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At 1-Year, Progression-Free Survival was 25% for LUMAKRAS Versus 10% for Docetaxel
LUMAKRAS Met Key Secondary Endpoint of Objective Response Rate
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Sept. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced detailed results from the global Phase 3 CodeBreaK 200 trial, which showed once-daily oral LUMAKRAS®/LUMYKRAS® (sotorasib) led to significantly superior progression-free survival (PFS; primary endpoint) and a significantly higher objective response rate (ORR; a key secondary endpoint) in patients with KRAS G12C-mutated non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), compared with intravenous chemotherapy, docetaxel. These data will be presented Monday, Sept. 12 at 5:20 p.m. CEST at the Presidential Symposium III session as a late-breaker oral presentation (#LBA5812) during the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2022 in Paris.
"The totality of evidence from this study supports LUMAKRAS as an important targeted treatment option for patients with non-small cell lung cancer who harbor the KRAS G12C mutation, and reinforces the critical need for comprehensive biomarker testing for all patients with advanced disease," said David M. Reese, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen. "We plan to submit this data to health authorities around the world where LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS is conditionally approved, and we look forward to our discussions with regulators."
LUMAKRAS significantly improved PFS as determined by Blinded Independent Central Review (BICR) compared to docetaxel in heavily pre-treated patients (HR, 0.66 [95% CI: 0.51, 0.86]; P = 0.002), and PFS favored LUMAKRAS across all clinically relevant subgroups. The proportion of patients with PFS at one year was 25% for LUMAKRAS versus 10% for docetaxel. LUMAKRAS demonstrated a significantly higher ORR than docetaxel with double the response rates in the LUMAKRAS arm (28% versus 13%, respectively; P < 0.001) and showed consistent benefit across other efficacy secondary endpoints, including improved disease control rate (DCR; 83% versus 60%, respectively). Overall survival (OS; a key secondary endpoint) was not significantly different between treatment arms. The study was not powered to detect a statistical difference in OS, and cross-over from docetaxel to LUMAKRAS was permitted after disease progression.
There were fewer treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) for LUMAKRAS versus docetaxel. Grade ≥ 3 TRAEs (33% LUMAKRAS; 40% docetaxel) and serious TRAEs (11% LUMAKRAS; 23% docetaxel) were lower with LUMAKRAS compared to docetaxel. The most common TRAEs reported by at least 15% of patients in either treatment group were diarrhea (34% LUMKRAS; 19% docetaxel), fatigue (7% LUMAKRAS; 25% docetaxel), alopecia (1% LUMKARAS; 21% docetaxel), nausea (14% LUMAKRAS; 20% docetaxel) and anemia (3% LUMAKRAS; 18% docetaxel).
"This is the first Phase 3 randomized clinical trial for a KRASG12C inhibitor to show benefit in heavily pre-treated patients who have limited treatment options," said Melissa L. Johnson, M.D., director of Lung Cancer Research, Sarah Cannon Research Institute at Tennessee Oncology and presenting author. "It is encouraging that progression-free survival benefits were consistent across all clinically relevant subgroups, and that sotorasib response rates were more than double compared to docetaxel response rates. This data represents a major advance for the treatment of patients with KRAS G12C-mutated non-small cell lung cancer."
Data from CodeBreaK 200 will be submitted to global regulatory authorities where LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS has accelerated approval or conditional marketing authorization. LUMAKRAS is the only KRASG12C inhibitor approved anywhere in the world with approval in 44 markets, including the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdrom and Japan. CodeBreaK 200 is the first randomized, controlled clinical trial for a KRASG12C inhibitor.
About LUMAKRAS®/LUMYKRAS® (sotorasib)
Amgen took on one of the toughest challenges of the last 40 years in cancer research by developing LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS, a KRASG12C inhibitor.1 LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS has demonstrated a positive benefit-risk profile with rapid, deep, and durable anticancer activity in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring the KRAS G12C mutation with a once daily oral formulation.2
Amgen is progressing the largest and broadest global KRASG12C inhibitor development program with unparalleled speed and exploring more than 10 sotorasib combination regimens, with clinical trial sites spanning five continents. To date, over 6,500 patients around the world have received LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS through the clinical development program and commercial use.
In May 2021, LUMAKRAS was the first KRASG12C inhibitor to receive regulatory approval with its approval in the U.S., under accelerated approval. LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS is also approved in the European Union, Japan, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Taiwan, Qatar, and in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Singapore, and Israel under the FDA's Project Orbis. Additionally, Amgen has submitted MAAs in Argentina, Colombia, Kuwait, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Turkey.
LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS is also being studied in multiple other solid tumors.3
About Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and the KRAS G12C Mutation
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and it accounts for more deaths worldwide than colon cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.4 Overall survival rates for NSCLC are improving but remain poor for patients with advanced disease, and 5-year survival is only 8% for those with metastatic disease.5
KRAS G12C is the most common KRAS mutation in NSCLC.6 About 13% of patients with NSCLC harbor the KRAS G12C mutation.7 Unmet medical need remains high and treatment options are limited for NSCLC patients with the KRAS G12C mutation whose first-line treatment has failed to work or has stopped working. The outcomes with other approved therapies are suboptimal, with a median progression-free survival of approximately four months following second-line treatment of KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC.8
About CodeBreaK
The CodeBreaK clinical development program for Amgen's drug sotorasib is designed to study patients with an advanced solid tumor with the KRAS G12C mutation and address the longstanding unmet medical need for these cancers.
CodeBreaK 100, the Phase 1 and 2, first-in-human, open-label multicenter study, enrolled patients with KRAS G12C-mutant solid tumors.9 Eligible patients must have received a prior line of systemic anticancer therapy, consistent with their tumor type and stage of disease. The primary endpoint for the Phase 2 study was centrally assessed objective response rate. The Phase 2 trial in NSCLC enrolled 126 patients, 124 of whom had centrally evaluable lesions by RECIST at baseline.2 The Phase 2 trial in colorectal cancer (CRC) enrolled 62 patients and results have been published.10
CodeBreaK 200, the global Phase 3 randomized active-controlled study comparing sotorasib to docetaxel in KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC completed enrollment of 345 patients. Eligible patients had previously treated, locally advanced and unresectable or metastatic KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC. The primary endpoint is progression-free survival and key secondary endpoints include overall survival, objective response rate, and patient-reported outcomes.11
Amgen also has several Phase 1b studies investigating sotorasib monotherapy and sotorasib combination therapy across various advanced solid tumors (CodeBreaK 101) open for enrollment.12 A Phase 2 randomized study will evaluate sotorasib in patients with stage IV KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC in need of first-line treatment (CodeBreaK 201).13
For information, please visit www.hcp.codebreaktrials.com.
LUMAKRAS® (sotorasib) U.S. Indication
LUMAKRAS is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with KRAS G12C-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as determined by an FDA-approved test, who have received at least one prior systemic therapy.
This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on overall response rate (ORR) and duration of response (DOR). Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial(s).
LUMAKRAS® (sotorasib) Important U.S. Safety Information
Hepatotoxicity
- LUMAKRAS can cause hepatotoxicity, which may lead to drug-induced liver injury and hepatitis.
- Among 357 patients who received LUMAKRAS in CodeBreaK 100, hepatotoxicity occurred in 1.7% (all grades) and 1.4% (Grade 3). A total of 18% of patients who received LUMAKRAS had increased alanine aminotransferase (ALT)/increased aspartate aminotransferase (AST); 6% were Grade 3 and 0.6% were Grade 4. In addition to dose interruption or reduction, 5% of patients received corticosteroids for the treatment of hepatotoxicity.
- Monitor liver function tests (ALT, AST and total bilirubin) prior to the start of LUMAKRAS every 3 weeks for the first 3 months of treatment, then once a month or as clinically indicated, with more frequent testing in patients who develop transaminase and/or bilirubin elevations.
- Withhold, dose reduce or permanently discontinue LUMAKRAS based on severity of adverse reaction.
Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)/Pneumonitis
- LUMAKRAS can cause ILD/pneumonitis that can be fatal. Among 357 patients who received LUMAKRAS in CodeBreaK 100, ILD/pneumonitis occurred in 0.8% of patients, all cases were Grade 3 or 4 at onset, and 1 case was fatal. LUMAKRAS was discontinued due to ILD/pneumonitis in 0.6% of patients.
- Monitor patients for new or worsening pulmonary symptoms indicative of ILD/pneumonitis (e.g., dyspnea, cough, fever). Immediately withhold LUMAKRAS in patients with suspected ILD/pneumonitis and permanently discontinue LUMAKRAS if no other potential causes of ILD/pneumonitis are identified.
Most Common Adverse Reactions
- The most common adverse reactions ≥ 20% were diarrhea, musculoskeletal pain, nausea, fatigue, hepatotoxicity and cough.
Drug Interactions
- Advise patients to inform their healthcare provider of all concomitant medications, including prescription medicines, over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, dietary and herbal products.
- Inform patients to avoid proton pump inhibitors and H2 receptor antagonists while taking LUMAKRAS.
- If coadministration with an acid-reducing agent cannot be avoided, inform patients to take LUMAKRAS 4 hours before or 10 hours after a locally acting antacid.
Please see LUMAKRAS full Prescribing Information.
About Amgen Oncology
At Amgen Oncology, our mission to serve patients drives all that we do. That's why we're relentlessly focused on accelerating the delivery of medicines that have the potential to empower all angles of care and transform lives of people with cancer.
For the last four decades, we have been dedicated to discovering the firsts that matter in oncology and to finding ways to reduce the burden of cancer. Building on our heritage, Amgen continues to advance the largest pipeline in the Company's history, moving with great speed to advance those innovations for the patients who need them.
For more information, follow us on www.twitter.com/amgenoncology.
About Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
Amgen is one of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also part of the Nasdaq-100 index. In 2021, Amgen was named one of the 25 World's Best Workplaces™ by Fortune and Great Place to Work™ and one of the 100 most sustainable companies in the world by Barron's.
For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen.
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“This film is a way of bringing my mom and dad back,” Steven Spielberg said to the abundantly appreciative crowd at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday night. His mother, Leah, died at age 97 in 2017, and his father, Arnold, died in 2020 at age 103. In The Fabelmans, they are represented by Michelle Williams and Paul Dano respectively—and you should surely do some Googling to see how they got the likenesses down.
The reaction to Spielberg’s latest was reportedly rapturous, with TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey eventually telling the crowd to stop applauding and to sit down so they could commence a post-screening discussion.
The Fabelmans is a rarity for Spielberg—a personal story taken directly from his own childhood. It is his fourth collaboration with Tony-winning playwright Tony Kushner, and it is one of the few films in Spielberg’s vast resume in which he is credited as co-screenwriter. On Saturday night he explained that when COVID hit in early 2020, he was left wondering “what was the thing that I need to resolve and unpack about my mom, my dad, and my sisters?”
He added that “this is something I have been thinking about for a long time. I didn’t really know when I was going to get around to this. This is not because I am going to retire and this is my swan song, I promise.” (Indeed, Spielberg, who is famous for having multiple projects in development before selecting his next one, may soon start on a reworking of Bullitt.)
The film also stars Seth Rogen, the relative newcomer Gabriel LaBelle as “Sammy” (a stand-in for young Steven), and features short appearances from Judd Hirsch, Jeannie Berlin, and, in a part designed to make film historians dizzy, David Lynch. The story focuses on a Jewish teen boy growing up in a not-particularly-Jewish part of the United States who slowly recognizes that his family is falling apart, all while he develops his skills as an amateur filmmaker.
Reviews thus far have mostly been extremely positive. Variety compared it positively to Radio Days, and called the movie “a personal account of his upbringing that feels like listening to two and a half hours’ worth of well-polished cocktail-party anecdotes, only better, since he’s gone to the trouble of staging them all for our benefit.” The New York Post called it the best movie of the year and suggested Michelle Williams had now “skyrocket[ed] to the front of the Oscar race with an unforgettable performance.”
In a dissent, The Daily Beast's critic dismissed the film as “a two-and-a-half-hour therapy session.”
V.F.’s Richard Lawson wrote enthusiastically about the project in the context of generations of moviegoers projecting their own lives onto Spielberg’s stories. “[N]ow, at long last, Spielberg politely shares something of himself, too: a reciprocal response to these decades of conversation that says, Here’s where it all came from, the last piece of the mosaic.”
The first trailer hit Sunday morning. Incidentally, “spiel” is another word for “story” or even “fable.” Eh? Eh? | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/fabelmania-in-toronto-steven-spielbergs-memoir-film-the-fabelmans-wows-festival-crowd | 2022-09-11T23:04:25Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/fabelmania-in-toronto-steven-spielbergs-memoir-film-the-fabelmans-wows-festival-crowd | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A federal grand jury is now looking into former President Donald Trump’s Save America PAC, broadening its January 6 inquiry in what The New York Times calls “a significant new turn in an already sprawling criminal investigation.”
This week, the grand jury subpoenaed Stephen Miller, former Trump speechwriter and senior policy adviser, and Brian Jack, the former Trump White House political director. Jack still advises Trump and other Republican lawmakers, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Miller and Jack’s subpoenas ask for information about the Save America PAC’s operations, as well as the scheme to submit fake electors in swing states to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, per the Times.
The Times also reported earlier this week that a half-dozen subpoenas were issued to others in Trump’s circle in relation to the Save America PAC. Among those subpoenaed were William B. Harrison and William S. Russell, aides to Trump during and after his presidency, Nicholas Luna, former personal assistant to Trump, Sean Dollman, the chief financial officer for Trump’s 2020 campaign, and Julie Radford, the former chief of staff for Ivanka Trump.
None of those subpoenaed this week have offered comment, according to the Times.
The subpoenas regarding the fake electors scheme—many of which were issued to Republican lawmakers months ago—were apparently issued by a separate grand jury than those for the Save America PAC. However, both focus on communications with the same group of lawyers, including Jenna Ellis, a former legal adviser for Trump, and Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who helped plot the fake electors scheme, per the Times.
The Save America PAC was formed two days after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Biden. Because the organization is a leadership PAC, one created by a political leader or candidate, it has a lot of leeway in its spending compared to most political PACs. The Save America PAC can contribute up to $5,000 annually to other campaign committees, and can accept up to $5,000 annually from individuals or committees.
Shortly after the Save America PAC was formed, Lawrence Noble, former general counsel to the Federal Election Commission, told The Washington Post: “With a candidate committee, there is a personal-use prohibition…If you’re talking about a leadership PAC or an independent expenditure PAC, there’s no prohibition on how they use the money.”
During the January 6 hearings in June, Rep. Zoe Lofgren said: “Not only was there the big lie, there was the big rip-off.” The January 6 committee accused Trump of misleading donors, as he urged them to contribute to the “Official Election Defense Fund” to pay for legal fees to help overturn the 2020 election. (Of course, there has been no evidence that the election was stolen.)
One former Trump campaign staffer even told the January 6 committee: “I don’t believe there is actually a fund called the ‘Election Defense Fund.’” According to NPR, the committee said the money raised for the purpose of aiding the overturn of the election was subsequently funneled into the Save America PAC.
Trump’s Save America PAC has garnered over $135 million in donations since 2020. The leadership PAC has notably donated $1 million to a nonprofit connected to former chief of staff Mark Meadows, $1 million to America First Policy Institute, $200,000 to Trump hotel properties, $650,000 to the Smithsonian Institution to fund portraits of the former president and former first lady Melania Trump, and $60,000 to Melania’s stylist. In June, The Washington Post reported over half of the PAC’s money was donated by retirees.
After the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago on August 8, the Save America PAC launched a fundraising email, encouraging supporters to “rush in a donation IMMEDIATELY to publicly stand with me against this NEVERENDING WITCH HUNT.”
A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment, according to Politico. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/report-federal-grand-jury-eyeing-trumps-save-america-pac | 2022-09-11T23:04:29Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/report-federal-grand-jury-eyeing-trumps-save-america-pac | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 21st anniversary of 9/11 reminds us who Rudy Giuliani was earlier in his career, before the Trump mess, and just how far he’s fallen.
Giuliani earned the title of “America’s Mayor” after leading the people of New York City in the wake of the tragedy of September 11, 2001. On Friday, Giuliani appeared on a Newsmax segment about the anniversary of the attacks.
"I guess the best way to describe it is it was the worst day of my life and in some ways, you know, the greatest day of my life in terms of my city, my country, my family," Giuliani said on Newsmax. Aside from later alluding to the “resiliency of the American people” in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the former mayor never elaborated on what he meant by September 11, 2001 being the “greatest day” of his life. Giuliani’s comments drew swift criticism on Twitter for insensitivity.
In light of the Queen’s death, Giuliani also recounted to Newsmax receiving an honorary knighthood for his leadership during the 9/11 attacks. He said Queen Elizabeth was “a very charming, a very legitimate woman…the greatest king or queen, I think.”
But last year at an annual 9/11 dinner held at Cipriani’s in New York, Giuliani mocked the Queen when recalling her remarks to him: “You did a wonderful job on September 11, and therefore I am making you an honorable Knight Commander of the . . . royal something or other.” Vanity Fair’s Jordan Hoffman said Giulani’s impersonation “went beyond mimicry into ridicule.” The former mayor then claimed he rejected the knighthood, because it would require him to give up American citizenship—which is, of course, untrue.
Beyond his notable gaffes—holding a press conference in front of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping or the dripping dye incident or his cameo in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm or shaving his face in public—Giuliani has stepped into precarious legal territory.
The former top Manhattan prosecutor was disbarred in New York and D.C., he is a target in the Georgia criminal investigation involving alleged 2020 election interference, and he reportedly sought a “general pardon” and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, according to a letter from his associate.
“I think that he was always ambitious and ruthless and, in some cases, sadistic,” Giuliani biographer Andrew Kirtzman told Vanity Fair this week. “But those malevolent qualities mixed with his generosity to people, the fact that he was protective of New Yorkers when he felt that his city was being treated unfairly. I was with Giuliani on 9/11. I watched his compassion and his generosity of spirit by attending 200 funerals. This is not Donald Trump. This is not someone who is basically a bad guy from start to finish, in a very linear way. He’s a much more complex figure.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/rudy-giuliani-911-was-in-some-ways-the-greatest-day-of-my-life | 2022-09-11T23:04:30Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/rudy-giuliani-911-was-in-some-ways-the-greatest-day-of-my-life | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Last year, the United States marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Until then, the anniversary had always been solemn for me but also remote and shrouded in mystery.
Like the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr or the Hyatt Regency Disaster, Sept. 11 saddened me not because I was there, but because it saddened my countrymen.
Since my earliest abilities to understand the news, I recall listening to my grandmother remember how she was called off the golf course via loudspeaker to learn of the attacks in a locker room, or my stepfather, who told me how his colleague avoided catastrophe by waiting at home for a cable repairman instead of going to work at the South Tower.
My mother would recall the eerie silence of her office as she walked into work that morning. Working for youth services meant her office was always full of noise. Not that day.
There, crowded around a tabletop black and white television, her office watched as the South Tower collapsed. America was under attack.
For her, the pain felt that morning was for more than her country; my mother knew that within two months, she would have to bring a new life into a wounded nation and a changing world.
Born in November of 2001, I am about as old as one can be with no first-hand experience of the September 11 tragedies.
It is shocking how quickly something, once passed from breaking news to national mythology, becomes material for irreverence.
As a member of the post-9/11 generation, the anniversary of the tragedy has become a day where increasingly, the timelines of my and my peer’s social media is full of more memes than memories, more edgy retweets than remembrances. Being part of this generation, expecting such irreverence had come to be part and parcel of the anniversary for me, until last year.
I do not know what possessed me, but in remembering the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, I watched archival footage of the National Prayer Service, held at the Washington National Cathedral on September 14,2001.
In attendance were four U.S. Presidents, the heads of the numerous divisions of the U.S. Military, legislators from both houses and every party and an innumerable number of international dignitaries and representatives. The service was officiated by Islamic, Jewish and Christian leaders from across the United States.
Watching that service, like watching footage of the Easter Parade, or Kennedy’s inaugural address, granted me if only for a moment, a private viewing of an America I did not, and will never know. In today’s divided country, it is difficult to imagine a situation where the leaders of the nation, religiously and politically divided, would come together on bended knees and acknowledge the simple truth that we are all in this together, whether we like it or not. It is difficult to imagine going to the President for reassurance and coming away feeling listened to and confident in our abilities to vanquish evil.
Until watching the National Prayer Service last year, I did not know how much the events of September 11 changed this country – how solemn and serious the nation could be.
Until watching the National Prayer Service, I did not know just how much the hearts of the world bled for the United States.
Until watching the National Prayer Service, I did not know how unified in spirit and purpose the United States could be.
Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Jew, Republican and Democrat, when wounded, we are there for one another — or at least we can be.
As the colors were posted, the rumble of the organ sounded across the cathedral, and for a moment, together, moving their lips in song, the leaders of this country were bound by something bigger than political ego or business interest – on a hill outside of central D.C., under the spires of the National Cathedral, the leaders of the United States stood together as an example for all the citizens of this nation. Evil will not triumph over the American spirit, and it will not triumph over the universal spirit of good.
This year, as we remember the 21st anniversary of the September 11 attacks, let us not let our secondhand awareness of the tragedy cloud our solemn duty toward the dead. Let not our inability to imagine what it was like to watch the towers fall on live television allow us to snuff the flame of unity, liberty, and love kindled in our countrymen’s hearts in the aftermath of the tragedy.
This year, set aside the impulse to retweet the inside job jokes or like the conspiracy theory memes.
Though now over an entire young adulthood removed from the disaster, let us, on this 9/11 anniversary day, remind ourselves of the spirit of unity that washed the nation in 2001. Let us continue living in the hope our country vowed to maintain in the Washington National Cathedral 21 years ago.
As Rev. Nathan Baxter, dean of the National Cathedral, told America that morning, “Evil has visited America this week and too many of her children are no more … [in our anger, let us not] become the evil we deplore.” | https://www.kansan.com/opinion/never-forget/article_4260c6a8-31eb-11ed-85cc-c345ade4b3cc.html | 2022-09-11T23:16:04Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/opinion/never-forget/article_4260c6a8-31eb-11ed-85cc-c345ade4b3cc.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kansas soccer picked up its sixth win of the season and fourth straight win at home on Sunday against Yale 4-1.
The Jayhawks came out aggressive and consistently attacked the goal in the first half, having 11 shots as opposed to the Bulldogs only having two. Though, Kansas had eight when it came to fouls while Yale had three.
Junior defender Kate Dreyer lined up for a free kick with 31:35 left to go. When she shot the ball, it hit the crossbar, passing the goal line and getting Kansas its first goal of the game.
Kansas had another shot at the goal when junior forward Shira Elinav passed the ball to freshman forward Lexi Watts, but it missed and went right over the goal.
With 17:12 left in the first half, the Jayhawks dribbled the ball down the field, and with the help of Watts and freshman forward Maree Shinkle, Kansas scored its second goal of the game by freshman forward Saige Wimes, which was her first career goal.
“With all the injuries that we have, if the freshmen weren’t doing what they’ve been doing at the level that they have, then we wouldn’t be 6-2,” head coach Mark Francis said. “The freshmen have been fantastic and think they’re really taken advantage of the opportunities that they’ve had.”
To start the second half, the Jayhawks maintained their intensity with two attempts at the goal. On the second attempt, sophomore goalkeeper Maya Bellomo was away from the goal, giving Watts a scoring opportunity. The ball wound up grazing by the sidebar and missed.
On another possession later on in the half, from the side of the field, Shinkle passed the ball to Elinav in the middle of traffic in front of the goal. Elinav got the ball in the net, giving the Jayhawks a 3-0 lead over the Bulldogs with 32:07 left to go in the second half.
With 1:42 left to go in the second half, sophomore defender Laila Booker scored a goal for the Bulldogs, preventing a blowout and bringing the score to 3-1
Kansas wasn’t finished. In the final minutes of the game, super-senior midfielder Rylan Childers assisted Wimes in scoring the final goal of the game, allowing the Jayhawks to beat the Bulldogs 4-1.
The Jayhawks look to continue their winning streak when they face off against Florida Atlantic on Sept. 15 at 6 p.m. | https://www.kansan.com/sports/kansas-soccer-gets-victory-over-yale/article_5cc5c29e-3224-11ed-9250-1b6e1ace6037.html | 2022-09-11T23:16:10Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/sports/kansas-soccer-gets-victory-over-yale/article_5cc5c29e-3224-11ed-9250-1b6e1ace6037.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Junior quarterback Jalon Daniels and junior duo running backs Devin Neal and Daniel Hishaw powered the Jayhawks to their first win in a Big 12 Conference opener since 2009. It is also Kansas’s first win in a conference opener on the road since 2008.
In a 55-42 win, this trio scored seven total touchdowns in the win against the Mountaineers. Daniels has led the Big 12 in total quarterback rating for the second consecutive week.
After getting off to a slow start, the offense posted 35 points in the next two quarters, going 5-6 in scoring, all leading to a touchdown.
As the game progressed, Kansas never kept their foot off the gas, and their depth was apparent on offense.
“Again, I think our depth is starting to show. I don’t know where we’re going to match up against everybody one side or the other as far as talent, all-conference players, and all that stuff, but I liked the way our depth is,” head coach Lance Leipold said. “We’ve shown we have a lot of guys that have stepped up, made plays in two games and continue. Sometimes, it’s tough to get everybody the football.”
The Jayhawks converted on 75% of their third and fourth downs as a testament to their resilience.
“I am so proud of them. Got our backs against the wall early, fought through that and then to go take the lead, that played out really well,” Leipold said. “Once we got into a rhythm offensively, I thought Andy [Kotelnicki] did a great job calling plays, keeping rhythm. Jalon had a lot of confidence.”
Praise was also given to the Kansas offensive line unit. Allowing zero sacks, the line also paved the way for 200 rushing yards and only four yards lost.
“I think it’s a credit to them up front,” Leipold said. “I think both teams are vastly different than the last game of last year and for the better on both sides, and I think that showed itself tonight as well.”
From 2008-2021, the Jayhawks lost 58 straight Big 12 road games. They have now won two of their last three. It’s Kansas’s best start since 2011.
“The more this happens, the more you are not going to sneak up on anybody,” Leipold said. “When it is on the film, and you are doing good things, that’s great. But you got to be able to prepare each and every day to get yourself a little better.”
Kansas travels to Houston next Saturday, Sept. 17, for a date with the Cougars. Coverage starts at 3 p.m. on ESPNU. | https://www.kansan.com/sports/offensive-efficiency-resilience-apparent-in-road-win-over-mountaineers/article_43824f32-3206-11ed-9bbf-63ca91a2dd5f.html | 2022-09-11T23:16:16Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/sports/offensive-efficiency-resilience-apparent-in-road-win-over-mountaineers/article_43824f32-3206-11ed-9bbf-63ca91a2dd5f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Oyo State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Honourable Seun Fakorede, has emerged as the winner of the United Kingdom-based Awards ‘One Young World Politician Award’ of the year.
The award ceremony which was held in Manchester, United Kingdom was designed to bring together 2,000+ of the brightest young leaders from every country and sector, working to accelerate social impact both in-person and digitally.
Fakorede, who was the only African to emerge winner of the ‘Politician of the Year Award’ was described by the Summit Director, Megan Downey as the role award winner who played a vital role in helping the young leaders of the future to harness the knowledge and skills needed for being impactful change makers.
The youngest commissioner in the state, whose nomination was earlier announced in June was celebrated alongside four others where he described the winning of the award as a testament to the good leadership and great exhibition of good governance in the Youth and Sports Ministry, in Oyo State.
“Award like this are meant to keep you going because you are always on people’s radar,” Fakorede said.
He further appreciated Governor Seyi Makinde for giving him the chance and utmost support towards achieving of his plans for the youths and the state.
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Globex trade has opened for Sunday evening trade in the US.
Equity indexes have opened up circa half a percent.
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EUR and GBP gapped higher many hours ago as FX trade kicked off for the week in New Zealand.
Monday morning open indicative forex levels - EUR & GBP higher
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Globex trade has opened for Sunday evening trade in the US.
Equity indexes have opened up circa half a percent.
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EUR and GBP gapped higher many hours ago as FX trade kicked off for the week in New Zealand.
Monday morning open indicative forex levels - EUR & GBP higher
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10 minute EUR/USD candles:
Due to the nature of forex markets price representations on a chart can only ever be a guide. This is especially so in the early Monday hours. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-equity-index-futures-open-higher-as-the-new-weeks-trade-begins-20220911/ | 2022-09-11T23:25:09Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-equity-index-futures-open-higher-as-the-new-weeks-trade-begins-20220911/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Nigerian equities market closed bearish last week ended September 9, 2022, as the All-Share Index declined by 0.70 per cent in the week to reverse the 0.73 per cent growth recorded in the previous week.
Equities investors, therefore, lost NN189 billion from their net worth over the five-day trading sessions.
According to data from the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX), the benchmark index, ASI, depreciated by 0.70 per cent from 50,045.83 basis points recorded as of the end of last week to close the week at 49,695.12 index points, while the market capitalisation followed suit to close at N26.805 trillion as against previous week’s loss of N26.994 trillion.
This brings the month-to-date performance of the Nigerian stock market to a negative 0.28 per cent and a year-to-date gain of 16.34 per cent.
A total of 949.819 million shares valued at N9.329 billion were traded during the week across 18,525 deals on the floor of The Exchange. This is greater than the 1.195 billion units of shares valued at N12.924 billion that exchanged hands in the previous week in 19,305 deals.
Similar to the previous week, the Financial Services Industry led the activity chart in terms of volume of shares traded with 735.300 million shares valued at N4.133 billion traded in 10,186 deals; thereby contributing 77.41 per cent and 44.30 per cent to the total equity turnover volume and value respectively.
The Conglomerates Industry followed with 69.775 million shares worth N191.041 million in 570 deals, while the ICT Industry stood in third place with a turnover of 44.439 million shares worth N2.875 billion in 1,744 deals.
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N29bn ground rent debt: FCTA drags defaulting property owners to court
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has commenced prosecution of the defaulting titleholders, who are yet to pay their ground rents debt in Abuja.
Already, the government has filed court cases against some of the property owners over their failure to pay the prescribed land chargers.
The government is seeking an order to force debtors to clear their debts or forfeit the affected property, since they are recalcitrant in paying the debt, despite several appeals.
Nigerian Tribune reported last month, how the FCTA announced its preparedness to prosecute about 413 defaulting property owners by end of August, being the first set, for failing to pay ground rents in the region of N29 billion.
The government insisted that since all entreaties have failed, it has no other option than to commence the prosecution of the first batch of the defaulting property owners.
It would be recalled that the FCT Permanent Secretary, Mr Adesola Olusade, recently inaugurated a debt recovery committee with the mandate to recover the outstanding debts owed the FCT Administration with a particular interest in ground rents and other sundry fees in the Land Administration as well as other Land related departments.
The Coordinating Committee on the Recovery of Outstanding Ground Rent and Other Related Charges in the FCT, is headed by the FCT General Counsel/Secretary Legal Secretariat, Mohammed Babangida Umar. The Committee earlier announced the engagement of five law firms, owned by Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), hired to prepare legal documents to commence legal action against the defaulting titleholders.
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In a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja, over the weekend, by the Director, Information & Communication, FCT / Chairman, Media & Publicity Sub-Committee, Muhammad Hazat Sule, disclosed this development.
The statement reads: “Accordingly, the legal fireworks, have commenced and may lead to the forfeiture of the affected property to the government in line with relevant laws.
“It is disheartening that some of the debtors have failed to pay their outstanding ground rents, in spite of several appeals and warnings, thereby, jeopardizing the government’s effort at providing critical services to the residents.
“The Committee wishes to inform the public that there will be no sacred cows as the law will surely take its course because the only language it will understand is for the debtors to clear their outstanding debt.
“All debtors are advised to clear their outstanding debts or face the full wrath of the law.”
The FCT Administration assured that it will not retreat in pursuing the legal option, because it needs funds to provide infrastructural development. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/n29bn-ground-rent-debt-fcta-drags-defaulting-property-owners-to-court/ | 2022-09-11T23:29:36Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/n29bn-ground-rent-debt-fcta-drags-defaulting-property-owners-to-court/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Oba of Benin hosts Ooni of Ife, Emir of Kano, commends Buhari for preserving traditional institution
The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba Ewuare II, at the weekend, hosted two eminent traditional rulers; the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi; (Ọjájá II) and the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, in his palace in Benin City, Edo State.
During the visit, Ova Ewuare 11 commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his efforts at preserving the cultural ethos and traditional institutions in Nigeria.
The monarch who spoke shortly after a private audience with Oba Ogunwusi; (Ọjájá II) and Emir Ado Bayero recalled several failed attempts by cultural imperialists to disrupt the traditional institution in Africa including the Benin Kingdom where the invaders looted Benin artefacts during the British invasion of Benin in 1897.
He, however, noted that some of the looted artefacts have started being repatriated to their original abode in the Edo State capital.
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The traditional ruler showered encomiums on President Buhari and other stakeholders for preserving the traditional institution which he insisted has remained intact.
Oba Ewuare said: “When the white man came and tried to disrupt our traditional institution, you will all agree with me that they failed. So, they left our traditional institution intact. That is why we are still here.
“They took away our artefacts to remind us of their visit. But the artefacts are coming back. I want to use this opportunity to thank Mr President, Muhammadu Buhari for his strong stance in supporting the cultural, and traditional institution and in preserving the culture of Nigeria and so many other things. We may not know now what His Excellency has done for us. Nigerians will know perhaps later.”
Speaking, Oba Ogunwusi; (Ọjájá II) who recalled the ancestral ties between the Benin Kingdom and Ile Ife disclosed that his mission to Benin Palace is to ask for the welfare of Oba Ewuare II and extend the best wishes of his people.
On his part, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero promised to sustain the legacies of his forebears as well as strengthen the bond of friendship between the Benin Kingdom and Kano Emirate.
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At 1-Year, Progression-Free Survival was 25% for LUMAKRAS Versus 10% for Docetaxel
LUMAKRAS Met Key Secondary Endpoint of Objective Response Rate
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Sept. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced detailed results from the global Phase 3 CodeBreaK 200 trial, which showed once-daily oral LUMAKRAS®/LUMYKRAS® (sotorasib) led to significantly superior progression-free survival (PFS; primary endpoint) and a significantly higher objective response rate (ORR; a key secondary endpoint) in patients with KRAS G12C-mutated non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), compared with intravenous chemotherapy, docetaxel. These data will be presented Monday, Sept. 12 at 5:20 p.m. CEST at the Presidential Symposium III session as a late-breaker oral presentation (#LBA5812) during the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2022 in Paris.
"The totality of evidence from this study supports LUMAKRAS as an important targeted treatment option for patients with non-small cell lung cancer who harbor the KRAS G12C mutation, and reinforces the critical need for comprehensive biomarker testing for all patients with advanced disease," said David M. Reese, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen. "We plan to submit this data to health authorities around the world where LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS is conditionally approved, and we look forward to our discussions with regulators."
LUMAKRAS significantly improved PFS as determined by Blinded Independent Central Review (BICR) compared to docetaxel in heavily pre-treated patients (HR, 0.66 [95% CI: 0.51, 0.86]; P = 0.002), and PFS favored LUMAKRAS across all clinically relevant subgroups. The proportion of patients with PFS at one year was 25% for LUMAKRAS versus 10% for docetaxel. LUMAKRAS demonstrated a significantly higher ORR than docetaxel with double the response rates in the LUMAKRAS arm (28% versus 13%, respectively; P < 0.001) and showed consistent benefit across other efficacy secondary endpoints, including improved disease control rate (DCR; 83% versus 60%, respectively). Overall survival (OS; a key secondary endpoint) was not significantly different between treatment arms. The study was not powered to detect a statistical difference in OS, and cross-over from docetaxel to LUMAKRAS was permitted after disease progression.
There were fewer treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) for LUMAKRAS versus docetaxel. Grade ≥ 3 TRAEs (33% LUMAKRAS; 40% docetaxel) and serious TRAEs (11% LUMAKRAS; 23% docetaxel) were lower with LUMAKRAS compared to docetaxel. The most common TRAEs reported by at least 15% of patients in either treatment group were diarrhea (34% LUMKRAS; 19% docetaxel), fatigue (7% LUMAKRAS; 25% docetaxel), alopecia (1% LUMKARAS; 21% docetaxel), nausea (14% LUMAKRAS; 20% docetaxel) and anemia (3% LUMAKRAS; 18% docetaxel).
"This is the first Phase 3 randomized clinical trial for a KRASG12C inhibitor to show benefit in heavily pre-treated patients who have limited treatment options," said Melissa L. Johnson, M.D., director of Lung Cancer Research, Sarah Cannon Research Institute at Tennessee Oncology and presenting author. "It is encouraging that progression-free survival benefits were consistent across all clinically relevant subgroups, and that sotorasib response rates were more than double compared to docetaxel response rates. This data represents a major advance for the treatment of patients with KRAS G12C-mutated non-small cell lung cancer."
Data from CodeBreaK 200 will be submitted to global regulatory authorities where LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS has accelerated approval or conditional marketing authorization. LUMAKRAS is the only KRASG12C inhibitor approved anywhere in the world with approval in 44 markets, including the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdrom and Japan. CodeBreaK 200 is the first randomized, controlled clinical trial for a KRASG12C inhibitor.
