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Colby Howard grabbed a ninth-place finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Kansas Lottery 200 at Kansas Speedway on Friday, while a cut tire derailed a strong run for his McAnally-Hilgemann Racing teammate, Derek Kraus.
Kraus was on the move in the No. 19 Kafka Granite Chevrolet Silverado, charging from his 13th-place starting position and running as high as fifth at the beginning of the final stage of the race. He got pinched into the outside wall, however, and then scraped the wall a second time after getting into some oil – which cut down a tire and required he pit under green. He returned to the track a couple of laps down in 30th. He battled back to gain one lap and finish 21st.
Howard was initially fast in the No. 91 Gates Hydraulics Chevrolet Silverado, starting 18th and finishing the first stage in 14th. A loose condition and some damage slowed his progress, putting him 24th when a caution came out on Lap 75. His crew chief, Mark Hillman, opted for him to pit for fresh tires and fuel during the yellow, which turned out to be the last caution of the race.
Howard restarted in 28th, but quickly gained positions as the field later cycled through green-flag pit stops – putting him third on Lap 110. With fast trucks on fresh tires charging to the front in the closing laps, he held on to finish ninth and match the career-best finish he had at Mid-Ohio in July.
MHR welcomed a special group from NAPA Kansas to the speedway on Friday. The guests were treated to a tour of the NAPA race transporter, a meet-and-greet with the drivers and access to pit lane with the team. VIP guest crewmembers had seats atop the team’s war wagon to see all the behind-the-scenes action during the race.
Quote – Derek Kraus
“We got squeezed into the wall and that wasn’t bad, but the second time I got in oil and that’s when I got the bad damage. The team brought a really fast Chevy to the track and I’m happy about that. It was also cool to have Kafka on the truck for this race.”
Quote – Colby Howard
“We fired off with a really fast Silverado. We just fought a really free feeling through the first two stages. We got some damage and couldn’t ever recover, but Mark made a really good strategy call to get us some track position and ended up ninth.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agency that investigates chemical accidents is hindered by a lack of staffing, leadership disputes and a backlog of investigations that threaten its ability to protect people and the environment, according to a new report by a federal watchdog.
The report by the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general says the U.S. Chemical Safety Board is “challenged by vacancies in mission-critical positions and an inability to fully use the resources Congress allocated” to it.
Leadership disputes, shoddy internal reviews and reporting backlogs “are impeding the board’s ability to accomplish its mission,” Inspector General Sean O’Donnell said in a letter to the board’s acting head.
O’Donnell’s report, released this week, comes after the board’s former chairwoman resigned this summer amid criticism about extravagant spending, ongoing disputes with other board members and a backlog of investigations. The board completed one investigation in 2020, three in 2021 and three so far this year, the report said. At least 17 investigations are currently waiting to be closed.
Katherine Lemos, the agency’s former chair, left in July, saying in a resignation letter that disputes with fellow board members “have eroded my confidence in our ability to focus” on the independent agency’s mission. Lemos was appointed by former President Donald Trump and led the agency for two years. Her departure left the five-member panel with two Senate-confirmed members, both nominated by President Joe Biden. A third Biden nominee is pending before the Senate.
With a $13 million annual budget, the board is the only federal agency charged with investigating the causes of chemical accidents, including factory explosions, refinery fires and other industrial disasters. The agency had a dozen investigators as of last month, down from more than 20 investigators in the past decade, the inspector general said.
Overall, the agency has 27 staffers out of 44 approved positions.
Trump proposed eliminating the safety board in each of his annual budgets, arguing that its focus on regulation had “frustrated both regulators and industry.” Congress funded the agency throughout Trump’s term, although staffing levels dwindled and Lemos served as the board’s sole member for nearly two years.
“The Chemical Safety Board barely survived the Trump war of attrition against it,” said Jeff Ruch, a top official at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group of current and former public employees. The watchdog group had sharply criticized Lemos and repeatedly called for her ouster.
The inspector general’s report “underlines that it is difficult for a federal agency, especially a small agency, to function when it is saddled with leadership that is inimical to its mission,” Ruch said in an email.
The current leadership, including interim executive Steve Owens, appears intent to rebuild the agency, Ruch said, although problems remain. The board is “increasingly important because our industrial infrastructure, like our public infrastructure of roads and bridges, has been aging and is becoming more vulnerable to refinery explosions and other chemical disasters,” he said.
The 17-page report by the inspector general recommends that the board quickly fill investigator and senior staff positions, ensure there are plans to hand off duties when staff members leave and update internal procedures on how reports are written and reviewed.
In a statement, Owens and board member Sylvia Johnson said the board “appreciates the inspector general’s report, and we agree that there is much work to be done to get this agency back on track.”
The agency is taking steps to hire more investigators and other mission-critical staff and has streamlined the review process for investigative reports, Owens and Johnson said.
“We look forward to an ongoing relationship with the inspector general as we tackle the many challenges facing the agency,” they said.
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A young superstar and a seasoned veteran gained valuable momentum for the 52nd World 100 Friday night at Eldora Speedway.
Bobby Pierce and Dale McDowell scored $12,000 victories on the final preliminary night at “The House that Earl Built,” building their confidence entering Saturday’s 100-lap $55,000-to-win finale.
After two nights of racing, Chris Madden, the overall points leader, spun a six on Eldora’s Wheel of Misfortune. Six cars will be inverted in each of Saturday’s Heat Races.
Group A Preliminary Feature – Bobby Pierce
Bobby Pierce and Ricky Weiss waged war for the lead in front of a packed Eldora Speedway crowd in the final ten laps of Friday’s first preliminary Feature.
Pierce chased Weiss on the outside, before thundering around the Headingly, MB driver to take the lead in Turn 2 with seven laps to go.
However, Pierce’s momentum was slowed immediately in traffic, allowing Weiss a chance to regain the top spot.
Weiss pulled even with Pierce coming out of Turn 4, pinching Pierce closer to the wall and making contact as the two crossed the start-finish line.
Weiss pulled away to take the checkered flag by more than two seconds. However, he was disqualified in post-race technical inspection, giving Pierce the win.
The $12,000 triumph is the Oakwood, IL driver’s 14th victory of the season—one he stated he’ll take knowing how hard it is to reach Eldora’s Victory Lane.
“You always hate to see that for other competitors, knowing how hard everyone works,” Pierce said. “I know it’s a kick to them, but we’ll take it. Anytime we can get on this stage here, no matter what happened, we’ll take it.
“We felt like it was almost our race to win there anyway. Normally this stuff doesn’t happen to me. I don’t get that good luck. I’m really appreciative to get it.”
Kyle Bronson, who led the first 15 laps of the Feature, finished second.
The Brandon, FL driver said his handling was good at the start but struggled with it once he reached lap traffic.
“We took off pretty good there,” Bronson said. “We had a pretty good car. I got a little tight when I caught them lap cars, and I just got up there and got my spoiler knocked off, and then it got really free.
“I just have to do a better job when I catch those cars, and we have to do a few little tweaks to the car to get it better for me.”
Mason Zeigler finished third, Brandon Sheppard was fourth, and Jonathan Davenport rounded out the top five.
Group B Preliminary Feature- Dale McDowell
Many years of experience in traffic paid off for Dale McDowell in Friday’s second preliminary Feature.
The veteran driver chased Josh Rice in the final five laps of the race, inching closer to traffic directly ahead of them.
The “Mac Daddy” finally saw his opportunity to strike with two laps to go when Rice had to move away from the cushion. McDowell dove under Rice’s Rocket Chassis, sprinting away from the Verona, KY driver and earning the $12,000 triumph.
McDowell, from Chickamauga, GA, stated he was grateful to reach Eldora’s Victory Lane again.
“You don’t know how many times you get to be up here or come here and be competitive,” McDowell said. “I really cherish it and thank all you guys. It’s been a lot of fun, and I got a lot of good people behind us. But it’s a lot of fun pulling back up on this stage.”
Rice crossed the line second, narrowly missing out on a win after leading 23 laps. He said he’d never thought he’d be disappointed with a second-place finish at Eldora.
“If you’d have told me I would’ve run second and be disappointed, I would’ve said you were crazy,” Rice said. “First off, congrats to Dale. He was so much better than me in the air when I caught them lap cars. I was already pretty much married to the cushion.
“We were just one lap car short of 12 grand.”
Chris Madden rounded out the podium after starting seventh. The Gray Court, SC driver, stated he’s pleased with his Rocket Chassis heading into Saturday’s World 100.
“We had a great car tonight,” Madden said. “It’s just inches out there. We started [seventh] and made it to third. I’m very pleased with the balance of our car and pleased with the racetrack. Hopefully, we can get a good starting spot in the Heat Race tomorrow and start up toward the front in “The World.”
Garrett Smith crossed the line fourth, and Brian Shirley finished fifth.
UP NEXT: The DIRTcar Late Models return to Eldora Speedway on Saturday, Sept. 10, for the 52nd World 100. One driver will stand tall at the end of the night, earning a $55,000 prize at the end of 100 laps.
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A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[4]; 2. 40B-Kyle Bronson[1]; 3. 9Z-Mason Zeigler[2]; 4. 1-Brandon Sheppard[10]; 5. 49-Jonathan Davenport[11]; 6. 157-Mike Marlar[7]; 7. 39-Tim McCreadie[6]; 8. 19M-Wil Herrington[9]; 9. 20-Jimmy Owens[8]; 10. 7R-Kent Robinson[13]; 11. 25-Shane Clanton[14]; 12. 22-Chris Ferguson[16]; 13. 57-Zack Mitchell[15]; 14. 76-Brandon Overton[21]; 15. 55-Jeep Van Wormer[5]; 16. 16-Tyler Bruening[17]; 17. 8-Kyle Strickler[20]; 18. 29-Darrell Lanigan[18]; 19. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[22]; 20. 18-Shannon Babb[12]; 21. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[24]; 22. 9-Devin Moran[23]; 23. 111-Steven Roberts[19]; 24. (DQ) 7-Ricky Weiss[3]
A Feature 2 (25 Laps): 1. 17M-Dale McDowell[9]; 2. 11R-Josh Rice[1]; 3. 44-Chris Madden[7]; 4. 10S-Garrett Smith[10]; 5. 3S-Brian Shirley[3]; 6. 19R-Ryan Gustin[13]; 7. 17-Zack Dohm[4]; 8. 18C-Chase Junghans[5]; 9. 0-Scott Bloomquist[18]; 10. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[8]; 11. 1T-Tyler Erb[21]; 12. 2S-Stormy Scott[16]; 13. 23-John Blankenship[11]; 14. 18D-Daulton Wilson[12]; 15. 6-Victor Lee[24]; 16. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[17]; 17. 71-Hudson O'Neal[6]; 18. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[14]; 19. 3-Jon Henry[2]; 20. 15-James Rice[23]; 21. 25B-Mike Benedum[20]; 22. 31K-Kye Blight[22]; 23. 20C-Duane Chamberlain[19]; 24. 101-Forrest Trent[15]
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George Karl lost 19 of his first 21 games as an NBA coach. Tim Hardaway spent hours dribbling alone in an unfinished basement when it was too cold to go outside in his native Chicago. Theresa Grentz’s family lost all its belongings in a 1970 house fire, leaving her with only the yellow pajamas she was wearing at the time.
There were no signs that basketball immortality awaited any of them.
Now, they’re members of the most sought-after club in the game. Karl, Hardaway and Grentz are among 13 people who will be officially enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts on Saturday night — a group that largely was tied together by what they overcame on their way to a long list of accomplishments that include NCAA titles, NBA titles and Olympic gold medals.
“You learn from the adversity,” Grentz said Friday. “You don’t have to have everything perfect. You take what you have, make that work, make the most of what you have, not what you think you need. There we were, I had absolutely nothing, but yet tomorrow night — and I’m a nervous wreck about this — I’m going in the Hall of Fame.”
Karl was one of five people selected by the North American Committee, alongside West Virginia coach Bob Huggins, the late referee Hugh Evans and longtime NBA stars Manu Ginobili and Tim Hardaway.
Swin Cash, Marianne Stanley and Lindsay Whalen were selected by the women’s committee. Longtime coaches Del Harris and Larry Costello were picked by the contributor committee, while six-time All-Star Lou Hudson was chosen by the veterans committee. Grentz — who played for the legendary Immaculata program and guided Rutgers to the final AIAW title in 1982 — was chosen by the women’s veteran committee and FIBA Hall of Famer Radivoj Korac by the international committee.
Karl’s career as an NBA coach started in 1984 with the Cleveland Cavaliers, starting 0-9 and 2-19, but rallying that season to face Boston in the opening round of the playoffs. The Celtics won the series 3-1, and Karl remains of the belief that the Celtics got favorable whistles.
“They got all the calls,” Karl lamented.
Maybe so. But half a lifetime later, Karl got the Hall’s call.
Harris’ coaching career included him working with numerous Hall of Fame players — Rick Barry, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Yao Ming and Magic Johnson among them — along with some sure-fire future ones like Dirk Nowitzki.
“To think that still, somehow or another, I contributed to the game and not just played it or coached it, it’s more humbling to me than anything I would have ever thought about,” Harris said.
Hardaway was a finalist four other times for the Hall, never getting in. This year’s call from Hall of Fame President and CEO John Doleva was one he didn’t want to take, for fear that he was about to go 0-for-5.
“Shaking, sweating, lot of emotions going on,” Hardaway said of that moment. “Saw the Hall of Fame number come through my phone. Did not want to answer the phone because I didn’t want to take another rejection.”
He’ll never have to worry about that again.
Whalen, a four-time WNBA champion and now the coach at her alma mater Minnesota, said one of the first great teams she saw in person was the 2002 UConn Huskies — a team that featured Cash. And it wasn’t lost on Whalen that she is entering the Hall alongside Cash, Grentz and Stanley, who also played at Immaculata before embarking on a long coaching career.
“Myself and Theresa, Marianne, Swin, going in together, I think we represent a lot of what’s been great with women’s basketball over the years,” Whalen said. “And I think there’s young girls and women right now that are sitting there that are seeing us and that can become a realistic goal and dream for them if they work hard.”
Among the five presenters that Cash selected to be alongside her for Saturday’s ceremony is her UConn coach, Geno Auriemma.
Cash lauded Auriemma for his constant pursuit of nothing but excellence.
“You were trying to be the best and practices were always harder than a game,” said Cash, a two-time NCAA champion, three-time WNBA champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist and now part of the front office with the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans. “But that prepared you mentally to understand what you wanted to achieve. And every year, the bar was a national championship. With some people, the bar is a conference championship or ‘Hey, we made the tournament.’ Whereas, at Connecticut, we hang banners.”
Also now members of the Hall are three selections made by the Early African-American Pioneer Committee: Wyatt “Sonny” Boswell, Inman Jackson and Albert “Runt” Pullins — all of them, among other things, having been members of the Harlem Globetrotters.
Huggins — who, like Whalen, is also coaching at his alma mater — deflected credit for his 916 career wins as a college coach, 844 of those coming at the Division I level.
“Good players,” Huggins said. “I’ve been fortunate.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz and Frances Tiafoe engaged in a high-level, high-energy spectacle of a back-and-forth semifinal at the U.S. Open — no point over when it seemed to be, no ball out of reach, no angle too audacious.
One sequence was so stuffed with “What?! How?!” moments by both men that Arthur Ashe Stadium spectators were on their feet before it was over and remained there, clapping and carousing, while watching a replay on the video screens.
Ultimately, enough of the winners went Alcaraz’s way, and too many of the mistakes came from Tiafoe’s racket. And so it was Alcaraz who surged into his first Grand Slam final — and, in the process, gave himself a chance to become No. 1 at age 19 — by ending Tiafoe’s run at Flushing Meadows with a 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3 victory on Friday night.
“It was so electric. I mean, the tennis definitely matched the hype of the match. Unbelievable shot-making, gets, extending points, crazy shots … at crazy times,” Tiafoe said. “Yeah, I was getting riled up.”
Alcaraz appeared to seize control by grabbing nine of 10 games in one stretch and could have ended the evening when he held a match point in the fourth set. But Tiafoe, who is ranked 26th, saved it and soon was yelling, with some colorful language mixed in for emphasis, “I’m putting my heart on the line!” Soon after that, Tiafoe was forcing a fifth set by improving to a U.S. Open-record 8-0 in tiebreakers.
Still, Alcaraz showed no signs of fatigue despite playing a third five-setter in a row — including a 5-hour, 15-minute quarterfinal win that ended at 2:50 a.m. on Thursday, the latest finish in tournament history — and was better when he needed to be, taking four of the last five games.
“I feel great right now,” Alcaraz said nearly two hours after beating Tiafoe, then added: “I mean, a little bit tired.”
Now No. 3 Alcaraz will face No. 7 Casper Ruud for the championship Sunday with so much on the line: The winner will become a major champion for the first time and lead the rankings next week.
“It’s amazing to be able to fight for big things,” Alcaraz said.
Alcaraz and Tiafoe were both making their major semifinal debuts and offered an exceptionally entertaining performance for a little more than a set, and a little more than an hour, at the start, then again for the latter portion of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth.
Tiafoe, a 24-year-old from Maryland who eliminated 22-time Grand Slam champ Rafael Nadal in the fourth round, played to a sellout crowd of more than 23,000 that included former first lady Michelle Obama, often asking for — and receiving — more noise. No surprise, given he was the first American man in the semifinals at Flushing Meadows in 16 years.
“I feel I let you goys down,” Tiafoe said during an unusual chance for a match’s loser to address the crowd in an on-court interview. “This one hurts. This one really, really hurts.”
Alcaraz, who’s from Spain, is popular around the world, widely recognized as a future star of the sport, and he is now the youngest U.S. Open men’s finalist from any country since Pete Sampras won the trophy at 19 in 1990.
When Alcaraz went up 2-0 in the fourth, spectators regaled him with a soccer-style song of “Olé, Olé, Olé! Carlos!”
“People love to see that guy play, so they were getting behind him, too,” Tiafoe said. “Obviously I would have loved to win tonight, but I think tennis won tonight. I think the crowd got what they expected. I just wish I was the one who got the ‘W.’”
Afterward, Alcaraz spoke first in English, then in Spanish, telling his supporters that they helped him fight for “every point, every ball.” He tapped his chest as he said this was “for my family, for my team, for me, for all of you.”
During the day’s first semifinal, which featured a 55-shot point to end the first set, folks called out the winner’s last name — “Ruuuuud!” — and it sounded as if they were booing, rather than saluting. Ruud won that lengthy rally and built an early lead and route to beating Karen Khachanov 7-6 (5), 6-2, 5-7, 6-2.
“Towards the end,” Ruud, a 23-year-old from Norway, said about the longest point of this U.S. Open, “the pulse was getting very high and the legs were almost shaking.”
Either Ruud, the runner-up to Nadal at the French Open in June, will make a six-place jump that represents the biggest move ever to No. 1 or Alcaraz will become the youngest man to get to the ATP’s top spot since the computerized rankings began in 1973.
There were so many memorable exchanges and scenes between Tiafoe and Alcaraz. One arrived in the second set’s third game, when Alcaraz saved a break point and went on to hold. A smiling Tiafoe jokingly climbed over the net to Alcaraz’s side, as if to go shake hands at match’s end.
If this semifinal had, indeed, concluded right then and there, no one could have complained about the product. It would proceed for a total of 4 hours, 19 minutes.
They wore matching shirts — red in front, white in back, burgundy on the side — and were every bit each other’s equal for lengthy stretches, including until 6-all in the opening tiebreaker.
Alcaraz, who by then already had saved four set points, offered up a fifth by sending a backhand wide, then made converting that one easy for Tiafoe by double-faulting. As the crowd roared, Alcaraz hung his head, walked to his sideline seat and smacked his equipment bag with his racket.
He regrouped and broke to go up in the second set, and a pivotal juncture arrived with Alcaraz serving at 5-3 but facing a break point. He snapped a cross-court forehand winner to erase that chance for Tiafoe, which began a run in which Alcaraz grabbed 11 consecutive points and 19 of 22 to own that set and a 4-0 lead in the third.
As on that forehand, Alcaraz often rips the ball with abandon — and, somehow, with precision, too, aiming for the lines and finding them. He won no fewer than three first-set points with shots that caught the outer edge of the white paint with no margin to spare.
After one, Tiafoe went over for a little light-hearted exchange with Alcaraz’s coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, the 2003 French Open champion who briefly was No. 1 himself. Yet make no mistake: Alcaraz is not some hang-back baseliner. He has a varied, all-court game and showed off his skills by winning points via acrobatic volleys, feathered drop shots and perfectly parabolic lobs.
Other than that lull in the second and third sets, and late in the fifth, Tiafoe was exceptional, too, and having the time of his life all the while.
“I’m going to be back,” Tiafoe said, “and I will win this thing one day.”
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MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Scott Dixon knows IndyCar’s tightest championship race in nearly 20 years would have probably been long decided if not for a rare gaffe by “The Iceman” in the Indianapolis 500.
Dixon was the dominant car at Indianapolis in May and led 95 laps until a late speeding penalty took the New Zealander out of contention. Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Marcus Ericsson instead won the race and, because the Indy 500 is worth double points, Ericsson was suddenly thrust into the IndyCar championship race.
But if Dixon had not been speeding, he’d have maybe scored the win, or at minimum finished higher than 21st. Ericsson received 109 points for the victory; Dixon earned just 33 in a crushing disappointment that may have ultimate implications on the championship.
Will Power is the points leader headed into Sunday’s season finale, a five-driver battle that is the tightest in IndyCar since 2003 when the series was called “The IRL.” Power leads Dixon and his Team Penske teammate Josef Newgarden by 20 points. Ericsson is 39 points out of the lead, with McLaughlin of Penske in fifth and 41 points out.
Going just a touch slower down pit road way back in May would have likely sent Dixon into Laguna Seca Raceway with a sizeable lead in the standings in pursuit of a record-tying seventh championship.
“Yeah, I think had we finished even in the top-three, this championship would be pretty easy right now,” Dixon told The Associated Press. “But I can’t change that. It’s history. It’s long gone. And you’ve got to move forward.”
Dixon recovered from Indianapolis to win at Toronto, where he tied Mario Andretti for second on IndyCar’s wins list, and win No. 53 moved him past Andretti when he won at Nashville in August. That second win of the season moved him back into title contention, and his drive from 16th to third last week at Portland made him a serious challenger to Power come Sunday.
Should he win that title, it would move Dixon to the mystical number seven, the record mark across the top series in the world. AJ Foyt holds the IndyCar record with seven titles, Richard Petty, the late Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson won seven in NASCAR, and Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton each have seven F1 titles.
Dixon doesn’t even entertain the idea of joining the exclusive club.
“It’s great to talk about after your accomplishments, but I’ve got six, I don’t have seven,” Dixon told AP. “I think I like seven because it is more than six. If you look at the historical side of it, or if you look at motorsports or other sports in general, seven is definitely at the top of the heap and it would of course be very special. But I have six now and that’s the facts.”
Dixon and the Chip Ganassi Racing fleet used their final test of the season at Laguna Seca, while Team Penske used its last test at Portland and went 1-2 in the race with McLaughlin and Power. It has sent two Ganassi drivers and three Penske drivers into the title decider, and the two teams have combined to win 14 of IndyCar’s last 16 championships.
Ganassi is winner of the last two championships and has come out on top in 10 of the title fights, in part because of the Ganassi philosophy to race for the greater organization. They view Team Penske as a three singular efforts with the only team orders being that the best driver wins.
It’s made for some tension in the Penske camp, particularly during a Pebble Beach media event for the contenders, where Newgarden seemed aloof as his rivals enjoyed their morning on the iconic golf course.
Newgarden, who has won a series-high five races this year and overcame an apparent concussion suffered in August, later revealed he’s had some internal struggles this season. He’s had to apologize to his crew at times, and explained it away as “an issue with trying to be a perfectionist in everything that I do.
“The more years you do this, the more you demand that excellence and perfection,” Newgarden said. “(When) it gets derailed, the easier it is to upset you. That’s been the case for me. Because I’m such a perfectionist, the longer I’ve done this, the harder it gets. If you’re a perfectionist and you do this sport long enough, and that starts to turn into an expectation that can frustrate you when it doesn’t transpire, that can be a negative.
“I felt it was a negative the way I was reacting to it, and it was just a buildup of one too many races not going according to plan was really the issue with it.”
Things seem much calmer in the Ganassi camp, even as the team remains divided over reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou’s decision to leave at the end of the season. Ganassi says he’s got Palou under contract through 2023, but Palou says he’s signed to drive from McLaren. The dispute is winding through both mediation and the court system.
Dixon, who is in his 20th season with Ganassi and the team’s most tenured driver, does not speak to Palou and is unsure if Palou will do anything to assist him in Sunday’s championship race. Ericsson does speak to Palou (as does Jimmie Johnson) and said there is no confusion over the rules of engagement at Ganassi.
“Always from the first day you enter Ganassi, it’s always about the team. You work with your teammates, you win with your teammates, and you lose with your teammates,” Ericsson said. “It’s pretty clear for Chip that we want to win a championship. For me, I want it to be me, but if I can’t, I want (Dixon) to do it. I would help for sure.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
11:55 p.m.
Carlos Alcaraz has advanced to the U.S. Open final by beating Frances Tiafoe 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3.
The 19-year-old from Spain will try to join 1990 champion Pete Sampras, who was also 19, as the only teenagers to win the U.S. Open in the professional era that began in 1968.
The No. 3 seed will play No. 5 seed Casper Ruud of Norway on Sunday in the final. The winner of that match will move up to No. 1 in the rankings on Monday.
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11:15 p.m.
Frances Tiafoe has used his perfect play in tiebreakers at the U.S. Open to send the semifinals to a fifth set.
Tiafoe won a tiebreaker from Carlos Alcaraz for the second time in the match, winning it 7-5 to improve to 8-0 in tiebreakers in the tournament.
Pete Sampras has the record for most tiebreakers without a loss in the U.S. Open, going 7-0 in 2000.
Tiafoe also won a tiebreaker in the first set before Alcaraz won the second and third sets.
The winner will face No. 5 Casper Ruud on Sunday.
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10 p.m.
Carlos Alcaraz rolled to a 6-1 win in the third set against Frances Tiafoe to move one set away from the U.S. Open final.
The No. 3 seed won 13 of the first 14 points en route to a 4-0 lead and wrapped up the set in just 33 minutes.
Alcaraz had a 25-9 advantage in total points won in the third.
The winner will play No. 5 Casper Ruud.
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9:30 p.m.
Carlos Alcaraz has evened the second U.S. Open men’s semifinal against Frances Tiafoe.
After Tiafoe took the opening set in a tiebreaker, the No. 3 seed from Spain answered by taking the second 6-3.
Alcaraz earned the first service break of the match to open a 4-2 lead and went on to hand the 22nd-seeded Tiafoe his second lost set of the tournament.
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8:40 p.m.
Frances Tiafoe has won the first set against Carlos Alcaraz by extending his perfect record in tiebreakers in this U.S. Open.
Tiafoe won it 8-6 when Alcaraz double-faulted on the 22nd-seeded American’s fifth set point. That made him 7-0 in tiebreakers in this tournament.
Alcaraz had dropped a pair of them in his five-set victory over Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals.
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8:20 p.m.
Frances Tiafoe got a thumbs-up and a shout from Michelle Obama during the first set of his U.S. Open semifinal match against Carlos Alcaraz.
The former first lady is sitting in a front-row seat behind one of the baselines. She and Tiafoe exchanged thumbs-up to each other and she shouted out his name.
Tiafoe is the first American man to make the U.S. Open semifinals since 2006 and with a win would become the first Black man from the U.S. in a major final since MaliVai Washington was the runner-up at Wimbledon in 1996.
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7:35 p.m.
Frances Tiafoe and Carlos Alcaraz have started the match that will determine the second U.S. Open men’s finalist.
Tiafoe is trying to become the first American man to play for the title in New York since Andy Roddick in 2006. He is in his first major semifinal.
So is Alcaraz, the No. 3 seed who got to the semifinals by edging Jannik Sinner in a match that ended at 2:50 a.m., the latest finish ever at the U.S. Open.
The winner will play No. 5 seed Casper Ruud on Sunday.
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6:15 p.m.
Casper Ruud moved into his second Grand Slam final of the year by beating Karen Khachanov 7-6 (5), 6-2, 5-7, 6-2.
The No. 5 seed from Norway will play either No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz or No. 22 Frances Tiafoe on Sunday in the final.
Ruud also kept alive his hopes of moving to No. 1 in the rankings on Monday.
Ruud lost to Rafael Nadal at the French Open his first time playing for a major title.
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5:35 p.m.
Karen Khachanov has forced a fourth set in his U.S. Open men’s semifinal match against Casper Ruud.
Khachanov broke Ruud’s serve in the final game to win the third set 7-5.
The fifth-seeded Ruud won the first two sets 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Khachanov, seeded 27th, won five-set matches in the previous two rounds to reach his first major semifinal.
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5:20 p.m.
New partner, same destination for Caty McNally.
McNally earned a second straight trip to the women’s doubles final by teaming with fellow American Taylor Townsend for a 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over the 12th-seeded team of Caroline Dolehide and Storm Sanders.
McNally lost in the final last year with Coco Gauff, who recently reached No. 1 in the women’s doubles rankings. But she and partner Jessica Pegula, who were the No. 2 seeds, were ousted in the first round.
The 20-year-old McNally went on to pair up in New York with Townsend, who returned to the tour this year after giving birth to a son in March 2021.
The duo lost the first set in 26 minutes and fell behind 2-0 in the second before mounting their rally.
McNally and Townsend will play the No. 3-seeded team of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova in Sunday’s final.
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4:50 p.m.
Casper Ruud is a set away from the U.S. Open final after easily winning the second set against Karen Khachanov.
The No. 5 seed from Norway won it 6-2 in 33 minutes. The first set went to a tiebreaker, which Ruud won 7-5 in 58 minutes.
He is trying to reach his second major final of the year, having lost to Rafael Nadal at the French Open.
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4:15 p.m.
Casper Ruud won a 55-shot rally to wrap up a tiebreaker and take the first set of his semifinal match against Karen Khachanov.
The lengthy exchange of shots ended when Ruud hit a backhand down the line that Khachanov hit into the net, giving the Norwegian the tiebreak 7-5.
The fifth-seeded Ruud is trying to reach his second major final of the year. The No. 27-seeded Khachanov never has.
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3:15 p.m.
Casper Ruud is trying to reach his second Grand Slam final of the year in the opening men’s semifinal against Karen Khachanov.
The No. 5 seed from Norway lost to Rafael Nadal in the French Open final. He has a chance to reach No. 1 in the world rankings next week.
Khachanov, seeded 27th, earned his first berth in a major semifinal with consecutive five-set victories, including one over Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios in his previous match.
The winner will face No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz or No. 22 Frances Tiafoe.
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2:30 p.m.
Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury became the second team in the professional era to repeat as U.S. Open men’s doubles champions, beating Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski 7-6 (4), 7-5.
The top-seeded team joined the Hall of Fame duo of Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde in 1995 and ’96 as the only teams to go back-to-back in New York since 1968.
Salisbury ensured he will remain the No. 1 player in the doubles rankings with his 17th straight U.S. Open win, combining men’s and mixed doubles.
Koolhof and Skupski, the No. 2 seeds, were playing at the U.S. Open for the first time as a team.
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1:25 p.m.
The men’s singles semifinals highlight the day at the U.S. Open, where play on Arthur Ashe Stadium began with the men’s doubles final.
The top-seeded team of Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury were seeking a second straight U.S. Open title in that match against the No. 2 seeds, Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski.
That would be followed by the first semifinal between No. 5 Casper Ruud and No. 27 Karen Kkachanov. Ruud was trying to reach his second major final, having lost to Rafael Nadal at this year’s French Open. The other three semifinalists have all reached that level for the first time.
