
PRICE AILING
To make room for Pepiot on the 28-man roster, the Dodgers placed left-hander David Price on the injured list with left wrist inflammation.
The veteran pitcher expressed certainty that he would return before the end of the regular season, and Roberts predicted Price would be back in “mid-September” ― a reflection of the minimum 15-day IL stint.
“I do commend David for grinding though not being healthy all year, never complaining about it,” Roberts said.
ALSO
Mookie Betts will start at second base on Monday against the Giants, Roberts said. … Tony Gonsolin will resume his throwing program Monday, two days after an MRI on his right elbow cleared him of any serious injury.
UP NEXT
San Francisco (RHP Logan Webb, 11-8, 2.89 ERA) vs. Dodgers (LHP Andrew Heaney 2-1, 2.12 ERA), Monday, 7 p.m., SportsNet LA, 570 AM
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CARSON The crowd rose in anticipation as Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez walked up the penalty spot with the game tied.
However, this time, Hernandez, who had converted a penalty kick in the 88th minute, was denied by Sporting Kansas City goalkeeper John Pulskamp, which seemed to suck the air out of the stadium.
Hernandez’s panenka attempt flew right into the hands of Pulskamp, eventually as the final whistle blew, leaving the Galaxy on 39 points and in eighth place in the Western Conference with six games remaining.
The final result saw a potential win turned into a disappointing 2-2 draw in front of 20,104 Sunday at Dignity Health Sports Park.
“He buried one before and he stepped up and made a decision, it was the wrong decision,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said of Hernandez’s attempt. “He knows how I feel and how his teammates feel.”
With the draw the Galaxy did extend its unbeaten streak to five consecutive games.
The Galaxy trailed 2-1 after SKC scored in the 67th minute (Johnny Russell) and 76th (Felipe Hernandez).
In the 87th minute, the Galaxy fortune changed as Kevin Cabral was brought down by Pulskamp for the Galaxy’s first penalty. Hernandez stepped up and blasted the ball into the upper right corner to tie the game.
Three minutes later, off of a corner kick, the ball came off of Douglas Costa’s head and hit SKC’s Kayden Pierre in the hand. Referee Ramy Touchan went to video review and ruled it a handball and a penalty for the Galaxy.
What followed left the Galaxy and Hernandez in a frustrated state on what should have been a memorable day for the forward. His goal in the fourth minute was his 200th goal in his club career, but his potential 202nd goal wasn’t meant to be this time around.
“My instinct today was wrong,” Hernandez said. “Sacha (Kljestan) came and he asked me do you want to take it? And I said of course. He said where are you going to shoot it and I think he was thinking about that and I said same side. I honestly didn’t think about the panenka …that’s why I shot the first one like I shot it.
“My instinct was he (Pulskamp) did a pretty good move, I didn’t think. Sometimes I score a goal and I don’t see the goalkeeper. Of course the consequences are we didn’t get the three points. It is a very bittersweet moment because I scored two goals. You play a good game at your place, you didn’t lose, you came back, something we’ve lacked in the past …I rather feel this and be brave enough to take the chance and see what happens then not take it. To the fans and everybody, I’m not going to play the victim, I’m sorry. It’s a key play.”
“It’s like if I had a one versus one at the end of the game and I miss it. It’s the same, just this is a penalty, it’s more obvious. I scored two goals and we draw. We did a pretty good effort. It wasn’t that bad, but in the end it’s a mistake, I feel responsible that we couldn’t get the two points (full three points) … and I need to keep working and keep giving everything.
The Galaxy started fast, but couldn’t generate much offense after Hernandez’s first goal. That allowed SKC to find its legs and take advantage in the second half.
“As the game progressed, we started to crowd ourselves up too much instead of opening up space for each other and then I thought because the game was a little slow, I thought at times we were a little too casual in our possession,” Vanney said. “If we were able to keep it a little bit sharper, we would have been in positions to hurt them.”
The Galaxy’s playoff chase will continue Saturday on the road against Nashville SC, followed by a short-turnaround Sept. 14 at Vancouver and Sept. 17 home against Colorado.
“We now have six finals,” midfielder Victor Vazquez said. “We have to try to take as many points as we can to get into the playoffs.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Sunday, fans across Tallahassee - from Florida A&M to Florida State - gathering across the city to support their teams hundreds of miles away in Miami Gardens and New Orleans.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Shyheim Brown blocked LSU's extra-point attempt with no time left to give Florida State a 24-23 victory Sunday night, spoiling Brian Kelly's debut as Tigers coach.
Despite a slew of mistakes including a muffed punt with 2:15 left, LSU came within the extra point of tying it in the wild finish.
Florida State's Treshaun Ward fumbled at the LSU 1 with 1:20 to go, and Tigers quarterback Jayden Daniels drove LSU for a touchdown on a 2-yard pass to Jaray Jenkins with no time left.
Coach said they talked all week how this game could come down to one play. It did, and it went the Seminoles way.
— Alison Posey (@AlisonPosey14) September 5, 2022
“Even after a disappointing moment, we responded. Effort showed up. We needed that game. It’s big for our program.” pic.twitter.com/CIJEMEB0C8
With LSU fans celebrating an apparent two-touchdown comeback in the final 4:07 — and Florida State fans bracing themselves for what could have gone down as an infamous implosion — Brown deflected Damian Ramos' kick, touching off a Florida State celebration during which players wildly rushed the field.
Jordan Travis passed for 260 yards and two touchdowns for Florida State.
Travis' scoring passes came on a 39-yard throw to Ontaria Wilson on a flea flicker and a 27-yard pass that Wilson corralled with one hand while being interfered with. Travis also rushed for 31 yards on a combination of designed runs and scrambles, repeatedly leaving LSU pass rushers grasping air as he spun or darted away from pressure.
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Tens of thousands garnet and gold-clad spectators helped sell-out the Superdome, virtually negating what could have been a home advantage for LSU in a game played just 80 miles from its Baton Rouge campus. And they left happy after Florida State (2-0) — coming off four straight losing seasons — prolonged a promising start to coach Mike Norvell's third season in charge.
This game was arguably more meaningful to Norvell than Kelly, who was lured from Notre Dame with a decade-long, $100 million contract designed to give him time to remake LSU football in his image. Kelly's staff includes only one assistant from last season, while 16 transfer players were brought in to patch up a roster in flux.
One of those transfers was former Arizona State QB Jayden Daniels, who started after a tight competition in camp with Garrett Nussmeier. He completed 26 of 35 passes for 209 yards and two TDS, both to Jenkins. Daniels also rushed for 114 yards.
Another transfer, running back Noah Cain (from Penn State), scored LSU's first TD from a yard out on fourth down late in the third quarter to make it 17-10.
Travis marched the Seminoles right back to the end zone, highlighted by a 15-yard completion to Johnny Wilson as the elusive QB jumped away from closing defenders. DJ Lundy finished the drive with a 1-yard TD run to make it 24-10 with 9:04 to go.
LSU took its only lead, at 3-0, on its first possession. But that drive stalled shortly after first-year center Garrett Dellinger's shotgun snap over Daniels' head on second and goal from the FSU 5.
Florida State's lead was just 7-3 at halftime after both teams blew red-zone opportunities.
LSU's line didn't look ready when the ball was snapped on a field goal attempt, and Jared Varse knifed in past left tackle Cameron Wire to block Damian Ramos' kick.
The Seminoles couldn't cash in on Malik Nabers first of two muffed punts, which FSU recovered on the LSU 16. Norvell kept the offense on the field on fourth and 2 from the 8, and Travis' pass to the far corner of the end zone fell incomplete.
TAKEAWAY
Florida State: Travis' numbers could have been better if not for some key drops. His combination of scrambling and passing ability gave LSU's defense fits that showed up more in the Seminoles' 392 net yards than in the final score. But the Seminoles inability to put away a game in which they were the superior team will have to be fixed.
LSU: The offensive line remains a work in progress and at times looked like a liability in the Tigers' opener. Daniels was the Tigers leading rusher by 91 yards. Meanwhile, LSU might have to find a punt returner other than Nabers. LSU was fortunate that the Seminoles squandered both of his muffs.
INJURIES
LSU: Starting defensive end Maason Smith left the game in the first quarter with a left knee injury. His knee appeared to buckle as he came down awkwardly from hopping near when the tackle was made.
EJECTED
LSU lost a second defensive end when Ali Gaye was ejected for a targeting foul against Travis as the QB released a his touchdown pass in the third quarter.
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Florida State: Visits Louisville to open its ACC slate on Sept. 16.
LSU: Hosts Southern on Saturday night. | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/florida-state-blocks-late-pat-holds-off-lsu | 2022-09-05T05:04:43Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/florida-state-blocks-late-pat-holds-off-lsu | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CLEVELAND — Perhaps those who like to say, ‘there are no bad days at the ballpark,” never spent more than 15 hours there, waiting out an endless rain delay that everyone was saw coming, dealing with the interpretive strike zone of Angel Hernandez where a ball can be a strike and strike isn’t always a strike, playing on a surface that’s more swamp than sod and all the while knowing there was four-hour flight home awaiting followed by a midafternoon game on Labor Day.
Oh, and let’s sprinkle in two extra innings of baseball for good measure.
If you are going to endure all of that, then losing isn’t an option or even consideration, no matter how easy it might have been to pack it in and call it a day.
The 2022 Mariners simply don’t play that way. They don’t give games away. If you are going to beat them, particularly in a close game, you have to earn it.
So after a seemingly endless rain delay of 4 hours and 33 minutes and seeing their normally lockdown bullpen lose a two-run lead while using every available arm, the Mariners scored three runs in the top of the 11th with former starter Chris Flexen closing out a 6-3 victory that could’ve very easily been a loss.
When J.P. Crawford fielded Steven Kwan’s groundball and fired to Ty France at first base for the final out of the game. The clock at Progressive Field read 11:01 p.m.
They had won the game, but still lost the battle with Mother Nature, who remains undefeated.
“This team, and really it’s been the last couple of years, they fight,” manager Scott Servais said. “They fight all the way to the end. You don’t know how it’s going to work out and you don’t know who’s going to get the big hit, but we keep grinding and finding ways to put pressure on the opponent. And finally, hopefully, somebody will break through and that’s what happened tonight.”
With the score tied at 3-3, J.P. Crawford, who has been mired in a frustrating slump in recent weeks and for much of the second-half of the season, singled home automatic runner Eugenio Suarez with one out in the top of the 11th inning off right-hander Trevor Stephan.
But the Mariners weren’t done. On the fifth consecutive splitfinger fastball thrown to him by Stephan, Cal Raleigh crushed a two-run homer into the empty right field seats for some big insurance runs.
“We finally got some big hits there at the end with J.P. stepping up and the into the big homer from Cal,” Servais said. “It was a long, long day, but what a road trip.”
Seattle (76-58) swept the three-game series in Cleveland, winning six of seven in the overall season series against the Guardians. The Mariners also went a perfect 6-0 on the road trip while pushing their winning streak to seven games.
With the Yankees finally a way to win a game, defeating the Rays 2-1, the Mariners took over the first wild card spot in the American League with Tampa (74-58) dropping a game back. The Blue Jays remain two back of Seattle at 73-59.
Never has the postseason seemed more attainable in the last 15-plus years.
“It’s been some kind of year so far for our guys finding ways to hang in there,” Servais said. “What a long day. You sit here for about a four-hour delay. You don’t know what’s going to happen, how guys are going to respond. Give the Guardians a ton of credit. Obviously, they’re fighting for a playoff spot as well.”
The game, which had a scheduled 2:40 p.m. start time, which is 90 minutes later than most Sunday afternoon start times because of an air show that was canceled due to the weather, started officially with Cleveland starter Cal Quantrill firing a first-pitch strike to Julio Rodriguez through a warm mist filling the humid air at 2:41 p.m.
Rodriguez singled, advanced to second on third baseman Tyler Freeman’s throwing error and scored on Ty France’s one-out double to left center.
Cleveland answered against Seattle starter George Kirby in the bottom of the inning. Jose Ramirez, who had been held hitless in this series, singled and scored from first on Josh Naylor’s double to right-center to tie the game.
The Mariners retook the lead in the third inning when Rodriguez sent a screaming line drive into the seats in deep left-center for his 23rd homer of the season. The solo blast made it 2-1.
The delay came in the top of the fourth inning and the Mariners holding a 2-1 lead as the rain increased from an incessant drizzle to a steady pace. Mitch Haniger led off the inning with a single through the rain drops off Quantrill. As the rain increased, Eugenio Suarez followed with a single to left.
But still, nothing was done.
After Quantrill fired a first-pitch strike to Adam Frazier, who was trying to bunt the runners into scoring position, Hernandez and the umpiring crew finally seemed to notice what had been apparent to everyone else for about 10 minutes — the rain had already reached downpour status and the field conditions weren’t ideal.
He dramatically called timeout and put the game on hold at 3:35 p.m. ET. The grounds crew rushed on the field to put the tarp they had removed about 2 hours before back on to the infield.
And the waiting in the rain began. The teams desperately wanted to avoid playing a make-up game later in the season.
An hour later? Still waiting through heavy rain.
Two hours of time? More waiting as puddles formed on the warning track.
Three hours? Yes, more waiting though there didn’t seem to be much in the way of precipitation falling, which led to some of the fans remaining to start screaming to restart the game. The grounds crew even removed the tarp briefly to prep the infield dirt to provide some hope, only to put it back on and crush that hope.
At four hours into the delay, an announcement was made that the game would restart at 8:10 p.m. local time — weather permitting. The grounds crew pulled the tarp at 7:45 p.m. and the 500 or so fans left from the announced crowd of 17,809 rejoiced in celebration though there was only one concession stand open for them to use.
With neither starter coming back in after the delay, big lefty Sam Hentges replaced Quantrill, inheriting a minor mess with Haniger on second, Suarez on first and Frazier in the batter’s box with an 0-1 count.
At 8:12 p.m., Hentges fired his first pitch that hit Frazier, who was trying to bunt, between his shoulder blades.
With no outs, and the bases loaded, Crawford’s ground ball to shortstop was turned into a double play up the middle but allowed a run to score for a 3-1 lead in the fourth.
Using his relievers inning by inning after Kirby, Servais brought in Diego Castillo in the seventh inning. Andres Gimenez worked a leadoff walk, stole second easily and scored on Austin Hedges infield single that Crawford couldn’t make a play on.
Cleveland tied the game in the eighth inning. Amed Rosario snapped an 0-for-12 streak, leading off with a single off Erik Swanson. He stole second and advanced to third when Eugenio Suarez misplayed the throw from Curt Casali, allowing Rosario to advance to third. Rosario should’ve scored on Josh Naylor’s high chopper that Swanson calmly gloved and fired to first base.
With two outs, Servais called on Paul Sewald to face right-handed hitting Oscar Gonzalez. The move didn’t yield expected results with Gonzalez dumping a single into left to score Rosario and tie the game at 3-3. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/mariners/more-than-eight-hours-after-first-pitch-mariners-finish-off-sweep-of-guardians/article_03623a20-2ccf-11ed-b5db-930d0b0fa6f9.html | 2022-09-05T05:07:20Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/mariners/more-than-eight-hours-after-first-pitch-mariners-finish-off-sweep-of-guardians/article_03623a20-2ccf-11ed-b5db-930d0b0fa6f9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATTLE — The Sounders are familiar with this time of year. When it doesn’t matter how or who, the club just needs production to survive and advance.
Enter Nouhou.
The Cameroonian international declared this to be the season where he scores his first goal as a Sounders defender. Dubbed the “train” for the way he motors up and down the left flank, he made the right stop Sunday at Lumen Field to keep the Sounders’ season alive.
Nouhou collected a poorly cleared ball in the box and toed a right-footed shot into goal in the 59th minute to equalize the score. He followed the eye-popping play with an assist to Fredy Montero for the go-ahead header in the 76th minute.
Nouhou’s first goal since signing a first-team contract in 2017 and third assist of the season put some sparkle on a 2-1 win against the Houston Dynamo.
Seattle (11-15-3) remains six points behind archrival Portland for the seventh and final playoff berth in the Western Conference. Houston, which has never defeated the home side through all competitions in Seattle, dropped to last in the conference at 8-16-5.
The Rave Green have advanced to the playoffs every year since joining MLS in 2009 — a league record of 13 berths.
The Sounders had one of their better starts Sunday. The club had 53 percent of possession and outshot Houston 6-1 in the opening 20 minutes. Attempts by Albert Rusnak (free kick), Jordan Morris and Raul Ruidiaz didn’t have enough muster to get past Dynamo keeper Steve Clark.
It was Houston that buried the first goal in the net. Sounders keeper Stefan Frei slapped away a corner kick attempt and had himself and the defense in position to deny a rebound strike. Yet, Adalberto Carrasquilla collected the rebound and sent an assist from distance into the box for Daniel Steres to thread through Seattle’s defense for a right-footed goal in the 26th minute.
A sparse crowd (announced at 33,621) gathered for the holiday weekend match and
made themselves heard in the 37th minute. Rusnak was going for the ball in the box and appeared to be fouled as he dropped to the turf. Referee Silviu Petrescu didn’t rule the contact as impeding Rusnak’s ability to score and VAR didn’t call for a second look.
It was a difficult no-call for the Sounders to accept because they’ve had five penalties go against them the past three matches and conceded four.