About LUMAKRAS®/LUMYKRAS® (sotorasib)
Amgen took on one of the toughest challenges of the last 40 years in cancer research by developing LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS, a KRASG12C inhibitor.1 LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS has demonstrated a positive benefit-risk profile with rapid, deep, and durable anticancer activity in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring the KRAS G12C mutation with a once daily oral formulation.2
Amgen is progressing the largest and broadest global KRASG12C inhibitor development program with unparalleled speed and exploring more than 10 sotorasib combination regimens, with clinical trial sites spanning five continents. To date, over 6,500 patients around the world have received LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS through the clinical development program and commercial use.
In May 2021, LUMAKRAS was the first KRASG12C inhibitor to receive regulatory approval with its approval in the U.S., under accelerated approval. LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS is also approved in the European Union, Japan, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Taiwan, Qatar, and in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Singapore, and Israel under the FDA's Project Orbis. Additionally, Amgen has submitted MAAs in Argentina, Colombia, Kuwait, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Turkey.
LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS is also being studied in multiple other solid tumors.3
About Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and the KRAS G12C Mutation
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and it accounts for more deaths worldwide than colon cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.4 Overall survival rates for NSCLC are improving but remain poor for patients with advanced disease, and 5-year survival is only 8% for those with metastatic disease.5
KRAS G12C is the most common KRAS mutation in NSCLC.6 About 13% of patients with NSCLC harbor the KRAS G12C mutation.7 Unmet medical need remains high and treatment options are limited for NSCLC patients with the KRAS G12C mutation whose first-line treatment has failed to work or has stopped working. The outcomes with other approved therapies are suboptimal, with a median progression-free survival of approximately four months following second-line treatment of KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC.8
About CodeBreaK
The CodeBreaK clinical development program for Amgen's drug sotorasib is designed to study patients with an advanced solid tumor with the KRAS G12C mutation and address the longstanding unmet medical need for these cancers.
CodeBreaK 100, the Phase 1 and 2, first-in-human, open-label multicenter study, enrolled patients with KRAS G12C-mutant solid tumors.9 Eligible patients must have received a prior line of systemic anticancer therapy, consistent with their tumor type and stage of disease. The primary endpoint for the Phase 2 study was centrally assessed objective response rate. The Phase 2 trial in NSCLC enrolled 126 patients, 124 of whom had centrally evaluable lesions by RECIST at baseline.2 The Phase 2 trial in colorectal cancer (CRC) enrolled 62 patients and results have been published.10
CodeBreaK 200, the global Phase 3 randomized active-controlled study comparing sotorasib to docetaxel in KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC completed enrollment of 345 patients. Eligible patients had previously treated, locally advanced and unresectable or metastatic KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC. The primary endpoint is progression-free survival and key secondary endpoints include overall survival, objective response rate, and patient-reported outcomes.11
Amgen also has several Phase 1b studies investigating sotorasib monotherapy and sotorasib combination therapy across various advanced solid tumors (CodeBreaK 101) open for enrollment.12 A Phase 2 randomized study will evaluate sotorasib in patients with stage IV KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC in need of first-line treatment (CodeBreaK 201).13
For information, please visit www.hcp.codebreaktrials.com.
LUMAKRAS® (sotorasib) U.S. Indication
LUMAKRAS is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with KRAS G12C-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as determined by an FDA-approved test, who have received at least one prior systemic therapy.
This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on overall response rate (ORR) and duration of response (DOR). Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial(s).
LUMAKRAS® (sotorasib) Important U.S. Safety Information
Hepatotoxicity
- LUMAKRAS can cause hepatotoxicity, which may lead to drug-induced liver injury and hepatitis.
- Among 357 patients who received LUMAKRAS in CodeBreaK 100, hepatotoxicity occurred in 1.7% (all grades) and 1.4% (Grade 3). A total of 18% of patients who received LUMAKRAS had increased alanine aminotransferase (ALT)/increased aspartate aminotransferase (AST); 6% were Grade 3 and 0.6% were Grade 4. In addition to dose interruption or reduction, 5% of patients received corticosteroids for the treatment of hepatotoxicity.
- Monitor liver function tests (ALT, AST and total bilirubin) prior to the start of LUMAKRAS every 3 weeks for the first 3 months of treatment, then once a month or as clinically indicated, with more frequent testing in patients who develop transaminase and/or bilirubin elevations.
- Withhold, dose reduce or permanently discontinue LUMAKRAS based on severity of adverse reaction.
Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)/Pneumonitis
- LUMAKRAS can cause ILD/pneumonitis that can be fatal. Among 357 patients who received LUMAKRAS in CodeBreaK 100, ILD/pneumonitis occurred in 0.8% of patients, all cases were Grade 3 or 4 at onset, and 1 case was fatal. LUMAKRAS was discontinued due to ILD/pneumonitis in 0.6% of patients.
- Monitor patients for new or worsening pulmonary symptoms indicative of ILD/pneumonitis (e.g., dyspnea, cough, fever). Immediately withhold LUMAKRAS in patients with suspected ILD/pneumonitis and permanently discontinue LUMAKRAS if no other potential causes of ILD/pneumonitis are identified.
Most Common Adverse Reactions
- The most common adverse reactions ≥ 20% were diarrhea, musculoskeletal pain, nausea, fatigue, hepatotoxicity and cough.
Drug Interactions
- Advise patients to inform their healthcare provider of all concomitant medications, including prescription medicines, over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, dietary and herbal products.
- Inform patients to avoid proton pump inhibitors and H2 receptor antagonists while taking LUMAKRAS.
- If coadministration with an acid-reducing agent cannot be avoided, inform patients to take LUMAKRAS 4 hours before or 10 hours after a locally acting antacid.
Please see LUMAKRAS full Prescribing Information.
About Amgen Oncology
At Amgen Oncology, our mission to serve patients drives all that we do. That's why we're relentlessly focused on accelerating the delivery of medicines that have the potential to empower all angles of care and transform lives of people with cancer.
For the last four decades, we have been dedicated to discovering the firsts that matter in oncology and to finding ways to reduce the burden of cancer. Building on our heritage, Amgen continues to advance the largest pipeline in the Company's history, moving with great speed to advance those innovations for the patients who need them.
For more information, follow us on www.twitter.com/amgenoncology.
About Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
Amgen is one of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also part of the Nasdaq-100 index. In 2021, Amgen was named one of the 25 World's Best Workplaces™ by Fortune and Great Place to Work™ and one of the 100 most sustainable companies in the world by Barron's.
For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen.
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This news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on the current expectations and beliefs of Amgen. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any statements on the outcome, benefits and synergies of collaborations, or potential collaborations, with any other company (including BeiGene, Ltd., Kyowa-Kirin Co., Ltd., or any collaboration to manufacture therapeutic antibodies against COVID-19), the performance of Otezla® (apremilast) (including anticipated Otezla sales growth and the timing of non-GAAP EPS accretion), the Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. acquisition, the Teneobio, Inc. acquisition, or the recently announced proposed acquisition of ChemoCentryx, Inc., as well as estimates of revenues, operating margins, capital expenditures, cash, other financial metrics, expected legal, arbitration, political, regulatory or clinical results or practices, customer and prescriber patterns or practices, reimbursement activities and outcomes, effects of pandemics or other widespread health problems such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on our business, and other such estimates and results. Forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties, including those discussed below and more fully described in the Securities and Exchange Commission reports filed by Amgen, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent periodic reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Unless otherwise noted, Amgen is providing this information as of the date of this news release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this document as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed and actual results may differ materially from those we project. Discovery or identification of new product candidates or development of new indications for existing products cannot be guaranteed and movement from concept to product is uncertain; consequently, there can be no guarantee that any particular product candidate or development of a new indication for an existing product will be successful and become a commercial product. Further, preclinical results do not guarantee safe and effective performance of product candidates in humans. The complexity of the human body cannot be perfectly, or sometimes, even adequately modeled by computer or cell culture systems or animal models. The length of time that it takes for us to complete clinical trials and obtain regulatory approval for product marketing has in the past varied and we expect similar variability in the future. Even when clinical trials are successful, regulatory authorities may question the sufficiency for approval of the trial endpoints we have selected. We develop product candidates internally and through licensing collaborations, partnerships and joint ventures. Product candidates that are derived from relationships may be subject to disputes between the parties or may prove to be not as effective or as safe as we may have believed at the time of entering into such relationship. Also, we or others could identify safety, side effects or manufacturing problems with our products, including our devices, after they are on the market.
Our results may be affected by our ability to successfully market both new and existing products domestically and internationally, clinical and regulatory developments involving current and future products, sales growth of recently launched products, competition from other products including biosimilars, difficulties or delays in manufacturing our products and global economic conditions. In addition, sales of our products are affected by pricing pressure, political and public scrutiny and reimbursement policies imposed by third-party payers, including governments, private insurance plans and managed care providers and may be affected by regulatory, clinical and guideline developments and domestic and international trends toward managed care and healthcare cost containment. Furthermore, our research, testing, pricing, marketing and other operations are subject to extensive regulation by domestic and foreign government regulatory authorities. Our business may be impacted by government investigations, litigation and product liability claims. In addition, our business may be impacted by the adoption of new tax legislation or exposure to additional tax liabilities. If we fail to meet the compliance obligations in the corporate integrity agreement between us and the U.S. government, we could become subject to significant sanctions. Further, while we routinely obtain patents for our products and technology, the protection offered by our patents and patent applications may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented by our competitors, or we may fail to prevail in present and future intellectual property litigation. We perform a substantial amount of our commercial manufacturing activities at a few key facilities, including in Puerto Rico, and also depend on third parties for a portion of our manufacturing activities, and limits on supply may constrain sales of certain of our current products and product candidate development. An outbreak of disease or similar public health threat, such as COVID-19, and the public and governmental effort to mitigate against the spread of such disease, could have a significant adverse effect on the supply of materials for our manufacturing activities, the distribution of our products, the commercialization of our product candidates, and our clinical trial operations, and any such events may have a material adverse effect on our product development, product sales, business and results of operations. We rely on collaborations with third parties for the development of some of our product candidates and for the commercialization and sales of some of our commercial products. In addition, we compete with other companies with respect to many of our marketed products as well as for the discovery and development of new products. Further, some raw materials, medical devices and component parts for our products are supplied by sole third-party suppliers. Certain of our distributors, customers and payers have substantial purchasing leverage in their dealings with us. The discovery of significant problems with a product similar to one of our products that implicate an entire class of products could have a material adverse effect on sales of the affected products and on our business and results of operations. Our efforts to collaborate with or acquire other companies, products or technology, and to integrate the operations of companies or to support the products or technology we have acquired, may not be successful. A breakdown, cyberattack or information security breach could compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our systems and our data. Our stock price is volatile and may be affected by a number of events. Our business and operations may be negatively affected by the failure, or perceived failure, of achieving our environmental, social and governance objectives. The effects of global climate change and related natural disasters could negatively affect our business and operations. Global economic conditions may magnify certain risks that affect our business. Our business performance could affect or limit the ability of our Board of Directors to declare a dividend or our ability to pay a dividend or repurchase our common stock. We may not be able to access the capital and credit markets on terms that are favorable to us, or at all.
The scientific information discussed in this news release related to our product candidates is preliminary and investigative. Such product candidates are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and no conclusions can or should be drawn regarding the safety or effectiveness of the product candidates. Further, any scientific information discussed in this news release relating to new indications for our products is preliminary and investigative and is not part of the labeling approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the products. The products are not approved for the investigational use(s) discussed in this news release, and no conclusions can or should be drawn regarding the safety or effectiveness of the products for these uses.
CONTACT: Amgen, Thousand Oaks
Megan Fox, 805-447-1423 (media)
Jessica Akopyan, 805-440-5721 (media)
Arvind Sood, 805-447-1060 (investors)
LUMAKRAS and LUMYKRAS are trademarks of Amgen Inc.
1 Canon J, et al. Nature. 2019;575: 217–223.
2 Skoulidis F, et al. N Engl J Med. 2021;384:2371-2381.
3 Hong DS, et al. N Engl J Med. 2020;383:1207-1217.
4 Sung H, et al. CA Cancer J Clin. 2021;71:209-249.
5 American Cancer Society. Lung Cancer Survival Rates. 2021. Available at: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/lung-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/survival-rates.html. Accessed on June 24, 2022.
6 Arbour KC, et al. Clin Cancer Res. 2018;24:334-340.
7 Nassar AF, et al. N Engl J. Med. 2021;384:185-187.
8 Spira Al, et al. Lung Cancer. 2021;159:1-9.
9 ClinicalTrials.gov. CodeBreaK 100. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03600883. Accessed on April 14, 2022.
10 Fakih MG, et al. Lancet Oncol. 2022;23:115-124.
11 ClinicalTrials.gov. CodebreaK 200. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04303780. Accessed on April 14, 2022.
12 ClinicalTrials.gov. CodeBreaK 101. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04185883 . Accessed on April 14, 2022.
13 ClinicalTrials.gov. CodeBreaK 201. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04933695. Accessed on April 14, 2022.
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At 1-Year, Progression-Free Survival was 25% for LUMAKRAS Versus 10% for Docetaxel
LUMAKRAS Met Key Secondary Endpoint of Objective Response Rate
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Sept. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced detailed results from the global Phase 3 CodeBreaK 200 trial, which showed once-daily oral LUMAKRAS®/LUMYKRAS® (sotorasib) led to significantly superior progression-free survival (PFS; primary endpoint) and a significantly higher objective response rate (ORR; a key secondary endpoint) in patients with KRAS G12C-mutated non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), compared with intravenous chemotherapy, docetaxel. These data will be presented Monday, Sept. 12 at 5:20 p.m. CEST at the Presidential Symposium III session as a late-breaker oral presentation (#LBA5812) during the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2022 in Paris.
"The totality of evidence from this study supports LUMAKRAS as an important targeted treatment option for patients with non-small cell lung cancer who harbor the KRAS G12C mutation, and reinforces the critical need for comprehensive biomarker testing for all patients with advanced disease," said David M. Reese, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen. "We plan to submit this data to health authorities around the world where LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS is conditionally approved, and we look forward to our discussions with regulators."
LUMAKRAS significantly improved PFS as determined by Blinded Independent Central Review (BICR) compared to docetaxel in heavily pre-treated patients (HR, 0.66 [95% CI: 0.51, 0.86]; P = 0.002), and PFS favored LUMAKRAS across all clinically relevant subgroups. The proportion of patients with PFS at one year was 25% for LUMAKRAS versus 10% for docetaxel. LUMAKRAS demonstrated a significantly higher ORR than docetaxel with double the response rates in the LUMAKRAS arm (28% versus 13%, respectively; P < 0.001) and showed consistent benefit across other efficacy secondary endpoints, including improved disease control rate (DCR; 83% versus 60%, respectively). Overall survival (OS; a key secondary endpoint) was not significantly different between treatment arms. The study was not powered to detect a statistical difference in OS, and cross-over from docetaxel to LUMAKRAS was permitted after disease progression.
There were fewer treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) for LUMAKRAS versus docetaxel. Grade ≥ 3 TRAEs (33% LUMAKRAS; 40% docetaxel) and serious TRAEs (11% LUMAKRAS; 23% docetaxel) were lower with LUMAKRAS compared to docetaxel. The most common TRAEs reported by at least 15% of patients in either treatment group were diarrhea (34% LUMKRAS; 19% docetaxel), fatigue (7% LUMAKRAS; 25% docetaxel), alopecia (1% LUMKARAS; 21% docetaxel), nausea (14% LUMAKRAS; 20% docetaxel) and anemia (3% LUMAKRAS; 18% docetaxel).
"This is the first Phase 3 randomized clinical trial for a KRASG12C inhibitor to show benefit in heavily pre-treated patients who have limited treatment options," said Melissa L. Johnson, M.D., director of Lung Cancer Research, Sarah Cannon Research Institute at Tennessee Oncology and presenting author. "It is encouraging that progression-free survival benefits were consistent across all clinically relevant subgroups, and that sotorasib response rates were more than double compared to docetaxel response rates. This data represents a major advance for the treatment of patients with KRAS G12C-mutated non-small cell lung cancer."
Data from CodeBreaK 200 will be submitted to global regulatory authorities where LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS has accelerated approval or conditional marketing authorization. LUMAKRAS is the only KRASG12C inhibitor approved anywhere in the world with approval in 44 markets, including the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdrom and Japan. CodeBreaK 200 is the first randomized, controlled clinical trial for a KRASG12C inhibitor.
About LUMAKRAS®/LUMYKRAS® (sotorasib)
Amgen took on one of the toughest challenges of the last 40 years in cancer research by developing LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS, a KRASG12C inhibitor.1 LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS has demonstrated a positive benefit-risk profile with rapid, deep, and durable anticancer activity in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring the KRAS G12C mutation with a once daily oral formulation.2
Amgen is progressing the largest and broadest global KRASG12C inhibitor development program with unparalleled speed and exploring more than 10 sotorasib combination regimens, with clinical trial sites spanning five continents. To date, over 6,500 patients around the world have received LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS through the clinical development program and commercial use.
In May 2021, LUMAKRAS was the first KRASG12C inhibitor to receive regulatory approval with its approval in the U.S., under accelerated approval. LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS is also approved in the European Union, Japan, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Taiwan, Qatar, and in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Singapore, and Israel under the FDA's Project Orbis. Additionally, Amgen has submitted MAAs in Argentina, Colombia, Kuwait, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Turkey.
LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS is also being studied in multiple other solid tumors.3
About Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and the KRAS G12C Mutation
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and it accounts for more deaths worldwide than colon cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.4 Overall survival rates for NSCLC are improving but remain poor for patients with advanced disease, and 5-year survival is only 8% for those with metastatic disease.5
KRAS G12C is the most common KRAS mutation in NSCLC.6 About 13% of patients with NSCLC harbor the KRAS G12C mutation.7 Unmet medical need remains high and treatment options are limited for NSCLC patients with the KRAS G12C mutation whose first-line treatment has failed to work or has stopped working. The outcomes with other approved therapies are suboptimal, with a median progression-free survival of approximately four months following second-line treatment of KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC.8
About CodeBreaK
The CodeBreaK clinical development program for Amgen's drug sotorasib is designed to study patients with an advanced solid tumor with the KRAS G12C mutation and address the longstanding unmet medical need for these cancers.
CodeBreaK 100, the Phase 1 and 2, first-in-human, open-label multicenter study, enrolled patients with KRAS G12C-mutant solid tumors.9 Eligible patients must have received a prior line of systemic anticancer therapy, consistent with their tumor type and stage of disease. The primary endpoint for the Phase 2 study was centrally assessed objective response rate. The Phase 2 trial in NSCLC enrolled 126 patients, 124 of whom had centrally evaluable lesions by RECIST at baseline.2 The Phase 2 trial in colorectal cancer (CRC) enrolled 62 patients and results have been published.10
CodeBreaK 200, the global Phase 3 randomized active-controlled study comparing sotorasib to docetaxel in KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC completed enrollment of 345 patients. Eligible patients had previously treated, locally advanced and unresectable or metastatic KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC. The primary endpoint is progression-free survival and key secondary endpoints include overall survival, objective response rate, and patient-reported outcomes.11
Amgen also has several Phase 1b studies investigating sotorasib monotherapy and sotorasib combination therapy across various advanced solid tumors (CodeBreaK 101) open for enrollment.12 A Phase 2 randomized study will evaluate sotorasib in patients with stage IV KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC in need of first-line treatment (CodeBreaK 201).13
For information, please visit www.hcp.codebreaktrials.com.
LUMAKRAS® (sotorasib) U.S. Indication
LUMAKRAS is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with KRAS G12C-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as determined by an FDA-approved test, who have received at least one prior systemic therapy.
This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on overall response rate (ORR) and duration of response (DOR). Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial(s).
LUMAKRAS® (sotorasib) Important U.S. Safety Information
Hepatotoxicity
- LUMAKRAS can cause hepatotoxicity, which may lead to drug-induced liver injury and hepatitis.
- Among 357 patients who received LUMAKRAS in CodeBreaK 100, hepatotoxicity occurred in 1.7% (all grades) and 1.4% (Grade 3). A total of 18% of patients who received LUMAKRAS had increased alanine aminotransferase (ALT)/increased aspartate aminotransferase (AST); 6% were Grade 3 and 0.6% were Grade 4. In addition to dose interruption or reduction, 5% of patients received corticosteroids for the treatment of hepatotoxicity.
- Monitor liver function tests (ALT, AST and total bilirubin) prior to the start of LUMAKRAS every 3 weeks for the first 3 months of treatment, then once a month or as clinically indicated, with more frequent testing in patients who develop transaminase and/or bilirubin elevations.
- Withhold, dose reduce or permanently discontinue LUMAKRAS based on severity of adverse reaction.
Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)/Pneumonitis
- LUMAKRAS can cause ILD/pneumonitis that can be fatal. Among 357 patients who received LUMAKRAS in CodeBreaK 100, ILD/pneumonitis occurred in 0.8% of patients, all cases were Grade 3 or 4 at onset, and 1 case was fatal. LUMAKRAS was discontinued due to ILD/pneumonitis in 0.6% of patients.
- Monitor patients for new or worsening pulmonary symptoms indicative of ILD/pneumonitis (e.g., dyspnea, cough, fever). Immediately withhold LUMAKRAS in patients with suspected ILD/pneumonitis and permanently discontinue LUMAKRAS if no other potential causes of ILD/pneumonitis are identified.
Most Common Adverse Reactions
- The most common adverse reactions ≥ 20% were diarrhea, musculoskeletal pain, nausea, fatigue, hepatotoxicity and cough.
Drug Interactions
- Advise patients to inform their healthcare provider of all concomitant medications, including prescription medicines, over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, dietary and herbal products.
- Inform patients to avoid proton pump inhibitors and H2 receptor antagonists while taking LUMAKRAS.
- If coadministration with an acid-reducing agent cannot be avoided, inform patients to take LUMAKRAS 4 hours before or 10 hours after a locally acting antacid.
Please see LUMAKRAS full Prescribing Information.
About Amgen Oncology
At Amgen Oncology, our mission to serve patients drives all that we do. That's why we're relentlessly focused on accelerating the delivery of medicines that have the potential to empower all angles of care and transform lives of people with cancer.
For the last four decades, we have been dedicated to discovering the firsts that matter in oncology and to finding ways to reduce the burden of cancer. Building on our heritage, Amgen continues to advance the largest pipeline in the Company's history, moving with great speed to advance those innovations for the patients who need them.
For more information, follow us on www.twitter.com/amgenoncology.
About Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
Amgen is one of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also part of the Nasdaq-100 index. In 2021, Amgen was named one of the 25 World's Best Workplaces™ by Fortune and Great Place to Work™ and one of the 100 most sustainable companies in the world by Barron's.
For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on the current expectations and beliefs of Amgen. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any statements on the outcome, benefits and synergies of collaborations, or potential collaborations, with any other company (including BeiGene, Ltd., Kyowa-Kirin Co., Ltd., or any collaboration to manufacture therapeutic antibodies against COVID-19), the performance of Otezla® (apremilast) (including anticipated Otezla sales growth and the timing of non-GAAP EPS accretion), the Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. acquisition, the Teneobio, Inc. acquisition, or the recently announced proposed acquisition of ChemoCentryx, Inc., as well as estimates of revenues, operating margins, capital expenditures, cash, other financial metrics, expected legal, arbitration, political, regulatory or clinical results or practices, customer and prescriber patterns or practices, reimbursement activities and outcomes, effects of pandemics or other widespread health problems such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on our business, and other such estimates and results. Forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties, including those discussed below and more fully described in the Securities and Exchange Commission reports filed by Amgen, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent periodic reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Unless otherwise noted, Amgen is providing this information as of the date of this news release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this document as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed and actual results may differ materially from those we project. Discovery or identification of new product candidates or development of new indications for existing products cannot be guaranteed and movement from concept to product is uncertain; consequently, there can be no guarantee that any particular product candidate or development of a new indication for an existing product will be successful and become a commercial product. Further, preclinical results do not guarantee safe and effective performance of product candidates in humans. The complexity of the human body cannot be perfectly, or sometimes, even adequately modeled by computer or cell culture systems or animal models. The length of time that it takes for us to complete clinical trials and obtain regulatory approval for product marketing has in the past varied and we expect similar variability in the future. Even when clinical trials are successful, regulatory authorities may question the sufficiency for approval of the trial endpoints we have selected. We develop product candidates internally and through licensing collaborations, partnerships and joint ventures. Product candidates that are derived from relationships may be subject to disputes between the parties or may prove to be not as effective or as safe as we may have believed at the time of entering into such relationship. Also, we or others could identify safety, side effects or manufacturing problems with our products, including our devices, after they are on the market.
Our results may be affected by our ability to successfully market both new and existing products domestically and internationally, clinical and regulatory developments involving current and future products, sales growth of recently launched products, competition from other products including biosimilars, difficulties or delays in manufacturing our products and global economic conditions. In addition, sales of our products are affected by pricing pressure, political and public scrutiny and reimbursement policies imposed by third-party payers, including governments, private insurance plans and managed care providers and may be affected by regulatory, clinical and guideline developments and domestic and international trends toward managed care and healthcare cost containment. Furthermore, our research, testing, pricing, marketing and other operations are subject to extensive regulation by domestic and foreign government regulatory authorities. Our business may be impacted by government investigations, litigation and product liability claims. In addition, our business may be impacted by the adoption of new tax legislation or exposure to additional tax liabilities. If we fail to meet the compliance obligations in the corporate integrity agreement between us and the U.S. government, we could become subject to significant sanctions. Further, while we routinely obtain patents for our products and technology, the protection offered by our patents and patent applications may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented by our competitors, or we may fail to prevail in present and future intellectual property litigation. We perform a substantial amount of our commercial manufacturing activities at a few key facilities, including in Puerto Rico, and also depend on third parties for a portion of our manufacturing activities, and limits on supply may constrain sales of certain of our current products and product candidate development. An outbreak of disease or similar public health threat, such as COVID-19, and the public and governmental effort to mitigate against the spread of such disease, could have a significant adverse effect on the supply of materials for our manufacturing activities, the distribution of our products, the commercialization of our product candidates, and our clinical trial operations, and any such events may have a material adverse effect on our product development, product sales, business and results of operations. We rely on collaborations with third parties for the development of some of our product candidates and for the commercialization and sales of some of our commercial products. In addition, we compete with other companies with respect to many of our marketed products as well as for the discovery and development of new products. Further, some raw materials, medical devices and component parts for our products are supplied by sole third-party suppliers. Certain of our distributors, customers and payers have substantial purchasing leverage in their dealings with us. The discovery of significant problems with a product similar to one of our products that implicate an entire class of products could have a material adverse effect on sales of the affected products and on our business and results of operations. Our efforts to collaborate with or acquire other companies, products or technology, and to integrate the operations of companies or to support the products or technology we have acquired, may not be successful. A breakdown, cyberattack or information security breach could compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our systems and our data. Our stock price is volatile and may be affected by a number of events. Our business and operations may be negatively affected by the failure, or perceived failure, of achieving our environmental, social and governance objectives. The effects of global climate change and related natural disasters could negatively affect our business and operations. Global economic conditions may magnify certain risks that affect our business. Our business performance could affect or limit the ability of our Board of Directors to declare a dividend or our ability to pay a dividend or repurchase our common stock. We may not be able to access the capital and credit markets on terms that are favorable to us, or at all.
The scientific information discussed in this news release related to our product candidates is preliminary and investigative. Such product candidates are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and no conclusions can or should be drawn regarding the safety or effectiveness of the product candidates. Further, any scientific information discussed in this news release relating to new indications for our products is preliminary and investigative and is not part of the labeling approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the products. The products are not approved for the investigational use(s) discussed in this news release, and no conclusions can or should be drawn regarding the safety or effectiveness of the products for these uses.
CONTACT: Amgen, Thousand Oaks
Megan Fox, 805-447-1423 (media)
Jessica Akopyan, 805-440-5721 (media)
Arvind Sood, 805-447-1060 (investors)
LUMAKRAS and LUMYKRAS are trademarks of Amgen Inc.
1 Canon J, et al. Nature. 2019;575: 217–223.
2 Skoulidis F, et al. N Engl J Med. 2021;384:2371-2381.
3 Hong DS, et al. N Engl J Med. 2020;383:1207-1217.
4 Sung H, et al. CA Cancer J Clin. 2021;71:209-249.
5 American Cancer Society. Lung Cancer Survival Rates. 2021. Available at: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/lung-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/survival-rates.html. Accessed on June 24, 2022.
6 Arbour KC, et al. Clin Cancer Res. 2018;24:334-340.
7 Nassar AF, et al. N Engl J. Med. 2021;384:185-187.
8 Spira Al, et al. Lung Cancer. 2021;159:1-9.
9 ClinicalTrials.gov. CodeBreaK 100. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03600883. Accessed on April 14, 2022.
10 Fakih MG, et al. Lancet Oncol. 2022;23:115-124.
11 ClinicalTrials.gov. CodebreaK 200. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04303780. Accessed on April 14, 2022.
12 ClinicalTrials.gov. CodeBreaK 101. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04185883 . Accessed on April 14, 2022.
13 ClinicalTrials.gov. CodeBreaK 201. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04933695. Accessed on April 14, 2022.
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SAN DIEGO — They have completed the first step — like correctly filling out your name on the SAT.
The Dodgers clinched a postseason berth for the 10th consecutive season Sunday afternoon, doing it in well-worn fashion by beating the San Diego Padres 11-2 behind a two-homer, five-RBI day from Justin Turner.
The win cut the Dodgers’ magic number to clinch their ninth National League West title in that time down to two with 23 games left in the regular season. The second-place Padres are off Monday, so the Dodgers can’t secure the division before Tuesday, when they play in Arizona.
Paper tigers pumped up as threats to the Dodgers’ regaining control of the division this season, the Padres are now 20 games back of Los Angeles, and have lost eight consecutive series against their neighbors to the north and 21 of the past 25 head-to-head meetings.
They are not alone. The Dodgers have lorded it over the NL West this season, winning 41 of 56 division games this season — a .732 winning percentage that would be the best in franchise history against division opponents.
Considered a strength, the Padres’ starting pitching has let them down over the past month, posting a 4.91 ERA in their past 27 games through Sunday — a stretch during which they have been fairly mediocre (14-13).
Right-hander Joe Musgrove did breeze through the first four innings against the Dodgers, allowing just a pair of singles to Freddie Freeman (15 for his past 30).
But an old slight came back to haunt Musgrove.
After giving up two home runs to Justin Turner in a 3-1 loss at Dodger Stadium on June 30, Musgrove offered up the opinion that he did not consider Turner “a huge threat.”
“Out of all the guys in the (Dodgers’) lineup, I didn’t feel like he was a huge threat,” Musgrove said after that game.
His opinion might have evolved since then.
Turner and Chris Taylor each hit solo home runs off Musgrove in the fifth inning Sunday, erasing an early 2-0 Padres lead.
In the sixth, Mookie Betts led off with a double, Freeman was intentionally walked and Musgrove hit Will Smith with a pitch to load the bases with one out. Back in the lineup after getting a cortisone injection in his sore left knee and missing the first two games of the series, Max Muncy gave the Dodgers the lead with a two-run single. That ended Musgrove’s day before he could face Turner again.
In the seventh, though, the Dodgers broke the game open with a six-run inning — their major league-leading 19th inning of five or more runs.
Turner had the big hit in that one, his second homer of the day and second grand slam of his career.
Since his two-homer game off Musgrove to end June, Turner has hit .371 (59 for 159) with 40 RBI in 44 games, nine home runs and an OPS over 1.000.
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Los Angeles Chargers running back Austin Ekeler #30 runs fora first down against the Las Vegas Raiders in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Chargers and Raiders fans prior to a NFL football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Las Vegas Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels looks on against the Los Angeles Chargers in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers tight end Gerald Everett #7 runs for a first down against Las Vegas Raiders safety Johnathan Abram #24 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Las Vegas Raiders fans cheer against the Los Angeles Chargers in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers tight end Gerald Everett #7 runs for a first down against Las Vegas Raiders safety Johnathan Abram #24 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers head coach Brandon Staley looks on against the Las Vegas Raiders in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers head coach Brandon Staley looks on after a touchdown against the Las Vegas Raiders in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams #17 catches a pass for first down against the Los Angeles Chargers in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers tight end Tre’ McKitty #88 catches a pass and drops the ball against Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby #98 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers running back Joshua Kelley #25 runs for a first down against Las Vegas Raiders linebacker Jayon Brown #50 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James Jr. #3 tackles Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams #17 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers DeAndre Carter high fives Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert #10 after a touchdown catch against the Las Vegas Raiders in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers running back Joshua Kelley #25 runs for a first down against Las Vegas Raiders linebacker Jayon Brown #50 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert #10 scrambles against the Las Vegas Raiders in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert #10 scrambles against Las Vegas Raiders linebacker Denzel Perryman #52 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr #4 passes against the Los Angeles Chargers in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers DeAndre Carter reacts after a touchdown catch against the Las Vegas Raiders in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen #13 catches a pass for a first down against Las Vegas Raiders safety Tre’von Moehrig #25 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James Jr. #3 tackles Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams #17 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert #10 passes against the Las Vegas Raiders in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Mack Hollins #10 catches a pass for first down against the Los Angeles Chargers in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James Jr. #3 sacks Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr #4 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James Jr. #3 sacks Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr #4 in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert #10 passes against the Las Vegas Raiders in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert #10 passes against the Las Vegas Raiders in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James Jr. #3 rects after sacking Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (not pictured) in the first half of a NFL football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Chargers and Raiders fans prior to a NFL football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Chargers and Raiders fans prior to a NFL football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Chargers and Raiders fans prior to a NFL football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Chargers and Raiders fans prior to a NFL football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Chargers and Raiders fans prior to a NFL football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Chargers and Raiders fans prior to a NFL football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in Inglewood on Sunday, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
INGLEWOOD — Justin Herbert threw three touchdown passes and the Chargers defeated the Las Vegas Raiders 24-19 in their season-opening game Sunday at SoFi Stadium. Herbert completed 26 of 34 passes for 279 yards as the Chargers delivered a payback of sorts to their AFC West rivals.
The Raiders defeated the Chargers in overtime in last season’s final regular-season game to knock them out of the playoffs. The NFL schedule-makers matched the teams for the 2022 opener, a showcase game on the opening Sunday of the new season.
The Chargers’ upgraded defense was on display during an opening half in which they held the Raiders to only a field goal on their opening drive en route to a 17-3 lead. Khalil Mack, the centerpiece of their offseason moves, sacked Las Vegas quarterback Derek Carr twice in the first half.
Linebacker Drue Tranquill then delivered an interception that led to the second of Herbert’s two second-quarter touchdown passes. Herbert threaded a 23-yard strike between two defenders to DeAndre Carter for a 17-3 lead for the Chargers with 35 seconds left in the half.
The Chargers intercepted Carr three times by game’s end. Asante Samuel Jr. and Bryce Callahan had fourth-quarter picks.
Carter replaced Keenan Allen, who left the game in the second quarter because of a hamstring injury and was later ruled out for a return to the game. Carter was signed in the offseason to be the Chargers’ kickoff and punt returner, but showed during training camp he could do so much more.
Herbert also threw a one-yard scoring pass to fullback Zander Horvath, breaking a 3-3 tie with 9:34 left in the half. Herbert completed 17 of 20 passes for 204 yards and two TDs. His TD passes extended his streak of TD passes to 22 consecutive games, the second-longest active streak in the NFL.
Carr drove the Raiders down the field to start the third quarter, connecting with Brandon Bolden on an 18-yard scoring pass to cut the Chargers’ lead to 17-10. Herbert countered with an 18-yard pass to Gerald Everett on the ensuing possession to restore the Chargers’ two-touchdown lead.
The Raiders got within 24-19 on Carr’s three-yard touchdown pass to former Fresno State teammate Davante Adams. A two-point conversion pass fell incomplete. Dustin Hopkins’ 49-yard field try sailed wide left on the Chargers’ previous possession. He earlier hit from 43 yards.
Mack’s strip sack of Carr on fourth down at the Raiders’ 29 with less than two minutes to go sealed the deal.
Elliott Teaford covers the Los Angeles Chargers for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. He covered the Anaheim Ducks for 19 seasons, including eight of the past 10 for SCNG. He covered their Stanley Cup championship team in 2006-07. He also covered the Lakers for five seasons, including their back-to-back NBA championships in 2008-09 and 2009-10, and the Clippers for one. He is a Long Beach State graduate.
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Cast your vote now for Monroe County Region Athlete of the Week
Niles Kruger
The Monroe News
The pool, the course, the indoor courts, the outdoor rourts or the pitch.
You have plenty of choices when choosing the Monroe County Region Athlete of the Week for the week of Sept. 5-10.
Two volleyball players – Victoria Gray of Bedford and Erie Mason’s Angela Sweeney – are nominated along with Bedford tennis player Noah Kaplan, Flat Rock swimmer Lauren McNamara, Dundee cross country runner Isaak Rubley and Ida soccer player Evan Schmidtz.
Click here to cast your vote.
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Vote now for Monroe County Region Football Player of the Week
Niles Kruger
The Monroe News
Eight Monroe County Region football teams earned victories in Week 3 and seven of those scored 30 points or more.
One had 42 points in a losing effort and another posted 28.