The night match pits No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz against No. 22 Frances Tiafoe, the first American man to reach the U.S. Open semifinals since Andy Roddick was the runner-up in 2006.
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Chron business columnist Chris Tomlinson writes a 95% good column about ol’ Sid.
Sid Miller appeared genuinely surprised when during floor debate over his 2011 bill requiring a sonogram before an abortion, Rep. Carol Alvarado brandished the foot-long probe a doctor would have to insert inside the patient to meet the law’s requirements.
“This is not the jelly-on-the-belly that most of you might think,” Alvarado, who today represents Houston in the state Senate, explained. “This is government intrusion at its best. We’ve reached a (new) high, a climax in government intrusion.”
I was on the House floor that day, and then-state Rep. Miller pulled himself together and stuck to his script. His bill eventually became law, marking a significant milestone on the road to banning abortion. He also guaranteed anti-abortion groups would support his 2014 campaign for agriculture commissioner.
Carrying a conservative culture-war bill has become a prerequisite for Republicans seeking statewide or federal office, even for the mostly administrative role of agriculture commissioner. The sonogram bill was Miller’s ticket to a well-paying, full-time, state job affecting millions of businesses and consumers daily.
This year, Miller is seeking reelection to lead the state agency that oversees farmers and ranchers and regulates the scales used to weigh our food.
Eight years in, Miller remains an avid culture warrior to absurd excesses. But he’s bumbled so many of his duties you’d think the former rodeo clown was performing an old schtick.
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His reelection campaign, though, rests on former President Donald Trump’s endorsement, despicable social media posts, and his anti-abortion bona fides. His record as commissioner takes a backseat to ultra-MAGA dogma.
Texas probably shouldn’t elect politicians to run agencies like the Agriculture Commission. But if we do it, vote on someone’s record, not their partisanship.
Tomlinson discusses a couple of Miller’s greatest hits, with some input from Miller’s failed primary opponent James White. You know that Sid Miller is an idiot and I know that Sid Miller is an idiot, but maybe there are some people who read the business section of the Chronicle who don’t know that, or at least don’t know the extent of it. The reason I docked a few points from this essay is simply that when one identifies a problem one ought to note the possible solutions to it, and here the clear solution to Sid Miller is Susan Hays, who has all the qualifications you could want in an Ag Commissioner along with an explicit promise to clean up the ethical and bureaucratic messes Miller has created. I’d be fine with mentioning any other candidates as well, but a quick perusal of their websites suggests that neither the Libertarians nor the Greens have an Ag Commissioner nominee among them. Which means hey, the choice is easy. But you have to note that there is one first. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106912 | 2022-09-10T17:12:27Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106912 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Trib gets at something that I’ve mentioned a couple of times.
Ever since the Uvalde elementary school shooting left 19 students and two teachers dead, blame for the delayed response has been thrust on local law enforcement. The school police chief was fired and the city’s acting police chief was suspended.
But the only statewide law enforcement agency, the Texas Department of Public Safety, has largely avoided scrutiny even though it had scores of officers on the scene. That’s in part because DPS leaders are controlling which records get released to the public and carefully shaping a narrative that casts local law enforcement as incompetent.
Now, in the wake of a critical legislative report and body camera footage released by local officials, law enforcement experts from across the country are questioning why DPS didn’t take a lead role in the response as it had done before during other mass shootings and public disasters.
The state police agency is tasked with helping all of Texas’ 254 counties respond to emergencies such as mass shootings, but it is particularly important in rural communities where smaller police departments lack the level of training and experience of larger metropolitan law enforcement agencies, experts say. That was the case in Uvalde, where the state agency’s 91 troopers at the scene dwarfed the school district’s five officers, the city police’s 25 emergency responders and the county’s 16 sheriff’s deputies.
The state police agency has been “totally intransparent in pointing out their own failures and inadequacies,” said Charles A. McClelland, who served as Houston police chief for six years before retiring in 2016. “I don’t know how the public, even in the state of Texas, would have confidence in the leadership of DPS after this.”
Instead of taking charge when it became clear that neither the school’s police chief nor the Uvalde Police Department had assumed command, DPS contributed to the 74-minute chaotic response that did not end until a Border Patrol tactical unit that arrived much later entered the classroom and killed the gunman.
“Here’s what DPS should have done as soon as they got there,” said Patrick O’Burke, a law enforcement consultant and former DPS commander who retired in 2008. “They should have contacted [the school police chief] and said: ‘We’re here. We have people.’ They should have just organized everything, said, ‘What are all of our resources?’ And they should have organized the breach.”
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[Despite testimony from DPS director Steve McCraw], DPS has sprung into action time and again when disaster strikes in Texas, which has proved key during mass shootings and public emergencies, local officials across the state said.
More than three decades ago, for example, state troopers helped local law enforcement confront a gunman after arriving within minutes of a shooting at a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, about 60 miles north of Austin. The shooter killed himself after a brief exchange of gunfire.
“They knew that people were dying, and so they acted,” said Suzanna Hupp, a former Republican state representative whose parents died during the 1991 Luby’s massacre. She said that didn’t happen in Uvalde, adding that “clearly there was a command breakdown there.”
In a 2013 chemical explosion in West, about 70 miles south of Dallas, state troopers immediately took control of the law enforcement response at the request of the county’s emergency management coordinator. And in the 2018 shooting at Santa Fe High School, about 30 miles south of Houston, state troopers quickly fired at the gunman, according to local law enforcement officials who initially responded. The rapid engagement by school police and DPS was key to the gunman surrendering, district and county officials said.
“DPS had a tremendous role in Santa Fe of stopping the killing because they were among the first to arrive and they actually did what they were supposed to,” said Texas City Independent School District trustee Mike Matranga, the district’s security chief at the time of the shooting. He added that, in Uvalde, DPS supervisors “should have essentially asked [Arredondo] to stand down due to his ineffectiveness and taken over.”
Police experts and lawmakers pointed to clear signs that they believe should have alerted emergency responders that no one was in control. Arredondo, who resigned from his elected City Council seat in July and was fired from the school district on Aug. 24, remained inside the hallway on the phone during the shooting. He said he was trying to find a key to the classroom that the gunman was in. Investigators later determined that the door was likely unlocked. The school police chief did not identify himself as the incident commander and told The Texas Tribune he never issued any orders; his lawyer later said his firing was unjust. In a letter, Arredondo’s attorneys said the police chief “could not have served as the incident commander and did not attempt to take that role” because he was on the front lines.
Separately, no command post was set up outside of the school, which lawmakers noted should have been an indicator to responding officers that no one was in charge.
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The disconnect over who should take charge and when exemplifies a need for detailed planning and frequent training between larger law enforcement agencies and smaller departments, police experts told ProPublica and the Tribune.
Larger agencies with more personnel, equipment and training should have agreements with school districts that clearly state that they will assume command upon arriving at critical incidents that include active shooters, hostage situations and explosive devices, said Gil Kerlikowske, a former Seattle police chief and CBP commissioner until 2017. He and other experts said that even if school police are designated as the lead, the role of every law enforcement agency in the region should be specified.
San Antonio, one of the state’s biggest police departments, has such agreements with local school districts and universities that name the bigger city police agency as the incident commander in the event of a mass shooting. After the Uvalde shooting, San Antonio police Chief William McManus met with school officials in his city and reminded them that his agency would take charge in an active shooter situation.
McManus, whose officers arrived in Uvalde after the gunman was killed, said in an interview that because of the confusion at the scene, he felt the need to emphasize how his department would respond to such an incident in San Antonio.
It is unclear what, if any, involvement DPS or another law enforcement agency had with the Uvalde school district’s mass shooting plan because those governmental bodies declined to release such documents or answer questions. The state police did not have a written memorandum of agreement with the school district outlining its role in such situations, according to DPS records.
Who’s in charge in these situations is a question I’ve raised a few times in writing about this, when the legislative report was released and when the HISD board addressed the question. This is an area where I believe the Lege can and should take action, by requiring school districts (and hell, colleges and universities and community colleges) to have some kind of agreement with either local or state law enforcement agencies and ensuring some minimum standards are met. It’s also a big question for DPS to answer: Why didn’t you take over at Uvalde? Steve McCraw has addressed that already, but I don’t think we should believe him. Certainly, not as long as DPS is being sued over its refusal to release its information to the public about their actions, anything McCraw says should be taken as self-serving first and foremost. And those same questions also go to Greg Abbott, who is McCraw’s boss and patron. Both of them have gotten away with doing nothing for a long time. We need to make sure that time runs out. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106935 | 2022-09-10T17:12:29Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106935 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
From their webpage, scroll down to Report 1 and Report 2:
- In the race for governor, Republican Greg Abbott leads Democrat Beto O’Rourke by 7% among likely voters, 49% to 42%, with 7% undecided and 1% intending to vote for Libertarian Mark Tippetts and 1% for the Green Party’s Delilah Barrios.
- Abbott holds a 29% (61% to 32%) lead over O’Rourke among white voters while O’Rourke holds a 57% (72% to 15%) lead over Abbott among Black voters, a 15% (53% to 38%) lead among Latino voters and a 9% (48% to 39%) lead among those voters with a mixed or other ethnic/racial identity.
- Abbott and O’Rourke are deadlocked at 45% among women voters, while Abbott enjoys an 18% (55% to 37%) lead over O’Rourke among men.
- In the race for lieutenant governor, Republican Dan Patrick leads Democrat Mike Collier by 6% among likely voters, 49% to 43%, with 8% undecided.
- Patrick holds a 26% (60% to 34%) lead over Collier among white voters while Collier holds a 63% (78% to 15%) lead over Patrick among Black voters, a 14% (51% to 37%) lead among Latino voters and a 5% (44% to 39%) lead among those voters with a mixed or other ethnic/racial identity.
- Collier holds a narrow 1% lead over Patrick among women voters (46% to 45%) while Patrick enjoys a 15% (54% to 39%) lead over Collier among men.
- In the race for attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton leads Democrat Rochelle Mercedes Garza by 3% among likely voters, 45% to 42%, with 10% undecided and 3% intending to vote for Libertarian Mark Ash.
- Paxton holds a 23% (56% to 33%) lead over Garza among white voters while Garza holds a 61% (75% to 14%) lead over Paxton among Black voters, a 16% (51% to 35%) lead among Latino voters, and a 15% (45% to 30%) lead among those voters with a mixed or other ethnic/racial identity.
- Garza holds a 5% lead over Paxton among women voters (45% to 40%) while Paxton enjoys a 13% (51% to 38%) lead over Garza among men.
In addition to the statewide election analysis of likely voters, the 2022 Texas Trends survey looks at the race for county judge in Harris County, the nation’s third largest county and Texas’ largest, with a population of more than 4.5 million residents.
While the non-election related reports we will subsequently release focus on all Harris County adults aged 18 years and older, this county-specific election report is based on the analysis of a sample population of 195 likely voters, with a confidence interval of +/- 7.0%. Given the small size of this population, caution should be used in interpreting the results due to the comparatively large margin of errors surrounding all of the estimates.
This county-specific election study is presented as the second report in the overall series, and it includes the preferences for candidates running for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general in addition to county judge.
- The vote intention in the race for Harris County judge is 52% for Democrat Lina Hidalgo and 42% for Republican Alexandra del Moral Mealer, with 6% undecided.
- This 10 percentage point lead by Hidalgo is notably higher than the 1 percentage point lead she garnered in the Hobby School election survey released in July.
- Del Moral Mealer holds a 19 percentage point advantage over Hidalgo among white voters, 58% to 39%.
- Hidalgo holds a 71 percentage point advantage over del Moral Mealer among Black voters, 79% to 8%, and a 44 percentage point advantage among Latino voters, 69% to 25%.
- Hidalgo enjoys a 14 percentage point lead over del Moral Mealer among women, 53% to 39%, but only a 2 percentage point lead among men, 50% to 48%.
- Del Moral Mealer enjoys a 16 percentage point lead over Hidalgo, 56% to 40%, among the combined Silent Generation/Baby Boomers cohort, and Hidalgo a comparable 16 percentage point lead over del Moral Mealer among Generation X, 54% to 38%.
- Hidalgo is the overwhelming favorite of the combined Millennials/Generation Z cohort, with a 40 percentage point lead in vote intention over del Moral Mealer, 67% to 27%.
That’s a lot to take in, but it’s all there on their site. Note that while this poll references the UH/Hobby poll from July that had Abbott up 49-44 and had Judge Hidalgo only up by one point, 48-47, this one is different in two ways. One is just simply that this poll is a collaboration between UH and TSU whereas the previous one was all UH. I don’t think that makes any real difference, but there it is anyway. The other is that the July poll of Harris County was (I assume, anyway) a separate sample of 321 voters, while this one is (again, I presume) a subsample of 195 likely voters from the larger all-state population of 1,312. I don’t know why they chose to do it this way, and I hope someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s how I read it.
The full data for the statewide report is here, and for the Harris County subsample here. My observations, bullet-point-style:
– The July poll was also post-Dobbs, so at least as far as these surveys go there’s not been any change in the overall environment since then. Insert anodyne statement about individual data points and move on.
– In the July poll, Beto was down five overall and led in Harris County by nine; in this poll Beto is down seven overall and leads in Harris County by 13 (it was 51-42 in July and it’s 53-40 in September, as you can see in the second report). Again, if there were a live feed of me as I typed up this post, you would have seen me shrug right there. Beto beat Cruz in Harris County by a 58-41 margin in 2018, and he’s within range of that in this poll, though as noted one with a higher-than-usual margin of error. All I’m saying here is that historically there’s been a relationship between the statewide percentage for a Dem candidate and that same candidate in Harris County. As such, in general if Beto is doing better in Harris I’d expect him to be doing better across the state. But we’ll see.
– That July poll had Mealer leading Hidlago among Latino voters by three points. This one has Hidalgo up among those same voters by 44. I feel very confident saying that it cannot be the case that both of those figures were accurate. Maybe they’re both off, but if one is right then the other is extremely wrong.
– I didn’t post the generational numbers for the statewide races, but overall Hidalgo did much better than the others. Of course, this is a subsample of a subsample, so be super duper cautious in drawing any conclusions from this. For what it’s worth, in the three statewide races the Dems were around 55% for the Millennial/Gen Z cohort and the Republicans were in the 30-35 range.
– The main reason Rochelle Garza is closer to Ken Paxton than Beto and Collier are to Abbott and Patrick is that Paxton has less support overall, clocking in at 45%. Most likely, this is just a number of Abbott/Patrick voters moving into the “don’t know” pile in this race. Maybe they’re really not sure how they’re voting, and maybe they’re Republicans who don’t want to admit, even in a webpanel, that they’re voting for Paxton. I do think Garza has a chance to be the top Dem performer, but I don’t think you can necessarily conclude that from this poll, as her level of support is in line with Beto and Collier. She did do best in Harris County, leading Paxton 54-36 in that sample, compared to 53-40 for each of the other two Dems.
– This is not the first poll I’ve seen this cycle that had Abbott getting about 15% of Black voters, which is about five points better than I’d normally expect. I don’t know if this is sample weirdness or if there’s something there, like the Trump bump among Latinos was visible in some 2020 polls, though not all.
– Finally, as far as Latino voters go, imagine me shrugging again. Some of what we saw in 2020 was low-propensity voters turning out, but not all of it. I genuinely have no idea what to expect. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106944 | 2022-09-10T17:12:36Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106944 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Some foundational rule changes are coming to MLB next year.
A pitch timer, limits on defensive shifts and bigger bases are coming to Major League Baseball in 2023.
Following recent experiments in the Minor Leagues, the recently formed Joint Competition Committee voted Friday in favor of three rule changes aimed at improving pace of play, action and safety at the MLB level.
The pitch timer, defensive shift limits and bigger bases were the only three rules proposed by MLB to the Joint Competition Committee — a voting body consisting of four active players, six members appointed by MLB and one umpire, that was created as part of the 2022-26 Collective Bargaining Agreement. Though the automatic ball-strike system (AKA “robot umps”) — and, alternatively, an ABS challenge system — has been experimented with in select Minor Leagues this season, a formal rule change proposal related to the ABS has not been made to the committee and is not expected for the 2023 season.
Read on for the details. I favor the pitch clock and I’m fine with the larger bases. I’m more ambivalent about banning the shift, but I think everyone agrees that the significant decrease in balls in play is a negative at least from an aesthetic fan-friendly perspective, and on those lines I can support it. I suspect it may take some time for the full effects of the changes to be felt – the sport will need to start growing contact hitters again, if nothing else – but we should begin to see them during the season. MLB has made big changes to respond to a drop in offense before – lowering the pitcher’s mound, reducing the strike zone – and I’m sure they will again some day as things evolve further. I’m looking forward to seeing how this plays out. ESPN has more. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106954 | 2022-09-10T17:12:44Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106954 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Conversation) – When people talk about how college athletes can now get paid from their name, image and likeness – more commonly referred to as “NIL” – the focus is often on players at schools with big-time sports programs.
This makes sense given the sheer size of some of the NIL deals that have been scored as of late by players who attend the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I schools, which tend to have larger student bodies and big budgets to support their athletic programs.
For instance, Paige Bueckers, star guard on the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team, stands to earn more than $1 million through deals with Gatorade and other companies.
University of Alabama quarterback Bryce Young is reportedly worth $3.2 million thanks to deals with Nissan, Dr. Pepper and the Dollar Shave Club, to name a few.
Even college cheerleaders are getting in on the action. After Cassidy Cerny, a cheerleader for Indiana University, was hoisted to retrieve a basketball that had gotten stuck behind the backboard during a March Madness game, a viral video of the episode led to a deal with Breaking T, a T-shirt company that produces shirts that capture moments in sports. The company immortalized the moment on a T-shirt. Cerny says she got about 15% – or $4.50 – per shirt.
With all the hype surrounding lucrative endorsement deals for athletes at Division I schools, it’s easy for people to get the impression that players at smaller schools – and community colleges in particular – could be left behind in what is now known as the “NIL era.”
But a study I did recently with Anita Moorman, a fellow professor of sport administration, suggests that’s not necessarily the case.
In an article we published in the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, we concluded that community college athletes can earn an estimated $48 per sponsored post on Instagram. Of course, that amount pales in comparison to the multimillion-dollar deals secured by some Division I athletes. But when you consider the fact that community college students often struggle to meet their basic needs, enabling those who are athletes to earn $48 by posting on Instagram seems a worthy endeavor to pursue.
The math behind the money
In order to arrive at our $48 figure, we had to come up with a way to calculate how much each player should get paid for each sponsored Instagram post.
To make our estimate, we didn’t look only at how many Instagram followers each player had. We also looked at how many “likes” and comments their posts generated.
We used a formula that basically takes into account how many followers an athlete has, as well as how many likes and comments the posts generate, and how much a company was willing to pay for those things. To figure out the part about how much a company is willing to pay, we took a look at the going rates.
Of the 23,248 athletes competing in the California Community College Athletic Association during the 2019-2020 athletic season, we found 1,168 athletes – or about 5% – who had public Instagram profiles with at least 1,000 followers. We treated these athletes as potential social media influencers and applied standard influencer marketing rates to figure out how much money they could make for each sponsored post on Instagram.
We figured that companies would be willing to pay $10 to reach 1,000 people.
Economic struggles
Based on our calculations, we found 11 community college athletes with an earnings estimate over $200 per sponsored post. An average male community college athlete could earn about $47 per post. And our calculations show that the average female athlete could earn $51 per sponsored Instagram post – $4 more than the men. This difference is driven by the ability of female athletes to generate more engagement on their Instagram posts.
Overall, almost 93% of the athletes in our sample had an NIL value estimate between $20 and $100 per sponsored post.
This is just a fraction of the average NIL value of a sponsored Instagram post for a Division I athlete, which is over $500. Still, every dollar counts, especially when you’re a community college student.
For the most part, community college athletes don’t get athletic scholarships.
Community college students commonly experience financial hardships that lead to a range of issues, including food and housing insecurities.
For those reasons, enabling community college athletes to profit from endorsements would put some in a better position to meet their basic needs while in school.
In order for community college students to reap the potential benefits of NIL deals, at least a couple of things need to happen.
Education is needed
First, community college athletes would benefit from greater access to education resources that can help them learn the ins and outs of NIL deals. This includes education on financial literacy, time management, personal brand development, contract negotiation and a host of other topics.
Since community colleges typically have less money than four-year colleges, we think it would be helpful if the athletic associations that govern sports at community colleges would provide these educational resources to the schools and their athletes, rather than leaving it to the schools to secure these resources on their own.
Some steps have already been taken in this regard. For instance, the California Community College Athletic Association announced a partnership with two companies – Spry and Accelerate – to provide all member institutions with NIL education. Spry is a company that provides a technology platform to help schools track and monitor NIL deals. Schools have an interest in tracking NIL deals to make sure they comply with athletic association policy, institutional policy and state law. Accelerate is a company that offers educational resources focused around NIL topics.
The National Junior College Athletic Association announced a similar partnership with Opendorse on August 17, 2022.
A bigger voice
Community college athletes are not typically included in the national NIL discussion. Congressional witness lists show that community college students are seldom, if ever, invited to congressional hearings on NIL issues.
Inviting community college students to the table would help broaden the scope of the discussion.
Although California amended its NIL legislation to grant community college athletes the same NIL rights afforded to their peers at four-year institutions, active NIL legislation in five other states – Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas – still contains language that expressly or implicitly excludes community college institutions. This shows that not all states are on the same page when it comes to granting community college athletes access to endorsement deals.
With all the Division I students who are capitalizing off endorsement deals, this is one of the most exciting times to be a college athlete. One estimate projected college athletes would earn almost $579 million during the 2021-2022 school year.
Another estimate suggests NIL earnings will increase to over $1.14 billion during the 2022-2023 school year.
It’s clear that Division I students will profit tremendously from NIL deals. The question for community college athletes is whether they’ll be able to profit, too, or whether they will be relegated to the sidelines. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/community-college-athletes-could-earn-48-per-instagram-post-under-the-right-conditions/ | 2022-09-10T17:14:35Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/community-college-athletes-could-earn-48-per-instagram-post-under-the-right-conditions/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) — How clean are the air and water in your state?
Using 2021 data, U.S. News and World Reports’ feature on the “Best States” has ranked U.S. states on several metrics, including economics, education and health care. The listing also measures natural environment, which is based on a state’s air/water quality and pollution levels.
Pollution was determined based on air and water emissions from industry and utilities, and overall measures to long-term human health effects, using information from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Below are the most polluted (no. 50-40) and least polluted (no. 10-1) in U.S. News’ Pollution Rankings.
States with the worst pollution
50. Louisiana
49. Nevada
48. Indiana
47. Delaware
46. Utah
45. Ohio
44. Oregon
43. Tennessee
42. Illinois
41. Alabama
40. Texas
Louisiana ranks dead last, coming in as the most-polluted state in the U.S., according to EPA information.
A January 2022 study by Tulane University found very high incidences of cancer in Louisiana, the second-highest in the U.S. At least 85 cancer cases per year in the state were due to exposure to high levels of air pollution, the study found. Authors included data for neighborhoods in an area between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, which is locally known as “Cancer Alley.”
The state of Nevada ranks as the second-most polluted state, according to EPA information. Just last year, Nevada ranked among the “unhealthiest” states for air quality in the American Lung Association’s State of the Air report.
At that time, Melissa Ramos, manager of the Nevada ALA’s Clean Air Advocacy, said the Classic Car loophole was partly to blame for the state’s high emissions. Under the state’s Classic Vehicle Insurance policies, vehicles bearing certain license plates are exempt from emissions testing. Some tightening of the laws on classic vehicles is coming Jan. 1, 2023, however.
The least polluted states
10. Idaho
9. Colorado
8. Maine
7. Rhode Island
6. California
5. Wyoming
4. New Mexico
3. South Dakota
2. New Hampshire
1. Vermont
The state of Vermont is aware of its relatively good bill of health.
The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources writes that “Vermont’s air quality is considered to be among the best in the nation.” The agency notes, however, that Vermont’s air is not pollutant-free.
Interesting: Even though California ranks sixth among the least polluted states, many of its cities rank among America’s most polluted. Research from the American Lung Association ranked cities by ozone pollution, year-round particle pollution, and short-term particle pollution. California areas that ranked in the ALA’s top 10 most polluted cities in all three pollution categories include Los Angeles-Long Beach, Bakersfield, Fresno-Madera-Hanford, and Sacramento-Roseville.
Pollutants
Six common air pollutants identified and regulated by the EPA are carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen oxides, ground-level ozone, particle pollution (also called “particulate matter”), and sulfur oxides. Other air pollutants include asbestos, fuel oils and kerosene, and benzene. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/the-10-most-polluted-states-in-the-us/ | 2022-09-10T17:14:42Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/the-10-most-polluted-states-in-the-us/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Arkansas football score vs. South Carolina: Live updates from SEC opener
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football opens SEC play Saturday (11 a.m. CT, ESPN) against South Carolina. The No. 17 Razorbacks (1-0) and Gamecocks (1-0) have not played each other since 2017.
South Carolina is coming off a season-opening 35-14 win over Georgia State. In his Gamecock debut, Oklahoma transfer quarterback Spencer Rattler threw for 227 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. South Carolina scored two of its four touchdowns on special teams.
Arkansas secured a top-25 win over Cincinnati in Week 1, the Razorbacks' fourth win over a ranked team under coach Sam Pittman.
Check back for live updates from Arkansas' SEC opener.
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Arkansas football's starters in the secondary vs. South Carolina with Catalon, Slusher out
FAYETTEVILLE — With Arkansas football's secondary depleted, the Razorbacks' starters at defensive back look quite different from Week 1. Against South Carolina (1-0), the No. 17 Razorbacks (1-0) will be without preseason All-American safety Jalen Catalon and starting nickelback Myles Slusher. Both players suffered unspecified injuries in the season opener against Cincinnati.
At safety, Georgia transfer Latavious Brini will start in place of Catalon. Brini filled in for the injured Catalon during the Cincinnati game, and coach Sam Pittman said he felt the senior held his own with big shoes to fill. Simeon Blair, who started at safety in Week 1, will do so again against the Gamecocks alongside Brini.
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At nickel in place of Slusher, sophomore Jayden Johnson will get his fourth career start.
At cornerback, Arkansas maintained its starters from last week: redshirt junior Hudson Clark and junior LSU transfer Dwight McGlothern. McGlothern had an interception and 51-yard return against Cincinnati in Week 1.
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The Cedar Creek Fire increased in size to 51,814 acres Saturday, and remains at 12% containment. Fire officials say the fire was active throughout the day Friday into the night on the west zone near Oakridge.
The communities of Oakridge, Westfir, and High Prairie were placed on Level 3 -Go Now!- evacuation orders Friday night.
The latest fire update shows the fire has reached north to Aufderheide Drive (Forest Road 19), and in some places spot fires crossed Highway 58 to the south at Kitson Ridge. Officials say the fire has not crossed west of Highway 19; firefighters are working to hold and improve the east side. Crews are working to keep the fire north of Forest Road 1928.
With east winds, low humidity, and high temperatures in the forecast Saturday, fire managers expect a day of “extreme” fire activity. They say this could involve “long range spotting” from embers and “crown runs” in tree tops. They also say a large smoke column will likely be visible by mid-morning Saturday. Extreme fire conditions could begin to ease on Sunday.
On Friday, Gov. Kate Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act. The latest updates can be found on the Cedar Creek Fire Facebook page.
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Updated September 10, 2022 at 1:03 PM ET
Michael Jennings, the Black pastor arrested while watering his neighbor's flowers, has filed a federal lawsuit against the police officers involved in his detainment.
The lawsuit also names the city of Childersburg, which oversees the police department that arrested Jennings, as a defendant.
Jennings, a longtime pastor at Vision of Abundant Life Church in Sylacauga, Ala., is represented by national civil rights attorney, Harry Daniels, and attorneys Bethaney Embry Jones, Joi Travis and Roderick Van Daniels. They hosted a news conference Saturday with the Alabama NAACP to discuss the case.
"I'm here for accountability, and I'm here for justice," Jennings said.
The lawsuit says Jennings is suffering with emotional distress and "significant PTSD type symptoms" that include nightmares and flashbacks.
He is asking for a jury to hear the case and to determine compensatory and punitive damages as well as money to cover the costs of the lawsuit, including attorneys' fees.
Alabama NAACP President Benard Simelton said in a statement to NPR that there are concerns about the officers' training.
"These poor judgment decisions reflect poorly on the type of training the Childersburg police officers receive ... if they were acting in accordance within police guidelines," he added.
The attorneys representing Jennings said the release of the body camera video will furthermore clear the way for "legal action against the officers and more."
"This video makes it clear that these officers decided they were going to arrest Pastor Jennings less than five minutes after pulling up and then tried to rewrite history claiming he hadn't identified himself when that was the first thing he did," Daniels said in a statement to NPR.
Jennings said he was doing a neighborly deed of watering his out-of-town neighbor's flowers, per their request, on May 22 when a Childersburg police officer showed up.
"I'm supposed to be here. I'm Pastor Jennings. I live across the street," Jennings told the officer in the body camera footage obtained by NPR.
"I'm looking out for their house while they're gone, watering their flowers," he said.
Following their arrival, police arrested Jennings and placed him in the back of a police cruiser — later charging him with obstructing government operations, according to a criminal complaint.
"When they first pulled up, I already knew that it was gonna be something," Jennings said in an interview with NPR.
Jennings recalls that when the police arrived at his neighbors' house, he immediately noticed the officers' behavior.
"[The officer] parked around back and walked around front. And immediately, you could tell by the tone of his voice I was already guilty," he said.
In the 20-minute video, a Childersburg police officer approaches Jennings as he is seen on camera watering plants in a yard. Once the officer approaches Jennings and asks him what he is doing, he replies: "Watering flowers."
The unidentified officer asks Jennings if a car parked in the neighbor's driveway belongs to him. Jennings responds to the officer saying the car belongs to his neighbor.
Later in the video, the officer asks the pastor if he lives at the home, and he says to the officer that he does not.
The exchange between Jennings and the officer leads to shouting as Jennings explains to the officers that he has done nothing wrong. He tells the officers: "I told him I'm a pastor. ... You want to lock me up, lock me up. ... Lock me up and see what happens. I want you to."
Jennings, a former police officer himself, is seen on video placed in handcuffs for not providing the officers with his identification.
The charges against Jennings were later dismissed by a municipal judge in June.
Throughout NPR's multiple reports on this incident, the Childersburg Police Department has not responded to NPR's request for comment.
Alabama law says that any officer "may stop any person abroad in a public place" if they suspect that the person is committing or has committed a felony or another public offense — and can demand the person's name, address and an explanation of their actions.
However, Jennings' attorneys emphasize in their statement that "Alabama's Stop and Identify Law did not require Pastor Jennings ... to identify himself because he was not in a public place."
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(NerdWallet) – Bringing a child into your family is a big decision, emotionally and financially. The process can be long and cost anywhere from less than $1,000 to more than $50,000. Here’s a breakdown of the different ways you can grow your family through adoption — and how much you could expect to spend.
How much does adoption cost?
The cost of adoption depends on the type of adoption you pursue. As you consider how you might want to move forward, keep in mind there are several ways to pay for adoption, from fundraisers and grants to personal loans.
Public agency adoption
How it works: Adopting children through the public welfare system often means beginning as a foster parent. Each state has its own agency, which oversees licensing, education, placement and support for adoptive families.
What it costs: Adoption from foster care is a low-cost option for parents. Child Welfare Information Gateway, a service of the Children’s Bureau under the federal Office of the Administration for Children and Families, characterizes foster care adoption as “virtually free of cost.” The majority of foster adoptions cost less than $1,000, according to the most recent Adoptive Families magazine adoption cost survey conducted in 2016-17.
This path to adoption is inexpensive because of state and federal adoption assistance programs put in place to make it more accessible and appealing to adopt children who are in foster care. These children are often older and may have experienced trauma or have special needs.