The Sounders did a penalty called their way with Montero was fouled in the box in the 73rd minute. Club captain Nico Lodeiro took the shot from the spot and Clark made the save, snapping Lodeiro’s perfect 18-of-18 record for penalty kicks.
Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer made two player changes and shifted the formation from the squad that lost 3-2 to Orlando City last week. Midfielder Albert Rusnak played on the left wing with Josh Atencio and Danny Leyva charged with control the tempo in the midfield.
Brazilian winger Leo Chu didn’t dress due to an adductor injury.
Seattle continues its homestand against Austin FC on Saturday. The Verde and Black (15-8-6) are second in Western Conference standings. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/sounders/sounders-as-they-beat-dynamo-to-keep-playoff-hopes-alive/article_dfed1ad0-2ccc-11ed-a170-b39312a3995f.html | 2022-09-05T05:07:26Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/sounders/sounders-as-they-beat-dynamo-to-keep-playoff-hopes-alive/article_dfed1ad0-2ccc-11ed-a170-b39312a3995f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATTLE — It was perfect. Too perfect.
Retiring WNBA legend Sue Bird backed up and sank a 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds remaining to give the Seattle Storm a two-point lead. They had trailed, by as many as 15, until midway through the third quarter of Game 3 of the WNBA semifinal series.
A’ja Wilson sucked the air out of the room when her layup with 2.9 seconds left gave the Las Vegas Aces a 90-89 advantage, but Climate Pledge Arena was rocking again thanks to Bird. In her 21st Storm season, it was all muscle memory.
“Shoot it,” Bird recalled thinking. “There wasn’t a lot of time.”
With even less than that to work with, a layup from Las Vegas’ Jackie Young survived a review and the teams went to overtime tied at 92.
The extra five minutes belonged completely, relentlessly to the Aces, who won 110-98. Las Vegas leads the best-of-five WNBA semifinal series 2-1, which puts the Storm on the brink.
“That was a helluva game,” Aces coach Becky Hammon said. “I don’t know if I’ve ever been a part of something like that, the back-and-forth and the battle.”
Game 4 is scheduled for Tuesday night in Seattle.
A Tina Charles assist and Breanna Stewart finish tied the game at 52, then Charles gave the Storm their first lead midway through the third quarter. But Seattle was outscored 16-8 the rest of the third.
Stewart’s driving layup handed the Storm a lead to protect with 54 seconds remaining in the game. Jewell Loyd appeared to seal it at the line.
But up by one with seven seconds left, Seattle’s Charles missed both free throws.
“We were up four with not a lot of time left, and that’s really, for me, where we lost the game,” Bird said. “They probably scored, what, five points in three seconds? That, for me, is where we really let this one go.”
Young slithered to the basket with Ezi Magbegor trailing, hands locked behind her in an apparent effort to avoid a foul. Young was mobbed by teammates.
“All of what happened (at the) end of the game, all of the execution things, that falls on me,” Storm coach Noelle Quinn said.
A buzzing home crowd of 15,431 couldn’t do much to thaw a cold-shooting first quarter that featured four late points from Stewart and none from Loyd. Seattle got a three from Bird after the Aces’ lead hit double digits.
As soon as Magbegor entered the game, she drew back-to-back and-ones for a team-high six points in the first quarter. The sloppiness intensified in the early second. The Aces’ lead ballooned to 15 and hung around that mark.
The Storm were able to hold the Aces — the highest-scoring team on average during the regular season — below 80 points in the series’ first two games. That streak clearly was in danger at halftime, when Seattle trailed 48-40.
Wilson had her second straight 30-point performance, finishing with 34 plus 11 rebounds and three steals for the Aces. Chelsea Gray was right behind with 29 points and a game-high 12 assists.
Coming off a 32-point performance in Game 2, Stewart’s streak of eight straight 20-point playoff performances wouldn’t have hit nine if not for overtime. She turned in exactly 20 and 15 rebounds.
Seattle’s Gabby Williams returned to the starting lineup after missing Games 1 and 2 while in concussion protocol. She played more than 23 minutes with six points, three assists and two rebounds.
“She helped us tremendously,” Quinn said. “I know she has to get back her wind a little bit.”
Bird tacked on eight assists to go with 17 points. Through the first five playoff games, Bird has recorded 38 assists and just two turnovers. She’s the first player in NBA history to hit 30 assists with fewer than five turnovers in a postseason.
Teams have split the first two games of a best-of-five WNBA playoff series 14 times. Historically, Game 3 isn’t much of an indicator of who will win the series. The team that prevails has only an 8-6 all-time advantage.
“We’re playing against a Seattle team that’s been here before, that can wait out the Storm — no pun intended. They know,” Wilson said. “The biggest thing is for us to be mentally tough in those situations.
“Game 4’s not going about to be easy. Game 3 damn sure wasn’t easy.” | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/storm/storm-fail-to-finish-epic-game-3-as-aces-take-2-1-series-lead/article_0f7c4a0a-2cb4-11ed-a45f-63a6ca85301a.html | 2022-09-05T05:07:32Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/storm/storm-fail-to-finish-epic-game-3-as-aces-take-2-1-series-lead/article_0f7c4a0a-2cb4-11ed-a45f-63a6ca85301a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chicago-area students from Jackson State University organize water drive for Mississippi city
CHICAGO - Several Jackson State University students have returned to Chicago because of the water crisis in that Mississippi city, and now they are rallying Chicago-area residents for help.
Chicago philanthropist Early Walker has been working with the students to organize a three-day "Help Jackson Now" water drive in the South Suburbs. They collected three semi trailers worth of bottled water.
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State Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin (D-38th) said the situation has been stressful for the students and their parents.
"I know how concerned all the parents are for their children – as well as the citizens of Jackson, Mississippi," Meyers-Martin said. "We always step up when trouble calls."
Custom Companies Trucking Firm donated the semi-trailers and has agreed to deliver the water for free. The trucks will depart on Monday and arrive in Jackson on Tuesday. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-area-students-from-jackson-state-university-organize-water-drive-for-mississippi-city | 2022-09-05T05:12:14Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-area-students-from-jackson-state-university-organize-water-drive-for-mississippi-city | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Las Vegas reporter killed in stabbing outside his home
A Las Vegas investigative reporter was found dead outside his home over the weekend after being stabbed, announced authorities who are looking for the suspect.
Details: The body of Las Vegas Review-Journal journalist Jeff German, 69, was found on Saturday morning and police believe he was "in an altercation with another person" the previous day "that led to him being stabbed," according to the outlet.
- "The cause of his death was multiple sharp force injuries, and the manner of his death was homicide," said the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner in a statement Sunday, per AP.
The big picture: German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after spending over 20 years at the Las Vegas Sun.
- He was held in high regard for his reports on political scandals and malfeasance, and for his coverage of the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival, which left 60 people dead and hundreds of others wounded, the Review-Journal notes.
What they're saying: "There are no words for a loss like this," tweeted Review-Journal executive editor Glenn Cook Sunday. "Great reporter, better man."
- Cook described the veteran reporter in the Review-Journal article as the "gold standard of the news business."
- "It's hard to imagine what Las Vegas would be like today without his many years of shining a bright light on dark places," Cook added. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/05/las-vegas-reporter-killed-stabbing-outside-home | 2022-09-05T05:24:12Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/05/las-vegas-reporter-killed-stabbing-outside-home | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Pointing to a tight physical market, platinum lease rates remain at almost record highs
- Automotive, jewellery and industrial sectors remain resilient despite strong headwinds
- Total supply forecast down 8% in 2022
- Platinum ETF holdings and exchange stocks fall as excess China imports rise
LONDON, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) today publishes its Platinum Quarterly for the second quarter of 2022, with a revised full year forecast for 2022.
Despite resilience in the automotive, jewellery and industrial sectors, combined with reduced mining and recycling supply, a reduction in ETF holdings and exchange stocks saw a platinum surplus in Q2'22 of 349 koz, and the forecast 2022 surplus increase to 974 koz.
However, despite the surplus, physical market tightness continued throughout the second quarter and remains ongoing. Q2'22 saw the resurgence of exceptionally strong import volumes into China, significantly above identified demand, which were met largely by sizeable flows from platinum ETFs and exchange stocks. These excess imports into China, which are not captured in published supply and demand data, resulted in physical platinum market tightness. This is evidenced by elevated lease rates, that have remained high, peaking at 10% in May, higher even than those seen at the peak of the pandemic and significantly above the ten-year average. This physical market tightness also incentivised the movement of platinum held by exchanges into the spot market to help meet the China import volumes.
Total supply forecast to decline 8% in 2022
Total platinum supply in 2022 is forecast to decline 8% (-626 koz) year-on-year to 7,514 koz. Mining supply in Q2'22 was down 4% as an increase in Russian output, following a recovery from flooding in 2021, offset year-on-year declines in all other producing countries. The issues in the second quarter, combined with the depletion of semi-finished inventory that boosted refined volumes in 2021, will see total mine supply in 2022 decline 7% (-409 koz) year-on-year.
The recycling of platinum from spent autocatalysts fell by a noteworthy 20% year-on-year (-82 koz) in Q2'22, with automotive recycling forecast to be down 15% (-210 koz) in 2022. Driving this was the ongoing semiconductor chip shortage and its impact on new car availability, resulting in consumers being forced to run existing vehicles for longer, thereby reducing the supply of scrapped autocatalysts.
Resilience in automotive, jewellery and industrial sectors
Automotive demand for platinum grew 8% (+50 koz) year-on-year in Q2'22. Although the semi-conductor shortage is ongoing, it is easing and the year-on-year increase reflects higher vehicle production volumes, higher platinum loadings on heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) aftertreatment systems, particularly in China and increased use of platinum in place of palladium in light-duty gasoline vehicles. In China, however, the strict lockdowns that endured during the first six weeks of the quarter weighed on vehicle production. For full-year 2022, platinum automotive demand is expected to increase by 14% (+376 koz) to 3,015 koz.
Jewellery demand improved by 5% (+26 koz) in Q2'22, with most markets aside from a COVID-impaired China, continuing to grow. This was bolstered, in part, by considerable demand in North America and Europe due to more weddings and platinum's price remaining well below the price of gold. Platinum jewellery demand for 2022 is forecast to be 1,959koz – a slight increase on 2021.
Industrial demand saw growth in the petroleum (+17%, +7 koz), medical (+8%, +5 koz), and other industrial (+16%, +21 koz) sectors during the quarter, all of which are forecast to grow in 2022 as a whole. The growth in these sectors is masked within the overall industrial demand forecast for 2022 (-15%, -375 koz), as capacity expansions seen in 2021 in the glass and chemical sectors are not repeated this year.
Mixed investment demand obscured by physical metal flows
Global bar and coin demand strengthened quarter-on-quarter to 70 koz in Q2'22, driven by North American demand which is set to post a new post-COVID high in 2022 of 292 koz. However, in Japan, high yen-denominated platinum prices continued to encourage profit-taking among investors for the second consecutive quarter – albeit at a lower level to the previous quarter. Full-year total bar and coin investment is forecast to reduce by 14% (-47 koz).
For ETF holdings, recessionary fears, rising interest rates and weaker commodity prices were visible this quarter – mirroring the net sales trends seen in gold and silver ETFs. ETF holdings contracted by 89 koz, albeit significantly less than in the previous quarter. Following this trend, ETF holdings are expected to continue to fall in 2022, declining by a total of 550 koz.
Meanwhile, NYMEX and TOCOM warehouse stocks fell by a combined 123 koz over the quarter. This reduction helped meet the flow of physical metal from Western markets to China, and compensate for the reduced availability of refined Russian ingot due to key Russian refineries' loss of London Good Delivery status preventing its typical use. Exchange stocks are forecast to decline by 300 koz for the full year as the physical market tightness and resulting high lease rates, seen in the second quarter, are expected to persist for the rest of the year.
Paul Wilson, CEO of the World Platinum Investment Council, commented:
"The surplus we are forecasting for 2022 must be seen within the context of exceptionally strong imports of platinum into China, which are well above identified Chinese demand and were a feature once again in Q2'22. Importantly, the definition of demand in our projections does not include speculative positions outside of bar and coin, ETFs and exchange stocks, therefore this additional 'demand' from China is not captured in our published demand data. The details of the split for this material between speculative and other demand segments is still yet to become clear, however we anticipate that this will become more apparent over the next 12 months.
"Significantly, the sustained high platinum lease rates we have been seeing throughout 2022 - the highest in ten years and higher even than those seen during the peak of the pandemic when moving materials was extremely challenging - are a clear indication of shortages of physical metal in the market. Furthermore, this already tight market is underpinned by constrained mine and recycle supply, as shown in our published data.
"Despite considerable headwinds in 2022, pockets of platinum demand strength, particularly in the automotive, jewellery and industrial sectors are promising in both the near- and long-term. Platinum's role in unlocking hydrogen's crucial contribution to achieving global net zero targets is becoming widely known, and offers an option to investors looking for exposure to this area. The drive in Europe to reduce gas imports from Russia, as well as the recent passing of the US's Inflation Reduction Act, places greater importance on the need for green hydrogen and provides further incentive for investment in the sector, which benefits platinum directly."
Disclaimer
Neither the World Platinum Investment Council nor Metals Focus is authorised by any regulatory authority to give investment advice. Nothing within this document is intended or should be construed as investment advice or offering to sell or advising to buy any securities or financial instruments and appropriate professional advice should always be sought before making any investment. For further information, please visit www.platinuminvestment.com
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The US jobs report on Friday was a bit mixed but the negative news from Russia halting the Nord Stream pipeline was a key factor that weighed on the euro and pound late on while stocks were rattled as well going into the close. That all helped to keep the dollar in a good spot and the greenback is building on that momentum as we get into the new week.
It may be a US holiday but the technicals will continue to do the talking at the moment. EUR/USD is closing in on 0.9900 and is taking a look at the recent lows once more:
A push below 0.9900 will see sellers gain fresh momentum in the push to the downside and leave open plenty of room to explore towards 0.9800 and potentially 0.9500 next.
Meanwhile, USD/JPY continues to hold above 140.00 as buyers are looking to keep a firm break above the figure level:
That remains the critical level to watch in the sessions ahead and if we do see a bit more of an extension, the 145.00 level will be the next key resistance spot that buyers will be targeting.
As the UK looks to appoint a new prime minister, the pound is languishing with cable falling to fresh lows since March 2020:
It's a rough look for the pound as the cost-of-living crisis continues to tighten the noose on UK households with soaring energy prices not helping. The fact that whoever the new UK prime minister will be, he/she will not have much power to influence the economic trajectory means that the quid is still likely to be headed lower - all things being equal.
The March 2020 lows around 1.1410-45 will be the next key support region to watch and a break below that will open up a slippery slope for the pair to the downside. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/dollar-in-control-to-start-the-new-week-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T05:37:38Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/dollar-in-control-to-start-the-new-week-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Another surge in energy prices beckons in Europe after Russia has decided to keep the Nord Stream pipeline shut, citing a "leak" found during maintenance. This came at the end of the supposed three-day repair period and now the flows will be put off indefinitely instead.
Let's be real. Nobody believes the "leak" story and everyone knows Russia's game here. But the issue is, they are not out of place to play things out in this manner. And the real hurt is going to be felt by European households and businesses in the months ahead.
Sure, flows via the Nord Stream pipeline were already reduced to 20% capacity but for it to be taken out altogether, it just exacerbates the gas shortage that Europe will face in the months ahead. Some countries may have enough storage to brave through winter but we will run back the same problems again next year and that's a major worry.
The euro already took a tumble late on Friday but European benchmark energy markets were closed. Be wary of a spike at the open later today.
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EUR
The euro (EUR) is the official currency of the European Union (EU) and 19 of 27 member states at the time of writing. It is the second most-traded currency worldwide in forex markets after the US dollar.The euro was originally introduced back on January 1, 1999, having replaced the European Currency Unit. Banknotes and physical euro coins subsequently entered circulation only in 2002.Upon its adoption, the euro replaced domestic currencies in participating EU member states. The rise in its value since then and importance in the global market has helped solidify its status as one of the most important currencies in the FX market today.Together with the USD, the currency pair is easily among the most important for forex, given its exposure into the two main economic blocs. What Factors Affects the EUR?There are several factors that affect the euro. Like most currencies, monetary policy is the most influential, which in this case refers to the European Central Bank (ECB).The ECB is responsible for regulating the monetary policy, money supply, interest rates, and relative strength of the euro. Forex traders of the euro are routinely tuned into any decision or announcements from the ECB for this reason.With 19 sovereign member states, the euro is particularly vulnerable to political developments. Recent examples include Greece’s debt crisis and Brexit, among others, which can seriously impact the euro.Finally, economic data from the bloc or from key member states such as Germany, France, Spain, and others are also closely eyed. This includes retail sales, jobless claims, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and others.