That meant there were a lot of great candidates for Monroe County Region Football Player of the Week. The list of candidates includes Vaughn Brown of Erie Mason, Ronny Johnson of Milan, Graham Junge of Flat Rock, Bryce Kalb of Summerfield, Eddie Light of Gibraltar Carlson, Connor Nye of Airport, Shea Ruddy of Airport, Malachi Pribyl of Jefferson, Owen Yount of Monroe and Ryan Zanger of Dundee.
Click here to cast your vote.
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Sy Smith and LaVance Colley sing a jazz piece as
MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrates the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Students watch MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrate the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Trumpeter Eddie Rodriguez shows students his trumpet mute as MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrates the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Sy Smith sings a jazz piece as MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrates the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Sy Smith sings a jazz piece as MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrates the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Artistic dir. Rachael Worby and Singer LaVance Colley share a moment as MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrates the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Myron McKinley, of Earth, Wind and Fire performs as MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrates the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Singer LaVance Colley performs as MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrates the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The auditorium seats at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles are seen on Friday, September 9, 2022 during MUSE/IQUE’s celebration of the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Lula Washington Dance perform as MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrates the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
LAUSD Sup. Alberto Carvalho speaks as MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrates the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The DC6 Singers Collective perform as MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, celebrates the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Students meet singer Sy Smith after she performed with MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, as they celebrated the legacy of Central Avenue and its impact on the Los Angeles jazz scene at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2022. Some they paid tribute to like, Dexter Gordon and Etta James, went to Jefferson High. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
High School students got a lesson on jazz and the Los Angeles jazz scene on Central Avenue last week at Jefferson High School’s auditorium.
Artistic director Rachael Worby led a concert featuring singers Sy Smith, La Vance Colley and The DC6 Singers Collective as MUSE/IQUE, a nonprofit music organization, presented “Central Avenue.”
The thoroughfare was the heart of the jazz scene south of downtown Los Angeles from the 1930s to the 60s.
Jefferson High School was, aptly, where some greats, like singer Etta James, saxophonist Dexter Gordon and dancer/choreographer Alvin Ailey went to school.
The performance also paid tribute to singer Merry Clayton and composer Duke Ellington.
“The students may not be aware of the tremendous musical legacy,” said Brian Colburn, CEO of MUSE/IQUE. “We want students to take pride in it.”
Musician Dexter Story, who joined students in the audience, spoke of being named after jazz great Dexter Gordon after his father hung out on Central Avenue.
Sarah Reingewirtz is a photojournalist for Southern California News Group where she covers a variety of assignments from breaking news to features in Greater Los Angeles. She is a Cal State Long Beach graduate with a degree in Journalism/Photojournalism and Anthropology who began her career in newspapers at the Orange County Register and The Bakersfield Californian. Sarah is amazed by how many people have let her into their lives and invited her into their homes while on assignment. Her photo project, "Dorothy’s Journey," about how a woman’s life was forever changed by the housing first movement after being found on the streets of Pasadena, was nominated for a Pulitzer by the Southern California News Group. Sarah loves newspapers and reads one every day with coffee.
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HARTLY, Del.- One person was killed in a fiery crash early Sunday morning in Hartly.
Delaware State Police say that a Black Hummer H2 was speeding westbound on Westville Rd. approaching Hazlettville Rd. around 1 a.m. The driver failed to follow a bend in the road and went off the west side of the roadway, hitting a large tree and spinning 180 degrees counterclockwise before coming to a stop. The SUV then caught fire.
The driver, who has not been identified, died at the scene, according to police.
No other cars were involved, and no other injuries were reported.
Westville Rd. was closed for about 3.5 ours while the crash was investigated and the roadway was cleared.
The Delaware State Police Troop 3 Collision Reconstruction Unit continues to investigate this collision. Troopers are asking anyone who witnessed this collision to please contact Master Corporal Booth by calling 302-698-8451. Information may also be provided by sending a Private Facebook Message to the Delaware State Police, by contacting Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333, or via the internet at www.delawarecrimestoppers.com. | https://www.wboc.com/news/one-killed-in-early-morning-hartly-crash/article_15d56104-321b-11ed-99ff-df019e07c056.html | 2022-09-11T23:40:43Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/one-killed-in-early-morning-hartly-crash/article_15d56104-321b-11ed-99ff-df019e07c056.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tonight: Cloudy. Chance of rain showers overnight. Lows: 70-72° Winds: S 3-8 mph
Monday: Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs: 84-87° Winds: SW 3-8 mph
Monday night: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms late. Lows: 69-71°
Tuesday: Partly sunny. Highs: 82-86° Lows: 69-71°
Wednesday: Sunny. Highs: 79-82° Lows: 61-62°
Thursday: Sunny. Highs: 82-84° Lows: 61-64°
Friday: Sunny. Highs: 74-79° Lows: 55-61°
Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 76-82° Lows: 55-58°
Forecast Discussion:
Good Saturday evening Delmarva! It was a quite cloudy and rainy day across Delmarva. The chances of rain will continue into Monday morning. Temperatures this evening will fall to the low 70s overnight. Patchy fog is possible during the early morning hours.
Patchy fog will be present in the morning hours along with a few lingering showers. The temperatures will rise to the mid-80s by the afternoon under mostly cloudy skies. The chance of showers and thunderstorms will start up again in the afternoon. The evening will see temperatures fall to the upper 60s to low 70s.
The cold front will move out of the area Tuesday and leave us with slightly cooler temperatures. And less humidity. The temperature will start in the upper 60s to the low 70s and rise to the low 80s. But the sun will shine once again and continue to shine through the mid-week and into the of the week. Temperatures will be in the 80s until Friday when temperatures will be in the mid to upper 70s.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Southbound US 131 is shut down after a crash resulting in serious injuries.
Michigan State Police says that troopers are right now at the scene of a rollover crash at southbound US 131 at Leonard St.
One car is involved, and there are "serious injuries," say police.
Traffic is currently rerouted at Leonard Street. Troopers advise drivers to seek alternative routes at this time.
Grand Rapids Police are also assisting MSP at the scene.
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CHICAGO (AP)Joey Bart and David Villar each homered, doubled and drove in two runs, helping the San Francisco Giants top the Chicago Cubs 5-2 on Saturday to end a five-game losing streak.
It’s been a down year for San Francisco, well out of contention in the NL West. But youngsters such as Bart and Villar, both 25, might be providing a glimpse of a brighter future that’s not-so-distant.
”Just trying to get good pitches and put a barrel on them,” said Bart, who singled in the ninth to finish with three hits. ”There’s a lot of stuff out here to get caught up in and you’ve just got to stay focused on what’s going to make you better, and that’s what I’m trying to do.”
Bart has tried to pass that along to Villar, who’s come up with him in the Giants system.
”Him as a player is a real threat to the ball,” Bart said. ”If he turns it on the barrel, it’s going to go. It’s been a blast to watch him.”
Logan Webb (13-8) allowed two runs on six hits over seven innings, while striking out six and walking none.
The 25-year-old right-hander retired 17 of his last 19 hitters, and extended his career highs for wins and innings pitched.
Manager Gabe Kapler gushes about Webb, now in his fourth season.
”Logan Webb’s a star,” Kapler said. ”He’s one of the best pitchers in baseball. He’s got a big personality. He’s got a great smile. He’s charismatic and interesting. There’s a ton to love about Logan Webb.”
And Webb’s soaking in the Giants’ transition to younger players.
”You never really know what’s going to happen” Webb said. ”They could go and sign 15 guys that are not from here, but it’s fun for me to see because I get to see guys get more comfortable, I guess.”
Joc Pederson doubled and singled for the Giants.
John Brebbia tossed a scoreless eighth. Camilo Doval worked around a leadoff single in the ninth for his 21st save.
Ian Happ doubled twice and drove in a run for the Cubs, who lost for the 10th time in 13 games. Alfonso Rivas tripled and singled.
Chicago starter Marcus Stroman (3-7) yielded four runs – all in the second – and seven hits over four innings. He had allowed one run in 12 innings in his previous two starts.
The Cubs took a 1-0 lead in the first on Happ’s RBI double.
Bart’s 11th homer, to deep left-center, capped the Giants’ four-run second. San Francisco scored its first two runs on Villar’s double and Stroman’s balk with runners on first and third.
”I lifted my leg and everyone yelled, `step off,”’ Stroman said. ”So it happens. I was just little too late. I should have just delivered the pitch.”
The Cubs cut it to 4-2 in the bottom half on Rivas’ triple and an error by second baseman Villar on the relay from right field.
Webb settled in after the second and retired 13 straight before Happ doubled off the left-center all with two outs in the sixth.
Villar made it 5-2 with a line solo shot to left in the eighth.
HOMETOWN HALL
The late Buck O’Neil, the first Black coach in the majors when he was added to the Cubs staff in 1962, was among three inductees to the team’s Hall of Fame on Saturday. Former outfielder Jose Cardenal and longtime play-by-play broadcaster Pat Hughes also were inducted.
LEONE WAIVED
The Giants placed RHP Dominic Leone on unconditional release waivers a day after putting him on the 15-day injured list with elbow impingement. Leone was 4-5 with a 4.01 ERA and three saves in 55 games.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: C Austin Wynns was available off the bench after being struck in the head by a pitch from Drew Smyly on Friday and leaving the game. Bart started behind the plate.
Cubs: 2B Nick Madrigal was placed on the 10-day IL with a right groin strain after undergoing an MRI. He left Friday’s game after the third. . INF Patrick Wisdom (left ring finger sprain) was reinstated from the 10-day IL.
UP NEXT
LHP Wade Miley (1-0, 3.13) starts for the Cubs on Sunday night, his second outing after missing three months with a shoulder injury. Kapler said after the game he wasn’t ready to announce a starter.
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Frustration. Annoyance might be the better word to describe the 49ers in the locker room postgame:
Nick Bosa: We’re gonna be all right. It’s just…annoying…to give a game away like that. pic.twitter.com/opbkt3e4qW
— KP (@KP_Show) September 11, 2022
The 49ers' defense allowed 19 net passing yards in the first half, which was the least they’ve allowed to an opponent in since the Green Bay game back in November of 2019. Justin Fields' passer rating of 2.8 was the lowest registered by an opposing QB in any half against the Niners since Russell Wilson’s second half in October of 2012. Also, that was the lowest passer rating by an opposing quarterback in the first half against the 49ers since 1973, when passer rating became a statistic.
San Francisco lost by two possessions.
Kyle Shanahan said he felt in control in the game up until Dante Pettis’s touchdown: “That one play was a huge change. I thought we had every chance to run away with it in those first three quarters — especially those first two drives. We had a fumble inside of the ten. Then we ended up getting a sack on third down that knocked us out of field goal range.”
The sack he’s referencing was by Mike McGlinchey, who owned his mistake postgame. There wasn’t much Deebo Samuel could’ve done about the fumble. After the game, Deebo said, “he just poked it out.”
Still, we’ve gotten too accustomed to undisciplined sloppiness out of the game for Shanahan-coached teams.
There were quite a few resemblances between today’s game and the opener back in 2019, when the 49ers faced Tampa Bay and had 11 penalties. Trey Lance finished the day 13-for-28, for 164 yards. Jimmy Garoppolo was 18-for-27 for 166 yards, and had a touchdown and an interception. The difference? Tampa Bay threw three interceptions and the 49ers took two of those to the house.
Shanahan was disappointed in the third-quarter drive that only ended in a field goal, saying, “I thought we had every chance to run away with it. I thought we would get it right back again, but the penalty gave them new life, they scored a touchdown and we never got the momentum back.”
Not only did the 49ers fail to gain the momentum back, but the team also fell apart. After the penalty, the Niners punted, had an interception, and turned the ball over twice on its final four possessions of the game.
Finally, this quote stuck with me from Shanahan: “We always talk about doing right longer. And I think today was the exact opposite.” The weather didn’t help, but the play on the field spiraled out of the team’s control.
After the final play, Trent Williams walked off with his hands on his hips, looking exhausted. Sitting by his locker, staring off into space, Williams’s anger was palpable. He explained why after:
Williams added, “it’s hard enough to play against the opposing team, and it’s even harder when you’re playing against yourself.” | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/11/23347906/shanahan-we-always-talk-about-doing-right-longer-and-i-think-today-was-the-exact-opposite | 2022-09-12T00:00:57Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/11/23347906/shanahan-we-always-talk-about-doing-right-longer-and-i-think-today-was-the-exact-opposite | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A driver died days after a crash in Easley.
According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the crash happened on August 30 on Highway 8 near Tinsley Drive.
Troopers said a 2005 Honda was traveling east on the highway when it went left of center and hit a 2022 Sport Utility.
Due to the crash, the Sport Utility tire was released and hit a 2014 Chevrolet pickup according to troopers.
The driver of the Honda died from their injuries.
The Pickens County Coroner’s Office has not identified the driver at this time. | https://www.wspa.com/news/top-stories/driver-dies-days-after-crash-in-pickens-co/ | 2022-09-12T00:09:30Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/top-stories/driver-dies-days-after-crash-in-pickens-co/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It was a rainy, dank day in Flushing Meadows, with the dreary white roof closed on Arthur Ashe Stadium. But the Spanish sunshine broke through the gloom and lifted 19-year-old speedster, Carlos Alcaraz, to his first U.S. Open title and first major crown of his career.
Despite playing five-set marathons in his three previous bouts, Alcaraz had enough left to repel the consistency of Norway’s Casper Ruud to become the youngest Open men’s winner since 1990 when a 19-year-old Pete Sampras won it all.
This was not one of Alcaraz’s five-set marathons but it was still exhausting, a 6-4, 2-6, 7-6, 6-3 triumph at Ashe before a sellout crowd of 23,859.
The turning point came late in a 73-minute third set when Alcaraz fought off two set points to force a tiebreaker. Had Ruud converted, Alcaraz would’ve trailed two sets to one and possibly run out of gas.
The pivotal rally came after he shook off the set points and went up an advantage with both players getting to tough drop shots. Alcaraz lobbed Ruud, who tracked it down with a between-the-legs return. It wasn’t angled well enough and Alcaraz tapped in a volley winner | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/carlos-alcaraz-beats-casper-ruud-to-win-us-open-for-first-major/ | 2022-09-12T00:12:11Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/carlos-alcaraz-beats-casper-ruud-to-win-us-open-for-first-major/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin is within striking distance of Democrat Kathy Hochul in the governor’s race, trailing New York’s chief executive by 6 points, according to a new poll.
The survey of 1,194 likely voters — conducted by the polling firm co/efficient — showed 49% backing Hochul, 43% supporting Zeldin and 8% undecided.
The right-leaning pollster predicted GOP underdog Glenn Youngkin’s upset victory over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor’s race last year.
“It is a competitive race, more than most people assume. It’s an uphill battle for Zeldin but a winnable race,” said Ryan Muncie, president of the co/efficient polling firm.
“The intensity of voters is definitely on the right but whether that’s enough to overcome the Democratic registration advantage remains to be seen,” he added.
There are rays of hope for Zeldin, the underdog in a state where Democratic candidates benefit from a huge party enrollment advantage in statewide races.
Zeldin split the Hispanic vote with Hochul — usually a reliable Democratic constituency in New York — 41% to 41% with 18% of respondents undecided amid worries about crime and inflation.
He also leads among independents — voters not affiliated with a political party — 52% to Hochul’s 38%.
Hochul leads Zeldin in Democrat-dominated New York City, 61% to 28% with 11% undecided.
Zeldin leads Hochul on her upstate turf in the western NY/Buffalo region 54% to 38% and is up by 21 points in the central NY/Syracuse region.
They’re splitting the votes in the battleground suburbs.
Zeldin and Hochul are in a dead heat on the lawmaker’s Long Island turf — 48% to 47%. They’re also tied in the Hudson Valley suburban counties north of New City, 48% to 48%.
Zeldin said Sunday he’s gaining momentum.
“With every new Hochul scandal, pro-criminal laws like cashless bail, DAs like Alvin Bragg refusing to enforce the law, and punishing taxes and an ever rising cost of living, New Yorkers are hitting their breaking point and getting more and more energized to fire Kathy Hochul and save our state,” Zeldin said.
He called Hochul “weak” and “out of touch” and said he’s the candidate “to save New York.”
The Hochul campaign had no immediate comment.
Muncie said the swing of New York independent and Hispanic voters to the GOP is consistent with a national trend, asserting independents are upset with Biden’s push to cancel college loan debt.
He also called Zeldin’s 28% support in the Big Apple a decent showing, given the GOP believes a statewide candidate has to score at least 30% of the city vote while carrying a solid majority of voters in the rest of the state to have a shot at the governorship.
Muncy said Zeldin will have to do better in his Long Island base and other suburbs to topple Hochul, the former lieutenant governor who replaced disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo after his resignation.
Polling showed a gender disparity: Hochul, the first female governor, led Zeldin among women, 55% to 36% while Zeldin led Hochul among men, 52% to 42%.
Zeldin was 8 points ahead among white voters, 51% to 43%. Hochul had a huge edge among black voters, 86% to 13%.
The congressman received support from 93% of fellow GOP voters while Hochul was backed by 83% of Democrats.
The co/efficient survey claims a much closer race than most other public polls conducted by colleges showing Hochul with a double-digit lead, though an April poll also predicted a close race.
An Emerson College poll released last week found a 15-point spread, with Hochul ahead of Zeldin 50% to 35%; a recent poll by the independent Trafalgar Group showed Hochul with just a 4-point lead over Hochul.
The survey of 1,194 likely voters was conducted from Sept. 5 through Sept. 7 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points. Voters were queried via cell phone texts and landlines. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/lee-zeldin-trails-kathy-hochul-by-only-6-points-in-ny-governors-race-poll/ | 2022-09-12T00:12:29Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/lee-zeldin-trails-kathy-hochul-by-only-6-points-in-ny-governors-race-poll/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Too often, elite clubs have driven racial and religious discrimination in America. Think of racially exclusive neighborhoods and country clubs, primary schools that didn’t allow Catholics or Jews and Ivy League colleges that once capped Jewish admissions and now do the same thing to Asian Americans.
Why did these elite places engage in discrimination, in some cases long after it was outlawed? It wasn’t just prejudice. For these clubs, discrimination served to set the elite apart from the rest of society.
Fortunately, the US Constitution and our civil-rights laws prohibit this kind of discrimination. But the lesson remains: It’s usually the elite who feel powerful enough to abandon the American principle of equality.
Today a new elite club that wants to set itself apart from the rest of America: progressive activists and their friends in the business world. They are highly motivated, ideologically and financially, to channel the immense wealth of corporate America to their goals. And they have decided that dictating the identity — racial, sexual and otherwise — of business leadership is a key means to that end.
Enter the Nasdaq stock exchange’s new board-diversity quota. The Nasdaq rule requires its listed companies to have certain numbers of racial or sexual minorities and women on their boards of directors or publicly “explain” in writing why they failed to do so, thereby raising their hands for progressive scorn. If a company fails to comply, Nasdaq gives it the boot.
Worse yet, the federal government has given this scheme its explicit blessing: The Securities and Exchange Commission approved the rule (and actually rewrote its legal justification, too). And with that blessing comes a curse: Nasdaq is now legally obligated to enforce its quota rule on companies, which the SEC must police.
This entanglement of Nasdaq and the government to impose a discriminatory rule violates the Constitution, including our hard-fought guarantee of equal treatment under the law.
Many companies will feel the rule’s unconstitutional bite: When it proposed the rule, Nasdaq estimated that more than 75% of its listed companies didn’t meet these arbitrary quotas.
It’s not just the large, Fortune 500 firms that list on Nasdaq, either. The exchange includes more than 3,000 companies of all shapes and sizes, from regional industrial and construction companies to the world’s biggest conglomerates.
“Diversity” at a small-cap construction company should mean something different than at a global giant. But not according to Nasdaq.
That is, unless you’re a foreign firm. Nasdaq gives them special treatment. Rather than meeting the rule’s quota with racial or ethnic minorities, for example, foreign companies could add another woman to their boards. So a Chinese company could install the wife of a Communist Party insider in lieu of, say, one of the Uighurs held in labor camps.
Why push this arbitrary and standardized requirement across a diverse group of American (but only American) companies? Because Nasdaq has, in its own words, joined the “social justice movement.” It grew dissatisfied with “the pace of progress” and decided to adopt a “regulatory approach” to coercing American companies.
By and large, the biggest companies listed on the Nasdaq support this requirement. Some have already embraced the “social-justice movement.” But for many others, the rule results in crushing pressure to discriminate in pursuit of a woke agenda. And that’s the point.
Being delisted on a major stock exchange is no small penalty. Delisting was formerly reserved for the worst cases of fraud, misreporting and insolvency. It now hangs over the head of every director or executive of an American company who holds the unfashionable belief that Americans should be judged by merit, not their race, sex or sexual identity.
The decree is an unmistakable message from the reigning ideological and financial elite to the rest of corporate America: Play by the new rules of identity politics or get out.
The Nasdaq rule is another instance of an elite club overstepping the law to force its preferences on society through discrimination. Let’s hope the courts enforce the Constitution’s promise of equal treatment (as the Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment requested in arguments I recently presented to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit). As usual, the best check on elite abuse of power is the law put in place by We the People.
Jonathan Berry is a partner at Boyden Gray & Associates, a law and strategy boutique in Washington, DC. He served as head of policy at the US Department of Labor and as a law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/nasdaqs-board-diversity-rule-pits-corporate-elites-against-the-constitution/ | 2022-09-12T00:12:59Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/nasdaqs-board-diversity-rule-pits-corporate-elites-against-the-constitution/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The rain coming down in the Bronx did its best to deprive New York of baseball on a day it needed it more than usual, but the Yankees still took the field and still honored the victims on the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in a special way on Sunday.
“I think it’s incredibly meaningful to all of us in there,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said before the team wrapped up their three-game series against the Rays, which was delayed just under two hours due to the weather. “To get to play and to get to play in New York on this day, that means so much to so many people in this country and specifically here in this city. So not something we take lightly, and proud to wear the hats we’ll be wearing today.”
The Yankees sported caps of New York City’s first responder agencies and hosted a special military group, Operation Once in a Lifetime, for the series finale against the Rays at Yankee Stadium. Operation Once in a Lifetime was created to make the dreams of U.S. Service members and their families come true by providing once in a lifetime experiences, as well as emergency financial assistance through their multiple programs.
The organization, which plans “closure trips” for its members, describes itself as the “Make-A-Wish” of the military. Yankees catcher Jose Trevino, who is on paternity leave, has been involved with the group since his days with the Texas Rangers and played a major role in bringing the two sides together. In addition to making Sunday a possibility, Trevino has previously organized toy drives for Operation Once in a Lifetime.
After they had a chance to hold Babe Ruth’s bat and other Yankees artifacts through the team’s Hands on History program, Boone invited those who attended his press conference to the field for pictures. Earlier in the day, Boone also laid a wreath at the 9/11 Monument in Monument Park.
“I was with the Reds, we were in Chicago,” Boone recalled of his 9/11 experience. “I actually woke up at some point mid-morning, and I was actually checking on a flight for a friend. You know, back then you called your travel agent, and he said, ‘Oh, why don’t you turn on the TV?’ That was my introduction to it. I remember it being a hot day in Chicago and, obviously, as the morning unfolded and the afternoon unfolded and things were canceled — and now it’s just this great uncertainty.
“I remember standing on Michigan Avenue on a hot 9/11 Chicago evening with Pokey Reese, standing there on the corner just [wondering], ‘What does all this mean?’ And then all the speculation of they’re coming from Chicago. Whatever, your mind was going a lot of different places. We ended up being in Chicago for a day or two and ended up bussing back to Cincinnati, and I remember playing a practice game one day right before we returned, which was kind of surreal.
“I mean, it was — just like so many Americans — just trying to wrap your brain around what just happened and what this all means.”
The Yankees then held a moment of silence before FDNY firefighter Regina Wilson performed the national anthem. A statue holding a piece of steel recovered from the World Trade Center, which was gifted by the United States Marshals Service, was also unveiled at Yankee Stadium.
To tie it all together before first pitch, Domingo German waved an American flag toward the crowd as he ran to the bullpen. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/playing-in-bronx-on-9-11-incredibly-meaningful-for-yankees/ | 2022-09-12T00:13:05Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/playing-in-bronx-on-9-11-incredibly-meaningful-for-yankees/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Members from the 151st Force Support Squadron cook and serve lunch to more than 200 service members during a joint force exercise on Sept. 8, 2022 at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. They used a Disaster Relief Mobile Kitchen Trailer from the Wyoming Air National Guard. The DRMKT is a full mobile kitchen and is one of 21 in the Air National Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erica Webster)
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Where Arkansas football ranks in Top 25 polls after win over South Carolina
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football secured its first SEC win on Saturday, beating South Carolina 44-30. The Razorbacks (2-0) used their strong running game to get past the Gamecocks (1-1) at Razorback Stadium.
It was a day full of upsets elsewhere in college football, and Arkansas' win combined with the woes of others helped give the Razorbacks a boost in the latest top 25 rankings.
In the USA Today Sports AFCA Coaches Poll, Arkansas moved up six spots to No. 11. The Razorbacks come in at No. 10 in the Associated Press Top 25, up from No. 16 in the previous ranking.
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Arkansas remaining 10 games feature four opponents ranked in the coaches poll: No. 1 Alabama, No. 14 BYU, No. 17 Ole Miss and No. 22 Texas A&M.
The Razorbacks' next game is against FCS power Missouri State on Saturday (6 p.m. CT, SECN+).
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FORD FINISHING RESULTS
9th - Ryan Blaney (P)
12th - Austin Cindric (P)
13th - Chase Briscoe (P)
15th - Chris Buescher
16th - Michael McDowell
17th - Joey Logano (P)
21st - Aric Almirola
22nd - Cole Custer
23rd - Todd Gilliland
25th - Brad Keselowski
27th - Cody Ware
28th - JJ Yeley
31st - BJ McLeod
32nd - Harrison Burton
36th - Kevin Harvick (P)
RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Menards/Richmond Water Heaters Ford Mustang (Finished 9th)
“We were okay. We drove up through the field pretty decent there starting off and finished second in the first stage. I was proud of the progress we made. I had to come down pit road there after the first stage and had to kind of reset in the back. From there we just weren’t quite good enough to get back up into the top-five. I was chasing it and adjusting the car after that. Overall, not a bad day. It was a good points day and we are looking pretty decent going into Bristol. We will have to just go there and have a good day.”
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AUSTIN CINDRIC, No. 2 Snap on Ford Mustang (Finished 12th)
“I felt like we made the car better all day and we just got hosed at one point on a restart, the final restart there. We lost all the spots that I had gained and we never got those back. I just drove the car too hard trying to make it up and got too loose by the end of the race. Overall, like I said, we didn’t beat ourselves. We check that box the last two weeks. Bristol will be a big unknown and big challenge. We can’t take points for granted. I feel like we gave a few away today.”
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO ACCOMPLISH NEXT WEEK TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ROUND? “Well, a guarantee would be to win. I want to win at Bristol, that would be awesome. I have had a lot of heartache at Bristol, okay?. I would like to change that but maybe I will just take moving on to the next round. I have a lot of work ahead and a lot of really good guys I am going to have to beat.”
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CHASE BRISCOE, No. 14 Magical Vacation Planner Ford Mustang (Finished 13th)
“For us, we definitely started off and our balance was way different than in practice. I was worried at the beginning but our team did a good job of making good adjustments and good pit stops and good restarts to get up to fourth or fifth there. We were able to run top-five if we could maintain track position. We came down pit road and the 51 just buried us and pinned me in. I couldn’t get around him and we went from running fourth to running 15th and was stuck there the rest of the day. I wish we could have got our Mustang up there. I feel like we had top-five speed we just needed the track position to go with it and we weren’t quite good enough to drive back through the field again. Going to Bristol not in on points isn’t the end of the world. I would love to be nine points up, obviously, but being nine points out, I feel like we can go there and get some stage points and be in good shape.”
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JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Mustang (Finished 17th)
“Not a great day for us. We were hanging in there in the beginning for a little bit and it looked like at one point, in the middle of the race, that we were the fastest car on the track. We were up to second and running down the leader and it was good. Caution came out and we put scuffs on and we lost a little bit of track position. Not much. We put new tires on and it just was not good. The balance was off without changing anything. Beats me.”
BRISTOL NEXT WEEK. YOU ARE IN A GOOD SPOT IN POINTS
“Well, it could be better. We are plus-40 in points so that is a decent spot to go racing. I wish we were positioned first but it is what it is.”
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KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Rheem Ford Mustang (Accident Quote)
“When those two cars came up in front of me I just got super tight. When I lifted it grabbed and got loose. I just wasn’t expecting them to come up and my car getting that tight.”
NOW YOU WILL BE IN A HAIL MARY SITUATION AT BRISTOL: “Yeah, it is what it is. We were racing to win anyway today, so that is what we will do again next week.”
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The ARCA Menards Series went racing shortly after 10:00 a.m. ET. for the Kansas Lottery 150 at Kansas Speedway. The postponed event that was scheduled to take place on Saturday featured 21 entries for the 150-mile race.
Corey Heim survived ARCA overtime to claim his ninth career ARCA Menards Series victory. Piloting the No. 20 Toyota, Heim dominated the event leading 101 of the 105 laps and finishing 0.430 seconds over Nick Sanchez.
“It was definitely a great performance for us from what we had in the spring. Going through that adversity, I feel like we should have had a really similar performance back there in the spring,” said the winner. “To come back here and put on a show like that, it’s pretty special.”
In 43 ARCA starts, Heim holds 31 top five and 41 top 10 finishes.
Nick Sanchez fell shy of scoring his fifth career victory in the ARCA Menards Series at Kansas, a track that he’s won at twice. The series points leader leaves the 1.5-mile oval with nine top-five and 14 top-10 finishes – along with three wins this season.
“I think we were just chasing the 20 (Heim) all day and we just fell a little short,” Sanchez said. “We never lost sight of him, we just didn’t have the speed.”
Sammy Smith rounded out the top three finishers Sunday morning. Through 13 starts in 2022, Smith holds 12 top five and top 10 finishes along with three trips to victory lane.
Daniel Dye and Ryan Huff rounded out the top five.
Placing inside the top 10 included Parker Chase, Christian Rose, Amber Balcean, Toni Breidinger, and Jon Garrett.
From Athens, TX, Garrett picked up his first top 10 in just his third career start.
The event was slowed four times with two of the yellow flags for competition cautions.
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Hard work, determination, and the never give up attitude does eventually pay off, as Ron Haring Jr. of Alburtis, Pa., who has been in position to win several times before in his career, could never get things to go his way, finally put everything into place and scored his first ever win Saturday night in the 30-lap T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modified feature at Grandview Speedway.
Haring Jr. led the feature the entire way, including surviving two late race stoppages, one caution with four laps remaining, and a red flag with just two laps to go, then held off the challenges of Craig Whitmoyer of Hamburg, Pa. to score the popular win.
Brian Hirthler of Green Lane, Pa. was running second and battling with leader Kyle Smith of Fleetwood, Pa. for a win in the 25-lap T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman feature, when misfortune struck leader Smith (a broken axle) with just four laps to go, giving Hirthler the lead as he would go on to his sixth feature win of the season.
After all the red hot competition on Saturday night, Craig Von Dohren of Oley, Pa. emerged with his 13th career T.P. Trailer Modified track championship, and Brian Hirtthler would score his third career T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman title.
The feature race winners each received bonus money from T.P. Trailers and Truck Equipment, who every week provide both winners (Modified $300, Sportsman $200) with the bonus money, in the race program that was part of the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series.
The T.P. Trailer Modified feature appeared as if it may run straight through without a caution, as the first 26 laps were run under green flag conditions. The first caution flag waved for Joe Funk of Coopersburg, Pa. on lap 26, who suffered a flat tire and could not get off the track, as cars were strung all around the speedway.
Ron Haring Jr. took the lead on the opening green flag and set a quick pace, reaching lapped traffic by lap nine. During this time, Eric Biehn of Barto, Pa., Craig Whitmoyer and Bobby Trapper Jr. of Scranton, Pa. were having their own battle for the number two position. As the laps continued to click off, action continued to be fierce with Brett Gilmore of Kutztown, Pa., Justin Grim of Orefield, Pa., MIke Lisowski of Minersville, Pa. and Tim Buckwalter of Douglasville, Pa. were dicing for positions behind the second place struggle, and would join the second place battle by lap eighteen.
With the long period of green flag racing, Haring Jr. began to steadily work his way through the lapped traffic. Biehn and Whitmoyer would close a little bit on Haring Jr., but never close enough to offer a challenge, as Haring Jr. was making all the right moves when he needed to.
Just when it looked as though Haring Jr. would be able to run the final laps to victory, Funk had his flat tire, drawing the caution and setting up a restart. Haring Jr. was able to survive a Whitmoyer challenge on the restart and pull away.
However, another caution for a spinning Dan Waisempacher of Springtown, Pa. drew a caution, just as a multi-car jam occurred in turn three involving Justin Grim, Ryan Grim of Laurys Station, Pa., Kevin Graver Jr. of Lehighton, Pa., and Briggs Danner of Allentown, Pa. With the cars tangled together, officials put out the red, making for a delay until the feature was able to resume.
After waiting for a number of years for his first ever win, Haring Jr, had to wait through the delay, then another restart before being able to grab that elusive first victory. The final restart proved no problem, as Haring Jr. pulled away from the field, led the final two laps, and scored career win number one at Grandview. The win was well received by the huge crowd, as he was given a nice ovation in victory lane.
The final couple of restarts allowed Buckwalter, Jared Umbenhauer of Richland, Pa., Jeff Strunk of Boyertown, Pa, who started in 20th spot, and Von Dohren to work their way forward into top ten finishing positions.
At the wave of Starter Ray Kemp’s checkered flag, it was Haring Jr. in for the win followed by Whitmoyer, Trapper Jr. for their best finishes of the year, Buckwalter, Umbenhauer, Strunk, Biehn, point champ Von Dohren, Gilmore, and Doug Manmiller of Shoemakersville, Pa.
Qualifying heats for the 38 car field were won by Haring Jr., Kyle Lilick of Collegeville, Pa., Kevin Hirthler of Boyertown, Pa. and Whitmoyer, with Strunk and Dave Dissinger of Mohrsville, Pa. winning the consolations.
For Von Dohren, it was a rather conservative night, as he scored a top ten finish in eighth to pick up the point title, while second place challenger Brett Kressley discovered troubles after the heat race, and had to scratch his primary car and enter the race with a back-up car as a provisional starter, scoring a seventeenth place effort after starting in last spot.
The track championship for Von Dohren is his third consecutive and 13th overall. He scored his first point crown at Grandview during the 1988 racing season. He had a banner season during 2022, scoring eight point race wins on his way to the championship and twelve overall victories.
The T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman did exactly the opposite of the Modifieds, as they had several wrecks and cautions in the early stages of the feature, knocking out several drivers and rearranging the original lineup.
Zach Steffy of Sinking Spring, Pa. led lap one, with Michael Burrows of Jonestown, Pa. leading lap two through the early cautions. Following a lap three restart, Adrianna Delliponti of Norristown, Pa. was able to use the outside lane to grab the lead on lap three, before Burrows would slide back into the lead on the following lap.
Once things settled down into race mode, action heated up in the battle for the lead, as soon there was a six car scramble going on for the top spot. Burrows led, followed closely by Delliponti, Kyle Smith, Dakota Kohler of Kutztown, Pa., Hirthler and Cody Manmiller of Philadelphia, Pa.
The cars would circle the track in a tight pack, and Smith would move past Delliponti for second place on lap eleven, with Hirthler soon to follow into third.
Now a fantastic three car duel was on between Burrows, Smith and HIrthler, with the three running so close some laps you could almost throw a blanket over them in the race for the lead.
Smith would take the lead from Burrows with a move off of turn two on lap 16, with Hirthler reaching second by lap eighteen. The battle was now on for the lead, with Hirthler really pressuring Smith, who just won last week and was looking for two wins in a row.
Misfortune struck Smith on lap 21, as the rear axle came out of the car, ending his night and giving the lead to Hirthler, also ending the great race up front for the top spot.
Hirthler would run the final four laps in the lead to the checkered and score his sixth win of the year, his 18th career win, tying him for the number one spot on the track’s all-time win list with Jared Umbenhauer. The win was the perfect ending to the night, as Hirthler was also crowned T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman track champion for the third time in his career, with the other titles coming in 2017, and 2020.
At the checkered flag, it was Hirthler in for the win, followed by Burrows in second for the second week in a row, Delliponti for her best finish of this season, Manmiller, Kohler with his best outing of this season, Dylan Hoch of Mertztown, Pa., Jimmy Leiby of West Milford, NJ. who both came back from an earlier mishap, Cole Stangle of Neshanic Station, NJ., Jesse Landis of Gilbertsville, Pa., and Josh Adams of Douglasville, Pa.
Qualifying heats for the 37 cars on hand were won by Chris Esposito of Telford, Pa., Adams, Steffy, and Keith Haring of Alburtis, Pa., with the consolations going to Kaitlyn Bailey of Alburtis Pa., and Leiby.
Racing next weekend at Grandview Speedway will be the Freedom 76 racing weekend, with two days of action including the T.P. Trailer 358 Modifieds and the T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman.
The Freedom 76 weekend begins on Friday, September 16 with the 9th annual Freedom 38 Sportsman Championship race paying $2000 to the winner, along with qualifying events plus practice time for Modified drivers wishing to participate in the Freedom 76.