Helpful resource: The Children’s Bureau offers a state-by-state guide to adoption assistance.
Private adoption
How it works: Parents can work with an adoption agency or attorney to find and adopt children in the U.S. Generally, the process of adopting a child is similar whether you work through a private agency or independently with the help of an attorney. It involves a home study, placement, counseling, training and legal documentation.
What it costs: The cost of a private adoption varies. Working with an agency, you can expect to spend between $30,000 and $60,000, according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway. It’s slightly less expensive to pursue an independent adoption, which involves working with an attorney. That process ranges in cost from $25,000 to $45,000. Private adoptions are more likely to involve newborns. That means in addition to paying for the adoption process, you would also cover the birth mother’s medical and other expenses.
Intercountry adoption
How it works: This path involves working with private or public adoption agencies in countries outside the United States. The process and fees vary by country and depend on the organization you work with, which could be a government office, agency, orphanage, nonprofit or an individual like an attorney. Some aspects of the process are unique. You’ll have to work through the immigration process, including applying for passports and travel visas, and navigate foreign legal systems. The road can be long. Child Welfare Information Gateway estimates intercountry adoption can take one to five years to complete.
What it costs: On average, intercountry adoption costs $20,000 to $50,000.
Expenses that may arise when adopting a child
Home study
A home study marks the beginning of the adoption process.
During a home study, prospective parents — and their family members — are checked out to make sure they would provide a safe and loving place for a child. A home study requires you to produce documents, including financial statements, employment records and a letter from your doctor about your latest physical. You’d also undergo background checks and interviews. This evaluation phase can cost from $2,000 to $4,000, according to The Gladney Center for Adoption, an adoption agency based in Fort Worth, Texas. That price may be adjusted based on your family’s income.
This step in the process also includes education and training. Some of it may be provided by the state agency that administers the home study at a cost ranging from $300 to $600. Additional hours of training are likely required and would be done on your own through books or online courses, which can cost $100 to $200 per person.
Lastly, during the home study, you’ll agree to a post-placement reporting phase. In the United States, a social worker visits the family multiple times over a six-month period after the child has been placed in the home. Fees for post-placement reporting can range from $1,500 to $2,000.
Search fees
When working with a private agency or an attorney, a major expense in the process goes to searching for and getting matched with a birth mother. Fees for a consultant and advertising may be rolled into an adoption agency’s overall fee. But if you’re pursuing an independent adoption, you’ll likely pay for these services separately and costs can range more widely, depending on how and where you want to advertise. The Gladney Center estimates consulting and advertising can cost between $3,000 and $7,000 for an independent adoption.
Birth mother expenses
People adopting a newborn will be responsible for paying the birth mother’s expenses. This can include medical bills and some living expenses, as well as counseling, legal fees and travel. The Gladney Center estimates these expenses can cost between $6,000 and $8,000 for parents pursuing a private adoption.
Legal fees
There are a lot of legal requirements in adoption, including terminating the rights of the birth parents, court filings, negotiating birth mother expenses and finalizing the adoption after the post-placement reporting period. An adoption agency may roll some of these expenses into its overall fee.
If you’re pursuing an independent adoption, legal fees will be the bulk of your expenses, costing between $7,000 and $15,000.
Travel
Travel costs can crop up for domestic adoptions, though they’re most significant in intercountry adoptions. Distance is a key factor in how much you’ll pay for travel. Another is time. You might be waiting days or weeks for the final legal approval to bring a child home, especially when crossing state lines or country borders.
For private domestic adoptions, you could pay up to $3,000 in travel expenses, according to the Gladney Center. (You could look at getting a travel credit card to offset some of those expenses.)
Estimates vary for intercountry adoption-related travel. The cost can depend on the country where the child is living and the organization you’re working with. In a cost estimate on its website, New Beginnings — an international adoption agency based in New York — says the adoption of a child in South Korea could include $6,000 to $9,000 in travel expenses. The Child Welfare Information Gateway advised in a September 2020 intercountry adoption guide that adoptive parents are often required to be in the child’s country to finalize the adoption. It may require multiple, extended visits.
Raising a child
Adoption in itself can be a long and expensive process, but that’s only a precursor to the full cost of raising a child. New parents should budget for those expenses, which can top $21,000 in the first year alone. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/how-much-does-it-cost-to-adopt-a-child/ | 2022-09-10T17:31:58Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/how-much-does-it-cost-to-adopt-a-child/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(WTRF/NEXSTAR) – Passengers flying with Spirit Airlines erupted in applause after a nurse helped save a baby who stopped breathing on a recent flight, video from the plane shows.
The incident, which unfolded on a flight from Pittsburgh to Orlando, was first reported by Ian Cassette, a meteorologist for Orlando news outlet WOFL. Cassette was also a passenger on the flight, where he captured video of the relieved passengers.
On Twitter, Cassette explained that the 3-month-old baby’s parents were “terrified” when the child stopped breathing. Luckily, nurse Tamara Panzino was also on the flight, and reportedly massaged the baby’s chest and legs until she started breathing again, according to WOFL.
In the video, the baby can even be seen smiling after the incident.
“We thank our crew and Guest for the quick response,” a representative for Spirit Airlines said in a statement shared with Nexstar.
“Our Flight Attendants are trained to respond to medical emergencies onboard and utilize several resources, including communicating with our designated on-call medical professionals on the ground, using onboard medical kits, and receiving assistance from credentialed medical professionals traveling on the flight.”
It’s unclear what caused the infant to stop breathing, though her parents indicated that they had never experienced any similar incidents in the past, according to Cassette. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/nurse-on-spirit-airlines-flight-helps-save-baby-who-stopped-breathing/ | 2022-09-10T17:32:04Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/nurse-on-spirit-airlines-flight-helps-save-baby-who-stopped-breathing/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“I think I know why you’re here,” TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey coyly told the Friday night crowd gathered to see the world’s biggest pop star. Taylor Swift had arrived in Toronto already a victor— her short film “All Too Well” won the VMA for video of the year a few weeks earlier, and she had a 35mm print of the film made specifically for this chat with Bailey, as part of TIFF’s In Conversation series. Over the next hour she screened the film—which, like many of the films premiering at TIFF this week, is eligible for Oscar consideration— and gifted the audience with the mental image of Nora Ephron brandishing a machete, among many other things.
She came prepared to dive deep into the movies, and not just when it came to her filmmaking. Swift cited cinematic inspirations for her music career, from John Hughes movies as an influence on 1989 to Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility inspiring her most recent album, Evermore. For All Too Well, she referenced love stories where characters are “beautifully woven together and they just unravel the braid in front of you,” such heartbreakers like The Way We Were and Love Story.
Swift said took “baby steps” toward the directors’ chair, including learning the process of filming 35mm and directing her actors— she said she’s still moved watching the performance from Sadie Sink, who was in attendance. As ever, she knew how to work the crowd. In complimenting Dylan O’Brien’s performance, she playfully described his magnetism in the role as “charismatic-problematic.” Bailey rebutted, “Chasimatic-problematic: definition of a boyfriend.” Swift deadpanned: “an ex-boyfriend.”
Swift also spoke at length about the female directors who inspired her, including Chloe Zhao’s handheld photography and the work of Greta Gerwig and Lena Dunham. For All Too Well, she cited Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir as a recent influence. She was most effusive about trailblazing female filmmakers, and their work in shifting the tides of perception. “And we have so many female filmmakers to thank for that,” she said, “There’s people who paved the path, and then there’s Nora Ephron in the forest with a machete, just hacking so the path will be paved.”
But she also recognized her privileged position to make her film at all. “When we talk about female filmmakers,” she said, “I also realize there are people that are working so hard to get financing, to get any type of budget together to make the productions and projects they want to make. So I honestly bow down, tip my hat to those female filmmakers.”
When asked whether she might venture into other genres of filmmaking, she stated she envisioned herself continuing to make “human stories about human emotion,” while declining to confirm anything specific.
More noticeably absent from the conversation were any details of her forthcoming album Midnights, nor any mention of Oscar hopes for the short film. After multiple missed bids in the original song category for her contributions to such films as The Hunger Games and Cats, this TIFF event is an ideal launchpad for Swift to break into the live action short category, where she’d be in good megastar company— Riz Ahmed and Kobe Bryant are among the recent short film Oscar winners.
But you don’t always have to say you deserve to be nominated for an Oscar; you just have to exude it. Swift was dressed entirely in gold. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/awards-insider-taylor-swift-all-too-well-toronto | 2022-09-10T17:34:02Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/awards-insider-taylor-swift-all-too-well-toronto | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What worries I might have had about the film Bros, the first studio-released romantic comedy about gay men that stars out gay actors, are pretty quickly allayed in director Nicholas Stoller’s charming film. Co-written by and starring comedian Billy Eichner, Bros is certainly aware that it’s taking some big steps into the mainstream and is cognizant of the attendant responsibility of that. But the film doesn’t let itself be hampered by its accomplishment. Instead, Bros leans into the giddy little revolution of its own existence, inviting the audience into a good, gay time that hasn’t exactly happened, in this way, before.
Of course, to make those leaps into the multiplex ecosystem, some compromises had to be made. Stoller is straight, unlike Andrew Ahn, who directed this summer’s Hulu-released gay comedy Fire Island. Judd Apatow, a prolific purveyor of straight-boy comedy for over two decades now, is a producer whose influence on the film is felt throughout. But Bros never feels like a gay movie whose mandate is to be palatable to straight people. The film is directly in dialogue with its own community, or at least some subset of that amorphous and ever-expanding group.
Eichner plays Bobby, a popular podcast host and public wit who has been given the chance of a lifetime: he’s part of a committee assembled to design and program the nation’s first-ever LGBTQ+ history museum. Identity is at the fore in Bobby’s life, he’s fashioned all his caustic and voluble observations about his own queerness (and, let’s be honest, that of others) into a prodigious career.
In all that outsized assertion, Bobby has isolated himself. (I don’t think it’s an accident that he shares a name with the lonely confirmed bachelor of Stephen Sondheim’s Company.) He’s 40 and single, outwardly wary of commitment for vaguely political reasons—why settle down like the straights?—but inwardly wracked with anxiety. He figures he’s too hairy, too loud, too flamboyant, and certainly not brawny enough to exist at the hot, white (decidedly white) center of New York City’s gay galaxy.
This is a familiar concern, one expressed in myriad artistic forms over the years, albeit in media far less commercial than a major motion picture. The gaze of Grindr presents a narrow little world of suspiciously muscled hunks, shirtlessly enjoying their lives while everyone else watches on, horny and aching, from the sidelines. That tension is made manifest in Bobby’s life when he meets Aaron (Luke Macfarlane), just such a gym god with a deep voice who, somehow, seems interested in Bobby.
As Bros rambles along, Bobby and Aaron negotiate their differences, both the superficial and the more foundational. Aaron isn’t quite a parody of masc-for-masc self-loathing—Bros is, in all its arch verve, too humane a film for that—but there’s an uneasiness at his center that could be interpreted as denial. Bobby, meanwhile, has become rigid in all his supposed big-minded understanding; he’s so convinced he has figured out the gay forest that he keeps missing its trees.
Anyone familiar with Eichner’s loopy television series Billy on the Street will recognize the particular brand of reference-y, biting humor that gives Bros its acerbic pep. What’s new is a layer of sweetness and introspection, an Apatovian wistfulness that rounds out the film’s prickly edges. Eichner proves as adept at semi-seriousness as he is at comedy. Maybe even more so—some of my favorite moments in the film are when Bobby (and, probably, Billy) takes a break from his routine to sincerely explain himself, to expound on his own nature in a rare expression of vulnerability.
Bros juggles its intra-social politics well. Sure, the film may be a bit lopsided toward Bobby’s perspective on things, but such is the perhaps necessary imbalance of a romantic comedy like this. Aaron is given his fair due, but this is really Bobby’s story, one that seeks to merely recognize and mull over the vagaries of gay life rather than solve them. Bros does so with appealing brio, discursive and silly and, where it really counts, sexy.
Which isn’t to say that the film will satisfy everyone. There’s much to be picked apart here, analyzed for faults in reason and argument, lamented for a lack of this and that. To the film’s credit, though, Bros seems to welcome that discourse; there’s a self-effacing quality to Eichner’s writing that acknowledges its limits and encourages more dialogue, more and varied narratives in the future.
It’s mostly a good time, though, cheeky and clever. A bevy of welcome cameos from gay pop-culture icons adds winsome pepper, while Eichner and Macfarlane’s sideways chemistry offers plenty to swoon over as they stroll and chat in a graciously filmed Manhattan and, for a brief but no doubt expensive jaunt, Provincetown. Eichner has gleefully accepted the largesse of a major studio and made something that is particularly his. What he doesn’t do, thankfully, is close things off at the end. There is little sense of definitiveness here; Bros may be some kind of trailblazer depending on which metric you’re using, but it’s not smug about that status. Its happy blare is only getting the party started—or, maybe more accurately, keeping it going. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/bros-movie-review-awards-insider | 2022-09-10T17:34:08Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/bros-movie-review-awards-insider | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
If you didn’t think Gabrielle Union was capable of what she pulls off in The Inspection, Elegance Bratton’s lyrical narrative feature debut, fret not—neither did she. The Bring It On and Being Mary Jane star has been a bona fide Hollywood star for decades, but as a performer, she always felt something holding her back. “There have been plenty of performances that I just kind of phoned in,” she tells me in Toronto, the day after the film’s world premiere. She leaned toward work that felt easy, familiar, comfortable. She knew how to draw a crowd, how to make something hit big. But going to those deep, dark places like certain actors around her were? Either she didn’t know how to, or she wasn’t ready.
She is now. In The Inspection, Union bookends the film as Inez, the withholding mother of protagonist Ellis (Jeremy Pope). In our few glimpses of her world, we see her as troubled: a harshness to the way she regards her own son, whom she left to fend for himself at 16 after he came out as gay, and a disarray to the way she lives, her hoarding habit cramming into frame. She is based on Bratton’s own mother (who died just before filming), part of his autobiographical tapestry: The film dramatizes his experience of enlisting in the military as a homeless twentysomething to win back her approval. A crushing final scene between Pope and Union reveals his hope’s futility—as well as its enduring quality.
Union, who also executive-produces the film, is unrecognizable here. I don’t mean physically, necessarily—though there is a transformation as well. It’s like we’re meeting a new actor, with the same starpower that holds the camera’s attention, but with a riveting, fresh feel for complexity and toughness and empathy, from the inside out. With Union and her husband, Dwyane Wade, raising a transgender daughter in the public eye, the film’s darker elements hit her personally hard, too—an emotional connection that continues to reveal a whole new way of acting for her. She’ll only go deeper from here.
Vanity Fair: How are you feeling? Last night seemed pretty emotional.
Gabrielle Union: I'm still emotional, I'm still processing it. The first time I watched it was by myself on my iPad, as an executive producer, a month ago. Last night, I watched it as a mom and an actress, and it hit completely different. I'm still processing a lot of emotions. And then my husband and I talked about it all night long, and then mostly talked about it again today. But I felt hopeful. There are some situations that can feel very bleak. And I left that feeling at least hope that perhaps, not just in our family, but a lot of people's families, that maybe people can turn a corner.
At the premiere, Elegance mentioned that you did a lot of hard work on the movie in multiple ways. Obviously on camera, we see it, but can you describe your level of involvement, both acting and producing, and how it first started?
He came to me pretty early. He was like, “I think that you can be Inez and I want you to executive produce.” I read the script and I was like, This is everything you want in a script as a producer, it's got all the bells and whistles. And then I was like, “Wait, Inez? Hold on. What have I ever given off that makes you think I could do this?” In fact, I immediately thought of a number of homophobes that work in this town who could probably do a much better job than I—like, not much of a stretch. But he was like, “I know you can do it. And for you to do it of all people, I think will make people uncomfortable and maybe reexamine some of their own things.”
That was a little dark to realize, that as much as I was in general I look at homophobes as just trash and I don't generally mince words about that, I had to figure out a way into a woman that is my director's mother, where they had a very complicated relationship—to find the character and build it from scratch. What did she want? What are her needs? What were her dreams? And then go from there. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/gabrielle-union-interview-tiff-awards-insider | 2022-09-10T17:34:14Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/gabrielle-union-interview-tiff-awards-insider | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Friday, John Chapple, the 79-year-old official Palace beekeeper, performed a sad, traditional task. It fell upon him to inform tens of thousands of bees about the death of Queen Elizabeth II. As reported in the Daily Mail, Chapple travelled to Buckingham Palace and Clarence House to perform his opposite-of-sweet duty. He spoke “in hushed tones,” no doubt to try and take the sting out of it.
Chapple placed black ribbons around the hives, and then told the busy workers inside the news. He also explained that King Charles III is now their new master, and that he will be good to them.
“The person who has died is the master or mistress of the hives, someone important in the family who dies and you don’t get any more important than the Queen, do you?” Chapple said to the British newspaper. Getting into the nitty-gritty of it, he explained, “You knock on each hive and say, ‘The mistress is dead, but don't you go. Your master will be a good master to you.’”
In the thick of summer, Chapple, who has held his position for 15 years, cares for over a million Royal bees. He refers to this work as a hobby, as he is retired, and hopes that “the new tenant of Buckingham Palace” will want to continue keeping bees on the premises, and that he’ll maintain his role. “You do never know,” he said, concerning stability in the monarchical beekeeping economy.
The centuries-old tradition of “telling the bees” comes from a superstition that if bees are not informed of their master's death, they will stop producing honey. It is believed the custom has Celtic roots, and continues through folklore in England, Wales, Ireland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, France, Germany, and parts of the United States.
In Celtic mythology, bees were considered messengers between this world and the spirit realm. One story goes that when the Gregorian calendar was adopted, the bees were not kept up to speed, and refused to hum on the new Christmas Day. (A figgy pudding without honey?!) The 19th century American poet John Greenleaf Whittier was so inspired by the act that he penned “Telling The Bees” in 1858. Below is a very strange animated video of a recitation. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/the-queens-bees-have-been-informed-of-her-passing | 2022-09-10T17:34:20Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/the-queens-bees-have-been-informed-of-her-passing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Margaritaville at Sea offers free paradise cruise for military, first responders and educators
(Gray News) - A popular cruise line says it’s honoring frontline workers by helping cover their select cruise fare to the Bahamas.
The Margaritaville at Sea cruise line recently announced a “Heroes Sail Free” program.
According to a news release, the program provides one free cruise to the Bahamas for U.S. military service members, police, emergency medical service workers and educators.
“Welcome aboard, heroes, with a big thank you for your service,” said singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. “Now, we feel honored to serve you at sea.”
The cruise line said the three-day, two-night getaway starts from the Port of Palm Beach and sails to Freeport in the Bahamas aboard its Margaritaville at Sea Paradise cruise ship.
According to the company, its flagship vessel features several gourmet foods and beverage options, spa treatments and much more.
“To show our sincere gratitude for their ongoing service, we wanted to offer these frontline heroes a chance to kick off their boots and work shoes and flip flop into a relaxing getaway,” said Kevin Sheehan, Jr., CEO of Margaritaville at Sea.
The cruise program is a partnership between Margaritaville at Sea and GovX.com, the largest military and government e-commerce site.
The cruise line said the program is running through Dec. 29, 2023.
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Aid from around Washington will soon head toward the Goat Rocks Wilderness fire near Packwood as the fire’s estimated size now sits at 1,800 acres, the state Department of Emergency Management announced Friday night.
The state approved activation of the State Fire Mobilization Resource, which puts out a call to any fire agencies in the state with resources to spare. The resource provides personnel, equipment and other logistical resources when a wildland fire or other emergency exceeds the firefighting capacity of local jurisdictions, according to a statement on the Washington State Patrol’s website.
Previous reports estimated the fire at 850 acres in size. The U.S. Forest Service reported the fire was just 80 to 90 acres on Wednesday.
Level three evacuations for the Timberline, High Valley and Goat Rocks communities east of Packwood, as well as level two evacuations for the town of Packwood itself, remained active Friday night.
The evacuations affect about 1,200 residents total, according to the state Department of Emergency Management.
Of those, roughly 15 planned to stay overnight at White Pass Jr./Sr. High School, where volunteers with Lewis County and the American Red Cross set up an evacuation shelter.
An additional 18 planned to camp out in their cars parked at the property.
“The school district: fantastic,” Meja Handlen, deputy social services and operations director for Lewis County, told a Chronicle reporter on Friday. “They said ‘use the facility as needed,’ so that’s been really fantastic.”
Many of the Packwood area residents staying the night at White Pass School are neighbors, and huddled up in a loose circle to share food and conversation Friday night.
One evacuee, who has resided in the area for 55 years, told a Chronicle reporter she had left her residence near Timberline at 1:20 p.m. that afternoon to find ash already covering her car.
They talked of their anxieties and their sorrow over the fire potentially damaging their homes, but mostly they expressed gratitude that they and their loved ones were safe.
When Lewis County Emergency Management issued the evacuation orders Friday afternoon, Lewis County Health & Social Services had personnel out to the school within two hours, said Handlen. The American Red Cross had personnel and volunteers out within four.
The Lewis County Animal Shelter has provided food and kennels for any of the evacuees’ pets and the Salvation Army stepped up to feed the people staying at the school.
Around 8 p.m. on Friday, Salvation Army captains Steven and Gin Pack arrived at the school with 82 hot meals, 500 bottles of water and 170 hygiene packs.
The Salvation Army planned to bring additional supplies on Saturday. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/white-pass-school-in-randle-takes-in-fire-evacuees-as-fire-near-packwood-grows/article_18fc06fe-3125-11ed-b089-ab1c2d6dee2f.html | 2022-09-10T17:41:13Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/white-pass-school-in-randle-takes-in-fire-evacuees-as-fire-near-packwood-grows/article_18fc06fe-3125-11ed-b089-ab1c2d6dee2f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – The National 9/11 Museum & Memorial has a special place for “sky blue.”
In recent years, the 9/11 Museum & Memorial has encouraged buildings across New York City to light up their rooftops or facades in remembrance of those who were killed during the attacks on September 11. Specifically, the city’s iconic buildings will be illuminated in a striking sky blue — a color that holds special significance for the organization, and the city as a whole.
Sky blue, or “Memorial Blue” as the color is also referred to, symbolizes the city’s (and the world’s) general perception of the sky in the morning just prior to the attacks. In fact, the cloudless skies above NYC on 9/11 had been described as what pilots and meteorologists call “severe clear,” meaning visibility conditions were seemingly infinite, according to the National 9/11 Museum & Memorial.
This year, dozens of iconic buildings, landmarks and institutions will again be partaking in the “Tributes in Light” event, itself an extension of the longstanding (and perhaps more recognizable) “Tribute in Light” art installation in Lower Manhattan, which form two columns of white light shining up the heavens.
Sky blue, too, is also a prominent feature of one of the museum’s most visually arresting installations, titled “Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning.” Found inside museum’s Memorial Hall, the piece is comprised of 2,983 watercolor squares — representing each of the lives lost on Sept. 11 and the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center — showcasing different hues of blue to symbolize our memories of the sky on the morning of September 11, 2001.
“Our own perception of the color blue might not be the same as that of another person,” the museum explains of the different hues in the piece, created by artist Spencer Finch. “However, just like our perception of color, our memories share a common point of reference.”
The Museum is also encouraging folks to “Remember the Sky” by sharing photos of the sky to social media on Sept. 11, to help ensure that younger generations never forget the significance of the date.
“Through creating a shared moment of active remembrance together, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum aims to help spur conversation on social media platforms and elsewhere that can serve as a bridge between memory and history for the tens of millions of young people who did not live through that day that changed our world forever,” the museum has written of the campaign.
Those wishing to learn more about the commemorations taking place on 9/11 can visit 911memorial.org for additional information. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/why-nyc-buildings-use-sky-blue-in-their-9-11-tributes/ | 2022-09-10T17:44:58Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/why-nyc-buildings-use-sky-blue-in-their-9-11-tributes/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Russian President Vladimir Putin leaped to congratulate King Charles III on his new royal role Saturday, becoming one of the first world leaders to do so in a two-sentence message from the Kremlin.
“Please accept my sincere sincere congratulations on Your Accession to the throne,” Putin wrote in a note posted by the Russian Embassy to the UK. “I wish Your Majesty success, good health and all the best.”
Charles was officially proclaimed the reigning monarch of the UK and Commonwealth at St. James’ Palace in London earlier in the day.
The well-wishes came 8 years after Charles, then Prince of Wales, caused an international stir when he reportedly compared Putin to Germany’s Adolf Hitler in a private conversation.
The comment, made as the future king was speaking to a woman whose family fled Poland before it was invaded by the Nazis in 1939, came in the wake of Russia’s forcible annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.
King Felipe of Spain also extended congratulations to his fellow monarch.
The king, a cousin of the British royal family wrote, to “dearest Charles” to “convey my best wishes … for a fruitful and prosperous reign.”
“Queen Letizia and I would like to send Your Majesty and the Queen Consort our personal affection and the assurances of our deep friendship,” Felipe added. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/putin-sends-congrats-to-king-charles-despite-past-hitler-jibe/ | 2022-09-10T17:47:12Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/putin-sends-congrats-to-king-charles-despite-past-hitler-jibe/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It’s another weekly cruise news update, where there is plenty of coverage on Carnival Cruise Line as onboard offerings are altered, along with developments on Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas.
Cruise News Update
It has been a week full of news on the Miami-based Carnival Cruise Line as onboard offerings are adjusted as the room service menu is changed, and Wi-Fi rates increase. However, the cruise line is bringing back some more fun onboard its ships, welcomes the Carnival Luminosa to the fleet, and the new Carnival Celebration sets off on sea trials.
We get a first look at the bow that will be installed on Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, and a cruise line has overbooked more than 100 passengers.
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Carnival Cruise Line Makes Onboard Changes
Carnival Cruise Line has been notably busy in the last year with tweaking the onboard offerings. In a letter sent to guests and travel agents on September 9, the cruise line states it is implementing even more changes, starting on sailings that depart on or after October 1, 2022.
According to the cruise line, it has carefully studied guest patterns onboard since its restart in July 2021. This includes what dining and food options have been popular vs. which have been less popular.
As a result of this market research, the Carnival is updating its room service menu to add more options on an à la carte basis while maintaining a complimentary breakfast offering each morning.
Complimentary options include continental breakfast options, and the a la carte option consists of breakfast sandwiches, which will now be expanded. The rollout of the new menus will start on October 1. What is clear is that guests will be getting a greater variety to choose from, but at an extra cost.
The complimentary continental choices with à la carte selections will be available from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM, and for the rest of the day, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 AM, there will only be an à la carte selection available.
Carnival Cruise Line is finally bringing back the always-popular Dr. Seuss Green Eggs & Ham Breakfast. As with the room service menu changes, this event will also return on sailings that depart on or after October 1.
Lastly, Carnival is also implementing a price hike for the onboard WI-FI packages. Due to the rising costs of internet connections at sea, the company has implemented a minor price change. The social package will increase from $8.50 per day to $10.20 when purchasing before the cruise. The value price is increasing from $11.05 to $14.45, and the premium package will go up from $14.45 to $17.00.
Carnival Celebration Sea Trials
She isn’t ready for guests yet, but Carnival Celebration is undoubtedly getting closer to her official launch later this year. After a construction period that started just twenty months ago, the newest cruise ship in the Carnival Cruise Line fleet set sail on her first set of sea trials on Monday, September 5, from the Meyer Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland.
The vessel is currently sailing in the archipelago around the port city in the Baltic Sea, where engineers will be testing all of the onboard systems. Sea Trials are an essential part of the construction process and are expected to take anywhere from a few days up to ten days, depending on the testing results.
Like her sister, Mardi Gras, Carnival Celebration is powered by Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Although the shipyard has fitted the power source on multiple ships now, it still means intensive testing of the onboard systems and whether or not the ship meets the criteria Carnival Cruise Line has set for maneuverability and speed. The sea trials will also enable the ship’s crew and officers to familiarize themselves with the vessel.
Carnival Celebration Captain Vincenzo Alcaras, said, “During sea trials, the ship is undergoing several tests, which are meant to determine the ship’s capability and performance. We do many tests, but I only list a few, such as endurance test, steering tests, speed tests, thrusters tests, zig-zag tests, which is part of maneuvering tests, and all Class required tests.”
Carnival Celebration will be 180,800 gross tons with a guest capacity of 5,282 at double occupancy, along with 1,282 crew members. On Sunday, November 6, Carnival Celebration will be setting sail on her maiden transatlantic voyage from Southampton in the United Kingdom.
Bow Arrives for Icon of the Seas
It is an understatement to say that Royal Caribbean International has been secretive about its newest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas. The latest class of ships for the cruise line, Royal Caribbean, has been very slowly showing small pieces, and we finally get a first look at the bow that will be installed.
The cruise line finally lifted the veil on what the vessel will look like, with the ship getting a distinctive parabolic bow design.
The new nose is, at first glance, not as distinctive as those featured on the Celebrity-edge class cruise ships, which have a Parabolic ultra bow. While visually appealing, the choice for this kind of bow is not surprising. The design offers a far smoother ride, especially for heavily loaded ships, and is much more efficient.
The new bow parts arrived at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland in the past week, where they will be fitted to the hull, which, as seen in the images, is already showing some final shapes. What the final product will look like will likely be revealed in the coming days and weeks.
In October 2021, workers installed the new vessel’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel tank. The keel was laid for the new ship in April 2022. Since then, rumors have been flying, with one in particular still prevailing; it could be that Icon of the Seas will surpass the Oasis-class ship as the biggest in the world:
Carnival Splendor Ends Alaska Season
The Concordia-class Carnival Splendor had a festive sendoff from Seattle on Tuesday, September 6, 2022, as it officially left the region at the close of the Alaska season. The ship began sailing Alaskan itineraries on May 2, and was the last of the Fun Ships to resume service after the pandemic shutdown.
Now, Carnival Splendor is sailing a 23-night epic transpacific itinerary to return to Australia, with four ports of call in Hawaii and two in Fiji along the way, as well as 18 days at sea for guests to thoroughly enjoy and explore all the 113,300-gross-ton ship has to offer.
The vessel will arrive in Sydney on September 30, 2022, the first Carnival cruise ship to welcome guests in Australian waters in nearly 1,000 days.
Once back at her homeport in Sydney, Carnival Splendor will begin offering a variety of itinerary options from October 1, 2022 – a date that coincides with Carnival’s 10th year of operations in Australia. Sailings range from 3-12 nights, giving guests plenty of opportunities for quick getaways as well as longer, more immersive voyages.
Overbooked Cruise Passengers
New cruise operator Resorts World Cruises only operates one cruise ship, the Genting Dream, but is clearly suffering from some start-up issues. This became clear as guests arrived at the Marina Bay Cruise Centre on September 4.
Representatives of the ship informed guests that due to the vessel being overbooked, they would not be able to board their cruise, despite having confirmed tickets. According to several other reports, more than one hundred guests were affected by the issues, leaving them stranded in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
The cruise line said they would compensate guests who have been denied boarding in the last few days. The cruise line stated all affected guests would receive a full refund. They will also receive a complimentary cruise on the Genting Dream for sailings before April 28, 2023, subject to cabin availability.
Resorts World Cruises started operations from Singapore on June 15. The company operates Genting Dream, a cruise ship formerly operated by the now-defunct cruise company Genting Hong Kong.
Carnival Luminosa Joines the Fleet
With the change of name becoming official at 10:32 am in Palermo, Italy, Carnival Luminosa officially joined the Carnival Cruise Line fleet of ships. Previously sailing for Costa Cruises, the vessel has now changed companies, sure to delight the thousands of guests that will be sailing onboard, starting in Brisbane, Australia, on November 6.
With high-ranking officials from Carnival Cruise Line, Costa Cruises, and Carnival Corporation in attendance, Costa Cruises Captain Nicolantonio Palombella handed over Carnival Luminosa to Carnival Captain Adriano Binacchi, who will bring the vessel to Australia.