The euro (EUR) is the official currency of the European Union (EU) and 19 of 27 member states at the time of writing. It is the second most-traded currency worldwide in forex markets after the US dollar.The euro was originally introduced back on January 1, 1999, having replaced the European Currency Unit. Banknotes and physical euro coins subsequently entered circulation only in 2002.Upon its adoption, the euro replaced domestic currencies in participating EU member states. The rise in its value since then and importance in the global market has helped solidify its status as one of the most important currencies in the FX market today.Together with the USD, the currency pair is easily among the most important for forex, given its exposure into the two main economic blocs. What Factors Affects the EUR?There are several factors that affect the euro. Like most currencies, monetary policy is the most influential, which in this case refers to the European Central Bank (ECB).The ECB is responsible for regulating the monetary policy, money supply, interest rates, and relative strength of the euro. Forex traders of the euro are routinely tuned into any decision or announcements from the ECB for this reason.With 19 sovereign member states, the euro is particularly vulnerable to political developments. Recent examples include Greece’s debt crisis and Brexit, among others, which can seriously impact the euro.Finally, economic data from the bloc or from key member states such as Germany, France, Spain, and others are also closely eyed. This includes retail sales, jobless claims, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and others.
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It is a long weekend in the US and Canada, so there might not be much firm direction in broader markets but we are already seeing the dollar take charge in the FX space. Coming up in Europe, energy prices will once again be a focus point after Russia decided to shut down the Nord Stream pipeline indefinitely. And in the UK, we will see either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss be appointed as the next prime minister with the result expected at 1130 GMT.
Risk tones are looking more tepid but for the dollar, the technicals are doing the talking as EUR/USD is slipping to fresh 20-year lows below 0.9900 and GBP/USD is closing in on the March 2020 lows at 1.1410-45 at the moment.
Looking ahead, there will be some releases to move things along in Europe but nothing that will be too impactful on the day.
0700 GMT - Switzerland Q2 GDP figures
0715 GMT - Spain August services PMI
0745 GMT - Italy August services, composite PMI
0750 GMT - France August final services, composite PMI
0755 GMT - Germany final services, composite PMI
0800 GMT - Eurozone final services, composite PMI
0800 GMT - SNB total sight deposits w.e. 2 September
0830 GMT - Eurozone September Sentix investor confidence
0830 GMT - UK August final services, composite PMI
0900 GMT - Eurozone July retail sales data
That's all for the session ahead. I wish you all the best of days to come and good luck with your trading! Stay safe out there. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/final-pmis-sentix-investor-confidence-on-the-agenda-in-europe-today-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T05:37:51Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/final-pmis-sentix-investor-confidence-on-the-agenda-in-europe-today-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It may be a US and Canadian holiday today but the week ahead is going to be filled with interest and excitement as major central bank meetings are in focus again. A quick look at the agenda:
- Tuesday, 6 September - RBA (expected to raise cash rate by 50 bps to 2.35%)
- Wednesday, 7 September - BOC (expected to raise rates by 75 bps to 3.25%)
- Thursday, 8 September - ECB (expected to raise key rates by 75 bps)
The big one to watch will of course be the ECB as their window to tighten policy begins to close amid a faltering economy. The latest news on the Nord Stream pipeline shutdown isn't going to help with the outlook through to winter and for all their talk, this will only mark the second policy move to hike key rates after the first one in July.
So, strap yourselves in. It is going to be an interesting one this week with policymakers at the helm. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/welcome-to-another-week-of-central-bank-bonanza-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T05:37:57Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/welcome-to-another-week-of-central-bank-bonanza-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
House of the Dragon Season 1, Episode 3: The Dating Game
Rhaenyra needs some help picking a husband, so we’re here to break down her options.
It’s been three years since we last saw King’s Landing, and a lot has transpired in that time. Viserys and Alicent are not only happily married, but they have a son—the aggressively blonde-headed Aegon, a boy of two, whom everyone assumes will soon take his half-sister, Rhaenyra’s place as heir to the throne. Alicent also happens to be heavily pregnant with baby number two (at the young age of ten and seven, I might add), which makes it difficult to watch her struggle in bouncing carriages and the fairly uncomfortable-looking dresses she’s forced to wear late into her third trimester.
Episode three revolves around two events, one being the battle going on at the Stepstones between Daemon Targaryen and the Velaryon army and the much-feared Prince Drahar AKA the Crabfeeder. Daemon and Lord Corlys seem pretty much defeated until Daemon, fueled by his desire to win without the help of his brother (pride is a powerful tool, is it not?), all but sacrifices himself to get the upper hand, and it seems to do the trick. Back in the safety of the realm, it’s Aegon’s second nameday, though everyone seems to be less focused on the toddler and more so focused on Rhaenyra, who has come of age and now must marry. Of course, the prideful Rhaenyra doesn’t want to marry, but instead spend her days riding dragons and grimacing. That hasn’t kept a multitude of suitors from lining up at her door, however. So, to help her make the decision and find a man worth birthing blonde-haired children with, we’ve decided to help her out. Welcome to The Dating Game: Westeros Edition. Now, let’s meet our contestants:
Bachelor #1
He loves lions almost as much as he loves snapping at servants, Bachelor #1 is quite the catch thanks to his seat as Lord of Casterly Rock. He can provide our Bachelorette with all the honey wine and the views of the Sunset Sea she will ever desire. Of course, he doesn’t have a dragon pit, but he’s willing to build one for Rhaenyra. Unfortunately, it will have to be big enough to fit his ego, which may prove to be an architectural challenge. Meet Bachelor #1...Jason Lannister.
Bachelor #2
As it has been made so abundantly clear, in the world of Dragon, marriage is about strengthening alliances, which is what makes Bachelor #2 quite the catch. His sister almost became the queen once, but there was the small issue of her only being 12 years old at the time. Now, though, our Bachelor has the opportunity to become King consort, and he has a lot going for him. He’s of pure Valyrian descent, which means his babies with Rhaenyra will no doubt have that icy blonde hair. He also happens to be the heir to the wealthiest house in the realm, a fact that cannot be ignored, especially by King Viserys. If Rhaenyra does choose #2, the pair could enjoy couples jaunts on dragonback together, that is, if he survives the war he’s currently embroiled in. Ladies and gentleman, Bachelor #2...Laenor Velayron.
Bachelor #3
Yes, he’s only two years old, and yes, he’s Rhaenyra’s half brother, but hey, the Targaryens have never been afraid of a little incest. Plus, choosing Bachelor #3 will put an end to all the debate about who will succeed the throne, they could just do it together. That’s how it works, right? Anyway, here’s Bachelor #3, Rhaenyra’s baby brother...Prince Aegon.
Bachelor #4
Bachelor #4 seems to be the only one who can control the rebellious Princess, so he may just be the perfect fit. Unfortunately, he’s common born, which likely won’t sit well with the King. What advantages can a knight bring Rhaenyra? Well, he seems to be the only man she actually enjoys being around, which is definitely a point in his favor. Plus, he isn’t too hard on the eyes. Give it up for Bachelor #4...Ser Criston Cole.
Who will Rhaenyra choose, and will they live happily ever after? Tune in to next week’s episode of The Dating Game to find out. Though we likely already know the answer to the latter question, which is probably not. I mean, who can be happy in this life of politicking, misogyny, and violence? Not I, and certainly not Rhaenyra. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/house-of-the-dragon-episode-2-recap-the-dating-game-rhaenyras-suitors | 2022-09-05T05:49:04Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/house-of-the-dragon-episode-2-recap-the-dating-game-rhaenyras-suitors | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
No threat to Nigeria’s 2023 election, IGP tells UN police chiefs
As preparations for the forthcoming 2023 general elections hot up, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has declared that there was no threat to the polls based on the robust security threat analysis carried out using global best standards to ascertain the trend of expectations for the electioneering processes.
This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday night by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP, Olumuyiwa Adejobi
According to the statement, the IGP disclosed this during the United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS) in the United States of America and during his meeting with Mr Todd D. Robinson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, US Department of State, as part of events rounding up his attendance at the UN summit.”
It explained that during the meeting, discussions centred around enhancing support for the NPF training and capacity-building programmes particularly the training of tactical units deployed in the North East and other conflict theatres across the country.
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The statement adds, “Similarly discussed is the achievement of cascading the ongoing election security management training across the six geo-political zones in preparation for the 2023 general elections and support for police recruit training in modern policing themes such as forensic investigations, human relations and cyber security. The Assistant Secretary praised the good work and the feats recorded by the NPF under the amiable leadership of the IGP, even as both leaders discussed other ways of increasing support to the NPF.
“The Inspector-General of Police, in his quest to achieve improved policing services and bequeath an enviable policing system to the nation, has continuously interfaced with individuals and groups with requisite ideas and support-base for the achievement of his agenda of a modern Nigeria Police Force.”
It added that the police boss also emphasized his administration’s focus on improving training and retraining of police officers and men, as well as the sustenance and improvement of cutting-edge technology for better crime prevention, deterrence, and apprehension of suspects with concrete, credible, and corroborated evidence. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/no-threat-to-nigerias-2023-election-igp-tells-un-police-chiefs/ | 2022-09-05T05:51:03Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/no-threat-to-nigerias-2023-election-igp-tells-un-police-chiefs/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sterling Bank introduces virtual cards for OneBank customers
STERLING Bank Plc has introduced virtual cards for existing and prospective OneBank customers free of charge to enable them to make easy and fast local or international payments on sites like Netflix and Apple as well as shop on sites like Amazon, among others.
Chief Digital Officer with Sterling Bank, Mr Olayinka Oni, who disclosed this in a statement issued by the bank recently, said the service is open to all registered and new customers of OneBank and available on the OneBank app.
He advised new customers to open an account by downloading the app on the iOS store or Android play store to create their virtual cards.
According to Oni, Sterling Bank launched OneBank in 2019 as a fully digital banking solution. He explained that the solution offers the customer the ability to register and bank instantly, adding that the solution also allows the customer to make payments, invest and borrow money.
He said that with OneBank, customers could carry out all banking services without entering a branch. He can self-onboard, enter his BVN, upload his documents, and start transacting without entering any Sterling bank branch.
Customers using OneBank can experience the ease of starting an investment plan, applying for a loan, and transferring forex, as well as enjoy a dynamic news feed, scroll through forex updates, and many other features, he added.
Sterling Bank Plc is a leading national commercial banking establishment in Nigeria. It commenced operations as NAL Bank in 1960. The bank has developed into a significant financial institution with total assets of N1.629 trillion at present, 141 business locations, and 700 ATMs nationwide.
It is engaged in commercial banking services with an emphasis on retail, commercial, and corporate banking, trade services, investment banking activities, and non-interest banking.
It also provides wholesale banking services, including granting loans and advances, letter of credit transactions, money market operations, electronic banking products, and other banking activities.
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NANJING, China, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Limited (2096.HK) announced its financial results for the first half of 2022. As of June 30, Simcere recorded operating revenue of RMB 2.7 billion for the first half of the year, with a year-over-year growth of 27.3%. The estimated net profit for the first half of 2022 after deducting non-recurring profits and losses would be RMB 390 million. Innovative drug revenue grew 44.8% year-over-year to RMB 1.767 billion, accounting for a record-high 65.4% of total revenue. Simcere has transformed into an innovative pharmaceutical company that relies on innovation and R&D for performance growth.
According to the report, Simcere Pharmaceutical currently has 6 branded innovative drug products on the market. In the two years since its launch, Sanbexin® (Edaravone and Dexborneol concentrated solution for injection), Simcere's innovative drug for stroke, has benefited 860,000 patients nation-wide, driving a 74.7% year-over-year revenue growth of the CNS portfolio and further improving Simcere's leading market position in this field. Moreover, revenue contribution from products such as Enweida® (Envafolimab injection), the world's first subcutaneous PD-(L) 1 antibody, further validated Simcere's business capabilities.
Under the R&D strategy of "focusing on more effective therapies and emphasizing differentiation", the company is currently fast-tracking nearly 60 innovative drug pipeline projects and conducting 20 registered clinical studies on 16 potential innovative drugs. 7 projects have entered Phase 3 clinical trials, including 2 highlighted candidates, Sanbexin sublingual tablets, and SIM0417, an investigational anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug.
The Sanbexin sublingual tablets (oral formulation of Edaravone and Dexborneol), an innovative drug currently being developed at phase 3 clinical study, offers anti-inflammatory and anti-free radical effects together with blood-brain barrier protection to minimize brain cell damage caused by stroke. The administration of sublingual tablet is not restricted by medical institution capabilities or patient compliance, making it suitable for various conditions of acute or chronic CNS diseases. It is expected to form a sequential regimen with Sanbexin® injection. At present, patient enrollment of 914 subjects have been completed for the product's pivotal Phase 3 trial within just 10 months ahead of schedule. Simcere is going to expedite its NDA in China in the near term. Market analysis revealed that the drug would quickly achieve peak sales after reaching the market owing to Simcere Pharmaceutical's long-standing CNS market share. The scarcity of innovative CNS drugs in China also increases Simcere's investment value.
SIM0417, another important product being developed by Simcere, is an anti-SARS-CoV-2 candidate that targets 3CL, a key protease essential for virus replication, and has shown good antiviral activity against a variety of strains. Preclinical studies have shown that some of the SIM0417 efficacy and safety metrics are better than those of molecules having similar biological targets currently on the market. As of the announcement date, Simcere Pharmaceutical has been conducting two Phase2/3 clinical trials of SIM0417 combined with Ritonavir versus placebo for antiviral treatment in COVID-19 patients, and for post-exposure prophylaxis for close contacts of individuals who test positive for COVID-19 throughout several provinces and cities in accordance with the clinical trial protocol approved by CDE(Center for Drug Evaluation). During the persistent epidemic and recurrent outbreaks, there is a significant unmet need for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 close contacts. As a small molecule drug and oral tablet, SIM0417 has inherent advantages in responding to the pandemic due to its convenience in storage, transportation, and administration.
As a result of Simcere's efforts combining in-house R&D with extensive R&D collaborations, the business development has contributed tremendously to the company's pipeline. On July 12, 2022, Simcere received conditioned approval for its first-in-class innovative drug Cosela® (Trilaciclib hydrochloride for injection), developed through licensing–in collaboration. Cosela® is the world's first myelo-protection drug that prevents damage of bone marrow stem cells from cytotoxic chemotherapy. The successful development of this drug took only 708 days from the date of license-in agreement signing till market approval in China. According to published industrial data, among the top 100 license-in products in China between 2019 and 2021 in terms of transaction amount, only 4 products are approved with new indications on the Chinese market. In this list, Trilaciclib takes the first place for fast development in China, nearly shortens the time frame by a year compared to the product ranked second.
As one of the first pharmaceutical companies in the industry to complete innovation transformation, the advantages of Simcere's differentiated R&D capabilities, manufacturing capacities benchmarked against international metrics, and leading business capabilities, are gradually emerging. The innovative drug R&D pipelines have started to pay off, allowing Simcere to launch more differentiated innovative drugs more efficiently and successfully while expanding its business capabilities.
Since the successful IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2020, Simcere Pharmaceutical's innovative drug business has become a major driver for the company's continued growth. According to the outlook section in the announcement, Simcere will fast-track its Sanbexin sublingual tablet R&D process to complete its pivotal phase 3 clinical trials, actively explore possible new indications of Cosela, and expedite the R&D of anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug SIM0417.
As the national bulk-buy program bringing heavy impact to the pharmaceutical industry, Chinse companies are turning their focused on differentiated innovation. Simcere chooses a unique approach to innovation based on its continuous R&D investment, diversified and differentiated pipelines, and proven business capabilities. These efforts will provide driven force for future growth and development.
About Simcere
Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Limited (2096.HK) is a pharmaceutical company driven by innovative R&D and committed to synergistic innovation. It has established the State Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine and Innovative Drug Development and currently boasts four R&D centers in Nanjing, Shanghai, Boston and Beijing. With the commitment to "providing today's patients with medicines of the future" the Company focuses on three therapeutic areas: oncology central nervous system diseases and autoimmune diseases while actively expanding its strategic presence in prospective disease areas with significant clinical needs in the future.
Simcere now has six global first-in-class innovative drugs and is holding leading market shares for its key products in China with its excellent R&D and commercialization capabilities. Its vigorous in-house R&D efforts and extensive R&D collaborations have made it a strategic cooperation partner with international and domestic leading innovative pharmaceutical enterprises medical institutions and research institutes.
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Experts say private industry unionization efforts being fueled by demand for labor, question how long the movement will last
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - From Starbucks, to Chipotle, to Apple -- front-line employees at some of America’s best-known companies are trying to form unions.
Demands for higher pay, stronger benefits, and better working conditions have drawn praise from some of the fiercest pro-union lawmakers.
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) told reporters while meeting with Ohio Starbucks employees in July who were attempting to unionize, “This generation of Lou and her colleagues are the most active pro-union, pro-worker generation i’ve seen in my lifetime. They understand that if they are organized into a union, carrying a union card means better wages, better benefits, more control over your work schedule, balancing your life with work. That’s everything in people’s lives.”
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that nearly 34% of public sector employees were part of a union in 2021, that’s compared to just over six percent of private-sector union employees.
Georgetown University history professor Joe McCartin, who studies and writes extensively about U.S. labor history, said this year’s uptick in private-sector unionization efforts is being led by younger employees who worked through the pandemic, and now feel the economy is offering them fallback options if challenging their employers through unionization efforts doesn’t work out.
“I think labor union strength and influence had been waning for many years. This is a moment of opportunity for unions to show that they can be relevant to young workers,” McCartin said. “I think that we haven’t seen anything like this, in the private sector, in a very long time.”
McCartin also said he’s not yet sure whether this year’s efforts are part of a new trend.