On Friday, pit gates open at 3 pm with grandstand gates opening at 5:30 pm. and racing at 7:30 pm. Adult Grandstand admission is just $5, while children ages 11 and under are admitted for free. Pit admission on Friday is $35, and no license is required. There is no rain date for the Friday event.
On Saturday, September 17, the 52nd annual Freedom 76 will be run for the 358 Modifieds paying $30,060 to the winner. The program will include qualifying heats, consolation races, a cash dash along with the Schaeffer Racing Minuteman 20 leading to the 76-lap championship feature. Pit gates open at 9 am for inspections, Grandstand ticket windows open at 3 pm. with racing starting at 7 pm. Fans will be able to enter the Grandstand areas between 9 am. and 12 Noon to reserve seats with blankets.
Adult Grandstand tickets on Saturday will be $40, while children ages 6-11 are $10, with children ages 5 and under admitted for free. Pit admission will be $45, and no license is required. There will be no advanced tickets sold for this event, and the rain date is Saturday, September 24.
For the Freedom 76, the tire rules for the event are as follows, ANY American Racer tire and compound, but it must be the Grandview Speedway tread pattern. Further 358 Modified rules are available on the speedway website or again, any questions please call Cliff Quinn at 484-357-2587 or Ed Scott at 610-298-2408. Entry forms for the Modified competitors are available on the speedway website at www.grandviewspeedway.com under the Freedom 76 tab. Early entry will save the drivers on the entry fee.
Saturday, September 24 will feature Round 9 with the Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage Cars in action starting at 5 pm. Pit gates open at 2 pm., Grandstand gates open at 4 pm. Grandstand admission will be $10, with children ages 12 and under admitted for free. Pit admission is $30 for the Outlaw Racing Series event. This event will run as long as the date is not needed as the Freedom 76 rain date, or it would be pushed back a week to October 1.
Since the 1960’s, Grandview Speedway has been presenting exciting wheel to wheel NASCAR stock car racing every Saturday Night starting in April and running through September, plus special events. Grandview Speedway is located at 43 Passmore Road, Bechtelsville, Pa. 19505, just off Route 100, ten miles north of Pottstown, Pa.
Information is always available at www.grandviewspeedway.com or on Facebook, or by telephone at 610.754.7688.
CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT RESULTS SUMMARY - SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
T.P. TRAILER NASCAR MODIFIED FEATURE FINISH (30 laps): RON HARING JR., Craig Whitmoyer, Bobby Trapper Jr., Tim Buckwalter, Jared Umbenhauer, Jeff Strunk, Eric Biehn, Craig Von Dohren, Brett Gilmore, Doug Manmiller, Kevin Hirthler, Mike Lisowski, Mike Gular, Kyle Lilick, Brad Arnold, Dave Dissinger, Brett Kressley, Kevin Graver Jr., Briggs Danner, Dan Waisempacher, Mark Kratz, Justin Grim, Ryan Grim, Joe Funk, Jesse Leiby, John Willman, Nate Brinker, Dylan Swinehart, , Meme DeSantis
DID NOT QUALIFY: Steve Swinehart, Ryan Beltz, Chris Gambler, Ryan Lilick, Cory Merkel, Lex Shive, Bobby Gunther-Walsh, Ray Swinehart, Duane Howard
2022 T.P. TRAILER MODIFIED TRACK CHAMPION – Craig Von Dohren (His 13th at the track)
T.P. TRUCK EQUIPMENT NASCAR SPORTSMAN FEATURE FINISH (25 laps): BRIAN HIRTHLER, Michael Burrows, Adrianna Delliponti, Cody Manmiller, Dakota Kohler, Dylan Hoch, Jimmy Leiby, Cole Stangle, Jesse Landis, Josh Adams, Mike Schneck Jr., Steve Young, Decker Swinehart, Keith Haring, Matt Clay, Zach Steffy, Kaitlyn Bailey, Kyle Smith, Kenny Bock, Nathan Mohr, Parker Guldin, Nathan Horn, Chris Esposito, Mike Myers, Ryan Graver, Jesse Hirthler
DID NOT QUALIFY: Joey Vaccaro, Mark Gaugler, Kyle Hartzell, Molly Struss, Xavier Sprague, Troy Conrad, Logan Bauman, Mark Mohr, Colton Perry, Brad Force, Gage Phillips
2022 T.P. TRUCK EQUIPMENT SPORTSMAN CHAMPION – Brian Hirthler (His 3rd at the track)
UPCOMING EVENTS –
Friday, September 16 – 9th annual FREEDOM 38 CHAMPIONSHIP for T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman $2000 to win, plus Modified practice – 7:30 pm.
Saturday, September 17 – 52nd annual FREEDOM 76 MODIFIED CHAMPIONSHIP for T.P. Trailer Modifieds $30,060 to win – 7 pm.
Saturday, September 24 - Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 7 pm. (Rain date for Freedom 76)
Saturday, October 15 - Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 7 pm.
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Q. Yeah is right. Bubba Wallace, hard to victory lane, held them off. Fast all day. What does this mean to you?
BUBBA WALLACE: Man, just so proud of this team, so proud of the effort that they put in each and every week. Just thankful for the opportunity, right? Took this jump from an idea two years ago from a text from Denny before it all even happened. He was ready to get the deal done. Appreciate him. Appreciate MJ, Curtis, Gene. Everybody on that side of things, everybody at 23XI. Men and women there, they work their tails off.
Just so proud. Pit crew was awesome today. We had one loose wheel. Just thankful. Thanks for the opportunity, and thankful to shut the hell up for a lot of people.
Q. What does it mean to race as hard as you had to? The one at Talladega was a little different, and then to have Denny chasing you at the end.
BUBBA WALLACE: Yeah. I knew Denny was going to be strong. That's the things I look at, is he wasn't that good at the beginning of the day, and he comes up and finishes P2. And that's what I want to start doing. When we don't have the best days, just capitalize on moments like that. It's cool to beat the boss, but man, we were just lights-out today once we got to the lead, and it was a lot of fun.
Q. You've been open with us in the past. You get anxious.
BUBBA WALLACE: Yeah.
Q. Were you anxious all day? Were you ever anxious or never anxious?
BUBBA WALLACE: It's funny. I ran into my old crew chief, Jerry Baxter after the truck race, and I text him. I said, Jerry, I think it's going to be a good weekend. We called our shot.
What a really cool paint scheme on our Toyota Camry root. They've done a lot for me in my career in a short amount of time. To throw honor to the people we lost on 9/11 is incredible. To put this in victory lane is really cool.
Q. How did you stay focused?
BUBBA WALLACE: Been doing this for a really long time. I haven't won a race like that in a really long time, but just knowing getting excited is going to mess you up, so it was just cool, calm, and collected, and here we are.
Q. You shushed some of the doubters. Do you want to say anything to the fans, your fans?
BUBBA WALLACE: True fans that are out there, thank you, guys. I love you. It's been a tough road. You guys are the best. Let's keep this train rolling. Thank you.
Q. Bubba Wallace, he took it today at Kansas.
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Q. Christopher Bell finishes third. Chris, you ran the top five all day. What more did you need to maybe go get the victory?
CHRISTOPHER BELL: Just got off a little bit on our balance that last run, but overall a great points day and very proud of everyone on this DEWALT No. 20 team. Great day for Toyota and happy for Bubba to get a win. He was really deserving, really fast all day. Great points day. We'll move on and try and win one.
Q. You enter Bristol 58 points above the cut line. Your crew chief Adams Stevens told me, That's the kind of day to maximize every point. You did that here today. How proud does that make you of this race team?
CHRISTOPHER BELL: I'm very happy that we're finally getting the results that this team deserves. Our speed has been there all year, and I feel like we've given up a couple good finishes. Last couple of weeks we've been building on it, and hopefully we can keep the ball rolling.
Q. I think this makes the 20 team a bona fide championship contender here.
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Q. Denny Hamlin, the driver, finishes second. Denny Hamlin, the owner, wins. What's the emotions right now?
DENNY HAMLIN: It's been a good overall day. Still frustrated about the first half of the race. We just aren't executing all that well, but got to thank Acumatica for coming on. If you want to improve your business, they can help you do it.
Thank you for them coming on for Kansas. Really happy for our 11 Toyota team. They fought hard. They really stepped up that last half. We made the car quite a bit better. Just really happy about the outcome and really happy for that 45 team and Bubba Wallace and Bootie. Bubba has just really worked hard on his craft, and we've just given him fast race cars, and now he is showing what he has got.
Q. If you could have caught him, you would you have tried to pass him?
DENNY HAMLIN: I nearly wrecked to catch him off of four. I got loose and hit the fence. I was driving as hard as I could. Nothing will ever come free when you are driving for me. If you think I'm going to let you win, you better get another job.
Proud of my team. Great for Root Insurance as well. Thankful for their support. Just what a great day overall for Toyota.
Q. You can tell Denny Hamlin, range of emotions there, guys.
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TOP TEAM CHEVY UNOFFICIAL RACE RESULTS:
POS. DRIVER
4th ALEX BOWMAN, NO. 48 ALLY CAMARO ZL1
6th WILLIAM BYRON, NO. 24 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY CAMARO ZL1
7th ROSS CHASTAIN, NO. 1 ADVENTHEALTH CAMARO ZL1
8th KYLE LARSON, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1
10th DANIEL SUAREZ, NO. 99 COMMSCOPE CAMARO ZL1
TOP FIVE UNOFFICIAL RACE RESULTS:
POS. DRIVER
1st Bubba Wallace (Toyota)
2nd Denny Hamlin (Toyota)
3rd Christopher Bell (Toyota)
4th Alex Bowman (Chevrolet)
5th Martin Truex Jr. (Toyota)
TEAM CHEVY POST-RACE NOTES AND QUOTES:
ROSS CHASTAIN, NO. 1 ADVENTHEALTH CAMARO ZL1
Finished: 7th
“Our No. 1 AdventHealth Chevy was on either side of tight or loose all day. It was just really a fine line. We just never really settled into a nice run. Our best run was the second-to-last, with our second-to-best run being our last run. We put the chips where they needed to go at the very end, but all day it was just a handful.”
YOU ENTERED THIS RACE WITH SEVEN FINISHES OUTSIDE OF THE TOP-10. HOW BIG IS IT TO GET A TOP-1O FOR YOU GUYS IN THE PLAYOFFS?
“We all just high-fived. It feels good. It’s been a rough couple of months here. There were times today where I thought we were going to run 14th and I thought we were just going to keep this going. We had a really good day on pit road. Our No. 1 pit crew is just incredible. We cycled ourselves back up there and we were able to stay plugged in between the No. 48 (Alex Bowman) and the No. 5 (Kyle Larson). We were running with the guys we are supposed to be running with; and we finished around the guys we are supposed to finish by. It was a great day for our No. 1 AdventHealth Chevy team.”
AUSTIN DILLON, NO. 3 GET BIOETHANOL CAMARO ZL1
Finished: 14th
“We just fought balance on our No. 3 Get Bioethanol Camaro ZL1 all day. The same thing we’ve fought all year, really. We had high hopes because we qualified pretty decent. I’m proud of our guys, we fought hard. We kept ourselves in it and we have a shot at Bristol (Motor Speedway).
YOU’RE BELOW THE CUTLINE, BUT WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE. DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU CAN BATTLE YOUR WAY INTO THE NEXT ROUND?
“Yeah, for sure. Bristol is going to be wild and anything can happen. We’ve given ourselves a good shot. Nobody knows what to expect when we get there, but it’s a long race. If you’re there at the end of the day, you’ve got a good shot to make it.”
KYLE LARSON, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1
Finished: 8th
IT LOOKED LIKE ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHERE YOU GUYS JUST COULDN’T GET THE HANDLE OF THE CAR.
“It was a little bit of that. For the restarts, I just didn’t have a good balance; but I also didn’t do a good job on the restarts. I think I only had two good ones. Gave up a lot of stage points early on because of that. Even when I thought I was in the right line, I was tight. There at the end, I finally got a good restart and was able to get to third. It was really loose; I tried to go for second and I got really sideways.
After the green flag stop, I felt good but I was just a little bit on the tight side and couldn’t make enough ground in traffic to make a move and had to settle for eighth. Disappointed with that. I thought we had an opportunity to finish a lot better, but we’ll move onto Bristol.”
TYLER REDDICK, NO. 8 GUARANTEED RATE CAMARO ZL1, sidelined by damage sustained after losing a right-rear tire on lap 67.
Finished: 35th
“The right-rear tire just blew like we’ve had a few times. At Fontana (Auto Club Speedway), I was able to save it. But here, it snapped at the worst possible point and we just killed the wall. It broke the control arm on the right-front, so our day was over. We leave here with not a lot of points, so we’ll have to fight hard at Bristol (Motor Speedway).”
CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS CAMARO ZL1
Finished: 11th
“Probably just bad lane choice. I don’t think we were good enough to go win. Bubba (Wallace) was really good, congrats to him and his team. That’s a big win for him and a deserving one, too.
We just had a bad restart there and fell back a lot of spots. Our car wasn’t really driving any differently than it was earlier in the race when we were up front. You just kind of loose momentum, start going the other direction and it’s difficult to rebound from that sometimes”
WILLIAM BYRON, NO. 24 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY CAMARO ZL1
Finished: 6th
“For as far off as we started, we definitely made a really good rally. I just appreciate the adjustments and pit stops by everybody on the No. 24 Liberty University Chevrolet team. At the beginning, I thought if it was a long run, we would have gotten lapped. But we just got our car so much better through the middle part of the race. Towards the end, it was just really hard to know what we needed to be better.
I’m happy with the finish and thankful for the effort. It looks like we’re plus 48-points going into Bristol, which is a tough track. It’s been a good two weeks in a row. We just need to put three weeks together and we’ll advance.”
ERIK JONES, NO. 43 FOCUSFACTOR CAMARO ZL1
Finished: 29th
“Definitely not the day we were looking for at Kansas Speedway with our FOCUSfactor Chevy. We were off in practice yesterday and made some adjustments to help today, but just never had a good handle on our Chevy. We started the day too tight, adjusted to then be too free. Had contact with a couple of other cars racing three-wide in stage two, and then the handling was just never where it needed to be. Not sure if we broke something when we made contact, but struggled the rest of the race. We’ll go back to the shop, look over everything and refocus on Bristol next week.”
ALEX BOWMAN, NO. 48 ALLY CAMARO ZL1
Finished: 4th
“We had a good day for our No. 48 Ally Camaro ZL1. Proud of all of my guys. We had a good weekend - Obviously, we didn’t want to throw those stage points away in stage one like we did, but we overcame that in a hurry. I’m just proud of Greg (Ives) and the guys. We had a great racecar. The last 15-laps of a run is where we would fall off and get beat, but I’m still proud of all of the guys. We ended up with a solid points day.”
DANIEL SUAREZ, NO. 99 COMMSCOPE CAMARO ZL1
Finished: 10th
“Today was very inconsistent. It was a long day. At times, we were OK and then some other times, we weren’t good. We had a couple of situations there on pit road and then we had a tire going down. We had an eventful day. But for a day like that and to finish in the top-10, I’m quite happy. We have some work to do. We are not where we need to be. At times, I felt like we were a top-five car; and at times, we were a 20th-place car. We have to be a little bit more consistent. We don’t really understand why it was so inconsistent, but we’re going to find some answers and move onto Bristol.”
TEAM CHEVY RACE QUICK NOTES
Stage One:
· For the second time this season, Tyler Reddick and the No. 8 Guaranteed Rate Camaro ZL1 led the field to the green from the pole position in Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway. Reddick led Team Chevy to five top-10 starting spots in race two of the NCS Playoffs Round of 16.
· From the third starting spot, Alex Bowman powered his No. 48 Ally Camaro ZL1 to the lead on lap three, continuing to pace the field until the competition caution at lap 25. Bowman gave up the lead to come down pit road for a four tire and fuel pit stop.
· Running in the second position at the competition caution, Reddick came off pit road out front, with the No. 8 Guaranteed Rate Camaro ZL1 taking the lead on the restart.
· While at the top of the leaderboard, Reddick blew a right-rear tire, forcing the No. 8 Camaro ZL1 into the wall to bring out the caution on lap 67. Sustaining too much damage to continue, Reddick brought his car to the garage to end his day.
· Under caution, crew chief Justin Alexander brought Austin Dillon and the No. 3 Get Bioethanol Camaro ZL1 to pit road for a two-tire stop, with Dillon gaining 17 spots on pit road to come out first off pit road.
· The conclusion of Stage One saw four Camaro ZL1’s in the top-10, led by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in the fourth position after starting the race at the rear of the field due to repairs made following wall contact during yesterday’s practice session.
· Stage One Team Chevy Top-10:
4th Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 SunnyD Camaro ZL1
6th Chase Elliott, No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts Camaro ZL1
8th Ross Chastain, No. 1 AdventHealth Camaro ZL1
10th Austin Dillon, No. 3 Get Bioethanol Camaro Zl1
Stage Two:
· Running in the second position, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. blew a right-rear tire, making contact with the wall to bring out the caution on lap 109. The No. 47 SunnyD Camaro ZL1 team was able to make repairs to replace the toe link and put Stenhouse Jr. back into competition.
· Following a caution on lap 137, the leaders brought their cars down pit road for a round of pit stops. First in on pit road; the No. 48 Ally Camaro ZL1 Crew Chief Greg Ives called for a four-tire stop for Bowman, with the team also winning the race off pit road for a front row restart position.
· Bowman went on to take the Stage Two win, marking the No. 48 Ally Camaro ZL1 team’s second stage win of 2022.
· Stage Two Team Chevy Top-10:
1st Alex Bowman, No. 48 Ally Camaro ZL1
3rd William Byron, No. 24 Liberty University Camaro ZL1
5th Chase Elliott, No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts Camaro ZL1
7th Kyle Larson, No. 5 HendrickCars.com Camaro ZL1
10th Ross Chastain, No. 1 AdventHealth Camaro ZL1
Final Stage / Post-Race Notes:
· Chevrolet drivers took five of the top-10 finishing positions at Kansas, led by Alex Bowman and the No. 48 Ally Camaro ZL1 team in fourth.
· In 28 NASCAR Cup Series points-paying racing, Chevrolet continue to lead all manufacturers in NCS race wins (16), top-fives (66), top-10s (122), and stage wins (23).
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THE MODERATOR: We're going to go ahead and get started with our post-race press conference. Joined by the winner, Bubba Wallace, driving No. 45, 23XI Toyota. We'll go straight to questions for media.
Q. Bubba, with winning at Talladega last fall and it being rain-shortened, does this one mean more to you?
BUBBA WALLACE: I mean, it's just as special. Anytime you can get to victory lane in the Cup Series, it's a moment you don't want to let go. Unfortunately, we have to shift our mind and focus on Bristol now, but we'll celebrate tonight.
You know, to win it in this fashion, yeah, it's definitely really cool. We're talked about when we go to the speedways and kind of not so much the rest of the tracks, so I want to start changing that. We've been able to show up these last two months or so, all different types of racetracks, and be talked about. That's cool. It's a step in the right direction.
We just can't get complacent. We have to keep going, keep pushing for more. This is great, but we have to continue to go back out and battle. I appreciate the opportunity that I'm in right now with the team that I have and keep going.
Q. Was this the best race of your career, the best race where nothing went wrong and so it just looked good?
BUBBA WALLACE: We had a loose wheel, so something went wrong. We really capitalized, though, I think, in those moments. Before I would get frustrated. Don't get me wrong, I was frustrated. I thought we had a really good car. You never know what's going to happen when you get back there. I knew we had a lot of laps in front of us. Take our time, get back up through there and held three or four laps. We were already top 20, I think.
Just had to have a level mindset going into that. Like, okay, we're going to bounce back from some adversity.
Then, honestly, I started calling the shots. I said, When we break the threshold of fifth, it ramps up, and we need to be ready for that.
Then I said, Once we get the lead here, our balance has to be able to hang on to that, and it fell right into our hands.
Just hats off to these two guys here sitting on top of the box looking at all the nerd stuff that they do and making the most of it because it goes hand in hand with each other.
Q. The relative calmness that you felt when you were just out front today, why? Where did that come from, and how has that changed over the last couple of years for you?
BUBBA WALLACE: I get excited, and I get let down a lot when I'm excited, so it's better to come into it ho-hum and be relieved with the win at the end of it. It's really, really cool.
I think you never know when it's over. You had Denny behind us that was coming pretty hard, but it was going to take a really big mistake for him to get to me. So I was really focused on that. I didn't have time to think about anything else.
Q. Kurt Busch tweeted "We are winners again. Proud of Bubba Wallace and 23XI Racing for getting it done today." How does it feel to kind of pick up the mantle and be the guy to have to carry all this? It's not like you haven't had the weight on your shoulders probably since you got here, right?
BUBBA WALLACE: Yeah.
Q. This is just one more test, but to pass it with flying colors, to pull off the W, it's got to feel good under these circumstances. I mean, even probably better than normal.
BUBBA WALLACE: Oh, no doubt. First of all, Kurt, hate the scenario that we're in with him, but he has been nothing but an advocate and a leader in these moments for us. When we get back to our Monday morning meetings, he is there giving insight on how to be better. I appreciate him for that.
It's taught me how to be better off the racetrack, let alone on the racetrack. And the conversation I had with him in victory lane was really special. He just talked about believing in self, and he always believed in me, and so I thought that was pretty special.
Q. Denny said yesterday, he said he would not be surprised if a non-playoff driver won at Phoenix. It kind of completely upset the apple cart. Here we are in the second race of the playoffs; we have two non-playoff drivers getting it done.
BUBBA WALLACE: You never know with this car. We're up to 18 winners, and I think it's really cool with some of the races that we've been put on this year and the races that we've been able to capitalize on. It's going to come down to Phoenix, and I hope we're there winning. That would be awesome. Win us another championship.
THE MODERATOR: We're going to take a quick break and have Bootie join us up on the stage. And then, Denny, if you want to come too, please.
Now we have the whole team up here. We'll continue with questions.
Q. Bubba, I'm curious, you often hear from drivers who talk about they feel like there's a big difference between winning that second race and winning that first race in the sense of no longer being a first-time winner. I know it's early. Is there a significance other than obviously the accomplishment, but what does it mean to be a two-time winner as opposed a one-time winner in your mind?
BUBBA WALLACE: Yeah, I think it's incredible. I think winning at this level is the hardest thing in life for us race car drivers. To be able to say we're winners today here at Kansas through the year that we've had and what we've been able to do the last couple of months is incredible.
I'm proud of everybody. Proud of Bootie. Thankful for Denny for just continuing to believe in me and make the most of every opportunity.
To come out winners, I knew it was only a matter of time. Had a lot of people telling me that. So it's finally cool to see it come to fruition. Two times is better than one time.
Q. I also have a question for you and Denny, or Bootie can jump in. I know after the race Chris Gabehart was talking to Denny and talking about how he felt like a key moment was the last pit cycle and how you are so good on pit entrance, pit exit and a green flag cycle, and not being a driver, you know, what that skill is like and what you have been able to do and how you have honed that skill. And whether, Denny, you can talk about or, Bootie, what you can talk about what you have seen in how he has done in that. Because Chris seemed to indicate that felt like that was an important aspect of the race today.
DENNY HAMLIN: Yeah. I didn't do any practice pit-ins, but Bubba historically is -- on the metrics been really good on green flag entries. So I kind of knew that it was going to be tough for me to gain, so I kind of focused just on not making a mistake coming to pit road.
He had such a big lead on us anyway, I think probably three or four seconds. When -- I think probably three seconds. When we came to pit road, I thought just let me do a solid job here. Yeah, he just smashed us pretty bad, I think by about a second.
We lost by exactly one second. Again, you still have to pass him, right? That's a whole other thing. I think I got held up with the 20 quite a bit. So you just never know.
It would have been a great battle until the end, but he did a better job than I did on that green flag cycle for sure.
Q. Bubba, how have you been able to get better? Obviously, there's so many things that a driver has to be skilled in, but obviously, this seems to be one that you are very good and how you got to that point.
BUBBA WALLACE: There's a lot of metrics in our JGR metric sheet. There's about 1,000 pages. I take pride in trying to be at the top of those. Some weeks you are. Most weeks I'm not, but pit-in, pit-out, green flag stuff has always been one of my strong suits.
Honestly, they said, Pit now, and I'm like, Okay, and just was able to capitalize, and that was it. Didn't do anything fancy, but just one of those high traits that we carry. It worked out for us.
THE MODERATOR: Bootie, do you have anything on add on the topic?
BOOTIE BARKER: No.
BUBBA WALLACE: Man of few words.
Q. What's it like racing in a different championship compared to what most fans are seeing on the front end? Because, obviously, all the running orders showing who is in the driver's playoffs, but you alluded to it earlier, you are chasing that owner's championship. What's this win, what's this momentum kind of mean going towards the next last races?
BUBBA WALLACE: This locks us into the next round. First playoff experience for me at the Cup level. It's really cool.
I remember the conversation that Denny pulled me aside down in Florida, and he goes, Hey, we want you to drive the 45 and compete for a championship. We believe in you.
It's continue to do what we do. I didn't walk away from that being, like, oh, man, we got to ramp it up here. We've been stellar. We've been really, really good.
It's only a matter of time, and the little bit of things that we needed to clean up, and here we are today. We executed today. Still wasn't a perfect day, but we were able to execute and bounce back and make the most of it.
That's what we need to continue to do. Yeah, it's going to ramp up as we get closer to Phoenix, but right now we're focused on Bristol, and that's it.
Q. Denny, did you know this was the choice you needed to make once you knew Kurt would be out of the car at the start of the playoffs?
DENNY HAMLIN: Yeah, we talked internally about it, and we just felt like we were really trying to build a one-team culture. And a lot of teams try to do that, right? Even at JGR we're pretty much four independent teams.
We're trying to mesh this into we're able to switch pit crew guys at any moment from one team to another. When one team wins, the other pit crew is going to get bonuses just as well.
We're really trying to instill a really positive one-team mentality. So by doing that and having an eligibility in the owner's championship, we're able to just pick apart and put our best pieces in each section of a race team to go out and compete at our best. Bubba Wallace was an easy choice for us. Especially the results that he has given us over the last two to three months.
It's just been great, and the speed is really that he has shown all year. He really just took a huge jump this year in his craft from last year, and it was a very simple decision for us. I think we knew that Bubba was going to take a lot of pride in being the flagship driver for us for these last ten.
Q. This one is for Denny. When you first started this whole operation, obviously I'm assuming you envisioned a scenario where you and Bubba would be fighting for the win, both of you trying to get some playoff points. How does that line up with your initial timeline of trying to be competitive?
DENNY HAMLIN: I'm not really -- I don't really understand it completely, but I knew that the moment would come. I mean, I think that it happened for the first time really this spring with Kurt. I kind of got a front row seat to him battling for the win. Same thing today.
I watched the 45, and I'm going up the field with him, and I see him passing, and I see him go take the lead. Then I'm really trying to get there. I'm really frustrated from how our first 160, 170 laps went. I was chewing the steering wheel pretty heavily. I wanted to get there and get a win despite all the adversity that our team went through today.
But yeah, like I said in my interview post-race, there's no way that Bubba ever expects me to give him anything. He wants to know that he went out here and earned the win today and that it was not given to him. My lap times those last 20 laps proved that I was giving it every single bit that I had, but he just out-executed us, out-track-positioned us, and out-cared us today.
Q. Then just following up on that really quick, based on how the season started with the stuff that happened, like mishaps on pit road, how satisfying is it that this was nearly a perfect performance with a dominant car and pit crew that was great all day?
DENNY HAMLIN: They did really a good job with this 45 team, and this team was -- the pit crew has been with Kurt Busch for most of the year. We locked them in, this core group, for probably the last 10 to 15 races. They've done a great job, and they've been really solid.
I think a lot of people had a lot of issues on pit road. Certainly we were one of many, but I saw him in the back of the pack just like we were, and he was able to get through the traffic faster than I was.
That's the pivotal point of the race where I think that he has really improved in the sense of that typically when that happens, no offense to Bubba, but sometimes the wires get crossed. Today it just seemed like he was very methodical in his way back. This is overcoming adversity.
Everyone has something that happens in the middle of the race that takes them off of schedule. Today was a great moment for that team to battle back from the back and get to the win.
Q. I don't know if it's because of where we are or how you did it or because it's the second one, but this one feels so much more like normal to me. Like everything about victory lane --
BUBBA WALLACE: It's not raining.
Q. Yeah. I was waiting for all three of you. Do you share that sentiment? Does this feel somewhat more like a normal win? I guess, is that a good thing?
BOOTIE BARKER: Certainly. I'm really happy for Bubba and our team. I'll just say this. It's a pleasure working with Bubba. He has gotten better and better. I thank Denny a lot for going out on a limb and taking his money and putting it on the line to start the team.
All of that being said, we want -- we know how good we are. We knew. Knew how good Bubba was, how good he has been all year. So I feel very happy for him in the fact that we took it to him. There's no what are you going to say? What can you throw rocks at us about this time?
I'm just really happy for our whole organization and especially Bubba for how we did it.
BUBBA WALLACE: Yeah, echo. Sure. (Laughing.)
Q. Denny, as an owner and as a crew chief, I want to turn the conference a little bit. This being a special day, 9/11. There's a lot of military members, like myself, out there. Can each one of you just -- what does this win on this somber day mean to all of you?
BUBBA WALLACE: Look at what we're representing on our car. Root has always been bold. They've always been out there, and they wanted to make a statement each and every time. For them to honor the heroes we lost on 9/11 was really cool to begin with, the initiative to begin with.
And then to follow through and execute and come out on top, you can't make it up, right? It's a picture-perfect day. It's a story well written. Just proud to be able to carry the colors, carry the sponsor, and carry the names of all our heroes that we lost that day.
I see it means a lot to you, and I appreciate your service.
DENNY HAMLIN: We all know where we were at, right? I remember I was at Rick Townsend's shop putting the exhaust in my new late model, and when it happened, it was just a day that's burned in our souls, right? You see the images, and at times, listen, we're all guilty of forgetting sometimes. Then around this day you start to see the images again. You're, like, wow, you can't forget.
It's really an honor for us to be out there and represent the military and the first responders that came running into a burning building. They're the true heroes of this world for us. We can't thank their service enough.
That's why you see what NASCAR does every single week with the American flag. It's something that is very loud and proud and on every hauler, on every uniform, because it's really a big deal for our sport to honor people like you.
BOOTIE BARKER: I would like to say, I love being an American. I hated what happened to us then. I was proud of our country how we came together and recognized the ones that sacrificed to try to save people.
I also back our military just because, hey, I'm just pretty blatant about it. It's us. Even with our race team, it's us, and I don't care about anybody else. I'm an American, and I love being an American, and I don't care about anybody else.
I appreciate a strong military. I'm somewhat of a historian. Rome ruled the world for 1,000 years, and they could stomp people with their military. They were strong. I feel like we have to be strong as nation. We have to be strong as a military so we can do what we want to do.
All those people fought for our freedoms, and what that means is by dictating our own terms everywhere, people like us get to do what we want to do, and I'm appreciative of it.
I hated that it happened. I hope it never happens again, but we remember all of it.
Q. This is for Denny. Denny, since your race team won here in the spring and then here again in the fall, I'm wondering how much does that increase the chance of Michael Jordan coming back to the state where Dean Smith was born and seeing his race team race firsthand?
DENNY HAMLIN: Well, he loves racing. Trust me. He loves going to NASCAR races. A lot of times TV likes to show him when he is in attendance, but a lot of times he comes, and they don't even see him. He likes to sneak in, sneak out.
He is a guy that loves this sport. We can't thank him enough and Curtis and Gene that is with his business team that ultimately, like Bubba touched on in his interview, that really believed in us.
Ultimately, Michael believes in the people that he hires. Even though he says, okay, let's go ahead and start a race team, it's still no-go until you have the backing of Curtis and that whole team. We can't thank them enough for what they do for our team.
They really taught me a lot on the business side. I continue to learn on it. It's my responsibility to make sure these cars go fast. Pressing all the right buttons, hiring all the right people to make sure says we win races.
But, yeah, it's a perfect partnership. It really is. I couldn't ask for anything better. He loves Bubba. He loves this race team. I never would have imagined a team that started from scratch literally from scratch, we had nothing, just two years ago to now have three race wins. It's just incredible. I can't tell you how hard it is to win in this Series and to do what we're doing right now is incredible.
Especially with this five-year plan of trying to get to a championship-contending organization. I'm the realist in the group, knowing that we still have a ton of ground to cover, but we're starting to really get the results that this hard work is starting to pay off.
We've got a lot of great things in the works in a few years. Hopefully you're going to talk about this team winning on a more regular basis, but never in my wildest dreams would I imagine that we would go out there and have three wins already in just a year and three-quarters.
Q. But he won't be coming?
DENNY HAMLIN: I don't know. I don't keep his schedule. I do not know. That's the short answer.
Q. Bubba, you're the first black driver to win more than one Cup race. I'm curious what does that mean to you to set that historic mark?
BUBBA WALLACE: Yeah, it's incredible. Just makes you think back to when it all started 20 years ago and how we were just showing up to races. And each and every weekend my dad would always look for the stiffest competition to make us better. It was a lot of fun.
It actually reminds me of the conversation I had with Harvick on the grid talking about Keelan being able to do his first asphalt Legend Cars race and how eye-opening that was.
I remember showing up to these places for the first time and just trying to be the best of the best. It all relates to that question. You just want to show up and win. Whatever history comes in after that, it all settles in behind because there's no greater thing than winning. I appreciate all the support from our fans and family and just got to keep it going.
Q. One for Denny, one for Bootie. For Denny: Are you surprised non-playoff drivers have won the first two races, and that combined with the 18 different winners this season, is that the kind of unpredictability you thought you would see?
DENNY HAMLIN: Yes. I mentioned it earlier this week that I thought that this could be the first potential year that somebody wins the race at Phoenix that's not part of the championship four.
Just simply because we used to -- when we used to build our own cars and design our own cars, we would just kind of save the best stuff for the end of the season. Everyone would just kind of front-load a lot of their best people, best parts, best bodies, best cars for the playoffs. There's no secret that really the ones that kept advancing, cars just got faster.
They started pushing tech a little bit more. It was just no -- it wasn't a coincidence that the final four is always one, two, three, four. With the car having so much parity, certainly I think this is a trend that could continue.
I don't know how long the list of new winners is going to get. We're at 18 now. Bob can call me out. I said at Sonoma, there's no frickin' way that we even get to 14. Yeah, it's been amazing.
Everyone has won it legit. Guys go out there and execute and win races. It's been, obviously, great for the product because people tune in to not know who is going to be the race winner, and I think for the last few years you tune in, and knew that the race -- the race is going to be won by one of three organizations, and maybe one or two drivers within those organizations.
It's good that the love is getting spread around and drivers now that are in equal equipment are able to show what their talent is all about.
Q. For Bootie: Could you just kind of comment on both Bubba's driving performance and the team's performance, which included the round of green flag stops on that 96-lap run to the finish?
BOOTIE BARKER: Yeah. Really since we've unloaded all weekend as far as Bubba goes, I mean, when you have positive momentum when you do things right -- I'm very careful to say this. I mean this in -- I don't know, it's easy. Okay, but it's not easy. My point is --
BUBBA WALLACE: It makes things easier.
BOOTIE BARKER: Yes. Practice goes smooth. He and I talk. We don't even have to talk long. He tells me what he needs. We work on it. We go fast.
You qualify well. You get a good pit selection. It's just all of those things stack up. That's all the things you need to do.
Right now it's definitely we're clicking, we're doing well. As far as how he drove the race, I didn't say this to him, think about this: At the end of the race, he takes the lead or he takes the lead on his own and stretches the lead. By stretching the lead, it gives me the ability to just go -- JR and I sit there and call the races. We knew with the lead he got us, all we had to do was protect behind us. We had a hedge to do that. That makes it easy.
Then the pit crew he got on and off pit road well. Better than anybody else. They had an awesome stop. Then you're gone. You're out front. You've got it.
What I give to Bubba, though, a testament to Bubba, though, he didn't push his car. I let him know how far he was ahead. Really he rode. He saved his car. He didn't get anxious. He didn't make any mistakes. He didn't burn his stuff up. He knew the guys were behind him, and he just ran what he had to do.
That takes a tremendous amount of discipline and not letting the moment get too big. He didn't at all.
Really the moment didn't get too big for any of us. We did what we had to do. I'm proud of him. I'm proud of our crew.
Q. With the announcement that Wilkesboro is coming back for the All-Star Race in 2023, how good does it feel to be locked into the main event now?
BUBBA WALLACE: Oh, yeah. Sweet, (Laughing). Damn, that's cool. That's going to be a cool event. I hope so.
But just thankful for the opportunity. I know I continue to say that. See, I don't even focus on that stuff. You go out and win, and all of the good things fall in place. We don't have to race our way in now. That's sweet, yep.
DENNY HAMLIN: With all the heat winners we're going to have a full field, (Laughing). Maybe NASCAR can twist the format a little bit, you know?
Q. Bootie, you're a multi-winner as a crew chief in the Xfinity Series, and now with this win you're a multi-winner in the Cup Series. That stat goes back as far as 2002 in the Xfinity Series. What does that mean for you with your career being on top of the box?