Carnival Luminosa is already looking every inch the fun ship that we know from the cruise line. The vessel already underwent several changes and will have most of the famous outlets that Carnival’s guests love.
They include Playlist Productions, The Punchliner Comedy Club, Limelight Lounge, Piano Bar 88, Alchemy Bar, RedFrog Rum Bar, Fahrenheit 555 Steakhouse, Chef’s Table, Bonsai Sushi Express, Seaday Brunch, Serenity Adult-Only Retreat, and Cloud 9 Spa, among others.
Completing the work that needs to be done to Carnival’s newest ship will continue in the coming weeks during a dry-dock refit phase. Costa Luminosa‘s transfer to Carnival Cruise Line was announced on June 14, 2022. Once completed, the vessel will set sail to Australia.
Carnival Luminosa will sail her inaugural season in Australia, starting November 6 through April 13, 2023.
More Cruise Headlines!
Those were just a handful of the major cruise stories from the past week, it sure has been a busy week of cruise news, including the Carnival Panorama impacted by Tropical Storm Kay, Viking ordering another four ocean cruise ships from Fincantieri, the naming ceremony for MSC World Europa to held in Qatar, another Caribbean cruise islands relaxes requirements for cruise visitors, a new French cruise line is launched, Carnival brings back a guest favorite and so much more. | https://www.cruisehive.com/cruise-news-update-september-10-2022/81146 | 2022-09-10T17:48:48Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/cruise-news-update-september-10-2022/81146 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Laurie Dale of Athol is the favorite to win the women's division of the Idaho horseshoe singles championship that begins today at Winton Park in Coeur d'Alene, as reported by KREM 2 News partner the Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press.
Dale comes in tossing ringers at a rate of just over 54%.
“I just like being able to put it on the peg,” she said during practice on Thursday.
Dale, the defending champion, very much wants to win again.
“This one here at home, real bad,” she said.
The annual championship has only 15 competitors, said David Spears, president of the Idaho State Horseshoe Association.
He said that in 1994, there were more than 100 pitchers vying for state titles. In 2003, it was down to 65 and this year, about 35.
The popularity of cornhole has taken a toll on horseshoes, he said, and the game has had trouble attracting a new generation that's addicted to cellphones.
Still, he expects that the two-day, round-robin tournament with three classes of pitchers will be competitive. Gary Opper of Star is the favorite in the men's field.
Spears, a past champion, will be competing this year.
“I’ve had a little draw toward horseshoes my entire life,” he said.
Darla Wessel of Coeur d’Alene is expected to give Dale a fight for first.
“Darla’s throwing pretty good right now,” Spears said.
Dale expects to win. She said she’s feeling great and is ready to toss shoes that weigh a maximum of two pounds and 10 ounces.
“I’ve been throwing every day since February,” she said.
Key for Dale is keeping her eyes on the steel stake that’s 14 to 15 inches high and 30 feet away (men throw from 10 feet farther back) in a pit that's 3 feet wide and 6 feet long.
“Always the same point of release,” she said. “Always make sure you release at the same point, the same height."
Dale has been pitching horseshoes for 11 years after taking it up as a form of therapy.
“I can come down here and throw a bunch of horseshoes and feel a little better,” she said.
While Dale is competing against women in the state singles championship this weekend, she enjoys beating the men, too.
Last year in Kennewick, Wash., she was the first woman to win the Pacific Northwest horseshoe championship.
She plans to keep that title.
"I’ve taken most of the top men out in Washington. I might as well finish cleaning house here in Idaho,” she said.
Asked what motivates her, Dale smiled.
“I have an overwhelming need to beat the men and take their money,” she said.
Kay Keskinen of Moscow will be inducted into the Idaho State Horseshoe Pitchers Hall of Fame today.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — With several fires burning across the state, many Oregonians woke up to hazy skies Saturday morning, with air quality ranging from healthy to very unhealthy, depending on the location.
A look at the interactive Air Quality Index (AQI) map from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on Saturday morning shows that the air quality across much of the state is in the moderate range. But in some areas of the state, the air quality is much worse. For example, in Oakridge, where the Cedar Creek Fire is burning, the air quality rated as very unhealthy. And in areas of northeast Oregon, where the Double Creek Fire is burning, the air quality rated as unhealthy.
KGW meteorologist Chris McGinness reported Saturday morning that the reason the skies in Portland and much of northwest Oregon are so hazy is because the smoke plume from the Cedar Creek Fire burning east of Eugene made a big shift overnight.
How to check the air quality in your area
The DEQ and partner agencies monitor smoke levels and provide reports on how clean the air is and any potential health risks.
People who want to know what the air quality in their neighborhood looks like can visit the Air Quality Index (AQI) interactive map on the DEQ website. The AQI map uses a color-coded system ranging from "Good" (labeled by green dots), which means air pollution posts little to no risk, to "Hazardous" (labeled by maroon dots), meaning air quality is unhealthy for everyone.
The Environmental Protection Agency also has an online tool where people can type in their zip code, city or state to view the air quality index.
How to protect yourself from smoke
Smoke can irritate the eyes and lungs. People most at risk include infants, young kids, older adults and people with certain medical conditions such as heart or lung disease.
The DEQ recommends people take precautions when smoke levels are high:
- Stay indoors and keep windows and doors closed
- Avoid outdoor activities
- Use high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters in indoor ventilation systems or portable air purifiers
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LONDON, UK — Palace officials say the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II will take place on Sept. 19 at Westminster Abbey in London after the public gets an opportunity to pay their last respects to the monarch. It will begin at 6 a.m. Eastern.
Elizabeth, the nation’s longest-reigning sovereign, died Thursday at her summer retreat in the Scottish Highlands.
Details on the 96-year old queen’s funeral will be released later, but organizers on Saturday described the ceremony as a “a fitting farewell to one of the defining figures of our times.’’
Palace officials said there would be opportunities to see the late sovereign’s oak coffin as it journeys from Balmoral Castle in Scotland to Edinburgh and again in London, where her body will lie in state for four days starting Wednesday.
According to the BBC, Elizabeth's funeral will be the first held for a sovereign in the historic Abbey since the 18th century, though her mother's was held there in 2002.
A release from the royal family said after the funeral, Elizabeth's coffin will travel to Windsor Castle and then to St. George's Chapel for a committal service.
Mourning for the queen had already begun by the time of the announcement, with crowds of mourners gathering outside Buckingham Palace bearing bouquets and notes.
“You inspired generations of young women like me to serve the great nation that thrived under your leadership,” read one note penned in purple marker, left at the gate.
“Farewell, my dearest,” read another, attached to a bouquet of yellow roses. “Thank you ma’am ... for being a beacon of hope and stability in troubled times.”
The palace made the announcement hours after the first accession ceremony since 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took the throne.
Her son, now King Charles III, has declared that the day of his mother’s funeral will be a public holiday. This will be the second extra public holiday for Britons this year — a holiday was declared in early June for celebration’s to mark Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee, for 70 years on the throne. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/queen-elizabeth-funeral/507-c4baadb9-3cd9-445e-8e83-d1b0467a1e7f | 2022-09-10T17:56:15Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/queen-elizabeth-funeral/507-c4baadb9-3cd9-445e-8e83-d1b0467a1e7f | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DENVER — Chief Justice John Roberts defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.
When asked to reflect on the last year at the court in his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Roberts said Friday he was concerned that lately some critics of the court’s controversial decisions have questioned the legitimacy of the court, which he said was a mistake. He did not mention any specific cases or critics by name.
“If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is,” Roberts said while being interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at its conference in Colorado Springs.
Roberts described the last year as an unusual and difficult one, pointing to the public not be allowed inside the court, closed in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, as one hardship. He also said it was “gut wrenching” to drive into the Supreme Court that was surrounded by barricades every day.
The barriers were installed in May when protests erupted outside the court and outside the homes of some Supreme Court justices after there was an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion indicating the justices were planning to overturn Roe v. Wade, which provided women constitutional protections for abortion for nearly 50 years. The barriers are gone and the public will be allowed back inside when the court's new session begins in October but an investigation into the leak ordered by Roberts continues.
Speaking at the same conference Thursday, Justice Neil Gorsuch said it is “terribly important” to identify the leaker and said he is expecting a report on the progress of the investigation, “I hope soon.”
Gorsuch condemned the leak, as have other justices who have addressed it publicly.
“Improper efforts to influence judicial decision-making, from whatever side, from whomever, are a threat to the judicial decision-making process," Gorsuch said. Reporters from the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg attended the talk.
The leaked draft was largely incorporated into Justice Samuel Alito's final opinion in June that overturned Roe v. Wade in a case upholding Mississippi's law banning abortion after 15 weeks. The ruling paved the way for severe abortion restrictions or bans in nearly half of U.S. states.
In June's ruling, Roberts, appointed to the court in 2005 by former President George W. Bush, voted to uphold Mississippi's law but he did not join the conservative justices in also overturning Roe v. Wade, as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to end a pregnancy. He wrote that there was no need to overturn the broad precedents to uphold the state law, saying he would take “a more measured course.”
Roberts has spoken out repeatedly about the importance of the judiciary’s independence and to rebut perceptions of the court as a political institution not much different than Congress or the presidency.
Opinion polls since the leak and the release of the final abortion decision, though, have shown a sharp drop in approval of the court and confidence in the institution.
When asked what the public might not know about how the court work, Roberts emphasized the collegiality among the justices and the court's tradition of shaking hands before starting conferences or taking the bench. After the justices might disagree about a decision, everyone eats together in the court's dining room where they talk about everything but work, he said. He said it's not borne out of “fake affection” but a respect that comes from the push and pull of explaining ideas and listening to the responses to them.
“We have a common calling and we act like it,” he said. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/roberts-roe-court/507-50ae5420-822a-4ee7-9552-a3a427d19415 | 2022-09-10T17:56:21Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/roberts-roe-court/507-50ae5420-822a-4ee7-9552-a3a427d19415 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Police: Shooter barricaded in Midlothian home, avoid area
MIDLOTHIAN, Ill. - Midlothian police are asking people to avoid the 153rd Place and Hamlin Avenue area as they attempt to apprehend an armed suspect.
Around 5 a.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired.
Police say an individual was shooting and ran into a home near Hamlin Avenue and 153rd Place.
As of 10:30 a.m. there is still a heavy police presence, and officials are attempting to arrest the suspect, according to the Midlothian Police Chief.
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Queen Elizabeth II's funeral set for September 19
LONDON - Palace officials say the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II will take place on Sept. 19 at Westminster Abbey in London after the public gets an opportunity to pay their last respects to the monarch.
Elizabeth, the nation’s longest-reigning sovereign, died Thursday at Balmoral castle, her summer retreat in the Scottish Highlands.
A long-established 10-day plan, code-named Operation London Bridge, covers arrangements for the queen's final journey to London and state funeral. Organizers on Saturday described the ceremony as a "a fitting farewell to one of the defining figures of our times.’’
Departing Balmoral
Queen Elizabeth II arrives for the state banquet in her honour at Schloss Bellevue palace on the second of the royal couple's four-day visit to Germany on June 24, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
The queen's coffin will depart Balmoral at 10 a.m. British time Sunday (5 a.m. Eastern), September 11, and travel to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, the monarch's official residence in Scotland. It's a 175-mile trip and is expected to take about six hours. The queen will remain there until Monday.
The Royal Family will then join the procession and accompany the coffin to a service at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. That's expected to happen at 9:35 a.m. Eastern on Monday, Sept. 12.
The queen will remain at the cathedral for 24 hours for public view.
Lying in state
On Tuesday, Sept. 13, the queen's coffin will be flown from Edinburgh to London. Princess Anne will accompany the queen.
Wednesday, the coffin will be transported from Buckingham Palace to Parliament on a gun carriage, with the king and other royals walking behind.
The queen will lie in state for four days until the morning of her funeral on Monday, Sept. 19. She will be in medieval Westminster Hall, where the archbishop of Canterbury will conduct a short service upon her arrival.
Members of the public will be able to pay their respects and troops will keep a round-the-clock vigil.
READ MORE: Death of Queen Elizabeth II: What could change in the months ahead as Charles becomes king
Queen Elizabeth's funeral
Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she opens the refurbished East Wing of Somerset House, on February 29, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Eddie Mulholland - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The queen's coffin will be taken from Westminster Hall to nearby Westminster Abbey for a state funeral that begins at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 19.
Leaders and dignitaries from around the world are expected to attend. The funeral marks the end of 10 days of national morning, and the day will be a public holiday across the U.K. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/queen-elizabeth-iis-funeral-date | 2022-09-10T17:59:43Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/queen-elizabeth-iis-funeral-date | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have joined Prince William and his wife Kate, the Princess of Wales, at Windsor Castle to view the sea of floral tributes left by the public in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, the princes' grandmother.
The two princes and their wives took time to study the bouquets before waving to crowds of well-wishers who pressed against road barriers outside the gates of Windsor Castle on Saturday.
All four were seen shaking hands and speaking with members of the public.
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When Queen Elizabeth II died, it marked immediate changes for Britain’s royal family. The ripples made by the death of the U.K.’s longest-reigning monarch even extend to the British National Anthem.
After Elizabeth’s passing, her oldest son immediately became King Charles III. This means that the lyrics, “God Save The Queen” in the country’s national anthem will be changed to “God Save The King.”
The pronouns used throughout the song will also be changed. For instance, the lyric, “Send her victorious,” is now, “Send him victorious,” and, “Long may she reign,” is now, “Long may he reign.”
This is the first time in over 70 years that the anthem has been changed. But now that the throne is held by a man and the line of succession is led by two males, 40-year-old Prince William and 9-year-old Prince George, it may again be decades before “God Save the Queen” is sung in the U.K.
When Elizabeth first took the throne in 1952, the anthem had to be changed from how it had been sung for her father, King George VI. Now that her son has taken over her role, the lyrics have reverted back to what they were before.
“God Save The King,” as it was originally titled, was first publicly performed in London in 1745. It “came to be known as the National Anthem at the beginning of the 19th century,” according to The Royal Family’s website. “The words used today are those sung in 1745, substituting ‘Queen’ for ‘King’ where appropriate.”
However, due to Elizabeth’s long reign, it will no doubt be difficult for Brits to immediately switch to the now-correct lyrics. Royal experts say that we will hear this new anthem for the first time on a national stage on Sept. 23, when England’s men’s national soccer team is set to play against Italy.
In addition to the changing of the national anthem, other changes will also need to be made to accommodate the change at the top of the monarchy. This includes updating the national currency with images of Charles and issuing new stamps. It is expected that Charles, 73, will also get a new personal flag to honor his ascent to the throne, as his mother did in 1960.
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At the Rose House Combines Fine Art, Design, and Fashion in One Room
Inside the multidisciplinary exhibition being held at the Modernist landscape architect James Rose’s home in New Jersey.
You’re probably used to seeing works of art mounted onto the bright white walls of a gallery or museum. But when pieces are intentionally placed into an environment that echoes their aesthetic, they suddenly take on new life. This was the idea behind At the Rose House, a new exhibition staged by the art and design fair Object & Thing in collaboration with the furniture design studio Green River Project LLC. At the Rose House extends Object & Thing’s recent practice of putting on exhibitions within historic artists’ and architects’ own homes. In this instance, furniture made by Green River Project and pieces by artists including the fashion label Bode (whose designer, Emily Adams Bode, is a frequent collaborator with the Green River folks), Charles and Ray Eames, and Michele Oka Doner can be viewed inside Modernist landscape architect James Rose’s home. The residence which was self-designed and hand-built by Rose has been preserved in Ridgewood, New Jersey. “[Green River Project LLC founders] Aaron Aujla and Ben Bloomstein have long talked about Rose, and we began the process for organizing this exhibition just over a year ago,” Abby Bangser, founder and creative director of Object & Thing, tells W. “There is a shared spirit between Rose and Green River Project LLC to figuring out a design challenge and making it work. Rose often took salvaged doors and turned the doors into benches, or a railroad tie could become a chair. This open thinking to what a material can become is something I also see in Green River Project LLC’s practice.”
“I think the sense of community was important, we have felt that sense with Rose’s work,” Aujla adds of the diverse lineup of artists featured in At the Rose House. “It was also important to have work of varying disciplines and materials. I think Rose didn’t privilege any particular creative class over another, it shows in his work and in the work he collected. We wanted that spirit to be alive.”
Below, take a look at some of the highlights that can be seen At the Rose House, on view through October 2.
A look inside At the Rose House.
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A look outside At the Rose House.
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Inside Fendi and Marc Jacobs’ Glittering Tribute to the Baguette
There was plenty of reason to celebrate at Fendi’s New York Fashion Week show, and the Italian label did so in spectacular fashion.
Is there any other “It” bag that has the pop culture significance of the Fendi Baguette? If the Italian house’s 25th anniversary show finale had any say in the matter, the answer is no. Just last year, Fendi and Versace collaborated for the logo-heavy, pure-fun Fendace collection—and now, to celebrate a quarter century of fabulous fashion, Fendi has teamed with not just Marc Jacobs, but also Tiffany & Co., (and Sarah Jessica Parker, who also designed a bag for the anniversary, as an homage to her relationship with the accessory through Sex and the City). By moving Fendi’s resort showing from Milan to New York Fashion Week, it’s clear the brand is forging a new pathway, with partnerships that span the fashion industry.
Supers Kate Moss, Shalom Harlow, and Amber Valetta sat front row at the show, which took place on September 9 in the very packed Hammerstein Ballroom in Midtown Manhattan. As Fendi’s typical techno pounded through the room, the all-star lineup marched down the runway while the reflective background shook from the bass. Every kind of Baguette imaginable was present: on double purses, clipped onto mini skirts, worn on the wrists, on hats, and socks. There were Baguettes upon Baguettes, with mini Baguette pouches attached to major Baguette purses.
Photographs by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
The Baguette became an extension of the clothes, seeming to sprout from collars, waistbands, and wherever else there was room to stick a Baguette. The silhouette, with its classic buckle and rectangular shape, couldn’t get more recognizable as it did here.
The clothing—slip dresses, utilitarian jackets, sequined bustier dresses, and color-blocked sweaters—were beautiful, but paled in comparison to the light the accessories were given. The sporty windbreakers and tech-y quarter-zip sweaters were definitively New York compared to Fendi’s luxe Roman pieces. They were also, perhaps, just a bit underwhelming for that reason.
Things got interesting when the last several looks emerged. Marc Jacobs was given the reins to reinterpret Fendi’s most iconic pieces, in addition to the Baguette; he did so in a way that felt purely joyful. A slew of models wearing XL hats reminiscent of Jamiroquai and Pamela Anderson’s signatures walked out in oversized, directional pieces. There were funnel-neck sweaters with built-in Baguette front pockets and a neon green robe that twisted the Fendi logo on its head (not unlike Marc Jacobs’s ubiquitous totes). The partnership with Jacobs—one of America’s undisputed greatest designers of all time—felt like the perfect marriage of aesthetic language, even more so due to the fact that Jacobs brought Jones on as Louis Vuitton’s menswear creative director in 2011, back when he worked on the French house’s women’s ready-to-wear.
The show’s brilliant quartet of collaborators closed the show with Linda Evangelista, who wore a floaty, Tiffany blue cape gown; Marc Jacobs, Kim Jones, Silvia Venturini Fendi, and Delfina Deletrez took a bow alongside her. Two brands linking up for a collection has been done before, sure, but not in a way that feels like it’s more about self-expression rather than branding and logomania. We’ve seen almost every kind of collaboration imaginable in the fashion world, but somehow, a major Italian brand coming to New York and partnering with a very special New York designer feels different enough to get excited. It’s all enough to make us anticipate the next Fendi collab and ponder just how it’ll make us rethink and recontextualize fashion as we know it. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/fendi-marc-jacobs-nyfw-spring-2023-review | 2022-09-10T18:05:12Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/fendi-marc-jacobs-nyfw-spring-2023-review | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Proenza Schouler’s Spring 2023 Collection Is Dopamine Dressing at Its Best
Digital rainfall cascaded down the walls of Hall des Lumières in New York City at Proenza Schouler’s spring 2023 runway presentation. The first model to open the show wore an angular crop top that showered down a halo of white fringe, and the black draped skirt with which it was paired could have resembled a moody cloud.
The theme for the collection was clearly the elements—but most importantly, water, and its unique way of movement. The show notes described the collection as “an unabashed cacophony of spirit, of joy, of the sensual and tactile qualities that bring pleasure to life,” and described “water as a symbol of life that floods the narrative and intersects with the designers’ deep-rooted personal histories.”
Beyond the tribute to liquid, fringe—a favorite of designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez—was the defining thread pulled through the collection’s entire narrative. There were white fringe separates worn by Kendall Jenner, then admired by front row stars Christine Quinn, Emily Ratajkowski, and Karlie Kloss.
Fern-green fishnet knits were adorned with metallic fringe, double-tiered sleeves had hanging fringe, and suiting was covered in mini, golden-fringed medallions. Taking into account the last few seasons, it’s become even more clear that fringe has become a house code of the brand.
All in all, tactility was key for the collection. Of course, the aforementioned fringe—but also lace, ruffles, and knits were especially unique for a brand that can, at times, feel inherently minimal. Most notable were the polka dot prints, done up in various sizes and layered in a way that made one of the most classic patterns feel new again. But all eyes in the room turned to the extreme silhouettes and shapes: bell-sleeves that nearly touched the ground, golden leather skirts that cascaded like a faucet, and swingy polka-dot bell bottoms riffing on 1970s-does-1940s silhouettes.
Proenza Schouler remains one of the top American fashion labels, with nearly 20 years of work behind them. This collection proved that they have their own say in the realm of minimal fashion, but that they can also push shapes to an extreme that would pique even the most devoted maximalist’s interest. Those lush turquoise lace fabrics, lime-sorbet mini dresses with touch-the-floor bell sleeves and ruffle flared trousers? They stood as echoes of the stricter corseted silhouettes and razor-sharp tailored pieces from Proenza Schouler’s seasons past.
“Much like last season, the contours of the body are key, only this time they are less restrained, allowing the natural curves of a woman’s body to shape the garment itself,” read the show notes. The larger-than-life shapes that dominated this season’s show clearly spread a message that Proenza Schouler has a distinctive and identifiable personality in the crowded New York fashion space, but it’s also unafraid to evolve along with its biggest fans—and, perhaps, even the younger fashion fan that’s discovering the label for the first time. After all, who can say no to a sleeve that’s almost as big as the dress itself? That’s dopamine dressing at its best. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/proenza-schouler-spring-2023-nyfw-review | 2022-09-10T18:05:14Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/proenza-schouler-spring-2023-nyfw-review | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Advertising and Digital Campaign Educates the Public on the Essential Role of Truck Drivers as Highway Heroes; Promotes Recruitment
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trucking Moves America Forward (TMAF), the industry-wide education and image movement, is thanking America's professional truck drivers during their annual #ThankATrucker campaign during National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, September 11-17, 2022.
The campaign, which encompasses outdoor, broadcast and digital advertising, educates the motoring public on the essential job of the truck driver as a highway hero, and trucking's overall contributions to American communities and the nation's economy. It also shines a light on the jobs available within trucking as the industry faces a projected annual driver shortage of 60,000-80,000 drivers over the next decade.
"TMAF is proud to host our annual #ThankATrucker campaign to thank America's truck drivers for their continuous work – not just during NTDAW, but every day," said Kevin Burch, co-chairman of TMAF and Vice President of Government Affairs and Sales at MTS. "America's trucking industry has navigated many challenges this past year, including a bottleneck supply chain and increased consumer demand. Despite challenges, truck drivers remain on the front lines, delivering all the essential goods that our communities rely on to keep the country supplied and the economy moving forward."
As part of the annual billboard advertisement campaign, TMAF partnered with state trucking associations and organizations to display personalized billboards along highways and freeways in a couple dozen markets across the country. The state trucking associations and organizations selected from multiple designs or customized their own message to display on the billboards. Themes included: "Essential (before it was cool)," "Heroes," and "Want to Make an Impact? Consider a Career in Trucking." All billboard themes called on Americans to #ThankATrucker.
The billboards can be seen on highways in Bentonville, Clarksville, Forrest City and North Little Rock, Ark.; Northern Idaho; Ft. Wayne, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Ind.; Cedar Rapids and Des Moines, Iowa; Louisville, Ky.; Alexandria, Houma – Thibodaux, Lafayette, Monroe and Shreveport, La.; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn.; Buffalo and Latham, N.Y.; Las Vegas and Reno, Nev.; Dayton, Ohio; Memphis and Knoxville, Tenn.; Houston, Corpus Christi and San Antonio, Texas, and Blackstone and Keysville, Va.
As part of the education campaign, TMAF will be thanking truck drivers and sharing need-to-know industry facts on the radio airwaves on Red Eye Radio, Westwood One Sports and Westwood One talk radio programs. TMAF's social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok will display educational graphics and messages as part of the campaign.
To view all advertisements from this year's #ThankATrucker campaign, click here.
About Trucking Moves America Forward
Trucking Moves America Forward aims to establish a long-term industry-wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future. To learn more, visit http://www.truckingmovesamerica.com/. Also join and follow TMAF through social media, on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Medium.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A global search for alternative sources to Russian energy during the war in Ukraine has refocused attention on smaller, easier-to-build nuclear power stations, which proponents say could provide a cheaper, more efficient alternative to older model mega-plants.
U.K.-based Rolls-Royce SMR says its small modular reactors, or SMRs, are much cheaper and quicker to get running than standard plants, delivering the kind of energy security that many nations are seeking. France already relies on nuclear power for a majority of its electricity, and Germany kept the option of reactivating two nuclear plants it will shut down at the end of the year as Russia cuts natural gas supplies.
While Rolls-Royce SMR and its competitors have signed deals with countries from Britain to Poland to start building the stations, they are many years away from operating and cannot solve the energy crisis now hitting Europe. Nuclear power also poses risks, including disposing of highly radioactive waste and keeping that technology out of the hands of rogue countries or nefarious groups that may pursue a nuclear weapons program.
Those risks have been accentuated following the shelling around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, which has raised fears of potential nuclear disaster.
In the wake of the war, however, “the reliance on gas imports and Russian energy sources has focused people’s minds on energy security,” Rolls-Royce SMR spokesman Dan Gould said.
An SMR’s components can be built in a factory, moved to a site in tractor trailers and assembled there, making the technology more attractive to frugal buyers, he said.
“It’s like building Lego,” Gould said. “Building on a smaller scale reduces risks and makes it a more investible project.”
SMRs are essentially pressurized water reactors identical to some 400 reactors worldwide. The key advantages are their size — about one-tenth as big as a standard reactor — the ease of construction and the price tag.
The estimated cost of a Rolls-Royce SMR is 2.2 billion to 2.8 billion pounds ($2.5 billion to $3.2 billion), with an estimated construction time of 5 1/2 years. That’s two years faster than it took to build a standard nuclear plant between 2016 and 2021, according to International Atomic Energy Agency statistics. Some estimates put the cost of building a 1,100-megawatt nuclear plant at between $6 billion and $9 billion.
Rolls-Royce aims to build its first stations in the U.K. within 5 1/2 years, Gould said.
Similarly, Oklahoma-based NuScale Power signed agreements last year with two Polish companies — copper and silver producer KGHM and energy producer UNIMOT — to explore the possibility of building SMRs to power heavy industry. Poland wants to switch from polluting, coal-powered electricity generation.
Rolls-Royce SMR said last month that it signed a deal with Dutch development company ULC-Energy to look into setting up SMRs in the Netherlands.
Another partner is Turkey, where Russia is building the Akkuyu nuclear power plant on the southern coast. Environmentalists say the region is seismically active and could be a target for terrorists.
The introduction of “unproven” nuclear power technology in the form of SMRs doesn’t sit well with environmentalists, who argue that proliferation of small reactors will exacerbate the problem of how to dispose of highly radioactive nuclear waste.
“Unfortunately, Turkey is governed by an incompetent administration that has turned it into a ‘test bed’ for corporations,” said Koray Dogan Urbarli, a spokesman for Turkey’s Green Party.
“It is giving up the sovereignty of a certain region for at least 100 years for Russia to build a nuclear power plant. This incompetence and lobbying power make Turkey an easy target for SMRs,” said Koray, adding that his party eschews technology with an “uncertain future.”
Gould said one Rolls-Royce SMR would generate nuclear waste the size of a “tennis court piled 1-meter high” throughout the plant’s 60-year lifetime. He said initially, waste would be stored on site at the U.K. plants and would eventually be transferred to a long-term disposal site selected by the British government.
M.V. Ramana, professor of public policy and global affairs at the University of British Columbia, cites research suggesting there’s “no demonstrated way” to ensure nuclear waste stored in what authorities consider to be secure sites won’t escape in the future.
The constant heat generated by the waste could alter rock formations where it’s stored and allow water seepage, while future mining activities could compromise a nuclear waste site’s integrity, said Ramana, who specializes in international security and nuclear energy.
Skeptics also raise the risks of possibly exporting such technology in politically tumultuous regions. Gould said Rolls-Royce is “completely compliant” with U.K. and international requirements in exporting its SMR technology “only in territories that are signatories to the necessary international treaties for the peaceful use of nuclear power for energy generation.”
Ramana said, however, there’s no guarantee nations will follow the rules.
“Any country acquiring nuclear reactors automatically enhances its capacity to make nuclear weapons,” he said, adding that every SMR could produce “around 10 bombs worth of plutonium each year.”
Rolls-Royce SMR could opt to stop supplying fuel and other services to anyone flouting the rules, but “should any country choose to do so, it can simply tell the International Atomic Energy Agency to stop inspections, as Iran has done, for example,” Ramana said.
Although spent fuel normally undergoes chemical reprocessing to generate the kind of plutonium used in nuclear weapons, Ramana said such reprocessing technology is widely known and that a very sophisticated reprocessing plant isn’t required to produce the amount of plutonium needed for weapons.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two American Indian tribes in South Dakota have joined forces to purchase 40 acres around the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark, the site of one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history.
The Oglala Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux said the purchase of the land on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation was an act of cooperation to ensure the area was preserved as a sacred site. More than 200 Native Americans — including children and elderly people — were killed at Wounded Knee in 1890. The bloodshed marked a seminal moment in the frontier battles the U.S. Army waged against tribes.
“It’s a small step towards healing and really making sure that we as a tribe are protecting our critical areas and assets,” Oglala Sioux Tribe President Kevin Killer told The Associated Press.
The tribes agreed this week to petition the U.S. Department of the Interior to take the land into trust on behalf of both tribes. The Oglala Sioux tribe will pay $255,000 and the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe will pay $245,000 for the site, Indian Country Today reported. The title to the land will be held in the name of the Oglala Sioux tribe.
Marlis Afraid of Hawk, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe whose grandfather, Albert Afraid of Hawk, survived the 1890 massacre as a 13-year-old boy, said she was overjoyed to see the tribes take ownership. She said she carries on the oral tradition of telling her grandchildren how her grandfather survived by fleeing through a ravine after a rifle held by a U.S. calvary soldier failed to fire at him
As a member of a group that represents the descendants of the massacre’s survivors, she had initially raised objections to the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s purchase of the land, but said the joint purchase made her feel “honored and grateful.”
Members of the Oglala Sioux, Standing Rock Sioux, Rosebud Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes were all at Wounded Knee in 1890, Afraid of Hawk said.
She hoped the site could be used for “education for the people who come and see the massacre site.”
“They need to know the history. It needs to come through the true, true Lakota people,” she said.
The tribes’ agreement ends a decades-long dispute over ownership of a site that has figured largely in Indigenous people’s struggles with the U.S. government. Jeanette Czywczynski became sole owner of the property after her husband, James, died in 2019. He had purchased the property in 1968.
The Czywczynski family operated a trading post and museum there until 1973, when American Indian Movement protesters occupied the site, destroying both the post and Czywczynski’s home.