In contrast, Peter St Onge, an economist with the conservative Heritage Foundation, said he expects and hopes this year’s uptick is just a blip.
St Onge said, “Most economists now expect a recession next year, so I expect this kind of movement will lose interest if workers don’t feel quite so confident that they can just pull into any parking lot and get a job on the spot.”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that union employees made more money than non-union employees last year. Meanwhile, overall union participation since 1983 has declined from 20.1 perfect of the workforce to 10.8 percent in 2021.
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It's expected to be a wet week across the county following on from the Met Office's yellow weather warning overnight. The alert, which was issued due to thunderstorms, lasted from 8pm on Sunday (September 4) through to 4am this morning (September 5).
The storm was set to "cause some localised disruption", with there being a "good chance" driving conditions were affected by spray, standing water, locally gusty winds and hail. People were also warned that there could be "some damage to a few buildings and structures from lightning strikes and gusty winds".
The warning mainly covered western areas of the county. It started from the outskirts of Tunbridge Wells, stretching across towards Sevenoaks and up to Orpington.
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In a statement, the Met Office said: "Heavy showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop across southwest England on Sunday evening and move north across parts of Wales and Northern Ireland, clearing during the early hours of Monday morning.
"A separate area of thunderstorms is likely to develop across central southern England late evening, moving north into the Midlands overnight. Whilst some places may not see much rainfall, a few places may see 20-30mm fall in under an hour.
"Frequent lightning, hail and locally gusty winds are additional hazards that may accompany stronger thunderstorms, particularly across southwestern parts of England and Wales."
However, the latest forecast from the Met Office suggests the rain won't be going away anytime soon. There's even a chance of thunderstorms returning across the county in the coming days.
Temperatures are set to remain in the low 20s throughout the week. See the full outlook for the south east region below.
Outlook for south east
Today:
A bright morning with light winds, isolated showers towards the east. Showers then developing across the region during the afternoon, possibly with thunder in the west. Temperatures near normal, locally rather warm. Maximum temperature 21C.
Tonight:
Showers continuing across the region through this evening, then gradually easing to leave a dry night with widespread clear skies by dawn. Minimum temperature 13C.
Tuesday:
A sunny morning, however showers quickly developing and becoming more widespread into the afternoon. Showers heavy at times with blustery winds and a risk of thunder. Warm in the east. Maximum temperature 24C.
Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:
Remaining unsettled with showers and a risk of thunderstorms throughout the period. Windy on Wednesday and Thursday. Temperatures warm, becoming near normal by Friday.
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West Malling may be one of Kent’s lesser known towns with a population of less than 3,000 people but this beautiful and historical place is bursting with personality. From its traditional pubs, intriguing architecture and huge range of independent shops the very centre of town is the stand out place to be in West Malling.
It really is one of Kent’s hidden gems. So much so that we can think of eight of the very best things about it. Starting with the high street itself.
The shops
West Malling High Street isn't your average modern place. You won't be finding the usual shops in fact far from it. Tesco, Boots, Nationwide and Costa Coffee are the only well known big companies you'll come across. This means the rest of the shops are intriguing and quaint and require a good few hours to look inside them all.
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Chocolate Umbrella is a stand out as it has that ability to make whoever enters feel like a kid in a candy shop again. Boasting homemade chocolate and rows upon rows of sweets in jars you'll definitely fix your craving in here and struggle to leave empty handed.
West Malling Flowers is packed with beautiful bouquets and smells amazing from the outside that it'll draw you in one from one of the many charity shops on offer.
Or head down to the Mill Yard just off the High Street to see a mixture of shops offering services from baby clothes, bespoke artwork, and jewellers.
Manor Park
If you came to West Malling and only had one hour this is the place to be. A beautiful country park with all sorts of features for everyone to enjoy. Natural habitats, a pretty lake and a fantastic opportunity to walk around and see flowers and animals living their best lives. With over 17 species of birds from ducks to mallards, swans, squirrels, rabbits, foxes, bats and insects including 10 types of butterflies there's almost endless photo spots.
A play area and picnic sites also make it great for families as the kids can play while the adults take a moment to appreciate the old 18th century estate turned country park. There's even a lovely cafe in the grounds for after your long peaceful walk to refuel.
History
West Malling is potentially best known for its historical buildings and points of interest. You've got St Leonard’s Tower, a Norman keep made by the same man who built Rochesters’ Cathedral and castle. The Prior’s House is also interesting as it was once the home for people with leprosy and stands proud with its white walls and timbered framed beams. The already mentioned Georgian High Street has been walked on by the Beatles in 1967 for their filming on the Magical Mystery Tour. And it also has the honour of being the first recorded site of a cricket match in Kent all the way back in 1705.
Cafes and coffee shops
Costa Coffee is the nation's most popular coffee shop chain and there's one in the centre of the High Street so you won't miss it. But if you are in West Malling then it's only right that you try out the independent coffee shops and tea rooms for a more personal and warm experience. The Old Mill Tea Rooms is such a cute place to grab a drink and a large slice of homemade cake. It's only small but the vibe is perfect for those looking to relax and feel at home.
Roses Coffee and Juice is your more trendy spot for your caffeine fix. There is a plethora of sweet treats all designed perfectly and the sandwiches and pastries are some of the best looking food you'll find. And to top it all off they make a decent cup of coffee as well.
Then there's Ragamuffins which screams West Malling. From its weird but wonderful name, its vegetarian menu, the family run feel, the amazing looking food and most of all the fact that its dog friendly. Take all that along with its 5 star rating on Tripadvisor and you have a lovely spot for brunching and lunching.
Housing
If you're looking to buy a house in West Malling then you do have a few unusual options to choose from. There are a lot of historical grandiose looking buildings up for sale like manor houses which boast several rooms, high ceilings and gardens that are breathtaking to explore and see from above. A lot of the more normal family homes are still right up there with some of the nicest houses in Kent. They all fit in wonderfully with the town's elegant and royal feel and are never far away from vast areas of nature and big green fields.
Pubs, bars and restaurants
The pubs are plentiful and each one has its own personal touch whether you want the Five Pointed Star for the classic pub food or the Joiners Arms for that real pub atmosphere. The bars and restaurants are where West Malling thrive however. The Swan gives you luxury and gourmet in every visit with so many drink and food options you'll be coming back guaranteed. The Hungry Guest is also a wonderful place, it's always busy so you know the hype is going to be worth it. But Farm House takes the top spot with it coming in at one out of 34 restaurants in West Malling on Tripadvisor.
In terms of experiencing some different cuisines West Malling has Bombay Cuisine or Desh for a different standard of Indian cooking. There's even Frank’s Restaurant and Mussel Bar which serve mussels done 21 ways and looks as good from the outside as it does on the inside.
Location
West Malling is pretty much at the centre of everything you need. It has lots of great green spaces and things to visit within walking distance but also has fantastic transport links. West Malling has its own railway station which can get you to most major places in Kent but also into London mainline stations in less than an hour.
It has great access to Maidstone and other larger areas in Kent through the train station but also frequent buses through the town centre which run frequently.
The farmers' market
The best time to come to West Malling for many is between 9:30-1:30 on the last Sunday of every month and that is because you get to see the farmers’ market. You can get fresh fish, plants, dog treats, cookies, soaps, teas, cheeses, knitwear, olives, cider, savoury snacks, jewellery, cards, locally brewed beers, bread, woodwork, honey, jams, fresh fruit and vegetables and artwork.
It dates back to the Romans and takes place centre stage on the High Street. Back in 2018 it was awarded as the best UK market at the Farm Shop and Deli Awards and it has also won the best farmers market award in Kent.
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MTSU Mondays: Holocaust conference registration open; honor fraternity wins award
Here is the latest news from Middle Tennessee State University.
Holocaust conference
Registration is open for MTSU's 14th biennial Holocaust Studies Conference. The two-day event is slated for Sept. 22-23 on the MTSU campus. Theme is “Teaching the Holocaust Today.”
Atina Grossman, a professor of history at The Cooper Union in New York, New York, will present the keynote address at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 22, in the Student Union Ballroom. The event is free and open to all MTSU students, faculty and staff.
Grossman’s lecture, “Remapping Holocaust Studies: Teaching and Research in Global Context.” Focus of the topic is to help students recognize connections between the Holocaust and racism, antisemitism and colonialism while continuing to acknowledge the Holocaust’s uniqueness in history.
In academic year 2022-23, Grossman will be the Ina Levine Invitational Senior Scholar at the Mandel Center of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Her current research focuses on Jewish refugees from Nazism in Iran, India and Central Asia in transnational context.
Sonja Dubois, a resident of Knoxville, will share her survival story and lifelong search for understanding at the conference.
Born in 1940 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Dubois’ parents were transported to the notorious Auschwitz death camp in 1942. She was raised by a Dutch foster family who did not initially tell Dubois the truth about her biological parents.
Full conference registration is $100. Graduate student and contingent faculty registration is $50. MTSU and high school student/teacher registration with meals is $30. High school student/teacher registration without meals, international participant registration and registration for MTSU students, faculty and staff are free.
To register and for cost details, go to tinyurl.com/2nu539y8.
The Holocaust Studies Conference is sponsored by the MTSU Holocaust Studies Program and the College of Liberal Arts. Learn more at mtsu.edu.
Fraternity award
MTSU’s Beta Psi chapter of Phi Sigma Pi received the Charles W. Chance Excellence in Alumni Relations Award at the 2022 Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity National Convention, which was held July 28-30 in Washington, D.C.
The award is presented annually to the chapter that succeeds in such areas as sound communication, financial support and alumni participation in chapter events.
MTSU’s chapter consistently collaborated with alumni to clean up a walking/biking path, clearing trash and preserving the ecosystem. The chapter was founded in 1995 and has won numerous national awards, including the Most Improved Old Chapter Award in 2018.
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VOTE: Who was the Murfreesboro area high school boys athlete of the week for Aug. 29-Sept. 3?
Cecil Joyce
Murfreesboro Daily News Journal
Who was the Murfreesboro area high school boys athlete of the week for Aug. 29-Sept.3?
You can vote below.
Nominees are Blackman's Justin Brown, Oakland's C.J. Puckett, Rockvale's Brennan Mayhew, La Vergne's Zante Clark, MTCS' Eli WIlson, Cannon County's Ryan Perkins, Riverdale's Isaiah Verser and Stewarts Creek's Javarian Otey.
The poll will close at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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VOTE: Who was the Murfreesboro area high school girls athlete of the week for Aug. 29-Sept. 3?
Cecil Joyce
Murfreesboro Daily News Journal
Who was the Murfreesboro area high school girls athlete of the week for Aug. 29-Sept. 3?
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Nominees include Siegel's Madison Whitworth and Cate Schroer, MTCS' Bella Burdette and Lily Watson, Rockvale's Aryn King, Oakland's Elise Fries and Shannon O'Bryan, Eagleville's Meah Thompson and Stewarts Creek's Kara Suggs.
The poll will close at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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For the past few days, I’ve seen the Women Talking team everywhere: Mingling at a welcome brunch deep in the mountains, rushing down Colorado Avenue on the way to their next thing, taking their seats for the Empire of Light premiere. They travel in a pack, often with big smiles and bigger laughs. And why wouldn’t they? Sarah Polley’s powerful new film, swiftly met with raves after its premiere here in Telluride, has been the talk of the festival, and represents creative highs for everyone from its Oscar-nominated writer-director to its peerless ensemble. None of them, even legendary producer-star Frances McDormand, have had an experience like this before. The film is fully made by and centered on women, and has been unveiled to the world with the team behind it united as a collective, a group of artists rightly proud of what they’ve done.
Adapted from the Miriam Toews novel, Women Talking is set in a remote, present-day Mennonite colony operating under an archaic patriarchal system. The story’s catalyst arrives as young Autje (Kate Hallett) catches one man brutally attacking a woman; the women of the colony are finally awoken to the brutal violence and cruelty they’ve been subjected to throughout their lives, that they’d been led to believe were random acts of God. And so now, they must gather and talk about it, in an isolated hayloft—to decide whether to stand their ground and fight the men who’ve so wronged them, or leave together toward the great unknown. Out of this setup, which Polley renders with rich and surprising cinematic intensity, characters prove distinctive in their beliefs, faith, and dreams—from Jessie Buckley’s cynical Mariche to Claire Foy’s ferocious Salome to Rooney Mara’s measured Ona. A cathartic conversation emerges, about asserting one’s personhood (specifically, womanhood) while working methodically toward rousing collective action, with hope for a better tomorrow.
As I sat with the Women Talking team on a few benches under a tent, just outside the Werner Herzog theater on a warm Sunday afternoon, I was struck by how much our discussion mirrored what we see in the film: The laughs shared between these collaborators, the tears shed at one point. There was even a lone man (disclosure: this writer) listening to and recording what they have to say. (In the film, it’s Ben Whishaw’s sensitive ally, August, who takes the meeting’s minutes.) Indeed, entering this new territory for all of these women has translated to a movie, and a conversation, like we’ve never seen.
Vanity Fair: Watching the movie, it felt like something I'd never seen before. I imagine it felt like that making it as well. Jessie, to start, can you speak to that and whether it felt so new?
Jessie Buckley: I've never been on a set where I get to not just play, but to experience, with nine extraordinary women. Explore what that relationship means between us in a world, and how we can move forward together—not just on our own, but with people that we love, and move out of the place we're in. We don't know what we might find within ourselves and between each other. I've never read a script like that, yeah, where I can explore the complex, rich, knotty, difficult, beautiful parts of female friendship like that, and actually use it as catharsis, as something to understand between each other and from each other.
Frances, you've made quite a few films, and in this case of course had more of a behind-the-scenes role. What about this felt special and unique for you?
Frances McDormand: I'm 65. I'm the oldest.
Sheila McCarthy: [Raises hand] 66.
McDormand: Damn it! [Laughs] Well, we have four or maybe even five generations— decades—of experience here. That's a huge part of it. I've been in ensemble films before. I've never been in ensemble films where it was mostly women, but I've always abhorred “women films” where they end up singing into a hairbrush or wooden spoon, because I don't do that with my friends. We actually talk about science and the economy and things of that nature. The exciting thing that happened in the development was, our producing partner Dede [Gardner] and I would often use sports-movie metaphors with Sarah. “Where's the big triumph?” She kind of went, “I don't think women's stories are told that way.” So then, “What's the alternative?” This movie is the alternative. You haven't seen it before because it hasn't been explored. We were just having a whole long conversation about films that were seen in the festival that have main female protagonists but are still trapped in the old paradigms of storytelling. It's unknown territory and we're out there. We're swimming in it along with you and everybody else. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/awards-insider-women-talking-cast-feature-telluride | 2022-09-05T06:23:28Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/awards-insider-women-talking-cast-feature-telluride | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It took three years for Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) and the Sea Snake (Steve Toussaint) to win their war in the Stepstones. For House of the Dragon, however, resolving that conflict required only a single episode, and even more succinctly, a seven-minute action sequence.
Introduced in name and reputation just last week, Craghas “The Crabfeeder” Drahar is no more, killed off-screen at the end of House of the Dragon’s high-octane third episode, “Second of His Name.” It’s disappointing news for everyone who looked forward to saying the word “Crabfeeder” for the next seven weeks. Still, his fate is consistent with what happens in Fire & Blood, the fictional history book on which HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel is based.
In George R. R. Martin’s novel, Crabfeeder’s name only comes up four times before he’s gone. He’s the face of the conflict in the Stepstones, one among many anonymous admirals of the Triarchy terrorizing the region. The book mentions some of their dealings, including allusions to conflict within the group, before neatly wrapping the Crabfeeder’s fate in a single sentence: “In 108 AC, when at last [Prince Daemon] came face to face with Craghas Crabfeeder, he slew him single-handed and cut off his head with Dark Sister.”
The House of the Dragon version of the Crabfeeder’s death is perhaps even more jarring, seeing as it doesn’t occur onscreen. Instead, we see the battle’s aftermath: Daemon, covered in guts and gore, dragging the upper half of his foe’s crabby corpse through the blood-soaked beach. It’s visceral enough on its own, but for anyone who doesn’t feel their bloodlust satisfied should check out the book, in which artist Doug Wheatly memorably depicts Craghas Crabfeeder’s final stand.
House of the Dragon’s first boss battle wasn’t the episode’s only memorable event for Fire & Blood readers, of course. Here are some other by-the-book highlights from the week in Westeros:
The Warrior Queen
In her first scene of the episode, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock) sits beside a bard named Samwell (not Tarly), asking him to repeatedly sing about a woman who “fled with her ships and her people.” It’s very likely the latest reference to Nymeria, a legendary figure in Westeros first mentioned in the series premiere, and the subject of one of HBO’s potential next Game of Thrones spinoffs. Credited as a founder of Dorne, Nymeria was a righteous warrior queen who led the Rhoynar to Westeros on an epic quest of survival. It’s not just the second time we’re hearing about her story on House of the Dragon—it’s also the second time we’re hearing about it in the thick of a scene between Rhaenyra and Alicent (Emily Carey). Perhaps it’s worth paying attention to Nymeria’s tale and how it might correlate with the princess and the queen’s future.