BOOTIE BARKER: Like I said, what Denny and Michael put together, I told Wheels, Mike Wheeler, who is our competition director. I get along with all the people, but I'm just saying the depth. I told Wheels, I said, it's never been better than it is for me right now, the quality of people.
Denny got upset with us months ago, rightfully so, but his message was, What do you need? Whatever you need, whatever it costs, it doesn't matter.
I remember that. I have never been with an owner. I've been with owners, I'll tell you all the truth, where they go, Look, you need to run better, and I'm taking your rear changer, and you need to cut back on your budget a bit, but I expect you to do better. That's the opposite of what Denny has brought to the table.
I appreciate that, and it's just we're loaded. We're loaded. We're looking for all the rest of the best people as we keep going.
Like I said, Bubba, we talked about it all year. Even when I was suspended, I would call him and go, man, you are driving so well. I know it just doesn't seem so. It was frustrating, but he kind of -- we kind of knew it. You just go the to keep grinding.
I guess as far as my career, it's the same way. God blessed me. I was lucky. I was lucky to get here. I'm lucky to be in the position I'm in, and I appreciate it.
Like I said, if it ends tomorrow, if Denny says you're done tomorrow, I've had a hell of a ride, and I appreciate it. I'm hoping to keep going. I want us to keep contending and winning races because, like I said, it's better than I've ever had it.
Q. Obviously, your teammate Kurt Busch won earlier in the year here. Remembering that race back, you were right there with him on speed. You had a bad, I think, pit mishap at the end that didn't give you the finish you deserved. Was it vindicating to come back here the very next race and drive about as good of a race as you could have and get the win?
BUBBA WALLACE: Yeah, no doubt. I think looking back at the first race, I'm selfish, and I think we were better than the 45. We just didn't have the track position to show that. He took home the hardware to show that he was better than us.
But coming back here and actually it kind of all sparked in Michigan and figuring out what we had and understanding that Michigan setup was based around our Kansas setup, our first Kansas setup, and coming back here, not much different than that. And it's like, okay, we have to ramp up here, and the car is going to be good. It puts more pressure on me. Hey, the car is good. Are you going to deliver and execute and give the car its full potential?
We executed on all levels on the racetrack, on pit road, and communication was awesome today. It's just one of those things. You hate that you were in that scenario the first race, but it makes you come back stronger, and look where we're at.
Q. You guys have been just on a fantastic run. This is six Top 10s in the last nine races. All sorts of tracks too, road course, Michigan, Kansas. Doesn't really matter, you guys have been running well everywhere. Just where is the confidence with the extent to going for it the rest of the year and in 2023?
BUBBA WALLACE: What I struggled with in the Cup car previously was confidence in the car and actually trusting it. With this car I was sidelined. I had shoulder surgery right after the season, and I didn't get much testing, but I told myself going in that I needed to step up and do a better job and push the car to its limits.
If you don't do that, you don't know where the limits of the car is at. The last -- really all year, like Bootie said. We've been doing a good job. The results have not shown that, but if I take a minute and brag about self, this is my best season ever of climbing in the race car and being, like, all right, pal, it's time to go to work, and you leave it all out there and not regret any decision that you make. Look how we've been running.
It all starts with self. If you don't show up with confidence, then you're not going to run very good, so you definitely have to show up with that.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, gentlemen, very much.
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The ARCA Menards Series went racing shortly after 10:00 a.m. ET. for the Kansas Lottery 150 at Kansas Speedway. The postponed event that was scheduled to take place on Saturday featured 21 entries for the 150-mile race.
Corey Heim survived ARCA overtime to claim his ninth career ARCA Menards Series victory. Piloting the No. 20 Toyota, Heim dominated the event leading 101 of the 105 laps and finishing 0.430 seconds over Nick Sanchez.
“It was definitely a great performance for us from what we had in the spring. Going through that adversity, I feel like we should have had a really similar performance back there in the spring,” said the winner. “To come back here and put on a show like that, it’s pretty special.”
In 43 ARCA starts, Heim holds 31 top five and 41 top 10 finishes.
Nick Sanchez fell shy of scoring his fifth career victory in the ARCA Menards Series at Kansas, a track that he’s won at twice. The series points leader leaves the 1.5-mile oval with nine top-five and 14 top-10 finishes – along with three wins this season.
“I think we were just chasing the 20 (Heim) all day and we just fell a little short,” Sanchez said. “We never lost sight of him, we just didn’t have the speed.”
Sammy Smith rounded out the top three finishers Sunday morning. Through 13 starts in 2022, Smith holds 12 top five and top 10 finishes along with three trips to victory lane.
Daniel Dye and Ryan Huff rounded out the top five.
Placing inside the top 10 included Parker Chase, Christian Rose, Amber Balcean, Toni Breidinger, and Jon Garrett.
From Athens, TX, Garrett picked up his first top 10 in just his third career start.
The event was slowed four times with two of the yellow flags for competition cautions.
The series heads to Bristol Motor Speedway for a combination event with the ARCA Menards Series East on September 15th. FOX Sports 1 and MRN Radio will carry the broadcast. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72863-arca-corey-heim-wins-kansas-lottery-150-at-kansas-speedway | 2022-09-12T00:37:49Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72863-arca-corey-heim-wins-kansas-lottery-150-at-kansas-speedway | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Tuesday, September 6, Liz Truss met Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral, Scotland. We saw her with the queen in a warm handshake as she became Britain’s historic third female head of government. The world clapped and congratulated her. Two days later, the Queen was dead. That is death. Sometimes it comes swiftly and stealthily; some other times with lightning and thunder. Whichever it is, it is the living who tells the taste, not the dead. Like the Belarusian novel of the Second World War, ‘The Dead Feel No Pain.’ Elizabeth II was a strong woman whose strength lay in floating with the sea of a changing world. She was a woman who had under her skirt, and in her bag, more than a lady’s content. Her ancestor, Elizabeth I, who reigned for 45 years and died on 24 March, 1603 at the age of 69, reportedly said of herself: “I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach, and the cock of a king.” It is the same with this departed queen. The world felt her soft masculinity for 70 years and, at her death, poured out in emotional millions. Those who experienced her ‘cock’ in Nigeria have been speaking too and it is with the distinct character of the Nigerian flavour.
Because we are not a normal people in Nigeria, our contribution to a global pool of discourse on the departed has been from a polluted tributary. The death of a celebrated 96-year-old citizen of the world drew daggers from one Uju Anya, a US assistant professor with an anger rooted in the 30-month Biafran war. In a tweet, she described the departed queen as “the chief monarch of a thieving, raping genocidal empire.” In another, she accused the queen’s government of contributing to the death of half of her family, ostensibly during the Nigerian civil war. She was bitter that Her Majesty’s government supported Nigeria against her attempted country from 1967 to January 1970. She, therefore, spat phlegm of fire on the casket of the departed queen and wished pains for the dead. English comedian and actor, Ricky Gervais, said “when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.” The stupid is so called because they lack capability to know of their own lack of capacity. Uju got loads of replies; some came as barrel bombs against her person, her grouse and her house. I also felt that her choices, words and manners, were gross, very inappropriate. But she got huge endorsements from persons who called her their kin. She is a professor of Linguistics and she thinks cursing a dead ‘foe’ would heal her of a very bad history of war, defeat and the attendant losses! Sobbing and weeping have measures; when tears flood the eyes and blind the bereaved, they lose the patting of sympathy. The world noticed Anya’s statement and its inappropriateness and reacted. Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, read her tweets and tweeted: “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.” I don’t think so too that she has not made poorer all who share the human space with her. Her verbal (and finger) incontinence will continue to rub off badly on her and the soul of her essence; the fabric of her grievance is rent too, whatever it was.
Our ancestors ask us to always remember that whatever faces us is turning its back on someone somewhere. When Uju attacked the late queen and called her an enemy of her people, it did not occur to her that an Igbo man was, at a time, secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations headed by that queen. I watched the old man, Emeka Anyaoku, on television and he had very many good, great things to say of the departed queen. Igbo people anywhere are very enterprising people. But my people have a saying about strong, enterprising people who talk too much about their supposed strength and who lack good strategy. They say such are the fathers of the weak. The world is a forever battlefield; you cannot win there by turning everyone into your enemy.
Probably, a consequence of Queen Elizabeth’s death is a reopening of the Nigerian wound. Nigeria fought a civil war which ended in January 1970. The Igbo who lost the war believe it has not ended. They think they deserve explanations and apologies from Nigeria for defeating them. They also believe other parts of Nigeria are still fighting them. But that is not true; if a war is on in Nigeria today, it is another war which the Igbo need to properly define and join others to defeat. If it is not true that the last war ended in 1970, why was it that just nine short years after the war, an Igbo man, Alex Ekwueme, became the vice president of Nigeria? The vice president of any country in a presidential democracy is one death away from the top job. Is it also not true that twelve years after the war, Emeka Ojukwu, the strong man who led the Igbo into that war, came back from exile and joined forces with the conservative north against other parts of the country? The Biafran leader was pardoned on May 18, 1982 by President Shehu Shagari. Exactly one month after, on June 18, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu landed in Nigeria at 11.55 a.m. Riding in an open-roof SUV from the airport, he was triumphant in his entry – an exact opposite of how he left the country in January 1970. A report of that journey said that before he boarded his Boeing 727 aircraft from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where he was on exile for twelve years, Ojukwu shouted “Long live Nigeria.” The man came back home and built his hut in the compound of the ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN). His people clapped and danced and endorsed his very ‘wise’ decision; he (and they) subsequently donated iron straws and reeds, poles and ropes to build an enduring structure for the enemy.
Nigeria is a country of victims. Wherever you turn, you see them, and that include all of us. Britain under Queen Elizabeth II took many decisions that, till date, victimised millions in Nigeria. One of those decisions is what the late Alaafin Lamidi Adeyemi described as this unfair, carnivorous union of lions and deers. But we can continue to fight and engage the system in a way that our right would not become wrong. Again, what we call victim is villain in the books of the other side. I wish those still angry about the civil war would accept that people died on both sides. There was a Colonel Victor Banjo, a Yoruba officer who was executed by his friend, Ojukwu. His offence was that he stalled a Biafran takeover of the West. His family and friends would not forget, but they’ve moved on. We cannot build a life of peace with the closed mind of recriminations. So, let Elizabeth take her bow in peace without further shelling. Besides, kingship comes with baggage – good and bad – each one drawing from the history of what they inherited. Elizabeth II became queen at 25 and died at 96; her ancestor, Elizabeth I, became queen at 25 and died at 69. Numerologists will have their things to say about these patterns of entry and closure and their values. Conjugal and marital scandals and controversies are never far from palaces. Elizabeth I, at the beginning of her reign, told the English parliament in 1559 that she would live, rule and die a virgin: “this shall be for me sufficient that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.” And she did. But why? History says she dreaded marriage or was appalled by what her father made of the institution of marriage. This is how a historian, Scott Newport, put it: “Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII, married a total of six times, and as the famous mnemonic rhyme goes, they were divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Of those beheaded of treason and adultery was her own mother, Anne Boleyn, on 19th May, 1536, when Elizabeth was not quite three years old. However, although Elizabeth was too young to understand the ‘speed and ruthfulness of Queen Anne’s downfall’ she was fully aware of her stepmother, Catherine Howard’s execution on 13th February, 1542, when she was eight years old. Once Catherine was arrested, her father ‘refused even to let her plead in her own defence.’ Of her four other stepmothers, two were divorced and cast aside; one died at childbirth and the other barely survived due to an implication of suspected heresy, months before her own father’s death. Therefore, Elizabeth’s views of matrimony with regard to her own father’s marriages can only have been connected to alienation or death, whether by childbirth or beheading.”
Beyond what the ‘Biafran’ woman said about the late queen, other Nigerians have also had quality time to discuss the departed sovereign and how she handled issues of matrimony in the palace. She had a wonderful married life; there were no (known) scandals involving her or her husband, Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh. But with her household, the world has had a mouthful. Her son, the new king, married Diana Spencer after dating her sister, Sarah. He later divorced Diana in a very bitter way to marry his old flame, Camilla Parker Bowles, another man’s wife. When Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a Paris car crash on 31 August, 1997, the world dropped bouquets of anger at the Queen’s high grounds. Discussions on Diana and Elizabeth II, her son, her grandsons and their own issues will continue till history says enough. And history will never say so.
Now, everything, good or bad, when they get to Nigeria, they acquire federal character. And, you know, human experience is an elephant in a city of the blind. Each citizen reacts according to the part they feel. There are those who benefited from what aches Uju Anya and her Biafra ‘family’ and they are not quiet too. One Bashir El-Rufai, said to be the son of a northern governor, also went to Twitter to post a message of appreciation to the departed queen and her British empire. He thanked the departed for handing over Nigeria and everything in it to his north: “The British colonial establishment placed the north at the peak of power in my dear country. For that, I will always be indebted to the British Royal Crown and (for) the method of indirect rule for my people and our dear monarchs. Rest In Peace, Queen Elizabeth.” Like the Uju woman, Bashir also got replies, some from the north, supportive; many from the south, damning. There are those who replied him with photos of hopeless street children and of war and want – all taken in the north. They ask the governor’s son to what good the inheritance has benefited the inheritor of this slice of the British cake. You know how the wise looks at an ostrich who buries its head in the ground and thinks it has escaped from predators? The truth is that the ostrich, as it stands, is an easy prey. When flightless birds celebrate the origin of their problems, they mock their own intelligence, endanger themselves and imperil their species. What the British built for our north is a palace without peace; a throne of thorns. I hope Bashir and all who celebrate what he said know that the market is almost over. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/the-igbo-and-death-of-a-queen/ | 2022-09-12T00:56:46Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/the-igbo-and-death-of-a-queen/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) survey of economists. You can read the report here, or in very brief:
- Annual GDP growth is expected to ease to below 3 percent for the years ending March 2024 and March 2025 before increasing to just above 2 percent in the subsequent year
CPI forecasts ... ugh:
- Annual CPI inflation hiked to 7.3 percent in the year to June 2022. It is expected to moderate to 4.8 percent in 2023 and ease to 2.1 percent in 2026.
NZIER also survey the economists on the kiwi $ outlook: | https://www.forexlive.com/news/new-zealand-economists-downgrade-their-forecasts-for-economic-growth-and-the-nzd-20220912/ | 2022-09-12T00:56:57Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/new-zealand-economists-downgrade-their-forecasts-for-economic-growth-and-the-nzd-20220912/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There will be no PBOC CNY reference rate setting today, Monday, 12 September 2022.
China's markets are closed for the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.
Hong Kong & South Korea are also out.
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China's absence will thin out interest in regional markets today.
AKA Mooncake Festival. A holiday for cake, what's not to love? | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/reminder-china-is-on-holiday-today-markets-closed-no-yuan-fixing-20220912/ | 2022-09-12T01:01:01Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/reminder-china-is-on-holiday-today-markets-closed-no-yuan-fixing-20220912/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I posted on this last week, referencing a post from back in June when intervention talk was all the rage also:
Via eFX, Citi with similar:
"Based on our rough understanding from past FX-interventions by the MoF, there are four stages of language before an actual intervention occurs.
- Stage 1: Excessive and disorderly movement in exchange rates is undesirable.
- Stage 2: We will closely monitor movements in exchange rates.
- Stage 3: We will take determined actions if necessary.
- Stage 4. We have just carried out an intervention (on the implementation)," Citi notes.
"Finance Minister Suzuki's expression regarding "necessary action" this Wednesday is half a step forward from the June statement, but we do not think it represents a transition to the stage three. In other words, we think that Japanese authorities are still at the stage two," Citi adds.
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USD/JPY lower from option-related selling ahead of 145 mid-week and also on more determined jawboning from the MoF and Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda on Friday: | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/the-4-things-to-watch-prior-to-bank-of-japan-fx-yen-intervention-20220911/ | 2022-09-12T01:01:07Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/the-4-things-to-watch-prior-to-bank-of-japan-fx-yen-intervention-20220911/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A visiting U.S. diplomat on Sunday urged Sri Lankan authorities to tackle corruption and introduce governance reforms alongside efforts to uplift the country’s economy as a way out of its worst crisis in recent memory.
USAID Administrator Samantha Power told reporters that such moves will increase international and local trust in the government’s intentions.
“Assistance alone would not put an end to this country’s woes,” Power said. “I stressed to the Sri Lankan president in my meeting earlier today that political reforms and political accountability must go hand in hand with economic reforms and economic accountability.”
She said that international investor confidence will increase as the government tackles corruption and proceeds with long sought governance reforms. “As citizens see the government visibly following through on the commitment to bring about meaningful change, that in turn increases societal support for the tough economic reforms ahead,” she said.
During her two-day visit, Power announced a total of $60 million in aid to Sri Lanka. After meetings with farmers’ representatives at a rice field in Ja-Ela, outside of the capital Colombo on Saturday, she announced $40 million to buy agrochemicals in time for the next cultivation season.
Agricultural yields dropped by more than half for the past two cultivation seasons because authorities had banned the imports of chemical fertilizers ostensibly to promote organic farming. She said that according to the World Food Program, more than 6 million people — nearly 30% of Sri Lanka’s population — are currently facing food insecurity and require humanitarian assistance.
On Sunday, she said an additional $20 million will be given to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to vulnerable families.
Sri Lanka has faced its worst crisis after it defaulted on foreign loans, causing shortages of essentials like fuel, medicines and some food items.
It has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a $2.9 billion package to be disbursed over four years. However, the program hinges on Sri Lanka’s international creditors giving assurances on loan restructuring. Sri Lanka’s total foreign debt is more than $51 billion of which $28 billion must be repaid by 2027.
Power said that the U.S. stands ready to assist with debt restructuring and reiterated that it is imperative that China, one of the island nation’s bigger creditors, cooperate in this endeavor.
Infrastructure like a seaport, airport and a network of highways built with Chinese funding did not earn revenue and are partly blamed for the country’s woes. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-usaid-head-urges-crisis-hit-sri-lanka-to-tackle-corruption/ | 2022-09-12T01:01:21Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-usaid-head-urges-crisis-hit-sri-lanka-to-tackle-corruption/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The last operating reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is Europe’s largest, was shut down Sunday to reduce the threat of a radiation disaster amid the continuing fighting.
The move became possible after the plant was reconnected to Ukraine’s power grid.
Here is a look at the situation at the plant after 200 days of Russia’s war:
RADIATION THREAT
Fighting near the plant has fueled fears of a disaster like the one at Chernobyl in 1986, where a reactor exploded and spewed deadly radiation, contaminating a vast area in the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe.
The plant, one of the 10 biggest atomic power stations in the world, has been occupied by Russian forces since the opening days of the war. Ukraine and Russia have traded blame for shelling around the plant, which hasn’t damaged its six reactors or spent nuclear fuel storage, but has repeatedly struck power lines and some auxiliary equipment.
While Zaporizhzhia’s reactors are protected by a reinforced shelter that could withstand an errant shell or rocket, a disruption in the electrical supply could knock out cooling systems essential for the reactors’ safety. Emergency diesel generators can be unreliable.
After the facility was knocked off transmission lines Sept. 5 following a fire caused by shelling, only one reactor remained operational to power cooling systems and other crucial equipment in so-called island mode.
RISKY ‘ISLAND MODE’
Functioning in “island mode” supplies power for the residual heat removal of the reactor cores and the spent fuel pools.
Experts say it is very unreliable. They point out that if the diesel generators fail, a core meltdown could occur within hours.
If the reactor is already turned off, the risk depends on the time since shutdown. The less time has passed, the more cooling is required.
While the pool containing Zaphorizhzha’s spent fuel is located inside the plant’s containment area, a serious reactor mishap would likely affect the pool as well.
WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW?
Ukraine’s nuclear operator Energoatom said the restoration of one of power lines linking the plant to the country’s power grid allowed engineers to shut down its last operating reactor.
Energoatom said the move was necessary to prevent a situation when the plant would have to rely exclusively on emergency diesel generators to keep the reactors cool and prevent a nuclear meltdown. The company’s chief told The Associated Press on Thursday that the plant only has diesel fuel for 10 days.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog which has two experts at the plant, confirmed to the AP on Sunday that its last reactor was shut down after external power had been restored.
IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi has called for a safe zone around the plant to avert a disaster but the fighting has continued.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says that he cannot imagine that tensions with neighboring NATO ally Turkey could ever escalate into armed conflict.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke at a press conference Sunday at the Thessaloniki International Fair, where he gave the keynote speech Saturday outlining his government’s economic policy goals.
Asked by The Associated Press whether a recent escalation in rhetoric from Turkey, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, could be the prelude to an armed conflict, Mitsotakis replied negatively.
“I don’t believe this will ever happen. And if, God forbid, it happened, Turkey would receive an absolutely devastating response. And I think they know it very well. Turkey knows the competence of the Greek (armed) forces,” he said.
Erdogan has accused Greece of occupying supposedly demilitarized islands in the Aegean Sea and has threatened that Turkey would take action.
Mitsotakis added that, despite Erdogan’s “unacceptable” comments, he was still open to dialogue and a meeting with him.
Mitsotakis linked Greece’s unequivocal support for Ukraine to concerns that, if Russia prevails, it could serve as an example to other countries with expansionist designs.
“There is a dividing line between the countries that respect the inviolability of borders (and) the rules of international law and those who believe that, based on the law of the strongest, they can target countries they believe are weaker and change the borders on a whim,” Mitsotakis said.
Mitsotakis added “it is very important to give Ukraine the chance to negotiate a peace with Russia on its own terms and certainly not as the loser in this war.”
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Demetris Nellas contributed from Athens, Greece | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-greek-leader-says-armed-conflict-with-turkey-wont-happen/ | 2022-09-12T01:01:43Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-greek-leader-says-armed-conflict-with-turkey-wont-happen/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers to accompany him this week on what he calls his “pilgrimage of peace” in Kazakhstan for a meeting of religious leaders.
In remarks to the public in St. Peter’s Square, Francis noted that on Tuesday he begins a three-day visit to that central Asian country to participate in a gathering of heads of world and traditional religions.
“It will be an occasion to meet so many religious representatives and to dialogue as brothers, animated by the common desire for peace, the peace for which our world is thirsting,” Francis said.
“I ask everyone to accompany with prayer this pilgrimage of peace,” the pontiff said.
He had been hoping to meet during his trip with the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who has sought to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on spiritual and ideological grounds in a “metaphysical” battle with the West.
But earlier this summer, Kirill bowed out of the interfaith gathering.
Francis had the first-ever encounter between a pope and a Russian Orthodox patriarch in 2016. Plans for a second encounter earlier this year were postponed over the diplomatic fallout of the war in Ukraine.
After Francis cited his pilgrimage, he urged continued prayers for the Ukrainian people, so that the “Lord gives them comfort and hope.” He said that a Polish cardinal who serves as his official almsgiver is currently in Ukraine, to visit various communities and give concrete testimony of the closeness of the pope and the Catholic church. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-pope-seeks-prayers-for-his-peace-pilgrimage-in-kazakhstan/ | 2022-09-12T01:02:11Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-pope-seeks-prayers-for-his-peace-pilgrimage-in-kazakhstan/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — People wanting to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she lies in state at the Houses of Parliament in London need to be prepared for a long wait.
The government has published guidelines for people wishing to file past the late queen’s closed coffin as it lies in state at the Palace of Westminster from 5 p.m. (1600 GMT) Wednesday until 6:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) on Sept. 19. Thousands are expected to want to pay tribute to the only monarch that many in the United Kingdom have ever known.
The rules were made public a day after thousands of people lined roads and bridges Sunday as a hearse carried the queen’s coffin across the Scottish countryside from her beloved Balmoral Castle to Edinburgh.
“If you wish to attend the Lying-in-State, please note that there will be a queue, which is expected to be very long. You will need to stand for many hours, possibly overnight, with very little opportunity to sit down as the queue will be continuously moving,” the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said in its guidelines.
The closed coffin of the monarch who died Thursday at 96 will rest on a raised platform called a catafalque in Westminster Hall at the Houses of Parliament.
“Large crowds are expected, and there are likely to be delays on public transport and road closures around the area,” the ministry warned.
Visitors will have to pass through airport-style security and can only bring one small bag with one zipper opening. Larger bags can be stowed at a special facility — but only if there is space available.
The ministry advises people to bring essentials for a potentially long wait exposed to whatever elements an early fall day in London can throw at them — an umbrella or sunscreen, a cell phone power bank and any needed medication.
No food or liquids will be allowed past security screening at the Houses of Parliament. Nor will flowers or other tributes such as candles, toys or photographs.
“Please respect the dignity of this event and behave appropriately. You should remain silent while inside the Palace of Westminster,” the advice says, adding that people must dress appropriately and turn off their mobile phones before going through security.
Included in a list of things not to do: “Film, photograph, use mobile phones or other handheld devices in the security search area or within the Palace of Westminster. Bring or erect gazebos or tents. Light barbecues and fires.”
And a long list of prohibited items includes fireworks, smoke canisters, flares, whistles, laser devices and other items that could be used to cause a disturbance as well as any banners, placards, flags, advertising or marketing messages.
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HSINCHU, Sept. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brain Navi, the leading surgical robot manufacture in Taiwan, announced a strategic partnership with distributor, Medtreq Medical Equipment, to expand the distribution of the Surgical Navigation Robot, NaoTrac, throughout the region of GCC region, Jordan, Egypt plus other countries in the Middle East and Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore which will be covered by Medtreq branch in Philippines.
NaoTrac, a CE-certified and local government approval neurosurgical navigation robot from Brain Navi Biotechnology, is embedding dissimilar technology named SMART Technology which combining the machine vision and in-house algorithm to perform robot-assisted surgery, to streamline surgical procedures with real-time imaging and minimal invasive outcomes.
"We are always scouting for the new technology to help as many people as we can. We have many neurosurgeons coming from Riyadh and some other territories keening and willing to learn more about this technology, and the NaoTrac from Brain Navi is one of them. We are always happy to partner with an innovative technology company," said Sherif Bayoumy, the General Manager of Medtreq Medical Equipment.
The collaboration and partnership between Brain Navi and Medtreq enables greater innovative outcome in the Middle East neurosurgery, such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, and some of the other countries on progressing, to streamline the surgical procedure, improve the surgical accuracy and pass-on knowledge to shorten the learning curves. "We seek strategic partners that can accelerate Brain Navi's growth mission. This partnership is a significant step toward scaling our business and getting more robot-assisted neurosurgery into the world," said Jerry Chen, the CEO of Brian Navi Biotechnology. "The collaboration between Metreq and Brain Navi is looking positive because we share the same mission to innovate with technology to make the life bright. We truly believe that the collaboration between Brain Navi and Medtreq can maximum the value of both sides to bring the neurosurgery to the next level."
About Metreq Medical Equipment Bahrain
Medtreq Medical Equipment provides professional technical support and after-service to clients in the MENA region with a presence in Bahrain and GCC, Egypt, North Africa, Turkey, Europe, the United States (Medtreq Tenessee USA), and the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Medtreq is built on high values, principles, and social commitment to society and humanity.
About Brain Navi
Brain Navi Biotechnology is a leading Taiwanese surgical robotic company. We design and develop innovative navigation and robotic surgery technologies for surgeons to improve surgical accuracy. Brain Navi's exclusive Surface Mapping Auto-registration Technology (SMART) is a significant surgical robotic breakthrough that merges machine vision, robotics, and AI technology to achieve streamlined surgical procedures with real-time imaging and minimal invasive outcomes.
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TORONTO (AP) — Three years after premiering “Knives Out” at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rian Johnson returned to the scene of the crime to debut his much-anticipated whodunit sequel, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
When Johnson introduced the film to the eager Princess of Wales Theatre audience on Saturday night, he didn’t calmly stroll out on the stage with a polite wave to the crowd. He sprinted.
“Are you guys ready to have a good time?” yelled Johnson. “Are you ready for a fun whodunit?”
The roar of the crowd made it clear that, yes, they, too, could hardly wait. The “Knives Out” films almost perfectly bookend the last three pandemic years; the original “Knives Out” had premiered in the same theatre almost exactly three years prior, where Johnson’s modern spin on a retro genre more or less blew the roof off.
“It’s surreal,” said Johnson, the 48-year-old director of “The Last Jedi” and “Looper,” in an interview ahead of the premiere of “Glass Onion.” “It’s so strange thinking of the 30 years that have gone by in the three years since we played a movie at Toronto.”
If “Knives Out” bridged a long-ago movie world — a cocktail of eccentric murder suspects hounded by a colorful sleuth — with contemporary issues of class and ethnicity, “Glass Onion” had the task of collapsing pre-pandemic moviegoing with today’s still unfolding recovery. The film, set in early 2020, starts with characters in masks and Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc in lockdown — soaking in his bathtub, mostly — and hungry for a new case.
“Part of the real pleasure of it for me is having a whodunit that’s not a period piece but set in modern America and that fully engages with whatever’s on people’s minds at the time — hopefully in a way that’s still completely encased within an entertainment,” said Johnson. “I hope we pulled that off again.”
The boisterous audience response and glowing reviews out of Toronto suggested that Johnson, who also wrote the film, did just that. While the less said the better about the many-layered plot of “Glass Onion,” it revolves around tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton), who invites a small group of friends to his private island (much of the film was shot in Greece) for a murder mystery party. The cast includes a standout Janelle Monáe, Dave Bautista, Madelyn Cline, Kathryn Hahn, Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick and Leslie Odom Jr.
Johnson juggles themes of truth and stupidity with echoes of today’s American politics, and also takes a satirical approach to tech moguls. In the film, Bron considers his inner circle a gang of “disrupters.”
That will strike many viewers as either fitting or ironic considering that “Glass Onion,” unlike “Knives Out,” is a movie for Netflix, a self-styled Hollywood disrupter that over the past decade has radically altered the movie business. After “Knives Out” became one of 2019’s biggest hits, grossing $311 million worldwide against a $40 million budget, Netflix swooped in to pay $450 million for two sequels.
That’s put particular focus on the release of “Glass Onion,” a likely box-office success if it were released widely in theaters, at a time when the film industry is grappling with the equilibrium between streaming and theaters. While Netflix often gives its most prominent films several weeks in select theaters before streaming, the streamer and exhibitors discussed a wider release for “Glass Onion.” Currently, that’s not expected; Netflix will stream the film beginning Dec. 23 after a theatrical run beginning in November.
“This movie, above everything else, is designed to be a good time with a big crowd of folks in a theater,” said Johnson.
As far as the specific theatrical rollout, Johnson said it’s still being worked out. “To be decided,” he said.
“I want as many people to see the movie in theaters as possible,” said Johnson. “Having said that, I know a lot of people discovered ‘Knives Out’ with their families at home once it was streaming. But this movie is so designed to be seen with a crowd in a theater. It’s less like ‘Top Gun’ where it’s about the big experience of the screen and the sound, and it’s more about being surrounded by people who are going to be having as much fun as you.”
“My goal is to hopefully have it be so if you want to see it in a theater, you can,” added Johnson. “But we’re still TBA.”
Johnson, who emerged with the 2005 neo-noir “Brick,” with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, said he’s not so far removed from his independent roots that he isn’t happy with simply having the backing of a major distributor.
“As a form of self-defense, I have a serenity that if you make a good movie, you put it out there and people will find it,” said Johnson. “At the end of the day, you just have to reach a place of Zen because everything is changing so quickly.”
Johnson has again picked a movie title that relates not just to the storyline of his movie but that corresponds with a notable rock song. (Radiohead has their own “Knives Out.”)
“I honestly just searched through my music library for songs having to do with glass,” said Johnson, chuckling. “With apologies to Blonde, this was my favorite glass-centric song. The title has an oddness to it that reminds me of ’70s paperbacks or even some Agatha Christie titles. There’s a pleasant oddball-ness to calling a big movie ‘Glass Onion.’”
In a parallel universe, Johnson might have spent the last seven years working on “Star Wars.” Around the release of “The Last Jedi” — which remains a groundbreaking if contentious entry in the “Star Wars” canon — Johnson was tapped to develop a trilogy. Though there has yet to be any publicly announced plans for that, Johnson said that door hasn’t necessarily closed.
But he’s also having an awful lot of fun making “Knives Out” mysteries. There will be at least one more. At the premiere, Craig said: “I’d work with this man for the rest of my life.”
“I had the best experience of my life making ‘The Last Jedi.’ I don’t know if I’ll ever top it professionally. And I really hope that I get to do it again. I hope to come back and do more ‘Star Wars’ at some point,” said Johnson. “But it’s pretty fun having something that’s entirely our sandbox.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The discovery of hundreds of classified records at Donald Trump’s home has thrust U.S. intelligence agencies into a familiar and uncomfortable role as the foil of a former president who demanded they support his agenda and at times accused officers of treason.
While the FBI conducts a criminal investigation, the office that leads the intelligence community is also conducting a review — currently on pause pending a court order — of the damage that would result from disclosure of the documents found at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
The investigation comes at a perilous time in American politics, with increasing threats to law enforcement and election workers and as a growing swath of officials assail the FBI and spread baseless theories of voter fraud. There’s already a wide range of speculation about what was in the documents, with some Democrats pointing to reporting about possible nuclear secrets while some Trump allies suggesting the case is a benign argument about storage.
So far, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence has proceeded cautiously, issuing no public statements and declining to answer questions about the review’s structure or how long it will take.
A look at what’s known and expected:
NOT A FORMAL ‘DAMAGE ASSESSMENT’
According to the government, the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago and papers the Republican former president had turned over previously included highly sensitive “Special Access Program” designations as well as markings for intelligence derived from secret human sources and electronic signals programs. Those forms of intelligence are often produced by the CIA or the National Security Agency, and the underlying sources can take years to develop.
The ODNI review will try to determine the possible damage if the secrets in those documents were to be exposed. It has not said if it’s investigating whether documents already have been exposed.
Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, confirmed the review in a letter to the chairpersons of two House committees. Haines’ letter says the ODNI will lead a “classification review of relevant materials, including those recovered during the search.” Experts say that could include non-classified papers with notes written on them that might reference classified information.
Haines’ letter also says her office will lead an assessment of “the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents.”
That’s different from a formal “damage assessment” that intelligence agencies have carried out after high-profile breaches like the disclosures of programs by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Damage assessments have specific requirements under intelligence community guidelines published online, including an estimate of “actual or potential damage to U.S. national security,” the identification of “specific weaknesses or vulnerabilities” and “detailed, actionable recommendations to prevent future occurrences.”
Under those guidelines, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, a subsidiary within the ODNI, would lead a damage assessment. The center is led by acting Director Michael Orlando as President Joe Biden has not yet nominated a chief counterintelligence executive.
It’s unknown whether the intelligence review will include interviewing witnesses. Haines’ letter says the ODNI will coordinate with the Justice Department to ensure its assessment does not “unduly interfere” with the criminal investigation.
For now, the Justice Department has said the ODNI review is paused after a federal judge barred the use of records seized at Mar-a-Lago in a criminal investigation. “Uncertainty regarding the bounds of the Court’s order and its implications for the activities of the FBI has caused the Intelligence Community, in consultation with DOJ, to pause temporarily this critically important work,” attorneys for the government said in a court filing.
THE ANSWERS COULD BE UNSATISFYING
The results may not come for weeks or months, and full findings will likely remain classified.
Lawmakers in both parties are calling for briefings from the intelligence community. None is known to have been scheduled.
Former officials note that it’s often difficult for agencies to diagnose specific damage from an actual or potential breach. Given the political climate and the unprecedented nature of evaluating a former president, the ODNI is widely expected to be limited and precise in what it says publicly and privately to Congress.
But reviews like the one underway often help top officials and lawmakers better understand vulnerabilities and how to manage risk going forward, said Timothy Bergreen, a former Democratic majority staff director for the House Intelligence Committee.
“No healthy organization or society can exist without comprehensive review of its mistakes,” Bergreen said. “That’s always been a democracy’s big advantage over authoritarians.”
AN OFFICE CREATED AFTER SEPT. 11
Lesser known than many of the agencies it oversees, the ODNI was created in the reorganization of the intelligence community after the Sept. 11 attacks. Amid revelations that the FBI and the CIA did not share critical information with each other, the ODNI was intended to oversee the 18-member intelligence community and integrate the different streams of collection and analysis produced by different agencies.
The ODNI supervises the drafting of the President’s Daily Brief, the distillation of top American intelligence provided to Biden and top advisers daily. Haines is the president’s principal intelligence adviser and often briefs Biden in the Oval Office along with other national security leaders.
Trump went through three directors of national intelligence in his last year, part of his long-running battles with the intelligence community.
Some of his top officials were accused of selectively declassifying information for political purposes. And before, during and after his time in office, Trump has accused intelligence officials of selectively leaking material to undermine him or not being sufficiently loyal.
He was incensed by the long-running investigations into allegations of Russian influence on his 2016 campaign, calling them the “greatest political CRIME in American History.” And he excoriated the person who spoke to a whistleblower about his pressuring Ukraine for derogatory information, saying that person was “close to a spy” who could have committed treason.
Under Biden, Haines and other top officials have been involved in declassifying information about Russia’s war plans against Ukraine. They have also faced questioning about overly optimistic assessments of Afghanistan prior to the fall of Kabul.
Michael Allen, a former Republican majority staff director of the House Intelligence Committee, said the ODNI is uniquely positioned to handle such a closely watched review.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Former President George W. Bush took part in a first ball ceremony in Texas, Aaron Judge put on special cleats at Yankee Stadium and the New York Mets wore first responder caps as Major League Baseball paused Sunday to remember the Sept. 11 attacks.