The 71-day standoff that left two tribal members dead and a federal agent seriously wounded led to heightened awareness about Native American struggles and propelled a wider protest movement.
The family moved away from the area and put the land up for sale, asking $3.9 million for the 40-acre parcel nearest the massacre site even though the land, including an additional adjacent 40-acre plot, had been assessed at $14,000.
In 2013, film star Johnny Depp announced a plan to buy the property and donate it to the Oglala Sioux tribe. Depp, who played the role of Tonto in a remake of the film, “The Lone Ranger,” was criticized for trying to capitalize on the film by making unsubstantiated claims of having Native American ancestry. Depp did not follow through on the purchase.
Killer, the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s president, said the tribe’s resolution for the land purchase calls for it to be preserved as a sacred site.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Five people died Saturday in New Zealand after the small charter boat they were aboard capsized, authorities say, in what may have been a collision with a whale. Another six people aboard the boat were rescued.
Police said the 8.5-meter (28-foot) boat overturned near the South Island town of Kaikōura. Police said they were continuing to investigate the cause of the accident.
Kaikōura Police Sergeant Matt Boyce described it as a devastating and unprecedented event.
“Our thoughts are with everyone involved, including the victims and their families, their local communities, and emergency services personnel,” Boyce said.
He said police divers had recovered the bodies of all those who had died. He said all six survivors were assessed to be in stable condition at a local health center, with one transferred to a hospital in the city of Christchurch as a precaution.
Kaikōura Mayor Craig Mackle told The Associated Press that the water was dead calm at the time of the accident and the assumption was that a whale had surfaced from beneath the boat.
He said there were some sperm whales in the area and also some humpback whales traveling through.
He said locals had helped with the rescue efforts throughout the day but the mood in the town was “somber” because the water was so cold and they feared for the outcome of anybody who had fallen overboard.
Mackle said he’d thought in the past about the possibility of a boat and whale colliding, given the number of whales that frequent the region.
“It always plays on your mind that it could happen,” he said, adding that he hadn’t heard about any previous such accidents.
Mackle said the boat was a charter vessel typically used for fishing excursions. News agency Stuff reported the passengers belonged to a bird enthusiasts’ group.
Police said they were still notifying the relatives of those who died, and couldn’t yet publicly name the victims.
Vanessa Chapman told Stuff she and a group of friends had watched the rescue efforts unfold from Goose Bay, near Kaikōura. She said that when she arrived at a lookout spot, she could see a person sitting atop an overturned boat waving their arms.
She said two rescue helicopters and a third local helicopter were circling before two divers jumped out. She told Stuff that the person atop the boat was rescued and a second person appeared to have been pulled from the water.
Kaikōura is a popular whale-watching destination. The seafloor drops away precipitously from the coast, making for deep waters close to the shore. A number of businesses offer boat trips or helicopter rides so tourists can see whales, dolphins and other sea creatures up close.
Compliance agency Maritime New Zealand said it sent two investigators to the scene and would be conducting a thorough investigation once recovery operations had concluded.
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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Interior Ministry said Saturday that one of its border systems was hit by a cyberattack that came from the same Iranian source as an earlier attack that led the country to break diplomatic relations with Iran.
It said in a statement that the previous evening an Albanian police transmitting system was found to be “under a cyberattack similar to the one that (government portal) e-Albania suffered in July.”
“Preliminary results show the attack was committed by the same hand,” the statement said, adding that authorities temporarily closed down all the systems, including the Total Information Management System (TIMS), which records entries and exits at the border crossing. Local media reported long queues in at least two border crossings in the south.
Albania, a NATO member, cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled its embassy staff this week. It was the first known case of a country cutting diplomatic relations over a cyberattack.
“Another cyberattack from the same aggressors already exposed and denounced by Albania’s allies and friendly countries, was seen last evening on the TIMS system,” Prime Minister Edi Rama tweeted on Saturday, adding that officials are coordinating defensive work with allies.
The Albanian government has accused Iran of carrying out the July 15 attack, which temporarily shut down numerous Albanian government digital services and websites.
Microsoft, the FBI and other cyber experts helped Albania following the July attack. Microsoft said in a blog post Thursday that it was moderately confident the hackers belong to a group that has been publicly linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
The U.S. government on Friday imposed sanctions on Iran’s intelligence agency and its leadership in response to the attack on Albania. NATO and the European Union also denounced the attack and supported Albania’s move.
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Police are investigating an armed robbery at a Youngsville dollar store Friday night.
On September 9, 2022, at 9:24 pm a man entered the Dollar General wearing a camouflage hoodie, black pants, black mask, armed with a black revolver. He fired one round from his weapon and ordered all customers inside the store to get on the ground. The suspect then stole items and cash from the customers, according to Youngsville Police Chief Rickey Boudreaux.
The suspect then ordered the store clerk to open the safe and register and remove all the cash.
Police say the suspect then exited the store and ran to a vehicle that was parked at the business. While the suspect was running to the vehicle, he fired one round at a person parked in the parking lot. The suspect then fled the scene traveling north on Louisiana Highway 89.
The suspect was followed by a witness in the parking lot, and a license plate was obtained, Boudreaux stated.
The suspect was later located and arrested.
The case is still under investigation.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have joined Prince William and his wife Kate, the Princess of Wales, at Windsor Castle to view the sea of floral tributes left by the public in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, the princes' grandmother.
The two princes and their wives took time to study the bouquets before waving to crowds of well-wishers who pressed against road barriers outside the gates of Windsor Castle on Saturday.
All four were seen shaking hands and speaking with members of the public.
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The best outerwear for fall music festivals
Outdoor music festivals are tons of fun and certainly not limited to just summertime. By a certain point in the fall, though, it can get just a bit too chilly to enjoy yourself without a little extra layering. This may be a good thing, because adding layers is a great way to express yourself and show off your style. Out of the endless choices of outerwear on the market, some are especially well suited to festival use.
Best blankets for fall festivals
Rumpl: The Original Puffy Blanket
Available in one- and two-person versions, this advanced blanket uses some of the same technology found in high-end hiking and camping gear, so you can be sure it holds in heat well. Possibly the biggest pros of this one are the corner loops and cape clips that let you keep it wrapped around you no matter where you go on the festival grounds.
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Made from a blend of acrylic and cotton, this ultra-durable blanket holds in a good deal of heat and comes in several patterns, each in the style of the classic Mexican blanket. It’s soft and relatively lightweight, but most importantly, it’s highly affordable.
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This is an extremely low-priced blanket that isn’t the absolute thickest, but can provide just enough warmth to keep you from shivering at a late-night set. It’s available in several simple yet good-looking patterns and crafted from 100% woven cotton.
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Best festival jackets and ponchos
Few garments say, “I am here to party” like a light-up fur coat. This one is outfitted with over 100 sparkly rainbow LEDs that get remarkably bright and run on six AA batteries that should last the whole weekend without running out. For something so flashy and interesting, it’s actually not too expensive.
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NIWOTA Sequin Super Flash Jacket
If simple LEDs aren’t flashy enough for you, consider this eye-catching jacket that combines high-efficiency lights with bright, metallic sequins. This jacket ensures everyone on the dance floor sees you at every show. There are various colors and lighting modes to choose from and while it’s not exactly cheap, that’s a small price to pay to be able to stand out from the crowd so easily.
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This premium men’s coat is handcrafted in Nepal from pure wool and lined with soft fleece to ensure both comfort and an impressive amount of warmth. It’s available in five sizes and has a dependable zipper that should last for years, just like its durable materials.
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No matter what your favorite style is, there’s almost certainly a version of this shawl that will match your wardrobe. It’s made with equal parts acrylic and polyester, and it’s the perfect weight for fending off a cool autumn breeze, while still being easy to carry with you.
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This relatively simple shawl comes in a few colors and has just enough fringe and patterning to make a fashion statement. Possibly most noteworthy is the attached hood, which can do wonders if you decide to take a nap by a side stage as the sun’s going down.
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If you’ve never worn alpaca wool before, you’re in for a treat. It’s remarkably warm yet surprisingly soft and comfortable, with just enough stretch to accommodate a wide range of body shapes. This one from Gamboa isn’t the only great alpaca poncho on the market; this one and this one from Davlina are also excellent choices with slightly different patterns.
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Best scarves and face coverings
This novel, multifunctional piece of apparel combines a hat, scarf, pair of mittens and a whole bunch of cuteness to deliver one of the most fun ways to stay warm at any outdoor gathering. It comes in a wide array of animals so you can choose your favorite.
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Enjoy this simple neck gaiter that costs very little and comes in a huge variety of colors and patterns. It’s perfect not only for keeping warm, but also for completing a costume, concealing your face and keeping dust and other foreign particles out of your airway.
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There are four classy patterns of infinity scarf here to choose from, and each comes with a matching face mask. Inside the scarf there’s even a hidden pocket for carrying your most important and lightweight festival accoutrements.
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It’s hard to overstate just how luxurious a good pashmina feels when you’re grooving to your favorite jam band in the early hours of the morning. This one comes in a range of bold or pastel colors to suit your personal preferences.
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Dust, allergens and germs will have a hard time getting past this light-up mask, which incidentally also helps hold in heat. It has seven colors and five flashing modes, plus a USB-rechargeable battery, so you won’t need to supply any of your own.
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Best festival onesies
You’ll find a truly impressive selection of adult onesies here, including an anglerfish, exotic cat, black-footed mink and even a kangaroo with a cute little baby that fits in the built-in pouch. It doesn’t cost much at all and is the perfect way to express your inward silliness while also fending off cold weather.
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There are a few colors and patterns of this one-piece pajama set available, but in the spirit of festival season, the tie-dye version is highly recommended. It’s made entirely from soft polyester that resists staining, and it doesn’t have feet, so it’s perfectly compatible with your festival footwear.
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Silver Lilly Pineapple Pajamas
Everybody has that one friend who’s constantly getting separated from the group at a festival. If you happen to be that friend, consider this brightly colored pineapple costume. At the very least, if you still get lost and eventually give up on finding your friends, it’s silly enough that it can help you meet new people.
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When you’re absolutely sick and tired of being serious, don this bright red lobster onesie and go to town dancing. In fact, this eye-catching outfit might actually help you fight through the crowd and get up to the front row.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Dansby Swanson hit one of Atlanta’s four home runs and the World Series champion Braves grabbed sole possession of first place for the first time all season with a 6-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
Robbie Grossman, Travis d’Arnaud and rookie Michael Harris II also went deep for the streaking Braves, who won their eighth straight and finally jumped a half-game ahead of the Mets in the NL East after chasing them for five months. New York lost 6-3 at Miami earlier in the night.
“That’s why we’re playing these games: trying to win the division,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “That’s our goal. When we left spring training, our No. 1 goal was to win the division. I think they’ve been great in their approach and how they come to work.”
Atlanta was seven games back on Aug. 8 and 10 1/2 behind on June 1. The only previous day this season the Mets did not hold at least a share of the division lead was April 11.
“It shows how dedicated we are to winning and how much we want to win,” Harris said. “We were down 10 games at one point and now we’re leading the East. That was our main goal. We got to it and now we’re just trying to keep it.”
Carlos Santana homered twice for the Mariners, and J.P. Crawford also connected.
Braves starter Charlie Morton (8-5) allowed four runs in 6 1/3 innings. Grossman had three hits and two RBIs.
“I can’t say enough about (Grossman) — just the professional he is, how he shows up every day and he’s ready to go,” Snitker said. “Even if he’s not in the starting lineup, he’s always ready. We’ve been very fortunate this year that those guys at the back end of the lineup have done a lot of damage for us.”
Swanson gave Atlanta a 2-0 lead in the first with a two-run homer off Robbie Ray (12-9), who gave up four runs in five innings.
After a walk to Jesse Winker in the second, Santana tied it with a home run.
Atlanta reclaimed the lead in the fourth when Harris led off with a double and scored on Grossman’s single.
A two-out homer by d’Arnaud in the fifth made it 4-2. Crawford answered with a solo shot in the bottom half, his first home run since June 1.
Harris and Grossman both homered in the sixth to make it 6-3.
“It was the night of the home run, I guess,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “They hit one more than we did. The ball was getting out of here tonight.”
Santana hit his second home run of the game and 14th of the season in the seventh. Seattle then had runners on first and second with two outs, but A.J. Minter struck out Ty France to end the inning.
Raisel Iglesias struck out three in a hitless eighth and Kenley Jansen whiffed two in a 1-2-3 ninth for his 33rd save.
Seattle has lost three of four but is four games ahead of Baltimore for the final American League wild card.
“Carlos kept us in the game,” Servais said. “Carlos had really good at-bats tonight when we needed it. It’s hard to string a lot of hits together against a guy like (Morton), so you’re going to have to hit the long ball, and we did. We were right there in the ballgame.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
The Mariners placed utility player Dylan Moore (oblique) on the 10-day injured list Aug. 30. Servais said Friday that Moore is “feeling better,” but not doing much rotational work or swinging a bat yet. “We’ll find out in the next couple of days where he’s at,” Servais said. “He’s a nice weapon to have. We’ve missed him. We’ll know more once we get through the weekend.”
UP NEXT
Braves: LHP Max Fried (13-5, 2.48 ERA) starts the middle game of the interleague series Saturday. He pitched five scoreless innings before a rain delay Sunday during Atlanta’s win over Miami.
Mariners: RHP George Kirby (6-3, 3.15) will take the mound. Kirby was the AL rookie of the month for August after going 4-0 in five starts with a 2.15 ERA.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — There likely will be a moment Sunday — maybe a few — when Robert Saleh looks up into the stands at MetLife Stadium and is reminded of how many lives were instantly changed 21 years ago.
Including his own.
Saleh’s New York Jets will open the NFL regular season against the Baltimore Ravens at home — just across the Hudson River from where hijackers crashed two planes into the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks.
Football will be played Sunday, but all the cheers won’t mean anyone has forgotten. Certainly not Saleh, whose oldest brother, David, narrowly escaped the south tower that day.
There were 2,750 others in lower Manhattan who never went home.
And chances are, many of the fans rooting for the Jets — in the stands and at home — to beat Lamar Jackson and the Ravens on Sunday have been mourning personal losses since that day.
“There’s no doubt. It’s amplified because it is 9/11 in this city,” Robert Saleh said. “Not so much for me, but for the people who are in the thick of it. Obviously, I know it’s documented about my brother, but I heard stories this week about the cars being at (the Meadowlands) for months afterward because no one could pick them up. And then the Long Island train stations and the tragedies that led up to this.”
Saleh was only 22 on Sept. 11, 2001, and just starting out in the financial business in Detroit. His brother was training as a financial adviser in New York City.
As Saleh and his family watched on TV as the attacks unfolded there, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, they prayed, hoped and begged for David to be OK.
Several agonizing hours later, David called.
He made it.
Robert, who thought he lost his big brother, immediately began contemplating his own life and career path. After a few more months trudging through the financial world, the former college tight end knew he needed to chase his dream.
He wanted to be a coach.
That two-decade journey began at Michigan State and brought him to Central Michigan, Georgia, the Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars and San Francisco 49ers before he became an NFL head coach for the first time last year with the Jets.
“I’m supposed to be here and I believe that God does things for a reason,” Saleh said after he was hired. “And I believe this is one of them.”
His debut with the Jets last year — Sept. 12 at Carolina — coincided with the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
This year, he’ll be standing on the sideline in a stadium filled with fans predominantly from the New York/New Jersey area exactly 21 years since that day.
“I think it’s very personal for a lot of people and I think that passion is felt country-wide, not just in New York,” Saleh said Friday. “But it’s a little bit more important here and you know that (Sunday) means a lot more than just a football game to a lot of people in the stands.
“That’s why I think that’s what’s going to make Sunday pretty cool.”
Sports became a method of healing and a source of unity when they returned to stadiums across the country a few weeks after the attacks.
And they have continued to do so in the years since, particularly during the days surrounding the anniversary. That’s something not lost on Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
“We’re going up to New York, going to be in the Meadowlands, it’s going to be 9/11,” Harbaugh said. “It’s a great honor to be chosen to go up there and play on 9/11. We take it very seriously, that part of it.
“We know the environment, we know how loud it’s going to be, we know how enthusiastic they’re going to be, their demeanor. They’re going to be into it. We have to match that as best we can.”
There will be poignant moments of silence before the game.
And very likely some tears.
A 100-yard American flag will be unfurled on the field by members of the New York Police Department, New York City Fire Department and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department.
The Jets will then begin a new game day tradition by having fans sing the national anthem. It will be led by NYPD officer Brianna Fernandez, whose late father, Luis, was a 23-year veteran of the NYPD who helped in the rescue and recovery efforts.
A stadium again will be filled with voices united by tragedy and bonded by football.
“I know y’all like to tailgate. I would appreciate it if you all get out there early, get in there early,” Saleh said, directing his message to the fans. “I would love if everyone sang the national anthem. Don’t just listen to it, just sing it.
“I think it’s the coolest thing when the stadium sings it. I think it’s going to be electric.”
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AP Sports Writer Noah Trister contributed.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Last year, Sam Jalloh zig-zagged across West Africa coaching tennis to kids, taking with him rackets, balls and a cellphone loaded with photos and videos of a pro player in action to inspire the youngsters.
The player? Frances Tiafoe.
That move to encourage young Africans by showing them images of Tiafoe, an American with Sierra Leone roots, has paid off. Jalloh’s phone has pinged and pinged this week with text messages from many of the kids, delighted by the 24-year-old Tiafoe’s incredible run to the semifinals at the U.S. Open, where he beat Rafael Nadal along the way.
“They’re saying, ‘coach, have you seen Frances? This is really good.’ When these things happen . . . you can see that it motivates children,” Jalloh said. “They are very, very excited and it’s not just kids from Sierra Leone. I’ve got kids from Gambia, kids from Ghana, kids from Nigeria. This will bring a lot more inspiration for them.”
Tiafoe was born in the United States to parents who emigrated from Sierra Leone — also Jalloh’s home country — and while Tiafoe offers new hope for the future of American tennis, the African link made him an ideal role model for Jalloh to use, even before this breakthrough U.S. Open where he advanced to Friday’s semifinals before losing in five sets to Carlos Alcaraz.
Tiafoe’s parents, Frances Sr. and Alphina, struggled when they first arrived in the U.S. Frances Sr. worked as a laborer and then janitor at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in Maryland. Alphina put in long night shifts as a nurse. Frances Jr. and his twin brother, Franklin, were born in Maryland and lived for much of the first 10 years of their lives in a converted office at the tennis center.
With that backstory, Jalloh could see kids in West Africa make “a connection” to Tiafoe even though he also showed them clips of 22-time Grand Slam singles champion Nadal and other top players.
“It inspires them to go on and be great in tennis or whatever they aspire to be,” Jalloh said. He feels the Tiafoe effect in Africa will “go on for a long time.”
Jalloh insists tennis is more popular than many think in West Africa. He’s seen enough courts in enough towns and cities and enough young hopefuls to make that claim.
Some of the courts he’s coached on are neatly marked out and surrounded by fences. Many aren’t. Jalloh has made use of whatever he’s found. Some are little more than cracked strips of concrete in between houses in poor, inner-city neighborhoods. Others are stretches of flat earth carved out of the wilderness outside town.
It’s here that Jalloh hopes Tiafoe’s stirring performance at Flushing Meadows sparks something in tennis authorities in West Africa like it has in his young players.
“Once we have the organization and the people with the passion, then you’ll see a lot of talent come from Africa,” Jalloh said.
There have been positive signs in Sierra Leone in the past week. The national media, normally with eyes only for soccer, has taken notice of tennis and Tiafoe has received much praise.
Fatima Bio, wife of Sierra Leone President Julius Bio, posted on her Facebook page about Tiafoe: “You are such an amazing guy and I want you to know we are celebrating you at home.” Former Sierra Leone soccer captain Kai Kamara called Tiafoe “one of us” and said the country was behind him.
Jalloh became aware of Tiafoe when he won the prestigious Orange Bowl junior tournament in Miami at the age of 15. Jalloh wanted to know more about the young talent with Sierra Leonean heritage and eventually became good friends with Tiafoe’s dad. They speak often on the phone, Jalloh said, and were in contact this week as Frances Jr. blazed his trail at the U.S. Open.
It has also reinvigorated Jalloh, whose own life story is quite extraordinary.
Jalloh was born in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, one of 11 children and his parents gave him up for adoption at the age of 6 because they couldn’t afford to keep him. He ran away from his adopted family and lived on the streets of Freetown before reuniting with his mother.
He then found tennis and went from playing on the streets with his hand, and later homemade wooden bats, to a Sierra Leone national tennis player, which earned him $250 and a team tracksuit, his “greatest dream,” he said.
He now coaches players on the pro tour from his home in England and is already planning his next coaching trip to Africa. He’s aiming to go to Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa at the end of the year and back to West Africa in early 2023, he said, with his tennis equipment and plenty of new video clips of Tiafoe.
“Oh yes, I’ve got so much now. I will have a lot to show to the kids,” Jalloh said.
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Imray reported from Cape Town, South Africa.
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King Charles III’s warring sons, Prince William and Prince Harry and their wives Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle all appeared in black at Windsor Castle on Saturday evening to inspect the sea of floral tributes laid outside the gates of the Berkshire estate in tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were greeted by applause as they walked along the gates of Windsor Castle together as they honoured the legacy of Her Majesty – temporarily putting aside the differences sparked by Megxit which have fractured the Royal Family in recent years and plunged the British monarchy into one of its most severe ever crises.
A Kensington Palace source said that the Prince of Wales invited the Sussexes to join him and the Princess of Wales earlier on Saturday.
Saturday will be the first time that the two couples have all appeared in public together since Commonwealth Day on March 9, 2020.
At one moment, a small Paddington Bear was given to William, which he passed on to an aide. He was seen lightly touching Kate’s back at one moment as she crouched down again to speak to a child at the front of the gates. Kate crouched down at one moment and began speaking to a child who had started to cry. The child stopped crying when Kate approached her.
One well-wisher who spoke to Harry and Meghan told MailOnline: “It’s lovely to see them both together. Maybe they can get back to a proper relationship. Lovely ripple went through the crowd as they approached. Hopefully the healing between Harry and his brother can start now. I’m just so excited to have seen them both together. It’s lovely.”
Another said: “We couldn’t believe it when the gates opened and we saw William and Harry walk down with Meghan and Kate. I’ll be honest there was a little bit of a groan when Harry and Meghan came down our side, but I passed him a bunch of flowers and he was happy to take them.
“I’m pleased that they came out together and as a family I’m delighted that they all took the time to come and say hello to the crowds. Sad things like funerals bring families together so I hope that when they get back to California they think long and hard about everything that’s happened.”
Just moments earlier, the Prince of Wales paid an emotional tribute to his late ‘Grannie’, describing the beloved monarch as an ‘extraordinary leader, whose commitment to the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth was absolute’ and admitting it would be ‘some time’ before her loss ‘will truly feel real.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/william-harry-kate-meghan-unite-for-queen-elizabeth/ | 2022-09-10T18:17:25Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/william-harry-kate-meghan-unite-for-queen-elizabeth/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Willow Series Adds Christian Slater, Full Trailer Revealed
The Disney+ Willow series arrives November 30, giving all fans something to give thanks for at the appropriate time of year. And at the D23 Expo, we got a couple of appetizers. First, the news that Christian Slater joins the series in a mystery role that the actor says allowed him to improvise a lot, and that might be connected to Madmartigan. Following that announcement, Lucasfilm dropped a full new trailer that reveals a lot of new information. Among other things, it reveals our first looks at the returning Sorsha (Joanne Whalley) and Brownies Franjean and Rool. Or at least one of them.
Take a look in the player below:
So Willow invents the flamethrower, eh? Didn’t see that coming.
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It looks like the plot involves rescuing the kidnapped son of Madmartigan and Sorsha. As for the villains, which include a very Resident Evil-looking brute, they sound like they have familiar ties. Though it’s anyone’s guess as to whom, since Queen Bavmorda and General Kael got solidly vanquished last time around. Willow’s reference to defeating them “last time” suggests they may have lived on in spirit somehow. Foes also include familiar trolls, and the catchphrase “forget all you know” returns. This time, Willow knows full well it’s his finger that controls the universe.
There’s also a new poster, which you can see below.
What do you think of the new trailer? Let us know in comments.
Recommended Reading: Willow: The Storybook Based On the Movie
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Cassian Embraces His Destiny in Lucasfilm’s New Andor Trailer
Diego Luna’s return as Rebel hero Cassian Andor is less than two weeks away. So it was only natural for Lucasfilm to kick off today’s D23 presentation with a new look at the highly-anticipated Rogue One prequel. The cast and crew have long been promising that the show provides a much grittier alternative to traditional Star Wars fare. But the new Andor trailer shows us just how gritty the story will get over the course of its first season.
The latest round of footage highlights the series’ impressively broad scope. Many of the filmmakers previously confirmed that Andor mainly utilizes practical sets with as little need for CGI as possible. But aside from the battles on the ground, which will take viewers to a variety of new planets, we can also expect a handful of dog fights in space. And clearly, Lucasfilm spared no expense on the budget. You can check out the new trailer in the player below.
All for the Rebellion. Watch the brand-new trailer for #Andor, an Original series from Star Wars, and experience the three-episode premiere streaming September 21, only on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/w1TiVyBS8t
— Star Wars | Andor Premieres Sept 21 on Disney+ (@starwars) September 10, 2022
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During the panel, Luna came out onstage with Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy and several of his co-stars, including Adria Arjona (Bix Caleen), Kyle Soller (Syril Karn), and Genevieve O’Reilly (Mon Mothma). They all described Andor as a “spy thriller” that takes place five years before the start of Rogue One. Luna also claimed that it serves as “the awakening of a revolutionary” as well. And this theme is on full display in the trailer when Cassian speaks with Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård). who’s willing to sacrifice everything for the galaxy’s freedom. He also warns Cassian that either way, he’s destined to perish in his fight against the Empire, foreshadowing his tragic demise at the end of the 2016 anthology film.
Andor will premiere its first three episodes on Disney+ on September 21.
What do you think of this latest trailer for the series? Let us know in the comment section below!
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Police arrest landlord accused of running over tenant, killing him
PAHRUMP, Nev. (Gray News/KVVU) - A man is charged with open murder after police said he allegedly ran over his tenant with his vehicle and dragged his body down the road.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office reported that 70-year-old William Stanley was arrested in the death of 66-year-old Frank Brink after Brink’s body was found on the side of the road on Sept. 6.
Deputies who responded to the report of a body found said there was evidence the body had been dragged to the location where it was discovered, according to Captain Davide Boruchowitz with the Nye County Sheriff’s Office.
Boruchowitz said deputies then followed a trail of blood and clothing to an address nearby where it appeared the dragging had begun.
The sheriff’s office identified the owner of the property as Stanley and said he was Brink’s landlord.
Upon further investigation, Boruchowitz reported deputies discovered the incident began with an argument between Stanley and Brink. A declaration of probable cause and detention obtained by KVVU reported Stanley admitted to running Brink over with his vehicle, killing him.
Stanley then reportedly used a rope to tie Brink’s leg to the back of the vehicle before dragging his body to the spot where it was later found, according to the declaration.
Boruchowitz said deputies found sufficient evidence during an executed search warrant to arrest Stanley.
Stanley was charged with open murder and was booked into the Nye County Detention Center without bail.
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The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia will hold its annual fundraiser, the Raise the Region Gala on Friday, Oct. 7.
For the first time since 2019, there will be an in-person component available to those interested. The event will enable the Community Foundation to respond to need, seed innovation and lead and convene the community, helping to build a Northern Virginia that works for everyone, according to a news release.
As part of this celebration of local philanthropy in Northern Virginia, hundreds of businesses, philanthropic and community leaders will be represented online and in-person. The virtual option is at no cost to interested parties.
The event will include remarks from CEO and President Eileen Ellsworth, as well as board members, and grantees A Farm Less Ordinary, United Community and Safe Spot Children’s Advocacy Center. A live auction is scheduled with two raffles -- one for a diamond piece of jewelry valued at more than $3,000 and another to participate in a whisky tasting.
The Community Leadership Award, presented annually for outstanding community service and dedication to improving the quality of life for all Northern Virginians, will be presented to Micron Technology Inc., a world leader in innovative memory solutions with deep ties to our region through its Manassas operation. More than 60% of Micron employees are engaged in efforts to support local needs, particularly helping underrepresented and underserved students find pathways to STEM careers.
The in-person portion of the gala will be at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner and begin at 6:30 p.m.
This year's top sponsors are as follows:
- Challenge Sponsor: K. Paul Singh
- Community Leadership Sponsors: Claude Moore Charitable Foundation, John and Nina Toups Charitable Fund, Micron Technology Inc., Nolan Family Charitable Fund
- Community Resilience Sponsor: Truist
- Photo Engagement Sponsor: Monument Wealth Management
Information on Raise the Region is available here. For a preview of auction items, visit www.cfnova.org/raisetheregion.
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Tech. Sgt. Brandon Szuch and Tech. Sgt. Mark Imhoff, Aerospace Propulsion Technicians at the Maintenance Squadron, examine a broken flow bolt and discuss what needs to be replaced inside of the Engine Shop at the Tulsa Air National Guard base, Okla., Aug. 15, 2022. Without the flow bolt, oil would leak from the engine which could damage the interior of the plane and cause a malfunction that could harm the 138th Fighter Wing’s mission. (U.S. Air National Guard Photo by AB Addison Barnes)
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Staff Sgt. Micah Baucum and Airman First Class Cole Morgan, Aerospace Propulsion Technicians at the Maintenance Squadron, perform maintenance on an engine inside of the Engine Shop at the Tulsa Air National Guard base, Okla., Aug. 15. Engines are worked on daily to help lessen the chances of an engine failure either on land or in the air to prevent potentially dangerous scenarios. (U.S. Air National Guard Photo by AB Addison Barnes)
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Chief Warrant Officer 4 Robert J. Hansen, a standardization and instructor pilot for the 3-124 AHB, attached to 36th Combat Aviation Brigade (shown in the only yellow hard hat), provides support to search and rescue units alongside first responders at ground zero, estimated date of Sept. 14, 2001, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center – New York. Hansen served as an Air Force fire fighter assigned to the 105th Air Wing, New York Air National Guard, while aiding search and rescue during recovery efforts on ground zero and shares his remembrance at the Udairi Landing Zone in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Sept. 5, 2022. (courtesy photo, Times Magazine)
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KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Rheem Ford Mustang -- WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO START GETTING ON THERE AND JUMPING INTO THE CONVERSATION?
“Yeah, well, you know, I think it's just, you know, I think it's just time. Right? You know, I think it's just there needs to be some, some better leadership on just the whole safety situation. And, you know, my road is shorter than most everybody's been here. So, you know, I think it's just, you know, it was just after the whole fire thing at Darlington, and the reaction on Tuesday was drastic but way too late. I think, as we look at the fire problem for me, and I start digging through how that whole thing had transpired and gone down. Then you look at the car and you start asking questions, and you're like, ‘Well, why did everything melt?’ Well, this is really not 100% fire-resistant. And, you know, here's the coating that we presented a couple months ago after Chase’s fire and it's been rejected. Now, this week, it's all in there, you got a piece of stainless on there. So that reaction, as I go back and talk to my guys, and we basically had a car catch on fire at every test. So it's not like it was a new problem. We had the 48 catch on fire at Darlington, I think the first race. And so we've seen a lot of these instances, and it's just a really, really slow reaction. And, I think if the teams were in charge of stuff like that, and the proper input was put in place, we would have never had more than two fires if the teams were in charge for the whole field, because they would have collaborated and not been so slow to react. So, the whole safety thing is really kind of second fiddle right now. And I just don't think that's fair to the drivers. I do not think it's fair to the drivers, and we can debate all day but debating isn't really fixing anything. I think when I look at the car itself, it's not rear impacts, it's not front impacts, it's not side impacts, it's all impacts. No matter what they're filtered data says it's not what the drivers are feeling. And we need a louder voice. As I sat and thought about it this week, it really needs to have more of an independent group that makes the decisions on how to implement things and how to go through a process that's outside of NASCAR and the teams, because NASCAR is slow to react, and the teams are always worried about money. And that doesn't do anything for the drivers.
IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE THERE TO MAKE QUICK CHANGES ON SOME OF THESE THINGS?
“We did it in a day. Teams can still make parts. The teams can do way more than all these people that are making the parts. All the smart people live in the teams. All the problems get solved in the teams. A ll the smart people work on the race teams, and they're the ones that fix the problems. And that's how we got to where we are today. If it weren't for the teams, the rules would not look anything like they did in the racing wouldn't be as good as it is. The teams are the ones that fix the problems. We would not wait as long as we have but the drivers are the piece that's way out of line right now. I think that the safety thing should go into a bucket that has a council of some sort, a board of sorts that handles these types of problems. When it goes into that safety bucket, NASCAR teams don't have don't have a say in it. Safety can't be about money. I've lived this man. I've watched. I watched when we had all the trouble with Adam (Petty) and Kenny Irwin and then it resulted in Dale Earnhardt and then all of a sudden, it was mandatory to wear Hans devices, it was mandatory to wear the Hutchins device. We developed soft walls. It can't be slow, the safety cannot be slow. This car is it's screwed up as far as the way that it crashes. And whether the data says it or not, every driver in this garage will tell you that's not right and it hurts. Feet hurt, hands hurt, head hurt. And there has to be a better solution. When we want to solve problems, we can solve them quick, super quick. I think that that plan didn't come together in one day because there wasn't stuff that was not already in the process, but it was just too slow to be implemented. And now, unfortunately, we're in the spot that we're in. But the positive that came out of it was there was a lot of progress made on a situation that shouldn't have been there in September.
WHERE IS THE DIALOGUE NOW? HOW DO YOU WHERE DO YOU FEEL LIKE THINGS ARE?
“Here it is. I feel like this is the dialogue.”
SO NO DIALOGUE WITH NASCAR STILL?
“No. And look, I've been on both sides of this. And it's the reason that I didn't stay on the driver council because things were too slow. Like, if I was running it, it just happens too slow for me. I think this is playing the politically correct, you know, we got to keep our eye on the racing, we got a TV contract coming up, whatever all that is. It is still not fair to the drivers to be compromised inside of the car and have the slow reaction that we're having, and not listening to every hit hurts, because every hit hurts.”
AND THEIR ARGUMENT WOULD BE, WELL, IF THEY PUT SHROUDS ON YOU GUYS. THEY'VE CHANGED GLUES BEING USED IN IT, THEY'VE MADE STEPS.
“That is their problem. They want to argue. Why does the Kevlar burn Bob? Why does the foam melt? Do we know those answers? They're not as fire retardant as they should be. The only reason I stopped this weekend is because the flames were coming inside the freaking car. Because this used to all be steel right there. And you look at the foam, all the foam it looks like a marshmallow. So, you know, I think now it's all coated with the coating that we presented two months ago. That doesn't catch on fire on the right side of the car. Like I say things have progressed. And we are here today. But it can't be that slow. There's just no reason. It is not fair to the drivers to be compromised like we are right now and not have at least a progress plan. And it's not just a rear clip. It's a front clip, a rear clip, side, every hit hurts.”
AND THE REASON WOULD BE THAT IF YOU MAKE A CHANGE, WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF A CHANGE? AND ALSO IF YOU ALLOW TEAMS TO MAKE PARTS …
“We are only making parts in emergency situations, Bob? Right now you're in an emergency situation because the car doesn't crash right.”
SO IS THAT THE SOLUTION BECAUSE YOU KNOW, YOU HEAR THAT MAYBE THEY COULD DO SOMETHING IN THE OFF-SEASON.
“I don't know what the solution is but I know it needs to be way faster. And if you start in the offseason, it's going to be a complete cluster to try to get it done before the Clash. So where are we headed here? Like, what's the plan? Every driver in here is tired of hitting the wall and having been hurt. Tired of hitting a car at 20 miles an hour and rear ending somebody and having your Hans lock out? Your filtered data may say that it's the same, but it's not the same. And when you really start looking at it, and, you know, I know, Denny has talked about this before and you look at how quick the hits come up and how fast everything accelerates. You know, I think it's very apparent that it's not the same, the total G might be the same, but the quickness that you get there is very different. And I think the best example that I have is when I came over the hill earlier in the year at Sonoma and was going, what 60 miles an hour, full lock, just from impact with the 2 car. Just he was checked up and I checked up and it went full lock. That's not normal. That's not right. I can't tell you how many guys have talked about the side impacts and how bad they hurt at low speeds. It's just time to listen to the driver and stop worrying about the data.”
YOU TALKED ABOUT AN INDEPENDENT COMMISSION OR INDEPENDENT GROUP KIND OF WORK? HOW DO YOU ENVISION IT?
“I don't know. I just know that when it falls into safety, it has to be taken out of the hands of how much it costs. That can't be the answer. If you have four or five guys from teams, and you know, we all have people that analyze parts and analyze the data and analyze the crashes and implement new ideas to solve problems. Every team -- all the top teams have that and if you get those guys involved, and you have somebody from NASCAR and somebody from the RTA, they can listen, that's fine but there needs to be an independent group that helps speed up this process and tells the teams and NASCAR how we're going to implement this to fix the safety side of it. Safety has to come before cost. And it doesn't right now.”
HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT GETTING OUT OF THE CAR? WOULD YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT IF YOU FELT IT WASN’T SAFE?
“I think the biggest concern right now is you have another Kurt Busch situation. If we just keep letting it go, why do we want that situation? That's the situation that you're in.”
DO YOU FEEL LIKE THEY'VE TRADED BEING SAFE FOR THE MOST WORST ACCIDENTS AND ANOTHER PROBLEM? LIKE THEY FIXED INTRUSION AND THINGS LIKE POTENTIALLY WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO RYAN NEWMAN. SO THEY FIX THAT, AND NOW HAVE CREATED THIS PROBLEM THAT YOU'RE SEEING WITH KURT BUSCH?
“I don't know. But if we had the right group of people talking about it together I could have some better answers on that for you. If there was open dialogue with the right people on the teams and the situations that are happening. I just know that it can't be, ‘Well, the data doesn't show this, the drivers don't know what they're talking about’. The hell it doesn't. We're the ones out there, banging into something every week. And I guarantee you, every one of them will tell you the same thing about the small impacts and the big impacts. Those are the facts.”
I THOUGHT IT WAS MORE OF A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT.
“Whatever we call the the new stuff is exactly where the drivers council was when it all ended. You know, it starts off great and get a couple of wins. But, you know, now we're in a big situation.”
WHY ARE YOU COMFORTABLE PUTTING YOURSELF OUT THERE TO BE THE VOICE HERE? WHY ARE YOU COMFORTABLE IN THIS POSITION?
“Because it just feels like the right thing to do for my colleagues”
DO YOU FEEL EXTRA PRESSURE BEING KIND OF ONE OF THE LAST DRIVERS FROM THE EARLY 2000S ERA?
“I've watched it? I've watched this whole process when it's too slow.”
IS THAT WHAT KEPT YOU FROM MAYBE BEING MORE VOCAL EARLIER? OR WERE YOU JUST DOING IT MORE BEHIND THE SCENES?
“I mean, you want to believe that it's just gonna happen, right. The process and the way that things are gonna go. Like, this feels better. This feels right. But we're kind of right in the same spot that we were with the last driver council.”
Have they come to you and asked what you think about this?
“No. No.”
WOULD YOU BE OPEN TO THAT?
“I'm open to anything if it has a progression to resolution.”
WHO'S YOUR GO-TO PERSON AT NASCAR RIGHT NOW?
“You.”
SO YOU DON'T EVEN GET A CALL ON THE OTHER SIDE, LIKE AN ANGRY CALL, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS IN THE MEDIA? WHY DON'T YOU TALK TO US BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
“I've asked. I've asked enough questions. So we're here.”
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Final Stage Recap:
• Crew chief Mardy Lindley called for another four tire and fuel stop at the stage break where the No. 51 team was able to pick up two spots on pit road and lined up for the final stage restart in third.
• Heim lined up on the inside of the second row for the restart behind his KBM teammate John Hunter Nemechek. The two KBM drivers were able to get a good jump on the restart as Heim fell in behind Nemechek in second as they made their way down the backstretch.
• As the final stage went on, the Georgia native began to deal with more handling issues with 45 laps to go as he communicated that his No. 51 Tundra was “free on entry and super tight on exit”, while running in the fourth position.
• Heim continued to run in fourth as green flag pit stops began with around 30 laps to go in the Kansas Lottery 200. Once the field started to get sorted back out, the JBL driver was running in 10th with five laps to go.
• Over the course of the last five laps, Heim was able to pick off three more spots before taking the checkered flag in seventh, earning his seventh career top-10 finish.
Kansas Lottery 200 Recap
• John Hunter Nemechek earned his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win of 2022 and will advance to the Round of 8. It was his 13th career victory. Carson Hocevar, Ryan Preece, Zane Smith, and Grant Enfinger rounded out the top-five finishes.
• There were four cautions for 25 laps and 11 lead changes among six drivers.
How Corey Heim's KBM Teammates Fared:
• John Hunter Nemechek, driver of the No. 4 Toyota, finished first.
• Chandler Smith, driver of the No. 18 Toyota, finished sixth.
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship Standings
The No. 51 team advanced to the Round of 8 in the Owner’s Championship playoffs and now find themselves in the sixth seed. After the points reset, they are sixth on the playoff grid, four points below the cutoff line to advance to the Championship 4.
Next Race
Corey Heim will be back behind the wheel of the No. 51 Crescent Tools Tundra TRD Pro next Thursday, Sept. 15 as the Camping World Truck Series heads to Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway for the opening race of the Round of 8. Live coverage of the UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics will be on Fs1, Motor Racing Network, and SiriusXM at 9 p.m. ET.
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Keegan Kincaid Wraps Up 2022 Season With Pro 2 World Championship Podium in Crandon
Adam Sinclair
Adam has been a race fan since the first time he went through the tunnel under the Daytona International Speedway more than 30 years ago. He has had the privilege of traveling to races all across the state of Florida (as well as one race in Ohio), watching nearly everything with a motor compete for fame and glory, as well as participating in various racing schools to get the feel of what racecar drivers go through every week.
Adam spent several years covering motorsports for Examiner.com., where he had the opportunity to see the racing world from behind the scenes as well as the grandstands. He invites everyone to follow him on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus, and looks forward to sharing his enthusiasm for all things racing with the readers of SpeedwayDigest.com.
Be sure to tune in for his sports talk program, Thursday Night Thunder, where he discusses the latest in motorsports news with drivers, crew members, and fans. The show takes place (almost) every Thursday at 8:00 pm EST on the Speedway Digest Radio Network.
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Progressive American Flat Track announced today the expansion of the final two race weekends of the season to conclude the 2022 campaign in epic double-doubleheader fashion.
The inaugural Drag Specialties Cedar Lake Short Track will feature a unique twist on the doubleheader format, fitting two full points- and purse-paying Mission SuperTwins presented by S&S Cycle Main Events into a single evening on Saturday, September 24 at Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
Following the conclusion of Opening Ceremonies, Mission SuperTwins will kick off the Main Event program with Round 15 of the premier-class championship. Later that evening, the Mission SuperTwins competitors will return to the track, joined by the participating Mission Production Twins Challenge entrants, to cap off the day’s activities with Round 16.
Flag-to-flag coverage of both Mission SuperTwins Main Events will feature in the one-hour FS1 broadcast of the Cedar Lake Short Track scheduled to premiere on Sunday, October 2, at 10:30 a.m. ET/7:30 a.m. PT.
The Mission Volusia Half-Mile Finale presented by Daytona Dodge at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Florida, will then conclude the 2022 season with a conventional two-day doubleheader, featuring Round 17 on Friday, October 14, and Round 18 on Saturday, October 15. The weekend will also represent the final two-thirds of the Progressive Triple Crown, which will pay the Mission SuperTwins rider who collects the most combined points across the Progressive Laconia Short Track and twin finale a $25,000 prize.
The additions to the year-end slate further raise the stakes for what was already destined to be a thrilling conclusion to a historic season. With four Mission SuperTwins title fighters representing two different manufacturers separated by just 29 points and 100 points still up for grabs, this year’s championship battle remains far too close to predict.
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How to Watch:
FOX Sports and FansChoice.tv are the official homes for coverage of Progressive American Flat Track. For the 2022 season, all races will premiere in one-hour telecasts on FS1 during highly desirable weekend time slots. The complete schedule can be viewed at https://www.americanflattrack.com/events-foxsports. FansChoice.tv provides livestreaming coverage of every Progressive AFT round at http://www.FansChoice.tv. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72824-epic-2022-progressive-aft-season-to-conclude-with-twin-doubleheaders | 2022-09-10T18:46:01Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72824-epic-2022-progressive-aft-season-to-conclude-with-twin-doubleheaders | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With the 2022 King of the Baggers series finale this weekend, we wanted to share the latest “Inside Indian Motorcycle Racing” video. The piece fully recaps the dramatic action at the last round in Brainerd. You may recall, it was Brainerd where Bobby Fong made the incredible inside pass on Tyler O’Hara and captured his first bagger racing victory. The race was nothing short of boring, with oil leakage, a disqualification, crashed riders, delays, and ultimately rain concluding the Main after three laps.
In this video, viewers get an inside look to all the action, along with compelling interview insights from Tyler O’Hara, S&S and Indian Motorcycle Racing team members.
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Hand, who has 18 IMSA top-level series race wins dating to 2004, notched the Michelin Pilot Challenge victory in the No. 40 PF Racing Ford Mustang GT4, co-driving with James Pesek.
“Ford called me just after the Indy NASCAR race and they said, ‘Hey, we need you to help the PF Racing guys,’” Hand said. “I guess (co-driver) Chad McCumbee had racing conflicts the rest of the year. At the last minute they called me and asked me to finish the year out with them. I did Road America, Virginia, then we finish up at Road Atlanta. The good thing about this is that it gets me back into the IMSA loop.”
Hand’s most recent previous IMSA time was pretty memorable as part of the vaunted Ford GT program from 2016-19 in the WeatherTech Championship GT Le Mans class. On top of that, he was part of the driver lineup that delivered a 24 Hours of Le Mans victory for Ford in 2016 on the 50th anniversary of the manufacturer’s vaunted triumph over Ferrari in the French endurance classic.
He was part of five race-winning efforts including the 2017 Rolex 24 At Daytona before the program was shelved. It’s why he’s so excited to be the development driver for the new Mustang GT3, though he doesn’t know much about the car at this point.
“I am part of the GT3 development program in 2023 with Ford and Multimatic Motorsports,” Hand said. “I haven’t even seen the GT3 yet. That is a well-kept secret.”
He also doesn’t know if he will continue helping NASCAR teams or do more Michelin Pilot Challenge races next year in addition to helping advance the GT3 race car. Multimatic and Ford also are developing a Mustang GT4 scheduled to compete in the Michelin Pilot Challenge in 2023.
“I will finish out the year with PF Racing,” Hand said, “then help with the development of these new cars moving forward with development in 2023 and hopefully racing in 2024. The GT4 and GT3 will be totally different cars.
“The deal with PF Racing was something that just came up. I was the obvious fit because I know the tracks and my connection with Ford. I could jump right in it and get going.”
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RAIDERS (0-0) AT CHARGERS (0-0)
When: 1:25 p.m. Sunday
Where: SoFi Stadium
TV/Radio: CBS (Ch. 2); 98.7 FM; 105.5 FM/94.3 FM (Spanish); Sirius 228
Line: Chargers by 3.5 points
Notable injury designations: Chargers: CB J.C. Jackson (Doubtful, ankle), TE Donald Parham (Doubtful, hamstring), LB Drue Tranquill (Questionable, back). Raiders: None
What’s at stake? A head start to be 1-0 in the division early in the season. The AFC West is an all-in poker match, so it will probably come down to the end of the season. The division winner is usually the team who has the best record within the division. Every game counts, so for the Raiders and Chargers, this is an opportunity to start with a crucial divisional victory.
Who’s better? The Chargers get the slight edge because they have continuity with their coaching staff returning for a second season. Quarterback Justin Herbert will be under center with what was one of the best offenses in the NFL last season, and that should continue this season. They improved the offensive line by drafting right guard Zion Johnson in the first round. The Raiders are an unknown with first-year head coach and former New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels at the helm, so things will look different on all three sides. Quarterback Derek Carr and new receiver Davante Adams didn’t participate in preseason games, so the Chargers, along with the NFL world, will watch them for the first time Sunday. Las Vegas’ defense will be overseen by Patrick Graham, the former New York Giants defensive coordinator who will have pass rushers Maxx Crosby and Chandler Jones at his disposal. It is a new-look Raiders team that is coming into SoFi Stadium.
Matchup to watch: Chargers right tackle Trey Pipkins vs. Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby. Last year in the Sunday night matchup, Crosby was consistently in Herbert’s face and disrupting the Chargers’ offensive flow. He had 11 pressures, seven hurries, two quarterback hits, and two sacks, according to Pro Football Focus. Pipkins is going into his fourth season, but his first as a starter. He will need to show the maturation and development the coaches keep saying he has demonstrated in practice.
Chargers win if: The defense is what it is billed to be, which is much improved from last season. It was at the bottom in almost every category on defense, especially when it came to stopping the run. The Chargers went out and signed players who have been in his defensive scheme before or were deemed a good fit. The Raiders present a lot of offensive weapons that could turn this game into a track meet. The Chargers must be disciplined on defense, get after Carr and stop the run. McDaniels’ Patriots system used multiple running backs, so the defense must be aware of everything.
Fantasy sleeper: Chargers running back Austin Ekeler had more than 200 yards of total offense in the two games against the Raiders last season, plus four touchdowns. He is a focal point of the offense, and when they reach the red zone, he is a primary target for Herbert in the passing game. Ekeler could be in for a big game, primarily if the Raiders defense is focused on receivers Keenan Allen and Mike Williams.
Prediction: Most Chargers-Raiders games come down to a late score, and this game will do just that. It will be an offensive slugfest, but what will decide this game will be a late-game turnover. The Chargers’ defense will create the turnover and take home the 34-27 victory to start 1-0 before a short week and game Thursday in Kansas City.
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HONOLULU, Oahu (KITV4) — Furthering its mission to address Hawai‘i’s food security, Hawai‘i ‘Ulu Cooperative (HUC) is increasing access to recipe-ready Hawai‘i-grown staples at major retailers across the islands including Longs Drugs, Times and Safeway. This line of local pre-cooked, cut and frozen products includes ʻulu (breadfruit), kalo (taro), palaʻai (pumpkin) and ‘uala (sweet potato).
The expansion is preceded by the organization’s partnership with Hawai‘i Foodservice Alliance in January 2022, as the largest locally-owned supplier of perishable foods to grocers, retailers and club chains throughout the state. To further enhance accessibility and knowledge of canoe crops, HUC is also partnering with Chef Hui, Hawaiʻi Farm to School Hui (a program of Hawaiʻi Public Health Institute), the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa‘s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and Kōkua Hawai‘i Foundation to launch the Ho‘opili ‘Ai Program, which provides free educational resources to teachers and students across the state on how to identify and eat locally-grown staples. Ho‘opili ‘Ai also aligns with this year’s harvest of the month program which features ‘ulu, kalo, pala‘ai and ‘uala as the first featured crops in the lineup from September to December.
Hawaiʻi currently imports over 85 percent of its food and almost 100 percent of its staples, which are the starches and grains that provide the bulk of energy and nutritional needs. Yet an abundance of local options such as ‘ulu, kalo, pala‘ai and ‘uala offer a more sustainable alternative to imported staples. HUC’s convenient 12 oz. bags of cleaned, cut and pre-cooked local starches come ready to reheat and toss straight into salads, stir frys, soups and more. Each package also includes a chef-inspired recipe, while numerous easy-to-make recipes can also be found on the co-op’s website.
“It is an honor to partner with Hawai‘i Foodservice Alliance, Longs Drugs, CVS and other local Hawai‘i stores,” said Dana Shapiro, general manager of Hawai‘i ‘Ulu Cooperative. “By making our local crops more accessible and easy to prepare, we hope to educate the community about how fun and simple cooking local can be while decreasing our islands’ dependence on imports.”
Increased production of staple crops that are well-adapted to Hawai‘i's unique microclimates has enabled greater representation on restaurant menus, in home-cooked meals and at grocery stores across Hawaiʻi. HUC provides the infrastructure needed to support over 100 small-scale Hawaiʻi farmers with aggregation, processing, storage and distribution, creating a sustainable value chain that enables farmers to keep farming and consumers to conveniently enjoy local staples year-round.
In July 2022, the co-op reached a milestone of over one million pounds of locally grown staples aggregated since its inception six years ago in summer 2016. By 2030, HUC anticipates a total harvest of over one million pounds of ‘ulu alone per year as a result of trees planted by its farmer-members.
HUC’s staple packs are available year round at select Tamura’s Enterprises, Tamura’s Super Waianae, Down to Earth Kapolei and Pearl Ridge, Kōkua Market, military commissaries, select Times and Safeway stores, Island Naturals and online via Farm Link Hawai‘i and the HUC website. SNAP/EBT cardholders qualify for a 50 percent DA BUX discount at all Times, KTA locations, the Waianae Store, Farm Link and HUC’s Alae facility in Hilo, making culturally important local crops affordable. To find a full store listing, new and exciting recipes and resources about ‘ulu and other local crops, visit eatbreadfruit.com.
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About Hawai‘i ‘Ulu Cooperative
Hawaiʻi Ulu Co-op (HUC) is a farmer-owned business working to revitalize ‘ulu (breadfruit), kalo (taro), ‘uala (sweet potato) and other local, indigenous crops as dietary staples by empowering farmers as change-makers in Hawaiʻi’s food system. The co-op is committed to the revival of ‘ulu to strengthen Hawaiʻi’s food security and to the value of mālama ‘āina – care or protection of the earth – by using environmentally responsible production methods.
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NORTHFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The installation of the first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) bidirectional charging stations in western Massachusetts by FirstLight Power, Fermata Energy, Skyview Ventures, and State Representative Susannah M. Whipps marked a clean energy milestone.
A single-directional public EV charging station is also located in the visitor parking lot outside of FirstLight’s Northfield Mountain Pumped Hydro Storage Station.
The U.S. hydroelectric power facility is to V2G installation in the U.S. and includes a bidirectional charger. These chargers will be operated by Fertema Energy’s proprietary software platform, Which will charge EVs and send energy stored in the EV batteries to the grid.
Some of the energy that is stored in the EV batteries in the grid will be operated through the FirstLight operations team. This occurs during heat waves mostly. A clean energy transition is to enable EV fleet owners to store and discharge energy generated from intermittent renewable energy sources like solar and wind. This will be done by the Fermata Energy bidirectional charging system.
“We are pleased to collaborate with Fermata Energy, Skyview Ventures, and Eversource to complete the successful installation of these V2G charging stations, which reflect our commitment to embracing new technologies and solutions to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future,” said Alicia Barton, President, and CEO of FirstLight. “As New England’s largest energy storage facility, Northfield Mountain is a fitting setting for this installation, as reaching Massachusetts’ goals of zero carbon emissions by 2050 will require contributions from a wide range of energy storage technologies – this will include large-scale, long-duration storage assets like Northfield Mountain, as well as promising new electric vehicle chargers like those being unveiled today.”
“It is exciting to see new and innovative clean energy solutions come to Franklin County, and I applaud FirstLight Power and their partners for making this investment,” said Representative Susannah M. Whipps (2nd Franklin). “Northfield Mountain is already a major contributor to the local economy in the form of tax payments along with good-paying union jobs, and this new V2G and EV charging stations will offer immediate benefits to both the regional electrical grid and to the public.”
“As Massachusetts charts a path to net zero, we need bold thinking and collaboration across the public and private sectors that leverage proven clean energy solutions and new emerging clean energy technologies,” said MassCEC CEO Jen Daloisio. “That’s what makes this initiative at FirstLight’s Northfield Mountain so exciting. It brings together several partners that have invested in an innovative solution that will enhance grid flexibility, demonstrating the potential to scale novel storage solutions across the Commonwealth.”
“We applaud FirstLight for their vision for a clean energy future and for being the first to bring this innovative technology to Western Massachusetts,” said David Slutzky, Founder and CEO of Fermata Energy. “EVs spend more time parked than being driven, and parked EVs are an underutilized, untapped resource that can support grid resilience when coupled with V2X technologies. FirstLight understands how EVs are both sustainable transportation and mobile energy storage assets.”
“The opportunity for bidirectional charging is enormous,” said Andy Karetsky, President and Founder of Skyview Ventures. “FirstLight’s adoption of this technology at one of its marquee sites should be a signal to the market about the value of flexible, distributed energy assets and the evolution of America’s energy systems.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/western-massachusetts-first-vehicle-to-grid-charging-platform-to-launch/ | 2022-09-10T19:14:30Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/western-massachusetts-first-vehicle-to-grid-charging-platform-to-launch/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HART COUNTY, G.A. (WSPA) – A plane crashed Saturday in Lake Hartwell in Hart County.
The Hart County Sheriff’s Office said the crash happened near Long Point Recreation Area and Old 29 Highway.
Deputies said divers are responding to the crash at this time.
The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said their marine team is assisting with the crash.
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Police: Man offers mother cash for daughter in attempted kidnapping
Published: Sep. 10, 2022 at 2:33 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
CHICAGO (CNN) - Chicago police say they are searching for a suspect in an attempted kidnapping.
Authorities say a man tried to kidnap a 5-year-old girl Friday morning.
The girl and her mother were walking on a sidewalk when they said the man had approached them.
The man allegedly offered the mother cash for her daughter. Police said he tried to pull the girl toward him when she refused.
The mother and daughter were able to escape, but police are now looking for the man.
Police said the suspect is believed to be a white man, between the ages of 20 and 25, with bright red hair and a thin beard. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, red shorts and a black hat.
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Nearly 80 Korean War Veterans to Attend Reception that Honors Veterans of the
Battle of Chosin Reservoir and are known as 'The Chosin Few'
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- StarKist Co., which is headquartered in Reston, VA, and its parent company, Dongwon of Seoul, South Korea, was proud to sponsor a luncheon today for more than 80 Korean War veterans. The luncheon was conducted as part of the National Chosin Few Reunion, which is being held at the Hilton Crystal City at the Washington Reagan National Airport, September 7-11, 2022.
"The Korean War veterans are American heroes and StarKist is honored to be a part of The Chosin Few Reunion," said Andrew Choe, StarKist President and CEO. "The Korean War veterans who fought in the battle of the Chosin Reservoir in November and December 1950, fought valiantly to protect and preserve freedom for the United States and South Korea. It is an honor to demonstrate our appreciation for their service and sacrifice."
StarKist's support for the region's Korean War veterans started when the company held an annual luncheon for the Korean War veterans of Southwestern Pennsylvania more than 10 years ago. In April 2022, the company moved to Reston, VA, and is continuing its work to recognize and thank Korean War veterans.
"It's wonderful that after all of these years the Korean community both locally and internationally have rallied around The Chosin Few to help us commemorate the battle of the Chosin Reservoir," said Colonel Warren H. Wiedhahn, USMC (Ret) and The Chosin Few Chairman/CEO. "It means so much for us that our sacrifices and service during the Korean War are appreciated. We are thankful for StarKist and Dongwon for their support and involvement."
About StarKist Co.
StarKist Co. is a socially responsible company that empowers people to live a healthy lifestyle by providing convenient proteins. An industry innovator, StarKist was the first brand to introduce single-serve pouch products, which include StarKist Tuna Creations®, Salmon Creations® and Chicken Creations®. As America's favorite tuna, StarKist represents a tradition of quality, consumer trust and a commitment to sustainability. StarKist's charismatic brand icon, Charlie® the Tuna, swam into the hearts of tuna fans in 1961 and is still a fan favorite today. StarKist Co. is a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Dongwon Industries Co., Ltd.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A beehive is a tightly run system managed almost entirely by female worker bees. While the main purpose of the male bees, or drones, is to mate with the queen to fertilize eggs, the worker bees take care of those eggs and larvae, collect pollen, make honey, and do all the other work required to maintain the hive.
Four of these female-led beehives can be found just behind the Anchor Center for Women in Cedar Rapids, where the bees are raised and cared for by another group of hardworking women.
The Anchor Center is a rehabilitative center for women who are on their way out of the criminal justice system. The women at the center participate in many different classes and programs, which are determined based on the risks, needs and strengths of each individual.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports the beekeeping program has been offered at the center for about three years now. The bees arrive at the beginning of the spring, and the women have the opportunity to help tend them throughout the year — with the help of professional beekeepers — until the honey can be harvested in the fall.
The beehives at the Anchor Center are kept in stacked white boxes, some of which have been painted by center residents with pictures of bees, flowers and nature.
Each week, the women go out to check on the hives to see how the honey production is coming along and to make sure everything is running as it should.
Mary Nelson arrived at the Anchor Center in early February of this year, and started working with the bees as soon as they arrived for the year. Nelson left the Anchor Center two weeks ago, but she comes back to visit when it’s time to check on the hives.
“I take a lot of pride in telling people that I do beekeeping, and a lot of people are interested in it,” Nelson said. “I really enjoy doing it, so as long as (the bees) are here, I’ll be here too.”
As she’s learned more about beekeeping, Nelson has taught other Anchor residents. She said she’s glad she has the opportunity to come back to keep helping with the bees and to see her friends from the center.
“Working with bees is surprisingly relaxing, and it’s just really nice to be out in nature,” Nelson said. “Just watching (the bees) and how they interact together, and learning what to look for with them. They’re kind of cute, too. They’re really cute and fluffy. It’s just really relaxing.”
Jessica McDanniel has been at the Anchor Center since June, and she’s been working with the beekeeping program since her arrival.
McDanniel said she finds the beekeeping relaxing as well, and she’s thought about getting her own hives to take care of after she leaved the center, which she’s set to do in October.
“It’s different. Every time I go out there, I see something new,” McDanniel said. “I would love to try it myself. I don’t know if I’d ever accomplish it, but it’s a pretty fun activity and I want to learn and be able to do it someday — especially for free honey.”
The women are currently preparing to harvest this year’s crop of honey from their hives. It should be ready within the next few weeks.
After the honey is harvested, the women in the Anchor Center will get to decide what to do with it. Some will be kept for use at the center, and the rest will be donated to an organization of the residents’ choice. In previous years, the honey has been donated to the Hawkeye Area Community Action Program.
McDanniel said she’s excited to harvest the honey and see the results of the work she’s put in throughout the year.
“It’s taught me how to just be patient,” she said. “Time goes on and if you just be patient, stuff is going to actually happen. You can achieve great things just by working towards it.” | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/iowa-news/beekeeping-helps-women-leaving-criminal-justice-system/ | 2022-09-10T19:41:24Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/iowa-news/beekeeping-helps-women-leaving-criminal-justice-system/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — For Bill Belichick and Mike McDaniel, the 2000 season was a big deal. Belichick was starting his run as coach of the New England Patriots. McDaniel was starting at wide receiver for Smoky Hill High School.
They were worlds apart then. They’ll be on opposite sidelines Sunday.
Combined, they have 321 wins as NFL head coaches — Belichick 321, McDaniel zero. McDaniel will look to change that on Sunday in his official debut, coming when the Patriots visit the Miami Dolphins in the season opener for the AFC East rivals.
“Can there be a larger disparity in career win-loss total?” McDaniel asked this week.
Turns out, the answer is yes, but barely. Out of the 17,000 or so games played in NFL history, there have been only seven where the coaches have entered with a larger win difference. Each of them involved the Dolphins and coach Don Shula; Miami went 6-1 in those games.