Swann Song
When Rhaenyra arrives at the Kingswood camp, she overhears a conversation about someone named Johanna Swann, captured in the Stepstones. Lady Swann comes straight from the pages of Fire & Blood, a 15-year-old captive of the Crabfeeder who was “sold to a pillow house, where she rose to become the celebrated courtesan known as the Black Swan, and ruler of Lys in all but name.” That’s the start and end of Swann’s story, as per Martin: “Alas, her tale, however fascinating, has no bearing upon our present history.” Maybe we’ll finally learn more about the Black Swan on House of the Dragon, and mentioning her here sets the stage for her future arrival. Just as likely, it’s the show nodding toward a rare moment of Martin canonically exhibiting self-restraint.
The Strong and Silent Type
In the same scene that name-checks Lady Swann, a rather important character sneaks his way into the narrative: Larys Strong, also known as Larys Clubfoot, played by Matthew Needham. Through three episodes now, House of the Dragon lacks a character who can square up with the likes of Game of Thrones’ Littlefinger and Varys. The appropriately named Larys just might be the man for the job. While his debut was rather small, quietly installing himself in a conversation with strangers, it emphasized Larys’s key talent for slipping into private rooms almost completely unnoticed before it’s too late. It’s early days yet, but you’ll want to keep your eye on this guy wherever he shows up next.
Return of the Twins
We met another couple of important Fire & Blood characters in this episode, both of whom are played by the same actor: Jefferson Hall as Jason and Tyland Lannister, the latest set of twins hailing from Casterly Rock. (If Hall looks familiar, it’s with good reason: he also played Ser Hugh of the Vale in the first season of Game of Thrones, making him the rare actor with three different characters in the greater Westeros Cinematic Universe.) Jason and Tyland have significant parts to play in this narrative, despite serving very different roles from, say, the other Lannister twins. What’s more, they’re not the only twins in the Seven Kingdoms this season: just wait until you meet the confusingly named brothers Ser Erryk and Arryk Cargyll, set to appear later in the season played by Elliott and Luke Tittensor.
Seasmoke on the Water
After two episodes teasing out the power of the Targaryens’ titular beasts, House of the Dragon finally delivered its first dragon-focused action scene this week — two of them, in fact. First, Daemon flies Caraxes the Blood Wyrm into battle at the Stepstones. Later, he gets some help from Laenor Velaryon (Theo Nate), providing aerial support atop his own mount, Seasmoke. Described by Martin as “a splendid grey-and-white beast,” Seasmoke is the third series’ third dragon, and so far boasts the highest body count; it won’t hold the title forever, but worth acknowledging the stat while it’s here! Given the book’s sparse details about the war in the Stepstones, it shouldn’t be surprising to hear that Seasmoke’s role in this week’s episode was a show-only invention. With that said, it’s good we’re getting to meet the dragon now; it’ll make a key event in the future involving Seasmoke all the more heartbreaking.
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“Don’t go it alone,” they say. “Don’t tell me what I can’t do,” says … well, another fictional character entirely. But Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) certainly shares the sentiment.
Last week, House of the Dragons offered an episode titled “The Rogue Prince”—but it’s here in week three that Prince Daemon truly lives up to his rogue reputation. The Game of Thrones franchise’s megahit spinoff finally delivers its first explosive war scene in “Second of His Name,” an episode that follows two separate stories: Daemon and Lord Corlys Velaryon’s (Steve Toussaint) war against the Crabfeeder Craghas Drahar (Daniel Scott-Smith) in the Stepstones, while the Targaryen royal family throw a birthday party in mainland Westeros. We’ll get to Daemon’s quest soon enough. First, as usual, we’ll prioritize the prince’s brother.
Three years have passed since “The Rogue Prince,” and much has changed. Not only are King Viserys (Paddy Considine) and Alicent Hightower (Emily Carey) husband and wife, they are also the proud parents to a two-year-old child — a boy, no less: Aegon the Second, named after Aegon the Conqueror. Many in the realm view young Aegon as the heir apparent to the Iron Throne, despite public pledges of fealty to the current reigning heir, Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock). Indeed, Viserys himself has not made any indication of placing his son ahead of his daughter, his own long-ago dream of a boy born with a crown notwithstanding.
Despite her father’s position, Rhaenyra doesn’t expect her claim to the throne to last much longer. The years have been lonely for the princess, as her father’s surprise marriage to her best friend has scorched the earth beneath Rhaenyra and Alicent, as efficiently as a dragon ripping through Crabfeeder territory. It makes for an incredibly uncomfortable carriage ride from King’s Landing to a hunting camp in the Kingswood, where many of the kingdom’s most prominent lords and ladies have gathered to celebrate Aegon II Targaryen’s second name day.
“No one’s here for me,” Rhaenyra tells her father on their ride along the road, but she’s wrong: one man is very much here for the princess. Introducing Jefferson Hall as Jason Lannister, one half of the Game of Thrones franchise’s latest set of Lannister twins. (Hall also plays Ser Tyland, one of Viserys’s advisors.) Lord Lannister wishes to marry Rhaenyra, a notion he makes painfully clear to both the king and his heir. The princess, however, is not amused, taking Jason’s overtures as a sign her father views her as little more than a piece on the proverbial cyvasse board. Infuriated, Rhaenyra rides off into the Kingswood, with Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) following behind. “Do you want me to kill him?” he asks, referring to the Lord of Casterly Rock. At least that’s one person on Rhaenyra’s side.
While Rhaenyra and Criston bond in the woods (and narrowly avoid death-by-boar), Viserys bonds with his cups. The king spends the evening getting drunk, his tolerance for his companions’ copious opinions regarding Rhaenyra waning by the sip. Speaking with Jason, Viserys susses out that the realm expects him to name Aegon as his new heir, casting Rhaenyra aside. Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) briefly shows his own hand when he suggests Viserys announced a betrothal between Rhaenyra and her two-year-old half-brother (not to mention the Hand’s own grandson), Aegon; a new low for Lord Hightower, no stranger to pimping his kin. Even Lord Lyonel Strong (Gavin Spokes) once again steps forward as a voice of reason, reintroducing the idea of a marriage pact with House Velaryon, except this time, proposing a marriage between Rhaenyra and the Sea Snake’s son, Laenor (Theo Nate). | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/house-of-the-dragon-season-1-episode-3-recap | 2022-09-05T06:23:40Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/house-of-the-dragon-season-1-episode-3-recap | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Q. Battling a lot out there. I know your cool suit went out, you needed a pep talk from Randall at one point and then just a tight race car. What was the biggest thing that was keeping you from Victory Lane here tonight?
TYLER REDDICK: I just couldn't quite put the whole race together. I just felt like we -- well, I didn't do a good job of getting in the box tonight. I just felt a little inconsistent. Ultimately I wish I could have been better there. Last time we were here I felt like I was pretty good at that.
Just got to figure out what exactly changed. Always something to be learned, but considering all things, at one point we were in a pretty tough spot. I think Ty Gibbs, Cindric and myself kind of got sandwiched together and got in the wall off 4, so to rebound like we did and get third out of it, it was a really good night. It's what we needed in the playoffs, what we didn't have here last year. So to get that tonight is great, but certainly when you're that close and one spot away on a restart from having the lead, it certainly always stings.
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LOS ANGELES — Ryan Hollingshead scored early in the second half and Cristian Arango added a goal later in the half as LAFC defeated Real Salt Lake 2-0 on Sunday night.
LAFC (19-7-3) moved into a tie for the Supporters’ Shield (most regular-season points) with the Philadelphia Union.
The loss leaves RSL (11-9-9) tied with Portland for sixth place in the Western Conference. Portland defeated Atlanta 2-1 on Sunday. The regular season ends in early October.
Both teams next play Saturday. LAFC visits Dallas and RSL hosts D.C. United.
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Why Liz Truss is another Margaret Thatcher despite her Scottish connections, say Paisley residents
During the Conservative leadership contest, Liz Truss made big play of her Scottish connections – specifically the fact that she went to primary school in Paisley.
Her family moved to the former Renfrewshire mill town in 1979 when she was aged four and she spent six years in the middle class enclave of Castlehead, attending West Primary School.
To some surprise, she has claimed that she once had a strong “Paisley Glaswegian accent”, earning her the nickname “haggis basher” when she attended secondary school in Leeds.
John Douglas, 74, went to the same primary school as Ms Truss – but that’s where any common bond ends.
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He describes himself as pro-SNP and anti-Westminster.
“She is basically anti-Scottish despite what she says about her Scottish roots,” he said.
“No English Government has the right to say to the Scottish people that they don’t have a right to make a decision on what happens in Scotland.
“Liz Truss is another Maggie Thatcher. She went to the same school as me, but that doesn’t sway me.”
Union Court tower block is a short distance from where Ms Truss lived.
Two elderly women friends are enjoying the sunshine on a bench by the high-rise.
Neither want to give their names, but say they would welcome a Truss Prime Minister.
One says: “I think she is the best of the two candidates, although I would have liked it if Boris had stayed.
"He didn’t kowtow to Nicola Sturgeon and I hope whoever’s next does the same.”
A short distance away, Paul Thomas, 43, is more forthcoming.
“There is too much talk of independence,” he said. “The cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine are what matters.
“The problem for Liz Truss, if she gets the job, is that she will have to deliver. If she doesn’t, the Conservatives will be kicked out at the next general election.”
The lady in the cake shop around the corner is less enthused about the whole situation.
“It doesn’t really matter who is in power, nothing changes,” she says.
"Nobody knew she had a connection with Paisley until this leadership thing started.
“She would be better off not mentioning it at all. She is impressing no one here.”
But Truss’s background stems far beyond just Scotland.
Born in Oxford in 1975 to parents she describes as “left-wing”, her mother, a nurse and a teacher, took a young Liz to marches for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s and to “peace camp”.
Ms Truss has said her father, a mathematics professor, has long struggled to comprehend her move to conservatism, believing, perhaps wishfully, she is a “sleeper working from inside to overthrow the regime”.
After Scotland, the family moved to Leeds, where Ms Truss attended Roundhay state secondary school before studying philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University.
There she became active in student politics, first with the Liberal Democrats, even once espousing an anti-monarchist sentiment.
At the 1997 Conservative Party conference, she met her future husband, Hugh O’Leary, with whom she has two daughters, now teenagers.
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Ambitious SNP pledge to scrap half of Scotland’s diesel buses by next year ‘won’t be achieved’
A hugely ambitious SNP pledge to scrap most of the country’s diesel buses by the end of next year will not be achieved, Transport Scotland has tacitly admitted.
The acknowledgment came in response to a new report by sustainable transport campaigners Transform Scotland, which predicted only 16 per cent of buses would be electric or hydrogen powered by then.
To the surprise and scepticism of the bus industry, last year’s SNP Holyrood election manifesto stated: “We will remove the majority of fossil fuel buses from transport in Scotland by 2023.”
The “very ambitious” target was also included in ministers’ Programme for Government a year ago, which required more than 1,850 of Scotland’s 3,700 licensed buses to become zero emission, according to Transform Scotland’s report.
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The total number of zero emission buses has increased from 272 to around 280 since then, with funding for another 325, which would take the total to just over 600, the campaigners said.
The Stuck in Traffic report stated: “With only approximately 16 months left to remove the majority of diesel buses from public service, it is unlikely that this target will be reached”, which it described as “not particularly surprising”.
Transport Scotland blamed the pandemic, but said it had been “right to aim high”.
Marie Ferdelman, the report’s author, said: "To miss the bus decarbonisation target would be hugely disappointing.
“There has been good progress on increasing the number of zero-emission buses on Scottish roads, but the Scottish Government should be judged on whether they can deliver on what they have promised and, in this case, they will not be able to do so.
"Efforts will have to be redoubled to transition Scotland's bus fleet to zero-emission vehicles.
The report also found “slow or insufficient progress” on free bus travel for under-22s, bus priority measures, rail decarbonisation, low emission ferries and car traffic reduction.
It said bus priority on the Glasgow motorway network had failed to be delivered and the public transport “Fair Fares” had still to be completed.
However, it said the promised increase in the active travel budget [for walking, cycling and wheeling] and the phasing out of petrol and diesel vehicles remained on track.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats said ministers must now say when their bus target would be reached and the remaining diesel buses phased out.
Climate crisis spokesperson Liam McArthur said: “Scotland needs to be pressing onwards in building a sustainable and eco-friendly public transport network, so it’s disappointing the Scottish Government’s bus target is being missed so dramatically.
“Buses are the backbone of the public transport system, so electrification would allow huge numbers of passengers to travel in an environmentally friendly manner.”
Transport Scotland did not dispute the report’s claim the bus target would be missed.
Its spokesperson said: “We’ve always been clear this was an ambitious target that we could not meet alone.
“That’s why the work of our bus decarbonisation taskforce has been critical to our success so far.
"Additionally, no-one could have anticipated the profound impact of the global pandemic across the globe let alone [on] the bus sector and these targets.
“We were right to aim high and to ensure progress across the sector, with the proportion of zero emission buses in Scotland now approximately three times higher than that in England.”
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Celtic lightning struck Rangers once again - is this the century's best team and will Giovanni van Bronckhorst do what is necessary
The weather forecast had issued a warning about thunder and lightning at Celtic Park on Saturday.
It was muggy all right, but it was high pressing rather than high pressure that accounted for Rangers wilting in the heat of battle.
Lightning can strike twice. It did so in the east end of Glasgow as Rangers were reduced to quivering wrecks at the hands of their rivals for the second time inside eight months.
A weatherman or woman isn't necessary to know which way the wind is blowing. It’s looking gloomy for Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s hopes of wrestling the league title from Celtic. Saturday’s performance from Ange Postecoglou’s side seemed to suggest they were only getting into their stride last season. As far as Rangers' domestic ambitions are concerned, it already seems slightly bleak down Govan way.
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Following the final whistle on Sunday some were wondering whether this was the best Celtic team since, well, when exactly?
Martin O’Neill’s side of the early 2000s are often regarded as the marker in terms of recent times when this discussion is waged.
While Henrik Larsson was at another level, and would augment the current side, O’Neill’s side may well lose out in the pleasing-to-the-eye stakes when compared to Postecoglou’s slick team.
This needs to be acknowledged when attempting an assessment of where Rangers currently are – and where they need to be.
Not many teams could live with Celtic at present, although the one scheduled to visit Celtic Park on Tuesday might be better equipped than most to weather the storm.
Postecoglou doesn’t intend to do anything dramatically different against Real Madrid so it will be interesting to see how a genuinely stellar side copes with such intensity.
The entire stadium seemed to be working in cahoots to down Rangers on Saturday. Ball boys and girls recycled the ball at a frightening pace. Celtic took the lead from a quickly taken throw-in at the far side.
Rangers should have been wise to the dangers of switching off since this contributed to their 3-0 defeat in February. Van Bronckhorst even addressed the matter on Friday and sounded confident that his players would not succumb to such lapses in concentration.
Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid side won't have such an appetite for self-destruction, but the hosts are nevertheless relishing this opening Group F fixture.
David Turnbull enjoyed a dream cameo at the weekend when he came on to score his first Old Firm derby goal. He won’t have many better opportunities to make his mark in such a high-octane game than being passed the ball by the opposition ‘keeper just minutes after coming on.
Knowing his side were already three goals up meant there was little jeopardy involved. He stroked the ball past the stricken Jon McLaughlin.
“I was just buzzing that it fell to me,” Turnbull reflected afterwards. “I don’t quite know how it happened, it was all in the one movement, but it was great to get the ball and it was then just about keeping calm and putting it away and I did that.”
Celtic v Real Madrid is a fixture that sounds like it belongs in the Champions League. It’s nights like these that Turnbull envisaged experiencing when he joined from Motherwell. He still has Real Madrid strips in a loft at home from birthdays when he was a boy.
“After the game, I think we might look back on it and think it was a great experience,” he said. “Obviously, it’s a great game and you grow up wanting to play in them. But going into it, we’ll treat it as another one and just try to play our football.
“It’s a huge club. They have won the Champions League the most times, I’m sure, so to come up against them will be great.”
Turnbull will be hoping he isn’t forced to admire the likes of Luka Modric and Toni Kroos from the bench tomorrow evening. Although firmly in the twilight of their careers, Modric and Kroos, 36 and 32 respectively, remain supreme practitioners of the midfield art.
“It’ll be great to come across and up against them,” said Turnbull. “I have watched them for years and admired how they play.”
Turnbull is a fully paid-up fan, of the incomparable Modric in particular. He looked on from the sidelines – Turnbull was an unused sub – when Scotland were dumped out of Euro 2020 by Croatia at Hampden, with Modric scoring an exceptional goal in his side's 3-1 win.
“He’s calm on the ball, very technical and has great control and passing,” said Turnbull. “It’s my position as well. It’s just everything about him, I'd say. He's a joy to watch. He was frightening that day. That’s the players you want to play against.”
In view of Postecoglou’s determination to “come out swinging” against Real Madrid, Turnbull, although an unlikely starter, could well be required to contribute at some stage. Playing at Celtic’s intensity makes it impossible for players, particularly midfielders, to last the pace.
Van Bronckhorst’s concerns, meanwhile, are more acute: such as who should he pick between the sticks against Ajax on Wednesday.
He will surely be considering a return for Allan McGregor after Jon McLaughlin endured a Parkhead outing to forget. But the Dutchman will be mindful of the potential consequences for McLaughlin’s Ibrox career if he decides to discard him on the strength of Saturday’s showing alone. That may well be what informs his choice.