There were moments of silence, remembrances and tributes at ballparks all across America on the 21st anniversary of 9/11.
“It’s a moment in our country’s history. We all have certain things we remember, where we were when it happened and how we felt. So many people involved, so it’s a chance to honor those people today. Realizing the people and families that were affected by this that are still feeling the pain from it,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said before a game in Miami.
Bush, who was president on the day of the attacks, was at Globe Life Field as the Rangers played Toronto. He joined Jimmy Pollozani, a police officer in nearby Fort Worth, and Pollozani’s 13-year-old daughter, Andita, in the ceremony.
They represented police officers, firefighters and first responders across the state. Andita threw the pitch to Rocky Wolfe, a firefighter from the central Texas city of Killeen.
Bush famously delivered a perfect strike before Game 3 of the 2001 World Series at Yankee Stadium between the Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks weeks after New York City’s twin towers fell.
There was a moment of silence before the Blue Jays and Rangers played. During the Canadian and U.S. national anthems, Bush stood between Texas interim manager Tony Beasley and first base coach Corey Ragsdale in front of the home dugout.
Bush delivered the ball to Andita and gave her a hug and a word of advice before she threw from just in front of the mound. Afterward, Bush gave a fist bump to her father before they left the field.
Bush received rousing applause when he was announced. As he headed toward the Rangers’ dugout afterward, some fans chanted, “USA! USA!”
All Rangers and Blue Jays personnel in uniform wore a special Patriot Day patch on their caps. Special lineup cards and base jewels were used.
Bush was part of the investment group that owned the Rangers from April 1989 until June 1998 and remains involved with the club. He and wife Laura have lived in Dallas since he left the White House in January 2009.
At Yankee Stadium as New York played Tampa Bay, Judge wore cleats marking the day. His left cleat had “9/11 Patriot Day” on the back and the right one had “9-11-01.”
The Yankees wore hats in tribute of 9/11 responders rather than their interlocking NY.
Starter Domingo Germán’s cap said NYPD and there was a mix of FDNY. He sprinted to the bullpen to warm up holding an American flag in his right hand, drawing cheers from a crowd that had been sitting through a rain delay.
Germán said he was inspired by watching Sammy Sosa running with a flag in the Chicago Cubs’ first home game following the attacks.
“It was a way to show support to the country, to the people, the victims, and today I felt like it was a good way to kind of replicate that and show that horrific event, you remember what happened, and that it’s close to your heart,” Germán said through a translator.
“That moment marked me as a kid, so I always felt that given the opportunity, given the right time, I wanted to do it, and it happened here with the Yankees. I guess it’s something that my kids can see and hopefully use it as inspiration,” he said.
Manager Aaron Boone placed a wreath at the monument in Monument Park that was dedicated on the first anniversary of the attacks.
Yankee Stadium public address announcer Paul Olden began a brief pregame ceremony by calling the attacks “an unsuccessful attempt to break the spirit of our great nation.”
Firefighter Regina Wilson sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” after the Port Authority Honor Guard presented the colors.
The Mets wore caps with insignias representing New York first responder departments. Featured were the city’s police and fire departments as well as Port Authority Police and departments of sanitation and correction.
Anthony Varvaro, a former big league pitcher who retired in 2016 to become Port Authority police officer, was killed in a car accident Sunday morning in New Jersey on his way to work at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in Manhattan.
Varvaro, 37, was born in Staten Island and played at St. John’s before becoming a reliever for Seattle, Atlanta and Boston from 2010-15.
“We are deeply saddened on the passing of former Braves pitcher Anthony Varvaro,” the Braves said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and colleagues.”
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Albert Pujols hit his 697th home run, moving past Alex Rodriguez into fourth place on the career list and doing it in dramatic fashion with a ninth-inning drive that rallied the St. Louis Cardinals over the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 Sunday.
The NL Central-leading Cardinals trailed 2-1 when Pujols connected for a two-run drive. Pujols had tied Rodriguez with a home run Saturday night.
Pujols trails Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) on the all-time homer chart.
“There’s impressive and then there’s unbelievable,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “What we’re witnessing right now is legendary. You have to take a step back from managing the game and take it all in. It’s amazing.”
In his chase for 700 homers, the 42-year-old Pujols has 21 games left in his 22nd and final season in the big leagues. He’s hit 18 home runs this year.
“This opportunity only comes once and it’s something that’s a gift God has given me and I try to take advantage of it every single day,” Pujols said. “I’m not only making memories for me but for the fans, my family and people who love me.”
“At the end of the day, it’s pretty awesome and we’re playing great baseball and have a great group of teammates,” he said.
The Cardinals went to the ninth inning trailing 2-0 but scored four runs off Chase DeJong (4-2).
Tommy Edman and Corey Dickerson led off with back-to-back doubles to produce the first run. Pujols followed with his homer to put the Cardinals on top.
One out after Pujols connected, Tyler O’Neil hit a solo shot to cap St. Louis’ big inning.
The Cardinals won on a day when first baseman Paul Goldschmidt and third baseman Nolan Arenado, two NL MVP candidates, got the day off.
De Jong entered the game with a 19-inning scoreless streak.
“Really poor execution falling behind to a really good hitter,” De Jong said of Pujols’ home run. “I left a fastball over the middle of the plate. It should’ve been down. Stuff that was supposed to be up was down, and stuff that was supposed to be below the zone stayed in the zone. That’s on me completely, and I have got to execute better in key situations like that.”
Greg Allen’s two-out home run in the bottom of the ninth drew the Pirates within 4-3. Ryan Helsley then got Ben Gamel to fly out for his 16th save.
Chris Stratton (8-4) retired both batters he faced.
The Cardinals had been shut out on three hits through the first eight innings but rallied for their eighth win in their last 11 games. The Pirates missed a chance to win their first series since sweeping Milwaukee from Aug. 2-4.
Edman had two hits to run his hitting streak to 13 games.
Mitch Keller pitched seven scoreless innings for the Pirates, allowing just two singles. He struck out six and walked three.
The Cardinals’ Jose Quintana pitched one-run ball over 5 1/3 innings. It was his first start against the Pirates since they traded him to St. Louis on Aug. 1.
Rookie Jack Suwinski homered in the seventh to give the Pirates a 2-0 lead. Oneil Cruz drove in the game’s first run with a grounder in the third.
ANOTHER WINNING SEASON
The Cardinals clinched their 15th consecutive winning season Saturday night with a 7-5 victory over the Pirates. That ties the franchise record set from 1939-53.
SHELTON EJECTED
Pirates manager Derek Shelton was ejected by home plate umpire Clint Vondrak in the third inning for arguing a checked-swing third strike on Bryan Reynolds. It was Shelton’s four ejection of the season.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: Off Monday before opening a three-game home series with Milwaukee on Tuesday. LHP Jordan Montgomery (8-3, 3.08) will start for St. Louis. He is 5-0 with a 1.45 ERA in seven starts since being acquired from the New York Yankees in a trade.
Pirates: Open a four-game series at Cincinnati on Monday with RHP Bryse Wilson (2-8, 6.11) facing LHP Mike Minor (4-10, 5.70). Wilson is 0-2 with a 6.85 ERA in his last five games.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ahead of the U.S. Open trophy ceremony, Iga Swiatek pulled on a white jacket with “1GA” written in black over her heart — the numeral replacing the “I” of her first name represents her No. 1 ranking.
Above that were three gold stars to reflect her updated total of major championships: There’s the one she won Saturday at Flushing Meadows and the pair from the French Open in 2020 and this June (when her pullover sported two stars).
If Swiatek keeps playing and performing like this, if she manages to remain healthy and grounded, they’re going to need to keep making new jackets for her.
Still just 21 yet already guaranteed a spot on the International Tennis Hall of Fame ballot five years after retirement, Swiatek is quickly establishing herself as a player no one wants to face. Especially in a final. Her 6-2, 7-6 (5) victory over Ons Jabeur in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday gave Swiatek 10 consecutive triumphs in title matches, every one in straight sets.
And to think: This is not her favorite surface, her favorite tennis balls, her favorite weather, her favorite site. Each of Swiatek’s past three trips to New York had ended with third-round exits. She arrived this time with few expectations and zero idea that it would be a two-week stay.
Which just all makes it that much more impressive.
Plus, as big as her forehand is, as skilled a returner as she is — winning half of Saturday’s 10 games served by Jabeur, who didn’t face a single break point in the semifinals — as speedy and full of anticipation as her get-to-every-ball court coverage is, it’s Swiatek’s ability to think her way through the crucible of a match that might be her most valuable ability.
“I’m proud that I have much more solutions and options on court than I had before, tennis-wise, but also mentally. I’m using these skills pretty well. I’m really proud of that, because I just know how it feels to not have ideas on court, not have anything you can change to make the match better,” said Swiatek, the first Polish tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles title. “Right now, it’s been a long time since I didn’t have any idea. So that’s great. It shows that I’m actually doing progress.”
That’s daunting for everyone else in the game.
“In the key moments, Iga plays a little bit better,” said Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, who counts the 1994 U.S. Open among her four Grand Slam singles titles and was advising Jabeur during the tournament. “Iga is just amazing. She has a lot of confidence and everyone knows she’s the top player right now on the tour.”
Swiatek is 55-7 with seven titles in 2022.
She’s now shown she can win on the red clay of Roland Garros and on the hard courts, and amid the hubub, of Flushing Meadows.
“I feel like she improved a lot from last year until the beginning of this year,” Jabeur said. “She’s, I think, working on a lot of things that get in her way.”
So there is little reason to diminish her chances on hard courts at the Australian Open, where she made it to the semifinals in January, or even on the grass at Wimbledon, even if she hasn’t been beyond the fourth round there.
Asked what she’s most excited about as she thinks about the future, Swiatek said she wants to see how, or whether, anything will be different now.
There will be more attention on her. There will be more away-from-tennis distractions.
“I’m going to see how I’m going to react,” she said. “Winning the U.S. Open is different than winning a Slam in Europe or in Australia, because I don’t know how the popularity thing is going to change, if it’s going to change.”
Then, with her latest trophy sitting in front of her, Swiatek offered this thought: “For now, I’m kind of going to observe and learn. For the future, I know I still have a lot to improve on court. That’s something that I’m excited for, because maybe it’s just going to get easier to play these matches.”
Easier? Look out.
Swiatek said this championship showed her “the sky’s the limit.”
She’s right.
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Write to him at hfendrich@ap.org or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HowardFendrich
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MONZA, Italy (AP) — Having won in front of his own fans last weekend, Max Verstappen did it on enemy turf on Sunday to leave the Red Bull driver within touching distance of a second straight F1 title.
Boos rang out from the passionate red-clad tifosi fans when Verstappen stepped onto the iconic Monza podium for the first time in his career, after winning the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday.
“I had a great view,” said a tactful Verstappen, whose previous highest finish at the track was fifth in 2018. “The atmosphere for me was not amazing. But it is what it is.”
Verstappen now has a 116-point lead over Charles Leclerc, who finished second after another questionable strategy decision from Ferrari on its home track. With just six races remaining, the Dutch driver could clinch the title in Singapore next month.
Verstappen started seventh after he was among a number of drivers hit by grid penalties but made his way up to third by the first corner of the second lap. The Red Bull driver then picked off George Russell in a Mercedes at the start of Lap 5 setting up the hunt for polesitter Leclerc in his Ferrari.
“The start was very good,” Verstappen said. “It was enjoyable to drive today even though it was quite hot out there. Great day for us.”
The Virtual Safety Car (VSC) gave Verstappen an opportunity as it came out on Lap 12 after Sebastian Vettel’s final race at Monza came to an ignominious end, with the four-time world champion pulling up at the side of the track after complaining about a power issue.
Ferrari decided to bring Leclerc in to change to medium tires, allowing Verstappen to take the lead. Leclerc rejoined the race in third.
“I think we all had a doubt, I think if I wouldn’t have done it Max would have done it,” Leclerc said.
“It was a bit unfortunate because in the middle of the pit lane we had the virtual safety car ending so we didn’t get all the benefit of stopping at that moment. And from that moment onward we were a little bit on the back foot.”
It has been a strange season for Ferrari, full of botched strategy decisions and bizarre incidents, but Leclerc believes it was just unfortunate timing at Monza.
“I think if you look at our season as a whole, for sure there’s been mistakes and we need to get better,” Leclerc said. “If today was a clear mistake, I don’t think so. It was just our choice and looking back at it you just cannot predict whenever the VSC is going to end.
“So, yeah, nothing to blame on anybody there. Just a bit unlucky and probably missing a little bit of pace too.”
Leclerc moved past Russell and then briefly regained the lead when Verstappen pitted on the 26th lap but the pair swapped places again seven laps later when the Ferrari driver pitted for new tires for a second time.
The safety car came out again shortly after last year’s winner, Daniel Ricciardo, pulled up on Lap 47 prompting most drivers to pit for soft tires.
However, a final battle never materialized when the race finished behind the safety car with Verstappen securing his fifth straight victory and his 11th of the season — one more than last year.
Russell was third, ahead of Carlos Sainz Jr. and Lewis Hamilton, who had both fought through the field after starting at the back of the grid following penalties.
Verstappen’s Red Bull teammate Sergio Pérez had also been hit by grid penalties and had started 13th but, despite an eventful race that also featured a brake fire, he managed to finish sixth and also pick up the extra point for fastest lap.
Lando Norris was seventh, after a poor start from third, with Pierre Gasly just behind him.
Williams reserve driver Nyck de Vries finished his first-ever F1 race in ninth. The 27-year-old was a late replacement for Alex Albon after the Thai driver was diagnosed with appendicitis.
“Wow, wow. Thank you, thank you very much. This has been incredible, points on debut, thank you,” De Vries said on team radio after crossing the line, before then uttering an expletive and adding “my shoulders are dead, dead.”
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Bubba Wallace won his second career NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday and denied the playoff field an automatic spot in the next round for the second straight week when he held off championship contenders Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell to win at Kansas Speedway.
Wallace, who is not among the 16 in the title hunt, got around Alex Bowman for the lead with 67 laps to go, then built a 2-second lead over a parade of playoff drivers trying to earn a win and ensure their spot in the round of eight.
Hamlin was at the front of it. And the co-owner with Michael Jordan of Wallace’s car at 23XI Racing managed to whittle about a tenth of a second off the No. 45’s lead over the closing laps. Hamlin ultimately ran out of time, and Wallace took the checkered flag in the same car that Kurt Busch won with at Kansas earlier this year.
“I knew Denny was going to be strong,” said Wallace, who stepped into the car while Busch deals with the effects of a concussion. “It’s cool to beat the boss, but it’s just cool to be lights-out today and come away with the win.”
Busch wasted no time in tweeting his congratulations.
Bell finished third and Bowman fourth with playoff outsider Martin Truex Jr. in fifth. William Byron, Ross Chastain, Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney and Daniel Suarez — all in the playoff hunt — rounded out the top 10.
Bell clinched a spot in the next round of the playoffs on points. The other 11 spots are up for grabs heading to Bristol.
Wallace also won during last year’s playoffs at Talladega, when he was likewise out of the title picture. And his win came after Erik Jones, who likewise missed out on the postseason, won a week ago at Darlington.
Wallace became the 18th driver to win this season.
“I was driving as hard as I could,” said Hamlin, who gave all he had to chase Wallace down. “Nothing will ever come free when you’re driving for me. If you think I’m going to let you win, you better find another team.”
Kevin Harvick spent the week ruing an inferno that ruined his playoff opener, and led to plenty of discussion of safety in the Next Gen car. But it was the aerodynamics of the car that ruined Sunday and left his playoff hopes in peril.
The trouble began when Harvick was caught four-wide shortly after a Lap 25 competition caution. Ross Chastain drifted in front of him, took the air off Harvick’s nose and instantly made him loose. The three-time Kansas winner touched the wall out of Turn 4, then hit hard again across the start-finish line, leaving him with heavy damage to the right side.
It’s the first time in a Cup career spanning 782 races that Harvick has failed to finish three straight races.
“It is what it is,” Harvick said. “We were racing to win anyway today, so that’s what we will do again next week.”
Tyler Reddick’s brilliant weekend, which included his first pole on an oval, likewise ended in the first stage when his right rear went down. That sent his No. 8 sliding into the wall, breaking the upper control arm in the right front.
“We leave here with not a lot of points,” Reddick said, “so we’re going to fight hard at Bristol.”
Stage 2 was just as frustrating to playoff hopefuls. Many had problems on pit road, including Kyle Busch, who not only had a penalty for an uncontrolled tire but later spun into the grass and went a lap down. Busch finished 26th and fell below the playoff cutline along with Harvick, Chase Briscoe and Austin Dillon.
Busch trails Reddick and Austin Cindric by two points heading to Bristol. Dillon is another point back.
ODDS AND ENDS
JTG Daugherty Racing learned that longtime team member JR Hollar died early Sunday. He was 57. The cause was not disclosed. … Ricky Stenhouse Jr. also had a right rear tire go down while running near the front, then Harrison Burton and Corey LaJoie wrecked on the restart.
UP NEXT
The final race in the round is Saturday night on the concrete at Bristol, where Busch won the Cup race on dirt in April.
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Wenatchee, Wash. --
UPDATE: Sept. 11 12:20 PM
The 3-year-old has been found and is back home.
ORIGINAL: Sept. 11 10:30 AM
Wenatchee Police Department is asking for the publics help locating a missing child. 3-year-old Kiovanni was reported missing from the 1300 block of Maple street, wearing just a diaper.
WPD says the child is autistic, non-verbal, won't come to you if you call him and is known to hide under cars.
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YAKIMA, Wash.-
Lucian Munguia was reported missing Saturday evening. Sunday, Yakima Police issued a statewide alert for the missing 4-year-old.
The alert is similar to an amber alert, but does not meet the requirements to be considered an amber alert.
The alert is being issued so law enforcement agencies and communities of the missing child.
Lucian is 4-years old, 4' 0" tall, 40 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
He was last seen wearing wearing a long sleeve shirts with a shark picture on it, blue shorts and black shoes.
He walked away from his parents and was last seen walking southeast from the Sarg Hubbard Park parking lot.
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14-year-old girl shot in the face in Chicago, hospitalized in critical condition
CHICAGO - A 14-year-old girl was shot in the face in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Sunday.
Police said the girl was in a house on West 81st Street near South Racine just before 5 p.m. when she was shot.
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She was rushed to Comer Children's Hospital in critical condition.
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INCREDIBLE VIDEO: Water jets into the air as Chicago is hit by flooding
CHICAGO - Crazy video shows water jetting into the air as Chicago was hit by relentless rain and flooding on Sunday, leaving residents unable to leave homes or even drive in some areas.
This video was taken in Albany Park at Harding and Lawrence in the morning.
Streets all over Chicago were so flooded that cars got stuck.
The rain started on Sunday morning and the storm system pounded Chicago for hours, leaving some residents dealing with flooded homes.
Photos from one home in Lincoln Square showed several inches of water in a bathroom and laundry room in a basement.
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Man dies a week after being shot on Chicago's Southwest Side
CHICAGO - A man has died after being shot in Parkview on Chicago's Southwest Side earlier this month.
Oscar Martinez, 42, was one of two people shot Sept. 2 in the 3600 block of West 85th Place, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
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He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said. He died early Friday, according to the medical examiner’s office.
A second man, 38, was shot in the knee and refused medical attention, police said.
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KENT COUNTY, Del.- A Pennsylvania man was killed after he was hit by a truck while riding his bike Saturday morning in the Camden Wyoming area.
Delaware State Police say that a group of bicyclists were riding in two rows going northbound on Apple Grove School Rd. away from Allabands Mill Rd. around 8:30 a.m. At the same time, a 2012 gray GMC Sierra was going southbound on Apple Grove School Rd.
Larry Yarbray of Chester, PA, 51, was riding his bike in the inside row, closest to the solid yellow line. The bicyclist in front of him began to slow down, and his front wheel hit the back wheel of the bike in front of him. He then lost control and swerved to his left into the southbound lane, just as the truck was approaching.
The front left side of the truck, hit the front right of Yarbray near the center of the southbound lane.
Yarbray was then forced under the truck and came to a stop on the grassy shoulder of the southbound lane.
The man was severely injured and taken by ambulance to Bayhealth Kent Campus where he died.
The 23-year-old driver of the truck was not injured.
Apple Grove School Rd. was closed to traffic for about 3.5 hours while the crash was investigated, and the roadway was cleared.
This crash remains an active and ongoing investigation. Anyone with information regarding the crash should contact Sergeant Wheatley of the Delaware State Police Troop 3 Collision Reconstruction Unit by calling 302-698-8518. Information may also be provided by messaging the Delaware State Police on Facebook messenger or calling Delaware crime stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333 or via the internet at http://delaware.crimestoppers.com/. | https://www.wboc.com/news/update-man-hit-by-truck-riding-bike-killed/article_9d4a94e8-3161-11ed-b969-9b9d156cc3e3.html | 2022-09-12T01:20:20Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/update-man-hit-by-truck-riding-bike-killed/article_9d4a94e8-3161-11ed-b969-9b9d156cc3e3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON, UK — People wanting to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she lies in state at the Houses of Parliament in London need to be prepared for a long wait.
The government has published guidelines for people wishing to file past the late queen's closed coffin as it lies in state at the Palace of Westminster from 5 p.m. (1600 GMT) Wednesday until 6:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) on Sept. 19. Thousands are expected to want to pay tribute to the only monarch that many in the United Kingdom have ever known.
The rules were made public a day after thousands of people lined roads and bridges Sunday as a hearse carried the queen's coffin across the Scottish countryside from her beloved Balmoral Castle to Edinburgh.
“If you wish to attend the Lying-in-State, please note that there will be a queue, which is expected to be very long. You will need to stand for many hours, possibly overnight, with very little opportunity to sit down as the queue will be continuously moving,” the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said in its guidelines.
The closed coffin of the monarch who died Thursday at 96 will rest on a raised platform called a catafalque in Westminster Hall at the Houses of Parliament.
“Large crowds are expected, and there are likely to be delays on public transport and road closures around the area,” the ministry warned.
Visitors will have to pass through airport-style security and can only bring one small bag with one zipper opening. Larger bags can be stowed at a special facility — but only if there is space available.
The ministry advises people to bring essentials for a potentially long wait exposed to whatever elements an early fall day in London can throw at them — an umbrella or sunscreen, a cell phone power bank and any needed medication.
No food or liquids will be allowed past security screening at the Houses of Parliament. Nor will flowers or other tributes such as candles, toys or photographs.
“Please respect the dignity of this event and behave appropriately. You should remain silent while inside the Palace of Westminster,” the advice says, adding that people must dress appropriately and turn off their mobile phones before going through security.
Included in a list of things not to do: “Film, photograph, use mobile phones or other handheld devices in the security search area or within the Palace of Westminster. Bring or erect gazebos or tents. Light barbecues and fires.”
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DHS chief warns of "emerging threat of the domestic violent extremist"
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told MSNBC Sunday the "threat landscape" has evolved in the 21 years since the 9/11 attacks from concerns about foreign terrorists to domestic extremists.
What he's saying: "Back when 9/11 occurred, in those years we were very focused on the foreign terrorist, the individual who sought to do a severe harm to enter the United States and and do us harm," Mayorkas said during his interview with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart.
- "It's then evolved, we began to be more and more concerned about the individuals already resident in the United States radicalized by a foreign terrorist ideology," Mayorkas continued.
- "Now we are seeing are seeing an emerging threat ... over the last several years of the domestic violent extremist," he added.
- "The individual here in the United States radicalized to violence by a foreign terrorist ideology, but also an ideology of hate, anti-government sentiment, false narratives propagated on online platforms, even personal grievances."
The big picture: Mayorkas pledged to make tackling domestic violent extremism a "National Priority Area" following the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection and announced last year the DHS was directing $77 million to state and local authorities to combat the rising problem.
- The Department of Justice opened a unit to investigate acts of domestic terrorism earlier this year after the DOJ and FBI reported that the threat of and investigations into acts of domestic terrorism had risen since 2020.
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U.S. Army Reserve Col. Sunny K. Mitchell, officer-in-charge, recruiting and retention, U.S. Army Reserve Command, holds her All Army Golf Championship medal she was awarded for winning the women's division of the competition at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, September 10. Mitchell goes on to represent the U.S. Army in the All Armed Forces Golf Championship being held at Fort Belvoir, Sept. 11-14. (Official U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent C. Powell)
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
The 7-day weather forecast for the Clarion County area is brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook.
Today – Showers, mainly before noon. Patchy fog between 7am and 9am. High near 72. Southeast wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight – A chance of showers, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. Light southeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday – Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 75. Southeast wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night – A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. Light southwest wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday – A chance of showers, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 69. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night – A chance of showers before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 53. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 76.
Wednesday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 51.
Thursday – Sunny, with a high near 74.
Thursday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 48.
Friday – Sunny, with a high near 75.
Friday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 53.
Saturday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 78.
7-Day Weather Forecast, brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook.
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All American Awards and Engraving Soldier Spotlight: John Goodman
John Goodman served our country in the United States Army Reserves and the National Guard.
Name: John R. Goodman
Born: September 20, 1956
Died: July 26, 2022
Hometown: Rimersburg, Pa.
Branch: U.S. Reserves & National Guard
John Goodman served in the Army Reserves and the National Guard.
Following his funeral service, military honors were presented by the Rimersburg VFW Post #7132 and American Legion Post #454.
He was laid to rest at the Rimersburg Cemetery.
Click here to view a full obituary.
All American Awards and Engraving is located on Route 322 in Shippenville. The company specializes in Embroidery, Screen Printing, all kinds of awards, trophies, engraving, unique gifts and more. As the company motto says, We can put “Almost Anything on Almost Everything”.
They can be found online at www.allamericanhq.com, by calling toll free 1-877-402-9273 and ask for Jim Carroll, or visit them here www.facebook.com/AllAmericanAwardsandEngraving
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Clarion County Photo of the Day
Sunday, September 11, 2022 @ 12:09 AM
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Bandito Chili Dogs
These deluxe chili dogs are a surefire hit at family functions and tailgates!
Ingredients
1 package (1 pound) of hot dogs
2 cans (15 ounces each) chili without beans
1 can (4 ounces) of chopped green chiles
10 hot dog buns, split
1 medium onion, chopped
1 to 2 cups corn chips, coarsely crushed
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Directions
-Place hot dogs in a 3-qt. slow cooker. In a large bowl, combine the chili, soup, and green chiles; pour over hot dogs. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours.
-Serve hot dogs in buns; top with chili mixture, onion, corn chips, and cheese.
Do you want to have your recipe featured as the Clarion County Recipe of the day? If the answer is yes, the process is quick and easy! Simply email your recipe to [email protected] with “Clarion County Recipe of the Day” as the subject. Also, we’d love for you to include a fun picture of the dish you’re sharing. Make your recipe famous today!
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Deer Creek Winery to Host Sunday Afternoon Entertainment by Ashleigh Bennett
Sunday, September 11, 2022 @ 12:09 AM
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Ashleigh Bennett will be performing live music on Sunday afternoon at Deer Creek Winery in Shippenville!
Enjoy a variety of indie, folk, and classical tunes from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 11.
Enjoy your lunch with a glass of Deer Creek wine, a wine slushy, or a beer from North Country Brewery, Straub, Yuengling, or Trails to Ales while listening to a local favorite.
A cafe menu is available including specials of the day.
Deer Creek Winery is located at 3333 Soap Fat Road, Shippenville, Pa.
For more information, visit Deer Creek Winery’s website here.
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Featured Local Job: Multiple Employment Opportunities at the Clarion Hospital
Sunday, September 11, 2022 @ 08:09 AM
Here is a list of career opportunities currently being offered at the Clarion Hospital.
Download this PDF for a full description of each position.
- Staff Nurse, RN – Med/Surg – 1 Full Time
- Staff Nurse, RN – ICU – 2- Full Time
- Certified or Registered Respiratory Therapist – Full-Time
- Polysomnographic Tech/EEG Tech – 1 Per Diem, 1 Full Time
- Staff Nurse, RN or LPN– Swing/Rehab. – 2 Full Time
- LPN – Med/Surg – 2 Full Time, 1 Per Diem
- Staff Nurse, RN –ED 2 Full Time
- LPN – Rehab/Swing, Per Diem
- Medical Technologist – 2 Full Time
- Dietary Aide – 2 Full Time
- Clerk/Phlebotomist – Full Time
- Ultrasound Tech – 1 Per Diem
- CT Technologist – 1 Full Time – 1 Per Diem
- EMT– 2- Full Time
- Medical Records Coder – Full Time
- Nursing Supervisor – 1 Full Time, 1 Per Diem
- Maintenance Supervisor- Full time
- Radiology Tech – Full Time
- CNA /Telemetry Tech – ICU – Full Time
- Paramedic – 2- Full Time
- ED Secretary/Aide- Full Time
- Housekeeping Aide – 1 Full Time
- Nursing Aide- Med/Surg – Part Time
- Registration Clerk – Full Time
- Wheelchair Van Driver– Full Time
Excellent benefits package available. Apply at www.clarionhospital.org or e-mail a resume to [email protected]
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Golden Eagles Run Well, but Fall to Huskies on the Road
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – The Golden Eagles once again showed the ability to move the ball on the ground, but Clarion was unable to take advantage in key swing moments as they fell 42-3 to Bloomsburg at Redman Stadium.
Similar to their first game of the season, Clarion moved the ball effectively on the ground, recording 38 rushes for 186 yards and a 4.9 yards per carry average against the Huskies. This time it was receiver Corahn Alleyne that did the lion’s share of the damage, carrying 10 times for 50 yards. He also caught six passes for 35 yards, and his 75 kick return yards gave him 160 all-purpose yards for the day. Khalil Owens added 46 yards on 11 carries, while quarterback Zach Benedek supplemented his offensive output with 37 rushing yards.
The Golden Eagles were generally able to move the ball on offense, but the difference in this game came in their ability to break through for the big play. Six Clarion drives ended in Bloomsburg territory, but only one of them ended with a score – a 25-yard field goal by Trent McDowell in the third quarter. Twice the Golden Eagles turned the ball over on downs inside the Huskies’ 40-yard line, with Alleyne tackled one yard short of the lead stick at the start of the second quarter and Owens tripped up in the third quarter.
Clarion’s scoring drive came midway through the third quarter, starting on their own 28-yard line. Benedek connected with Alleyne in the left flat for a first down early in the drive, and the quarterback converted a 3rd-and-1 when he found DJ Rawley on a crosser that took the team to near midfield. Benedek carried for eight yards on a 3rd-and-5 to crack Bloomsburg territory, and Owens ripped off his best run of the day – a 13-yard sprint through the middle – to get the team close. Alleyne took a sweep handoff 18 yards down to the Bloomsburg five-yard line, but the Husky defense stood tall and forced the Golden Eagles to a field goal by McDowell that made it 35-3.
Conversely, Bloomsburg took advantage of early opportunities to take the lead. On their second drive of the game, KJ Riley hit Nas Jones down the middle for a 34-yard touchdown pass to open the scoring, and Riley scored on a 57-yard quarterback keeper on his team’s second drive to make it 14-0.
The Golden Eagles did force a turnover in the second quarter, with Shane Kemper lowering his head and jarring the ball loose from John Ayres on a rush attempt. Robert Lachmann fell on the fumble to give Clarion possession. Later, the Golden Eagles blocked an extra-point attempt by the Huskies, with Deuce Lyons getting a hand on the ball as it went up. A rare blocked kick recovery / fumble into the endzone / kicking team recovery gave Bloomsburg the point anyway as they led 35-0 at that point.
Kemper finished the game with seven tackles and the forced fumble, while Griffin Buzzell notched six stops. Lachmann and Jake Tarburton each recorded sacks.
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How Harrisburg Works: The Rules for PA Lawmaker Per Diems, Speaker v. Leader, and Other Q&As
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Capitol is a convoluted place. Spotlight PA’s Stephen Caruso wants to help you understand how the sausage really gets made, how your tax dollars are spent, and how Harrisburg works (or doesn’t).
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“What are the rules for per diems?”
There are few restrictions on per diems, as Spotlight PA has previously covered.
When lawmakers travel more than 50 miles from their home on legislative business, they are eligible to receive compensation for their meal and lodging expenses, state House Comptroller Jennifer Benko said.
They can do so through three methods:
- Requesting a flat per diem as set by the federal General Services Administration. The exact rates differ depending on location and timing, but the per-day rate in Harrisburg is $181 — $117 for housing and $64 for food.
- Requesting a flat per diem as set by the IRS, currently $202 in most of Pennsylvania. A lawmaker who stays in Hershey or Philadelphia during certain months may receive more due to a cost-of-living adjustment for those areas.
- Submitting receipts for their actual food and lodging expenses, with a cap of $181 per day, as set by the GSA.
State House lawmakers who want to receive per diems must pick either the GSA or IRA rate and stick with it for an entire year, however they always retain the option of just submitting receipts. They must also attest that they were in the location on business.
The state Senate operates under largely the same rules, but there is no cap on the total reimbursement if a lawmaker submits receipts.
There are no specific lists of suggested hotels or restaurants for either chamber. Read more about lawmakers’ expenses here.
“What is the difference between the speaker of the house and the majority leader?”
The speaker of the state House is supposed to represent the whole institution, while the majority leader acts for their fellow party members.
The powers that come with those different roles are distinct.
State House rules charge the speaker, currently Bryan Cutler (R., Lancaster), with setting the session calendar, picking the chairs of each committee, referring bills to committees, and setting the date for special elections to replace members who’ve left office early.
The speaker, who is elected by the 203 members of the chamber, is also tasked with preserving “order and decorum” during debates. They call up bills for a vote from a set calendar, give the floor to lawmakers who want to speak, and make sure that the arguments don’t get off track.
The state House majority leader, currently Kerry Benninghoff (R., Centre), is at the head of a leadership team chosen by members of the party in power. That team is supposed to build the policy agenda, see it turned into legislation, pitch these proposals to the public and then convince the party’s lawmakers to vote for them, a process known as “whipping.”
The majority leader has the final say on what legislation actually makes it onto the voting calendar, which the speaker needs to run the session.
As chamber employees are paid by the caucus, not the state, the majority leader also has an important role in deciding patronage, said former House powerbroker Bill DeWeese, a Democrat who previously held both posts.
The combined ability to control the agenda and jobs is “a big deal” and makes the majority leader powerful, he said.
But “by sheer force of personality, speakers have been able to hold their own, in spite of the structural dynamics to the benefit of the majority leader,” he added.
The speaker is also part of this leadership team, Capitol insiders note, and previous speakers — such as John Perzel (R., Philadelphia) and Mike Turzai (R., Allegheny)— were sometimes known to be a leading voice in internal decisions.
But Mike Straub, Cutler’s spokesperson, said the current speaker tries not to weigh in on the political issues as much.
“We don’t see the speaker’s office as giving the final approval on every single bill,” Straub said. “We call up the bills and play umpire from there.”
“How do caucuses work? Can anyone set them up? Why are they secret?”
A caucus is a group of lawmakers, but in the General Assembly it has two meanings.
First, there are the partisan caucuses, the most important ones. The House and Senate are largely run along partisan lines, with the Democratic and Republican caucuses handling such responsibilities as overseeing IT, printing, bulk purchasing, human resources, and messenger services separately rather than as a whole.
There are also so-called “affinity caucuses,” which unite like-minded lawmakers regardless of party to advance a shared goal.
These informal groups may bring together lawmakers with similar policy stances, like opposing abortion access; unite lawmakers with similar backgrounds like the Legislative Black Caucus; or ones that are just for fun, like the Seersucker Caucus that gathers dozens of smiling lawmakers each June for a group photo in suits of the light blue fabric.
Keeping tabs on the total number of caucuses is difficult. The Caucus/LNP reported in 2019 that there were more than 100 of the groups. A Senate Republican spokesperson shared a list of 60 caucuses with Spotlight PA this week, but acknowledged it was dated.
As they are informal groups rather than official government bodies, caucuses do not have to follow the state’s Sunshine Act, which mandates public meetings for when a body takes official action.
The state’s open records law also largely exempts the General Assembly’s records from public view, including “internal, predecisional deliberations” or documents that reveal the “strategy to be used to develop or achieve the successful adoption of a budget, legislative proposal or regulation.”
But each caucus differs. The Pro-Life Caucus holds private meetings; members are informed via email.
Other caucuses may seek publicity, like when 16 state House lawmakers announced in 2021 that they wanted to find more bipartisan compromise through the “PA One Caucus.” The Legislative Black Caucus has its own website with a member list and an executive director.
House Republican spokesperson Jason Gottesman also noted that the caucuses often do not use state dollars for their activities.
“While many serve an important role in informing members about various issues, they are outside the official legislative sphere,” he added in an email.
Some lawmakers’ websites, particularly state House Democrats, may also list the affinity caucuses they are members of, though there is no way to check if a list is comprehensive.
“Some of our members are very proud of the caucuses they serve on,” state House Democratic spokesperson Nicole Reigelman said.
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Man Accused of Area Vehicle Thefts Due in Court on Tuesday
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – A hearing for a 26-year-old man accused of vehicle thefts in the area is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
According to court documents, a preliminary hearing for 26-year-old Thomas Scott Cunningham, of Pittsburgh (also listed as Tionesta), is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, September 13, in front of Magisterial District Judge Timothy P. Schill.