Both Belichick and McDaniel would both say, and rightly so, that Sunday isn’t about them. But facing one of the greatest coaches in NFL history, one of the greatest in any pro sport, certainly adds plenty of additional intrigue to McDaniel’s debut as a head coach.
“It would be a bigger deal I think if Coach Belichick and I were on the field, maybe doing like an Oklahoma drill, but I don’t foresee that happening,” McDaniel said. “I don’t think the fans would really pay for that. ... The schedule came out a long time ago, so I digested that and knew what Week 1 was, and luckily it’s the Miami Dolphins versus New England Patriots and not a 1-on-1 square-off between head coaches.”
Miami swept the Patriots last season, and much changed for the Dolphins since. Brian Flores — a former New England assistant — was fired as Miami’s coach after last season, then filed suit against the Dolphins and the NFL alleging, among other things, racial discrimination in hiring practices. The first line of Flores’ lawsuit is the wording of a text he said he received from Belichick, one where Flores was told that the New York Giants weren’t hiring him as coach and were choosing Brian Daboll instead.
The lawsuit remains pending, but the fallout already started: a probe into Flores’ claims caused the NFL to suspend Dolphins owner Stephen Ross through mid-October after it found the team had “impermissible communications” with Tom Brady and Sean Payton while they were under contract to other clubs.
That led to McDaniel’s hiring, and on Sunday, he becomes the 144th different coach to match wits with Belichick in the NFL. And to the Patriots’ coach, Week 1 is just a big game of roulette.
“It’s hard to get everything ready for everything,” Belichick said. “Put your chips on a few numbers and if those numbers come up, you’re good, and if some other numbers come up, probably need to do something. I can’t think of too many opening days that there wasn’t in-game adjustments that were an important part of the game. I’m sure it’s true both ways. It’s opening day. Nobody’s really shown anything. We’ll see what happens.”
NUMEROLOGY
Belichick is seeking career win No. 322, including playoffs. Shula’s 322nd win, coincidentally, came against Belichick, a 24-14 Miami win at Cleveland in 1993.
If the Patriots win, Belichick would be two victories behind George Halas for No. 2 on the NFL’s career list and 25 behind Shula for the league record.
THE DISPARITY
The seven instances where there was a bigger-than-321-games disparity in NFL career wins entering the game were these:
— Shula (329 career wins entering the game) and the Dolphins topped Pete Carroll (2) and the New York Jets 28-14 on Sept. 18, 1994.
— Shula (330) topped son David Shula (8) and Cincinnati 23-7 on Oct. 2, 1994.
— Shula (334) lost to Dave Wannstedt (12) and Chicago 17-14 on Nov. 13, 1994.
— Shula (334) beat Carroll (6) and the Jets 28-24 on Nov. 27, 1994.
— Shula (341) beat David Shula (13) and the Bengals again 26-23 on Oct. 1, 1995.
— Shula (344) beat June Jones (14) and Atlanta 21-20 on Dec. 3, 1995.
— And Shula (346) topped Rich Brooks (7) and the Rams 41-22 on Dec. 24, 1995 for his final career victory.
PARKER RETURNS
After spending seven seasons in Miami, receiver DeVante Parker was traded to the Patriots this offseason, a rare intra-division move that left him eager to prove he could still be the explosive player the Dolphins selected in the first round in 2015.
Parker posted career numbers for Miami in 2019 when he had 72 receptions for 1,202 receiving yards and nine TDs. But his production fell off over the past two seasons as injuries limited his time on the field — though, notably, he did catch Tua Tagovailoa’s first NFL touchdown pass.
“He’s definitely going to want to have a good game,” Dolphins cornerback Xavien Howard said. “I’m going to expect his best.”
STARTING FAST
In the Belichick era at New England, no team has been better in September than the Patriots. They’re 48-25 (.658) in that month since 2000, just ahead of Denver (48-26, .649) and Green Bay (48-27-1, .638).
OPENING UP
It’s the 11th time that the Dolphins and Patriots have met in Week 1. They’ve split the past 10 such instances.
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AP Sports Writer Kyle Hightower in Foxborough, Massachusetts, contributed.
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Indian football doesn't get mentioned very often on the international stage. But even FIFA couldn't resist talking about a wonder goal scored in Kerala the other day.
The world football body tweeted about a goal scored by Vivian Adjei Konadu, the women's team striker of Kozhikode-based club Gokulam Kerala.
Interestingly, the goal in mention was not even scored at a national level tournament. It was one from a state-level event, the Kerala Women's League. Gokulam Kerala were in action against Basco Othukungal.
Nevertheless, it is the beauty of the goal that has caught the attention of FIFA. The world football body thinks Adjei's strike could be a 'Puskas Award' contender.
The Puskas Award instituted in honour of Real Madrid and Hungary legend Ferenc Puskas is given to the most aesthetically significant or beautiful goal scored by a male or female player in a calendar year.
And Adjei's wonder goal was indeed a thing of beauty one that if it won the Puskas or even got nominated wouldn't come as a surprise.
In a video clip of the goal first shared by her club Gokulam Kerala, Adjei is seen making a move for a long ball that she receives with a deft outside-the-foot touch on the edge of the box before striking it overhead on a volley with the goal behind her.
Remarkable as it seemed in real-time, the ball floats into the top left corner leaving the goalkeeper rooted. Adjei is seen casually wheeling away to celebrate the strike that has now turned heads.
Many on social media have likened the goal to Dutch legend Marco van Basten's iconic volley in the 1988 European Championships.
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An inferiority complex is a feeling associated with low self-esteem. It is a lack of confidence in oneself, a feeling that one does not measure up to the standards of others. Usually, people dealing with inferiority complexes compare themselves a lot with others. They don’t see themselves in a positive and good light.
An inferiority complex makes you focus more on what you can’t do rather than the abilities you have in you to do greater things and be outstanding amidst others. According to the American Psychological Association, ‘inferiority complex’ is the basic feeling of inadequacy and insecurity, deriving from actual or imagined physical or psychological deficiency.’
When you start to compare yourself with others and it is starting to take a toll on your mental and psychological health, then it is a sign of an inferiority complex. In order to be aware if you are experiencing this, you can take a few tests from the questions below:
- Does criticism make you feel so bad for days that you coil in your shell?
- Do you feel worthless and not good enough?
- Do you overwork yourself trying to be like someone else?
- Do you compare your abilities and capacity with people’s top abilities?
- Do you keep quiet in public due to the fear of being castigated when you speak?
- Does social media make you feel miserable and inadequate?
- Does it make you feel you haven’t been so serious with your life?
If you responded affirmatively to the above questions, it means you are dealing with an inferiority complex. This might eventually lead to anxiety and depression if not properly managed.
However, there are various ways to deal with this seriously. To overcome an inferiority complex, you need to do the following:
1. Accept that you are special and unique
The earlier you accept that you were created specially and in a unique way, the better for you. You need to understand that you can only be the best version of you. There can only be one version and model of you here on earth, so your abilities and gifts in you are quite different from others. The world will be wowed at these special abilities when you begin to reveal and unveil them. Hiding in your shell because you feel people are more adequate than you isn’t good enough.
Accept yourself the way you are and see yourself as a special gift to humanity.
2. Avoid social media
Social media is one of the greatest triggers of inferiority complex. One thing you don’t know is that social media users only post what they want you to see, the happiest side of their lives amidst other turbulence they secretly experience.
To regain your self-esteem and avoid feeling less of yourself, you can either take a social media break or unfollow people that make you feel less of yourself. Reduce the time you spend on social media. Don’t feel you have to live your life for others.
3. Avoid comparing yourself with others
To overcome the inferiority complex, you need to stop comparing yourself with other people. Stop placing your unique abilities and talents side by side with others. As mentioned above, you need to understand that you are special in your own way and even in the way you are wired to do things.
The world needs your own version of creativity and uniqueness. Comparison will only lower your standards and your originality.
4. Surround yourself with people that encourage you
You need to be aware that your inferiority complex might be as a result of people you are surrounded with. This could be your friends, relatives or instructors. The best way to escape from the grips of inferiority complex is to start distancing yourself from them. Search for people who motivate you to be a better person and surround yourself with such people.
5. Avoid worrying about what people think of you
One of the triggers of an inferiority complex is worrying about what people say or think about you. It stops you from making certain decisions and steps in life. You need to be aware that people will always talk, whether you choose to take big steps or stay in your shell.
Sometimes we seek validation from other people for every action we take. You need to stop considering people’s opinion or what they think about you.
6. Gratitude
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Star Wars: Tales Of The Jedi Trailer Debuts At D23
Lucasfilm released the first trailer for its new animated anthology series, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, at the D23 Expo. The series will be six animated shorts that will predominantly focus on Ahsoka Tano and Dooku. And as the tagline reads, there are “Two Stories of Fate. One Destiny.”
For Ahsoka, the footage showcases her origins as a baby, a child, and an adult as she comes to train with Anakin Skywalker. Conversely, the trailer teases Dooku’s rise to power and his eventual turn to the Dark Side. The first footage highlighted many familiar faces in the Star Wars universe including Mace Windu and Qui-Gon, with the latter being voiced by Liam Neeson. Additionally, Ashley Eckstein will return to voice Ahsoka.
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Tales of the Jedi comes from the creative forces behind The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch, Dave Filoni and Charles Murray. All six shorts will stream on Disney+ on October 26.
Are you excited to watch Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi? What are your predictions for the show? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!
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Return To Mandalore in the First Teaser For The Mandalorian Season 3
Fans outside of Star Wars Celebration weren’t able to watch the official footage from The Mandalorian‘s new season earlier this year. However, today’s D23 Expo presentation included the first teaser for The Mandalorian season 3 and the long-awaited return to Mandalore. Din Djarin/Mando may not have been born on the Mandalorian home world, but he needs to go there to redeem himself in the eyes of his cult. And as long as he has the Darksaber, he has the right to lead his people.
Anyone who skipped The Book of Boba Fett might be a bit confused. All you need to know is that Mando and Grogu are back together. And Mando’s going through some mid-life things by flying a converted Naboo N-1 as his new ship. As for Mandalore, it was ruined by the Empire between the events of this series and the last time it was shown in Star Wars Rebels. But the war to reclaim the planet is far from over.
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Bo-Katan Kryze is featured prominently as we see several other Mandalorians fight to take back their planet. She is also cordial enough with Mando to speak directly with Grogu. But make no mistake, she wants the Darksaber for herself. How far she’ll go remains to be seen.
Additionally, Mando’s friend and ally, Greef Karga, welcomes him back in the new footage. And we even get to see Babu Frik from The Rise of Skywalker.
Unfortunately, the trailer also reveals that Lucasfilm and Disney+ have apparently backed away from a February 2023 premiere. All we know is that The Mandalorian season 3 will stream in 2023.
What do you think about the new teaser? Let us know in the comment section below!
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Marvel’s Werewolf by Night Trailer Brings Halloween Horror To the MCU
Something spooky is coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since last summer, the studio has been developing a Werewolf by Night special to be released during the Halloween season. And during today’s D23 panel, they finally peeled back the curtain on the MCU’s newest anti-hero. The first Werewolf by Night trailer serves as an homage to Universal’s classic monster movies of the ‘30s and ‘40s, from the black-and-white color palette to the discordant musical score. You can check out the preview for the special below…if you dare!
Being billed as a “special presentation,” Werewolf by Night is bound to have a shorter runtime than Marvel’s theatrical projects. But it should be a worthy addition to viewers’ Halloween programming this fall. Gael García Bernal headlines the special as the title character. And while it previously wasn’t clear which version of the namesake werewolf he was playing, the closed captions confirm that he’s starring as Jack Russell, the original Werewolf by Night who first appeared in Marvel’s comic book universe back in 1972. Afflicted by a family curse that turns him into a ravenous beast, Jack struggles to keep his monstrous side in check while also trying to do some good in the world.
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— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) September 10, 2022
From the looks of things, the special will revolve around a secret society that hunts supernatural creatures for sport. Harriet Sansom Harris co-stars as their leader, Verusa, delivering a performance that’s both campy and chilling at the same time. We also see Laura Donnelly (star of HBO’s The Nevers) as a mystery character who gets a little too close for comfort to Bernal’s werewolf. The teaser never gives us a proper glimpse at Jack in his transformed state. But there are still a few other notable Easter eggs, including a blink-and-you’ll miss it cameo from what looks an awful lot like Man-Thing at the 1:05 mark.
Werewolf by Night will begin streaming on Disney+ on October 7.
Are you excited to watch the special next month? Let us know in the comment section below!
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In this report, I look at some of the fundamental stories that are shaping the markets, and then look at the technical which have seen the start of a move lower in the USD. Can that shift continue this week? Fundamental review:
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Investigators with the Lafayette Police Department are investigating a shooting that happened around 11:14 pm on September 9, 2022 in the 200 block of Cooper Drive.
Police said the victim drove himself to a local hospital to receive medical treatment for gunshot wounds that was sustained prior to his arrival.
The victim is listed in critical condition at this time.
Investigators urge anyone with information about this shooting to call Lafayette Police or Lafayette Crime Stoppers at (337)232-TIPS.
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Queen Elizabeth II's funeral will be held at London's Westminster Abbey at 11am on Monday, September 19, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. The UK will also have a bank holiday on that date.
The Queen's coffin – which is currently lying in the Ballroom at Balmoral Castle – will be taken by road to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh tomorrow (September 11) on a six-hour journey by hearse. On Monday (September 12), the coffin will be taken from Holyroodhouse in procession to St Giles's Cathedral where it will lie at rest until Tuesday (September 13) before being taken by air by RAF plane to London.
The Queen - who died at Balmoral aged 96 on Thursday (September 8) - will lie in state for "four clear days" in Westminster Hall from Wednesday (September 14), a senior palace official said. Thousands of people will be able to file past to see the late monarch's coffin.
Read more: King Charles confirms day of Queen's funeral will be a bank holiday
Further details of how the public can attend will be announced in the coming days. The last member of the royal family to lie in state in the hall was the Queen Mother in 2002, when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.
A spokesperson for King Charles III said the monarch's main focus will be leading the royal family and nation in mourning over the coming days. He added: "Whilst, in the next few days, the King will carry out all the necessary state duties, his main focus will be leading the royal family, the nation, the Realms and the Commonwealth in mourning Her Majesty The Queen. This will include meeting members of the public, to share in their grief."
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Kanpur: The Road Safety World Series kicked off on Saturday here between India Legends and South Africa Legends. The India Legends team led by Sachin Tendulkar defeated South Africa Legends led by Jonty Rhodes by 61 runs.
India Legends won the toss and elected to bat and got off to a great start with little master rolling back years and showing why he is the god of cricket. His innings were short lived and fell to Makhaya Ntini at 16 runs in 15 balls. He was replaced by another legend Suresh Raina who showcased his class scoring 33 runs in 22 balls.
But the star of the innings was Stuart Bunny who played a blinder of an innings scoring 82 runs off just 42 balls. He was well supported by Yusuf Pathan, who scored a quickfire 35 runs off 15 balls.
Having set a massive target of 217/4 in their 20 years, the South Africa Legends started their innings strongly with both their openers Andrew Puttick and Morne van Wyk playing steadily and carefully. Rahul Sharma provided the first breakthrough with Morne van Wyk's wicket and post that no one could make a dent with their batting apart from the captain Jonty Rhodes, who stood not out at 38 at the end of the innings.
The India Legends bowl well restricting South Africa Legends to 156/9. Rahul Sharma was the pick of the bowlers with 3 wickets and gave only 17 runs in his 4 overs. Munaf Patel and Pragyan Ojha both ended with 2 wickets each.
India legends won the game convincingly and Stuart Binny was the player of the match. Sunday will see a doubleheader between Bangladesh Legends and West indies Legend the second match will be between Australia Legends and Sri Lanka Legends, here. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/11/road-safety-world-series-sachin-tendulkar-india-legends-beat-south-africa-legends.amp.html | 2022-09-10T20:16:45Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/11/road-safety-world-series-sachin-tendulkar-india-legends-beat-south-africa-legends.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TOPPENISH — Out on the emerald green lawn of Heritage University’s Toppenish campus, alumna and program coordinator Josefa Zarco tossed a rubber ball in the air, aiming for one of the several blue barrels set up in a triangle. It was her first time playing “cup pong” and she and her friends laughed as each attempt sailed successfully in or fell woefully short.
Lawn games like this, along with a free food, university swag bags and music, were among the offerings at Heritage University’s first-ever homecoming celebration Friday. The event was part of the school's 40th anniversary celebrations.
In a speech at the gathering, Sister Kathleen Ross, who co-founded Heritage in 1982, spoke about the university’s goal of offering higher education in an area where that is in short supply, for people who otherwise might be overlooked by the university system.
Nontraditional homecoming
The university serves about a thousand commuter students at its small campus surrounded by hops fields, and differs from traditional, large universities, said President Andrew Sund.
“We are a different institution, we're a unique institution in the Yakima Valley,” he said. “So, our homecomings are also going to be unique and different.”
Heritage’s homecoming did not include any football games or sporting events but did offer lawn games like cup pong and cornhole. Treats like cotton candy, popcorn, shaved ice, fry bread and tacos were available for any guests, free-of-charge. DJ Big Ern played oldies and contemporary hits. The university hosted a scavenger hunt and participants could win 1980s-themed prizes like boomboxes and Swatch watches.
Student Serenity Benoit said she appreciated that the university kept the food free, because students do not always have extra money to splurge on treats.
This is her first semester at Heritage after transferring from Yakima Valley Community College. A college homecoming was new for her, and she said it was cool. Heritage, with its small student body and personable teachers, felt like a community.
Several homecoming attendees compared the atmosphere at the university to a community or family.
“This is like my house, I know everyone here,” said Miguel Juarez, an associate professor in the social work program.
Juarez graduated from the university in 2002 and joined the staff in 2004. He said he stuck around the university because of the respect he received from the beginning. He especially appreciated how many people spoke to him in Spanish, his first language.
He said he feels Heritage recognizes the needs of its students, like those who are the first in their families to attend college or who have jobs outside of school.
Alum Gabriel Pinon said he came to the celebration because he appreciates Heritage’s community atmosphere. The homecoming celebration reflected the overall feeling of connectedness he felt during his time there, first as a student and then as an admissions counselor. Today he works for the Mabton School District.
“I think it’s more than just an opportunity to get to know other people from other classes or other generations of Heritage University graduates. It’s just great to come and reunite with community in general,” Pinon said.
The university also engaged in a fundraising push called Eagle Giving Day around homecoming. The university encouraged alumni to donate, with donations of $40 or more eligible to be matched by an anonymous donor, according to a university news release.
The money will go toward student scholarships, the release said. Nearly all Heritage students receive some form of financial aid.
As of Friday, Sund was unsure of the total amount raised, but said the campaign succeeded in helping the university re-engage with alumni.
Though the homecoming may not have resembled those at larger universities, Sund said the important thing was to honor the alumni who represent Heritage and its mission once they graduate.
“We wanted to thank them and honor that by having this celebration,” he said.
Behind the festivities
University officials have long considered ways to celebrate Heritage’s 40th anniversary, said David Wise, vice president of marketing and communications for the university. Planning for a homecoming celebration took off during the spring.
Staff are already looking forward to potential future homecomings, he said.
“We're hoping that this is the first of many, many annual events,” Wise said. “So far the response has been terrific.”
More than 100 people turned out at Friday’s homecoming. Several attendees said they would come to future homecoming events.
Alumna Fernanda Ortiz, who graduated in spring, said she heard about it from her sorority sisters and showed up to support them. She said she felt like the university could have reached out to alumni more, but she would still come to future homecomings.
Wise said he hopes alumni will take the time to reflect on how their university years changed them, since college is often a time of self-discovery and personal development.
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(CN) — Jefferson, Iowa, farmer Nick Foster inches his century-old steam-powered tractor into position several yards away from a threshing machine while farm hands attach a long belt to the thresher. Once in place, farm hands with pitchforks toss bundles of oats onto a conveyor belt that feeds them into the thresher where oats separated from chaff are pulled by an auger through a long shaft to an awaiting wagon.
This is “Threshing Day” in the age of steam on an Iowa farm.
Between the late 1800s and World War II, this was a common sight on many Iowa farms — and elsewhere in farm country — when horsepower and manpower were assisted by hulking iron engines that powered threshing machines, saws, and other tools and in some cases pulled farm implements through fields on steel wheels as tall as a man.
On this day in early August, a steam-powered threshing demonstration is taking place at Living History Farms on the west side of Des Moines, where visitors witness firsthand how agriculture progressed from 16th century Native American gardens using wood or stone tools to farming in the industrial age using newly patented labor-saving implements.
In the early 1900s, farmers used horse-drawn plows, planters, cultivators and other machinery in their fields. Horse-drawn reapers were used to mow down oat plants that were then bound into shocks with twine and stacked in sheaves to dry before being brought to threshing crews on horse-drawn wagons.
Although Iowa farmers also grew and harvested wheat and timothy hay, mostly for livestock feed, oats were a significant crop. In the days before internal combustion engines, farms powered by horses or mules, and they were fueled by oats.
In the days before mechanized threshing machines powered by steam tractors, farmers threshed — or “thrashed” as some called it — the oats out of the dry plants by hand in a back-breaking process. The mechanized threshers were huge labor and time savers, but not all farmers could afford to buy them. So they shared the machines and in the work associated with using them with friends and neighbors.
Threshing Day was a major event in rural Iowa between 1870 and 1930 with as many as 30 or more men and as many horses gathered on a farm to do the job, with such titles as “engineer,” “separator man,” or “water hauler.” Children often were allowed to help by carrying jugs of drinking water to the workers, or if old enough, drive the water wagon. Women and girls worked in the kitchen preparing the threshers dinner.
As one Iowa farmer said in a letter in 1856 to his relatives back East, “I have been a thrashing this week. Harvesting we had [115] bushels wheat. they use thrashing machines here. it requires 8 horses and ten men to tend them and will thrash from 3 to 5 hundred bus [bushels] a day. they put me in mind of a cotton hopper but make a heap more noise and its a right smart machine.”
On the August demonstration day at Living History Farms, there were roughly a dozen workers and volunteers helping out.
Among them was Bob Nesselroad, who was standing on the back of Nick Foster’s steam tractor, keeping a blazing fire going in the fire box, which registered 700 degrees at one point, and regularly oiling moving parts on the iron behemoth. Either wood or coal could be used for fuel.
Threshing Day would begin early in the morning, with the engineer firing up the steam engine to build pressure in the boiler that creates steam to power the piston that drives the fly wheel. Throughout the day, water had to be hand-pumped from a well into a water wagon to refill the steam engine boiler, which could consume a thousand gallons a day, according to Foster. A steam whistle on the boiler signaled the water hauler for more water or for other needs depending on the number or duration of whistle blasts.
A threshers dinner was served at the 1900s farmhouse consisting of ham, scalloped potatoes, cucumber salad, green beans, apple cake and custard pie prepared and served by Living History Farms staff. In the 19th century, women prepared dinner for the men working in the field. Then, the steam whistle might call the men back to the field where they were at it often until after dark.
Like all historic periods, steam powered threshing eventually disappeared.
“Technology and crop choices put an end to communal threshing,” Leo Landis, state curator of the State Historical Society of Iowa told Courthouse News. “Threshing oats was necessary as long as horses were the power supply on the farm. As tractors came into common use in the 1920s and combines were developed in the 1930s, it became more affordable and practical to own a combine. It cut, threshed and separated the oats or wheat.”
Thus, it “combined” all three processes.
Also, Landis said, “the need for productivity in World War II, and the aging out of older farmers in the 1940s meant fewer and fewer farmers used horses.”
The number of tractors increased by 100,000 from 1940 to 1950 in Iowa, Landis said, quoting from a federal agricultural census. Horses declined by over 875,000 animals in the 20 years from 1930-1950.
Today, one farmer using a diesel-powered combine that might be steered by satellite GPS can do the work of 30 men and 30 horses in a few short hours.
Something has been lost in the sights, sounds and smells of Threshing Day, however.
“There was something fascinating about the steam engine,” an Iowa man wrote about his experience as a 10-year-old boy in 1916 working with his father on a threshing crew. “The combined odor of coal, water, steam, heat, and oil produced a fragrance hard to forget. The engine seemed alive and breathing. The racheting of the oiler, the governor with its tiny belt, and the push and pull of the cylinder built a beautiful picture in the memory. Its power was quiet and uniform.”
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's Defense Ministry announced Saturday that it was pulling back troops from two areas in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region where a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made significant advances in the past week.
The news came after days of apparent advances by Ukraine south of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city, in what could become the biggest battlefield success for Ukrainian forces since they thwarted a Russian attempt to seize the capital, Kyiv, at the start of the nearly seven-month war.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said troops would be regrouped from the Balakliya and Izyum areas to the eastern Donetsk region. Izyum was a major base for Russian forces in the Kharkiv region, and earlier this week social media videos showed residents of Balakliya joyfully cheering as Ukrainian troops moved in.
Konashenkov said the Russian move was being made "in order to achieve the stated goals of the special military operation to liberate Donbas,'" one of the eastern Ukraine regions that Russia has declared sovereign.
The claim of a withdrawal to concentrate on Donetsk is similar to the justification Russia gave for pulling back its forces from the Kyiv region earlier this year when they failed to take the capital.
Earlier Saturday, Ukrainian officials claimed major gains in the Kharkiv region, saying their troops had cut off vital supplies to Izyum.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko also suggested troops had retaken Kupiansk, a town along the main supply route to Izyum, long a focus on the Russian front line and the site of heavy artillery and other fighting. Nikolenko tweeted a photo showing soldiers in front of what he said was a government building in Kupiansk, 73 kilometers (45 miles) north of Izyum.
The Ukrainian Security Service posted a message hours later saying troops were in Kupiansk, further suggesting it had been seized. The military did not immediately confirm entering the town, a railway hub that Russia seized in February.
Videos on social media appeared to show Ukrainian forces on the outskirts of Izyum at a roadside checkpoint. A large statue with the city's name could be seen in the images. Ukrainian forces did not acknowledge holding the city.
Britain's Defense Ministry said Saturday that it believed Ukrainian troops had advanced as much as 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Kharkiv, and described Russian forces around Izyum as "increasingly isolated."
"Russian forces were likely taken by surprise. The sector was only lightly held and Ukrainian units have captured or surrounded several towns," the British military said, adding that the loss of Kupiansk would greatly affect Russian supply lines.
The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, likewise referenced sweeping Ukrainian gains, estimating that Kyiv has seized around 2,500 square kilometers (965 square miles) in its eastern breakthrough. The institute said it appeared that "disorganized Russian forces (were) caught in the rapid Ukrainian advance," and cited social media images of apparent Russian prisoners seized around Izyum and surrounding towns.
The same report said Ukrainian forces "may collapse Russian positions around Izyum if they sever Russian ground lines of communication" north and south of the town.
Vladislav Sokolov, head of the Russian-appointed local administration, said on social media that authorities in Izyum had started evacuating residents to Russia.
The fighting in eastern Ukraine comes amid an ongoing offensive around Kherson in the south. Analysts suggest Russia may have taken soldiers from the east to reinforce the latter area, offering the Ukrainians the opportunity to strike a weakened front line.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov told the television channel Ukraina that the Russians had no food or fuel for their troops in the area as Kyiv had cut off their supply lines.
"It will be like an avalanche," he said, predicting a Russian fallback. "One line of defense will shake, and it will fall."
The Ukrainian military was more circumspect, claiming to have taken "more than 1,000 square kilometers" (386 square miles) from pro-Kremlin forces this week. It said that "in some areas, units of the Defense Forces have penetrated the enemy's defenses to a depth of 50 kilometers," matching the British assessment, but did not disclose geographical details.
Officials in Kyiv have for weeks been tight-lipped about plans for a counteroffensive to retake territory overrun by Russia early in the war, urging residents to refrain from sharing information on social media.
However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that troops had reclaimed more than 30 settlements in the Kharkiv region since the start of the counteroffensive.
"We are gradually taking control over more settlements, returning the Ukrainian flag and protection for our people," Zelenskyy said.
He spoke after the Ukrainian governor of Kharkiv reported that the national flag had been raised over Balakliya, recaptured by Ukrainian troops Thursday following six months of occupation.
"Balakliya is Ukraine!" Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said in a post on Telegram.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian emergency services reported that a 62-year-old woman was killed in a Russian missile strike in the Kharkiv region when her home was flattened overnight.
Syniehubov also accused Moscow of pummeling settlements retaken by Kyiv. He said via Telegram that five civilians were hospitalized in the Izyum district, while nine others suffered injuries elsewhere in the region.
In the embattled Donbas, the Ukrainian governor said civilians were killed and wounded overnight by Russian shelling near the city of Bakhmut, a key target of the stalled Russian offensive. Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Telegram that two people died and two were injured in Bakhmut and the neighboring village of Yahidne.
In the Russina-held city of Enerhodar, home to Europe's largest nuclear power plant, electricity and water were restored after a four-day outage due to an explosion, the city's Ukrainian mayor, Dmytro Orlov, said.
Enerhodar and its Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant have come under repeated shelling in recent weeks, which Russia and Ukraine each other the other of committing. The shelling has raised fears of a radiation leak at the plant, which has been cut off from outside power sources; the facility has been forced to rely on power from its only working reactor for systems cooling and other safety measures.
Orlov said workers from the plant assisted in restoring Enerhodar's power, but it was not clear if the electricity was coming from the plant or from a nearby thermal generating station.
Also Saturday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock paid an unannounced visit to Kyiv and said Europe would not tire of helping Ukraine, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to raise the pressure by withholding energy supplies.
Baerbock said Germany will assist Ukraine in finding and removing mines and other unexploded ordnance left by Russian troops in areas where they have been pushed back.
Despite Ukraine's gains, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the head of NATO warned Friday that the war would likely drag on for months. Blinken said the conflict was entering a critical period and urged Ukraine's Western backers to keep up their support through what could be a difficult winter.
By KARL RITTER and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press
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KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 M&M’s Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
Are you going to Richard Childress Racing next season?
“I do not have any new news to share. If I did, I guarantee there would be some sort of big announcement. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been one of those yet Bob (Pockrass, Fox Sports). We’re still working on it behind the scenes trying to put it all together. It’s not done.”
How is your mood as it relates to everything going on behind the scenes?
“I’m in a really bad one right now in case anyone is wondering. Just same as it’s been, just stressful. There’s light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not a train. It is sunshine so that’s a positive thing and trying to keep the train on the tracks right now for a little bit longer.”
Is it fair to say that you know what direction you want to go in next season?
“No. I woke up at six in the morning, that’s probably not too early, but it’s really early for me two days ago and I woke up in the middle of the night and I was worried about Brexton (Busch). What are we going to do with Brexton if this happens or if that happens? If this goes, if that goes or if we do that or if we do this? Now I’ve got him thrown in the whole mix. It’s crazy. A clearer picture is developing during the day. Pixels are being worked on.”
What was it like to see Kyle Busch Motorsports win last night?
“I’m proud of the effort, super proud of John Hunter (Nemechek), Eric Phillips and everybody over there at KBM, everybody that has continued to put forth the effort to make us the winningest truck program in history and continue to excel and elevate those numbers. Super cool to see that. There’s three trucks, all three of our trucks moved on last night to the next round of the Playoffs respectively for their own situation. I like what’s coming up next. First of all, Chandler (Smith) has been super fast there as of late and John Hunter is no slouch there either. He should have won last year as well. Good stuff coming from the KBM bunch.”
Do you feel there may be more clarity with where things are with Kyle Busch Motorsports?
“No, I’m definitely not comfortable with where that’s at yet. Trying to put all the right things in the right places simultaneously was the objective and the goal. It’s not going to happen that way, but we will certainly keep fighting for that to make sure that KBM is at the forefront and we have a place to go race trucks next year.”
Do you feel things are moving in a better direction with safety and the dialogue with NASCAR?