As well as McLaughlin, should he play, others at Ibrox will be required to demonstrate their mettle.
Rangers answered their critics by beating Hearts 5-0 in the next game after the alarming 3-0 loss to Celtic earlier this year. They then managed to claim the scalp of Borussia Dortmund shortly afterwards.
The result didn’t derail their season although they were not able to recover in the league. Celtic occupied the summit from that moment on. It’s now incumbent upon Rangers to respond to this latest statement of intent. | https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/celtic/celtic-lightning-struck-rangers-once-again-is-this-the-centurys-best-team-and-will-giovanni-van-bronckhorst-do-what-is-necessary-3830841 | 2022-09-05T06:50:20Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/celtic/celtic-lightning-struck-rangers-once-again-is-this-the-centurys-best-team-and-will-giovanni-van-bronckhorst-do-what-is-necessary-3830841 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
REGINA, Saskatchewan — A series of stabbings at an Indigenous community and at another town nearby in Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, Canadian police said Sunday as they searched across the expansive province for two suspects.
The stabbings took place in multiple locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, police said.
Rhonda Blackmore, the Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP in Saskatchewan, said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects but others appear to have been attacked at random. She couldn’t provide a motive.
“It is horrific what has occurred in our province today,” Blackmore said, adding there were 13 crime scenes where either deceased or injured people were found.
It is among the deadliest mass killings in Canadian history. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian history happened in 2020 when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. A man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto in 2019. But mass killings are less common in Canada than in the United States.
Blackmore said police began receiving reports before 6 a.m. of stabbings on the First Nation community. More reports of attacks quickly followed and by midday police issued a warning that a vehicle reportedly carrying the two suspects had been spotted in Regina, about 335 kilometers (208 miles) south of the communities where the stabbings occurred.
Police said the last information they had from the public was that the suspects were sighted there around lunchtime. There have been no sightings since.
Regina Police Evan Bray said late Sunday they still believe the suspects are in the city of Regina and urged residents to follow alerts and provide information if they have.
“If in the Regina area, take precautions & consider sheltering in place. Do not leave a secure location. DO NOT APPROACH suspicious persons. Do not pick up hitch hikers. Report suspicious persons, emergencies or info to 9-1-1. Do not disclose police locations,” the RCMP said in a message on Twitter.
The suspects were identified as Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30. Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list last May that included Myles, writing that he was “unlawfully at large.”
Doreen Lees, an 89-year grandmother from Weldon, said she and her daughter thought they saw one of the suspects when a car came barreling down her street early in the morning as her daughter was having coffee on her deck. Lees said a man approached them and said he was hurt and needed help.
But Lees said the man took off and ran after her daughter said she would call for help.
“He wouldn’t show his face. He had a big jacket over his face. We asked his name and he kind of mumbled his name twice and we still couldn’t get it,” she said. “He said his face was injured so bad he couldn’t show it.”
She said the man was by himself and “kind of a little wobbly.”
“I followed him a little ways to see if he was going to be OK. My daughter said ‘Don’t follow him, get back here.’”
Weldon residents have identified one of the victims as Wes Petterson. Ruby Works said the 77-year-old widower was like an uncle to her.
“I collapsed and hit the ground. I’ve known him since I was just a little girl,″ she said, describing the moment she heard the news. She said he loved his cats, was proud of his homemade Saskatoon berry jam and frequently helped out his neighbors.
“He didn’t do anything. He didn’t deserve this. He was a good, kind hearted man,″ said Works.
She said the event has shaken a community where the sounds of sirens are rarely heard.
“No one in this town is ever going to sleep again. They’re going to be terrified to open their door,″ she said
Weldon resident Robert Rush also described the victim as a gentle, widowed man in his 70s.
‘‘He wouldn’t hurt a fly,″ he said.
Rush said Petterson’s adult grandson was in the basement at the time and phoned police.
At the Weldon Christian Tabernacle Church the congregation began their regular Sunday service by saying a special prayer to the victims and their families.
At the James Smith Cree Nation, a convenience store that also serves as a gas station became a gathering place for community members, who greeted each other with tears and hugs.
A sign on the door said: “Due to safety concerns with our community we will remain closed until further notice.”
The elected leaders of the three communities that make up the James Smith Cree Nation, including the Chakastaypasin Band and the Peter Chapman Band, declared a local state of emergency on Sunday.
Chakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson said he’d left his phone off on Sunday morning and only learned of the tragic events when community members came to his door to check on him. He is not related to the two suspects.
Everyone’s been affected, he said.
“They were our relatives, friends. Mostly we’re all related here, so it’s pretty hard,″ Sanderson said. “It’s pretty horrific.”
The emergency declaration, which was released by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, said two emergency operations centers have been set up.
“This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the Chiefs and Councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.
The search for suspects was carried out as fans descended on Regina for a sold out annual Labor Day game between the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
The Regina Police Service said in a news release that with the help of Mounties, it was working on several fronts to locate and arrest the suspects and had “deployed additional resources for public safety throughout the city, including the football game at Mosaic Stadium.″
The alert first issued by Melfort, Saskatchewan RCMP about 7 a.m. was extended hours later to cover Manitoba and Alberta, as the two suspects remained at large.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority said multiple patients were being treated at several sites.
“A call for additional staff was issued to respond to the influx of casualties,” authority spokeswoman Anne Linemann said in an email.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement he was “shocked and devastated by the horrific attacks.”
“As Canadians, we mourn with everyone affected by this tragic violence, and with the people of Saskatchewan,” Trudeau said.
Deadly mass stabbings are more rare than mass shootings but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China’s southwestern city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/stabbings-in-canada-kill-10-wound-15-suspects-at-large/article_c945fa0a-2ccb-11ed-bff7-07752e764ec4.html | 2022-09-05T06:50:30Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/stabbings-in-canada-kill-10-wound-15-suspects-at-large/article_c945fa0a-2ccb-11ed-bff7-07752e764ec4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: With 5,910 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,44,62,445, while the active cases declined to 53,974, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.
The death toll climbed to 5,28,007 with 16 fatalities, including seven deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The active cases comprise 0.12 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.69 per cent, the health ministry said.
A decline of 1,140 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.60 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.15 per cent, according to the health ministry.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,38,80,464, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent.
According to the ministry, 213.52 crore doses of Covid vaccines have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.
It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
India crossed the grim milestone of two crore cases on May 4, three crore on June 23 last year and four crore on January 25 this year.
Meanwhile, the nine new fatalities include three from Maharashtra, two from Karnataka and one each from Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Odisha and West Bengal. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/05/coronavirus-cases-india-latest-update.html | 2022-09-05T07:01:27Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/05/coronavirus-cases-india-latest-update.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mumbai: Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry and a co-passenger killed in a car crash were not wearing seat belts, as per a preliminary probe, and speeding and the "error of judgment" by the driver caused the accident, a police official said.
Prima facie, the luxury car was speeding when the accident took place on Sunday afternoon, he said.
The Mercedes car covered a distance of 20 km in just nine minutes after crossing the Charoti check post in Maharashtra's Palghar district, 120 km away from Mumbai, the official said on Sunday night.
The car hit a road divider on a bridge over the Surya river, killing Mistry (54) and Jahangir Pandole on the spot.
Mistry was returning to Mumbai from Ahmedabad when the tragedy struck at 2.30 pm.
The car was driven by Mumbai-based gynaecologist Anahita Pandole (55).
She and her husband Darius Pandole (60) were seriously injured in the accident.
Mistry and Jahangir were in the back seats. Darius was in the front seat with Anahita.
Jahangir, director of Global Strategy Group at KPMG’s London office, and Darius, Managing Director and CEO of JM Financial Private Equity, are brothers.
Darius has previously served as a non-executive independent director on the board of Tata Global Beverages.
"As per the preliminary investigation, speeding and the error of judgment caused the car accident. Both the deceased were not wearing seat belts," the official said.
"While analysing the footage captured by CCTV cameras at the Charoti check post, Palghar police found the car had crossed the check post at 2.21 pm and the accident took place 20 km ahead (in the direction of Mumbai)," he said.
This shows the car covered a distance of 20 km (from the check post) in just nine minutes, the official said, adding that the accident took place at 2.30 pm on the Surya river bridge.
An eye-witness had said a woman was driving the car and tried to overtake another vehicle from the left side, but lost control and crashed into the road divider.
The bodies of Mistry and Jahangir were sent to the state-run J J Hospital in Mumbai for postmortem, the official said.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who holds the home portfolio, has asked police to conduct a detailed investigation into the accident. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/05/cyrus-mistry-seat-belt-over-speeding.amp.html | 2022-09-05T07:01:33Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/05/cyrus-mistry-seat-belt-over-speeding.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ranchi: At least 30 MLAs of the ruling UPA coalition in Jharkhand made their way back to Ranchi on Sunday afternoon from Raipur, to attend a special session of the assembly on Monday in which Chief Minister Hemant Soren will seek a vote of trust.
The legislators had been camping at a resort near Raipur since August 30.
The chartered plane carrying the MLAs landed at Ranchi airport around 6 pm, an official told PTI.
Fearing poaching of its MLAs by the opposition BJP to topple the government, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-led UPA alliance had shifted the legislators to a luxurious resort in Nava Raipur.
The legislators were brought in two buses from the airport and shifted to the Circuit House near Ranchi's Jail Chowk area, officials said.
The MLAs would be brought directly to the assembly on Monday in a bid to avoid any possible attempt of poaching by the opposition, UPA sources said.
Meanwhile, Soren on Sunday evening told reporters that the opposition was hatching a conspiracy against the Jharkhand government, but asserted it will not be successful in any such attempt.
As per a letter sent to the MLAs by the assembly secretariat, the chief minister has expressed his willingness to move a motion of confidence to prove his majority.
Following a petition by the BJP seeking Soren's disqualification from the assembly in an office-of-profit case, the Election Commission (EC) communicated its decision to Governor Ramesh Bais on August 25, sparking a political crisis in the state.
Though the EC's decision has not yet been made official, there is a buzz that the poll panel recommended the CM's disqualification as an MLA.
The ruling UPA, however, has maintained that Soren's disqualification will not affect the government, as the JMM-Congress-RJD coalition enjoys an absolute majority in the 81-member House. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/05/jharkhand-trust-vote-jmm-upa-coalition.amp.html | 2022-09-05T07:01:45Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/05/jharkhand-trust-vote-jmm-upa-coalition.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ranchi: At least 30 MLAs of the ruling UPA coalition in Jharkhand made their way back to Ranchi on Sunday afternoon from Raipur, to attend a special session of the assembly on Monday in which Chief Minister Hemant Soren will seek a vote of trust.
The legislators had been camping at a resort near Raipur since August 30.
The chartered plane carrying the MLAs landed at Ranchi airport around 6 pm, an official told PTI.
Fearing poaching of its MLAs by the opposition BJP to topple the government, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-led UPA alliance had shifted the legislators to a luxurious resort in Nava Raipur.
The legislators were brought in two buses from the airport and shifted to the Circuit House near Ranchi's Jail Chowk area, officials said.
The MLAs would be brought directly to the assembly on Monday in a bid to avoid any possible attempt of poaching by the opposition, UPA sources said.
Meanwhile, Soren on Sunday evening told reporters that the opposition was hatching a conspiracy against the Jharkhand government, but asserted it will not be successful in any such attempt.
As per a letter sent to the MLAs by the assembly secretariat, the chief minister has expressed his willingness to move a motion of confidence to prove his majority.
Following a petition by the BJP seeking Soren's disqualification from the assembly in an office-of-profit case, the Election Commission (EC) communicated its decision to Governor Ramesh Bais on August 25, sparking a political crisis in the state.
Though the EC's decision has not yet been made official, there is a buzz that the poll panel recommended the CM's disqualification as an MLA.
The ruling UPA, however, has maintained that Soren's disqualification will not affect the government, as the JMM-Congress-RJD coalition enjoys an absolute majority in the 81-member House. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/05/jharkhand-trust-vote-jmm-upa-coalition.html | 2022-09-05T07:01:51Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/05/jharkhand-trust-vote-jmm-upa-coalition.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kansas soccer’s four-game winning streak was snapped when the Missouri Tigers beat the Jayhawks 2-1 in Columbia, Missouri.
Missouri freshman midfielder Keegan Good stepped up in the biggest ways to lead her team past Kansas in the 24th version of the Border Showdown. Good was able to find her first and second career goals today, as both were needed for Missouri to avoid a draw in a match that they dictated.
In the first minute, the Tigers stirred up trouble in the Kansas back line as they put a shot on goal that was saved by senior goalkeeper Melania Pasar. The following corner kick was nearly scored by Missouri as well.
The Jayhawks opened the scoring in the seventh minute with a scream from super-senior midfielder Rylan Childers from outside of the box. Childers took all of the space that Missouri’s back line allotted then let loose from 20 yards out, finding the back of the net to go up 1-0.
While going into halftime up 1-0, the Childers goal was the only shot on goal for Kansas in the first half. Meanwhile, Pasar made five saves. Missouri earned four corner kicks to the Kansas one. All of these first-half stats kept Missouri optimistic for a 2nd half comeback.
The energy of the game was shifted on a corner kick that the Jayhawks gave up.
Though they managed to get the initial set piece away from major damage, the clearance went right to Good, who delivered a screamer of her own to equalize in the 58th minute.
The momentum continued to build for the Tigers by way of Good, this time on the defensive half. A Kansas free kick took multiple deflections and headed towards the back post. Good was able to beat the ball to the goal line, and Kansas junior midfielder Kate Dreyer, and clear the ball away from any danger. It was a true goal-line clearance. The chance for the Jayhawks ended up being the biggest of the match.
Despite already leaving a huge mark on the game, Good was not done. In the 86th minute, Missouri sophomore midfielder Milena Fischer delivered a ball into the box that was touched down and laid off to Good by freshman forward Kylee Simmons. Good buried the shot from the 18-yard box and put the Tigers up for good.
The Jayhawks look to get back in the win column when they play UMKC on Thursday, Sept. 8, at Rock Chalk Park. First kick is at 7 p.m. | https://www.kansan.com/sports/good-is-great-in-missouri-s-win-over-kansas/article_760a5982-2cab-11ed-a38f-efff9030ee78.html | 2022-09-05T07:05:09Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/sports/good-is-great-in-missouri-s-win-over-kansas/article_760a5982-2cab-11ed-a38f-efff9030ee78.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Behind a 4-2 start to the season, two Kansas women’s soccer players were named Big 12 Conference Players of the Week for their strong performances early in the 2022 campaign.
Senior Melania Pasar received the conference’s Goalkeeper of the Week award after allowing just two goals through the Jayhawk’s first four games.
“I think it’s well deserved,” Head Coach Mark Francis said. “Melania [Pasar] has done a good job keeping clean sheets lately. The defenders have helped her, but when opponents have had chances she’s coming up with big saves.”
Despite the strong results, Pasar has stayed humble, crediting her team for her successes.
“It’s the team making me look good,” she said. “I’m just happy to be able to compete with them. I’ve been here for so long and I’m grateful to have this opportunity, and I’m just trying to take advantage. It’s important that it benefits the team and not just me. At the end of the day, that’s why I do it.”
Holding opponents to less than one goal per game, Pasar is only the 2nd Jayhawk to win the award. She’s kept a clean sheet in half of the Jayhawk’s games so far and hasn’t allowed more than two goals all season.
Alongside Pasar, freshman defender Assa Kante was named the Big 12’s Freshman of the Week, the 20th Jayhawk to win the award in program history.
Kante made her debut off the bench against Drake late week, scoring what would end up being the winning goal in the 35th minute for the Jayhawks.
“I think every game Assa is getting better and better,” Francis said. “Scoring the goal at Drake gave her some confidence. She’s given us some significant minutes in the wide position and the center-back position. That versatility has really helped us maintain being fresh.”
Hailing from Overland Park, Kante led her high school to a state championship and racked up a handful of honors before heading to Kansas.
“When I found out, I almost started crying,” Kante said. “I immediately texted my family to let them know. I was kind of surprised, but I’m so grateful. I just want to thank my coaches, teammates and family for helping me get to where I am right now. | https://www.kansan.com/sports/strong-start-earns-ku-womens-soccer-players-big-12-honors/article_3bbf13dc-2ca9-11ed-97f3-b3b028910d26.html | 2022-09-05T07:05:15Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/sports/strong-start-earns-ku-womens-soccer-players-big-12-honors/article_3bbf13dc-2ca9-11ed-97f3-b3b028910d26.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The fix today was a little tricky as the PBOC kept USD/CNY just below 6.9000 but as the dollar is continuing to run riot, we are seeing the pair break higher in a push to 6.9400 on the day now.
As mentioned last week, China is looking to pump the brakes on the latest drop in the yuan but it seems more than likely that they will ease USD/CNY towards 7.00 and perhaps draw a hard line there.
But for now, the extended decline in the yuan will continue to pressure risk and emerging markets in general while still providing added support for the dollar in the meantime. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/chinas-onshore-yuan-falls-to-lowest-in-two-years-against-the-dollar-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T07:09:10Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/chinas-onshore-yuan-falls-to-lowest-in-two-years-against-the-dollar-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dutch TTF gas futures have opened with a spike higher of 26% to €265 MW/h as energy prices in Europe look set for another big surge following the news on late Friday that Russia is halting flows via the Nord Stream pipeline indefinitely.