Cunningham faces the following charges:
– Theft By Unlawful Taking-Movable Property, Felony 2 (three counts)
– Theft By Unlawful Taking-Movable Property, Misdemeanor 1 (four counts)
– Receiving Stolen Property, Felony 2 (three counts)
– Receiving Stolen Property, Misdemeanor 1 (four counts)
– Criminal Attempt – Theft From A Motor Vehicle, Misdemeanor 3 (two counts)
He is currently lodged in the Clarion County Jail on $100,000.00 monetary bail.
Details of the case:
Around 5:48 a.m. on June 9, Clarion-based State Police Troopers were dispatched to a theft from a motor vehicle incident on Manor View Road, in Paint Township, Clarion County, according to a criminal complaint filed on August 31.
According to the complaint, upon arrival, troopers spoke to a male victim who related that his son informed him of the doors to his vehicles being left open. Upon checking the doors, the victim noticed that all three of his vehicles were ransacked. He informed troopers that approximately $200.00 to $250.00 worth of gift cards and loose change were stolen. He also stated that his Stihl FS55R Weed Eater and Stihl Gas Leaf Blower were taken, but they were found up the road.
After leaving the scene, it was discovered that a vehicle also on Manor View Road, Paint Township, was ransacked, but the victim related that nothing was taken from the vehicle.
It was noted that multiple thefts from motor vehicles were reported within the same area–two at Ridgewood Road, one on Route 322, and another at Manor View Road. All locations were in Paint Township, Clarion County, according to the complaint.
The following items were stolen from the vehicles:
– Ridgewood Road: Goretex Woodland Camo Jacket, $21.00 in cash, and a black Springfield XD 9mm pistol
– Ridgewood Road: One Ruger LCP 380 Cal.
– Route 322: One Taurus 9mm pistol, blood pressure cuff, black wallet with miscellaneous cards, and a bag with miscellaneous food.
Upon checking the residences for surveillance footage, the footage at the Route 332 residence showed a white individual, wearing a dark-colored hooded jacket and what appears to be a yellow draw-string bag going through the victim’s vehicle at approximately 5:06 a.m. The individual is shown coming from the direction of the Country Fair gas station, the complaint notes.
Footage was also obtained from a Manor View Road residence that showed the following: a black and white image of an individual carrying a bag walking up to the driver’s side of the victim’s vehicle. The individual is shown attempting to open the door by using the door handle but was unsuccessful and then walked in the direction of another residence on Manor View Road, the complaint indicates.
Footage was also obtained from the Country Fair gas station that showed the following: around 4:00 a.m., the suspect entered the parking lot, driving a light gold-colored Chevrolet Blazer from Route 66 traveling from the north. The suspect then pulled into a parking spot on the eastern side of Country Fair. He was wearing a black hooded jacket with a black hat and boots. The individual is observed walking toward Route 66 in a northern direction. Around 5:25 a.m., the individual is observed walking back to his vehicle in a camo jacket and yellow draw-string bag. The suspect then moved his vehicle to the gas pumps before going inside Country Fair. He then left and traveled north on Route 66, according to the complaint.
Theft in Lucinda area on August 29
On August 29, 2022, PSP Clarion received information regarding a similar incident that occurred in the Lucinda area. A trooper traveled to a residence in Wolfs Corner, Tionesta, Forest County, to speak with the suspect’s father. Using a photograph of the individual from the above-listed incident that was obtained from the Country Fair gas station surveillance footage, the suspect’s father identified the individual as his son, Thomas Cunningham. He also related that the vehicle in the video was the same as a relative’s vehicle, according to a criminal complaint.
On August 29, 2022, Thomas Cunningham turned himself in and was transported to the Clarion State Police Station where he was interviewed. During the interview, Cunningham was shown the same photograph that was shown to his father, and he stated that it was him. He also related that he was at the Country Fair during the time and that he paid for a couple’s gas while there, the complaint states.
It was noted in a police report that when troopers were searching for the suspect (Cunningham) and the stolen vehicle in northern Clarion County and surrounding areas, the incident prompted a lockdown at North Clarion School District.
He was arraigned at 9:29 a.m. on August 31 in front of Judge Schill.
Forest County Case Against Cunningham
On or about August 20, 2022, Forest County Sheriff’s Officers were working a security detail at the Indian Festival in Tionesta Borough. Around 9:31 p.m., officers observed a male (later identified as Thomas Cunningham) operating a dirt bike motorcycle in the ball field on River Street. Cunningham was revving the engine and doing a wheelie. The sun was down, and there was a big presence of men, women, and children in the area. A short time later, Cunningham was seen walking on the ball field, and an officer approached him and grabbed him by his left wrist in an attempt to place him under arrest. He resisted, pulled away, and fled on foot.
Around 10:10 p.m., Cunningham appeared again on River Street on the same dirt bike, doing donuts and wheelies. The Forest County Sheriff approached him, giving him commands to get off the bike and on the ground. Cunningham stated “F*** You!” and then fled on the bike.
Around 10:30 p.m., the sheriff’s office received a report from Warren County 9-1-1, that Cunningham had wrecked the dirt bike in a yard on German Hill, and that the operator had fled into the woods, The dirt bike was recovered and found to have been reported stolen.
The defendant, Thomas Cunningham, was later identified from the recovered cell phone and photos taken during the Indian Festival.
The Forest County Sheriff’s Department requested a warrant for his arrest.
It was also noted in the complaint that Cunningham has five outstanding warrants from Allegheny County.
Cunningham was arraigned at 11:00 a.m. on September 7 in front of Magisterial District Judge Daniel L. Miller on the following charges:
– Receiving Stolen Property, Felony 2
– Resist Arrest/Other Law Enforcement, Misdemeanor 2
– Fleeing or Attempting to Elude Officer, Misdemeanor 2
– Disorderly Conduct Hazardous/Physi Offense, Misdemeanor 3
– Public Drunkenness And Similar Misconduct, Summary
– Reckless Driving, Summary
– Careless Driving, Summary
– Not Wear Proper Headgear On Motorcycle, Summary
– No Eye Protection Device, Summary
His bail was set for $25,000.00 monetary in this case.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on September 20 in front of Judge Miller.
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SPONSORED: The Korner Restaurant is Serving Stuffed Steak Today, Other Daily Specials Throughout the Week
RIMERSBURG, Pa. (EYT) – The Korner Restaurant is serving Stuffed Steak as their special on Sunday, September 11!
There are also daily specials and homemade soup served throughout the week.
Sunday, September 11 – Stuffed Steak
Monday, September 12 – Hamburger Steak or Chili Dogs
Wednesday, September 14 – Ham Balls, 4-Piece Chicken Dinner, or Fish Sandwich
Thursday, September 15 – Spaghetti, Chicken Parmesan, Lasagna, or Roast Beef Dinner
Friday, September 16 – Baked or Deep-Fried Fish, Shrimp, or Ribeye
Saturday, September 17 – Cook’s Choice
The menu is subject to change.
You can even get pies to go! Call to order; please call the day before you need the pie.
Quarts of soup are available for $5.00.
Call in your to-go orders at 814-473-8250.
Individuals can also place an order at the ice cream window.
The Korner Restaurant is open:
Monday through Saturday: 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sunday: 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Don’t forget about dessert!
Fresh Homemade pies and desserts are baked daily.
Korner Restaurant is located at 626 Lawsonham Road, Rimersburg, PA 16248.
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Venango County Man, Passenger Killed in Motorcycle Vs. Car Collision on Route 8
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP., Pa. (EYT) – A Venango County man and his passenger were killed in a motorcycle versus car collision on State Route 8 on Friday afternoon.
According to Butler-based State Police, this accident happened on Friday, September 9, around 4:00 p.m. on State Route 8 (William Flynn Highway) at its intersection with Branchton Road, in Slippery Rock Township, Butler County.
Police say 68-year-old Gary L. Redmond, of Franklin, was traveling north on Route 8 on a 2008 Yamaha motorcycle, and 23-year-od Kelsey E. Kasper, of Slippery Rock, attempted to make a left-hand turn onto Route 8 from Branchton Road in her 2009 Dodge Caliber.
According to police, the Dodge proceeded onto Route 8 without yielding to the motorcycle, and as a result, the Dodge struck the Yamaha.
Redmond and his passenger 51-year-old Jeannie M. Summers, of Slippery Rock, suffered fatal injuries.
Neither Redmond nor Summers was using a motorcycle helmet.
Kasper was using a seat belt and was not injured.
Slippery Rock Volunteer Fire Company and Rescue Team assisted at the scene.
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The Nissan Leaf will finally get bidirectional charging in the United States, and it won’t affect the EV’s warranty, Nissan confirmed this past week.
Leaf models have for years had the hardware for bidirectional charging, which allows electric cars to discharge stored energy from their battery packs. And while Nissan has allowed and enabled the capability in some other markets, it hasn’t officially enabled the feature for the U.S. market until now.
For now, Nissan is only allowing bidirectional charging with the Fermata Energy FE-15 charger, which meets the UL 9741 standard. This was the first charger to comply with UL 9741, back in 2020, Fermata claims.
Fermata also has an energy-management app that monitors energy use by buildings, and can draw power from EVs during high-demand periods to lessen stress on the grid, Nissan says.
The automaker claims the Leaf is the only all-electric passenger vehicle in the U.S. market currently able to supply power to the grid. Ford beat Nissan to the market, however, with a factory-approved system for the F-150 Lightning, with inverter, disconnect switch, and a battery pack, to disconnect during brownouts and back up the home—and it’s studying grid-buffering capability. Hyundai has advertised vehicle-to-load (V2L) capability for vehicles based on its E-GMP platform, allowing them to power tools or other electronic devices; a more comprehensive home system from Hyundai is on the way.
This capability has been a long time coming.
The Leaf’s CHAdeMO standard enabled bidirectional charging essentially from the start (although Nissan appears to say that it’s been enabled in U.S. models from 2013 on). Nissan revealed its Leaf-To-Home charging station for other markets in 2012.
So although you’ll need to invest in a new charger, you might not need a new EV, or even a nearly new one, to take advantage of this flexibility.
In the interim, Wallbox has advertised what appeared to be the first Leaf-compatible bidirectional home charging station for the U.S. since 2020. In a response to Green Car Reports, Nissan verified that it is not yet approved in the same way and couldn’t yet comment on that approval status.
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with reporting by Bengt Halvorson
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tourists and New Yorkers alike crowded around the Rockefeller Center roller skating rink on Saturday trying to catch a glimpse of the vibrant statement knits on display at Victor Glemaud’s latest New York Fashion Week show.
For the Haitian American designer, who grew up in New York, the show held a sentimental meaning but served also as a marker in his career as his brand continues to grow. He launched his label in 2006 and has since collaborated on a collection with Target and forayed into home goods with Schumacher.
Glemaud’s show opened with roller skaters wearing his signature knits, bursting onto Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace rink, laughing and dancing as guests looked on. It continued with models displaying sheer looks, eye-catching cutouts, a few capes and a new collection of eyewear.
Glemaud drew inspiration for his contemporary sportswear looks from a recent trip to Harbour Island in the Bahamas. Glemaud said he wanted his collection to feel effortless, joyful and “something you want to wear in the summer.” Models strutted around the rink in skin-baring crocheted cover-ups looking like they’d just come from an ocean resort.
Glemaud’s brand was one of a record-breaking 28 Black-owned brands on display this New York Fashion Week.
“We have strived, and we love this industry,” Glemaud said of his fellow Black designers. “And, you know, our businesses for the majority are independently owned and self-financed. Fashion week means a lot. So, the more the merrier.”
During the pandemic, the designer founded “IN THE BLK,” a nonprofit collective to support Black creators in the fashion industry.
“It’s about bringing collective creative entrepreneurs together, not just fashion designers,” he said.
Glemaud’s show brought out a handful of TikTok celebrities, among them fashion influencer Brittany Xavier.
“I love that his collection is so inspired by summer and being together,” she said. “The kind of energy that we’ve been missing for the past two years.”
While Glemaud relied on a minimalist color palette and one animal print, that didn’t stop the youthfulness of his designs from shining through with his playful cut-outs. They elevated his dresses with a subtle sensuality and gave a stylish update to swimsuits.
The capes emblazoned with the letter “V” and form-fitting leopard prints would have been considered showstoppers of the night, had it not been for one moment that stood out from the rest: As the show wrapped, Glemaud’s mother, Julie, began to tear up with pride.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A new coach. A bunch of guys coming back from injuries. A 16-point deficit in the fourth quarter.
None of it flustered the New Orleans Saints, who pulled off a stunning comeback Sunday.
Wil Lutz kicked a 51-yard field goal with 19 seconds remaining after Jameis Winston guided a pair of lighting-quick touchdown drives, giving the Saints a 27-26 victory over the Atlanta Falcons in Dennis Allen’s coaching debut.
“It was exciting,” Winston said with a smile. “We’ve just got to find a way to get there quicker.”
After struggling offensively through most of the season opener, the Saints finally found their rhythm.
Winston threw for 269 yards after going down last season on Halloween with a knee injury. Michael Thomas hauled in a pair of fourth-quarter TD passes in his first game since the 2020 season, having missed an entire campaign with complications from an ankle injury.
And Lutz delivered at the end, showing he’s fully recovered from a core issue that kept him out for all of 2021.
“I’m happy with our resilience,” Winston said. “We never gave up.”
Winston hooked up with Thomas on touchdown passes of 3 and 9 yards. The Saints converted one 2-point try, but failed on the other, leaving the Falcons clinging to a 26-24 lead.
New Orleans got the ball back one more time, taking over at its own 20 with 48 seconds remaining and no timeouts.
No problem.
Winston connected on a 40-yard pass to Jarvis Landry and a 17-yarder to Juwan Johnson to set up Lutz’s winning field goal.
A personal foul on the Saints gave the Falcons a chance to pull out the victory, but Younghoe Koo’s 63-yard field goal attempt was blocked as the clock ran out.
It was a stirring start to the Allen era.
Sean Payton, who coached the team for 15 years and led New Orleans to its lone Super Bowl title, surprisingly stepped down after last season.
His defensive coordinator got the job, even though Allen’s first head coaching stint resulted in a record of 8-28 with the Raiders in 2012-14.
Make it 9-28.
“I hope they’re not all like that,” Allen said. “Look, our team is tough and gritty. That’s what I love about ’em. That’s exactly the way they played in this game. It wasn’t perfect. We’ve got a ton of things to clean up.”
The Falcons, who have seemingly never recovered from squandering a 28-3 lead in the 2017 Super Bowl, added another meltdown to their resume in their first game of the post-Matt Ryan era.
Cordarrelle Patterson rushed for a career-high 120 yards, including a 5-yard scoring burst, and Marcus Mariota made his first start since 2019 as Ryan’s replacement.
Mariota threw for 215 yards and added 72 on the ground, highlight by a 2-yard touchdown run.
But in the end, the Falcons let what seemed like a sure victory get away.
“You guys wrote our obituary back in May and you’ll continue to write our obituary,” second-year coach Arthur Smith grumbled to reporters. “Who cares? We’ve got 16 games to learn from this and get better.”
Winston was sacked four times by a team that had a league-low 18 sacks a year ago. He passed for just 24 yards in the first half, but made all the throws when it really counted.
Landry had seven catches for 114 yards, and Thomas finished with five catches for 57 yards.
“It was a blessing to be back out there with the guys,” said Thomas, who had an NFL-record 149 receptions in 2019 but was playing just his eighth game since then.
SECOND CHANCE
Lutz was kicking himself after his first field goal attempt from 44 yards hit the left upright.
He bounced back to make a 49-yarder before connecting on the game-winner.
“Obviously, coming off a miss is tough,” Lutz said. “But that’s what we signed up to do. I’m grateful the defense gave me a chance to get back out there and the offense put me in position to make the kick. It feels really good.”
SACK ATTACK
One bright spot for the Falcons was their pass rush.
The four sacks was the most by Atlanta since its next-to-last contest of the 2020 season at Kansas City. The Falcons had an NFL-low 18 sacks a year ago, never managing more than three in a game.
Grady Jarrett was credited with 1 1/2 sacks, teaming with Lorenzo Carter on one of them. Mykal Walker and Arnold Ebiketie also had sacks.
PROMISING STARTS
Both teams got plenty of production from their first-round rookie receivers.
Drake London, the No. 8 overall selection, led the Falcons with five catches for 74 yards.
Chris Olave, the No. 11 choice by the Saints, had three receptions for 41 yards and hauled in another catch on New Orleans’ successful 2-point conversion.
INJURY REPORT
Atlanta RB Damien Williams sustained a rib injury in the first quarter, forcing Patterson to take on the bulk of the running load. The Falcons activated only one other back, Avery Williams, choosing not to play rookie Tyler Allgeier.
UP NEXT
Saints: Home opener next Sunday against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Falcons: Hit the road to face the Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams in the first of two straight West Coast games.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A new coach. A bunch of guys coming back from injuries. A 16-point deficit in the fourth quarter.
None of it flustered the New Orleans Saints, who pulled off a stunning comeback Sunday.
Wil Lutz kicked a 51-yard field goal with 19 seconds remaining after Jameis Winston guided a pair of lighting-quick touchdown drives, giving the Saints a 27-26 victory over the Atlanta Falcons in Dennis Allen’s coaching debut.
“It was exciting,” Winston said with a smile. “We’ve just got to find a way to get there quicker.”
After struggling offensively through most of the season opener, the Saints finally found their rhythm.
Winston threw for 269 yards after going down last season on Halloween with a knee injury. Michael Thomas hauled in a pair of fourth-quarter TD passes in his first game since the 2020 season, having missed an entire campaign with complications from an ankle injury.
And Lutz delivered at the end, showing he’s fully recovered from a core issue that kept him out for all of 2021.
“I’m happy with our resilience,” Winston said. “We never gave up.”
Winston hooked up with Thomas on touchdown passes of 3 and 9 yards. The Saints converted one 2-point try, but failed on the other, leaving the Falcons clinging to a 26-24 lead.
New Orleans got the ball back one more time, taking over at its own 20 with 48 seconds remaining and no timeouts.
No problem.
Winston connected on a 40-yard pass to Jarvis Landry and a 17-yarder to Juwan Johnson to set up Lutz’s winning field goal.
A personal foul on the Saints gave the Falcons a chance to pull out the victory, but Younghoe Koo’s 63-yard field goal attempt was blocked as the clock ran out.
It was a stirring start to the Allen era.
Sean Payton, who coached the team for 15 years and led New Orleans to its lone Super Bowl title, surprisingly stepped down after last season.
His defensive coordinator got the job, even though Allen’s first head coaching stint resulted in a record of 8-28 with the Raiders in 2012-14.
Make it 9-28.
“I hope they’re not all like that,” Allen said. “Look, our team is tough and gritty. That’s what I love about ’em. That’s exactly the way they played in this game. It wasn’t perfect. We’ve got a ton of things to clean up.”
The Falcons, who have seemingly never recovered from squandering a 28-3 lead in the 2017 Super Bowl, added another meltdown to their resume in their first game of the post-Matt Ryan era.
Cordarrelle Patterson rushed for a career-high 120 yards, including a 5-yard scoring burst, and Marcus Mariota made his first start since 2019 as Ryan’s replacement.
Mariota threw for 215 yards and added 72 on the ground, highlight by a 2-yard touchdown run.
But in the end, the Falcons let what seemed like a sure victory get away.
“You guys wrote our obituary back in May and you’ll continue to write our obituary,” second-year coach Arthur Smith grumbled to reporters. “Who cares? We’ve got 16 games to learn from this and get better.”
Winston was sacked four times by a team that had a league-low 18 sacks a year ago. He passed for just 24 yards in the first half, but made all the throws when it really counted.
Landry had seven catches for 114 yards, and Thomas finished with five catches for 57 yards.
“It was a blessing to be back out there with the guys,” said Thomas, who had an NFL-record 149 receptions in 2019 but was playing just his eighth game since then.
SECOND CHANCE
Lutz was kicking himself after his first field goal attempt from 44 yards hit the left upright.
He bounced back to make a 49-yarder before connecting on the game-winner.
“Obviously, coming off a miss is tough,” Lutz said. “But that’s what we signed up to do. I’m grateful the defense gave me a chance to get back out there and the offense put me in position to make the kick. It feels really good.”
SACK ATTACK
One bright spot for the Falcons was their pass rush.
The four sacks was the most by Atlanta since its next-to-last contest of the 2020 season at Kansas City. The Falcons had an NFL-low 18 sacks a year ago, never managing more than three in a game.
Grady Jarrett was credited with 1 1/2 sacks, teaming with Lorenzo Carter on one of them. Mykal Walker and Arnold Ebiketie also had sacks.
PROMISING STARTS
Both teams got plenty of production from their first-round rookie receivers.
Drake London, the No. 8 overall selection, led the Falcons with five catches for 74 yards.
Chris Olave, the No. 11 choice by the Saints, had three receptions for 41 yards and hauled in another catch on New Orleans’ successful 2-point conversion.
INJURY REPORT
Atlanta RB Damien Williams sustained a rib injury in the first quarter, forcing Patterson to take on the bulk of the running load. The Falcons activated only one other back, Avery Williams, choosing not to play rookie Tyler Allgeier.
UP NEXT
Saints: Home opener next Sunday against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Falcons: Hit the road to face the Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams in the first of two straight West Coast games.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The heads of the nation’s two largest rail unions said Sunday that the freight railroads’ move to begin delaying some shipments ahead of this week’s looming strike deadline is only an attempt to get shippers to increase the pressure on Congress to intervene and block a work stoppage by imposing a contract on workers.
The heads of the unions that represent engineers and conductors — the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division union and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union — issued a joint statement blasting the move, which the railroads announced late Friday. A strike or lockout won’t be allowed until this coming Friday, but the railroads appear to be bracing for one by saying they would begin curtailing shipments of hazardous materials and other chemicals on Monday to ensure carloads of those dangerous products won’t be stranded along the tracks if the trains stop moving.
“The railroads are using shippers, consumers, and the supply chain of our nation as pawns in an effort to get our unions to cave into their contract demands knowing that our members would never accept them. Our unions will not cave into these scare tactics, and Congress must not cave into what can only be described as corporate terrorism,” said Jeremy Fergunson with SMART-TD and Dennis Pierce with the BLET union.
Those two unions have been demanding that CSX, Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern and the other railroads go beyond the proposed deal recommended by a group of arbitrators President Joe Biden appointed. They want them to address concerns about strict attendance policies that they say make it hard to take any time off and increasing workloads after the railroads cut nearly one-third of their workforces in recent years.
The railroad trade group has said there’s no way trucks can pick up the slack if the railroads stop moving because roughly 467,000 additional trucks a day would be needed to handle all the cargo trains haul and there is already a shortage of truck drivers.
Five of the 12 railroad unions that together represent 115,000 workers had already reached tentative agreements based on the Presidential Emergency Board’s recommendations that will deliver 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses over a five-year contract that’s retroactive to 2020. The coalition negotiating on behalf of the railroads announced three more tentative agreements Sunday, so deals covering roughly 45,000 workers have now been announced. Members of the unions with tentative deals still have to vote on them.
If the two sides can’t agree on a deal by the end of the week, Congress is expected to step in to block a strike because of the dire economic consequences if a strike happens because so many businesses rely on railroads to deliver their raw materials and finished products. The Association of American Railroads trade group put out a report last week estimating that the economy would take a $2 billion a day hit if the trains stop moving and passenger traffic would be disrupted nationwide because Amtrak and many commuter railroads use tracks owned by the freight railroads.
A spokeswoman for the trade group said Sunday that railroads had to take action to prepare for the possibility of a work stoppage because the deadline is so close, but the industry remains committed to trying to negotiate agreements with its unions.
“Operational changes required to prepare for a safe, orderly suspension were delayed as long as possible. With less than a week away from a potential service interruption, carriers are obligated to take appropriate actions to prepare, which include making plans for handling HAZMAT shipments, as well as other freight that may be impacted if service must be reduced or stopped,” the AAR spokeswoman said.
Already, a number of trade groups representing railroad shippers have urged lawmakers to be prepared to block a strike. A coalition of 31 agricultural groups sent a letter to Congress last week, and the Fertilizer Institute trade group joined the chorus of concerned shippers Saturday because shipments of ammonia and other fertilizers will be delayed.
“Supply chains are already strained and there is currently zero elasticity in rail transportation,” TFI President and CEO Corey Rosenbusch said. “This situation will get exponentially worse every day there is no resolution.”
He said more than half of all fertilizer is hauled by railroads. More than 75% of all finished vehicles are taken from factories to dealerships by train, and countless other products move by rail.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A visiting U.S. diplomat on Sunday urged Sri Lankan authorities to tackle corruption and introduce governance reforms alongside efforts to uplift the country’s economy as a way out of its worst crisis in recent memory.
USAID Administrator Samantha Power told reporters that such moves will increase international and local trust in the government’s intentions.
“Assistance alone would not put an end to this country’s woes,” Power said. “I stressed to the Sri Lankan president in my meeting earlier today that political reforms and political accountability must go hand in hand with economic reforms and economic accountability.”
She said that international investor confidence will increase as the government tackles corruption and proceeds with long sought governance reforms. “As citizens see the government visibly following through on the commitment to bring about meaningful change, that in turn increases societal support for the tough economic reforms ahead,” she said.
During her two-day visit, Power announced a total of $60 million in aid to Sri Lanka. After meetings with farmers’ representatives at a rice field in Ja-Ela, outside of the capital Colombo on Saturday, she announced $40 million to buy agrochemicals in time for the next cultivation season.
Agricultural yields dropped by more than half for the past two cultivation seasons because authorities had banned the imports of chemical fertilizers ostensibly to promote organic farming. She said that according to the World Food Program, more than 6 million people — nearly 30% of Sri Lanka’s population — are currently facing food insecurity and require humanitarian assistance.
On Sunday, she said an additional $20 million will be given to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to vulnerable families.
Sri Lanka has faced its worst crisis after it defaulted on foreign loans, causing shortages of essentials like fuel, medicines and some food items.
It has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a $2.9 billion package to be disbursed over four years. However, the program hinges on Sri Lanka’s international creditors giving assurances on loan restructuring. Sri Lanka’s total foreign debt is more than $51 billion of which $28 billion must be repaid by 2027.
Power said that the U.S. stands ready to assist with debt restructuring and reiterated that it is imperative that China, one of the island nation’s bigger creditors, cooperate in this endeavor.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Some leaders in states with strict abortion bans say exceptions for rape or incest victims aren’t needed because emergency contraceptives can be used instead. But medical professionals and advocates for rape survivors say that while emergency contraception is a helpful tool, it’s not always foolproof, and getting access to these emergency measures in the short time frame in which they would be effective may not be realistic for someone who has just been assaulted.
Here’s a look at emergency contraceptives and what some people are saying.
WHAT ARE EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVES?
Emergency contraceptives are used to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex or if a method of birth control fails.
Two types of medications, sometimes referred to as “morning after pills,” are available: levonorgestrel, known by the popular brand name Plan B; and ulipristal acetate, known under the brand ella. They should be taken as soon as possible after unprotected sex.
The pills prevent ovulation, which is when an egg is released from an ovary, said Dr. Jonah Fleisher, director of the Center for Reproductive Health at the University of Illinois in Chicago. If an egg is not released, it cannot be fertilized.
ARE THEY THE SAME AS ABORTION PILLS?
No. Emergency contraceptives prevent a pregnancy. The abortion pill, mifepristone, ends a pregnancy after a fertilized egg has implanted in the lining of a woman’s uterus. It’s commonly administered with the drug misoprostol and can be taken up to 11 weeks after the first day of a woman’s last period.
DOES EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION WORK?
Not 100% of the time. The pills’ effectiveness improves the sooner they are taken after unprotected sex, doctors said. The drugs won’t prevent pregnancies if they are taken before sex, Fleisher said.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Plan B for use up to 72 hours, or three days, after unprotected sex. Ella is approved for up to 120 hours, or five days.
Timing is important because sperm can live inside a woman’s body for up to five days, so a woman can still get pregnant if ovulation occurs after intercourse, said Dr. Dana Stone, an OB-GYN in Oklahoma City. If a woman has ovulated prior to intercourse, the pills are unlikely to help.
“So that’s where the failure comes in. It’s based on the timing,” Stone said.
A woman’s weight also may play a role, though there is conflicting information on that. Guidance from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology says levonorgestrel may be less effective in women with a body mass index that’s over 25. The organization says some research suggests ulipristal acetate also has lower effectiveness among women with a BMI that’s 30 or higher.
However, the FDA found conflicting data and reached no conclusion in a 2016 review of the effectiveness of levonorgestrel in women who weigh more than 165 pounds or have a BMI above 25. The agency said additional research should be a priority.
Another form of emergency contraception, a copper intrauterine device, is seen as the most effective method, if inserted into a woman’s uterus within five days of unprotected sex. Its effectiveness is not dependent on weight, Fleisher said.
A doctor or nurse must insert a copper IUD, which can remain in place for many years as a regular form of birth control.
Plan B can be purchased over the counter by anyone 17 or older, but younger people need a prescription. Ella requires a prescription.
WHAT DID THEY SAY?
Officials in some states, such as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and South Carolina state Rep. Doug Gilliam, point to emergency contraceptives as a reason abortion bans don’t need exceptions for rape or incest.
During an Aug. 31 House debate, Gilliam said, in a hypothetical case of a 12-year-old raped by her father, the child would have “choices” and wouldn’t be “forced” to carry a pregnancy. Among them, he said, she could go to the hospital and get an emergency contraceptive, or go to the store and get one without a prescription.
Pressed by a fellow lawmaker on who would take the girl to the store to get the pill, he initially replied “The ambulance,” then corrected himself and said, “The hospital when she’s there.”
In a follow-up interview with The Associated Press, the Republican lawmaker said he did not mean to suggest that an ambulance would take a girl to a store, but that if she were to go to the hospital, she would likely be offered emergency contraception.
“I don’t want anybody to think that I told you a 12-year-old that just been raped … is going to call an ambulance to go to a store,” he said. “I just let them know the options were out there, and one of them was emergency medical contraceptives.”
WHAT ABOUT RAPE VICTIMS?
Most rape victims don’t report the crime to law enforcement, according to Jude Foster, advocacy medical forensic and prevention programs director for the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Many also may not go in for immediate medical care. Not everyone knows that emergency contraceptives are an option and part of a routine rape exam, or that such an exam is free.
“Why is sexual assault used as a political football when you are talking about access to reproductive care?” Foster said. “Please don’t. It just really frustrates me.”
Stone said the belief that a woman can just take Plan B if she is raped is misguided.
“We need all kinds of options for women because nothing is a one size fits all,” Stone said. “People have transportation problems, they have financial problems. There are always barriers to some percentage of women that will keep them from accessing this in the short time frame that they have.”
STATE LAWS
Several states have explicitly allowed for emergency contraception in their abortion laws.
Arkansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma all have laws that ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy, and make no exceptions for cases of rape or incest. Arkansas’ and Kentucky’s laws explicitly say they don’t prohibit contraceptive measures if they are used before a pregnancy can be determined. Oklahoma’s abortion ban also does not apply to emergency contraception.
Abortion bans aside, the National Conference of State Legislatures says 21 states and the District of Columbia have statutes related to accessing emergency contraception, and 16 of them and the District of Columbia require hospitals or health care facilities to provide information about or administer emergency contraception to women who have been sexually assaulted.
Fleisher said emergency contraception does not replace the need for abortion care, and these issues should be between a doctor and patient.
“The people writing the laws don’t understand the choices that real people are making,” he said.
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MERCED, Calif. (AP) — After a months-long manhunt, police arrested a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl who had been reported missing before her body was found last March inside a central California home, authorities said Sunday.
Dhante Jackson was taken into custody Saturday in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Newark on suspicion of killing Sophia Mason, police and the California attorney general’s office said.
Investigators determined the child suffered continuous physical abuse, was malnourished and at times was forced to live in a shed in the backyard of Jackson’s home, Merced Police Department Lt. Joe Perez said during a news conference Sunday.
Jackson was in a relationship with the young victim’s mother, 30-year-old Samantha Johnson, who was arrested in March and has pleaded not guilty to murder and child abuse, prosecutors said.
Jackson, 34, also faces murder and child abuse charges. It wasn’t known Sunday if he has an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Four other people were arrested Saturday on suspicion of helping Jackson evade arrest, Perez said.
“In my 20 years of law enforcement, this case is the most disturbing and horrific that I’ve seen,” the lieutenant said.
Sophia was reported missing by relatives in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Hayward. They told police they had not had contact with the girl since December, and that she was known to stay at different locations between Hayward and Southern California.
The missing person report led Hayward police to arrest Johnson on a warrant stemming from a case of child abuse in Alameda County last year, police said.
Statements Johnson made to Hayward police prompted them to ask for assistance from the Merced Police Department, which served a search warrant in March at the house in Merced where Jackson lived, they said.
Merced police found Sophia’s body in a bathtub, inside a locked bathroom, according to court documents.
Johnson told a Merced police detective that Jackson, her boyfriend, had kept Sophia in a shed and that the child was subjected to physical and sexual abuse by Jackson.
Sophia twice personally told social workers that her mother had choked and hit her, according to child-welfare documents uncovered by the Bay Area News Group.
At one point, the internal documents show, a teacher and a social worker reported grave concerns over what they considered signs of abuse.
Sophia’s grandmother, Sylvia Johnson, last week filed a wrongful death legal claim against Alameda County, alleging the Department of Child and Family Services didn’t do enough to protect the little girl.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Two more U.S. military planes loaded with tons of aid for Pakistanis affected by flooding from deadly monsoon rains landed Sunday in southern Sindh province, one of the worst-affected regions in the impoverished country.
Saif Ullah, spokesman for the country’s Civil Aviation Authority, said each plane was loaded with about 35 tons of relief aid that would be distributed in the province by the World Food Program. The aircraft landed at Sukkur Airport in Sindh and Ullah said the U.S. operation that began Thursday would continue until Sept. 16.
Pakistan has suffered under extremely heavy monsoon rains that started early this year — in mid-June. Multiple officials and experts have blamed the rains and resulting floodwaters on climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week called on the world to stop “sleepwalking” through the dangerous environmental crisis. He has called repeatedly on the international community to send massive amounts of aid to Pakistan.
Ullah said Sunday that two more flights bringing relief goods from the United Arab Emirates landed at Karachi airport. So far, U.N. agencies and several countries have sent multiple planeloads of aid, and authorities say the UAE has been one of the most generous contributors.
Near 1,400 people have been killed, 13,000 injured and millions left homeless by the heavy flooding since mid-June. The waters also destroyed road and communications infrastructure.
In the worst-hit Sindh province, 621 people, including 270 children, were killed and 8,400 people left injured.
Miles of cotton and sugarcane crops, banana orchards and vegetable fields could be seen submerged in floodwaters. Thousands of mud and brick homes caved in under the deluge leaving people homeless and sheltering in tents alongside damaged roads.
According to the latest report from authorities, the unprecedented monsoon rains and and flood destroyed more than 1.5 million houses, 63 bridges, 2,688 kilometers of roads and near half a million animals drowned in the flood water across the Sindh province, leaving over 30 million homeless.
Pakistan’s military chief Gen. Qamar Jawed Bajwa toured the badly affected district of Dadu in Sindh and its surroundings on Saturday. Dadu could suffer further flooding from the rising waters of the Indus River.
“People will continue to suffer if we don’t have a drainage system and dams,” Bajwa told reporters.
He said constructing dams would help produce electricity, curb pollution and decrease global warming and that army engineers have been asked to conduct an initial study.
Bajwa said working on alternate energy sources is essential and called for the gradual reduction of oil and coal as energy sources to minimal levels.
Since June, heavy rains and flooding have added a new level of grief to cash-strapped Pakistan and highlighted the disproportionate effect of climate change on impoverished populations.
Experts say Pakistan is responsible for only 0.4% of the world’s historic emissions that are blamed for climate change. The U.S. is responsible for 21.5%, China for 16.5% and the European Union for 15%.
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BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a message of congratulation to Britain’s King Charles III on his accession to the throne, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.
“I am willing to work with King Charles III to enhance mutual understanding and friendship … and strengthen communication on global issues, so as to benefit the two countries,” Xinhua quoted Xi as saying.
The Chinese president also commemorated the 50th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations. The message comes amid strained relations over trade, human rights and China’s crackdown on the democratic opposition in the former British colony of Hong Kong.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Former British colonies conflicted over Queen Elizabeth II
— Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin begins journey through Scotland
— What’s next for the UK as Queen Elizabeth II laid to rest
— King Charles III is officially proclaimed monarch in London
— What will happen to all the currencies that feature the queen?
— Explainer: The formal rules around Charles’ accession
— Mourners in the street: Sincere grief flows out across Britain
— Will Charles be loved by his subjects, like his mother was?
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
King Charles III has been formally proclaimed the monarch in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The moves Sunday in the rest of the United Kingdom came a day after the same proclamation was made in London at a pomp-filled accession ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism.
In Belfast, bells chimed and a bugler played before the proclamation was read. It was followed by a 21-gun salute and a military band playing the anthem, “God Save the King.” In Wales, a regimental mascot goat accompanied the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welsh regiment at the ceremony at Cardiff Castle.