“I believe I have an email from the driver counsel lade, but I have yet to read it so it wouldn’t be fair for me to assess my comments on that right now.”
What has Eric Phillips meant to Kyle Busch Motorsports and how would you evaluate his contribution?
“It’s invaluable. I can’t put it into words really, especially the way I speak on things. I’m not very good. Eric is a huge part of and is what Kyle Busch Motorsports history has been about. First guy I probably got was Greg Passen, a buddy of mine who worked with me at Billy Ballew. But past him was Rick Ren and then Eric Phillips was number two or three if you look at it that way. He’s been a huge inspiration to everything that we’ve done there and he’s a racer’s racer. In the truck series you can do that and be successful at that. You don’t have to have the huge engineering influx of the Cup teams and Xfinity teams and all that stuff. When we did go Xfinity racing, we brought on experienced guys from another team and we weren’t as great as I thought we coulda, shoulda won. Kurt (Busch) won and I finished second like six times that year. Eric then took over the reigns of that the next year and I thought they ran very respectful for what they had to endure and deal with. Then he went on to go do his own things at JGR for a few years and then came back for a two-year stint with John Hunter. That was always kind of the understanding between he and I was the John Hunter piece and not knowing what our driver line-up looks like at all right now, I think he sees a clearer picture right now than I do. He got a really good offer to go somewhere else so I told him that I can’t hold you back, go take it, go do it.”
What would it mean to get a championship for Kyle Busch Motorsports?
“That’s not what we want, we want to win a championship this year sure, but we don’t want to be done. We want to keep fighting and race into next year. That’s the intent and that’s everybody’s intentions that we have and the 50 employees that we have at KBM, I’m fighting every damn day for all that stuff and to make sure that we go forward.”
How would you assess Corey Heim’s performance this season?
“Corey’s (Heim) done a really good job. He won early and was fast and had a lot of good results, better results arguably better than I did in the 51. I would say maybe the last couple not as good as we would have hoped, but I think that him carrying on and being smart and being smooth and just doing the job he needs to do for us with the 51 to keep it eligible all the way to Phoenix. If we have three trucks eligible for the owners championship at Phoenix, I’ll feel a lot like Joe (Gibbs) did in 2019, it’s ours to lose. Looking forward to those guys carrying it on with good momentum.”
How do you feel about racing at the All-Star race at North Wilkesboro?
“I think it’s cool. I think a lot of drivers made note of that or made mention of that, but careful, there’s aliens around there. Space ships come in the middle of the night so don’t be there with the lights off. Overall, I think it’s going to be really fun. I think they saw a packed house there last week and they saw great racing Tuesday night and Wednesday night. Real proud of SMI’s involvement and Dale Jr.’s involvement and all those guys that made that come to life and so I think it’s pretty cool. Looking forward to getting there. I’ve never been there so I guess I need to go test.”
Have you had a lot of people supporting you around this process you’re going through?
“A little bit. Yeah, not anything too crazy I would say. There’s been a lot of support and you know, from a few individuals that maybe I thought wouldn’t reach out. It was nice, but other than that, it’s business as usual. Some people are almost leery to say, ‘Hey man, how is it going today?’ Because they know that it ain’t good. They don’t even bring it up. They’re like, ‘Oh, Kyle’s here.”
How did you even get to the moment to talk to Richard Childress about possibly driving for him after the incident here at Kansas 11 years ago?
“Who’s to say he hasn’t punched me again in any of these conversations. Whenever you go into negotiations, it’s never fun so you’re duking the whole time. I think you grow up and you work through things and you talk it over. Really it was fine the first time I sat down with him and everything was okay. The biggest thing about it was just having an opportunity to kind of put that behind us. It was no different than going on the Dale Jr. Download and talking about 2008 and crashing at Richmond, you know what I mean. You get through it and you talk about it and life moves on.”
Do you know what happened with the engine last week and are you concerned it could happen again?
“The best I know is that the issue that happened at Richmond with the 45 car, the issue that happened with the 20 at Watkins Glen and happened with me in practice at Watkins Glen and I think Denny (Hamlin) had one happen somewhere in practice, I’m not sure. Then mine last weekend, they were all the same issue so they keep seeing it over and over and what’s interesting is that the road course package isn’t necessarily the intermediate package. They didn’t think that would transfer over, but it did so they made some adjustments to some internals and hopefully we don’t see it going forward.”
What has been the biggest change in the industry you’ve seen while going through this free agency portion of your career?
“Drivers ain’t making what they used to anymore. It’s fact. I was fortunate to be in a really, really good spot for a long time and had good leverage there to get paid very well. Anytime you look at other opportunities out there, they can only go so far and they can only do so much. They don’t know you and you haven’t spent the time there, but fast forward 15 years from now, wherever the hell I go, will I have a better chance of negotiating a better deal than my current one or whatnot, then I would agree that’s probably a good assessment.”
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FORD QUALIFYING RESULTS
2nd - Joey Logano (P)
8th - Austin Cindric (P)
10th - Chris Buescher
13th - Chase Briscoe (P)
14th - Kevin Harvick (P)
17th - Ryan Blaney (P)
18th - Harrison Burton
23rd - Michael McDowell
26th - Brad Keselowski
29th - Cole Custer
32nd - Todd Gilliland
33rd - JJ Yeley
34th - BJ McLeod
36th - Aric Almirola
(P) indicates playoff-eligible driver
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Mustang -- QUALIFIED 2nd
AS YOU LOOKED AT TYLER’S (REDDICK) LAP, COULD YOU HAVE DONE ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY? “I haven’t seen his lap but I thought we had a pretty good lap. Our car was tighter than the first run. It was still good the first run. I hated to adjust on it too much and I probably steered Paul (Wolfe) a little bit in the wrong direction there and didn’t really adjust enough. I am so proud of the Shell Pennzoil team. We picked up a lot from practice and laid down a couple of quick laps there. A couple of front row starts in a row. That first pit stall is pretty big here though. I wish we had that. But we will go at them from where we are at.”
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Chevrolet has won the NTT INDYCAR SERIES (NICS) Manufacturer Championship for the seventh time since it returned to the Series in 2012.
The Chevrolet 2.2-liter, twin-turbocharged, direct-injected V6 INDYCAR engine has produced 12 poles and 11 wins in 16 events heading into Sunday’s season finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
“Preparation, teamwork and great execution were key this season to every pole, every win and now Chevrolet's seventh Manufacturer Championship,” said Jim Campbell, U.S. Vice President Performance and Motorsports for Chevrolet. “Thank you to Team Penske, Ed Carpenter Racing, Arrow McLaren SP, AJ Foyt Racing, Juncos Hollinger Racing, Paretta Autosport, our Chevrolet Competition and Propulsion engineers, and our technical partners for their combined efforts that resulted in delivering Chevrolet’s NTT INDYCAR Series Manufacturer Championship.”
In the 11 seasons of the Chevrolet 2.2-liter V6 INDYCAR engine, Team Chevy drivers have amassed 106 wins of the 181 races to date – an impressive 58.6%. This season, Chevy-powered drivers have won 69% of the races and 75% of the NTT P1 Awards.
The 2022 Manufacturer Championship clearly demonstrates the never-give-up attitude of Chevrolet engineering, its teams, the GM Propulsion Group and its technical partners. Chevrolet proudly fielded 11 full-time entries during the 17-race season. Despite having less than half of the total car count, the Chevy teams and drivers maximized all the available support, engineering tools and simulator time to continue performance growth that translated to tremendous performance.
All of Chevrolet’s full-time teams contributed valuable time and effort toward the seventh NICS Manufacturer Championship. Team Penske, with drivers Will Power, Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin; Ed Carpenter Racing, with drivers Rinus VeeKay and Conor Daly; AJ Foyt Racing, with drivers Dalton Kellett and Kyle Kirkwood; and Juncos Hollinger Racing, with driver Callum Ilott, were instrumental in Team Chevy’s success.
“Winning Chevrolet's seventh NTT INDYCAR Series Manufacturer Championship has been a true team effort by our Chevrolet engineers, Chevy-powered race teams, Chevrolet Propulsion engineers and technical partners at Ilmor Engineering and Hitachi Automotive Systems,” said Mark Stielow, Director Motorsports Competition Engineering. “The performance delivered by Chevrolet’s 2.2-liter twin turbo, direct-injected V6 engine has proven throughout the season to be the consistent combination of reliability, drivability and power for our teams to win races and this championship.”
Since 2012, in addition to the seven Manufacturer Championships, Chevrolet has won six driver championships with Ryan Hunter-Reay (2012), Power (2014), Scott Dixon (2015), Pagenaud (2016), Newgarden (2017 and 2019). Three Chevrolet drivers are in contention to win the crown in 2022.
Additionally, the Chevrolet 2.2-liter V6 engine powered drivers to win the Indianapolis 500 with Tony Kanaan (2013), Juan Pablo Montoya (2015) Will Power (2018) and Simon Pagenaud (2019).
Previously, Chevrolet competed in Indy-style racing as a manufacturer of V8 engines from 1986-93 and 2002-05, powering 111 wins, one manufacturer championship in 2002, seven Indianapolis 500 wins and six driver championships.
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Staff Sgt. Alec Felker, 127th Security Forces Squadron combat arms instructor, leads a class on use of the M-4 carbine rifle at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan, Sept. 10, 2022. Weapons familiarization and safety reviews are provided to Airmen as part of regular, routine training schedules. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Dan Heaton)
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Staff Sgt. Jesse Tolbert, 191st Maintenance Squadron, assembles an M-4 carbine rifle under the direction of Staff Sgt. Alec Felker, 127th Security Forces Squadron combat arms instructor, at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan, Sept. 10, 2022. Weapons familiarization and safety reviews are provided to Airmen as part of regular, routine training schedules. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Dan Heaton)
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NEW YORK — Carlos Alcaraz and Frances Tiafoe engaged in a high-level, high-energy spectacle of a back-and-forth semifinal at the U.S. Open — no point over when it seemed to be, no ball out of reach, no angle too audacious.
One sequence was so stuffed with "What?! How?!" moments by both men that Arthur Ashe Stadium spectators were on their feet before it was over and remained there, clapping and carousing, while watching a replay on the video screens.
Ultimately, enough of the winners went Alcaraz's way, and too many of the mistakes came from Tiafoe's racket. And so it was Alcaraz who surged into his first Grand Slam final — and, in the process, gave himself a chance to become No. 1 at age 19 — by ending Tiafoe's run at Flushing Meadows with a 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3 victory on Friday night.
"It was so electric. I mean, the tennis definitely matched the hype of the match. Unbelievable shot-making, gets, extending points, crazy shots ... at crazy times," Tiafoe said. "Yeah, I was getting riled up."
Alcaraz appeared to seize control by grabbing nine of 10 games in one stretch and could have ended the evening when he held a match point in the fourth set. But Tiafoe, who is ranked 26th, saved it and soon was yelling, with some colorful language mixed in for emphasis, "I'm putting my heart on the line!" Soon after that, Tiafoe was forcing a fifth set by improving to a U.S. Open-record 8-0 in tiebreakers.
Still, Alcaraz showed no signs of fatigue despite playing a third five-setter in a row — including a 5-hour, 15-minute quarterfinal win that ended at 2:50 a.m. on Thursday, the latest finish in tournament history — and was better when he needed to be, taking four of the last five games.
"I feel great right now," Alcaraz said nearly two hours after beating Tiafoe, then added: "I mean, a little bit tired."
Now No. 3 Alcaraz will face No. 7 Casper Ruud for the championship Sunday with so much on the line: The winner will become a major champion for the first time and lead the rankings next week.
"It's amazing to be able to fight for big things," Alcaraz said.
Alcaraz and Tiafoe were both making their major semifinal debuts and offered an exceptionally entertaining performance for a little more than a set, and a little more than an hour, at the start, then again for the latter portion of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth.
Tiafoe, a 24-year-old from Maryland who eliminated 22-time Grand Slam champ Rafael Nadal in the fourth round, played to a sellout crowd of more than 23,000 that included former first lady Michelle Obama, often asking for — and receiving — more noise. No surprise, given he was the first American man in the semifinals at Flushing Meadows in 16 years.
"I feel I let you goys down," Tiafoe said during an unusual chance for a match's loser to address the crowd in an on-court interview. "This one hurts. This one really, really hurts."
Alcaraz, who's from Spain, is popular around the world, widely recognized as a future star of the sport, and he is now the youngest U.S. Open men's finalist from any country since Pete Sampras won the trophy at 19 in 1990.
When Alcaraz went up 2-0 in the fourth, spectators regaled him with a soccer-style song of "Olé, Olé, Olé! Carlos!"
"People love to see that guy play, so they were getting behind him, too," Tiafoe said. "Obviously I would have loved to win tonight, but I think tennis won tonight. I think the crowd got what they expected. I just wish I was the one who got the 'W.'"
Afterward, Alcaraz spoke first in English, then in Spanish, telling his supporters that they helped him fight for "every point, every ball." He tapped his chest as he said this was "for my family, for my team, for me, for all of you."
During the day's first semifinal, which featured a 55-shot point to end the first set, folks called out the winner's last name — "Ruuuuud!" — and it sounded as if they were booing, rather than saluting. Ruud won that lengthy rally and built an early lead and route to beating Karen Khachanov 7-6 (5), 6-2, 5-7, 6-2.
"Towards the end," Ruud, a 23-year-old from Norway, said about the longest point of this U.S. Open, "the pulse was getting very high and the legs were almost shaking."
Either Ruud, the runner-up to Nadal at the French Open in June, will make a six-place jump that represents the biggest move ever to No. 1 or Alcaraz will become the youngest man to get to the ATP's top spot since the computerized rankings began in 1973.
There were so many memorable exchanges and scenes between Tiafoe and Alcaraz. One arrived in the second set's third game, when Alcaraz saved a break point and went on to hold. A smiling Tiafoe jokingly climbed over the net to Alcaraz's side, as if to go shake hands at match's end.
If this semifinal had, indeed, concluded right then and there, no one could have complained about the product. It would proceed for a total of 4 hours, 19 minutes.
They wore matching shirts — red in front, white in back, burgundy on the side — and were every bit each other's equal for lengthy stretches, including until 6-all in the opening tiebreaker.
Alcaraz, who by then already had saved four set points, offered up a fifth by sending a backhand wide, then made converting that one easy for Tiafoe by double-faulting. As the crowd roared, Alcaraz hung his head, walked to his sideline seat and smacked his equipment bag with his racket.
He regrouped and broke to go up in the second set, and a pivotal juncture arrived with Alcaraz serving at 5-3 but facing a break point. He snapped a cross-court forehand winner to erase that chance for Tiafoe, which began a run in which Alcaraz grabbed 11 consecutive points and 19 of 22 to own that set and a 4-0 lead in the third.
As on that forehand, Alcaraz often rips the ball with abandon — and, somehow, with precision, too, aiming for the lines and finding them. He won no fewer than three first-set points with shots that caught the outer edge of the white paint with no margin to spare.
After one, Tiafoe went over for a little light-hearted exchange with Alcaraz's coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, the 2003 French Open champion who briefly was No. 1 himself. Yet make no mistake: Alcaraz is not some hang-back baseliner. He has a varied, all-court game and showed off his skills by winning points via acrobatic volleys, feathered drop shots and perfectly parabolic lobs.
Other than that lull in the second and third sets, and late in the fifth, Tiafoe was exceptional, too, and having the time of his life all the while.
"I'm going to be back," Tiafoe said, "and I will win this thing one day."
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Five people died Saturday in New Zealand after the small charter boat they were aboard capsized, authorities say, in what may have been a collision with a whale. Another six people aboard the boat were rescued.
Police said the 8.5-meter (28-foot) boat overturned near the South Island town of Kaikōura. Police said they were continuing to investigate the cause of the accident.
Kaikōura Police Sergeant Matt Boyce described it as a devastating and unprecedented event.
"Our thoughts are with everyone involved, including the victims and their families, their local communities, and emergency services personnel," Boyce said.
He said police divers had recovered the bodies of all those who had died. He said all six survivors were assessed to be in stable condition at a local health center, with one transferred to a hospital in the city of Christchurch as a precaution.
Kaikōura Mayor Craig Mackle told The Associated Press that the water was dead calm at the time of the accident and the assumption was that a whale had surfaced from beneath the boat.
He said there were some sperm whales in the area and also some humpback whales traveling through.
He said locals had helped with the rescue efforts throughout the day but the mood in the town was "somber" because the water was so cold and they feared for the outcome of anybody who had fallen overboard.
Mackle said he'd thought in the past about the possibility of a boat and whale colliding, given the number of whales that frequent the region.
"It always plays on your mind that it could happen," he said, adding that he hadn't heard about any previous such accidents.
Mackle said the boat was a charter vessel typically used for fishing excursions. News agency Stuff reported the passengers belonged to a bird enthusiasts' group.
Police said they were still notifying the relatives of those who died, and couldn't yet publicly name the victims.
Vanessa Chapman told Stuff she and a group of friends had watched the rescue efforts unfold from Goose Bay, near Kaikōura. She said that when she arrived at a lookout spot, she could see a person sitting atop an overturned boat waving their arms.
She said two rescue helicopters and a third local helicopter were circling before two divers jumped out. She told Stuff that the person atop the boat was rescued and a second person appeared to have been pulled from the water.
Kaikōura is a popular whale-watching destination. The seafloor drops away precipitously from the coast, making for deep waters close to the shore. A number of businesses offer boat trips or helicopter rides so tourists can see whales, dolphins and other sea creatures up close.
Compliance agency Maritime New Zealand said it sent two investigators to the scene and would be conducting a thorough investigation once recovery operations had concluded.
Principal Investigator Tracy Phillips said the agency "offers its heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the people who have died."
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BALTIMORE (Sept. 9, 2022) - U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician 1st Class Brandon Schwartz and Master Chief Steve Rivers, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2, interact with the Baltimore community aduring Maryland Fleet Week and Flyover is Baltimore’s celebration of the sea services and provides an opportunity for the citizens of Maryland and the city of Baltimore to meet Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, as well as see firsthand the latest capabilities of today’s maritime services. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Maurice Brown)
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Members assigned to the 6th Civil Engineer Squadron pose for a photo following a stairwell climb at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, Sept. 9, 2022. The stairwell climb simulated the ascension of 110 floors in remembrance of the first responders who lost their lives on 9/11. The event began at 8:46 AM, the same time the North Tower of the World Trade Center was hit. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joshua Hastings)
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Person in custody after police standoff in Midlothian
MIDLOTHIAN, Illinois - Midlothian police say a person is in custody after a standoff in the 153rd Place and Hamlin Avenue area.
Around 5 a.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired.
Police say an individual was shooting and ran into a home near Hamlin Avenue and 153rd Place.
There was a heavy police presence into the early afternoon as officials attempted to arrest the suspect, according to the Midlothian Police Chief.
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White Sox manager cleared for travel to ceremony in California
OAKLAND, Calif. - Tony La Russa’s team of doctors has cleared the Chicago White Sox manager to travel to Oakland to participate in Sunday’s pregame ceremony retiring Dave Stewart’s uniform number for the Oakland Athletics.
The news comes after the White Sox announced in late August that La Russa will be out indefinitely due to health issues.
La Russa’s doctors have not yet cleared his return to the dugout as an active manager.
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With Carnival Cruise Line changing its room service selection for breakfast and including an increased selection it will charge guests for, one thing is sure: Many guests will question the move from the Miami-based cruise line.
Reason enough for Carnival to provide more details on what it has planned this coming October 1. Carnival Brand Ambassador John Heald quickly jumped on his Facebook page to further explain the room service changes. Carnival has also revealed the ‘nominal’ price hike for Wifi onboard.
Room Service Changes Questioned
Yesterday, September 9, Carnival Cruise Line sent a message to guests booked onboard one of the ships in the fleet it would be making several changes to its room service menus. These changes include removing some complimentary items and charging for more items the cruise line calls the a la carte selection.
Carnival has based the decision to make these changes on market research since the restart in July of 2021. The cruise line noticed a large amount of food waste during this period.
The solution that Carnival has thought of to minimize food waste was to bring several changes to the complimentary room service breakfast items.
The move was widely questioned by those who received the letter, with many under the impression that the full room service breakfast would no longer be complimentary. Reason for John Heald, the popular brand ambassador for Carnival Cruise Line, to post some clarifications on his Facebook page:
John Heald, Carnival Cruise Line Brand Ambassador: “So yesterday we made some changes to our Room Service menu, and I received so many comments asking me to clarify a few things so please allow me to do so. Room service continental breakfast remains complimentary from 6 to 10 AM.”
“For those of you asking for clarification, there will be a nominal charge for all other items. The definitely upgraded sandwiches and treats will be truly superb and you are going to be very pleased when you see the menu and the affordable prices. I will post the menu as soon as I can.”
Food Waste the Driving Factor Behind Changes
Heald further acknowledges that the changes are indeed due to food waste issues, with some guests taking advantage of the free food and over-ordering. However, he also recognizes that a cost factor is also at play.
“So while it is not the only reason, and it would be silly of me to say it was, trying to cut down on food waste is one of the reasons these nominal fees now apply after breakfast time,” Heald said.
What should also be accounted for is that more complimentary items on the menu means more preparation for the chefs. Cutting down on complimentary items will mean less food prepared and, thus, less food wasted.
For those who dislike having to pay extra for a sandwich or other treat to be delivered to their room, there are no changes to the availability of food at the Lido deck. This remains open from 11 AM through 11 PM, at no charge.
New Wi-fi Rates Revealed
Besides the room service changes, we revealed yesterday that Carnival Cruise Line would also be implementing a price hike for the onboard Wifi connection for the second time this year, on October 1.
For the base package, or the Social package as Carnival calls it, guests now pay $8.50 per day if they purchase the package before sailing. This price will increase to $10.20 per day, an increase of $1,70 per day.
The value package, which can be used to surf favorite sites, retrieve e-mail, read up on the news, and more, is increasing to $14.45 per day, an increase of $3.40 per day from the old rate of $11.05 if pre-purchased.
The top tier package, or Premium package, sees an increase of $2.55 to $17.00 per day, up from $14.45. These prices will increase by an additional 15% if guests wait to purchase the package until they get onboard.
These are, again, some significant changes from Carnival Cruise Line, which has been making many smaller changes in the past months. With costs rising significantly worldwide, these price hikes and operational changes are undoubtedly understandable from a business point of view.
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A day later, Aaron Hicks did not have to listen to the mounting jeers, but he was expected to listen to a few words from Aaron Boone.
The Yankees manager left Hicks out of the lineup Saturday and said he would have a talk with the outfielder whose season-long struggles culminated in a disastrous performance in Friday’s loss.
“I have not [talked to Hicks] yet, but I will circle up with him and just get him prepared as best we can to be a contributor,” Boone said before the Yankees took on the Rays at the Stadium.
Hicks was pulled from Friday’s 4-2 loss to the Rays to start the fifth inning after a pair of misplays in the fourth, when the home crowd let out its frustrations on the left fielder.
Hicks, who had already struck out in two at-bats, dropped a fly ball from Wander Franco down the line. He was slow to pick the ball back up – believing it to be foul – and then threw it in too late, allowing two Rays to score and Franco to reach second.
The next batter was Randy Arozarena, who drove a line drive over the head of Hicks, who got turned around on the double.
Hicks – who heard “Joey Gallo” taunts – was gone an inning later. Boone said “we’ll see” when asked Saturday if he could play Hicks again at home in this series.
Boone started Miguel Andujar in left field and Oswaldo Cabrera in right field. The manager suggested that “becoming that target” from the crowd is making it more difficult for Hicks to bounce back.
“Hopefully this is something that you get to that point where you get through it, and it doesn’t bother you – it doesn’t get to you,” Boone said of Hicks, who is 2-for-21 in his past seven games, bringing his OPS down to .622. “You just gotta do your job and hopefully, this is something that helps in that process of getting him there.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/aaron-boone-plans-aaron-hicks-talk-after-yankees-benching/ | 2022-09-10T20:49:09Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/aaron-boone-plans-aaron-hicks-talk-after-yankees-benching/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This was more about survival than victory for top-ranked Alabama.
It was outplayed for most of Saturday’s visit to Texas. It couldn’t block. It couldn’t protect defending Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young. It was overpowered up front and it committed 15 penalties, the most in the Nick Saban era at Alabama.
But the Crimson Tide found a way, prevailing 20-19, in large part due to what looked like a left shoulder injury suffered by Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers in the first half.
Will Reichard’s 33-yard field goal with 10 seconds left was the game-winner, a play made possible by Young squeezing out of a sack and running for 19 yards to set up the kick. Before he was hurt, Ewers led the Longhorns on two scoring drives, completing 9-of-12 passes for 134 yards.
Two key plays loomed large. Bert Auburn missed a 20-yard field goal at the end of the first half for Texas and what looked like a safety was ruled an incomplete pass in the second half. The two plays cost the Longhorns five crucial points. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/no-1-alabama-avoids-texas-upset-in-wild-college-football-game/ | 2022-09-10T20:50:20Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/no-1-alabama-avoids-texas-upset-in-wild-college-football-game/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Do yourself a favor Sunday if the Giants are your football team: Enjoy the day. Luxuriate in the day. Open the faucet and let your optimism flood your basement. Seriously. There will be plenty of time for jaded. There will be plenty of time for cynical, and skeptical, plenty of time to gripe and simmer and percolate, if that’s the way things go.
Do yourself a favor: Save the percolating.
Save the fatalism.
It’s Opening Day, and anything can happen, the season is an open book, the path ahead is not predetermined or predestined. It’s Opening Day and you are allowed to believe that maybe, just maybe, the Giants are due for one of those charmed seasons that just falls out of the sky every once in a while, the one you never saw coming, the one no one saw coming.
On Opening Day, everything is possible.
Because anything is possible.
So yes, spend the day peering through your rose-colored glasses. Spend the day in Pollyanna’s place. Until proven otherwise, you are allowed to believe that this is the year things will make a turn for the good at 1925 Giants Drive.
Sunday, if no other day, you can believe that Daniel Jones will figure it all out, put it all together, deliver a season that defines him as the future and not merely a stopgap. He has a new offense, a new coordinator, a new head coach, Brian Daboll, whose arrival energized the whole team. It seems to have transformed Jones as much as anyone.
“He’s just always thinking. He’s always thinking about a new way to run this play or a new way to motion something or shift something or set it up — and that’s constant with him,” Jones said of Daboll. “It’s in the cafeteria, it’s through the hallways, obviously in meeting rooms. He’s always thinking, coming up with new ideas. That’s been fun, you learn a lot that way as I am learning the system, but also the way he thinks about football, how he sees offense and setting us up to be successful.”
Maybe Sunday, if no other day, we will see the version of Saquon Barkley who electrified the whole league when he was a rookie: the breathtaking cuts, the blinding speed, the ability to find small apertures in the line and power through for huge gains. Is that too much to ask? Maybe it is. Today, it seems like an altogether proper request.
“I feel really good,” Barkley said last week. “I’m at a way better place mentally and physically. Just a whole other year away from surgery. It’s about to be two years in 20 days, something like that. I’m excited, I’m excited, but the reason why I’m really so excited is to just go out there and start playing football, start having some success so I can really stop answering questions about my health.”
Fair enough. That’s also something to hope for, on this day of all days.
So is this: a defense that will honor the Giants’ rich legacy. Do they have the personnel to pull that off yet? Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. We’ll see. They do have a coordinator, Wink Martindale, who comes with a golden résumé and a sparkling reputation. Sometimes, that’s a good place to start. It was with Tom Landry, once upon a time. It was with Bill Parcells, and then Bill Belichick. It was with Steve Spagnuolo.
“It’s a culture of defense,” Martindale said. “There’s one thing I’ll guarantee you: I don’t know how good we’re going to be, but we are going to run to the football, and we are going to tackle people. If we start with that, you’ve got a shot. And I can’t wait. I’m really excited about it.”
If it’s good enough for Wink, it ought to be good enough for you, Sunday of all days. Same as Daboll’s fresh voice should be. Early returns have been good, why can’t later returns be great? Sunday, of all days, why can’t you hope for that?
“We’re ready,” Daboll said this week. “We’re ready to start this thing, see what we have.”
What will they have? Maybe Monday we can start thinking clearly again. But for now, for Sunday, for Opening Day? Is there any harm in hope? Is there any downside to dreaming? Sunday of all days. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/opening-week-provides-giants-fans-rare-opportunity-for-hope/ | 2022-09-10T20:50:32Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/opening-week-provides-giants-fans-rare-opportunity-for-hope/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After several days of slogging along with mostly makeshift lineups, the Yankees got back a couple of regulars as reinforcements on Saturday.
The results were as immediate as you can get.
With Josh Donaldson and Giancarlo Stanton rejoining the revised batting order, new leadoff man Aaron Judge and the Yankees rattled off seven straight hits to start a game for the first time in nearly 32 years and cruised to a much-needed 10-3 victory over the Rays at the Stadium.
Donaldson and Stanton also stroked solo home runs in support of Jameson Taillon, who worked 7 ¹/₃ strong innings as the Yankees (84-56) extended their lead in the AL East over Tampa Bay back to 4 ¹/₂ games and clinched the season series (10-8) ahead of the final regular-season game between the division rivals on Sunday.
Taillon (13-4, 3.94 ERA) was charged with three runs on six hits, with one walk and eight strikeouts, over 99 pitches. Reliever Lou Trivino allowed two inherited runners to score on Harold Ramirez’s single in the eighth inning.
The previous time the Yankees opened a game with at least seven consecutive hits was when they managed eight in a row in a 15-3 win over the Orioles at the old Stadium on Sept. 25, 1990. That game featured home runs by Roberto Kelly and Randy Velarde.
Judge, the MLB leader with 55 home runs, knocked two of the Yankees’ eight singles overall in their six-run first inning Saturday, including the first of seven in a row to start the frame against former teammate Corey Kluber.
Judge finished 3-for-4, making it a career-best seven consecutive games in which he has reached base at least three times. That included the past two games out of the leadoff spot. That is the longest such streak by a Yankee since Mickey Mantle in June 1957.
“Just trying to get him up as much as possible, obviously, and trying to protect him as much as we can,” manager Aaron Boone said before the game. “We’re kind of searching for combinations, especially with a lot of guys out. Simple as that.”
DJ LeMahieu, Anthony Rizzo, Andrew Benintendi and Jose Trevino (paternity leave) remain sidelined, but Stanton was back in the starting lineup for the first time since Monday after a foot issue. Batting second for the third time this season, Stanton followed Judge’s leadoff single to left with a liner to right for another hit, before Gleyber Torres opened the scoring with an RBI single to right.
Donaldson, activated off the paternity list before the game following the birth of his daughter, then lifted what he thought was a home run to right; he even made a pronounced bat flip. But replays showed the ball bounced off the top of the wall for what became another single. The hit loaded the bases because the runners ahead of Donaldson advanced just one base apiece.
Oswaldo Cabrera made it 3-0 with a two-run single to right, and Miguel Andujar added another run with a shot up the middle. Isiah Kiner-Falefa reached on an infield hit for the seventh straight single to open the game. Additional runs scored on Kyle Higashioka’s grounder and Judge’s second hit of the inning to chase Kluber with a 6-0 deficit after he had recorded just two outs.
Donaldson didn’t flip his bat in his next plate appearance, but he homered into the right-field seats in the second inning against righty JT Chargois. His 13th homer of the season boosted the Yankees’ lead to seven. Donaldson also was hit by a pitch and scored on a wild pitch by Calvin Faucher in the seventh inning as the Yankees added two more runs.
Stanton’s solo home run — his 25th of the season, but first since July 15 — came against position player Christian Bethancourt in the eighth. The shot clanked off the left-field foul pole for a 10-3 lead. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/yankees-cruise-past-rays-as-offense-finally-breaks-out/ | 2022-09-10T20:51:04Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/yankees-cruise-past-rays-as-offense-finally-breaks-out/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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