As mentioned earlier here, it's a troubling development for Europe ahead of the winter months and this is also weighing strongly on the euro, regional equities, and bond yields as well to start the new week. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-benchmark-dutch-ttf-gas-futures-open-up-26-higher-to-start-the-week-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T07:09:16Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-benchmark-dutch-ttf-gas-futures-open-up-26-higher-to-start-the-week-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The JMMC meeting will take place at 1100 GMT with the OPEC+ ministerial meeting scheduled for 1130 GMT (or right after the JMMC meeting ends). There should be no changes to production quotas but be wary of the potential for output cuts, if anything else. Saudi Arabia has already begun talking up the prospects of that recently and we could see a small and gradual push towards that by OPEC+ moving forward.
Last month, the bloc delivered a symbolic gesture by increasing output by 100k bpd. They might very well pull that back in yet another symbolic gesture that they are now going to switch to the other direction. If so, that will be bullish for oil prices. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/heads-up-opec-meeting-coming-up-later-today-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T07:09:28Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/heads-up-opec-meeting-coming-up-later-today-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Prior +0.5%
- GDP +2.8% vs +3.0% y/y expected
- Prior +4.4%
Swiss economic output expanded modestly in Q2 but much like the rest of Europe, the second-half of the year is the more challenging period - even if they might not be as badly affected by the Russia-Ukraine conflict as their neighbours. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/switzerland-q2-gdp-03-vs-04-qq-expected-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T07:09:35Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/switzerland-q2-gdp-03-vs-04-qq-expected-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: A girl was killed in a flash flood near Mankayam waterfalls in Palode in Thiruvananthapuram district on Sunday.
The body of nine-year-old Nazria Fathima, who was washed away in the powerful gush of water, was later found on the river banks.
Though she was rushed to the hospital, she could not be saved.
The body of Shani, 34, who was also washed away along with the girl during the flash flood, was recovered later.
It was on Sunday evening that the area surrounding Mankayam waterfalls witnessed the flash flood.
Around 10 tourists, who came to visit Mankayam Vazhathoppu area, encountered nature's fury. Eight of them were rescued on the spot. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/flash-flood-mankayam-palode-trivandrum-girl-killed.amp.html | 2022-09-05T07:10:02Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/flash-flood-mankayam-palode-trivandrum-girl-killed.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted more time to complete the trial in the actress assault case.
The apex court directed that the trial should be completed before January 31, 2023. It also urged all parties to cooperate.
A progress report is to be submitted within four weeks.
The case concerns the abduction of a South Indian actress and her alleged molestation by some persons who forced their way into the vehicle on February 17, 2017.
The entire act was filmed by those persons to blackmail the actress.
There are 10 accused in the 2017 case, including actor Dileep, and police have arrested seven.
Though Dileep was subsequently arrested, he was released on bail.
The actress withdrew from the industry for many years. She made her first comment about the case in 2022.
(To be updated) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/kerala-actress-assault-case-updates.amp.html | 2022-09-05T07:10:28Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/kerala-actress-assault-case-updates.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted more time to complete the trial in the actress assault case.
The apex court directed that the trial should be completed before January 31, 2023. It also urged all parties to cooperate.
A progress report is to be submitted within four weeks.
The case concerns the abduction of a South Indian actress and her alleged molestation by some persons who forced their way into the vehicle on February 17, 2017.
The entire act was filmed by those persons to blackmail the actress.
There are 10 accused in the 2017 case, including actor Dileep, and police have arrested seven.
Though Dileep was subsequently arrested, he was released on bail.
The actress withdrew from the industry for many years. She made her first comment about the case in 2022.
(To be updated) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/kerala-actress-assault-case-updates.html | 2022-09-05T07:10:34Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/kerala-actress-assault-case-updates.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) on Monday distributed 75 per cent of pending salary for the month of July to its employees ahead of the meeting with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
The salary was distributed to 24,477 permanent employees. The remaining 25 per cent will be distributed as coupons, the KSRTC informed.
A quarter lakh KSRTC employees and their families were struggling to meet their day-to-day expenses with more than two months of outstanding salary. The KSRTC will settle the dues partially utilising Rs 50 crore allotted by the Government and Rs 10 crore in hand.
The Corporation had provided the employees the option of accepting coupons in place of salary earlier as well. However, cutting across party affiliations, employees had said they were not ready to accept coupons in place of their pending salary.
Meeting chaired by CM
Employees view the meeting with the Chief Minister as the last ditch effort to clear the salary dues.
The government wants KSRTC to implement the single duty system and has said that once that is put in place, a Rs 250-crore rescue package could be allotted.
Although the discussion on the same had happened three times earlier, no decision has been made yet.
On Sunday, KSRTC employees in Kottayam called for a lightning strike from midnight on Monday if the discussion with the Chief Minister fails.
The employees said they would hold a hunger strike in front of the depot along with their families. Even bedridden parents would be brought to the protest venue.
As trade unions cannot hold a protest without giving a 15-day prior notice, employees have decided to strike in their personal capacities. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/ksrtc-salary-distribution-pinarayi-vijayan-meet.html | 2022-09-05T07:10:48Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/ksrtc-salary-distribution-pinarayi-vijayan-meet.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: The Government issued a revised list of invitees for the ‘Loka Kerala Sabha’ in haste midway through the event after a controversy erupted over the invitation to Italy-based Keralite Anitha Pullayil, an accused in the fake antique dealer scam, it is revealed now.
The State issued an order that included the list of invitees even before the three-day event on June 16. However, a second order was issued in haste midway through the event canceling the first list of invitees. The amended order made it clear that the action was taken following a letter from NoRKA Roots CEO that there was a lapse in the invitee list.
The details of the action taken in haste finally have come to light now, defeating the Government’s bid to keep it away from the public gaze for close to two months. The ‘Loka Kerala Sabha’ was held from June 16 to 18. The order regarding the members and initial list of invitees was issued on June 15.
However, the Department of Non-Resident Keralites Affairs issued the amended order on June 16, citing the NoRKA CEO's letter.
Though there were 356 invitees, as per the list, only 296 attended the event. The demand to publicise the list of attendees was raised in assembly when the house was in session. But the same was made available only after the session.
There were widespread rumours of some irregularity when NoRKA delayed publishing the letter on its website. NoRKA now says the revised list was published on its website two days ago.
Anitha is not on the list
The NoRKA ROOTS claimed that it demanded a revised list of invites to add certain names that were not in the first list and were confirmed at the last minute.
The aim was to make the order objective and correct. The name of the controversial woman was not included in the first list of members and invitees, NoRKA claimed.
However, Anitha Pullayil was present at the Legislature House, the venue of the Loka Kerala Sabha, on the two days when the event was held.
An action was also taken against four contract employees of the 'Sabha TV' as directed by the Speaker. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/loka-kerala-sabha-invitation-anitha-pullayil.amp.html | 2022-09-05T07:10:54Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/loka-kerala-sabha-invitation-anitha-pullayil.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fans Think ‘Lord of the Rings’ Prequel Is ‘Too Woke,’ but It Shows How Fantasy Fandom Gives Way to Bigotry
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Some centuries ago and in another world, Bilbo Baggins warned Frodo against venturing out of his door. It’s a dangerous business today too, looking out one’s digital windows. Glance, and one shall see flames of unflinching rage against The Lord of the Rings’s prequel, The Rings of Power. With two episodes to its name so far, the harshest criticism against the show has been one of excessive inclusivity. How dare there be hobbits and dwarves that are black and brown?
Some fans of the fantasy epic are intent on pillage, robbing the lore of magic, free will, and friendship that glitters from a distance afar, even for people who are strangers to Middle-earth. But the newest entrant of the Tolkein realm of imagination is wokeness, and a brand of fandom has gone on to term it a “woke catastrophe.” The hate is so ardent that people are “review bombing” the show — deliberately leaving negative reviews so as to drop its collective ratings. “The American consumer has grown weary and frustrated with the endless injection of social justice politics into our entertainment culture and now they are fighting back and speaking out,” lamented one such self-proclaimed gatekeeper of the fantasy epic.
It’s tempting to interpret this as a cultural critique. The question is: what is the role of fantasy? Do fandoms double as dedicated gatekeepers of their legacy? What creative freedoms are allowed to apply to lores that run deeper than the Great River? But the controversy around Rings of Power is anything but: it shows how gatekeepers of fantasy disguise their bigotry with spurious claims over the sanctity of epic fantasy.
The criticism of Tolkein’s latest extension of fantasy can be read both in silos of the series as a singular cultural product, and in the larger context of fantasy fandom.
The prequel explores the histories and political plots of the Second Age, some thousand years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. These worlds are created with deliberate thought and are beautiful to look at, but there have been valid concerns of the prequel succumbing to the trajectory of “prestige TV“: one that is gloriously built, but is stuffed with sub-plots, cliffhangers, and side characters that don’t add anything to the storytelling. Worse still are voyeuristic scenes peppered with graphic violence that treat women as afterthoughts in the larger power quests of men and their fantasies. Even when Amazon purchased the franchise’s licensing rights in 2017, some feared the epic imagination would become a “victim of its own success” — such that the sprawling world would be diluted of its riches. And while that may be the disquieting future of many of these franchises vulnerable to capitalistic and cultural mining, the current wave of criticism against The Rings of Power doesn’t share the same roots.
One form of criticism borders on nitpicking the details of epic fantasy — this coincidentally also includes a sense of unease with actors of diverse races and genders playing the habitants of the Middle-earth. Sample these two paras:
“For Amazon, the intention was to take yet another beloved property (Lord Of The Rings) and twist it into a vehicle for more woke propaganda, including intersectional feminist messaging and forced diversity casting for a story that was written as an ancient historical record of England.“
“Some characters seem to teleport far distances, while others walk slowly between villages (despite horses, like, existing). A big sea attack looks unfinished, introducing a massive threat that’s quickly forgotten. Director J. A. Bayona finds isolated moments of grandeur, but the helicopter shots get repetitive fast. The fights aren’t quite up to the Walking Dead level, and the battles won’t make any Crab Feeders nervous. Frequent cuts to an explanatory map are more funny than informative.”
Babbling brook with cute kids? Badly choreographed fights? Cuts to the map? Besides the fact that these read like a pedantic quibble, the intent is to establish an unquestioning loyalty to the fantasy. So sacred and revered are the mystic realms of Tolkein that any form of tampering and experimenting does a disservice to Tolkien’s legacy, the argument seems to go. But what remains irksome is that the art itself is far removed from this anxiety. Critics are “acting high and mighty as though they are the sole arbiters of What Is Tolkien and who qualifies as a True Fan and imparting upon us how the Professor himself would surely feel about all of this. It gets tiresome not because it’s a critique of the work, but because the art is so flagrantly secondary to the politics of it all,” wrote Erik Kain.
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The criticism backed by a purported loyalty to the source material is a red herring, a conduit to displaying more hate and giving oxygen to racism and sexism in the name of pledging allegiance to Tolkien’s fantasy world. The prequel’s protagonist is Galadriel, a warrior and one of the greatest Elves in Middle-earth. Many took issue with her helming the show’s narrative and being presented as a powerful, courageous warrior in the series. It’s impossible for her to take on an Ice Troll alone. The sheer blasphemy. But this is deeply ignorant of the way her character was written: she is indeed the “greatest of the Eldar of Valinor,” as Tolkien described her too. As one Twitter user noted: “She is like pure, uncut super elf from the Undying Lands… She is approaching deity level.” Yet, the reservations around Galadriel doing the heavy lifting (literally) and being a warrior woman carry undercurrents of misogyny and sexism. The sequel presents a refreshing diversity in the form of warrior women, female Hobbits being heroes, and black dwarf queens — but all are critiqued under a similar lens.
A review of the series asked: “Is ‘The Rings Of Power’ the worst case of leftist propaganda ever created?” The derision betrays an anxiety not just with “wokeness,” but with having their revered works of creation bend just enough to dismiss any misplaced claims of white, patriarchal, cisheteronormative supremacy. The darkness of Mordor isn’t reserved for a lore painstakingly built over 30 years. It has seeped within us too.
This is not the first time elements of diversity were brought to pre-established worlds (Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Ms. Marvel). It is a nifty formula: to argue for something’s sanctity, the highest degree of purity and preservation. The notion of fluidity between genders, races, and ethnicity even then led to wails and groans about tampering with the sanctity of these cultural legacies. If we were to argue with this on the merit of facts, even Tolkien admitted that the stories in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place in the “north-west of ‘Middle-earth,’ equivalent to the coastlands of Europe and the north shores of the Mediterranean.” And in his letter commenting on a review of The Lord of the Rings by W. H. Auden, he wrote, “Middle-earth is not an imaginary world,” declaring it to be an “objectively real world” that reflected the status quo.
The larger, more existential question that presents itself then is what fantasy is allowed to do. Does it abide religiously with the source matter? Or does it give room for creators to adapt the literature and color it with contemporary, even woke sensibilities? Arguably, The Power of Rings is a singular instance in that it is building a world steeped within appendices: much of this never literally happened in Tolkien’s books. But this is also the benefit of the rich tapestry of the world that lies within — it is possible to tap into those creative riches and breathe life into newer and older worlds, ones that perhaps may even echo modern anxieties unlike ever before.
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And arguably, the lore itself provides a canvas for exploring race and gender. If entire species are imaginary — elves, dwarves, orcs, hobbits — how difficult is it to stretch the imagination to accommodate race? The series is not too woke, but in keeping with the spirit of the fantasy realm. It is rich and ever-evolving, rarely ever enslaving itself to structures of oppression.
This criticism of including actors of color to play dwarves and elves — because Tolkien didn’t include the element of race or gender in his work — is also a case study of a false dichotomy. It is a misinformation technique, where some erect erroneous limitations of what options are available to people. To think that only white actors can play roles in an epic fantasy written about another time and world is ridden with a disingenuous understanding too.
The white male-dominated fandom claims woke politics is destroying the legacy — but their reaction betrays a blinkered understanding of what fantasy can do. Kain aptly pointed out a reckoning that has not yet dawned on fantasy fandoms: that there can never be one true interpretation to rule them all. Fantasy is a part of us, and that “us” is always changing.
The principle of fantasy is perhaps similar to that of mountains. In the second episode, Disa (played by Sophia Nomvete), the wife of Prince Durin IV of Khazad-dûm (the most famed of all Dwarven realms), says: “A mountain’s like a person. It’s a long and ever-changing story made of countless small parts. Earth and ore, air and water. Sing to it properly, each of those parts will reflect your song back to you, telling you its story, showing you what might be hidden, where to mine, where to tunnel, and where to leave the mountain untouched.”
The fantasy, the mountain, and the person are alike in this regard. They’re all made of countless parts, there are histories, identities, cultures, and anxieties. It’s imperative we look at them as an unfolding story, one that has the potential to remake us — only if we are listening. | https://theswaddle.com/fans-think-lord-of-the-rings-prequel-is-too-woke-but-it-shows-how-fantasy-fandom-gives-way-to-bigotry/ | 2022-09-05T07:22:15Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/fans-think-lord-of-the-rings-prequel-is-too-woke-but-it-shows-how-fantasy-fandom-gives-way-to-bigotry/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
London: Liz Truss is expected to be named leader of the governing Conservative Party and Britain's next prime minister on Monday, poised to take power at a time when the country faces a cost of living crisis, industrial unrest and a recession.
After weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive party leadership contest that pitted Truss against Rishi Sunak, a former finance minister, Monday's announcement at 1130 GMT will trigger the beginning of a handover from Boris Johnson. He was forced to announce his resignation in July after months of scandal.
On Tuesday, the winner will travel to Scotland to meet Queen Elizabeth, who will ask the new leader to form a government.
Long the front runner in the race to replace Johnson, Truss, if appointed, will become the Conservatives' fourth prime minister since a 2015 election. Over that period the country has been buffeted from crisis to crisis, and now faces what is forecast to be a long recession triggered by sky-rocketing inflation which hit 10.1% in July.
Foreign minister under Boris Johnson, Truss, 47, has promised to act quickly to tackle Britain's cost of living crisis, saying that within a week she will come up with a plan to tackle rising energy bills and securing future fuel supplies.
Speaking in a TV interview on Sunday she declined to give details of the measures she says will reassure millions of people who fear they will be unable to pay their fuel bills as winter approaches.
She has signalled during her leadership campaign she would challenge convention by scrapping tax increases and cutting other levies that some economists say would fuel inflation.
That, plus a pledge to review the remit of the Bank of England while protecting its independence, has prompted some investors to dump the pound and government bonds.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies cast doubt last month on Britain's next prime minister having room to make large, permanent tax cuts.
'Second most difficult post-war brief'
Truss faces a long, costly and difficult to-do list, which opposition lawmakers say is the result of 12 years of poor Conservative government. Several have called for an early election - something Truss has said she will not allow.
Veteran Conservative lawmaker David Davis described the challenges she would take on as prime minister as "probably the second most difficult brief of post-war prime ministers" after Conservative Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
"I actually don't think any of the candidates, not one of them going through it, really knows quite how big this is going to be," he said, adding that costs could run into tens of billions of pounds.
Truss has said she will appoint a strong cabinet, dispensing with what one source close to her called a "presidential-style" of governing.