Earlier, proclamations were held in other parts of the Commonwealth — the group of former British Empire colonies — including Australia and New Zealand.
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ABERDEEN, Scotland — Mourners are quietly paying tribute as a hearse carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin passes through the Scottish countryside on a final journey back to London.
Crowds are lining the streets Sunday and some have tossed flowers as the hearse passes through villages and towns a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh. The queen died Thursday at her beloved summer estate Balmoral Castle.
The late queen’s coffin was draped in the Royal Standard for Scotland and topped with a wreath made of flowers from Balmoral, including sweet peas, one of the queen’s favorites.
The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, tweeted that “as she makes her journey to Edinburgh, Scotland will pay tribute to an extraordinary woman.”
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LONDON — King Charles III will attend a reception Sunday with commissioners from Commonwealth nations.
The commissions maintain and develop relationships with the group of countries that grapple with affection for the queen and lingering bitterness over their own colonial legacies.
Charles became king after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died Thursday at her summer retreat in Scotland. Her coffin has left her beloved Balmoral Castle on Sunday for a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh, with people lining the streets in some places to pay their respects.
The king will meet with the secretary-general of the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace before a reception with the foreign secretary and commissioners from countries like Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Belize, Canada and New Zealand.
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BALMORAL CASTLE, Scotland — A hearse carrying the late Queen Elizabeth II’s oak coffin has left her beloved Balmoral Castle.
The coffin of the late monarch is beginning a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh on Sunday. She died Thursday at Balmoral after a 70-year reign and is starting her last journey back to London for a state funeral Sept. 19.
Crowds are lining parts of the route as the nation mourns its longest-reigning monarch. Early Sunday, flowers and other tributes — a small Paddington Bear toy, a hand-drawn picture of the queen — were piled up outside the gates of Balmoral.
Also Sunday, King Charles III will be formally proclaimed king in the other nations of the United Kingdom — Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — after a similar ceremony in Britain a day earlier.
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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — Britain’s King Charles III has been officially proclaimed Australia’s monarch during a ceremony in Canberra.
Australian Governor General David Hurley made the proclamation Sunday at Parliament House. At the end of the service there was a 21-gun salute.
Charles automatically became king when the queen died on Thursday.
But like the accession ceremony in London on Saturday, the proclamation in Australia was a constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
Charles is now is the head of state in Australia, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.
Similar ceremonies will be held in each Australian state and territory.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Britain’s King Charles III was officially proclaimed New Zealand’s monarch in a ceremony in Wellington.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern paid tribute to the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday and spoke of the strong bond her son and successor had with New Zealand.
Charles automatically became king when the queen died on Thursday.
Like the accession ceremony in London on Saturday, the proclamation in New Zealand was a constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
To mark the occasion, the army’s 16 Field Regiment fired a 21-gun salute from Point Jerningham in Wellington.
Charles is now is the head of state in New Zealand, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.
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NEW DELHI — India is observing a day of state mourning on Sunday as a mark of respect to Queen Elizabeth II.
The national flag has been lowered to half-staff on all government buildings throughout the country. India was a British colony before gaining independence in 1947.
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne.
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BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a message of congratulation to Britain’s King Charles III on his accession to the throne, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.
“I am willing to work with King Charles III to enhance mutual understanding and friendship … and strengthen communication on global issues, so as to benefit the two countries,” Xinhua quoted Xi as saying.
The Chinese president also commemorated the 50th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations. The message comes amid strained relations over trade, human rights and China’s crackdown on the democratic opposition in the former British colony of Hong Kong.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Former British colonies conflicted over Queen Elizabeth II
— Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin begins journey through Scotland
— What’s next for the UK as Queen Elizabeth II laid to rest
— King Charles III is officially proclaimed monarch in London
— What will happen to all the currencies that feature the queen?
— Explainer: The formal rules around Charles’ accession
— Mourners in the street: Sincere grief flows out across Britain
— Will Charles be loved by his subjects, like his mother was?
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
King Charles III has been formally proclaimed the monarch in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The moves Sunday in the rest of the United Kingdom came a day after the same proclamation was made in London at a pomp-filled accession ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism.
In Belfast, bells chimed and a bugler played before the proclamation was read. It was followed by a 21-gun salute and a military band playing the anthem, “God Save the King.” In Wales, a regimental mascot goat accompanied the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welsh regiment at the ceremony at Cardiff Castle.
Earlier, proclamations were held in other parts of the Commonwealth — the group of former British Empire colonies — including Australia and New Zealand.
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ABERDEEN, Scotland — Mourners are quietly paying tribute as a hearse carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin passes through the Scottish countryside on a final journey back to London.
Crowds are lining the streets Sunday and some have tossed flowers as the hearse passes through villages and towns a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh. The queen died Thursday at her beloved summer estate Balmoral Castle.
The late queen’s coffin was draped in the Royal Standard for Scotland and topped with a wreath made of flowers from Balmoral, including sweet peas, one of the queen’s favorites.
The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, tweeted that “as she makes her journey to Edinburgh, Scotland will pay tribute to an extraordinary woman.”
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LONDON — King Charles III will attend a reception Sunday with commissioners from Commonwealth nations.
The commissions maintain and develop relationships with the group of countries that grapple with affection for the queen and lingering bitterness over their own colonial legacies.
Charles became king after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died Thursday at her summer retreat in Scotland. Her coffin has left her beloved Balmoral Castle on Sunday for a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh, with people lining the streets in some places to pay their respects.
The king will meet with the secretary-general of the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace before a reception with the foreign secretary and commissioners from countries like Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Belize, Canada and New Zealand.
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BALMORAL CASTLE, Scotland — A hearse carrying the late Queen Elizabeth II’s oak coffin has left her beloved Balmoral Castle.
The coffin of the late monarch is beginning a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh on Sunday. She died Thursday at Balmoral after a 70-year reign and is starting her last journey back to London for a state funeral Sept. 19.
Crowds are lining parts of the route as the nation mourns its longest-reigning monarch. Early Sunday, flowers and other tributes — a small Paddington Bear toy, a hand-drawn picture of the queen — were piled up outside the gates of Balmoral.
Also Sunday, King Charles III will be formally proclaimed king in the other nations of the United Kingdom — Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — after a similar ceremony in Britain a day earlier.
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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — Britain’s King Charles III has been officially proclaimed Australia’s monarch during a ceremony in Canberra.
Australian Governor General David Hurley made the proclamation Sunday at Parliament House. At the end of the service there was a 21-gun salute.
Charles automatically became king when the queen died on Thursday.
But like the accession ceremony in London on Saturday, the proclamation in Australia was a constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
Charles is now is the head of state in Australia, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.
Similar ceremonies will be held in each Australian state and territory.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Britain’s King Charles III was officially proclaimed New Zealand’s monarch in a ceremony in Wellington.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern paid tribute to the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday and spoke of the strong bond her son and successor had with New Zealand.
Charles automatically became king when the queen died on Thursday.
Like the accession ceremony in London on Saturday, the proclamation in New Zealand was a constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
To mark the occasion, the army’s 16 Field Regiment fired a 21-gun salute from Point Jerningham in Wellington.
Charles is now is the head of state in New Zealand, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.
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NEW DELHI — India is observing a day of state mourning on Sunday as a mark of respect to Queen Elizabeth II.
The national flag has been lowered to half-staff on all government buildings throughout the country. India was a British colony before gaining independence in 1947.
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne.
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‘Ottu’ starring Arvind Swamy and Kunchacko Boban in the lead roles has been one of the most anticipated movies of the season as it brings two evergreen romantic heroes on screen together. However, those who go to the theatres hoping to watch a romantic entertainer would be disappointed as ‘Ottu’ is an engaging thriller that could set the screens on fire. After the romantic comedy ‘Theevandi’ filmmaker TP Fellini has tried his hands in a different genre in his latest outing. The spectacular performances of veteran actors Aravind Swamy and Kunchacko Boban who have become quite ‘unpredictable’ with their unique choice of roles in their second innings make ‘Ottu’ a perfect gangster movie.
Interestingly, the movie has been simultaneously released in Tamil as ‘Randakam’. The plot of ‘Ottu’ that narrates stories of dishonesty and betrayal, unravels in Mumbai. It seems that the second chapter of ‘Ottu’ has been released now and there would be a prequel and a sequel for the thriller.
The movie ends by making the audience curious to know why David had betrayed his guru, Asainar. There are ample moments of cliché in the first half before the movie shifts gears in the second half, leading to a thrilling climax. The movie is able to entertain the audience from the beginning to the end and give hints about possible sequels too.
The screenplay of the movie is penned by S Sajeev. The film explores the mysteries that lie in David’s past. Moreover, the plot amazingly depicts the gold smuggling in the Mumbai – Mangaluru route, gang wars and the betrayals.
The director has mentioned in interviews that he was named Fellini as his father was an admirer of the legendary Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. However, Fellini is a self confessed fan of Italian legend Sergio Leone who is considered as one of the most influential directors who popularised the Spaghetti Western genre. ‘Ottu’ begins by paying tribute to Leone’s ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ that narrates the story of a trio who looks for the gold that had gone missing during the American civil war, in the titles. Even though the characters in ‘Ottu’ are Malayalis, the plot or the way in which the characters have been treated hardly have any Malayali essence.
‘Ottu’, curiously shares the spirit of some recent Tamil movies that were inspired by the Western gangster movies. The movie that begins in Mumbai progresses through Goa and Mangaluru. However, unlike the regular mass action thriller, ‘Ottu’ isn’t crammed with high octane action sequences. Instead, the movie boasts of multiple layers that explores the emotional state of the characters. Sometimes, the audience might think that ‘Ottu’ is a love story and at other times it seems like an emotional drama. Besides, there are elements of a road movie too in it. However, in the climax, ‘Ottu’ takes the form of a fabulous action thriller.
Arvind Swamy and Kunchacko Boban are two extremely talented actors who have impressed the audience in their second innings. Interestingly, both of them had romantic hero tags throughout the first phase in their career. However, in their comeback, the actors have managed to break away from this stereotypical ‘image’. From a handsome romantic hero, Aravind Swamy has moulded himself into a ruthless villain who amazed the critics and the audience alike with his incredible performances in ‘Thani Oruvan’ and ‘Bogan’. His natural acting abilities made the audience root for the villain rather than the hero.
Meanwhile, Kunchacko Boban managed to rise his career graph by essaying lead roles and supporting roles in proper intervals. The actor, who is celebrating his twenty fifth year in cinema, has set the cash registers ring at the box office with his recent outing ‘Nna Thaan Case Kodu’. If he had portrayed a commoner in this classic satire, Kunchacko Boban had transformed himself into a mass hero in ‘Ottu’. The lead actors’ unpredictable choices of roles are what makes ‘Ottu’ exciting and thrilling. The movie also stars Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff and South Indian stars like Aadukalam Naresh, Eesha Reba, Jins Bhaskar and Amalda Liz.
When the hero and villain keep interchanging these roles ‘Ottu’ becomes an interesting watch. As the movie doesn’t adopt the formula of a regular mass masala, fans of such movies may not be impressed by the unique treatment of the film. However, the movie stands out for its spectacular technical quality and amazing performances. The music and background score by Arulraj Kennedy help the pace of the movie. Meanwhile, the sound designing by Ranganath and sound mixing by Tapas Nayak add to the technical brilliance of the film. The camera by Gouthan Sankar, Appu Bhattathiri’s editing and Subash Karun’s production design have elevated the general mood of ‘Ottu’.
Now, the wait continues for Chapter 1 that explores David and Asainar’s past and for Chapter 3 where the scores are finally settled. This movie truly has the potential to be turned into a parallel cinematic universe in the South Indian cinema industry. | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/movie-reviews/2022/09/11/ottu-kunchacko-boban-arvind-swamy-tp-fellini-movie-review.html | 2022-09-12T02:11:53Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/movie-reviews/2022/09/11/ottu-kunchacko-boban-arvind-swamy-tp-fellini-movie-review.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Albert Pujols hit his 697th home run, moving past Alex Rodriguez into fourth place on the career list and doing it in dramatic fashion with a ninth-inning drive that rallied the St. Louis Cardinals over the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 Sunday.
The NL Central-leading Cardinals trailed 2-1 when Pujols connected for a two-run drive. Pujols had tied Rodriguez with a home run Saturday night.
Pujols trails Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) on the all-time homer chart.
“There’s impressive and then there’s unbelievable,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “What we’re witnessing right now is legendary. You have to take a step back from managing the game and take it all in. It’s amazing.”
In his chase for 700 homers, the 42-year-old Pujols has 21 games left in his 22nd and final season in the big leagues. He’s hit 18 home runs this year.
“This opportunity only comes once and it’s something that’s a gift God has given me and I try to take advantage of it every single day,” Pujols said. “I’m not only making memories for me but for the fans, my family and people who love me.”
“At the end of the day, it’s pretty awesome and we’re playing great baseball and have a great group of teammates,” he said.
The Cardinals went to the ninth inning trailing 2-0 but scored four runs off Chase DeJong (4-2).
Tommy Edman and Corey Dickerson led off with back-to-back doubles to produce the first run. Pujols followed with his homer to put the Cardinals on top.
One out after Pujols connected, Tyler O’Neil hit a solo shot to cap St. Louis’ big inning.
The Cardinals won on a day when first baseman Paul Goldschmidt and third baseman Nolan Arenado, two NL MVP candidates, got the day off.
De Jong entered the game with a 19-inning scoreless streak.
“Really poor execution falling behind to a really good hitter,” De Jong said of Pujols’ home run. “I left a fastball over the middle of the plate. It should’ve been down. Stuff that was supposed to be up was down, and stuff that was supposed to be below the zone stayed in the zone. That’s on me completely, and I have got to execute better in key situations like that.”
Greg Allen’s two-out home run in the bottom of the ninth drew the Pirates within 4-3. Ryan Helsley then got Ben Gamel to fly out for his 16th save.
Chris Stratton (8-4) retired both batters he faced.
The Cardinals had been shut out on three hits through the first eight innings but rallied for their eighth win in their last 11 games. The Pirates missed a chance to win their first series since sweeping Milwaukee from Aug. 2-4.
Edman had two hits to run his hitting streak to 13 games.
Mitch Keller pitched seven scoreless innings for the Pirates, allowing just two singles. He struck out six and walked three.
The Cardinals’ Jose Quintana pitched one-run ball over 5 1/3 innings. It was his first start against the Pirates since they traded him to St. Louis on Aug. 1.
Rookie Jack Suwinski homered in the seventh to give the Pirates a 2-0 lead. Oneil Cruz drove in the game’s first run with a grounder in the third.
ANOTHER WINNING SEASON
The Cardinals clinched their 15th consecutive winning season Saturday night with a 7-5 victory over the Pirates. That ties the franchise record set from 1939-53.
SHELTON EJECTED
Pirates manager Derek Shelton was ejected by home plate umpire Clint Vondrak in the third inning for arguing a checked-swing third strike on Bryan Reynolds. It was Shelton’s four ejection of the season.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: Off Monday before opening a three-game home series with Milwaukee on Tuesday. LHP Jordan Montgomery (8-3, 3.08) will start for St. Louis. He is 5-0 with a 1.45 ERA in seven starts since being acquired from the New York Yankees in a trade.
Pirates: Open a four-game series at Cincinnati on Monday with RHP Bryse Wilson (2-8, 6.11) facing LHP Mike Minor (4-10, 5.70). Wilson is 0-2 with a 6.85 ERA in his last five games.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Minkah Fitzpatrick and the Pittsburgh Steelers kept kicking the door open against the Cincinnati Bengals. It took until the final whistle to finally walk on through.
Chris Boswell kicked a 53-yard field goal as time expired in overtime and the Steelers overcame T.J. Watt’s injury late in the fourth quarter to beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in a sloppy season opener for both teams Sunday.
Watt and Fitzpatrick had two of four interceptions off Joe Burrow, who rebounded from a lousy start and rallied Cincinnati from a 17-6 halftime deficit. His 6-yard touchdown pass to Ja’Marr Chase tied it at 20 with 2 seconds left in regulation
Fitzpatrick kept the Steelers alive by blocking Evan McPherson’s point-after try, sending the game to overtime.
“It’s just good to come in here in a hostile environment, man, and not blink, particularly with a number of new guys, whether they’re rookies or new to us,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said.
McPherson and Boswell missed potential winning field goals in overtime before Steelers quarterback Mitch Trubisky completed passes of 9, 26 and 10 yards in the final 56 seconds.
“That was pretty crazy — the back-and-forth nature,” Trubisky said. “We found out a lot about this team. We battled, we stuck together. We have a lot to clean up, but we found a way in the end. Winning is fun.”
Watt, the Defensive Player of the Year, left the field and headed to the locker room shortly before the game went to overtime with a pectoral injury. Before that, he was his usual disruptive self, with a sack and a pick.
Burrow’s four interceptions were a career worst, and he was sacked seven times in front of what was supposed to be an improved offensive line.
“It’s frustrating,” Burrow said. “We came back in the second half. We finished strong. Give them credit. They had a good plan.”
Burrow didn’t play in the preseason games as he recovered from an appendectomy, and he got a rude welcome back to the field. Cam Heyward sacked him on Cincinnati’s first offensive play, and Fitzpatrick jumped Tyler Boyd’s route the next snap and returned it 31 yards for a Pick-6.
McPherson made a 59-yard field goal in the first quarter, but Watt made a leaping interception at the line on the next series. That set up Trubisky’s 2-yard TD pass to Najee Harris for a 17-3 edge.
Trubisky, the first quarterback to start for the Steelers after Ben Roethlisberger’s retirement, was 21 for 38 for 194 yards and the short TD pass to Harris as first-round pick Kenny Pickett watched from the sideline.
When asked about his offense, Tomlin said: “It was enough — we’re 1-0.”
The Bengals wasted a solid performance by the their defense, which limited the big plays and did a good job containing running back Harris, who finished with 23 yards on 10 carries before leaving late with a foot injury.
Chase had 10 catches for 129 yards for the Bengals.
JOE’S SLOW START
For much of the day, Burrow looked as if he was struggling to get back on track. He finished 33 for 53 for 338 yards and two touchdowns.
Asked if he was still trying to shake off the effects of his July surgery, he would only say, “I felt good.”
“We don’t overreact when things go well. We don’t overreact when things don’t go well,” Burrow said. “We’re even-keeled. We got into position to win the game.”
INJURIES
Steelers: CB Levi Wallace left in the second half with an ankle injury and didn’t return. … OL Mason Cole suffered an ankle injury in the second half and didn’t return. … Harris suffered a foot injury late in the game. … Tomlin said LB Robert Spillane suffered an eye injury.
Bengals: WR Tee Higgins left with a concussion from a hard hit by several Steelers. … LS Clark Harris went out with a biceps injury.
UP NEXT
Steelers: At New England next Sunday.
Bengals: At Dallas next Sunday.
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans used their opener Sunday against Indianapolis to honor and remember the victims of the Uvalde Elementary school shooting.
The Texans hosted the Uvalde high school football team and wore “Uvalde Strong” decals on their helmets after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a shooting there in May.
The team joined with grocery store chain H-E-B to pay for the team to travel the 280 miles from Uvalde and watch the game from a suite. It’s part of the team’s continuing support for the community after donating $400,000 to the Robb Elementary School memorial fund soon after the shooting.
Senior linebacker Justyn Rendon said it was the first time most of his teammates had ever attended an NFL game.
“It means a lot to a lot of these guys just to get away from Uvalde in general and just enjoy being here,” he said. “A lot of these guys may never experience an NFL game like this. So it’s a real big thing.”
Uvalde coach Wade Miller said they want to do whatever they can to continue to honor those who lost their lives in the shooting.
“As far as the memory of 21, it’s important to us,” he said. “We all either lost somebody or knew somebody (that did) and … we’re like the rest of the world, we just want to help in some way. And hopefully this helps.”
A video recognizing the team was shown on the video board in the stadium during a timeout in the first quarter Sunday. Uvalde players cheered as they were shown on the screens before a message that read: “We stand with Uvalde” flashed on the boards.
A contingent from the Texans including linebackers Christian Kirksey and Kamu Grugier-Hill visited Uvalde earlier this month and surprised the team with new uniforms provided by Nike during a team dinner.
They were both thrilled to have the team at Sunday’s opener.
“Whenever those kind of things happen, news comes in, people come in and they’re with them for a little bit,” Grugier-Hill said. “But at the end of the day, the reality is the people leave and they’ve got to still deal with the reality of what happened. So to just be with them for a little bit and just try to bring some joy to them and get them out here is great (and) I’m glad they’re here today.”
Kirksey said he’s built relationships with some of the players and enjoyed getting to know them before their visit to Houston.
“For them to allow me to come visit their city and sit down and go to their school, go to their field, it was good to have them come to Houston and see us play as well,” he said. “So it was great to have them in the stands.”
Miller has been overwhelmed by the support the Texans have give his team.
“It’s unbelievable,” he said. “You live out in a small southwest Texas town, and to know people care about us and when these guys find out that those guys want to know what their score is, it means the world.”
Rendon was asked if he was a Texans fan before the game. He paused and looked sheepish before answering.
“I’ll be totally honest, I’m 49ers fan,” he said. “But it’s just amazing and wonderful what the Texans have done for us and the whole city of Houston, too.”
Added Miller: “We have a lot of fans on our team of a bunch of different teams — but we’re all Texans fans now.”
Both Miller and Rendon spoke about how sports has helped the city find a distraction and try to heal in the wake of such an unthinkable tragedy. Rendon takes special pride in wearing No. 21 on his jersey to remember the victims every time he takes the field.
“It means a lot, especially to the city of Uvalde just being able to run out on Friday nights and represent the 21 lives that were lost on May 24,” he said. “I’m representing them on and off the field.”
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Bubba Wallace won his second career NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday and denied the playoff field an automatic spot in the next round for the second straight week when he held off championship contenders Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell to win at Kansas Speedway.
Wallace, who is not among the 16 in the title hunt, got around Alex Bowman for the lead with 67 laps to go, then built a 2-second lead over a parade of playoff drivers trying to earn a win and ensure their spot in the round of eight.
Hamlin was at the front of it. And the co-owner with Michael Jordan of Wallace’s car at 23XI Racing managed to whittle about a tenth of a second off the No. 45’s lead over the closing laps. Hamlin ultimately ran out of time, and Wallace took the checkered flag in the same car that Kurt Busch won with at Kansas earlier this year.
“I knew Denny was going to be strong,” said Wallace, who stepped into the car while Busch deals with the effects of a concussion. “It’s cool to beat the boss, but it’s just cool to be lights-out today and come away with the win.”
Busch wasted no time in tweeting his congratulations.
Bell finished third and Bowman fourth with playoff outsider Martin Truex Jr. in fifth. William Byron, Ross Chastain, Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney and Daniel Suarez — all in the playoff hunt — rounded out the top 10.
Bell clinched a spot in the next round of the playoffs on points. The other 11 spots are up for grabs heading to Bristol.
Wallace also won during last year’s playoffs at Talladega, when he was likewise out of the title picture. And his win came after Erik Jones, who likewise missed out on the postseason, won a week ago at Darlington.
Wallace became the 18th driver to win this season.
“I was driving as hard as I could,” said Hamlin, who gave all he had to chase Wallace down. “Nothing will ever come free when you’re driving for me. If you think I’m going to let you win, you better find another team.”
Kevin Harvick spent the week ruing an inferno that ruined his playoff opener, and led to plenty of discussion of safety in the Next Gen car. But it was the aerodynamics of the car that ruined Sunday and left his playoff hopes in peril.
The trouble began when Harvick was caught four-wide shortly after a Lap 25 competition caution. Ross Chastain drifted in front of him, took the air off Harvick’s nose and instantly made him loose. The three-time Kansas winner touched the wall out of Turn 4, then hit hard again across the start-finish line, leaving him with heavy damage to the right side.
It’s the first time in a Cup career spanning 782 races that Harvick has failed to finish three straight races.
“It is what it is,” Harvick said. “We were racing to win anyway today, so that’s what we will do again next week.”
Tyler Reddick’s brilliant weekend, which included his first pole on an oval, likewise ended in the first stage when his right rear went down. That sent his No. 8 sliding into the wall, breaking the upper control arm in the right front.
“We leave here with not a lot of points,” Reddick said, “so we’re going to fight hard at Bristol.”
Stage 2 was just as frustrating to playoff hopefuls. Many had problems on pit road, including Kyle Busch, who not only had a penalty for an uncontrolled tire but later spun into the grass and went a lap down. Busch finished 26th and fell below the playoff cutline along with Harvick, Chase Briscoe and Austin Dillon.
Busch trails Reddick and Austin Cindric by two points heading to Bristol. Dillon is another point back.
ODDS AND ENDS
JTG Daugherty Racing learned that longtime team member JR Hollar died early Sunday. He was 57. The cause was not disclosed. … Ricky Stenhouse Jr. also had a right rear tire go down while running near the front, then Harrison Burton and Corey LaJoie wrecked on the restart.
UP NEXT
The final race in the round is Saturday night on the concrete at Bristol, where Busch won the Cup race on dirt in April.
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The NFC West has played three games in Week 1, and they’ve been outscored 94-41. Needless to say, it’s been an ugly week for the division, and it might get worse — hopefully, it does — Monday night when the Seahawks take on the Broncos.
If that happens, the NFC West will be the second division to go winless this week. That won’t be the case next week, as San Francisco has its home opener against their rivals.
DraftKings Sportsbook has the opening odds posted, and the Niners are 8.5-point favorites over Seattle for their home opener next week. To me, that signals Vegas isn’t worried about San Francisco losing in a hurricane Sunday.
The total on the game is set at 42.5, so the expectation is another lower scoring game.
You all saw how many mistakes and miscues there were. I’d imagine the Niners come out ready to roll and will look to put it to Seattle. Plus, the Seahawks are an unknown. They’re trotting out new offensive linemen just as the 49ers did. The difference will be the defensive lines.
It’s fair to assume Trey Lance and the offense will perform better under optimal conditions. We’ll see, but the sky isn’t falling based on the odds for next week. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/11/23348128/49ers-seahawks-week-2-opening-odds | 2022-09-12T02:17:27Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/11/23348128/49ers-seahawks-week-2-opening-odds | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Back in May of this year leaving Kansas Speedway, Bubba Wallace, driver of the No. 23 Toyota Camry for 23XI, watched his teammate Kurt Busch win in the No. 45 after he felt like he could have sealed the deal in the event. Now in September, with Wallace in the No. 45 competing for the owners championship after Kurt is out with concussion-like symptoms, put everything together for a nearly perfect race and won the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas.
“Man, just so proud of this team, so proud of the effort that they put in each and every week,” quoted Wallace after the victory talking to NBC Sports after his victory. “Just thankful for the opportunity, right? Took this jump from an idea two years ago from a text from Denny before it all even happened. He was ready to get the deal done. Appreciate him. Appreciate MJ, Curtis, Gene. Everybody on that side of things, everybody at 23XI. Men and women there, they work their tails off.”
Wallace had to battle Toyota teammate and car owner Denny Hamlin in the No. 11 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing, and would become victorious over his boss. Hamlin told media members on pit lane and said, “I’m really happy for our 11 Toyota team. They fought hard. They really stepped up that last half. We made the car quite a bit better. Just really happy about the outcome and really happy for that No. 45 team and Bubba Wallace and Bootie. Bubba has just really worked hard on his craft, and we've just given him fast race cars, and now he is showing what he has got.”
The race started off with Tyler Reddick, the driver of the No. 8 Chevy Camaro for Richard Childress Racing, starting on pole for the 400 mile event at Kansas City. Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Ford Mustang for Team Penske, took the lead from Reddick on lap one, and would lead until Alex Bowman in the No. 48 Chevy Camaro took lead for the first time on lap three, and wouldn’t give it up until pit stops on the competition caution on lap 25.
Reddick took back the lead after beating everyone on pit road and led the field back to green. On lap 35, playoff driver Kevin Harvick in the No. 4 Ford Mustang for Stewart Haas Racing, smacked the outside wall in turn four and brought out the first natural caution, and would eventually end his day early. Race leader Reddick shockingly ended up wrecking in turn two after a tire issue would plague him early in the race. That issue would send him out of the race, already two favorable playoff divers in trouble heading to Bristol next week.
Another playoff driver in Ryan Blaney, driver of the No. 12 Ford Mustang for Team Penske, would have a loose wheel under caution after a pit stop, and would head to the tail end of the field after fixing it. An 11 lap sprint to the green and white checkered flag would have Christopher Bell in the No. 20 Toyota Camry for JGR would lead the way to the end of stage one, and secure 10 points and one playoff point to help him towards a championship hunt.
Six laps after the restart to begin stage two on lap 85, Wallaces teammate, Ty Gibbs in the No. 23 Toyota Camry, would also be another victim of a tire issue at the Kansas Speedway, and would end up taking him out of the race as well. The race would restart with Martin Truex Jr, driver of the No. 19 Toyota Camry for JGR who missed the playoffs for the first time in 2014, lead the way until lap 111.
That same lap, Ricky Stenhouse Jr, a driver who was having a good run in the No. 47 Chevy Camaro for the small team of JTG Daughtery Racing, would have a tire related issue on the back stretch and would put him several laps down in the 400 mile event. A big multi-car crash containing the driver of the No. 7 of Corey Lajoie, No. 21 Harrison Burton, and the No. 10 of Aric Almirola in turn one, brought out the 7th yellow of the event. When the race went back to green condition, the lead changed to the No. 24 of William Byron, who drives a Chevy Camaro for Hendrick Motorsports, and would lead until lap 120, when his teammate Bowman would take the lead of the field once again.
Bowman would lead once again for a while this time, and even led during the spin Kyle Busch had in the No. 18 Toyota Camry for JGR in turn four. That spin along with several other issues, would keep Busch from running well in the event, eventually finishing in the 26th position two laps down. Bowman would continue to lead to the end of stage two where he won, and would lead all the way up to lap 200.
Wallace led for the first time in a 15 lap span from lap 200-215, until Bowman chased him back down. Wallace would take the lead one final time on lap 225 after green flag pit stops, and he would be able to keep it till the checkered flag. But it wasn’t all sunshine and roses for the No. 45 team. Wallace had to defend off his boss Hamlin and Bell for the final 25 laps of the event. Wallace knew if he made even the slightest mistake, his chance to win would be over. But what comes around goes around, and that was certainly the case for Wallace after a strong performance in May. Bubba Wallace would make history as being the only black multi winner in NASCAR after winning the Hollywood Casino 400.
Wallace, talking to the folks in the media center, wanted to remind them that he hasn’t forgotten about the original driver for the No. 45. First of all for Kurt, I hate the scenario that we're in with him, but he has been nothing but an advocate and a leader in these moments for us. When we get back to our Monday morning meetings, he is there giving insight on how to be better. I appreciate him for that. It's taught me how to be better off the racetrack, let alone on the racetrack. And the conversation I had with him in victory lane was really special. He just talked about believing in self, and he always believed in me, and so I thought that was pretty special.”
Hamlin, in the press conference as the owner of Wallace's race winning ride, describes the way 23XI Racing has a plan for the next five years on being a championship organization. “We've got a lot of great things in the works in a few years. Hopefully you're going to talk about this team winning on a more regular basis, but never in my wildest dreams would I imagine that we would go out there and have three wins already in just a year and three-quarters.”
Hamlin continues on by saying,” We're really trying to instill a really positive one-team mentality. So by doing that and having an eligibility in the owner's championship, we're able to just pick apart and put our best pieces in each section of a race team to go out and compete at our best. Bubba Wallace was an easy choice for us. Especially the results that he has given us over the last two to three months.”
For the first time since the NASCAR playoff/chase era started in 2004, two non playoff drivers have won the first two races of the 10 race championship hunt (Erik Jones last week at Darlington). Hamlin also mentions how he believes a non playoff driver could win at the Phoenix championship race, and stir up the championship drivers. “Just simply because we used to -- when we used to build our own cars and design our own cars, we would just kind of save the best stuff for the end of the season. Everyone would just kind of front-load a lot of their best people, best parts, best bodies, best cars for the playoffs. There's no secret that really the ones that kept advancing, cars just got faster.”
Next week, the final race of the round of 16 will have everyone on their toes if they can stay in the playoffs and win a championship. Busch, No. 3 Austin Dillon, No. 14 Chase Briscoe, and Harvick are the four drivers out of the round of 12 as of now, but since no driver is locked in, anyone could be eliminated. Saturday night is when the NASCAR Cup Series will take on the Bristol Motor Speedway for the Bass Pro Shops Night Race, and it will be one that is a chaotic, awesome, and crazy event. The race will take the green flag at 7:30 p.m. Est Saturday evening in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, and will be covered live on USA, PRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72869-wallace-wins-at-kansas-16-playoff-drivers-winless-going-to-bristol | 2022-09-12T02:30:05Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72869-wallace-wins-at-kansas-16-playoff-drivers-winless-going-to-bristol | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The next Bank of Japan monetary policy meeting I scheduled for September 21 (Wed.) & 22 (Thurs.).
Via MUFG:
- “The heightened risk of intervention and/or a shift in BoJ policy has already helped the yen to rebound in recent days but the comments will need to be backed up by action for the pullback in USD/JPY to prove sustainable.”
- “Without policy action from Japan, USD/JPY’s upward trend could quickly resume on the back of expectations for monetary policy divergence from the BoJ and Fed. There has been no indication that the Fed is considering scaling back their own plans for policy tightening in the near-term.”
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I reckon the prospect for anyg policy action from the BOJ of any significance is remote at this coming meeting.
The next target ... | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/usdjpy-could-resume-its-path-higher-unless-there-is-a-policy-change-from-the-boj-20220912/ | 2022-09-12T02:32:39Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/usdjpy-could-resume-its-path-higher-unless-there-is-a-policy-change-from-the-boj-20220912/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
President Biden, VP Harris Attend 9/11 Remembrance Ceremonies
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks
Under cloudy skies and raindrops, thousands gathered at The National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City, exactly 21 years after the most horrific attacks on American soil.
Family members, friends and loved ones shed tears and expressed lingering anger and pain as they read aloud every name of the people killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001 as well as those killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
A speaker who identified himself only as the cousin of a victim of the 1993 bombing and had some pointed words for the politicians seated before him.
“It took a tragedy to unite our country. Back then, nobody cared if you were a Republican, Democrat, age, race, ethnicity — we were united. It took a tragedy to unite us," he started. "I want to remind all of you [politicians] there, it should not take another tragedy to unite our country. Because if I have to stand at this podium again or another podium for another event because of lives lost because of dereliction of duty, it's going to hurt."
President Biden acknowledged that grief during his speech Sunday at the Pentagon.
“I know for all those of you who lost someone, 21 years is both a lifetime and no time at all. It’s good to remember. These memories help us heal. But they can also open up the hurt and take us back to that moment when the grief was so raw.”
Mr. Biden also used the opportunity to address not just foreign threats, but domestic extremism.
“It’s not enough to stand up for democracy once a year or every now and then. It’s something we have to do every single day. So this is a day not only to remember, but a day of renewal and resolve for each and every American.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and the second gentleman Doug Emhoff appeared at the ceremony in New York City, and sat alongside the Governors of New York and New Jersey, Kathy Hochul and Phil Murphy, current New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Harris did not speak at the event, but tweeted a photo of herself alongside the elected officials with the caption,
“We will never forget the 2,977 lives lost on 9/11. Today standing at Ground Zero, I am reminded of the impact this attack had on our nation and those who lost loved ones. Doug and I stand with you today and every day.”
In Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at the memorial for the heroes of Flight 93, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden stood alongside her sister, Bonny Jacobs who has been a longtime flight attendant with United Airlines and shared how the tragedy personally touched her.
“It’s a job that she’s loved for many years, and I knew that the weight of this tragedy would be heavier for her,” she said. “When I got to her house, I realized that I was right: She hadn’t just lost colleagues — she had lost friends.”
40 people were on board when four hijackers took over. The passengers and crew fought back, attacking them. When that plane crashed in a field, it prevented another attack, but cost the passengers and crew their lives.
“It showed us that we are all connected to one another,” Dr. Biden said. “So as we stand on this sacred and scarred earth, a record of our collective grief and a monument to the memories that live on each day, this is the legacy we must carry forward: Hope that defies hate.”
It’s a message the White House says they will carry forward on September 15, when the United We Stand Summit “to counter the corrosive effects of hate-fueled violence on our democracy and public safety, highlight the response of the Biden-Harris Administration and communities nationwide to these dangers, and put forward a shared, bipartisan vision for a more united America,” according to Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice.
Civil rights advocates have been pushing the president to hold such an event since he took office.
It comes after recent horrific waves of violence, mass shootings, and other hate-fueled attacks.
Civil rights leaders, law enforcement and former members of extremist groups are all expected to be in attendance. The White House hopes the event will encourage peace and unity in a splintered country.
"The United We Stand Summit will present an important opportunity for Americans of all races, religions, regions, political affiliations, and walks of life to take up that cause together,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
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Remarks from analysts at Bank of America in Tokyo. Saying that with the mere jawboning from Japanese currency authorities and the lack of any concrete action:
- "Market players have become emboldened because they didn't see any action [by the currency authorities] in response to the breach of key ... levels,"
- "They now reckon that the authorities have a wider tolerance range than they previously thought. They are now gunning for 147"
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Earlier post on that 147 target:
Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda was wheeled out on Friday:
USD/JPY was capped ahead of 145 last week:
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