First she will turn to the urgent issue of surging energy prices. Average annual household utility bills are set to jump by 80% in October to 3,549 pounds ($4,084), before an expected rise to 6,000 pounds in 2023, decimating personal finances.
Britain has lagged other major European countries in its offer of support for consumer energy bills, which opposition lawmakers blame on a "zombie" government unable to act while the Conservatives ran their leadership contest.
In May, the government set out a 15-billion-pound support package to help households with energy bills as part of its 37-billion-pound cost-of-living support scheme.
Italy has budgeted over 52 billion euros ($51.75 billion) so far this year to help its people. In France, increases in electricity bills are capped at 4% and Germany said on Sunday it would spend at least 65 billion euros shielding consumers and businesses from rising inflation. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/09/05/uk-pm-declaration-liz-truss.html | 2022-09-05T07:23:23Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/09/05/uk-pm-declaration-liz-truss.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nigerian Grammy Award-winning Afrobeats artiste, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid has become the most decorated artiste in the history of the Headies Awards after winning five awards in the 2022 edition.
The ‘Essence’ singer has embedded his name in the history book of the Headies after taking his tally of the Headies awards to 15, becoming the first person to do so since the inception of the award in 2007.
The artiste who was nominated in 10 categories for this year’s edition won 5 of the nominations. All thanks to his Made in Lagos album and global hit song ‘Essence’ featuring Nigerian songstress, Tems.
Wizkid won the song of the year for (Essence) ft Tems, best collaboration (Essence) ft Tems, best R&B single (Essence) ft Tems, best Afrobeats album (Made in Lagos ) and Album of the year (Made in Lagos deluxe edition) at the Glamour Event Centre, in Atlanta, United States.
The superstar, who was absent at the event, was represented by his manager, Sunday Are, who expressed appreciation on behalf of the artiste to the organizer of the event and the fans of the Afrobeats star.
This is coming a few hours after the legendary rapper, Kanye West declared Wizkid’s song ‘Essence’ has the Best ever in music history.
Kanye West on Saturday, September 4, 2022 took to his Instagram page to post the song cover and posted, “Best song in the history of music to date.”
ALSO READ FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE | https://tribuneonlineng.com/headies-2022-wizkid-wins-5-awards-becomes-most-decorated-artiste/ | 2022-09-05T07:27:03Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/headies-2022-wizkid-wins-5-awards-becomes-most-decorated-artiste/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PDP may ask Ayu to step aside as national chairman
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THERE are feelers in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the party stakeholders may ask the National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to step aside to fulfil one of the key demands by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for peace to return to the party.
Findings revealed that this may happen as soon as the next round of meetings of the various organs of the party, culminating in a meeting of its highest decision-making body, its National Executive Committee (NEC), holds.
Despite the sustained pressure from the Wike group for Ayu to resign, the party boss cannot do so unless it becomes a decision of the party hierarchy.
The former Senate president had indeed alluded to this before the national convention of the party that produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, noting, at the time, that should the candidate emerge from the North, which is his own zone, he will step aside from his post if the party so decides.
Many party stakeholders have since assumed the position that he should resign since the presidential candidate comes from the same zone as himself so as to create the necessary geopolitical balance in the party organogram, especially as the North also holds the post of the chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT).
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The PDP BoT chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, has already thrown his weight behind the move to restructure the party offices to reflect diversity as he posited that it is unfair for both the presidential candidate of the party and its national chairman to come from the same zone.
“To tell the truth, it will not be fair for the president of Nigeria to be from the North, the chairman of the party from the north and the BoT chairman from the north,” Jibrin argued.
A member of NEC of the party affirmed to the Nigerian Tribune on Sunday in confidence that now that the BoT chairman has thrown forward the matter, it is now in the court of the party to decide.
“Ayu declared that if the presidential candidate emerges from the North and the PDP says on account of that he should leave office that as a democrat, he will do that. Has the party asked Ayu to leave? That’s the question. Initially, my own position was that the matter wasn’t before the party because the agitations were outside of the party.
“But now that the BoT chairman has brought the issue to the domain of the party and even has his own suggestions, that means the matter has come before the party. So, the party should be allowed to deal with the matter,” the NEC member said.
However, it was learnt that the party can only take the decision to ask Ayu to vacate his post if a consensus develops among its critical organs, including the National Working Committee (NWC), PDP Governors Forum; former PDP Ministers Forum; the BoT, the National Caucus and ratified by its NEC.
Stakeholders of the PDP, who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune, said despite media reports, there is no crisis in the former ruling party but a disagreement on issues. Some cited the fact that Wike has stopped directing his attacks on the presidential candidate of the party but on those who he thinks are responsible for the situation within the party that he considers unpalatable.
“If you look at it closely, you will discover that Wike’s reactions are not essentially targeted at the candidate. He has shifted from the initial reaction to Atiku to a reaction to his friends and brothers in the same political party in his own state.
“He has moved from there to go after individuals, who are members of the party who he believes have one form of hand or the other in the disagreement. When you look at it clinically, he is isolating the candidate from the problem.
“If you say there is a crisis in the party, you are saying Atiku is firing a salvo at Wike and his team from one side and Wike is firing salvo to Atiku or you say that our NWC is so divided that they cannot even hold NWC meeting, or we can’t do NEC meeting. That is when you talk about crisis,” a top party source argued.
The Nigerian Tribune also found out that Benue State Governor, Sam Ortom, continues to support Wike because of his role in convincing the Rivers governor to support Ayu to become the national chairman of the party.
Findings revealed that Governor Ortom had persuaded former Senate president, David Mark, who had been pencilled down for the job, to stay aside due to age and personally introduced Ayu to Wike who initially doubted the party boss’s true intentions.
A credible source privy to the process said: “Ortom singlehandedly took Ayu to Wike and Wike asked Ortom, ‘can we trust this man?’ And Ortom said yes. After his emergence when the crisis started, Wike asked Ortom, ‘can you see what this man is doing? Can you see what I told you that time?
“The resolution of the Wike’s group is that Ayu must go. Ayu did not contest election to become the national chairman of PDP. It was Ortom that went to bring him despite the fact that people like (ex-Benue State governor, Gabriel) Suswam warned against it,” the source added. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/pdp-may-ask-ayu-to-step-aside-as-national-chairman/ | 2022-09-05T07:27:16Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/pdp-may-ask-ayu-to-step-aside-as-national-chairman/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATTLE — The Sounders are familiar with this time of year. When it doesn’t matter how or who, the club just needs production to survive and advance.
Enter Nouhou.
The Cameroonian international declared this to be the season where he scores his first goal as a Sounders defender. Dubbed the “train” for the way he motors up and down the left flank, he made the right stop Sunday at Lumen Field to keep the Sounders’ season alive.
Nouhou collected a poorly cleared ball in the box and toed a right-footed shot into goal in the 59th minute to equalize the score. He followed the eye-popping play with an assist to Fredy Montero for the go-ahead header in the 76th minute.
Nouhou’s first goal since signing a first-team contract in 2017 and third assist of the season put some sparkle on a 2-1 win against the Houston Dynamo.
Seattle (11-15-3) remains six points behind archrival Portland for the seventh and final playoff berth in the Western Conference. Houston, which has never defeated the home side through all competitions in Seattle, dropped to last in the conference at 8-16-5.
The Rave Green have advanced to the playoffs every year since joining MLS in 2009 — a league record of 13 berths.
The Sounders had one of their better starts Sunday. The club had 53 percent of possession and outshot Houston 6-1 in the opening 20 minutes. Attempts by Albert Rusnak (free kick), Jordan Morris and Raul Ruidiaz didn’t have enough muster to get past Dynamo keeper Steve Clark.
It was Houston that buried the first goal in the net. Sounders keeper Stefan Frei slapped away a corner kick attempt and had himself and the defense in position to deny a rebound strike. Yet, Adalberto Carrasquilla collected the rebound and sent an assist from distance into the box for Daniel Steres to thread through Seattle’s defense for a right-footed goal in the 26th minute.
A sparse crowd (announced at 33,621) gathered for the holiday weekend match and
made themselves heard in the 37th minute. Rusnak was going for the ball in the box and appeared to be fouled as he dropped to the turf. Referee Silviu Petrescu didn’t rule the contact as impeding Rusnak’s ability to score and VAR didn’t call for a second look.
It was a difficult no-call for the Sounders to accept because they’ve had five penalties go against them the past three matches and conceded four.
The Sounders did a penalty called their way with Montero was fouled in the box in the 73rd minute. Club captain Nico Lodeiro took the shot from the spot and Clark made the save, snapping Lodeiro’s perfect 18-of-18 record for penalty kicks.
Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer made two player changes and shifted the formation from the squad that lost 3-2 to Orlando City last week. Midfielder Albert Rusnak played on the left wing with Josh Atencio and Danny Leyva charged with control the tempo in the midfield.
Brazilian winger Leo Chu didn’t dress due to an adductor injury.
Seattle continues its homestand against Austin FC on Saturday. The Verde and Black (15-8-6) are second in Western Conference standings. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/sounders/sounders-beat-dynamo-to-keep-playoff-hopes-alive/article_dfed1ad0-2ccc-11ed-a170-b39312a3995f.html | 2022-09-05T07:33:25Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/sounders/sounders-beat-dynamo-to-keep-playoff-hopes-alive/article_dfed1ad0-2ccc-11ed-a170-b39312a3995f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sunday afternoon, I settled into my chair at Valley Fields after taking a picture of the first kick to post on the Anonymous Eagle Instagram. [ASIDE: Go follow!] Before I had finished typing the caption on the post, Marquette senior Alex Campana did this:
Alex Campana's header finds the net! #WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/1uOElKdJLc
— MARQUETTE Soccer (@MarquetteWSOC) September 4, 2022
57 seconds into the match, we had one well laced kick by Mia Haertle, one well played header by Campana, and one misjudged close out by Green Bay keeper Mason Annie, and it was 1-0 Marquette.
Fun, huh? Yeah, that was only the start of the goals party for MU women’s soccer on the day as they ended up taking a 5-0 win over the Phoenix. That final tells you a lot about how lopsided the game was, but not the whole story.
Fast forward to the eighth minute — yes, less than seven full minutes later, and Elsi Twombly made this play on an incredibly pass by Hailey Block:
8' | MU - 2 | GB - 0 | Golden Eagles strike again, Elsi Twombly scores her first goal of the season! Goal was assisted by Hailey Block and Maggie Starker. #WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/1us7EwwzYC
— MARQUETTE Soccer (@MarquetteWSOC) September 4, 2022
2-0, not even eight full minutes gone, and MU’s first two shots of the game had gone into the net.
Shot #3: Off the foot of Maggie Starker, but saved by Annie.
Shot #5 looked like this:
23' | MU - 3 | GB - 0 | Kate Gibson finds the net by of a corner kick! #WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/AcZmKBUxar
— MARQUETTE Soccer (@MarquetteWSOC) September 4, 2022
Is it correct to give Block the helper on that one? She’s the player who struck the shot that hit the crossbar before Kate Gibson’s second try hit low on the crossbar and bounced off Annie’s hands and in.
Anyway, 3-0, not even 23 minutes played.
It was a whole thing. Please remember: Marquette scored their third goal of the season on Thursday in the eighth half of the season. On Sunday, they scored three goals in 23 minutes, all on standard issue “this is how you play soccer” plays. No deflection off a defender as was the case for the first goal of the year, and not a penalty kick either, which is where the 2nd goal of the year came from.
That margin held through halftime, and not surprisingly, as the Golden Eagles could afford to be a bit more deliberate and they were already suffocating Green Bay’s offense. Your shots in the first 45 minutes: 12-2 favoring Marquette.
And so the second half started.... and Green Bay fouled in the box less than four minutes in. One of the more gentle penalties you’ll ever see in your life, particularly since the ball was being played to the outside and away from the net at the moment. But tackling an attacking player to the ground in the box is still tackling an attacking player to the ground in the box. Julia O’Neill got to take the try, and she.... well, there’s no other way to say this: She slowly rolled it to the right side as Annie just kind of quit on it.
48' | MU - 4 | GB - 0 | Julia O'Neill scores on an early PK opportunity in the second for the Golden Eagles!#WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/9BgQSBQyAw
— MARQUETTE Soccer (@MarquetteWSOC) September 4, 2022
That’s 4-0 Golden Eagles, and it became clear from that point on that MU was going to win, no matter how many players head coach Frank Pelaez subbed in to the game. [SPOILER ALERT: It was 16 subs.] Shots in the second half? 10-1 favoring MU across the full 45 minutes, and Green Bay’s lone shot came in the 64th minute.
The MU subs made the Phoenix pay as well. Marquette tacked on one final goal in the 73rd minute as freshman Cate Downs took advantage of the unsettled nature of corner kicks to boot the thing into the back of the net for her first career goal. It was a short corner by Marquette played long into the box by Isabella Cook and then headed back towards the middle by Aislinn Boyle where Downs was waiting. The team hasn’t put up a tweet with the video of that one, so you’ll just have to trust me on this one and/or go watch it on the FloFC replay.
That’s how the game ended scorewise, but there is one final thing that we have to note. Chloe Olson made her first career start and second career appearance for the Golden Eagles in this match and played the full 90 minutes in net. She finished with two saves, one in each half, as she had to stop a full two-thirds of Green Bay’s total shots in the game to get her first career clean sheet to put the icing on the cake.
Up Next: ROAD TRIP! Marquette will be up north next weekend for a pair of matches up in the Twin Cities. It’ll be St. Thomas on Thursday, September 8th, and then Minnesota on Sunday, September 11th. The Tommies are 2-1-1 on the year pending a Monday evening contest at Northern Iowa, while the Gophers are 2-3-1 after beating North Dakota on Sunday afternoon. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/4/23337055/marquette-golden-eagles-womens-soccer-recap-green-bay-olson-campana-twombly-gibson-oneill-downs | 2022-09-05T07:35:23Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/4/23337055/marquette-golden-eagles-womens-soccer-recap-green-bay-olson-campana-twombly-gibson-oneill-downs | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sunday evening brought Marquette volleyball a chance to shine for the AVCA top 25 voters after falling in four sets to #6 Wisconsin on Friday night. High Point is the favorite to win the Big South this season, so they’re a quality foe that Marquette should still be favored against, and that’s how you remind voters to keep you in the top 25.
What ended up happening is Marquette did get the win, but at a glance, it was both sensible and nonsensical that it went to four sets before the Golden Eagles prevailed, 3-1.
It’ll make sense in a second.
Set #1 went back and forth to start with, but it turned in Marquette’s favor when Ella Foti capped an 8-1 run with a kill to put the Golden Eagles up 17-13. Sometimes a big run means you’re about to put the thing away…. But sometimes it’s just a setup for the other team. This was the latter as High Point immediately tied the thing up at 17 after four straight points. Eventually three straight for MU put them up 22-19, and that gave them the space they needed to hold the Panthers off for the 25-23 win.
Aubrey Hamilton closed out the first frame with a kill, which means, officially, it because a 15-0 run by Marquette when they started out the second set with a 14-0 lead. No, that’s not a joke. 14-0 for the Golden Eagles, and just three errors that weren’t blocks for High Point to help propel things to that point. The question immediately becomes “how fast can Marquette get out of this set” as well as “what does this mean for how the rest of this is going to go?” The answer to #1 is “not very.” Yes, yes, it was eventually 20-4, but that just means that High Point outscored Marquette 6-5 the rest of the way. Still, a 25-10 win is quick work, and you can’t argue with it.
Up 2-0 and coming out of a set where you led 20-4, you’d like to think that Marquette would be able to keep it together and win in straight sets, especially against a team that played #6 Wisconsin just a few hours earlier. The third set started in that direction with Foti giving the Golden Eagles a 5-1 lead out of the gate. That would kind of be the last time Marquette controlled the set, as High Point rallied to take an 11-8 lead, and then after MU tied it at 14, the Panthers went back up 19-15 on an error by MU’s Hattie Bray. Marquette tried to cut into that margin, but a 6-2 burst by HPU pushed them through to the 25-19 win to make it 2-1 in the match.
After all of that, you can’t be surprised that the fourth set looked an awful lot like a teeter-totter for a long time. Finally, eventually, kills from Foti, Jenna Reitsma, and Carsen Murray provided three of the four points in a 4-0 run to put Marquette up 19-14. High Point would close it to just two points, as close as 20-18, but the Golden Eagles said enough is enough. Three kills from three different players led to a service ace by freshman Ella Holmstrom to cap off a 5-0 run and get Marquette the 25-18 set win and the 3-1 match victory.
Three Golden Eagles got to double digits in kills in this match, and as you’d expect given how much her name came up, Ella Foti led the way with 14. Yadhira Anchante fell just short of 10 digs a set at 39 helpers to go with three kills and eight digs, while Carly Skrabak led everyone in the match with 22 digs.
Up Next: It’s not as quick of a turnaround as High Point had on Sunday, but it’ll still be a kind of quick turnaround for Marquette to Tuesday night. That will bring us the home opener of the year with a 7pm first serve against Loyola Chicago. The Ramblers are 3-3 on the year after falling 3-2 on the road against Michigan on Saturday. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/4/23337320/marquette-golden-eagles-volleyball-recap-high-point-panthers-foti-murray-anchante | 2022-09-05T07:35:26Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/4/23337320/marquette-golden-eagles-volleyball-recap-high-point-panthers-foti-murray-anchante | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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